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Worked well for John Venebles.....oh, scratch that.
Think of how much it costs to stock a small library. OUTRAGE!
But you'd be in prison.
I'll try to find the link, but there was a great blog a few years ago by someone who was fairly relaxed about going in because he'd read how easy it was. He found the reality of being stuck in a number of small rooms for several months to be extremely depressing.
Does anyone here actually think that playing MW3 (OK, it's not great in any situation) is compensation for not being able to go outside and having your life put on hold or ruined?
Almost everything that you enjoy about your life is taken away from prisoners - they are not on easy street because they can play the odd game. This is like a football forum complaining about exercise yards.
They do, they work and pay rental for tvs and consoles.
No prisoners are handed tvs/consoles without good behaviour and payment.
Worked well for John Venebles.....oh, scratch that.
But where's the punishment of playing games...
The punishment is the sentence. Once inside, they have every right to work rest & play.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that if prisoners want Playstations etc, they have to earn the money which can take months. Of course they'll need a TV first too.
Spotlight fallacy.
Do they have a right to a Mars a day?
Stands to reason that if he was never released he wouldn't have re-offended though
Lock them up for most the day bar a bit of exercise and food. Supply them with books and education and enable them to take exams. Then for some hands on training a bit like an apprenticeship. When they get out they have a chance of doing something good with their new knowledge
this is absolute BS
I actually work in the prison service, and the latest consoles with network ability are a banned item, the only console they are allowed is ps2, and they have to buy it themselves, anything with wifi or ethernet is BANNED
They shouldn't have any such privileges imo.
Hatter The Mad said:We do the former, but we should be doing the latter. Because we don't put enough money or time into the latter means we have the highest reoffending rate and the highest number of prisoners per capita in Europe.No first and foremost, we put dangerous criminals away to keep us safe, NOT to rehabilitate them.
Show me some evidence for this, because pretty much all evidence and every other neighbouring penal and prison system (especially in Scandinavia, known to be 'cushy') which focuses on rehabilitation shows the exact opposite to what you're saying.rehabilitation will not and does not work.
Please provide evidence for this. Again, theory and actual results show that the more like real life jail is (and the more of a functioning community jail is), the lower the reoffending rates and the better the civilian who comes out of the penal system.Jail NEEDS to be hard, and being locked up more than those in Europe, but having a tv and games console inside your cell while those locked up in some Euro country are locked up less, but have no tv, and no consoles when they are locked up....... THAT is why they reoffend less. Jail is less like normal life, and its a consequence they are less willing to put up with.