The red alert has been placed on his file to protect females working inside the judicial system as he begins his 10 year stretch behind bars
The prison system has been placed on high alert to never allow rapist Russell Brand to be around a woman alone again. A red alert has been placed on his file to protect women working inside the judicial system. The Daily Star Sunday has been told a marker has been placed on the sex pest’s official prison record ordering that he must not have “any lone females” left with him while incarcerated.
“The marker could be downgraded in time if he displays good behaviour and remorse for his crimes,” said a prison insider. “But it definitely won’t be for a while. He still seems to be showing no signs of admitting guilt, despite the trial finding him very much guilty.”
Brand was jailed on Monday (November 9) after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault after a lengthy eight-week trial. He was initially placed in the Care and Separation Unit after being taken to HMP Wandsworth following his conviction.
The Category B prison is based in Wandsworth in South West London, is one of the largest prisons in the UK, and is known for violence. The London prison has been condemned as “unsafe, squalid and overcrowded” in recent inspection reports, with former inmates at the prison including the likes of Ronnie Kray, Gary Glitter and Charles Bronson.
He is reportedly set to transfer soon to HMP Wakefield, known as Monster Mansion – the notorious Category A prison in West Yorkshire that has housed some of Britain’s most evil prisoners.
Lostprophets paedophile Ian Watkins was murdered inside the nick last year, and other notable inmates include Harold Shipman, Charles Bronson, Levi Bellfield and Roy Whiting.
The prison insider continued: “Quite rightly, no female officers want to be alone with him, but it is going to make his time behind bars and outside his cell quite tricky. There has been a mass influx of female prison officers in recent years, and now there are more females than male prison guards in quite a few prisons.
“Female prison guards tend to calm things a lot more quickly than guards, so we find a female presence really works in some of the higher-security prisons, and Wakefield is definitely that.
“But given Brand’s crimes, females will understandably be wary.”
The insider added that Brand will need to start showing remorse and accountability for his actions in the eyes of the prison bigwigs, if he wants to have an easier time while serving his sentence.
“As part of Brand’s ‘prison pathway’ he is going to have to engage in courses designed for sexual offences if he wants to get out early. They are going to be courses like the healthy sex programme, building choices and the core sex offender treatment programme, which is now known by the phrasing ‘Challenge to Change’.
“The problem for Brand is going to be that so many of these courses are delivered by female therapists – and how many are going to feel safe working with him. And who can blame them.”
A Ministry of Justice spokesperson said they do not comment on individual prisoners.
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