13 July 2005

Comrade to ask the Crims what they need

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ABC Online has an interesting snippet on the Comrade’s recent travels.

ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope will consult inmates at Junee jail about the facilities needed for a planned ACT prison.

He says while considerable consultation has already taken place on the prison’s design, it is valuable to have an understanding of what prisoners think of the way the institutions are run.

Wonder what they’ll ask for? More privacy, co-ed bunking, less drug testing, smaller guards, boltcutters and digging tools, possibly a ladder against the fence?

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You mean Neverland Ranch ?

As I have suggested in a previous post, the new ACT prison should be set up like that guy in the states. Tents, Disney channel, work parties, etc..
Make prison a place that they don’t want to go to.

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What have we here? obviously a newcomer to the site, and yet having firm views about our choice of language?

I think that current prisoners are a bankrupt choice for suggestions.

released prisoners might well have some valid insights however.

but frankly I think you’re a prick.

First of all, “comrade”? That’s your idea of a nickname for Stanhope? Implying, I guess, that he’s a bit of a commie? I guess I thought red-baiting was a bit old hat. And anyway coming from a family with commies, and with some of my best friends being commies (actual Communist Party members – what a concept) – I kind of take offense at it being used as a slur. In some times and places, it would have been about the best thing to be. But Stanhope sure isn’t one. He isn’t even a socialist. At best, maybe left of center – and you have a problem with that?

And you have a problem with talking to prisoners when planning prisons? Why? Do you actually think they are going to ask for ladders and digging tools, and if they did that this would be taken seriously. If we aren’t going to take the needs (and rights) of prisoners into account we might as well chuck out the whole human rights thing. But taking those needs and rights into account doesn’t mean anything like the ridiculous ideas you put forward.

Sure, it is an easy thing to make fun of, take small minded potshots at. But haven’t you got anything better to do with your time?

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