I think this is the top 100 nonsense posts i have read on Blue Moon ever.
So lets not put dangerous criminals in Jail. Who said Muslims are being segregated? i would guess they just want to mix with people of the same culture and religion. Who is encouraging a gang culture in jail? And then a usual nonsense comment blaming the government.
I suppose you’d know all about nonsense posts. However, the point is that most of them aren’t ‘dangerous criminals’ until they go to jail. Our prison population is rising every year and so is crime. It’s not working and the policy is government policy so I’m unsure as to whom you’d have me blame. Just to show you it is not political bias here are a few facts.
Highest imprisonment rate in Western Europe, prison population up by 82% in the last 30 years.
68000 people sentenced to prison in 2016, 71% of whom had not committed a violent offence. 47% were sentenced to 6 months or less. The average sentence for indictable offences has risen every year since 2007 from 31 months in 2007 to 57 months in 2016. Anyone leaving custody after serving 2 days or more is subject to a minimum 12 month supervision in the community. This change, made in 2015, has led to a 20% increase in people recalled to prison.
The prison system has been overcrowded since 1994 and currently holds 10000 more people than they were designed to do. Over a quarter of the prison population are held in overcrowded cells, almost all doubling up in cells designed for 1. The previous Cameron government committed to building nine new prison, five by 2020.
344 people died in prison last year, the highest number on record. Self inflicted deaths declined every year up to 2011 but are now near record levels and have risen year on year since. Self harm rates are at 471 per 1000 prisoners (almost 1 in 2). Assaults on staff up 88% in last 2 years.
At the same time as all this, HM Prisons and Probation Service has its budget reduced by a quarter. Between 2010-11 and 2014-15 it delivered ‘savings’ of £900M. The ‘cost’ of a prison place reduced by 20% between 2010 and 2016 and it now ONLY costs £35,182 to keep someone locked up for a year. There is a 900 frontline shortfall against benchmark numbers and the Cameron government committed to recruit 2,500 by 2018. They managed 75 last year so it’s not looking likely. Support staff down by 700 means that officers have to do lots more than look after prisoners, such as answering the phone and working the gate.
35000 people were sent to prison on remand and more than half of these were for non-violent offences. 11% of prisoners are on remand and 70% of these are awaiting trial, somare not yet guilty of anything. 10% of remand prisoners were subsequently acquitted and a further 14% got a non-custodial sentence. On average people are on remand for over 10 weeks with more than 25% of self inflicted deaths being people on remand. Remand prisoners get no financial help when they are released, even though their job and career might be over.
Muslim prisoners have more than doubled in 14 years and now account for nearly 13,000 prisoners. Far from being a homogenous group, some have been born Muslims but many others convert. The number of converts, in the wider U.K. population is about 4% of the Muslim population. In prison, converts make up about 35%.
11% of the prison population is made up of foreign nationals (from 169 countries but mainly from 9 countries) although 3/4 are there for non-violent offences. Women make up 5% of the prisoner numbers but account for 10% of people sentenced. 84% are there for non-violent offences.
The only population were prisoners are down, since 2006 is the under-18’s, down by 70%. Funnily enough, the number of offences committed by under-18’s in that time is demonstrably down by 74% (funny that).
Just a few facts (everyone of them from an official government publication) that explode your theory (which I am sure you believe is 100% correct) that we are putting violent criminals into prison. We are not and we are not helping anyone by following the path we are currently on.
