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Strangeways

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

A series of eight programmes
3:Screws
'If you think you've come here just to lock men up, you're in the wrong job.' So says Governor Norman Brown to newly-recruited prison officers in Strangeways.
This programme looks at daily life there from the viewpoint of the ' screws. It includes the training of the MUFTI squad - Minimum Use of Force, Tactical Intervention - which, until the disturbances at Wormwood Scrubs in 1979, was not officially supposed to exist.
Film cameraman DEREK BANKS
Producer REX BLOOMSTEIN

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Norman Brown
Source: Radio Times

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