This is what you get, when you don't have the death penalty.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14967585/Serial-killer-Levi-Bellfield-Xbox-games-fry-prison-mansion.html

I'm sure the families of his victims don't really want to read this?

What's this all about. People on whole life sentences are meant to have the bare minimum

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they are

People in care homes pay all of their income towards their fees except £30.65 pw which is their Personal Allowance. It’s galling that this criminal has more than this each week for his personal spending.

He will be working for it. This is an unrealistic comparison, as many people in care homes are paid for by the state.

Apples and oranges.

Certainly those whose state pension is being used towards their fees leaving them with £30 a week are.

Do you mean like his victims families have to endure?

He can have some drawing material and books.

Why is the pleasure of reading/drawing OK, but the pleasure of playing video games is unacceptable, @Alexandra2001?

How do you rank the fun/pleasure of various leisure activities, to draw the line between those you are happy for prisoners to enjoy, and those that aren’t acceptable, in your view? How does this take into account that different people enjoy different things, so you might be ‘depriving’ a prisoner of something that bores them and telling them the only activities that are permissible happen to be their favourite pastime?

Can't stab anybody or cut them with a wireless controller, either. But a pencil and pencil sharpener? They can be used as weapons.

You’d be surprised at how sharp weapons can be fashioned out of anything!

I wouldn't. They'd have to disassemble the controller to create something - and it's already keeping them absorbed and controllable for hours a day.

How much does he have then?

Yes police stations

that poster got it wrong.

I feel like it's just because of the higher material value, that people are angry that a criminal like that could have that

Why is reading OK but not watching TV or playing games? They're just different forms of entertainment, after all.

You can't order people what to think, so that's a total non-starter.

I suspect if it was someone I loved who had been murdered, I would want them to undergo horrible tortures before dying in unimaginable pain. But, fortunately, we do not make laws on the basis of people's primitive revenge instincts, because that would be the way to anarchy.

If they are going to keep him alive, I think a better way of looking after him would be to give him hard physical labour to do so he is too worn out in the evenings to do anything other than sleep. I think this for all people who have life sentences - especially those who won’t ever come out.

Prison is not for rehabilitating people like Bellfield, it’s for containing them and keeping us safe from him. He should be working hard for his bed and board because we are the ones footing his bill.

You are: (a) talking bollocks and (b) an idiot for reading clickbait shit from the Daily Mail.

HTH.

Firstly, he will be working for his spending money and earning his privileges. Why don't people understand that?

Secondly, we do not live in a regime that condones torture. That is something you should be deeply thankful for, not want to change.

I don't think many people understand the aims and ethos of British prisons. Some people on here should try looking into it a bit more. Being in prison is the punishment. Beyond that, people are entitled to their human rights.

This includes the right to freedom of religion and freedom from torture, the right to work, the right to education and the right to healthcare.

I would be interested to know exactly which human rights posters think should be denied to UK citizens, bearing in mind that if you are also a UK citizen you would also lose that right

They aren't separate categories.

Criminals should not have human rights, as they have no respect for the human rights of the victims of their crimes.

So who decides who is a criminal ?

What would you say to victims of miscarriages of justice ?

Are you looking forward to the next year at school ?

Prankster’s back! Best ignored.

Personally I like to drop in a few questions that will never get answered as a sort of drawing a line for the less dim.

Good point.