text: why, if i ask a question regarding prisoners receiving compensation for treatment in jail does it get banned.? i posted a question here some days ago and was getting some really sensible answers. yesterday i get an email from yahoo telling me that it has been removed due to "profanity". why?   the question centered around british prisoners being paid £750,000 compensation because they were not given drugs that they were addicted to while in prison, this they say making them suffer cold turkey.  i have emailed yahoo for their reasoning but as yet i have not received their findings. whats your opinion i can only express surprise that your question was banned. it raised a legitimate concern, as it seems absurd first that such large sums of compensation should be paid in the first place to people who upon release will obviously be approached by contacts with an invitation to spend it on further drugs and secondly that it should be paid as compensation for something which cannot be termed as an offence or wrong against them, inasmuch as it would have been unlawful for prison officers to have administered the drugs in question to them and under the influence of such drugs they would have posed grave security issues.  i for one am glad that you raised it and sorry that it has been suppressed.