Jailbirds Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Cutting Up

  Insight into the problems faced by inmates who mutilate themselves, hearing from a 20-year-old burglar with a history of psychiatric problems and an arsonist who has been self-harming for years. Prison chaplain Jane Clay offers comfort to the women, and visits a prisoner in a critical condition at Leeds Royal Infirmary

• Doing the Rattle

  Great-grandmother Ivy is locked up for fraud and reveals her views on drugs and bullying in prison. Toni is refused help by the doctor for her heroin withdrawal, but later recovers to gain herself a job

• Four-Leaf Clover

  Sharon, a 20-year-old arsonist, faces the parole board : if she is successful she will leave New Hall the next day, but if her application is rejected she could face a further five months behind bars. Having celebrated her 16th birthday in jail Julie has now served her time and looks forward to returning to her home in County Durham

• Guilt Trip

  Addict Melissa's parents tell how her drug abuse has devastated their lives over the past two years as they prepare to endure yet more heartache while visiting her in prison. Elsewhere, the daughter of pensioner Ivy keeps her fingers crossed that the seven charges of fraud against her mother won't be enough to keep her behind bars

• If

  Series providing a unique insight into an extraordinary prison community follows Toni as she reveals her fears of returning to the outside world, and Ivy the septuagenarian fraudster who has started poetry readings from her cell

• Inside Out

  Insight into security at New Hall prison, where a few well-trusted prisoners are allowed to venture outside the perimeter fence. A woman convicted of kidnapping eagerly waits to find out if her application for a gate pass has been approved, but for a 16-year-old inmate the chances of earning this rare privilege are very slim indeed

• Naughty Ladies

  Sue has an emotional reunion with her boyfriend : and co-accused : who has just been released on bail. Meanwhile, Angel gets a telling off from the governor, but a marriage proposal in her partner's latest letter does much to lift her spirits

• Six Months Gone

  An emotional six-months pregnant 17-year-old arrives at New Hall women's prison on a GBH charge. Officer and single mum Debbie Martin helps her settle in while the staff try to persuade the troubled teenager it's best to keep her baby rather than give it away

• Sugar and Spice

  New inmate Melissa visits the prison chaplain to help her get over the initial shock of life behind bars and 71-year-old Ivy, on remand for fraud, is given the prized job of wing orderly, which she relishes

• Through the Gates

  Award-winning cameraman Chris Terrill's insight into the intensity of life at New Hall Prison in Yorkshire, a closed facility holding nearly 400 women