OT: help needing in getting help to cope with a mentally ill person

Dec 11, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 103 Replies

But you do have to accept that some of the minor criminals do want to be major criminals:-)

And this is the first time they have been to school in their life and paid attention to the teacher.

The numbers in there necessary to actually

*42.7% of statistics are made up. Sorry, that should read 47.2% *

You signature generator was obviously reading this post

But factually 83% are in for violence against a person, sexual offences, drug offences, theft offences and robbery offences.

Not many crimes you've left out...

What was it like?

The other 17% are in for failing to pay Council Tax?

or TV licence?

Driving offences?

Glueing yourself to the M25?

  • fraud (a big slice in women's prisons), possession of weapons, criminal damage

I don't know where you are located but many local radio stations have programmes that pursue local situations such as you describe. East Yorkshire has the Burnsy programme (@bbcburnsy) who regularly and on air take officialdom to task. This morning the local Council are being chastised about their SEN provision. Being placed in the cold harsh glare of publicity has very significant effect on recalcitrant departments.

Which ones on that list would you not have in prison?

Thanks for that. I think I will look into that possibility.

Bill

Probably around drug offences. It never has made sense to me to make a potentially extremely dangerous drug like alcohol freely available, while making others no more dangerous, or even less so, illegal. Given there is rather obviously such a demand for them. And impossible to police adequately.

I only got a caution for criminal damage.

Malta legalised cannabis yesterday.

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And IMHO so should the UK.

What other drugs would you legalise?

I wouldn't legalise anything that impaired the ability to drive a vehicle. Sorry.

so, you'd ban the eye drops my wife was given at the hospital when they were doing tests on her eyes.

I suspect the eye drops are already legal:-)

They told me not to drive for 5 hours after the drops and then extended it for a month.

WTF were they putting in your eyes? No normal eye drop used in tests lasts that long!

Tim

Diagnosis changed from suspected detached retina to retina starved of oxygen by blood clot, apparently all blood clots cause DVSA to mandate a month with no driving.

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