I READ with interest your story where a prisoner at Full Sutton has been to the High Court, to plead that he shouldn't 'work' on a Sunday (March 24).

This follows another story last week whereby prisoners were trying to get permission to vote in elections.

I would ask, what is the point of locking people up for crimes committed when virtually nothing seems to be taken away from them? Where is the punishment required by law?

Jeremy Banyard,

Bramham Grove,

Acomb,

York.

...I LAUGHED on reading the report on the prisoner at Full Sutton, Kenneth Harding. To call a lifer and rapist a "practising Christian" is surely a contradiction in terms. I wonder if his unfortunate victim would have felt any less violated had they known this about their attacker?

Did he avoid indulging in his nasty activities on Sunday, then? Did he go and confess his sins afterwards, and feel himself cleansed and forgiven?

When criminals whinge about their "human rights" on such ridiculous pretexts, I wonder why anyone bothers to even listen to them.

Heather Causnett,

Escrick Park Gardens,

Escrick, York.

Updated: 10:50 Tuesday, March 27, 2001