An extraordinary report was issued last week by MPs on the Commons Justice committee revealing the impact on prisons of the growing numbers of paedophiles and sex offenders being sent to jail.
The report – virtually unnoticed by the national media ( exceptions BBC and Yorkshire Post) -provides partly an answer to those who say the police aren’t doing their job catching them and the Crown Prosecution Service is not getting enough convictions. It also suggests society failed to acknowledge the scale of sex offences in the past.What it reveals is that Britain’s jails are being engulfed by a tidal wave of elderly offenders – and a huge proportion are historic child abuse and sex offenders like Stuart Hall.
The figures are in fact staggering. At the end of March 2013 there were 6,639 prisoners in England and Wales who were aged between 50 and 59 and there were 3,381 over the age of 60, counting between them for 12 per cent of the prison population. Custodial Convictions have jumped by 45 per cent for the 50-59 age group and by 46 per cent for those over 60 between 2008 and 2012.
The report highlights historic sex abuse cases as one of the main causes. It says there has been a 45 per cent increase in convicted people sent to jail between 2002 and 2012. They account for a third of the elderly offenders in jail
Indeed the number of infirm elderly mean that two prisons – Dartmoor and the Isle of Wight – are now becoming vulnerable persons units, where prisoners have difficulty climbing stairs,washing, carrying their meal trays and getting into bunk beds.
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If theres still plenty of jail room for VICTIMS of paedophiles who break illegal gagging orders by talking about what happened to them there’s plenty of space for paedophiles.
They weren’t bothered about the Secret Family Courts sending 200 people (mostly PAS accused women no doubt) to jail in 2005 for breaking gagging orders which they call Contempt of Court. I was threatened with jail virtually every time I set foot in Stafford Crown Court. It made me very ill, the bullying they did to me.
I don’t care about the human rights of paedophiles. If they get a hard time in jail, so what. Their victims are being hounded to kingdom come.
ZoomPad Right,
Prison too good & full of decent people compared to these Paedo-Filth, they’re not good enough for Her Tragedy’s Prisons…
There should be Torture Chambers built for the lot of ’em, cuz lifelong torture is what they inflict on their multiple victims.
However, seeing as they ARE put in jail, it is THEY who should be made to pay the costs of their incarcerations,…
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The fault for the massive upsurge in these cases lies with the government and the BBC who constantly promote the homosexual agenda, from subliminals in programmes to job promotion, everything from dysney cartoons to films have these subconscious signals to promote homosexual
behaviour to the point that some are blatently heterophobic
to the
Interesting. Having been a regular at our local nick (O.K., not a con, I was teaching there) the problem not mentioned here is protecting these men from the other inmates who don’t like ‘nonces’. You may well feel they don’t deserve any protection, but that’s another story. Providing security, often involving segregation and separate facilities, is difficult and expensive.