It's been a shambles for quite a while
115 prisoners were mistakenly released in the last year of the previous government, but it's only an issue now, apparently.
I recently found out that it's down to individual jails to work out when a prisoner should be released rather than a central body. With overcrowding, sentences have been cut across the board but the whole system is fucked and prisons have small teams who are overstretched so it's hardly a surprise that they screw up. Screws? See what I did!?
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 8:01,
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It has always been an issue.
But that issue becomes a monumental fuckup of epic proportions when one of the prisoners mistakenly released is the same individual who's arrest sparked a series of riots and significant media coverage, and then not a week later, another foreign national sex offender (who is also technically in the country illegally) gets released from the same bloody prison.
You'd have thought that after Kebatu's release, the prison would have taken every possible precaution to make sure that a similar incident didn't occur in in the succeeding weeks, never mind days. That's the biggest issue, in my opinion. Not so much that the prison is leaking like a particularly efficient sieve, but that the governors don't actually seem to give a single fuck. Apparently Kebatu went back to the Prison a number of times after his erroneous release, and the fuckers kept turning him away! Absolute madness.
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I'm watching a doccy on the iPlayer about that woman guard who bonked a prisoner
and the video got out and it ends up being a bit of an expose of the whole system. Fucking hell, it's absolutely fucked up the bum with a cactus. Totally shot to hell. Corrupt, disfunctional, violent, abusive - for the staff as well as the prisoners.
The only bit we see of it is the screw ups with prisoner releases but frankly that's the tip of the iceberg.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Thu 6 Nov 2025, 13:51,
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It doesn't surprise me at all though, really.
You'd have to be a fucking wrongun' to have aspirations of working as a Prison Officer.
The field is going to be full of the sorts of people so unsuitable for a position of responsibility and authority that even the Police couldn't take them, people with aspirations of getting shagged by an inmate, or people recovering from severe childhood bullying traumas that have decided to enact their revenge on the types that made their early years hell.
About the only people I can imagine wanting that job for any kind of legitimate reason would be ex-RMP/RNP/RAFP coming from a similar background in the forces - but I doubt many of them would be joining the system as entry-level officers unless they were utter wronguns in their previous positions, too.
And the pay is absolutely fucking shit.
I mean, it's not their fault that all these people are being released. But I can't imagine it's only the bottom rung of the ladder that's fucked. I imagine there's a whole lot of internal promotion going on in that part of the system.
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