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Originally Posted by Scrooge
i mean you could say about jail
Its disgusting, locking people,up for 23 hours a day, in a tiny cell, terrible food, no contact with the outside world
are we as bad as the crims?
In the US they kill crims remember. kill them stone dead.
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You are correct in your sentiments LT but - and I'm going slightly off topic - are you familiar with the British Penal System as it is now since partial privatisation?
The 'Centre Right' 'Think Tank' 'Reform' will tell you different from what I am going to tell you here, but they have their own capitalist-driven covert agenda, and are speaking pure bollocks.
Prisons now are glorified holiday camps. All thoughts of 'Rehabilitation' have long since been abandoned, but so too now have all pretense of 'Punishment'.
Among other 'official' perks, 'Prisoners' are allowed to wear their own clothing, have Sky Satellite TV, Lap tops and internet access, as well as access to luxuriously equipped gym facilities. But it is the 'unofficial' perks which 'prisoners' freely enjoy,at certain privately run prisons which are incredible and mind-blowing, and more so because although known about by the prison authorities, these 'perks' are ignored in order 'to prevent trouble erupting'.
Tennis balls which have been cut in half, stuffed with heroin and crack cocaine then glued back together have been regularly thrown over the walls at certain prisons, to be later collected by inmates and the contents sold for massive profits by drug dealing convicts within the prison. Drug taking at these prisons is a massive problem.
Prison staff have been aware of this practice, but as said, turn a blind eye for the reasons stated.
Cunning prisoners at these and other privately run prisons also ensure their drug supply from the outside by using the fact that the UK Courts System is also such a huge joke now.
Convicted shoplifters are guaranteed a jail sentence in the Magistrates Court by repeatedly continuing to shoplift - albeit these sentences leniently range from a few days to a few weeks - no matter how many times the offender continues to offend or how many previous convictions for shoplifting the offender has. It's all a laughable game at the tax-payers expense.
Certain shoplifters - ideally those with no drug convictions - are recruited by certain convicted prisoners and the shoplifter -- some only just freshly released from prison for shoplifting - are supplied by third parties with suitably packaged heroin or crack cocaine 'sausages' which he then pushes well up inside his rectum or ---'plugs'. He then goes straight out and shoplifts whilst ensuring that he gets caught in the act. The inevitable happens and he is sentenced to a very short jail term by the local magistrate, and once inside, he pulls out the 'plug' hands it over to his 'employer' and once released is paid by third parties on the outside. The con now has another supply of highly prized drugs which the sale of to other prisoners will net him thousands of pounds.
The freed shoplifter repeats the process.
Another illegal perk ignored by prison authorities are smuggled mobile phones. The majority of 'power prisoners' now have their own mobiles which they use to direct their criminal empires from within prison.
To this Government's credit, they are aware of these matters and others - though they might not detail as much - and they have reversed an earlier pledge to fully privatise prisons and have begun a process of removing contracts from certain private companies for the running of certain prisons and are returning them to state control.
They are being heavily criticized for this decision by the Howard League For Penal Reform and - as stated earlier - 'Reform' -- both of which have their own agenda for doing so.
Incidentally, my knowledge on this - as with my knowledge on Islamic 'Fifth Columnists' hails from the 'horse's mouths' - in this case, two prison officer friends themselves who work at two different, privately run prisons.
It's a nice old world 'innit'?
