First sentence was in HMP Gloucester for a drunken prank that went wrong and then my second started at HMP Bristol then after I got my Dcat I was sent too Erlestoke.
Bristol and Gloucester were old damp and smelly but the D cat part of Erlestoke was better than some of the hotels I have stayed at.
Attitudes towards the wrong uns have changed over the years aswell,in Gloucester in the early 90's we were actively encouraged to dish out a bit of stick to them but by the middle to late 90's at the cat D jail if we looked at them wrong it was a nicking and a loss of D cat and back with the druggies in gen pop.
I was quite popular at Erlestoke as they introduced pee testing and at the time I was not smoking any narcotics so my pee was like gold dust in there.
The dirty gits used to carry my urine in a balloon under their nuts to keep it at body temp to fool the testers.
Lol!! it does make me laugh when you say wrong 'uns, its just like being at work!!
I would imagine that at the Cat D you would have to be more careful. Yep, found quite a few cut off fingers off gloves for the very purpose of warming the pee!
I know in the late 90's some prisons had mixed wings. Not sure how that worked out but I imagine not very well. Trouble with prisons is that drugs are alot easier to get hold of, despite what we do. Mind you, I kinda enjoy the cat and mouse game.
Never worked in a prison in the 90's. When I joined they spent ages at training warning us of the dinosaurs!!! All very PC nowadays (shocked, I bet!!).
I always work under the premise that I am not there to judge. I speak civily and expect the same back. The only time I had a prisoner raging at me, he came back 10 mins later to apologise. That said, certain things done inside should be punished, but you probably know that we have hardly any option to give any effevtive punishment. A judge has to come in now if there is a possibilty of ADA, and moving someone down a level on the IEP is laughable.