why do you have to pay £3.50 a day for tv in hospital yet only pay £1 a week in prison?

Answer 1

Good question - and why is so hard to get refunded in hospital when you buy a £10.00 card for credit and find the TV is broken and the card is not transferable - is disgusting making money out of sick people !!!!! xxx

Answer 2

Because patients in hospital are in no good position to protest about this. They are unwell and have very little choice other than to accept the treatment they're given. Hardly as if they're in any fit state to band together and storm the hospital admin offices, or even make any other, milder form of effective protest. In hospital you take what you're given and that's that.

In prison most inmates are not unwell and a good number will have a track record of violence. Since our prisons are full beyond capacity and can run only limited activity for prisoners they tend to be tinderboxes, with riot and disorder always a live risk. Access to TV is one of the easier distractions to offer and can go some way to maintaining order. It's counterproductive to price TV out of range - as we're seeing at the minute with Harmondsworth Immigration Centre riots can cost millions.

So it's all about who has the power, who offers a threat. TV and car park costs at hospitals are absolutely disgusting exploitation but, unlike a prison, it's a captive market where people can be treated badly without any menaingful consequence to those who run the places.

Bob Dylan had it right - ' Money doesn't talk, it swears '.

Answer 3

Yeah, Life's a *****! It's all caused by those miles and miles of Government red tape in the NHS that needs to be paid for, and because this little pink Tory government think more of prisoners than they do of the sick.

Answer 4

Prison is a 5* hotel without the price tag

Answer 5

Because people in prison are forced to be there, and would complain it's against their human rights.
The NHS would say it was your fault you got sick.
Like everything these days, it's the government, bureaucracy and blasted red tape everywhere

Answer 6

because it's all b*llocks

when in prison it should be just a cold little room, tiny little window always left open, crappy uncomfy bed, 1 blanket and a pot in the corner to go to the toilet in, or have I just described my local hospital

Answer 7

because the nhs is so low on funds they actually need the money however if you want to know the secret way of mine to get free internet in this situation please contact me :) im a clever bum bum....

Seriosuly i think its disgusting but yet again people in prison would probably say its a violation of human rights and get compo scumbags.

Answer 8

good question.here's an other. why is prison food better than hospital food? to answer your question. i think its cause if they did not have telly they would riot or bad food they would riot too. the world is a strange sick place.

Answer 9

Because there are more people in Prisons then in hospitals.

Answer 10

Because this government thinks more of its crimanals that it does it's sick people.