Should prisoners receive compensation?
@donnadean1980 (97)
January 12, 2007 3:17am CST
I have just heard on tv that a prisoner has been awarded nearly £600k in compensation. However, the reason for the pay out has been kepy quiet- all that anyone knows is that the prisoner was attempting to commit suicide and a warder saved him.
This is a disgusting abuse of tax payers money. Why on earth should they EVER recieve any form of compensation when they have commited crimes against society? And often they end up getting more money than their victims. It is complete madness.
There is also another case of a prisoner who wanted to have IVF treatment with his wife, but it was denied, now he is going to a higher court, claiming that it is an infringement on his human rights. Surely, the pleasures of having children is taken away from you when you go into prison; why should we have to pay for him to be blessed with children. He is a murderer and took away someone elses child from them, why should he be able to have a child?
5 responses
@hellboi (661)
• Philippines
25 Jan 07
it is just fair that we give them due compensation for any job that they are doing in prison. i think it is enough that we have taken freedom from these persons, but it would be way too much if we take their lives otherwise we should have hanged them in the very first place. these people also have families that they need to support and a life to live when they would go out. so let them have the right to earn as long as it is legal that way we are giving them hope for renewal from an ugly past. a prison is supposed to be a cleansing institution where criminals get renewed so that they can be reinstated to the society at large, it is not hell wherein we condemn their souls to the very end.
@donnadean1980 (97)
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25 Jan 07
Perhaps they should have thought about how their families need to live and survive before commiting the crimes?
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
12 Jan 07
What a good topic. Unfortunately we hear of people getting compensation for their crimes, OJ, etc. However that is from people who subsidize these people buying their products. It seems to me that the government cant spend our tax dollars fast enough of the wrong things..when are they ever going to put our money into the right things!
@donnadean1980 (97)
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12 Jan 07
It is wrong that someone who has commited a crime can write a book and then make loads of money from it, there should be some kind of system where the money goes back to the victims or at least to charitable causes. You shouldn't be able to make money by writing a book about murders you have commited. Its madness.
I agree with you about the government, its the same here, I mean compensating prisoners because their human rights have been infringed?! It is absolute nonsense. Rather than having one judge with the power to award compensation, surely it should be a group of people who can take a vote on cases like this?
@rikpallav (1242)
• India
12 Jan 07
I would say they should and in our country they are..iin proson they are made to work.. on diffent things like constructions to some productions and they are compansated for that.. this is nessary for them to sustain their life immediately after the punishment get over till they find a fair way to earn money.
@donnadean1980 (97)
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12 Jan 07
So it is ok for them to commit horrendous crimes and then be compensated because someone may have infringed on their "human rights"?
Prisoners who work in prison earn a wage, which I suppose is fair enough, but for them to recieve hundreds of thousands of pounds (as they so often are doing), its completely ridiculous. Surely this money should be going to the victims of their crimes?
In my opinion, when someone commits a crime, they give up certain rights that a law abiding citizen expects to recieve.
@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Im certainly with you on this subject I see no reason for them to a cent. They did the crime now do the time.
@dmillman (2273)
• United States
24 Jan 07
They are made to work on things that help the tax-payers. Also, the money they get isn't received until they get out. That's the money that they get to use to try to start over again. I guess the idea is that if they have the money to start over, they won't become repeat offenders. I have no clue if that's working or not though. With the crime rate the way that it is, it's hard to tell.
