- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Social Affairs Unit (27 April 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 190486340X
- ISBN-13: 978-1904863403
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 293,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jane Kelly vividly describes her daily life as a woman working inside Wormwood Scrubs, one of London's toughest men's prisons. She reveals the terrible world of prison which is based on containment rather than reform and results in a cataclysmic waste of human talent. She also writes about her nights spent reporting for tabloid papers from inside the equally closed and nihilistic world of celebrity parties. She ran these two lives together for a year, with some flair until the prison authorities discovered she was a journalist. This memoir covers her struggle to leave journalism where opinion is still freely given and provocative ideas are currency, to become a teacher, when she entered a culture befuddled and gagged by political correctness.
About the Author
After winning Cosmopolitan Magazine's Young Journalist award, Jane Kelly arrived in London from the Midlands. She wrote for magazines including Company, Time Out, and The Spectator, whilst working as an auxiliary nurse in Lambeth. In 1983 she won a top prize in the Catherine Pakenham Award for women journalists and began working regularly for the Telegraph. Later she gained a staff job at the Mail on Sunday and Today. From 1989 to 2004 she was a staff writer on the Daily Mail. In 2005 her biography of actor Colin Farrell was published.
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a revealing picture of our dismal prison system,
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Jane Kelly spent a year teaching art and literature to the inmates at Wormwood Scrubs and writes about it entertainingly. There are some very deft touches and keen observations, and as her narrative unfolds you begin to wonder whether it's the inanely politically-correct prison staff or the repellent (mostly foreign) prisoners who've made such a mockery of the British prison system. I suppose it's both. It's a very personal book and part of its appeal is the slightly discomfitting experience of watching this utterly nonconforming individual attempt to fit in with the rigid, doctrinaire institutionalism at 'the Scrubs'. It doesn't exactly make for a jolly read, but it adds to our understanding of what's gone so badly wrong under New Labour and desperately needs fixing...
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At last, a female Jeremy Clarkson!,
By specklepilot (Bath, UK) - See all my reviews
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I don't agree that this is right wing. That is too simplistic a label. Call it un-PC if you like, but this is a well-considered, beautifully-written and fascinating insight into the current state of our prisons [too cushy; awash with drugs], our penal system [failing], the prison population [mostly foreigners], racial prejudice [the black on white variety], the lunacy of modern education methods, and much more besides. Should be compulsory reading for every government minister, and every member of staff in both the Home Office and whichever department in the latest cock-eyed ministerial structure runs further education these days.
Kelly used to be a features writer for the Daily Mail. I only hope she'll be back in the pages of the national press as soon as possible. Her writing is so much better and so much more interesting than most of the inconsequential drivel that passes for journalism these days. Like in the Sunday Times, which ignored all the important issues in this book, and instead went with half a page on how Kelly got a crush on one of the inmates she was teaching! It's high time we had a female Jeremy Clarkson, and Jane Kelly is just the ticket.
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This book is right of Enoch Powell. It will put multiculturalism back fifty years. I wouldnt let my wife or my servant read it.
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