Suspected London Rioters ‘Attacked’ by Other Prisoners, Families Say
- Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:31pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Large-scale rioting rocked London earlier this month, and now family members of suspected rioters say they've been targeted in jail by other prisoners. (AP File Photo)
Suspected London rioters being held in juvenile detention facilities are reportedly being victimized by other prisoners, their families have told the U.K.’s Independent.
The prisoner population continues to soar to new highs as more young people are remanded into custody. According to the Independent, that’s led to worsening conditions with attacks on suspected rioters, cell overcrowding and longer detention periods to separate inmates from one another.
One mother told the newspaper her son was attacked because fellow prisoners thought he was a rioter.
“They thumped him right in the face,” she said. “He’s not one of the rioters. But because he arrived on the same day as some of the rioters those inside attacked him.”
She said mattresses have been placed on the floor to handle the overload of prisoners.
“Those cells are tiny,” she said. “The person on the floor will have their head right next to a toilet.”
Paul Mathew, an attorney representing a 15-year-old riot suspect said prison authorities were keeping looters apart from those already inside.
“Those suspected of rioting are being held separate from the rest of the population for their own safety,” he said. “I asked my client what he did all day and he told that they are almost always in lock-up. There seems to be no education or training. We’re creating criminals of the future.”
A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman denied the suspected rioters are being held separately or that they have been targeted.
“Those people suspected or convicted of rioting are treated in the same way as other prisoners and there have been no assaults other than some scuffles two weeks ago,” she told the Independent.
According to Ministry of Justice figures, there are currently 86,821 people behind bars, up 167 from last week’s record high of 86,654 inmates. The Prison Reform Trust, an advocacy organization, said some suspected teenage rioters have been transported to U.K. prisons up to 200 miles away from London to manage the overcrowding.
The Ministry of Justice did acknowledge some of those reports were true: “They will be moved as space becomes available in the south,” the spokeswoman said.
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Comments (164)
Gypsy123
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:07pmDon‘t do the crime if you can’t pay the time. du wa du wa
Good mommie should have whipped his/her little rear end and taught him how to be a decent human beings then they wouldn;t be in there with those big bad meanies. Sleeping with their head in the toilet. This is a great day justice for once is being dished out.
Report Post »afishfarted
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:38pm“I asked my client what he did all day and he told that they are almost always in lock-up. There seems to be no education or training. We’re creating criminals of the future.”
Seems to me the punks are doing a good job of making themselves criminals of the future. Oh wait, they already ARE criminals–of the present.. Waaa waaaaa waaaaa
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:42pmHell those aren’t other prisoners, they are the Police you
Report Post »were shooting, throwing fire-bombs and rocks at…
Pay Backs are a Bitc***… and take your thumping
right in the face….Ha,Ha,Ha. Thats an Education…!!
rangerp
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 3:55pmThose folks are not in prison for skipping Sunday School. Perhaps they will think twice about running wild like a bunch of heathen.
Report Post »GPS-Tech
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:24pmTypical street punks arent worth a damn on their own, always need to have their friends in a big group to survive.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:49pmEvery now and then a news item brings a smile to my face. This happens to be one of them. Thanks, I needed that!
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 7:13pmThey just thought they would get away with it scott free. They have no idea what prison is like. Spoiled brats are learning fast. Probably become someone’s play toy.
Report Post »avenger
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 8:06pmI love it..kick the shet out of them…
Report Post »Woody WoodBecker
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 9:34pmFilthy pig rioters! I don’t care to hear them whine.
Report Post »colonial10
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 10:56pmYou are absolutely correct. I guess they really deserved those shoes, t.v.’s and other things they stole. Very few of them will come out with better attitudes though. Sucks for Europe. We have the same situation boiling here in America. To many lazy kids thinking that the world owes them something when they think they are to worthy to even wipe their own butts. I guess we can only pray for them.
Report Post »toto
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 11:16pmGeez, these people are “takers” in society, and even when they go to jail because of it, they complain because people aren’t “giving” them something of value. Until these punks and their punk parents get into the “earn it yourself mode”, there’s not much hope for the rest of us.
Report Post »Jdixon1234
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 1:42amA bunch of youthful IDIOTS getting exactly what they deserve…
Report Post »Middle Finger
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:19amHa! Now they have their deserved entitlements. Right next to the pisser!
Report Post »Carl1 Supports Israel
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 2:04pmThey deserve every and “pounding” they get! I Hope their jail education bars no holes! They deserve every second of it!
Report Post »Saveouramerica
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:42amI find it funny, Treating Rioter the same as our prisoners treat pedifiles. I guess when your freedom is taken they will show you what true communism is.
Report Post »Ready2Rumble
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 3:39pmLet them be reformed by hard work in public view. Put the punks out on the street in chain gangs (e.g., the black and white striped prisoner uniforms) with a mounted Big Boss Man standing guard over them with a shotgun and let them clean up all over Great Britain. If the British ask for Sheriff Joe’s advice, I’m sure that he would happily lend it to them.
Report Post »conservativeagent
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:06pmcriminals are criminals. They made their beds now let them sleep in them. Bunch of bleeding hearts looking for sympathy…too bad. Bit of advice though tell them not to drop the soap in the shower!
Report Post »alaskajohn
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 4:26pmIt’s a case of spoiled, movie wannabe tough guys, meeting the real thing. In jail you are guarenteed 3 meals a bunk and punk. This new influx of young p#$$ys will clear up the waiting list. when those kids shower for the first time it will be like walking the red carpet at an award ceremony. So many “loving fans”, they will surely no longer feel like neglected children.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:02pmPoor babies i thought they said they were taking what was thiers hmm ……..
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:32pm“There seems to be no education or training. We’re creating criminals of the future.”
I really like that one… They were well educated in making fire-bombs,
Report Post »shooting at Cops and Looting..Lock them all up for 10 years or so..
NOOOO slack, for this kind of action.. are or were you caught on
Camera ??? What Ya Gonna Do, When They Come For You ?????
Bad Boy, Bad Boy !!!! WAAAAAH !! Play ya gonna Pay..
lulu229
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:59pmI have too many other things to worry about…
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:16pmI’m feeling for these POS, but I can’t quite reach them…WAAAH!!!
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:58pmBoo hoo. Cry me a river. What a baby.
Report Post »PJL
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:57pmAwwwwwwwww!
Report Post »trooper
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:52pmBeen there, done that. Maybe people who have not have had the pleasure must understand that it’s very boring in jail, besides keeping yourself from being a victim you victimize others that are the target of destain, like rapists, wife beaters, gibbs me datt, no good, looting, street apes that are causing all the trouble and are not even from your country.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:34pmTroop
Report Post »I laugh at inmates that think that they are better than “wife beaters and rapists, etc“ and need to met out ”justice” to them. It’s like ” there is a wife beater, get him!“ ”slap, pow, ooof, elbow, knee, sumack”. Then somebody asks the guy dispensing the beating “so man, what are you in for?“ And he says ”Oh, I robbed a bank and shot a teller, pretty wild huh? But I ain’t no wife beater”.
Dudley Do-Right
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 6:41pmSIX-FIVE
You’se was indicted, you‘se wasn’t invited!
Boy those chickenhawks must be drooling!
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:51pmSuspected London rioters being held in juvenile detention facilities are reportedly being victimized by other prisoners!
Two words!
GOOD!
Oh wait, that was only one word…
So, I’ll add another GOOD!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:03pmEverybody wants to dance, but nobody wants to pay the fiddler. Go figure.
Report Post »Eric Von Zipper
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:51pmMy friends… Finally some news we can feel good about!…
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:56pmI feel a tingle.
Report Post »winwithpat
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:49pmMaking future criminals? Aren’t they already criminals? My kid is a real criminal not a rioter
Report Post »America Is Under Attack
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:47pm“but my poor baby shouldn’t be in jail, he only doing what other kids were doing”….hope they enjoy the stay, thats what they get for rioting and looting. dumb asses.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:47pm“We’re creating criminals of the future”
Report Post »Looks like mumsy has already fostered little Jonny in that direction. Ohh and his widdo head is by a toilet when he is seepy bye.
SCgunner
Posted on August 29, 2011 at 1:51pmhope someone ****** on his head…..
Report Post »Bowmaster
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:46pmI hope the little liberal, ancharist turds do get smacked around a bit.
Report Post »Let them know that the progressive vision of a socialist utopia is not worth it………at least to them!
Put them in with REAL criminals, and let them know what REAL violence is.
It’s better than killing them, which would eventually be the “real world” ramifications of being the mindless pawns of their progressive/union handlers.
Violence is not pretty or fun when YOU are the victim, and this is not a video game with a reset button.
trooper
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:46pmTooooooo Baaaaaaaaaaaaaad, I know put each one of them an a 6‘ by 8’ cell 7/24 to keep them safe, no books, no t.v., nothing to read but the bible and a 6′ length of rope.
Report Post »Dudley Do-Right
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 6:43pmLet em rip up their sheets and braid there own ropes!
Report Post »Zorba53
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:45pmAs “Baretta” (Robert Blake) said… “Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time”!!!
Report Post »john koenig
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 5:47pmAnd did Karma ever come back to bite him…
Report Post »Gamaliel
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:42pmThe rioters are probably a bunch of brainwashed liberal kids out on a lark and the kids in the system are probably not just wannabes. Maybe these useful idiots might started thinking. Probably not.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:42pmJail House Justice!
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:42pmI went to jail and they were MEAN to me!
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:48pmLol. That’s funny… no matter what your new politics may be.
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:41pmThere will be plenty of spotted dick and cream for the rioters.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 5:03pmRight along with the bangers and mash.
Report Post »Blazing
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:41pmToo bad – think about the consequences of your actions next time.
Report Post »Redscot
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 3:29pmExactly!
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 5:30pmB & R. . . while yours’ is sound advice, those spoiled brats can’t see or think past their own selfishness to comprehend that actions have consequences. Poor, poor babies.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:40pmInteresting that “prisoners” are thumping the “rioters!” Maybe that will teach the little hooligans what their parents failed to do : destroying property and stealing is bad. Way to go, prisoners.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 5:33pmGood point! I say give the prisoners an extra pint of grog.
Report Post »Dudley Do-Right
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 6:50pmPrison Homebrew
Steal all the juice you can from the chowhall
Ditto fruit
Buy lots of sugar from prison canteen
Double bag trash bags
Mix juice, sugar, fruit in trash bags
Throw in some bread (yeast)
Hide under your cellmates bed for a couple of days
Strain through a pair of socks, preferably clean!
Wake up in “The Hole”
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:39pmAnd?
Report Post »Hatedemdems
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:38pmSounds about right to me.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:37pmOh…….too bad….I mean really…..no kidding….bwaaaabhahaha
Report Post »bringiton
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 1:36pmAwwwwwwwwww………………
Report Post »IntransigentMind
Posted on August 27, 2011 at 2:14pmIt’s true. They get no sympathy from me. It’s their mindless hate that landed them in jail. Maybe they should stop and reconsider that hatred:
Report Post »http://markamerica.com/2011/08/27/why-they-hate-us/