Since when did this become a thing? First time I’m hearing about it, and whilst this article is a tiny shell of an actual report, the reasoning that is given is preposterous.
Three times as many men are sentenced but twenty times more men are in prison. This is no surprise.
Well that’s a really easy judicial review win right there. That’ll help some barrister keep their stats up.
Disingenuous bollocks from the Daily Mail.
After decades of decrying prisons as “holiday camps”, demanding that prisoners be stripped of their human rights and just generally being a bit cunty towards anyone who’s been convicted of a crime (unless they’re white and wealthy), are we really supposed to believe that they’re concerned about the unfair treatment of prisoners in this one, isolated case?
Or is this just rage-bait so that people who don’t care about male prisoners can pretend to be upset about sexism on their behalf?
Er my brother has been in prison since February and been paying for all his phone calls so not sure what this article is about! They get a video call like once a month tho which I guess is free ive never asked him personally about that one
Female prisons are holiday camps.
There is no categorisation system like in the male system. There are no protection wings, therefore high risk and targeted shitebags like Emma Tustin and Courtney Brierley get a VIP staff escort every time they go anywhere. People like Joanna Dennehy *might* be unlocked at a different time to everyone else, but they’re not segregated.
There are more work and leisure facilities for women. Rose West of all people even won a prison bakeoff.
They also have higher quality accommodation and I’ve even heard that canteen is cheaper.
It reads to me like they’ve made their decision by looking at the stats and concluding “huh, male suicide rates are down, what could possibly be causing that? Let’s scrap the free phone calls, that should send it back up to normal levels again”
Got to wonder why The Guardian doesn’t report on this? Goes against their narrative, I suppose. Can’t report the truth, only what suits their agenda (same goes for the DM, obviously. People just act like The Guardian is above that).
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Since when did this become a thing? First time I’m hearing about it, and whilst this article is a tiny shell of an actual report, the reasoning that is given is preposterous.
Three times as many men are sentenced but twenty times more men are in prison. This is no surprise.
Well that’s a really easy judicial review win right there. That’ll help some barrister keep their stats up.
Disingenuous bollocks from the Daily Mail.
After decades of decrying prisons as “holiday camps”, demanding that prisoners be stripped of their human rights and just generally being a bit cunty towards anyone who’s been convicted of a crime (unless they’re white and wealthy), are we really supposed to believe that they’re concerned about the unfair treatment of prisoners in this one, isolated case?
Or is this just rage-bait so that people who don’t care about male prisoners can pretend to be upset about sexism on their behalf?
Er my brother has been in prison since February and been paying for all his phone calls so not sure what this article is about! They get a video call like once a month tho which I guess is free ive never asked him personally about that one
Female prisons are holiday camps.
There is no categorisation system like in the male system. There are no protection wings, therefore high risk and targeted shitebags like Emma Tustin and Courtney Brierley get a VIP staff escort every time they go anywhere. People like Joanna Dennehy *might* be unlocked at a different time to everyone else, but they’re not segregated.
There are more work and leisure facilities for women. Rose West of all people even won a prison bakeoff.
They also have higher quality accommodation and I’ve even heard that canteen is cheaper.
It reads to me like they’ve made their decision by looking at the stats and concluding “huh, male suicide rates are down, what could possibly be causing that? Let’s scrap the free phone calls, that should send it back up to normal levels again”
Got to wonder why The Guardian doesn’t report on this? Goes against their narrative, I suppose. Can’t report the truth, only what suits their agenda (same goes for the DM, obviously. People just act like The Guardian is above that).