by Dick Puddlecote
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Note: There was a time when I might have asked if our rulers had gone completely mad. I accept that this kind of observation is now long-obsolete. Even so, has anyone in authority considered how Baz the Butcher is likely to respond when deprived of his Lambert & Butler? SIG
Stir Crazy The Mirror reports on an imminent ban on smoking in prisons.
Smoking is to be banned in jails, sparking fears last night that lags may riot if they are not allowed to light up, the Sunday People has revealed.
It will be totally outlawed at all 123 prisons in England and Wales – even outside in the exercise yards.
Inmates will be issued with nicotine patches or electronic cigarettes instead.
Ha! The thought that e-cigs are being handed out to prisoners will send the extremist wing of the tobacco control industry mental, I reckon. Oh, and this twat too, of course.
The story continues …
The Prison Service accepts that cigarettes must be stubbed out for health and safety reasons and to avoid compensation claims from officers claiming to be victims of passive smoking.
Perhaps someone should point the Prison Service in the direction of the Labate Case to avoid the many problematic consequences this ban may cause them.
Faced with a court case brought by the wife of an employee who was exposed to “passive smoking” during 29 years of his employment, the EU – who have themselves been pumping the second-hand smoke myth for quite a while – vigorously fought the compensation claim. The judgement in 2009 was crystal clear.
“The Tribunal rejected as manifestly unfounded the claims for compensation submitted by the applicant.”
Which suggests the Prison Service should feel pretty confident about dismissing any claims from compo-chasing prison officers. Claims for injuries due to violence inflicted by some scrote deprived of his fags are a different matter entirely, of course.
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The Prison system does not rehabilitate and only punishes ordinary people who get stuck in it. The crims can’t be stopped from getting drugs let alone cigs. I hope the jails explode. It will be good to see people defying leftist tyranny, even if only bad people have the balls to do so.
Tough.
If ‘Baz the Butcher’ doesn’t like the ban, then he knows how to avoid it once he’s released doesn’t he? Or perhaps you think that such criminals can’t help what they do and need continual mollycoddling by the all-merciful state?
Firstly ask any prison officer, many of the lags in person don’t get to smoke
they are at the mercy of the male dominatix in uniform, we all know the
prison system does not rehabilitate, it”s been turned into a corrupt money
making industry for the benefit of the minority, I don’t now what happened
to CRB rules with prsion staff, some of them have more serious convictions
and court marshals than the people they are detaining in the first place.