holloway-anyone watching it?

[brimfull]

such sad kids

it's mad they're all so young

Yes I am, its very sad isn't it. Makes me wonder about whether the prison should be so nice - if only to help keep the girls out of trouble.

I know

aww right mate?

can't bear that accent

How fucked up are they?

So young and yet so damaged.

(Feeling a sense of irony that Holloway has far better facilities than the military bases I have lived on...)

christ-something's wrong when they don't want to leave

it just seems to house alot of drug addicts

we're failing all these kids, locking them up isn't the answer

or is it? last week a few of them used it as a detox clinic

maybe we should just throw away the key
they love it in there

Most petty crime is drug/alcohol related though - including muggings. Most drug users are driven by needing money, and its a constant need and a hard one to get round...

A friend is a nurse in a (male) prison and most of the inmates are addicted, some come in without adrug problem and develop one while they are in there

It makes me sad that they can't see any more than life in prison - that three meals a day and bed is enough

I know this is a contentious one but I think that prison is too easy.

What sort of deterrent is it for them? None that I can see.

I agree sidge but they must have such crap lives

they're so young, it's so depressing

they seem to prefer being inside that in the real World. That is a very sad thing. no wonder they re-offend.

such a lot of fucked up kids

I could never work there..too depressing.

I know, ggirl, I know, they are so damaged and have so little worth improving themselves for. I don't think making prison horrendous would necessarily improve the outcomes for them. I don't know what the answers are, but at the moment so many of them seem to view it as a form of Butlins.

My mum was a prison nurse for a while but had to leave as she found it so demoralising.

he just said it

they have all just come through traumatic childhoods.

god how depressing a thought

I used to be a mental health nurse and I too found it soul destroying.

Many offenders (male and female) express the opinion they don't want to leave - sadly for lots of people prison is safer and easier than their life on the out. At least they have a bed and regular food inside.

I just settled in bed to watch this and sat up in shock. A girl I used to teach is in there.

god really?

I couldn't do mental health nursing. I have to say that my friend only lasted 6 months in his job as a prison nurse and is just moving to ICU for a new job.

I had an addictions placement and it was very difficult.

I think its hard moving them so far from their families when many of them seem to come from poorer families who maybe don't have cars or the money to buy train tickets.

I used to work in the prison sector.

It was a known guarantee that 80% of the girls released would be back the following week

Its where they feel accepted and like thay have a place in society.

I've beed in Holloway once for a drop off and it was the scariest place I've been!!!!

god that was depressing