Violence in Prison: Wormwood Scrubs

PSN member, John Bowden, conducts a series of interviews with two former prisoners that survived the brutal regimes at Wormwood Scrubs in the 1990's.

Introduction 0:00
Interview with Gary Johns 1:42
Interview with John Chalmers 6:43
Round table discussion 22:20

Further reading:

Prison whistleblower lifts lid on 'regime of torture' (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/n....

Scandal of ‘rotten and evil’ Scrubs (The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...

Chief prisons inspector condemns 'evil' regime at Wormwood Scrubs (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/j...

Prison inquiry call as 'sadistic' officers are jailed (The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...

UK prison officers punching compliant inmates, report says (The Guardian)
https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2...