It’s broke so we have to fix it.
The former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Lord Ramsbottom today voiced his concerns over the building of three new prisons in England in an attempt to cope with the rapidly increasing prison population.
On GMTV’s The Sunday Programme, Lord Ramsbottom commented that rather than seeing more prisons being built we need to establish the exact cost of prison, reforming the current training agenda in prisons and making use of the prisons we already have.
The prison system in England and Wales is simply falling apart, but building new prisons and throwing more people inside isn’t the solution to me.
We should be looking at why people commit crime, what drives them to it, what do they gain from it and is that gain far bigger than any loss?
Much of the problem in many of our prisons is a lack of something to do. You can have a prison of over 500 men and yet only around 100 to 150 of them will actually be in work or education at any one time, leaving the rest to sit in their cells for 23 hours a day bored, festering and becoming increasingly resentful of society.
It’s not that prisoners don’t want to be doing something, the majority do, but the problem is simple, bad organization by individual prisons of their prisoner employment and education practices and no coherent national policy for anyone to work on.
So what is the answer? actually I don’t know, but I know it doesn’t come through building more prisons, by depriving more people of liberty, because without reason, there can be no rhyme and without rehabilitation we can never hope to have a civilized society
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Put everyone in prisons !! That would be an answer !! People will always mis-behave ! So your either gonna have to have more prisons. Or teach people to be better citizens. Something !