Name: Lifers: Behind Bars
Uploaded: 2017
Description: This groundbreaking documentary series shows what it's like to serve a long-term prison sentence in Britain.

This groundbreaking documentary series shows what it's like to serve a long-term prison sentence in Britain.

Episode 1 follows newly-convicted killers from sentencing at court through the system as they are helped to face up to years behind bars. As one officer explains. These ‘lifers’ speak candidly about their crimes, their struggles in prison, and their remorse – or lack of it.

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Episode 1 follows newly-convicted killers from sentencing at court through the system as they are helped to face up to years behind bars.

Lifers

Episode two reveals the day-to-day reality for some of the five hundred men in HMP Shotts, Scotland’s only prison exclusively for long-term offenders, who combined are serving well over four thousand years in custody.

Episode two reveals the day-to-day reality for some of the five hundred men in HMP Shotts, Scotland’s only prison exclusively for long-term offenders.