Do-gooders are losing drugs fight

We are informed that proposals from Whitehall's health and justice departments are to consider giving drugs and needles to prison inmates before they are freed, to avoid them overdosing when finally released.

Furthermore, it is admitted that 50 per cent of inmates are using drugs while serving their sentence, along with all the other privileges they enjoy.

The police are spending millions in trying to stop the sale and importation of drugs into this country, and our young soldiers are being killed in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban who still control the growth and movement of the biggest heroin industry in the world.

Surely it would make more sense to recall all our troops from around the world and deploy them around our coastline and major ports, ready to stop the drugs and all the insurgents we keep hearing about.

It is very obvious that the people responsible for our prisons are incapable of doing the job, and it's high time that the do-gooders and human-rights idiots who have caused our country to become the laughing stock of the world are removed and replaced by people who understand what discipline means.

Which brings me to our prisons minister, David Hanson, who having read the intentions in the full report said: "This report is an important contribution to our fight against drug use". Where on earth do they find these people from?

D Bodley, Manor House Park, Bilbrook.