Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1017472)

Margaret while I respect your views and see what you mean you would not think the same if you were on the inside with no prospect of release.

For many years I visited such a person in prisons large and small, harsh and not so harsh, and received regular correspondence from him in which a lot more was said than at the visits. In the end he did away with himself not because of his crime but because of his situation. I don't know the exact nature of his crime and neither does Richard but he was Richard's best friend at school. They drifted apart when Richard moved but when Richard heard about it he started visiting, this was before I met Richard.

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 1017511)

All the arguments about restoring the death penalty, genuine life sentences, harsher prison conditions are academic, in my view. The ECHR and/or the EU would never allow any of these things and our government would supinely accept their decree, as they have in so many other instances. As Cashy says, it's never going to happen.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 1017525)

Ya and the fate of 60 million people is decided by 650 people who are elected to look after OUR affairs, what a flaming joke that is :mad: