The essential plot elements of Inherit the Wind — the lonely stand of the brave individualist against the small - minded bigotry of the townspeople, Cates» fear and trembling as
he waits in his prison cell, the threat of ruin hanging over his head («The Scopes character and his fiancee play each scene as if he were on the way to the electric chair,» wrote one film reviewer)-- are pure fabrication.
Two cases that are to be sent to MPs on the Public Accounts Committee include claims that a terminally - ill prisoner was kept
waiting in handcuffs for 40 minutes while G4S staff went to a bakery for lunch and allegations that a woman
in a Sodexo
prison was forced to clean her
cell after miscarrying.