Behind these doors : stories of strength, suffering and survival in prison /
by South, Alex.
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BookPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2024Description: 339 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781399707596 (pbk.) :; 1399707590 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 365.92 SOUSubject(s): South, Alex | Prisons -- Great Britain | Prison administration -- Great Britain | Crime | True Crime | United Kingdom, Great Britain | True stories of heroism, endurance & survival | Social services & welfare, criminology | Penology & punishment | OffendersSummary: The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison have taught me strength, compassion, courage, and fundamentally, the need to talk, the need to share and the need to tell these stories. These are the stories of lives lived, lost and taken, behind walls so high we can pretend they hide another world entirely. But at what cost? 'Behind These Doors' is a provocative, insightful and illuminating interrogation of what it is to live and to work in the UK's most infamous prisons. The individuals Alex introduces us to are, for the most part, living on the margins of society and the impact of the cycles of violence that so often accompany those lives is clear to see.
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"BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week"--Front cover.
Originally published: 2023.
The men I have worked with and the staff I've worked alongside over the last ten years in prison have taught me strength, compassion, courage, and fundamentally, the need to talk, the need to share and the need to tell these stories. These are the stories of lives lived, lost and taken, behind walls so high we can pretend they hide another world entirely. But at what cost? 'Behind These Doors' is a provocative, insightful and illuminating interrogation of what it is to live and to work in the UK's most infamous prisons. The individuals Alex introduces us to are, for the most part, living on the margins of society and the impact of the cycles of violence that so often accompany those lives is clear to see.
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