Here’s an often reported scene….
“Prison riot squads were last night fighting to contain serious unrest in one of Britain’s toughest jails.
Inmates at Full Sutton high security jail, near York, started the disturbance shortly after 6pm when they were being unlocked from their cells. Prisoners in two wings began breaking up furniture and committing other acts of vandalism as staff struggled to retain control.”
The cost of replacing broken items and cells was tens of thousands of pounds.
When all the troubles over, can you believe, the authorities go in, clean up and deliver nice new TV sets to all the happy prisoners.
If it wasn’t so pathetic you’d think I was making it up.
No, under my system there would be a few money saving changes.
I would look through the bars and say ‘Looks like your next 10 years are going to be a bit boring now you’ve smashed up your bunk and wrecked the TV. You might find it a bit uncomfortable now you’ve got to sleep on the floor but, if that’s what you wanted…’
I remember the ‘dirty protest’ in the early eighties where IRA prisoners smeared excrement on their cell walls.
Why anyone was allowed in to the prisons to show pictures of this is beyond me, and why the prison governor didn’t just look in and say ‘Nice decor’ and shut the door again I will never know – something to do with their poor little human rights. Personally I would just leave the door shut and let them crack on – if they enjoy sleeping in piles of their own s**t then good luck to them!
It’s no wonder that it costs £42,700 a year to keep prisoners locked up. Surely if they were put in cells with a bed and a loo that would be sufficient. If these people decide to destroy the luxury items that have their prisons have been adorned with then so be it, but I would certainly never replace them.
Given the nation’s debt we should reduce public spending on anything other than the basic needs for prisons.
Hmmm, you’re on the right lines. Prison should be a place where all the nice things are left behind as you enter. We should remove the catering for all needs and cultures too. A fixed menu each day with two options, eat it or leave it! The other thing they should look at is the time off for good behaviour. Surely that is what they are in for, to correct the wayward? Poor behaviour should be punished by adding days on. The message would soon get through, oh and another thing, remand shouldn’t count as time served. Sentence should be from the day found guilty. I could go on….