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When you watch the acclaimed TV drama Time, remember this: I’ve seen inside our prisons and they are just as bleak | Alex South
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The show depicts prisons as places characterised by violence and isolation, with no focus on rehabilitation. It’s depressingly accurate Alex South is a former prison officer and the author of the memoir Behind These Doors The new series of Time is not an easy watch.
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