Inside Parkhurst: Stories of a Prison Officer

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He criticises all forms of training and attempts at improvement in prisons, and blames these on rising incarceration rates. Biography: David Berridge joined the prison service in 1992, three weeks short of his 32nd birthday. This isn’t a dig at prison officers, they work in a dangerous job, but that’s exactly why that isn’t policy. Inside Parkhurst - Stories Of A Prison Officer by David Berridge is a warts and all look at life working inside one of Britain's most dangerous prisons. Ideally this should be read against A Bit Of A Stretch - The Diaries of A Prisoner By Chris Atkins, so that you get both sides of the story.Divided into three parts - the first from David's early years on the wings, the second the middle of his career, and the third his disillusioned later years - David will use an episodic format to take readers to the heart of life inside and shine a light on the escalating violence, the lack of support for officers and the impact the government cuts are really having on the wings. None of this is to overly criticise the author though, it seems like it’s very hard to win in this job, other officers who wrote honestly would also be easy to criticise and if I was one of them so would I be.

I would have been interested to hear some more about his conversations with prisoners also, but that's not the focus of the book. When my old father in law discovered I was going down this road he said why would you do something that stupid its not the same anymore now you have to massage ego's.The frequency with which his poor old bottom had been fucked about had finally taken its toll and it was no longer fit for the purpose for which it was originally intended. I appreciated he is trying to understand gender and identity, but some of his statements made me wince or left me annoyed because they were rather disrespectful. He is keen to use this book to raise awareness about the many problems our prison services are facing.

This inmate had used his bottom for many things, including the smuggling of illicit items, concealing contraband, and for sexual pleasure and debt clearing. I'm a huge fan of non-fiction prison/mental health/pathology books, so thought this would be right up my street. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). If you are like me and love books about prison and prison life, then you should love this as much as I did.There’s no sympathy for any of the unfortunate inmates, the mental health issues or the manifold failures that include these with the truly bad. It is not included in promotions available to our main range products, as stated in our terms of service. It seems difficult to help those with serious problems without all other prisoners exploiting the help, so I really sympathise that his job must be arduous. I read this whole book as if it was narrated in the voice of Danny Dyer 🤣 it's that kind of witty, London humour.