The devastating cost of doing the right thing

Author Tanith Carey’s world fell apart as a child when her dad left. Fifty years on, she’s still dealing with the aftershocks

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Fiction and drama are filled with unhappy financiers, but the real world is very different

Life on the outside It has been two ...

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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