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1:02:01
It's called institutionalised.
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-- They're secure.
-- Are they that...?

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In here you act,
you're punished and you're free.

1:02:11
Out there, you act, you're
punished by your own guilt,

1:02:15
and you're never free.
1:02:17
What little book is that from?
1:02:19
This one.
1:02:22
Certainly not
from what's on offer here.

1:02:28
Mr Duke, I don't wish to
underestimate your life's work,

1:02:34
but the punitive system
does not work.

1:02:39
My experience convinces me that
more criminal acts are imposed

1:02:43
on prisoners
than by criminals on society.

1:02:47
Convinces you, eh?
1:02:49
Fancy half of that mob charging
up and down your street?

1:02:54
Fancy your mother tackling
that lot on the rampage?

1:02:58
No, you bloody well don't.
1:03:00
So what do you do about it?
1:03:03
Talk about it, like we are.
1:03:06
Talk's bullshit.
You lock them up.

1:03:08
I'd also consider
what happens to their guardians.

1:03:12
-- Watch it, lad.
-- I'm serious, Mr Duke.

1:03:16
Take yourself.
1:03:18
For a weekly wage you have
been locking up men and boys

1:03:23
most of your
working life, right?

1:03:26
Hanging down your leg
is your key chain,

1:03:29
and the length of that chain
indicates the time

1:03:33
you have spent in the service.
1:03:35
You may not have been fortunate
in terms of promotion,

1:03:39
but the length
of that chain gives you rank

1:03:43
over other officers
of similar rank only.

1:03:47
It's a constant reminder that,
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having spent your life
in the Prison Service,

1:03:52
you are still a basic officer.
1:03:54
Now, who gets
the stick for that?

1:03:57
Us.
1:03:59
Who pays for that
daily humiliation?


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