Pensioners Living On The Poverty Line - Is Law Breaking The Answer?

[dave50]

Does anyone think that it would be worthwhile for pensioners who are living on the breadline, struggling to eat and keep warm, to actually commit some non violent crimes in order to get themselves locked up in a nice warm cushy prison where they are fed and kept warm every day?

[emmie]

Graham, it wasn't just the old and infirm who went to workhouses..
as to pensioners in prison, perhaps if they had their own ones, then they wouldn't have to mix with real criminals. And some pensioners may not know they are entitled to certain benefits as the damn system is so complicated. I had to sort out some paperwork for a relative to get some help and the form was 60 pages long, that was without the person having to be means tested, fer fluffs sake.

[emmie]

and naillit is the one you may be thinking of, he seems to be in a spot of bother, going on his last post...

[nailit]

Ive had a similar discussion with AOG ( http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1221595-4.html ) who seems to believe everything he reads in the rags regarding prisons been holiday camps.
The time Ive spent in jail has been awful. Locked up 23 hours a day( with some right idiots as well ), pig swill for food, bullying screws, having to wear clothes (including underwear) that has been worn by hundreds of inmates before you and sleeping on stained (with god only knows what) matresses,no privacy and having to deficate and urinate in front of someone else. The lonliness is the biggest killer. Been parted from your friends and family is a bigger punishment than been locked up. Someone else has already said that prisons are foul, stinking hell holes. That the understatment of the year.
But if you want to carry on believing the media that jails are holiday camps carry on. I wouldnt want my grandparents to be in one.

[emmie]

i suspect not..

[nailit]

you suspect right em
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Question1221024.html

[nailit]

only this time im looking at jail for something Ive NOT done. Ah well. Look forward to 3 hot meals a day, an xbox, a cosy bed etc...

[ojread2]

I've never heard anything so ridiculous in my life

[ummmm]

There you go orderlimit. Read nailit's post.

Some prisoners 'work'. In the laundries/kitchens etc...that will obviously bring the stats down.

My cousin was in a CatB and he was locked up 22 hours a day.

[Orderlimit]

Yes, the HMP service needs to get inmates on productive schedules, routines work and or education etc. This is usual within HMP dispersal system.

[DangerUXD]

So Nailit, so why, do you think, have your experiences in jail, "awful" as they are not diverted you from a life of crime?

[goodlife]

No,What did Jesus mean when he said: “You always have the poor with you? (Matthew 26:11) Did he mean that poverty would exist forever, No, when Jesus said that “you always have the poor with you, he meant that with man it was beyond this world’s agencies to eradicate poverty. But Jesus gave a marvelous hope for the future under the rule of God’s heavenly Kingdom. (Matthew 6:10)

[naomi24]

Goodlife, fat lot of good giving hope to the dead when the living are bloody well starving!! You do make me mad at times!!

[ummmm]

But if they chose not to go on the work schemes or the education schemes, they get locked up.

[nailit]

//So Nailit, so why, do you think, have your experiences in jail, "awful" as they are not diverted you from a life of crime? //
UXD, I do not lead a life of crime, if you click on my profile and go back through my posts/questions, you will see that. Ive had some personal difficulties that have resulted in a recent conviction in crown court and yes, I have been to prison before but im not an habitual criminal.

[zebo]

Barmaid, you read my mind. Why can some pensioners manage and others can't, in the same circumstances? It can't be as simple as the amount of money. In the same way some people on benefits manage better than others in the same circumstances. Is the management of money not an issue too?

[Ric.ror]

What about 'Grey Haired Relief' or variations on that theme
The BBC can then devote hours of programming to it and get stars to devote time visiting care homes etc
Ricky Gervaise need not bother - he has done his bit with the excellent 'Derek'