Maeve McTaggart

You know, a former inmate described 15 to 20 people in a cell with just three sets of bunk beds.

Others have described, you know, really cold temperatures based on the level of air conditioning.

I think people would be really surprised to hear that.

So they turn the air conditioning right down to make it a freezing cold environment.

Right down, probably as low as possible.

You know, one woman who had been detained there for three months after she had spent a holiday in Dubai, she would be one of those people that would describe her detention as quite arbitrary and based on kind of an arbitrary matter.

But she said, if being in prison doesn't break you, the temperature inside the prison will.

based on how cold it was, based on the lack really of a kind of personal space that you'd have because of the level of overcrowding in the prisons.

So not great conditions, not great reports.

And what have you heard about the basic necessities like food and water?

You've said the bed might take a while to arrive.

What are the other conditions like?

Three meals a day.

So that would largely feature rice as one of the main staples.

The guidance that the British government offers its citizens is to not drink the tap water, but you can buy your own bottled water, snacks, food from the prison shop using your prison account.

Others, you know, you do have access to one prison across each of the four blocks.

So it's probably quite an argument over what comes on that television, but there's one per block prison.

In terms of phone calls, you do have access to those phone calls.

Similarly to the visits, though, those are really at the discretion of the prison authorities.

So the British government in particular warns its citizens that you can be denied access to those phone calls and those visits at any point.