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00:00Hey, come on, lads!
00:02Come on, lads!
00:05Come on, lads!
00:06Move on this stairs!
00:10Got any headaches, any sickness, anything like that?
00:13No, lads. Excuse me not.
00:14You sure? Right, aye.
00:15Right, we're just going to do a set of obbs on you, alright?
00:18What happened? A bit of Archie Margie?
00:20Ah, just one of them days.
00:22Was it? Aye.
00:23Was it with your padmate, then?
00:25You don't know? Nah.
00:26You must have a clue if it was your padmate or not.
00:29Never know, mate.
00:31Yeah, I mean.
00:33That's just a day at the office a bit.
00:35We're aye. You sure?
00:37We're aye, definitely not by any bother, beat me track seat.
00:39I don't need to get scrum on your trainers, I know.
00:42Alright, stay.
00:46Shrek, six minutes, fella.
00:49Blood onto these parts is impossible to get off.
00:53So, l'll give you a good tip if you ever want to wash shoes.
00:56Get a handful of soap powder.
00:59Yeah. And just rub it in for two seconds.
01:01Stick them in the wash, like that.
01:03Straight in, 17 minutes, done.
01:05That's how you get the blood off, really?
01:07And not just that, if you leave that when it's dry,
01:09and that dries through, you get a good smell.
01:14Bloody clothes, you're used to doing them.
01:16Oh, yeah.
01:17I've done bloody, I've done faeces, I've done everything.
01:21Right.
01:21And everything's come out hunky-dory, I've done it all.
01:25Is he an area of expertise?
01:27It is.
01:28Well, I'm actually a fully qualified chef.
01:31There you go, my friend.
01:34Cheers.
01:38All cleaners behind the doors!
02:03All cleaners behind the doors!
02:04Yeah.
02:05I would have someone with a baton ready as well.
02:07I would have someone with a baton ready as well.
02:10Cool, one from being the newest extension, all right?
02:14Oh.
02:18This prisoner needs to choose his lunch.
02:22I'm going to get the fucks off, mate.
02:23Let you pick your own choices.
02:25Get us done, we'll cuff you back, we'll take it back.
02:28Don't move.
02:28All right?
02:29Mm-hmm.
02:31Inmates in Durham are not usually afforded this much attention.
02:36But the prisoner is known for his violent attacks on staff.
02:40In the last few weeks, he's assaulted an officer and a prison governor.
02:50He has been housed away from the other prisoners in the segregation unit.
02:56So you've got a grudge against some of the officers here.
02:59Is that right?
03:00I've told them straight.
03:02I've got a problem with them officers.
03:04They think they can be so prisoners.
03:06So them officers that did that are so floored in their faces.
03:12It's best for them just to keep them away from me.
03:15If they think they can disrespect me,
03:17they think that nothing that's going to happen.
03:19But I am.
03:20It's going to be a problem.
03:25I am.
03:28I am.
03:30I am.
03:34I am.
03:34I am.
03:35I am.
03:35In spite of the high security around him,
03:37he manages to find an opportunity to attack an officer.
03:42Diamonds turned.
03:43Diamonds turned.
03:44Diamonds turned.
03:45Bam.
03:46He's had a weapon there.
03:47He's cut the hook all together, isn't he?
03:50Mm-hm.
03:51You know, he's complying for a week, ten days.
03:53Staff kind of dropped the guard a little bit
03:55and it looks like the two staff at the front maybe
03:58didn't have their eyes on him and he's took his opportunity.
04:01Just a reminder of what we're actually dealing with, you know.
04:14It's the end of the road for this inmate.
04:20With the hope that a fresh start might trigger a change in his behaviour,
04:24he's getting a security transfer to another jail.
04:33It's a process known as a tornado or a ghosting.
04:44If he doesn't change his ways in two or three years' time,
04:48he'll be dead or in on a murder charge.
04:51If he doesn't change his ways now.
04:58As one problem prisoner leaves,
05:02others arrive from jails around the country.
05:05Wow.
05:10Blue Planet was mad still.
05:12Yeah, you watching?
05:14Mud, mud, mud.
05:15See the blue shark, bro?
05:17Curtis Mackenzie and Troy Brown have just been ghosted from Nottingham.
05:22So were you causing a bit of difficulty there?
05:25What was happening?
05:27Nah, we wasn't causing any difficulty, but we're very known in the jail.
05:30And what offences have you been in prison for?
05:33Have I been in prison for?
05:34Yeah.
05:34I've been convicted of possession of a firearm,
05:37kidnapping, conspiracy to supply.
05:41Fire and violence, really.
05:43Are you friends then?
05:45Yeah, yeah.
05:47The only bonus, the only bonus in this situation is,
05:50when they put me on the sweat box, I look around and he's next to me.
05:55Just Durham have a reputation as a prison.
05:58Have you heard of Durham?
06:00I've not heard badness about it.
06:02I've not heard no good either.
06:03What have you heard? I've never heard of this piece.
06:05Where the fuck am I?
06:06Yeah.
06:07I don't even know where the fuck am I right now.
06:10This is a scusenik here.
06:11This is a scusenik?
06:12Yeah, okay.
06:12We've come from a consnik.
06:13Yeah, yeah.
06:14We've come from a jail in prison's room.
06:16We allow you to bang us up.
06:18How will you react if it's the other way here?
06:21It won't work for stuff.
06:23I've got a lot of stuff for sauce.
06:26Two things at once.
06:28Troy Brown has convictions for violence,
06:30committed both in and out of prison.
06:33He's been inside for nine of the last ten years,
06:36and in the last four years alone,
06:37he's been moved 27 times.
06:40Squat!
06:44All I was told was it was an incident.
06:47They're nodding him yesterday.
06:48Yeah, there was, there was an incident, but not on my ring.
06:51No, maybe he's not, but we'll have just,
06:52we'll have just transferred out a number of people
06:54just to disperse whatever's gone on.
06:57There'll probably be a degree of negotiation
06:58to get you back down the way you're from.
07:00But the reality is, this is the last one north.
07:03You're not going to go from here
07:04unless someone further south accepts you.
07:07Best way to get out of the jail is security shant food.
07:10That's the kind of behaviour which then says to me,
07:13oh, you're going to be a problem.
07:16So the best thing for you to do is settle in here,
07:18your name doesn't appear before any governor
07:20for anything other than something really positive,
07:22and then we can move you on from there.
07:26Follow the proper processes, all right?
07:28With any luck, we don't have to speak again
07:30and you go after Nottingham.
07:36This is what I get up on arrival at every jail.
07:38I get the tough talk.
07:39Do you know what the tough talk is?
07:41Ooh!
07:42Don't think you're going to fuck about here and get transferred.
07:44We don't do that, yeah?
07:45No, no.
07:47I'll see you in a month's time, mate.
07:51It's a clean sled for both of us.
07:56So, this is it.
07:59This is it.
08:03After a three-hour wait in a holding cell,
08:06Curtis and Troy finally make it onto the wing,
08:09only to be told there's no hot water for a cup of tea.
08:14I've got no fucking hot water, no kettles.
08:16Do you want us to bang up or do you want us to go the fuck off?
08:18I've just been tornadoled.
08:19I'll get tornadoled again right now.
08:22I just want a cup of tea, man.
08:23It's been a long day.
08:23I've been on a sweat box for three hours.
08:25Check my file.
08:26When I cause problems...
08:31Please.
08:55What are you showing us?
08:57This is an incident that happened yesterday.
09:00We had an assault on the wing.
09:02That is the victim there and just gets punched.
09:05Totally unprovoked.
09:07Why did he do this?
09:08He just seems to get a kick out of hitting people, it would seem.
09:12And that creates us problems, because where do we put him?
09:16How do you manage someone like that, then?
09:18What's the answer?
09:19I have no idea.
09:21I suppose it would be easy to keep him locked behind his door 24 hours a day,
09:24but that just escalates the problem,
09:26because you've got to let him out at some point.
09:46Terry Tyler, the victim from yesterday's assault, seeks to restore his reputation by attacking another inmate.
09:56But on the wings in Durham prison, one incident can quickly lead to another.
10:10Staff try to put a stop to the violence, but senior officer John Matthews gets caught up in the brawl.
10:16Move upstairs!
10:17Get upstairs, fellas!
10:19Move upstairs!
10:21Move upstairs!
10:22It's all right, you got me by the throat better.
10:27Hey, hang on, lads!
10:30Oh my God!
10:32Lay on the stairs, fellas!
10:33Move upstairs!
10:37Move upstairs!
10:43What happened?
10:44I don't even know what happened.
10:45He just caught me by the throat.
10:46He grabbed you by the throat.
10:47Yeah, in the fucking state of me.
10:49Right.
10:50Oh, I will be.
10:57So there's my cleaner just stood there doing fuck all.
11:01Oh, you little shit!
11:05That's brutal.
11:06Big hard man.
11:08Terry Tyler.
11:09The usual.
11:17Has he got form for doing this kind of thing, then?
11:20Three times in the last three weeks.
11:24It's assaulted stuck.
11:26Yeah, it's the second time it's been me.
11:31It's not...
11:32He hasn't targeted me.
11:34It's just the fact that I've been there.
11:35It's just a bit unlucky, really.
11:38For me.
11:41Do you want to play with me big fat here?
11:42Fucking hell.
11:46Put your camera on with my head.
11:48Like you're literally, mate, as if I haven't been passed enough.
11:50Yeah.
11:56In prisons across the country, attacks on staff and on other inmates have never been higher.
12:04And in a remand prison like Durham, where men come straight from the police cells, inmates can be at their
12:10most volatile.
12:17It's fucking lying, man.
12:20He's fucking lying, man.
12:21He said to half member.
12:22Yo, go.
12:23Yo, after the phone call, man.
12:29What do you both want that you're not getting?
12:33Fucking phone call home.
12:35Rehabilitation.
12:35What the fuck?
12:36And how long have you been here without these people?
12:38We've been here a fucking week now, aren't we?
12:40Yeah.
12:40So you've been here a week without getting a phone call?
12:42Yeah, I've been here a week.
12:42Been here a week with no property.
12:44Nothing.
12:47Trust me, man.
12:48Highway situation.
12:49And every single one of them that wears black trousers and white tops are liable to get it, mate.
12:54Because they're frontline.
12:55And no, it's not the governors that are promising.
12:57It's these fucking dickhead one strike officers who are ruining the landings, unlocking right now.
13:01It's them that are promising us the phone call.
13:03Them that are promising to sort these things out.
13:05They're fucking liars.
13:07Get me?
13:07They're a bunch of fucking lice, mate.
13:09I'll knock them all over the place.
13:14Get me.
13:15Get me.
13:18Get me.
13:18Get me.
13:21Get me.
13:21Get me.
13:22Get me.
13:22Get me.
13:23In prison, problems that start as minor irritations can build into something much bigger.
13:39While unlocked on Prisoner Association, Troy's been told he can't have a shower.
13:45Take your life.
13:50One morning then.
13:52One morning, one morning.
13:53I'll be fighting until they land in bed.
13:55East life here.
13:57To take your strength.
13:59Full superior.
14:01My soul's there, my soul's there, my soul's there.
14:04My soul's right here, the fuck.
14:06There you are.
14:08You've had all sorts to have a shower.
14:10You've never proceeded to walk back into it.
14:12Then you've walked in and said, I'll have a fucking shower if I want.
14:14Yeah, which I did. Which I did.
14:16I'll come out of the shower and you've done nothing.
14:18We're not going to have a fucking brawl on me, are you?
14:20That's what you've given it like, that.
14:21Oh, yeah, I'll do this, I'll do that.
14:23I've done nothing.
14:24I've done nothing.
14:25You've done nothing.
14:40Yeah, get loads on, big lad.
14:43I'm sorry, mate, I've been locked up fucking all weekend.
14:47Give us an out.
14:49Nice one, big lad, thank you.
14:51Tommy Calder arrived in the prison earlier this morning.
14:54He's been remanded after a local crime spree
14:58involving theft, assault and threatening behaviour.
15:01Have you been in prison before?
15:03Well, I've been all my life, mate.
15:05All your life?
15:05How old are you?
15:0628 now.
15:0728?
15:08No.
15:08When did you first start coming to prison?
15:10Well, 17, 18.
15:12Really?
15:13No big lad?
15:15Tomlin?
15:16Do you know lots of people in here, then?
15:18Well, I know.
15:18Every one me, mate.
15:19Every one.
15:20If there's an E want an R, not worth an R.
15:23What do you want?
15:25What do you want to do for your leg?
15:26Do you want to fucking slap?
15:28What do you want to do for your leg?
15:29Here.
15:30Here.
15:31I thought so, you fucking beaut.
15:34What?
15:35I said, I thought so, you beaut.
15:37You want me to do?
15:38Yeah?
15:42What?
15:43Just because you're over there on there, just don't mean you start calling me.
15:46What?
15:46I'll call you what I want, mate.
15:47You fucking little guy, man.
15:48I'll piss off.
15:49What?
15:50You fucking mum.
15:52Look at the stadium, man, you fucking dimmy.
15:54What a better.
15:55What can he do to me, mate?
15:56What can he do to me, son?
15:58Tommy's thought to be a risk to other prisoners, so he's been placed in a single cell.
16:03But whenever he's unlocked, he gets drawn into confrontations.
16:13What's the fact with this?
16:14Come on, let's stab one of your fucking leaves up here.
16:16What's that?
16:18That's not going to fucking work, is it?
16:19Yeah, it is.
16:20It's going straight for you to fuck, isn't it?
16:21Right, we're going back to the pad.
16:22We're going to try to clean you.
16:24Soft cut there.
16:25Where's he going?
16:26Back up.
16:26Back up his pad.
16:27Soft cut.
16:28Oh, fuck.
16:33He's getting fucking chopped up.
16:35That's all right.
16:36Fuck.
16:37Tommy's conspicuous behaviour has drawn the attention of the wing's more established prisoners,
16:42the cleaners and kitchen porters.
16:49Um...
16:49You're being alive, Wyatt, Tommy.
16:51Is that fair to say?
16:52What's going on?
16:53I'm up and down.
16:53I don't know what's going on with this.
16:55I mean, I think I'm suffering from bipolar or something, mate.
16:58Really?
16:59Something's not right.
17:01I'm not sure it's bipolar.
17:03Something's not right.
17:07Why do you want to get him to fight, though?
17:09Because we were with you just going to get your food.
17:12Aye, and that was him.
17:13He was the one who was being cheeky and hanging about.
17:15He was a fucking smathead.
17:17You know what I mean?
17:17I'd punch his fucking lips, killing off him.
17:20I thought he was just saying hello.
17:21No, was he?
17:22I didn't have him from Adam.
17:23See, the clear of me, he looks like a pure bugger.
17:25I didn't have him.
17:29When he goes on to us, did he?
17:30I'm going to smash his fucking head in.
17:33I am.
17:34You're not telling me like that.
17:35Definitely not.
17:37I'm Tommy Calder, man.
17:38I don't listen to any cunt.
17:40I'm my own person.
17:41I do what I want.
17:50Breakfast time, fellas.
17:54For volatile prisoners like Tommy,
17:57officers have the option of keeping them in their cell at meal times.
18:02Are you going to eat your scrum?
18:03Aye.
18:05But this morning they want to give him a chance to integrate on the wing.
18:09Yes, Tommy.
18:10What's happening, lad?
18:12What's happening, lad?
18:13It's 2,700, lad.
18:16There you go, lad.
18:18You got some supper.
18:19Hey?
18:21Me?
18:22How's that?
18:23How?
18:25Come on.
18:25Come on.
18:27Come on.
18:28Come on.
18:29Come on.
18:30Come on.
18:31Come on.
18:33Come on.
18:33Come on.
18:34This is Monday, Wednesday.
18:35TV.
18:36Huh?
18:38Do we need to make a statement around here, or why?
18:42Why?
18:42Come on.
18:43Come on.
18:47Who's that?
18:50All the fucking wild movie?
18:53What are you seeing, this and that, then?
18:57Who's that going in here?
18:58I see, I see, I see, I see...
18:59It's a piece of paper...
19:00It's a piece of paper, as I saw a pure white dough!
19:04Someone's getting fucked up, isn't it?
19:15What is it like you've come down with out in your fucking trousers
19:20What are you going on mate don't shout with me I'm not doing fucking what are you going on
19:24Who's going on like that but why are you walking on that in your fucking trousers
19:28Right well you're not coming out yourself rest in a fucking day
19:30What else you got on you fuck all right we're searching you
19:34Slow down wait we're not ready
19:36Now let's slow down me
19:37We've got plenty time
19:39I'm not mugging off am I
19:42I'm being polite to you
19:43See inside the fucking block
19:44No one take you down the fucking block
19:47Trousers please
19:47Fucking radges
19:51What's the point down here I'm making fresh
19:56I'm going to fucking kill you
19:59You're not getting out of your pad now
20:01I'm telling you to fuck me I'm telling you I'm going to tell you
20:03Well you're telling me to be tacking off your suit
20:05I'll keep making fresh
20:06Because you're making fresh
20:07Tell the promises aren't they mate
20:09Promises
20:10Well I'll tack your TV then sure
20:12You're not making it easy for yourself are you
20:17I'm offering you enough
20:18All right well don't shout at us again all right
20:25He's obviously an angry person very angry
20:28He made no direct threats to myself
20:31If he did I think he probably would have got restrained at that instance
20:35You don't feel a little bit vulnerable in those circumstances
20:39First I didn't really feel threatened there
20:40But mine that I had two friends of staff behind us at the time
20:43If I was by myself it might be another matter
20:48Why did you take a knife down there
20:50Because I was going to stab
20:51Someone got up
20:53And then why didn't you
20:55What were you thinking
20:56Because that was the whole wood side of me
20:58And the knife side of me
20:59He'd come over and stop us
21:04What do you want to happen now
21:06I need to get moved wings
21:10Do you think you can just keep yourself to yourself
21:13Not no on this one
21:37It's less than two weeks since Troy moved on the security transfer
21:41To Durham from Nottingham
21:43And his new life in the North East is making an impression
21:48What do you think have you learned so far
21:50Bringing it up here
21:51Lass
21:51L-A-double-S
21:53That's a female
21:54A girl
21:54That's what they kill girls up here
21:55Why I man
21:57Means like yes man
21:59I means literally I
22:01Means like yes
22:04Canny lad
22:04Oh he's a canny lad
22:06That means he's a good lad
22:08What's the other one when it's on top
22:09And goes aye it's chorie
22:12Chorie
22:13Chorie
22:13Chorie
22:13Aye man it's chorie
22:14Aye it's chorie
22:15That means he's on top
22:16Have you settled in then
22:18Where are you
22:29We're going to be looking at experiences of a ten year old
22:31I want you to write a letter to your ten year old self
22:36Or your ten year old child
22:38And give them advice that if you'd been given that
22:42Maybe things might have been a tiny little bit easier for you
22:48New prisoners in Durham like Troy
22:50Are encouraged to take part in classes
22:52Which ask them to reflect on their childhood
22:55And criminal behaviour
22:56I think for today that's very very good
23:00Did you find that you were bringing things out that you'd actually forgotten about here
23:04When you
23:05It does doesn't it
23:08When I was ten years old I was sat in crack asses
23:10Watching people inject heroin
23:12I watched a woman overdose and die when I was ten
23:17My son was just turned six
23:20I missed it
23:21Oh bro stress
23:22And we're close
23:23We're very close
23:24When I spoke to him the other day on his birthday
23:26He said
23:27Dada I don't want no presents
23:28I just want you for my birthday
23:31Yeah
23:35I enjoyed being a criminal
23:37So I went from stealing fuel to shoplifting
23:40All the way up to armed robbery and drug dealing and stuff like that
23:43But what happened to her is I went on a job
23:46And I was stood on the job
23:47And I thought to myself I don't want to do this anymore
23:50So I grew a conscience I guess
23:52And it came as a shock if I'm honest
23:55After just a few sessions
23:57Troy's perspective shifts dramatically
23:59Dramatically
24:00Is that alright yeah?
24:01Well I definitely better that bro
24:03That made me emotional
24:05So
24:07That was good for you then
24:08Yeah
24:08And it does
24:09A lot of lads have said that
24:11A lot of lads said it's touched
24:13A lot of lads you know
24:15It's hard for us to put a hit on
24:17Because we've just been there not long
24:19It's emotional
24:20It's alright
24:21It's safe place isn't it
24:22Safe place to get emotional
24:23It's cool isn't it
24:24You can't hear
24:25There's no mask
24:25You don't have to wear no mask in here do you?
24:28Cool man
24:28There needs to be a couple of phrases on there
24:30That you think
24:31Yeah
24:32That's what's happened
24:33Or that's how I feel
24:34Yeah yeah
24:34You know what I'm still
24:35Even the first one
24:49Troy?
24:50You alright?
24:52No
24:56Do you know what?
24:58You've been brave today
24:59And I'm not bullshitting you right
25:00You've come in there right
25:01I think a lot of pressure's lifted off your shoulders
25:03In that room there
25:04And then obviously you've been overcome with emotion
25:06Haven't you?
25:08Yeah
25:10My life's too much sometimes
25:11Yeah yeah
25:11Yeah
25:12I know
25:14It's just a big release
25:15The weight of the world on your shoulders
25:17Having to be somebody
25:18Having to
25:19I don't want to be nobody
25:22Living life
25:23I don't want to live no more
25:24Yeah
25:26I hate it
25:30Time to get out then isn't it?
25:33I broke a long time ago
25:36I'm just a big shock
25:42See you later
25:42I'll see you on the right
25:44Keep the faith
25:45See you later
25:46Take care
25:52What was his state of mind when you went out to him there?
25:54Very very emotional
25:55Very very upset
25:57He's ready for change
25:59I'm moved as well
26:00I'm going to have to deal with a few emotions as well
26:02Definitely
26:03I mean it does
26:04I mean
26:04I've walked a little bit of that journey
26:06So I can kind of
26:08Relate to that
26:08And I feel absolutely
26:10If I'm honest
26:10Buzzing
26:11Because
26:12You know
26:12We've hit home
26:15He's had to be
26:17Someone
26:20He's had to have that mask on
26:21He's had to behave
26:22Like a gangster really
26:24And he's came into here today
26:25And he doesn't have to be that person anymore
26:30Troy
26:30Do you want to put your top on
26:32And we'll go and have an interview
26:34Just an informal chat
26:35But on returning to the wing
26:37Troy gets an unexpected visit
26:39From his offender manager
26:40Grant Hamilton
26:41I'm going to deliver some news to you today
26:44Right
26:44I'm not sure how you're going to take it
26:46I'd like you
26:47Try and digest the news
26:49Before you
26:50You make any kind of reaction
26:51What it is
26:53As you know
26:54There's a panel
26:55Sit and do your
26:57Parole hearing
26:59Erm
27:01Nottingham won't you back
27:03Okay
27:05Settled ready for this coming up
27:06On the 20th
27:08I need to speak to your
27:09Probation officer
27:11To find out
27:12How we're getting you back
27:13And when we're getting you back
27:18So what's your
27:20Concern about going back there
27:23I've still got to live the life
27:25I still have to live the life
27:28And what does that mean?
27:29Here I'm a nobody
27:30Down there where's somebodies
27:32So the pressure's on
27:34Then you've got the whole
27:35Gang issues
27:36Not getting on with lads
27:38Mistakes that I've made in the past
27:39When I did want this life
27:42Now I don't want this life
27:43They're not at that same place in life
27:47On the aisle
27:48You can walk away
27:49Change your number
27:49Whatever
27:50Move to a different city
27:51What are you going to do in jail?
27:52You are forced to confront your problems
27:54Head on
27:56Nine times out of ten
27:57That's a violent confrontation
27:59You understand?
28:01So you can reinvent yourself here in a way
28:04We're bang on
28:04We can reinvent ourselves up here
28:06We can reinvent ourselves
28:07I can come up here and call myself something totally different
28:13And they're sending me back
28:34Get them fuck away from me
28:37You think I'm a fucking righty
28:41Fuck off
28:42Fuck off
28:43Fuck off
28:47The threat of violence hangs over daily life in Durham prison
28:58The lad at the end
28:59Thirteen
29:00He's just run out
29:01With this
29:02Just smacked the ladle over the head with it
29:04So I've grabbed him
29:05Called for staff
29:06Bell's gone off
29:07And I've threw him behind the door
29:09He's got another piece of wood behind his door
29:10And he's just smashing it
29:11I don't know where he's pulling it
29:16In this atmosphere
29:18The number of forcible restraints has grown
29:26And along with it
29:27The chance of injury to officers or prisoners
29:49Tommy Calder's threatening behaviour has meant his prisoner status has been downgraded
29:54From standard to basic
29:55From standard to basic
29:56With a loss of privileges
29:59A few minutes ago
30:01Officers went to his cell to confiscate his television
30:07I'm going to give you one chance
30:09To stand up
30:10And walk
30:11To officers
30:11Open your arms to guard him
30:13Alright?
30:14Yeah?
30:14Alright
30:15And walk
30:15And walk
30:28And walk
30:29And walk
30:31And walk
30:32Well.
30:33Look at that situation's resolved
30:34Go with it
30:36And walk
30:38Yeah
30:38Would you wipe my hands?
30:40I'm going blind
30:40You'll get it wipe when you get down the sink
30:42Why do you beat us up again they?
30:44I don't know
30:45No, are you going to see the nurse when you get down the sack here?
31:01Chill out man, this is very generous, I'm not going to fuck like me.
31:20I'm going to take a deep breath, ready?
31:26What happened?
31:28The dead officer's come, we've up in the room and stand all over here and punch that lower, that's what
31:32happened here.
31:32That's the truth.
31:50Tommy Calder sustained an injury after officers went to his cell to remove his television.
31:56What's going on now then?
31:57Going to hospital because they're not stitching.
32:00Wow, look at the state of that.
32:04Pull that one up and pull that one up by the port street, that's it.
32:07Yes, it's flat.
32:08We've got a young man called Thomas Calder going out.
32:13When he comes back, I need him to go somewhere else.
32:17Because I am going to commission an investigation on the back of this, of the injuries that he's received.
32:22If the prisoner makes an allegation that he has been assaulted, it's not something that we can brush under the
32:27carpet.
32:28And I take allegations of assault, as is his assault alleging in this case, very seriously.
32:34I wouldn't want to put a figure on how many I get a year, but we get several.
32:41Sometimes there are spurious allegations made by vexatious litigants.
32:45Other times, as has been proven in the two and a half years I've been the deputy governor, that there
32:51is something in it.
32:52And it has led to formal investigations and ultimately some staff have been dismissed on the back of that.
32:57It has happened previously in my tenure here, yes.
33:01Right, I'll get some more good broody right up.
33:03As Tommy is taken to hospital, an internal investigation into his alleged assault is already underway.
33:15After dinner, the SO said that he's going to have to go on basic due to the weapons and the
33:20threats.
33:21So we had to take his TV off him, passed it back and I thought that was it.
33:25We all turned to walk out. The two staff at the door, they already gone.
33:29I turned, as I turned he was like a jack in the box, straight out of his bed.
33:33As he jumped out of bed, he kicked me in the side of the leg and he came towards us
33:37and I punched him.
33:38Did you feel threatened at that time?
33:40Yeah, I wouldn't do it otherwise.
33:42And the fact that we found two weapons on him basically in the morning, I didn't know if he had
33:47a weapon in his hand when he jumped out of bed.
33:48So I delivered a strike and it just developed into a full restraint from that.
33:55OK. So were you aware of his injury at the time?
34:00No. No.
34:01When I did deliver the strike, I was aiming for his shoulder.
34:04OK.
34:06But I mean, I think maybe the height difference, the fact he was lunging towards us.
34:10I've obviously caught him in the side of the head or the left eye.
34:15Right. OK.
34:23As part of her investigation, Bev King will study CCTV footage and officer's body cameras, as well as interviewing other
34:31staff members present.
34:34Can you just tell me in your own words what happened that day?
34:38He was unlocked around lunchtime, came down for his meal and threatened the cleaners with a shank.
34:44Officer Brown had gone into the cell.
34:47She will report back in a week's time.
35:00You don't have Troy in his house?
35:03Oh, there he is.
35:05Troy, how are you doing?
35:07Troy has made good progress since his move to Durham, but he fears a transfer back to Nottingham and having
35:13to reunite with old gang ties might set him back and jeopardise him.
35:17Just have a bit of a chat down here, mate.
35:19But his offender manager, Grant Hamilton, has some good news.
35:23We've had word from the parole board, they're going to hold the parole hearing here.
35:29Good news is you're going to be stopping here until your parole hearing comes, right?
35:34Your risk has gone from high to medium. We're trying to get you down to low, but that might take
35:41a little bit longer.
35:42Medium's a massive improvement anyway, I've never been medium. I've been high for years, so I'm coming down to medium
35:47in seven weeks just from coming to a new jail out of the way.
35:49It speaks for itself, man. Serious.
35:51It's better to be like that, isn't it?
35:53It speaks for itself.
35:53Better to do your life in prison like that rather than how it used to be.
35:58It's different up here, man.
36:00Good.
36:00It's very different up here.
36:02You've got good reports, staff speak highly of you.
36:04Erm, you know, you're never going to be an angel.
36:09Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
36:11But you're getting closer to it, if that makes sense.
36:15I know, I know.
36:15Keep the good work up, man.
36:16Cheers, man.
36:17All right, then?
36:17Happy New Year.
36:18Happy New Year.
36:23Exactly what you just told me is what I wanted to hear.
36:25So I can unpack my stuff now, because, you know what I'm saying?
36:28I've still been living, touching, though.
36:30Every morning when I hear their feet are landing, I think, well, they're coming for me.
36:33You look happy.
36:35I feel it, man, I'm all right.
36:37Happiest I've been in a long time, anyway.
36:41Yeah.
36:41All I can say here is I had a massive ego.
36:43I was living up to it.
36:44I was living up to my name.
36:45I was living up to my reputation.
36:47Up here, I don't have to do that.
36:49You understand?
36:49Up here, I'm just, I'm just Troy.
36:52I'm just a lad from down south.
36:54You're going to become, like, an honorary Geordie or something?
36:57Why are you, man?
36:59Is this what they call maturing, then, you think?
37:01Yeah, this is what they call maturing.
37:03Yeah, bang on.
37:04That's the exact word, maturing.
37:05Yeah.
37:05I'm still here.
37:07I'm, yeah.
37:08With his risk status lowered, Troy throws himself into all aspects of prison life.
37:20And after Kurtis is transferred to another wing, Troy moves in with a new pet mate, local
37:26man, Shaq.
37:28You've got ding, which means like an idiot.
37:31Like a fucking dingbat.
37:32Like a dingbat, you know what I mean?
37:33Yeah, bang on, bang on, bang on.
37:35Rick means a fight.
37:37Rick.
37:37Aye.
37:39Raj was Raj.
37:40Like Raj means like you're crazy, do you know what I mean, kind of thing.
37:44Ganon Yem means you're going home.
37:46Ganon?
37:47Yeah, it means going.
37:48So you could see, like, I'm ganon over there.
37:50Oh, yeah, I'm ganon over there.
37:52Troy's parole hearing is now just weeks away,
37:54and for the first time he faces a real chance of early release.
37:58I'm ganon Yem.
37:59I'm ganon Yem.
38:00I'm ganon Yem.
38:01I'm ganon Yem.
38:02I'm ganon Yem, I've got parole, I'm ganon Yem.
38:04But it's contingent on good behaviour.
38:13Today, Troy is having to wait
38:15while staff make a routine search of his cell.
38:18Are you worried?
38:21He's gone four months of his sentence now.
38:26If I commit another act of violence, I'm fucked.
38:29Properly fucked.
38:31Like, I'll never get out of jail again, man.
38:35It's dangerous.
38:36Are you feeling all right, yeah?
38:38Yeah.
38:39No, leave it open, please.
38:41No, man.
38:42Cheers.
38:43The search of Troy's cell draws a blank,
38:45and he avoids getting into a confrontation.
38:48There's no space in the trails I'm getting told.
38:50No space.
38:51It's got to be a fucking space.
38:52I'm going to try like a fucking dog.
38:55But a new inmate, Jordan Akenfolloran,
38:58has just returned from the segregation unit
39:00and is unhappy about the state of his cell.
39:03I was shot on the walls, isn't it?
39:04I'm on the dog, bastards.
39:06Down on the ones.
39:07I just tell them all, I'm standing up.
39:09I can't guarantee.
39:09Take us back down the fucking block.
39:12To try to engineer a move off the wing,
39:15he deliberately causes trouble
39:17and turns his attention from the prison officers
39:19to Troy's padmate, Shaq.
39:21Take a peak on you, Ben.
39:23Oh, didn't you...?
39:24What?
39:24Actually, what's not about the wall?
39:28Go, back to him.
39:29He's stupid.
40:30Right, what have we got?
40:31I've interviewed Mr Calder, I've interviewed Officer Brown,
40:34I've spoken to the other staff that submitted...
40:36The investigation into the alleged assault on Tommy Calder
40:39is drawing to a close.
40:42Meanwhile, Tommy must face charges of his own around the incident,
40:46assault and possession of a weapon.
40:48What the fuck am I waiting fucking over now to go in the toilet, mate?
40:53Aye, all right, I've got human fucking rights out of the water.
40:58Why do I need to smash up, mate, to prove a point?
41:01I've got nothing to smash up about me, mate.
41:03I'm not stressed out.
41:06What's going on?
41:07You've been waiting a while, I mean.
41:09I've come down in a really good spirit and I mean,
41:11I was going to show them the proper side of me,
41:14then Mr Nice Guy,
41:15but now they're going to end up through,
41:16he's getting Mr Horrible again.
41:18I'm not happy, I didn't want this,
41:19didn't want this to happen, mate.
41:22Who's Mr Nice Guy?
41:25Mr Tommy Calder.
41:29Tommy Calder!
41:33Take a seat, please, Thomas.
41:35So, you've got two adjudications today,
41:37so the first one we're going to deal with is ending 866,
41:40the number at the top right.
41:42Can I have the evidence read out, please, sir?
41:45At approximately 11.30 on the first 11.17,
41:48Alpha Echo Calder had a sharpened knife concealed in his waistband.
41:52OK, so what part of that do you not agree with, Thomas?
41:56It wasn't mine, Miss.
41:57OK, was it concealed in your waistband?
41:59No, if it was concealed in my waistband,
42:01I wouldn't have seen it, would I?
42:02Officer Brown, what makes you think it was on Mr Calder's person?
42:06Cos he pulled it from his waistband and showed me it
42:08and said he was going to stab a cleaner with it.
42:10OK.
42:12The officer's given me a statement.
42:14Yeah.
42:14You've given me no reason to doubt the officer's statement.
42:19I've given you a reason, this is why I would have shown an officer
42:21if I was going to stab one of the cleaners.
42:23I would go and stab the cleaner, wouldn't I?
42:25You've given me no reason to doubt the officer's statement,
42:27so I should find the charge proven, OK?
42:30That's fine, then.
42:33OK, this is ending 254.
42:36Prison rule 51 permits any assault.
42:38Guilty or not guilty?
42:39Definitely not guilty.
42:40OK, can I have the evidence read out, please, sir?
42:42At approximately 1,400 on the first 11 of 17,
42:46Alpha Echo Calder assaulted me by kicking me
42:48in the left leg above the knee.
42:51So, you obviously disagree with that, Thomas.
42:54Why don't you give me your version of the fence?
42:56At approximately 2 o'clock, I was asleep
42:59and I'd come in and beat us up.
43:01And he was kicking us underneath the bend.
43:03He caught his foot on the fucking bottom of the bunk.
43:05That's how he hurt his leg.
43:07Not me kicking him at all.
43:08Right, OK.
43:09Liar.
43:09You're a liar, mate.
43:11Right, listen, I'm...
43:12Sorry, miss.
43:13OK.
43:13I just hate liars.
43:15Right.
43:15I've been brought up.
43:16I'm not a liar, mate.
43:17You've had your chance to speak.
43:19It's now Officer Brown's turn.
43:20If you interrupt him, I'm going to have the officers take you out.
43:23Do you understand?
43:25Mr Brown, can you tell me what happened
43:26when you entered the cell, please, sir?
43:27He went in the cell.
43:28Like he said, he was in his bed.
43:30He looked up when I went in.
43:32I informed him why I was there.
43:33I said, I'm taking the telly for your behaviour this morning.
43:35As he sat up, I passed the TV back to the officer behind me.
43:37He jumped out of bed like a jack-in-the-box,
43:39kicked me in the leg, and then got restrained.
43:42OK.
43:43Mr Brown, thank you very much for your time, sir.
43:51Sorry about that, miss.
43:54Thomas, on the balance of probability,
43:56you find the charge proven.
43:58What about that?
44:00Thomas, there were three other officers there
44:02who all confirmed Mr Brown, sir.
44:03Aye, cos they were...
44:04See, cos I was up a height when I first came in,
44:06but I didn't deserve to get beat up like that.
44:09I don't know if you've seen the injuries to me eye,
44:11but it was only real.
44:13The thing is about use of force, OK,
44:15it's not always nice and clean and tidy,
44:17and sometimes when an officer feels threatened,
44:21he is allowed to strike you,
44:24and that is what Officer Brown did,
44:25and he put that in his paperwork.
44:27OK.
44:28OK.
44:28Not a problem.
44:29Right.
44:30What have we got next?
44:33Things like this, when you know your investigation,
44:35there's been times I've laid awake at night worrying
44:38that if your job's in line here,
44:40I've got a mortgage,
44:40I've got a wife and kill as well.
44:42So, end of the day,
44:44it affects them, what I do at work.
44:46So I wouldn't never do anything to jeopardise my job,
44:49and then I get accused.
44:51It does...
44:52It is frustrating.
44:58This is it.
44:59That's the clientele.
45:00It's all our fault.
45:05While the inquiry has exonerated Officer Brown,
45:09Tommy returns to his wing,
45:10where he will remain on basic regime for 28 days.
45:15Probably, deep down, there is a nice guy in there.
45:18It's just that he doesn't know how to cope
45:21with the world that he's currently living in.
45:25Yes, look at his arm!
45:26Yeah, really, yeah!
45:29Now wipe his back for him, lad!
45:31I think it's difficult for him
45:32to take any responsibility for things.
45:34The first instinct is to blame somebody,
45:37blame the police, blame the social services,
45:39blame prison officers, blame, blame, blame.
45:41Actually, if he looked at his behaviour
45:43from when he came into reception,
45:45he would see that everything that happened to him
45:47was a result of his, of his actions,
45:50of something that he had done.
45:53We'll see what happens to Thomas.
45:55Maybe he'll get it one day.
45:57What's that paper?
45:59What's it called?
46:03Converse.
46:04There's advertisers, solicitors,
46:06who deal with a saltine and prison.
46:09Oh, yeah.
46:10There's loads, honestly.
46:11There's hundreds.
46:13Injured in prison.
46:14We'll fight your corner.
46:18$29,500 for inmate, Darren.
46:23Look at Darren.
46:24He's just getting nearly 30 grand.
46:25He looks sick of his fucking life.
46:28You'd be able to fucking move, wouldn't you?
46:31Fucking daft cunt.
46:46Every day, up to 30 inmates charged with breaking prison rules
46:50must face an adjudication with a governor.
46:56Offences in prison can lead to criminal charges
46:58and time being added to sentences.
47:02Today, Troy and padmate Shaq
47:04face charges of assault
47:06for a fight on the wing with another prisoner.
47:11Are you guilty or not guilty of this?
47:13Not guilty, miss.
47:15OK, do you wish to call any witnesses
47:16or have any legal advice?
47:18Yes, miss, legal advice, please.
47:19Legal advice?
47:21OK, so, Mr Khan,
47:24do you understand the charge first at all?
47:26Yeah, not guilty.
47:28You've skipped about 15 questions,
47:30but OK, why don't you tell me what happened?
47:34Just not guilty at this point.
47:36Right, so, you don't want any legal advice
47:39and you are saying you're not guilty,
47:41but you don't want to say anything?
47:42No, it's not guilty at the minute.
47:44Right.
47:46With Troy taking legal advice
47:47and Shaq stonewalling the governors,
47:50they attempt to delay further proceedings.
47:53But their co-accused,
47:55Jordan Akinfollarin, is up next.
48:18After a fight on the wing,
48:20Troy Brown faces charges of assault.
48:23I want to see what all that
48:25and see what time it is, isn't it?
48:26I guarantee you get whacked off.
48:30The scene gets whacked off.
48:32But his future will depend on the testimony
48:34of co-accused Jordan Akinfollarin.
48:39Alpha 4960, Delta Quebec, Akinfollarin,
48:43was found fighting with Alpha 8840,
48:46Alpha Gulf Brown and Alpha 4531,
48:49Echo Charlie Khan.
48:52OK, George, you understand the charge.
48:54Aye.
48:56Are you guilty or not guilty of this, John?
48:59Guilty.
49:00I started the fight, like...
49:02So what, you started to run punches at them and they...
49:04Aye.
49:05Started a big brawl.
49:07Ended up being a big brawl.
49:11But, er...
49:11It was my fault, like...
49:25Jordan takes the blame,
49:27which means the charges against Troy will be dropped.
49:36Keep...
49:37Pepper, pepper.
49:39Here's my brawl.
49:41Back on B-Wing, Troy has further cause for celebration.
49:45His improved behaviour has contributed to him earning early release,
49:50which means he'll walk free a year ahead of the end of his sentence.
49:56Tonight, in his pad, he's cooking a curry.
50:00So this is your speciality, is it?
50:02This is what I do.
50:06Tuna masala...
50:07in a kettle.
50:14OK, there.
50:17It's not long before the smell attracts the attention of some hungry neighbours.
50:23Smells lovely.
50:25Skates, smells nice.
50:26Smells like Indian milk.
50:28Oh, that's the chef?
50:29Yeah, that's the...
50:31Oh, I've got the chef.
50:33Go on, get on, Troy.
50:34Come on, let's go ahead.
50:35That's better.
50:36Come on.
50:37Come on, miss.
50:37You're invited as well.
50:39Go to party, miss.
50:41You want some?
50:42No, thank you.
50:48How's it taste, then?
50:50Nice.
50:50Oh, amazing.
51:06After nearly five years in jail, today, Troy will be released.
51:12Oh, beautiful.
51:13How's it going, man?
51:16Nervous as fuck.
51:19Really going.
51:19You're going to get out there, man.
51:20It's going to be like nice.
51:21Damn, fucking cars flying past fucking early.
51:29He'll leave a settled life in prison, where staff believe he's made progress with them,
51:33to head into an uncertain life in his hometown of Derby.
51:38Come on, monsieur.
51:39Come, Rory.
51:45Come on.
51:45Come on.
51:46Bro, stay out of trouble, isn't it?
51:47Stay out of trouble, isn't it?
51:48How are we?
51:49Do you know what I mean?
51:51Yeah.
51:51Yeah.
51:51You all right?
51:54Go on.
51:55Fuck off, man.
51:55So I'm fucking crying.
51:57Follow me.
52:00Love my bro.
52:12Yo, look after yourself, lad, man, good to see you, my brother.
52:16Guess who's going home?
52:17Good luck.
52:18It's been a pleasure.
52:19Good luck, man.
52:20Don't fucking come back, don't end up in our way.
52:22I'm fucking locked, man, don't win.
52:23I'm locked.
52:24Take it easy, man.
52:25Good luck.
52:281-4-0.
52:39What's running through your head at the minute?
52:43I don't know, man.
52:43As much as I want to go, I don't want to go.
52:46It's funny because everyone, I think people's imagination, it's like the day of release,
52:51it's just a really happy day, but actually there's a lot that comes with it, isn't there?
52:55I suppose.
52:57Yeah.
52:59I'd rather be back on the wing, in my cell.
53:03Why are you kidding me?
53:05This man is going to fucking get you here for you.
53:07I'm being told.
53:08I'm being told.
53:09I'm being waiting for the police after five years.
53:11There's some geesey that don't want to get transferred.
53:13And who's taught you that?
53:14As Troy waits to be processed, a delay in getting his possessions brings anxieties to the surface.
53:23Oh, you don't.
53:27Troy, you all right?
53:28I'm supposed to be getting released.
53:29We're just doing it now.
53:30Do you want to come?
53:31Are you coming around?
53:32I'm going to have a bit crappy around here then.
53:34Just sort of.
53:36What's worrying you, where are you going?
53:37You keep worrying me, man.
53:38Let's just hurry from God.
53:39I'm pissed off sitting on the fucking roof a few fucking hours.
53:41I'd rather be myself.
53:42She left me myself.
53:42Then I'm watching people get transferred and they're getting processed for me.
53:46All right, listen.
53:46You're getting out now, man.
53:47That's it.
53:48You're going to be home in a bit.
53:50It's not ended on a bad note.
53:52You've been all right since you've been here.
53:54You've made as much use of it as you could have done.
53:56And you're getting out.
54:00Yeah?
54:03And in the best possible sense, let's hope we don't see each other again.
54:07Yeah?
54:08Right, go on.
54:11OK.
54:13Under provisions of Chapter 6 of Criminal Justice Act 2003, you're being released on licence.
54:18You're listening, big lad.
54:20At least look at it.
54:20I'm listening, sorry.
54:21I know you're nervous, but still.
54:23I'm fucking sick, man.
54:24Right, OK.
54:25On release from here today, you've got to attend probation.
54:28Yeah, I know, I know.
54:29Yeah?
54:29While under supervision, you must be of good behaviour and not behaviour in a way which undermines
54:33the purpose of the licence period.
54:35You must not commit any other offences.
54:37You must not undertake work unless it is approved by your supervising officer.
54:40You must not travel outside the United Kingdom.
54:43Not to enter the area of Normanton as defined in the attached map without prior approval of
54:48your supervising officer.
54:50Confine yourself to address approved by your supervising officer between the hours of 7 at
54:53night and 7 in the morning.
54:55Not to own or possess more than one mobile phone or SIM card without prior approval from
55:00your supervising officer.
55:01And to provide your supervising officer with details of this mobile phone including the
55:04IMEI.
55:15IMEI.
55:16IMEI.
55:17IMEI.
55:18IMEI.
55:18IMEI.
55:24IMEI.
55:25He was clearly someone that every other prison wanted rid of.
55:28Everywhere else he'd been, they wanted rid of him.
55:30He's come to us, and actually he's worked with us,
55:33which is all you can ask sometimes.
55:35He's kept his head down, he's tried to make the best of it,
55:38and that he appears to have been successful.
55:44There's bits where his underlying behaviour kind of comes out again.
55:47The fear I have for him is that he can get away with that little bit in prison.
55:52The police on probation will recall him like that.
55:55If he does something.
55:57Shall we have it difficult for him?
56:03Please send your staff of no key.
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56:32Next Monday night at 9 o'clock, a year of British murder,
56:35with around 14 people a week being murdered in the UK.
56:39What does that say about the state of modern Britain?
56:42Next today, 999.
56:45What's your emergency?
56:46What's your emergency?