Prison regime

"Three meals a day, chosen by Huntley from an extensive menu, are delivered to the 12ft x 10ft room where the pressures of serving a life sentence are alleviated by his personal freeview TV, a Sony CD player, stereo and Nintendo games console."

That's from a description in The Daily Mail who are agitated by the preferential treatment that Ian Huntley is receiving. I am more appalled that any prisoner gets this sort of treatment. This is a regime for lifers, for people who have committed one or often more murders. Where is the punishment, the deprivation of normal luxuries? Apart from being deprived of their freedom to go where they please, how are lifers being punished? 24 hour a day TV (not just the basic 5 channels but Freeview as well), a games console (presumably with access to the latest games), etc. etc. His "cell" is 12' x 10', that's bigger than many of my friends' bedrooms. This country has gone so soft, we are scared to punish in case we break a "human right" - this country is all but finished.