Britains Worst Prison

[nailit]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5377701/inside-britains-worst-prison-rife-with-zombie-drug-spice-and-plagued-by-rats-and-cockroaches/

I spent 6 weeks in this prison 20 years ago, at the end of an 8 month sentence. It felt like 6 years at the time. It was just as bad (perhaps even worse) then.
Just curious as to how some people...here and elsewhere... continually see prison as a holiday camp? Not argueing about the rights and wrongs of prisoners or their conditions, just curious as to how people can still equate going to jail with a holiday in Butlins?

[Baldric]

To be perfectly honest I am not that bothered what they are like as I have no intention of seeing inside one.
Butlins was bad enough back in the early 70's, never again.
;o)

[Togo]

I only supply the facts Nails. AB has willing secretaries to find the paperwork. :))

[nailit]

Just WHERE are all these ''prison is a holiday camp'' proponents?
I want to see them. And would these people book their holidays in such an establishment as the one shown in the link?

[Mamyalynne]

As long as you drone quietly that's OK.

[Togo]

K, me Baldric when were you in Pwllheli? Or Stallag Taff as we used to call it.

[-SharonA-]

But you see stories in the paper, how food is sent in, homemade hooch, women prisoners getting their hair done and wearing latest tongs.
What are we supposed to believe??

[Togo]

That is just the men's prisons Sharon. (^_*)

[nailit]

//To be perfectly honest I am not that bothered what they are like as I have no intention of seeing inside one//
That's unfortunate then as Ive known a lot of ex soldiers inside who have been suffering from ptsd. Not been sarcastic or anything here, just stating facts.
Prisons are warehouses for the bad, (the Ian Bradys of this world) The mad (those that have been driven so by war etc) and the sad (the homeless, psych patients etc)

[-SharonA-]

Yeah Togo! Not to mention every prisoner getting conjugal visits.

[nailit]

SharonA, maybe best believe firsthand accounts rather than that reported in the press??

[Baldric]

The original Butlins in Skeggy Togo

I can only speak for myself Nailit, no offence meant here either

[sunny-dave]

It looks bloody horrible - a disgrace that anyone should have to live /work there - it must be de-humanising for both prisoners and guards.

But it also looks to my (untutored and probably ill-informed) eye that much of the damage is essentially superficial and has been done by the inmates ... perhaps they could be put to work repairing some of it?

[-SharonA-]

Nailit, I will believe you any day. The media cannot be trusted to report the truth.

[nailit]

//The original Butlins in Skeggy Togo//
I spent my childhood there, wasn't that bad.....I still love Skeggy.

Sunny Dave, agree that some of the damage is done by inmates, but if you treat people like animals guess what you get?

[ummmm]

Like being at Butlins...

[ummmm]

Sorry. I didn't read the answers :-)

[nailit]

//Nailit, I will believe you any day. The media cannot be trusted to report the truth//
Thanks SharonA. Some muppets on here believe anything!

[Togo]

Off to bed folks. Into a "prison" of my own choice. I am into the second book by Neil Asher and about to drop into u-space. "War Factory" the second of the trilogy, Transformation. G'night.

[nailit]

Goodnight Togo, sleep well.

[ludwig]

I actually don't care very much that it's bloody awful in prison.