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Started by: Owd Codger (3012)

The prisons are overcrowded because of the lack of stiffer sentences and the nonsense of suspended sentences, serving around half of a sentence, parole and prisons now like holiday camps compared to what they used to be, thanks to the do gooder organisations like the Howard League of Penal Reform.

Since the riot at Strangways twenty five years ago which led to a softening of prison conditions, the prison population has risen by 79%, most of whom are of foreign origin.

A few years ago, a newly elected Mayor of New York doubled all the sentences with the result that the prison population went down and in many states of the USA, prison includes hard labour.

If new prison are to be built, they should be built on some of the remote islands around the country, especially around Scotland

Replied: 12th Apr 2022 at 08:17

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