You’ll have seen prisons in the papers and on TV, and the coverage tends to swing between two extremes – either grim exposes or soft-focus documentaries. Neither gives you a realistic picture of what day-to-day life inside actually looks like. This section works through the basics: how the system is organised, who runs it day to day, and what an ordinary day involves.
The 3 core things which matter most to a new prisoner (!)
| Visits | Canteen & Money |
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