It was too.

Couldn't agree more.

Agree 2

jamessones4044 I can agree with expensive but where is the corruption ?

true, but nowadays a 2 bedroom flat means you probably have a husband or wife, and so have two wages coming in, so 4,000 quid a month rather than 2,000. If you are living on your own, and so only have one wage, you probably have a 1 bedroom flat which is going to be cheaper.

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I was thinking the very same. There has definitely been a dumbing down in society in general the last 20-30 years

That's because there were no drugs flying around the place. When prison authorities banned smoking tobacco, the smuggling in of illegal drugs increased threefold.

And why’s that then? Seriously? It’s exactly the kind of price the decision makers wanted for us. Go see what Tony Blair said about this country and how he hates it then look at his decision to let millions in! Now you NEVER hear accents like this,it’s all some ghetto version of a black mans accent. We’ve been having certain people decide Britain’s path that actually hate us today.

@@eamonnevans8005 thats not thee reason… theres a huge vacuum of decades between those events

... They've never been able to Spoke Good England Property 😂😂😂 1:59

Was about to say the same thing. "innit bruv" 🤣

I totally agree with you can't stand that noise they spout now.

The word moves forward unfortunately for you boys. 😂

Init Bruv, its sick!

Did you end up going the same way ?… many people of your ilk tend to.

What an appalling thing to say to someone! What makes you so superior?

@@senecaknowledge2274 How very perceptive of you! Yes, I did end up going the same way. Even at 8 years old I could see that prison life was the life for me. Well, it was bound to happen, you know what people of my ilk are like. If only I could have been like you, if only I'd had that feeling of superiority and the confidence to name myself for such an intellectual giant. Things could have been so different.

​@@seymourwithem7154lol

@@senecaknowledge2274 youd get proper done in or maybe you already have ?

stay out of trouble lad.

​@@buy.to.let.britainbecause prison will make you twenty times worse

It also makes me laugh how one of them is complaining about being locked up for 22 and a half hours at weekends when it's now common for prisoners to be behind there doors for 23 you're a day all bloody week. No wonder everyone's on drugs.

​@@robashton8606that's why is called a prison. You get locked up.

The landings smelt much worse back then. They had no toilets in the cells back then. They had to slop out and 💩in a bucket or what most people would do is 💩on newspaper and throw it out the window ( shit parcels they were called).

30:59 Sounds bloody posh for someone who grew up on a council estate!🤔😬Somehow, I don’t think council estates back then were what they are now!

Hilarious that you thought there were "standards" back then. We certainly have serious problems now, but you clearly know nothing about how bad jails were in that era. Go and have a read up about what was happening in Medolsmley Road detention centre back then for example. Paedophile officers abusing young prisoners. Violence that was off the scale. And you're talking about buttons? It shows the superficiality of your mind.

Yes ,I noticed that

There was nothing else to do for them.

My cell was full of books in 2023 when l went to prison for no tv licence 😂

It’s not that simple, you’re a sheep who accepts the system as it is. Alpha type personalities push back

Exactly. Hence the maxim: if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

They had razors too 😮

U wouldn't do it outside prison tho would you.

True!!!! He'd have to phone the police like a coward

Big man. Wouldn’t be so brave 1-1, no uniform.

its a long time to spend in there each day watching people, so these things help officers pass the days. its like a game. another one was to meddle with the workshop clocks. moving them backwards and forwards to play with perceptions. that used to make them very confused. @@Jdac333

He is joking you know folks. 😂

Yea but back then you worked longer hours for the same equivalent wages, and it was easy to fire some slacker on the spot. My grandfather worked as a full time delivery driver 48 hrs a week to pay all the bills with, then he worked 2 hrs each evening cleaning to pay for his cigarettes. And every Sunday in a pub to pay for other luxuries. He didn't consider himself hard done by, and past away at 68 years old, this was back in the late 70s. Life itself was tougher for the average person back then, he'd wander around local dumping grounds and back alleys picking up brown bottles and lemonade bottles that you get 3p or 5p for in the shops, he'd give his grandkids this money, he never owed anybody anything and would never buy anything on tick, credit, he'd save up and buy. Would seem odd to young people today, but there was nothing unusual in what he did, many people lived like this.. In his younger days it was even worse, joined the military served in ww2, was captured escaped, recaptured escaped again, and recaptured, spending 3 years in a pow camp in Germany. Again his life wasn't that much different to those of his friends

@@adrinathegreat3095 same here. My grandfather worked in a factory during the daytime, but (this is astonishing to people now) was a postman in the mornings too, doing early morning deliveries.

I was there in 1970 and the yard was being controlled by nuns

Wrong, it was controlled by the same corrupt officers who locked Sylvester Stallone up.

yeah, but who held the keys to the yard? Who was the shotcaller?

I was in there then .iwas blood

I was in there in 70 for 3 month but managed to dig my way out the yard ..took me 6 months using a JCB i made in the workshop.

This doesn’t work though. The most successful prison systems are those in Scandinavia.

There's zero respect these days or should I say fear.

So some kind of dictatorship. You can leave the UK if you like😂

@@hhuodod2209 yes exactly, we can start with you. I’ve changed to a wall feed your bread and water and leave you there at least 12 months you would come out a better person believe me

@@hhuodod2209 you can stay if you like, I will think of something good for people like yousomething you wouldn’t like, giving you a job and making you earn your living instead of scrounging off the state how do you fancy that dosser?

I agree ☝️

Life long criminals who wasted most of their lives in jail I most likely.

@@RaphaelDawkinsCombatRadio yes 👍

@@danrobinson572 Yes Dan 👊🏾

Says June 1970.

To be fair the hairstyles and clothes seem more mid-1960s. By the late 60s, the long hair, sideburns and crap styles all came in.

prisons are for mugs,I hope you saw sense !

Every jail the length and breadth of the country was the same hence why the riots stated mid eighty's well the once that made the news .there all cess pits

Most people had TV by the late 60s. It was a little different 20 years or so before that. My Grandparents,my Dad and other people from their village piled into the local Squire's house to watch Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation on his TV because they were rare in the 50s. By the mid 60s my Grandparents and most of the local working class owned their own TV sets.

@@Wulfyr I agree but not everyone had a chance to see this programme It would depend on what part of the UK / region Not like today 👍

@@Ron.M-yo9ht That's true. BBC was the same for everyone nationwide but ITV was run on a regional basis and every region had different broadcast scheduling. Good point.

Around 1970.

@@jonathanmarshall2802 thank-you

54 years ago

@@StevieZero OK Feck me 1855/1948 Prison Anything different. Most lad's and lasses in HMP would say know. No difference

Treat give your old one in and get a new one, then they changed to disposable

1970.

@@RascalMcBants okay 👍 thought 💭 it was earlier than that since it’s black and white.

Same, mate. Just Googled it, I was surprised too. I could be wrong like.@@danrobinson572

@@andysmith8890 ok

​@@danrobinson5721965

I’m curious myself.

As a con that brass centre the screws stood on we had to walk round

melvinnolan Yes that was him, at the time he was serving a 12 months sentance for car theft

1860s by the looks of it. Shame it wasn't filmed in colour.

@@swaneknoctic9555I agree 👍

@@swaneknoctic9555 well, as colour wasn’t widely used in the 60s then I guess we can forgive it?

@@mwd331 we can. However if it were a North American production chances are it would have been recorded in color.

1965

No

@@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts why

I agree ☝️

Why

@@southlondon86 because he was sharp and menacing whilst relaxed in his cage. Interesting and cool as fuck.