DR AMANDA BROWN is a GP at the largest women-only prison in Europe, Bronzefield. She was a regular NHS GP for a number of years, until she gave up her practice to move into the prison service. She worked at a teenage detention centre, before moving on to Wormwood Scrubs and then finally to Bronzefield where she continues to practice to this day. The Prison Doctor is her first book.
THE PRISON DOCTOR
DR AMANDA BROWN
ONE PLACE. MANY STORIES
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‘The mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.’
– JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
Contents
Where It All Began (2004–2009)
HMP Bronzefield (2016–present)
HMP Bronzefield
I arrived to shouting and screaming. Prison officers were sprinting across the corridor and up the metal stairs.
‘What’s happening?’ I shouted, thinking a fight must have broken out.
I’ve seen and heard a lot during my fifteen years