Veterans in Prison

Veterans In Prison (VIP) was founded by ex-soldiers because of the shockingly high numbers of veteran soldiers in the prison population.VIP and some psychiatrists, are convinced that the majority of these ex-soldiers are unknowingly suffering from the effects of combat related psychological disorders, unless treated it will change their whole psychological universe on their return home to peacetime surroundings after serving in wars/conflicts.

A very high price is being paid by these troops/veterans for being psychologically injured in their Service to the country.  Scandalously they have been dumped inside the prison system and left to cope with these disorders alone, and neither has there been any investigation or debate by MP’s into why there are such high numbers of veteran soldiers in the prison population (a much higher percentage rate than any other profession in the entire prison system). VIP believe that this hidden mountain of ex-soldiers, is being deliberately kept secret from the public at large by government run departments such as the Criminal Justice System and the Home Office.

This website will prove that this government, who keeps stressing and exploiting new dangers of terrorist threats against the British people by Al-Qaeda or Muslim extremists, are in truth doing more damage to their own troops/veterans (and their families) than any terrorists organisation could ever hope to achieve.

A number of years ago the rock group Pink Floyd released an album called ‘The Wall’, together with a video showing robotic trance like troops tramping and marching all over the place.  Suitably this scenario is exactly the same message which the Government and Generals want the public to see when troops return home after serving in wars/conflicts – Welcome Home Parades as a Nations thanks to its heroes!  These parades plus the relief and happiness shown on the faces of the families of these troops (seeking their loved ones return home safe), is all part of the ‘smoke and mirror’ image which the Government want to portray.

Veterans In Prison are angry – angry that the hidden wounded of combat related PTSD (CRPTSD) are being kept hidden – hidden in the dumping grounds of the prison system.

• Question:  “What occupation guarantees thousands of its employees a unique (unknown) legacy of ‘violence and imprisonment’ once it’s finished with their employment”?
• Answer “A career with the British Army – it knowingly keeps hidden the pitfalls of ‘life sentences of imprisonment’ for thousands of its troops/veterans after their service in wars/conflicts”!

The only sure way the government/MoD can prevent combat related PTSD (CRPTSD) is by not committing its Armed Forces into any wars/conflicts.

However, given the facts that the only year in which a British soldier was not killed in any war/conflict (since the ending of the Second World War) was in 1968, then this was never going to happen.  Nevertheless, and as a result of the MoD’s none existent treatment programmes for CRPTSD, over the past 60 years of continuous wars/conflicts (right up to the present day conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan) then the very likely probability of CRPTSD being widespread among troops and veterans will be horrendous.