40 Reasons to Vote Labour

REASON 18
PRIVATE PRISONS
In any society we have people committing crimes which are so serious that
only prison can serve as a punishment - I beleive that all political parties
agree on that basic principle. I also believe that they all would agree that all
the processes around bringing people to justice should be the responsibility
of the state and involve an independent judiciary.
Once a person is sent by that judiciary to prison it must surely be wholly the
responsibility of that state to manage that person and ensure that the
sentence is served properly and that the person is properly looked after
whilst in the system. That might include a range of educational and
psychological support as well as being kept secure etc.
That state responsibility should never be delivered by a private company for
the generation of profits.
The conservative government are planning to go beyond the current
situation where we have G4S providing custodial services (with of course the
serious conflict of interests with the prime minister's husband among others)
and private companies managing prisons to a system where private
companies would build and manage private prisons.
Yes, it sounds like one of those crazy 1980s movies where private companies
run prisons and in order to make more money need more criminals to
generate the need for more prisons and thus make more profits while
gaining more power over people's lives - Except that this isn't one of those
crazy movies - this is the tory idea of reality.
This madness needs to end!
VOTE LABOUR BECAUSE PRIVATE PRISONS ARE WRONG
ON EVERY LEVEL AND LABOUR ARE COMMITTED TO
ENDING THIS ABHORRENT REGIME.