I have just been listening to a political debate on Radio Humberside online and with sickening predictability, the Lib Dem and The Green both supported the idea that 'Prisons are universities of crime.'This wretched argument has all the power of a soundbite yet all the fiction of an Enid Blyton political commentary. It is utter pap!
It is calculatedly designed to purvey the thoroughly erroneous impression that 'innocent youngsters who have made a minor slip up are being shoved into prisons where they automatically become corrupted and trained by more experienced criminals.'
Until you have read a large number of three quarter inch thick, size 12 font, criminal records of lowlifes who have never been jailed - you have little right to comment! You have no idea!
Well, I have read 'em! Lots.
The mischievious impression is so far from reality that it equates to being an outright lie.
What you have to do get jailed today almost beggars belief.
So many tearaways are making the lives of ordinary people an utter misery and are permitted to continue unchecked. On this single detachment from reality - Greens and Lib Dems deserve to lose anybody's vote.
(Incidentally, the Labour voice seemed to believe that Labour has addressed crime! Presumably she must have meant the laughable ASBOs!)
