Prisoners' "shop" is privately run... a few years ago it came up for re-tender or however they choose the profit makers and would you believe, a group of screws took it over. There is nowhere else prisoners can buy biscuits or toothpaste, some of them have friends who give them care parcels (gave? not sure what if any restrictions there are on that) and they can deposit money into their accounts, otherwise the money is what they earn for e.g. kitchen work. Hint: it's not "living wage" hourly :) These people are being exploited to the max, which is not the way to bring out good attitudes to society for when they are released.
Oh, now that is a photo I don't know the location of 🤔
Interesting statistics about the on-licenses. Would be more intrigued over the last 15 - 20 years though, when the University started buying up the pubs around campus.
Speaking of, I was one of the extras on that advertisement, filmed in July. They insisted we tried to make it look warm by getting rid of jackets/jerseys... Except you can tell it's the middle of winter as there's no leaves on the trees. We were feed soup and rolls for lunch, and I was paid by super market voucher 😅 We were on Union St bridge for ages while the band "played" that song over and over, knew it fairly well before it was released 🤣
Prisoners' "shop" is privately run... a few years ago it came up for re-tender or however they choose the profit makers and would you believe, a group of screws took it over. There is nowhere else prisoners can buy biscuits or toothpaste, some of them have friends who give them care parcels (gave? not sure what if any restrictions there are on that) and they can deposit money into their accounts, otherwise the money is what they earn for e.g. kitchen work. Hint: it's not "living wage" hourly :) These people are being exploited to the max, which is not the way to bring out good attitudes to society for when they are released.
Oh, now that is a photo I don't know the location of 🤔
Interesting statistics about the on-licenses. Would be more intrigued over the last 15 - 20 years though, when the University started buying up the pubs around campus.
Speaking of, I was one of the extras on that advertisement, filmed in July. They insisted we tried to make it look warm by getting rid of jackets/jerseys... Except you can tell it's the middle of winter as there's no leaves on the trees. We were feed soup and rolls for lunch, and I was paid by super market voucher 😅 We were on Union St bridge for ages while the band "played" that song over and over, knew it fairly well before it was released 🤣