Tomorrow I return to the nick after a five day home leave. Five days of living a normal life, to normal mores, has reinforced one simple lesson that goes to the heart of prison life.
It is weird and profoundly unnatural. Quite why we expect it to teach people how to be "normal" is beyond me.
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What is normal?
ReplyDeleteSophie - it is certainly not prison life, except for the few who know nothing else.
ReplyDeleteKeep strong Ben - you have to make the adjustment and keep focussed.
Weird, are the people who run the Prison Service, Police, and Court System! Many are Freemasons, and that is not normal! Some might say,
ReplyDeletevery unnatural, as this is the opposite to Democracy, because it can never be transparent!