Initial review: 12/12/2006 - Updated on: 7/4/2008

One of my favorite shows from the UK is about a women's prison. It's hardly crazily sex-filled, although there was at least one hot lesbian affair between the prison's governess and an inmate. Nevertheless, the next site, Bars and Stripes had won me over just with reading its clever name. I mean, British chicks in cages having their asses whacked? How sweet is that? 

The setup on BarsAndStripes is unique. It's not necessarily the quickest way to get to your porn, since there aren't the usual photo and video sections labeled across the top. However, it's more creative and makes you feel as if you're undertaking an adventure to uncover the secrets held in cells, offices and outside prison walls. Here's a list of sections to see: governor's office, cell block, intake office, solitary, sick bay, interview/visiting sessions, PT room, governor's house and prisoners at large.

There are currently 65 high-res galleries as well as sets of regular-res vid caps. They can be downloaded in Zip files. The photos do a good job of conveying the scenarios of inmates interacting with the prison screws (that's British slang for "prison officers"). You see lawbreaking babes going through the various stages of being processed into the system, as well as some of them getting into trouble with another inmate.

The prison has 19 inmates at the moment, making up 95 episodes. The videos are split into two or more partial scenes and are downloadable in average-looking Windows Media files. Watch the prisoners getting "punished," sometimes brutally, other times with a big dose of humiliation added in. The scenes are well acted and believable.

Bars and Stripes updates several times a week, but instead of just adding a clip or pic set for one particular episode at a time, it updates two or three scenarios bit by bit to create a sense of drama and suspense. There are no extras or bonuses, but the main content is compelling enough to hold most fans' attention and the standard cost of membership seems fair given the deeper thought given to the plot of this punishment porn.