Wonder if they get popcorn and a can of pop too!
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Look what the destruction liberalism has produced.
Its like a luxurious holiday camp in prisons..
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80% of prisoners are ill, mentally. Need medical care, not TV or harsh treatment.
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I don't have a source other than a colleague who wrote their LSE dissertation on prisoner culture and behaviour told me it when we were discussing prison policy earlier in the week. Sounds lame I know can follow up their source.Slothar wrote:Is that a genuine figure? Seems high to me.RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:80% of prisoners are ill, mentally. Need medical care, not TV or harsh treatment.
I recall a Panorama or Dispatches or similar a couple of years back that cited over 75% so it is in the same region as that.
Fair enough. I'd be interested to know more about that and what is classed as mental illness for that figure.RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:I don't have a source other than a colleague who wrote their LSE dissertation on prisoner culture and behaviour told me it when we were discussing prison policy earlier in the week. Sounds lame I know can follow up their source.Slothar wrote:Is that a genuine figure? Seems high to me.RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:80% of prisoners are ill, mentally. Need medical care, not TV or harsh treatment.
I recall a Panorama or Dispatches or similar a couple of years back that cited over 75% so it is in the same region as that.
I also heard that a significant number (similar, about 80% of inmates) committed the crime they were jailed for while under the influence of, or as a result of a dependency, upon alcohol or narcotics.
Certainly the current system isn't the most cost or result effective way of rehabilitating and preventing re-offending.
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I would personally class addiction as a mental illness, so maybe the two stats are related.