IRA prisoners, jspun? Apart from the odd quixotic 'Real' or 'Continuity' IRA man, there've been no IRA men in UK gaols since the Good Friday Agreement sent them all home. Yea thanks for the clarification- I've been reading too much Tom Clancy Novels- what was the one were a splinter group of the IRA makes an attempt at the royal family and his Protagonist, Ryan saves them from the Hitmen. Anyway, part of the book and movie included a physical interogation, beating up one of the conspirators by MI5, special branch or whatever the equivalents.
You know its funny what you say. It sounds like UK prisons are better than US because they don't have that deep racial divide- i've known people that were friends on the outside that had to affiliate with their race inside the walls and were unwhittingly made enemies when stuff went down. This has happened numerous times.
Nat Geo feautures different jails and prisons in the US and I've seen Australia. There is also the nightmarish series "looked up abroad". In Thailand you are thrown in a cell with dozens of people having to sleep on a mat packed in like sardines.
Anyway, its funny what you say about private prisons and inmate satisfaction. In this country the system is set up and the prisons are set up so that they almost encourage recidivism. Federal prisons are prefered to State Prisions and Prisons are often prefered to county jails.
But you mentioned Thatcher and her non union friendly policies- that the gaurds union in the UK was not impeded by that Governments policies.
Guards aren't starving here- i met a 20 year vetran when i was on vacation that had retired and got a new career- he had a very geberous pention- in a time when pentions are going the way of the dinosaur in the US, replaced by market based retirement plans. His standard of living- he lived across from the beach in a desirable town and got to vacation in exotic destinations.
Anyway, that sensible, putting offenders into different catagories. Here prisoners get mixed together and when they get out, they have learned all kinds of illicit skills, including meth cooking, ect...or make connections. So a cannabis offender, comes out a meth cook or armed robber once they realize their job prospects.
And our prisons have names that make them sound like resorts (like the notorious "Pelican Bay" in Northern California.)
By the way Kat, I've read of an underground network of ibogaine volunteer providers, plus i think this treatment modality may be legal in Holland- though I may be wrong, seems like a shorter trip (aren't there Ferry's that make the trip?). Or Rail via the Chunnel?
Anyway, a BLer, Cokemonger, underwent ibogaine therapy and here is the thread he started...I remember when he was getting ready to do it. Sorry if this has been posted but there is alot of practical stuff from the perpective of a BLer:
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/455524-Ibogaine-taking-the-leap-Monday?highlight=ibogaine+tijuana
Mexico I would be worried about. Know people that went to the clinic in TJ.