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The Blantyre House prison affair : lessons from a modern-day witch hunt / Tom Murtagh ; foreword, Martin Narey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murtagh, Tom, OBE
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prison administration--England--Kent.
- Prison administration.
- Prisons--Officials and employees--Biography.
- Prisons.
- Prisons--England--Kent.
- HM Prison Blantyre House.
- Murtagh, Tom, OBE.
- Murtagh, Tom.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sherfield-on-Loddon, UK : Waterside Press ; Portland, Or. : North American distributors, International Specialised Book Services, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tom Murtagh OBE was a governor at The Maze Prison and Armagh Prison, Northern Ireland before becoming Area Manager - one of the highest ranks in HM Prison Service - for Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Building on a fine record and long experience he set out to raise standards in all the prisons under his charge, only to be demonised by a Parliamentary Home Affairs Committee in 'The Blantyre House Prison Affair'. In this autobiographical account he tells his side of the story: the background, key facts, matters of intelligence that were confidential at the time, and about how the events led to his vilification as his strategically-informed messages and voice were ignored.
- Contents:
- ""Cover ""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Some Key Abbreviations and Terminology""; ""CONTENTS""; ""About the author""; ""Foreword Martin Narey""; ""Preface""; ""1 Sad Reflections""; ""2 Career Choices""; ""3 Fresh Start""; ""4 The ATM Scant""; ""5 The 'Charity Work' Debacle""; ""6 The Chaucer Unit""; ""7 Downhill Spiral""; ""8 Operation Swynford""; ""9 Aftermath""; ""10 The Home Affairs Select Committee Investigation""; ""11 A Modern-day Witch Hunt?""; ""Some of the items found during the search""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""Back cover ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611124359
- 9781281124357
- 1281124354
- 9781906534035
- 1906534039
- OCLC:
- 923508643
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