Dispatches: Voices from Long Lartin (1989)

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  • Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
  • This program documents a prisoner's forum inside HMP Long Lartin organised by PSN member John Bowden in 1989. The unique event was a reflection of the shift in the balance of power between prisoners and guards during the 1970s and 80s and the positive effect of the collective empowerment of prisoners on the regime of the jail. It was the collective self-organisation of prisoners that was responsible for the unique forum and evidence that the collective empowerment of prisoners results in their positive change and liberation.
    The Prisoner Solidarity Network is a group of people committed to dismantling the criminal justice system and building a society based on collective care. Our members include people inside and outside of prisons. Some of us are ex-prisoners and some are children, partners, or friends of people inside. Many of us are survivors of interpersonal and state violence. Some of us come to this work through our values rather than direct experience of the prison system.

    We want to build a society where conflicts can be resolved without resorting to imprisonment and punishment, where our relationships with each other are not shaped by capitalism and where we are not divided by race, class, or gender.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 163

  • @Lioness78
    @Lioness78 2 роки тому +53

    My Dad was interviewed in this, He was stitched up by west midlands serious crime squad and later proved his innocence after serving most of his sentence, whole system is corrupt

    • @ads2829
      @ads2829 Рік тому +4

      Lol Say hi to Charlie from me.

    • @Bigtimecharlie1980
      @Bigtimecharlie1980 Рік тому +3

      It was a fit up that time he took all those hostages 😮ffs

    • @Lioness78
      @Lioness78 Рік тому +2

      @@ads2829 my father died years ago. thats a very old documentary lol

    • @ads2829
      @ads2829 Рік тому +1

      @@Lioness78 I hope you're well. Can you please still say hello from me. I've also spent a few years away and I've read his books so he helped me through it.

    • @jasonantigua6825
      @jasonantigua6825 Рік тому +1

      @@Lioness78 I’m sorry to hear of your loss

  • @kevinb9830
    @kevinb9830 Рік тому +12

    Charlie Bronson really does stand out even amongst the other lifers etc.

    • @jboardy5439
      @jboardy5439 8 місяців тому

      Only cozza that stupid tash....😂😂😂😂

    • @distantrambler
      @distantrambler 6 місяців тому

      He has proven that prison rarely works. He is totally institutionalised.

  • @Del-Blanco-Diablo
    @Del-Blanco-Diablo 2 роки тому +18

    That channel 4 intro is total blast from the past..

    • @nathanmoore7120
      @nathanmoore7120 11 місяців тому +2

      I thought the exact same thing! It’s funny how small things can get ya thinking about yesteryear!

    • @user-sz8km9dy5v
      @user-sz8km9dy5v 7 місяців тому +1

      Like wise

    • @mcvicarross7
      @mcvicarross7 7 місяців тому +1

      Was just gunna write the very same .. The gd old day's eh troops?😂

  • @JackBlack-gh5yf
    @JackBlack-gh5yf 2 роки тому +17

    I like the way that the video gave the impression that the cells at Long Lartin had toilets. Most, particularly then, didn't, and it took so long to get released from the cells to use the wing toilets, that prisoners were still throwing 'shit parcels' out of the windows well into the 21st century.
    Nice to see Andy and John and the helicopter!
    A.S.A.B.

    • @Dannydawson537
      @Dannydawson537 2 роки тому +2

      Yep lartins on a electric door system toilets are on the landings

    • @Lioness78
      @Lioness78 7 місяців тому

      people really did their time in those days

    • @JackBlack-gh5yf
      @JackBlack-gh5yf 7 місяців тому

      @@Dannydawson537 I think it was originally built as a Cat D with a fence, so the doors were supposed to be unlocked, but then they decided they needed another dispersal. You could wait for an hour and a half in the queue to get unlocked. There is a way to jump to the front of the queue, but I'm sworn to secrecy! 😉

    • @phoenixtrades150
      @phoenixtrades150 2 місяці тому

      @@JackBlack-gh5yf Slow tap gang, where you at?

    • @JackBlack-gh5yf
      @JackBlack-gh5yf 2 місяці тому

      @@phoenixtrades150 Leeds now 👍

  • @jordanbrierley4347
    @jordanbrierley4347 2 роки тому +26

    Is that charlie bronson ?

  • @mattrobertstpt
    @mattrobertstpt 2 роки тому +10

    Fascinating watch!

  • @nickijameson3093
    @nickijameson3093 2 роки тому +15

    I reviewed this documentary when it came out. It's interesting watching it back again but my article was called 'Long Lartin forum sham' and described how the debate which John had initiated, and which he (along with organisations like PROP, ABC and FRFI) was then banned from actually attending, turned into something quite different, where the class nature of imprisonment was never discussed and 'reforming the individual' took centre stage.

    • @Dannydawson537
      @Dannydawson537 2 роки тому +4

      Wow great insight thank you

    • @NUFCLIFE-eb7em
      @NUFCLIFE-eb7em Рік тому +2

      Shouldn’t ‘reforming the individual’ take centre stage?

    • @avikillzkids5986
      @avikillzkids5986 Рік тому

      Your clearly missing the point lad.
      People are not imprisoned based on their individual behaviour.
      You government, your Tory’s are packed full of thieves murderers war criminals etc etc.
      And on they go

    • @avikillzkids5986
      @avikillzkids5986 Рік тому

      For example your current deputy king is not only a child rapist but a senior member of the most insidious child rape gang/cult ever known to man. He was promoted after his child rape was exposed 👍🏻🙃

    • @Lioness78
      @Lioness78 7 місяців тому

      yes they cut out a lot of important things my dad had spoken about out of the doc.

  • @jamiesplinter8758
    @jamiesplinter8758 2 роки тому +13

    A young Charlie Bronson he's never getting out

    • @3socksmorgan485
      @3socksmorgan485 2 роки тому +9

      Not if he keeps making podcasts saying he has no regrets and making threats to kill people when he's released

    • @Georgieboy-482
      @Georgieboy-482 Рік тому

      Alan byrne from acton still away Suffering from dementia should be Let' Out

    • @ironstealth2.064
      @ironstealth2.064 Рік тому +3

      I hadn't read the comments before I commented. I nearly fell off my seat when I saw Charlie Bronson aka Salvador sat in the front row

  • @emceeultra2677
    @emceeultra2677 2 роки тому +10

    Charlie been on lock for years that's fucked up

  • @spongebob8678
    @spongebob8678 2 роки тому +8

    charlie seemed normal..

  • @danrobinson572
    @danrobinson572 2 роки тому +10

    Charlie Bronson is in this video

  • @lorrainegriffiths554
    @lorrainegriffiths554 Рік тому +9

    those two that were wrongly convicted I feel sorry for. Glad they were eventually released after many years of being unlawfully convicted

    • @Chrisdebomb
      @Chrisdebomb Рік тому

      Nonce case?

    • @lorrainegriffiths554
      @lorrainegriffiths554 Рік тому

      @@Chrisdebomb nonot them

    • @mo6278
      @mo6278 Рік тому +1

      @@Chrisdebomb the 2 bermingham lads convicted for bombing wrongly convicted not nonces

    • @Fercough
      @Fercough 7 місяців тому +2

      Without a doubt they were political prisoners.

  • @Robbie176
    @Robbie176 Місяць тому +1

    Seeing 2 of the fellas from the Birmingham 6 talking - what they went through was horrendous and absolutely terrifying for them from when they got arrested - watching them there knowing they are both innocent is really sad but I wonder if the viewers believed them at the time this aired ?

  • @waynehammerton5698
    @waynehammerton5698 Рік тому +5

    Is that Charlie Bronson with the tash and dungarees?

  • @bobosborne1573
    @bobosborne1573 6 місяців тому +3

    Jimmy Boyle now there is a legend

  • @barryfurey1024
    @barryfurey1024 2 роки тому +11

    Was that charles bronson lol

    • @danrobinson572
      @danrobinson572 2 роки тому +4

      Yeah it is Charlie most definitely.

    • @Alanhock75
      @Alanhock75 2 роки тому +5

      @@danrobinson572 never known Charlie on normal location he’s usually down the seg on lay downs, but yes that’s him, up to mischief as always

    • @Nick-fy1zp
      @Nick-fy1zp 2 роки тому +1

      ​@@Alanhock75 he was on normal often, hence all them hostages
      say, like made of stone n tickle my feet story. I think parko H3 or H2 was the start . I think yeah

  • @AnonAnonAnon
    @AnonAnonAnon 6 місяців тому +1

    4:22 Two of the Birmingham Six. Hard to watch knowing they were both innocent but also good to know that three years after the filming of this all six were released and the convictions for murder overturned. Hugh Callaghan passed away in 2023 aged 93. Be nice to believe he lived his life again once released. John Walker currently resides in Ireland.

  • @Warwick_Hunt
    @Warwick_Hunt Рік тому +2

    Yo bro thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, insights and experiences .. I'm proper finding them fascinating . . .
    You are a really articulate, super sharp guy and have got that rare gift of talking street but can paint a picture with your words and intellect.
    I'm sounding a patronising prick ... please forgive that.
    Look .. do you have an email address ... I got an interesting story to let you in on about Lartin that might make you chuckle.
    Big respect to you, brother ... these are so much more than just war stories and you should be rightfully proud of the way you represent you and yours. Fuckin big up you, bro.
    Kudos 👏
    Yeh man.
    Pete G. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @tatsnneeps341
    @tatsnneeps341 Рік тому +8

    Why do prisoners even get to voice their opinions? Did they care when committing the crimes? I don't think so. Do your bird fools

    • @geordieal9187
      @geordieal9187 6 місяців тому

      You sound a lovely I’ll informed dipstick

  • @emceeultra2677
    @emceeultra2677 2 роки тому +6

    @3.36 is that Charlie bronson

  • @ryancorroll4667
    @ryancorroll4667 Рік тому +5

    How young Charlie Bronson looks😂 the guy is class

    • @jboardy5439
      @jboardy5439 8 місяців тому +3

      Class at staying banged up unnecessarily for 30 plus years he needn't have. 😂😂😂 brill. Well done Chaz

    • @user-sz8km9dy5v
      @user-sz8km9dy5v 7 місяців тому +2

      Empty head you mean

  • @leeandrew8987
    @leeandrew8987 Рік тому +3

    Hope Charlie gets his freedom I sent him a letter in 2006 and got a Christmas card back

  • @joeman8523
    @joeman8523 7 місяців тому +1

    Wonder where they all are now? It plays out like the scene in Scum where they all talk about what's wrong with the prison and food etc...

  • @DazWalmsley
    @DazWalmsley Рік тому +1

    10 minutes, is that a young Chris Morris. If it isn't, then Brasseye was one hell of a satire!

  • @peterfenton2750
    @peterfenton2750 Рік тому +3

    The "chapel", hot bed of deals and escape plans..

  • @garethh6962
    @garethh6962 Рік тому +3

    Charlie is wiser now actually his words were wise. Let him out..

  • @bobholyoake8577
    @bobholyoake8577 2 роки тому +2

    My old home in 2001/2005

  • @distantrambler
    @distantrambler 6 місяців тому +2

    The boys of rhe Birmingham six brave brave strong men

  • @Alanhock75
    @Alanhock75 2 роки тому +2

    Worked at Albany in the 70s and 80s , exactly the same set up.Electronic unlocking and inmates could use the night sanitation, come out of their cells at night to use the shower and toilet.It was strictly regulated but worked well.All in all I think the inmates were happy with the regime and for staff it was an easy relaxed place to work

    • @Del-Blanco-Diablo
      @Del-Blanco-Diablo 2 роки тому +3

      Fucking hated that night san setup,they were still using in in the mid 90s, you got 3mins to get out and do your business and get back behind your door before your locked out.

    • @Nick-fy1zp
      @Nick-fy1zp 2 роки тому +1

      ​@@Del-Blanco-Diablo yeah putting the rush on a fella messes his flow

    • @Alanhock75
      @Alanhock75 Рік тому +1

      @@Del-Blanco-Diablo was different than that when I worked there, 10 mins out and we called you up to return to your cell, never locked anyone out

  • @mcvicarross7
    @mcvicarross7 7 місяців тому +1

    All the guys here "Is that Charlie B..!" Ffs there is only 1guy that could pull of a tash like that in the jail & not get the c$#t takin out of him!! 😂😂

  • @padraig4530
    @padraig4530 Рік тому +6

    FREE CHARLES BRONSON NOW.

  • @CARLIN4737
    @CARLIN4737 Рік тому +3

    4743 Carlin.

    • @T.T.G.
      @T.T.G. 6 місяців тому

      Lol

  • @CARLIN4737
    @CARLIN4737 19 днів тому

    3.36 unmistakable.

  • @Hj27673
    @Hj27673 2 роки тому +7

    Let Charlie out

  • @MattMcKimmie
    @MattMcKimmie Місяць тому

    Old charlie Bronson not behaving lol

  • @Nick-fy1zp
    @Nick-fy1zp 2 роки тому +1

    saying 43s without saying what section number creates confusions I think

    • @bristol2002
      @bristol2002 5 місяців тому

      nonce are now rule 45

  • @ironstealth2.064
    @ironstealth2.064 Рік тому +2

    Charles Salvador aka Bronson is only sat in the front row holding the sign up

  • @Bigben100k
    @Bigben100k Рік тому +1

    They say they're sentences with a straight face. The guy said "18 years for rape" SMH 🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @bennym5244
      @bennym5244 Рік тому +2

      I was shocked, I thought he would have been on the numbers. I'm surprised the other prisoners wanted to be seen with him on camera.

    • @TerrySkipper-rh1eq
      @TerrySkipper-rh1eq Рік тому

      Yeah the dirty bastard 18 years for rape SCUMBAG

    • @DontBeAWollyy
      @DontBeAWollyy Рік тому

      @@bennym5244long Lartin don’t have a VP wing they get thrown into the mix

    • @pauljones8218
      @pauljones8218 11 місяців тому

      @@DontBeAWollyy how come he has noy been got at

    • @DontBeAWollyy
      @DontBeAWollyy 11 місяців тому

      @@pauljones8218 how do I know ask the inmates

  • @Emerald007007
    @Emerald007007 2 місяці тому

    Doesn't seem to be too many drugs back then. If there were you would see prisoners that were shall we say unwell?

  • @stefanmissen8207
    @stefanmissen8207 Рік тому +1

    Is that Charles Bronson at 8.19 ?

  • @luccaoliva351
    @luccaoliva351 Рік тому

    Nowadays Long Lartin is the biggest supermax in Europe right ?

    • @rideorfly13
      @rideorfly13 Рік тому

      I don’t know if it’s the biggest ‘super max’ in Europe but it does have the largest seg unit in Europe

  • @Irelano
    @Irelano 2 місяці тому

    Poor Charlie still locked up should free him

  • @lucan791
    @lucan791 6 місяців тому

    See Charlie bronsen sitting there

  • @Nick-fy1zp
    @Nick-fy1zp 2 роки тому

    is the light skin fella, lord ?
    I think that was name from Waze daze .
    JB..I enjoyed his book n Brendan B and his Feltham times .
    even that Nicky Cruz was a blinder.. I bet there's some gr8 books now I don't know .
    didn't even know JPig book til I left uk , years later from yt.
    any recs lads

    • @Chrisdebomb
      @Chrisdebomb Рік тому +2

      Damage done Warren fellows..... Black hand boxer enriques...... The iceman Phillip carlo....

  • @luccaoliva351
    @luccaoliva351 Рік тому

    Is Reggie Kray in this video ?

  • @Rapuk
    @Rapuk 2 роки тому +2

    Bronson on the yard lol

  • @pauljones8218
    @pauljones8218 11 місяців тому +1

    free charlie bronson

  • @shellyshellshell5932
    @shellyshellshell5932 2 роки тому +2

    👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

  • @michaelwaine611
    @michaelwaine611 2 роки тому +3

    Too many years waisted

  • @perkosherrigh7243
    @perkosherrigh7243 Рік тому

    Charlie bronson is in this

  • @francishughes6313
    @francishughes6313 Рік тому +1

    The only difference between prison and outside is, inside your just a number and outside your just a name .

    • @mo6278
      @mo6278 Рік тому

      We came in to this world a number and we go out one aswell

  • @shanefrance5071
    @shanefrance5071 4 місяці тому

    That's Charles bronson definitely he will be free soon

  • @Mack-bc3sp
    @Mack-bc3sp 2 місяці тому

    Prison officer getting interviewed was full of shit

  • @iansettle7764
    @iansettle7764 Рік тому +3

    So bad what happened to the Birmingham 7 when you see what they lost n when filming this they still had 4 more years left ✌️💚😈

    • @solefreak2
      @solefreak2 Рік тому

      What is the Birmingham 7 all about?

    • @iansettle7764
      @iansettle7764 Рік тому

      @@solefreak2 I might have the number of men wrong it's 6 or 7 i do know Guildford 4 but Birmingham 🤔🚩🚩

    • @iansettle7764
      @iansettle7764 Рік тому +1

      @@solefreak2 definitely 6 🙃

    • @solefreak2
      @solefreak2 Рік тому

      @@iansettle7764 Yeah read up about it..

    • @iansettle7764
      @iansettle7764 Рік тому

      @@solefreak2 you just carry on being a sarcastic bell end n that didn't take much looking up, have you always been so helpful, i didn't say i was an expert on the subject, WHY tf attitude 😹

  • @curtisokeefe7145
    @curtisokeefe7145 Рік тому

    Isn't that Charlie Branson???

  • @Victor-z7t6q
    @Victor-z7t6q 7 місяців тому

    Stan Thompson broke out of a nick with Jimmy moody and an IRA man😅

  • @user-fn2lf7si8y
    @user-fn2lf7si8y 3 місяці тому

    This is funny😂

  • @Nick-fy1zp
    @Nick-fy1zp 2 роки тому

    anyone know of Carl thakur ,stonebrige and Chaz Irvine , Paddington bout mid 50s now and MC avoy who got out dorm roof in 81 ?
    Smithy light skin n Frankie Johnson, all south house lads.
    I wonder about em even now.
    Steve mc carthy not at all taking of 43s protect

  • @eoinosullivan5674
    @eoinosullivan5674 6 місяців тому

    2 of the Birmingham 6 feel remorse?I doubt it

  • @gscott.9609
    @gscott.9609 Рік тому

    Can’t do time don’t do crime.

  • @ConnorCody-qe4ef
    @ConnorCody-qe4ef 6 місяців тому

    No scence of freedom in here,😂😂😂 thats the whole idea of why you go to prison, cons are the biggest , wingers in the world, i no because i serverd time, in prison and trust thay winge, thay grass on each other over the most trivial things, in the world,,😂😂😂

  • @AdrianPG63
    @AdrianPG63 2 роки тому +1

    Those people in the toilets on the m1 are still there waiting for you Charlie ...you big divvy !

    • @weneverstop.4640
      @weneverstop.4640 Рік тому +4

      Would u say that to his face.😂

    • @AdrianPG63
      @AdrianPG63 Рік тому

      @@weneverstop.4640 Yes ...but he's in his cell for a long time more ...no one gets parole straight out of cat a ...he knows that too ...he's institutionalized and mentally ill ... He could have been out years ago ....he's a crank ...

    • @Chrisdebomb
      @Chrisdebomb Рік тому

      @@weneverstop.4640 Not a sniff would gruff the biff have the balls to get into a physical tiff

  • @colmac1849
    @colmac1849 Місяць тому

    And weren't the Birmingham 2 right !

  • @hudson7354
    @hudson7354 Рік тому +2

    Juventus played the prison football team on a couple of occasions.
    I bet you don’t remember or know about that do you ?

    • @lestc8579
      @lestc8579 Рік тому

      And Santa Claus delivered the Xmas presents

    • @pauljones8218
      @pauljones8218 7 місяців тому

      @@lestc8579 dont forget the easter bunny and also the tooth fairy