A HA! JUST AS I THOUGHT! RELEASE PRISONERS AND TAG THEM.

There have been very few prisons built in the last decade or so, and our prisons are seriously overcrowded. So what's the answer? RELEASE THEM!

Welease Woger. Welease Wodewick.

This the proposal of the Commons Public Accounts Committee. Release them and tag them.

But there is one small problem here. TAGGING DOESN'T WORK!!

There have been numerous reports about how tagged offenders have removed their tags and committed more crime.

The PAC are being led down the microchipped path. Their advice is seriously flawed and doomed to end with the final suggestion; IMPLANTABLE MICROCHIPS.

This suggestion is already being suggested in the USA for immigrants, and possibly tourists.

From http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,,1791119,00.html

Thousands of remand prisoners, inmates with mental health problems and children should urgently be released from prisons to relieve the growing overcrowding crisis in England and Wales, according to a damning report by MPs published today.
The Commons public accounts committee says the unprecedentedly high prison population of 77,000 is due to rise even higher and will lead to higher suicide rates and a fertile environment for unrest among prisoners.

The PAC chairman, Edward Leigh, says it is time for the new home secretary, John Reid, to think "long and hard" about practical alternatives to jail, including electronic tagging, for three specific groups of prisoners. They are:

· The 3,900 remand prisoners who are currently in jail but who, when convicted, are not given a custodial sentence - about one third of all remand prisoners.

· The rapidly rising number of children held in prison service accommodation, which has now reached 2,300 compared with only 1,600 a decade ago.

· The 5,000 profoundly mentally ill people held in prison. MPs say that overcrowding limits the ability of prison to provide care for them and only 700 a year are transferred to hospital.

Introducing such an intrusive and megalomaniac phenomena as the implantable microchip requires a high degree of spin. The chip has to be seen to be 'good', 'useful' and above all 'works'. What could be better than to track criminals on our streets? Of course in order to have criminals on our streets to track they have to be identified. Well, that's easy, they are in prison. Ah, but how do you then get them on the streets so they can be tracked? Release them early. But how can convicted criminals be released early without causing an uproar? Stop building prisons and let the prison population rise and rise and rise until the prison system is overflowing. And then get some dimwit MPs to suggest tagging, which is designed to fail, so that the only solution left is...(drum roll)

da daaa!

THE IMPLANTABLE MICROCHIP!!

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