I can’t speak to German prison conditions, but I can absolutely guarantee that it would generate votes if a candidate ran on that; it’s just that those votes are from the underserved and disenfranchised that gave up voting long ago, and we largely want to keep those non-voters underserved, disenfranchised and not voting.
Comment on Germany refuses to extradite man to UK over concerns about British jail conditions
themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoMost countries prisons are not in a good state. Germany is playing hardball here because its funny, but I’d wager German prison aren’t really that much better.
The basic reason is that most people don’t feel like their country should spend more on convicted criminals than they already do, so running on “I’m going to build better prisons” isn’t really a thing that gets you votes.
Maeve@kbin.social 1 year ago
BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Have you ever head of the word “cope”?
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Actually, we deny requests quite often for various reasons from all kind of countries. Only except is the EU where there are special agreements in place. I think we would've delievered in the UK if the police station named a prison where he would've been gotten in. So I put that on the reluctant communication by the Manchester police station on a large degree.
As for German jails, putting aside some events like someone burning to death despite being completely restrained and the police saying "oh wow, no idea how that happened. Probably magic." we solve overcrowding by letting people with minor offenses go. Although statewise, specifically looking at Berlin, it's getting pretty bad.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I bet the Manchester police station don’t actually know where he’ll be sent. Please don’t actually assign people prisons. That’s an admin task.
I’m sure they could find out if they really needed to, and then reply with that information, but they just don’t seem that interested in doing so.
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yeah, I mean, they had time and decided to reply at the last day.
Also, they could've just said, that they don't know and can't know or will get back to with a time extension. There is a lot of solutions to this. Instead they just ignored the request.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Thinking about it a little more I don’t understand how Germany expects the police to be able to provide this information.
Which prison he gets assigned to will depend largely on prison availability at the time of conviction. We don’t know how long the trail is going to last, so there’s no way to know this information.
It just seems like everyone involved is trying to be as awkward as possible.
Maeve@kbin.social 1 year ago
Odd how quickly this instance became “like the other platform,” isn’t it?