Norfolk Police Authority put forward the plan in its Custody Visitors Committee report, following a trial at Bethel Street Police Station in Norwich where compass points correctly aligned were painted on the ceilings of cells.
The report states:
"The painted compasses on the ceilings at Bethel Street will be replicated across the rest of the county.
"However further guidance has been received and in future small compasses will be issued to those detainees who request them."
Along with prisoners going to be granted the vote for the next election, this new move provides evidence for the increasing improved treatment of prisoners.
Discrimination is a possible reason why former offenders return to crime. Is this new move a good thing? Or is Britain being too accomodating to prisoners?
