Prisoner's rights... has it gone a bit too far?

I think prison now days is a piss-take it needs to be more strict, no tvs, no pool, afterall they are there for committing a crime. They need to be more strict.

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Originally Posted by Richie

I think prison now days is a piss-take it needs to be more strict, no tvs, no pool, afterall they are there for committing a crime. They need to be more strict.

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What exactly do you want them to do?!

You would seriously go insane if you had no luxuries at all. A prison full of "satisfied" prisoners is better than a prison full of insane ones.

Still, I think they should be encouraged to read more literature rather than watch TV.

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Originally Posted by Mathew

You would seriously go insane if you had no luxuries at all. A prison full of "satisfied" prisoners is better than a prison full of insane ones.

Still, I think they should be encouraged to read more literature rather than watch TV.

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Which is like asking foundation children to understand quadratics.

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Originally Posted by doherty

Which is like asking foundation children to understand quadratics.

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Encouraged to.. so have more lessons on it. I know my form tutor goes in to prisons to teach English every month or so. But then again - why should they be taught anything if they never get freedom again? :P

Good if they go insane, it will teach them not to commit a crime again. I know I sound very blunt but when I think of prison first thing that comes to mind is rapists and peados

Free food, a warm bed, TV and a computer is a step up from where a lot of them were in life anyways, though. Someone containing 10,000+ child porn pictures, as well as being caught making child pornography should not be complaining that there's not enough sex oriented television channels.

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Originally Posted by doherty

I think you lot are making it sound like it's welcoming or some sort of hotel. Personally, I don't think so, no. They've lost the only thing worth living for - freedom. The fact they can't see their family whenever they want, they can't walk their dog, they can't take their kids to the park. That punishment is sufficient enough as far as I'm concerned. I think the media blow things out of all proportion and forget far too easily that prison is not a nice place to be. If they have TVs then so be it.

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Originally Posted by Richie

Good if they go insane, it will teach them not to commit a crime again. I know I sound very blunt but when I think of prison first thing that comes to mind is rapists and peados

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I agree with you. I'm not talking Alcatraz here, but if someone has done something like taken the life of another human I think they certainly don't deserve to experience commodities such as TV.

I think there should be TVs to get you through the day but there shouldn't be any xbox's :S

Moaning about too many jail programmes on TV? If I was in charge they'd all be dead, the dirt *******s....

they have to balance it between keeping prisoners sane and not rioting/killing/hurting each other and giving too many luxuries. You have to remember that even with these 'luxuries' they arent exactly nice places to go.