Straw man?......nope, you’ve lost me there.
Anyway......I too have no expertise or experience of the judiciary system either, and whilst I also have no experience of prisons or prison life I do read and am able to watch news reports/documentaries etc. You cannot pick up a newspaper without reading reports about inmates who are able to feed their daily drugs habit, or pictures of groups inmates taking ‘selfies’ etc. I could be wrong but I’m sure that illegal drugs and mobile phones are banned in U.K. prisons.
Let’s move on to things that ARE allowed, radios, CD players, television’s, PlayStation’s or XBox etc. They get an amount of hours each day for ‘leisure’, so that could mean spending time in a fully equipped gym, or playing table tennis or simply strolling around the prison yard.
So, go out and mug a defenceless OAP and the above is your punishment, hold up a post office and the above is your punishment, disfigure someone in an acid attack and....... you get the message.
Take away the gyms, the t.v.’s, the computer consoles and make it a proper punishment, make it hard, make it unbearable. Maybe, just maybe it might stop a fair number of them wanting to ever go back.....because at the moment even I quite like the idea of doing a bit of bird. No responsibilities, three meals a day, warm bed, gym, leisure time, PlayStation, maybe even a bit of Charlie on a Saturday night, sounds like a holiday to me.
Do YOU think our prisons are to harsh? Let’s hear your thoughts on the subject, are you one of those mamby pampby lefties who believe that criminals should go on self esteem building holidays instead of prison? (until of course you have been victim of a crime).
Oh, and my ‘ridiculous sweeping statement’ about sorting this country out was tongue in cheek mate. Blimey, loosen up cupcake
What ISNT tongue in cheek are my views on our prisons, they are clearly too soft. Commit a crime and you should face a very bleak time behind bars. People like you don’t agree with people like me.....until people like you become a victim of crime.
Have a safe day