Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Prison chiefs are to spend almost half a million pounds quizzing prisoners about their quality of life.
Inmates at almost half of the country's jails will be asked if they feel looked after and how well they get on with prison officers.
They will be questioned on their washing facilities, whether they are allowed enough time on the telephone and if they sleep well. They will be asked a 128 questions which they will agree or disagree with how life is 'inside'.....
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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You must be joking Marek !
Poor dears, do the warders give them a cuddle if they feel hard done by ?
What's the point of sending people to prison, if it's going to be a home from home, or better than home:
No bills to pay.
Regular, good quality food.
No worries about finding a job
Free in-house training and the possibility of a degree (do they pay for that ? - of course not)
Warm roof over their head
Safe from burglaries.
No nagging wife (sorry, forget that last one) ?
Don't tell me prison doesn't work, of course it does, it creates none of the above problems or worries and gives those people security - of tenure too.
If this has emanated from a Government department, then I am shocked; all the things I believe(d) the Conservative Government would do, will have vanished.
I need to know the emanating body this instruction came from; it would not have been an idea that popped in the Prison Governers' collective heads.
Roger
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Roger
It was ordered by the current Minister of Justice......
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#4
Not bloody Ken Clark ?
What is he up to ? I used to like and respect him (apart from his pro-EU stance), but this must take the biscuit - he must stop this nonsense now, to save any more disgraceful and stupid ideas coming to fruition.
Roger
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#5
Clarke has to go.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#6
i suppose if the report comes back that the laundry facilities are below par and the cell service is lax ken will use it as an excuse for letting more out than he originally intended.
Jan Higgins
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#7
What a daft idea, by the very nature of things prisoners are not going to be a happy bunch so most questions will get a negative.
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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#8
well done ken clarke for coming up with a daft idea.makes labours indeas seem sencable.
here are 2 more questions that should be asked,
1,would you like to be flogged at dawn or dusk.
2,would you like bigger tellys in your cells with a full subscription to sky.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#9
I had a friend who in the 60s in her capacity as a librarian, took books into a big prison, and she said the prisoners regularly 'ordered' expensive books to read and the most popular subject was crime and detective stories !!
Time on the telephone!! Why don't they do hard labour !!
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