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Reruns of Colditz blamed for new spate of prison breakouts

trying to escape 'just part of the fun'‘In this day and age you just don’t expect to find a ruddy great tunnel running from the back of the showers to the newsagents across the street, do you?’

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Posted: Nov 7th, 2010
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Prisoners to be offered ‘shitty job that just covers mortgage’ sentence option

Offenders are to be offered an alternative to incarceration. Instead they can be sentenced to a shitty unrewarding job, with a bullying boss who takes out his self loathing on underlings, for a salary that just about covers their outgoings.

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Posted: Aug 16th, 2010
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Entire prisons moved to fool inspectors

'a model environment, with fewer than six inmates to a four-poster bed'Pentonville Prison praised for display of medieval weapons after being swapped with Hatfield House.

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Posted: Oct 21st, 2009
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