HMP Brixton

[@howardelder4411]

I was in Brixton for 5 weeks in about 93 from the appeal court in the strand London 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@BRYDO.DRUMMER]

TOP BLOKE John was in Ochill with you 06 .011 across from you A very intelligent gentleman you were TO SAVY for the system pal great to see you FREE loved your stories pal you'll remember me YOU WERE always in yapping me ran abt way burkie YOU HAD TIME FOR me BUT not many you had them eating out your hand John Brian 👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@susangavaghan]

Hello John. Remember we used to correspond many moons ago? Glad you are keeping up the good work. It would be great to catch up.

[@GordyDavy-qs1lh]

Welldone John keep up good work brother. I'm a friend of the boy who walked up and down Norran side with you.

[@70sChild-bv7ox]

Hello John. Worked on the unit at Hull when you was there. I’m out of the job now and I’m so happy. Wish I’d never done the job in the first place.

[@70sChild-bv7ox]

Incidentally, this is where my career began in 1992….

[@GordyDavy-qs1lh]

My friend is experiencing abuse by criminal justice could you point in the right direction to receive proper help.

[@kyrokyro2343]

I grew up in Brixton MARKET and I could have easily ended up in Brixton prison... thank God I left just before the "riots", in 1980 , USA, 42 years, .. wow God bless America.

[@AbolitionistFutures]

great stuff!

[@carltonkeenan187]

The problem is the government.. Everytime a new set of leaders come in they want 2 leave their mark.. It should be taken out of government hand so prisoners can be treated like people rather than animals.. Please don't get it twisted some peeps deserve to be where they are but a lot of people need help not punishment.. 👊🏽

[@elstoniobanderas4091]

maybe if they acted like people rather animals

[@UlickMcGee-Mo]

@@elstoniobanderas4091 animals don't jump counters for crack

[@UlickMcGee-Mo]

Very nice mate. My good friend Nessin Quinnlivin tells me they take security very seriously there haha as after he escaped with Pearse mc cawley 🇮🇪

[@thecoconutdog1]

I was in the SSU he escaped from. After he'd discharged himself though.

[@spongebob8678]

best iv heard for years...unfortunatly the judical system is rotten to the core..judges who are schooled to jail as many as the pesants as they can ..driving laws god half the uk must be banned from driving...jails are full of banned drivers...that doesnt seem right....

[@ayrtunbuckley2393]

as a lawyer i think your pretty wrong, the drunk driver in these prisons are usually in prison due to manslaugher or killing people while drunk, and this is justice for their actions, keep the scum off the streets imo

[@irishclaire996]

Sorry but your comment about them being there wrongfully is a joke. My ex is there for leaving me dead 2 times. The world, and men, have changed a lot in 40 years. I hope it is indeed inhumane in there as what he did to me and the lasting effects are inhumane but I got no choice.

[@shellyshellshell5932]

Hey I just read your comment and my heart goes out to you as you must had such a hard time and this must been hard for you to see and hear after all you been through big hugs

[@forgottencas2272]

To me, it's quite simple. If you think prisons are such awful places, then be a respectful, kind citizen and don't break the law. That way, SHOCK HORROR....you won't have to go in one!

[@stonebarrow5165]

Human's always make comments on subjects they no aboustely nothing about 💋💯👍 UK 💯💋👍

[@FriendlyPalBud]

Happy to see this

[@mattrobertstpt]

❤️

[@edwardburnsen-hicks2721]

Still a grand a month rent.

[@12shankley]

I worked in Brixton 80-90, I vaguely remember the surname Bowden, he was a Category A prisoner considered a danger to to the public, I think he was an armed robber held in A Secure Unit were they would be unlocked for most of the day and get extra privileges that the less dangerous would not get. It is the wing were they would hold the likes of IRA prisoners and other that were a danger to society, perhaps you would like to explain to the public how you would protect them, if you were not the same Bowden perhaps you would clarify why you were there, I was there to try and do a job, what was your excuse.

[@shellyshellshell5932]

Would you explain the very high level of staff brutality that has prevailed in Brixton for at least the last 40 years?yes Mr Bowden was in prison for having committed a criminal offence;but what about the prison officers at Brixton who commit criminal offences every day in Brixton against the prisoners but never the less our allowed to work with in Brixton and our payed for it?

[@drachirf2]

Regardless of the crime, people's Human Rights should be respected. If you create a group of people who you think don't deserve their rights to be respected, then you're opening the door for someone to disregard your own rights. By and large prisons don't protect the public, they take marginalised, angry and violent young men and brutalise them so they become more angry, and violent - before reintroducing them into society to reoffend / escalate. Do you think that poor people and black people are especially immoral and if not, why are they so disproportionately represented in proisons? Whay are there so few rich folk in prison? Were you one of the very few prison workers who didn't abuse prisoners 12shankley? If you were there for 10 years, you clearly didn't report any of your colleagues - did you?

[@shellyshellshell5932]

@@drachirf2 well said you 👍👍👍👍👍

[@BeVe-iu2mj]

"As you can see thetes very little natural light going through their windows" Thats just the uk in general yall got grey skys 24/7 lmao

[@aminaiqbal4529]

Irriformable 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙂🙂🙂 can't be changed or it's the mind set hahahahsh

[@DeanBaylis-fb3fs]

Been there done that 😂

[@aminaiqbal4529]

Great advice 🤣🤣

[@aminaiqbal4529]

Ahaha class difference was made to be here

[@stanleymalcolm9799]

I went in there in the 70s /80s and l put myself there and and more so my poor mum and then there’s the victims no we need prisons more because yes the crimes have become much much worse them days you would have sex offenders walking among us your sentences would be outside your cell door and crime . But he bought up one point what’s still going today around the world if your poor 99% it’s prison you never see wealthy people in prisons maybe 1 or 2 out off thousands and thousands off inmates people with money can pay for a high flying QC really interesting video 👍

[@TeeYaSelf]

Do the crime, do the time?

[@CARLIN4737]

very simplistic view? What about if your innocent?

[@paxoroosterbooster3033]

Are we supposed to feel sorry for him and the rapists and muggers in there?

[@CARLIN4737]

Did you feel sorry for the great train robbers or The Kraay twins or Charles Bronson or the wrongly convicted? im sure you did have some empathy or sympathy for some if not all. You cant pick and choose crimes or criminals. Its too simplistic to say you dont like that crime or that crime which is what youve done. You could be in jail for unpaid fines or murdering several people and the world of difference inbetween. Each crime and criminal should be judged if so defacto by that if that is your reasoning. How did that person get to that point in life where they needed to rob someone or something in the first place? All the mitigating circumstances and more need to be considered. Your argument is too simplistic for me to go on.

[@michealhenry7659]

I did the last of my 8year sentence, I got nothing but good memories from this place no joke just always was having a laugh.

[@winstonsmith4156]

Therye all volunteers . As for disproportionately ethnic minority. They commit a disproportionate amount of crime for a minority.

[@CARLIN4737]

Thats not true. Brixton like many areas have a high percentage of blacks then other areas so just by percentages more crime will be committed by black people . Do you know the largest percentage of criminals in most jails are asian now, muslim asians. Ive been in Brixton. its a local nick for Southwark crown court and youll be on remand 9/10 times in Brixton. im white, south london back ground so if i committed a robbery whatever youd end up most likely in Brixton. certainly until your sentenced. its an ethnic majority in London so therfore the crime proportionally will be committed by an ethnic group.

[@peterfenton2750]

heard it all before...you do the crime now do the time....

[@GordyDavy-qs1lh]

Thomas Mculloch.