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what for?

erm don't know...but I'll do it lol

this is the average cost for one person in prison a year, got to be a better way.

ya joking rnt ya, they get more than us normal people lol x

and they say crime doesnt pay tsk

this is the cost to us the tax payer

What are the breakdown costs???

to many tellys n play stations haha x

" It now costs more to put someone in prison – £38,000 – than it does to send a boy to Eton."

Now what about.... all the young petty offenders being re-directed from prisons to public schools on first offence ...where they can have the opportunity to find some skills, some self respect and respect for others...... ??

I think they should be made to do some useful work - when I was a child there were working parties of prisoners on Dartmoor - let them earn their keep
Liz

thats a very good idea bev lol x

For what purpose Beverley? clearing IEDs perhaps? would that just apply to 'serious' crimes...or just everyone in prison? send all the serial killers out there or just the kids who need a 'short sharp shock' ?........

what about reintroducing national service, that way we would save on prisons and maybe with the savings my son and his fellow soldiers would be able to get a decent wage for risking their lives on an hourly basis, with the most basic of provisions, next to no contact with their families......... think i better stop here before i get myself into trouble!! x
Rose, my son gets approx £16,000 per year for clearing IED's and he's never committed any crimes!!!

No good sending them to Afghanistan to fight ................... they would lose their human rights.

And we can't have that ............ can we ?

Well you may have a good point about it if they could be properly trained but since as Izzy points out our forces are already underpaid and underequipped..I don't think it's really viable to send out prisoners with no training and no choice.

sending them to Afghanistan, just what most would love, free for all on drugs, fields and fields of the stuff, save all the bother of getting it to uk.

If they were sent to Afghanistan what would stop them from going awol at the first opportunity? Would any professional soldier really want to fight beside someone who didn't want to be there, to rely on that person to keep him/her safe.

Bev, the Supreme Court ruled that the Human Rights Act does not apply to soldiers abroad

I really don't think our troops would want "violent offenders" in their ranks? people they couldn't trust or rely on? putting guns in the hands of violent offenders on the 'inside' would probably prove more dangerous than the enemy they face 'outside'.

Give young offenders a choice perhaps...the 3 month sentence in prison, or 3 months army training...but then wasn't much the same tried already with 'boot camps'? back in the 80s?

lol I was typing as you posted Cat :)