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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.
No wonder they don't want to leave...
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!
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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Fool does that apply to all the MPs wearing their rolex watches in prison !
Lol
The people I do know, one is currently back in for breach of licence, are drug addicts who steal or shoplift or sell drugs to support their own habits. If they were just thieving to earn money so they could better themselves I would say they would be doing financially better than the minimum wage jobs they could get. They are on disability benefits which is a joke if you saw them run away from police sirens, climbing over fences etc, plus the guy who's back inside was getting approx £150 per day nearly every day for his "work". I got £160(SHOULD'VE BEEN MORE LIKE 220 after stoppages( self employed, have other things on top of tax and NI come out) the other week for a labouring job doing 8-6mon fri. Im the mug here.
How can you say that a UK prison is the worst in the world? I can guarantee that prisons in places like Syria under the reign of Asad are so much worse. There were reports on the BBC about the prisons over there and how people were tortured everyday for a piece of information which doesn't really help. I can tell you why that doesn't happen in UK prisons. Human Rights. The prisoners who have killed or robbed go into prison, live a better life inside, come out and then go in again on purpose. Yeah they may have to have a few rules and whatnot but think of the bigger picture! We are the ones paying!
Just think about that next time you pay tax.
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 "
Jethro
Well done old chap, I'll bet the other drugger up crim that tried to rob you did a runner when the going got tuff.