How many people here, have ever been to prison?

[parakitaMol.]

Serious question(s).

Who has been to a proper prison
What's it like?
Is it a deterrent?

I saw an item on the news yesterday where a chap whose son had been murdered had set up a community project for offenders (instead of prison). The offender doing community service said it made him think much more about the victim. The police chief they interviewed wished them luck but thought it wouldn't work and was a very 'soft option'.

[Shaw Tarse]

10P

[anonymous-user]

johhny cash once said:

When I was just a baby,
My Mama told me, "Son,
Always be a good boy,
Don't ever play with guns,"
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die,
When I hear that whistle blowin',
I hang my head and cry.

I haven't been myself but it sounds like Johnny regretted shooting that man in Reno?

[eightseventhree]

the usual answer to this question is this thread.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

great but sobering read

[ShadownINja]

I am (was?) in favour of community service but I hear that it isn't much of a deterrent because it's hard to make offenders turn up and/or do anything useful.

[BrabusMog]

ShadownINja said:

I am (was?) in favour of community service but I hear that it isn't much of a deterrent because it's hard to make offenders turn up and/or do anything useful.

I thought they got sent to prison if they didn't do their community service?

Why are prisoners called lags?

[Tow Vehicle Rqrd]

Inshallah.
















Only joking.


Edited for crap Arabic

Edited by Tow Vehicle Rqrd on Thursday 2nd September 21:58

[R60EST]

Prison , community service , it's all a soft option if you ask me , An eye for an eye etc would be much fairer and a better deterrent . Radical it may seem but think it through , A safe and unambiguous conviction for murder should be an automatic death sentence , no waste of tax payers money keeping some scum in jail. Rape , in the case of a straight male perpetrator should be punished by him being violated anally by some well endowed gheyer willing to offer his services as a public duty.

And so it goes on , petty violence can be administered as a public slap / punch like for like and theft can be punished by seizing goods to the value of or all personal possessions if the value is less

That brings me on to speeding offences , if you speed on a stretch of road near someone's house they should be free to speed past your house, WIN / WIN .

Should I form a political party ?

[Plotloss]

I've been to visit someone in prison, that was bleak enough.

[anonymous-user]

Plotloss said:

I've been to visit someone in prison, that was bleak enough.

Johhny Cash?

[Plotloss]

It wasn't a conjugal visit...

[eldar]

According to someone I know -Boring 99% of the time, deeply scary 1%. Too easy to become 'conditioned'.

10PS's thread is probably the best guide, and well worth reading.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

eightseventhree said:

the usual answer to this question is this thread.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

great but sobering read

Need to read through that some time, seems a very good read, and certainly worth bearing in mind when next "Enjoying" a road....

[Silent1]

I doubt many people will admit to it on here

[GTIR]

I'm in prison now posting from my all mod cons cell.

Prisoner KP5001

[kit_kat]

I know somebody that told the Judge to 'not bother giving me community service as I won't turn up'. They figured serving time inside was easier.

[Mazda Baiter]

Silent1 said:

I doubt many people will admit to it on here

A few have before.

[Silent1]

Mazda Baiter said:

Silent1 said:

I doubt many people will admit to it on here

A few have before.

but as a %age I bet it's low

[Mazda Baiter]

Silent1 said:

Mazda Baiter said:

Silent1 said:

I doubt many people will admit to it on here

A few have before.

but as a %age I bet it's low

Percentage of PHers as a whole? Or percentage of ex-residents willing to admit to it?

[Bing o]

R60EST said:

Prison , community service , it's all a soft option if you ask me , An eye for an eye etc would be much fairer and a better deterrent . Radical it may seem but think it through , A safe and unambiguous conviction for murder should be an automatic death sentence , no waste of tax payers money keeping some scum in jail. Rape , in the case of a straight male perpetrator should be punished by him being violated anally by some well endowed gheyer willing to offer his services as a public duty.

And so it goes on , petty violence can be administered as a public slap / punch like for like and theft can be punished by seizing goods to the value of or all personal possessions if the value is less

That brings me on to speeding offences , if you speed on a stretch of road near someone's house they should be free to speed past your house, WIN / WIN .

Should I form a political party ?

So you'd have smashed up 10PS's knee and head would you? People who believe in an eye for an eye are no better than the savages in dumbfkistan who practise it.