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Its hard enough trying to keep people alive in a hostel we failed at least 4 that I recall :(

Prison is going to be much worse in some reguards better in others.
 
Well back on the it wait to get a visit.

Prison was interesting not a place you'd want to do a sentence but seemed a lot safer and less chaotic than some hostels I worked at .
Staff seemed to enjoy the job some were shockingly young newest member of staff was 60 So hope for me yet.
So now I have an interview followed by vetting
 
I was working in the jail for a bit. Not a warden but offender rehabilitation support. So going in and connecting with people who would need extra support when exiting. Pick them up on release day and help them get their dole, licences home sorted in the first day then keep working with people for the first few months... until they had good supports in place.

It was okay, very rewarding. That position has been scrapped now because of cut backs so I still work with a lot of people who've left jail but don't have to go in that often now. Which is cool because as Mrs q says.. it's pretty ugly in jail atm. Our local jail is three up in each cell, even in resi and there's been a smoking ban for over two years now.
 
lewes has one block thats single cells that they had to fight not to be turned into doubles its still in special measures and massively short staffed. The staff do their best but prisoners are still locked up in their cells for way too long
 
well had my assesment centre
5 role plays
a maths test an english test and a physical
which I managed to pass :)

so who wants to volunteer for anal cavity searching practice:facepalm::eek:
 
lewes has one block thats single cells that they had to fight not to be turned into doubles its still in special measures and massively short staffed. The staff do their best but prisoners are still locked up in their cells for way too long
The geezer I had a part in getting sent down is in Lewes. Mind you, he's probably quite happy to stay locked in his cell.
 
good news more vacancies:D
Brighton ‘wheeler dealer’ and corrupt prison officers jailed for smuggling drugs and phones into Lewes
He said that Bridger, who was suspended from his job, and Taylor, who was no longer a prison officer, that this was a “grave breach of your obligations of your job”.

The judge told the pair: “Your obligations were – to put it crudely – to warehouse people who are in the prison system and to do so fairly properly and reasonably and to take part in the rehabilitation process.

“It remains an absolute obligation on all prison officers … to provide protection for people in society from people in prison but to protect people in prison from others and any harm they might do themselves.”

It was difficult to envisage any more serious breach of your obligations, he said, as he highlighted Bridger’s “cockiness” just before he was “caught red-handed” and even during his trial.

“Could there have been a worse case? The conclusion I reached is that there couldn’t have been.”

He told Taylor: “You didn’t really care what was in the packages.

“Like Mr Bridger you are a very greedy person with no moral compass whatsoever and you must pay the price for that.”


fuckwits must remember no pringles in my pack lunch:facepalm::D
 
That is the bare minimum of the job which the prison service has been failing at due to cuts which means lack of staff which leads to officers going sick and theres no agency for screws so you get a vicious circle which ends in a riot when prisoners cant take anymore.

Thats why they are recuiting massively so you can do more than just warehouse prisoners.
 
good news more vacancies:D
Brighton ‘wheeler dealer’ and corrupt prison officers jailed for smuggling drugs and phones into Lewes
He said that Bridger, who was suspended from his job, and Taylor, who was no longer a prison officer, that this was a “grave breach of your obligations of your job”.
And, despite it being well known that staff corruption is one of the leading sources of drug availability (and always has been), made easier by novel psychoactives, most of the discourse remains on disrupting mobile phone signals (tbf, undoubtedly useful) and drones. I wonder why that is?

That is the bare minimum of the job which the prison service has been failing at due to cuts which means lack of staff which leads to officers going sick and theres no agency for screws so you get a vicious circle which ends in a riot when prisoners cant take anymore.

Thats why they are recuiting massively so you can do more than just warehouse prisoners.
Is it?

I admire your optimism, but I'm not sold that this govt is genuinely gunning for more than 'humane warehousing'. Under Grayling and Gove there was a policy decision to remove all POs from therapeutic roles, meaning that plenty of POs with 10, 15, 20 years of delivering interventions (AND knowing how to navigate the prison system) were pulled from their posts and put on turnkey duties. Whilst enthusiastic 20 year old graduates, paid £16k and with no familiarity with prisons, came in to do their jobs. I'm not sold that POs are best placed to lead therapeutic groups; but nor am I convinced that this was much more than an ideological move - contracting, privatising, and cheapening therapeutic functions. (Whilst PO numbers were being slashed).

Truss' response to Grayling's reforms (in the Reform Prisons white paper) was pretty withering; but the govt's stated response was to reduce state accountability by giving governors more accountability. IDK. I've heard some optimistic notes about reform prisons. But also a broader cynicism that this is responsibility-shifting. (And the national roll-out seems to have been paused, if not entirely stopped, following the election...)
 
Nothing much to add to this other than,i fucking hate screws,make of that what you will,nearly as much as cops,its a thin line
 
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