you make an interesting point. Why do you believe this ?

agreed

fucking privatization.

@@supergrahamg Yes I'd like to to know the reasoning behind that thought

It's totally true of society and especially the public sector, I worked in shops where the older staff remember addressing their supervisor as "Mr or Mrs " and in the health service in the UK any trained member of staff was addressed by their rank "Doctor , Staff nurse etc " and untrained staff addressed as "Mr or Mrs/miss " until the early 80s . Uniforms and appearance were much more regulated and subject to scrutiny by their seniors . Doesn't happen now .

You and me to bro

Those bullies needed to have their own legs broken I suppose they thought they were big tough men bullying vulnerable kids who were held captive, I hope they got their comeuppance some day.

Some people cannot be bullied or broken and I'm one of them , never tow the line or cower down to bullies , plus 40 years of martial arts means I can deal with any prison officer who thinks he's a tough nut. They don't like it when the tables are turned. W@nkers.

Well done for speaking up mate. Bullies... They're fkin everywhere in society... Needs to be called out.

My father was imprisoned for 4 year (I think) did 2 for aggravated burglary as a adult (just) He used to describe the same scenario as scum.

Although one thing , he was over careful to not go in again, it effected him such.

Well done bud 43 years later not gone back. Prison has to be that bad to be a deterrent

@@davidmarchant9386 thanks buddy I appreciate that.

I did the secure unit tour in 81, refused to go to school, kept fighting with old bill and everyone else pretty much, got driven out by an abusive father until they nicked me and refused bail pending care order, Latchmere, Stamford, Orchard, even a two week locked in at Shirley Oaks, Feltham and Ashford refused to take me as did Godstone but a place came up in Redhill's secure himax unit and so began 3 years of hell, well 2 years as the last year was in the open house and no more beatings, no more handcuffs and shut off from the world and got hooked up with a local hard family bird who kept me sane with earthly goings on. I was terrible too, whenever I got sent to a new place I eyed out the biggest lad and the biggest screw and I went for 'em, always went down fighting being a well practised Millwall firm youngster I was used to a scrap then on isolation until they found a new hole to stick me in. One thing to add is Redhill had a curious attitude in the staff, we were taught how not to get nicked, I kid you not things like damage less entry into motors using a bit of windscreen wiper, this rogue of a screw/teacher he taught us about locks, cars, even how to get into drums without setting off alarms. He got sent down himself as he had a wheeze of using his truck and trailer and hoiking away broken down cars found unattended on the A23 and M23, taken to a mates yard and stripped, well he did an old bills motor and they went after him big time and prison service mattered not a bit lol As for me, did a couple of spells in remand case dropped, did a bit of military nick for whacking an officer before kicked out but have kept my nose clean so to speak and now chasing sixty fairly well behaved these days although can still kick a cretin round a car park the tough south London estates always with me for a scrap hehehe

@dodgydruid fucking hell mate your story is powerful. I'm glad you made it this far.

​@@dodgydruidcool story bro

12 minutes to go I'll let you know

I know,it seems like a far off country compared to now.

Yea everybody looked like the Yorkshire ripper in those days lols

Ah yes, the 70s. Power cuts, orange and brown curtains, outrageous chauvinism, some bloody good music, the pubs closing after lunch and, weirdly, white dog poo everywhere. A bloody strange decade to be sure!

I was 10.

i read your comment....then looked @ your thumbnail!. Still shaking with laughter NOW!

u being ironic lad?

And it's illegal not to be gay these days

I miss the south London that isn't the stinking kebab shop its become today... Downham estate lad, bit o' Penge and I loved it until got driven out by the old bill fed up with me selling bank robbers fast cars and were looking to drop a piracy on me if I didn't stop it, so moved to Bournemouth and did it all again hehehe

What do mean when England was England exactly the truth

And yes......i grew up. And did alright.

It was a good jail, loved being able to cook your own food.

Popped in there for a pick up on my way to scrubs in 83 Got 4 yrs in end. Been fine ever since

Got sent eastwood park from manchester juvenile court at 16 for laughing in court sent me twin to watton

agreed, what a toss pot

Chris Haslam he softened later when talking about family n visits..

He would soften if kidnapped and locked in a cell for a few days.

wheres my truncheon

Andi Sadler he would soften when someone twats him with his own truncheon and breaks a few bones 😂

Don't kill people.

Still makes you think

Weres ya fakin tool

@@mattthetaffy6702 what fucking tool

Carling retired to Spain, i should know, i pushed a big bloody rock into he's pool for a laugh, he still doesn't know who it was.

I'm the daddy naah

@@michaelearthlingsexy beast 😂😂😎

I'm the plural version of you mate haha. I dunno bud because I done time in barlinnie and they run a tight ship there mate.

@@rawtawkofficial8484 innit some jails screws have got it on lock others is parcels every week hahaha

@@rawtawkofficial8484 Did ye, aye.

How's it now Jennifer???

Hi what prison do you work in ?? I'm serving A sentence in hmp parc. IV always wanted to fk A female screw

Runs home wetter then a spackers chin everyday to batter herself 💯

A lot harsher but better run than they are now.

Why do it I wouldn't for what they pay not a chance

I do 😂 😂 😂

It's Maidstone you idiot!

@@Katmando376 yea but most of the inmates where cockneys lol

It is unrecognisable in many aspects, particularly for the working people.

My mum said they smoked at the bed in hospital lol 😂

What was he in for? Haha.

Which one is he??

I hope he wasn't the wing nonce

Did he eventually get off the cleaning duty?

Has he got a Ciggy?

Your absolutely right .I blame the government for cutbacks , back in those days the screws would get a house on a staff estate with clubhouse and they was a proper community. They did the job their whole life, not like now where they go straight from Burger King and last a couple of yrs .

Bull

good for him

Can I take a pair of clippers to them?

ian higgins if you have been to prison you should know these screws or some of them are acting or going from a scrip.

No need for prisoners to be arseholes either but they need putting in place

I was 12 years old and running in the Northern Schools cross-country championship; the past really is a foreign country. There is something comforting about this documentary, even if it is 'engineered' somewhat. I believe there were humane aspects, and tough regimes, too. Remember what type of person you are dealing with...all you liberals out there....

@@supergrahamg - your sad sick jealousy of Us liberal brexit winners has been noted lol hahaha ha ha ha ha.

.. made in the UK your home, in your opinion.

Incredible.

Fascinating input from you

just work with the short timers then.

What good is 23 hour lockup supposed to do, especially if inmates don't get on? Prison is supposed to be a crime deterrent.

😂😂😂😂.

he was in armly

Chelmsford similar

I was in the dorms when it was a borstal in77 .Tuff going but interesting ha

Yeah I done paint and dec. Taught me a lesson for a while Ended up doing 4. Clean ever since .....sought of

I was in those dorms in 74.a wing was the chaps wing...

Waylon Lewis good

@@17henke NONCE.

@Jamie and his magic torch hahahaaaa tickled es that

And so prison should be for rehab. I know someone who went in a skinny druggie, and came out a creative loving grandparent, they were released several years ago, before prison they looked a mess, after prison they had put weight on, and seemed to glow, and they have kept their vow never to touch drugs again. What's the point in imprisoning someone just to make them worse?

Maidstone and Rochester Borstal/Yoi

@@mrmago6744 - thank you 🌝.

Yep, or they used to wear red arm bands in some prisons.

Up the Albion

Although being an inmate would be worse, although that isn't really a job is it?.

THEY LOVE IT

Usually ex Army ex Plod ex SERVICES etc

Loads of screws used to go into that job cos they got bullied in school and thought it would be a nice idea to be a screw so they could legally kick the shit out of people they considered scallys.

@@CARLIN4737 usually brain dead as well

For sure!

Is that your one jail claim to fame three month DC?

The only thing I couldn't make out are the chairs in the dorm in A wing. They used to be slated wood not made out of tubular steel and wood. (a mate told me).

@@scotsman5705 I was in Perth 10years ago.Sounds like u were in the old Ehall.

@@scotsman5705 u didn't have ur own key in c hall neither were u opened up playing pool all day in c hall....

Maidstone and what was then Rochester Borstal

They do?? How ridiculous.

You have to remember in the 70's these was classed as holiday camps compared to the life in the 40's & 50's and they was told the same

McVicar was a twat who couldn't handle his bang up

Hmp Durham you want lol

@@claireanderson4642 oh Claire stop it woman

No Maidstone (Kent)

Doesn't seem so back then so far in this vid. The videos of prisons in the 2nd decade of the 21st century seem much worse. I guess victorian prisons were worse than 1976, it seems like we are going backwards.

Back then, and up until the majority were privatised, prisons were owned and operated by the government, they were funded via taxes, and did government work, supporting the civil services in a way

I thought the same. "We will miss the train" in a posh accent.....

will not make any deals with u patrick mcgohann the prisioner tv show

sorry its mcgohan i think

No idea, some of them probably want authority over people.

"I don't care how late it is I'm not going home...".