Inside Parkhurst av David Berridge

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<P><B>THE FASCINATING <I>SUNDAY TIMES </I>TOP TEN BESTSELLER</B><br><br>Assaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It''s all in a week''s work at HMP Parkhurst.<br><br>After 28 years working as a prison officer, with 22 years at HMP Parkhurst, once one of Britain''s most high security prisons, David Berridge has had to deal with it all: serial killers and gangsters, terrorists and sex offenders, psychopaths and addicts. <I>I</I><I>nside</I><I>Parkhurst </I>is his raw, uncompromising look at what really goes on behind the massive walls and menacing gates. <br><br>Thrown in at the deep end, David quickly had to work out how to deal with the most cunning and volatile of prisoners, and learn how to avoid their many scams. He has been assaulted and abused; he has tackled cell fires and attempted suicides, riots and dirty protests; he has helped to foil escaped plans, talked inmates down from rooftop protests, witnessed prisoners setting f