“It’s the end of civilisation as we know it,” says a soldier in Cutting Edge’s exposé of the most notorious military corrective training centre in Britain. Inside the Colchester Military Establishment, known as the Glasshouse because of its glass roof, a strict justice method prevails. Young soldiers who have broken the military’s rules are sent here to be rehabilitated by a gruelling and demoralising regime. Inmates must wear identity tags and are required to march at precisely 140 paces per minute. Frequent kit inspections can result in punishment for the smallest smudge, and extra days can be added to an inmate’s sentence for having fluff on his beret. <br/>Glasshouse follows a handful of new inmates, male and female, as they get to grips with the brutal discipline and unremitting severity of the Glasshouse. It soon becomes clear why fewer than six per cent of soldiers sent to the Glasshouse re-offend.
“It’s the end of civilisation as we know it,” says a soldier in Cutting Edge’s exposé of the most notorious military corrective training centre in Britain. Inside the Colchester Military Establishment, known as the Glasshouse because of its glass roof, a strict justice method prevails. Young soldiers who have broken the military’s rules are sent here to be rehabilitated by a gruelling and demoralising regime. Inmates must wear identity tags and are required to march at precisely 140 paces per minute. Frequent kit inspections can result in punishment for the smallest smudge, and extra days can be added to an inmate’s sentence for having fluff on his beret.
Glasshouse follows a handful of new inmates, male and female, as they get to grips with the brutal discipline and unremitting severity of the Glasshouse. It soon becomes clear why fewer than six per cent of soldiers sent to the Glasshouse re-offend.
