Prison Gangs: Drugs, Extortion and Murder Behind Bars

Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper, has been attacked four times since his imprisonment in 1981. Ian Kay attacked Sutcliffe with a pen and stabbed him in both eyes in 1997. Kay had a deep hatred of sex offenders, and resented being locked up with Sutcliffe. Robert Maudsley tortured a paedophile prisoner in Broadmoor for 9 hours before garrotting him, smashing his head open and eating his brains with a spoon. In the racially segregated and disintegrating US prison system of the 1960s, white inmates were forced to form gangs to protect themselves. A 2011 fight between prisoners in the Mexican city of Matamoros left 20 inmates dead. In Burma, handcuffed and blind-folded, prisoners are brutally interrogated and tortured before being forced to sign false confessions. A wrong look, a gesture out-of-place or ill-advised word can break the unwritten rules of this strange banged-up society where violence simmers just below the surface. This book lifts the lid on what goes on behind the closed doors of the most dangerous prisons in the world and introduces us to some of the notorious inhabitants. Famous Lifers: Yorkshire Ripper, Dennis Nilsen, Ian Huntley, Myra Hindley, Ian Bardy, The Krays, Charles Bronson, John Straffen, Keneth Erskine, Edward Oxford, Susannah Bradley, Graham Young, Daniel Gonzales, Robert Maudsley, William Chester Minor. Life inside: Unwritten rules, Retribution and revenge, Sexual assault and mutilation, Suicide watch, Female offenders, Foreign inmates, A screw in the system, First night to visiting rights, Outside the gates UK Prisons: Barlinnie, Broadmoor, Holloway, Jedburgh Castle, Marshalsea,Newgate, Peterhead, Parkhurst, Pentonville, Peterhead, Southwark, Strangeways, Tower of London, Wormwood Scrubs World Prisons: Afghanistan, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, China, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Venezuela, Vietnam.