Last night Channel 4 aired a very serious documentary about a maximum security jail, HMP Shotts.
It’s Scotland’s only maximum security prison, and the action followed prisoners locked up in solitary confinement for murder.
Lifers: Behind Bars was all very heavy going, and it would have made for an excellent watch – except for one problem.
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The thick Scottish accents of the inmates and officers made it almost impossible for viewers to work out what was going on.
Kieron, 28, was at the start of his life sentence for a murder he didn’t deny, but couldn’t remember doing.
And James, 60, was three years into his own sentence. But much of what the two said went over viewers’ heads.
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