The criminal justice system
The justice system would be reformed top to bottom, with the biggest changes in the prison.

Prison should be a place for all to fear - place you will do your utmost to avoid. Sky tv and a pool table? I don't think so.

A bare concrete cell, say 10feet by 10 with a bed that hinges down from the wall, thin mattress and blankets. A squat toilet in one corner and a stainless steel sink bolted to the wall. Upon entering prison, you would be issued with a single enammeled plate, cup and a knife and fork. Loose them, fuck them up or throw them at someone and you do without.
You spend 16 hours a day in that cell, with 8 hours spent out working in the community on a chain gang picking up dogshit and litter, weeding old peoples gardens, cleaning the streets, filling potholes and roadbuilding etc.... Any fucking about and you get sent straight back to the cell and spend the rest of your sentence locked down 23 hours a dy, with a single hours excercise outside.
You could be excused the chain gang if you wanted to better yourself with an education, anything from learning to read and write to learning a trade - all assistance would be provied to those who want it, but again, the first sign of screwing around and you loose all privelidges and spend 23 hours a day in the cell for the rest of your term.

You spend your whole sentence in there. 10 years means 10 years, life means life. No early release, no parole. If you are stupid enough to re-offend, then you go back in and straight onto permanant 23 hour lockdown.


Judges should be picked at random across the nation. People who appreciate crime and the impact it can have. IMO too many top judges are posh toffs with a country estate and a public school education, who have no real notion of the damning effects of crime because they live in a chauffer-driven world so far removed from it.
(dave likes cheese, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 18:58, 13 replies)

I love this answer.
The best bit is 'You could be excused the chain gang if you wanted to better yourself with an education, anything from learning to read and write to learning a trade...'

You should maybe take your own advice here, before pulling your head out of your arse.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 19:08, closed)

I like this because it's a well known fact
that treating inmates like cattle really lets them believe that they could be a useful member of society, and thus reduces reoffending rates to zero.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 19:13, closed)

Yes, and the Human Rights Act actually gives prisoners MOAR RITES THAN THERE VICTIMZ
For pity's sake, this dave likes cheese person is an utter tit. Does he not know that prisons offer educational course to the inmates? And that for someone so hot on learning to read and write, he has a grasp of spelling and grammar akin to a man made of jelly sliding down a well-greased fireman's pole?

I think he should actually find out about what it is like in jails before dribbling all over the internet about how it's all like a holiday camp.

loose all privelidges lolz.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 19:28, closed)

I don't think he's heard of
Truth In Sentencing either.
No moar talkback radio for dave likes cheese methinks.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 23 Sep 2011, 0:03, closed)

And make all their fucking hinged beds really creaky with a thin paper blanket and make it... make it wet and... and... and... Don't let them wee. Oh! And make sure you punch them in their tits as well. Every morning.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 19:24, closed)

People who don't wear pants should be sent to jail.
This means you, you filthy beggar.
( 4Q just lurking, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 20:20, closed)

Yes, I am a pedantic grammar cunt. Thanks for asking.
I think that people who spell "lose" with two o's should spend time in your prison. It's the only way you'll learn.
(Rilux might be pregnant and has bum-aids, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 20:38, closed)

As far as I can tell they do this in the US.
Seems to work well there, or not...
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 21:28, closed)

They abolished slavery many years ago
Only to re-introduce it in the prison service. A huge unpaid workforce at their disposal. Don't work, get solitary.
(Kliper Filllets Getting noticed by twats on the internet since, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 14:09, closed)

I'm quite lazy.
This 23 hour lockdown almost appeals to me. It's usually how I spend my Sundays.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Thu 22 Sep 2011, 23:06, closed)

Many moons ago, when I had a stay in the Windsor group hotels...
The mangy Victorian prison that is Bedford (before the new extension was built) had 3 to a cell (approx. 8' x 8' x 8'), each prisoner had their own toilet bucket (to be emptied in the morning), 23 hours in the cell each day (1 hour for exercise), you were let out to go fetch your meal, then back to the cell to eat it - trays were collected.

And you know what? it taught me a lesson - I've not re-offended.
( snee held his breath since, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 10:23, closed)

And just how much time did you spend, hanging upside-down by your ankles?
Hmm? None? Bah, that's a fucking holiday camp! People like you should be flogged.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:39, closed)

Are they allowed bum sex?
Or will they just spend 16 hours a day wanking (23 if in solitary)?
(E-mail Zola Son of Che, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 14:29, closed)