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  It never ceases to amaze me how many people speak from ignorance having never visited prison,worked in prison or indeed been to prison.They spout forth the lock 'em and throw away the key rubbish that is printed by the likes of the well known rags like the Mail and the Sun.Two newspapers,if that is one can call them,whose main interest is selling advertising space by appealing to the unlearned masses who love nothing better than comparing a sporting event like an England versus Germany football match as though it was some great battle from the WW2.Jingoistic rubbish.
  
  If any of you " brng back the stocks in the market square" brigade want to know what prison is really like than do something constructive and become a prison visitor on the Board. Experience first hand entering an establishment,even as a visitor,and being searched and the doors locked in front and behind you with no control over the keys.Ask to be placed in a locked cell for 23 hours a day with some drug fuelled stranger. Then tell me that prison is soft and easy.
  
  Barryw who refers to me as being a do-gooder ( as if that were some sort of cardinal sin),loony leftie or even stupid wouldn't last 5 minutes never mind 5 hours inside.
  
  Yes there are ways to improve the system but locking them up,bringing back capital and or corporal punishment or forgetting about the offenders is not the way forward or the way to improve our damaged and fragile society.

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