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Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer

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As a previous serving prison officer who left the service in 1999 I was amazed to read how much the balance of power has changed from the staff to the inmates I retired as a governor and I always made it my priority to support the staff as best I could not as seems to be the case now . He criticises all forms of training and attempts at improvement in prisons, and blames these on rising incarceration rates. Both horrifying and hilarious, David’s diaries are guaranteed to shock and entertain in equal measure. The first mystery in a new classic crime series from Frances Brody, the bestselling author of the Kate Shackleton mysteries. Surely everyone has to start somewhere in their career, especially in a service where there are already such staff shortages?

Through it all, David retains his wry humour and offers a much-needed assessment of the state of UK prisons today, the job crisis and poor recruitment, the corruption and gangs running rife, and the mental health epidemic hitting prisoners, causing many to take their own lives.Years of catastrophic anal intrusion had caused major damage, damage that couldn’t fixed in the prison hospital. It's a pity, because I would have liked to have learned something new about these more notorious inmates, but it didn't spoil my enjoyment of the book. This book is not for the fainthearted there are areas of this book that literally leave you speechless, but also there is great humour in what must be a very difficult dark job. also i can’t agree with some of his views, i know next to nothing about prisons but surely treating actual people as actual people isn’t entirely a bad thing? Anyway, a prison officer who believes in punishment rather than progress and finds attempted murders and suicides a run of the mill day, and disrespectfully describes the assaulted individuals as being covered in “claret” should maybe reconsider the pedestal he holds his old fashioned screws on.

One, there was no coherence; stories weren't grouped around any particular theme, and it all felt a bit like, let's try to make some money, rather than a compelling story that needs to be told. Speaking of bragging, I lost count of the amount of times he reminds the reader that he can ‘handle himself’, alongside the constant reminders that EVERYONE inside is a danger and out to get you, it all feels like laying the ground work to justify some later brutality to prisoner, which right on cue keep rolling around, wrapped in the excuse of it’s needed because I’ve kept telling you they’re dangerous.If you like books on prison this book is for you, if you think you know what goes on inside a prison then this book will certainly open your eyes! We could learn a lot from our Scandinavian peers about how to rehabilitate criminals - sadly all that’s described within these pages is abuse and gaslighting, the prison service and prisoners alike are probably grateful this generation of people are off to retire.

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