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CHRISTMAS can be a tough time for anyone living or working in our prisons. While others eat, drink and make merry with loved ones in brightly decorated homes and pubs across the country, festive cheer in jail is much harder to find.
Of course, staff do their very best to lift the spirits of those in their care, but the increasingly squalid state of our prisons makes this practically impossible.
From vermin and disease to broken heating systems and overflowing sewage, disgusting conditions drown any spirit of peace or goodwill.
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