They do. Simple stainless steel ones in the Jails we inspected. But those cells are for short term, longer term cells have beds, toilets and sinks.
Thanks. And now when I’m watching a show I will probably look for a toilet.
Sheldon was shown one on The Big Bang Theory when he was in jail for being in contempt of court.
I’m not sure it counts as extremely common, but I’m currently watching Mary Kills People, a Canadian show about a doctor who functions on the side as an End Of Life Counselor and provider of Assisted Suicides. The thing which bugs me is that she and her assistant are constantly talking via cell-phones, with no attempt to disguise the subject matter of the calls. If they were under police surveillance (which they are) surely the police would be monitoring those cell-phones and gathering lots of incriminating evidence. They are not. Is there something about Canadian law which prevents such surveillance or is this just sloppy script-writing?
Some of the English goals explicitly didn’t (The Italian Job, Porridge). Because the buildings were too old to be individually sewered. And I looked at the old cells here, and considered what the original model must have been like in Winter in England, without even glass in the slit windows!
But I do wonder about The Shawshank Redemption.
You’re probably correct about “in real life”, but certainly not impossible. It’s what I would do. I wasn’t brought up with any particular concern about nakedness, and I’m not the only one.
Pirate treasure. People looking for a Pirates Captains treasure always mention the cash value of all that look, like they are hoping to find it.
But hardly. Let us take Black Bart Roberts- one time getting away with 40000 Gold pieces- nice! However on his flagship there was a crew of about 300, and Robert’s own code sez-
The Captain and Quartermaster to receive two shares of a prize: the master, boatswain, and gunner, one share and a half, and other officers one and quarter.
So, doing some math- 40000/300=133, so Black Bart got= 266 gold pieces. Not bad, but you know what pirates did with their loot? The spent it- wenching, rum, gambling and an otherwise good time.
Sure on a sunken pirate ship you might find some nice loot, but not tens of million of $.
And it wont be buried-only Kidd is know to have buried any, and it was to be used as a bribe to save his neck- instead it was used as evidence.
(Now on the wrecks of Spanish treasure galleons, massive treasure has been found.)
In the episode wherein Spock is happy, and Kirk spitefully destroys the miracle plants, Kirk is said to be unable, despite the advanced tech, to keep the ship in orbit by himself after everybody flees to the planet.
Fanwank: despite being the best of 23rd century tech, maybe those generations of starships were not automated as much. They actually needed people to monitor panels and turn knobs and push random, unlettered buttons. Maybe they were (wisely) afraid of a too-sentient AI. (“How long before we all simply…get in the way?”) So Kirk, by himself, couldn’t move the ship from a hover into a real orbit.
Or maybe the writers were dumb. At a reasonable orbital altitude, the ship would stay in orbit unpowered until the sun went nova.
As for automation improving in 90 years, in “Remember Me” Beverly seems able to drive the D-Enterprise anywhere in the galaxy just by asking the computer. But, that was a fake reality, generated by her own thoughts. Maybe she actually believes that’s all it takes to make it go. “I’m a doctor, not an engineer!”
I dont remember that happening especially killing the plants. IIRC, Kirk/Spock just sent sound waves so as to release people from the weird effects of the plants.
Kirk does a captain’s log right before a spore plant nails him on the bridge. He says, “The ship can be maintained in orbit for several months but even with automatic controls I cannot pilot her alone.”
Okay, but does he kill the plants?
That far in the future, he should be able to fly it with a joystick from the captain’s chair. They must have lost joystick technology at the same time they lost seatbelt technology 
Along with mobile phone cameras.
No. McCoy tells them that they can’t live on the planet without the spores’ help and so they’ll have to relocate.
Thats what I thought (I own the whole ToS set on DVD, and rewatch every so often, my buddy and i have one point of debate- he says “Space Hippies” (the Way to Eden) is the worst, and i say Spocks Brain is the worst- but we agree that the other one comes in second)
I honestly don’t mind Space Hippies. My worst is either Spock’s Brain or And the Children Shall Lead.
Bonk! Bonk!
I hate that one too but I didn’t want completely come across as an old fart yelling “Get off my lawn!”
All three are pretty bad.