The Prison system in complete mess. How safe are you?

Question

One minute we complained about police not doing the job, next minute we put the blame on soft sentences, then the prison spaces are suddenly filled to the brim, and early release imminent leaving the police to start arresting all over again.
The Home Secretary has admitted to taking the risk of prison absconsion, the same person who, just few months ago, vowed very strongly to be tough on crime and tighten up the loophoels withing the system. The question now is how safe are you, when would revolving doors of the prisons be locked up?

Answer 1

Well, maybe the prisons should stop nurturing criminal tendencies in prisoners. Prisoners come out of prison more criminal-minded than when they first entered. That is well documented. So prisons should first set up programs that actually help prisoners stop themselves from committing again.

Answer 2

I don't feel safe at all. We live in a country where the population has increased phenomonally but the amount of prisons haven't. We should build more prisons - make the prisoners build them!!!
People who say that prison doesn't work, haven't come up with a good alternative. Rehabilitation quite clearly doesn't work - it is acknowledged that some criminals are always a threat but they are still returned into our society.
Prisoners have our society in the palm of their hands. If they're good, they get time off. It should be - if you're naughty - your sentence gets increased! Your debt to society should be paid and it is that, a debt.
However, society has a debt too - and we should be concentrating on getting rid of the drugs that are the bane of our society. Too many crimes are committed under the influence or because addicts need cash.
Muslim countries don't have as high a crime rate as we do. That is because they're much harder on crime. Maybe we should follow their lead.

Answer 3

For every law that is passed by congress or a legislature more criminals are created. Long term confinement hsn't worked soince its inception. A complete over haul is in order. The FBI estimated athat 15% of the prison population is worngfully incarserated , anotherwords 225,000! Too many drug cases, and other crimes that should perhaps be better delt with in the mental health department. People scream about any program designed to rehabilitate the criminal, yet most of them will be released and re offend if they are not reformed. Statics prove that when inamtes were offered educational improvemtn that the recitivism rate went down to 15% compaired to the 65% it is today!

Answer 4

Please explain your question. I am able to follow it until the last sentence. How safe are we? well we are no more or less safe now than we normally are. Undiscovered criminals are all around us. Unreported crime is all around us.

What are you saying about revolving doors?

For some people crime is their career and prison their second or first home. They trade off some short periods of comfortable living off crime against months or years in squalid prisons. Rehabilitation only works so far, for some life is too hard "on the out".

The prison system is being asked to cope with too many people surely. If it is reaching capacity, surely it is time to examine more closely who needs to go to prison.

Having said that - please tell me what you are asking and I will attempt to give you an informed answer.

Answer 5

The Home Secretary...???

Did you meant the Department of Homeland Security in the U.S. or is this a question from someone living abroad, i.e., England, etc.

We should begin to decentralize the system whenever possible to have the necessary care, custody and control to protect the law abiding citizen.

Huge penal colonies should be a thing of the past. Not safe and could lead to future riots and trouble with too many prisoners in one prison.

Answer 6

The reason its all in a mess is because the system is all wrong. The answer is to stop locking people away for petty crime like debt. If asylum seekers offend then dont jail them here - deport the lot of them coz we cant afford to keep them here. That would open up lots of spaces alone. Re-introduce secure mental hospitals for those that need it instead of locking them in cells with others and that should be it sorted. Not rocket science is it ?????

Answer 7

to have this many prisoners in the first place means that those who bring up the sons and daughters of britania are no good at it, and i am not talking about mam and dad, am talking of those who have invaded the good thinking of mam and dad, those anti christ media and politicians, who wish to keep Britain in a foul state,When one is in prison they show violent movies about all the rotteness of life in order to keep up the momentum, if a tearaway is cured and walks the straight and narrow, how are the lawyers going to get £150 an hour out of them, there are too many careers relying on criminals to feed them. is it not so that we enjoy the seedy side of life as our entertainment, and that that seedyness is infuancing people to be seedy, because they think its fun till it all goes wrong> LIfe is a training school and the system offers a great life for the rich but the poor have to be some kind of criminal to keep the middle class in government paid jobs, the last thing they want to do is cure every body, have a look at some of your late night programs, and ask yourself are they trying to foul you up or clean you up.They have a save the children campagne every year.When they get wise and have a save the adult campagne, the children will follow the adult.
What you should be doing is giving the criminals cap and gown. for passing their exams by becoming violent criminals, the powers that be have been ramming it down their throats long enough. If a Christian became infuencial you would say "we dont want religeon ramming down our throats." but when it comes to sex violence and drugs your stupid mouths are wide open.

Answer 8

The prison system concentrates on locking up petty criminals and as such is overcrowded beyond bursting and murderers get reduced sentances to make room for people who have done minor crimes.
All petty crime should be punished with hard labour not prison - prison should be only for people whon are a danger to society.

Answer 9

Recidivism my friend is a long ways off from now. You have a convicted felon who is serving a 20 year sentence, he is released out on parole after serving 10 years, the state knowing he is "Institutionalized" or state raised. The state only gets so much money for him serving that 20 years flat, but if they release him, knowing he knows no other life, or that he is a problem threat to society, they will release that convict and wait for his revocation of parole to come back through their department. OK now the state gets twice as much money for revocating his parole and re-entering him back into the system. Its all money for the state, its like a bank for it if structurally analyzed. But this has been going on for years, but people do not realize it. Its all about Politics.

Answer 10

I guess the answer is to build more prisons , I suggest that we use a desolte island somewhere off the north of scotland (so that it's nice and cold) put the prisoners on ther with a tent and basic living needs , all we have to do then is to patrol the waters to stop them excaping , first sentence should be 2 years , second 4 years , every time they re offend , send tham back and double their last sentence , no time off for good behaviour , if they do'nt want to go , do'nt break the law