Former Officer Reviews Book

Written By Emma French

This weeks featured review is an Amazon review of ‘Inside Wakefield Prison: Life Behind Bars in the Monster Mansion’:

Former HMP Wakefield Officer- Andrew M.

***** Very well researched

Having been an officer at HMP Wakefield for 12 years in the 70’s and 80’s I started reading this book wondering if it would be another poor representation of prison life. It is not! It is the best book I have read about Wakefield, or any other prison for that matter, due to the authors’ excellent research. It certainly brought back many memories of my time there. I was sorry to read however that the Centre bell is no longer used as it was the ringing of this at certain times of the day that controlled the regime.

Emma French