10-06-2014, 01:28 PM
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Robert Jeffrey, author of the bestselling Barlinnie Story and other true
crime books, now tells the remarkable story of the infamous Peterhead
Prison in Scotland's far north-east. Built in the 1880s as part of an
ambitious humanitarian plan to use convict labour to construct a
'harbour of refuge' on the town's wild, storm-battered coast, it became
what some call Scotland's gulag. A cold and brutal place, it has held
down the years some of Scotland's most violent criminals and most
infamous prisoners, convicted of the most heinous of crimes. In the
early days, convicts were controlled by men as hard as their charges.
The wardens carried swords and were quick to use them if necessary. And
when convict labour was used to build the harbour, they worked with
rifles trained on them at all times. Peterhead's wardens were clearly
not to be crossed.
Throughout the history of the prison, riots and
breakouts have made headlines, with the SAS involved in restoring order
at one point. Peterhead also had the reputation of being so secure that
escape was impossible, with the notable exception of Johnny Ramensky,
the safeblower turned war hero who went back to his criminal ways and
spent more than forty years of his life in prison, many of them in
Peterhead. He became the first inmate to escape and repeated the
exercise four more times, often for his own satisfaction and amusement,
each time being recaptured after a short taste of freedom. Peterhead -
Scotland's Toughest Prison tells the remarkable inside story of a truly
grim institution with a fearsome reputation.
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