Nick Baker Transferred To British Prison

[Mulboyne]

Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard: Nick Baker back from Japan jail 'hell'
AFTER six years in solitary confinement, Cirencester's Nick Baker has finally won his battle to be transferred to a British jail...Now finally the harsh Japanese prison regime is behind him as he has returned to the UK following an agreement with the Japanese embassy and will serve the remainder of his sentence, now reduced to 11 years, in Wandsworth Prison. His weight has dropped from 15 stone to under nine stone and he has lost all of his muscle, along with several toe nails after suffering frostbite every year. Iris, of St Michael's Road, Cirencester, is delighted her son is back in the UK after years of campaigning for his human rights. Describing Japanese prison conditions as barbaric, she said it was only since he returned to the UK that she had been able to talk to him about his horrifying ordeal. "The Japanese justice system is corrupt and barbaric," she said. "Of course people have to be punished but Nick spent most of the six years in solitary confinement. He is less than half the person he was." While in prison Nick was only allowed to speak for ten minutes a day and was separated from other English-speaking prisoners...He told his mother he saw big, strong men crumble under the harsh prison system...more...

Main FG Forum Nick Baker thread here.

[Tsuru]

Well isn't that nice... relocating from a Japanese hellhole jail to a British correction facility more people are trying to break into than out of.

[Doctor Stop]

I have a feeling that he isn't going to like British prison either.

[AssKissinger]

I think he's going to find the company much more unpleasant with a much higher likelyhood of buggery.

[Catoneinutica]

I think he's going to find the company much more unpleasant with a much higher likelyhood of buggery.

Yeah, Japanese prisons sound pretty hellish, but at least they don't seem to offer a high probability of being raped (and I know there's nothing that tickles the funny bone more than a "don't drop the soap!" joke, I'll tell ya what!)