Criminology and Psychology

Tanisha Samuel, 20, and Shereen Hardy, 18, were sentenced to 12 months behind bars earlier this week after they admitted the audacious attempt to get more than 2kgs of the drug on to a London-bound plane.The women will serve their sentence at Fort Augusta, Jamaica's only women's prison. It promises to be a tough ordeal for the two friends, according to charity Prisoners Abroad, which has offered to help them. Thomas Lawson, deputy chief executive of Prisoners Abroad, said: "Fort Augusta is a pretty difficult place. It's an incredibly old colonial fort, it's not particularly modern. The windows don't close particularly well - during the storms rain comes through."There are rats in the place. The food is in reasonable amounts - three meals a day - but the nutritional content can be variable. "We send money to clients in Fort Augusta so they can supplement their diets at the tuck shop. They are big cells, about 28 people to a cell. There's very littl...