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What do people on remand in prison do?

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girlfriend44 · 17/04/2024 13:27

Just wondered as its says they don't have to work, what else would there be to do then?
Also says they can wear their own clothes?
How would that work then?

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Blue79 · 17/04/2024 15:21

Remand or convicted. Get treated exactly the same in prison except remand can choose not to work. However, due to being kicked up 22 hours a day most can’t wait to work a mind numbing my boring job for £2.50 a day! To be fair though I’d probably pay £2.50 a day rather than share a bedroom, toilet and dining room with any other inmate in a room smaller than my bathroom. I feel sorry for the genuinely innocent people being held on remand but would guess that figure to be less than 1%

ImVanillaBaby · 17/04/2024 14:50

Anyone can find themselves in prison...it's for everyone

CranfordScones · 17/04/2024 14:13

What happens is: you lose your connection to the world outside. Often you lose your job, your home, your social network, contact with your children, your friends and your pets.

Crown Court bail applications are usually held in private (without the defendant), so you don't even get to see the legal arguments that result in you being locked up. Which is just as well because most of them last for a only a couple of minutes.

If you're convicted, time on remand counts towards your time served. But what happens when the charges against you are discontinued or you're acquitted? Obviously you're released. But you don't get compensation. You don't even get an apology. Your life falling apart is just collateral damage - a price worth paying but not worth compensating. Surely that affects only a tiny number of people. Except, it doesn't - that scenario is exactly what happens to almost 10,000 people a year.

Why isn't there more public outcry about this? Because they're not seen as 'deserving' and the implied assumption on the part of most voters is 'it won't be me' stuck in a remand prison for months (or years) while my life on the outside slowly crumbles and people forget who I am, and I can do nothing about it.

That's what happens.

ImVanillaBaby · 17/04/2024 14:07

Have you got someone who has just gone in op?

60andsomething · 17/04/2024 13:41

girlfriend44 · 17/04/2024 13:36

It said they don't need to work, wondered what they did then?

read, watch TV, play board games, talk, go to the gym, all the normal things

girlfriend44 · 17/04/2024 13:36

60andsomething · 17/04/2024 13:32

They dont have the same restrictions on money being sent to them from outside. Apart from that, they are in prison. And they have not been found guilty, so its pretty awful for them. Some are on remand for months

It said they don't need to work, wondered what they did then?

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OlympicProcrastinator · 17/04/2024 13:36

EmmaGrundyForPM · 17/04/2024 13:30

I presume the OP is asking about laundry arrangements.

The laundry is the same in any estate. It’s run internally by the prisoners and the job is rotated by the people who run activities.

Remand prisons have activities organised for all the prisoners during the day.

girlfriend44 · 17/04/2024 13:35

EmmaGrundyForPM · 17/04/2024 13:30

I presume the OP is asking about laundry arrangements.

Exactly thanks what an idiotic answer I got, why do some people bother to answer.🙄

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Arlanymor · 17/04/2024 13:34

Totally depends on the reason why you are on remand and where you are incarcerated. Often if you are on remand you have some rights and privileges that are different to those of a sentenced prisoner… but not necessarily if you have been put on remand because it is believed that you cannot be in the community (e.g. flight risk, previous instances of breaking bail conditions, etc) or if you are on remand awaiting sentencing. Entirely depends on the situation of the individual to be honest.

MuchTooTired · 17/04/2024 13:33

They’re allowed slightly more spending money a week as they’re not convicted I believe so can buy more phone cards to call out, can wear their own clothes, but otherwise are locked up the same amount as regular inmates.

60andsomething · 17/04/2024 13:32

They dont have the same restrictions on money being sent to them from outside. Apart from that, they are in prison. And they have not been found guilty, so its pretty awful for them. Some are on remand for months

EmmaGrundyForPM · 17/04/2024 13:30

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 17/04/2024 13:29

I would guess that they just put on their own clothes in the morning. And then take them off when they go to bed.

I presume the OP is asking about laundry arrangements.

Ifailed · 17/04/2024 13:29

In many ways a remand prisoner's life in prison is worse than a convicts, as they legally innocent. They live under the same regime, so will be locked in their cells for most of the day, eat the same food, the same rationing of access to showers, gyms etc.
As for wearing their own clothes, that's down to the individual prison.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 17/04/2024 13:29

I would guess that they just put on their own clothes in the morning. And then take them off when they go to bed.