Chapter 6. Why I changed from Game keeper to Poacher With two shattering blows in less than six months my outlook on life had totally changed. I didn’t give a dam about myself and I wanted someone to pay for the early death of my …
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Chapter 14. Brexit Following on from chapter 13 on austerity, Lewis asked if it would be ok for him to ask me a question. I said it would be, but I don’t have an answer for everything. He grinned and said that what he had …
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Chapter 31. Prisons have become dumping grounds for the mentally ill James Burley was just one of the many inmates that end up at my office door that really shouldn’t be here. Over my 20 years as a prison counsellor I have seen a massive …
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Chapter 54. The Clarence Street Fire. At Clarence street at around 10.50 am the fire engines siren could be heard as it moved along the street but not too close to the fire. The fire chief asked the panicking policeman what the situation was and …
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Chapter 15. Covid-19 Nearly everything that happens outside the prison walls seems to find a way to land at the prison gates and Covid-19 will not be the exception. Within minutes of Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announcing the measure of financial help …
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