Life Inside Britain's Toughest Prison (Belmarsh Documentary) | Absolute Crime 

You Brit's can make a documentary about water boiling sound fascinating !! Well done.

This is about twenty years old, what must it be like now

The Army also has two sizes : It either fits or it doesn`t. If it doesn`t fit - Tough !

Why would you go for a job as a prison officer if you find swearing a challenge.

38:20 was absolute bs. There was nothing the prisoner could have said to get out of that.

The job of a prison officer must be one of the most stressful jobs anyone can do. Quite frankly it’s unimaginable.

The old bird who says she can't deal with swearing is not cut out 2 be a screw she will be a danger 2 have around full stop crazy employing her at all

This jaya women is someone that is a walking red flag, and any HR with experience wouldn't hire not a chance, she is too emotional and extremely sensitive, imagine being offended because someone told you, you can't hurt me even if you tried. you are applying to work at a prison.

In 2022 the prisons are worse than ever, literally worse than in Victorian times in terms of overcrowding, occupation and even facilities.

My brother has been in HMP Belmarsh twice now, he is currently in there now. He speaks to us once a week for 10 minutes he always tells us there’s new staff constantly in and out everyday!! He says some of the staff he has witnessed swearing at them, hitting inmates and it’s horrific. The feel when you walk in there to visit your relatives is such a dull and sad place to be. It’s horrific and no way should it only be a 9 week training placement!!! More like about 4-5 years!!!

I see where ch4 got the insperation from 😆

10:53 are they talking about RENÉ HIGUITA the goalkeeper 😅🤣🤣😂

The over sensitivity of people including guards because some words hurt feelings is scary but telling.

That older trainee “ Jaya” makes a complaint about a comment made from a fellow trainee “ skinner “ . Those prisoners are going to eat her alive 😮 what a plonker !

Prison officers should be strict, respectful & responsible. NOT tough, angry or brutal. You get way better inmates when u treat them w respect & responsibility. They're literally making choices about other human being's lives.

how's assange getting on, poor bastad. that story should be in the news constantly, he's had 4 years there and all those previous years shut inside the embassy for doing the world a favour and telling us the truth behind the lies

When he said catering to the criminals 🙄🚫

I can't believe that they basically hire anybody.

Honestly I'm passing belmarsh jail every day but I didn't knew how is going to be inside 💠

U can work in Tesco and get nearly or about the same annual pay as prison guards and If the prison service or private run ones paid a decent wage they wouldn't be screaming for staff.

If I’m gonna have piss and shit thrown over me on a regular basis I’d like a decent wage at the very least. I wonder how many have left the service?

I was an officer there on house block 1.20 years ago it's not as hard as you think .LONDON LEE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Shocking

Are there no fitness standards? Most are overweight, would probably struggle to run in an unsafe situation, and would clearly struggle to detained any prisoner if needed.

24:15 - the cut here is hilarious.

Jaya totally forgot to use fingers in front of face...on first night.

Shocking how poor most of these candidates were! Don't even have to interview haha

I was on remand in Thameside, which is next door to Belmarsh. Thameside is a private prison, Serco I believe, or it was in January 2015 when I was in there for 2 weeks. I was acquitted by the way. Thameside was very easy but everything seemed to be OK in there. I never had any problems. I think the fact that you've got your own phone, computer, shower and toilet in your cell makes it run a lot better. Not sure about Belmarsh. A friend was in there and said it was tough sometimes. I certainly didn't know that prisoners arrived at prison from court on a Sunday either. I wouldn't like to be kept in the sweat box for hours. I spent a month in Brixton prison in December 2009, for breach of probation. That was not too bad, but Thameside was much better, in terms of the state of the living conditions and stuff to do.

Dieser Vorgang kann einige Zeit dauern.

I'm aghast at the one woman's attitude towards attire. A dress or skirt in a men's prison?, Seriously, she's not the type for this and would be a danger to herself and her fellow guards, I'm sure it proved out.This is where the interview process would have weeded out someone not suited. Pennywise, pound foolish. When we have criminals who are extremely violent and determined to use any opportunity to cause harm or escape, we must use every tool in the box mentally and physically to keep us all safe, including the prisoners.

Jesus Christ how on earth did the chubby woman get this job?! She might be a nice lady but I would not want to be working with her because if it all kicked off she’d be no help! & the complaint of bullying, absolutely ridiculous! Inclusion is great but common sense & the best person for the job still needs to come 1st!

where are they now these new screws?.....

The politics of the job are shameful as are most of the senior management team. Piss up and brewery to say the least.

I fitted the prison cells at Belmarsh amongst others.

I understand the effort to try to add different kinds of people to the prison staff, but it sounds condescending towards the recruits that they took a lot of the process of hiring away, as if a minority couldn’t pass it. I doubt that. And the lack of an interview is disturbing to me. I’ve never gone through a hiring process without an interview, even when I was a kid working at KFC, and here they are putting these recruits in a difficult job where they have to interact with the worst of the worst and put their lives on the line without knowing important things about them. My ex brother in law came from Mexico when he was 19 and he was hired at a prison in Arizona. He went through psychological testing, intellectual testing, physical testing, in depth interviews because he would be dealing with dangerous people and they wanted to make sure he could hold up in every way and do his job. Also, they didn’t want to hire weak minded people who might be manipulated by prisoners. My ex-brother in law, a minority, passed with flying colors and was hired and did an excellent job all the years he was there. I think skirting the process could allow in people who might not be suited for the job even if they are nice people. Those nice people could end up in danger and put other officers and inmates at risk. I believe that some prisoners will exploit weakness wherever they can find it. Race doesn’t matter a bit in getting the most qualified candidates, it’s ability that matters and I think they can find ability across the racial spectrum. Maybe they could have done more targeted recruiting without getting rid of certain qualifications. I guess time will tell how this works out.

And this is why the prisoners are running the prisons nowadays

I think the Hindu lady dealt with the phone situation really well

Very clever. They show one but reality is completely different

Non of these newbies are going to cope, they look nervous shy and shout boo to the, they would run …

Diversity = A feel good form of discrimination. Hiring should be based on the ability(s) of the person.

I find abusive language offensive… yet I’ll apply to work with social rejects

They should use military personnel to assist with the screws, imagine if an ex para, marine commando or raf Regiment trooper war veteran was to be an inmate 😮?

Of course he'll take a piss if he can. Who wouldn't. LMAO 🤣

Such a ' pleasure ' after years the other side of the Pondvto watch my HomeLand can STILL.manage to retain Dignity in Strengh .No taters no guns ....Having watched severamdocumentaries on ournprisons remain impressed by the lackmofbscreingnorders &.commadarie amonst Officers &any prisoners

make the fences electric to stop escapes.

Fatherless behavior will lead kids to prison. 🫠

diversity over quality and qualification. ahhh got to love that.

Hmp is the flagship A-cat jail with a diubke A-cat wing

never hang up a prisoners phone call if you're a screw. you'd be sleeping on the floor before the call was cut off !!

Home sweet home

Is terrry skinner still there.... he was there when i was there 8 years ago...

Hello Mr Savage ….

Can't believe they treat the prisoners soo good

These recruits don't even look to be qualified to drive an ice cream truck.

that woman training the rookies is horrible to that asian lady

Hellmarsh as we call it lol 😂

Some of them were hopeless seems they are too PC to fail anyone

I would NEVER work as a prison officer

Is this where Julien Assange is detained ???

Should have been in the slammer in the 60s when you truly had nothing in the way of rites and beatings by the screws was rife, no radio TV nothing in a cell 23 hours a day sleeping on a coconut fibre mattress and pillow with flea ridden blankets was like sleeping in a big crisp packet everytime you moved cockroich invasions were common place in cells wormwood scrubs was one of the worst back then

Only requirement is no criminal background and there is no interview. So how do you find out if they are mentally competent for the job? This sounds like a bad experiment.

Its every other day they give the inmates a beating

What an absolute shambles

I am trying to figure out why they lie about the number of different ethnic guard's, when like the US, they can't find enough people to even be a guard. I saw one where reggie yates went into a jail to be a correction officer for a week, and they were all having to work over time, and were still short on guard's. I saw one with uk guard's who worked long hour's as well. The guard's did say they worry about their family being attacked by a gang member inside putting a hit out on them. Most of the community felt like if you became a prison guard, that you were hating on your own people. Most of the problem from the guard's i know, is that this next generation of younger offenders are more dangerous, and ready to assault guard's or inmates because they have grown up on the street's without parent's, or their parent's are locked up, so offenders start the criminal path earlier, and drink and do drug's much earlier in life. God bless.

I can't believe that senior officer hadn't heard of the Bhagavad Gita, she's obviously not too multicultural considering the large number of British Hindu's.

I did 3 months in Belmarsh in 2016 and a new starter had her face slashed. By the time i finished my sentence in a low security cat c prison 5 months ago they are hiring teenagers, young boys and girls some with bad attitudes who end up getting batterd and never come back. They have a university program where students come and serve as screws on the wings as part of there degrees. The old hands get pushed out by the youngsters who form clicks. This is quite old as theres still smoking.

years old

I'm sorry but did he say "debt defaulter?" You can go to prison in Europe for not paying you bills if you go broke? WTF!!!???!!!???!!!???

Why you switch mate? you know that mans intention stereotypes

Eh Csn You Still Smoke In Bellmarsh??

Imagine the little lady with the bag being a screw. Come on now, lowering the screws training doesnt help as the cons are getting worse. If anything we need old school screws in the job

The staff is crazier than the prisoners. One after one cartoon and they call it the toughest prison? It looks like a primary school.

Recruitment drive is same as usual ex military given priority.

Far too soft on these hardened criminals

Hi I’m going in to the prison service, I must say the lady is wrong, I had a interview

Why do people keep re uploading old content? This documentary came out years ago.

34:26 It must be hard for the trainers, they give the feedback to the higher ups & if any of those officers were to get hurt etc the officers would blame themselves to a certain extent, even though it’s not their fault of course. It’s not horrible for them to say, “Sorry no this candidate isn’t suitable for this job role” at the end of the day it’s for their own health & safety - as well as others. I can’t believe how low staffed 🇬🇧 prisons are.

They shoul employ criminals too give ppl a chance ❤️

Is this where "Get Santa" was filmed?

Sad life

8:02 Trains? Are you kidding me? How do you even rob a train?

These places are horrible to work in🤢🤢🤢

I think Gita needs to consider another career path.

Brittish prisons is the new trend with documentaries

Hellmarsh.

That woman looks like Ned from Spider man

3’CB

I’m surprised the lady can be allowed to wear earrings

The Quran never said that the employer comes first

did anyone else hear the officer say “cannabis has a distinctive smell, like sweaty socks” if your weed smells like sweaty socks, take it back to where you got it from an smack whoever sold it to you in the mouth!

The greatest drug smuggling cartels in the u. K....... Hmp officers

Jaya was ridiculous. Completely not suited to the role, someone desperate for a well paid government job. Her complaining about bullying at the end was absurd. They all got through because HM Prison Service is desperate for employeesl

I was locked up in 1986 for affray we had respect for the screws it made ur stay better but nowadays theres no respect and the prisoners run the jail

They are in the UK they are in the UK by choice therefore they should abide by UK laws, if they transgress they should expect to serve UK time, if you go to Saudi Arabia and fall foul of the law you will have to serve time according to their laws, so why do we not follow the same rules, oh yeah, we are too tolerant.

Cant believe people are saying this is inhumane. Come to the US (:

This is years old. Why has it been uploaded again!!!!!!!!

Do they really wear ties?... try that in LA county lol.

It's surprising that any body can get hired without any real qualifications, and about the quraan It's not mentioned that employers comes first than prayer who said that? Don't make things out of your head.

This prison is a great big joke.

A kettle in the cell of a murderer? Are you serious? The cord can be used to strangle an officer or to throw boiling hot water in their face! What in the name of God are they thinking or actually they are not thinking! Px