Inside Parkhurst

Product Description

Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It's all in a week's work at HMP Parkhurst.

After 28 years working as a prison officer, with 22 years at HMP Parkhurst, once one of Britain's most high security prisons, David Berridge has had to deal with it all: serial killers & gangsters, terrorists & sex offenders, psychopaths & addicts. Inside Parkhurst is his raw, uncompromising look at what really goes on behind the massive walls & menacing gates.

With this searingly honest account he guides us around the wings, the segregation unit, the hospital & the exercise yard, & gives vivid portraits of the drug taking, the hooch making, the constant & irrepressible violence, & the extraordinary lengths our prison officers go to everyday. Divided into three parts
- the first from David's early years on the wings, the second the middle of his career, & the third his disillusioned later years
- David will take readers into the heart of life inside & shine a light on the escalating violence & the impact the government cuts are having on the wings.

Both horrifying & hilarious, David's diaries are guaranteed to shock & entertain in equal measure.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781841884226
• Author: David Berridge
• Publisher: Seven Dials
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm