A woman who was sent to prison just four weeks before she was due to give birth, has revealed her daily schedule while behind bars.
Jodie, now in her thirties, was sent to HMP Peterborough in 2011 after she stole £20,000 from the bank where she worked to fund her gambling addiction.
The ex-convict recently took to TikTok where she has shared details of her incarceration at the closed prison for women and female young offenders.
Despite being heavily pregnant and just weeks away from having her baby, Jodie was sent to prison for just three weeks after stealing money that belonged elderly man with Alzheimer’s.
The mother ended up having her baby just four days after she was released from the prison in Cambridgeshire.
In one of her latest videos, the former prison inmate revealed her ‘HMP basic guide to life’, offering a glimpse into what a day in the life of a female prisoner is like.
She explained that prisoners are ‘unlocked’ for breakfast at 7:10am, when they are expected to make their own way to the canteen to eat.
‘You either eat it on the wing or come back to your cell and eat it,’ adding that inmates are allocated just 20 minutes for this.
Jodie, now in her thirties, was sent to HMP Peterborough in 2011 after she stole £20,000 from the bank where she worked – with the money swiped having belonged to an elderly man with Alzheimer’s (pictured)
‘Then they will either lock you up or let you out for exercise,’ she said, explaining that they then have the opportunity to ‘run around’ in a small court yard providing the weather is ‘nice’ and there is enough staff on shift.
‘You take the opportunity because it may be the only time you get to go outside today,’ she said.
Inmates then have ‘mass movement’ at 8am, where ‘activities will commence’ and they will be sent to work or education.
Next was ‘free flow’, which Jodie explained was brief period in which inmates can move around the prison and can make their way to any ‘appointments’.
At 11am, there is then another ‘mass movement where everyone will leave their education and work to go back to have their lunch’, Jodie explained, adding that prisoners are again given only 20 minutes for this.
Between the hours of 12.20pm and 1.40pm, there is then time for ‘unlock, association and movement to appointments, which is the time in which inmates may have visits.
And if not ‘you are locked up’, Jodie added.
Listed on the schedule next was exercise – though Jodie said this ‘doesn’t happen very often, you are now allowed to go out for fresh air’.
In one of her latest videos, the former prison inmate revealed her ‘HMP basic guide to life’, offering a glimpse into what a day in the life of a female prisoner is like
There, Jodie revealed to her followers in January that she first went to prison in 2011 when she was 36 weeks pregnant – much to the shock and horror of those around her
Prisoners will then be sent to education or work appointments in between brief periods of ‘free flow’, before being sent to have dinner at 5.15pm.
‘You line up with your Tupperware, collect your dinner, and you can either it with the wing with everyone else or do it in your room.’
However, not everyone always has such a packed day. ‘If you’re not doing any of this, you will be locked in your cell all day,’ she said.
‘Then, as you will see, at 6.40pm is when they will lock you up and you will not be allowed out of your cell again until 7.10am the next day.’
In another video, Jodie revealed how she had ended up imprisoned at such a young age, having stolen £20,000 from the bank where she worked.
Jodie explained that she had stole the cash from a ‘dormant account’ in the hopes of the theft going undetected.
But little did she know, she had taken the money from ‘an elderly gentleman with Alzheimer’s’.
She made the discovery about his condition when she was arrested. ‘Would it have changed me doing it?’ she asked followers, answering that she wasn’t sure it would have deterred her since she was ‘desperate’.
The mother is no longer with the father of her first child, telling followers in another video that the pair had had a ‘toxic relationship’ and that to ‘say he was horrible was an understatement’
Jodie didn’t take the money in ‘one hit’ but would extract £500 ‘here and there’ when she needed it.
She said she had no idea how much she’d stolen until police informed her, having initially thought the total was ‘only a few thousand’.
At the time, she was in the depths of a gambling addiction of which she had ‘nothing to show for it’.
When the police raided her house, they were shocked to discover the ’empty bedroom of an 21-year-old’, with Jodie have lost the money on gambling.
‘I was desperate with a gambling addition that I still have now. I fight it every single day,’ the mother admitted.
When she was first arrested, Jodie never believed that she would be imprisoned for her crimes.
‘My solicitor told me I would never go to prison, I was a first offence, I was heavily pregnant and a young girl,’ she explained.
So convinced that she would not end up in jail, Jodie said she went to court without having even packed a back, leaving her with ‘just the clothes on my back’ when she arrived at HMP Peterborough.
The judge sentenced her to six weeks in prison, but told her she would be able to get out after three for ‘good behaviour’, which would leave her just one week in between coming out of jail before she was due to give birth.
Fortunately, Jodie avoided having to give birth and ended up welcoming her baby four days after she was released.
The mother is no longer with the father of her first child, telling followers in another video that the pair had had a ‘toxic relationship’ and that to ‘say he was horrible was an understatement.’
And she hasn’t let her stints in prison have an impact on her working life. Jodie said she is still able to find jobs working ‘in places like Chinese’s, delivery driving, Dominoes, chip shops, cleaning because this place don’t tend to care’.