If you have been inside before or are precieved as a danger to the public, or indeed the posiblity of you "doing a runner" is likely, then you will be put on remand.

For this unpleasant experience to occur you will be held overnight in a police cell after arrest or taken straight to the magistrates court and they nearly always go for the safe option of putting you in prison while you wait for trail.

The prison is your local holding prison, (see section probation, prisons). The only extra benefits you will be able to have inside, is to wear your own kit, spend more and have better visiting arrangements

You will be able to talk to your solicitor and be taken to court for various legal " directions and pleadings" to take place before the trial proper. The length of time you spend in prison is taken off your sentence, bless them. However, how you rebuild your life if you are found not guilty is far from clear, should you be freed without conviction. It took a year for my first trial, then a further six months for the re-trial, I was on bail, so very lucky or I would have been inside eighteen months!

It is about time that large compensation payment and prosecution/ imprisonment/ fines are imposed on any professionals who lied or fabricated evidence.
A full investigation of every freed remand prisoner's cases should be mandatory and totally independent of Government whitewash! Then and only then will true and honest convictions happen. I dream on!