From Wilde to McVicar – inspirational words from a cell / Times, 8 Aug 2006

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,200-2301616,00.html
James Morton
"Even today prisoners who write about prison may be subject to punishment — strip searches, the segregation unit — if their work has not received prior approval. “It’s hard writing when you know your work gets censored before it goes out,” one lifer says. One of the objections to the publication of prisoners’ writing is that they might earn something and so profit from their misdeeds." [Prison Management; Home Office]