We spent a fortune in taxpayers money recovering the islands for the sake of a few thousand sheep farmers and, we know from the experience of Australia that transportation works. If it was OK to build several prisons on the beautiful Isle of Wight what would be so wrong about doing the same in the Falklands.
What a great way of dealing with the anti-social elements that we see every day on our screens.
2007-08-16 10:00:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Dear Hippie, hope you're not getting too wet out at Heathrow!
2007-08-16 10:40:05 · update #1
Depends on whether we allow them back again. Using the Falklands as just a prison wouldn't work because, apart the prisoners not having access to their visits, drugs and cable tv, it would cost a fortune to ship them there, then let them out again half way through their sentence/when the prisons are full (whichever occurs first). Why bother when it would be more environmentally responsible to transport them a shorter distance, or no distance at all, by converting say Liverpool into a penal colony.
2007-08-16 11:07:44 · answer #1 · answered by lotsmorewine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It costs on average £30,000 to keep prisoners locked up per year. To setup and use new facilities in the Falklands would be vastly more expensive. What is needed is a total rethink of the UK penal system as by any measure it fails society.
2007-08-16 18:23:31 · answer #2 · answered by James Mack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you remember that movie that Kurt Russell was in years ago, escape from New York? That is what we should do. Put them all together and give them seeds to plant their own food and build their own shelters. Of coarse those who need med's, is another problem with this idea. But, considering there are at this moment 2.1 million people in prison in the USA and that is not counting, half-way houses, or those on ankle bracelets. It's a big problem that no one seems to care about, and it's sad isn't it?
2007-08-16 17:11:32 · answer #3 · answered by docie555@yahoo.com 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure the Falkland Islanders would be happy about it! Maybe Greenland would be a better place - problem is, it isn't a British colony ;)
2007-08-16 18:56:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah , and why not establish concentration camps in the Scottish Highlands ? Fascist
2007-08-16 17:35:46 · answer #5 · answered by Hippie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You Brits have caused billions of pounds of damage over the centuries with your empire building, so stop whinging.
2007-08-16 19:11:55 · answer #6 · answered by gortamor 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
why? what did the Falkland Islanders do to deserve our rubbish?
2007-08-16 20:06:30 · answer #7 · answered by angela m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They would apply to the European Court of Human Rights on the grounds that their human rights were being attacked, it being impossible for friends and relatives to visit them at such a distance. Good idea, otherwise.
2007-08-16 17:06:53 · answer #8 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋