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PRISON, Channel 4, Thursday at 9pm

Some law and order enthusiasts like to claim that a stretch inside is like a trip to a holiday camp for hardened recidivist criminals, but a very different picture is painted by this flyon-the-wall documentary. Filmed over seven months at Her Majesty’s Prison Durham, this series follows the fortunes of the murderers, drug addicts and minor driving offenders who pass through the prison gates, and the overworked staff who deal with them. Durham is a remand centre serving courts and prisons across the northeast of England.;