We are informed that proposals from Whitehall’s health and justice departments are to consider giving drugs and needles to prison inmates before they are freed, to avoid them overdosing when finally released.
Furthermore, it is admitted that 50 per cent of inmates are using drugs while serving their sentence, along with all the other privileges they enjoy.
The police are spending millions in trying to stop the sale and importation of drugs into this country, and our young soldiers are being killed in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban who still control the growth and movement of the biggest heroin industry in the world.
Surely it would make more sense to recall all our troops from around the world and deploy them around our coastline and major ports, ready to stop the drugs and all the insurgents we keep hearing about.
It is very obvious that the people responsible for our prisons are incapable of doing the job, and it’s high time that the do-gooders and human-rights idiots who have caused our country to become the laughing stock of the world are removed and replaced by people who understand what discipline means.
Which brings me to our prisons minister, David Hanson, who having read the intentions in the full report said: “This report is an important contribution to our fight against drug use”. Where on earth do they find these people from?
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Surely it might make more sense to save the money and legalise the drugs. Those who wished to use them could pay a nice amount of tax and those who didn’t would be better off.
I think a good place to start would be to understand why people need to take drugs in the first place. By doing this, a ‘prevention, rather than cure’ policy could be adopted. I would suspect the reason why many people take drugs in the first place is to temporarily escape the world in which they live and forget about the problems they are facing. By addressing this issue, then maybe people would be less inclined to take drugs.
By simply punishing users (with prison sentences), isn’t going to stop them using drugs - they have an addiction, and if the addition isn’t addressed, the problem persists.
If my memory serves me correctly, there are centres in London that sell/give drugs to users with the condition that they seek help to cure their addiction; I believe that this system has been met with some degree of success. By doing this, you have a far greater chance of integrating people into, and giving something back to society rather than the tax payer shouldering the cost of prosecuting users and jailing them, only to have them re-offend when the prison term ends.
This issue has nothing to do with ‘do-gooders’ or ‘human rights idiots’, it has more to do with not understanding a world that has become more complex and thus needs new ideas to solve the problems we are encountering today. That’s not to say that we abandon prison altogether, more we find new ways of ensuring we punish people in an appropriate way that fits the offence, but also help and give them the chance to enter back into society that benefits everyone.
Totally beyond belief!!!
Let them go cold turkey.
I agree -cold turkey! No one made them take drugs in the first place. If they do their cold turkey and suffer they may think twice about taking drugs in the future.