tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post4082624231297353529..comments2023-10-25T09:49:43.089+01:00Comments on BEN'S PRISON BLOG - Lifer On The Loose: Purpose of Prisonprisonerbenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14923205052778958118noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-88773200026504483582015-04-17T23:17:39.202+01:002015-04-17T23:17:39.202+01:00I completely agree that the state of prisons these...I completely agree that the state of prisons these days does not particularly correspond to the aforementioned rule. However, its current state does help those who are convicted to learn how they can earn their privileges, in accordance to their behavior. Though I think putting the guilty in prison should not be called so freely as a form of punishment nor isolation, but rather a form of rehabilitation. At any rate, thank you for the interesting read. Have a nice day!<br /><br /><a href="http://jrsbailbond.com/" rel="nofollow">Eliseo Weinstein @ JR’s Bail Bonds</a>Eliseo Weinsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06407697057363434395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-72642152891438962972014-08-18T21:00:26.604+01:002014-08-18T21:00:26.604+01:00The purpose of prison is to protect the public fro...The purpose of prison is to protect the public from prisoners who are a nuisance and a danger to society. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-27421574195453646022014-06-30T15:14:59.161+01:002014-06-30T15:14:59.161+01:00It used to be said that being sent to prison was t...It used to be said that being sent to prison was the punishment, you were not sent to prison to be punished. Sadly, the prison service gave up on this idea a long time ago. The fact is that we send too many, of the wrong people to prison and has already been said we are simply turning our prisons into holding pens.<br /><br />As a society we need to have a serious debate and accept the fact that the system as it is at the moment is just not working. We cannot go on building more and more prisons and sending more and more people to prison for longer and longer sentences, where will it end? It is all very well for politicians to keep making headline grabbing initiatives, this is not something solely the preserve of 'nasty right wing tories' and tabloid press, politicians of all political pursuation have been doing this for years (who will forget the king of the soundbites and his 'tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime'). As a society we need to ask ourselves why is so many people in prison are unable to read and write properly. Why so many people in prison have drink, drug, gamboling, anger management problems. Why so many people in prison have mental health issues. Why so many people in prison have grown up in the care of social services and been failed by that system.<br /><br />Having said all that, it is not all the fault of society and the tory government, is it not time that prisoners accepted responsibility for their behaviour? They chose to take drugs and drink too much and if unemployment and poverty were the reason for committing crimes then everybody living on the sink estates of our towns and cities would be in prison, everybody discharged from the care of social services would be in prison. It is too easy for people to blame someone else.<br /><br />Btw, what is wrong with expecting prisoners to behave themselves and earn their priviledges? I don't think these new rules should be applied retrospectively, if an inmate already has these priviledges they should not be withdrawn without reason but there is nothing wrong with expecting new prisoners to earn their priviledges.bigmaccnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184990032979540229.post-62986234785842756092014-06-30T12:59:20.289+01:002014-06-30T12:59:20.289+01:00In reality, the primary purpose of prison in Brita...In reality, the primary purpose of prison in Britain today is human warehousing, rather than serious rehabilitation or preparation for resettlement back into society. Mental health care provision can be extremely poor for prisoners, with tragic results.<br /><br />Almost all prisoners in British prisons (other than around 55 who are serving 'whole life' tariffs) will eventually be released, having cost the taxpayer an average of £40,000 per year each. Reoffending rates, particularly for those serving short sentences, are unacceptably high, so what is the Ministry of Justice - and its boss Chris Grayling - doing about a public service that is currently failing to deliver against its own targets? Well... pointless tinkering with the minutiae of every day routines and petty regulations; removing governors' local autonomy; cutting back frontline staff; slashing education and vocational training budgets and chasing after cheap headlines in the tabloids (eg "lights out at 10.30 pm for young offenders"; making male prisoners wear dirty, badly fitting uniforms for the first two weeks; banning parcels from home)... It would be funny, were it not so tragic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com