Life behind bars is far preferable to being homeless. Letting off a party popper in a police station should derive me back in jailThis year,I want just one thing over the festive period: a nice, short prison sentence. Why? Because a spell in jail would be immeasurably preferable to facing life on the streets, and homeless.
I know this because I have been both homeless and in prison before. I was educated in the UK public school system and being sent away to a tough 1980s boarding school aged seven made my three-month prison term seem like a negligible hardship. Once I had been through the ordeal of police custody,court and processing, and had survived the first two weeks, and I found I had no genuine scare of life behind bars.
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Source: guardian.co.uk