<p><b>This<i> Sunday Times</i> bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's most notorious jails.</b><br><br><b>'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places and hilarious in others . . . the author’s honesty and decency shine through' </b>– <b>Jonathan Aitken</b><br><b>______________</b><br><br>Neil ‘Sam’ Samworth spent eleven years working as a prison officer in HMP Manchester, aka Strangeways. A tough Yorkshireman with a soft heart, Sam had to deal with it all – gangsters and gangbangers, terrorists and psychopaths, addicts and the mentally ill. Men who should not be locked up and men who should never be let out. He tackles cell fires and self-harmers, and goes head to head with some of the most dangerous men in the country. He describes being attacked by prisoner
