{"quotes":[{"text":"The screws have brought all the revenge attacks on themselves. Most prisoners that have done some nasty damage in the system have come through the young offenders, where that was just a breeding ground for hatred from the screws point of view. They were famous for bullying and battering young, defenceless boys to the point of death, in some cases.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["jimmy-holland","scotland-crime","scotland-hard-men","scottish-hard-bastards","scottish-penal-system","scottish-prison-sieges","scottish-prisons","scotttish-true-crime","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-","true-crime"],"id":4261,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"Just as chillingly as Manuel took police to the spot where he had buried 17-year-old Isabella Cooke, it was reminiscent of this when Brady took police to Saddleworth Moor in Yorkshire, when he and Hindley were flown there by helicopter to walk on the graves of more victims.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["ian-brady","jimmy-holland","scotland-crime","scotland-hard-men","scottish-hard-bastards","scottish-penal-system","scottish-prison-sieges","scotttish-true-crime","serial-killers","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-","true-crime"],"id":11357,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"I pulled the homemade jail knife out that I had in my hand, Porkie pulled out the very sharp lockback knife that he had concealed up his sleeve. We told the warden and nurse to sit on the floor, and if they did as we told them then no one would get hurt.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["jimmy-holland","prison-hostage-taking","scotland-crime","scotland-hard-men","scottish-hard-bastards","scottish-penal-system","scottish-prison-sieges","scotttish-true-crime","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-","true-crime"],"id":12422,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"Gary Moore is another legendary figure of sheer violence. In prison, Gary has spent most of his adult life inside one jail or another. When, on the odd occasion, he does get out of prison, it doesn’t take him long to go on a murderous campaign of total terror. Gary has been charged and stood trial for some three or four different murders.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["jimmy-holland","scotland-crime","scotland-hard-men","scottish-hard-bastards","scottish-penal-system","scottish-prison-sieges","scotttish-true-crime","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-","true-crime"],"id":24655,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"Bongo and Shug seen what was going on and decided to smash holes all over the roof of the hall, just for something to do. Bongo was first on to the roof, where, unknown to him he was being filmed from a cell in the hall straight across from him, but Bongo didn’t give a fuck as he never even wore a mask to try and protect his face, he was in his element, so was Shug. And to their credit, they didn’t half wreck the roof of the hall.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["jimmy-holland","prison-sieges","scotland-crime","scotland-hard-men","scottish-hard-bastards","scottish-penal-system","scottish-prison-sieges","scotttish-true-crime","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-","true-crime"],"id":28224,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"I was also in Glenochil Prison in 1992 when Hammy was stabbed five times in the chest and belly off another man called Fudge, but give Hammy his dues, he never tried to jail bait his attacker up. Fudge never got any more time to his sentence for the frenzied attack on Hammy. This man has also had pit bulls and rottweiler dogs set on him and guess what, he beat the dogs.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["glenochil-prison","jimmy-holland","scotland-crime","scotland-hard-men","scottish-hard-bastards","scottish-penal-system","scottish-prison-sieges","scotttish-true-crime","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-","true-crime"],"id":68194,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"Once the cons were in the cell, they’d pull razors or homemade daggers out and rob the YOs of their trainers, leather jackets or jewellery. You couldn’t placate them; it would be akin to expecting not to be bitten from a Rhodesian Ridgeback whilst petting it! Bar L was full of rough, colourful and out-of-control junkies who wouldn’t think twice about stabbing you or slashing you just to get what you had on your feet to pay for their next hit of smack.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["bar-l","jimmy-holland","prison","scottish-penal-system"],"id":68779,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"Rockweiler (nickname) has settled down over the years, he is a man mountain, he stands some six-and-a-half foot tall, and is round about eighteen or nineteen stones in weight. He too works in Barlinnie, this dog was responsible for giving the Wendy House seg unit the tough name tag, as he dished out the beatings to some very hard prisoners in the past. I can’t take that away from him, but he was a bit of a shit bag as well because he wore the full riot body armour when he offered to fight.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["jimmy-holland","scotland-crime","scotland-hard-men","scottish-hard-bastards","scottish-penal-system","scottish-prison-sieges","scotttish-true-crime","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-","true-crime"],"id":72437,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn’t look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["govan","jimmy-holland","prison","scottish-penal-system","stephen-richards"],"id":76451,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"The riot screws did not stop there, they dragged him down the corridor where ten other nameless screws repeatedly coshed him over the head and face and body. Dingus by now was totally out cold, he had received the equivalent injuries of someone who was involved in a car crash.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["jimmy-holland","prison-sieges","scotland-crime","scotland-hard-men","scottish-hard-bastards","scottish-penal-system","scotttish-true-crime","stephen-richards","stephen-richards-","true-crime"],"id":90390,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}