Brown: 'Prison violence made me sick'

Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown still shudders to think of his time in an English prison, because the violent behaviour among inmates and officers alike left him traumatised.

Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown still shudders to think of his time in an English prison, because the violent behaviour among inmates and officers alike left him traumatised.

Brown, who was jailed for four months after an air-rage incident in 1998, is famed for his tough-guy image, but nothing prepared him for the carnage within the walls of Strangeways Prison in Manchester.

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