Behind these Doors: As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Fascinating new worlds also opened to her – South learned about drug dens, gang rivalries, gun caches and criminal codes of honour. ‘If I was expecting monster figures, it wasn’t in the people I saw sitting in the canteen, playing table tennis, making phone calls, going to the gym.’ Half of prison officers in England and Wales do not feel safe at work, according to a recent large-scale survey. Alex South spent 10 years working as a prison officer, and she’s written a book, Behind These Doors, about her experiences. She speaks to Nuala about working in such a male-dominated environment and shares her stories. We chose Behind These Doors as our Book of the Month because of its compassion, its strong focus on relationships and the healing potential of talking, and also because of its important task in revealing a world that is mostly hidden from view. South has spoken about writing the book being a cathartic and helpful experience. By shining a light so brightly on a clear problem in our society, South is making what has been her problem to bear all of our problem, and rightly so.

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Tommy Fury's face is playfully squeezed by a female reveller as he parties with Chris Brown - after fiancée Molly-Mae Hague is seen without her ring Beds were hard, discipline was hard, work was hard; the cells were cold and the food basic. Warders, as they were then called, were in charge. Jennifer Ellison, 40, flaunts her toned figure in a white bikini in Turkey after revealing she's ditched dieting and is finally happy with her weight Capturing the confusion and contradictions of prison, Alex presents a life that is often hidden from the public. Changing our perceptions, Behind These Doors shows the many devastating, but often inspiring, consequences prison can have. As experienced officers retire, there will be violence and chaos will increase. And it will be unendurable to think that there are innocent people in there, at the mercy of unrestrained savagery. For there are.

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The miserable result of this empty controversy is that nothing intelligent is ever done about our jails. So they grow worse. And we will pay for this.Tom Brady, 46, is LAUDED by fans as he shows off his VERY hunky frame in shirtless thirst trap snaps during family break Kieron Dyer, 44, was dying with a rare liver disease just 11 weeks ago. Now, he speaks for the first time after a 'miracle' transplant South, whose recent book Behind These Doors chronicles her experiences, says she is speaking out because people still have no idea how dreadful prisons are and how, instead of being rehabilitated, many inmates leave broken. “You’re watching a real decline in people’s mental health along with a real spike in violence or drug taking.” Life in prison is a series of humiliations and dep But as his release date neared, he began dreading it. “He was getting released to the exact same area, where wrong had been done to him and he wronged other people.”