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Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy
If prison is so cushy why doesn't everyone want to be in there. I don't see queues of people begging to be sent down for a life of luxury.
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I think you are right - it's too easy to think that all prisons are like hotels.
I have never been in one even to visit so I don't have first-hand experience. I certainly wouldn't want to end up in one and lose all my liberties and privacy.
I have a friend who worked as a councellor for people who self-harmed in prisons in N.Ireland and it sounded pretty grim from what she could tell me. There are also a good number of people who are driven to suicide in prison don't forget and they are not all mass-murderers.
I can understand the out-rage expressed at inmates getting board and lodgings effectively for free -surely some system of working for your upkeep could be introduced -I don't mean breaking rocks, of course, but something that would be useful and count as some form of pay-back to society.