Why are they turning prisons into holiday camps?
598152
To the person that says this doesn't happen in America - you're right, but barely. \n\nWe are allowing new TVs, and Cable television. \n\nI agree, it is a joke. These peole should be made to hate the fact that they are there. I say, and I'm being serious here, bring back the chain gangs. \n\nMake them HATE being incarcerated - and they may not want to follow the same path again that led them there.
1135130
yes we are too politcally correct, things like this let two pedo's go into a park with a video camera to film kids.  When a) the are on parole in a bail hostel and b) one of them had only just been released on bail again the same day charged with new offences that he'd committed since his release from prison!!  Makes you f**king sick that scum like this have more protection than our kids..  same goes for smack heads, thieves.. armed robbers etc..
859978
Apparently we need the prison places for a much more evil type of person!!...Those old men and women who have never broken the law in their lives but now through the high taxes and low pensions can't afford their ever increasing council taxes......What terrible people they must be!!!  far more a danger to society than a rapist or murderer!! What a wonderful logic this government works on....when will they Wake up and join the real world?!?!?!!!
512883
No difference in a Prison and a Penitentiary....same thing...not a good place to spend a vacation.
607847
Sounds like he's going to make it a quick trip to keep the prisoner from worrying too long about something (his crime, the upcoming punishment, death, etc).  A longer trip would give the prisoner more time to worry over whatever's bothering him, while a shorter one wouldn't give him that luxury.
981295
First thing I can see ,is that none of these people no anything about what they are talking about .Have any of them been to prison (no ) .So how do they no what its like (they dont).I have been there and its not like a country club . 75 percent of the people in our prison system are there for nonviolent offenses .That means offenses where there was no victem . Mainly drug offenses . They dont know that these people do workfor state and federal governments who sell products they make and are paid differant amounts from $5 an hour to $10 an hour in some places and pay prisoners 20 to 50 cents an hour . (slave labor) the federal prison system sold the defense dept billions of dollars in work and products made by prisoners and put american companies out of busness that can't compete with some one with no labor costs .They also don't tell you they robbed these people that are sent to prison ,for offenses where there was no victem of thier moneyand poperty before sent there .(billions of dollars) or that they pay rent and fines out of the 20 cents ph  paid and the phone calls are charged inflated rates knowing they will call family .Or that they put these nonviolent offenders in space made for 1 person they will have 4 people .Or that these nonviolent offenders are then victemized by violent preditors that prisons were designed for .Or that felons are not able to get any kind of funds to go to college to better thier lifes.Or that government hasd now made about 1 in 3 people in our society felons by legislators voiolating our bill of rights .Or that felons still have to pay taxes but are not alowed to vote (taxation without representation)They say it costs $30,000 a year to keep a person in prison a year .You can go to school at the best university for $10,000 a year .Robbing these people for offenses where they haven't hurt anyone and putting them in prison for years is one level; above Hitler .Governments have been able to justify victemizing people for financial gain to any extent since time began .(indians ,jews,slaves )ou believe the propaganda our government puts out .Is there anything about government that is true anymore .
938550
Maybe you mean correlation -- i.e. there are many politicians who have had to spend time in jail.  I guess that that shows you that the state probably is abusing its power and jailing dissident politicians.
1143599
And we wonder why the jails are full.....
1014119
If I were in charge, It would be as simple as this.  there would be powerplants that ran on prison power.  You take all the child molesters, rapists, and murderers and put them in there own giant hamster wheel.  The hamster wheels all operate ther own little generator, that powers a transformer, that turns the low voltage into high voltage and passes it over transmission lines to sub-stations.  If the inmate refuses to walk run or jog, just shock him into complience.  The utility bills that we know pay, would pay for upkeep and keeping the prisoners fed, instead of our tax dollars.  This frees up money for tax breaks.  When the inmate dies, his body is taken to an alternate power plant were it is burned.  The smoke and steam from all the burning prisoner bodies will turn a turbine that powers a large generator.  With future advances in electric cars and power cells, we would be able to drive across country at the maximum speed limits on one fully charged battery, charged of course by the electricity produced by prison power.  Believe it or not, I wrote a paper on this in a criminal justice class and got an A.
1156005
I believe there is a correctional facility there.
409593
I think that its because they feel liket they already screwed up (talking about the kids in jail). They are not loved by anyone, so they want to live an easy life style.
645819
no way.  we are over there trying to be the good guy and help the iraqis and then they see that.  it makes them hate us and makes more enemies for us.  the prisons over there are supposed to be run like they would in the US, and that would not happen over here without a HUGE outrage.  i used to be an MP in the army and i am VERY ashamed of those MPs that did that.  it was wrong.
796721
Valid point.\n\nI agree. It is a money saving tactic. They don't have the manpower to monitor everybody 24 hours a day either so it won't work and since it's a money saving tactic they won't put more money into increasing manpower. That would be counter-productive.\n\nLot's of people believe that it would be best to keep some criminals locked up. In the UK we have prison overcrowding so clearly too many people are being sent. This costs governments lots of money which they do not want to spend. They have far better things to be doing like invading countries, etc. Wars coincidentally also cost money.\n\nPrisons are not the solution to all crimes but if people are deemed (by society) a danger to society then keep them locked up.
146329
Yeah pretty much. They were created so that an alternative to "life" sentences, which give parole, could be given to particularly violent crimes.
1129452
Erm, 'love 2 b curious'\n\nExcuse me, hate to interrupt, but you do realise of course that your government is locking people up, with no contact to the outside world, no representation, no charge and no trial, for an indefinite period of time, and is not even trying to cover the fact up. It is totally public knowledge. It is not media hype. It's happened and is happening. Like the sun is shining.\nNow you may believe that of the hundreds of people that were rounded up and put into these prisons and made to kneel in the boiling heat for days on end all deserved it, but couldn't you just entertain the possibility, just humour me a little, that some of these people may have done nothing wrong?\n\nThink about it. Just maybe?
554549
yeah, my dad is an electrician who worked there. he said the only ppl he saw there were shackled and accompanied by guards. i dont know what constitutes a "prison" technically, but i'm pretty damn sure that if you're there, you're not having a good time. for a LONG time.
529403
business has stopped this in the past. Big business will lobby and complain against letting prisoners welfare recipients do this because it takes work away from them which means less profit for them. That is why business wants cheap illegal labor.\n\nAs you know America is ruled by business and its corporate donations to the parties