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Thread #135123   Message #3080866
Posted By: GUEST,Eliza
23-Jan-11 - 03:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: The concept of 'punishment'
Subject: RE: BS: The concept of 'punishment'
Alan, I never knew that, how fascinating. But there is a Young Offenders Prison unit next door, called Warren Hill. I wonder if Behan was there? How droll for a murderer to want someone to stop swearing! The poor Suffolk Punches often had parcels of drugs secreted in their stables at Hollesley Bay. It's a bleak, God-forsaken place, I disliked it the most of all the eight Prisons I got to know well. The best ones were Highpoint (called High Joint or Knifepoint by the inmates.) and Norwich. The Officers in Norwich Prison were the most patient, calm and humane I ever came across. Each prison had its own ambience. Wormwood Scrubs was intimidating, as was Blundeston. Parkhurst seemed to have a huge proportion of mentally ill men. I did learn such a lot during all those years, but never did decide what we ought to be doing with offenders.