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What sun? This is England in June! :( .

Not so, the second comma was deliberate to add emphasis, an acceptable ploy. .

Fingers told me he was a liar, he's posted this: "I am the media" Lying is part of the modus operandi of the media. .

Don't assume, I don't think you are racist at all and I know you are intelligent. .

You're wasting your time OG, he's a Leaver, and Leavers are liars. .

In reference to wardens bringing them in, the back passage only works once on entry to prison. Thereafter it's often warden collaboration. .

Which is precisely the point of my sequence of posts, illustrating how the bad decisions of the type you and others make have inevitably led us to this. The more we keep on this course, the worse it gets, as events prove only too clearly, Why is it you cannot grasp this obvious fact from the...

Not quite, he's had two agrees so far. .

How does that deal with the stated showers, meals, haircuts and medical treatment? .

So it's not in any way solitary and they will be able to communicate and conspire with fellow inmates. No different from now. It isn't possible to have a bunk and bedding, toilet and shower in a 2 metre x 2 metre space. Not so with all of them out of cells, and they will be if that's an...

You wouldn't be able to do that and still be a respected member of the international establishment. Long term isolation is rightly almost universally condemned. There's also inconvenient matters like showers, meals, haircuts and medical treatment to be taken care of, so large numbers of...

Done in the USA with very long and harsh sentences, leading to them having one of the world's highest crime rates and a prison population some 5 times ours pro rata and the highest in the world. And you want the same here, well over 400,000 in prison instead of 86,000, and a big increase in...

Indeed, but entirely avoidable with a tiny bit of research and much thought before acting. Nowhere are gut instincts more unreliable than in the field of criminology, where gut instincts are very often the opposite of correct action. .

As I've already answered previously, life sentences then? So when does that start, lifting a small item from a shop gets a life sentence? After all, crime starts somewhere. Who decides at what level the life sentence comes in, and meanwhile all their previous crimes have happened, showing how...

Indeed, and a classic case of how that problem was created by government and public. Back in the early 1960s when I did some voluntary work with heroin addicts, that was the only addictive drug present. There were only some 400 addicts in the whole country, virtually all in London, so it...

I can't comment on an individual case where I have no details, and by the same token, the circumstances of one case aren't the answer to a national crime problem. .

Deterrence doesn't work. When the probability of being caught was much higher, crime levels were much lower. When sentences were much shorter, crime levels were much lower. .

The same disapointing unthinking response from someone who simply understands nothing about the subject that I thought I'd get. As I've shown irrefutably, keeping prisoners in longer doesn't reduce crime, it greatly increases it. There are several mechanisms involved. Firstly prisons are a...

Yes, as I said, there will always be crime, but the connection you make is tenuous. Crime was often much lower at times when there were more stealables, easily accessible and which had good value, but very much higher when the remaining stealables were worth much less and much more difficult...

The answer to crime is to begin by realising that there is no solution, since crime is as old as humanity itself and will always exist. Then to act to minimise it. The first action is not to increase it by foolish decisions. For example, recorded crimes grew sharply from the early 1960s when...