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Screwed [electronic resource] : Britain’s Prison Crisis and How to Escape It

Acheson, Ian2024

Summary

Screwed is the inside story of the collapse of Her Majesty’s Prison Service told from the front line. Ian Acheson served as both officer and governor in a twenty-year career that saw him move from the landings to the boardroom.During that time he witnessed Her Majesty’s Prison Service, the uniformed organisation he was proud to serve, collapse into a hopeless and helpless bureaucracy presiding over feral penal dustbins warehousing the worst of human failure. This hard-hitting account looks at the politics and the operational decision-making that have driven our prisons to rock bottom, where extreme violence, indolence and victimisation are normalised. Concluding that the situation is not beyond repair, however, Acheson outlines how a new corporate culture and mission can achieve a much-needed revolution in the way the service is run.