Enough Fentanyl seized in California in 2023 to kill everyone on the planet twice over

If your going to go full retar, I mean, dictator then you better be consistent with your death penalty sentences.

What's the difference between a slow death and a fast death? If the s#!+ you put into your body is bad and can kill you.

Let's sentence people who sell cigarettes and cheeseburgers to the death penalty too.

Stupid Americans. Ruining freedom when they spend their money however they want and put whatever they want into their bodies.

Look again at those death numbers from fentanyl.

We aren't losing the cancer cure here. We're losing really cool gas station attendees at best.

a reply to: TinfoilTophat

What's the difference between a slow death and a fast death?

Time springs to mind.

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: TinfoilTophat

What's the difference between a slow death and a fast death?

Time springs to mind.

Nearly 30 years ago a friend who was caught up in the hard drugs cycle tried to explain it to me , to give everyone who was addicted in the country free subsidised H allowing them to hold down jobs and live a normal life free from crime would cost in the tens of millions per year .

But doing nothing and allowing all the crime that takes place is good for employment of Judges ,police ,lawyers, social workers and prison staff etc and cost then billions of pounds per year .

The UK and the USA have similar jail rules by LAW a certain number of people have to be in jail , if there were no crimes being committed the courts would still need to find people to jail or they would be committing a crime and breaking their own laws and rules .

How messed up is that ?

a reply to: stonerwilliam

The UK and the USA have similar jail rules by LAW a certain number of people have to be in jail ,

What are the numbers do you know?

Because the fact is they are chock full and bursting at the seams right now.

originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: stonerwilliam

The UK and the USA have similar jail rules by LAW a certain number of people have to be in jail ,

What are the numbers do you know?

Because the fact is they are chock full and bursting at the seams right now.

From my patchy memory it is between 70 and 80 percent occupation by law just the same as the illegal razor wire fine that they pay every year to have razor wire around jails

a reply to: stonerwilliam

I'm betting if the private ones don't run at 99% occupancy the shareholders are not going to be happy.

Made as a joke but apt to be true methinks.

a reply to: stonerwilliam

'The UK and the USA have similar jail rules by LAW a certain number of people have to be in jail , if there were no crimes being committed the courts would still need to find people to jail or they would be committing a crime and breaking their own laws and rules ."

What?

What law?

Our prisons are at bursting point.

It's not a problem finding people to jail.

The problem is that too many are avoiding it.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

It will be a ticket system next.

Come in number 2316732 your turn to share a cell with some junkie or undiagnosed mental health patient for a few years.

You're correct all the same, problem is that too many are avoiding being held to proper account.

And some of them are proper scum, the likes of house tanners for instance with records as long as an arm, people that should be there by my guess, that somehow manage to avoid custodials.

a reply to: andy06shake

Another clear fail of Capitalism, me thinks...

Or is it a win...

a reply to: Terpene

I suppose that would depend on which side of the fence one happens to find themselves.

The private companies running our prisons aim for around 8-10% profit margins, meaning less money to train staff or invest in our prisons.
Data suggests that as of November 2021, 77% of private prisons were overcrowded, compared to 56% of public prisons. Private prisons were also found to be slower at reducing overcrowding during the pandemic.
A 2019 survey revealed that private prisons were 47% more violent than public ones.
HMP Northumberland was sold off in 2014 to Sodexo, who promised savings of £130 million over 15 years - but these cuts came at a price. A 2017 Panorama report revealed the dangers being faced by both staff and inmates as it showed balaclavas, wire cutters, and prisoners escaping compounds to smuggle in drugs.
All three prisons in Northern Ireland are publicly-run and less overcrowded than those in the rest of the UK.
In 2016, there was drug-fuelled violence at Sodexo’s Forest Bank prison.
Violence at a Doncaster prison run by Serco was revealed in 2014 to be four times higher than at other similar-sized prisons.

weownit.org.uk...#:~:text=Private%20prisons%20were%20also%20found,cuts%20came%20at%20a%20price.

a reply to: andy06shake

As always it's a fail for the many and a win for the few...

a reply to: Terpene

That's because there are far to few haves, and far too many have-nots.

And the gap only getting wider.

Remember when the U.S. government poisoned spirits when they made alcohol illegal. This is the same thing, just much bigger and with many more drugs.