Spoiled convicts of Britain
October 14th, 2011 - 3:34 pm ICT by IANSLondon, Oct 14 (IANS) Prison officials at one of Britains’s busiest jails are faced with a strange situation. They are being literally bombarded with thousands of trivial complaints by inmates.
These complaints include criminals demanding investigations into heating, DVDs, undelivered TV magazines and lack of hot chocolate, the Daily Express reported.
As per details collected through a Freedom of Information request, staff at HMP Manchester, a high-security male prison, known as Strangeways, were inundated with 3,500 formal inmate “grievances”, an average of 10 a day, in last one year.
Among others, the list of grievances include complaints of temperature of the showers, quality of meat in the canteen, a confiscated pen, outstanding DVD orders, smelly milk, missing newspapers and calls for individual thermostats on cells so prisoners can turn up their own heat.
Matthew Elliott, from the TaxPayers’ Alliance,Britain’s independent grassroots campaign for lower taxes, said: “Prison officers are meant to be keeping inmates in line, not acting as butlers.”
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