Life Behind Bars in a UK prison
8 min readMay 28, 2019
I worked for Her Majesties Prison Service for one year and gained an understanding of what it was like to be in a UK prison. For obvious reasons, there are some matters that I can’t discuss, but I will share some outrageous things that I witnessed during my employment.
In the UK prisons are categorised dependant on the severity of the crime. They are labelled into letters, A, B, C, and D, with A being the…