Banged Up, Stitched Up; The untold stories of a prison nurse
is a collection of my experiences of men coping with being incarcerated in one of the UK’s most overcrowded and dangerous prisons.Having been an emergency response nurse in a large, overcrowded, chaotic men’s prison for nearly seven years, I am in a unique position to see how men cope with being imprisoned and the lengths they will go to retain just a modicum of control of their lives. Realising this privileged position early on, I kept a diary of all the crazy, dangerous and sometimes funny interactions with this hidden community.As nurses in the prison environment, our job is to look after the prisoners’ medical needs; we are an anomaly in the prison system, as we are not their gaolers so we often see a different side to them than the prison officers, who tend to see their ...