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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811611203321

Autore

Murtagh Tom, OBE.

Titolo

The Blantyre House prison affair : lessons from a modern-day witch hunt / / Tom Murtagh ; foreword, Martin Narey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sherfield-on-Loddon, UK, : Waterside Press

Portland, Or., : North American distributors, International Specialised Book Services, c2007

ISBN

1-281-12435-4

9786611124359

1-906534-03-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

365.94223092

Soggetti

Prison administration - England - Kent

Prisons - Officials and employees

Prisons - England - Kent

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Some Key Abbreviations and Terminology""; ""CONTENTS""; ""About the author""; ""Foreword Martin Narey""; ""Preface""; ""1 Sad Reflections""; ""2 Career Choices""; ""3 Fresh Start""; ""4 The ATM Scant""; ""5 The 'Charity Work' Debacle""; ""6 The Chaucer Unit""; ""7 Downhill Spiral""; ""8 Operation Swynford""; ""9 Aftermath""; ""10 The Home Affairs Select Committee Investigation""; ""11 A Modern-day Witch Hunt?""; ""Some of the items found during the search""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Back cover ""

Sommario/riassunto

Tom Murtagh OBE was a governor at The Maze Prison and Armagh Prison, Northern Ireland before becoming Area Manager - one of the highest ranks in HM Prison Service - for Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Building on a fine record and long experience he set out to raise standards in all the prisons under his charge, only to be demonised by a Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee in 'The Blantyre House Prison Affair'. In this autobiographical account he tells his side of the story: the background, key facts, matters of intelligence that were confidential at the time, and about how the events led to his vilification



as his strategically-informed messages and voice were ignored.