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Well you have all heard the jokes about prison being little more than a hotel, well seems that this now the case.

A ROW erupted last night after it emerged thousands of prisoners have KEYS to their own cells.

The inmates have been given “privacy locks” to allow them personal space and protect belongings, inquiries by MPs showed.

The scheme — revealed by requests under freedom of information laws — was slammed as “turning prisons into hotels”.

After all we have to respect their human rights, never mind the fact that they are in prison proves they do not respect ours. Its like some bizarre comedy of errors, prisoners with keys to their own cells. One almost expects the cast of Monty Python to be taking part.

Shipley Tory MP Philip Davies accused the Government of "turning prisons into hotels".

He said: "People will be horrified to know so many prisons give inmates their own keys. It will reinforce their views that the regime is far too lax and cushy.

"These people are banged up for a reason. But the Government seems more concerned about the human rights of criminals than those of their victims, who are footing the bill to keep them in increasingly pleasant surroundings."

So they call them residents and trainees well how nice, how jolly quaint to see our tax payments spent on pamering lags, how about refering to them as untermenchen?

Prisons Minister Gerry Sutcliffe said it was in the interests of inmates’ rehabilitation and “decency”.

A Prison Service spokesman stressed that cells’ individual keys could be over-ridden by staff.

Governors in other parts of the country are also understood to have introduced the key scheme.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007140089,00.html

Well gee that fills me with confidence in a system that puts the rights of subhuman savages above that of the rest of society. One would think it was an April fools joke, but sadly it seems to be yet another mess created by the Home Office. Prison riots and no one blamed by anyone, well except for the prisoners blaming on how they were treated.

In the financial year that ended last March, £8.8million in compensation was paid out to prisoners - almost 15 times as much as just two years earlier.

• Cases included: • £2.8million for medical treatment for a prisoner who failed in a suicide bid.
• £750,000 for nearly 200 drug addicts who suffered withdrawal symptoms after they were forced to go 'cold turkey'.
• £80,000 for three illegal immigrant convicts who were not deported quickly enough, opening the door for hundreds of similar claims.
• £200 each for prisoners whose DVD players were taken away because they watched pornography.
• There was also the case of Gerry Cooper, who sued the Home Office after falling out of a bunk bed in his cell. Fucker should have broken his neck.

Inquiries by Mr Davies showed that of Yorkshire's 15 prisons, six give keys to all their inmates and three based the decisions on category of offence and personal circumstances.

The six who deny them to all offenders, include top-security Wakefield, where Soham murderer Ian Huntley is serving life.

Governors at Hull Prison, where 50 per cent of inmates have keys, suggested the practice was there to help prisoners protect themselves from others.

The prison said: "The facility is overridden by staff keys and is seen as of additional benefit to vulnerable prisoners by providing extra protection."

The inquiries also unearthed the fact that young prisoners at Askham Grange prison are called 'residents', while at Wetherby they are 'trainees'.

Earlier this year, Derbyshire chief constable David Coleman was accused of 'madness' after refusing to release pictures of two escaped murderers amid fears it might breach their human rights. He claimed they posed 'no risk' to local people.

Add this to the fiasco over the detention centres from the economic illegal migrants who get charged with jack after decided to throw a riot. One can only ask when is this worthless government going to consider the rights of the majority rather than shiftless rioting savages like Diyako Rasul? He was the one who the Home Office took an eternity to kick out, instead of sending him back to Iraq he spent seven months lounging about and he has been living it up at taxpayers expense, covered him: here thanks to John Reid and here: bit on the prison riots

Of course the politicos like Anne Owers can always pass the buck and there is nothing that media whores like Peter Tatchell enjoy more than bashing the government, he was fast enough after the riot by economic migrants and I am quite surprised that he has not had any comment to make on this one.

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Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Centre, Immigration, New Labour, Anne Owers, Peter Tatchell,Joanne Bean, Diyako Rasul,

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