TWO quite different conversations stick in the mind of former prison governor Susie Richardson as she reflects on three-and-a-half years at HMP La Moye.
The first – not long after she started – was with a prison officer whose behaviour she had challenged. Why had he done what he did, she wanted to know?
“He told me that’s how things were in prisons, and when I asked where he’d got that idea from, he said he’d seen it in a film. Of course, everybody in that prison had been recruited locally and had only worked in that prison but I felt really offended that a fellow professional had come to think our profession could be guided by films instead of by the literature, or by the jurisdictions that are doing things really well,” Ms Richardson said…
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