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Old 12-07-2012, 03:54 PM   #1
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I read a book about a woman held imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling.
She was guilty and freely admitted it, although she was coerced and some of it was a bit "wah wah wah".

Still, she said that her time in the "Bangkok Hilton", one of the most notoriious prisons in the world, was better than prison in the UK when she was released back here to serve the rest of her sentence. Because there she had work to do, she met and conversed with other women, she felt her time was served - if not usefully - then at least productively. Prison in the UK in comparison was a death of the mind and the soul.

She might not have had the "three hots and a cot" that people so resent here, but she certainly had the punishment. Not sure why. It certainly wasn't intended as protection for society, or even rehab. What kind of stupid of numb cunt would ever try to smuggle drugs after a conviction?

I quite like what the Dutch do.
Take the drugs, destroy them, send the mules back home.
They don't pay for their upkeep, they don't pay for trials, they just pack them off. Now that's a deterrant, surely? To anyone so desperate for food and housing to want to go to prison? Which according to our right wing press, all crimials secretly want to do.
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Old 12-08-2012, 08:32 AM   #2
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I quite like what the Dutch do.
Take the drugs, destroy them,
yeah, destroy them, right. Just the thing I'd do if I were a Dutch narcotics officer.


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Old 12-08-2012, 11:13 AM   #3
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yeah, destroy them, right. Just the thing I'd do if I were a Dutch narcotics officer.


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Isn't destroy a synonym for re-sell?
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Old 12-08-2012, 11:19 AM   #4
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Isn't destroy a synonym for re-sell?
Not in my Dutch-to-English book. It's a synonym for 'partake of yourself why don't you?'
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