The Prison Service operates a scheme of Incentives and Earned Privileges. This means that prisoners have the opportunity to get extra privileges through good behaviour, but lose those privileges if they misbehave.
The regime is based on a system which places a prisoner on one of three levels: basic, standard or enhanced. Most prisons operate a system which starts prisoners on either the basic or standard level. The privileges that can be earned affect a prisoner's daily life in prison. They include: the number of hours allowed out of their cell; the number of visits allowed above the minimum requirement; access to more of their own money to spend (on top of their prison wages) in the prison shop or on phone calls; the opportunity to wear their own clothes and to cook their own food; the chance to have a television in their cell, paid for by the prisoner.
I believe convicted criminals should not have any luxury items or privilages whilst serving a prison sentance, this system defeats the object of being in prison for commiting a serious crime, also most convicted prisoners will re-offend because they themselves have no faith in the british legal system. My aim is also to protect the families of victims of crime who in most cases have to leave the area they have lived in to avoid conflict, stress and fear.
