Tales From The Jails
by JEKYLL & PRIDE PRODUCTIONS
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A gritty, raw and real account of life in prison.
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Episodes
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- Criminology - What's It All About? · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 54ANOTHER BONUS EPISODE. Continuing with my informal research, I recently managed to catch up with Criminology lecturer Michael Cawley from Edge Hill University, UK. This is a…
- Daryl The Notorious Cat Burglar: Part 2 · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 53"They say things come in threes. Well, I was 23 years of age, a flawed man with a ferocious appetite for removing valuable objects from their owners. I had a gambling habit to…
- Daryl:The International Cat Burglar · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 52Continuing with my research and interviews, I managed to catch up with what I like to call one of the 10 Percenters, a former prolific burglar and jewel thief referred to in the…
- Why is Society Fascinated with Crime? · 28 min · Season 1 Episode 51BONUS EDITION AS PROMISED! At the end Series 1, I said I would be exploring two questions: 1. Why is society fascinated with crime? 2. The 10 percenters who don't re-offend or…
- Episode 50 - Unhappy New Year · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 50Thank you for listening to Tales From The Jails!! We've reached the end of Season One, my first year of incarceration, and are pressing pause on the podcast, but we will be…
- Episode 49 - Christmas In Prison · 32 min · Season 1 Episode 49It's the 25th of December, 2016. Imagine waking up on Christmas morning with a person you only met a few months ago, not your partner or soulmate, but your pad mate, in HMP. I'm…
- Episode 48 - Who Lives In A Cell Like This? · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 48It's the 16th of December, 2016. It's Friday. Today HMP Birmingham has turned into a riot, resulting in a complete meltdown. The official statement as of 5:00 PM is control has…
- Episode 47 - Toenails Has Left The Building · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 47It's official. Toenails has left the building. There was no real camaraderie. Number 1, a fellow Despicable, walked with him to the meat wagon. From the rest of us however, it…
- Episode 46 - The End Of The Worst Of Times · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 46Breaking news. It's just been unofficially confirmed. Toenails departs in two days. Cat D. He's hanging on in reception by his grubby fingernails and his days are numbered. And…
- Episode 45 - Prison Gogglebox · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 45I have said many times, nothing and no one is sacred when it comes to Scousers, even more so in prison. Inside HMP, in many ways it is like falling down Lewis Carroll's rabbit…
- Episode 44 - Rambo On Acid · 19 min · Season 1 Episode 44Scouse Rambo is the first to admit that his drink and drug use is way beyond that of recreational. He tells the lads that he once collapsed in a field at Glastonbury, doesn't…
- Episode 43 - Happy Birthday · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 43We're full to capacity in Walton. We never went to work on Saturday because we were full. History in the making, again. The news before we left for work this morning was that a…
- Episode 42 - Extreme Days + Dramatic Nights · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 42The local BBC news is outside the prison, and officers are striking outside. It's chaos beyond the door and we're subjected to Christmas ads playing every 12 minutes on TV, on…
- Episode 41 - Drones, Lockdowns, Guns + Drugs · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 41Only 48 hours ago, mobile phone footage was uploaded to the net and social media of 230 inmates in HMP Bedford running riot and out of control. Day by day the broken prison…
- Episode 40 - Happiness Is Not Welcome · 18 min · Season 1 Episode 40How do you respond or react to someone when they are seemingly happy and you feel lousy? It takes on a whole new meaning in here, manifesting in anger, violence or malicious acts…
- Episode 39 - The Worst Night Of My Life · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 39As I settled and focused, there was a young inmate slumped on the floor with a bed sheet noose tied around his neck. He was alive, but he was desperate. During the three and a…
- Episode 38 - The Frenchman · 17 min · Season 1 Episode 38By seven o'clock this morning the BBC was reporting a man knifed and dead in Pentonville, two seriously injured and two arrested. By the time I'd put the phone down on T, a guy…
- Episode 37 - The Despicables Come Unstuck · 16 min · Season 1 Episode 37The constant level of juvenile behaviour is beyond what you can imagine, but at the same time it has to be taken seriously because of the ever present violent undertones that…
- Episode 36 - Ship Outs + Slashings · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 36Any one of us can be attacked or caught up in a violent episode, and potentially or probably be knifed, slashed, coshed, swilled, strangled or battered brutally and viciously…
- Episode 35 - Self-Inflicted Death · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 35Self-harming is as common as the cockroaches that appear each evening. The place is infested with self-harming severe mental health issues and men attempting suicide daily, to…
