I am a member of a committee that have been working to raise funds to renovate our playground in Bottomboat, Stanley and we are delighted to announce that we have been successful. 

The playground will be funded by £49,999 from the Community Spaces programme which is being managed by Groundwork UK as an award partner to the Big Lottery Fund. Community Spaces is part of the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces initiative. The council will also contribute approximately £25,000 capital funds and  we have an event coming up on Sunday 4th December. This event is to celebrate our official opening and will be our Christmas Fayre. 

We will have Christmas Hamper raffle, Making Reindeer food, Santa’s Grotto, crafts, carol singers, Tombola. Face painter and DJ will be there. Food and refreshments available. Please ask people to come see our new playground and enjoy our Christmas fair! All donations for raffle etc gratefully received. Please call 07891 066025 or join our Facebook page ‘Friends of Bottomboat Playground’ for further details.

An inside source tells me that this means not only are these disturbed individuals not getting the regular care and attention they need in order to remain stable and safe, but that other more manipulative inmates are getting a regular supply of mind-altering psychotropic prescription drugs.

As the inmates with the severe personality disorders are taking less medication, they become more disruptive and have to be moved back to Health Care for their own safety. Once there, they take their meds, they stabilize and, after a few weeks they are carelessly returned to another wing where the whole unnecessary cycle starts again.

These dangerous but troubled individuals are regularly victimized by the bigger inmates and one particular muscle-bound meat-head, we’ll call him ‘Danny’, was even removed from his job on the food servery and the wing because he was offering extra food rations in exchange for oral sex. He’s now pretending to be a Buddhist in the vain hope that his new found faith will earn him an early release.

Sexual favors are actually a big currency in Wakefield and one inmate, ‘Mark’, is rumored to be HIV positive as a result. Inmates are constantly having sex with each other but the authorities, rather than try to stop them, are actually giving out condoms! One inmate, who was so sexually promiscuous that he was the willing participant of a gang-bang, had to be transferred recently for his own safety when he threatened to “name names”.