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Inside Parkhurst - Stories of a Prison Officer (Paperback)
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Inside Parkhurst - Stories of a Prison Officer (Paperback)
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THE FASCINATING SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Assaults. Riots.
Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides.
Hooch. Weapons. It's all in a week's work at HMP Parkhurst. After
28 years working as a prison officer, with 22 years at HMP
Parkhurst, once one of Britain's most high security prisons, David
Berridge has had to deal with it all: serial killers and gangsters,
terrorists and sex offenders, psychopaths and addicts. Inside
Parkhurst is his raw, uncompromising look at what really goes on
behind the massive walls and menacing gates. Thrown in at the deep
end, David quickly had to work out how to deal with the most
cunning and volatile of prisoners, and learn how to avoid their
many scams. He has been assaulted and abused; he has tackled cell
fires and attempted suicides, riots and dirty protests; he has
helped to foil escaped plans, talked inmates down from rooftop
protests, witnessed prisoners setting fire to themselves, and
prevented prisoners from attempting to murder other prisoners. And
now he takes us inside this secret world for the first time. With
this searingly honest account he guides us around the wings, the
segregation unit, the hospital and the exercise yard, and gives
vivid portraits of the drug taking, the hooch making, the constant
and irrepressible violence, and the extraordinary lengths our
prison officers go to everyday. Divided into three parts - the
first from David's early years on the wings, the second the middle
of his career, and the third his disillusioned later years - David
will take readers into the heart of life inside and shine a light
on the escalating violence and the impact the government cuts are
having on the wings. Both horrifying and hilarious, David's diaries
are guaranteed to shock and entertain in equal measure.
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