The Best Little Prison In Britain?
Series: 1
Episodes: 6 x 30
Broadcaster: ITV
Distributor: BBC Studios
First tx: 2018
Narrated by Stephen Fry
This ITV docu-soap goes behind the walls of a most extraordinary little prison where doing time is unlike anywhere else in Britain.
The Isle of Man, with a population of 85,000 is a proud self-governing island with its own prison regime, and the only jail is a one-stop shop for all convicted offenders. It also has some of the lowest reoffending rates in Europe.
Because of the island’s small population many of the prisoners and the staff already know each other, and men and women get banged up together. Girlfriends and boyfriends, even generations of the same family, often end up serving sentences next door to each other.