How would you feel about a prison being built in your area?

there is barely room to build another house around where i live never mind a prison. 😅

But from a safety point of view I wouldn’t care.

Prisons however are generally monstrous eyesores so for that reason and all the extra traffic…. staff, visitors, deliveries, etc…. How would I feel ?

Negatively !

I wouldn’t have an issue with it, we need more prisons.

2 anti-traveller posts in the first 6 replies. Stay classy AH.

It's a thread about prisons in your area (to answer the OP, I wouldn't mind so long as traffic/etc is managed. The fact it's a prison isn't a worry). But it's AH, so break out the racism. Just waiting for the anti-trans and anti-social welfare to get the trifecta.

Wouldn't bother me but we don't need any more prisons, nobody goes to jail these days anyway😋

There's an argument that people don't go to prison because of a lack of space. It would appear that on that basis we do need at least 1 more prison in Ireland.

There's also an argument that violent people shouldn't be allowed to roam around us because there's no spaces. A judge shouldn't care about prison spaces they should lock them up then it's up the prison service to find room for them. Anyway this is a AH thread I don't want to derail it.

Visitor travel. Kind of like another red line Luas where only upstanding citizens have to pay and you take your life in your hands depending on the type of person who gets on to hassle you. :)

I love it. I vote we build 2 Prisons. One in Clare and one in Donegal, or possibly the Aran islands if we can swing it. We could link them up with a Luas if needed.

I'd capitalise on it,build a hardware store that specialises in files nearby, and a bakery across the road....

Ireland badly needs about 2 or 3 new prisons due to increase in population and general increase in violence in this country….having no prison space is presently giving the green light to scumbags to do as they please to the detriment of law abiding people .

I would have no problem with one near me.

Agreed.

However that has nothing got to do with the title of this thread!

I wouldn't particularly like a prison to be built in my area. That said, I'd prefer it to having an abattoir, an airport, a sewage processing plant, an incinerator or a halting site built there.

Nimbys for trivial reasons are arseh**es and we are not all Nimby arseh**es. For me I'd have no issue with a new prison built near me as its badly needed

I used to live very near to Pentonvile prison in London. Never a bother. Would occasionally hear bells ringing, and once somebody came to the house looking for directions.

My girlfriend at the time wasn't that for from Holloway prison either (she lived nearby, not likely to become an inmate). If you had very low standards there were always some recent releasees in the pub nearby looking for the ride.

Would be handy to have one nearby in fairness. Otherwise, how is Melania going to come to visit me?

I wouldn't have a problem with it. Its those wandering around who are not locked up (but should be), that you need to worry about. Not those already locked up.

Visitor access needn't be a problem, if they build it while planning a shuttle bus link.

Depends on whether it's a male or female prison.

Now you are the only person here who didnt assume that the travelers made the mess. Even the people moaning that I mentioned travelers. Fair play to you for being the only person not profiling the travelers.

I constantly struggle to understand why that happens. It's so completely illogical, isn't it?

The likeliest locations for new-build prisons are generally green-field sites with good road access. There is not a huge impact on immediate neighbours as there are unlikely to be any neighbours within 500 meters or so.
I live in an area that fits the above criteria, Urban but literally on the edge of the countryside and within the boundary of a planned ring road.
I'd have no problem with a prison being built in the locale.
It would provide a lot of employment, albeit given that Moyross would be in the same area. I don't know how much of that would be local, at least immediately.

Prison places are needed desperately. I don't say that as a proponent of "Lock 'em up" but rather that prison places have barely grown despite the rises in population over the last 20 years.
The impact of a move to single-person cells (Needed IMO) and the lack of building any new prison, rather the renovating existing estate, has squeezed the supply of places.

Prisons are not the answer to crime, but they are a very necessary option.
Increased prison spending is needed, but so is increased spending on earlier interventions and also post-release supports.
The two biggest impacts we can have on current prison spaces, are addressing the drift of youths into criminality and ensuring that 1st time offenders who have served a sentence or are likely to. Are supported via probation and youth services to reduce any risk of recidivism.
Its going to be cheaper for society to prevent a youth becoming a career criminal than it will be for society to keep dealing with them via the criminal justice system.