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  Keef
  
  Basically nearly 84% of inmates suffer from either drug or alcohol addiction.Most commit crimes in order to feed their 'habit'.
  
  60% are illiterate and find it difficult to obtain any form of useful and gainful employment.Once they obtain a criminal record is near on impossible to find any sort of work especially in todays unemployment market.
  
  A large proportion come from broken homes and have not had the benefit of a happy family enviroment so some view prison as 'their home'.
  
  Life 'inside' is far from "cushdy" as you put it. Most have to contend with 23 hours behind doors,let out for meals only and exercise as when staff levels permit.TV,s,Games Consoles etc are only given to the very well behaved who have progressed through the system to a position of trust.
  
  Inmates are subject to random urine tests and strip searches.Visits are allowed 3 per month. Education classes are over subscribed and with over crowding and cuts are very few and far between.
  
  They have to share cells with complete strangers and in most cases complete nutters and a variety of wildlife and insects.
  
  Of course then there are the beatings by by both bullies and officers followed by rapes,thefts from cells etc.
  
  Why some go back? its because they know no better and never get the chance to improve their lot.
  
  Until there is a complete rethink of incarceration the system perpetuates itself with no hope of rehabilation and no chance of solving our raising crime statistics.

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