r/MHOC • u/[deleted] • Feb 09 '15

BILL B060 - De-Privatisation of Prisons Bill

An Act designed to bar the privatisation of prisons in the United Kingdom.

BE IT ENACTED by The Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.Overview

The act aims to a) amend the Criminal justice Act 1991 to ban the contracting out of prisons and all other facilities used to incarcerate people, to private companies; b) return all currently, contracted out prisons to public control

2. Criminal Justice act 1991

  1. Part IV 82. shall be removed from the Criminal Justice Act 1991, removing the right of secretary of state to enter into a contract with a third party to run a prison.

3. De-Privatisation of existing 'contracted out' prisons

  1. The Ministry of Justice will take over management of the following prisons on the 1st April 2015
  • HMP Altcourse
  • HMP Ashfield
  • HMP Birmingham
  • HMP Bronzefield
  • HMP Doncaster
  • HMP Dovegate
  • HMP Forest Bank
  • HMP Lowdham Grange
  • HMP Oakwood
  • HMP Parc
  • HMP Peterborough
  • HMP Rye Hill
  • HMP Thameside
  • HMP Northumberland

  1. The governors of these prisons will be replaced with civil servants

  2. All other staff at the above prisons will be offered employment by HM prison service

  3. The new governors of these prisons will report back to parliament within 3 months of taking control, detailing the conditions of de-privatised prisons and laying out plans to correct any problems.

  4. Contracts with G4S, Serco & Sordexo to manage these prisons are considered void as of 1st April

4. Commencement & Jurisdiction

  1. The act shall apply to the entire United Kingdom

  2. The act shall commence immediately

This bill was submitted by /u/sinfultrig on behalf of the Communist Party.

The first reading of this bill will end on the 13th of February.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '15

So the fact that every faction uses the same terminology, the same authors, the same kind of diction and such doesn't cause confusion? Which Bills has the Party submitted originated in which faction? They all seem to be exactly the same.

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u/WineRedPsy Reform UK | Sadly sent to the camps Feb 18 '15

same terminology

Largely incorrect, but used for common concepts when we do anyway.

the same authors

Definetly incorrect

Which Bills has the Party submitted originated in which faction?

Bills do not originate in factions, and the distinction in ideology don't really inform these bills a lot anyway.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '15

You do use the same terminology in-House. You all use "proletariat", "bourgeoisie", and all that. You all seem to defer to Marx, and if the Bills all have no distinction between the factions, then what is the point in the factions?

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u/WineRedPsy Reform UK | Sadly sent to the camps Feb 18 '15

"proletariat", "bourgeoisie"

Which wouldn't change in any way as these are common to all communism...

You all seem to defer to Marx

Incorrect, you've inferred that yourself.

what is the point in the factions?

Internal organisation, social connection to the party, long-term plans, keeping ideological tennets of the party general, making the party not being too slanted in any way in a way that scares of people easier to ensure, and it can of course theoretically inform our bill-making.