Prisons that fully discipline and rehabilitate all criminals

PRISON & REHABILITATION POLICY

Authority
is the key
to rehabilitation

Summary and Aims of our policy.

It is impossible to overstate the far reaching importance of the criminal justice and prison system. Prisons are the ultimate backstop and grounding of all law and order, throughout every part of society, and as such are an essential component of any civilised society. Without a fully effective system of prison and rehabilitation, there is no effective means of discipline in the criminal justice system, and ultimately therefore, in all of society; the result of which is crime, violence, and suffering for everyone.

The aim of our policy is to create a self funding, fully functional, fully disciplined, prison service, that serves justice, protects all people, and fully rehabilitates all criminals, so that they are equipped and safe to re-enter normal society. Our view is that currently none of these aims are being met in any way.

We do believe in full authority in prisons, but we do not believe in punishment, by this we mean inflicting pain or hardship on criminals in response to their committing of crimes. Punishing criminals in this way will never address the root causes of crime, it is liable to further disturb or anger, what are already highly vulnerable people, and will therefore may increase the chances of reoffending. What we do believe in is a fully functional and constructive response to crime, this means holding criminals accountable for all of their actions, ensuring that they pay for all the costs of their crimes, protecting the public (and other prisoners/officers) from violence, and fully rehabilitating them.

We believe all criminals are human beings that are equal to everyone else. We do not believe criminals are fundamentally flawed or bad people, we believe they have experienced trauma and neglect in their childhood that ultimately has lead to their offending. As such any of us is as likely to be a criminal if we had traumatic childhood experiences, as criminals are. This is a crucial understanding if we are to resolve the issue of crime and rehabilitate prisoners. This being said, we do not believe criminals are victims, they have to be responsible, and be held accountable, just like everyone else.

Current unresolved issues.

There is a fundamental problem in the prison service which sets up a chain of further catastrophic and fundamental problems. This problem is lack of authority and discipline in prisons. Prisons do not have an effective means of discipline, and this paralyses the ability of prisons to be functional, safe, and to rehabilitate prisoners. Prisoners by definition are liable to demonstrate highly antisocial or violent behaviour, it is inevitable therefore they maybe inclined to repeat this behaviour in prison, and it falls to the prison service to try and discipline this behaviour in order to have order in prison. In our British system the methods of discipline largely fall into two categories, the granting or withdrawing of privileges, such as television rights, or exercise time, and locking prisoners in their cell. The former method is inadequate to control prisoners, other than possibly in the lower risk prisons. Given that this first solution does not work, officers have no choice but to fall back on the second method; in any high risk prisons, the routine practice is to lock prisoners in their cells for up to 23 hours every day, and if antisocial behaviour still continues, this can be stepped up to 24/7 solitary confinement. This second method of locking prisoners in their cells, is not a functional system of discipline, because it is locking away the problem, temporarily for the duration of the sentence, rather than providing a constructive means of discipline, such that prisoners learn to behave responsibly and become fully rehabilitated. This method of 'discipline' sets up a chain of further catastrophic problems which lead to widescale failure of the prison system, to have functional discipline and provide any rehabilitation. At the end of all of this the tax payer, who has no responsibility for committing the crimes of the criminals, picks up the entire bill, approximately £6 billion per year. This is not an acceptable situation for Everyone is God, and we therefore have a policy which comprehensively solves every problem in the prison service.

We do not say any of this as a criticism of prison staff, who work under very difficult circumstances and do their utmost to manage prisoners in the best way. We say this because we believe the way the prison service is required to run does not work, and does not allow prison staff and the service in general to carryout its role effectively.

The effect on prisoners of long term incarceration in their cells. Being locked up almost all of the time causes huge stress upon prisoners, it will increase any mental health issues, which they certainly will have, and embitter them. All of this increases their chances of acting antisocially and not cooperating with officers, or acting violently. It takes away any opportunity for the prisoner to learn how to get on with other people, behave responsibly, and work. Not working or having any tangible purpose in their life, fundamentally undermines self esteem, and further increases the mental health challenges for the prisoner. Prisoners are isolated, and desperately lack the basic human needs of friendship, support, love, physical contact, and sex, they often become disturbed, embittered, and stressed to the extreme. They also lack opportunity to have rehabilitation, purpose, work, fulfilment, and to better themselves. At times when they have to come out of their cells, such as to eat, wash, and exercise, this tension will have to manifest at some point, and prisoners are liable to erupt in the antisocial and violent outbursts, which are routine and common in all high risk prisons. This means no one is ever safe in a prison, all the officers, and all the prisoners are under constant threat, such as from violent attack, murder, intimidation, rape, and enslaving of prisoners by dominant prisoners. When outbursts occur, officers are forced to repeat the cycle, lock prisoners up to control the situation, and perpetuate or increase the problems over and over again. Many prisoners experience moderate or extreme deterioration in mental health on entering the prison system, and this dramatically reduces their chances of having or behaving in any sort of functional way.

The practical effects of not having a functional method of discipline. Having an environment where there is no functional method of discipline paralyses any opportunity to foster a functional way of life for prisoners, and rehabilitate them. Prisoners when locked up cannot work and earn money, learn new skills, attend therapy, interact with others, or pursue any interests outside of their cell, in spite of many of them being desperate to be able to do some or all of these things. When prisoners are released from prison, the traumatic nature of prison may succeed in deterring some prisoners from reoffending. But the simple fact is that all of them have been traumatised, increasing their mental and emotional difficulties, and in many cases this will increase their chances of reoffending. Added to this is the fact that the prisoners have lived such an extremely dysfunctional institutionalised way of life, that they are liable to be even more poorly equipped to deal with practical life in society, than when they went into prison, and therefore end up reoffending as it is the only way they know of surviving. We note that www.gov.uk says that reoffending rate has fluctuated between 23.1% and 31.8% over the last 15 years.

The current environment of prisons. We do not wish to criticise the prison service, and all the dedicated officers in it. However, the end result of lack of discipline in British prisons, is that they become the most dysfunctional environments on our planet, more dysfunctional than even civil war zones and anarchic countries. We say this because in war zones people still have degrees of freedom and functional behaviour, such as human contact, comradery, and purpose. Whereas in prison there is no possibility to live any sort of human or functional way of life, and prisoners are stripped of nearly every form of human dignity. The system not only fails, it possibly increases the occurrence of reoffending in a proportion of cases. To describe just how far this goes we describe some of the things that routinely happen in our highest risk prisons:

Bullying of weaker prisoners by dominant prisoners is the absolutely routine prison social structure. Weaker prisoners are regularly exposed to threat, intimidation, violence, all manner of prejudice, humiliation, and enslavement. One of the common methods of enslavement is to fabricate some reason for the weaker prisoner to be in financial debt to the dominant prisoner. These debts can follow them even after leaving the prison, and their family and friends can be drawn into them also. Sexual enslavement and rape are other common forms of enslavement. Weaker prisoners can come under continual persecution and suffer all manner of attack, such as faeces and urine be thrown at them, their food be tainted or poisoned, indeed any way dominant prisoners can think of to make their life intolerable. Bullying and enslavement regularly gets so bad that prisoners fear for their safety, their sanity, and life, and ask to be locked up all day in their cell to protect themselves. In many cases prisoners become so desperate, that they deliberately cause damage or disturbance in order to be punished and put in the solitary confinement wing so that they will be safe. One method desperate prisoners use is to repeatedly set fire to their cells, in order to receive this punishment and the prospect of relative safety.

Prisoners who do want therapy, rehabilitation, and to reform themselves, can at times refuse the opportunities given to them by the prison, because they are fearful that the bullies will regard them as informants, or siding with the prison officers. So they decline rehabilitation and help, because they are so fearful of the threat from other prisoners that it can cause.

Sex offenders will always be at high risk from bullying and violence from non sex offenders, and it is an entirely common feature of prison social structure that non sex offenders are extremely judgemental of sex offenders, such that they will routinely seek to administer their own ideas of (violent) punishment for their sexual crimes. This behaviour is so common that it is always anticipated on the part of officers, and for this reason sex offenders are routinely separated from non sex offenders on different wings, or in a specialist sex offenders prison, such as The Vern at Portland, Dorset.

Prisoners who are at risk of committing suicide are by law watched 24 hours a day, by prison officers sat outside the glass door of a specially designed observation cell. This is at huge expense to the tax payer. Prisoners know this procedure and rule, and as a result some have developed a strategy to manipulate officers to give them what they want by saying they will commit suicide. The strategy is that they know if they demonstrate that they wish to commit suicide, the officers will have to watch them 24/7, and therefore the officers would rather give the prisoner what they want, instead of incurring the difficulty and expense of 24/7 monitoring. It is important to understand the deeper implications of this. Because prison officers do not have a effective method of discipline, they are unable to have authority and therefore have to resort to bargaining with prisoners, this happens all the time and is the ongoing and daily reality of managing prisoners. This is dysfunctional to the extreme and has profoundly damaging consequences for the effectiveness of the prison service. It is one of the many consequences of ineffective discipline, and leads to a total breakdown in prisoner accountability. This breakdown is detrimental to prisoners, it gives them entirely the wrong example of how to be responsible in their lives, as it teaches them how to bribe and manipulate people rather than act responsible. Another reason for threatening suicide or deliberately causing disruption, is because prisoners feel so lacking in safe human contact, that they will do anything to have human interaction with prison officers, in order to alleviate their desperate loneliness.

Drugs are rife in nearly all prisons, and officers have no effective method of disciplining this problem. Many prison wings constantly smell of drugs, many prisoners are obviously and routinely high, and many have fits from new forms of drugs such as spice, an event which officers regularly deal with. These are just some of the things that routinely happen in prisons, there are many events that are far more disturbing than the ones described here, such as many cases of extreme self harm.

One of the many supreme ironies of prisons is that they are the most unsuitable and worst possible environment you could ever put the most unstable people in the country, namely criminals, into. The people who most need a calm, disciplined, safe environment, and rehabilitation, receive the extreme opposite of this, they receive a violent, disturbed, threatening, and anarchic environment, in which no one is ever held accountable for any of their actions.

Prison officers make official records of prisoners, in order to help them run the prison effectively, many prisoners are classified as staff assaulters. Even in the case of these known risks, officers have little recourse to mitigate this risk to themselves, and are forced to work directly with these prisoners on a daily basis, quite often with little immediate backup, or protection. Prison officers therefore routinely risk their safety and life, in order to carryout the basic duties of their job.

Many prisons are totally anarchic environments where the daily routine is dealing with one incident after another with very limited resources, and ultimately locking the problem away, as it is the only damage limitation and containment method available to officers. Prisoners often descend into psychosis, paranoia, violence, terror, and a near anarchic child like state, indeed I have heard them described as being like ghosts by one officer. The simple fact is that highly dedicated and hard working officers are completely aware of all of these problems, but have inadequate resources and discipline methods to stop them. Prison officers, unless they are hardened to the environment, experience high levels of stress in their jobs; they are constantly exposed to abuse and risk from prisoners, they have no way of mitigating or disciplining this, and when they genuinely want to help prisoners they are highly limited in being able to do this. Officers can easily become despondent, staff moral becomes low, and rudeness and abuse becomes so endemic that it can become part of officer culture too. Officers are human beings and when they are repeatedly subjected to these stresses it has to manifest; officer to prisoner management and officer to officer management suffer and deteriorate as a result (a problem that occurs in the police force for exactly the same reason). Officer employment retention is low, and this means new officers constantly have to be trained. Because of the high staff turnover, there is not the funds to make this a fully comprehensive training, thus reducing prison resources and officer experience in the process. It cannot be over stated that it is the lack of an effective method of discipline, which is the underlying issue in every single one of these problems.

Alternative methods of discipline. There are two other methods of discipline commonly used throughout the world, the first is physical punishment. We believe this is dysfunctional as it will always traumatise and embitter prisoners, it does not address the root cause of the issues, and does not rehabilitate prisoners. The second is a system used in countries like Norway, where prisoners are given a highly privileged environment of opportunity and freedom, almost like a private school or correctional hotel. Although this achieves good results, we do not believe it is fully functional either, as it does not provide a realistic environment for prisoners, that represents the challenges of the outside world. Secondly psychopathic or hardened criminals simply enjoy the experience like a holiday, and then return to their crime once released, and this is observed with this system as the re-offending rate is still around 20%. Lastly it is expensive and the tax payer pays for it, and Everyone is God does not believe anyone should pay for anything that is not of their making, we believe in holding all people accountable at all times.

Our Policy - How it resolves the issues and achieves the aims.

Our policy has a number of key features as follows:

Careful initial assessment and placement of prisoners.
The establishing of zero tolerance discipline forming a foundation of authority in prisons.
From this foundation prisoners will enter full time work, be paid, and therefore fund all costs of their prison sentence.
Full time employment means prisoners will also have disposable income which will fund their rehabilitation programme, recreation, and savings.

Initial and ongoing assessment:

Initial assessment is essential to identify the risks, and vulnerabilities of the prisoner. In our system of policies there would already be extensive medical and criminal records of each prisoner available to the prison officers even before initial assessment. The three key areas are 1) their risk to others, 2) their risk and vulnerability to themselves, and 3) their risk and vulnerability from other prisoners. Assessment 1) looks at their history of violence, how likely they are to be violent in the prison, and how vulnerable they are to being triggered into violence. Many criminals are deeply psychologically traumatised, and violence can become their habitual response to any form of stress in their daily life. It also assesses if they are dominant bullies; are they at risk of threatening, controlling, and enslaving other inmates. Assessment 2) looks at their mental and emotional condition and how they cope with what is happening inside of them, are they psychotic, paranoid, depressed, anxious, do they have learning difficulties, are they at risk of self harm, can they read, write, and what language do they speak. Assessment 3) looks at their vulnerability to other inmates; are they submissive and unconfident, is their build slight, do they feel weak in prison, and they fearful of what will happen to them, do they feel incapable of defending themselves, are they sex offenders and therefore at risk of retribution from other prisoners, will their mental and emotional state make them vulnerable?

Induction and placement

The assessment will be carried out by highly trained rehabilitation professionals which we will call mentors, and prisoners will then be assigned a mentor, usually the person who carried out the assessment. This mentor will work with the prisoner throughout their entire stay at prison, and after they leave, and will continue to assess and manage their rehabilitation at all stages. A key part of this is that after initial assessment prisoners will be put into wings appropriate to their condition and crime, and rehabilitated according to their needs.

Prisoners will be entirely aware of the basic workings of the prison system as they would have been educated on it in school. They will be reminded of this, and then taught everything they need to know about all the rules, procedures, and workings of the prison system, and all the consequences of any transgression.

Accountability - Our method of discipline:

We hope it is clear from the discussion above, the extreme need of a functional method of discipline, it is the most crucial thing of all, and it is the single key that unlocks every aspect of a functional prison service (no pun intended). Without discipline it is utterly impossible to have a functional service, and a constructive prison environment which allows prisoners to work, earn money, and rehabilitate. Indeed without discipline, we believe the prison service becomes detrimental to many prisoners, and can increase their chance of reoffending. It is our policy therefore that the underlying problem of lack of discipline is completely and comprehensively solved. Therefore in our prison system there is only two outcomes when someone is convicted of a crime, they either are fully rehabilitated, follow the law, and become safe constructive individuals, or they are disciplined, to the point that they do follow all these rules. It is important that discipline first starts with education; advising prisoners of what the rules are, why they have those rules, and the consequence of breaking them. Prisoners who need it will be given time and support in becoming used to discipline.

We believe the best method for discipline, is accountability. Our policy is to directly and immediately link each prisoner with the consequence of their actions at all times. The basic and simple link of accountability is that if someone does not behave sociably, and peacefully, then they cannot live and work with other people. If they cannot work, they cannot earn money, and if they cannot earn money, then they cannot buy the necessities and privileges they wish for in their life. Prisoners will be repeatedly educated and reminded about accountability and how whenever any rules are broken, there are always immediate consequences. The consequences of breaking any rules will therefore be as follows:

The withdrawing of privileges (as the prisoner cannot work with people and earn money for privileges if they do not follow the rules).
A fine (which the prisoner will pay as they are creating the extra costs of dealing with their transgression).
Extra rehabilitation (the prisoner will have to pay for extra time with their mentor to establish why they are breaking the rules and how they are going to resolve this).

Prisons will have an absolute zero tolerance policy, any breaking of the law, see our Supreme Law Policy, or prison rules will result in immediate consequences. It is important that an entirely respectful, cooperative, environment is enforced at all times in prisons, so if a prisoner uses even a rude tone of voice with any other person, this will immediately result in consequences. If rules are repeatedly broken, then the consequences of their actions become more stringent. These consequences need to be strong enough and increase to the point at which every prisoner is ultimately brought to fully cooperative behaviour. This means starting with privileges such as recreational time and television, and increasing from there. The exact nature for these consequences and how they become more stringent is the absolutely key debate for society. How far do we go, should we provide heating and three meals a day to prisoners who repeatedly offend, threaten and attack others, and do not pay for their costs? Why should the tax payer pay for this, is this accountability? Society has to be comfortable with whatever is chosen, but we all have to realise that we either have full authority or a failing prison system as described above.

To put this debate in some perspective we note that it is almost universally accepted that if a nation or paramilitary threatens the safety of another country, that country immediately has the right to use lethal force to defend itself on a significant or large scale. It is also almost universally accepted that in using that lethal force there will be collateral civilian deaths at a minimised rate, which will include women and children. To be blunt and explicit, very few people have any issue with our military shooting, bombing, and therefore killing those that threaten our safety. However we seem to have a totally different view when the violent threat is from individuals or organised gangs. In this case we feel that we should not use any significant force against these people whatsoever, let alone lethal force, and further more the tax payer should pay for all of the consequences of their crime such as it's investigation, trial, and their prison sentence. Given that these two approaches are so different, it raises the question of how can they both be correct, surely one approach must be flawed in some way? We believe our criminal justice and prison system is flawed, as a party we seek to bring about this debate, and achieve an outcome that properly solves the problem of discipline in prisons. We believe it is crucial that consequences need to be strong enough and increase to the point at which every prisoner is ultimately brought to fully cooperative behaviour.

We believe that it is a fundamental right of all people to be safe at all times and in all jobs, no one should be expected to tolerate the risk of being violently attacked, and this includes prisoners who equally have the right to safety. The right to safety must be placed over all other rights. Prisoners who repeatedly carryout serious violence against others, or threaten serious violence, will be carefully assessed, supported, taken through the rehabilitative process, and given every opportunity to learn how to control and resolve this behaviour. If after going through this process, they repeatedly continue to carryout serious violence, and therefore present serious violent threat, the safety of others will become the overriding priority, and their isolation from others becomes the only option. In extreme cases of persistent violent offenders we believe we need to reopen the debate on capital punishment. This is because we do not see any other way of protecting people from the risks of these offenders, other than having them in solitary confinement for the rest of their lives. This latter option does not seem functional as their is no accountability whatsoever on the part of the offender in this case, and we do not believe the tax payer should have to pay for these costs of incarceration, as they have no responsibility in incurring them. We point out again that we have no issues with using mass military lethal force to protect ourselves, so why do we have issue with it when we need to protect ourselves from repeated extreme violent threat from individuals?

Phased discipline, responsibility and accountability:

It is crucial to link initial and ongoing assessment to the amount of discipline, responsibility, and accountability that is expected of prisoners. Many prisoners can be extremely volatile, and prone to violence as a result of being overwhelmed by paranoia, psychosis, their psychological trauma, and their habitual tendency toward violent behaviour when they come under stress. These prisoners will need initial protection from their likelihood to be violent, and will need time to learn how to be non violent. Equally so they may be deeply embedded in criminal ways of life, and for some, this will be the only way of life they have ever known. These prisoners will need time to learn how to be responsible for themselves, work, and do all the normal tasks of life. Given these parameters it is essential to apply discipline, responsibility, and accountability in a measured way that begins with targets that are achievable by the prisoner, and builds up from there. What is the crucial aspect of this process and our policy, is that it steadily and appropriately builds up to full discipline, responsibility, and accountability, to the point of a completely zero tolerance environment.

Accountability is one of the first crucial lessons prisoners need to understand fully, they need to understand every choice they make has consequences for which they are entirely accountable. The prison service will never indulge people and take away the consequence of their actions, it will continually remind prisoners of their choice and it's consequence. Prisoners can choose to follow the rules and work and have all the things they need, or they can choose to not follow the rules and not work, and not have those privileges. Similarly they can choose to be peaceful, and live freely within the prison, or they can attack others, and be completely isolated. It is always their choice, and the prison service will always impartially, and correctly, hold them accountable, and give them the consequence of their free choice. This means it is not the prison service that is choosing to take away privileges from them, it is their choice, because they have not behaved socially, and have not earnt the money to afford those privileges.

Self funding prison service.

The high level of authority we propose will achieve discipline and safety in prisons. This is the ultimate key that unlocks all possibilities and opportunities for the service to become fully functional. Effective discipline does nothing less than provide the opportunity for prisons to transform from the most anarchic and dysfunctional environments on the planet, to ones that can become completely functional, rehabilitative, and ultimately joyful places. We want to repeat that, prisons should and must be joyful environments, as if they are not they will never succeed in properly rehabilitating criminals. Criminals are criminals because they were highly traumatised and neglected in their youth, they are just as human and sensitive as everyone else, they have the same basic needs as anyone else. Inflicting more trauma and dysfunction upon them is the last thing they need to rehabilitate themselves, what they need is the safety of a fully disciplined prison system, in a compassionate and joyful rehabilitative environment, so that they can heal the trauma they have.

Our policy is that prisons, are essentially exactly like outside society, but with a wall around it, and a programme of rehabilitation. Prisoners will live in the normal functional way of life that we do, as far as is possible, so that they are entirely habituated to it, and therefore ready to continue this way of life when they leave prison. They will work in substantial businesses that are attached to the prison, earn the same wages as outside of prison, have bank accounts, pay the entirety of their costs of prison such as accommodation, food, and all their bills. They will pay tax, and be able to buy things from the outside world.

Through this system prison will be entirely self funding, and not cost the tax payer a penny. It will be an independent non profit making cooperative business. Prisoners will be taught how they are responsible and accountable for ensuring all the costs of prison are met through their work in this business, they will be encouraged to make a profit, and they will have powers to decide how this profit can then be invested back into the prison to create better services and facilities for themselves. They will be encouraged to be involved, take on responsibility, and make decisions how they run their prison, and contribute to building a better environment for everyone in it. They will have to save money from their earnings, so that when they leave, they have a lump sum of money to help them establish themselves in free society again.
In this way prisoners are directly connected with the consequences of their actions, and the opportunities to create a better life for themselves, in a functional and legal way. They are encouraged therefore to become completely self sufficient and secure in their ability to look after themselves, and are therefore correctly prepared to enter back into free society. Life for the prisoner will be infinitely better, and more functional, than in the current system, they will have a much higher level of freedom, and not be locked up nearly all of every day. Indeed for many of them this may be the first time they have ever experienced functional life, and prisoners will feel a sense of freedom, responsibility, pride in their work and themselves, and happiness.

Rehabilitation.

The other key element of our policy is rehabilitation; in addition to the strongly rehabilitating experience of working and thieving in prison, all prisoners will have extensive compulsory intensive therapy. The prison environment will be welcoming and respectful, prison officers will be highly trained, and will have a deep understanding of why criminals offend. They will treat all inmates as entirely equal and valuable human beings, and they will have the skills to hold both compassion and discipline for prisoners. There will be a team of highly trained therapists who act as the mentors, they will provide regular, group, and one to one therapy sessions with the prisoners, to establish the root cause of their offending, and resolve it properly. The root cause will always lie in their up brining, and therapists will know exactly how to help them resolve this. They will also be taught how to give therapy to themselves, and to their fellow inmates, and have to carryout these sessions regularly. The entirety of the rehabilitation costs will be paid for by prisoners who will receive a monthly bill for the services they have received.

Professional skills and self improvement.

Prisoners will be encouraged to take open source qualifications online, they will pay for training courses or apprenticeships in the same way as outside of prison. Within the prison there will be varied job opportunities and many of these will come from all the tasks that are required to run the prison such as cleaning, washing, cooking, hair dressing, maintenance, etc.

Food, gardening, farming, and self sufficiency.

All prisons will have extensive extensive recreational and vegetable gardens and farm animals, which they will manage, so that they are as near self sufficient in food as possible.

Recreation, family, and relationships.

Regular visits from family will be encouraged, and conjugal visits will be facilitated in prisons. A full range of hobbies, social events, sports, and vocations will be encouraged.

Assessment for leaving and aftercare.

Prison sentences will be predetermined in our legal system, rather than being decided by judges, and constitute the minimum term they will have to stay inside. Prisoners will not be able to leave prison until they have followed all rules consistently over an extended period of time, and paid all their debts for their crimes. Additionally, they will have had to have completed their therapy process, fully resolved their personal issues, and be deemed completely prepared, and safe to enter normal society again. The assessment of their readiness to enter society will also respect their own feelings of if they feel ready to enter society, are able to hold down a job, and are confident to face the challenges of life. This means prisoners will not be forced out into free society, they will be freed when both they and the mentors consider them to be ready. Prisoners will build long term relationships with their mentor and support team, and on leaving prison, this team will continue to support them, to ensure their transition back into society goes smoothly, that they have jobs to go to, and that they have a source of help if they ever find themselves struggling at some point in the future.

Transforming lawfulness throughout all of society.

Achieving a disciplined, rehabilitative, and self funded prison service has deeply profound benefits not just to prisoners and prison staff, but the entire legal criminal system, and the lawfulness of all society. This is because there will never be any lack of funds for prisons as there are all self funding, and if you read our Criminal Justice Policy, you will see that the criminal justice system will also be self funding too. This means that the entire criminal justice system is entirely self funding, it does not cost the tax payer one penny.

There are two profound benefits of this to all of society, firstly it does not matter how many people commit crime, there is always the funds to properly deal with their actions and take them through the criminal justice system. Secondly irrespective of how small the crime is, again there will always be the funds to properly deal with it. Lack of funds in the current system constantly creates these two problems. Our prisons cannot meet demand, government and judges know this and therefore are unable to send all criminals to prison that should go to prison, and so they are not properly disciplined. Furthermore the government is forced into releasing prisoners early when they hit capacity, in order to make space for the newly convicted, a large wave of this occurred after the riots of 2024 following the killing of the three girls at their dance class in the northwest. Government and judges equally know that it is unviable in the current system to send all repeated petty offenders to prison, such as shop lifters, and so a proportion of these people receive no consequences at all for their crimes. This means that government ultimately does not have full authority, indeed we are far from it, and the direct result of this is that society will never be fully lawful, and state of affairs that is deeply damaging to all of us. This then creates a culture throughout all of society, at all levels, that it is OK to break the law and behave poorly. So it is ok to be rude and verbally attack people, it is ok to spread misinformation, it is ok to dodge tax, it is ok to drink and drive, it is ok to fiddle the benefit system, not send my children to school, bully, beat my partner, fly-tip some rubbish, not pay the TV licence, the list is endless, and this directly leads to it being ok to commit more serious crimes. If everyone knows that no matter how small or great their crime is, they will be brought to justice, and pay for the entirety of the costs of their crime and punishing it, there will be one simple outcome, almost no crime. Everyone is God is committed to Solving Everything, and we hope it is clear how we have constructed our policies to do exactly that.

Conclusion:

We believe these policies will meet all of our aims, to create a self funding, fully functional, disciplined, prison service, that serves justice, protects everyone, and fully rehabilitates all prisoners, so that they are equipped and safe to re-enter normal society. We believe from our research, that it is only by combining absolute authority with absolute accountability, and compassionate rehabilitation, can we ever fulfil these aims. It is absolute discipline that is the key that unlocks everything, it is the kindest and most humane policy of all, it is the only policy in the that minimises crime, violence and human suffering, for everyone, and paves the way for a functional and rehabilitative prison service, which then creates a fully lawful society.

Establishing the new prison system - Opt in choice.

As far as we are aware, no country has come near to achieving this model of prison and rehabilitation, establishing it will present huge initial challenge, and require bravery and determination on the part of everyone involved.

This policy therefore would need to be proved and perfected first, for as with all systems of power it is open to abuse and/or failure. Before rolling it out in all prisons, we would begin on one wing of one prison, and this wing would only house criminals who opt into the system out of their own free choice.

Before making their choice, criminals will fully briefed on the entire workings of the policy, so they are entirely clear on the decision they are making. They will be told the truth, that they can choose to go into normal prisons that run on the current system, and which will mean they will be stripped of nearly every human right and dignity, exposed to all manner of threat, violence, intimidation and persecution, and that the prison system will have almost no power to protect them from any of this, unless they wish to be locked up 24/7 their entire sentence. Or they can go into our system where they will be safe, free within the prison, work, earn money, have a full range of leisure pursuits, and rehabilitation.

We believe given the extreme benefits of our system, and the vastly improved quality of life and rehabilitation it offers, many prisoners would opt into the scheme once they understand how it works and its benefits, and one wing would be full quickly. These prisoners will therefore be highly invested in it working, and they will then establish, perfect, and prove the new system in partnership with the officers and prison management.

Once the system is perfected and proved on one wing it can be expanded through the prison and then across others. We estimate that the majority of criminals would opt in. When fully implemented across the majority of prisons in Britain, the effectiveness of the policy would be conclusively proved, and therefore the final step will be to make this system compulsory in all prisons.

Ultimate policy.

Everyone is God is completely clear that if someone has gone as far as committing crimes and/or getting themselves into prison, this immediately demonstrates that many systems in society have had to completely fail. The root of all crime (and all human dysfunction) lies in the way we bring up our children and educate them, and therefore the first and universal failure in any situation, is a failure of parenting. Children who are brought up in a fully balanced, loving, and disciplined environment, will never be orientated towards committing any crime of any nature. For someone to enter prison, there would have had to have been further failures in the social care system, the education system, the criminal justice system, and ultimately society and government at large. Our numerous relevant policies ensure protection in every one of these areas, giving many layers of protection, in order to provide every opportunity for the best possible outcome.

So we remain absolutely clear; that to fully resolve the root of all crime and dysfunction, parenting and education must be carried out correctly for every single child at all times. It is our ultimate goal to achieve this, and a reduction of crime to such a low level, that there is no need of a criminal justice system, or for prisons. See all the supporting policies below for a full explanation of how we will do this.

Well being and cost benefits of this policy.

The National Crime Agency (NCA) estimates that serious and organized crime costs the UK at least £47 billion per year, and the total cost of running the prison service is approximately £6 billion per year. Therefore the ultimate cost savings of this policy are in the region of £53 billion per year, a saving that can be spent on public services such as health and education. The well being benefits are immeasurable, we would have a country that has greatly reduced crime, violence, and the suffering it causes, both inside and outside of prisons, and the entire experience of life, and our feeling of safety in Britain, will be greatly improved.

Supporting policies.

Supreme Law Policy

Parenting Policy

Education Policy

Law & its Practice Policy

Criminal Justice Policy