What inspires you to write?

Tony Levy People I love to observe peoples behaviour and its their behaviour that I write about.
But the initial thing that made me write was a TV program that depicted prison staff as thugs and villains and brought the whole profession into an unbelievable world of disrepute.

At the time I was a Principal Officer in the UK prison service and was so enraged at the programs portrayal of how UK prison staff behaved that I was still raging the next morning at work, when one of my staff who had previously suffered many yarns about what really goes on in a prison from myself and other old timers in the service (I was in my early fifties but had seen over 20years service and was regarded as an old timer buy then), said
‘Tony you really should write a book about your experiences and tell the public what really goes on within the enclosed walls of a UK prison’
‘You know you’re absolutely right’
And that was my spark, but it took me several more years before actually completing the book.

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