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The Loose Screw is a searing, honest and brutally frank account of what life is like as a Prison Officer. It is as far removed from the cosy world of "official" accounts of prison as one can get, and reveals the brutalities, tensions, contradictions and simple lies that often form the backdrop to the world that prison staff often work in. In this respect Dawkins can be seen as a "whistle blower", and while I might disagree with some of his conclusions, Loose Screw should be read by everyone who has an interest in reforming prison. --David Wilson, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Former Prison Governor
A well written insight into life behind bars and beyond by a man who has seen it all. --Gary Wright, Kentish Saturday Observer (Editor)
A hard hitting account of life on the 'inside' of our prisons and a much needed exposure of this very secret world. The author, having served in Northern Ireland, could have reasonably expected to have been suitably prepared for a career as a prison officer so to read of him being shocked and sickened by what he witnessed behind the walls is a real eye opener. --Inside Time Magazine
A well written insight into life behind bars and beyond by a man who has seen it all. --Gary Wright, Kentish Saturday Observer (Editor)
A hard hitting account of life on the 'inside' of our prisons and a much needed exposure of this very secret world. The author, having served in Northern Ireland, could have reasonably expected to have been suitably prepared for a career as a prison officer so to read of him being shocked and sickened by what he witnessed behind the walls is a real eye opener. --Inside Time Magazine
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Eye-opening, passionate and often terrifying, these memoirs of a renegade prison officer will shake the British Prison System.
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By Paul Capell (Lancaster, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Loose Screw: The Shocking Truth About Our Prison System (Paperback)
This is an autobiographical book and some of the author's drinking exploits become rather boring but overall I warmed very much to him and his style of writing. Jim Dawkins is very truthful about prison life and his own life, and he gives us a very candid insight in to prison life which through his eyes is very shocking and worrying.I am sure that what he says is true,and depending on one's own view of what our prisons should be doing to its inmate population, the reader will decide what is reasonable treatment or not.To my mind the system is riddled with abuse.The prison service have a duty to the public and to the inmates also,and to my mind wherever possible to rehabilitate and help as many inmates as possible.
The reader should know that a large part of the book concerns Dawkins own life, and it takes a while to actually get in to prison proper.It is at times sad, very funny and very revealing, and always very readable. I can recomend this book to anyone who is interested in our prison service. I shall read this book again in a few months' time.
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The Loose Screw,
This review is from: The Loose Screw: The Shocking Truth About Our Prison System (Paperback)
An average book if you are ignorant to the Prison system, however the author appears to relie on anecdotes from other prison staff (as a serving officer with over 20 years service AT Wandsworth and Belmarsh and knowing of Dawkins). I am not denying that corruption and beatings have and do occur but Dawkins seems to have seen it all, perhaps if he had written his own experiences and not drawn on anecdotes of others the book would be a pamphlet. Some of the prisoners he claims to have befriended where at the time of his service loacated in prisons in which the author (Dawkins) would not have been serving in.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic Book!!!,
By Chris (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Loose Screw: The Shocking Truth About Our Prison System (Paperback)
This is a fantastic book containing all the stories about a prison officers time with the famous prisoner Charles Bronson.
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