He was just 10 though. We surely had to try. Can't just lock him away forever at the age of 10 and throw away the key and besides, Robert Thompson. The other boy, has not re-offended at all since his release. Whatever we did there seems to have worked for him.
And also of Scott Bradley, who was wrongly mistaken for Robert Thompson and received lots of abuse and subsequently took his own life.
No, the problem is he was released due to our rehabilitation efforts deeming him not a danger, (imagine being the person who signed off on that report) The problem being, this is now the 2nd time he has been caught with child pornography on his computer, he is also on his 3rd or 4th identity as he goes around "telling" people who he is... That for me shows that he is probably beyond help and should be put down like thew animal he is.
Well, I am totally and vehemently against capital punishment, so that would be out of the question as far as I am concerned. I do think though that he should be made to work in prison and shouldn't have the privileges of others. I think everything in prison should be earned and educational classes and work should be compulsory for many offenders.
I do believe if you are a child killer you have to be separated from the general prison population, because they really do pick on you and give you a rough ride.
Do you have stats for this or is it just your perception?
Have you any experience Otis? All prisoners have to work doing completely monotonous soul destroying tasks for minimal pay. Many are locked up for 16-18 hours a day. There are educational classes and you would be horrified at the lack of educational ability with many of them. Maybe there’s a link! My experience of our prison system is that it’s fundamentally broken. Utterly broken. The only useful purpose is it keeps some people away from others and they don’t commit crime whilst there apart from against other prisoners. Don’t get me wrong people deserve to be punished but there must be a better way
As I've said on here before I've been in prison, but been out twenty years. When I was doing time it was months of boring work and long hours banged up in a cell,shared with 2 others. No complaints though as we deserved to be locked up.
All they can do is to encourage you to want to change I guess.
Change your thoughts and habits. Worked for me but not for everyone.A mate of mine same age too spent 3years inside, came out last year. He said its no place for blokes our age, I could of told him that years ago !
