Criminal Justice System

[Pontificator]

"Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who was head of security at HMP Wandsworth in the 1990s, said Khalife’s escape was at best a “catastrophic failure” and that he should have been at a category A prison.

He said Wandsworth was in “free fall” and the escape was “not entirely surprising given what we know about what’s going on in Wandsworth at the moment”. He told the BBC: “You’ve only got to look at the most recent inspections, and other monitoring reports, that reveal it’s filthy, it’s vermin-infested, on any day 30 to 44 per cent of front-line staff are unavailable to work.
“Morale is awful. Frankly, if you cannot even manage to get the bins emptied in a place like Wandsworth what else is going wrong?”



Of course this is fault of the Labour Government causing the Global Economic Crisis by borrowing too much and Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling nationalising failed banks

[Protheroe]

It's fair to say that the courts, probation and penal systems are in ruins at the moment. They're top of no-one's list of priorities.

Abject failure.

[CaptainFantastico]

Spent a few days at Brum Crown Court in June. Talking to the staff they say never known anything like the state it's in currently. Like everything else, itll take a decade to repair the damage.

[Protheroe]

Spent a few days at Brum Crown Court in June. Talking to the staff they say never known anything like the state it's in currently. Like everything else, itll take a decade to repair the damage.

System's in collapse, there's no defence for it whatsover. 

I laugh like a drain whenever the government announces more work for the courts like the end of no fault evictions or criminalising laughing gas. It's virtually impossible to get a court date for a civil matter and criminal cases are collapsing simply due to the passage of time.