And it’s important to remember the sun/daily Mail will ham up how nice VIP wings really are in order to get outrage clicks.
The Sun and the Daily Heil will be running stories that hes got a 65’ TV a PS5 and sit on furniture covered with whale foreskin and sleeps in a fourposter.
Allow me to be the first to say: This is bollocks. The regime is more restrictive than on other wings as for example, to move VP’s around the jail requires coordination between comms and boots on the ground in order to stop a riot.
The enhanced level of the IEP allows for prisoners to make progress. It pointless keeping someone locked up without giving them chances at rehabilitation and the different levels give them a chance earn extra privileges by behaving and showing that actually they can behave and better themselves.
Its not all about the punishment aspect of removing their liberty. There has to be the rehabilitation function as well
That was a long way of saying: Ignore the bollocks you’ll inevitably read in the papers.