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By: S Brown

S Brown — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:13:12 +0000

Our prisioners have opportunities to get an education (2 former prisioners took that opportunity to become lawyers) and to learn trades (many cedar sculptures for sale are done by prisioners). In my opinion the idea to ship them to another prision is ‘thinking outside the box’.

How can you ‘forcefully’ educate someone? You can lead a horse to water…..

By: Starman

Starman — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:07:07 +0000

Rather than all that negativity… why not educate our prisoners (forcefully if necessary) and teach them a trade so that some will have a chance at redemption, rather than recidivism, when they get out? It might also be a good idea to ‘encourage’ addicts to do the Twelve Step programme so that they might find themselves. And even heal. Think outside the box, folks, we all gotta change.

By: S Brown

S Brown — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:02:48 +0000

I feel that we should either make Westgate a more strict or send our prisoners to prisions in other colonies that are not to Westgate standards.

I am also puzzled about the question the author pose:s “In 2010, is today’s House of Assembly and today’s black-led government seriously contemplating resurrecting actions taken in an era in our darker history?”

2010, is a completely differnt era that of the 1800s and 1960s. Yes, back them Blacks were severely punished for somewhat mondane things, but now our punitive system is not working regardless the color of our Government. What you do not understand is that amongst youth who are in the criminal lifestyle, prison here is like a rite of passage… it is not a deterrent, due to light sentencing and/or the conditions. We either need to change the conditions up Westgate to make it less tolerable or send our vicious criminals to ‘harder’ prisons. These are the only two options that are viable to punish criminals in my opinion.

P.S. I do not think we should send them to US prisions. Many young black men try to emulate the US Gangster lifestyle, once in prison they will be exposed to real gangsters and one of two things would happen. a) they may become better criminals with more ‘street cred’ or b) They actually may find it unbearable and vow never to return to the criminal lifestyle.

By: Duane

Duane — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:29:12 +0000

Bermuda’s first serial killer?