Thanks for a fascinating conversation - and good luck for the next chapter of your life.

great interview very eyeopening and educational

More excellent content MS, thanks and well done...

My first jail as an OSG was Risley before becoming an officer. Loved my time there in 2004 but it was extremely bad for drugs and there use to be lines over every night from the surrounding fields. Been told it’s been a shithole for a good number of years.

Looks intriguing

Prison is a world inside a world

Manager is a key word here, it used to be senior officer which is normally only attainable with experience. Good stuff Sam.

That g wing behind you sambo was the enhanced wing in 2005 some funny times on there🎉😮

I was 20 weeks on remand in Lewes prison.. felt like 10 years

MY DEAR LATE FRIEND WAS 8N STYLE PRISON MANY MOONS AGO SHE SAID IT WAS A BRILLIANT PRISON, GOD REST HER SOUL LOVE NMISS HER SO MUCH SHE WAS LIKE A BIG SISTER TO ME. ✌🏻♥️♥️✌🏻🇬🇧👍🏻👍🏻

WELL DUN SAM, REALY ENJOYED THIS CHAT YOU HAD WITH THE FELLOW FORMER PRISON OFFICER, LOVE THIS CHANNEL REALY INTERESTING, YOUR DOING A BRILLIANT JOB SAM KEEP UP THE GRATE WORK, STAY HAPPY STAY SAFE, GIVE STEVEN A HUG FRM ME!! PEACE OUT DANIELLE ✌🏻♥️♥️✌🏻🇬🇧👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

In northallerton prison hmyoi was a couple of officers who were drunk every time we unlocked after dinners

Absolutely loved this video i related to everything that was said... have experienced almost everything he has ( except working women's prison )..... 12 months in this job and i very good at the job i be my self i care to much want to help and prisoners show me So much respect because i treat them as normal human beings... which alot of officers dont seem to like... CM told.me to my face im not a very good officer why did i apply im mot tough enough ect ect... when i got assulted my first one it frightened me and i was questioned about my performance because i didnt hit or push or used any physical violence back to the prisoner.... I know im not tough i suffered traumatic Childhood abuse... but that abuse never made me turn violent made me more an empathic caring lovin positive person. And i dont care if its patients in a Hospital or prisoners in a prison i willl do everything i can to help turn there life around make them feel better help them guide them listen... i greet every prisoner with a smile and they told me that smile makes a big difference in there day and there thought process... can instantly change from a negative to a positive. I have a big conscious and I know how bad mental health is... thats the biggest problem in prisons thats what needs proper care and support.

waited patiently lets go

We had no problems getting drugs in Risley, we didn't need the screws.

Foils easy to get just give the one of the cooks a stamp “stamp sized peice of paper worth £10” which is as he mentioned at 18:35. Glad my life’s changed just before I turn 30 this year. Took me best part of my teenage years/early adulthood. In and out of rehabs , small prison sentences and just pure misery. Been missing these ones, like the short videos aswell but enjoy it when you bring guests on 👏

Brilliant content

Great podcast Sam! What a pair of very impressive men👍

Sam have you heard about the prison officers in a Kent gaol that were poisoned with Spice, over 20 of them were intoxicated with a few being hospitalised and a couple being held overnight. What a crazy story!

Mr s hope ya good top screw back in the day well done always there to help an got things done for us 👍

That woman’s prison your on about is exactly like the one on bbc drama time worth a watch 2nd series about the woman’s jail

Style prison is where all the women from round my local area go, the 'houses' seem to work in the women's prison.😢

Great interview sam, not keen on this new editing style though 😕

Grizzly Rizley. It had a realy bad reputation for suicide, disproportionately high numbers of young lads committing suicide that were on remand.

Nuff love Sam thank you for kind reply a few videos ago I'm lifer did 2004 to 2017 started as yo and I saw the excelleration in lack of funding lack os staff support. I'd buy some of my old personal officers a fkn house let alone a pint. I've cried with an officer that had a pint thrown in his face because he wanted to leave the culture after decades of being the nutty one and all he wanted to do was go to church find God and try put right 3 fkd marriages and get to know his kids. He was in his 60s. The service is as hard as the bird. Peace to you both x

I’m literally waiting on my vetting I’ve passed everything else 😂

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Comes across as a bloody decent human ! The prison service are losing guys like you two and employing literally ANYONE ! look at our bloody island though , nothing surprises me anymore. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

("It's the styal way")

Best jail I was in was altcourse,Fazakerley Liverpool, was some bad man in that jail..purple akee was next door when I was on furlong green lol he's a character, guy got shot outside the jail..officers getting caught bringing drugs,transsexual,jail was mad but good haha 2003

Sorry last post but you do look like you two are about to most casual throw over ever sen😅😅😅

Liverpool 😊 Haha this made me laugh! This was the easiest job is ever done........til I sent to Styal! 🙄 I was there one day and refused to ever go back! I was terrified! 😂😂 And on being a new staff member, it was horrible! Most of the staff would look at me like I'd just rap3d their Nan!! 😂😂😂 They hated me! 🤔

a good screw will never.b liked but he will b respected by the cons but its the employers that have no respect 4 the officers

Unless you have walked the landings you haven’t got a clue, different world.

why do bizzies get a better penson than prinson officers what a joke

The service is rotten from the very top.

My man sounds like a Stokie

A strong tough guy gets knocked back from the police service, but a woman doesn't...

Eddie Hall

Well....that's what you get for imprisoning massive bears ;)

We all know screws ask for it 😂😂😂

Do you think it would be a benefit to all if cannabis became legal , then removed from the drug test list ?

Hated Risley it was horrible

Yes get snappy back top man xx

Risley is the best prison! Don’t listen too the mongs chatting 💩! You get a cell to your self straight away and trust me that is more than half the battle won !

guys lying threw his teeath

The strange thing is people would say its not right but as women need women officers men need male officers. I had an arm wrestle with an officer in Elmley and beat him, but on the rematch he annialated me. Elmey probs even worse now but it was interaction in bad bad situation. There was another officer mad about cars im mad about bikes. I was desperate to see something on the latest mad kawasaki and he took the time to print of a few pages on the specs and reviews. I know for fact neither was on the on the take. Officers at their wits end but found a way. Both younger my sort of age. Both learnt there trade in diffrent jails but ulimatley working under some old bastard that had 30 years plus service. And this general pop not lifer landings. They had more balls than half the soppy 2 bit gangsters. But i dont for minute underestimate how taxing it was to be that way. I know they told me. I leave with this as young man facing a long term the right officers as the right time meant i had wonderful times in the visit room and politley an officer told us to be a little bit quieter because me and folks were litterally pissing ourselves laughing. Even the officer giving us a minor bollocking was starting to crack up. I was a pretty good prisoner but i frequentlty found myself getting done for hooch and distilllation and masterminding amounts of food being robbed from the staff canteen it was almost as profitable as drugs. Im from salford always going to take the piss but good officers let my folks know just by the fact they were professionals that this is good jail. Basically people being humane to facilitate as best they can looking after difficult people. Sam id like to say if you have an email to the channel and if i get the time i work of lot hours, id like send some stories, maybe ask a few questions about a few jails ive been too. Dont want to be on the channel simple as, but as islowly find my peace with system your videos help. For fcks sake im listening to a screw again!. I dont do social media ive been away a while and i gather this is public domain probs not best place to ask, but if you have an email for the channel id like help cons,staff,chaplins,education,probation etc etc in reporting some success in a bleak world. Its debatable but to me the prison service is the fundamental socical care. Give me an email to channel. No need to reply ive got ive got bad but i did do 13, not that long as lifer, but i did observe for 13. Nuff love x

it's far more dangerous to be a delivery driver, it's easy to be a screw, a male one even. i've seen it first hand how so in HMP belmarsh and HMP preston how much the screws loved the lockdowns and converted every prison in the UK to a cat A dump. also says as much of the screws how they treated the inmates. give free pass for muslim extremism but attacked anybody reasonable, easy targets for men for home problems. screws are cancer, aside their governer, they facilitate extremism and are the cause of the problem. as an aside, they dehumanise the natives for a fat pay packet while caving to overseas interest, short sightedly.

Prison is a holiday camp for criminal's. Consoles, tvs, ghetto blasters, drugs....