The go home prisoners

So, what do you do if you’ve managed to catch a whole load of criminals but have run out of room to keep them all?

The old outdated traditional way: Build more prison units allowing the criminals to pay back their debt to society in full.

The new way: Release the prisoners early.

Call me old fashioned but I still prefer the traditional way. Something to do with my outdated sense of justice which favours the victim and all that.

Now, no doubt someone will soon accuse me of being so right wing that I am on the verge of breaking the right-wing-measurerometer and that we can’t build more prisons because they are expensive or because no-one wants one in their back yard.

Well, to them I say “phooey”. The money is there; it’s just being used in the wrong places. If the politicians who consistently let down the people they are supposed to be representing actually had the will, they would find the way. This is Great Britain; we can afford to build some buildings for Heavens sakes. We can afford to run more prisons.

As for where to build them this, I agree, is an actual real problem. My suggestion is to take a leaf out of the 1960’s hand book of bad design and build up. Then take a leaf out of the Japanese book of modern design and build down. More units, similar footprint.

Also, make all prison furniture out of that orange Formica stuff. That should give the crooks something to think about.