KFC for convicts

Speaking to The Star on Monday, the MEC said they had decided to buy KFC for the convicts as they would have been charged “an arm and a leg by caterers”.
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Not if you are competent enough to know that you can specify that you're only willing to pay so much per head you idiot. You can't just send out a blank cheque for someone to supply catering for 2000 people.
 
If you're a begger on the street, sleeping under a pile of boxes at night, empty stomach ... Doesn't the prison sound like an exclusive getaway retreat ?
 
so soon the sign will say add hope and feed a prisoner for R2 with a picture of a thin sad looking prisoner?
 
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Not like it happens every single day. Fsck me we have other things to worry about. R60,000 <- not really a big number now is it.
 
Hamster said:
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Not like it happens every single day. Fsck me we have other things to worry about. R60,000 <- not really a big number now is it.
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go say that to poor/old people who have to survive a month on R1000 or less ........ geezuz, must be nice to be doff sometimes.
 
Mephisto_Helix said:
go say that to poor/old people who have to survive a month on R1000 or less ........ geezuz, must be nice to be doff sometimes.
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That money was budgeted to her program so it was never going to go to the poor. I don't approve of them buying KFC for convicts but there are bigger things to "outcry" about than a sum of money that was spent on food that basically amounts to somebody's monthly salary.

Indirectly the prison also saved on serving one rotation of food.

Start a crowdfund to "Show the minister how wrong she was" and you'll have more than R60,000 by end of day. Go do something good - go on!
 
I have no issue with this. Our prisons are not currently reforming many criminals. Perhaps a more caring system that actually tries to teach people to value themselves and others higher will have more success? Certainly seems to be working for the Nordick countries.
 
Personally I don't have a problem with prison programs aimed at encouraging and rehabilitating criminals AFTER they have served their sentences. But I do have a problem with the priorities here. We should not be spending money on criminals while law abiding citizens are going hungry and homeless in our country.
 
Cius said:
I have no issue with this. Our prisons are not currently reforming many criminals. Perhaps a more caring system that actually tries to teach people to value themselves and others higher will have more success? Certainly seems to be working for the Nordick countries.
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We don't have people of the Nordic race in our prisons.
 
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