Is this the solution to prisons being full in the UK?

UK prisons are getting full. This means the tax payer is having to pay millions more every year to manage the increase in prisoners and limited cells means dangerous people are being released too early.





Prisoners are locked-up 23 hours a day and never finance their rehabilitation.





So here’s the solution:





Set-up secure work environments %26amp; make every prisoner work for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week on manual manufacturing tasks, like making shoes, recycling materials, etc.





This will help pay for their keep %26amp; teach them that they need to earn a living honestly.





But the best part is, they’re out of their cells for half a day, therefore we could have two people using each cell on opposite 12 hour shift. One sleeps in the day %26amp; works at night. The other sleeps at night %26amp; works 12 hours in the day.





The benefits - Prison overcrowding solved. Tax burden reduced. Early release re-offending gone





What do you think?

Is this the solution to prisons being full in the UK?
Thats an excellent idea.


It makes space for all the prisoners as well as having them do some hard work for no reward-an excellent punishment.


You should be in parliament my friend.
Reply:That's a pretty great idea. I wish this could happen in the U.S aswell.


Either that or have the families pay , which would be pretty harsh. Some prisons well in the U.S have the prisioners work. Some of them make licenses plates at some prisons.
Reply:I have always thought that leasing prisons in third world countries was a good idea. It helps us because it reduces the cost of incarceration by using cheap local labour, and it helps the economy of the developing nation. Save money for us and get the feelgood factor of helping abroad. Prisoners visitation rights ? They broke the law.......F*** 'em.
Reply:Don't let them make shoes! They'll probably poo in them and stuff.
Reply:Not sure how you work out the 're-offending gone' bit.


In the US they use acupuncture as part of detox programs that on completion give early release too. They have done so for over 20 years and do so from East to West coast. They have something like an 85% success rate at keeping users clean and out of prison. The american taxpayer doesn't have to cough up 3/4 million £ compensation because their government says their prisoners have to come clean cold turkey.


I can source and link on this subject but need to dig so let me know if it worth my time if you are interested.
Reply:sounds like a good idea, but the MAN will never go for it...I think we should drop them off on a deserted island somewhere for a week with no food.Come back with limited food and weapons...Let them kill each other...Yea...your idea much better, or atleast poiliticaly correct.
Reply:Yep it is a good idea, but it's now illegal thanks to the EU bill of human rights. Best thing is to just keep letting them get away with it, let them have as much booze and drugs as they like and hopefully they'll kill themselves and eachother over the next couple of generations - permanent solution.
Reply:prisons for profit in the us allow prisioners computer access and they get access to peoples credit cards as they take orders for merchandise for companies giving jobs to prisioners. they have managed to run up peoples credit cards and if they get out soon they have lots of womens home addresses, the best thing is to shoot a million or two of them.
Reply:i see two problems here





1. its an infringement on their human rights to make them work, coz on the outside they didnt have too





2. its a good idea. therefore it will never happen



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