Hi, having read the following aritcle http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18102006/344/inmates-paid-play-scrabble.html it sounds to me that prison inmates are having a free holiday, it might even encourage people to commit crime just so the can have a free holiday. I thought prison was meant to discourage people from committing crimes. Any thought?
2006-10-18 04:29:25 · 11 answers · asked by Paul D 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I don't think so. The greatest thing a man or woman can have is freedom. Freedom to go where they want, when they want to, and with whomever they wish. As the saying goes; "Give me liberty or give me death".
2006-10-18 04:41:24 · answer #1 · answered by Joe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We could build twice the number of prisons but keep the operating budget the same. Of course we'd have to cut back on cell size, loose the sky tv and replace the gym with a chain gang breaking paving slabs. Perhaps that would deter so many people from commiting crime!
2006-10-18 11:44:23 · answer #2 · answered by Wattsie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Britain, prisons are holiday camps. There is nowhere else in the country where you are guaranteed food, accommodation, heating, job, education, training, drugs and free Sky TV. The list goes on an on. No wonder people commit crimes to get in them.
2006-10-18 11:34:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chain gangs doing menial, mind numbingly boring, pointless repetetive tasks, preferably in public, in city centres where we can all see who they are and laugh at them and throw rotten tomatoes and half eaten kebabs and the like. Then take them back to their bare, empty cells without any TV, radio, computer games or home comforts. THAT is how prison should be these days!
2006-10-18 13:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by scotslad60 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prisons should be squalid, horrible places where inmates are fed poorly, live in cramped and inhuman conditions and are regularly beaten. I think you'd find crime rates reducing somehow.
2006-10-18 11:37:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah i agree i think giving people a taste of what they could have is wrong besides why would you want them to miss freedom ....think about it just because they get 1 free day dont mean they will running the streets it be better if you where in jail for along time and they gave you a taste of what you cant have it would make yo a better person because you will want out more and not want to go back .....just because it is diffrent dont mean it is bad
2006-10-18 11:35:19 · answer #6 · answered by dogfaceboy626 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree prisoners have it far to easy in this country!!!!! Playstations oin their rooms three meals a day!!! nice cells to live in !!!!!! **** bring back the Shawshank style of prisons then lets see them commit crimes twice!!!!
2006-10-18 11:39:04 · answer #7 · answered by Myszka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bread & Water, hard labour and locked up rest of the day..............but they wont let me run the prisons....
2006-10-18 12:02:41 · answer #8 · answered by pat.rob00 Chef U.K. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the reason they are over-crowded.
2006-10-19 06:12:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ask scott peters
2006-10-19 03:12:06 · answer #10 · answered by acid tongue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋