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[MCN]

You will not encourage prisoners to work for their keep when they know the alternative is to sit in their cell and do Hee-haw.

It would require very clever psychological methods to achieve any result and the investment of resources required would make the profit less than the costs.

Breaking rocks is as unskilled as it gets but anyone who isn't interested can sit on his/her Arse.

For punishment to work it has to hurt. There are too many in jail who cannot be hurt that way.
They don't care.
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[Ribenapigeon]

[MCN]

[Ribenapigeon]

Ive worked in social service for years and tgese kind of "get the cat'o nibe tails out" threads bore me.

[bhinso]

I dunno about that.

Personally I think it's been too long since we last had a "get the cat'o nine tails out" thread

[Ste]

[MCN]

[Easy-X]

[pepperami]

[piazza]

I heard on some news site that theyre trying to introduce a no prison rule for under 25's because young peoples brains arent fully developed.

As for half the stuff peppers wrote, they started that shit when I was a kid - obviously after I got out of borstal

[pepperami]

[piazza]

It wasnt that bad tbh, 4 squares a day, pool table and table tennis table. We had a tv room too. After about 4 months I had my own room

I met some right mentalists in there tho
Glue sniffing was rife..first week in some guy climbed on the roof with a pot of glue and stayed there for hours. His face was covered in glue and kinda burnt when they finally dragged hi down. This was a regular thing..

I spent a year in there before being let out again to attend my last year of school.

And we had worksquad in the morning and school in the afternoon, or vice versa your choice. I worked with a joiner, and a smashing old man he was too

[bhinso]

It won't be long before criminals are treated as 10 year olds if they 'have a mental age of 10'.

[Polarbear]

What if they are transgender prisoners? Do they get a softy regime in a woman's prison instead of being Bubbas boy?

I mean, surely it's against their human rights to be forced into a mens prison when they identify as Danny la rue or Dame Edna.
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[chickenstrip]

Possibly, a psychological assessment might be worthwhile before deciding what kind of time someone does. Everyone is different, different people are likely to respond in different ways to any given regime.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Easy-X]

The number of proper "bad in a biblical sense" people in prisons are very few. The question is: what do you do with all the rest? Obviously oversimplifying here but...

Paranoid Schizophrenics - fine if they take their pills regularly but a danger to themselves and others if left unsupervised.

Thick people - those not so much missing an education as incapable of retaining one. Maybe capable of supervised labour.

Addicts - perfectly fine if no temptation is laid before them...

We have a society that just about works for 80% of the members but for whatever reason 19%* just can't hack it The solution seems to be either some sort of supervision, i.e. jail, or what? Culling? Gladiatorial Arenas?!

*the other 1% obviously have society work for them
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[pepperami]

[bhinso]

I think the proportion who have society work for them is much greater than 1%.