Daughter's death prompted women's prisons campaign?

Question

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20071126/tuk-uk-britain-prisons-fa6b408_2.html
I have mixed emotions on this,can i have your views please?

I think the mother should have started a campaign long before the death of an old man at the hand of her druggie daughter,to get the daughter the help she needed.If that makes any sense to you,i can't type what i really feel sorry.x

Morning Kamran.xx
My emotions are tied with what you said and with with Duirmuid said.
I just can't get my head round it at the moment.
Although my first thoughts were with Duirmuid,i then think 'what if it were my daughter' xx

Agreed Steph.xxxx

Answer 1

I agree with you. I have little sympathy for the mother I'm afraid, I dont believe shes campaigning for other female prisoners, its more about her own grieving and coping strategies. A bit selfish if you ask me.

She would be better campaigning for drug awareness or something, if she wanted to help

Answer 2

It does seem like a huge amount of hypocrisy - I don't know how bothered the mother was about the death of the old man. The prison may have made errors, but I think it is important to understand that people in prison will try any trick - the prison staff probably felt like they had heard this one before.

At the end of the day - the girl was in prison to protect the public from her actions - she decided to take the pills - the prison did not make her do it - I think it is a huge same that two lives have been lost somewhere along the line - and both of them unnecessarily - but I can't help wondering what the mother did in protest at her daughter's action in the first place - little I suspect...

Answer 3

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. She has no-one but herself to blame. If she wasn't a drug addict and murderer, she would never have been in prison in the first place. Criminals get far too many rights as it is. I'm sure the prison service has to deal with many attempted suicides every year. Mostly from women, who are so depressed, because they are locked up. Boohoo. What about the victims family. Forgotten! Another dreg of society that we won't have to support. Good!

Answer 4

What about all the poor men who go to prison and get beat on and murdered by other prisoners? Doesn't the state have a duty of care to them to ? Their punishment is incarceration, not random violence at the hands of uncontrolled thugs, be they warders or other inmates. Or are men just the expendable sex, as they have been in 2 World Wars ?

Answer 5

My sympathies are with the elderly man that was harrassed for money to pay for their habit. I cant imagine what the elderly man must have gone through and to have caused him to have had a heart attack. Poor man.
I have absolutely no sympathy with this woman or her daughter. None whatsoever.
Her daughter chose how she died, she did not have to take the tablets. But, the elderly man never, never had a choice.

Answer 6

Whatever the crime, the prison has a duty of care, and as such should have ensured she was in the ambulance asap, not after an arguement over who's job it was. I agree with the mothers right to campaign good for her!

Answer 7

morning busy bee

i agree with what you say but the prison staff could and should have prevented the death of the mothers daughter

Answer 8

i am totally with you on this one, but i do think the prison acted irresponsibly, at the end of the day they were responsible for the girl whilst she was banged up, so they should have acted correctly

Answer 9

yeah i don't know. assuming they are guilty, i don't feel anything for the guilty ones that want to take their lives. now if they WEREN'T and just felt so hopeless that they would ever be free again, i could see that.