UK: Prison Ships to Ease Overcrowding
January 27th, 2007I don’t have any commentary left for what’s happening in Britain.
Via: BBC:
The government is in talks to buy two prison ships to ease the current wave of overcrowding.
An RAF camp is also being considered as one of a number of options to temporarily ease the pressure.
The Home Office has already sent out advice to courts to only jail dangerous and persistent offenders to help ease the situation in England and Wales.
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The Home Office has considered a number of Army sites, as well as the RAF base now being looked at in the north of England.
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The old becomes the new. Charles Dickens mentioned prison ships in his novel Great Expectations. Perhaps next will be workhouses. But oh, we already seem to have these: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/46874/
I seem to remember a history lesson where 11 Prison Ships sailed half way across the world from Britain and set up the then new British Colony of New South Wales. That was back in 1788 and even more weird, Australia Day (or Invasion Day) was celebrated yesterday on the 26th January.