Episode 49 - Christmas In Prison
From Tales From The Jails by JEKYLL & PRIDE PRODUCTIONS
August 31, 2025 · 32 min · Season 1 · Episode 49
About this episode
The episode recounts a Christmas morning spent in prison, reflecting on personal experiences and the challenges of incarceration.
It's the 25th of December, 2016. Imagine waking up on Christmas morning with a person you only met a few months ago, not your partner or soulmate, but your pad mate, in HMP. I'm on top bunk and he's down below, two lives colliding. During the three and a half years I was in prison I wrote over a million words by hand. Tales From The Jails is a contemporaneous account of my life, and attempts to thrive rather than merely survive, whilst incarcerated. Most names have been changed. The ev...
People in this episode
Host: Unnamed Host
Topics covered
- Christmas
- prison life
- personal experience
- survival
- true crime
Keywords
- Christmas in prison
- HMP
- personal account
- incarceration
- true crime
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: HMP
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