Prison is a cushy number these days
12-May-2008
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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!

A games console

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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Being sent to prison is the punishment in that the inmates lose their freedom, there is no call for a double punishment by enforcing harsher regimes.

Do we not want criminals to be rehabilitated? How kind of you to tell us so. Rehabilitation is the only way to prevent recidivism and that's the point of prisons.
*Alison  09-May-2008 13:16

 
I'm all for a prison being a dumping ground for the dregs of humanity, what else should be done with them? This way you have all these misfits in one box. It's a shame we have to pay to keep them alive. Am sure the world will not mourn one less evil child killer.

I care not for the well being, welfare or rights of any of them. The same way they did before they went about their business ruining the lives of others. They are there for punishment and punishment it should be, none of this reform rubbish.
*Marly  09-May-2008 11:41

 
You criminals all have your excuses when there are none. For criminals it is nobody elses fault that they turned to crime but their own. If you think the life of a criminal is hard then try walking in a victims shoes for just 1 day, then you would really know how it feels to be degraded.
*get in the real world  01-May-2008 21:24

 
I grew up in the most socially and economically deprived areas of Britain and as soon as I left school I went out and got a job,so dont tell me that poor people dont have a choice.I never thought the world owed me a living or that it was ok to make a living by inflicting pain on other people through crime.
*get in the real world  01-May-2008 21:23

 
The majority of people who commit crimes do so because they want to and because they dont care about the consequences for their victims.I tell you what Excon, if someone murdered someone who you loved I bet you would not be so quick to make excuses for them.
*Get in the real world  01-May-2008 21:22

 
"The inmate told the newspaper Muslim News in March he felt degraded, oppressed and provoked on a daily basis at Whitemoor Prison, Cambridgeshire. Female prison officers will be stopped from being present when male inmates are strip-searched, after a Muslim prisoner said he had been degraded."

Sorry pal, you committed a crime and you're being punished. Your religion is also a liberty you can do without, so put up and shut up!
*Mark T  01-May-2008 11:17

 
I always get arrested, maybe it's my name, I blame my parents..
*Rob D'Bank  29-Apr-2008 17:15

 
Do these people really have mental health disorders or is it just a reason to label people and excuse them of their crimes? If they are mentally ill, then they 'didn't know what they were doing' and cant be responsible for their actions. Yeah right. People can simply be bad people - social and economic deprivation should not be an excuse - many in such a situation make a good life for themselves.
*Jim  28-Apr-2008 21:50

 
Something that is seldom published in the popular press are the statistics for people in prison. These give an insight into what jail is really about. Officially, more than 70% of inmates have mental health disorders. These conditions, coupled with low I.Q. and economic and social deprivation result in individuals who commit crimes such as theft, drug abuse, violence and sex offences. Prison is just a dumping ground for the people that society doesn't want to deal with.
*ExCon  28-Apr-2008 11:31

 
Here is my idea for offender rehabilitation. Make conditions in prison so bad that criminals never want to go back there. Make male offenders wear pink underwear (why pink - because why are you going to give them a colour they like? They are offenders) Make them get up at 5 o clock every morning and make them do work (real hard labour). if you cant find anything for them then get them to dig a massive hole and then fill it back in again. When they have finished, start another hole! NO teleision, priviledges are for people outside of prison walls. What about their human rights (I can hear you screaming from here) The only way that human rights laws will work is if the moment you take someone elses human rights away then you instantly forfeit your own.
*Get in the real world.  27-Apr-2008 08:04

 
Think I'll go & rob a bank - could do with a good holiday!
*oldie  25-Apr-2008 17:32


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