TURN THE CRIME TIDE BY BUILDING ISLAND PRISONS
Friday May 23,2008
By Frederick Forsyth
EVERY DAY there is another report of a prisoner who merited a long detention but was released far too early and went straight back to crime.
And always the reason is the same: we have no more room in our jails.
Judges are told flatly: do not give custodial sentences. Our prisons are full. But there is a solution: custodial colonies on offshore islands.
Now I know that at the word “island” people will think of Alcatraz (pictured), a brutal, bleak cruel institution in San Francisco Bay, now a tourist attraction. That is not what I mean..........
Article here:
http://www.express.co.uk/ourcomments/view/45431
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