They are criminals, who broke the law and have been imprisoned as punishment.
It's hardly meant to be an icecream social :/
Ant
Icecream social its not. However you have to remember that a prison is to all intents and purposes a small "village" of people living together and as such tends to have similar social dynamics to a village.
This includes (but is not limited to) people making friends, people making enemies, social gathering (during Association), spiritual gathering (prison chaplaincy), self-improvement through education and yes (SHOCK! HORROR!) people having time on their hands for recreational activities like playing football, using the (massively oversubscribed) gymnasium and if they are lucky playing pool or table football on a table that is probably 20 years old and falling to pieces. Some convicts may even have
earned the privilege of having access to a Playstation One.
Some people on here seem to think the whole prison system is nothing more than an easy life holiday camp for chavs and malingerers, when in reality the truth is far different.
The
actual punishment element is being seperated from your family - NOTHING ELSE. I don't care how much of scrote someone is, most people still hurt when they can only speak to their loved ones once or twice a week on the phone and maybe see them on a visit once a fortnight.
The food is generally poor - despite the newspapers printing so called menus depicting slap-up Christmas meals - but at the end of the day so long as it meets basic nutritional needs that should be fine.
Playstations and Xboxes are
not commonplace in prisons, they have to be earned by good behaviour and sticking to rehabilitation plans (and of course can be taken away at a moments notice) and often have to be bought and paid for by the prisoners - rather than the press nonsense stories of tax payers paying for them.
Taking all the above into account, lets not forget that people in prison are usually there
because they deserve to be however, once a person has served their time for the offence they commited then they deserve the payment of their debt to society to be recognised - the slate is clean.
