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Banged Up

8. 'Prison is so **ing boring' - Killing time

Banged Up

Goalhanger Films

True Crime

4.6936 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How do you kill time when in prison? Reading, exercise, drugs - or worse? The team discuss how to stay mentally strong when inside, and how to cope with missing out on big events in the lives of your family and friends in the outside world. A Left Peg production for Goalhanger Films Twitter: @BangedUpPodcast Instagram: @BangedUpPodcast #BangedUp This podcast contains content which some listeners may find upsetting. 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

You do have your days where you're just more pissed off, but that's natural as a human you can't always be happy. I used to try and always read books when my mind was

0:16.8

I can go and do an overload or try and do something to keep my mind busy listening to music, watch films, but there's times where you just

0:23.4

don't normally would just be pissed off and I think that was all right it was natural

0:27.0

we're in shit situations so obviously you? You feel shitty.

0:38.0

So guys, life goes on. We're back. It does. We're back.

0:40.0

Hello. We're back.

0:41.0

Life goes on inside and outside. And So today we're going to talk about that sort of time passing.

0:47.0

Slowly, fast, what's it like day to day in prison?

0:52.0

After you've got over, you know, we're talking,

0:55.0

you've done the initial things, you've, you know, the...

0:59.0

Dust has settled, exactly, thank you.

1:02.0

I think some... I feel like when you're working the days do

1:04.6

fly because the routine as we spoke about you're keeping busy you're keeping your

1:09.8

mind occupies so that the days do fly but the same time, the times when you're in

1:13.2

yourself, if you caught yourself, if you catch yourself over thinking you just

1:17.2

think fucking this is long. So it's a catch-22. Some days it, some days

1:21.5

is obviously quicker than others but ultimately looking

1:24.7

back it was a drag people when you come up people say oh it must have flown but

1:29.6

you like no it didn't fly on outside it time goes quick but inside it feels like it goes so slow.

1:34.4

Don't know how you felt Robert I felt like that. Yeah probably both I think for me it was

1:39.2

like there are times when it can like you blink you're like oh fucking the week's gone brilliant and

1:43.7

I don't know when you think why but sometimes that can be like oh you've had a

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