95. Battle for Winson Green: Are prison riots inevitable?

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In Winson Green, Birmingham a category B prison is fit to burst, and on the 9th of October 2018 it finally does. Armed with one syringe, three men set five hundred convicts free and over the next twelve hours the building is almost burnt to the ground. The Winson Green riot was one of the largest prison mutinies for twenty-five years and leaves the public wondering how this could have happened. In this episode of Bad People, Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen explore when prison riots become inevitable? What factors make violence more likely? And can PRISM prevent it? CREDITS Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter Editors: Anna Lacey Music: Matt Chandler Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland #BadPeople_BBC

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0:58.8	I'd like to think that I have quite a good radar.
1:19.0	I mean, the first situation that comes to mind is just like loud men, which just always
1:23.5	feels dangerous.
1:24.5	Why?
1:25.5	Because it feels like aggression, is it the actual noise level or is it something else?
1:30.8	It's a shouting, it's not just like, maybe it's just shouting in general, it's like someone
1:38.8	being loud is aggression because it's disinhibition of something you're not supposed to do in public
1:44.3	as that way.
1:45.3	Probably.
1:46.3	Like you would only do it if you were really in your emotions.
1:50.6	Wow.
1:51.6	This is like therapy.
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