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When you watch the acclaimed TV drama Time, remember this: I’ve seen inside our prisons and they are just as bleak | Alex South

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The show depicts prisons as places characterised by violence and isolation, with no focus on rehabilitation. It’s depressingly accurate Alex South is a former prison officer and the author of the…

The Guardian United Kingdom · 18 October 2026

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