What is your opinion on the blunder with the release of the prisoners (rapists and murders)?
354177
One or two maybe, but even that is slack, but over 1000!!!??? That is utterly disgraceful and unforgivable. What on earth is going on?\n\nCharles Clarke should resign forthwith. There is no way he should remain in office to try and sort it out. If he can't be trusted with it in the first place, why should we trust him to clear the whole sorry mess up?\n\nThe chances of finding these people is next to zero, and even if they did get found they would cite human rights laws in order to stay here.\n\nThis government has had it's day. It time for labour to go.
845008
And what about Rapists!!! Fifty percent of those involved had a GREAT time! To call it a crime is a "technicality" in favor of the victim...WhatSup With that! \n It's high time we showed compassion for the perpetrators that take food off the tables of working American citizens.
834183
This goes to the suggestion, attributed by a Y! Q/R Answerer on the French list, to a commentator on a French Radio talk show "Grosses Têtes" citing Jules Ferry (19th Century Minister of Education, who is credited with the establishment of the right to free secular education in France): that instead of capital punishment, convicts should have their eyes gouged out.\n\nI've been unable to confirm the attribution, and am still trying.
217839
a few things...  Prisoners in a camp aren't under "courtesy", they are convicted felons/criminals, being held there to keep them away from society... The international forces who there received an order to leave the area because they were at risk of being attacked by the Palestinian militants there. Israel new this, and couldn't let those prisoners break free. Using the work 'kidnap' is about as accurate as saying that a bounty hunter who captures escaped felons is a 'kidnapper'. The main prisoner wasn't just 'accused' - he was convicted as well. As for your main question on the effects of this story? It won't increase the conflict, but it will be fuel for the Politicians on both sides to spin whichever way they want...
887028
Nope your right these folks committed crime and were sentenced to a term in jail. Jail is a place where you have restricted freedom and privileges. The human writes brigade think this is wrong. I think it is character building keep them swilling out there own pig pens this way they may begin to learn the advantages of not living in a prison. From there its not a great leap for them to understand what they did wrong that got them there in the first place. All while they have PlayStation's, television, three square meals, books, education, medical system better than NHS, drugs, you name it they got it where's the deterrent????
564291
That's a tough one. I think it is better to keep innocent people out of jail at all costs. Although frightening to let criminals walk I suspect most of them will be caught again.
304215
I haven't checked out the site, because my opinion is firmly developed on this subject.\n\nThose deemed guilty of a crime against society, especially a violent crime, in this day and age, are only punished by lack of freedom.  That is not sufficient penalty, in my opinion.  I believe that convicted criminals should be subject to any and all heavy labor deemed relevant to their 'repayment of society'.  \n\nIf imprisonment is to be a true deterrant to crime, it must be 'beyond horrible'.  That's not to say that we should torture, or abuse criminals, but by golly, developing a farmiliarity to HARD WORK can only help them when they get out of prison.\n\nAnd, as an example, I find it personally objectionable as a taxpayer to be paying for cable t.v. service for inmates.  Or to be providing vegetables and grains for prison consumption.  Veggies and grains should be produced by prisoners in prison farms.  \n\nInmates lifting weights all day, or earning a law degree is simply not O.K., if it's done on the backs of their law abiding fellow citizens.  Just my opinion!
1077619
I wish.  The thing is though, is that people get longer prison sentences with drug violations than people who have committed a murder!  That's just wrong.  And the justice system is way too lenient with child abusers, rapists, and molesters.  How is that the criminals have more rights than those who uphold the law?
286781
Yes, this is true.  They are moving the remaining prisoners there to another prison.  It's due to the media involvement and the actions of the military at that particular place.
959128
I bet the criminals' victims can't believe it either. \n\nI think the government should have fought the legal action, not just caved in and give them the money. There are going to be some many more ex-cons trying to claim compensation now.
1127863
Albeit there seems to be some issues with the correctional system, I've worked there and haven't found a better way of things. Not all inmates are monsters. Yes, they did wrong in someway, but can you honestly look someone in the eye and say that a seventy-two year old woman who is in for bad checks needs to be locked up and have the key thrown away? People like that are in there. Or the guy in there with an IQ of 50 who got a hold of a gun and was waving it around? He needs a hospital not a prison, but they put him in with regular population. \nDo you think it is right for the man to miss his daughter's funeral, just because he's locked up? \nOn another note. I know they have a lot of 'privileges' and rights. But seeing how, I've worked in a prison, things like weights, basketball, musical instruments keep them entertained and from making their own entertainment. When they are left to find ways to entertain themselves it comes in forms that are undesirable like fights. \nThe appeal system for death row inmates is designed to weed out those wrongfully accused and incarcerated. Our justice system is an adversary system like that and thank heavens for it. Unfortunately a few who are guilty escape justice they deserved. But until we find a way that is better we have to do with what we have.
581262
Yes, some people are just not fit to be in society. So, they need to be put down, sadly. We can't just keep cold blooded murders locked up, there is no room in our prisons and they deserve to pay for what they did, justice for the familys.
781983
The problem is much more complex and can't be solved by putting more people in prison.  Factors that determine when a person is released: Prison overcrowding, sentencing guidelines, parole board or special review board decisions, etc.  None of these factors can be controlled by a psychiatrists or parole officer, and rarely do psychiatrists or parole officers have a say in the matter.  What your fail to mention is all the successful releases, don't let a few bad apples paint a negative picture of the process as a whole.
628729
yes\nhistory will decide that the detainees were criminal or not.\nanyhow i feel they should be kept in camps governed by Geneva Convention on POW.
608114
I think he had a horrible childhood and became mentally ill towards the end. I mean the control had something to do with it but some of the things this guy did were unspeakable. I can't figure out why the people that did his killings and tortures forced themselves to do it unless they enjoyed it too. I know you do what your leader tells you but I would think all it would have taken was a bunch of people to just blow his a$$ away .
596841
I think these monsters lost ANY "civil liberties" they may have ever had when they chose to violate a child.  What about the childrens' civil liberties?\n\nI'm sorry, I have no sympathy for them whatsoever.  Furthermore, they're almost never rehabilitated.  They do it again and again and again.
775123
there are a couple of CNN reports on this including one\nwhich mentions Britain giving money & British ships taking evacuees. I think there's something about the prisoners from the jail being taken to another prison...\n\nhop it helps & is not too late for you