Jade is a Supervising Officer at HMP Manchester and previously served in the Armed Forces. She joined the Prison Service in 2020 through the Unlocked Graduates scheme. In January 2023 we followed Jade carrying out her duties on an early shift at HMP Manchester. The video was shot over one day and filmed via GoPro and hand-held camera.
When I was in HMP I was in Nottingham and it was my first time and everyone was easy on me but the guy who was in same wing as me was asking me for my stuff when I was released and I said no cause I didn’t want to stay and now I’m living life and not breaking any crimes I started on 29th of April ended 21st of may And I’ve learned my lesson but I could’ve been in G wing
Before anyone applies for this position, a word of advice, speak to either past or present Prison Officers. You may have to deal with the lowest of the lowest on a daily basis and can have a real affect on your own mental health.
I worked in the service for over 32 years. It got more difficult during that time due to staff shortages, the drugs problem, mental health issues and bullying. Not many of today's staff will last 20 years because it is difficult and dangerous at times. Worked with some great staff though.
That's a horrible thing to say about the prison governors calling them the lowest of the low, I'm sure they try their little best...while the cameras are rolling 😜
I spent 34 years in all grades from Officer to Governor. I wish my experience was the same as portrayed in this video. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s a rewarding job without a huge amount of stress.
My gf lasted 2 months as officer 👮 under paid over worked under staffed and let’s say keep eyes around you 360’ cause u can be attack anytime for no reason.
Very civil, organised and well behaved inmates, nothing like here in el salvador 🇸🇻 it makes uk prisons look like a kindergarten compared to what we have here.
@Dibley8899the service? Care to explain what part of HMPPS or specifically prisons has lost the plot? You’re not going to cry over the focus on rehabilitation are you?
@Dibley8899 you’ve wrote a lot without saying much. Let’s focus on the first point, if I can make sense of it. You have an issue with the ‘supervisor’ business? What are you on about? I think they refer you as the ‘dinosaurs’ in prison who never want to try anything new and always wants things to remain at the are. Having a hierarchy in prison has always been the case. It’s nothing new. I don’t know why you are complaining about that.
They shouldn't be locked up for 23 hours a day. Even a dog isn't locked up for that long. If they can't cope then they should stop sending people to prison
@@Alanhock75they put me in Wandsworth at 18 years old .A high risk prison full of grown men …And bare in mind I’m still innocent I haven’t been found guilty of nothing
Then it's not the right job for you! what do you expect ? people making coffee for you and say " Good morning, have an amazing day " ? You should know what you signup up for. That's like saying when I joined the Army I expected to be treated nice and not break a sweat from working. No wonder they're always in high demands recruiting pople. There's too many softy applying for this job.
You can't tame prisoners with a unicorn. You need someone who can assert authority and strict punishment. Look at places like Russian prison or Japan prison. 2 completely different culture but they have one thing in common! Strict authority and punishment... both prison is like a military camp.
@@phisit8813is not about being soft or expecting an easy ride. But you are getting abused,supposed not to react, if you react and defend yourself you will be investigated. All these factors either will eventually make you a nervous wreck or make you leave. Done a long time on the landings and used to have a strong disciplined team...by the time I left it was replaced by inexperienced kids ...
S.O in 18 months... Wow... I wonder how she managed that. As an ex officer of 15 years myself I can probably guess..... I had a mate in the service 26 years as an officer brilliant, experienced a cracking officer. Was constantly temporarily made up to S.O during shortages to get experience & did a brilliant job. Went & passed the tests, sat the board and blew everyone out the water & guess who they gave the promotion to, a Lesbian & he was told it was a tick box exercise. He retired after that. I would say in my experience at working in almost 7 establishment that the staff are more corrupt than the prisoners, I would trust a prisoner more than I would a Governor. The stories I could tell would make your hair curl....
@scottfletcherr1457 Can I ask you a question, because you seem the type of person who thinks that the mention of sex, race etc is evidence enough of wrongdoing. Do you think it's possible that sometimes there are situations where jobs, roles and situations are being given to people purely on the basis they are female/non-white/not straight?
@@NTL578 I imagine most large organisations don't do that. There is no evidence of that here. Show me hard proof of that happening, not just supposition and we can converse more on the matter.
@scottfletcherr1457 Oh, no problem at all. Go on Indeed, look through a few job adverts and it won't take you long to find in the T&C's that minorities ...which as well, are quite often several generational Brits with non traditional names, or women, are guaranteed an interview. Not even for particularly gender specific roles either. Companies also make no secret of quotas. Its strange, I've lived in different areas of the country and other countries, but currently in a more rural white majority area, and you hear the D&I shite here. 'We MUST have more diversity' as if that isn't actually pretty offensive in itself. But they never get the candidates. It's quite funny really.
If you want to hear more true stories about the good bad and the ugly of life a prison governor or doctor there are two great books the governor by Vanessa Frake, and the prison doctor by Amanda brown
As a Supervising Officer, Let me give some advice to anyone thinking of joining the prison service. Let me tell you some real facts from on the ground. When the higher ups decided to turn the prison service soft, eliminate discipline and focus on rehabilitation they created a dangerous environment where the prisoners started to gain the control and the staff have become intimidated. Because of this, the bully and gangster prisoners who run the drug market inside run the wings and go unchallenged by staff, therefore creating an environment where rehabilitation can not take place, because all the prisoners that actually want to live in a safe environment and change their lives fear for their safety or are pushed into continuing their drug use ect by the prisoners that run the wings. Honestly, they have messed up big time. Discipline needs to be reinstalled, staff need to take back control, then you will have a safer environment for actual rehabilitation to take place. I don't believe this can happen as it's to far gone now unfortunately. It is a failing and dangerous place. Discipline is completely gone, the prisoners will talk to staff like they are a piece of shit, and assault officers with no real repercussions, which then leads to more assaults on staff as the prisoners know they get away with the minimum for it. I myself have been assaulted a few times, and the most the prisoner got was loss of canteen for a week, the police are not interested in prosecuting prisoner on staff assaults unless it is very serious injury, as they just say it is not in the public interest to prosecute. The system is run on appeasement, that's the only way we maintain now the little control we have left. The prisoners are in control and go largely unchallenged due to staff fearing for their safety and a growing culture of just not challenging, so if you are one of the few officers who actually challenge poor behavior or rule breaking, you are then targeted by the prisoners. It is not the 90s anymore, and the criminals inside are more sophisticated and ruthless. They have the technologies and abilities through illegal smart phones and contacts to threaten the safety and security of staff. I myself have had my car windows broken at my home address as an intimidation tactic, although it didn't work. The prisons are also now full of officers far to young or with little to no life experience to deal with the sort of people locked up, and yes, the prisoners know this and prey upon them to manipulate. Don't get me wrong, I've had some enjoyable years in the service, and had good times with staff and prisoners, but things are changing rapidly, speak to most experienced staff and they will tell you the same thing. I myself am now leaving the service to go into a new career, so I am being honest and open. I would have stayed if I thought things might get better, but unfortunately they won't, they will continue to get worse as they do year on year. Just check the statistics, they don't lie, but they also don't tell the whole truth.
Served a short time myself as a prison officer , and lasted under a year. Way too much work for an officer to do on a daily basis. Someone has a fight and needs restraining, you need to fill out paperwork for that , and also put them on report. This is more paperwork. There isn’t the time to complete this paperwork but it needs to be done asap, often in your own time. No one has the time to help train you so it’s a case of sink or swim. I left the army to do the job to so I wasn’t particularly inexperienced.
That should be printed out and sent out to every potential POELT, so they can have the 'balance' to wonderful, happy, recruitment videos like the one here. People really need to have their eyes wide open before they embark on a journey into darkness. Not all the time of course, and you'll make some great friends in colleagues, but it's always there. That ominous cloud of dread that follows you around the landings can become a whirlwind in a second, at any time of the day. And then there's unlock. One bad one of them in the morning, and you're never the same person again. You'll be expected in the next day of course.
How come woman are aloud to pat down male prisoners while men are not aloud to pat down woman prisoners? As woman prison officers can be just as bad as male officers etc.
Hi how has bringing a camera/recording device been authorised to come in, or is this just body worn cam footage? If it is a body worn cam how has this been brought in through EGS, I ask this because in the prison I work in you cant draw a body worn camera until you have got through the EGS area. EDIT: Sorry just seen the description saying it was filmed on a go pro and a hand held camera, so I ask again, how has this been authorised to come into the prison?
Don’t fall for it! Absolute crock of 💩day in day out, all done for the camera to increase recruitment, promotion after 18 months isn’t unusual as relatively new staff can be moulded by management into robots who do as they are told and stuff the safety of the front line staff. When you’re broken all they want to do is get you out so the next 18 year old with no experience can start the circle all over again.
In prison since 19, now 40 "ready to be released". I doubt that person's sentence is nothing less than a Life Imprisonment for Murder. Or some seriously violent offence to warrant 20+yrs
Who the heck thought it would be a good idea to let young pretty women work as prison guards? It’s insane. They are easy victims and easy to compromise. There have been three ! cases of female guards having inappropriate relationships with inmates in the last years. That’s just ridiculous. I guess in todays times you are not allowed to say that there are jobs woman should not do because it puts them in harms way
What about the part where your walking back and forth answering emergency bells only to be asked for toilet paper? Or the part were your sitting on the computer with a line of prisoners asking how much they have in their accounts 🤣.
I worked for an agency as a 'temp' shorthand/typist and one day I was asked to cover a secretaries job as she was on long term sick leave. I was sent to Liverpool Prison (aka Walton Prison). On the first day I had to leave my phone in a locker, was searched and then the most beautiful spaniel sniffed me for naughty things! I was given a belt to wear and a leather pouch that I put keys in that was on a long chain. I worked in the hospital for the Director of Nursing. Dentists, Chiropodists and Doctors all held clinics there. I stayed for 6 months and loved it.
I was at HMP forest Bank for 1 month march 7th 2024 to April 3 2024, in custody breach of court order, hated it i was placed in early day wing, rude staff unexperienced screws lacked respect, felt dehumanised, humiliated dehumanised I had no support regarding my autism diagnosis I was ignored constantly felt on edge got in a few scraps with other prisoner's
See the wrong type of people are being employed for this job I think ex military should be looked at for these jobs because their the one's that's got the experience for it
A few sub 5 foot psychiatric staff say they'd prefer to work with prisoners - they are predictable unlike mental patients who may be badly affected while medications are being experimented with - they have to experiment some medication can be brilliant with one person and useless with another with the same illness it's just as dangerous for the patients. Psychiatric staff frisk patients and check their belongings while the patient sleeps - waking others who lie quietly and listen.
Pretty accurate look at an average day. I worked in a cat. B local, lots of prisoner movements, courts, etc. Always short staffed so every day another decision about which area to keep locked up. You handle it all by being approachable, fair but definitely assertive. Never say anything you don't mean, never promise anything you can't deliver.
How can a prison officer be friend with a prisoner who has been staying in the prison for over 20 years? She also mentioned that the prisoner has lots of trust on her... is friendship and trust even possible in prison???
I agree. But let's be honest, firstly they've got rid of those with the most experience to employ cheaper options and secondly those staff would definitely have stated what a shit show it now is publicly.
@@kerrymaczohan7332Absolutely spot on. I joined in 1962 and promotion was unheard of until you had completed at least 5 years because you needed experience.
Your comment is based on someone with an average skills and poor leadership skills. If you find someone with exceptional leadership skills and performance then its posible to get a senior role. For example; ex-military personal with a rank of Cpl.
@@briannickson6631 I agree, 1975 for me, I was told I wouldn’t be competent for a least 7 years. POs exam was after 4 years service and if you were successful off to a different jail you went
back in the day after leaving the army i applied and was accepted as prison officer i said to my father that i was accepted he said thats no good son you will be like a prisoner to; now 50 years later im happy i did not join as ive had 50 years of my own
I’ve been in prison lol and this isn’t what goes on really at all and I’m not sure this woman is really an officer😢. Most of the younger girls flirt with the bad boys types and are smoking and drinking in their cells after lights out and some screws go for breaks. Some of it is finally coming out just how ridiculous that system really is and is in dire need of reform itself let alone prisoners. I was in 8 months and I vowed never again will I end up inside one. Horrible place not because of violent offenders but the corruption and cohesion between law and prisoners is staggering.
In Australia inmates on remand are legally innocent Australian inmates and so are their children. During the pandemic I was placed on remand where the cell door was shut behind me and did not open again for fifteen days and nights strait. It was cruel it was inhuman it was degrading it was violent it was traumatizing and it was most definitely tourtue both physically and mentally. My Australian child seen her Australian father for one hour out of six months due to the actions of other individuals in Australia that are under the same human right obligations. "All prisoners are entitled to one hour of fresh air per day unless they work in a outdoors job". Every single individual of Australia who contributed to violating my Australian childs basic fundamental and inalienable human rights and violently tourtureing her Australian father in Australia sheme on each and every single one of you. Keep it in mind prison guards keeping people in a cell for more than twenty three hours is tourtue and do not contribute to such actions. Australians that contributed to placing inmates in a cell for fifteen days and nights straight non stop I genuinely know you forgot about the unknown soldier in Canberra as you contributed to tourturing other Australians and violating their children. Inmates are human and inmates on remand are legally innocent inmates in Australia. The ones responsible god knows and at the end of your days you will be going down and I am not judging it is a educated guess.
Should female prison officers be patting down male prisoners??Dont think you would find male prison officers patting down female prisoners, for good reason.Accusations being made etcThis is no different.Leaving themselves wide open in my opinion.
My dream job is to work for the ambulance service and got an interview at the end of the month. But recently applied for a job as a prison officer for a laugh and made it to the next stage and got to do some online assessment thing. But not going to pursue it though because the job isn't for me but fair enough to anyone that does want to do it after all someone's got to do it but it won't be me.
I'm ex ambulance service, it's a great career but very hard work, I ended up burning out due to the pandemic and ended up going back to my original career, my advice is become a paramedic and then specialise like I did!
The officers are mostly getting off with each other feel sorry for anyone in relationship with one must go with the territory they are very accomplished liars
I saw that you mention is a large prison with 750 prisoners, well in România there is a this penitentiary called Giurgiu with 1.466 prisoners and out of those only 202 goes to workshops! 🥶 I swear România is in a bad condition in terms of prisons and penitentiarys
If you are talking about when she was walking to her car, it was a weapon belt, its an easy to clip on thick utility belt that holds usually a pouch for small items, a radio pouch, and a baton holder. Things like key chains should be held on a separate normal belt that should never be removed if you are holding keys on the end of the chain. Hope this helps.
This is an absolute disgrace . I wanna know the deal here. I'm trying to work out if she's been offered a lump of dosh to lie, or it's an actress. This is so dangerous this video... not to mention...utter bullshit
Promote after 18 months ?? In my day you had to sserve 4 years minium and we had very few women, i see most of this staff are women ! Her rub down searches are rubbish and not as taught by the manual !!
You cannot rehabilitate a prisoner, that's a choice and decision they have to make themselves and nothing you tell them or offer them will change who they are. They KNOW there's a different path, they don't have to be told about it.
Incorrect. I work with people in prison or who have been in prison. 1. There is a lot of extenuating circumstances. 2. The justice system does not care an ounce about justice or if prison will be best for that person or the victim. It is based on technicalities
@@christinac4358 Bullshit, typical moronic Liberal woman dribble. I've been in prison so don't pretend you know shit just because you got fed the narrative by other prisoners. It's up to the individual and if you don't know that do everyone a favor and stay away from "working with people in prison".
If you titled the video, "A day in Hell". It'd be just as fitting. The commute, the work, the people you have to deal with. I'd have more pride packing boxes in a warehouse for minimum wage.
I also want to work for the government, but my English is bad. Tell me where I could get to work for them with minimal English? But I have an American passport. But I would like to become a policeman and work in a prison.
It’s just a crying shame it’s so hard to be sent to prison. Wandsworth is local to me. #FundThePolice #LockMeUp #FemaleWardens #I-Phones,PingPong,PrisonPatry, Pool,TV,Naps,LadsLadsLads.
"A people person", that's just a hackneyed cliché that means nothing. Anyone can call themselves "a people person." I would hate to be around these kind of people.
what a load of shit, it's just the same as when the prison inspectors visit, oh which they tell the prison when there gonna show up, and everything looks lovely, they should go undercover in there and see what it's really like,
