Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story - Couverture rigide

Samworth, Neil

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ISBN 10 : 1509883541 ISBN 13 : 9781509883547

Editeur : Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

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.

'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places, hilarious in others . . . the author's honesty and decency shine through' Jonathan Aitken

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Neil Samworth worked as a prison officer in Strangeways, now HM Prison Manchester, for eleven years between 2005 and 2016, before an unprovoked attack by a prisoner left him physically injured and suffering from PTSD. His book Strangeways: My Life as a Prison Officer consists of his diary from this period.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1509883541
• ISBN 13: 9781509883547
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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