Quote Originally Posted by UlleyMiller View Post
We definitely get prisons wrong, and we spend far too much on them. A significant time should be spent in incredibly basic surroundings for the first phase of any lengthy sentence, and mandatory labour should form part of all sentences. Not sure I'd agree on mutilating people, but I certainly wouldn't be overly concerned about the protection of some inmates.
Very rarely agree with you Ulley but you are spot on, when we talk of the overspending on prison facilities.I suspect no other country spends as much as us and the savings we could make would provide a larger number of prison cells.