A prisoner who tried to smuggle crack cocaine worth £2million into Britain has complained about the “disgraceful” wages he receives at a prison in Sussex.I think it’s disgraceful, too. I think it’s disgraceful he gets given any money at all!
Vincent Holyoake, previously of De Cham Road, St Leonards, is currently eight years into a 17-year sentence.Oh, boo hoo!
He is serving his sentence at Ford Prison near Arundel – where he said the wages he gets for working are lower than at most other prisons.
He said this makes it is (sic) impossible for him to visit his family on the train during days outside of prison or for “overnight release”.
In a letter published in this month’s Inside Time magazine – for people serving sentences – Holyoake said: …here at Ford, a category D prison, the average weekly wage is £9.50.Welcome to the club, chum. Times are hard, inflation’s up, and we’re all paying through the nose for services.
“From that wage £1 per week is taken for the television which I have been paying for the past seven years, which leaves £8.50 per week out of which I have to maintain contact with family and friends on an overpriced phone system and make minimal purchases from an increasingly overpriced canteen.”
The Ministry of Justice yesterday declined to comment.Too busy laughing, probably.
Nobody from Ford Prison was available for comment.
You couldn't make it up could you?
ReplyDelete>here at Ford, a category D prison, the average weekly wage is £9.50.
ReplyDeleteThat's more than wages in Pakistan, Jamaica or West Africa, whence so many of HM's guests hail.
Christus - you'd need a really tiny violin for this one!
ReplyDeletePaid work should be compulsory for prisoners and they must have a legal entitlement to pay which reflects commercial reality/National norms. In this way, inmates will be better adjusted to the real World upon release.
ReplyDeleteIt provides a golden opportunity to tax and make fair deductions to prisoner income. It also allows victims of crime, a practical avenue along which they can pursue civil claims against a prisoner with income.
Notwithstanding the above, many inmates may still receive less than £9.50 net each week. Every week a punitive statement of deductions will hurt worse than any birching and they will long for the day when costly prison life is behind them.
I was just going to write what Subrosa did but ... er ... she wrote it. ;-)
ReplyDelete"Paid work should be compulsory for prisoners and they must have a legal entitlement to pay which reflects commercial reality/National norms. In this way, inmates will be better adjusted to the real World upon release. "
ReplyDeleteWork should be compulsory: dunno so much about 'paid'. Maybe anything left after deductions for board and lodgings,subscriptions to XboxLive and Sky, use of gymn and other recreational facilities,etc PLUS compo to the victims could be donated to a charity of the crim's choice?
............and also any "Anger managment by aromatherapy" sessions or similar BS peddled by right-thinking sandal-wearing Guardianistas can be paid for by the crims themselves. Watch the take-up rate of that sort of criminal-coddling nonsense drop through the floor.Two birds with one stone.
ReplyDeleteWhy is he paying £1? Insidetime
ReplyDeletegives a description of Ford and gives the price as 50p. Perhaps it has gone up.
http://www.insidetime.org/info-regimes2.asp?nameofprison=HMP_FORD
By comparing the inspection reports there with the OFSTED report, one problem emerges which nobody is allowed to address directly. To it's credit, OFSTED refuses to be cowed and highlights the skill itself as an area for improvement.
ESOL
http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/52279
PDF from that page.
Hold on.
ReplyDeletePrisoners have their own 'in house', (pardon the pun), magazine?
I am totally speechless.
"He said this makes it is (sic) impossible for him to visit his family on the train during days outside of prison or for “overnight release” " ...
ReplyDeleteAww, Bless .. I'll happily give the drug-smuggling scumbag a lift .. on the end of my size 10 LPC (Leather Personnel Carrier) .. to about the 3rd lace hole should do it ..
Bobo's well considered alternatives are hanging versus a long sentence with zero prospect of reform or redemption.
ReplyDeleteSimple enough....and a powerful magnet for lazy, dishonest police votes.
Insidetime - yes, why not? It's better than having them scribbing on the walls and is a very good source of basic information.
ReplyDeleteObviously it has a certain viewpoint but at least the spin is clearly indicated. Plus, it is tightly edited and readable.
Here's a sample
I don't have to agree with any of it, but it's better to form an opinion based on a verifiable account.
"Insidetime - yes, why not? It's better than having them scribbing on the walls ... "
ReplyDeleteLet 'em scribble on the walls .. let 'em smear the walls with their own excrement if they so desire .. they've got to live with it ..
It didn't do the scum held in the "H" Blocks any good and it won't do this lot any good either ..
Prison Officers can be issued with protective clothing to prevent them from being contaminated ..
"You couldn't make it up could you?"
ReplyDeleteIndeed! Who'd be the editor of 'The Daily Mash' these days? ;)
"That's more than wages in Pakistan, Jamaica or West Africa, whence so many of HM's guests hail."
Quite!
"Christus - you'd need a really tiny violin for this one!"
And a scanning electron microscope to see it...
"It provides a golden opportunity to tax and make fair deductions to prisoner income. It also allows victims of crime, a practical avenue along which they can pursue civil claims against a prisoner with income. "
Why the need for a civil claim, which serves only to keep lawyers in work? Just deduct it at source!
"Watch the take-up rate of that sort of criminal-coddling nonsense drop through the floor.Two birds with one stone."
ReplyDeleteExcellent idea!
"To it's credit, OFSTED refuses to be cowed and highlights the skill itself as an area for improvement."
Interesting...
"...and is a very good source of basic information."
For everyone. :)
maybe its time to start charging for food and accomodation and making them pay tax?
ReplyDeletethen he can really bitch about something,just like the rest of the country who`s taxes pay this worthless fuck for his "work" in the first place.
What about the £100,000 he already made from previous smuggling trips, no one is a first time offender caught with that much stuff, and then if you factor in how much it costs to keep someone locked up for 8 years, far out ways any income tax he would of paid doing a proper job, hard luck mate that's what I say
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