"High" Security prisoners
It has been reported that prisoners are receiving compensation because they were drug addicts and forced to quit cold turkey, and therefore this is a violation of their human rights.
Somehow, this is supposed to make sense. I'm not sure how this even got entertained.
This is quite crazy. Obviously what the prisoners want is to be given free drugs, because that is what they are asking for here. We can't stop, so you must provide. Unbelievable. They honestly think that they should be given drugs in prison.
Of course, they have never stopped to think that buying, owning and taking these drugs in the first place was illegal and that if they got addicted it was their own stupid fault. Nobody has to take the blame for anything these days.
The whole prisoner's rights thing gets on my nerves. As the old saying goes "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime", but these days prisoners expect a fairly luxurious stay and complain that they are treated unfairly.
Sometimes I'm speechless when I hear things like that. They really don't seem to grasp the fact that they have broken the law and are being punished. And given that most people these days are just given ASBO's or Community Service, it must have been a severe crime to actually land you in prison. Like murder, rape, or not paying your council tax when you are a pensioner with only a tiny state pension to live on.
This country has a crime problem that is getting worse because of soft sentancing and easy prison life. Add to this the lack of police on the streets (apart from the quite useless Community Supoprt Officers who can't even arrest people) and you have a spiralling situation. Rudy Giuliani solved New York's crime problem by putting cops back on the street and a zero-tolerance policy. I don't understand why we don't have someone tough in charge. He's now considering standing for president. I wish him all the best.
The simple way to solve our problem is to double all sentances and to make prison conditions really harsh. Toss out the Human Rights Act for the convicted. Take away all luxuries and all mod cons. Have them in single cells. No TV, no Playstations, no table tennis. Either have then working or in their cells. Books (at least pre-approved literature) should maybe be allowed, as I've not ever heard of anyone becoming a worse person after reading.
The current theme seems to be that prisoners should be taught and educated out of their bad ways. Like David Cameron's "hug-a-hoodie" idea. All you need is love. This is evidently not working, so I say scare them shitless and treat them like dirt whilst they are there and they will not want to come back. I'm not suggesting daily beatings, but then again if you are housing murderers and rapists and so on, who would really care? I bet most would quietly be in favour.
Now I'm not saying this should go for all criminals. Certainly a doubling of sentancing across the board would be fine, but the really hard stuff should be reserved for anyone who commits an unprovked violent crime against another person. They are the lowest of the low. Middle of the road crimes like shoplifting could maybe avoid the beatings, but still be locked away for longer and without TV and so on.
And Pensioners not paying their council tax should be locked up in a five-star hotel with room service for their duration.
PS - Saw a headline on BBC News yesterday: "The average European is overweight". No they're not. The average European is of average weight. Anybody over the average European weight is overweight, and by definition that cannot be the average European. They really need to clarify their headlines a bit more: "The average European is over their ideal weight" might have worked a bit better, but perhaps is not quite so snappy.
Somehow, this is supposed to make sense. I'm not sure how this even got entertained.
This is quite crazy. Obviously what the prisoners want is to be given free drugs, because that is what they are asking for here. We can't stop, so you must provide. Unbelievable. They honestly think that they should be given drugs in prison.
Of course, they have never stopped to think that buying, owning and taking these drugs in the first place was illegal and that if they got addicted it was their own stupid fault. Nobody has to take the blame for anything these days.
The whole prisoner's rights thing gets on my nerves. As the old saying goes "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime", but these days prisoners expect a fairly luxurious stay and complain that they are treated unfairly.
Sometimes I'm speechless when I hear things like that. They really don't seem to grasp the fact that they have broken the law and are being punished. And given that most people these days are just given ASBO's or Community Service, it must have been a severe crime to actually land you in prison. Like murder, rape, or not paying your council tax when you are a pensioner with only a tiny state pension to live on.
This country has a crime problem that is getting worse because of soft sentancing and easy prison life. Add to this the lack of police on the streets (apart from the quite useless Community Supoprt Officers who can't even arrest people) and you have a spiralling situation. Rudy Giuliani solved New York's crime problem by putting cops back on the street and a zero-tolerance policy. I don't understand why we don't have someone tough in charge. He's now considering standing for president. I wish him all the best.
The simple way to solve our problem is to double all sentances and to make prison conditions really harsh. Toss out the Human Rights Act for the convicted. Take away all luxuries and all mod cons. Have them in single cells. No TV, no Playstations, no table tennis. Either have then working or in their cells. Books (at least pre-approved literature) should maybe be allowed, as I've not ever heard of anyone becoming a worse person after reading.
The current theme seems to be that prisoners should be taught and educated out of their bad ways. Like David Cameron's "hug-a-hoodie" idea. All you need is love. This is evidently not working, so I say scare them shitless and treat them like dirt whilst they are there and they will not want to come back. I'm not suggesting daily beatings, but then again if you are housing murderers and rapists and so on, who would really care? I bet most would quietly be in favour.
Now I'm not saying this should go for all criminals. Certainly a doubling of sentancing across the board would be fine, but the really hard stuff should be reserved for anyone who commits an unprovked violent crime against another person. They are the lowest of the low. Middle of the road crimes like shoplifting could maybe avoid the beatings, but still be locked away for longer and without TV and so on.
And Pensioners not paying their council tax should be locked up in a five-star hotel with room service for their duration.
PS - Saw a headline on BBC News yesterday: "The average European is overweight". No they're not. The average European is of average weight. Anybody over the average European weight is overweight, and by definition that cannot be the average European. They really need to clarify their headlines a bit more: "The average European is over their ideal weight" might have worked a bit better, but perhaps is not quite so snappy.
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