{"id":195940,"date":"2023-11-15T15:19:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=195940"},"modified":"2023-11-15T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T15:19:24","slug":"i-was-a-prison-guard-we-hated-dirty-protests-but-theres-something-far-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/i-was-a-prison-guard-we-hated-dirty-protests-but-theres-something-far-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I was a prison guard \u2013 we hated dirty protests but there\u2019s something far worse’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A disgusted prison officer has told how vile lags have a sick tactic to rebel – which is even worse than a 'dirty protest'.<\/p>\n

    The screw said some prisoners have resorted to slashing their limbs to draw blood before painting cell walls scarlet.<\/p>\n

    Dirty protests \u2013 where a prisoner will smear their own poo over themselves and their cells \u2013 are among the most unpleasant things that a prison officer has to deal with. But ex guard Paul Hutchinson insists there is far worse challenges.<\/p>\n

    He says: "I\u2019d take a dirty protest over a blood protest all day long. A blood protest is when a prisoner deliberately cuts themselves and smears blood all over the cell. The smell of a blood protest, he says, is as unforgettable as it is horrible.<\/p>\n

    One particular case from when he was working at HMP Stocken has stuck in Paul\u2019s mind. He told podcaster Shaun Attwood: \u201cIt was an old guy \u2026 I can't remember his name but he was about 70. He had been a homeless guy for years. He liked being in prison because he got free food and free meds and looked after.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    But, he added, the elderly lag was \u201ca little bit odd.\u201d That\u2019s something of an understatement, Paul reveals.<\/p>\n

    \u201cHe would cut himself on his arm and then he would push a a spoon underneath the skin to keep the wound open. He would let the blood out into a container\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

    In one particularly horrific case, Paul happened to peep through the flap on the lag\u2019s cell door during a head count. \u201cYou could just see blood everywhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

    The blood was smeared on every available surface, the floor was thick with congealed blood, and the prisoner had even used some of his blood the words \u201cNAZI SCREWS\u201d on his cell wall.<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe had to go in and restrain him and bring him out,\u201d Paul says, \u201cfor his own safety as well as anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

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