Oh Dear - Bliar tells judges to stop jailing crims

**pisces** · 24 January 2007, 23:06

Makes you weep doesn't it?

**wendigo100** · 24 January 2007, 23:11

I find this very strange as well:

1. The Labour government have reduced the recommended tariff from two-thirds of a sentence to half

2. People who would have done time 10 years ago are not now, because the Labour government are telling the judiciary to apply alternative punishments to prison

3. Our jails are still overflowing

And yet the Labour government is still telling us that crime is falling. Hmm.

**Buffoon** · 24 January 2007, 23:18

I tend to agree with the do-gooders who say that prison over crowding is because they are used to cover up in failing in the mental health system and a lack of treatment of drug addicts. There are far too many people in prison that should really be in hospital.

Surely it would be cheaper to build prisons in India and ship the convicts there. That would be far better than using land here to build more prisons. We could close down and redevelop the existing prisons into luxury flats.

The situation wont change until someone comes up with big enough bribes to the Labour party or its members. Maybe that is why there has been such a delay, they are just arguing about the size of the bung.

**wendigo100** · 24 January 2007, 23:26

Originally posted by Buffoon

Surely it would be cheaper to build prisons in India and ship the convicts there.

Why India?

But yeah, why not! We could outsource and hire Indians to serve the sentences as well.

**pisces** · 24 January 2007, 23:33

Originally posted by Buffoon

We could close down and redevelop the existing prisons into luxury flats.

Just take the locks off the doors. Job done.

**Buffoon** · 25 January 2007, 08:52

Originally posted by wendigo100

Why India?

But yeah, why not! We could outsource and hire Indians to serve the sentences as well.

Good point. When it comes to foreign prisoners most of them are either Jamaican or Pakistani. So Jamaica and Pakistan would be better choices.

**Ardesco** · 25 January 2007, 09:19

I'm all for outsourcing our prisons to Thailand.

Would make a lot of people think twice about committing a crime when they realised where they were going to end up in prison....

**Troll** · 25 January 2007, 09:24

Possible remedies being mooted:
Release immigration detainees (thought they did already) & transfer foreign national prisoners out of jail into immigration centres

Release foreign nationals still in jail despite having served their sentances - wtf??

**PartyGirl** · 25 January 2007, 09:31

Originally posted by Ardesco

I'm all for outsourcing our prisons to Thailand.

Would make a lot of people think twice about committing a crime when they realised where they were going to end up in prison....

you would think though that people would think twice about committing a crime just for the pure fact they will go to prison never mind where the prison is!

Oh Dear - Bliar tells judges to stop jailing crims