24 Hours in Police Custody: Ch4

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number2

4,304 posts

187 months

Wednesday 1st March 2023
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Willhire89 said:
bluemason said:
It did not sit right with me when he had tried to use religion to try and manipulate the parole board. .
Surely they have heard the 'sky fairy' path to redemption a million times
The prisoners think they're pretty smart... they really aren't. They may be able to manipulate their weak minded prey but I'd hope not the parole board. As you say, the parole board aren't wet behind the ears. Well, I hope not.



andymc

7,350 posts

207 months

Thursday 2nd March 2023
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guys in episode one, the aggravated burglary, why was the 3rd guy not named?

number2

4,304 posts

187 months

Thursday 2nd March 2023
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Probably currently being 'done' for something else or too young to be filmed I guess. Literally a guess.

This was the one with the cctv in the house wasn't it?

Legacywr

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12,122 posts

188 months

Thursday 2nd March 2023
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number2 said:
Probably currently being 'done' for something else or too young to be filmed I guess. Literally a guess.

This was the one with the cctv in the house wasn't it?
Bound to be part of another case...

tighnamara

2,189 posts

153 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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2 parter C4 Monday / Tuesday

Its Just Adz

14,075 posts

209 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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tighnamara said:
2 parter C4 Monday / Tuesday
Thank you!

Laurel Green

30,778 posts

232 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Thanks for the heads-up.

fourstardan

4,270 posts

144 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Thanks....nothing like a bit of crime investigation on a depressing Monday night.

number2

4,304 posts

187 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Parole programme continued to be good.

Felt sorry for the bloke with the incompetent parole officer - was put back for a year i think as she wasn't prepared. A violent bd mind you.

Looked like a good life in his open prison - own little portacabin, tv and games console. The crims don't appreciate how much us working types are "imprisoned" by our jobs and the law, whereas when they're out they do what they want when they want, so being inside is worse biggrin. A bit tongue-in-cheek...

hairykrishna

13,166 posts

203 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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number2 said:
Parole programme continued to be good.

Felt sorry for the bloke with the incompetent parole officer - was put back for a year i think as she wasn't prepared. A violent bd mind you.

Looked like a good life in his open prison - own little portacabin, tv and games console. The crims don't appreciate how much us working types are "imprisoned" by our jobs and the law, whereas when they're out they do what they want when they want, so being inside is worse biggrin. A bit tongue-in-cheek...
That seemed very unfair. It'd take a lot of convincing for me to think he wasn't still dangerous though.

number2

4,304 posts

187 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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hairykrishna said:
That seemed very unfair. It'd take a lot of convincing for me to think he wasn't still dangerous though.
I agree with you on that.


Punctilio

827 posts

23 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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number2 said:


Felt sorry for the bloke with the incompetent parole officer - was put back for a year
i think as she wasn't prepared. A violent bd mind you. ...
We wouldn't need parole boards if sentences reflected the actual
time the court required them to be incarcerated, why should a sentence be halved
just because they behaved in jail ?
Sure it's an incentive for the criminal , meanwhile Society
is hoodwinked by dogooders and bed-wetting libertarians.

We need a radical rethink of sentencing, an 8 year sentence means just that.


Vasco

16,476 posts

105 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Punctilio said:
number2 said:


Felt sorry for the bloke with the incompetent parole officer - was put back for a year
i think as she wasn't prepared. A violent bd mind you. ...
We wouldn't need parole boards if sentences reflected the actual
time the court required them to be incarcerated, why should a sentence be halved
just because they behaved in jail ?
Sure it's an incentive for the criminal , meanwhile Society
is hoodwinked by dogooders and bed-wetting libertarians.

We need a radical rethink of sentencing, an 8 year sentence means just that.

Not sure that the possibility of halving a sentence can be an incentive for villains but I do think that 50% is too great. I appreciate that no reduction at all means that inmates can be a nightmare in prisons, without any means of recourse - so some adjustment is logical - max 25% ?


Edited by Vasco on Sunday 19th March 07:26

fourstardan

4,270 posts

144 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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The bloke (on camera) took the news quite well, someone of that age/previous could had gone ape st. Not sure I'd want his missus waiting for me outside though with the state of the tattoos on her face, wtf.

I think the other guy who had this funny old condition called ADHD every single mental head seems to have didn't quite take it so well.

The prisons are full up with an exclusive waiting list, they can't have old boys in Cat B/C prisons for full terms it just isn't going to work.

I wouldn't want to retire to the Isle of Sheppey though, it's full of crims!

hairykrishna

13,166 posts

203 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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What we need is actual rehabilitation, Scandinavian style. Just locking people up for ages doesn't seem to work and costs a fortune.

fourstardan

4,270 posts

144 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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hairykrishna said:
What we need is actual rehabilitation, Scandinavian style. Just locking people up for ages doesn't seem to work and costs a fortune.
Not sure I think its viable with the size of the UK population and how much immigration we have.

Vasco

16,476 posts

105 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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hairykrishna said:
What we need is actual rehabilitation, Scandinavian style. Just locking people up for ages doesn't seem to work and costs a fortune.
I don't disagree but I don't understand how their system could work in the UK ?

Punctilio

827 posts

23 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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fourstardan said:
Not sure I think its viable with the size of the UK population and how much immigration we have.
Yep, the percentage of prisoners in our jails who entered this country as
immigrants is very interesting and oddly wokeist are very keen to bury such
stats.

hairykrishna

13,166 posts

203 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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I just googled and 13 percent of the prison population are foreign nationals, 17 percent of the population of the country as a whole are foreign nationals. So foreign nationals get banged up at largely the same rate as everyone else?

Not sure that 13 percent make all that much difference. I don't know how workable a Scandinavian system would be here. We probably can't afford it. There's plenty of evidence that harsher sentences do bugger all to deter people though so chucking money at keeping people locked up for longer doesn't seem the answer.

I actually think that drugs legislation reforms would probably help a lot. Legalising and taxing weed generates lots of cash which you could plow into mental health care and tackling/treating people with hard drug problems.

Edited by hairykrishna on Sunday 19th March 21:22

fourstardan

4,270 posts

144 months

Monday 20th March 2023
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Getting this thread back on track, I bet the Swedes don't enjoy a good old 24 Hours in PC on a Monday night.