The Best Little Prison In Britain (Isle of Man) SE01E01

[@honeybunch5765]

"I'm not allowed to work on prison fences, incase I put a weak spot in there."🤣🤣🤣

[@orionxtc1119]

Talk about the fox being employed to put the security on the hen house!

[@owenrules6993]

When goldy said he looked it up in the dictionary i burst out laughing you can tell how serious and honest he was caught me off guard

[@TheQuantumPotato]

And when he said he dug fences but he wasn't allowed to work on prison fences in case he put a hole in it, absolute gold haha

[@lorddylanwolford3192]

Prisons in America would never think of doing anything like this or treating those incarcerated as humans it’s very refreshing to see this as an American with family in prison

[@bobbobertbobberton1073]

This is insane. Normally when you watch prison documentaries you come away with a bit of depression and paranoia that you might end up in one being wrongly convicted. This was relatively wholesome lol.

[@christophermcguire27]

Well, what would you prefer Mexican nick Turkey or lately Frankland, Wandsworth, at it's most, brutal Peterhead Holy mother, even unto poor bloody Alan Marshall on remand yet, beaten to a, by the the most aggressive screws in the prison service

[@andrewb2415]

that place looks mint, no rent, no bills, free meals, get paid for being good, what a place to retire....

[@sinz.choppa]

Loons wasn’t cappin

[@thehappymedium01]

Margot: “I’m suspicious of them all”. Her comedic value is superb.

[@pcat1378]

Goldie now theres a man who still hasn't realised even at his age that his actions have consequences.

[@140379ben]

"doing a life sentence in instalments"...fucking legend

[@leemiller6175]

Best comment on the whole program!

[@naskabeer950]

love it

[@richardschneider4775]

not for me eb=ven if it is th RItz

[@minigrande1939]

Life sentence on his mastercard

[@benwilliams1172]

a great uncle of mine was sentenced to 6 months hard labour for pulling buttons off a policeman's tunic . that's breaking stones in a quarry . he never did anything that stupid ever again .

[@HA-jq1mu]

What in the world? They're legit living better lives than most people in the UK.

[@PraiseTheLord847]

Making the lost out of what they have yeah because prison is bleak

[@Mariamsadventure]

Yuup they are.

[@SiennaGriffin-e3t]

Yup

[@avalondreaming1433]

It's a spa holiday.

[@kelleemarie6114]

This is my retirement plan

[@patchgame6794]

looks better than the houses in New Zealand.

[@Footystickersuk]

What a joke! Sent to prison & living a better life than most outside who can’t afford all these luxuries, all paid for by the taxpayer! Uk is a complete joke as Is this prison

[@WeAreThePeople1690]

Gym, tv, visits, etc. Dependant on behaviour 🤣 Aye ok then!! Gotta love the Isle of Mann. Wait til that wee jail gets taken over like the rest 😉

[@jaylondon283]

I love Margo, you can tell she loves them all really she probably earns respect from them. Looks like a big family and probably come out more ready to make better decisions.

[@chrisgriff1971]

No they don't she fuckin horrible.

[@nayftv]

Right where’s that copy of heat I need a holiday

[@georgenutter8793]

Absolutely brilliant program.

[@LemieuxToyDIYs]

I can speak good manx, love the country, want to move there.

[@Jarv263]

Knife crimes = 3 years, Drug crimes = 6 years? That’s crazy, should be the other way round.

[@craigharrison9612]

I can't believe they aired this! 🤣😁😄😁 I've paid to stay in worse travel lodges!

[@madknox4666]

This jail reminds me of danish open prisons, Its lovely im sure this is the reason you got such low reofenders... It works in denmark!!

[@broughy23]

This looks like the most chilled out prison I've ever seen. These people have a better life than me ffs 😂

[@susanmargaretwills6432]

Eng_Kush - 🤔mmmh To me the idea of 17 hours locked up in a cell is terrifying and the 7 hours of recreation coundn't make up for it

[@amandaporter5898]

I was just thinking same thing🤣🤣🤣

[@longerused2023]

All for the cameras they will still hate the 17 hour bang up

[@baileyhammond1917]

@@longerused2023 they get better life then me lmao eating chocolate sweets like holy crap

[@gerardburton1081]

Looks like a hotel with all the gym facilities. You can come out fitter and stronger than you went in.

[@sammycrangle1000]

I have never saw ajail like that

[@paulmckernan7518]

I quite literally paid money to stay in a hotel on Douglas Promenade in May this year, and tbqhwy, this prison looks cleaner, more modern and with better facilities. Perhaps next time I visit the island I'll bring a copy of heat magazine with me.

[@Mariamsadventure]

Never seen someone use to be quite honest with you as an “tbqhwy” abbreviations… which planet did you come from? 😮

[@1776-or-die]

Big difference in county jail😂….and prison

[@billybigboll2885]

"They come in a bag of bones and leave all built up" That's the opposite of the prisons in Ireland where they come out a bag of bones strung out on herion after going in built up

[@bigfrankfraser1391]

what you mean prisons in ireland, i thought that was what happened to all the tourists

[@CurtisAnthony-sz9ph]

Well done dad...

[@neighbourhoodwitch18]

Ok, 2 mins or so in…will enjoy this series I think; reinforces my belief that where I live, the UK, is the maddest place on the planet 😂

[@Julie-si3hi]

🤣

[@fredziffle1991]

Prisons need to be punishment not rehabilitation..... Try reabiitate Yorkshire ripper, Huntley, etc then release them back to society..... NOT.. They like need the electric chair, no burden on the tax payer. I'll pay for the electric!!!! These people are treated better/have a better life than the gov treats our pensioners....

[@revertakh1235]

"Im just doing a life sentence in installments" 🤣🤣🤣

[@bigfrankfraser1391]

far cry from the prison i was in, back when i was inside it was still considered normal for a guard to casually kick your head in and claim you fell, i went in with a 5 year sentence, ended up doing 34 years because they claimed i was a violent lunatic, when in reality all i was doing was defending myself by swinging at the guards whenever they took a swing at me

[@cjm-nd2mn]

This is barmy imagine telling your employer I got a criminal record for hitting me mam over the head with a hello magazine 😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@allylou5151]

LOL 😂

[@markmcmillan6254]

So much for prison being a deterrent.

[@charlottenicolecragg]

It honestly took me way too long to realise this wasn’t actually a piss take 🙈

[@laminage]

In America it would be known as Camp Cupcake. They've sent all kinds of Women to Alderson and even though they don't get sushi or steak and lobster it's much better than Bedford Hills which has some crazy Inmates. The music was done by Dick Dale, the true originator of Surf Music before The Beach Boys made it into a worldwide phenomenon.

[@daxtales6334]

The mum of the brother and sister must be so proud 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and the partner inside too.

[@richardschneider4775]

Prison the place the whole family can be dysfunctional

[@CaptainHi-Top-w5q]

It's a reality show coming to a neighborhood near U

[@ManxAndy]

You got to be on the ball says George, they might go mad one week on Mars bars…..🤣🤣🤣

[@oliviamartini9700]

Scoff away, but this takes a special skill - they might all go berserk for Haribos the following week and order NO MARS BARS AT ALL!!! I want to know when this guy's retiring

[@debbiesummers7979]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@caoimhinlarkin5400]

George stores has a good ring to it though

[@Sapphire1985]

Love the comments from the female prison worker 😂

[@itsnay7382]

3 years for knife crime and 6 years for drug crimes says it all really

[@amandarickert7789]

It looks like Lorraine drew her eyebrows on with a sharpy!

[@cody33rd3rd7]

I feel like iam watching a episode of "Trailer Park Boys"😂😂

[@ElliottRMP]

my man dapped the pastor

[@caoimhinlarkin5400]

This show is absolutely tapped in the head.

[@simhthmss]

18 months is way too long to wait for a trial. If he was innocent that's 18 months gone for not committing any crime.

[@comeonengland5312]

Goldie obviously likes Tupac with that belly tattoo

[@MsPinkwolf]

The Isle of man tourism board must love this lol.

[@mischalecterTV]

This is what prison should be about: rehabilitation

[@thatJAWNraps]

"...and he's going up against the best prosecutor on the island.." - *best and only lol*

[@David-z5e6w]

A jail with no black people? That’s a resort!

[@aqua-mina]

“We’ve had people come to the jail because we’ve caught them on a visit!” Tragic but hilarious! 😂 11:52

[@jessiewhitman8688]

Jesus.. these inmates would die in an American prison. This doesn’t look like a prison, it looks like a vacation.

[@jason7134]

Genuinely thought the first 5-10 minutes of this was a mockumentary 😂

[@Maxmillion77]

haha same. "We're more on top of intelligence here than anywhere I've been before"...skips to ol' Margo watching a handful of monitors.

[@martinjdamenace92baked53]

same

[@thatJAWNraps]

its a better version of netflix new 'Hard Cell' which is literalyl the same thing but just women

[@useitwice]

It isnt?!

[@YasAdele90]

Me too

[@johndo3028]

Prison supposed to be a punishment not a holiday experience.😢

[@stewdapples267]

Best soundtrack to any documentary in all history 👌

[@J2D2S2]

What’s the song in the beginning with just the guitar riffs it sounds so familiar

[@stewdapples267]

You mean the pulp fiction tune when that guys in the cell?

[@stewdapples267]

@@J2D2S2 Rumble by Link Wray? Famous from pulp fiction

[@claireagnew7996]

Surely someone could have said about the eyebrows?? I'd be raging if they put me on TV like that.....jeez.... are there no mirrors.lol.xx

[@GrahransWoWGold]

This place is better than going away on holiday to Butlins! I was going to say Pontins, but I didn't wanna push it! 😂😂

[@djsubliminalreeve]

probably right there lol some of the shows feel like torture

[@orionxtc1119]

They do really still exist:?

[@Bradsmagicallife]

Them cells look so cosey

[@baileysbootstraps8170]

The Judge said "He wants it done explurentory". Goldie looked in his dictionary and it means fast and efficient. Well I'm 72 and think its good to learn something new everyday.

[@susanmargaretwills6432]

Bailey's - probably the word was "expediously" - Heaven knows where Goldie looked explurentory up ..... 🤔maybe in the Doomsday Book🤣? Or praps the Judge was just showing off

[@richardschneider4775]

Stay out of any jail I learned that at 6 years old. On a tour of the local police station the officer separated us in boys girls put both in cells and the doors shut. He pulled a chain the doors slid open and we all darted out. I never to return to any form of penal problem or legal issue. I am 69 now and AMEN prison is for losers

[@D3MON_KOR3]

A prison? This is just a resort you just can’t leave when you want 😂

[@ganja_bb4203]

As someone who's had their whole family locked up at one point. If prisons In America were like this I wouldn't have stayed up as a kid wondering if my parents are safe

[@elalbafordamon]

I'm sorry for what you've been through but that's completely your parents fault not the governments.

[@Mariamsadventure]

@@elalbafordamonyou’re clearly not sorry and definitely refused to understand what the person was saying.

[@ocnb]

Isle of Man always seems a bit creepy to me, can't explain why.

[@elcunto7623]

A life sentence in instalments.... thats the best jail joke iv heard!

[@TankManHeavy]

That head of security woman is a true relic of the old world. Harsher, judgmental, probably racist..

[@paulmorgan121]

Who else knew that Goldie turning up in court dressed as a 17 year old chav defending himself was a bad idea🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ladylaois8184]

😂

[@t4lovers688]

Funny as hell bro

[@t4lovers688]

He got out good on him

[@four-twenty4205]

​@@t4lovers688 - He didn't get out he just got his sentence reduced

[@t4lovers688]

O did he what a prison 😳

[@thebrunetteinroom7]

Wow. They live better than I do.

[@WeAreThePeople1690]

All prisoners do! Do you pay for rent/mortgage/accommodation, education, TV/Internet, 3 meals a day, hot water, heating, your washing done for you, etc. They don't, we do! And then, after we have to pay, for it all again, for ourselves!!!

[@el_eye_jah]

Goldie may not have had the most fortunate of lives but hes not letting that stop him learning law😮Clever man, respect to him 👏

[@CarlombiaJoseph-g4b]

He is far from a clever man, he is a fool and a half

[@el_eye_jah]

@@CarlombiaJoseph-g4b one only feels the need to kick a man when he's already down, because he fears what that man would be on his feet🤔

[@CarlombiaJoseph-g4b]

It’s a well known fact that a fool who represents ihimself has a fool for a client…. Kenny H

[@Mariamsadventure]

@@CarlombiaJoseph-g4b😂😂😂😂

[@SiennaGriffin-e3t]

At 15:36 what’s she talking about it’s great

[@naskabeer950]

Goldies Thug Life tattoo caught me off guard lol

[@no9scrum]

"the island has some of the lowest re offending rates" "I've been in and out 28 times, I'm doing a life sentence in instalments" doesn't really add up does it??

[@WeAreThePeople1690]

What he was saying is, when he is imprisoned, the rate of crime goes down. On his release, it goes up again! 😂😂

[@Kms13896]

Prison instalments 🤣 goldi is a funny one, armed with pens…😂

[@dannymcintyre3819]

Closer to Ireland and Scotland than Britain/England.

[@jededge]

id fancy a free 1 month holiday there every year

[@orionxtc1119]

ya to recuperate from a hard hard life outside...like going to a spa treatment centre

[@PhantomVeteran]

Lorraine’s a baddie.

[@minigrande1939]

Reminds me of the old Gloucester jail .As a chap who knows the UK prison system I will say this . smaller jail's where better more relaxed better relationship s between all big jail's (which the government is aiming towards to cut costs)large jail's are just crazy and dangerous

[@kellysheridan3149]

It is far to easy for prisoners in jail

[@TheWeightliftingTriathlete]

"They come in here bag of bones and go out fit as a fiddle" - isn't that a really good thing? Get themselves sorted. Also the one lady saying "It's too easy" - well it has the lowest reoffending rate in the prison system, so it works. Prison isn't about punishment, it's about rehabilitation, which is what this place seems to be doing well at.

[@RawTopShot]

Margo is just a bitter dried up walnut. She would find gloom on the brightest of days. She doesn't know how to be happy. Not happy with her attitude really, she's judgemental. Why is she even there if she thinks it's too easy? Get her a job somewhere rough so she can feel vindicated in her scathing attitude.

[@thescrutineer7022]

If there's no punishment there is no deterrent.

[@samanthakennedy4023]

The punishment was given in court, the prison should not punish, being removed from their home, family etc is the punishment. Prisons should focus on rehabilitation to ensure low recidivism rates and educate them and provide skills that can be transferred back to society, again lowering chances of reoffending. Countries like Finland and Norway also educate their inmates and support their skills and interests.

[@thescrutineer7022]

@@samanthakennedy4023 Many prisoners have no family or come from abusive backgrounds. That's how many criminals end up in the system. If they can get a free bed, food, paid work, an education etc then why not? They make many friends with all the social time that they have so why leave if there's nothing on the outside for them? If it was tougher they wouldn't want to keep coming back!

[@wayne3093]

@@thescrutineer7022 Make your mind up, are you writing about criminals or abused people with no family? You are saying that abused people and people with no family are criminals and everyone of them should be abused more while in prison. It takes many years to get over the mental torture of normal prison life and no one is ready to return to outside life and they reoffend because all they know is violence learned in prison. It has nothing to do with wanting a bed to sleep in or any other idiocy about reoffending rates. The worse you treat people in prison the worse they become because that's how you institutionalise people. Prison is the punishment and anything added to that is just sadistic natured authoritarian people flexing and who should be in the prison you speak of where abused people are abused even more and branded criminals.

[@ronaldviens7862]

Could they send someone to Wormwood Scrubs, or Dartmoor?

[@CarlPaulsen]

Thanks for uploading these mate, really enjoyed them...

[@Jhin_Tonik]

I've found my next hotel.

[@stevemoore4286]

Margo is complaining about it being too easy but she would get stomped if she had to enforce the harsh rules

[@markbenjamin1703]

Would the Isle of Man send terror or serial killers to the UK mainland for maximum security prisons?

[@johnpryce9044]

“Hit his mum with a rolled up magazine” just took me out 😂

[@TheDocRitchie]

yes but it was a magazine from an AK47!

[@maryburger1232]

That's assault !

[@3socksmorgan485]

He hit his 80 year old mother over the head

[@catherinegallagher1101]

That’s life 😂😂

[@timeismoney9684]

​@@maryburger1232assault rifle.

[@Jamestruin]

Urm......can I go?

[@xoxvickistoutxox]

I want a week or 2 away here. Tv, privileges, chilling with my newly found besties, reunions with family members(ok, I may not be too keen on that bit) no bills, I’d be a model prisoner so £36 a week in George’s Store, all just for me! I’m really due a break from the kids 🤣

[@kc3654]

Just visit The Isle of Man and then go shoplifting.. you might get lucky 😂😅

[@kellyalexander7347]

Same here a holiday away from responsibilities and kids will do me well 😆 🤣

[@Lisa-fo3to]

Count me in lol meet u there

[@Lisa-fo3to]

Ladies should we meet up let’s just take something from Poundland n see if we can go there 🤣

[@a.sydney5036]

This place sounds like heaven

[@mikehawk120]

Can’t do that here in the US,our culture and social standards are much lower.

[@ethanfrancis4527]

Scandinavia: 'we have the most humane prisons' Isle of Man: pathetic

[@richardschneider4775]

like the shooter who wrote the prison up for not having 2 pats of butter or getting no more than 16 years for multiple murders ?

[@BradMortyCollier]

I want to go lol

[@asahdo]

Oh shit I misread the title as best little person in Britain, I thought this was gonna be like a competition to find the best dwarf in the country

[@Yue_Jin]

Look up Rough N Rowdy, they do dwarf boxing.

[@Mr_Nobody913]

😂

[@susiselby1237]

How can someone in Prison be allowed to visit someone in Prison

[@bradley-xc7jl]

"what you in for?"... "I bonked me mam on the head with a magazine"

[@hkkhgffh3613]

Where can I book two weeks there?

[@Laurendaw]

It’s actually refreshing to see a prison based on humanity. The more these people are not treated like criminals the less they act like it

[@paulhunter123]

Why would anyone be in a prison if they behaved human

[@nite1783]

@@paulhunter123 you do realize a person being at the wrong place at the wrong time can be in prison accused of something they didn't do. Or maybe stealing .not necessarily they are killers.

[@GypsyRoseBlanchardisaliar]

the ones who did bad shit dont deserve humanity

[@josephknight3066]

@@GypsyRoseBlanchardisaliar what is bad shit? Have you not existed in the past 3 years? I think most people complied but hated COVID restrictions. Imagine COVID restrictions times 100 for years of your life not 3 but 6 7 Up to life. Not being able to see or talk to your friends whenever you want Not be able to visit your favorite pub or restaurant. Not being able to leave the place whenever you want. Any lick of bad behavior could be some sense of joy or freedom you have can be tooken away like your mom did but even worse. Punched your next cell neighbor? No access to the gym and no more play station. No more job. Punishment doesn't have to be whipping to be effective. Hell even non punishments like staying home while sick are punishments in themselves.

[@josephknight3066]

@@paulhunter123 there's many crimes under the law that aren't murder , rape or abuse. Like tax fraud. Does someone who tried to skip taxes deserve 7 years in solitary confinement? Does someone smoking meth deserve 5 years in cell with no sun light?

[@edwardpresutti2941]

3 hots and a flop in what amounts to a frat house hotel....

[@cockasaurus16]

After watching I kept expecting Lenny Henry to pop up showing off new rooms for a premier inn

[@ChrisEmo83]

punishment my axx i need a holiday might go there

[@mosthatedopp3096]

It’s funny how normal it is going to prison and having a causal conversation with the guard 😂😂😂

[@ruthanneluvsvacuuming6653]

They’re living a lot better than I have the money for

[@davidmccourt1916]

wonder if they have any spaces left for the summer 🤣

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