Prison paradise
My mother (Anglican and well-meaning) writes to the errant youth of today who populate our local jail. She was delighted yesterday to receive a reply. It was four pages long with good spelling in a neat hand. She read her favourite paragraph to me down the phone.
To be honest Mrs Dunlop jail is far too easy for everyone. You get Sky TV remote for TV, pool tables, table tennis, Play Stations, DVD players, access to a great gym, play football, there is a canteen every week where you can buy crisps, sweets, juice, tuna, noodles etc and tobacco for smokers. Some prisoners purposefully commit an offence so they can come back to jail. That actually does go on!!
‘It’s a puzzle’ she sighed, ‘I don’t know why they don’t model prisons more on the traditional boarding schools that served us all so well – plenty discipline, lots of sport and a jolly good thrashing when things get out of hand.’
Tessa Dunlop
