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    BBC News - Super-jails should replace run-down prisons - Policy Exchange

    Super-jails should replace run-down prisons - Policy Exchange

    The report said the government should focus on cutting the cost per prisoner
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    More than 30 "run-down and poorly-located" prisons should be replaced by 12 "super-jails" each with thousands of inmates, a report has said.

    Ex-Ministry of Justice deputy director Kevin Lockyer said it could save £600m a year in operational costs alone.

    The former prison governor carried out the report for right-leaning think tank the Policy Exchange.

    The Prison Reform Trust said it would be a "gigantic mistake" to spend money on a series of super-sized jails.
    what do you think?
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

    #2
    bullets are cheaper?

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      #3
      rope is cheaper still
      How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

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        #4
        Strangling with bare hands is cheapest

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          #5
          what for failing to pay your council tax? and you accuse me of being right wing.
          Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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            #6
            Originally posted by vetran View Post
            what for failing to pay your council tax? and you accuse me of being right wing.
            thats just the top of a slippery slope - so really just saving more time and money down the line.....

            :nazi:

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              #7
              Australia's too good for them these days. Let's just ship them off to a gulag in Antartica. That'll teach 'em.
              England's greatest sailor since Nelson lost the armada.

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                #8
                Originally posted by Uncle Albert View Post
                Australia's too good for them these days. Let's just ship them off to a gulag in Antartica. That'll teach 'em.
                Yes. After strangling them.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
                  Yes. After strangling them.
                  Can we outsource the strangling? It'll be cheaper still.

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                    #10
                    I'd send them all to live in AtW's bedsit for a couple of days. I'm sure they'd never want to return there and it'd have a 100% success rate in reforming hardened crims.
                    ǝןqqıʍ

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