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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

And just why won't we like it?

In fact, it gets......

.... a very big one of these......




followed by a few of these.......



...to recover from the shock!

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I think that is one issue where every decent resident of this country will agree with.

It really is time that they return to what they are - A prison, not a B****y 5 star hotel!
Edit: I've got to admit though, that the prison service as well as the rehabilitation services really do a good job.

Unfortunately, it's not all down to them.

Case in point: - Recently, I received a call from a regular customer, which to be honest, I thought that I'd never see again - hadn't been in touch for over 3 years.

In fact, he had just been released after serving 3 years. While inside, he completed numerous education courses, with one on them being the ECDL, which to his amazement, he enjoyed.

Has he put all that to good use?

NO, he hasn't & I'll expect to see him again in another 3 years, as he's back to his old tricks.

What is the answer? I don't really know!

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The Ministry of Justice said the prisons competition process had produced a "compelling package of reforms" which it hoped would save £450m over the next six years.

Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "The cost of running our prisons is too high and must be reduced. We can do this by being more innovative and efficient, and without compromising public safety."

You won't like this, see if you don't, but I will say it regardless.

British prisons should not be in the business of saving money. They should be fully funded to do the job that they are put there for in the first place. And that is to provide a suitable punishment for breaking the law, and a deterrent to not re-offend again. It is precisely because they have been forced to make cuts, and been forced to accept inadequate private company management, that these cushy conditions have resulted in the re-offending rates we have.

Prison sentences are not succeeding in turning the majority of offenders away from crime. Of those prisoners released in 1997, 58 per cent were convicted of another crime within two years. 36 per cent were back inside on another prison sentence. The system struggles particularly to reform younger offenders. 18–20-year-old male prisoners were reconvicted at a rate of 72 per cent over the
same period; 47 per cent received another prison sentence.

In fact, the headline reconviction figure masks a far greater problem for public safety. We know, for instance, that of those reconvicted in the two years following release, each will actually have received three further convictions on average. For each reconviction, it is estimated that five recorded offences are committed. At a conservative estimate, released prisoners are responsible for at least 1 million crimes per year – 18 per cent of recorded, notifiable crimes. And this takes no account of the amount of unrecorded crime that ex-prisoners, reconvicted or otherwise, will have committed.

These soft options of "Community Service" for wrongdoing just makes things worse, and most yobs see an ASBO as a badge of honour to get street cred. If prisons won't behave like prisons, and Judges won't behave like Judges, what do you expect?

Perhaps the 18th century brits had it right after all. Either hang every criminal for any offense above pickpocket or deport them to an isolated land

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

Move to Stockton and sort it out. Please

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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

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