A review of prisons is to recommend that sentencing is linked to the availability of prison places.
Lord Phillips, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, has called for more fine and community rehabilitation instead of prison sentences.
Setting aside the fact that simmary justice is illegal and that a massive percentage of court fines either go unpaid or are paid back by token amounts (ie. £1 a week, fiver a month, etc.), the reason why most crimes are committed can be boiled down to two things:
1. The criminal justice system no longer punishes criminals
2. Having a criminal record is socially acceptable
Both of these can be solved very easily by the British government. Punishing people for committing crimes instead of concentrating on excusing their behaviour and rehabilitating them will discourage budding jailbirds from committing crimes and concentrating on punishment instead of “community rehabilitation” will make criminality less acceptable. It’s not ok to break the law, it’s not ok to criminal record and it’s not ok to have been in prison – the British government needs to stop telling people that it is.
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I think we should build jails in Poland, they will be cheap(er) and work relatively well.
I will dig out the figures but spending a year in Jail costs an absolute mint, so money saving\efficiency is a big thing.
The Poles also have a robust attitude to law and order, so any troubles will soon be put down.
The Scottish Isles would be excellent for prisons.
I know what you mean but the problem with the Islands is they would need staff who would get british level wages and that would make them just as expensive as anywhere else here.
Poland has polish wages and a lot less stringent laws about health and safety etc.
And….. if they are bad or troublesome, they can get sent to Estonia, which is even worse\cheaper