Yesterday, my class took a field trip to Goodwood Prison, a "Centre of Excellence" in the Correctional System here. Goodwood is what would be classified a medium-security prison in the States, and in my Criminal Justice class, we've been reading all about how poor the conditions are in prison in S.A., so I was certainly expecting rats, wire-framed cots, and general dreadfulness. I was certainly surprised by what I saw. First of all, the prisoners here are kept in dormitories. When I saw Starke, the maximum security prison in Florida, they were all in their own cells, let out only one hour per day. Of course that will be different in a medium-security prison, but the prisoners at Goodwood were quite free to roam around in the yard (which had a card table, garden, and
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