Being locked up regardless of having finished nothing mistaken might sound like a nightmare.
However on this occasion, the inmates have volunteered to be there.
A Channel 4 present has adopted a gaggle of celebrities who swap their regular lives for a stint on the decommissioned Shrewsbury Jail the place they dwell like actual lags.
The solid consists of EastEnders actor Sid Owen, Gogglebox star Marcus Luther and the Mail’s Peter Hitchens.
The members had been locked up for eight days, throughout which they had been saved in cells, given jobs to undertake and topic to physique searches. They had been attended to by actual former jail guards.
They had been joined of their cells by actual ex-criminals, a few of whom served sentences for severe crimes.
A Channel 4 present has adopted a gaggle of celebrities who swap their regular lives for a stint on the decommissioned Shrewsbury Jail the place they dwell like actual lags
The members had been locked up for eight days, throughout which they had been saved in cells, given jobs to undertake and topic to physique searches
The members had been in a position to query their cellmates about their expertise of being incarcerated and study the impression their jail time has had on them.
The experiment was run by a former jail governor with 20 years’ expertise at a number of the UK’s most infamous prisons and all members lived in line with present UK jail guidelines.
The four-part documentary sequence Banged Up will likely be broadcast this autumn.
Others celebrities collaborating embrace ex-MP Neil Parish, comic and actor Tom Rosenthal and former Strictly Come Dancing star HRVY. It’s understood Matt Hancock was approached however declined to participate.
Owen, who performed Ricky Butcher within the long-running cleaning soap, has spoken previously about how his father was jailed for his half in a theft when he was a baby.