British Court Rules That Drug Addict Prisoners Have A Right To Heroin
And awarded the drug addict inmate/plaintiffs in the case 114,00 pounds (roughly $168,000 US) for damages because the prison made them quit heroin cold turkey.
Drug-addicted prisoners have received compensation because their human rights were breached when they were forced to go cold turkey, it was revealed today.
Around £11,400 was paid to three inmates at Winchester Prison in Hampshire after a court ruled that it was a breach of their human rights to deny them drugs such as heroin and substitute substances.
The real victims in all this?
The taxpayers of Great Britain, who now are not only on the hook to pay out this settlement to these prisoners but will undoubtedly be footing the bill for free heroin for incarcerated addicts from here forward lest another jail be sued under this precedent.
Take a step back and admire the lunacy: Taxpayers could be paying to provide an illegal narcotic to drug addicts put in jail sometimes because of the sale/use of that very same narcotic.
Discussion question: If Michael Moore was put in jail in Great Britain could he sue his jailers for a taxpayer-funded supply of Twinkies? If heroin addicts have a right to heroin, surely fatties have a right to snacks.
