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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Like you, I thought long and hard about my posting.
The subject is Always going to generate a lot of 'heat'.......and it would be so easy to see things as all black or all white, but IMHO there are many grey areas.

I do think that criminals have an easy life...OK they may have been removed from their families and have their freedom curtailed, but they do not have to worry about how they are going to pay their council tax.....or their electricity bill.....or where their next meal is coming from. They usually have excellent facilities for leisure and learning.
Wouldn't some of our pensioners envy their position in life????? And is that wrong????

That is so true, having a daughter that trained at Magul, left and went back there as a "ward" manager in later years, the thoughts of how they (the punters) are treated, yes I think you have got that one just about right.