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Strangeways - A Prison Officer's Story (Paperback)
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Strangeways - A Prison Officer's Story (Paperback)
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Loot Price R424
Discovery Miles 4 240
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Neil `Sam' Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer
in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a
soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all - gangsters and
gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally
ill. Men who should not be locked up and men who should never be
let out. Strangeways is a shocking and at times darkly funny
account of life in a high security prison. Sam tackles cell fires
and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most
dangerous men in the country. He averts a Christmas Day riot after
turkey is taken off the menu and replaced by fish curry, and stands
up to officers who abuse their position. He describes being
attacked by prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by
radicalization and the drugs flooding our prisons. As staffing cuts
saw Britain's prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the
job - the suicides, the inhumanity of the system, and one assault
too many - left Sam suffering from PTSD. This raw, searingly honest
memoir is a testament to the men and women of the prison service
and the incredibly difficult job we ask them to do.
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