Shane Noble Sentenced.

Shane Noble sentenced to life, but he has to serve 11 years before he can go before the parole board.
This guy would be ideal for the " Hard Labor" I want to talk about. In my next post I will go into Rock Braking. Six days a week just braking rocks day after day, I am shore Noble would not want to brake the law again.

Hard Labor

I would like to talk about inmates doing hard Labor as part of their prison sentence, Here in the UK inmates do take part in work but it's all part of trying to turn their lives around, not as I believe it should be all about punishment.
What I will do here is talk  about the different punishment work inmates could do.

Alcatraz Early Mug Shots

Here are some early mug shots of inmates that were held at the start of the Federal  Prison at Alcatraz. Alcatraz opened august 1934. These inmates were transferred from other Federal Prisons at Atlanta, McNeil Island and Leavenworth. They are:
Frank Souza AZ 37 Counterfeiting 10 years.
Hal Frenandez AZ 39 Lareny 3 years
Harry Dean AZ 41 Postal laws and Assault 25 years.
James J. Walsh AZ 43 Murder, 1st Degree, Life
George W. Karr AZ 45 Postal Law and Robbery 27 years.

British Criminals

A set of British Criminals, when they they are sentenced they will be housed at a local prison for about two weeks, in that time they are given heath checks and also a mental test too, Then they wait at that prison for an opening at a prison in any part of the country . This could take months.

New Prison Laws UK

For many years UK inmates had to wear prison clothes right the way through their sentences. But in the last thirty years, things have gone down hill, it has got to the point now were inmates can wear what they like. ( To my mind that has never been right).
But all this going to chance. The Government have said that they now want all inmates to wear a full set of prison clothes for the first three years of their sentence.
I don't know when this will start as the UK Government are not known for speed when it comes to new laws. I don't  understand why they are just saying three years, why not the full sentence?.
And what will the clothes look like?. I think they should be unlike any other country right now. We will just have to wait and see.  

Mexico Arrest Press Photos

One time goalkeeper for Mexico Omar Ortiz is arrested as part of a group that are accused of kid*****ng and other charges, they are led out so the press can take photos. I would think these guys would have had a court appearance first?.
I would like to see other countries adopt these press photo calls, I like the idea of the suspects being put on show.

Looking at cell bars

These two black and white photos we can take a good look at the bars that make up the walk way and the cells.
Since the 1930's the bars of prison cells have been tool proof. Before this the bars were made of so called (soft steel). That a number of inmates over the years worked on, and then escaped from.
Then in places like Alcatraz in 1934 they used steel bars that had a core hard center  that no tools could cut through.