“…This was of course not the first time that prisons have been accused of being too 'soft' and 'cushy'. As Gooch and Sheldon (2019) note, availability of televisions, subscription paid for channels, computer games, laptops; indeed any technology in prisons has long been controversial, frequently attracting negative media attention (see, for example, Barrett, 2015;Dixon, 2017;Drury, 2016;Gooch & Sheldon, 2019). Although generally held out as rewards for good behaviour and tied to a strict policing by officers and Governors (Crewe, 2009(Crewe, , 2011Liebling, 2008), the available items are often described as 'luxuries'.…”