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#Wentworth – How Realistic Are The Prisoner Perks? via @stacyamiller85

Wentworth is a highly addictive prison drama that once you begin watching, you’ll definitely get hooked into the characters and stories.  I have been talking with others about how realistic (although at times disturbing) the prison scenes are, however, there is one aspect of this show that I find less realistic.

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Although I can’t speak from experience, I can’t imagine prisoners being allowed to have television sets in their cells. I always thought that in prison there was one television in a common area that the prisoners could watch.  And remember the flat screen television that Ferguson tried to bribe Bea into taking when she wanted to use her as the prison informant? Additionally, I don’t know whether anyone thought about the curtains that decorate the windows of the cells of Bea, Franky, Liz and others. Actually, I never thought prison cells had windows in which to hang curtains. And then there’s the magazines and cookies/biscuits that Doreen and Boomer have been seen getting.

When Liz was granted parole and went to live in the halfway house, the first thing I thought when I saw her rundown room was her prison cell at Wentworth looked better!  Bullentin boards with photos, posters, and other personal items make the cells look more like dorm rooms than prison quarters.

What do you think? Do this prisoners at Wentworth Prison have unrealistic perks? Sound off in the comments. Or tweet @thenerdygirlexp and @stacyamiller85 .

3 thoughts on “#Wentworth – How Realistic Are The Prisoner Perks? via @stacyamiller85”

    1. It is pretty realistic with most of the stuff they show on Wentworth. I mean the violence etc is obviously turned up a couple of notches to make it more exciting, because if they portrayed Wentworth exactly how prison is here in Australia all we would be watching is a bunch of females sitting round drinking coffee and playing cards. So they do have to make some things a bit extreme to make it great tv. As for the curtains and windows etc, windows are a health regulation and are in every cell (well most cells) otherwise you wouldn’t be able to breath in a 2x3m cell. They just do what they can with what they have got, the curtains may have been made out of material they had found or bed sheets are also used to make curtains. They put posters, pictures & drawings etc up to make it look a bit better then having to look at the same bare concrete walls. Imagine having to do 5yrs or something, you would try to make your cell as homely as possible. As long as you don’t draw on the walls & stuff and don’t have anything your not suppose to then your allowed to decorate your cell however you please. But keep in mind if they do a cell toss, looking for contraband etc then they can rip all your posters down, curtains down, upturn your mattress & sheets, the same way they do a cell toss on Wentworth. If you have money in your jail account you can buy chocolate, coke, chips, biscuits, shampoo, magazines, make up etc once a week. You get money by either working in the prison (like on Wentworth they do the laundry and kitchen etc) or if someone on the outside can put money into your jail account for you to buy things. I dont think the the stuff that Ferguson does would or has ever happened in a real prison. Its very rare to even see the Governor of a prison. With relationships between screws & inmates that is also realistic and not really all that far fetched. Escaping prisons is very common too you hear about it alot. Having a baby in a prison is actually true but it wouldn’t be allowed in a maximum security prison like Wentworth its another part of the minimum security prison thats separate from the general population & is only allowed for well behaved female inmates that have children & they can have them there with them until their old enough to go to school so from a new born up until about 5yrs old

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