Originally Posted by
johncar54
Holiday Camps.
In the late 80's I visited Holloway Prison and in a chat with a prison officer she told me the new prison, which was soon to be completed, was so luxurious that as it coincided with her retirement (on a meagre pension, sufficient for her to live in a small flat) she would have loved to have stayed on in the prison as a 'guest' so that she could enjoy it.
that modern prisons are becoming more like 'Butlin's' by the day [makes a change from Butlin's by the sea!
] But I have to disagree with your statement about prison officers' pensions ... which - in reality - are anything but "meagre".
