"Prison should not appear to be a home from home, it should represent a proper punishment and be a place you should never ever want to return to. Like everything else, it's been watered down to the point where it's now no longer seen to be a true deterrent."

Since they both know so much about prison life, can we assume that Triangle and Brian are old lags? Or have they acquired their deep and insightful knowedge of the English penal system from the pages of the Daily Mail? I have worked in prisons on and off for the past thirty-five years; conditions and regimes are better in some than in others but, in my experience, the vast majority are overcrowded, insanitary places in which bullying and violence are rife and the weakest quickly go to the wall. Doubtless, there are some who think that such conditions are exactly what the inmates deserve but even they have no excuse for perpetuating the 'holiday camp' myth beloved of the tabloids.