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

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At Scrubs, inmates had real weapons, not homemade ones, which they turned on themselves and each other every day. Of the three attempted suicides she cut down in a week, only one died. ‘Another prisoner, when he was saved, just said, “Let me die.” That replayed in my head a lot.’ She is also a Trustee of Trinity Winchester, a homeless charity supporting people who are vulnerable to the effects of homelessness, addiction, physical and mental ill health, poverty, social isolation and domestic abuse. From luxury skincare to must-have make-up collections - get Christmas all wrapped up with dream gifts they'll love Real Housewives of Dubai star Caroline Stanbury slammed for getting a 'terrifying' facelift at 47: 'She ruined her beautiful face'

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She believes we need to look more at underlying problems in the justice system, however. Earlier interventions by health or social services are what’s needed to prevent so many people becoming risks to the public and ending up in jail, she argues. EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Dunhill heir Piers Dunhill-Turner in bitter High Court battle with his old chum Charles Karsten Instead, many of them go quietly crazy with the things they have to do. Now, the older, experienced men (perhaps guessing what is to come) are leaving and, as she warns: 'A storm is coming'. Taylor Swift received offer to perform at Coronation of King Charles III but turned it down, claims Omid Scobie in his new book Endgame Simpson was taken to hospital and South interviewed his cellmate, a first-time prisoner named Knowles. He admitted to everything immediately.

I'm A Celeb campmate Tony Bellew compares Sam Thompson to his children despite Made In Chelsea star being 31 as he asks to sit on the boxer's KNEE The reason we can’t fit violent people in our prisons and we don’t have the resources to stop them being violent, is because we keep sending people with addiction issues and mental health issues to prison, because there are no community services left to deal with them,” she tells i.

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The situation is little better in Scotland’s devolved system. Its largest prison, Barlinnie in east Glasgow, has recently been holding around 1,400 prisoners despite being designed for fewer than 1,000. Things are so bad that there could be a “ catastrophic failure” at any time, according to its governor. Christina Aguilera reveals she needed FOUR people to help her move in her gown while filming elaborate Menulog ad After Alex resigned from the prison service in 2020, she won first place in the Beechmore Life Writing Competition. She is a hugely gifted writer. And she is one with a powerful and important story to tell. I'm a Celeb hosts Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly give health update on Grace Dent as viewers praise show for stepping in after food critic quit show Omid Scobie accusesPrince Edward and Sophie of 'a screw up' - and says remarks they made them seem 'casually bigoted'

Alienated from her own morality, South is lonely, even by the standards of her profession. Behind These Doors reads like her attempt to alleviate that isolation by taking us inside a world we are reluctant to see, making it our problem too. Of all the great works of prison literature, few have been written by officers. Shane Bauer’s American Prison is the most reflective, though he wrote it as an undercover journalist. In the UK, Neil Samworth’s 2018 title Strangeways: A Prison Officer’s Story zooms in on all the most gruesome details. 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. A Nicole Young denies accusation that she 'rearranged her face', plastic surgeons reveal procedures that could have caused change South had arrived via a circuitous route. After dropping out of university, she’d worked in bars where she’d learnt to read the room, manage a crowd and talk down a customer spoiling for a fight.

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