Almost 200 drug-addicted prisoners are to receive thousands of pounds in compensation after suing over going "cold turkey" in jails. Inmates claim the policy of stopping them taking drugs in prison amounted to "torture".The 198 inmates demanded compensation from the Home Office saying the policy was a breach of their human rights.The case was due to be heard in The High Court today but reports in the Daily Mail claim the Home Office will settle out of court.Each prisoner can now expect thousands in compensation and the legal bill could rise to millions, it is claimed.
Full details - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/13112006/356/payouts-cold-turkey-prisoners.html
Correct me if I'm wrong but are they not in prison for a reason - like they've done something WRONG?
Newsflash to government - prison should be a hardship NOT a Butlins Holiday Camp with cash bonus payouts!!!! It's about time this Government got some BACKBONE!!!!!!!!!!
2006-11-13 00:44:44 · 15 answers · asked by smoking_gremlin 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
My answer is very simple.....
Will the do-gooders in this country take a leaf out of decent people's book and go away politely.
I am tried of criminals being paid compensation for things they were jailed for, whereas myself was stabbed by a drugged up prat who then stabbed with a syringe leaving on tender hooks for the next 10-12 weeks whilst tests are carried out..
I can't get compensation, I can't get help to pay my medication, I couldn't even get a sick note of my doctor and now 4 weeks later, I am still suffering with the nightmares, sleeplessness and worry whether I have got HIV and Hep B.
2006-11-13 01:14:41 · answer #1 · answered by The_Informer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I completely agree with what you say, I'm absolutely disgusted at these druggies getting compensation. No one forced them to take drugs, they are criminals, they are in prison presumably because they've seriously broken the law, yet because they've been forced to go without something which they shouldn't have been taking in the first place, they are getting a payout, this is classic PC New Labour though, if it's absurd, it happens! And on the subject of human rights, as far as I'm concerned if you commit a serious crime, you have waived your human rights, you threw them away.
2006-11-13 05:26:42 · answer #2 · answered by Mr Sarcastic 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really can't believe this. Life in the UK is becoming a joke. We work damn hard, pay taxes for breathing and criminals have more rights than we do.
Its so unfair, but how do we change whats going on in our country. All political parties are as bad as each other. When will the government help the people that are law abiding....
2006-11-13 03:08:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is well out of order,what about their victims and their compensation.
This needs to be sorted out once and for all,when druggies commit crimes to feed their habit,then they no longer have the rights to what law abiding citizens have and if they have to go cold turkey just get on with it.
I am told there are more hard drugs in prison than ever so,whats their problem,let them rot
2006-11-13 01:00:06 · answer #4 · answered by mentor 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sterilisation is slightly too absolute, because it does not cater for the reality that the addict could desire to mend their approaches sooner or later. they're now an ex-addict yet nevertheless sterile. permit's settle for it, dissimilar them do get sparkling at last. look at Eric Clapton. a extra valuable thought is to impose some variety of long-term birth control, for as long as they have the habit. despite the fact that, those variety of ideas could run alongside a desperate NHS help software to do away with the addictions and handle the motives of them.
2016-10-17 05:29:04 · answer #5 · answered by lander 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, read that story with the same fixed stare of "I cant believe this" myself. Problem is the Government decided (much to my own personal annoyance) that Political Correctness was to apply at every level, so bringing in these daft laws about Human Rights.
If you ask me, these people gave up their rights as soon as they are convicted.
Sadly, what is thought as common sense to some is seen as an outrage against humanity to another.
2006-11-13 00:50:32 · answer #6 · answered by brianthesnailuk2002 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All you need to do is look at whoTony Blair is married to and you'll see what's wrong with this country. Cherrie Blair/Booth was a very successful human-rights lawyer, defending and fighting for people like the drug addicts in question.
2006-11-13 00:57:37 · answer #7 · answered by Hendo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which is why this country is going to hell in a handcart.
I wonder if I can sue my mother under The Human Rights Act for teachng me not to take drugs thereby preventing me from profiting from the latest idiocy.
2006-11-13 00:56:13 · answer #8 · answered by des10euk 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The UK lost the plot along time ago.
Only now people are starting to realise it, a bit too late though.
I got out the place a couple of years ago, its gone barking mad.
2006-11-13 01:12:09 · answer #9 · answered by maka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How would it work if you were an alchoholic, could you get free booze.
I agree if they hadn't did what they did in the first place , they wouldn't be where they wre now.They chose to break the law.
2006-11-13 00:57:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋