Posted on 09/26/2011 10:07:34 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Prisoners in some modern British jails have been given luxuries such as including computer consoles, flat screen televisions complete with satellite channels and en-suite lavatories.
Inmates themselves have admitted conditions in some jails are like those at holiday camps.
One man jailed for repeatedly stabbing his wife once even claimed that he was enjoying a luxury life in prison and boasted that he was "better off inside".
Prisoners also receive free bed and board, wages and cash bonuses for good behaviour, while drugs are cheaper in jails than they are on the streets.
Prison officials have reported watching inmates simply sitting in their cells watching sport on television - sometimes on the Pay-TV channel Sky Sports - or playing games on computers or Playstation consoles.
Other prisoners have had access to en-suite cells with flatscreen televisions while at the same time being able to check dinner menus and order their meals in advance.
Such was the extent of the facilities in some jails, that a prison officers' leader, Glyn Travis, claimed in 2008 inmates enjoyed such comfort in jail that they were ignoring chances to escape.
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While many prisoners still suffer Victorian conditions, inmates at the privately-run HMP Addiewell in West Lothian enjoyed facilities including a Microsoft computer room, a library and a gym hall and fitness suite.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
How cruel can you be? How long before someone sues to have Apple products too? Poor dears.
That's probably just as much a statement about his wife as it is the jail.
Too lazy to read if the story shows a low recidivism rate, but prison is supposed to be PUNISHMENT. I thought part of the goal of prison was to punish for crimes such as murder...
Wonder what Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks of this?
They get to order their own meals?
What happened to beans and balogna sandwiches?
This is the UK. Should be “cheese and pickle sandwiches.”
Un-f***ing-believable.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time - at an all-taxpayer-expenses-paid resort hotel.
Idiocy.
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