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Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series and two Christmas specials, and was followed by a feature film of the same name (in the United States, the film was released under the title Doing Time).
John Whitley (prison warden) Richard J. Williard This page was last edited on 4 November 2023, at 13:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The prison's officers were known as warders until the early 20th century. [16]: 169 The first warders at Fremantle Prison, in the 1850s and 1860s, were a mixture of experienced men, who had guarded British prisons, and colonial men. There were varying levels of literacy and numeracy – no minimum standard was initially required.
The prison warden supervises all the operations within the prison. Prisons vary in size, with some housing thousands of inmates. They are responsible for the prison's security, the performance of staff of the prison (including prison officers, prison doctors, janitors, cooks and others), the management of its funds, the maintenance of its facilities and the welfare of its inmates.
Incarceron is a futuristic prison and an artificial world—a living artificial world run by Incarceron, an artificial intelligence.This tireless, inhuman "overlord" controls all life as it monitors inmates by means of cameras that appear as glowing red lights and dispenses punishment and death on a daily basis without mercy.
The Wardens of Sing Sing are appointed by the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. [1]Elam Lynds (1825–1830); Robert Wiltse (1830–1840) ...
Ray J. Garcia leaves the federal courthouse in Oakland on Nov. 28. Garcia, the former warden of an abuse-plagued federal women's prison, was found guilty of eight counts of sexually abusing women ...
The main storylines of the sitcom focus on its central character, Norman Stanley Fletcher, a man from Muswell Hill, London.Fletcher, described as "an habitual criminal" by the judge who sentences him (and whose words, voiced by Barker, are repeated in the show's opening titles), is sent to HMP Slade, a fictional Category C prison in Cumberland, to serve a prison sentence for his latest crime.