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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Prisons(bringing the topic back into line) appear to be far from places of punishment......they appear to have become softer and more like pontins...with facilities for education, physical education and entertainment.
with no worries about where the next meal is coming from....or how the heating is going to be paid for. This cannot be right....and certainly not in the situation where two young women have been wilfully ambushed and their lives ended.
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Margaret while I respect your views and see what you mean you would not think the same if you were on the inside with no prospect of release.
For many years I visited such a person in prisons large and small, harsh and not so harsh, and received regular correspondence from him in which a lot more was said than at the visits. In the end he did away with himself not because of his crime but because of his situation. I don't know the exact nature of his crime and neither does Richard but he was Richard's best friend at school. They drifted apart when Richard moved but when Richard heard about it he started visiting, this was before I met Richard.