Health and safety on 'chain-gangs'
Discussion
Probation staff have been told to stop putting up signs saying street work is being carried out by convicts - or forcing them to wear bright yellow jackets branded 'Community Payback' because their feelings might be hurt.
Instead, a small plaque will be erected long after they've gone, to avoid offending their delicate sensibilities.
Of course, some convicts working in the open air will still have to wear high-visibility jackets - because it's required by Health and Safety legislation ... but without any indication that they are convicts.
Which makes you feel better, seeing a 'chain-gang' at work or viewing a plaque (for however long it remains unvandalised) informing you of the good work done by convicts? I know which I prefer.
Why is it convicts have human rights and sensibilities that must be respected, and not the rest of us?
Streaky
Instead, a small plaque will be erected long after they've gone, to avoid offending their delicate sensibilities.
Of course, some convicts working in the open air will still have to wear high-visibility jackets - because it's required by Health and Safety legislation ... but without any indication that they are convicts.
Which makes you feel better, seeing a 'chain-gang' at work or viewing a plaque (for however long it remains unvandalised) informing you of the good work done by convicts? I know which I prefer.
Why is it convicts have human rights and sensibilities that must be respected, and not the rest of us?
Streaky
streaky said:
Probation staff have been told to stop putting up signs saying street work is being carried out by convicts - or forcing them to wear bright yellow jackets branded 'Community Payback' because their feelings might be hurt.
Surely that's part of the fcking punishment, no?streaky said:
Why is it convicts have human rights and sensibilities that must be respected, and not the rest of us?
Because convicts:-a) Get legal aid, usually; and
b) Get the attention of a lot of Human-Rights lawyers who get paid by shafting HM gov't (i.e. they get our taxes), and have as a result got rather good at it.
Whereas Joe Public:-
a) Has to pay for his own solicitors;
b) Is of no cost or benefit to the gov't, so is ignored; and
c) Has no effing rights anymore!!!
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