We're going the New Guinea way here by locking ourselves behind barb wire whilst the rascals run riot. All because of the Big Goaf do-gooder brigade. Now we're stuck with masses of little goafs.

Dietary restriction is the single simplest and among the most certain method of extending life and reducing chronic diseases for "western-style" earthlings. It is not a punishment but an ideal to strive for. Prison might excise a segment of a criminal's life and dietary restriction extend it, releasing the criminal an "older and wiser man" who might yet serve our civilisation just as long.
Others here desire the premature death of inmates, the original post expressing concern that they leave in a muscular state, these might be blunted not by dietary restriction but by dietary indulgence. Let commercial fast-food and snack-food companies (and by all means their moral equivalents the tobacco firms) provide their needs in abundance and it is almost certain they will die young, fat, wheezy, and incapable of chasing a victim.
Remember that heavy exercise releases endorphins, widely regarded as pleasant......
Rusty

Oh, yes, daytime television seems like a punishment in and of itself. I would however restrict access to Fox commentary and news and to televangelists, as I suspect both are predictive of future criminality.

Rusty

o sung wu,
You forget, my friend, that Parramatta Gaol was run by the crims as a matter of expediency.
When I had Granville Patrol, coppers and crims dropped whatever they wanted taken into "Parra" at the Woolpack Hotel for the guards to collect and take in.
The gaol 'bookies' sent their excess cash out the same way.
The system worked well and there were much less riot and mass bad behavior that any other prison in the country.
The only bar to prison hard labor or productive work is the unions who say yes the prisoners can work but you have to pay them the award wage because it is work that a unionist could be doing.
A 10 million dollar laundry at Parramatta Gaol sits idle today because of the unions.

Hi there CHRISGAFF1000...

Yes the old Parramatta Linen Service, staffed by crims and run by crims. The 'Woolpack', Parramatta's unofficial Tab of the sixties and seventies ! Parramatta was a quiet gaol despite being a gaol for heavies ? I'm unaware of all the intrigue that occurred in and about the place but nothing would surprise me. I'd heard that some of the staff were 'running hot' but rumours abound in and around gaols ?

You'd perhaps recall the unfortunate murder of Dr Mutton, the long time gaol Doctor, killed in his private surgery in the mid 1970's, located in the Parramatta CBD somewhere. He was murdered by a former gaol 'resident' who had some beef with him, when he was treated by the good Doctor whilst in gaol ?

I was privileged to know his son, who became a Clinical Psychologists. Despite the facts surrounding his father's murder, he maintained one of the most healthy perspectives, and attitudes, I've ever known, apropos a victim's close relative ?

Granville Patrol, were you there for the Rail Disaster in the seventies ?

Perhaps the title of this thread is wrong, perhaps it should be called Forget the prisoners & concentrate on the victims.
Why is there so much about the culprits & nothing about their victims ? Is this an indication of our society now ? I certainly looks that way. Prisons have become facilities with mor comfort than the average home. We just had another delinquent in front of the Magistrate for the umteenth time for breaking ing & assault. Why is that peice of crap not put away for more than three years instead of eight months, which is a mere holiday with a free honing of his abominable skills thrown in at taxpayers' expense. In Indonesia where they have Law & Order this vermin would be in the klink for several years. I'm surprised that the vermin aren't yet on the Australia Day Honours list. Law & Order in Australia is an extremely sad joke indeed. Wake Autralians & others who live here because if you don't stand up you'll lose it all.
The Left has done enough damage for us to never again fully recover, don't give them any more slack because if you do it'll be to your own detriment.