I joined the service in 1975, this reminded me so much how it was back then. We had to wear the cap badge in our jacket top pocket in strange ways.I left in 2003. Loved my job, lots of laughs , good times, never assaulted and decent pension.
totally; Richard Beckinsale, Fletcher etc; 1976, John Travolta, summer heatwave, just before punk rock, IRA bombs and Soviet Cold War bollocks. I was 12 years old...
People make the error of thinking that all prisoners share the same personality. They do not. Some are organically psychopathic and some have been shaped by circumstance. Others have been victims from childhood and prison will perpetuate that. Some have low intelligence. Many cannot even read or write. Some are unusually immature, but not fundamentally bad. Many are the result of poor parenting skills and abuse or at least made worse by that. Ultimately the stick is necessary, but some can be acknowledged as lost human beings.
That Chaplin made a lot of sense and made those guys think for certain and me too, he'd be a great guy to sit down with and chat to. Don't suppose anyone knows his name?
You would think they were talking about running a ship, army barracks or youth club.My time locked up in borstal and prison was very different to what's being portrayed.Most prisoners are victims of very serious crimes against them,child abuse,sexual, physical and mental.Most prison officers never got the training they need, some were alright others like that navy fellow just wants to stick the boot in like some imagined enemy he never found while serving in the navy.Anti-human, heartbreaking all round.
Those were the days where mature men and women join the prison service, some with years of social skills and life experience unlike now . They send 18 year old supposedly officers with no experience whatsoever.
I will leave it again and don't delete it! HMP Maidstone the 10 most unhappiest months of life in this toilet! I still have nightmares of the place especially when some poor soul took his life!
Can you get sent to any prison in the country if you get convicted of a crime? Say your from London and get convicted of a crime. Do you stay in that area of London or can they send you go a prison far away? I’m from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in America 🇺🇸
@@danrobinson572 They send you to a prison generally in that area but it could be anywhere in England depends on your security category and length of sentence. Never been to Pittsburgh.
Yeah with TV's and play stations. Should still just be a wooden bench in the cell and a bread and water diet and the birch if you speak when not spoken to. Prison needs to be a deterrent and scare the living shite out of the con's.
@@howey935 that doesn’t work, it was proved that shock treatment wasn’t a deterrent, borstals and detention centres were dissolved in 1984 because they didn’t work, I agree that they shouldn’t have PlayStation and tv in cells though, I believe they should only have a radio that works on batteries, no electric sockets in the cells. It’s gone to another extreme of being far too easy to be in prison now, basically prisoners are behaving the same way they would at home with games consoles and getting stoned to while away their days.
@@Eleventhearlofmars I loathed borstal in the 70s and it definitely was part of the harsh deterrent I needed. I loathed it and longed to be free. Oddly I suspect prison today to be worse. A multicultural cesspit with a generation of flabby-minded officers. No thanks.
