Not been inside for a long time now touchwood and while you are sat banged up in your cell you will know what they mean when they say "you cant put a price on freedom".
Anyway back to your prob,you say your charged with gbh if your victim was girl/child in your in for some shoepie/trouble.You cannot go to prison for rape and say your inside for theft as the inmates(trusties)will have access to your files which will be easy to look at say you get a job in the kitchen or library a trustie will get a glimse of your file and know what your inside for,gbh very tame.
Hopefully you just battered some white guy after a nite out in which case no worries,prison life is not at all how the media would have you believe, rape gang rape never heard of that after 7 years inside.
However sex offenders/rapists/child batterers are given plenty of kickins and rightly so i might add,while this is happening the wardens/screws will NEVER rush to stop this,they will prob have a casual stroll over to the trouble by which time the victim has had a really good beating.Inmates getting thrown over balconys was not uncommon at my stay at Armley Leeds,these are usally
sex offenders/rapists/child batterers.Your first day will be the acid test of how your stay at prison will be,inmates will have you as an easy target be prepared to stand up for yourself and if you are confronted by someone built like a brick ****house my best advice would be hit him before he hits you.
Good luck.
Ps hope you dont go to strangeways manchester when i was there i was banged up 23 hours every day