Of course he CAN do it but he WON'T do it. It is easy to rid prisons of drugs provided one is willing to drop the pretence that visitors are not supplying. Lock down, searches of all visitors and cell searches would clean the prisons in a fortnight.
The liberals would scream about women being searched etc (can't you just hear the bleating about criminalising families) and we would be back to square one.
The new bill makes provision for searching visitors. Of course, the law will have to be implemented ....
What worries me about McDowell is that as a lawyer, he seems to see solutions just in (new) laws. The hard part is always implementing them... but we live in hope...
thats because he knows the judiciary will not take the initiative. they are like children that have to be taken by the hand and told what to do.Originally Posted by michael1965
Bazinga!
That's not what I was talking about. I mean there is no point pretending that removing drugs from prison, is simply a matter of searching visitors. What's going to happen when their drug supply is suddenly removed? Are they going to get treatment? What if they don't want it? etc.thats because he knows the judiciary will not take the initiative. they are like children that have to be taken by the hand and told what to do.
I don't know the answers, but the minister had better have a plan before he implements the policy.
I dont think that pretence exists judging by the footage shown on the news the other night where the only method of drug supply to the prisons seems to be through the visiting room...
"Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."
Why don't they put glass partitions in the visitor room, like they do in the US (according to the telly)?
That's complete nonsense. I disagree with you.
One reality is of course that it suits warders and governors for the detritus that for a large part inhabit the prisons to be sedated. Cleaned up they would be a handful. Where is the upside for warders in de junking violent criminals when having them on junk in some way keeps they "somatised"?
Yep, bring in the law and watch the people who will have to deal with a couple of hundred strung out junkies implement it!
Ha ha ha.
Not a hope.
At times McDowell has good ideas.
This wasnt one of them.
If I could mass-sterilise the planet, I would. Seriously.
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