Laptop Of Luxury For Prisoners.

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Great isn’t it where they spend your taxes, 28 terror suspects are being given £1000 laptops. They say it’s to prepare there cases.
Why do they need £1000 laptops, only the other week I saw Dell had some for about £375.

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what the hell!!! £1000 laptops. surely they dont need one that expensive! kids get paid to behave well, terror suspects get given £1k laptops.! whats next?
 
Garrett said:
Great isn’t it where they spend your taxes, 28 terror suspects are being given £1000 laptops. They say it’s to prepare there cases.
Why do they need £1000 laptops, only the other week I saw Dell had some for about £375.
they will be £375 dell machines.............ever seen the Lunacy that is public sector IT purchasing? a £600 3 year support contract for a £300 machine ...............
 
Ah yes, but they would have to be RoHS compliant. Wouldn't want the poor souls dieing of lead poisoning, now, would we ? ;)
 
A source said: "It's a disgraceful waste of taxpayers' money. The prison is severely understaffed and £28,000 could have recruited an officer for 18 months.

Like on member of staff is going to mak ethat much difference. pay them more and they might attrcat extra staff.
As for story, just another sensationalist piece of nonesense to inflame the reactionary "Flog them" brigade I guess. Frankly if the inmates are putting the laptops to GOOD use then its fine by me.Lets not get carried away by " luxuries and holiday camp type talk.Prisons are anything but
 
la gran siete said:
A source said: "It's a disgraceful waste of taxpayers' money. The prison is severely understaffed and £28,000 could have recruited an officer for 18 months.

Like on member of staff is going to mak ethat much difference. pay them more and they might attrcat extra staff.
As for story, just another sensationalist piece of nonesense to inflame the reactionary "Flog them" brigade I guess. Frankly if the inmates are putting the laptops to GOOD use then its fine by me.Lets not get carried away by " luxuries and holiday camp type talk.Prisons are anything but
So you think it OK for them to be bought top range laptops, when cheaper ones will do just as well.
My parents have worked all ther lives and never been in trouble with the police not even a parking ticket and the got a laptop the other week £500. As I say there was some Dell going for £375.
It seems prisoners are better looked after than people on the outside, only today I was reading I someone’s paper that some prisons have better sports facilities than schools.
 
la gran siete said:
Lets not get carried away by " luxuries and holiday camp type talk.Prisons are anything but


i disagree after spending a fair bit of time in a few!

meals made for you!
breakfast in bed in most!
get paid about £8 a week just for being locked up which they can then use once a week to buy most munchies etc you can think of
tv not to mention a movie they play of the prisoners choice every night on channel 6
radio
washing done for you
some prisons you get to do more interesting stuff in day like educational things, brick laying other bits n bobs
they even come round at night with coffee before ur locked up!
and you get paid when you leave, aswell as travelling costs to get home (except if youv got a private pick up ie friends etc)

and now laptops!
which they can use whilst not using there own supplied ps2's,and gameboys that the prison allows them to buy from argos

prison is a joke!
from a reformed pain in the ass trust me it does nothing except if ur a really stupid idiott and get a hard time in there but u need to do a fair old bit of stirin, annoy the officers and have zero mates at all to get a very hard time!

most of my evenings i spent playing squash, tennins, football, bowls! gym, reading in library, phoning mates, getting free haircuts, or just pratting around! and all this for free.

at the mo i couldnt afford to go gym, squash, bowls spending ages on phone, never mind saving for a laptop

army style beastings is the way to go! 4am wake ups with 5 mile runs!
 
Nick_UK said:
Ah yes, but they would have to be RoHS compliant. Wouldn't want the poor souls dieing of lead poisoning, now, would we ? ;)

They don't need to be RoHS compliant until 1st July this year - nor even have a crossed out wheelie bin logo, except on the battery.

Are they being given them or loaned them? The latter is OK by me (not sure about the price) because they will need to be computer literate by the time they get out
 
Most, if not all, Civil service purchases have to be placed through another Government Department, whose Purchasing officers rarely, if ever, go out looking for the cheapest option,since they have to balance their budget, and so cannot afford to.
It is quite common in the Civil Service to get a memo stating that a new Form No.*&%£@ has been Superseded by Form No. *&%$@2, and has been withdrawn.
The first Form has never yet been seen at th Dept., but then, a week later, we start to receive thousands of this first Form, which is completely useless, and has to be shredded and burned for security reasons.
The second Form then does not turn up for another two months.
As a result of this Kerfuffle, the department head is awarded a Knighthood in the New Year's Honours List.:boring:
 
Do you really belive anything u read in a british tabloid.

If you source alot of storys they are made up or half truths
 
By the way dont lawyers prepare cases, not the defendents?
 
la gran siete said:
A source said: "It's a disgraceful waste of taxpayers' money. The prison is severely understaffed and £28,000 could have recruited an officer for 18 months.

28k will get a prison officer for less than 6 months don't forget he/she retires at 55, overtime(triple time on Bank Holidays /allowances/sick pay/early retirement/ compensation for injury/pension)
 
ufitsy said:
28k will get a prison officer for less than 6 months don't forget he/she retires at 55, overtime(triple time on Bank Holidays /allowances/sick pay/early retirement/ compensation for injury/pension)

Prison officers don't retire at 55, don't get paid overtime, don't get paid allowances or get early retirement! (Unless medically retired in extreme circumstances).
The starting salary is just over £17000 according to the Prison Service website and they deserve every penny they get protecting the public and you from the murderers, robbers, rapists, burglars and other dregs of society.
There has been no overtime for prison staff since 1987 and the retirement age is 60 (soon to be 65).
The next time you see some musclebound psycho on the telly who has chopped some poor soul into little bits with a sword or raped some kids, remember, you can be looking after him for £17 grand a year. :)
 
Pollywoggle said:
Prison officers don't retire at 55, don't get paid overtime, don't get paid allowances or get early retirement! (Unless medically retired in extreme circumstances).
The starting salary is just over £17000 according to the Prison Service website and they deserve every penny they get protecting the public and you from the murderers, robbers, rapists, burglars and other dregs of society.
There has been no overtime for prison staff since 1987 and the retirement age is 60 (soon to be 65).
The next time you see some musclebound psycho on the telly who has chopped some poor soul into little bits with a sword or raped some kids, remember, you can be looking after him for £17 grand a year. :)

Prison Officers in post before 1989 can retire at 55. Allowances :- Escort duties, local allowances(1-4k), disturbance allowance(16%), tornado, dirty protest, dog ect.ect, most new entrants negotiate their starting pay.
 
Getting excited about my next dirty protest already :)
 
hornydragon said:
they will be £375 dell machines.............ever seen the Lunacy that is public sector IT purchasing? a £600 3 year support contract for a £300 machine ...............

That'll be it HD, but not just the public sector. Our IT dept. offered me a special "bargain" laptop (from their supplier) today at £875. Very brief web search reveals same item (from reputable supplier with 3yr warranty) at £550.

Call to IT ... "Buy it if you like but you can't connect it to LAN and we won't support it."

Is the IT Director getting a backhander from the supplier? Are all the other directors of a certain age that might not fully understand the IT market? I couldn't possibly comment. :rolleyes:
 

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