The Home Office has settled out of court

WillowTheWhisp · 13-11-2006, 13:04

6 prisoners sued for compensation for having had to come of drugs "cold turkey" in jail. The case has been settled out of court.

Is this right?

lancsdave · 13-11-2006, 13:15

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

6 prisoners sued for compensation for having had to come of drugs "cold turkey" in jail. The case has been settled out of court.

Is this right?

Scandalous but a sad reflection of the times we live in. It's okay though next General Election everyone will run to the polling station and vote for them all to carry on or put a diiferent colour of badge on the stupid laws we have.

Why don't the Home Office counter sue for board & lodgings payments ?

Tinkerbelle · 13-11-2006, 13:17

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Why don't the Home Office counter sue for board & lodgings payments ?

Now I could be wrong but I thought they did take it out of any compensation money.

lancsdave · 13-11-2006, 13:23

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Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

Now I could be wrong but I thought they did take it out of any compensation money.

You might be right. I know there are rules about serving prisoners not profiting from their crime but don't know where this fits in.

entwisi · 13-11-2006, 14:01

Mmmm, I would have gone to court on this one.

By stopping access to drugs these scrotes would have gone cold turkey, by allowing them access to drug the prison service would be allowing an illegal trade to take place. They should argue that it is not the prison service that is forcing them through cold turkey, it is the lack of an illegal supply chain and so the addicts should by rights be sueing the dealers for not making their addictive substance available to them.

Or we could just give each of them a kilo of pure stuff and let them get on with it, I bet there wouldn't be a problem for long and it would save us a fortune in keeping them in comforttable surroundings

lettie · 13-11-2006, 14:20

They wouldn't be able to sue dealers because it was actually Methadone which the prisoners were denied. This is a controlled but not illegal prescription only drug and heroin substitute.

It beggars belief that this was settled out of court or even taken seriously in the first place. I'm sure that like smokers, most drug addicts would like to give up. This enforced cold turkey, although not pleasant by any stretch of the imagination, may be the best thing to have happened to these prisoners and IMO I think that they are taking advantage of our compensation culture by trying to cash in.

entwisi · 13-11-2006, 14:31

surely if they already had prescriptions when they entered then they should continue with them. I can't see diabetics having insulin withdrawn or people taking warfarin?

WillowTheWhisp · 13-11-2006, 14:39

That was their argument Ian. But considering they are now 'clean' I'm inclined to agree with Lettie.

Ianto.W. · 13-11-2006, 14:55

It is the greedy lawyers that take advantage of the 'leaky' laws, to line their grubby pocket and milk the public purse. There are far to many of them, some who spend their life soliciting cases such as these.

AccyMad · 13-11-2006, 15:57

Absdolutely ridiculous - if they didn't want their supply cut off they shouldn't have done whatever they did to end up in prison! For them to be allowed to take the home office to court for compensation is a ludicrous situation.

WillowTheWhisp · 13-11-2006, 16:08

.......... and even more ludicrous that rather than fight it the HO has paid up out of court. I can't help wondering what the next lawsuit will be for. Wait for the one about claustrophobia from being locked up in those nasty little cells.