Four more to go on the news tonight



www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23958223

Surely that's going to be a good thing right ?

Super-Max Prisons ? - Maybe that's the way it should go in the UK. 

Lets not forget that Prison labour in the USA has its roots in slavery.

A scheme under which prisoners are being paid to collect information from homeowners for insurance companies could be extended nationwide, the Ministry of Justice indicated today.

It has faced criticism over the initiative which is being run at Oakwood prison, Wolverhampton, and Drake Hall prison, Staffordshire.

Inmates ask possible customers their names and postcodes and whether they would be interested in a quote for their valuable items. Their replies are then recorded by the prisoners in a computer system.

Critics warned the programme could supply offenders with enough details of homes with valuables to be able to target after their release.

But the MoJ insisted there was no security risk involved as inmates were working from computers without internet access and were not allowed a pen to record the data.

“Prisoners placed in call-centres are risk assessed and their work is subject to stringent security measures, with calls supervised and recorded,” a spokesman said.

He said Chris Grayling, the Justice Secretary, knew about the scheme and fully supported it as a way of teaching new skills to offenders.

It could be rolled out nationwide if it was deemed a success, he confirmed.

Is this the start ?

Why have call centres in India when we have the resources already here.

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I'll be any foxy old tart you like.

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I accepted my guilt, but don't punish me forever.

Oh I don't know - some may feel it has a cathartic effect. This thread is very disjointed as many posts or members have been deleted. I can't even remember what my second comment was in reply to.

Anyway, remember, although they are closing a number of prisons, they are actually intending to increase the overall prison capacity, so they obviously plan to send more people down.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20969898

WHERE AS REHABILITATION GONE THEN MR GRAYLING. IOI THAT IS THE ANSWER SEND MORE PEOPLE TO PRISON.

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We all accept our crimes but should we be punished more for it?

We all accept our crimes but should we be punished more for it?

Shrewsbury was my last port of call. Very old, very drafty, but the best food in the prison estate - and well know for this! Was having it's designation changed from local and remand to sex offenders only when I was there. Population about 80% S/O the rest others. Remand had stopped. Not much difference form other others with respect to staff. Everything took ages (even longer than other places I was in) nobody wanted to do anything. Quite a few fights - probably due to lack of work. didn't see much drug staff around but wasn't looking for it. A lot of older inmates. Wife says staff she dealt with about visits were the best she ever dealt with. Visitors got very wet on visits as quite a way to walk in the rain! Work very limited probably only about 50% of the population whop could work were in work. Officers in the visits hall just sat around chatting to each other - left us to get on with it - great! Parking, wife says, was dreadful or expensive! Visits waiting room very cold. Not much different to other government run prisons I had been in for my one and only 'stretch'. Don't miss any of them!!!! I'm not going back.

A bit like Auschwitz? Seriously though, the U.S. is the way it will probably go. Huge industrial privatised complexes run for profit. Poor old and outdated PRINDUS, (Prison Industries), won't get a look

A bit like Auschwitz? Seriously though, the U.S. is the way it will probably go. Huge industrial privatised complexes run for profit. Poor old and outdated PRINDUS, (Prison Industries), won't get a look in.