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"I'm not proud of what I did": The moment a prison officer 'lost his rag' with an inmate at dinner time in Strangeways
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A former Strangeways prison officer has revealed how he 'lost his rag' at a prisoner amid the pressure of working in the jail. The incident is revealed in a second book written by Neil Samworth, about his time working at HMP Manchester.
He explains how it was pre-empted by a period of 'modernisation' at the prison which disrupted the Strangeways routine and his own mental health. It happened in 2015 on the servery one dinner time in 'a blaze of red mist', he writes.
Neil recalls: "A prisoner kicked off, attacking the SO (senior officer) and a female colleague of ours the wrong side of a locked electronic door. It took ages to open, but once it was, and I was able to get through I lost my rag. Afterwards I could hardly remember a thing about it. Both my knees and my right fist were a mess - I displaced a knuckle - but the guy's face was in worse shape."
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He adds: "I'm not proud of what I did. It was unprofessional behaviour, and up to then professionalism was something I'd prided myself on." After another injury a few weeks later it was decided with medical consent that his years as prison officer were over.
"Strangeways in particular will not let me rest. My darkest days there are never far from my head," says Neil Samworth, in the introduction to his second book on the jail with a "Colditz walls, and scary trademark tower" on the edge of the city centre.
For the new book, Strangeways Unlocked: The Shocking Truth About Doing Time, Neil has spoken to 'ex-customers' to get an a true inside take on life there. After his first book he was contacted my many former inmates wanting to give him an insight into
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