The living conditions of uk prisons should be tightened.
Yes the living conditions should be tightened because right now murderers walk around playing Xbox and communicating with other prisoners, they are not really serving a prison sentence,more just having a good time.
Let’s compare our prisons to another nations, for this example, America. America is very well known for its legal system,how it works and of course it’s prisons. Murderers in american prisons are in a cell 23/7, they are serving 25 years to life and some even face death row. American prisons are certainly much stricter than ours.
But in some way that is the British way of doing it, to some extent you can not compare our prison system to Americans because we are a totally different country and our laws are on different scales.
On the other hand, their are citizens in Britain that purposely commit crimes just to put themselves back in prison,this may be because they need to or because it is so relaxed they enjoy it,now this can be seen as a good thing for them because it allows them a solid three meals a day, and a roof over their head but the prison system is already crowded so all the people doing this accumulates and over crowds our prisons and people that need to be locked up are not being.
Yours sincerely zak bartley.
April 13, 2015 at 10:13 pm
Zak,
You have chosen a very controversial topic that raises some very interesting questions for debate. Right now, you have presented only one side of the argument and I think that you should do some research in order to fully reflect how complex this debate is.
Some questions to consider:
1) Your las paragraph claims that some people put themselves back in prison because they enjoy – can you provide any statistics for this (or any hard evidence).
2) You claim the American prison system is better than ours because it is ‘stricter’ – what about the philosophy that claims that prisoners should be rehabilitated rather than dehumanised?
3) Re-rea your first paragraph – I’d like to know where you have found this information – documentary? Article? Hearsay?
I would beware of generalisations – you must provide evidence to support your opinions/claims.