High-risk prisoners, Covid-19 & changing values
Jan 27, 2025•47 min•Ep. 94
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Episode description
Ian West served 35 years in the prison service in England, working in ten prisons and governing four. He tells us about the special secure unit of HMP Belmarsh where he worked with some of the highest-risk prisoners in the country, the difficulties of changing the thinking of some elderly prisoners and what it was like to govern a prison through the Covid-19 pandemic.
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LinkedIn: kaigancarrie
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