Imprisoning Ideology

It has been a long know fact that today's prisons are run by the inmates not the authorities and this was illustrated in a ch 4 piece yesterday where the prisoners had downloaded from their mobile phones videos of them openly drug dealing and flourishing  wads of fifty pound notes.The usual excuses were made about staff shortages but the obvious solution is to privatise the prisons as they are at present run by corrupt union officials who have a stranglehold on the service and many of whom appear to be in collusion with the drug dealers.

The prisons are just another of a long line of failed state institutions ruined by monopolised union control and a complete shake up of the system is imperative.The introduction of private companies would introduce rigour,innovation and provide employment for the inmates so they are not  left idle at the expense of the taxpayers  who are the victims twice over in the equation having been impacted by crime and then forced to subsidise the criminal's leisurely lifestyle with drugs computers and all the pleasures of the outside.

As unions are traditionally on the side of the underdog it is clear why the present situation prevails.The wardens appear to have more sympathy for the prisoners than their victims and the liberal regimes they have established in the state prisons have created the anarchy in the system. (A similar thing happened in the State schools) Introduction of privatisation of the prisons system will correct this very sorry and tragic state of affairs.