Max Power Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 How on earth are these costs calculated? £60 per offender per hour does'nt sound much like good value to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Didn't read it, so can't comment specifically. Are tagged offenders really monitored hour by hour? I would have thought they would do spot checks and keep a log for historic review. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Source? It may be that the cost of getting the tagging system was £500,000 with little or no additional cost for each tag, but the initial cost is spread over the number of taggees. So, if there were 20 people being tagged, the cost would still be £500,000 but the per unit cost drops. Only a thought like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 Source? It may be that the cost of getting the tagging system was £500,000 with little or no additional cost for each tag, but the initial cost is spread over the number of taggees. So, if there were 20 people being tagged, the cost would still be £500,000 but the per unit cost drops. Only a thought like. This weeks Examiner carried the story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I'm sure that for less than 60.00 per hour it would be possible to pay someone to monitor an offender full time In fact, wouldn't it be cheaper to give the offender Sky TV and a heroin prescription and let them stay indoors ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Tagging them with 25kg steel balls would be much more cost effective and efficient. They'd be too knackered to go anywhere far from home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I take it you've not seen the clips of the Bhuddist monks lifting weights with their penises then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Tagging them with 25kg steel balls would be much more cost effective and efficient. They'd be too knackered to go anywhere far from home. Don't forget the suit with big arrows stamped on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ans Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I like the cut of your jib. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeky boy Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I like the cut of your jib. Breaking rocks in a quarry, sewing mailbags etc Here in the IOM offenders were invited to work in the Ballamona laundry, cut back the hedges on main roads or pull up the weeds on Jurby airfield Doubtful if inmates of the new Jurby nick will be used so productively Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grant Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I wonder how much it costs to keep someone in prison. It's probably less than £10,080.00 a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermes Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Will the lags in the new prison have to pay a TV license fee to watch the flatscreen TVs they are installing in their cells? That'll show the b*astards... They already trialled the tags with some drug scum (...the poor people - not criminals, but suffering from an 'illness'...) earlier this year. The scratty weasels were giving the authorities a right run around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboarder Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 In fact, wouldn't it be cheaper to give the offender Sky TV and a heroin prescription and let them stay indoors ? Why would anyone with Sky TV need heroin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluemonday Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I wonder how much it costs to keep someone in prison. It's probably less than £10,080.00 a week. Guardian article puts it at almost 50k a year Clicky Although some of the financial implications mentioned won't apply to all individuals. As I recall, a part of the original concept of tagging was the benefit of cost savings...............a cheaper alternative to custody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 The guy who wrote "The Running Man" had the right idea about electronic tagging... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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