Newsnight Scotland is just discussing the latest proposed solution to prison overcrowding by the Inspector of Prisons north of the border - prisoners in certain categories should be put on 'waiting lists', whereby they are not immediately jailed, but wait until there is a suitable prison cell free. It was'nt mentioned if they could claim compensation if made to wait for too long...
Previous suggestions from this same chap have included only being jailed at weekends or overnight.
Why not go the whole hog and have prisoner 'timeshares'..? When not comitting petty theft, a convict could sleep over at the prison, but when 'on a job', someone else could make use of the facilities...
An efficient use of available resources - or - another cynical opportunity to manipulate figures...?
Unfortunately, the preceeeding article was about a leaked Police report that 80-85% of cashpoint related crime in the UK is committed by Romanians. And that there are currently only around 50,000 of them in the country. But, in two months time....
Something tells me we will need more prisons in El Dorado.
Previous suggestions from this same chap have included only being jailed at weekends or overnight.
Why not go the whole hog and have prisoner 'timeshares'..? When not comitting petty theft, a convict could sleep over at the prison, but when 'on a job', someone else could make use of the facilities...
An efficient use of available resources - or - another cynical opportunity to manipulate figures...?
Unfortunately, the preceeeding article was about a leaked Police report that 80-85% of cashpoint related crime in the UK is committed by Romanians. And that there are currently only around 50,000 of them in the country. But, in two months time....
Something tells me we will need more prisons in El Dorado.
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