I believe the living conditions should be tightened because the environment in which prisoners serve their sentences aren’t as controlled and disciplined as they should be. Prisoners for all counts of charges whether it be rapists or murderes get to spend their time in a comfortable environment with TVs, game consoles and a lot more. This creates an almost nice escape rather than a punishment. This has been backed up by numerous documentaries and news articles which also show prisoners even using mobile phones and smoking drugs inside their sells.

We can compare our prisons to others in the world such as America. It is well known for their legal systems and how crime is dealt with in a very direct manner. Murderers who are sent to a prison in a state in America are confined in their cell 24 hours a day and will serve 25 years to life and some can even face death row depending on circumstances. They clearly show a lot more discipline and structure compared to the ones in the UK.

While I say that Americas prison system is stricter then ours it is also seen that there is a fine line between rehabilitating and institutionalising a person, I have watched several prison documentaries where a re offender has been interviews and a main point the he brought up was the fact that when he was released he didn’t know know how to cope on the streets and in normal life because he had Been institutionalised. But in recent years institutionalisation has become a hot topic in U.S. Politics and they have began to implement rehabilitation classes where an inmate can sign up which may equal time off there sentence if done so, but then the question is posed that weather an inmate is taking a class for the actual help or the benefits that it gives.

By any means America is another scale of things a lot of people cannot begin to understand. This is because of different laws and regulations in America and it is hard to compare the both as they aren’t comparable.

However, in Britain it has been shown to light by recent developments that some british convicts will commit more crime once they are out of jail so they will be put back in. Many ex cons say prison is a comfortable environment. “3 meals a day, a bed and a place of a socialisation.” The prison system is overcrowded as it is so people who do this accumulate more and more people in the prisons