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Strangeways. A Prison Officers Story'
Strangeways. A Prison Officers Story'
Samworth Neil (Samworth Neil)

SKU: VV1487295
ISBN: 9781509883554

Pages: 284
Paperback
year: 2019
Publicher: Pan Books (Pan Books)


Price: $49.90

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Аннотация к книге "Strangeways. A Prison Officer's Story" This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in HMP Manchester. Neil 'Sam' Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all - gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be locked up and men who should never be let out. He tackles cell fires and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most dangerous men in the country. He describes being attacked by prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by radicalization and the drugs flooding our prisons. As staffing cuts saw Britain's prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the job - the suicides, the inhumanity of the system, and one assault too many - left Sam suffering from PTSD. Strangeways by Neil Samworth is a raw, searingly honest memoir that is a testament to the men and...