12-March-2010

Prison is a cushy number these days

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What's the point in struggling day after day making ends meet, paying your taxes and being a law abiding citizen? Well if current prison conditions are anything to go by, spending your life as an honest, upstanding squeaky clean Joe Public is definitely harder than doing time.

Prisons have become a soft option from what I understand. They are more like cushy hotels than a place a place of punishment or rehabilitation. I've heard reports that some of the more relaxed regimes have satellite television, video games and Internet access. Prisoners can even get hold of drugs, mobile phones and sex whilst inside. How can this be? I don't even have satellite TV and I'm too scared to use my mobile because it costs an arm and a leg! So much for the notion that "crime doesn't pay". It may not pay, but it costs, and it costs the taxpayer dearly!

No wonder they don't want to leave...

There was another case where a dealer regularly broke INTO a Yorkshire prison to sell "stuff" to the prisoners, yet none of the inmates felt the need to escape the same way. Doesn't that tell you something? They've got it easy in there all right and so no wonder they don't want to leave. Maybe that's why criminals re-offend, because there's no incentive not to. If they get sent down it's back to that cushy number again paid for by you and me!

A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice tells us prison conditions are appropriate and that harsh regimes do not lead to rehabilitation or a reduced rate of re-offending. Well, we don't care! They've committed a crime so bloody punish them and stop putting them in these holiday camps where we are left to foot the bill.

We're told that there's a lack of staff and not enough prison officers to look after the growing numbers of inmates in our prisons. Here's a novel idea for you. How about you take away the nice things, the privileges etc. and then spend some of that money on more prison staff that can deal with criminals and treat them the way they SHOULD be treated!

Better still, why not have them do more work in the communities they violate. I'm sure the victims would feel happier in the knowledge that they were paying for their crimes rather than having a relatively nice time in jail.

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shut up ,you all have no clue what u talking about, Have anyone one u been in jail? the answer is no. becouse if u. then u would know the reallty on the ground, u.k prison is the worlds dirtiest prison, harsh regime, torture, abuse and violence, u cant imagine, u.k prisons is only only place for banishment but also mental torture,

kamal 26-Feb-2010 18:28

Let's send them all to the Arena to be burned as Roman candles or eaten by wolves and lions. Arena fodder that's what they are.

Slaughterer 03-Jan-2010 18:06

Wrongdoers should be sent to prison for punishment, as a punishment.
How about getting them doing long hours of manual labour such as rock breaking or sorting through houshold waste. We wouldn't need so much heavy machinery if they did it by hand, (environmentally friendly), and they would be too tired to watch T.V or play computer games at the end of the day. All unpaid of course.

Sandman 03-Jan-2010 15:51

You know, everyone misses a point about Prison. People are not sent to prison FOR punishment, but AS punishment. The punishment in prison is the deprivation of your liberty. Anything else would be cruel and unusual, as the USAians put it.

So when you think of your person slopping out, or your prisoner sleeping and eating in the same room as their toilet, just consider if you would be prepared to do that for a week, let alone the 2, 5, 10, 20 years that some prisoners are expected to. And, lets have the punishment fit the crime - if no-one actually got hurt by what someone has done, why should they be put in the prison environment for doing it?

BikerPaul 07-Dec-2009 17:39

Ok, Ok, I know I put there when I should have put their. It is not worth anyones time to point it out to me!

Hicks 17-Sep-2009 09:23

grumpyoldwoman, I admit I stole N Noreens comment but it is such an insightfull one. I wonder if perhaps broadmoor are performing an experiment to see if they can keep there inmates calm by letting them vent there frustrations on people via the Internet rather than in real Life!

Hicksead 17-Sep-2009 09:19

Well Hicks, that's funny, Negative Noreen said exactly the same thing on the 9th Sept.! Watch out or she'll be after you for copying her comments.

grumpyoldwoman 17-Sep-2009 08:02

Is prison a cushy number these days?
It certainly is, They give MikeP unlimited Internet access don"t they?

Hicks 16-Sep-2009 20:40

Ok, ok, ok, I admit it, I left the "i" out of imagination. This is unforgivable I know.

Mr Hicks 11-Sep-2009 12:17

To my Extraordinarily persistent stalker, grumpyoldwoman,
Madam, I am not sulky stanley or any other of the persons you mentioned, Least of all the "fake grumpyoldwomans"(!!!!????).
I think perhaps you are letting your imagnation get the better of you.

Mr Hicks 11-Sep-2009 12:14

Within the USA are to be found some of the harshest prison regimes in the civilised world but their rates of re-offending are worse than the UK and they have huge problems with smuggling, drugs and abuse. The cosy Daily Mail notion that harsh jails make for lower crime rates and capital punishment reduces the incidence of murder is unrealistic and just plain incorrect.

And as for the OP suggesting 'work in the community' as an alternative, this has always been available to justices for a wide variety of offences however it is also very expensive to operate,

Congo 11-Sep-2009 12:01

grumpyoldwoman, I am not, I repeat not this hicks person you keep droning on about.
it"s Hicks this and Hicks that with you.
why do you have such an enormous hang up regarding him?
once again, I am me stanley, not Hicks, not noreen, not MikeP.
why is that so difficult for you to believe?

sulkey stanley 11-Sep-2009 10:27

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