Homeward Prison Video Transcript
"We've visited him all over the country. I like to see him, but I don't like the visits. The waiting does your head in and you can't take anything in with you.
No toys or games, no drinks or anything. Sometimes it takes all day and I don't even get to talk to him. Not really. On the way there, mum says "Don't mention anything about..." and there's a whole list of things like nan being ill, the school trip or the dog being lost, because she doesn't want to worry him.
You have to wait to go to the prison gate. They stamp your VO and if you haven't got everything exactly right, they send you home. Last year we spent three hours getting to a prison and when we got there dad had been shipped out overnight to another one. At the gate they check your mouth, shoes, hair, pat you down - when Chloe was in nappies they checked inside. She always had a right paddy. I used to have to help mum get dressed and get her shoes back on.
After you've been searched, they take you through to another room where you wait again until your name is called. There's a big room, and there's officers and men all watching these men sat behind tables, all wearing the same orange vest, and my dad's one of them."