Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer

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Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. As with most things, the issues identified come from cuts and decisions made by managers and service-leaders who lack experience of the jobs they are overseeing. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. If government ministers were made to read books like this, and also those by former doctors, nurses, and other public employees with experience, maybe things would get better. I also bought several books by Charles Bronson, Britain's most notorious long-serving prisoner, but I didn't enjoy his books as much.

Evident from Berridge's tales, is the sad reality of the system working (or not working as the case may be) and the complete lack of support prison officers received, which I can only hope has possibly improved as the years have gone on, but feel this also may not be the case. I was hoping this book would give more of an insight as to a certain set of prisoners, I should have known better. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Seeing the inside of prison from an officers perspective is unusual so seeing prison for what it is and hearing stories keeps you gripped.

The frequency with which his poor old bottom had been fucked about had finally taken its toll and it was no longer fit for the purpose for which it was originally intended. David has been assaulted and abused, he has tackled cell fires and attempted suicides, riots and dirty protests; he has foiled escaped plans, talked inmates down from rooftop protests, witnessed prisoners setting fire to themselves, and prisoners ruthlessly murdering other prisoners.Both horrifying and hilarious, David’s diaries are guaranteed to shock and entertain in equal measure. No mention of the brutal IPP sentences that have left multiple people behind bars for years, serving an indeterminate sentence with no release date, more often than not having come to prison for a 3-6month sentence, yet end up in HIS kind of prison.

He does mention a few of Parkhurst's most notorious inmates in one sentence, but these are never mentioned again, which was a shame. Even some deadly assaults, it makes you wonder how these people could go in day after day to face this.I do feel that the author is very set in his ways, despises the idea of rehabilitation and sees prisons as a place for punishment. I like reading prison memoirs - from either side of the bars - and I'd thought this was going to be another one.