Hmm.

So, I was watching the news and Riz Latif (news reporter) tells me that the man imprisoned for the death of Baby P has been jailed for life for RAPING A 2 YEAR OLD GIRL. Yeah, that shocked me to my core too. Disgusting. How can someone even thinkk of doing that?! Insanity.
Anyway, naturally, me and mums were like "yeahh, damn straight he's in for lifee, crazy hideous mann, you suck etc. etc."

But then. I stopped to think what actually going to prison means.
In Africa, when you commit a crime, you get beats by the police before you go in; you're going into a bare stone floored cell, with one sad looking mattress in the corner, a bucket in the other and no windows.
In Asian and South-American countries, you're looking at pretty much the same conditions. The corrupt and excessively violent policemen are not really the one. But the lack of facilities and hard to live in conditions, are to me what punishment should constitute.

Wikipedia tells me that 'A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms.'
and that 'Punishment is the practice of imposing something unpleasant or aversive on a person or animal or property, usually in response to disobedience, defiance, or behavior deemed morally wrong by individual, governmental, or religious principles.'

Wonderful. I think the countries mentioned above conform to these definitions or prison and punishment.
Someone please tell me why then, that in the United Kingdom, that stuuupid man who forcibly sexed a babygirl is going into a prison where he will sleep on a comfortable bed, with a tv in his room (I don't have a TV in my room :|), have access to gym facilities, play on a Wii, get some qualifications and the list goes on..

Now I'm all for giving people a second chance, But I dunno, to me this doesn't seem quite right. Maybe it's just me?

When one is punished in life, be it by parents or teachers, it's something unpleasant, we don't want to be punished and after we've been punished once, we try hard not to get punished again. Or maybe again, it's just me? I know there's a stigma with being an ex-convict an everything, but real talks, prison doesn't seem that bad. Perhaps I'm being really ignorant and even though they have all these opportunities, prison is probably still be swag. I dunno. I'll ask.

I understand that getting the prisoners educated will help them when they come out to get work or do further education and stop them re-offending, but the real world is harrdd, to my mind, they're probably thinking that they have a better life inside pen than outside where it's hard to get work, it's hard to pay for a mortgage etc., and they'll do what is necessary to get back.

Perhaps as a society, we need to have more tolerance for ex-convicts. Giving them more support when they've done their time. It's difficult to know if someone's learned their lesson though. 'Once cheater, always cheater.' That means to say 'Once a criminal, always a criminal.'? Though I don't agree with the former statement anyway.

Oh goshh, this is such a predicament. Maybe people just shouldn't commit crime? Ha. Well that's not gonna happen.

There's a part of me that kinda wants to commit a crime. Only like shoplifting, or making off without payment (Section 3 1978 Theft Act) That is so cheeky though.
What is wrong with me? Just momentary lapses init :)