if all prisons r full does that mean?

Question

that the crime rate will go up,afterall u can,t b locked up if the house is full.

Answer 1

It means we are not executing enough criminals

Answer 2

It means that an overstretched police service has to bail out the UK government and home office by housing prisoners in police cells, adding additional burden to an already demoralised uk police service, whilst the home office still deny the police a pay rise in line with rises handed out to other non manual blue collar workers back in 2005.

Yes the police have to wait a while to get their rise, and yes they're classed as 'non manual blue collar workers' by the UK government.

Police cells are woefully inadequate, police officers are trained to police and protect the public, not act as full time gaolers, the public once again suffers as less officers are on the beat, or officers suffer as they are called in on rest days (which they should be spending at home with their families) to cover gaoler duties.

The other suggestion as detailed in sources below by The Lord Chief Justice, is that courts should hand out 'community sentences' instead of custodial sentences to help ease the prison over crowding problem. Which incidently has been predicted and almost reached numerous times in the last few years. This will mean that criminals are left walking the streets whilst serving 'tough' community sentences like picking up litter, removing graffiti etc. So yes there is a potential for these individuals to commit further crimes.

The simple answer is build more prisons, or stop locking people up. What would the public prefer......? Perhaps I should go for a career in politics!

Answer 3

Most prisons in the US are currently overfilled. We continue to warehouse people in alternative housing, such as the tent cities in Arizona, and build more prisons.

The crime rate is based on how many crimes that were committed are discovered. A small precentage of actual crime is discovered by law enforcement and successfully prosecuted. The number of people in prison has very litle impact on the official crime rate. The official crime rate is typically very low, especially for violent and other severe crimes. The media tends to hype changes in the crime rate. Because it is very low and additional crime or two that is discovered makes the percentage change look large. For example, if an area has one murder one year, then two murders the next year, it will be reported that the murder rate increased 100%. Although any murders are bad, the change in the rate is probably statistically insignificant compared to the population. Always look at the actual crime incidence and rate, not just the percentage change.

Answer 4

I work for the Probation Service and what the papers and news are forgetting to say is that every day people are being released from prison as well as going into them. However, there is a major crisis with prison places, i.e. a couple of weeks ago there were 5 prison places left in one county on a Friday afternoon! But what can be done about it? The government are looking for new sites to build prisons but are coming up against major opposition from local residents (would you want a prison on your doorstep?). And then we get slated for for not putting enough people in prison AND for there being too many people in prison!
It has also been proven that prison does not work in reducing crime. It does for the incarceration length but not in the long term.

Answer 5

Blues and twos has the right answer. The prisoners will be housed in Police cells instead. Less space for us to house OUR prisoners, and more travelling to a custody block many miles away. Not good when you have a fighting prisoner in the back of your Police car.

Answer 6

It means that the prisons are going to be even fuller. I don't think it has a lot of effect on the crime rate.
It is sad but we do need many more prisons to accommodate the # of of prisoners.

Answer 7

They'll just start shipping them out to another country. I'm sure they have great prisons in Saudi, with lots of spaces for our criminals, especially after they've cleared out theirs by beheading them. A few decades or so ago we cleared out the prisons and sent them to australia, maybe a colony on the moon next.

When Scotland sends England they're nuclear waste to dispose of they're crims won't be far behind. Still wondering why they put their lads into politics in england.

Answer 8

yes i guess you are right so fill your boots go and and do as much crime as you like, perhaps we should send them to all live on another planet or build islands in the middle of the north sea and send them all there so they can just all fight unitl the death, or throw each other off to freeze, that would be good tv watching if nothing else.

Answer 9

i think they're looking into offshore prisons on large boats like ferry's but otherwise they'll have to build more prisons or keep you locked up in a police cell. either that or it'll be like bunking when you were a kid with a sleeping bag on the floor!

Answer 10

set up local executions and rid the areas of non-abiding peoples. Eliminate current prison populations bu exporting all the violent criminals to Iran and let Allah's followers take careof the,m

Answer 11

Well there is a possiblilty to make more prisons on large ship like vessells at sea.