6: Advice to anyone going into a UK Prison (from an ex con) 

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Legxndary breaking bad mate (making meth)

you got 14 month for armed robbery?!

I did 14 months inside. I got sentenced to 3 years :) I got off a bit light luckily, mainly because I had a lot of support and it was an "out of character" crime. Woop!

wagooairlines 3 years for armed robbery is a cake walk. Here in the US in some states you can go away for 35 years easily!

Armed with a firearm, Replica Firearm or knife?

knife.

What was your cell mate like? Is there any privacy when using the toilet?

T Bag is still looking for u boy

+Andrew M I hope Mahone is back and Sucre, they were good characters and Mahone was one of my favourites on the show.

+Andrew M Lol I dont thinkboth brothers will be back

+iiTzAttack t bag, sucre, c note, the brothers, Paul kellerman, Sara tancredi, and the brothers are back so far!!

Lol ur fucking with me

Hey David Josef ! Thanks for support, I lived near Salford Crescent for a couple years :) I'm glad your enjoying them dude. A couple of my nurse mates have suggested that I was clinically depressed or bi-polar. But no solid prognosis. I think the power of the mind can over come any problem in any life. Take care amigo, I hope you don't go to prison, its shit! :)

Soo did you end up in prison?

Are you locked up

Stay out Chris, it isn't a nice place. The inability to go and see your loved ones whenever you want is an awful feeling. What were the fines for? If its Civil matters, in the UK you can fight that in the courts and easily avoid prison time. Elsewhere, I'm uncertain.

Interesting post. I would not touch Aldi Microwave meals with a barge-pole, would rather go hungry.

Actually when I was inside I did have to pay for my TV. £1 a week or 50p if you've got a cellmate.

barn2503 exactly the reason it is no deterrent

+amberleaf84 we had to pay £1 for the electric.lol

Lol funny as I have been twice and enjoyed not being woke up by kids or a missus doing my head in lol this post made me laugh, nice one

Hey tastycakey ! Thanks very much. I love the internet. I think everyone should have access to the truth and I am happy to lay my experiences down for people to listen to :-) Take care tasty :-)

Mr Pickles Yeah basically it would probably get you stabbed..

We had a guy who took a pack, they didn't kill him but they jumped and cut like 3 fingers off him

Can I ask a few questions? Firstly I am not In legal trouble and I also know you were In a youth detention but... If I ever homeless I'd purposely commit a crime to go to jail I have a very few friends and family so I'd rather go to the slammer then spend time rotting away freezing my ass off and not having a bed to sleep In! My questions for you are? 1.) Is It true that butt rape and that stuff very rarely happens? If so how can you minimize this threat? 2.) Is It possible to avoid poeple as much as possible? Is It possible to avoid all trouble? What are the areas that are most dangerous? Can you spend most of your time In your cell? 3.) How to avoid getting kettled? 4.) What to do and what not to do? I know gambling, drugs, gangs, ect are extremely bad news and to stay way from them?

lol same here as well. was watching tutorials for my university maths exam then this came up. i guess its time for a little change lol

me too!

+Enigma Enigma You can see how civilized a nation is by the way they treat their prisoners.

+Enigma Enigma Please tell me more about Russian institutions. I am on Facebook, I have no bad intentions, I am an ex-offender and a convict criminologist, which means I am in universities talking about crime.

Congratulations on being from a third world country 👍👍

Lol soo true it a holiday, compare that to Spanish jail 😱 I done that. Fuck nose what a Russian jail is like would never ever like to find out

Lfmao but true

deerbolt(Disney bolt) G wing induction then B wing for 20 month. Also Northallerton b4 it shut down.

Eight years? That’s a lot! For fighting in the streets?

And robberies.

Thanks buddy, much appreciated :)

Jack Hill no way forest bank I ended up there myself two years ago.

I’d say that while in prison you basically feel like a prisoner.

and if messing with mrs brown get soboxone quick!

And don't DON'T, pick up the soap!

BardOfMoate could not agree more .

Up joyce

racist

DIZZY PLAYZ yo what happened

DIZZY PLAYZ how did you find it

I got 6 months boys I’m good fuck going back

@@dizzyplayz4527 U do the full 6 mate?

@@enzoh4385 yeah bro I got slammed with 12 month got out on six with tag and probation jails are ridiculous not what I expected spice everywhere

Jack Hill U actually done any porridge or wot. ??

+tqsuited that's quite possibly the worst advice on this page.

+James Toney it won't happen if you aren't shady or anything.

James Toney fucktard, how about not asking a loaded question?

A man in Scotland may soon end up in prison for teaching his dog to do a roman salute... We're among the most oppressed people in the western world.

poor you, want some cheese with that whine?

Id love 2 grab next mans parcel coming over, thats how 2 avoid trouble aint it. You,ll get someone killed telling them 2 grab the parcel worth 3 grand or so.

Mark White you obviously have not been to jail mark white you whopper

+Jack Hill i used to tell my new cell mate that if he is found hanged...ill get a PF release...put the shitters in em...tortured a few cunts but mostly at court after bad news

+Jack Hill i used to tell my new cell mate that if he is found hanged...ill get a PF release...put the shitters in em...tortured a few cunts but mostly at court after bad news

+david john Mcadam PF Release after turning Queens Evidence on yer co-accused ya dirty wrong un.

Hey Brian LaForge - I was inside for just over 14 months, I got a 3 year sentence. I hope you get through it ok mate, they can lock the lock but they can't stop the clock. Take care :)

Brian LaForge Does DUI stand for ''Driving under influence'?' in the UK it's just referred to as drink driving

+Jack Hill so ya got a 3 stretch for an armed blag ya must be a wrong un ya get a bigger sentence for a street robberey

Jack Hill No offensce or to steortyoe but buy the speech and your attitude i never would know you would of been to prison aha

Your be fine just take it like a bitch lol

Yes, but that wasn't what I was arrested for! Muhahaha ;) Only joking. I used a bannana..... also joking... it was a knife and a petrol station. I was a temporary idiot, it was completely out of character your quite right squire :) Thanks for the comments Buckblacket :)

Jack Hill Well I'm glad to see you're back on the strait and narrow pal ;)

If that's the case you must be a master criminal Charlie ;)

Jack Hill what jails did you go to ?

You don't have to look the part I know a lad who looks like Ray Winstone he's never had a fight in his life because of the way he looks I also know someone who doesn't look as though he could fight his way out of a paper bag but has kicked the s*** out of loads of people so it doesn't matter what you look like it's what in your head

Simon Wooding Happy to assist in your bowl movements squire, I enjoyed your self questioning question! Take care!

ha ha you funny sum bitch that made me laugh

Lmao ;)

Jack Hill chin him jack! x

+Jack Hill Jack whats the craic with ye, you should have done one of the beasts when ye had a chance ASC

Hey DoctorPablo100 ! Thanks for the support dude, much appreciated :) Hmmm, I think it will be an interesting experience for you mate, if you have never been in a prison before. But dont worry, the guys inside are very scared and lonely in truth, they just want someone to not judge them and treat them like a human. If you show any of them a bit of respect or kindness, you will go down a treat :-) Nice of you to do, religiously motivated?

Jack Hill ok ok thanks for the advice. no i'm not religious and i've never been in a prison before. its a hole other environment that i never experienced and i think that i could learn a lot from it. i've been hearing things about prisons and actually going to one will help me forge my own opinion.

That's great DoctorPablo100 :-) I hope that you have a good time and manage to come away with having learnt something. Take care of yourself squire :)

Woooop! Thanks buddy, I hope I do you proud!

lmfao

You can get a ps2. You can't have anything that has access to tne Internet in case you use it to get messages outside. I also saw a gameboy advance while I was inside.

+Dave Goodwin They gameboy chargers were handy to charge the mobiles lol ;)

BardOfMoate I wouldn't know anything about that ;)

+Peter Griffin all prisons are different and the Governors word is king !!!

Hey ★☆☆I Hope My Neighbor Likes This Song☆☆★ . Thanks for the comments :) hahaha. None of those things will gain you any respect in prison ;) Although, for both of those offenses, there would be a fine. So to get to prison, you would have had to refuse to pay the fine and take whatever sentence instead lol. Which would amuse me! I have a good few friends who are Yorkshireman and inside. Take it easy dude :)

ConorPC do you know him then ?

I disagree Charlie Browm - being in prison is boring for most of the time yes, but there are occasionally very interesting moments and for people on the outside, its a bit of a fascination I think.

Jack Hill I found it's a bit of both. Your horribly bored but at the same time on edge the whole time. The best way I can describe it is imagine the feeling you get when a cop stops you and you know your fucked. Well imagine instead of the cop leaving and getting a sense of relief, that oh shit I'm fucked feeling just kind of stays there the whole time for the most part. Rather it anticipating court dates, waiting and wondering how your going to act when you hit general pop, ETC. Jail/prison is allot like going to high school. It's boring, you don't want to be there, the food is shit, everyone is into everyone's business,the whole clique/group thing is back, and there is 2 or 3 assholes that think they run the show. Allot of it will also depend on the luck of the draw in terms of where your doing your time. I did time in one place that sucked so much ass that they made everyone wait 30 days in isolation before they even let you into a pod. The pod had one television that had 4 channels and the reception was so bad you could hardly see it. The place was cold and dirty. Because of the shitty conditions everybody was always on edge and starting fights. Another jail I did time at had me housed immediately, had televisions in cells with over 40 channels, decent food for jail food, was clean, and everybody got along. Hell I would have random inmates come over, invite me to play spades, and try to cheer me up when I was feeling down. So yeah, a major factor in serving time depends on where your going to be doing your time at. Always aim for minimum security if you can get it.

+Charlie Browm A friend of mine from high school was falsely imprisoned fro 10 years. 10!. He eventually got a hefty compensation fee from the whole ordeal but, that's a lot of lost time.

+Jack Hill Keeping yourself working is the important thing, having a routine Work, gym assc and church got me thru to that magic day good luck to any going in, it's shit but not as bad as it used to be. you'll be ok as long as you don't get an IPP sentence

Hey james harmston :) Well, the YO side of Prison that I saw was very rough, so I presume that a lot of prisons vary and not just that - wing to wing and year by year they vary as well. Because there are different cons inside at different times etc. Thanks for the comment :-)

i was only in for 4 months tho to be fair..i heard storys about certain fights and drug dealers getting done over thts about it...:)

Isn't Doncaster a Cat-D as well? james harmston :)

I totally agree.When I was a YO it was all piss pots/Bed packs and battery radios.Its a joke now.

Drug importation

+Dan Skipworth what quantity mate?.

+p cha bout 10 grands worth of meds, mostly K, diazis and ritallin but bit of morphine too

+avt30 what did you get sent down for avt30?.

Hey Nick. It was available every day, several times a day in all 3 prisons I went to. For food, we got a choice of 3-4 different meals, one was halaal, one was veg. And two others. You usually did a weekly canteen and menu for your meals, ticked which meals you want and handed it in every week at the same time. The food in general was pretty poo, so you had to buy supplements and additional food if you were training a lot. There was football at forest bank, but in general not much organised sports. People just gymed it. I did an insanity work out at Kirkham with a group of about 30 other cons :) That was fun.

Ahh thats good atleast with all the boredom the gym provides a nice stress release and a positive way to channel energy! What was everyone on the outside like to you when you cane out? Did u find people would avoid u more coz they would dub you 'the ex con' or did u fall back in pretty well? Ive also got a degree in sports science and was wonderin if u found it easy gettin a job after? Cheers. P.s. could you do a vid when u have time of maybe the timetable structure for your day? I.e. roll call lunch gym etc please? Much appreciated

Nick Jones Hey Nick. My friends supported me massively inside, so those that did remained strong friends. Those that didn't support me inside (for the most part) have been a little distant with me and were probably a bit shocked by the crime and unsure of what to do. I cant blame them. Though I value my close friends like they are my family. I managed to get a job fairly easily, it only hindered me a little. Bloody probation meetings are a little bit of a pain, but I manage to fit them in. Check out my video 8 on Cat-B routine, that tells you the routine I had in the Cat-B prison. I will do one this week on Cat-C and D prisons. Thanks for the comment dude! Take it easy :)

@@JackHill1 just got out of kirkham myself and it was so much better than strangeways 😅

People will test you soon as you come in. They will want your burn and anything else you have. It can be very overwhelming. Especially when you 1st go inside. Be very careful who you spk too and what you say.

Hey Christopher Chapman ! :) Yes you do Chris.... Although I wouldn't worry too much about d & d, just pay the fine ASAP :) Your not related to anyone called Veronica are you? And is she an author?.... :)

You out Yet, how did it go?

@@DXmYb yeah I am. I was sentanced on 07/04/2017. I was released on 11/01/2019, and then my licence period was until 11/11/2020. I was really lucky with where I was placed where I was surrounded by people of a like minded people. Don't want shenanagins at their cell door. I made some really good friends in prison. I threw myself into education and came out with more qualifications than I went in with.

@@musicman9151 That's great all things considered! Thanks for getting back to me

@@DXmYb yeah no worries man. Something like this video really prepared me for what to expect. And I'm forever thankful for it 😁

@@musicman9151 nice work Luke. What did you go in for? If you don’t mind me asking

not good going on the numbers,never get that off ur greens.i wud rather die!

Stephanie craggs Peterborough is fine it's one of the better prisons ..my Husband did 6 months there for Contempt of court / perjury. it was his first time and the first few days it's not so easy.but he is a sociable guy and didn't waste time making a few pals. He respected people and mixed with guys in for some serious time but he got on and they kept him right . He never would wanna go back in but he does keep in touch with a few still doing long sentences just to help them along if he can .becoz they were good people inside even though they were in for some serious shit.

Thanks Rachael Kim ! :-)

macadam, i heard they used to call ye the BurgerKing because you tell so many whoppers, also i just got a private message from a lad who says yee were from up the road, but ye stuck so many of the boys in, ye put in for a cross-border transfer, and ye were in Durham the next day, your cards are well marked pal.

BardOfMoate lol...u should write a book u fukkin numpty !!! ive never been in an english jail !! scotland tour for me...just shows your character if your making up stuff! your more to be pityd than punched...stupid little y.o. with 3 pubes....growling over cyber space !! what u gonna do??? furiously tap your space bar? idiot....ive came across fools like u all mouth then when i corner them their little mouses...lol...idiot

+david john Mcadam Where abouts are ye fae ya clown, aye a done my Y.O days doon in Jessie in the late 90s.

David John MacAdam, ye have been top dog ha ha Never heard of yee in ma life and ive been in and out fae a was 17 ha ha Total feckin clown of a guy, give me a Date and Jail ye were in ?

was ru...here im no explainin masel to daftys