'I tell you something, this place will go off, and when this place does go off, the roof will go.' A prophetic quote from an inmate who featured in Rex Bloomstein's definitive prison series, Strangeways, ten years ago. Last April, the prison did explode in one of the worst riots in British penal history. Tonight. following the screening of the award-winning edition, Christmas, Peter Taylor asks a distinguished panel and an audience of prison officers and inmates from
Strangeways whether anything has been learned in the intervening ten years. Is it time to listen more closely to prisoners and their grievances, to acknowledge their rights and develop prison regimes which might provide a more humane system and greater protection for society?
Camera (Christmas) Derek Banks
Discussion producer Ritchie Cogan