'Families of convicts who die in jail can receive up to £3,000 from the state to cover the costs of funerals, the Sunday Express can reveal. Freedom of Information documents from the Ministry of Justice reveal prison governors “must offer to pay reasonable funeral expenses” for dead inmates even if they have relatives.The maximum grant is double the average cost of a funeral in Britain and three times the amount paid out by the state for a so-called pauper burial.'How does a system like this begin? Who was the first lunatic to authorise this level of payment of public cash?
Perhaps government employees, self-important bureaucrats, the thoughtless and the incompetent should be made somehow financially liable for this kind of abuse of taxpayers' money!
But don't you just suspect that it will be politicians behind it? Do you not feel the hand of the liberal left combined with the do-gooding element at work here? - In which case the same thinking should certainly apply!
Read more: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/186236/Prison-funeral-expenses-covered-by-state
