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You could argue that locking them up isn't very humane...
Under some of the current conditions no its not, slopping out for example should have gone years ago.
Humans have an tendancy to want to look at others as different as lower than us, and this always leads to trouble.
Take abuse in prisons or old peoples homes, the abusers can do that because they dont see a person anymore, they see the 'scum' that Rich Kid talks about.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
Liberty is seen as one of the most basic human rights.
Well yes, but in some cases the right of society to life in safety over rides the persons right to freedom.
Obviously I agree with you, but it does beg the question, if we've already accepted a certain level of cruelty (ie incarceration), at what point do we say 'too much'?
I've got no serious objection of open prisons, or even day release, certain countries have them and they seem to be a success. But then that needs to only be for prisoners who dont pose a threat or are towards the end of their sentance.
I just think much more needs to be but into the rehabilitation side of prison, its too focused on the punishment side. Which I believe shows in the re-offending rate which is stupidly high.
No, lets our facts right, Labour has recruited more Police that is correct but they restricted them to office duties due the massive bureauracy they've introduced.
So in summary, more police, more costs, but less effective police, increasing crime.
Day release, open prisons, what a load of nonsense. We want hard regime prisons so that criminals will not want to return should they reoffend and be caught. At the moment we've got Universities of Crime, which give each prisoner a thorough grounding in all aspects of criminology. They should be locked up 23 hrs a day, no gyms, TV, and all the other luxuries they enjoy.
Forget the rehabilitation, grind their noses into the dirt, they're scum who need to be taught a lesson. It shoud be a regime of absolute punishment from the moment they get up to the moment they go to sleep.
he soon changed his fucking tune didn't he ...
As someone who works with ex-offenders, I can tell you that harsh punishments don't work. People who commit crime don't think about the consequences, it just isn't on their radar most of the time.
Do you have ANY compassion for your fellow humans at all?
If you treat someone like an animal they will behave like one.
Phoney Blair has always denied that he sanctioned the exposure of Dr David Kelly.
Asked on a plane trip to Hong Kong on 22 Jyly 2003: "Why did you authorise the naming of David Kelly?" He replied: "That is completely untrue".
Pressed on whether he asked anyone in Downing Street to do it on his behalf he replied: "Emphatically not. I did not authorise the leaking of the name of David Kelly."
Last night on BBC2's Newsnight, he finally admitted that he did authorise the naming of Dr David Kelly and said he had "no option but to disclsoe the name."
So who can believe a word Phoney Blair says, he's a congenital liar.
Phoney by name and phoney by character - the word "truth" doesn't exist in his vocabulary.
Trust Phoney? I'd rather trust a crack addict pointing a loaded gun at my forehead.
Phoney Blair has always denied that he sanctioned the exposure of Dr David Kelly.
Asked on a plane trip to Hong Kong on 22 July 2003: "Why did you authorise the naming of David Kelly?" He replied: "That is completely untrue".
Pressed on whether he asked anyone in Downing Street to do it on his behalf he replied: "Emphatically not. I did not authorise the leaking of the name of David Kelly."
Last night on BBC2's Newsnight, he finally admitted that he did authorise the naming of Dr David Kelly and said he had "no option but to disclose the name."
So who can believe a word Phoney Blair says, he's a congenital liar.
Phoney by name and phoney by character - the word "truth" doesn't exist in his vocabulary.
Trust Phoney? I'd rather trust a crack addict pointing a loaded gun at my forehead.
Shocking.
Did you have an aswer for that?
I think its you.
Yea. Liars and con-men can get away with murder - sometimes literally.
You dont have a high regard for the public at large then do you.
But it would seem odd if so many people could be 'conned' by Labour for this long, maybe we're just not very smart as a nation.
Or maybe things arent quite as bad as you say.
Tell me about it:
DAILY HATEMAIL: "IMMIGRATION OUT OF CONTROL"
S*N: "GYPSIES OUT OF CONTROL"
SEXPRESS: "CRIME OUT OF CONTROL"
All lies, damned lies and right wing lying scumbags.
It is hardly surprising therefore that people get suspicious when they don't hear Labour politicians facing up to these concerns - whats the secret agenda they ask?
Which politicians on the Left? Whose on the Left?
That should probably make the Conservatives Left too then, given that they are wanting only 1% a year less spending growth.
And you know as well as anybody else that is what those tabloids have been doing.