TY - BOOK AU - South,Alex TI - Behind these doors: stories of strength, suffering and survival in prison SN - 9781399707596 (pbk.) : AV - HV9645 U1 - 365.92 SOU 23 PY - 2024/// CY - London PB - Hodder & Stoughton KW - South, Alex. KW - Prisons KW - Great Britain KW - Prison administration KW - Crime KW - eflch KW - True Crime KW - ukslc KW - United Kingdom, Great Britain KW - thema KW - True stories of heroism, endurance & survival KW - Social services & welfare, criminology KW - Penology & punishment KW - Offenders N1 - "BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week"--Front cover; Originally published: 2023 N2 - 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 ER -