How would YOU ease the UK's prison overcrowding?
Answer:
Don't send as many people to prison.
I was in for assault and it . I was provoked but I did what I did. It would have been much betterfor everybody that instead of being locked up I could have stayed at my job (lost it) and maybe pay the 'victim' something from that instead. And do community service and put on tag for longer (on that at the moment).
I was also thinking that the reason there are so many people in prison now is because of all the new crimes that have been invented. Go back 50 years and you would probably have nobody in prison for stuff like motoring offences, joyriding, drugs and stuff like that becuase cars or drugs really weren't around.
I know people won't agree but prison is tough unless you have a totally **** life outside and you do lose all your freedoms and being around with your friends and family. I'm 23 and wasn't in for that long so I hope it works out that I don'thave to go back.
Construct more prisons.
Send 'em to Australia like you did before.
Bring back the death penalty and kill all Rapist Paedophiles and murders That should clean up about 70% of the scum in brition
start sending them to Australia again
Stop puttin people away for petty crime, deal with the pervs, and more serious cases like murderers etc....
Think of your bathtub as your population, the drain as the law, and the septic tank as the prison. Your drain is too large -- make less laws and repeal existing ones (e.g. if a law doesn't have a victim or if the victim is the defendant, repeal it).
repatriate all illegal immigrants, hang murder's of woman, children and police officers that should solve the problem over night.
Blair let out of prison thousands of terrorists from the jails
in northern Ireland so there must be plenty of empty cells.
i would suggest we transport prisoners to Ireland.
hang all paedophiles and killers
deport foreign prisoners
build prisons out at sea!!
Overcrowding can be caused by
- Punishment is not a deterrent
- Recidivism by former inmates
- Criminalization of lesser offenses
- Lack of capital punishment
- Lack of lower-security facilities and halfway houses
- Outdated facilities that are labor intensive and not efficient use of space
- Lack of a working parole system
By now, the authorities in charge KNOW what's wrong. They just lack the funding or political clout to change the system.
well it seems now people are being jailed for offences which do not warrant being locked up, like minor motor offences and things like failure of various payments, give these people demeaning community service and bang up the pervs, thugs and delinquents.
I would deport them to somewhere like Australia or iraqi or
Make them fight in the army in the end who cares if serial murderer's die or
We gather in a field with guns and have a hunting party against the criminals
Make the prison regime a lot tougher so that it serves more as a deterant rather than an occupational hazzard for the career criminal. I once saw a programme on television about the "Glasshouse" which is the military prison in Colchester. The daily life for offenders convicted of a crime whilst serving in HM Forces is a lot tougher than the pampered lifestyle of the civilian criminal. For a start they have to wake up at the crack of dawn for drill practice, after breakfast they then spend the rest of the day polishing and cleaning their barracks ready for a daily inspection. Prisoners were housed six to a room and the room that passed inspection with the highest marks were given access to a radio for one hour a week usually on Sunday night. So there was no access to a TV, Playstation, pool table, etc, etc. And if prisoners stepped out of line their sentences could be extended by the governor and they usually faced further punishment from the Provost Sergeant. Ever seen Bad Lads Army on ITV? The extra punishment they face is similar to that. I also remember the staff at the Glasshouse helping the prisoners to find new direction in life such as enrolling them on training courses in preperation of them being discharged. In short life in the Glasshouse taught the prisoners to be more disciplined and have a lot more respect for others not to mention respect for themselves.
Spend more time and money creating better mental health facilities. Instead of punishing people for there disease we could actually assist in treating them.
Although it is easier to lock them up, so we could identify a type of prisoner, lets say all left handed inmates and shoot them. This should free up a cells.
send em all to siberia
Prisons at the moment are play camps for criminals and they even get paid more compensation then their victims. The justice system is a shambles you can't even defend yourself in your own home these days as criminals have more rights than their victims.
The government needs to make prisons a punishment so that criminals don't want to go there and hence wont re-offend when they are released.
They also need to bring back capital punishment (the death penalty) for Murderers, rapists, paedophiles etc and they must have their human rights revoked and not allowed early release. LIFE SHOULD MEAN LIFE. That will sort out over crowding in prisons.
hang the child killers, along with the rapists and child molesters, then we will have plenty of room to jail the old age pensioners who are not able to pay their poll tax I chose the words poll tax deliberately because all the labour party did was change the name of a tax that under the tories caused riots in the streets yet labour have got away with it.
Death Row
Bring back Hanging!!!
Build more prisons. I would not do what the Chinese have done many times - take out thousands of prisoners at random, regardless of crime and shoot them.
There is only overcrowding because there aren't enough prisons. Short term, build more prisons, long term, make prison harsher, which should help cut offending, together with measures to build respect for authority in society.
Deport all inmates that arent holding British passports,that should free up some beds.
With the certainty of DNA evidence these days i would bring back the death penalty for all convicted child killers,rapist and paedophiles..and maybe some of the other scum infecting the planet.
This will free up more prison spaces for fine dodgers and council tax evaders...not forgetting the motorist.
Build more prisons.Not jail people for minor crimes like shoplifting.Execute anyone who murders or rapes children.
Good question.
Firstly those prisoners that are of foreign origin I would deport straight way.
In future anyone committed 100% guilty of murder or any heinious crime would face the death sentence, fullstop!
Investment would be made in the construction or convertion of prison ships or old oil rigs.
reduce the wealth gap creating a socialist utopia where people have no need to steal from their brothers.
tag the petty criminals and make em clean the streets up..... take away the tele, playstations etc... and make em suffer like they did their victims.... they say they have "human rights?!"... whats the country coming to???.... the government and the "goodie goodies" in suits are to blame for being too soft... i know a crack head who once told me he does a crime just to go in prison when he has no cash as they feed him, give him a roof and get him clean... personally id hand him a lethal injection if it stopped him and others like him leaching off the likes of us!
take the privilages away they dont deserve it they take take take off us and their victims!!..........wake up tony blaire i say!!
Send them to Iraq or Afghanistan. Also consider executing them so that their body parts can be reused for good purposes.
How about testing new drugs on prisoners instead of on rats and monkeys? That should get rid of some hard core ones!
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