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Jack Straw's stand-up comedy routine?

By John Hirst

Jack Straw's stand-up comedy routine?

I do question why a stand-up comedy course for 18 prisoners costs £8,000 for 8 days. It does seem a tad expensive. Therefore, it does appear to lack justification to burden the taxpayers with this bill. I don't see anything wrong with prisoners engaging in such a course, and as this article points out it has been running for 10 years. Because somebody decides to get in touch with the Sun, all of a sudden it becomes something that requires the attention of Jack Straw. I am surprised that he does not do stand-up comedy with his punishment/reform mantra. He goes on about the cost to the taxpayers, and yet thinks nothing of pouring good money after bad down the drain which is the penal system. And, then we have him embarking on the Titan Prisons project which everybody tells him is doomed to fail. As for publicly acceptable, his failure to implement the prisoners votes is not publicly acceptable. Nor was his involvement in the torture of suspected terrorists, where the CIA used British soil to carry out their dirty deeds before locking them up without charge and trial in Guantanamo Bay.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).