Comments on: Poor bastards

By: Gallimaufry

Gallimaufry — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:21:59 +0000

How about a playlist limited to Jonathan King, Gary Glitter and Boy George?

By: The Great Simpleton

The Great Simpleton — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:14:44 +0000

I was in a motorway service station on the M1 today and it had its own radio station. I won’t be going back there again so perhaps there is something in this – £2m to end reoffending seems rather cheap.

By: Tim Almond

Tim Almond — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:38:12 +0000

“A charity might also contribute to running costs, it is thought.”

Cute. Don’t let the public see that the public is spending £x million funding this. Just fund the Campaign for Prisoner Featherbedding and they do it.

(on this subject, I see that DK is working on some sort of charitocracy list).

By: Former Tory

Former Tory — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:42:01 +0000

Or since the Government has already bought and paid for the BBC with our money, perhaps just feed Radio 1 in to prisons, 24/7. Pure shite. Or the Toady program on R4, endlessly repeated. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.

By: Eva

Eva — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:03:48 +0000

Didn’t the US military play rock-music night and day to psychologically batter Noriega into submission?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:57:49 +0000

Cruel and unusual punishment indeed.

To save money (not this government’s priority, I know), they could just take a feed from one or more of those “radio stations” run by retailers. I seem to recall that KwikFit have one, or used to, which is/was especially obnoxious. Maybe Homebase and BhS too. Anyway, pipe that into the cells at the usual volume and recidivism would be a thing of the past.