I was reading in the paper on 15/09/10 about George Michael being sentenced to 8 weeks for being found with cannabis in his possession, behind the wheel of a car (again). Well, I know from personal experience that when 'one' first goes in to the prison system, he/she is stripped searched upon arrival, but now the way the paper (Metro) made out it would be like, for e.g. no internal examinations etc...
He also will not be cleaning the prison floors, as Metro implies, he will have to clean his cell though, just like all prisoners have to do every day, but cleaning the wings is left to 'privileged prisoners' (e.g. prisoners that have been there years etc..). On the jobs front, only prisoners with 6 months or mors on their tariff their not allowed to have a job, only education. As for the 'brick laying course' mentioned in the article, the Prison Service will not give prisoners with less than 6 months on their sentence a brick laying course or any other long term course, except education and that's it!! other than 23 hour a day bang-up, he's not much to look forward to for the next 4 weeks!!
Metro should do their homework, and not just copy what other papers say!!!
