Ian Watkins stabbed in prison

No one is going to lose sleep over Ian Watkins’ well-being but it’s not a good thing that we can’t keep convicted criminals safe in our own prisons.

He got a fair trial and a judge and jury sentenced him to a prison term, not to be killed in prison.

hopefully he survives and serves every last day of the rest of his very lengthy term.

Unfortunately this seems to be part of a wider issue, with serious prisoner on prisons assaults up 30% on the year, deaths in custody are up 10% and suicides up 26%.

I don't disagree with you at all, keeping him alive keeps him suffering. The wider issue for me is the grossly underpaid staff in places like this with grossly unprofessional management. A lot of old screws have been mismanaged and pushed out of the back door, replaced with young kids not cut out for the job, on nowhere near enough money to justify putting their body on the line.

The cons used to respect the old school screws as respect was earned both ways. I've spent a lot of time in jails up and down the country as a contractor and it's been very eye opening as a fly on the wall. I really worry for the future of the prison service.

Nonces are kept on different wings in jail, but also housed there tend to be those who have commited crimes against women, so a real concoction of shite. Plus the normal cons on other wings are keeping their eye out every passing minute for when sex offenders are being escorted past. Hopefully won't be the last time this piece of subhuman shit is badly hurt inside.
 
I don't disagree with you at all, keeping him alive keeps him suffering. The wider issue for me is the grossly underpaid staff in places like this with grossly unprofessional management. A lot of old screws have been mismanaged and pushed out of the back door, replaced with young kids not cut out for the job, on nowhere near enough money to justify putting their body on the line.

The cons used to respect the old school screws as respect was earned both ways. I've spent a lot of time in jails up and down the country as a contractor and it's been very eye opening as a fly on the wall. I really worry for the future of the prison service.

Nonces are kept on different wings in jail, but also housed there tend to be those who have commited crimes against women, so a real concoction of shite. Plus the normal cons on other wings are keeping their eye out every passing minute for when sex offenders are being escorted past. Hopefully won't be the last time this piece of subhuman shit is badly hurt inside.

I'm sure you're right about the prison service. It's a public institution most of us never see, but it's been just as badly effected by 13 years of austerity as the rest of the country.
 
I'm sure you're right about the prison service. It's a public institution most of us never see, but it's been just as badly effected by 13 years of austerity as the rest of the country.

Probably worse tbh. Most groups can advocate and get attention and mitigation, e.g. disabled.

Almost nobody cares about prisoner's conditions and advocates on their behalf.
 
The Watkins case was one of the most shocking and abhorrent that I can recall in recent memory. I'm actually surprised that it's taken this long for an attack like this to happen.
The prison community knows how to deal out appropriate sentences. Once again, they've got this one absolutely right.

Well done to whoever sorted the bastard out.
Probably another nonce. Don’t they all live in the nonce wing? Horrible bastards.
 

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