Can You Float This?
Doing Time on the Ocean!
Prison overcrowding is an issue everywhere and with cutbacks and budget spending exceeding the allotted funding; Italy is not the only place facing prison overcrowding. Here in New York, with a prison system that is archaic, our prisons are crumbling to the ground. Will we be sending our prisoners off to a barge in the Hudson Bay? Not likely any time soon.
Penitentiaries in Italy may be floating on barges, but one has to question why prison suicides are still soaring. Does the thought of spending "time at sea" overwhelm even the hardest of criminals? Perhaps.
The estimated cost of building a prison barge is roughly 90 million Euros and can be built in less than 24 months.
The United States has been accused of holding terror suspects on board so-called "Prison Ships" such as the USS Peleliu. But Italy's latest proposal is quite different in that the barges are being built specifically to replace the over-crowded prisons. According to research carried out by Reprieve, the US may have used as many as 17 ships as "floating prisons" since 2001. Detainees are interrogated aboard the vessels and then rendered to other, often undisclosed, locations, it is claimed. The Human Rights organization is appealing the detaining of prisoners aboard ships; I wonder how they will handle Italy's penitentiary problems?
Even the Britains entertained the floating prison system to ease overcrowding in its prisons. Great Britain, who closed its last prison ship in 2005, advertised for contractors to provide up to 800 places on ships, also known as "floating jails," in England and Wales in 2006. Seems the criminal community is booming everywhere.
The old saying, "if you do the crime, you'll do the time" - and if it's in Italy, you might be spending your 'time' at sea!
Published by Michele Starkey
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33 Comments
Post a CommentWow, didn't know that.
They have some of these in use in the UK.
prison ships.
Hmm, maybe they could put the worst of the worst out there and "accidentally" sink it! My bad, I know.
Interesting Article!
Very interesting indeed. However, I don't think they should have gyms, libraries, or visiting rooms.
very interesting, I did not know about this.
You are so "international!"
Wow, this just seems like a very bad idea to me!
It is a sad thing when our citizenry becomes so incorrigible that we can no longer find money or space to incarcerate them. Biblical principles would call for more restitution and less lock up. Our society would have to return to days of ostracizing criminals rather paying no attention to their crimes. May God have mercy on us!