Says a man who clearly has no experience of a British prison beyond what the daily fail or the express tells him is a holiday camp. Prisons in the UK are grim, not Victorian grim but grim the over crowding is insane and the amount of time spent in a cell is ridiculously high even more so since covid. I doubt many people actively want to go back!
what do prisoners have in a cell to occupy their minds?
I've honestly wondered who gets a medical condition diagnosed and treated more easily, a prisoner or a citizen on the outside.
What happens to all your stuff if you get sentenced to prison time? whos paying your rent? and how do you build back your life once released.
your possibly starting from the very bottom, living at a doss house on benefits, maybe a few hundred quid to buy clothes and necessary items.
but your essentially birthed out of the prison system and just left to survive or what?
The only people I know that have been sent down I haven't had contact with in decades and they were only around 16-21 doing small stints for a few weeks, apart from one guy who got 4 years and served 2.5)
none of them seemed that bothered, they made friends they stayed in contact with on the outside and seemed to enjoy learning new skills like mechanic courses etc.
this is all like 20 years ago though and it was only Lincoln prison which google says is for young offenders so not "real man prison"