Killers go to jail.  Killers set free.  Killers kill again. ( do ya wonder I’m dizzy with it all?)

 

1. Maybe these model citizens should be released to a halfway house for assistance in transition to freedom.  Establish this halfway house in the basement of the building where Parlement meets.

   Posted by pete       03/05/2009  at  12:55 PM  



2. It was interesting to have the leader of the House of Commons Harriet Harperson berate the ex chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Fred “the shred” Goodwin managed to bankrupt a bank which was founded in 1728. He then secured a pension payout of around £700,000 or $980,000 per annum. Her argument was that his payout may have been enforceable in the court of law but not on the court of public opinion. The trouble is if you go down the populist route you can end up with unpredictable results. In the court of public opinion most of these murderers would have been dangling at the end of a rope.

   Posted by LyndonB       03/05/2009  at  02:25 PM  



3. Lyndon .. right you are. Hey ... are you familiar with QA’s ...WW2?

   You probably are.  Great book about them called Sisters in Arms.  Man ... what a book. What a generation!  It very much saddens me to see what succeeding generations have done.

   Posted by peiper       03/05/2009  at  03:07 PM  



4. Personally I’m all for releasing the violent criminals into the custody of the bleeding hearts.  The proviso would be that the BH would have to put them up in their residences, would NOT be able to hire guards to keep watch, and would have to provide the same cushy perks the criminals got in jail/prison.  Oh, and no remuneration from the gov’t for the custody, feeding, clothing and medical attention, etc. each felon would need. 

   I’m wondering how many of the BHs would take the criminals in under those conditions.  IF they took said criminals in, I seriously doubt the BHs would keep them for very long, especially when the recidivism hits.

   Posted by Valgerd Gydhja       03/06/2009  at  11:20 AM  



5. Valgerd ..
   Coincidence.
   Article in todays Telegraph says £5mil. has been spent on “compensation” for prisoners getting early release due to overcrowding. Yeah really. Seems “the money is intended to reimburse cons for the cost of food and accommodation that would have been provided by the state if they’d stayed in prison.”

   DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND THIS? Cause I sure don’t.

   Posted by peiper       03/09/2009  at  11:01 AM  



6. Peiper, here’s my take on the cons getting “compensation” for not spending their alloted time in the prisons/jails.

   It would be cruel and unusual punishment according to the Nanny State and bleeding hearts for the “little dears” to actually have to take care of themselves.  /sarcasm I’d say look for more of this to be happening in the UK and the US as the economy spirals further down the tubes.  There’s already stories being posted of former felons begging to be thrown back into custody.  Hey, look what they get!  Three hots, a cot, TV, exercise equipment, Internet access and whatever “rights” of education and entertainment fewer and fewer honest citizens get to enjoy.

   Who the frak was it that said crime doesn’t pay?  For it surely seems to be an oxymoron in today’s society.

   Posted by Valgerd Gydhja       03/09/2009  at  08:04 PM  

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