Dave650 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 KJ venom,; you mind if i ask why you were locked up? (apologies if its already been asked) good to hear your getting back or track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick2 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 does anyone know how much help if any is given to people leaving prison? Very little, added to that the fact that having a criminal record makes you almost unemployable and is it suprising that some people turn to crime again ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_VENOM Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 KJ venom,; you mind if i ask why you were locked up? (apologies if its already been asked) good to hear your getting back or track i was locked up for dangerous driving i crashed my car no other car was involved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave650 Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Lucky you weren't killed, suprised you got locked up just for crashin your car, well harsh. Although I know someone that got put away for just havin soft drugs. On halloween he was dressed as a burgular or sumthin n he went into a petrol station to get some fags n he made a joke with the person at the till like "stick em up" or sumthin with a blaitely toy gun n they both laffed about it, but an old lady in the queue rang 999 and they tracked him down and searched his house for guns. All they found wer the drugs n he got locked up! They probably only took it that serious coz they were bitter they didn't find anything else n had bothered to get armed squad n everyhting wher as ur average bobby wud av just turned a blind eye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 And those who don't turn up for their community service. And community service should mean doing something USEFUL, unlike now. Agreed. They would have to turn up or face the consequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BasilRathbon Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 i was locked up for dangerous driving i crashed my car no other car was involved But were any other road users involved? Surely you can't receive a custodial sentence just for crashing your own car, unless there are consequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_VENOM Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 But were any other road users involved? Surely you can't receive a custodial sentence just for crashing your own car, unless there are consequences. no other road users involved only people injured were me and my friend who was in the car with me i didnt expect to be 'going down' my soliciter had no idea why i was sent down either but the judge sent me down so down i went Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyK Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 It turns out the Chief Constable, the Head of Probation and some former Prisoners are due to have their say on this debate on BBC Radio Sheffieold next Monday 2oth Nov 1-2 with Rony Robinson. I reckon it'll be a good dsicussion on some of these issues especially listening to the ex-cons on how they found life inside. The prison Reform Trust has a seven point plan for tackling overcrowding see what you think? http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/standard.asp?id=680 Why does overcrowding matter? Why not just build more prisons? The prison population has been rising steeply since the early nineties. It is now heading toward 80,000, in 1993 it was 45,000. Some of the steepest rises have been for women and children. The reason for the growth is not more crime, which has been stable or fallen, or from more convictions in court, which have stayed stable, but the extension of prison for petty offenders and ever lengthening sentences. The result has been crowded prisons. Despite vast expenditure on new places, the cost is put at almost £100,000 a place, our prisons have been overcrowded for every year for more than a decade. This is not fair on the staff who are called upon to act merely as turnkeys, processing people from overcrowded jail to overcrowded jail. Nor is it fair on prisoners. Many are sitting out their sentences in a shared cell, eating, sleeping and using the toilet in the same small space as another person up to 23 hours a day. Nor does it aid public protection to have longer sentences in which less is done. The reoffending rate after prison has risen from 51% in 1992 to 67%. Crowded prisons do not work. Many want more prisons. But if that was the answer, we wouldn’t be asking the question now. For many years we have built and built, and prisons have filled up yet more quickly. It is like trying to deal with a runaway train by building more track. Instead we need to ask tough questions about the level of mental health care, drug and alcohol programmes available in the community. We need community punishments that work and command public confidence. Then prisons and prison staff can do their job, holding securely and rehabilitating serious and violent offenders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyK Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 Sos hit post twice!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaltGrayson Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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