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What is going on with our prison system?
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 13 Jun 2014 10:17 |
According to a BBC report there are around eighty nine prisoners on the run from Ford Open Prison in West Sussex. In a statement, Sussex Police said it did not proactively seek the help of the public or media every time a prisoner absconded, but considered each case individually, taking into account the risk. |
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Dermot | Report | 13 Jun 2014 10:33 |
Once upon a time, governments purportedly represented their populace. This one of ours represents itself, its pals and its backers, and we pick up the tab. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 13 Jun 2014 12:28 |
As they were in an open prison, prior often to release. I just cannot fathom why these people would walk out. |
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Dermot | Report | 13 Jun 2014 12:42 |
Financial fraudsters, for example, usually have a few bob stashed away making flight a bit easier, perhaps. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 13 Jun 2014 12:54 |
I certainly do not think that a criminal, like Michael Wheatley "the Skull Cracker" who carried out an armed raid on a branch of the Chelsea Building Society in Sunbury-on-Thames while on the run, should ever have been placed in an open prison, he was serving 13 life sentences for a string of offences when he disappeared after being let out on day release, what kind of person did the authorities think they were dealing with, a shoplifter maybe, it beggars belief. Lets face it - in an armed raid people could have been killed :-| |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 13 Jun 2014 13:55 |
Maybe this explains why so many serious offenders are ending up in open prisons - yesterday the government said the passport fiasco was because too many people were making passport applications, looks like too many prisoners are responsible for the prison system fiasco - of course neither has anything to do with government cuts ;-) |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 13 Jun 2014 14:00 |
This had been going on for years. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 13 Jun 2014 14:09 |
In days of old, when a Minister of the Crown failed miserably, the Monarch would have them dragged off to The Tower of London, where they would have their heads chopped off - the thought of that fate might make them sit up and pay attention :-D :-D :-D |
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Dermot | Report | 13 Jun 2014 14:16 |
Bloody Mary remembered. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 13 Jun 2014 14:30 |
I wonder who the government will attempt to pin the blame for this fiasco on - perhaps the police for arresting to many criminals or the courts for sending them to jail, one thing is certain, and that is government ministers will do a Pontius Pilate and wash their hands of any blame ;-) |
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KittytheLearnerCook | Report | 13 Jun 2014 18:45 |
Ford prison is 15 minutes away from here..................it is slap bang on a main road, drive past and you can see prisoners wandering about, so easy for them to hop the gate, get in a car and go. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 14 Jun 2014 12:23 |
The main problem is that most of our Prisons are severly overcrowed. |
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OneFootInTheGrave | Report | 14 Jun 2014 12:55 |
The chief inspector of prisons has delivered a fierce attack on the state of prisons in England and Wales after dozens of already full jails were told to take in more inmates. |
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Malcolm | Report | 14 Jun 2014 15:52 |
I also live a few miles from Ford prison and pass it about twice a week. Prisoners walking along the road. NEVER DO YOU SEE A PRISON WARDEN/OFFICER. |