What are the worst things about prisons?

Seeing everyone and everything you love and/or care about pass you by on the outside. Hearing about kids, nieces, nephews, and cousins growing up. Hearing about friends having adventures that you'll only ever be able to be told about but never experience. read more

Apart from the sick feeling which comes with being yanked into prison life, ultimately the worst thing about English prisons is the drug culture and the inability of the establishment to combat drug misuse. There is a drug policy in all our prisons which gave us the 'mandatory drug test' or MDT. read more

Thing about prison, is that sleep becomes like a chore you do each day. You're never really tired, so you never really want to sleep, it just breaks up the time. I felt like I didn't want to sleep ever again. read more

Abandonment Some of the worst things that happen in prison happen unnecessarily. Friends and family tend to forget you still need them to love you, communicate with you, and support you. read more