Bobby Sands was reportedly elected to parliament whilst in jail. He was a writer and wrote, One day in my life, an autobiography whilst in her majesty’s prison Maze. According to media reports he died of hunger. The prisoners’ adamance, the guilty ones, that they were political prisoners was the cause of much acrimony from the British establishment. Some beliefs are the prisoners were not given clean food, which they refused to eat. There have been other reports that the mod may have been involved in abuse specifically designed to retrograde prisoners physically and emotionally.