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Riot concerns raised over new jails

Government plans for a new breed of massive jail holding 2,500 inmates could be vulnerable to large-scale riots, prison chiefs have warned.

U TURN ON PRISONS

05.12.07, 8:07pm

There are too many people in our prisons who just should not be there. The wholesale closure of mental health hospitals by Thatcher’s government and the alternative of ‘care in the community’ just hasn’t worked for so many genuinely mentally ill people or those unable to cope with life in our hectic unsympathetic society.

These people should be given help and some degree of understanding. A few are very dangerous and should never be allowed outside of a hospital ward.

For those who are young but not yet career criminals there should be compulsory hard physical work, possibly abroad, and a programme of education or training in an attempt to give them a chance of fulfilling their human potential before it is all wasted.

For serious, dangerous or persistent criminals there must be long spells in prison to both protect society and send a message that they have had their chance, they must now face the consequences of their criminality.
As for possible riots-well build them properly and with anti riot measures incorporated into each wing.

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IT WOULD BE CHEAPER.....

05.12.07, 5:04pm

To just brick up Parliment with all the theiving, incompetant, money grubbing MP's inside. Then cut off all comunication with the outside world. That way the real criminals would be punnished.

Vote BNP

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THREE GIANT PRISONS PLANNED BY 2014

05.12.07, 2:22pm

To be filled with all the LibLabCon Traitors & Fraudsters !

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WHO WILL BE THE WINNERS?

05.12.07, 1:15pm

While I expect that the Conservative Party will pick up a lot of votes over this issue, I expect that the BNP will as well.

Gordon Brown is really acting as if he wants Nick Griffin to succeed him in Downing Street.

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THERE IS A SIMPLE ANSWER

05.12.07, 12:32pm

Firstly they need to provide more prison places and second they should deport the foreign prisoners, this done there would be plenty of room for prisoners to recieve adequate terms in prison, not that I consider current sentencing to be close to adequate.

The real scandal of this is the refusal of the government to accept more places were needed in the past even though they were warned repeatedly. It boils down to the fact that left wing liberal politicians will not accept that prison works and still see the perpetrator as one of the victims, as Crazy Horse says "the victims are the losers".

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LACK OF JAIL PLACES

05.12.07, 11:25am

once again the victims will become the loosers ,with the justice system in tatters ,this will send out a green light to the crimminals in this country ,and the only think that will prick up the ears of this disfunctional government,is when the public decide to take the law in to their own hands.

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