Queensland AG plans to put an end to fun activities in juvie

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Quote :: BUCKING bulls, jumping castles and scuba diving lessons have been scrapped at youth detention centres in a bid to take the fun out of being locked up.

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Mechanical bulls.

Jumping castles.

Scuba diving lessons.

IN JUVENILE DETENTION.

My brain just blew several thousand synapses from the strain of trying to comprehend the utter ridiculousness of the fact that such things are provided to convicted criminals during their incarceration. Okay, prisoners do need stuff to do while they're inside. But jumping castles? Seriously?

Quote :: Mr Bleijie said statistics showed that 30 per cent of young offenders had been in detention five times or more.

"It's not a holiday camp," he said.

Goddamn right it isn't. You break the law, you go to jail as a punishment, not to have a freaking holiday. Jail is supposed to be miserable so you won't want to return and thus will refrain from committing crimes.. No wonder there's a spike in recidivism - juvenile offenders have no reason to take jail seriously!

Quote :: It costs $660 a day to house a person in a youth detention centre. As of yesterday, there were 179 young offenders in youth detention centres - 124 in Brisbane Youth Detention Centre and 55 in Cleveland Youth Detention Centre.

Easily fixed: lose all the bullshit perks for prisoners and save money. Kids in juvie getting bored? Toss them a deck of cards.

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How can someone cost $660 a DAY to take care of? That's about what my parents had a week (if lucky) to raise four kids.

Isn't your big joke about how the Brits rounded up their prisoners and sent them to the beach?

Sounds like this is the end of a proud Aussie tradition. Colbert

bleachedblackcat wrote:: How can someone cost $660 a DAY to take care of? That's about what my parents had a week (if lucky) to raise four kids.

Your parents didn't have to pay for people to keep you locked up.

This is a good thread.

Quote :: BUCKING bulls, jumping castles and scuba diving lessons have been scrapped at youth detention centres in a bid to take the fun out of being locked up.

These detention centers are run by the government, aren't they?

Wanna give the kids something to do to keep them out of trouble? GIVE THEM SPORTS Excitedplz

Rubgy, basketball, and fairydive are all cheap ways to keep them occupied. Hopefully they'll learn teamwork and friendship and all of that Hollywood bullshit. If not, they'll at least be faster, stronger, tougher criminals. Because it's important to always be evolving as a species. Queensland AG plans to put an end to fun activities in juvie 588739

Queensland AG plans to put an end to fun activities in juvie 588739

Penny wrote:: Your parents didn't have to pay for people to keep you locked up.

You don't know that.

Quote :: Jail is supposed to be miserable so you won't want to return and thus will refrain from committing crimes

That attitude tends to work out so well and totally doesn't lead to human rights abuses.

Quote :: No wonder there's a spike in recidivism - juvenile offenders have no reason to take jail seriously!

Yes, I'm sure riding the mechanical bull is totally the only reason for recidivism.

I really wish I knew the complete context of these jumping castles and stuff in juvie because I'm fairly certain it's not what you're thinking.

Quote :: Easily fixed: lose all the bullshit perks for prisoners and save money. Kids in juvie getting bored? Toss them a deck of cards.

Or you could take them to the gym to pump iron so that way the next time they commit a crime they can do it in peak physical condition.

Spoonman wrote:: Or you could take them to the gym to pump iron so that way the next time they commit a crime they can do it in peak physical condition.

I already suggested this.

But 4srs, if there's anything we learned from The Rock, it's that any group of juvenile, underprivileged, minority criminals can be reformed through SPORTS Excitedplz

Sports are fun. Prison isn't supposed to be fun. They should just do endless reps. And scowl.

Mr.Doobie wrote:: Sports are fun. Prison isn't supposed to be fun. They should just do endless reps. And scowl.

Lifting is fun. Prison isn't supposed to be fun.

They should be forced to listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit. Even in their sleep.

Whatever they're doing they need to be scowling while they're doing it.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:: They should be forced to listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit. Even in their sleep.

I'm pretty sure that's some kind of human rights abuse.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:: They should be forced to listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit. Even in their sleep.

So they should be forced to move to Seattle?

Plus it's a scientific fact that "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" is a far superior Nirvana song.

Penguin wrote:

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:: They should be forced to listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit. Even in their sleep.

So they should be forced to move to Seattle?

PERFECT

Seattle is the new Butthole Prison of the world. It is decided.

Man Penguin I have no idea what Seattle you have been hittin up I am PRETTY sure that the real one is not actually that obsessed with Nirvana. I was there like 2 weeks ago and I heard more 80s pop than anything.

Seattle dresses nicer than it did in the 90's

Everyone dresses nicer than they did in the 90's.

they should also receive only bland nourishing gruel for dinner

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Cyberwulf wrote:: they should also receive only bland nourishing gruel for dinner

Gruel? No, no. They should catch bugs outside and eat those!

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Spear rats on toothbrush shanks and eat those raw.

For dessert crack rocks.

This ain't yo momma's juvie. This is real life, man.

Reepicheep-chan wrote:: Man Penguin I have no idea what Seattle you have been hittin up I am PRETTY sure that the real one is not actually that obsessed with Nirvana. I was there like 2 weeks ago and I heard more 80s pop than anything.

I think my problems with local music came from only being able to tolerate the End and the Rock. Which meant that every goddamn week it was

"It's Kurt Cobain's birthday! NIRVANA MARATHON!"
"It's the anniversary of Kurt Cobain shooting himself! NIRVANA MARATHON!"
"We dug out some song from the corpse of an album they never finished! PLAY IT NONSTOP FOR SIX MONTHS"
"Courtney Love did something stupid on this day! NIRVANA MARATHON!"

For yeeeeeeeeeeears. Soooo yeah pretty much fucking hate all things Nirvana.

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bleachedblackcat wrote:

Cyberwulf wrote:: they should also receive only bland nourishing gruel for dinner

Gruel? No, no. They should catch bugs outside and eat those!

They'd have to find an Australian bug that didn't kill them first.

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theromangeneral wrote:

bleachedblackcat wrote:

Cyberwulf wrote:: they should also receive only bland nourishing gruel for dinner

Gruel? No, no. They should catch bugs outside and eat those!

They'd have to find an Australian bug that didn't kill them first.

Hey, the more that die the less money tax payers have to fork over for them.

Mr.Doobie wrote:: Spear rats on toothbrush shanks and eat those raw.

For dessert crack rocks.

This ain't yo momma's juvie. This is real life, man.

Just throw them into a giant dome with all sorts of nature horrors and let them fend for themselves.

THROW THEM INTO SUPERJAIL Excitedplz

As long as there's plenty of crack in Superjail.

Without crackpipes.

They can either swallow the rocks whole or they need to whittle their own crack pipes like MEN.

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