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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Removing a persons freedom doesn't work if that is all that is done.
Maybe a person is incarcerated, but their life is frequently better in prison....they have no responsibility to look after financial things, their meals are provided, they have a roof over their head, they have health, education and recreational facilities, they can socialise.
Where is the deprivation in that...Apart from being removed from their family.
Many old age pensioners would like to be looked after in such a way.....but they aren't.
Prison doesn't work because it isn't a hard life anymore.
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Hmmm, yes well, when the prison service really kicked off we had more or less the same buildings, people imprisoned had to wear masks and were not allowed to talk to each other and given ridiculous and useless tasks to perform. I think it was called hard labour.
It was no use to the prisoners or society, plus, on finishing a sentence society wouldn't allow them to work because of them having the stigma of being a jail bird. (that obviously lead them back to crime).
Now we seem to have gone too far in the opposite direction, ordinary folk that have never been caught doing wrong, are second class citizens any training placement goes to the ex con, their probation officer bends over backwards on coming out to find them employment (whether they are up to it or not) making sure they get preferential over the poor beggars with equal qualifications/age and intellect.
Do the crime serve the time fair enough, after that they come out with a clean slate but deffo' not preferential treatment, let them join the back of the queue and prove they are capable of the work offered. There isn't much of it to go around.