Q309: What's Barlinnie Prison Like? Ian ‘Blink’ MacDonald
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"Bar-L is a hellhole" wow, I was a kid on remand in the late 90s, when I first experienced it, HMP Polmont Y.O.I.was much worse than Bar.
Blick seems proper would entry like to get on wrong side off him but a gentleman really
What's Barlinnie Prison Like?
Shite.
Next?
Don't believe half the horror stories bud,if u keep yourself to yourself and yr no a mug that will get bullied or taxed as in stuff took of u,more likely you be ok,it's definitely not the Hilton hotel but
@@scottkennedy203 aye ok scott ..
@@celtictillidie67 ok then, whatever aye ok Scott means🤔
@@scottkennedy203 ooft a can barely mind o writing that I was mogered ....i was showing ma pal this video et time ....soz man ...
@@celtictillidie67 no probs pal🍀
" im gonna slash one of them"
Met a few Scottish people in winson green. And the stories of that place where crazy. Pp9 battery in socks. Sugar water. Morning body bags and breakfast on hold lol
why can't people hear him? i'm yorkshire and i can understand everything he says.
I can understand MOST of what he says and I am from the West Mids.
It’s only Americans and cockneys that can’t understand blink
Scheme, great band in early 89's
He's hilarious at telling his stories😁👍
Thick Glaswegian accent
@@gilesguest4 thick?
@@peternagy-im4be yes
@@gilesguest4 THICK?
@@peternagy-im4be it means strong, as in a strong accent
Wait a fookin minute, I says do ya think I’m in here for Recreational purposes 🤣🤣🤣
Tavy@ i like blinks storys hes still got a great sense of humour considering the amount of jail time hes done. Hes proper old school!!!!
Heard this guy before on TH-cam, defo the real deal, a true Glasgow hard man, great at telling stories, the bank robbery story is good.
Cara Gray live by the sword that guy,his deed now
@@leighwingate6222 wit guys dead now blink ain't dead
@@leighwingate6222 no he isn’t ya rocket
@@gaz8177 blink is still alive and kicking my friend.
@@20FreeWill your a bit of a rocket, ya banger.
You know it’s bad when prison officers are slashing prisoners lol
That's definitely true ,the screw he means ended up a deputy governor to,the guy he slashed tried to slash somebody else ,that's why he dun it,he was a nasty bastard
@@scottkennedy203 Slasher Gallagher in 1980's.. One for one. Cheers.
PS He was Thee Governor, not a one two three, or Hall Governor, he was the Boss of the full Jail.
He got slashed by prisoner, gave ultimatum, you done me, now I'll do you, and that's that.
@@paulglancy3867 who's slasher Gallagher
@@bowjana8128 A governor that was in Barlinnie prison in Glasgow
In early , mid 80s .
“It’s a hell hole of a prison”
That is a severe understatement. Its absolutely disgusting. It was so bad back in the day that cons sued them for breaching their human rights and won. Every con that done time there could claim against them and get a few geez.
We had that curry in armly and it was fecin horrible that was back we had to piss in a bucket, I use to put orange peel in the bucket to make it smell a little better. And if ya wanted an shit ya made a parcel and through it through the bars for the garden party the next day.
Love his explanation of a Piss Pot
"It's a pot and you piss in it"
😂😂😂
pess*
From TV comedy still game Jack and Victor would call it a pish pot.
Well that's what they were called, disgusting smell of stale piss every slop out in mornings 🤮lol
😂
What’s a piss pot? A pot you piss in.....brilliant 😂😂😂😂
Ian is a really engaging story teller. He has a gift.
Still had to slop out in 2000 wen I was there
Woody81 so did i m8 did u get your slopping out money ?? i got £2,100 in 2005
@@stuartmc6377 no I didnt know u could. I did it in polmont aswell. Fuck it was awful as it wasnt only your own as in polmont we shared. I can smell it now. 1 boy threw his down the stairs and broke his porto loo. Dam it was bad. The block smelt so bad for weeks
yep in 1999 i was sloping out in exeter
@David Charles Francis Topham de Vere Beauclerk I was in for GBH a couple of guys started on me and a friend walking home from a pub one night. My so called mate legged it and i was left to deal with them, And i bit half of one guys ear off. Got 3 years. spent time on remand in exeter then when sentenced was shipped out to guys marsh
David Charles Francis Topham de Vere Beauclerk attempted murder basically gang fighting and we done two people i got 7 year
To be fair prisons are not meant to be nice, now the Hilton hotel, that should be nice, wee moral, don't break the law and you wont end up in jail. Blink is a character to be fair, love his stories, mad a s fuck
All screws are brave when there mob handed
Shaun actually looks quite nervous here
Doubt it
He doesn’t
He looks comfortable with Blink
Love the look on Sean’s face when he’s told about a mars bar on his face
I spent 2 weekends in barlini on my way to longriggend . was grim as fuck but longriggend was worse😂
Fascinating interview , thanks Shaun ❤
Just wanted to ask if you will be doing a cast about Assange's prison experience. How would they treat him. Thanks
I’m sorry the prison was so corrupt
Shauns looking slightly uncomfortable here
Shaun is out of his depth I think. But a great video.
I love it when Scottish people make anti-English statements as we all know throughout their entire history in Scotland the most dangerous thing for a Scotsman is another Scotsman. In the TV comedy still game Jack and Victor would have called it a pish pot.
Hello Shaun and Ian my grandad is a MacDonald
Mystery bowl, 23 hour dub-up, hug cockroaches in the dog boxes, D hall in the 80's taxing at it's finest, red and white con-shirt in reception meant remand fk'all out my peter on the hunt.
The eld riot bun at 8 bells ma man wi the plastic tea urns fkn hell memories man .
The bar' L '
The big hoose
One of the things that makes barlinnie a lot worse than other jail's in UK is that's it's 23 hour lockup. It's monotonous being locked up in a cell 23 hours a day and some days it's 24 hours if the guards can't be bothered giving you the hour exercise that you are entitled to. Also the fact it's an old Victorian jail that used to do executions etc gives it a creepy vibe. Overcrowding is rampant and you can end up sharing a cell with a psycho.
That's just not true. Unless you are talking about years ago. All the guys go to education, out to play football, the sheds to work on the bikes and make stuff. Aye a lot of the suicide risks, escape risks and those on protection are dubbed up 23 hours a day
I'm a psycho I always get the singles and usually left to me devices but the search team are bastards
Kar fc, thats true. Becouse every one i knew that was in barlinnie had to work. Maybe except guys that were only doing 7 to 14 days. But most guys doing a long sentence had to work. My mate was working on the garden work party in bar-l about 9 years ago and he said it was like a fucking golf course, it was huge lol.
Karfc, thats true. All the long term prisoners i knew had to work in bar. But i thinck if you were doing 7 to 14 days to 28 days you were locked up 23 hours a day. And the screws made you work. Its a hard big jail and no doubt!
@@SuperKarinaG It is true because ive been in it and experienced it and the fact you think its not true tells me you havent so stop talking like you know what your on about, listening to stories passing it on as fact. Everyone doest need to work theres not enough jobs for everyone to works theres over a thousand prisoners, do you think theres that many jobs inside a prison, also not everyone goes to education etc because like i said theres over a thousand prisoners, the guys who work in gardens or cooks etc used to be housed in letham hall
and have different priveledges to guys in a,b,c hall, 12 year ago since i was last place.
life is very different in different places
Back the day u were doing well if got a pillow when you were a yo, passing threw bar.l going to polmont or long riggend ,
@@chunknorris2627 lol longriggend long ago pal, polmont n long ,glenochill y,os, back the daft days ,94/95/96 lol 👍
I love blink he's one of the boys a top lad nice guy but don't take the with him because you will lose every time good luck mate hope life is good for you take care mate
Blink biography movie is what we need, ferris got a movie...Blink bigger Star
My dad was a hardy wee man but he hated going into the Bar L to see his brother
Every one should read his book great book
who's book please tell me Mr Robertson, ta x I may read, if ya tell me
Been wanting to read his book. Recommend Noel Razor Smith's A Few Kind Words... book too
Fascinating, highly intelligent man, but fuck me, this story is horrific (from HIS point of view!) why on earth would you make these life choices where you end up banged up a fucking 12 in Barlinnie!? I wouldn't last 12 minutes mate!😳😂
Shaun can't be arsed with this...
No being funny but this is another boring podcast. Blink has to be one of the most boring to listen to.
This Guy isnt exactly feared in Glasgow and was a Shoplifter then Tried Armed Robbery and was quickly caught.Could Talk for Scotland.
You don't have a clue then kid
@@GlasgowBandit if a glasgow hard man heard blink was after him he would burst out laughing.Im from there he grafts earns money but hes not feared by other guys.
@@monstermonster99 ok well I'm from Glasgow aswell I would beg to differ just because he stays quiet he's still a very respected and dangerous character
@@GlasgowBandit You from Glasgow oh well carry on Mate.
Feared men in cities are ten a penny . I'm harder than you , my dad's harder than your dad , I've been to more jail's than you . Bloody hells fire 🔥
What's Barlinnie Prison Like?
Shite.
Next?
Did you hear about the lonely prisoner
He was in his cell. 😂
For the viewers a piss pot is a... Eh.. A pot ye piss in 😂😂😂
The Bar-l Mantra "Don't Ask Cause Your No Getting"
Ain't that the truth 🤣🤣🤣
Dartmoor is the setting for Hound of the Baskervilles
Seldon 😁😁 the notting hill murderer 😁😁👍👍
Time definitely goes quickly in Barlinnie...
hi shaun i done 112 days corrective training in a miliatry jail for assult 14 days in a civillian jail for 900 pounds motoring offences in the seventys and never wanted to go back which i havent how do these blokes like blink get through big sentences as i would shudder at 16 to 20 years
This didnae feel wrong(3.30)haha
i love piss pots,got over 2 grand after having to use them in HMP Saughton in the late ninties,as the EU told them it was way past the date we should have had real bogs,Shaun you'd get slashed from your cell mate for shitting in a piss pot,in Scottish prison you shit in a bag and fling it out the window (a shite bomb ),some poor prisoner had the job of picking up the shite bombs every morning
In Armley, you wrapped your shit in newspaper and flung it out the window, the nonces had the job of clearing it up. You can ring the buzzer all day long, nobody comes to let you out for a shit.
@@blueoranda5724 yes mate,no Scottish screw is going to open your door for a shite,we used the empty plastic bags off the loaves of bread,we used to get the empty bags off the pantryman,it wasn't the beasts up here that picked up,although it should have been the nonce bastards job,it was some poor cunt from each hall got shite bomb patrol each morning,they used to rake them to see if any parcels got chucked out by mistake LO FUKIN L !
There’s no way that guys on drugs! Your all wrong....
Wee bit o blow noo an then
Did you know that hundreds of inmates took the Scottish government to the European court over “sloping out”? The practice was deemed a breach of their human rights and compensation was paid. I’m unsure of the year, maybe late 90s or early 2000s. Cash compensation of various amounts was paid into accounts of serving prisoners to enjoy on release. Typical award was £500-£700 per month they had to endure it.
The same cells are still in use to this day, all with a very unprivate toilet.
£2,100 you got, I never bothered putting in for it.
I was in A Hall summer of 2002 during the world cup , Lockerbie bomber was still being held there in his own we compound "Gaddafi's cafe" and slopping out was still going on then... although I think some of the other halls were being refurbished with toilets at the time if I recall correctly.. but A Hall was still slopping out in 2002
Slopping out its called when you piss in the pot the good thing was they paid you towards the end of that ma da got a pay out for having to do it xx
Blinks a midnight mass real Gs don’t speak FAX
Wit
Will BLINKS A GRASS REAL GANGSTERS DONT GIVE INTERVIEWS DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
@@hardstylemystyle1817 well aye I do understand cause it was in fuckin english the 2nd time . Calm doon big man
Will sorry for shouting 😭😭
SLOP OUT
Ernie Barrie definitely did not do that Clydesale bank in Blantyre!
Its 😊meant to make you never want to go back dog boxes ect
Lol.
Blink should pack in the life of crime and become a comedian,
I'd love to hear all his stories.
I've just bought his book from Amazon.
This guy is some character honestly his banter is quite laughable eh.anyway blink the bank rober stay safe matey
Screws called “chewing gum” gang is hard to understand when chewing gum is barred from all prisons. It can get pushed into locks blocking doors.
When he mentions the chewing gum gang he means they were swaggering about just like a bunch of bullies team handed. Not literally chewing gum as your right it's not allowed in prisons
Smack isn’t allowed in but you get it , if ye want , it’s the 80’s and it was corrupt screws doin the chewin
He talks to his cell a lot
A formidable Looking place when you drive down the m8 to the city centre horrendous
Geez a line blink! Well tell yir on the Charlie haha
I've got a Mars bar look
An Shawn says ye an does not look
You think he said something to him before interview
Bar is still a hellhole tigers #1
That place sounds like hell on earth
@Chris I bet. Proper hard time
@Chris yea I'd be one of them u fraggle
@@robbiethompson2778 you'd be one of the scared ones that wouldn't survive?
It is I just got out last week the food is crappie!
@@RobertMcnulty-j8u i hope you enjoy your christmas out mate
I canna makoot a sungle weird thus mun is sayin is he Scatticsh hes gotta veery strung arksent
Art For Arts Sake you love it really 😂
I'M FROM GLASGOW, DO YOU COMPREHEND - GO FUCK YOURSELF, YOU PEASANT
@@barneytorr1 yasss😂
@@barneytorr1 my step dad was from Glasgow mate, bridge town, he called brigton though, I had no problem understanding this video.
@@kevchez4262. Good one, Bridgeton was. is. some place.
Shaun.. your an alright fella, but these talk shows with hardened criminals is just glamourising the horrible crimes that they committed.. bit backward really 🤔
53 thousand views.. Folk obviously find it interesting.
James.. true.. but it’s not exactly 53 thousand likes is it, only views, doesn’t mean that all viewers watch right through
@@Puffpuffgive16 I watched it.. I never liked it.
Slasher sounds like the governor guy from the film brawl in cellblock 99
Blink n Johnny boys stories are the best
Blinks a pure legend
I love your channel . Fair play the chaps you get on here are some big boys . They all have respect for you . Keep up the great work and please no more David ICKE even tho I love his work you must keep your distance please !
I cannot understand the guy on the right for the life of me.
That's Scottish for you. If you can understand the Scottish you can understand anyone 😂
Oooooh get you 😂
D C It’a strange, because I’m Australian, so I really should understand 😂
Hi there, well with a name like Miriam Perkins I'm not surprised "Dear" Only pulling your leg, no don't get me started there. Have a nice day, just a bit of humour. Glasgow is pronounced Glesga too lol. x.
What I love about the rangers boys is u never ever doubt them, they are British and proud of it, in these uncertain times I faking love that🇬🇧👍
Blink i can remember being in the Dug leg wi you back in 1980 (longriggend)
scheme songs is the best thing about the 80's......Blink it was a soundtrack to us in/out jail...time goe's a bye
You fucked up another 5 years haha Black & White ma man 👍
Alright, so what the fuck was this about? What did that man say? Why's he talk like that and darn that's a hellofa scar.
As an English man I've been with a govern girl an I can say I do ney give a duck just poor men with nothing to do but fight poverty created a breed of men like the Scots
Been in barllinie myself and I'm English it's a fucking dump
subtitles for this video btw hahahhah
The thing is, "Barlinnie" sounds nice if you don't know what it is.
Having spent equal years in 100+ year old gaols & newer modern prisons, I much prefer the older.
Don't know if its any different noo but back in the day the pipes in the halls would go oan about 3ish,and would fkn clunk clunk for hours,noisy as fuck
Dust every where clean bed clothes fine not gray blue
I used to pass going to smithycroft never thought I'd see inside you can smell the misery and history in the cells.
Spent my entire 20s in barlinnie. Actually had some really good laughs in the place considering. I used to do bio hazard clean ups so I got all the good gossip when people were slashed or smashed. I met one of the roof protesters. Big Buttsy lol screws were petrified from him. Also scheme were an amazing band, check them out on Spotify
Bio hazard ? Is that what we used to call " bomb disposal" 😂😂
Tick ticking away
Went to visit ma da and all he wanted was fuckin jaffa cakes what a place
Did he just grass slasher Gallagher in this public interview 🤔 or am I missing something ?
Galllagher is dead mate
@@thesatisfiedcustomer4869 still a grass
How the fuck can you grass on sumdy who’s dead?????
Blinks a grass mate
@@robertmcphee4942 aye I know that but he canny grass when he’s dead,that’s all I meant,m8!!!👍🏻
No pictures then Stewart not my fault
Why's he called blink ?
Because he will slash you in a blink of a eye
@@Geeeeg1223 lol 😂🤣 more like because as a kid he has an eye tick that made him blink lol 😂slasher lol he's no hard man, money getter yeah but not no gangster.
just like the screws in wandsworth
My uncle dez is the drummer for scheme
a sottish neighbor lent me a video of the band to watch about 30 years a go , if i remember right was a great band , always surprised how many Scottish lads dont know about them , guess it a glasgow thing ,
@@captmidnite8142 there's a documentary on. U
TH-cam
Scheme were the business boys Fae scheme hence the name was fella named George Wright in band used come up possil see my old boy bak in the day great fella had big German shepherd dog wae him no word lie god rest him was great guy
You gotta love a geordie accent
Lol that's funny
Eh?
@@gavmackenzie 🎣
It's Scottish bawbag!!
I have a cousin who is very familiar with the inside of barlinnie prison isn't that right j frame 😂
What you on blink 😂😂
Thin ice
Tam co piolet nice Dude career in and out
I was in E hall when you were in the Wendy
Where are the subtitles when you need them ?
Ur dinner 🥣 the pistrorie bowl
I have got a Mars Bar myself too, it is delicious.