It ruins you. You dont. Youre not a person any more, you just exist. Three years ago, the prison was privatised. French Company Sodexo won the 15 year contract, promising the government it could save £130 million. When the initial shock of the privatisation came out, the staff were shocked that it had happened but then we thought well maybe it could be a good thing we might see a big change. You train as part of a team. Jim reid was a dog handler and Prison Officer with more than 20 years experience. His optimism didnt last long. They got rid of 96 uniform staff over 200 in total. I myself was part of a dog team erm, and we were told, youre gone. Since 2011, around half a billion pounds has been taken from the Prison Budget in england and wales. As the Prisoner Population was rising, more than 6,000 officers were lost. Jim reid took redundancy but colleagues who stayed at northumberland say theyre overwhelmed. Ive seen experienced staff crying in the main street. And theyve said i can
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serving life without. there are no programs for them. the corrections people say why spend money on them they are never getting out. so this program gives them things do. if they you county give them things to do they can revert to violence. and as far as giving this to children most certainty. our prison budget is high. and and if you keep locking people up at this rate you are going to have a geriatric population and giving them healthcare and that budget is going to go really high. i would rather see us look over our prisons and understand it is out of control and needs fixing and maybe we should spend more on education or maybe we should upgrade our policing and re-examine how policing in neighborhoods can change crime. instead of just locking everybody up. an interesting by-product of this program is that it improved race relations in prison.
prisons and 7.5% to universities. you have to pay attention. the budget is zero sum, you keep increasing the prison budget, you are seriously taking money from the kids and schools. it s a real short term strategy and hurts the progress of the future of the country. have we made progress on the overt racist sentencing, cocaine versus crack, this fallacy crack is different, makes you crazy and makes you do terrible things which is not true. have we made any progress? some places. it was easier to go from 101 disparity to 1 to 1, in south carolina, there wasn t a u.s. congress, so many democrats are so afraid as being seen as soft on crime, they know what works and frankly afraid to do it. right now, while you get some people like david paterson quite brave in killing the old