BREAKING IN TO PRISON!

It tells you all you need to know about the unbelievable laxity of the British penal system when we discover that criminals are breaking IN to jail!

Geoff Travis, assistant general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, revealed that Everthorpe Prison in East Yorkshire has been the location where a drug dealer was breaking in at night using a ladder, and passing drugs to inmates through their cell windows. He also sold women's clothing to a transvestite prisoner. He did this several times, apparently!

" Prisoners receive a wage for being in prison," he said. "They receive a bed, a TV in all cells, Sky television in most areas for recreational use, free telephones, breakfast in bed on many occasions, cash bonuses for good behaviour, and prison staff are forced to deal with them in such a subservient way it's ridiculous. Prison is no longer a deterrent. It is merely an occupational hazard."

I would phrase it differently. Under Labour, prison has become an INCENTIVE.

The British Labour Party came to power claiming they would be "Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime." As with all verminious socialists, they lied.

Cross-posted on A Tangled Web

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Australian woman to face firing squad
An Australian woman faces a firing squad after a Vietnamese appeal court sentenced her to death for heroin trafficking.

Jasmine Luong had been jailed for life by a lower court when she was convicted of attempting to smuggle 1.5kg of heroin on to a flight to Australia.

But the prosecution appealed, pushing for the death penalty, and yesterday the appeal court in Ho Chi Minh City increased her sentence, the state-run newspaper Liberation Saigon said.

Luong, 34, who lives in Sydney, has 15 days to appeal directly to the president, Nguyen Minh Triet. She was arrested in February last year at Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chi Minh City, while boarding a flight. Customs officials found 1.5kg of heroin in her shoes and luggage.

Luong told appeal court judges that an unidentified man had given her an advance of $4,700 (£2,350) to take the drug to Australia, where she would receive a further $10,300 (£5,150).

Vietnam has some of the world's harshest drugs laws. Possessing, trading or trafficking in more than 600g of heroin or 20kg of opium carries a sentence of life imprisonment or death.

Several Australians of Vietnamese descent have been arrested in recent years for smuggling heroin to Australia.

Via The Guardian