Many posts on your site from very few users. Perhaps they are inside like you were with feck all better to do?

Axel wrote:
Many posts on your site from very few users. Perhaps they are inside like you were with feck all better to do?

Well, I'm on the inside, far too cold outside today ! I did have a walk round the garden earlier and noticed how many things are now budding though !

Well, 78 people have read your post in 20 minutes and only two consider it worthy of comment!

Well I'll reply..now I've only ever visited a prison once and that was Holloway many many years ago to visit a female friend on a rather serious drug importing charge and she decided to stay inside on remand as she was positive she would be found guilty so as the conditions were better on remand she thought she could at least do some time on easy conditions.

She was found not guilty after 9 months and kicked herself and lo & behold-when she went to pick up the few thousand pounds the police had confiscated there only seemed to half the amount recorded...but I digress..

if you are inisde..can you use computers and write on boards such as this ???

He obviously doesn't check his spelling and grammar before sending a post/comment.

Axel's alias isn't Max Clifford by any chance?

There's part of me that wonders why you put this idiot's opinion on your website, but in hindsight I can understand why, as it makes him out to be a complete prat.

I'm happy to carry posts like that as it tends to clarify to those with brains the standard of the opposition.

Give 'em enough rope, as I once sang.

Of course there is no internet access in prison (one of my crusades, actually; I believe inmates should be allowed to receive and send e-mails in this new tech world, under strict supervision, obviously, as letters and phone calls currently get) but Axel is not influenced by reason.

That's a fair point and Axel's only brain cell clearly is not functioning.

I have looked at your archive section of posts and you posted a lot of them when you were in prison, I'm curious to know whether you were supervised when writing them. Given your accounts of your time in prison, it seems like you really helped a lot of prisoners who were in a far worse position.

I totally agree that prisoners should be given internet access, if it helps them adjust to life outside by having some IT knowledge and gaining some literacy skills, then surely it benefits society in the long run.

Oh yes, Mike, I kept this site up and running with about 10,000 daily visits through either dictating posts to boardkeepers on the phone - for highly topical subjects - or writing and mailing out longer pieces.

It infuriated the media, who couldn't work out how it was done, and the prison authorities (who came to the correct conclusion that it was perfectly acceptable and legal) - but very few other inmates did it.

The same applies today - direct access is not allowed; indirect access is easy (a friend used to print up and mail into me each week of posts).

Resorting to personal attack is undignified and unworthy.

If Axel is wrong it is better to refute than insult, otherwise we may become the very thing we speak out against.

Erm, thats not a great statistic given the potential through this medium.

Its a forum you wally. Maybe you'd prefer a Communist State?

Axel wrote:
Erm, thats not a great statistic given the potential through this medium.

Its a forum you wally. Maybe you'd prefer a Communist State?

Axel, you're talking to yourself.

That's not a good thing.