^^^by "companionship" I am sure they mean a cat? Cats are pretty common over here in American prisons, especially for the hardened convicts. They had an episode on cats and other small pets in prison on "Locked Up" on MSNBC recently.
Really? They let you have a pet in some prisons?
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The show that I saw, it wasn't like individual guys were allowed to have their own pets. (Maybe some jails do, who knows?) But the documentary I saw, the guys who worked in the kitchen were feeding these cats. I took it the cats were like strays that came in under the fence or something. I think the guards tolerated them because they eat mice.
