I have always felt that people who are sent to prison should be punished for their crimes. However unfortunately in recent days it would appear to have become increasingly apparent that in reality this is not what occurs.
On March 3rd 2009, the Sun newspaper published the following story -
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2287480.ece
- in which it highlighted the fact that inmates at a Lancashire prison took photographs of themselves in their cells and posted the pictures on Facebook, for all their friends to see.
Questions must surely be asked. Not only of how and why these 'prisoners' are surrounded by such luxuries as television sets, but also as to why the heck they have been allowed to pose with them so arrogantly and, quite literally, stick two fingers up to us law abiding citizens!
Who provided them with a camera?
Why were they then allowed to publish the picture on a social networking site?
These questions need to be answered.
Not that we should be suprised though, this has become a nation that has learned to glorify criminals.
Just last week Lodon celebrated, yes celebrated, the opening of a new movie - Bronson - which is a look into the life of Britains most notorious criminal. And what better way to open procedings than with a promise from the great man himself. "See you at the Oscars" he told the audience, which raises another question. How has a man who has spent the last couple of years in solitary confinement managed to film a message to the public?
Prison should be a punishment - not a holiday camp. Things need to change.
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