Today's CNN- sounds like he's fairly comfortable in there!! So he can weather circa 4 more months...........
"Like all inmates in South Africa's prison system, Pistorius was able to air his complaints to members of an independent inspection arm of correctional services, giving a fascinating insight into his life behind bars.
Two of those officers, Violet Ngobeni and Boitumelo Morake, met with Pistorius multiple times.
"When he arrived he was angry," said Ngobeni outside Kgosi Mampuru II prison. "The first time I went to see him he was like 'I don't want to talk to anyone.'
they say he initially struggled to adapt to prison life, where he had to spend 23 hours a day in his cell. But they say he's since changed dramatically.
"Now he can sit down and discuss and laugh at the same time," Ngobeni said.
During their time with Pistorius, he shared his complaints.
"He complained that he wanted a bath. They [correctional services) built a bath in his cell. He also had a complaint about his bed. And they replaced his bed for him," says Murasiet Mentoor, the regional manager of the Judicial Inspectorate, who reviews hundreds of written prisoner complaints.
Mentoor says Pistorius complained about his gym equipment, so they changed that, too.
Mentoor said prison officials offered to let Pistorius cook the raw produce, but he preferred to only buy processed food from the prison store.
Ngobeni and Morake say they last visited Pistorius a few days ago, when he thought he was about to be released into corrective supervision at his uncle's house in an affluent Pretoria suburb.
Ngobeni said: "He just talked about "I miss my family, I need to spend more time with my family, just to go out and see my friends."
Last sentence - maybe just a slip of the tongue, re. OP's interpretation of house arrest ?
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