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> you will be locked into a holding cell – a very bleak room indeed – but also offered a cup of tea.

A useful reminder that this is about prison in the UK. I suspect this little touch of sympathy is absent in the US.

On the plus side, in the US they generally don't shackle you in view of the jury, it takes a unanimous vote to convict, and the prosecution can't drop surprise evidence at the last second.

I'll take those over tea.

Which also has an impact on the makeup of the prison population.

I would take even the tea Socrates has took, to avoid getting raped.

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