Podcast Episodes

Episode 50 - Unhappy New Year

Season 1 Episode 50

Thank you for listening to Tales From The Jails!! We've reached the end of Season One, my first year of incarceration, and are pressing pause on the podcast, but we will be returning in the New Year …

Published on 14 hours ago

Episode 49 - Christmas In Prison

Season 1 Episode 49

It's the 25th of December, 2016. Imagine waking up on Christmas morning with a person you only met a few months ago, not your partner or soulmate, but your pad mate, in HMP. I'm on top bunk and he's …

Published on 1 week ago

Episode 48 - Who Lives In A Cell Like This?

Season 1 Episode 48

It's the 16th of December, 2016. It's Friday. Today HMP Birmingham has turned into a riot, resulting in a complete meltdown. The official statement as of 5:00 PM is control has been lost. The G4S pri…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Episode 47 - Toenails Has Left The Building

Season 1 Episode 47

It's official. Toenails has left the building. There was no real camaraderie. Number 1, a fellow Despicable, walked with him to the meat wagon. From the rest of us however, it was more good riddance …

Published on 3 weeks ago

Episode 46 - The End Of The Worst Of Times

Season 1 Episode 46

Breaking news. It's just been unofficially confirmed. Toenails departs in two days. Cat D. He's hanging on in reception by his grubby fingernails and his days are numbered. And if he's caught doing a…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Episode 45 - Prison Gogglebox

Season 1 Episode 45

I have said many times, nothing and no one is sacred when it comes to Scousers, even more so in prison. Inside HMP, in many ways it is like falling down Lewis Carroll's rabbit hole on acid and coming…

Published on 1 month ago

Episode 44 - Rambo On Acid

Season 1 Episode 44

Scouse Rambo is the first to admit that his drink and drug use is way beyond that of recreational. He tells the lads that he once collapsed in a field at Glastonbury, doesn't remember how he got ther…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Episode 43 - Happy Birthday

Season 1 Episode 43

We're full to capacity in Walton. We never went to work on Saturday because we were full. History in the making, again. The news before we left for work this morning was that a prisoner commits suici…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Episode 42 - Extreme Days + Dramatic Nights

Season 1 Episode 42

The local BBC news is outside the prison, and officers are striking outside. It's chaos beyond the door and we're subjected to Christmas ads playing every 12 minutes on TV, on almost every channel.

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Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Episode 41 - Drones, Lockdowns, Guns + Drugs

Season 1 Episode 41

Only 48 hours ago, mobile phone footage was uploaded to the net and social media of 230 inmates in HMP Bedford running riot and out of control. Day by day the broken prison system is making the headl…

Published on 2 months ago