So here I go again, back in front of the parole board. A nameless bureaucrat hidden in the Ministry of Justice has decided that my taking advantage of mobile phones in prison is such a heinous crime that it warrants the Parole Board being invited to reconsider their decision to send me to open prison.
As long term readers will recall, the last visit to the board took a year and comprised of an administrative shambles.
The portents are not good.
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Thinking of you, what more can us followers say?
ReplyDeleteI am sure things will work out. Keep your head. prem
ReplyDeleteThe answer is simple - don't use mobile phones in jail and stop blaming everyone else for your predicament. Enough said.
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ReplyDeleteWhilst there are reasons behind the ban on mobile phones in prisons, and Ben has damaged his chance for release by using one, at the same time the prison authorities should be exploring better ways (such as installing phones in cells) to enable people to keep contact rather than expensive pay phones on the prison landings. At the moment, the prison authorities are only using the stick approach to deal with the issue, when a carrot would be more effective.
And let's not forget he SHOULD have been in open months ago!! If the well timed "admin error" had not occurred he would have had no need to use an illegal phone.
ReplyDelete@ Ben, thinking of you and hoping you stay strong.
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ReplyDeleteIt's not the answer that's simple....
Probably best not to waste time on obvious trolls who are probably part of the establishment. Trust me, it doesn't work, they're too invested in their own ideas to even think about considering that the people in prison are actually human beings with human needs.
ReplyDeleteStill think some sort of hash based on IP would be a good idea so while anonymous contributers aren't identified it is possible to see which posts belong to the same anonymous people... Inspector Gadget has a system of machine generated icons based on IP addresses which make that sort of thing pretty clear.
Anon 1.03
ReplyDeleteBen is 20 years over tariff, so has served the punishment bit of his sentence. Now it is all about risk. Just how can you justify keeping a man locked up for being found guilty of possession of a mobile phone?! It's not a weapon.
Yes, anybody who doesn't sycophantically follow every opinion of Mr. Ben must be a troll.
ReplyDeleteEither that or they disagree.
Why try and strangle discussion and debate by automatically dismissing alternate views?
Well said Will B, it appears that Ben has his own 'establishment' that likes to stifle any contrary opinions.
ReplyDeleteBen's 'establishment' (pmsl) stifles debate. Well who are they and how do they do that exactly? By disagreeing with you? Crikey, you must be poor sour losers if you can't stand any one disagreeing with you.
ReplyDeleteWhilst it is sad that Ben has spent longer in prison than he needs to it should be remembered that a lot of it is self inflicted. He was sent to a Cat D 6 years ago and instead of concentrating on his release he decided to spend his time fighting the prison. He was always going to loose that one and ended up telling them to move him back to Shepton Mallet.
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