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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
Well, you just try that "prisons are like holiday camps" line and see where it gets you. Or perhaps your "they're trying to stop us celebrating St George's Day" approach. You'll have your comrades choking on their fairtrade coffee!!  |
There are ways of addressing things but denying that they go on doesn't help anyone. However, having had a first-hand warning from a brewery rep several years ago for my 'xenophobic' St George's Day quiz night I'm afraid I'm still smarting over England's national day!
Regarding prisons, I do know that the cost of incarcerating each prisoner is more than I earn in two years, possibly three, and that doesn't really make economic sense to me. The standard of living is also fairly high for something which many would hope to be both punishment and deterrent and the first problem I would address is the seemingly easy availability of drugs on the inside.
Fortunately, I am not well-acquainted with the inside of Her Majesty's prisons but decrying the level of punishment on the basis of breaching human rights rather negates the whole idea of being punished!