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! |
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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! |
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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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UK move forward - 30-May-11 13:15
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The police are the ones to watch nowadays-rapes , thefts , hitting people with batons etc etc
Ken has a good idea for prisoners get them out & doing as much work in the local community as possible , fixing pot holes , painting schools , clearing rubbish of the streets etc etc .
Just because someone did a crime some 10-15 years ago dosent mean they are still criminals!
Just take a look at the Barry George case ."he will do- let's fit him up "
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I'm sorry, are we supposed to feel sorry for the way criminals and wrongdoers are treated after they have caused so much upset, mental and physical torture to their victims.
I wonder how many direct cases of anguish, job losses, divorces, family break ups, depresion and suicides there are amongst the victims of crime? How many "significant others" have been murdered so that their surviving partners can never be with them again? How many people have worked and paid for their TV's and playstations and lived within the law all their lives, not just behaved themselves for 90 days, only to have their property stolen from them?
If prison is hard on criminals, good. If it could be harder that would be better. We need more justice for the victims who never asked to be another statistic and whose lives have been ruined by those you wish to pity.
Think on and re-set your moral compasses!
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OH I forgot you can have a TV in the toilet. If you behave for 90 days in these conditions you may be considered to have a Play Station 2 (if you can afford to buy one at over inflated prices). OH yeah you can also visit with you significant other 2 times per week for 1 hour, but you must be closely watched by CCTV and other persons. No intimate touching! OH and before I forget all those little luxuries you like in your fridge, they are off limits. It's a tuck-shop diet for you. Crisps and chocolate bars. Get used to tinned goods. OH But before I forget there is no tin opener. That is only available at 5pm when you collect your meal.
PS. FYI 60 people committed suicide in 2009 in your HMP Holiday Camps; 60 people in 2008; 92 in 2007, and 67 in 2006. Worst of all in 2007 one of those victims was under the age of 18.
Get your facts right about prison you have no clue!
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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.
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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?
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grumpyoldwoman - 17-Sep-09 08:02
It certainly is, They give MikeP unlimited Internet access don"t they?
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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.
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