A WOMAN who was jailed for stealing £20,000 from an old man with Alzheimer’s has revealed just what it was like in prison.
Jodie was put behind bars after nicking the cash from the bank she worked in to fund her gambling problem.
Jodie was jailed for stealing £20,000 from an old man with Alzheimer’s[/caption]
But she insisted she didn’t know that the account she was taking it from belonged to an “an elderly gentleman who has Alzheimer’s”.
“I didn’t know that until I was arrested,” she said in a video on her TikTok page.
However, she also added: “Would it have changed me doing it? I don’t know. I was desperate.”
In another video, Jodie opened up about life in Peterborough prison, as she went through a typical day, which began at 7am when they were woken up, before breakfast.
Medication is up next, followed by exercise, when they were given “10 minutes to walk around a 4×4 courtyard”.
“This is also a good time to catch up any prison gossip that you may have missed, or anything you want to know,” she added.
Then everyone starts to prepare for “movement”.
“Movement is when the whole prison move around at once,” she continued.
“Everyone will gather at the gate and you will then go to either education or your job if you have a job.
“Or healthcare if you have an appointment at the doctor’s or something like that.
“You wait at the gate and then they will radio down and say they’re ready for movement.
“You will all congregate into one area. There will be doors that are locked behind you.
“Everyone is in one place at one time. The door is then unlocked and you move all together.
“Then you are locked and unlocked into each part.
“They radio through to make sure the doors are shut.
“There’s never a door open, you’re always locked in somewhere and let through once they radio down to let you know it’s safe to move.”
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Jodie’s job was to “empty milk cartons” and wash them out ready for recycling.
Once “movement” is over, the inmates all go back to their cells, before it’s lunchtime.
“You order your lunch on the app so usually it is just a sandwich or something like that,” she said.
“Believe it or not you actually get Walker’s crisps but unfortunately you don’t often get to pick your flavour.”
She had the option of eating in the wing with everyone or eating in her room alongside her cellmate, after which they were locked up from 1 to 2pm.
“They will come and unlock you around 1.45 if you have a visit to which you will then be taken down to visitation,” she explained.
“The time you have from being locked up to being picked up from a visit. you can get ready.
“You can use straighteners, hairdryer, you have make-up so you can make yourself look presentable for your loved ones.”
If you didn’t have a visit, work or education, you could just “watch TV or do as you please in your own cell”.
“Then after you’ve done your full day at work or education you get paid £1.20 into your pod and you go back to your cell for dinner time,” Jodie said.
“Again you collect your plate and you line up for what you ordered about a week ago which is usually some sort of s**tty slop.
After dinner, it’s “association time”, where they had the opportunity to do what they want.
“If you want to shower you can get a shower, if you want to bath you can go ask the officer for a plug,” she said.
“You have to give your card in to with your ID on to get the plug and then you once you get the plug back you get your ID back.
“I was on the open wing so my doors were never really locked so I could just go out when I felt like it and we also had a basketball court and net in our courtyard.”
At 7pm, the inmates are locked in their cells ready for “roll count”.
“You also have a tv in your room and a telephone so you can use this time to call loved ones or watch EastEnders. you know whoever floats your boat.”
“TV and phones in prison … seriously?” one person commented on the video.
To which Jodie replied: “Hairdressers and nail salons too!”
“Three meals a day and a warm cell…where do I sign up?” another joked.
“So a bit like Butlins then?” a third said.
“Like Butlins!” someone else agreed.
“No red coats unfortunately!” Jodie laughed.
“Sorry, were you in prison or in a hotel?” another asked.
“Don’t sound that bad! What category was it?” someone else asked.
With Jodie replying: “C I believe!”
“Sorry but this is so embarrassing for your partner and kids – why would you do this to the world?” another slammed.
To which Jodie said: “I asked my children and partner’s opinion before I started talking online and they think it’s great.
“What’s the point in hiding from it? I’m open about it!”
Jodie made her regret over her crime clear as she uses the hashtag #sorry in many of her videos.
She’s now doing her best to be “open” about her time behind bars in a bid to help others[/caption]
