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๐๏ธ 30 April 2025
โฑ๏ธ 93 minutes
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Piers Ravenhill is back again for an explosive part 2. A former drug kingpin, sentenced to 34 years in prison, me & Piers talk through the current state and decline of British Prisons. We also discuss Belmarsh's High Security Unit, prison riots & the dangerous reality of life behind bars.
This is the eventful life of Mr Piers Ravenhill
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0:00.0 | Don't need to bullshit about prison. You go where the system says you go. So I've seen your case on the |
0:06.2 | telly. He went, you lot are f***ed. Kind of surreal at the time. You're gone for 25 years and all this. |
0:12.2 | And prison population has been at breaking point since I first went to prison. Britain's flagship security |
0:18.1 | jail is basically a prison within the prison. The HSU, probably a different world. |
0:24.0 | We didn't know what Belmarsh was going to be like, but we soon found out that he lifted up the |
0:28.2 | bunk bed that long out from the leg of the bed and I just thought, fucking hell. Home office decision |
0:33.9 | to make you category A, if you are believed to have the means and the contacts to make a genuine escape attempt, |
0:40.3 | the system reacted to anyone who kicked off in Belmarsh. |
0:45.3 | The troops come from everywhere far and wide and they arrive almost instantly. |
0:50.3 | I've seen people wrapped up, beaten up and carried off to the SEG and you don't see |
0:55.3 | them again. If something happens and it's one of those things where it has to be dealt with, |
1:01.1 | then you have to go and deal with it. The minute you appear at my door, you're getting that |
1:04.5 | launched all over you. Prison law is prison law. The rules are different. |
1:11.6 | Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast. |
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1:31.8 | Pierce, welcome back to the show. |
1:33.7 | Thanks, Dodge. |
1:34.4 | Thanks for having me. |
1:35.3 | Yeah, mate. |
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