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Originally Posted by arista
No our prisons need to go the American Way
so prisoners work each day.
that makes sense.
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Ken Clarke would agree with you. I do too.
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Mr Clarke said prisons were not “delivering as they should” and that the public were right to be alarmed that prisoners often just spend their days in their cell watching television.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Mr Clarke said: “The public wants a penal system that properly punishes offenders, and protects the law-abiding citizen.
“Yet, our prisons are not delivering as they should.”
He added: “The first thing we are doing is introducing a full working week to get more offenders off their beds and into purposeful activity.
“Right now, prisoners are simply a wasted resource – thousands of hours of manpower sitting idle.”
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A year in Halden costs the state around £116,000, while the average cost of a place in the UK is £45,000.
Cost is only one of the reasons prison reformers in the UK don't think there's any prospect of the Halden model being adopted here. We have double the number of prisoners that Norway has (around 140 per 100,000 in England and Wales, to Norway's 74.8), and having a smaller prison population makes things simpler for the Norwegian state. Halden is so new, there are no figures yet for how swiftly and frequently prisoners drift back into prison after their release
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