I like First Dates. Agree with comment above though that these are more reality tv/entertainment rather than serious documentaries and I think most people recognise that. You can still find pretty good documentaries though they’re usually on Netflix or the like these days.
It's incredible to believe that ITV used to show serious documentaries. This went out at 8pm. It was stopped in 1998 when ITV bosses realised they could show a soap opera, quiz or reality show instead
08.28 "Civil prisoners who've been unable to pay debts". Unless it's some sort large fraud, sending people to prison for being poor is absolutely disgusting.
I was in Hull prison in 1986,.slop out, no radio could have fm.. Then again in 2009 Doncaster, TV in the cell, kettle, xbox if you wanted washing done for you, .. Its the dream bedroom of any child..
@@kevinkellow2582 well if you read it properly am saying in the old days you didn't have people rapping on there phones, unlike now, and the kids these days haven't got a clue what jail is
I did read it properly. And saying the same thing again don’t make it any different. If they had phones they would of done. And maybe if the English jails back then knew what the fuck rap was they might of done. The little prison rap boys everyone see are cat-C prisoners. Easy jail. No phones in the cat-A’s where the real prisoners are.
@@jinxterx23 hours a day in an overcrowded cell ffs, I couldn’t imagine lasting 23mins. I remember a friend and family member being out into care home aged 8 and 10 and it waking them and me up… at least to think a bit more, be more careful and do a lot less crime. I’ve never done time.
@@seltaeb9691 if you wanted to show youngsters what prison was like it would make more sense to show them something that reflects how bad prison is today especially those prisons for young offenders.
I take it from your attitude you are assuming all the prisoner's are guilty ? Well, I was wrongly convicted for a crime i did not commit and was put in Strangeways about two weeks before the infamous riot kicked off. I then spent the next 3O+ years unable to find work, due to my criminal conviction. For a crime I did not commit. Talk about rough justice, man!! So I did '' behave '' myself and it got me nowhere!!! 😡
One thing I notice when I watch these old documentaries is there was no Obesity problem back in them days no overweight people I know it sounds crazy but it's true everyone is slim and slender 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Eh screaming skull....I'm an ex con (fully rehabilitated) & that attitude against an ex screw is outa order, he may have been one of the good ones! More respect in a shit world please....
WIA was perhaps the best current affairs documentary ever produced. Fearless reporting with no bias, playing all sides of the story. Also, 18:14, tell me you’re a sadistic ex army type with a taste for swinging the baton without telling me you’re a sadistic ex army type with a taste for swinging the baton.
That feckin screw geezer with the tash saying they are all volunteers. Well no one volunteers to be treated inhumanely, in inhumane conditions with without proper sanitation, what a prize kin hamshanker.
Terry Bond (the officer followed here) died in May 2024 seemingly in his mid-seventies. He joined the Prison Service in 1974, enjoyed a prestigious career and received decoration for his service. He also rose through the ranks of the POA (a prison officers' union).
It's hard to believe that ITV once produced serious programmes with serious professional journalism and now it makes shows like love island and the only way is Essex.
Not as gutted as the screws when they went the vans and no fucking wheels 😮 our kid sitting in his cell pissing himself whilst the screws huff n puff "that cunning Scouse bastard"😮😂😂😂😂
And ten years after this in Durham we had 4 up in a single cell still banged up 23/7 and slopping out 4 times a day and the authorities couldn't understand why the riots happened
I hate them Road man and how they talk! "you get me cuz say no more"! This is where criminals were different but now they all listen to that shite music Drill or Grime Green house or whatever it's called and they think they are gangsters. 🇬🇧
I visited my dad strangeways. I remember those big doors, army material uniforms, striped shirts and boots. I was told my dad was in hospital but even at 8 years of age I knew that wasn’t true.
murderers commonly get a single as obviously they are doing a long sentence. Or get carted off to Broadmoor or Rampton because they cant deal with the prison regime and get nutted off. Nonces usually go on the numbers. A protection wing away from the main body of prisoners for there own safety.
That screw with the moustache “ everyone is a volunteer “,definitely a bully boy,would not look out of place as a SS officer back n the day.Exactly how I remember prison in the 70s
By all accounts that screw with the grey mullet of hair & Hitler style tash was known as 'Bootsie'... as he wore ammunition boots with metal studs in the soles. No points for guessing what he used those for on some of the 'volunteers'.
I was in the army in the 70s & you could say it was an austere open prison. I could adjust to prison life with all its strickness & in my barracks room with 6-8 muckers each had a bed, locker, chair & light. It felt like a prison which it was. Slopping out might grate a tad.
I've done a lot of work with ex-prisoners and the idea that prisons today are cushy is a myth. They are horrible nasty places, filled with horrible nasty people. One of the stranger facts is that murderers are usually the quietest bunch in the prison. One thing though about prisoners, give them a yard and they'll take a mile... Give them two hours socialisation they'll want six hours.
@@ThePacko69 I'm glad to hear you have got your life back on track... I was told that a lot of the inmates that have committed murder were so shocked by their actions in taking a life that the last thing they want to do is to make more trouble for themselves...
I served 15 years of a life sentence and some of the woman murders I was locked up with was loud and nasty only the older lifers was quite. Take a look at bullwood Hall the real bad girls to find out.
Prison populaion in Britain in 1979: 42,000 At the most recent estimate, the prison population in England and Wales is projected to grow to between 93,000 and 106,000 by 2027 - more if you add Scotland. And costing approximately £50,000 per prisoner p.a.
I remember in Dorchester prison in 2001 they had these radios on the wall and they gave you these wires to plug into them. Still remember the song it was Nelly Furtado 😂👍🙏🇬🇧☮️
My father god rest him was in hmp strangsways the time ov dis 1979 untill 1990 i was only born when he got his 20 yrs 4a few armed robbers comeing from london my dad was a hand full in hmp wormwood scurds so he shipped him up north my mum use 2 bring me an my twin sister on the train up 2 manchseter once a month. I remenber him when i was about 9 in the visiting box then the long jounrey back 2 london he got out promeing my mum he woulnd go back 5 yrs later he was banged up again for 11 yrs dis time he done his bird in hmp wonsworth and hmp Dartmoor
This documentary popped up on my feed as a random. I remember watching it at the time and wondering if much had changed today for either prisoners or officers, given governments repeatedly harp on about the same issues today.
If you closed your eyes and just listened to the opening words it could so easily sound like this was made in 2024. Just shows they were having the same issues 45 years ago
Seeing this programme.....it makes u realise it was pretty realistic!.....apart from the comedy aspect. Prisons now are relatively soft apart from the risk of random assault by some thug having a bad day
That's different, you can move around a submarine and don't have to be in the same place all day, a submarine does confine people but not like a prison.
(Pseudonym) A violent, oppressive hell hole. There was a constant threat of violence from inmates and staff. I spent my first night there aged 15 in 1976, waiting for Borstal, returned a couple of times on other YP sentences. It helped to make me a very angry and aggressive man, then many years in jail. I have been free nearly 24 years. Prisons and staff have gone the opposite way, the new type of inmate is worse. I see now that a certain amount of fear of violence was necessary for control, some staff were just monsters. This new type of criminal needs to feel real pain.
"This new type of criminal needs to feel real pain" - ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!!! You know damn well how you felt when you'd been on the receiving end of a beating: YOU THEN FELT MORE RESENTFUL, & YOU WOULD THEN TAKE THAT FEELING OUT ON THE NEXT PERSON WHO IRRITATED YOU WITH THEIR BEHAVIOUR. Your perception of strangeways is SPOT ON! YOUR TIME, THERE, TAUGHT YOU ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!!!
@@SiLoJayLo Yes, there is contradiction in what I say. I despise todays mini gangsters who have no fear of consequences, because there are no serious consequences. Feral gangs roam Bradford with impunity. Society needs to dish out harsh responses or things will only get worse. I watched a video on todays jails. Incredibly, this idiot took himself hostage in his cell and threatened to cut himself. In the old days they would have laughed at him and said 'Get on with it' They treat it like he was going to injure someone else. A team, fully riot kitted, messed about for ages before going in and taking the tiny item off him. Laughable.
If I was asked " What are you going to do tonight" Id have replied " Im going to squeeze between the bars, climb down and jump over the wall, go to the local pub, then at 10.30 pm go to the chippy, then climb over the wall, shimmy up the drainpipe, slide through the bars and go to sleep". And just look at the blank face who asked the stupid question.
World in action is a very good crew who go out and collect their information and then they lst us all watch it , And they did it when things were in tight and people were being pushed away from what they were intiteled to, These people went tru hell and back by English government World in action is one of the best documentarys ever
I had a Saturday job in 1978 as a 17 year old kid, and would take home 6.80 for that one day. In school holidays I’d do 5 days and get around 36 quid take home. A pint was about 25p, cig’s about 40p for 20. Maybe less.
Evo-stik came at a premium though cos I remember I found 50p and another kid swore blind he found it, my skinhead cousin made us fight to fuck on the old people's home lawn opposite spars, then nicked the 50p for glue😂😂😂😂 happy days😊
Fascinating watch, especially knowing what happened 10 years later. Similar, or worse, conditions in prisons right now with the COVID lockdowns still very much in effect inside. I'm hearing of protests inside Whitemoor and Belmarsh. Solidarity to all incarcerated people x
Oh i remember him very well, I was told that his daughter was involved with a borstal boy and that's why he hated us so much, if you remember Thacker you will remember Turtle with the scar on his throat where he was slashed and thrown off the top landing 🍺🍻
@@ackerjawaka1966 I do remember a screw with the scar you mention. Also heard the same story about Thacker's daughter🤣 Thacker was your typical drill sergeant🤨
@@bellman8041 he was one of those screws that went out of his way to make your life in prison worse than it had to be, the screw with the scar whose real name i can't remember got a load of compensation for what happened to him then went back to work, i was there 3 times before the riots the last time being 1987 and you could feel the tension then 🍀♠️
Not much has changed I was in belmarsh for 3 weeks 2011 that’s not a Victorian jail but it’s just as dirty with 23hr bang up most days.. And the start of the second week there wasn’t any shower gel to wash !
reali quality television, remember this and arena, panorama credo , this is one of the best intros along with the South Bank Show which is think was more arty, Melvin Bragg
Even the criminals seem like nicer people back then - You would think bit by bit the country/world would improve but it just gets worse - I guess it must have peaked at some point maybe in the 50s just before my time
An inflation rate of 4.19% per year means £100 in 1979 is worth £634.07 in 2024, 33k pa. The average salary for Prison Officer in 2024 is £33,370 per year. so it hasnt changed, apart from its now better conditions and also the 70 hour week has now been cut in half with the same wage so overtime will increase the wage value.
In prison today it's mostly the same, there is no rehabilitation in prison only drugs, violence, and a lot of mentally ill men and women and it will only get worse, and just the same thing 10 yrs from now😮
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These are the programmes we grew up watching…
Real journalism.
World In Action - A Proper Documentary - unlike Love Island, Wife Swap, Big Brother, First Dates, etc.........
bloody hell you're observant aren't you?!
I like First Dates. Agree with comment above though that these are more reality tv/entertainment rather than serious documentaries and I think most people recognise that. You can still find pretty good documentaries though they’re usually on Netflix or the like these days.
Is that all what ya missis makes you watch so you come on TH-cam to see what prisons where like before and now before you strangle her to death 😂
AMEN 🙌🏻
Arguably, it's EXACTLY like those shows you mentioned!
Still one of the best musical intros of any programme on TV ever..
Weekend World?
Absolutely ! The extended version is even better
It's a very good tune that suits these documentarys when you hear it you know it's worth watching
Yes, I was thinking the same 👍
Hmm I was thinking it would be nice at the crem😂
It's incredible to believe that ITV used to show serious documentaries. This went out at 8pm. It was stopped in 1998 when ITV bosses realised they could show a soap opera, quiz or reality show instead
A lot cheaper to do and less controversial. It appears to people who have been denied a proper education.
There were no reality shows on itv in 98.
08.28 "Civil prisoners who've been unable to pay debts". Unless it's some sort large fraud, sending people to prison for being poor is absolutely disgusting.
it's bloody medieval mate!
It was the norm in the 70s
stealing by fraud or by stealth is the same theft you goon.
@@888ssss You completely missed the point you fuck nugget.
Yes,they gave prison to people unpaid fines. 4 weeks jail. Do 2 weeks
Dont make 'em like this no more,proper production values,great writers and journalists.
That intro wow nostalgia
I was born in 77 but that theme tune is seared into my brain.
Powerful.
Goosebumps
You know it's serious when you hear that music..
You knew as soon as the music started you were going to see a real programme,My go i'm getting old
The difference in prisoners and prisons these days after 40 years is unreal !
I went 3 times around year 2000 , I was good got everything, good environment , it’s gone bad now I have heard Al never go back
@@kingkong81icloud me too, 1997 and 2000 and prison was very similar to this. Apart from slop out.
So is our poor old land
@@matthewjdouglas6471no it was not 97 and 2000 like that lying 🤥
@@kingkong81icloudwhat a sad comment. Prison was good.
This theme music always makes me sad. Even as a kid
Why sad ???
Me too!
And me 😢
I was in Hull prison in 1986,.slop out, no radio could have fm.. Then again in 2009 Doncaster, TV in the cell, kettle, xbox if you wanted washing done for you, .. Its the dream bedroom of any child..
So, prison is your 2nd home?
No divvies filming themselves rapping in there cells, these kids doing jail these days haven't got a clue
Filming on phones??? 1979?? What the fuck you on about!
@@kevinkellow2582 well if you read it properly am saying in the old days you didn't have people rapping on there phones, unlike now, and the kids these days haven't got a clue what jail is
I did read it properly. And saying the same thing again don’t make it any different. If they had phones they would of done. And maybe if the English jails back then knew what the fuck rap was they might of done. The little prison rap boys everyone see are cat-C prisoners. Easy jail. No phones in the cat-A’s where the real prisoners are.
@ku sure about that?evinkellow2582
I agree.
I remember getting 6 weeks remand in 1976 and living these conditions i was so shocked by the regime that i never got in trouble again.
So it worked then
I only did 1 week remand in 1996 and the conditions were exactly the same as in this film. A real eye opener. I never got in trouble again either.
@@jinxterx23 hours a day in an overcrowded cell ffs, I couldn’t imagine lasting 23mins. I remember a friend and family member being out into care home aged 8 and 10 and it waking them and me up… at least to think a bit more, be more careful and do a lot less crime. I’ve never done time.
They should show this too youngsters who start going off the rails.
@@seltaeb9691 if you wanted to show youngsters what prison was like it would make more sense to show them something that reflects how bad prison is today especially those prisons for young offenders.
The days when prisoners could string a sentence together.
Because prisoners back then were mainly english.
@@bosiexinit bruv😂
All these prisoners saying it’s not fair that they’re locked up 23 hours a day. Well behave yourself then!
Civil prisoners?...
good thing they can spare 1hr to go home and take a rest....
@@AB-kx4nc yes those too! Pay your bills or maintenance orders! It’s never happened to me. Coincidence maybe?
@@johnmanning5568 locked up with nutters definitely not,locked up, ok
I take it from your attitude you are assuming all the prisoner's are guilty ? Well, I was wrongly convicted for a crime i did not commit and was put in Strangeways about two weeks before the infamous riot kicked off. I then spent the next 3O+ years unable to find work, due to my criminal conviction. For a crime I did not commit. Talk about rough justice, man!! So I did '' behave '' myself and it got me nowhere!!! 😡
One thing I notice when I watch these old documentaries is there was no Obesity problem back in them days no overweight people I know it sounds crazy but it's true everyone is slim and slender 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Started my prison service career at Manchester in the 70s, quite an experience and not one I’ll forget
@screaming skull Well someone has to keep the scum off the streets!
@screaming skull Don't hate.
Eh screaming skull....I'm an ex con (fully rehabilitated) & that attitude against an ex screw is outa order, he may have been one of the good ones! More respect in a shit world please....
@@ThePacko69 cheers- did 30 years, never assaulted, most have been doing something right- good that you got your life together
My dad was a prison officer there.He started in late 79.
WIA was perhaps the best current affairs documentary ever produced. Fearless reporting with no bias, playing all sides of the story.
Also, 18:14, tell me you’re a sadistic ex army type with a taste for swinging the baton without telling me you’re a sadistic ex army type with a taste for swinging the baton.
That feckin screw geezer with the tash saying they are all volunteers. Well no one volunteers to be treated inhumanely, in inhumane conditions with without proper sanitation, what a prize kin hamshanker.
I remember watching this. First time around.
Still as fucking bleak.
Terry Bond (the officer followed here) died in May 2024 seemingly in his mid-seventies.
He joined the Prison Service in 1974, enjoyed a prestigious career and received decoration for his service. He also rose through the ranks of the POA (a prison officers' union).
God bless him
I grew up watching these documentaries this was hard hitting real life journalism. Would something like this be aired today , would it be allowed?
£100 a week for 70 hours. In 1979 I was taking home £27.50 a week for a 40 hour week
Doing what??? I was earning over £60 a week as a new entrant in an office in 1979. The average wage in October 1978 was £84 per week
YTS course 1984 £25 p/w 40 hours
I. Was. Taking home. £80.00 a. Week. On. The. Cards, as. A. Bricklayer.
£14 per week supplementary😊 benefit (what became income support later in decade) for 16 year olds when i left school in 1981
Ffs £100 pw! I was on nearly £250 pw before tax scaffolding in 1981.
It's hard to believe that ITV once produced serious programmes with serious professional
journalism and now it makes shows like love island and the only way is Essex.
I remember this program
Fill it up with illegal immigrants, places like this is where they should come not in a 4 star bloody hotel etc
Agree and throw away the key
Back when tv programmes were worth watching.
Loved these documentaries
9:01 Scouse inmate asks if there's any work today. Looks gutted there is none but he's hiding his euphoria 😅
Not as gutted as the screws when they went the vans and no fucking wheels 😮 our kid sitting in his cell pissing himself whilst the screws huff n puff "that cunning Scouse bastard"😮😂😂😂😂
And ten years after this in Durham we had 4 up in a single cell still banged up 23/7 and slopping out 4 times a day and the authorities couldn't understand why the riots happened
I can. see above comment.
Luxury!
Good 👍 documentary
"RIGHT LADS SLOP OUT" never forget that shout
pity you did not remember 'stay out of trouble lad' from school....?
@@888ssss 🤣
@@888ssssIf only!!
Some well spoken prisoners here. Now you have 'street speak', rapping, spice, mobile phones........
I hate them Road man and how they talk! "you get me cuz say no more"! This is where criminals were different but now they all listen to that shite music Drill or Grime Green house or whatever it's called and they think they are gangsters. 🇬🇧
Even the theme is great.
May 2024 and the introduction to this 1979 documentary applies to our prison service today.
This is how prisons should be not like now. No punishment at all!
I visited my dad strangeways. I remember those big doors, army material uniforms, striped shirts and boots. I was told my dad was in hospital but even at 8 years of age I knew that wasn’t true.
My uncle was in Stokeheath in 1979. When we took our 7yr old cousin to see him, we told him his uncle was in the army. He believed it for years
cramming 3 blokes into a small space is torture unless they are nonces or murderers.
Or gays..
murderers commonly get a single as obviously they are doing a long sentence. Or get carted off to Broadmoor or Rampton because they cant deal with the prison regime and get nutted off. Nonces usually go on the numbers. A protection wing away from the main body of prisoners for there own safety.
Or bummer boys
@leevancleef451What is wrong with gay people ?
@@kevphillips02 Everything, Its not normal is it to put your cock up another mans asshole. 🤢🤮
That screw with the moustache “ everyone is a volunteer “,definitely a bully boy,would not look out of place as a SS officer back n the day.Exactly how I remember prison in the 70s
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
I will 2nd that …..what a little shit Tache was
Agree, I bet he was violent towards prisoners for the slightest breach of the Nazi regime
Typically ex military type...bully boy
By all accounts that screw with the grey mullet of hair & Hitler style tash was known as 'Bootsie'... as he wore ammunition boots with metal studs in the soles. No points for guessing what he used those for on some of the 'volunteers'.
remember that music well like yesterday, also wickers world, loved watching that when i was a kid cause it meant i was up late
I was in the army in the 70s & you could say it was an austere open prison. I could adjust to prison life with all its strickness & in my barracks room with 6-8 muckers each had a bed, locker, chair & light. It felt like a prison which it was. Slopping out might grate a tad.
I've done a lot of work with ex-prisoners and the idea that prisons today are cushy is a myth. They are horrible nasty places, filled with horrible nasty people. One of the stranger facts is that murderers are usually the quietest bunch in the prison. One thing though about prisoners, give them a yard and they'll take a mile... Give them two hours socialisation they'll want six hours.
Yes I'm a fully rehabilitated ex con & your right murderers are quieter, probably because there on enhanced status & just want a quieter life tbh
@@ThePacko69 I'm glad to hear you have got your life back on track... I was told that a lot of the inmates that have committed murder were so shocked by their actions in taking a life that the last thing they want to do is to make more trouble for themselves...
You find with most convicted murderers, once sentences they go through a grieving process & some kick off & go loopy!
I served 15 years of a life sentence and some of the woman murders I was locked up with was loud and nasty only the older lifers was quite. Take a look at bullwood Hall the real bad girls to find out.
Any one still live from this programme
4737 Carlin Sir?
Where's your fucking tool?
Shit witness
done dc meself.
It was crap.
Prison populaion in Britain in 1979: 42,000
At the most recent estimate, the prison population in England and Wales is projected to grow to between 93,000 and 106,000 by 2027 - more if you add Scotland.
And costing approximately £50,000 per prisoner p.a.
Thanks for the info. Polticians/Daily Mail/ the Scum love the Law n Order rabble rousing
It's for profit thsts why.
Back in the old days, could you borrow a radio from the prison. Is it true radios couldnt have fm, only am mw.
I remember in Dorchester prison in 2001 they had these radios on the wall and they gave you these wires to plug into them. Still remember the song it was Nelly Furtado 😂👍🙏🇬🇧☮️
12 years later the boys ripped the fucking roof off the place 🎉
interested to know what become of some of these prisoners.
Probably back in and out
All dead.
They had the perfect experience for the available vacancies and became prison officers.
If still alive, they will be at minimum mid 60s now. I'd say 80% of everyone in this episode have died now....
My father god rest him was in hmp strangsways the time ov dis 1979 untill 1990 i was only born when he got his 20 yrs 4a few armed robbers comeing from london my dad was a hand full in hmp wormwood scurds so he shipped him up north my mum use 2 bring me an my twin sister on the train up 2 manchseter once a month. I remenber him when i was about 9 in the visiting box then the long jounrey back 2 london he got out promeing my mum he woulnd go back 5 yrs later he was banged up again for 11 yrs dis time he done his bird in hmp wonsworth and hmp Dartmoor
What was your father’s name? If you don’t mind me asking
This documentary popped up on my feed as a random.
I remember watching it at the time and wondering if much had changed today for either prisoners or officers, given governments repeatedly harp on about the same issues today.
If you closed your eyes and just listened to the opening words it could so easily sound like this was made in 2024. Just shows they were having the same issues 45 years ago
I watched a programme called Porridge on tv as a kid. It put me off a life of crime.
Seeing this programme.....it makes u realise it was pretty realistic!.....apart from the comedy aspect. Prisons now are relatively soft apart from the risk of random assault by some thug having a bad day
Three in a cell? Think of all the submariners stuffed into uboats during WWII!
That's different, you can move around a submarine and don't have to be in the same place all day, a submarine does confine people but not like a prison.
Im watching you fletcher. And you young godber
Where’s all the play stations
(Pseudonym) A violent, oppressive hell hole. There was a constant threat of violence from inmates and staff. I spent my first night there aged 15 in 1976, waiting for Borstal, returned a couple of times on other YP sentences. It helped to make me a very angry and aggressive man, then many years in jail. I have been free nearly 24 years. Prisons and staff have gone the opposite way, the new type of inmate is worse. I see now that a certain amount of fear of violence was necessary for control, some staff were just monsters. This new type of criminal needs to feel real pain.
Exactly, fight fire with fire!!
Thanks for sharing 🙏🙏🙏👍👍
that's propper prison one of them cunt screws looked like macki out of porridge looks a grim hole then thanks for sharing
"This new type of criminal needs to feel real pain" - ABSOLUTE NONSENSE!!! You know damn well how you felt when you'd been on the receiving end of a beating: YOU THEN FELT MORE RESENTFUL, & YOU WOULD THEN TAKE THAT FEELING OUT ON THE NEXT PERSON WHO IRRITATED YOU WITH THEIR BEHAVIOUR. Your perception of strangeways is SPOT ON! YOUR TIME, THERE, TAUGHT YOU ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!!!!!!
@@SiLoJayLo Yes, there is contradiction in what I say. I despise todays mini gangsters who have no fear of consequences, because there are no serious consequences. Feral gangs roam Bradford with impunity. Society needs to dish out harsh responses or things will only get worse. I watched a video on todays jails. Incredibly, this idiot took himself hostage in his cell and threatened to cut himself. In the old days they would have laughed at him and said 'Get on with it' They treat it like he was going to injure someone else. A team, fully riot kitted, messed about for ages before going in and taking the tiny item off him. Laughable.
Wow! They don’t make them like this anymore. One of the few shows that has a rocking theme. Go listen to Weekend World.
This is how our current Tory government would treat people today if they thought they could get away with it.
This is how the Tories do treat people, and most can not see it.
You mean instead of giving them the holiday camps they get now?
Hope so
I totally agree
Excellent upload
Yep, just subbed 🤘
A brilliant current affairs programme that is now gone to be replaced by complete shite.
If I was asked " What are you going to do tonight" Id have replied " Im going to squeeze between the bars, climb down and jump over the wall, go to the local pub, then at 10.30 pm go to the chippy, then climb over the wall, shimmy up the drainpipe, slide through the bars and go to sleep". And just look at the blank face who asked the stupid question.
That make me laugh. Thanks!
Only three to a cell? Luxury. When I were banged up, there were 15 of us, with just one bread roll to share each week.
Eye trying telling that to the young folk
You lucky barstard
Well of course we had it tough, 150 of us in one pad with only a grain of rice between us, even the rats moved out 😜
World in action is a very good crew who go out and collect their information and then they lst us all watch it ,
And they did it when things were in tight and people were being pushed away from what they were intiteled to,
These people went tru hell and back by English government
World in action is one of the best documentarys ever
@13:27 screw with sunglasses it’s Jeromy Beadle 😂😂😂😂
😂😅
Prison was. Hard. Then. U. Can tell. What. A. Jail. Is. Like. When u. Arrive.. Bye. The. Tension in the. Air.
Didn’t know bricktop was a governor of strange ways before acting. 😂
I had a Saturday job in 1978 as a 17 year old kid, and would take home 6.80 for that one day. In school holidays I’d do 5 days and get around 36 quid take home. A pint was about 25p, cig’s about 40p for 20. Maybe less.
I woz 5 in 78 guv ya right abaat da snout n neck oil😂😂😂😂
Evo-stik came at a premium though cos I remember I found 50p and another kid swore blind he found it, my skinhead cousin made us fight to fuck on the old people's home lawn opposite spars, then nicked the 50p for glue😂😂😂😂 happy days😊
Looking at the intro reel,nothings changed in the last 45 yrs !
Very good documentaries back in the day with panorama
Fascinating watch, especially knowing what happened 10 years later. Similar, or worse, conditions in prisons right now with the COVID lockdowns still very much in effect inside. I'm hearing of protests inside Whitemoor and Belmarsh. Solidarity to all incarcerated people x
The Bay city rollers banged up?
Anyone remember an officer called Mr Thacker? He mostly worked the Borstal wing.
Oh i remember him very well, I was told that his daughter was involved with a borstal boy and that's why he hated us so much, if you remember Thacker you will remember Turtle with the scar on his throat where he was slashed and thrown off the top landing 🍺🍻
@@ackerjawaka1966 I do remember a screw with the scar you mention. Also heard the same story about Thacker's daughter🤣 Thacker was your typical drill sergeant🤨
@@bellman8041 he was one of those screws that went out of his way to make your life in prison worse than it had to be, the screw with the scar whose real name i can't remember got a load of compensation for what happened to him then went back to work, i was there 3 times before the riots the last time being 1987 and you could feel the tension then 🍀♠️
Keep out of trouble...SIMPLES !!!!!!, Don't assultt a police officer,,,
One song playing was Warm Feeling by LINDISFARNE. What were the other songs playing?
World in action theme tune 😂
Shame it wasn’t run for home 😂
@@wired2780😂😂
Tonight there’s going to be a jailbreak by Thin Lizzy.
They should of kept prisons like this.
Its Mr Makai from Porridge 😂 the one who says aw dont complain you volunteered.
That would crack me up after a day, living with 3 men in a tiny room,
Harry Grout wing ?
And it's still the same today in most prisons
2024 if the public knew what went on in there now the shit would hit the fan .
Holiday czmp
Monday night WIA and that music
My dad was going to be a prison officer years ago he paased all the training and everything my dad is only 5ft 6in
Not much has changed I was in belmarsh for 3 weeks 2011 that’s not a Victorian jail but it’s just as dirty with 23hr bang up most days..
And the start of the second week there wasn’t any shower gel to wash !
Poor Oscar Wilde, locked up for two years in Reading gaol 😬
I bet they had a shock when they relize its not like that comedy program
Porridge,,,, eh where the mr braclough guy
Nothing really changed however. If you’ve committed a crime do you still have the right you’ve deprived others of? It’s punishment isn’t it?
Prison is totally underrated
Born in 78...the title of this show was scary
well now there is over 80.000 locked up today
reali quality television, remember this and arena, panorama credo , this is one of the best intros along with the South Bank Show which is think was more arty, Melvin Bragg
3 to a cell fk that. Jails are hotels now.
Even the criminals seem like nicer people back then - You would think bit by bit the country/world would improve but it just gets worse - I guess it must have peaked at some point maybe in the 50s just before my time
Punishment was the still the norm not rehabilitation.
An inflation rate of 4.19% per year means £100 in 1979 is worth £634.07 in 2024, 33k pa. The average salary for Prison Officer in 2024 is £33,370 per year. so it hasnt changed, apart from its now better conditions and also the 70 hour week has now been cut in half with the same wage so overtime will increase the wage value.
In prison today it's mostly the same, there is no rehabilitation in prison only drugs, violence, and a lot of mentally ill men and women and it will only get worse, and just the same thing 10 yrs from now😮
2024 what has changed apart from now having inexperinced prison staff prisoner still on 23 hour lock down
I saw The Syrup on the landing at 4.58 😂
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Most of these prisoners would be in there 70s today
" Collars down hands out ur pockets & keep to the left "
This is EXACTLY how prison should be now!