h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Guardian article on prisons:

http://society.guardian.co.uk/crimeandpunishment/story/0,,431185,00.html

"Despite a strong challenge by Portland young offenders' institution, situated on a remote Devon peninsula to which visitors must walk a mile from the nearest bus stop, Dartmoor prison just nicks the booby prize for least accessible facility. In 1979, Lord Justice May called it "simply against nature" that the prison was still in use. Visitors must get a train to Plymouth, followed by a bus to Yelverton and a six-mile taxi journey. Buses run only every two hours on Sundays. Some 25,000 prisoners, over a third of the total population, are held more than 50 miles from their committal court town."


Report on Dartmoor Prison (2001):

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2002/02/01/dartmoor01.pdf

- see pages 17+18


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Alex

Just what I needed - more work! Thanks very much, I'll add that when I get a chance to, I'm trying to read up on the mutiny so I can add that to what I got from the museum and curator. Plus I still have all this unpacking to do...