Gordon on prisons

What annoys me about this little bugger is his comments about our jails. His professional spin doctor is doing his best to paint our prisons as being worse than they are.

Are our prisons perfect? Of course they are not. But nor are prisons anywhere else. The inmates of prisons are to a large extent the rejects of society. Many of them are violent. Those who are in for life feel they have nothing to lose. With such inhabitants things are never going to be perfect.

The worst aspect of our prisons at the present time is that many of them are overcrowded. Given our national resources, the standards of food, care, distractions and medical treatment in our prisons are good. In any event, what gives a killer the right to avoid justice because he does not like the prison?