"you are not here to just lock people up"

First screw to be interviewed

"I'm here to lock people up"

The screw getting the medal looks just like Mr Mackay from porridge 😂

Applied for the position as prison officer back in 1980 but quickly discovered how depressing and boring and the conditions and the working environment and pay made me not to even consider going ahead with the position and to this day I have never regretted it ie  I became a firefighter!  😊

19 years in the job, covering various roles but started off  on the landings, a hard career but very rewarding, 90% of the job is what comes out of your mouth, people skills are everything behind the walls

This series is of a quality that is sadly lacking with the BBC of today. Beautifully filmed, paced and written.

Started my service there in 1975, what an eye opening

“You’ll feel no more pain now… you’ll be dead within the hour” 😂

7:44 This Screw spits the truth!

I cant view more than one episode a day as its pretty damn depressing stuff. I'm 71 & was in the army & its very similar to this, with Sgts (Screws) & Squaddies (Inmates). Food was better but still doled out. So I can identify with it. Today, everyone I've compared is very much better off, much more help & better prisons being built & a soldier's pay & food better.

"You can see from the massive response we've had we can go forward" Camera pans to the empty chairs... legendary cameraman.

A lot of these lads will be deceased now.Without unions the working class would be short changed rights are not always freely given.No system is faultless will be exploited.John had guts just wanted his rights better working conditions just a bloke trying to survive.The old screws kept control the prisons now no one is safe cons or screws.

9.42.
We will have control.
While birds shitting in the background

Chinese proverb says 'When a nail sticks up then hammer it down'

Never forget that all the prisoners are volunteers.  They're there as a result of their own choices and decisions.

Another great upload

Big John Sutton

Security risk all of them.any one having an issue with screw,should be dealt by outsourcing to furthest away from prison. That way dealt with correctly

The Wormwood Scrubs inquiry resulted in no charges against any prison officers involved in the MUFTI intervention.
By the time of the Strangeways riot MUFTI was being replaced by the current Control and Restraint teams aka Tornado and by the National Tactical Response Group.

Most of the officers smoking away like the governor. The good old days

Brilliant content 👌