http://bleedingheartshow.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/prison-its-discontents/ The major every minor wants to be Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:55:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://bleedingheartshow.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/prison-its-discontents/#comment-166 Labour’s useless prison policy « The Bleeding Heart Show Mon, 12 May 2008 21:26:04 +0000 http://bleedingheartshow.wordpress.com/?p=158#comment-166 [...] It’s not rocket science. If you have a small prison with a high staff-to-inmate ratio, if you fill that prison with educators, psychologists, drug therapists and skills councillors to tackle the problems they entered prison with, if you make their time inside so constuctive that they’re better-equipped to become law-abiding citizens, then there’s a good chance that less of them will reoffend. Don’t just take my word for it either; why not try listening to the experiences of ex-prisoners themselves - people who have a fairly decent idea of what it’s like inside and of what might be needed to make these places more conducive to rehabillitation. Oh, and whilst we’re at it, give them the fucking right to vote. [...] [...] It’s not rocket science. If you have a small prison with a high staff-to-inmate ratio, if you fill that prison with educators, psychologists, drug therapists and skills councillors to tackle the problems they entered prison with, if you make their time inside so constuctive that they’re better-equipped to become law-abiding citizens, then there’s a good chance that less of them will reoffend. Don’t just take my word for it either; why not try listening to the experiences of ex-prisoners themselves - people who have a fairly decent idea of what it’s like inside and of what might be needed to make these places more conducive to rehabillitation. Oh, and whilst we’re at it, give them the fucking right to vote. [...]

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