Britain 'to build £1m jail in Nigeria'

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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:50 am

......... for 400 prisoners serving sentences HERE [UK]

Daily Mail wrote:

British taxpayers are to provide £1million for a comfortable jail in Nigeria to take convicts whose crimes were committed in the UK.

The prison would house 400 Nigerian inmates incarcerated in our own packed prisons who cannot be forcibly sent home to complete their punishments.

Jails there are considered so rough that any prisoner the UK tried to deport could oppose their removal on human rights grounds.

(Reminder :- No politics)

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

Quote:

Jails there are considered so rough that any prisoner the UK tried to deport could oppose their removal on human rights grounds.

Oh God! You owe me new trunks! I just pissed myself with laughter. What about the human rights of their victims? Rolling Eyes

Holy fuck. I feel so ill now. This morning, I was pissed that Jeremy Clarkson was getting moaned at. Now this. If our current prisons are 5 star hotels, yet aren't described as so, and this one is described as comfortable, it must be at least 7*. Who bets there will be a nice cafe in there?

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 26 Sep 2008 Posts: 689

Meanwhile the farmers of America are crying out for cheap labour. Why don't we pack them into of those old prison ships and send them off to the Southern United States ....

Oh we already did that didn't we? Laughing

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:21 pm

And don't even think of transporting them down under...

train boi Joined: 04 Nov 2008 Posts: 697

How are Prisons bad in Nigeria?

Do they close the Onsite WU and Internet cafe really early?

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:59 pm

In the article, note the poor prisoner in leg chains just above his Gucci sandals!

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:43 am

^^Yeah, and in their own personal cabana no less. They're looking at the drinks the waiter's bringing them to make he got the order right.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:16 am

I'm not British nor have I ever lived in the UK, but I can definitely empathize as one needn't look far to find local analogies. Suffice it to say, I could contaminate this thread with an entire essay on this very issue but...

spot wrote:

(Reminder :- No politics)

Anyway, I'll leave y'all with one of my favorite quotes:
"Mercy for the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." - Adam Smith

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:34 am

I wouldn't take anything I read in the Daily Wail all that seriously. apparently we're all going to hell in a handcart, driven by Henri Paul.

What it doesn't tell you is that it would cost £12 million to keep the prisoners here, as opposed to £1M to ship them back to Nigeria, net saving £11M. Besides they want their cake and to eat it, most days they are wailing about sending people back to where they came from, particularly criminals.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 10:24 am

The BBC has a slightly different version
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8142925.stm

Quote:

Nigeria's government says it is happy with a UK plan to help refurbish their prisons to allow Nigerians in Britain's jails to be sent back home.

How refurbishment can reduce overcrowding, isn't explained.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:57 pm

Roycropper : I just have to say it---- the avatar that is up now (cat?) is just ----- SOOOO YOU. Love it . it has just the right expression on it's mug Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:02 pm

Do the prisoners in the UK get access to computers?

It's 10:00pm.
Do you know where your lad is?

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:25 pm

^^^ yes, according to a bait i've just started.
was looking for a good reason not to chat on the phone with my internet squeeze [miss jenifer],
and decided being in jail would be a good enough reason.
i took care to explain that i'm still wealthy, so i don't suppose she will care.

about the story, i suspect it will be sold in the uk as a major cost saving,
made possible by investing in a refurbishment of a nigerian jail.
in nigeria, i expect that refurbishment will mean £1m spent on essential upgrades to the warden's office [pc's, hdtv's, bmw's, etc]

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:34 pm

More like a mill into the prez's back pocket ( Osabanjo, Abacha etc)

Refurbing and getting extra prisoners in ? - Easy, Just take the plaster off the wall in each cell and you'll fit another 2 crims in each. Very Happy

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:21 pm

@ Lady W

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Freddy's_Cat

/\/\ You need to cut & paste, the apostrophe upsets the linky thing.

Quote:

Fat Freddy's Cat is a fictional orange tomcat nominally belonging to Fat Freddy Freekowtski, one of the Freak Brothers, a trio of hippies who are featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix.

The Cat is much smarter than Freddy, and is a sort of hippie Garfield (whom he predates). He tends to regard the Freak Brothers with amused contempt.

From the same guys as Wonder Warthog, Gordonbennet's avatar

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:01 pm

Yay - WWH has more defined politics than FFC though!

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:08 pm

/\/\ The Hog of Steel also rides a Heffalump Dumpaloon, like I do.

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:44 pm

Build a model UK prison deport Nigerians serving here. Great Idea.

24 Hours later they can be reassigned to the worst Nigerian prisons. No communications allowed of course!

The all suspected scammers into our UK model prison with NO computers, no Internet and no phones.

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