episode description
Episode two reveals the day-to-day reality for some of the five hundred men in HMP Shotts, Scotland’s only prison exclusively for long-term offenders, who combined are serving well over four thousand years in custody. It explores how they live together and how the jail manages and contains so many violent men. As one prisoner says, “There’s some really bad, bad people in here, really horrific crimes, you know. Horrific.” Prisoners speak candidly about their offending, their struggles in prison and their remorse. Part of the rehabilitation programme is the difficult job of trying to prepare these men for life back in the community after their release, but often that is not as successful as they would like. We follow forty-one year old, James, as he is released after spending more than half his life inside for violent robberies, and 44 year old Jason whose history of assault and kidnap inside jail means he has served years on top of his original sentence.
