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Have you every wondered what life is really like behind bars? Chris Atkins is a documentary maker who went to prison for tax fraud in 2016. He spent nine months in HMP Wandsworth, one of the...
Most of the other episodes are about men, so to find out more about the experiences of women in the system Chris meets Jules, a young woman...
Nick worked in the library at HMP Wandsworth when Chris was banged up there in 2016. They didn't stay in touch, but a few years later Nick h...
When Chris was in HMP Wandsworth he joined MJ's Liberty Choir, which he called "Spinsters and Spiceheads" as it was made up of volunteer wom...
Meet ex-cop Peter Bleksley, who spent years undercover busting some of Britain's biggest crime gangs. But one day a suspicious accident blew...
Marc Conway was an extremely disturbed and dangerous criminal for many years. He grew up on a crime ridden estate in the 80s, and by his tee...
Simon Dawson was brutally murdered by two car thieves in 1998. It shattered the life of his twin brother Nick, who's likeness enabled the po...
Meet Simon Maclellan, who escaped from a high security jail pretending to be his twin brother in 2009. For the very first time Simon explain...
Ed Cooley was convicted of drugs and firearms offences in 2014 and given ten years and eight months. Like most prisoners he was released on...
In 2015 Alexander Wood made the national news for being convicted of fraud, after staying in over thirty elite hotels masquerading as the Du...
All the great material that didn't fit into previous episodes. Includes George Gilbey, star of Gogglebox and Celebrity Big Brother, who got...
The pandemic took a hammer blow to an already collapsing prison system. Chris was in touch with several inmates still serving their sentence...
Prisons are pretty miserable for the inmates, but what about the officers? Chris talks to two ex-prison officers about riots, accidental spi...
Prisons are supposed to rehabilitate offenders, but nearly half of inmates reoffend within a year. How do some prisoners buck the trend and...
There is a mental health crisis in prisons, and it's sometimes impossible to access psychiatric support. Often the only help comes from the...
There are over 200,000 children in the UK with a parent in prison. To find out the impact on these forgotten victims, Chris talks to his ex...
How do couples maintain a romantic relationship when one of them is behind bars? This episode features Gary, whose girlfriend had to wait tw...
What do prisoners eat? How do we get showers? What's the food like? When he was in prison Chris got dozens of letters asking about the detai...
Prison is always toughest at the very start. How do people cope when thrust into a modern jail for the very first time? Farook was given sev...
Have you ever wondered what life's really like behind bars? Well fortunately for you Chris Atkins went to prison so you don't have to. This...