Jails full.....

[Loosehead]

Over crowded jails. Can the full weight of the AB intellect help out the government here? The BBC online Poll had 71% saying build more jails, anyone have a more creative solution? My twopenneth later!

[Loosehead]

fair enough trigger, I always find it worrying when you agree with me for too long !

[mr-wonderful]

Underground Prisons?????

[jake-the-peg]

I suggest we build a big wall around Bournemouth and sen them all there ;c)

[brionon]

Shoe-horn !

[mr-wonderful]

Prisons on The Moon???

[Loosehead]

so you don't think my outsourcing idea is a goer then Jake?

[mr-wonderful]

Underwater Prisons in the Atlantic????

It's not easy being green

[China Doll]

Only if we provide scubar equipment mr wonderful but then I am a liberal.

Send 'em all up north and seal the watford gap.

[flip_flop]

Build a great big wall around the festering turd pile that is the Isle of Sheppey, blow up the bridges, stick them all in the middle and let them get on with it Escape from New York style.

Solves the overcrowding problem, finally finds a use for Sheppey, which really really is a massive s h i t hole, and if you don't let the indiginous people of Sheppey on to the mainland, they can then shag each other to their seven fingered, inbred, overbite, pikey hearts content.

It is a win win win situation.

There's no argument against it, is there?

[Loosehead]

flip flop for PM!

[Sweep2k]

Funny how the people who stamp their feet and complain that we should build more prisons are the exact same people who stamp their feet and complain when they hear that a prison is being built near to where they live.

Chucking all criminals in prison is the most mindless approach to crime prevention. I'm not saying prison never works, but a bit of thought wouldn't go amiss.

Expecting a prison term to sort all criminals out for good is like trying to fix a broken telly by banging the top of it with your fist. Not very scientific.

[ludwig]

Sweep2k, I don't expect that a long prison term will 'sort out criminals for good'.
What I do expect is that during the time they are incarcerated, everyone will be safe from their scumbag behaviour.

[ruby27]

What surprises me is that people are so happy to have a significant tax hike to pay for criminals to be incarcerated.

What about building more places so we can have more under 18 - children in other words, a total of 2,841 children under 18 in custody at the end of 2006.
Lets keep these locked up until they know of no other way to be other than hardened criminals who have no investment in society and no ability to be anthing other than anti social.

[ludwig]

I'm quite happy for my tax money to be spent on incarcerating criminals - it's one of the best uses I can think of for it.
It's right up there alongside state education and the NHS.