A quick look back at my “alma mater’ (1980). This was filmed 3 years after I had left in 1983, and just before this system was abolished due to abuse and cruelty. For any fellow inmates wanting to say hello, I was in Bentley Dorm.
They wouldn’t even let me have my mobile phone, that’s how cruel the bastards were…..
It was 1980 after all!
The Bastard
As home secretary, Whitelaw adopted a hard-line approach to law and order. He improved police pay and embarked upon a programme of extensive prison building. His four-year tenure in office, however, was generally perceived as a troubled one. His much vaunted “short, sharp shock” policy, whereby convicted young offenders were detained in secure units and subjected to quasi-military discipline, won approval from the public but proved expensive to implement.
Courtesy Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whitelaw