Give him a medal, services to the community

[Bolton Midnight]

BBC News - Ian Huntley: Prisoner admits attacking Soham killer

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Yep, a deranged criminal serving life in prison for Armed Robbery should get a medal for murdering another convict and attempting to murder another.

Perhaps the keys to the City as well?

[Bolton Midnight]

Armed blagger > Beast

any day of the week

[Knock-on]

Armed blagger <> beast

Neither thanks

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Actually, it should be encouraged across the board.

Only if you're including this board. I know a couple of little scroats who need a good seeing to

[Bolton Midnight]

Actually, it should be encouraged across the board. Think of the tax savings because of the reduction in cost as prison populations shrink. Then we can expand the program to legislative bodies with a resulting orders of magnitude savings in government spending. Why didn't someone think of this before?

Would save a fortune if every nonce's cell came complete with its own cut throat razor.

[markabilly]

Actually, it should be encouraged across the board. Think of the tax savings because of the reduction in cost as prison populations shrink. Then we can expand the program to legislative bodies with a resulting orders of magnitude savings in government spending. Why didn't someone think of this before?

It would cause a massive depression (not the emotional kind) in many areas as prision running is the major industry keeping people in jobs. And after while we would not need guards, then the cops would get laid off cause no criminals to arrest, lawyers would have to start doing honest work to make a living (like selling used cars), and then the chinese could not sell us crap we don't need and as a result, they not have the money to buy US treasuries, the bond market would then crash, the Federal reserve would go bust.......

Stupid idea. People say crime does not pay. I say BS........................................tthink of all those people not getting paid, if crime don't pay.

Therefore, I say be patriotic, go forth and steal. The insurance will buy the victim new stuff, cops got something to do....etc and etc.....all stimulating the economy

[Bolton Midnight]

Still plenty of scope to sack 50% of the public sector involved with crime and nobody would notice a blind bit of difference, well not strictly true we'd notice the reduction in tax and the non jobs would have to actually get a real job.

[ArrowsFA1]

Still plenty of scope to sack 50% of the public sector involved with crime...

You wouldn't perhaps care to provide evidence for this astounding statistic?

[Bolton Midnight]

You wouldn't perhaps care to provide evidence for this astounding statistic?

Watched a thing on Strangeways a bit back, everyone was a manager of some sort, they were nurses and security guards not some fancy job title. Didn't warrant much more than min wage yet they would have all been on 30k plus. Any job title that includes 'diversity' could go and nobody would notice in the slightest.

Taxpayer's money is being spunked away on a huge scale post 97 thankfully something is being done about it but nowhere near enough.

Massive amounts of job losses and huge pay cuts for the public sector are the only way out of this mess.