18. The prison officer - Andy's story

Banged Up

Goalhanger Films

True Crime

4.6 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Over 20 years in prison...but not as an inmate. Andy has worked as a prison officer in both maximum security and B-Cat prisons and he tells us what it’s really like to work with some of the most dangerous prison service as well as how the system has changed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, how are you both?
0:05.0	All good, thank you, how are you?
0:08.0	All good, thank you, how are you?
0:10.0	Good, episode four, flying by.
0:12.0	Time flies when you're having fun, doesn't it?
0:14.0	We are.
0:15.0	What's new?
0:16.0	Boats, what you've been up to?
0:17.0	Not much, really, you know, just same old.
0:19.0	There's not, to be fair, I'm excited that, obviously, we come out of,
0:22.0	what, restrictions are eased from Monday
0:25.0	so yeah I'm happy about that. Get a get a haircut. Get a get a haircut. I can get a
0:30.3	haircut I can get my hair dyed professionally again.
0:33.0	Rob you've got a back injury.
0:35.0	I have the technical term is it's buggered.
0:38.0	I did it stretching on Wednesday. I mean I'm definitely getting old so I've been hobbling around but I'm a fighter
0:46.3	Claire you know I mean. Maybe you need to go back to your you know prison style
0:50.8	MDF bed and that would sort it out. I think that's it my bed's too comfy.
0:54.4	Can anyone out there can you send me two inches of foam and a hard woodboard for me to lay
1:00.0	on please? The blue mattress. The blue mattress. Those blue mattresses. It was good for your back though. They were
1:06.1	good for your back though. They were good for your back. But you know what I didn't like? Because they were obviously,
1:08.8	they were like for those listeners that haven't seen a prison mattress. They are that kind of not not laminated what's the
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