Vilham wrote:
Maybe in America you cant shit without 10 people knowing but in UK jails they are allowed to be out of their cells something like 12 hours a day, thats more time than I spend out of my own room anyway!
Which probably says more about you than them.
Vilham wrote:
And the rest of the time they spend "locked up" they have as good forms as entertainment than you, if not better.
Such as?
Vilham wrote:
As to them losing freedoms what a load of shit. The only freedom they lose is the right to go anywhere that is public property. They still have human rights, they still get access to drugs (even though they aren't meant to), alcohol, food, entertainment, health care, exercise, lawyers, etc
The right to leave the prison when they want, visit friends, go to the pub, choose their dinner..................oh, wait.........................
Vilham wrote:
Tbh they have comparable rights to a soldier on active duty, someone who is doing a job for his country compared with someone who committed a crime against it.
And what are the comparative pay rates?
Vilham wrote:
I would love for UK prisons to go American style, especially that one where the governor changed the uniform to pink and brought back manual labor gangs among other reforms that massively cut the prisons budget.
And almost resulted in the prisoners escaping. Yay!
Vilham wrote:
As to the figures bub I read books, I read newspaper articles, I watch the news and documentary's. Thats how I know the figures,
Oh, right, you don't need to check the figures because you
know them. Right.
Vilham wrote:
I don't mind if you know them or even share my opinion,
And yet you waste my time with reading this tripe full of unsourced and vague "facts"
Vilham wrote:
me spending my time searching the web for figures won't change your mind anyway so why would I bother.
I suppose this is something else that uou
know without needing to see.
Vilham wrote:
This from the guardian:
"With annual costs per prisoner standing at £44,000" That is far too much money to be spending on someone who deserves next to nothing. I don't even spend £44,000 on myself each year, I spend around £9k max.
I'd be curious as to whether the writer of this
opinion piece (a real bad place to find facts) has to pay for people to prevent them from escaping, and has far higher medical costs because they're living in a big room full of bored, violent people who aren't properly policed by guards.
[TUF]Catbox wrote:
punishment doesn't work? What do you recommend...cash prizes for the worst criminal...lol?
Oh, ha ha! You're so terrificly witty! Let's all worship Catbox as some form of minor deity!
How about programs which actually attempt to prevent them from reoffending? Or does that make too much sense?