That Vinny was spot on about the place going off and it did 10 years later

You can survive on a 100 pounds a week. Back in 1980, 100 quid a week was a lot. What's he on about.

Watching this series is absolutely fascinating 😊 thank you so much for uploading these episodes..i am a huge true crime fan & love watching old tv series about life in jail 👍

That Vinny's predictions were spot on.

Remember watching this in 80 with my dad I was 10 years old .....

superb vintage upload of an era that will never be again i adore seeing stuff like this . thanks .

This has just come up randomly on my KZfaq. I would love to meet any of these guys if they still alive just to see how their lives panned out after this programme

I was in care growing up then prision all through my late teens and 20s im good now but i feel bad for youngster who are doomed leaving care without the proper support because there was none when i left its a shame seeing this process repeate its self

Notice the warden's handshake, that's a freemason shake by the looks of it.

Started my service as an officer in 1975 at this jail- what an introduction to the job!

I'm glad the little girl got better

Vinnie is a great psychic fortune teller - amazing insight...

1st April 1990 is when the roof came off 🤣🤣🤣😎😎

That ending has just destroyed me 😂😂😂

what a absolute ace documentry as for alan who did the 10.000 press ups he is an absolute LEGEND wot a superfit athlete and an inspiration to us all

That governor is a monster cold and heartless saying i need to be sure theres a chance she'll not live, wtf , i hope the wee girl made a recovery and Mcdonald got out to help her 😢

Get one of these boys to try do a 1000 press ups 😂 man was a top bloke

This was pretty ground-breaking when it first aired.

37:00 I remember watching this as a teenager over 40 years ago.

The gravy train 😅😅😅

The treatment of these vaulnerable young men was just beyond belief,no wonder there was riots ,the screws were the real criminals

The conditions these guys were kept in was ridiculous. Not saying they didn't deserve jail time but if you're going to lock them up then the conditions must be OK. Shitting in a bucket or pot, 3 guys in a one man cell. It's no wonder people got violent

That’s a marriage destained for the dust cart ,, good start , old fella in chokey, the screws as best man and sweat box as wedding car ,, dragging behind it a jemmy bar Mole grips balaclava and sawn off 😂😂😂

The con who nicked the lead , the Judge ask him what was you you going to do with the lead (con) I was going to make some lead soldiers (Judge) oh well not to bad (con) then I was going to march them down to the scrap yard.🤣🤣🤣🤣

Prophetic words from Vinny

Some serious hair, sideburns and beer guts !! lol

14:56 Vinny says:- "This place will go off, and when this place does go off, the roof will go, man" Freaky considering that's exactly what happened 10 years later......

Thanks for upload, really enjoyed it.

@2:41 you never forget that look your mother gives you as you're taken away.

That con, this place wants closing down cause it will go off and it will go off and the roof will come off.... he must've had a crystal ball.

Who would want to get married in prison seriously? Unless you were a lifer I don't really see the point of getting married in jail. This guy was only serving 3 years, he could've waited. And whilst he's in jail the best man is giving his wife one 🤣

What a brilliant film I would love to know what happened to all the guys who were interviewed When they got out of Strange ways I 'll say it agan ace film bye!😎

I wonder if these people are still married or indeed alive? I remember watching this as an 11 year old. I had just started comprehensive school in South Wales. I remember the press up record attempt. It almost feels like another world I lived I then back in 1980, 3 TV channels, we never owned a phone and things were simple, yet tough. We even rented our TV as most others did!

Vinnie was involved in the 1990 Strangeways riots and he said in 1980 ten years before when this place goes of it will explode and he was right as the Strangeways riot was the worst in British prison history but they did achieve in changing not just Strangeways but every prison in the country as well..

"I don't like work" I'd rather take stuff, that's not mine. 🙄

Just waited for the race card...wasn't disappointed.

if ever something should keep you out of prison it is seeing your child lying injured and you going back to a cell

That officer with hat on the back of his head.

"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."---- Francis Bacon.

Prophetic words by that gentleman at 15.00

Absolutely brilliant watching these how things have changed lve done jail for no tv licence ffs 😂😂😂

I would love to know whatever happened to Alan that did the record for press ups . I honestly believe he did not steal the lead from the roof and that's why he stood his ground an went to Crown court instead of taking a £ 30 fine . A man with such physical fitness was wasted to society being in prison for something ( I think ) he didn't do . Hopefully went on to be a success when he was released .

Weird to see how much Britain and the prison population has changed since I was a kid and none of us were asked if we wanted the change

Strangeways Revisited 2001 is on KZfaq ...

Alans press up prize? Hundredweight of lead. From a derelict house. Which he didnt take....🤣🤣

Legend has it your man is still in the gym doing pushups !!!

14:53 Prophetic

Great series's, I was in there in the 80s. Any body remember the cow pie? The food sucked.

Spent 17 weeks in there 1977 it was a proper prison then you new your place it was punishment the way it should of been . Put it is way I’ve never been back

Thee Italian Fella Was Spot on.. Lord and Company Were Coming.. Documentary Filmed in Such A Way that a lot of what Goes on his Censored..

My late Uncle Fran was the prison physio who gave Alan the towel at the end of his pushups. I remember him telling us about this at the time. A pioneering documentary that's commonplace nowadays.

Guvvy baby, Mr Brown I remember him well after all I was his secretary.

"This nick is run by the screws" As jail should be

they should man this man rich he brillant i like the govener he knows a thing or to go luck man

This was when? 1980? Maybe it’s the closed environment because the cons and the screws seem at least 10 years behind looks wise. I was around in 1980 and the fashion was much different to how it looks here, Madness, The Specials, OMD, Bowie, New Joy Division, Tubeway Army

More needed, please!

the trouble is with my looks, i would be used as a currency.

14:54 took ten years from his prediction, but it did happen. I wonder where he is now?

please upload the remaining 4 if you have them

Thanks for posting these, they're fascinating. Don't suppose you have the rest of the series?

Mad how the guards would walk around showing off the NF party badge openly on uniforms,the guard on one of these episodes who tried setting up the union has his own podcast,John sutton,I think u spell his second name that way

Is that inspector Blake from of the buses in the background 😂😂😂 with the long black coat on 😊😊😊

Strangeways screws had their own branch of the National Front in 1980, and openly wore NF badges. I was locked up that same year, (and a few after), and had never seen racism like it.

14: 57 this man knows that one day roof will be go off like it was 1990

Governor Norman Brown pours the worst pint in all history

He was serving s sentence for wearing that big yellow tie.

Watch from 20 mins 30 secs, a guy complains that he is not being treated as a human and the mindless bint he is talking to says "yes but that applies to everybody surely?" Now ask yourselves why there is crime, why some people just say ENOUGH!

Sounds like Mr mckay from porridge was the gym announcer.

Ouch at the very end

I work at HMP and the issues haven't changed one bit all the way back to the 60s and beyond.

Does anyone know if the Governor here, Norman Brown, was ever Governor of Winson Green? I remember a similar documentary about that prison in the 80s/90s and I'm sure that he was the No1 there.

Look at are society and jails in this day and age respec has definitely left the building

& the guy was right, the place did go up with a huge riot less then 10 years later

Did the screws slash the peaks on their caps like guardsmen.

The guy that got found not guilty for the rape, have to take my hat of to him. Standing up for himself to both the screws and prisoners. Didn't go on the number's. Doing so ment a couple of thing's to other prisoners. Their Guilty, innocent but can't fight for when it comes on top because it will. Some lowlife eighter trying to impress a bully or someone ordering it might try to have a go . Mud sticks, but you have half a chance if like him your found not guilty .Your paperwork shows that and more. That's why your asked for it on arrival, by the lags. He reminds me of Paul Sykes and Bronson .Men who weren't afraid to speak their minds regardless of which side of the fence their speaking about. Prison is everything you've seen and read. The bad the ugly the worst of the worst dredgers of humanity are all around you. Timet your fucked. The vultures circle every morning, pray is all around them. They pick out the weak. Bird's of a feather, nowhere to run. It's bad enough that your there. But to add insult to injury, your on trial twice. Once in court where the law rules. Then in prison when you get there. No law's there, kangaroo court. Guilty, sentence to be carried out ASAP. At least a savage beating with maybe a Glasgow smile, Prison justice. I kid you not. This lies ahead for all who travel that road, crime for 99% does not pay. ✌️☘️

Didn't get the world record, so they nicked him for alcohol contraband.

16 mins 31 secs its Mr Mckay!

Hundred weight of lead,that he didn't take 🤣🤣🤣

Good luck too the guy doing the pressups but he must av giv up there's no way one ov them counted out ov the 6000

The wife's face when he had to return to prison I hope there marriage lasted because if she waited for him then that's true love

Was that Ian blinky Doyle armed robber he is in his late 60s now

Surprised it took that long for the roof to go off.

The officer in this video was a real dog bad news.

This is how it goes . I will just do one more JOB then im set for life. Just this one moe JOB .then im done .were made im rich .

The guy saying you can’t survive on hundred quid after bills so better off theiving lol.It’s a horrible world I got caught up in age 17 it was a allocation centre back in 82.Just a scared kid going through reception a screw was singing don’t laugh at me I smiled he slapped me across the face they where bullies.40 years ago how time passes 2 months there seemed forever.I get it it wasn’t meant to be a holiday camp I was lied to by my so called own people and used ended up there people say oh well you made your own choices I still feel at the time it seemed theiving was my only choice it wasn’t but at 17 my needs where immediate I had no sense no one cared no one to guide me.Sounds like excuses to late now you get a record 3 plus custodial sentences that’s it.My advice to youngsters seek help make do bide your time prison is a bad bad choice don’t go there.

i would like to know if any of the inmates are still alive like Vinny ??

13 mins vinny valente I saw him on a documentary in About 2001

36:24 ....... the gov slys something in the handshake to prisoner.

28:23 Jack Palance served a three month sentence.

Just 3 years for killing somebody? Ffs if that was my family member who was killed, i would be furious at that sentence.

It wasn’t me

@kingarthur1812uk ... are you the Arthur that got married in this episode?

Every prisoner can justify why he shouldn't be there or why he was forced into crime, the stories are never ending, everyone's got an excuse and it's all BS.

Guy did literally zero press ups. Half reps bouncing off your crotch doesn't count.

Are they still married now and did he ever go back inside over the last 40yrs

No way is that 100 notes going to the nspcc😊

Slop out was easy for me. 🦉 What common sense some inmates showed that supersedes any 'pip' thought. 🦉

MR FACKER & 2 SHAY😎

vinnie warned them. seems a decent guy. makes you wonder what these people are doing now, hope they turned it around.

Why didn't he wait until another year then get married as a free man ffs?