Quote from: Mups on <strong>Today</strong> at 10:58:28 AMI suspect that in some cases prisoners may even have a better life than they had outside.
All their meals provided for a start.

I have also been reading about the learning that is provided in prisons these days too, and this includes:

Reading, Writing, Maths, Woodwork, Physical health, and Horticulture.
And through the Open University they can even sit for their GCSE, and City & Guilds!

I suppose they are hoping that with education will come better behaviour.
It could, of course, make them more efficient criminals!
I wonder which of these possibilities turn out to be the truth.

Frost here too this morning, but the sun is out now so it's gone....
I'm staying in today as I'm full of cold and its not nice supermarket shopping with a drippy nose....

Sunny now,   but bitterly cold earlier,  with thick white, sparkling  frost over everything.

Fred had a strange text message today
Sent to him by Maggie May 
He thought he was on a winner
When she suggested he go for dinner

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I suspect that in some cases prisoners may even have a better life than they had outside.
All their meals provided for a start.

I have also been reading about the learning that is provided in prisons these days too, and this includes:

Reading, Writing, Maths, Woodwork, Physical health, and Horticulture.
And through the Open University they can even sit for their GCSE, and City & Guilds!

Quote from: Mups on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 10:40:28 PMThat's a rotten thing to do if they know a puzzle is incomplete.
Some kiddy might have been trying for days to do it,  then at the end, its all been for nothing.

The local Sally Army shop here is not taking anything in at the mo, and hasn't been for a little while now.
My friend who works there said its because people are just using it to dump their junk - probably cheaper than going to the tip.    There is mountains of it dumped outside when the shop is closed too, and most of it is unuseable.

The Cancer charity shop in the high street has closed down altogether now, too.

Pretty much the same thing here, we only have one Charity Shop in Thurso and it used to be good. I looked in once a week when I went over to the Town and usually bought something. Now it's mostly a book if I can find one I fancy, the rests just junk 😥 Such a shame.
GM, Perhaps a biggish notice on the door saying the shop no longer accepts Jigsaws?

 

Thanks again,  I have passed your messages on to her. 

I am still on tenterhooks incase she has another 'turn'   so am taking her in for a check up at 12.15 today.
I particularly want him to check her eyes and cataracts.

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Quote from: Mups on <strong>Yesterday</strong> at 10:27:01 PMI heard on tonight's news that the 23 yr old man who killed that young lad because he was speeding,  has received a 9 years and 4 moths sentence.
He did attend court in the end.

BUT,  they did say it would have been treble that  to 27 yrs,  but because he pleaded Guilty,  they only gave him one third of his sentence!!! 
In other words,  he got rewarded for owning up.  Unbelievable.

Understandably,  the boy's family are horrified.

They argue that our prisons are full, so they are obliged to let criminals off with a much shorter sentence, or none at all.
I am hoping that Reform UK will do as they have promised, and deport all illegals in this country, and that will include all of those in jail.  Then stop letting them in again.
That will make available many more prison places.  Then they should forget about all of those educational programmes in prison and leave them in their cells.  Prison should, once again, become a deterrent rather than a holiday camp.