Living in one of America's most notorious jails.
This is the blog of Shaun Attwood.
He is a British man who spent time in one of America's most notorious jails, and has returned home, after chronicling his life behind bars.
Shaun Atwood was on remand in Arizona for drugs offences in a jail run by the man known as "America's Toughest Sheriff". Joe Arpaio believes in running tough jails. Inmates are served surplus food. They must wear pink underwear. He is popular with the local electorate but not with civil liberties campaigners, who say conditions in his jails are unacceptable. You can read Shaun's view of his experience on his blog.
After more than two years on remand under one of Joe Arpaio's regimes, Shaun Atwood accepted a plea bargain and served his sentence in greater comfort. This week he's finally come home to see his parents Derrick and Barbara who posted his prison letters on a blog.
They spoke to me this morning for about half an hour. You can hear part of the interview on PM. Here it is in full. { Click on the Channel Guide for the edited broadcast version }
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So Shaun Attwood admitted his guilt and said he wouldn't have foregone the experience. Sounds like we should appoint Sherriff Joe to head the UK prison system!
It reminds me of when people criticise the British boarding school. I was imprisoned in three boarding schools for over nine years - from the age of eight - and I look back on the experience with fondness and pride.
Before you ask: no, I never came across any homosexuality there, although we had cockroaches, and I remember one winter when the water in the dormitory basin froze and we were hugely amused.
This was back in the 1960s. I remember one day we had some foreign much called 'pizza' on the school dinner menu. No one had heard of it before, and we nearly rebelled. One of my colleagues called it 'miscarriage-on-toast'.
Ah, happy days.
I can see how people who dont know the actual things that go on in Arpaio's jail system could think Shaun's statements are a little exagerated. In fact they are much worse. I live in Arizona and he is always in the news here. His jail system is cruel and unfair. He is more than happy to tell of the bad food and the way he treats animals better than inmates.. ...
So happy to hear that you made it home safely Shaun !
I can see how people who dont know the actual things that go on in Arpaio's jail system could think Shaun's statements are a little exagerated. In fact they are much worse. I live in Arizona and he is always in the news here. His jail system is cruel and unfair. He is more than happy to tell of the bad food and the way he treats animals better than inmates.. ...
So happy to hear that you made it home safely Shaun !
could do with some of that treatment of prisoners
over here,what no colour tv .my heart bleeds !
hi,
hope the jail have given u some good lesson or the time that u would have thought before comitting crime, i wish that each person should get the jail treatment voulatarily so that he should think twice before commiting crime.