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Poor Charlie still locked up should free him

Hello John. Remember we used to correspond many moons ago? Glad you are keeping up the good work. It would be great to catch up.

Prison officer getting interviewed was full of shit

Doesn't seem to be too many drugs back then. If there were you would see prisoners that were shall we say unwell?

Not alot of drugs back then to make the prisoners go crazy the way it is today. Now a days so much drugs inside prisoners are fruit cakes.

This theme music always makes me sad. Even as a kid

Why are prisoners moaning about their lot in the nick?? Don't do the crime and you won't need to do the time.

Loved these documentaries

1998 was a hell hole with 6 dead in a week, I was there as a cat A, screws there were aresholes

This is funny😂

even the low IQ folk spoke well and most were lean

was there on b wing about 4months in 2006 it was proper run by screws then . you could tell the old screws on reception had been drinking at lunchtime.

My friend is experiencing abuse by criminal justice could you point in the right direction to receive proper help.

Welldone John keep up good work brother. I'm a friend of the boy who walked up and down Norran side with you.

They do the crime. They must do the time. Prison should not have tvs or radio. A bible is enough.

They should of kept prisons like this.

Three in a cell? Think of all the submariners stuffed into uboats during WWII!

Restorative justice, where more focus is on the needs of the victim/s.

Hello John. Not sure if you will remember me but I am Alice’s daughter. She would be glad to see you out and a free, still campaigning. She believed in your political integrity. Wishing you freedom and peace to live in the present.

May 2024 and the introduction to this 1979 documentary applies to our prison service today.

Now days prisoners have it so easy it's a joke.

Dismantle the System Past Present Future

Comeing from lodon i was in the scurd next mim i was folded up in the dog box heading up 2 hmp Durham i was a bad cunt threw piss on the wing cov.

My dad was going to be a prison officer years ago he paased all the training and everything my dad is only 5ft 6in

Unfortunately i have been in that rot hole its very very bad

remember that music well like yesterday, also wickers world, loved watching that when i was a kid cause it meant i was up late

That's Charles bronson definitely he will be free soon

Stop committing crime and you wouldn't have ended up here, would you? 🙄

a lot of complaints about the system but no suggestions of how to improve it

I had a Saturday job in 1978 as a 17 year old kid, and would take home 6.80 for that one day. In school holidays I’d do 5 days and get around 36 quid take home. A pint was about 25p, cig’s about 40p for 20. Maybe less.

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TOP BLOKE John was in Ochill with you 06 .011 across from you A very intelligent gentleman you were TO SAVY for the system pal great to see you FREE loved your stories pal you'll remember me YOU WERE always in yapping me ran abt way burkie YOU HAD TIME FOR me BUT not many you had them eating out your hand John Brian 👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Cor I remember the education welfare officer of Bromley council showing me this at the Chislehurst offices, he also gave me the speech seen in Made in Britain (police and social work casefiles of mine used in writing through me mother lol) and he predicted if I didn't buckle down I would be banged up... well '81 he came good on his promise and I entered into the secure unit merry go round before them finding me a place I couldn't escape from, where the screws were hard bastards who just loved fighting and you were transported like Russian prisoners trussed with handcuffs everywhere... 2 years in that hellhole before migrating to the attached open houses, 3 years but it did keep me on the straight check out Every Mother's Son - Channel 4 20/20 Vision Jan 1984... that was me hehehe Me mum was the journalist some of the old lags might have good cause to remember as she did outreach work for her newspaper working with the lifers in secure prisons, she even put in a very good word for John McVicar to get his job at the Mirror, had lunch with him once with me mum hoping for him to scare me straight but I was on my own runaway train to hell and even a hard man like John wasn't going to stop that train.

There's absolutely no way those conditions are fit for a dog let alone a human...Let alone 3! The only thing there is to 'rehabilitate' when there's no work on, is the next best way to rob a car or a house. The governor was spot on in this and I've seen him in a few other good docs. His dad and grandad were both prison governors too apparently. The Strangeways takeover by the prisoners was in the best interests of the screws and prisoners alike.

The Bay city rollers banged up?

Absolute crackpot goin on about murders by prison officers when you yourself had L plates on, meaning you killed someone yourself and probably your bird which puts you in the nonce bracket which is far worse than a few screws cleaning up the local brummie oxygen theives . Rant over 😊

Fair play to women Gillan,..

Bowden. Who did he murder and under what circumstances?

That would crack me up after a day, living with 3 men in a tiny room,

Lol what time is it.? Who cares

I bet they had a shock when they relize its not like that comedy program Porridge,,,, eh where the mr braclough guy

I watched a programme called Porridge on tv as a kid. It put me off a life of crime.

A brilliant current affairs programme that is now gone to be replaced by complete shite.

TBF the guvnor here is enlightened and sensitive to the reality of HMP Strangeways. Hope he retired before the later riots

This was the time of 'Scum' . A truly warts n all account of incareration in HMP borstal

Screws in 1978 who gets paid £100 a week in today's money it's £719.99p thats darn good money. According to my dad who was 25 in 78 says £100 a week then was a small fortune

12 years later the boys ripped the fucking roof off the place 🎉

Back when tv programmes were worth watching.

I was in there 2011 to 2012 shit hole