30 years in the clink

Over her decade as a prison officer, Alex South worked with some extraordinary colleagues, and saw what prisons at their best are like. She also saw the bad side – illicit affairs, violence, squalid conditions – getting gradually worse

A Ukrainian PoW’s story Dmytro Chorny had been ...

FRED SCULTHORP

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO…

IT was what Wendy’s mum would have called a “mulling things over” day. As Wendy gazed out of the café window, puffy clouds sailed in a sky of stone-washed denim. It was the sort of day she and Ray had

Making the tea, wearing stockings and suspenders... after 30 years in the Met police, Kathryn West* has written a book revealing what it’s really like to be a woman on the Force and how she’s seen attitudes change over three decades...