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Subject: Re: Everthorpe Borstal 62 to 64


Author:
g male (everthorpe)
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Date Posted: 00:00:07 06/04/10 Fri
In reply to: harry 's message, "Re: Everthorpe Borstal 62 to 64" on 11:49:35 07/20/09 Mon

>>did the usual journey,approved scool,nicked off.broke
>into a phone box and ended up in durham nick,age 15
>and going to borstal.durham yp wing was tough.scard
>shittless.manchester borstal wing was worse.hated the
>place.got ripped off for some snout,but silly boy
>ended up at everthorpe with me.11 months and home
>.7months later on way to honley.came out 5months
>later,fit and rarin to og.two weeks and i,m in nick
>again.18 months yp.and on it went.another 18 months,21
>months,18 months.and finally i,d had enough. awasted
>life.
>>I was sent to St swithins (Isle of Wight) from
>>Liverpool remand home (Menlove Avenue) initial offence
>>- bunking off school - bunked off Remand Centre - sent
>>to St Swithins, bunking off did not stop - tried a few
>>times and eventually escaped across Solent in 8 foot
>>rowing boat (winter 1962).
>>
>>Held in Winchester Prison at 15 years of age. Got a
>>good kicking by bigfoot's grandad. sent to Wormwood
>>Scrubs Borstal allocation center, after 3 months, was
>>packed off to Yorkshire and Everthorpe, it was almost
>>a new place then.
>>
>>I was the first person under 18 to attend Borstal
>>training, as law changed just as I turned 15 - but
>>happily, length of sentence decreased from 3 to 2
>>years.
>>
>>The month I was discharged, a young black lad named
>>Mike Showers arrived, I felt sorry for that kid, as
>>the place was full of racist bastards, and he was the
>>first black boy I had seen there.
>>
>>I was the youngest inmate, thus recieved the shittyest
>>treatment, but settled down, got released, did two
>>recalls, and also 6 months detention center (Foston
>>Hall, Derbyshire) Beat the shit out of kids as part of
>>"short sharp shock".
>>
>>Did much time in cells, but don't get into mischief
>>these days, getting senile.
>>
>>I know Portland Bill was a crap Borstal in those days,
>>so too was Reading Borstal. But all institutions were
>>a crock. In general, many prison-borstal officers were
>>ex services, and liked to use the toe of their boot up
>>young lads arseholes. Sadists were rife among inmates
>>and staff.
>>
>>Nowdays there are Young Offenders Institutes, inmates
>>are usually protected from abuses.
>>
>>I'm not proud of my past, but I might have turned out
>>different had the authorities asked one simple
>>question: why was he bunking off school?
hya i was there then , what house wr you in , i was in st georges

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