A series of eight programmes
'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.
Just 250 officers look after an average population of 1,600 men and boys in conditions of gross overcrowding. The strain of living in such conditions falls not only on the prisoners, but on the officers themselves.
Against a background of increasing militancy and problems of a split within their own union, this programme looks at daily life within the walls of Strangeways 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 the summer of 1979, was not officially supposed to exist.