Originally Posted by cookie_365

What I'm saying is: this thread seems to be now focusing on thinking of ways of stopping people on day release from prison from doing what most people consider 'normal' activities, apparantly in case they have some fun/win millions on the lottery.

But these 'solutions' seem to me to be bound to backfire; day release of prisoners is a good thing, to help them get back into society. Society pays if prisoners are just dumped back into freedom with no job, prospects, or stake in the community, much more than it pays because the odd ******* gets lucky courtesy of Guinevere or whatever.

My post was a reply to these 'GRR! Bad man gets lucky! How can we stop this happening again?' type posts, which I just think are pointless.