The Prison Doctor: Women Inside

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Dr Amanda Brown. The Prison Doctor: Women Inside

Also by Dr Amanda Brown

The Prison Doctor: Women Inside

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Note to Readers

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

About the Publisher

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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 practise to this day.

Dr Amanda Brown with Georgina Rodgers

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‘Okay, let’s sort out your medication Shannon, so that you can go over to House Block One as soon as possible to get your methadone,’ I said.

Before my time in prison I had worked as a GP for twenty years in the community near where I live in Buckinghamshire, but had very rarely treated patients who had ever been involved with the criminal justice system. Like many others, the mainstream media soundbites meant that before I started to work in prisons, my opinion was condensed down into a narrative of ‘good people’ and ‘bad people’, with a clichéd list of ‘bad’ characters ranging from violent psychopath to petty criminal. The reality is far more complex.

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