To think prisoners should be safe in prison?

[BlueJuniper94]

Is this an unreasonable belief? I know Ian Huntley committed horrific crimes and I really do sympathise with the feelings that he deserves it in light of what his victims have suffered and continue to suffer.

BUT - this shouldn't be allowed to happen in prisons. Aibu?

I care.
As the parent of a serving prisoner, I care very much about the safety of all prisoners

Yes I always think it’s batshit when someone like this (a child murderer or a paedophile) is attacked in prison and people act as if some noble and honourable prisoner has done this due to sheer moral outrage at the crimes. Honour amongst criminals who all band together to fight against the paedophiles. Rather than what is generally the case, which is some horrible dangerous thug who likes violence, and probably endangered prison officers.

And then you get similarly obtuse people suggesting that anyone who isn’t thrilled by the idea of violence in prisons must have sympathy for the attacked.

I’d didn’t know about this case, again fuck him, I hope it hurt. What the hell is wrong with these people, it’s so common now.

Certainly shouldn’t be celebrated the guy who did it is absolute pond life but ultimately it’s a great outcome for those poor girls families.

95% of people in prison deserve to be there. Perhaps depending on the crime, should depend on the level of protection given to them.

Well tax payers money has to pay for prisoners and prisoners like Ian Huntley and the man who attacked him cannot be rehabilitated.

So I ask myself, of all the things I care about, would I rather see more taxpayers money go towards keeping them safe, or would I rather the money was used to inject into schools and hospitals

I haven’t got a single ounce of care in me for rapists and child murderers.

I’m afraid I’m of fhe opinion of lock them all up together and if they kill one another fair enough, I pay enough tax to keep them and the prison officers should be safe, it’s virtually impossible to prevent this happening unless you’ve masses of guards on them all the time, and no thanks, not looking to pay more for that.

i really don’t care that one violent rapist and murderer tried to kill another.

Wow
No judgement there then.

Ideally yes, but until you have worked in one it is hard to understand !

(I have previously worked in one )

How do you keep prisoners safe without keeping them in solitary confinement? It would cost a fortune to keep them all segregated in separate cells and the suicide rate would probably very high due to the mental health issues that would come with being confined to a cell all day?

As far as I am aware Ian was hit with a metal bar whilst he was doing prison work? He is in a very high security prison with very high risk prisoners so although security is high there’s always the chance of violence unless prisoners are permanently kept separate?

Anyway, I am sure no one is really upset about what happened and I am sure the prison guards on duty that saw it happen are not that upset either. I hope it was painful, he deserved it. This man is costing a fortune to ‘keep safe’.

Why would you not judge. I certainly judge rapists and murderers. Child ones at that.

I think prison should be tough, its full of wrong'uns and therefore is dangerous.
If you want to be kept safe don't commit crimes.

Prison time should have a sense of peril attached to it as far as I'm concerned. I certainly think child killers should spend their every waking moment in abject terror, looking over their shoulder in case someone equally evil and with nothing to lose is planning to throw boiling sugar water in their face 🤷🏼‍♀️

Does Ian Huntley deserve to suffer? Yes.

But not at the hands of the state or through the negligence of the state. Prisons should be safe for prisoners and guards.

Huntley got a hiding and the man who did it will get an even longer sentence…win win in my book! Hopefully Huntley will suffer life long consequences from this attack.

@mrssunshinexxx You are making the awful assumption that they want more violence! We surely would prefer less violence in society and prisons? It’s of course an issue with staffing but no violence is acceptable. Prison is the punishment, not being half killed by another prisioner. Anyone celebrating that celebrates violence.

I couldn’t give a shit if some child murderer gets what’s coming to him.

But apart from that, it’s not realistic to think that all prisoners could be kept safe from each other at all times. Can you imagine the cost of all that surveillance? Maybe extra staff and private rooms? It can’t be justified.

So the officers should let them get on with it. You take the worst most violent scum and lock them up together, if they kill one another, fair enough, frees up space for the next one. No prison officer is paid enough to risk their lives to protect these animals. They do a good enough job, a job I’d not want to do, and if these animals still want to kill one another, then I’m all good with it.

He won't get a longer sentence as he already had a whole life term with no chance of parole.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-60707696

Exactly my taxes can go to sick kids and schools. Not to protect rapists and murder from each other,

If there's one thing prison officers are not, it's safe. No wonder we can't fill the jobs.

There was access to a metal bar due to the work that they do??!!

Yep put a bunch of violent criminals together and try and protect them from each other.

good luck with that!

let then take care of each other.