Sorry Tricky...been busy all day.

You really can’t join the prison service and not expect to receive some verbals. You know that. The same is true of inner city policing, teaching our more difficult and challenging pupils, being a social worker working with problem families, or working in A&E on a typical Friday/Saturday night. I know it shouldn’t be like that and I wish it wasn’t, but it goes with the territory. If you can’t stand the heat...and I wholly accept that I certainly wouldn’t want to work in a prison...then you know what to do about it.

Incidentally I think the term ‘coconut’, which is really, really old, refers to black or Asian people who conform to what is perceived as ‘white culture’ or are seen as supporting white dominated society. For the record, I hate it’s use and find it unhelpful but I can understand how it might be used amongst prisoners.

Also do you not think that your question, ‘can you see the difficulties when ethnics set divides themselves’ rather betrays your genuine beliefs? It seems to suggest that you actually feel that ‘ethnics’ - i.e. non white people/immigrants - should all conform to the same standards and beliefs which is of course, arrant nonsense.