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Author: Samworth, Neil
Lancashire
Published on 7 February 2019 by PAN MACMILLAN (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 304 pages
197 x 130 x 20 | 220g
This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's most notorious jails.
'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places and hilarious in others . . . the authors honesty and decency shine through' Jonathan AitkenNeil Sam Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be locked up and men who should never be let out. He tackles cell fires and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most dangerous men in the country. He describes being attacked by prisoners, and reveals the problems caused by radicalization and the drugs flooding our prisons.
As staffing cuts saw Britains prison system descend into crisis, the stress of the job the suicides, the inhumanity of the system, and one assault too many left Sam suffering from PTSD. Strangeways by Neil Samworth is a raw, searingly honest memoir that is a testament to the men and women of the prison service and the incredibly difficult job we ask them to do.
'A frequently shocking read' Daily Express
