I've read today that the maximum-security Whitemoor Prison in Cambridgeshire spent £3,500 on takeaway curries for Muslim inmates, after they complained about the quality of the food they were being served.
I firstly thought I'd misread this, mainly because it's the most ridiculous thing I've seen since Indie's fridge. At what point did we start caring what prisoners thought of prison food? There was a time that they had to live on water, as part of repaying their debt to society. Instead, they can now moan that the Tarka Dahl is a bit moist, and they get to ring the local Tandoori?
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not), but aren't prisoners being punished for committing crimes? Isn't that the whole point of prison? If it was meant to be a holiday camp, the Ministry of Justice would have a much larger water slide portfolio than they currently carry. Call me a cynic (I'm not), but I wonder if they would have been so ready to nip to McDonalds if caucasian prisoners had complained that the chips were too earthy?
If you commit a crime, you go to prison, if you go to prison, you eat whatever rat feces riddled garbage the MoJ decide to feed you. If you don't like it, don't do crimes, m'kay? Surely the whole point of prison is punishment and reform? This is not punishment, and how are they going to reform if their 3 month sentence is like one holiday after another? Not much of a deterrent is it? Quite tempted to get myself a few weeks in Strangeways at easter. Maybe a long weekend at February half term.
Good food, no work, and ping-pong tables a-plenty! Can't wait. It's a lot cheeper than going half board to Butlins, and if you actually commit a decent crime before you get caught, like say, theft of an Argos truck, you can stash all the stuff and have a fair butty waiting for you when you get out. Wanna buy a knocked-off Wii?
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