Welcome to HMP Lea Bridge East

LEA BRIDGE EAST HOTEL - I had the misfortune to be placed here by Kensington & Chelsea. That's right - on the other side of London! This is a place that looks like a prison - built around a central courtyard/reception/landing area with all the roos or "cells" built around it. It not only looks like a prison but as it houses a lot of ex-cons, actually behaves like one. As someone who has never been in trouble with the law - I wondered what I had done to deserve being placed in this hellhole.