Wtf!!!

[Isityouorme]

Catching up on Gordon Ramsey's Behind Bars and apparently the prisoners get 5 choices for the evening meal!!! No fucking way! This is taking the mickey! No wonder this country is fucked up.....

While I do think that two lunch options is rather minimal for schoolchildren, they do get the option of bringing their own lunch, don't they?

School are also not responsible for the nutrition of children 24/7, unlike prisons. So not a good analogy, really.

I think the care home comparison was better.

just seen the OP again : 'choice of 5 - no wonder this country is fucked.'

With respect, I strongly suspect the economic challenges facing this country could be a bit more complex than serving 5 meals at HMP Brixton. Could be just me though.

Hated this programme,it was obviously aimed at the Daily Mail audience who love to think all prisons are holiday camps. GR is an obnoxious schmuck. Best friend's ds was in prison and emerged three years later a fragile,traumatized young man (and no,he was not like that before.) An old friend of ours was in prison some years ago and he said he thought the food would be perhaps 1960s type school dinner type. Instead it was inedible,often sloshed onto the same plates as the pudding,and occasionally with unmentionable bits and pieces added! He came out several stone lighter,needless to say!

Two "types" sorry!

About 30-35 years ago, the Sunday Times had an article about prison food. It showed that the budget for prison food was higher than that for hospital food, so not much has changed in the intervening period. Except that we now have the much-maligned Human Rights Act and, perhaps, an ever-increasing number of lawyers ready to take legal action on the grounds that a prisoner's human rights have been infringed for whatever (spurious) reason.

Many have argued for the reduction of custodial sentences on the grounds that they don't work due to the high re-offending rates. However, the one thing that a custodial sentence does is to reduce the likelihood of the general public being the random victim of crime, so in that sense they are effective.

Regarding the programme, and leaving aside a possible attempt to upstage JO and his 15 restaurants, whether or not GR is publicity hungry or trying to do some good, I for one found it rather sad that a fair proportion of prison officers almost seemed ready to sabotage the scheme. It is, at least, an attempt to do something positive and may give some the hope of something better after they are released.

Maybe boredom would give them a chance to reflect

Surely anyone would know that boredom will give them a chance to get into trouble, (i.e fights & such) not to reflect!

The idea that boredom would give them a chance to reflect is an old one. About 400 years old. Didn't work then.

catinboots ...I did not write they are are a picnic I wrote that they are far better than the victrorian cells we send men to rot in are. And they're sentencing is usually a lot easier. At least the Spanish have shown this week know how to sentence a murderess correctly.