Inside Parkhurst : stories of a prison officer / David Berridge.

London : Seven Dials, 2020.

304 pages ; 20 cm

Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It's all in a week's work at HMP Parkhurst. David Berridge has spent 28 years working as a prison officer, with 22 years at Parkhurst. A tough character with a big personality and a dark sense of humour, David has had to deal with it all - serial killers and gangsters, terrorists and sex offenders, psychopaths and addicts. 'Inside Parkhurst' is his raw, uncompromising look at what really went on behind the massive walls and menacing gates of one of Britain's highest security prisons.

9781841884226 (pbk)

365.9'4228
365.94228

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