As Britain’s failing prison system continues to make headlines, a talk by ex prison governor and Home Office official Ian Acheson at Bridport Literary Festival next month couldn’t be more timely.
With expertise in security, safety, and reform, Mr Acheson leads the Counter Extremism Project’s research on Islamist extremism, risk management, de-radicalisation, and reintegration of terrorist offenders.
His book, Screwed, is billed as the “inside story of the collapse of His Majesty’s Prison Service, told by someone who had a front-row seat to it all”.
Acheson went from officer to Governor in less than a decade, and during that time he witnessed the uniformed organisation he was proud to serve crumble into lethal disarray.
This uncompromisingly brutal account exposes the politics and operational decisions that have driven our prisons to a state where rats roam freely, prisoners are forced to use slop buckets, violence and intimidation are normalised and it is easier to get a bag of heroin than a bar of soap.
You can see him at The Bull Hotel on November 4 at 10.30am.
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