Detention Centre Staff Abuse Charges

“At least we showed “When I won the X Factor “We didn’t meet in people what we were I had a letter from the some cocktail bar. You and what we did warts prison saying I owed them broke into my house…” the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees and all.” Lord Neuberger money.” Sam Bailey Will Riley a voice for prisoners since  Comment // page 16 Comment // page 20 Comment // pages 30-31 December 2017 / Issue No. 222 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profi t’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL OUR READERS 64 page issue including 2018 wall planner An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verifi ed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Detention Centre staff abuse charges Seven former members of staff at Medomsley Detention Centre are being prosecuted for alleged abuse and misconduct following one of the country’s biggest investigations of its kind

l Allegations from 1,500 former 11 prisoners Dancing star Debbie McGee knows l Accusations of Strictly correct! the national newspaper for prisoners. sexual and physical mistreatment l Claims dating Legal aid for prisoners to Medomsley “A number of people still under investigation” back to 1960s

Inside Time report physical abuse off ences. Some community punishment. DCS will also answer sexual abuse Adrian Green said that the an- be restored in New Year charges. nouncement, “Marks a signif- Government throws in the towel following challenge by The seven men, who worked icant step forward in what has at Medomsley Consett, County More than 1,480 men have been, and continues to be, a prisoner supporting charities Durham, have been sum- contacted the inquiry team to long and complex investiga- monsed to appear before Inside Time report Beatson said, “At a time when ... the evidence report allegations of either tion. Enquiries do not stop here Newton Aycliff e magistrates about prison staffi ng levels, the current state sexual or physical assaults - the Operation Seabrook team this month. Durham police while detained at Medomsley, of prisons and the workload of the Parole and the Crown Prosecution The Ministry of Justice has abruptly abandoned launched Operation Seabrook with some claims dating back Board suggests that the system is under con- Service (CPS) remain commit- what was expected to become a battle in the more than four years ago into to the 1960s. The police said siderable pressure, the system has at present ted in continuing to move the Supreme Court. In April, the Court of Appeal alleged abuse at the centre, there could yet be further not got the capacity suffi ciently to fi ll the gap ruled in favour of the Howard League for Penal which closed in 1988. charges. investigation forward. In in the run of cases in those three areas.” February this year, we submit- Reform and the Prisoners’ Advice Service, deciding that legal aid for inmates should be A spokesman for the police Teenage prisoners at the DC ted 32 fi les to the CPS for charg- The MoJ declared that it would appeal to the restored in three areas: pre-tariff reviews by force said the seven men, who typically spent six to eight ing decisions. A number of Supreme Court to reverse that ruling. Seven the Parole Board, category-A reviews and are aged from 61 to 73, will weeks at the Home Offi ce-run people are still under investi- months later, before the Supreme Court had decisions on placing prisoners in Close appear on 19 December to an- facility before being released. gation so we do not rule out even agreed to hear the case, the department Supervision Centres. swer charges of misconduct in These days such offending further charges in the has capitulated. a public office and alleged would be dealt with by future.” The three appeal court judges, Lady Justice Continues on page 11 NEWS FLASH! HM Inspectorate of Prisons has moved offi ces. Full contact details inside 11 Gloster, Lord Justice Patten and Lord Justice

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D Sopp - HMP Rochester cold and being treated badly these people things rural, fi shing, hunt- should point the accusing finger where it Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial I’m currently serving a 12-month sentence, and have not been ing, game keeping and live- belongs, at your Government. If the elderly are content. Comments or complaints should be stock. I ordered a newspaper in prison for over a decade. Among the huge changes I have cold and hungry it is not the fault of prisoners. directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. called The Countryman’s noticed there is one that really gets my goat - the fake We don’t decide how much pension they get Weekly, but I am told I can- Board of Directors Jamaican accent (Ja-faiken). or how much they are charged for heating. So, not have this as it advertises looking accusingly at us, or talking as though Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, shooting events and guns. we are somehow responsible, is just nonsense. Journalist, Writer and former Magistrate. “Young prisoners and lads in their 20s from the Can HMPPS give me a cogent Attack your Government, not people who are Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge Home Counties talking as though they are Yardies and logical reason why the disenfranchised by the Government and have Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon prison would refuse me practically no say in the daily running of their Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh and descendants of Bob Marley, thinking it’s cool being allowed to purchase own lives, let alone wider society. John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and to say ‘innit’ and ‘bredrin’ after every sentence. this publication? Managing Director employing former prisoners ” Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice Inside Justice doing good On a visit last week poor little Tarquin was crying his eyes HMPPS Response Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, D Patterson - HMP Frankland Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation out to mummy and daddy on the table behind me because he Newspapers and periodicals may, at the local discretion had crashed daddy’s Jag aft er the school prom and was sent I was compelled to write after reading the of the prison, be purchased to prison for a whole month, and he was missing them and letter ‘Inside Justice, where are you?’, in the The Editorial Team by prisoners, through the use nanny ever so. Once he had fi nished stuffi ng his fat entitled September issue. To the letter-writer, I would of local supplier agreements. face with chocolate and pop, and his parents were safely in say that Louise Shorter and her team of Publications, however, must experts have been looking at my case for a mummy’s 4x4 on the way back to Berkshire, Tarquin suddenly not compromise safety or switched back to his native tongue and was telling everyone while, but I know these things take time. security. This policy is out- Everyone who is fighting an injustice or how he had a ‘sick visit blud, nice time with fam, ya know’. lined in section 8 of Prison miscarriage of justice should know it is easy to Service Instruction (PSI) get convicted, even with no evidence, and you 10-years ago, if you had wanted to sound hard or ‘street’ you Erwin James John Roberts Rachel 23/2013. If a prisoner is not should be praising people like Louise Shorter Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE would put on your best Ray Winstone accent and run around satisfi ed that this policy is and her team for being a lifeline for the Director Associate Editor shouting ‘You slag’ or ‘Where’s your tool’. So, if you are a YP being implemented correctly wrongly-convicted. You must remember that or in your 20s, here’s a bit of advice - roll down that one leg of they can make a formal when they take your case they have to start Commercial your joggers, stop fake limping, pull up your pants and speak complaint to the Governor from scratch. So, stop putting IJ down and let Manager properly. Mummy and daddy deserve that aft er paying under the normal local com- them get on with the good work they do. David Roberts 20-grand a term at boarding school, young man. Innit. plaints processes. 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Reaping smoke- Battling Mailbag 2-9 free rewards “It’s not as if I’m for a plan going to be LMB - HMP Isle of Wight driving my car Lee Bridge - HMP around the The Mailbag section of the Channings Wood Page 5 landings.” paper is always peppered Newsround 10-15 with negative comments I have been in prison for over concerning the prison smok- 9-months and have less than “I thought it was a ing ban. I have asthma and 8-months left to serve. Yet, I joke in bad taste. COPD, they run in both sides still have no Sentence Plan. Then I thought, of my family and have already ‘What the Hell’.” Page 10 claimed the life of my nan. I I was under the impression was a medium to heavy smok- that a Sentence Plan was of Comment 16-31 er and I enjoyed it. However, the utmost importance and “You go in a cell I am so glad that the smok- that they should be complet- and it’s like a crack ing-ban came into effect ed at the start of the sen- house” Porridge MkII “Unrealistic monotonous garbage” because I wouldn’t have quit tence? You need a Sentence Image: BBC of my own accord. Yes, it Plan in order to progress Page 27 was hard, yes, I was very through the system, and 3) Where is the customary, and near obligatory stressed but it was all worth it. even just to get onto the Information 32-37 nowadays, prisoner on the landing having a Stale porridge Resettlement Wing, and you “I had many Spice attack? Since quitting smoking I’ve Terry Winter - HMP Highdown can bet that Probation are aspirations, yet not had to use my inhalers, I going to want me to complete no ideas of how 4) The staff shown on this programme seem can do more physical exer- to reach any of I wanted to write and provide my thoughts on some kind of course before I to be more docile and geriatric than the ster- cise without wheezing, and my goals in life.” the BBC1 sitcom ‘Porridge’, set in the fictional get released. Page 34 oid-abusing, grim bouncer-types we are my taste and smell have HMP Wakely. The original programme, set in more used to. improved. But smelling Legal 38-43 the 1970s, was much more realistic. There are I have put in Application actual prison is somewhat of a number of things about the new series that 5) The staff actually took an interest in after Application and also “You may have a double-edged sword. jar a bit, and confused me when compared to Fletcher’s personal life, have these officers wrote to Probation some heard this my own experience of the modern prison system. undergone a personality transplant? months ago, but nobody has referred to as a All in all, for me it has been ‘nicking sheet’.” a great benefit. Not only am I bothered to get back to me. 1) The scene where there is a communal area 6) The landings and wing seem exceptional- Page 41 reaping the rewards of the You really have to battle and on the wing with tables and chairs, and ly quiet, whatever has happened to all the things stated above, but my pester and almost get into Jailbreak 44-60 inmates and staff sitting down drinking tea shouting, screaming, doors slamming, cell- canteen-sheet is looking a trouble trying to get any sort together from ceramic cups. Communal bells ringing, people banging on their doors “I used to cry on lot healthier. What I would of rehabilitation here. If the area? Tables and chairs? Ceramic mugs? and loud music? Christmas morn- say though, is that the guys staff really can’t be bothered What happened to the real cheap plastic ing. Only gift I got puffing away on tea-bags then perhaps they should mugs issued in prison, or the staff retreating 7) How unrealistic was the scene where was a slap for and nicotine patches need to hand the job over to some- to their office to drink from their big coffee Fletcher was engaging in sarcasm with an Page 48 moaning” give their heads a shake. one who is really going to do beakers or disposable cardboard cups? officer, yet it didn’t result in a negative entry on his file or in him being put on Basic? Just bite the bullet. it. This feels like negligence. 2) Nigel Fletcher (supposedly Norman Stanley Fletcher’s grandson) seems to have It is a shame that we have to endure another plenty of time on his hands out of cell every five episodes of this ‘twallop’, but I, for one, Offi cially day, it’s not like a prison at all with no bang- will not be watching this monotonous gar- the LARGEST up or cancelled association and exercise. bage any further. prison law provider in Fletcher’s porridge was tastier the country N Taylor - HMP Bedford The National Prison Law Specialists Trusted by more prisoners in England and Wales Prison can be a funny place sometimes. Certain situations, rules, even staff can be uninten- tionally funny. This was captured brilliantly in the original Ronnie Barker sitcom, Porridge. than any other solicitors. 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Mailbites Judge money Wage deductions Looking for solutions Z Ahmed - HMP Woodhill S McCabe- HMP Northumberland Not so independent No recovery, no change Mr Lewis - HMP Frankland Too oft en of late, we hear Last week we received a notice on the kiosk telling us that media commentators assert- there will be a deduction in our (cleaners) wages from the 1st Paula Wainwright - HMP Peterborough I wrote to the IMB to complain about this new ing that our judiciary is of October, as they do not want to pay us for working at week- policy of forcing me to pay £30 to have my overworked and underpaid. ends. They still expect us to work, but for no pay! I’m sure I have been in prison for 3-years and during X-box checked to make sure it doesn’t have I fi nd that astonishing and staff and people at HMPPS get paid if they are asked to work this time I have been shipped to 6 diff erent Wi-fi capability. This after I proved to the so I did a bit of digging weekends, so why not us? prisons. I am completely shocked at the lack prison that I bought it from Gema Records (an around in the library. of recovery communities in our prisons. approved and long-standing supplier to HMP) HMPPS Response Over 74% of the prison population has addic- who disable the Wi-fi from every X-box they To become a judge, one must HMP Northumberland implemented a new resident pay poli- tion issues. The substance misuse services sell to 37 different prisons. The IMB wrote fi rst attain the relevant cy on the 10th July after lengthy consultation with resident are quick to give substitute medication, the back and when I looked at their address I training and practise as a representatives. The aim of the policy was to provide a fair problem is there is no one promoting the noticed that they are based in this prison, so barrister. In modern times and balanced structure designed to encourage constructive very eff ective recovery communities, such as how can they be ‘independent’? No surprise that means GCSEs, A-levels, participation in regime activities. Prior to the review house- NA, CA, AA. then that they sided with the prison. If the IMB a degree, an optional block cleaners were paid £0.63 per session working up to a are independent why are they based inside post-graduate degree, a maximum of 14 periods over the week. This equated to a When I was at Drake Hall, there was no NA prison? BPTC course, 6-months weekly wage of £8.82. The new structure increased the ses- and only one AA meeting every fortnight. pupillage and then another sional pay to £1.25 so the vast majority of residents work a The Government’s NTA do recognise NA and 6 before being ‘called’ to the Money charges maximum of 10 sessions per week. Therefore, from the fi gures AA as ‘models of recovery’ which bring ‘real Bar. So, already, that is outlined it is noticeable that this provides a weekly wage of S Carr - HMP Rye Hill recovery’ from addiction and crime. 10-years or more in prepara- £12.50 which is still signifi cantly higher than their weekly This new online service for getting money to tion, quite an investment. wage prior to the introduction of the policy in a shorter period. prisoners is a great idea and prisoners will “The drug teams seem to be missing benefit by not having to wait for weeks for Let’s look at the pay. According vital opportunities in prisons to turn cheques to clear. So, why are private compa- to Whitakers Almanac 2017, Old hands are Courses can be people away from addiction and nies who run prisons, such as G4S, being the wage for a barrister dur- good for you allowed to charge for this service? It is free for ing pupillage is between better crime as 71% of prisoners go on to Government-run prisons. Private prisons are £12,000 and £65,000. £25,000 Name withheld - reoffend within twelve-months.” charging a fee which works out at the same to £300,000 once qualifi ed, T Lawrence - HMP Stafford Rampton Hospital price as a postal order, so the service does not and then over £1million aft er Taxpayers spent approximately £35,000 per 10-years. Not too shabby. I read with interest the article benefit everyone. Are all prisoners aware of I’m writing in reply to Graham prisoner last year, so my concern is if we this? in September’s Inside Time Coutts of Wakefi eld in the spend so much money on employment and The highest paid Judge, Lord regarding an increase in October issue. People who education, we miss the real problem and are Thomas, earns £249,583. Lighting the fuse prison offi cer numbers. slag off all psychology cours- completely wasting this money. It costs There are 39 Justices of Appeal C Aird - HMP Forest Bank es really pee me off . I admit approximately £10,000 to send someone to and they earn £204,695 each. Having recently transferred that in prison I did a couple rehab, so why don’t we save money and cre- When will the government wake up and admit In the High Court combined from a G4S jail of courses, like ETS, and I ate more pathways from courtrooms to treat- the prison smoking ban is not going to work? there are 88 Judges earning (Birmingham), where I found also did a drug programme. ment centres? Acts of violence and self-harm have risen by £179,768 each. A Senior Court All you had to do was pass a 40% since its introduction, and we all know Judge earns the same as an the prison to be woefully couple of MDTs and then tell that this is just the start. There will be an Old Bailey Judge, £144,172. A understaff ed and the ‘new I am distressed when I hear women telling them what you think they increase in riots and suicide, Long Lartin will Circuit Judge earns £133,506. hires’ to be poorly equipped me that it is their fi rst time in prison and want to hear. But, since being not be the last. Where is our human rights in Not forgetting the Judge for to deal with prison environ- their children have been placed in adoption. in Rampton I have completed all of this? The government should scrap this Administrative Court on ments, to a state-run prison At no point have they been off ered rehab in Anger Management, Violence ban, but if they are too cowardly then what £179,768, or Admiralty, (Staff ord), and there is a the community, yet, we as a country are Reduction and also Scheema happens next is on their hands. The fuse has Commercial, and London marked contrast between quick to remove kids from their mother’s Therapy, and they have had been lit… Mercantile Court Offi ce Judge, the two. care. More needs to be done to recognise the a snip at £179,768. The lowest a dramatic eff ect on me. harm which addiction brings. Living like animals paid Judge? District Judges Any new hires coming into at £107,000. I can honestly say that I am More joint working between prisons, courts Birmingham, some as young N Fowler - HMP Exeter no longer the person that I and substance misuse services. Governors in as 18, were back out the door D-wing here at HMP Exeter is in a disgraceful The media and possibly Judges used to be. In fact, if prisons prison need to oversee their drug teams and within a month, as was men- state, hard to believe it is really the 21st would do well to read this used the courses that hospitals ensure they are running proper recovery ser- century here. We have to flush our toilets with and realise Judges are not tioned in the news. Not only use then a lot more people vices and not just replacing one drug with buckets of water, the toilets and showers are underpaid. The minimum of does the atmosphere here at would be able to change their another. falling apart. In fact, the whole building is £107,000 per year would not Staff ord seem calmer, but the lives around. I’m sure prison falling apart, the conditions we are living in are be earned by the majority of staff seem far better equipped psychologists mean well, NA and AA meetings should be available disgusting. We are humans and should have the working population even to deal with the prison popu- but can only work with the daily in order to ensure people have the the right to be held in decent conditions. aft er a lifetime of trying. lation. Just saying. crap courses they are given. chance to live drug-free lives. 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During my time at HMP I feel I must reply to the mailbag in the October issue titled Lowdham Grange an audit ‘Chanting monkey noises’. I have been in Garth for the past was taken and by far the big- 8-months and I have never heard any chanted monkey noises. gest number of complaints, apparently over 90%, was The writer implies that it is a prison that ethnic minorities about the way they are treat- should avoid because of the racist elements that apparently ed by Healthcare staff . abound here. This prison is no worse than the outside world, there is racial, religious, sexual-orientation bias throughout Aft er I transferred here to the world. On the whole, people are not very tolerant of Dovegate, I arrived full of things that they do not understand. That applies to a great hope and thought that many white people as well. Healthcare was bound to be better here. You can imagine We all have to be tolerant in this world, but especially in the my disappointment when confi nes of prison. If the governor of Garth was aware of any not only was it just as bad of his offi cers acting in a way that was reported in the letter here but many of the same then I am very sure he would take disciplinary action. personnel as at Lowdham Grange Healthcare are also To conclude, I am putting my name, number and wing on “It’s not like I’ll be driving my car around the landings” working here. this letter, unlike the coward who wrote the original letter © Deposit Photos/prisonimage.org and wanted to hide his identity. Now, call me cynical, but I feel there is a connection Chanting racist nonsense Driving in wonderland between these two facts. I John Munday - HMP The Mount understand that the fi rst rule Name withheld - HMP Garth in medical care is do no I do not have long left to serve, and thought I would get my driver’s license sorted out now so harm, but I wasn’t aware I am writing in reply to the mailbag titled - ‘Chanting monkey as to have more of a chance at a job when I am released. I have a full license but it has expired, that NHS staff in prisons noises’ - in the October issue. The author of that particular letter so I wrote to the DVLA and they supplied me with a form to renew my license. So far, so good. equate that with doing noth- should think about writing a novel, because he has managed ing at all! Also, why, when to write a piece of fi ction that JRR Tolkien would be proud of. As I was replacing my old paper license for a card one and I wanted any endorsements we need treatment in prison removed, the cost was £90. I wrote to my bank and they sent me a cheque payable to the from NHS workers is it given Now, I’m not saying that racism is dead and buried in this DVLA for £90. Now, this is where things fall apart. The prison has said I cannot do this and with such begrudging sul- modern diverse world, and if anyone thinks it is they must be the prison fi nance department have informed me that I must get the cheque from them and it lenness? I understand that delusional. What I am saying, is that there are many people, must come out of my spends account. As I do not have enough money in my account I must to most of the lower mid- me included, who will challenge racism wherever it rears its save my prison wage until I do! How mad is that? dle-class in this country we ugly head. Not once have I witnessed any of the things are nothing but the ‘scum- described in the mailbag. “I want to increase my chances of not going back to crime on release by bag prisoners’ their media using my own money and yet the prison authorities are blocking this for no tells them to hate, and we Also, the writer might want to consider adjusting his own views good reason.” deserve nothing but utter a bit as his letter comes across as ‘all white people are racist contempt, but would it be deep down’, which I, as a white British person fi nd deeply I am on Standard IEP, so do not get access to a lot of money, and it seems like the prison do okay if at the same time they hurtful and off ensive. I would urge everyone, no matter their not want us to help ourselves. And, they defi nitely are not helping us. What has it got to do weren’t making a good liv- race, creed or colour to report any racism that they witness. with them whether I want to use my own money to renew my driving license? It’s not as if I’m ing out of us? Just give us a We should unite to stop discrimination in all of its forms. It is going to be driving my car around the landings. It’s like Alice in Wonderland. decent service. an ugly monster that should have no place in modern Britain.

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Uncaring Leading by example? Mailbites Chris Morin - HMP Wakefield No hot water Healthcare Re: October issue, page 10, ‘Bully Bully’. I S Garrod - HMP Wakefield J McCullough - HMP Garth have to wonder whether it is right for the new head of the Prison Officers Association, Mark Can anybody explain why How many times have we Fairhurst, to even suggest that some prisoners here at Wakefield we are not read in the pages of Inside should be locked up 23-hours a day, wearing allowed kettles? We are given Time about the healthcare orange Guantanamo-style jumpsuits and a prison-issue flask on arrival, problems in our jails? being handcuffed during their one-hour but they are pretty poor quality exercise period. He suggests that this would Complainers? Moaners? and we cannot get them be a deterrent to those who ‘rock the boat’. replaced if they break. After Whingers? Maybe some, but 8-weeks my flask developed a surely not all of them. It is people like Fairhurst, Grayling and oth- fault, I could not get the lid off. ers who share their twisted views, who go Apparently, this has happened Three examples that I know searching to the Americans for ideas on how to others with these flasks. For of make me wonder what to repair our ever-failing prison system. 4-weeks I have tried to get a kind of standards apply to replacement, but I have now prisoners? A 78-year-old Through the spyhole – something and nothing going bump in the night “When will they understand that it is been told that if I want hot man complained of chest water I should buy a flask pains. The doctor took his themselves who are causing most of the from Argos, which costs £27. I blood pressure and said he problems with their political meddling.” Boring ghosts Restless spirits have just started a job and get was ‘fine’. As for the chest Sarah Jane Baker - paid a total of £12 per week. pains, the doctor told him Name withheld - HMP Whatton To suggest, as Mr Fairhurst did, that prisoners HMP Lewes But why should I have to save ‘keep an eye on it’. No steth- should be treated with violence ‘because up for weeks, surely the prison oscope used during this I spent four years at Shepton Mallet and was that’s the only language they understand’, I was not impressed to read has an obligation to not leave ‘examination’. there when it closed. I had heard a few stories shows how far these creatures have been of the “brave souls” taking me without a hot drink for allowed to come into the light under the present over the years, particularly about the ‘lady in weeks? Can anybody help? up the offer to spend a night grey’ who apparently walks the landings. A second inmate, another government. If he had said this 10-years ago ghost-hunting in HMP pensioner, visited the doctor there would have been calls for his resignation. Shepton Mallet. During my Open and shut in complaining of severe pains own 3-years there I often felt “We got used to the ‘spirits’ moving Name withheld - HMP Leyhill in his arm. He was given I have come across officers who really want as though I was being chairs in our cells and throwing “Test in open conditions”, that tablets for gastric problems. to help prisoners turn their lives around. watched by some strange paperwork about, etc. I wasn’t one was the decision of the Parole Under the present climate, officers who want ghouls, only to discover it Board. However, like the vast My third example is suffered to help prisoners are not given full-support. I was the night officer doing who believed in such things before I majority of prisoners here at by the inmates as a whole. would suggest that if Mr Fairhurst is looking his rounds or my personal experienced it myself at first-hand.” Leyhill, it’s not happening. When inmates go to the for a better way of doing things then perhaps officer trying to catch me There are men who have been healthcare centre to see a he should look in the direction of those with a spliff in my mouth! I was on A-wing just 2-weeks before the pris- here for more than a year and doctor or dentist, there can countries who have low prison populations, on closed down when the young lad in the they still haven’t been allowed be up to 30 men, and they are low reconviction rates and seek to implement I was aware of Shepton’s his- cell next door hanged himself. On the day it their ideas. Instead of devotional slavering outside of the prison for “testing”. packed into a waiting-room tory as a military prison, but happened his body was removed and his cell after American ideas, a country by the way It is a fact that in the past men meant for less than half of I was not aware of the ghosts was sealed until the inquiry was finished. on town visits or home-leave that gives out thousand-year sentences as of executed soldiers running That night, after bang-up, things started to that number. One small have committed further though it were logical and has people sitting around the wings without happen in the cell next door. It sounded like room, no windows, one offences. But management for decades waiting to be executed. Our cur- staff supervision. Personally, the cell was being trashed and I thought it door. If you ever watched a here are collectively punishing rent system is bad enough, so why would you the dead have never made was staff maybe looking for any note he may movie that shows cat- all of us. As a D Cat prison this want to import worse. their presence known to me. have left. The next morning, I asked staff if tle-trucks full of prisoners place does not work for the In Shepton Mallet I was they had found anything in the cell. They being taken to concentration majority, there are no town Violence begets violence more concerned with the liv- had no clue what I was talking about, so I camps in Germany or Poland visits, no home-leave, no ing, who kept nicking things explained about the noise of the previous - this is actually what the working out, with the excep- J Smyth - HMP Oakwood out of my cell. My years night and was told that the cell was still healthcare waiting-room tion of a very small minority. I there were neither ‘amazing’ sealed and that nobody had been in there. resembles. In warm weather ask, what good is a D Cat On reading the October issue I was confused or ‘terrifying’, all I remem- Two-days later the cell was unsealed and it inmates struggle to get near prison that does not test to find you had moved your joke page from ber is being bored half to showed that the cell had indeed been trashed. to the crack in the door for people in the community? page 52 to page 10, until I realised the piece death. It certainly was a spooky experience. fresh-air. titled ‘Bully Bully’ was supposed to be serious. This statement by new POA leader Mark Exam cheaters The healthcare in prison is Fairhurst was very disturbing and concerning. Let’s hear it for Andy’s ManClub Name withheld - supposed to be the equiva- HMP Long Lartin lent of healthcare in the out- It is outrageous that someone in such a Gordon Wilson - HMP Perth side world, so there should responsible position of leadership would Open University students at least be triage nurses on openly condone and incite violence towards I would like to give my thanks and appreciation to those who travelled all the here are allowed to cheat in hand to assess injuries or inmates by his members and fellow officers way up to Scotland to visit us and establish ‘Andy’s Man Club’ in Scottish their final exams. The exam is health and make a decision by using these words, I quote - ‘Violence is prisons, towns and cities. supposed to be 3-hours long as to how urgent your prob- the only language they understand’. At a and done in one sitting. Here Andy was a man suffering from mental illness in silence and sadly took his lem is and get you the appro- time when the prison estate is in meltdown they are being forced to do own life, leaving behind many friends and family in disbelief that such an priate treatment in good and there are people working hard towards 2-hours and 15-minutes in active and outgoing man had any reason to come to such a sad and drastic end. time. How many prisons are positive change it is sickening to hear what the morning. They then stop in the middle of the exam and getting the same substand- comes out of the mouth of this dinosaur. It On the 4th of September, Andy’s mum and brother-in-law came to HMP Perth are taken back to the wing ard service? makes me wonder about his membership and the people who could vote this man in as and gave an honest but clearly heartfelt talk about their beloved Andy, but and their cells for lunch. their leader. Is this the official line of the mainly how they want to try and help prevent others who think suicide is Students are locked in their We are still people, we still POA, treat prisoners with violence? They their only way out of the darkness that envelops their lives. cells for 2-hours before being suffer and bleed and die. now feel bold enough to openly state what let out and taken back to The fact is that other than has been their ‘unofficial’ stance for years. Andy’s brother-in-law gave a very insightful, honest and, at points, quite complete the exam. I wonder Inside Time we have no hilarious talk about men’s attitude towards mental health, depression and if any of them revised and voice, no one to listen and We should invite Mr Fairhurst back to reality the unnecessary act of suicide. You could tell that he and Andy were obvious- looked up their notes during take our complaints serious- and point out what he already knows, that ly close as he clearly spoke from the heart. that 2-hours in the middle of ly. The attitude is - you are in the system is broken and needs structure the exam? Would you, if you prison, deal with it. But why and focus to provide hope for those trapped I would also like to thank Alec and Adam, HMP Perth PTIs, who have worked were given the chance? The should we accept this situa- within it. The last thing we need is his draco- hard to bring Andy’s Man Club to HMP Perth. For all those who live in a dark, cheating on educational exams tion, which is just another nian, sadistic and brutal ideology infecting isolated world, Andy’s mum, brother-in-law and all those involved are shin- is just another symptom of form of punishment? new and inexperienced staff. ing a light for us to see a brighter future. the general malaise. 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2294_InsideTime_FullAd_Tray.indd 1 17/11/2016 14:26 8 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime December 2017 On the Wire Not so magic roundabout Don’t send Will I ever be released? Name withheld - HMP Holme House me to die Ryan David Smith - HMP Glenochil Old chestnut I got an 18-month IPP sentence but I’ve been Name withheld - HMP Parc M Williams - HMP Wormwood Scrubs in jail since June 2005. At my fi rst prison, I read with interest the case relating to prisoner James Ward, Durham, I was assessed to do core SOTP, but I am a 20-year-old serving a and how he is being released 10-years aft er his expiry date for I wonder how long it will be before one of the that jail does not do it, so; 4-year sentence. I was born a 10-month IPP. right-wing tabloid rags start winding their • 4 years later I was sent to Acklington to do in Brazil and adopted when I ‘readers’ up this year by printing a Christmas core SOTP. Acklington reassessed me and was 2-years-old, and brought I am a prisoner in the Scottish system who has a sentence menu from one of the prisons? It happens said I should do Adapted SOTP instead, but; to the UK by my dad, who is which is called an OLR (Order of Lifelong Restriction). My every year without fail, if it’s a slow-news week also Brazilian, and my mother punishment part was 4-years, which expired in 2012. I have • 14 months later I was sent to Whatton to do who is British. I suff er with just bash and demonise prisoners, works every done every off ending behaviour course they asked me to do, Adapted SOTP, but; attachment disorder, which time. What they do not tell their readers is that including CARE, CONSTRUCTS, Good Lives, MF:MC, as well comes from being abused from you would probably get more pleasure and • 4 days later Whatton sent me back to as CBT and drug and alcohol group, and I have voluntarily Acklington; a young age. That means I nutrition from eating the actual printed menu suff er with anger issues, done the Sycamore Course run by Prison Fellowship, which than you would from eating the actual meal. • 10 months later I was sent back to Whatton; overall behaviour problems, is about victim empathy and impact, and I am still in closed • 4 months later at Whatton I was reassessed. trust and controlling my conditions. Humbug They said Acklington should not have sent emotions. M Johns - HMP Wandsworth me as I’m suitable for core SOTP, so I did core OLRs are similar to IPPs and currently in the Scottish prison SOTP at Whatton, who then said I should do Because I was born in Brazil, estate there are 1050 life sentence prisoners as well as 149 Is there anything more depressing than Therapeutic Prison then Extended SOTP, so the Home Offi ce want to OLRs, of which 68 are held here at Glenochil. OLRs were Christmas in prison? And this year we can’t they then sent me to; deport me. I have no family introduced in 2006. Granted, I am in for a sexual off ence, in Brazil, I don’t speak the even have a smoke to relieve the stress. But which is serious and I am not taking anything away from • HMPs Lincoln, Leicester and Nottingham, language and do not know the worst thing is when the press gets hold of who don’t do these programs; anything about the culture. I that. However, the way OLRs are managed is poor in my a Christmas dinner menu and start getting all • Well, Nottingham sent me to HMP Isle of rely on my family in this opinion and we are left to rot in a rubbish system with no breathless, like a bunch of Victorian school Wight, who said I needed to be reassessed. country and it has been noted incentives and progression for OLRs is practically non-existent. marms, pointing and pulling metaphorical Now they said I should do 1-1 work fi rst, then that deportation could be a faces to try and get the message across to their Extended SOTP, but a riot broke out on death sentence for me. I don’t I am still in closed conditions because I am a self-harmer, I do idiot readers that prisoners are living a life of another wing, so some of us, not involved in know why my parents didn’t this as a way to cope and also because of childhood trauma. luxury, with their sliced turkey and boiled-to- the disturbance, were shipped off to HMP register me for a UK pass- The SPS has used this as a factor for me still being in closed death veg. How dare we? Woodhill, who don’t do these courses; port, but it is now too late. conditions. I am now well over my tariff expiry date but I am • 9 months later, Woodhill asked HMP Hull if told I must go to National Top End and then open estate, add- I am British and the only dif- I could do 1-1 and Extended course there. ing 4-5 years onto my sentence. Where is the justice in that? Why no selection box? ference between me and you Hull said yes, and promised me 1-1 and Most days I ask myself what is the point of going on because I Stephen Williams - HMP Rochester is the colour of my passport. Extended, so into the ‘sweat box’ once again I am very anxious and scared am not getting anywhere and nobody seems interested. for a trip to Hull; Rochester is a good nick, overall, but I choked for what my future holds. I on my Earl Grey tea when told that we don’t • 4 months later in Hull, I’m reassessed don’t know any other life apart Nobody’s mental health should be used as a factor for them receive a selection box on Christmas Day. again- seems aft er all they don’t do1-1 work from British life. Somebody being held back, but it will continue until we start speaking up. Rumour has it that we don’t get a mince-pie but I am suitable for ‘Becoming New Me’, please help me. OLRs should be looked into and treated the same way as IPPs. either. I can’t help feeling a little hard done by. (basically I start programs all over again). In This is shocking, so I will not be hanging a the meantime, Parole Board knock me back, Christmas stocking outside of my cell this year. saying do another course. But, aft er another Bah, humbug! little think, psychology tell me I’m not suita- ble for Becoming New Me, but could do a new course called Becoming New Me Plus; Santa’s naughty list •17 months later in their jail, HMP Hull James O - HMP Wakefield promised they would only send me to a pris- The Personal Injury Specialists I am a first-timer in prison, and this will be my on that does BNM+, but; first Christmas away from my family. Obviously, Here I am, in the 13th year of my incarcera- this is a very sad time for those of us in prison tion, following an 18-month initial sentence, and our loved ones. 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Mailbag 9 Diabetic diet Slave wages M Huby - SOJP La Moye Paula Wainwright - HMP Peterborough Having been in prison for over 5-years, I was wondering if any surveys have been done on I think prisoners are nothing diabetes and the knock-on effects this has more than modern-day slaves, had on prisoners’ health? and we are set up to fail from the outset. I earn £10 per The national media keep raising the issue of “Wilful fractures” week and this money has to an aging population and the ever-increasing © Deposit Photos furnish me with phone-calls, problem of diabetes, but with a proper diet stationary and stamps, toi- and the right type of exercise this could help Smoking gun letries as well as subsidising A good Christmas in the poor diet. When I leave alleviate a growing problem. Of course, this Jerry D - HMP Wandsworth prison? Santa says NO! problem is made worse in our prisons with prison, I leave with £47. © Deposit Photos the limited diet available and restrictions on I am a non-smoker, but that doesn’t make me Hateful Christmas exercise. blind to what is going on in front of my eyes. “Why can’t we bring The smoking-ban has made prisons much more business into S Johns - HMP Warren Hill “When I joined the prison population more dangerous than they previously were, prisons, things which in early 2012, I was overweight but and they were already pretty dangerous to offer opportunities for “I hate Christmas” is a very courageous thing to say, and begin with. very unpopular at the same time because nine-out-of-ten reasonably healthy. In the last prisoners to better their people you encounter will absolutely adore the occasion. 10-months I have been diagnosed as Forget about the fact that a new black-market lives financially for when Truly, and deep down in my bones, I know I am one of those a Type 2 diabetic.” opportunity has been gifted to the dealers they get out, instead of nine-out-of-ten as well. I grew up loving Christmas so the (there is now even a trade in rolling-papers emotional bond I have with it could never completely disap- and matches), which allows them to earn just scrimping our way pear. So why do I hate it now you may ask? I mainly put this down to the dietary restric- £200 from every ounce of tobacco smuggled tions of prison, not enough fresh fruit or veg- through prison and in (better than drug money) by charging £10 The reason for my present hatred of Christmas is not reli- etables, too many carbohydrates (bread, getting out to nothing.” for a skinny roll-up. That was inevitable. giously motivated, it is actually because I cannot spend it potatoes, pastry, etc) and too many irradiat- how I want to. I want to be at home with my loved ones, ed apples. The kitchen here at La Moye do Some prisons have outside What was also inevitable was the fact that being awakened by excitable children, eating a nice break- have a salad option 5-days a week, but, by businesses working within fast, watching the family glow as they unwrap their gifts, the stress levels in prison were going sky- the time you get rid of the fill-ins like pota- prison grounds and still playing with the youngsters on their new games, eating a high because of the ban, leading to violence, toes, pasta and other odd mixes you might they only pay prisoners £30 great dinner, wearing silly hats and pulling crackers, feeling self-harm, acting-out and suicide. The gov- as well opt for a slice of lettuce and a grated per week. It’s a joke, mod- warm and cosy in front of the fire. ernment know all of this, in fact, they knew carrot. ern-day slavery. So, while it long before they put the ban in place, but I’ve been working in prison Instead, it’s another pool, darts, weightlifting competitions, still they persist. It is almost like they are for 3-years I will still leave Talking to one of the prison doctors I was with a bunch of people I do not particularly care for. wilfully forcing fractures on the system. But here homeless and clutching advised to cut out all of the above items as Christmas dinner here will be another flavourless half-a-pi- the thing they may not have considered is the £47 discharge grant. It is well as sugar, chocolate, biscuits, pudding, geon accompanied by over-cooked vegetables and rock-hard how long this is going to last. time that prisoners were etc. But with the menu that is available that potatoes. It will be another cold evening ‘Christmas tea’ given the right to earn at does not leave much else for me to eat. We served at 3pm so that the staff can go home and indulge. The “Every single day there will be least a minimum wage. The early lock-up means an extra two hours behind the door. are told that some of the items that are good cycle of crime, poverty and for diabetics are available from the prison hundreds of people coming off the addiction may finally come During the day it’s another scramble and fight to get to use shop. But why should I pay for food that street, where they can smoke, and to an end once we are allowed should be available on a prison menu? Isn’t the communal phone. I cannot wait for lock-up to come. My into prison where they will be de- to earn a decent wage for our only light on the horizon is that when I eventually get to a D there a rule about prisoners not having to labours, instead of being sold contribute to their own imprisonment? prived of this.” cat prison I may be able to spend a couple of good cheap to private companies. Christmases with my family again. Are there ANY establishments in the UK It is not only the people who are in prison which recognise this problem and actually when the ban is imposed that will be kicking help by putting a diabetic selection on the off as they struggle with one of the worst DAVIES & JONES RODMAN PEARCE menu? Or, even a separate menu? Given the addictions, but also the people who are yet to SOLICITORS SOLICITORS media focus on diabetes and how it is come in for the next few years. 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Fewer deaths but more violence Newsbites

Record figures for assaults and self-harm in prison Interviews at the scene of the crime The Home Office is considering changing the rules to allow Inside Time report research, which has found that prisons are police to interview suspects at the scene of the alleged crime increasingly resorting to draconian meas- using body worn cameras (BWC). Footage from the cameras ures to punish rule-breaking in a desperate can already be used as evidence but interviews must still be Fewer people are dying in prison, but prison- attempt to maintain control. conducted at a police station. The Home Office say it will save ers are hurting themselves and each other police time and unnecessary trips. By the end of the year more than ever before according to the fig- Almost 47,000 adjudication outcomes were 60,000 body worn cameras will be deployed across the ures released recently by the Ministry of recorded between January and March 2017, country. Critics of the scheme say it could jeopardise the rights Justice. of which 5,581 resulted in the imposition of of suspects and witnesses as they may not be in a fit state to be additional days’ imprisonment - a 30 per interviewed nor will they have had access to proper legal advice. During the 12 months to the end of June 2017 cent increase on the same quarter in 2016. there were 27,193 assaults - a 14 per cent “Er, pull the other one…” Suicides “dreadful” increase on the previous year and assaults More additional days on staff rose by 25 per cent to 7,437. Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the Prison Service has The sharp rise in impositions of additional admitted that the record numbers of suicides are a “damning days’ imprisonment piles more pressure on False leg Prisons recorded 41,103 self-injury incidents indictment” on his service. He had been called before the the prison system. It increases the prison Public Accounts Select Committee to explain the rocketing during the same period - a 12 per cent rise population and worsens overcrowding, which tagged from the previous year. Incidents requiring suicides, 120 in 2016, almost double that of 2012, of which 70% in turn creates conditions for drug abuse, were known to involve mental health issues. Mr Spurr told the hospital attendance rose by 9 per cent. This violence and other types of misbehaviour. A man found it difficult not is the sixth successive quarter when inci- to laugh when an electronic committee: “I think the level of self-harm and the deaths in prison are a dreadful thing and yes, it is a damning indictment dents of self-injury have reached their high- No room for complacency tag was fitted to his prosthet- that anybody takes their life or dies in prison. Every time I hear est level on record. Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the ic leg. He was fitted with the of a death, which I do - every single one - of course it’s Howard League, said: “It is extremely worry- tag and made subject to a dreadful.” Blaming the rise partly on new psychoactive drugs, The figures show that 300 people died in ing that ministers have announced the roll- four-week curfew after being Mr Spurr said: “There has been a huge switch in drug use over prisons during the 12 months to the end of out of more weaponry for staff, when these caught stealing. the past year to psychoactive substances, which has been a September 2017, down from 324 during the figures reveal that the most disturbing prob- very, very difficult thing for us to deal with in prisons.” previous year. lem in prisons is an epidemic level of self-in- When asked by the Capita jury and distress.” worker who was fitting the Self-inflicted deaths down tag whether it mattered Outstanding nurse They included 77 people who lost their lives Ms Crook said she was meeting the Secretary which leg it was fitted to, Mr A student nurse who demonstrated “outstanding caring skills” through suicide - 72 in men’s prisons and five of State for Justice (David Lidington) soon Sammut said: “I thought it while working with prisoners and drug addicts during a in women’s prisons. This is a fall from the and will urge him, “to take immediate and was a joke in bad taste. Then placement has been recognised with an award from his previous year, when a total of 110 people lost decisive action to relieve pressure on the I thought, ‘What the Hell. university. Simon Hunter, who graduated from Edinburgh their lives through suicide. prison system. Reducing the number of peo- Let’s see what he does’. He Napier University last month, has been named this year’s ple in prison would save lives, protect staff lifted up the false leg and winner of the Simon Pullin Award, which marks compassionate Figures also published recently on prison and prevent more people being swept into warned me he needed to roll care in nursing and midwifery. During his training, he took part disciplinary hearings - adjudications - sup- deeper currents of crime, violence and down the sock because the in clinical placements at HMP Edinburgh. port Howard League for Penal Reform despair.” tag had to go on the skin. I thought he’d realise then, Bad tagging but he fitted the tag and A scheme to have thousands of people fitted with electronic asked me how it felt. I had to tags is now five years late and has been drastically cut back. force myself not to laugh. I £60million has been wasted on the scheme, which has a total could have told him, but I’ve WILSONS AUCTIONS cost of £135million and could have seen 65,000 tags in operation. let it go this far to highlight how ridiculous it is.” WE CAN SELL YOUR ASSETS Basildon Echo Prison gear sale banned Prison clothing which was being sold on eBay has been · Do you have an outstanding confiscation order? removed from the site after the Prison Service said its sale was · Would you like a free valuation and a no obligation 30% reduction illegal and threatened to take action. Several different sellers quote to sell your assets for the highest price? had on eBay HMP items for sale including HMP Liverpool jeans in prison staff (£29.99), a ‘very rare’ red HMP Gloucester gym orderly sweat- shirt (£50), HMP Lincoln green sweatshirts (£50) and HMP WILSONS AUCTIONS CAN HELP The National Audit Office Acklington hi-vis jackets (£47). A spokesman for eBay told the has published damning newspaper that the Prison Service had not been in touch with As the sole agent for over 40 law enforcement agencies, Wilsons Auctions specialises statistics about the staff them but they wanted to stamp out illegal sale of HMP items in selling assets that are subject to confiscation proceedings, often in sensitive shortage in prisons in on the site. Prison Service spokesman said: “It is against the law circumstances. We are the largest independent auction company in the UK and Ireland England and Wales. Since to steal or sell prison property. We are looking into this case and with 80 years of experience, we can sell assets worldwide. 2010 the number of opera- and will take the appropriate action.” Metro.co.uk tional staff in public prisons has been reduced by 30% New Scottish gender neutral prison (over 10,000) leaving 92% of The Scottish Sun claims that the Scottish government is prisons understaffed - that planning an £11million ‘gender-neutral’ prison specifically for means just ten of the 118 prisoners who are unsure about their gender identity or want prisons are fully staffed. The Jewellery Cars Property All Assets average shortfall across the to swap genders. There about 20 prisoners in Scottish estab- estate is about 7% or 1 in 14 lishments who maintain gender-identity problems. Tory justice posts vacant, but it is much spokesman Liam Kerr told the paper: “There may be a tiny For more information higher in some, the worst, minority of cases where a non-binary gender individual could Feltham is missing 20% of be catered for. But to spend this is outrageous and will FREEPHONE 0300 124 0438 staff. The results of staff inevitably be ridiculed by the public. The hard-pressed prisons Simply provide us with the following Name Solicitor (if any) shortages and overcrowding system has many costly priorities including appropriate details and we can do the rest! 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Looking Systemic failure Newsbites Back... at Yarl’s Wood Through care scheme cuts churn effect through the Inside A report by HM Inspector of Prisons has found A scheme that offers prisoners extra support as they prepare to Time archives that in the fi rst six months of 2017, 67% of leave prison has been credited with cutting reoffending. The December 2007 women held at the controversial Yarl’s Wood Throughcare scheme was introduced at 11 Scottish prisons in Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) were released 2015 and now an independent evaluation has found that 78% into the community, questioning why they of prisoners who received Throughcare support in the past two years had not returned to custody. Throughcare aims to ensure were ever held in custody in the fi rst place. prisoners have arrangements in place for housing, medical Many of the women claimed to have been provision and benefi ts when they leave prison and Throughcare tortured or raped; the Home Offi ce does not Support Offi cers (TSOs) continue to give guidance after release. count rape as torture. The inspectors also said that the women’s immigration casework Transgender pretender was not handled properly and problems with New government guidelines which say that prisoners can the centre’s Healthcare Centre were having a register as ‘transgender’ without taking hormones or having negative impact on the women held there. surgery have sparked alarm amongst campaigners who have “You should get a subscription Giovanni” asked the government to guarantee that male prisoners Credit: BBC Justice rough Opposition politicians said the report shows registering as ‘transgender’ will not be moved to female prisons that the Home Offi ce continues to ‘systemati- Right on Inside Time! until they have had gender realignment surgery. They claimed “Five years after the BBC cally fail’ the women with a detention system in comments to tabloid newspapers that there have been Rough Justice programme that is ‘inhumane and unnecessarily harsh’. In Strictly star Debbie McGee gets right instances of men registering as women in order to get trans- fi rst began investigating the 2015 a report was published about allegations answer on The Chase Celebrity Special ferred to women’s prisons to abuse the female prisoners there. case of Barri White and Keith about prisoners’ favourite tabloid Inside Time understands that any man who wants to register as Hyatt they have now had their of women there being abused by staff . ‘female’ is placed on a Transgender Pathway which includes convictions quashed by the The former magician’s assistant who, with psychological examinations to determine if they genuinely Court of Appeal. Programme Commenting on his report, Chief Inspector her dance partner Giovanni Pernice, has been identify as female or are simply trying to exploit the system. axed after 27 years of public Peter Clarke said: “The fact remains that tearing up the dancefl oor with sizzling dance service broadcasting.” around 70 per cent of the women detained at routines, (and their unbelievable chemistry) Louise Shorter Yarl’s Wood are released back into the Crime up... arrests down was asked on the popular early evening quiz Police have been criticised after it has been revealed that, community. The provision of welfare support show recently to identify the name of the despite the number of recorded crimes soaring to 5.2 million, Reinforcing stereotypes for these women was far from systematic and national newspaper for prisoners from three the highest for ten years, in the last year police arrested just half “I write as an admirer of needed to be improved.” choices: The Daily Jail, Inside Time, or the as many people as they did ten years ago. Critics point to a Inside Time as I believe it Screws of the World. Aft er just a moment’s 20,000 drop in police offi cer numbers, and a recent revelation fulfi ls a useful role for prisoners, HM Inspectorate of Prisons has moved hesitation jubilant Debbie pulled the correct that police call handlers were crossing off vandalism, theft and the public and prison service They are now based at: HM Inspectorate answer right out of the hat. “Inside Time!” burglary in minutes if there were no clues or victims did not staff. I also believe that it of Prisons, 5th Floor, Clive House, Petty she cried. “Correct” replied host Bradley Walsh, have evidence or name a suspect. The Home Offi ce says the should contain some light-heart- France, London SW1H 9EX. adding for the sake of his millions of viewers, huge fall is linked to police efforts to keep people out of courts ed entertainment along with New Telephone number : 0207 340 0500 “and a damned good read it is too!” (Well if with on-the-spot fi nes and taking people to police stations to serious issues. However, I do he didn’t say it he probably thought it…) ‘help with enquiries’, without arresting them. think the November issue went too far in the ‘Jailbreak’ section in which eleven ‘jokes’ were printed. Nine of these Legal aid for prisoners eleven jokes were sexist in the extreme and should not, in to be restored my opinion, have been printed in your newspaper.” years of battling through the National Prison Law Solicitors Continued from front page courts we ... very much Steve Orchard - Head of www.instalaw.co.uk operations, HMP Nottingham Laura Janes, legal director at welcome the Secretary of the Howard League for Penal State’s decision to fi nally Instalaw Solicitors have over 40 years combined experience The nightmare of release Reform, said: “One hopes accept the Court of Appeal’s ruling of inherent unfairness representing prisoners rights and we can represent you no matter where you “So I was homeless … the big that it’s part of a wider are in the country! NFA. 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New Hall Coldingley The education department cuts get a special mention from New The IMB continue to draw Hall IMB who say: “The education budget was reduced from attention to the operation of £1.2m to £820k which had a negative eff ect on the education the NightSan system which provision within the establishment. Of concern to the IMB was they describe as ‘inhumane’. the withdrawal of the Art classes for residents located in Holly Storstrøm – “A small village” House. Many of the residents on the wing have complex and They do, in their report, shift challenging mental health issues and the removal of the classes some of the blame onto was deemed inappropriate and detrimental to their wellbeing. prisoners for the way they use Maximum humanity prison However, Management through redistribution of the budget have it. They say: “Even though been able to provide a (albeit lesser) level of education and work is underway to refurbish Denmark’s newly opened The cells, which are 40 feet vocational opportunities which the residents are able to access.” the lavatories and washing Storstrøm Prison has been square, are equipped with a Download the report at: www.tinyurl.com/ybvekhjv facilities on each landing of labelled the world’s most fridge, closet, and a 22-inch the old wings, it will remain humane prison. It is designed TV. The windows, spanning Nottingham an unfair process, open to as a mini-community where from fl oor to ceiling, are misuse and even open to prisoners live as normal a life located at such an angle that The IMB at Nottingham, along with many others raise the abuse by prisoners on each as possible. The new prison they prevent other prisoners issue of staff shortages which means, say their report, that the other. This severely aff ects on the island of Falster, is far from looking in, yet allow normal routine cannot be sustained. “There were daily, oft en those prisoners who most from the normal British the occupant to take in the unpredictable, cancellations of regime activity and prisoners need to use the communal vision of a maximum security island’s natural beauty. seemed to lose the habit of attending work and education, prison. Instead, the country’s meaning that there were further issues about attendance and lavatories at night. A prisoner must operate an in-cell second largest prison, The cells measure about 13 the challenges which that creates in terms of applying holding just 250 prisoners, m² and form residential units button to indicate that he sanctions fairly. The prison tried very hard throughout the resembles a small village. It consisting of four to seven requires to use the lavatory. period to maintain stability and occasions of indiscipline were took fi ve years to build at a cells clustered to form a When it is his turn he is quickly and eff ectively brought under control. However, with cost of over £100m and was social community with prisoners spending time on the wing, frustration, bullying, allocated 8 minutes to use the commissioned by the Danish access to a sitting room and Devoted to hope violence and use of New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) illegal lavatory and return to his cell. Prison Service with the idea communal kitchen. drugs became increasingly evident. The queue may be long and of creating conditions which Prisoners can cook for also made an eff ort to Download the report at: www.tinyurl.com/yahhdz7t any abuse by other prisoners would remind prisoners of themselves and are essen- promote communication taking more than their the society they left behind. tially free to determine between inmates and staff ,” Wealstun allocated time can cause whether they wish to cook signifi cant delays in the with others or on their own. Despite its seemingly idyllic The condition of the accommodation in some parts of the queue. A prisoner’s only Each cell unit also has its conditions, the Storstrøm prison is unacceptable, says the latest IMB report, particularly other option is to use a pot in own fi tness room. Prison remains a prison in A and B wings. Repeating a theme that occurs in many his cell and then to ‘slop out’ nonetheless, being sur- reports they say: “Whilst HMP Wealstun is currently recruiting in the morning or as happens, Architect Mads Mandrup of rounded by a six metre high new offi cers, the report highlights a considerable number of to dispose of human waste C.F. Møller, told the Danish wall and packed with problems which are caused, or compounded, by inadequate newspaper Berlingske: “We via his cell window. Required security cameras. There are staffi ng levels, and the Board does not feel that the staffi ng have concentrated all also tensioned steel wires observation of prisoners in increase proposed by the Government is suffi cient to address buildings around a centre for strung across the premises, cells by night staff adds to the the serious problems that HMP Wealstun is currently experienc- joint activities. Here we have to prevent helicopters from ing. It is obvious to the Board that funding for HM Prison problem by increasing the a square with, for example, landing on the roof. Service has reduced to a critical level where the safety of wait for lavatory access.” an activity house, a grocery prisoners and staff is at risk.” Download the report at: store, a school, a church and Acknowledgements: Sputnik Taking in the natural beauty Download the report at: www.tinyurl.com/ycar3sxv www.tinyurl.com/y8ffzwpu a devotional room. We have International News

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Critics say the growing use she tried smuggling a mobile world, a new report published of recall has cast doubts over Chris Grayling’s phone, hidden in a cup of by the Institute for Criminal “Questionable identifi cation” MoJ backs down 2015 overhaul of probation services which soup, to her boyfriend. She Policy Research shows. The increased probation supervision to those who said: “I hid it in the stew analysis indicates that female Innocent man freed Stephanie Brownlees were sentenced to less than 12 months. Some because I know they will not prison population levels have 50 years too late prisoners are recalled for just 14 or 18 days for allow me to take it to him in grown much faster than male It is nearly 50 years since a Louisiana man was sentenced The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has abandoned its very minor breaches which, say critics, heaps the Prison. I did not know it is levels since around the year to life in prison for the challenge to the April 2017 Court of Appeal more pressure on already overcrowded prisons bad.” The woman was 2000, with the number of that are struggling to cope with staff shortages, kidnapping and rape of a decision, which ruled that legal aid cuts for arrested at the prison gate but women and girls in prison drugs, violence and self-harm and suicide. the State Comptroller of increasing by more than 50% nurse but now, after a judge prisoners were unlawful because they were overturned his conviction, he “inherently unfair”. Prisons said the action was a while the male population Shadow Justice Minister Imran Hussain said threat to national security. has increased by around 20%. has walked out of prison a the ‘broken’ probation system was making it free man. State District Court There were major cuts to Legal Aid imposed in Judge Richard Anderson diffi cult to reduce off ending: “The sharp rise Death Row inmate who survived his own execution 2013, following the Legal Aid, Sentencing and previously said the case in the number of prisoners being recalled to really doesn’t want to go through it again Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO). against Wilbert Jones, 65, was prison not only demonstrates how our An Ohio man who became the third U.S. Death Row inmate in These cuts have had a profound impact on pris- “weak at best” and that prisons and probation system are failing to seven decades to survive his own execution fi led a new appeal oners, particularly vulnerable prisoners with authorities withheld evidence rehabilitate people, but is placing a severe for mercy, arguing that Ohio’s lethal injection protocol mental health issues or disabilities. The Court that could have exonerated strain on an already overcrowded prison constitutes cruel and unusual punishment because one of its of Appeal decided earlier this year that the cur- Jones decades ago. The state’s system that is close to breaking point.” drugs may not work properly. Alva Campbell has a history of case against Jones “rested rent system does not have the capacity to fi ll chronic heart and lung problems that can make fi nding a vein entirely” on the nurse’s the gaps left by the removal of Legal Aid, and tricky. In fact, the prison was so worried that Campbell’s lungs testimony and her ‘question- that safeguards should have been implemented ‘More children in jail’ call would give out and he would stop breathing, while lying on the able identifi cation’ of Jones as to ensure that all prisoner could engage in pro- execution gurney, that the team gave him a wedge pillow to The Howard League has severely criticised the her assailant. The nurse, who cesses or decisions about their treatment. The help him stay calm and alive until they could execute him. Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida died in 2008, picked Jones cuts were therefore unlawful. Campbell’s new execution date is June 6, 2019. Dick, over comments she made that young out of a police line-up more ‘off enders’ should face harsher sentences. Ms than three months after the The MoJ immediately declared that this decision Prison staff jailed Charles Manson dies Dick, who was in charge of the operation rape; but she also told police would be challenged, but seven months later, The Supreme Court of the Charles Manson, the which saw the killing of Charles de Menezes that the man who raped her before the case reached a hearing before the notorious cult leader who in 2005 claimed that many ‘young off enders’ tiny Russian Republic of was taller and had a ‘much Supreme Court, the appeal application has been directed his followers to did not believe they were likely to be sent to Kalmykia has upheld the rougher’ voice than Jones withdrawn. The department announced that it commit a string of brutal prison. She said ‘Harsher, more eff ective convictions of several had. Jones’ lawyers from the has begun to review the impact of cuts to legal murders, and who became a sentences’ could be used to deter a ‘core group’ employees of a penal colony Innocence Project New aid, suggesting that someone, somewhere, may symbol of the dark side of of repeat off enders. The Howard League of beating prisoners. The Orleans, claim the nurse’s fi nally be listening to us. 1960s counterculture, has responded saying that any plans to lock up more staff, including the penal description matches a man died aged 83. Manson young off enders was a ‘counsel of despair’. who was arrested but never colony’s doctor and deputy convinced a number of his Whilst this is clearly a victory for many prisoners, charged in the rape of a head received sentences of followers that he was the who for the last seven months have been un- woman abducted from the up to eleven years. reincarnation of Jesus Christ, assisted with their progression, despite the cuts parking lot of another Baton Disclosure rules In 2015, three members of using a combination of drugs having been deemed “unlawful”, Legal Aid will Rouge hospital, 27 days after the colony’s staff beat a and genuine charisma to not be reinstated at this stage for areas such as ‘unfair to children’ the nurse’s attack. The same prisoner 60 times for refusing bring the “Family” - mainly appeals against disciplinary decisions or dis- man also was arrested on Rules that force adults to disclose crimes to give his name. The colony’s young, middle-class women putes over access to prison courses. suspicion of raping yet committed as children are wholly inappropri- - under his control. He was deputy head ordered that a another woman in 1973. sentenced to death in 1971 Legal Aid will now be available again for Pre- ate and deny children a second chance say CCTV camera was obscured MPs who are demanding changes in the law. but before Manson’s death Tariff Reviews by the Parole Board, Category A to hide the beating. The Although many convictions become spent sentence could be carried Pope to visit Irish prison Reviews and decisions on placing inmates in prison doctor, aware of the aft er a length of time there are 942 convic- out, California outlawed The Archbishop of Dublin has Close Supervision Centres. beating, did not take any tions that must always be disclosed. The capital punishment and his revealed that Pope Francis measures to stop it or to Justice Select Committee says that the system sentence was reduced to nine will visit one of the Republic’s provide emergency help to Stephanie Brownlees is a Solicitor at Eden Legal works in a “mechanical fashion” with no life sentences. Almost half a 14 prisons during his trip to rights of appeal against disclosure decisions. the prisoner who died shortly century on, the Manson Ireland next August. The If you require advice or assistance in relation Committee chairman Bob Neill said: “Mistakes afterward. Later, the offi cers Family’s killing spree contin- exact itinerary remains to these areas of Prison Law, please contact us made as a teenager can follow someone responsible for the beating ues to fascinate many unclear until the Vatican today on 01902 275 042 or you can write to around for decades and create a barrier to were told to present the Americans, and has been offi cially confi rms that the Eden Legal Services, West Midlands House, rehabilitation, as well as profound problems event as if the prisoner retold through books, fi lms visit is going ahead, which is Gipsy Lane, Willenhall WV13 2HA. with access to employment and education.” attacked staff with a blade. and music. expected in January.

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Volunteers wanted at Portland Barnardo’s is recruiting Dorset volunteers to prevent vulnerable children suffering a “hidden sentence.” The charity has been commissioned by HMPPS to support families visiting loved ones at HMP Portland. Barnardo’s wants to help encourage positive relationships and promote children’s play during visits, in order to reduce the impact of parental imprisonment on young people. Volunteers will also signpost families to impor- tant sources of information and support. Inspirational sculpture HMCIP Peter Clarke “No” to Baglan People convicted People campaigning against a new prison being built at Baglan, Books and benches combine to Port Talbot, Wales, have presented a petition to the Welsh of sex offences Assembly with nearly 9,000 signatures. The land where the being used to Ministry of Justice wants to build the prison is owned by the celebrate reading Welsh Government and opponents to the prison are urging calm prison Learners from HMP Manchester leave their mark on community them not to release the land. The prison would hold around 1,600 prisoners but David Rees, Labour MP for Aberavon said: Prison inspectors have raised “It has been obvious since we knew where the site was that this Council and Fiona Patterson, were Great Inside Time report concern over a policy of location is wholly inappropriate for a new prison. I have called Expectations, Lord of The Rings and The moving men on remand for, or on many occasions for the Welsh Government not to sell the Birds. A design featuring elements of all convicted of, sexual off ences land to the Ministry of Justice and instead use it for improving Throughout the summer, benches shaped three books was created, with the prisoners into HMP Doncaster to the economy of our town. Today’s message to the Welsh like open books popped up across working together to paint the design onto the provide a stabilising infl uence Government from the people of Port Talbot is quite clear Book Bench during Art classes. “The men Manchester to celebrate the city’s love of on the prison aft er concerns - when the Ministry of Justice asks to buy or lease the land, just took real ownership of the Book Bench,” reading. 58 Book Bench sculptures, installed of the levels of violence say no.” No decision has yet been made. as part of the Read Manchester campaign, explained Fiona. “The design aspect allowed there. Peter Clarke, HM Chief were decorated with literary designs by local the men to discuss and explore the themes of Inspector of Prisons, said: Bomb panic at Risley schools and community groups. Read the books further, which were then incorpo- There was a minor panic at HMP Risley last month, and the Manchester was a Manchester City Council rated into the fi nal design.” “Over the course of the whole prison was put on lockdown after staff found what they and Wild in Art collaboration and the prison previous year, the number of thought might be a nail bomb at the prison. Police and the library worked in partnership with Novus Designing and painting the Book Bench for it men on remand for, or bomb squad descended on the prison and the device was and the prison to complete this inspiring pro- to be displayed at the Royal Exchange had a convicted of, sex off ences dismantled and found not to be a danger to prisoners or staff. A ject. very positive eff ect on the learners at HMP had trebled, and many of Prison Service spokeswoman said: “There was an incident at Manchester, and inspired some to develop them were longer-term, HMP Risley on Sunday 12 November. There was no threat to their reading and art skills. “I hadn’t heard high-risk off enders. I was Book review competition the public or those within the prison. The matter has been of two of the books until I got involved with told that this was a deliber- A group of around 70 Novus learners from referred to the police and it would be inappropriate to the bench,” said one prisoner. “I am going to ate policy in order to help to HMP Manchester designed and decorated comment further.” one of the Book Benches for the project. try and read Great Expectations and The stabilise the prison in light of Their Book Bench was displayed at the pres- Birds.” the serious problems with Wellingborough rebirth tigious Royal Exchange Theatre during the violence that had been Work to start building a new prison on the HMP Wellingborough months of July and August. “I can now mix colours really well,” said identifi ed at the last inspec- another learner. “I have learnt a lot about tion (in October 2015). site is expected to start next year. Wellingborough was closed in 2012 and has been mothballed ever since. The new prison, Head of Learning and Skills at HMP blending paint. When I get released I am However, support, off ender which is expected to hold around 1,500 men is one of fi ve new Manchester, Fiona Patterson, helped to going to do some craft things with my kids.” management and programmes prisons the government has promised to build by 2020 in a bid organise the project at the prison. “We ran a intended to reduce the risk to close down old Victorian prisons. Peter Bone, Conservative book review competition open to everyone in “It looked great” both in custody and on release MP for Wellingborough, said it was great news for the town and order to increase reading and re-reading of Having the Book Bench displayed in a public presented by this population would support the local economy. favourite literature,” she explained. “This space for families to visit also had a positive were not present. In eff ect, was successful with lots of entries submit- eff ect on the men, as Fiona explained: “The this large cohort of men was Is Dumfries prison under threat of closure? ted, and with an array of genres reviewed. It pride that the men had in working on the being denied the opportunity Dumfriesshire MSP Oliver Mundell has said that he fears HMP also created a healthy competition between Book Bench was transferred to the families, to make progress. While it is Dumfries may be closed because the Scottish justice secretary the learners and raised awareness of reading who visited the trail and gave positive feed- perhaps understandable that, Michael Matheson failed to make reassurances during a and its positive impact to those taking part.” back, which in turn had a positive impact on as a matter of policy, it might family links.” be decided that a prison question and answer session in the Scottish Parliament. When the Scottish Prison Service published its plans for future Expecting ownership should have a particular population profi le, this should investments, Dumfries was not included. Mr Matheson said: The three books to feature on the bench were The book bench now takes pride of place in not be done in such a way that “We are taking forward the next phase of the estates plan and, chosen by managers Tracey Kennedy of the entrance to F wing, the wing where edu- off ender management of after we have completed that process, we will look at the NOVUS, Jayne Stevens of Manchester City cation and the library are situated. those prisoners is neglected.” remaining elements of the prison estate, including HMP Dumfries.”

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Good Prison News FBI in HMP Frankland Newsbites Prisoners helping the hungry Probe call into deaths at Nottingham Decency not just a word Toby Perkins, the MP for Chesterfield has Colin Campbell With the help of my peers, called for an urgent investigation into deaths at Good deeds prevailing at Styal we designed posters to HMP Nottingham after five prisoners died advertise the project. The within the space of one month. He said: “I call on the Ministry of Justice to instigate an urgent Han M. Yusoff for over 2-years the Decency Team basic idea is that we ask peo- investigation into the spate of deaths at HMP has been involved in so many good ple to purchase extra goods Nottingham. Cuts to the number of prison deeds, bringing lots of intervention from their canteen on a officers over the last seven years have increased Many years ago, decency in prison activities for the women and raising weekly basis for a full did not exist because the Prison money for Family Day, as well as for month. There is no limit set the number of prisoner deaths, as well as Service did not represent as such. various charities out there in the as even the smallest dona- seeing significant increases in drug use, However, at Styal we all agree on community. tion can make a huge differ- assaults on staff, serious incidents and bullying.” one thing that our prison has come a ence. All items must be Frankland prison has a rep- “Yes” to Highland long way trying to provide a moral “We raised over £20,000 for donated with original seals and decent environment. At Styal utation for being one of the intact. We had a designated Councillors in Inverness have approved plans decency is an expectation and is little Charlie who sadly passed last prisons to come into line point where goods would be for a new prison in the city. The new HMP paramount for all to follow and the away recently after an 18- with other establishments; accepted at set times, and, to Highland will be built at the rear of Inverness especially within the High result of this is a better place to work month battle with a brain avoid any security concerns, Retail and Business Park where work is or live for prisoners and staff. security estate. However, all items would be logged expected to start next year. The agreement Decency is not just a name because tumour.” due to the FBI, things are and checked by an officer. follows a long drawn out argument about the hopefully about to change. decency is what connects us togeth- The food bank charity would new prison’s location with local people saying We also raised money for Manchester er here at Styal. then collect the goods at the they did not want it built near their homes at bomb victims, and have been cook- The FBI is a Food Bank end of the month. Milton of Leys, and retail park shops saying We as the Decency Team have done ing and baking to raise money for Initiative that has finally they didn’t want it near their premises. the homeless people in Manchester been given the go-ahead. It numerous accounts of fundraising Donating and helping others Inverness South Councillor, Ken Gowan said: areas. We also did a coffee-morning has taken just over 6-months events that help others inside and can boost a person’s self-es- “Inverness needs a new prison. The old prison for Macmillan Cancer, and we are in for permission to be granted outside the community. Decency teem and what better way to is a Victorian building and after speaking to the middle of fundraising for anoth- by the powers-that-be. reps and staff are working tirelessly do that than knowing that several officers who work there, it’s clear it’s er homeless centre in Booth Town, to make this possible. Two years your donation can help a not fit for purpose. We need a new modern ago, I was tirelessly fundraising for Manchester. Special thanks to the Deputy prison in the Highlands and looking at the Governor and the Head of hungry family. So, why not our family day when I came across a try to set up an FBI in your design, it looks state of the art.” good-hearted and kind individual - I am proud of Governor Sampey and Reducing Reoffending for our Decency Team - Tracy, Connie, taking time to consider the prison? It would be nice to Governor Sampey. pick up Inside Time and read Inverness prison attraction Jaine, Julie, Stella, Harriet, Alwen, proposal. It was refreshing Plans to convert the old Inverness Prison into a Beth and Wendy. Together, our good to have a ‘working together’ of more success stories like She is such an inspirational person, this. major tourist attraction and housing complex she has got so much kindness and is deeds shall prevail. attitude, by actually sitting will be unveiled within weeks. The Victorian the reason that Styal has changed and having conversations as prison is owned by the Scottish Prison Service into a decent environment. She has Han M. Yusoff works in the Safer Custody opposed to just getting a flat Colin Campbell is resident at (SPS) but it is expected to be sold by the made the impossible quite possible, Department HMP/YOI Styal NO. HMP Frankland Scottish Government once the city’s replace- ment prison, planned for a site beside the Inverness Retail Park, is operational. A Need Inside Advice? spokesman for the SPS said: “We’re still pursuing the planning process and we will David Phillips and Partners can help out. require to secure funding and to secure We are pleased to announce that Prison someone to build on the new site before we’re in any position to vacate the current site.” The Law expert Jeremy Pinson has joined the old prison is within a conservation area and is DPP Law nationwide Specialist Prison Law team. listed by Historic Environment Scotland to reflect its historical importance. Jeremy has undertaken Prison Law for 17 years & conducted over 3500 cases. Officer Foster hands cheque to Ernie Oldfield Supreme Court rules on solitary The Supreme Court has ruled that a man kept Tall poppies in HMP Hull in solitary confinement, with virtually no We offer advice and representation contact with other prisoners, at HMP Grampian service to assist with:- The 2017 Poppy appeal came to HMP Hull has had his human rights violated. The SPS has and the prisoners gave generously to those said isolation, known as “removal from associa- tion”, is only used in exceptional circumstances • Independent Adjudications in need . This year the appeal was organised and Governors need special permission from by the Veterans in Custody officer Lee Foster, • Recall – written representations the Scottish Government to keep a prisoner in helped by the Prisoner Information Desk & oral hearings solitary for more than 30 days at a time. • Parole – written representations workers or PID workers. Together they & oral hearings approached the other inmates around the Oscar’s prison project 1056 place catagory B local prison. Reading gaol, whose only previous connection • Indeterminate sentence prisoners to the performing arts was being the prison Escape the technicalities and let us fight your case - call us now and Around 3% of the prisoners have previous home to Oscar Wilde may become a new ask for our Specialist Prison Law team. on experience in the armed forces and under- theatre venue if a feasibility study produces 0151 922 5525 stand only too well the sacrifices made by its positive results. Local organisation Theatre & "I would like to thank DPP and most of all Rachel Barrow. I feel no members across the generations. Many oth- Arts Reading (TAR) is to carry out the feasibility other legal firm could do a better job! ers had lost family members through conflict study to determine whether a venue could be built on the Reading site. Wilde was impris- Even the Prison Governor commented on David Phillips and Partners by around the world serving their country and were glad to be able to help. oned in the Victorian prison in 1895. It was saying he had never known in his time any solicitor to put so much hard closed as a working prison in 2013. Last year it hosted readings of De Profundis written by work into a case. Thank you once again." Wesley Lafferty Governor Chris McPhee, himself a Falklands Wilde during his time there, as part of an art veteran , suggested inviting the local branch project. TAR has secured a £20,000 grant from of the Royal British Legion to the prison to David Phillips and Partners,Solicitors and Higher Court Advocates, Arts Council England, as well as matched receive the funds raised . On 14th November funding from Howard Panter and Rosemary Pinnacle House, Stanley Road, Bootle, L20 7JF Registered with RBL member Mr Ernie Oldfield visited the emailaprisoner Squire’s Trafalgar Entertainment Group and Nationwide Service prison to personally thank the prisoners and Festival Republic, which will also provide input accepted a cheque for £513. into the study. Acknowledgements: The Stage 16 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017

l The Supreme Court that not taken eff ect aft er so criminal judge and addressed “One of its functions is to ensure long? Neuberger pointed out the jury I thought I didn’t real- coherence in the law between that, “The government has ly know whether I was failing different parts of the UK” done everything asked for by them…In the Court of Appeal the Court of Human Rights you might say the right sen- I asked him about the make-up except in regard to prisoner tence is 8 years but you don’t and reason for the Supreme votes.” It is also true that, have an in-depth idea of what Court. He explained that the fi nally, on November 2nd , the the sentence involves and UK has three separate legal Minister for Justice announced what it means to that particu- systems; England and Wales, that up to a hundred prisoners lar prisoner and you don’t Scotland, and Northern on temporary licence relief always get much feedback.” Ireland. “One of its functions can be given the vote. They is to ensure coherence in the are, of course, not behind bars. l Allegations as truth law between diff erent parts of “Sometimes the press do treat the UK,” he says. “It is also the l Brexit allegations as true.” top court in the country which “You can’t go round pontifi - will decide very important cating about things which are These days allegations are all Lord Neuberger: Judges should explain points of law, sometimes not to do with the rule of law.” too oft en treated as evidence, what they are doing and why because they’re politically particularly with sexual Richard Pohle/The Times Richard sensitive, sometime because He wouldn’t be drawn on the off ences. What did he think they’re legally sensitive. It has eff ect of the UK leaving the EU. about that? “Sometimes the nine English and Welsh judg- “So much depends on the press do treat allegations as es, two Scots, one Northern terms we agree, if any. It’s very true,” he says. He admits that Irish.” And what about gender difficult to predict. Nobody it’s a diffi cult area and gives A Life in Court balance?” He points out the knows,” he says. I next drew the example of a teacher President is a woman, Lady his attention to a letter in accused by three pupils of Hale, and there is one other October’s issue of Inside Time sexual abuse. In theory that Former president of the Supreme Court refl ects women judge, Lady Porter. The which accuses judges of hid- teacher should be treated as Court almost always deals ing “behind a wall of utter innocent but the parents on Joint Enterprise, cameras in court and with appeal cases. silence”- “I don’t think it’s fair wouldn’t be very pleased. On to say that judges hide behind the related question of ano- allegations that are treated as evidence l Joint enterprise a wall of utter silence,” he says nymity for the alleged victim “The men weren’t necessarily defensively. “It’s an overstate- but not for the alleged accus- right to enforce the criminal wrongly convicted but perhaps ment. They give talks and er, he merely remarked that Month by Month law and the people who are convicted of the wrong crime.” lectures far more than they he could “see arguments both accused have to have the right did. But it’s true we’re quite ways.” I had sat in on the Supreme restrained in what we say. l The role of law in society to defend themselves. There has to be a system that is fair Court when there were two First of all we have to be care- l High points “ There has to be a system that appeals against the law of ful not to talk about things and open and that is the role “At least we showed people is fair and open and that is Joint Enterprise where a man which aren’t in our remit. You Rachel Billington of the courts.” what we were and what we the role of the courts.” or woman can be convicted of can’t go round pontifi cating did warts and all.” murder because of their asso- about things which are not to The government has three arms, The Right Honourable the So, in his view, what role does ciation rather than the actual do with the rule of law. For he explained: Parliament What were the high points in Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury the law play in society? “In delivery of the murder. The example it would not be makes laws, the Civil Service his career? Firstly he men- PC Hon FRS sounds very order for any society to func- court under Neuberger’s appropriate for judges to go tioned his success in getting carries them out and the Presidency found that in both round talking about Brexit. grand but the man I met in the tion,” he says seriously, “peo- the Supreme Court to sit out- Judiciary interprets and enforc- cases, the trial court had But we should explain what Treasurer’s Offi ce in Lincoln’s ple have to be given the abil- side London in Edinburgh and es the laws. He emphasised wrongly directed the jury but, we’re doing and why we’re ity to enforce their rights or Belfast. Secondly he pointed Inn Fields is informal and that, although we hear a lot as some of my readers may doing it and let people watch to the Court’s management of friendly. David Neuberger defend themselves in an open about social security, health, know too well, few men con- it. I’ve always been much the high profi le Brexit/Miller began his career in 1974. By and fair way. So if two people education, the fundamental victed under the law have keener on cameras in court case, heard as he remarked, fall out in a marriage, if two than most judges. Virtually 1987 he was a Queen’s and historic function of the been let out of prison subse- “in a fetid atmosphere. At least neighbours fall out, two busi- any appeal can be fi lmed as Counsel, in 1996 a High Court government is for the Defence quently. I asked him to explain we showed people what we ness people fall out, there has indeed happens in the Judge, a knight and in 2007 a of the Realm from threats why that was . He remembered were and what we did warts to be a way of resolving their the case well and said that the Supreme Court.’” The problem life peer - an almost meteoric abroad and to maintain law and all. I hope it’s a more col- disputes. Otherwise you will court had ruled that the men he said, is that cases, particu- and order at home. legiate place and a more pub- rise. Then in 2012 he became “weren’t necessarily wrongly larly appeal cases when there have a strong feeling of injus- lically recognised place.” President of the Supreme convicted but perhaps convict- is no jury and arguments tice and/or you will have peo- We don’t have a written con- Court, the highest court in the ed of the wrong crime. It had about points of law, can be ple sorting out their disputes stitution but we do have As our interview came to an United Kingdom, from which been made too easy to find very boring. by fi ghting or hiring thugs or Common Law which means end, he quoted, although not them guilty of murder.” So the he retired in September this murderers. However, in order very seriously, the Marquess that the judges can develop prisoner is entitled to seek an l year. If anyone can talk about for a government to function Closer ties of Salisbury, who in 1886 hav- the law. This is interesting appeal against his conviction. “I support the general idea of the condition of law in this there has to be give and take ing just won the election and because, although parliament In fact, Jogee, one of the con- judges being more involved country, it has to be him. between the government and become Prime Minister, said is generally thought of as victed, did appeal, had a retri- so they see what the conse- the people. The people have to his private secretary, “If elected and judges unelected, al and was downgraded to a quences of a sentence are.” things are no worse when I Was he born or made a law- to accept that the government in fact, only MPs are actually conviction of manslaughter. leave here in six years’ time yer? “My mother, who was a makes laws that impinge on democratically elected to their Which means, of course, he is What did he think about pro- then I will regard myself as strong influence didn’t their freedom, where they job while ministers are still in prison but it does also posed programmes where a having succeeded.’” approve of lawyers who she can’t park, the taxes they have appointed. “They are techni- mean a change in the way sentencing judge would con- to pay and so forth, but in cally members of the execu- future trials will be run. tinue to be involved in the thought were “Smart Alecs” I left him with a copy of Inside return the government has to tive, not the legislature,” says convicted man or woman’s who argued for whichever side Time which he has read and ensure that it gives them l Prisoner votes future? “I support the general paid them,” he says, “which Neuberger, adding, “We have knows all about. As he “The government has done idea of judges being more rights and freedoms against a muddled system. People browsed the pages he said, is of course true but it is the everything asked for by the involved so they see what the the government and those often talk about unelected “I’m impressed with the vol- way the system works.” Court of Human Rights except consequences of a sentence rights and freedoms are per- judges but I think there are ume of information, the vari- Neuberger studied science at in regard to prisoner votes.” are,” he says. “One of the odd fectly useless if they aren’t things that it’s sometimes very ety and the quality.” When I university which he admits he things about the traditional enforceable. And of course the diffi cult for MP’s to do because suggested “remarkable” as a wasn’t very good at and then Another case which aff ected criminal judge is the distance criminal law is part of the it’s short term unpopular, suitable adjective, he agreed prisoners was the Hirst case between the judge and the went into the city but, “If I was which the unelected judges happily. With that I promised same picture. In order to have asking for votes for prisoners jury during a hearing and the a bad scientist, I was a worse can do more easily because to make sure he received a a stable society you have in 2005. This was fought and distance between a judge and banker.” Eventually a friend things that are illegal and the they don’t have to worry about won in the Strasbourg Court the defendant aft er sentenc- regular copy of the prisoners’ suggested law. government has to have the losing their jobs.” of Human Rights. Why had ing. I mean, when I was a favourite newspaper. 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incredible testimony to that. Even rience of prison into his creativity, Conversations with Clare Richard Dreyfus and Tom Hiddleston most notably in the play Loot. As have performed in his drama ses- Orton says, “Being in the nick sions. Everyone gets touched by the brought detachment to my writing. Murdered magic wand of fantasy he wields. I wasn’t involved any more. And sud- Orton was the writer of such famous denly it worked.” Certainly his best award winning plays as Loot and Clare Barstow Hopes and dreams work was produced after being Entertaining Mr Sloane and ironical- Bruce has taken some of his work- inside. Another sketch unveiled by ly Islington Libraries now have the shops into the harshest prisons in the Leonie’s former neighbour Ann was Playwright hon- books on display in their museum. States and this country. He has trans- done by the Art Director of Call the It is 50 years since Joe was murdered formed many lives - and getting ‘hard- Midwife. oured in Pentonville by his lover Kenneth, as seen in the nuts’ to dance around the stage spout- Joe Orton’s sister Leonie unveils famous Stephen Frears fi lm, ‘Prick ing Shakespearean sonnets surely Up Your Ears’ and soon to be seen in deserves massive credit. It is 20 years picture in prison as part of 20 a BBC2 documentary Orton Laid Bare. year London Shakespeare since he set up LSW with Dame Workout celebration Dorothy Tutin with the remit that those inside would be rehabilitated On 25th October I was able to go up more effectively if they had skills, In rehearsals to Pentonville to see the unveiling of hopes and dreams. Bruce gives up so a picture by Leonie Orton, sister of the much of his time free of charge to the on radio. He has joined forces with famous playwright Joe Orton who project. Given he was a child actor National Prison Radio and has spent six months in prison himself from Canada, his determination in Joe Orton recorded the first piece entitled in the Sixties supposedly for defacing the face of growing cutbacks to Prison Tuesdays which will be aired short- the covers of library books by draw- Education budgets is praiseworthy. It feels strange being back inside a ly. The men’s original writing is also ing on them with his lover Kenneth prison aft er three and a half months being published by Methuen Halliwell. However during question- of freedom but as I’ve been invited Bloomsbury which will ensure that ing they were asked in such detail about by Jose, an Education Representative other drama students can read the their homosexuality it is thought they of the Ministry of Justice I feel safe work in the future. The talent of the were only given a prison sentence enough. We are all here due to the men is incredible given the harsh because of their illegal relationship persistence and dedication of Bruce circumstances they fi nd themselves as the defacing itself would not have Wall, Director of the London in. Deep in thought warranted a prison sentence. Shakespeare Workout. He is a char- ismatic fi gure who instills enthusi- Sketches Leroy, one of the actors, read some asm in his writers, performers and Artists were invited in to sketch the quotes by Joe Orton of his prison artists by his bountiful energy. men in rehearsal and it is the work experience as well as showing an of Glen Mendes which is being image of a defaced cover which is an When I fi rst met Bruce in 2001 at HMP unveiled by Leonie in the library at artwork in itself. Leroy is incredibly Cookham Wood I was impressed by Pentonville. I spoke to Glen and he articulate and is due for release his zeal and ability to enthuse even explained that he was really shortly. He has already been hired the least willing with his love of enthused by the men’s commitment to appear in a fi lm next month, prov- Shakespeare and drama. He encour- Bruce Wall, “zeal and ability” when he was sketching them. He ing that the project is working by aged my writing and asked such used to work for Universal Studios allowing us all to have the will to esteemed actors as Sir Kenneth and has mainly done set and produc- dream. As Bruce quotes from The Branagh and Juliet Stevenson to read Now he has linked forces with drama tion design. As you can see from the Tempest at the end of each session, my poetry as well as putting some of colleges such as RADA and sketches, they are really of a high “We are such stuff as dreams are my work on in the West End, around Goldsmiths in London to allow the standard and are excellent at show- made on.’ Britain and abroad. He has champi- men in Pentonville to do a recognized ing the work in progress. In her oned the idea that drama builds con- 12 week course and they are writing speech, Leonie spoke of her brother’s Clare Barstow is a writer and a former Artist Glen Mendes’ sketch unveiled fidence and his workshops are an their own work and performing it live insistence to turn the negative expe- resident of HMP ZZMMSS SSOOLLIICCIITTOORRSS Have you got a problem with alcohol? “Only YOU can decide” Prison Law specialists serving If drinking has cost you more than money and prisons throughout the Midlands you believe you may have a problem? We are here to help…

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an inverted pyramid and, beginning these very specialist issues requires My rather sad at the top, you appreciate the signif- a depth of analytical knowledge and Missing forensics icance of each level and the attrition appears to have been overlooked forecast is that we may between each level. during the audit process and, for a very well encounter Miscarriage may arise from what is significant period. Given that UKAS Likewise, one can see that, through- had audited and accredited these a miscarriage of justice not submitted rather than what is out this continuum, a series of services for some time will be cause based not on what is options, outcomes and choices is to for deep reflection. In effect, we cur- submitted to the labo- tion. In reality, we will never know be made. In very simple terms, the rently experience the worst of both because the final samples were not amount of evidence that makes its worlds: very targeted and often lim- ratory but on what is way to court is a small proportion of ited prosecution evidence being sub- Robert Green submitted nor perhaps even taken. the total evidence available. In the mitted for testing with no opportu- not. With many forms of forensic support, past, I have experienced where the nity for the defence to test their own ‘forensic’ case is built wholly from the theories. Of course, the external Over the past few years we have seen the scientist is trying to prove or dis- directed at the USA (James & Nordby, perspective of the prosecution. Of forensic provider is not aware of any calls for statutory powers to be given prove connection. Sometimes referred 2003), there are some parallels to be course, one would expect this - as the other evidence or of the full circum- to the Forensic Science Regulator and to as linkage theory, this principle drawn with the increasing use of police are a rather effective prosecu- stances of the case and so cannot warnings that standards of forensic can be used to provide a connection: ‘in-house’ police testing laboratories tion agency - but, in this context, who comment on anything other than the science are at significant risk. Whilst, in the UK, many of which are unac- looks after the interests of the inno- results of the test they have been of course, applauding the introduc- 1. Between individual and individu- credited and unregulated. Within cent? Who would be interested in directed to conduct. tion of a timetable to comply with the al, as in the case above. the NAS report, there is reference to submitting (and paying for) items Regulator's Code of Practice, it is, in 2. Between incident and suspect; more the cultural incompatibility between which did not support the prosecution I hope you will see that one of the my view, time to look more widely at simply linking the crime scene with forensic science and law enforce- hypothesis? This is particularly so real dangers here is not the quality the use of forensic science not only the suspect. ment. The report goes on to suggest given the current period of extreme of the science within the laboratory as an aid to securing a prosecution 3. Between one incident and another that publicly funded laboratories austerity which the police, and, for but, rather, the material that may be but also to support the defence. (in the case of DNA match). should be independent of and auton- screened out or the analysis under- that matter, others across the criminal omous with law enforcement agen- taken in-house (within the police Perhaps I can begin by explaining a cies. Despite the almost daily litany The evidence in its entirety (100%) service). Currently, several areas of little about the forensic process. of error from the USA, it seems the forensic analysis are not open to the Some readers may not necessarily UK are intent on following this The evidence which is observed (<100%) scrutiny of UKAS or the Forensic appreciate both the physical transfer model. Science Regulator. Consequently, mechanisms and also the somewhat The evidence which is then collected whilst the quality failings we have linear A-Z process from the crime To conclude, the issues which have Of this, the evidence which is then seen in the external provision (out- occurring until the presentation of the most potential for miscarriages 4. And submitted for scientific analysis jus- side supplier) - at least these are in evidence in court. Before this, of justice are, in my view: the link tice sec- the open and can be acted upon and though, perhaps I can give an exam- The evidence which has then scientific between value (both prosecution and defence) tor, face. remedied. Those analyses that are ple of how forensic investigation can 1. The non-submission of items which physical evi- The evidence that has then undertaken within the police service be biased by (a) non-submission, as may otherwise support the defence dence, victims, investigative value within In the past, if or, those which aren't undertaken at well as (b) inappropriate submission the context of the case hypothesis. suspects and the forensic evidence all are far less visible. of forensic material or (c) contami- The evidence 2. The over-targeted way in which scene of incidents. which is deemed was overlooked or nation issues within the laboratory. admissible some examinations are requested of other items in the case My rather sad forecast is that we may the external forensic supplier. Depending upon the par- might support another very well encounter a miscarriage of Just take, for example, the case where 3. Currently examinations being ticular context of the case, version of events, one could justice based not on what is submit- contact between two individuals is undertaken in non-accredited police then forensic science can help sometimes rely upon the ted to the laboratory but on what is alleged. This could suggest submis- laboratory to which the defence often provide these links as above. Very defence team identifying these not. In this sense, one cannot ‘regu- sion of other forensic/DNA material. have no access. often, the questions asked in foren- and further work being conducted late’ with or without statutory powers In this case, we suggest that the sus- 4. Under the present guise, a Forensic sic science are: on their behalf. With the significant what is not submitted in the first pect’s clothing would be a good shed- Science Regulator whose influence cuts in Legal Aid budgets, the number instance. What perhaps makes der of fibres. If contact had occurred seems limited to the external provid- (a) Did the item under examination of cases being submitted from defence things worse is that the defence may between both parties as is alleged ers of forensic science. This is despite make a mark at the scene? is dramatically reduced. Although I lack the experience and expertise by the victim, then you would expect the fact that the majority of forensic (b) Did the material found at the have no direct knowledge, neverthe- (even if they were funded) to look fibres to have been transferred/ work is undertaken within the police scene originate from the suspect? less I am led to believe that the recent through the unused material in a detected. The simple fact is though service itself. (c) Have these two items been in con- events at Randox were spotted not by systematic and effective way. For that the submitting body (most often tact with each other? and finally the auditors from UKAS, not by the example, how many of them would the police) will not agree to the exam- (d) What is the material? Forensic Science Regulator but by an know how to navigate the HOLMES ination of fibres - presumably based independent scientist commissioned exhibit system? Robert Green OBE is the Director of on cost. Nevertheless, if fibre work So, on the face of it, this seems a rath- by the defence. Without wishing to Undergraduate Studies in the School was undertaken and it was shown er straightforward way of thinking. prejudge the enquiry in any way one Reflecting on the situation in the of Physical Sciences at the University that no fibres had been transferred, might suspect that the errors around USA, the term ‘picking sides’ - pick- of Kent and has over 28 years of expe- then the findings could well support In reality, things can be rather dif- this are associated with calibration ing evidence - is sometimes used. rience working within the field of the defence more than the prosecu- ferent. Perhaps we can think of it as and standards. Being able to identify Whilst past remarks may have been forensic science.

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re-offend is patchy at best, and uation was a recurring theme the professionals involved in of the letters: “I have nothing Prisoners maintaining innocence decisions about release will to live for. I am getting more form judgements in ways that and more depressed” - this More information needed to bolster arguments for change reflect personal attitudes and was from a man in his eight- experience as much as they ies; “I am very restless and John Stokes (alleged) offence. ple, a prisoner may have lost grammes were ending, due to do any hard evidence. In these weep every day, realising how family ties as a direct result of research which has shown circumstances, it is perhaps unfair the justice system can A recent advertisement in The Parole Board also usually many years inside; and older that they increase risk. They not surprising, but is clearly be”; “I don't think I have much Inside Time asking for prison- expects a prisoner to have and disabled prisoners may are being replaced by pro- wrong that the mere fact of strength left for this uphill ers maintaining innocence to spent some time in a lower have little or no prospect of grammes which do not require maintaining innocence can struggle”; “At 43 years old, I write to us at Progressing security prison (Category C or employment on release. participants to speak about be given as a reason for not have accepted I will die in D) - where behaviour is tested Prisoners Maintaining Another serious problem is their offence. This is good recommending progression or prison.” Perhaps the saddest in a less strictly controlled that it is not clear how much news for innocent prisoners Innocence (PPMI) about their release. Here is an example comments were from corre- environment - before consid- weight is given, in practice, to who have been convicted of a experience, elicited 80 replies. from a probation report: “(Mr spondents who find them- ering release; but the Prison these pathways. sexual crime; but it remains One correspondent wrote: “To X's) continued denial and selves in a hostile world that Service insists on evidence of to be seen how well the chang- me, it appears that I have no minimisation gives great does not want to hear their reduced risk before allowing es will work in practice, and chance of progress or risk-re- cause for concern and should story: “Nobody in this world a prisoner to progress to a It appears that programmes for those convict- duction simply because I this continue I believe this believes me”; “I don't know didn't commit the alleged lower category prison. The ed for other offences have not, I have no chance will increase risk at the point where to turn or what to do, crimes and therefore can't result is to put an innocent so far, been changed. of release.” Notice that the no-one's listening.” discuss them.” prisoner in a Catch 22 situa- of progress or risk- phrase “continued denial” tion: to get his risk reduced It is widely believed that reduction simply indicates an assumption by PPMI thanks all those who The problems that this pris- the prisoner is being asked to expressing empathy for one's the report writer that the pris- have written to us and would oner is referring to come about admit to the crime! because I didn’t victim and showing some oner must be guilty. PPMI has like to receive information because a person serving a life insight into the motivation for commit the alleged persuaded the Parole Board about their situation from oth- or indeterminate sentence can The unfairness of this situa- the offence are themselves to stop using the phrase “in ers. Please write to us and we only be released if the parole tion has been recognised by crimes and there- indicators of reduced risk. denial” but it can still be will send a questionnaire. board believes that the risk of the Prison Service and it has Here, once again, the innocent fore can’t discuss found in prisoners' reports. Your replies will give us the re-offending is sufficiently responded by providing offi- prisoner is at an obvious dis- We received evidence in some low, and this is often taken as cially recognised alternative them. advantage. Not only is this vital information we need to meaning: if risk has been suf- pathways for reducing risk route to risk reduction not cases of attempts to bully a put forward effective argu- ficiently reduced. This matters (The Seven Pathways). These One correspondent was proud available, the prisoner's prisoner into changing his ments for change. because the prison service include such things as main- of his achievements in educa- alleged failure to follow this stance. One prisoner, typical needs some way of measuring taining strong family ties and tion and skills training, but path can be cited as further of many, wrote: “My first pro- reduction in risk, and for this improving prospects of he was told in an official evidence of continuing high bation officer said he would John Stokes is Chair of it has relied to a great extent employment on release. report: “all my courses I got risk. make me crack and admit Progressing Prisoners on successful completion of Working on these areas can mean nothing.” A few months guilt. He said I would never Maintaining Innocence (PPMI) progress from a B cat.” offending behaviour pro- be a way forward for some; but ago the Prison Service also In fact, evidence about what PPMI, c/o Compass House, 57 grammes, some of which not all the pathways are avail- announced that its principal makes someone who has com- Meridian Centre, North Street, require discussing the able to all prisoners. For exam- sex offender treatment pro- mitted a crime less likely to The mental effects of their sit- Havant, PO9 1UW 20 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017 “Winning the X Factor hasn’t changed me” Former prison officer Sam Bailey takes time out from new show to reflect on her previous job patrolling the landings of a British prison

I didn’t really do a Bailey’s prison would have in her X Skill Factor involvement, especially now The stigma attached to being a pris- lot of singing at work most have televisions. “I had mes- on officer is unfair. A lot of people - though I did sing sages from colleagues on different think of a prison officer as a big wings, saying so and so on H Wing stocky guy swinging a set of keys down the corridors sends his best and is really proud,” looking all hard. They’re not. They sometimes as the she says. “I had a lot of nice messag- come in all shapes and sizes and they es from people I’d been in charge of are there to help people in their care acoustics were great. which was really sweet. On the night to facilitate rehabilitation. The ser- When all the prisoners that I won the whole prison was vice has lost a lot of the more expe- banging on their cell doors. They rienced officers who knew how to talk were locked up I used to only usually do that for football to prisoners and build rapport. I’ve finals and midnight on the last day seen the skill it takes for an officer to sing as I patrolled the of the year. That’s around 700 pris- talk someone up when they’re at their corridors. I loved it. oners all banging at once for me. Can lowest ebb. The skill that takes you imagine that?” deserves applause and respect.” they were able to talk people down. I learned so much from the experienced people I worked with and I saw how they managed to get the prisoners’ respect.”

The moment Sam Bailey won the 2013 X Factor “Nobody took me seriously” Credit: Tom Dymond/Thames/REX What did her colleagues at Gartree think about her going on the X Factor? Erwin James ed the wings and landings and intro- Did she tell them she was auditioning? duced a new level of unpredictabili- “No, not at first. I didn’t really tell Even before Sam Bailey won the final ty for all those who live and work in many people that I was auditioning. of the 2013 X Factor singing compe- our prisons. I’d had the micky taken out of me a lot when I told people I was a singer “I loved singing in the prison corridors” tition her job as a prison officer was sam-bailey.com as good as at an end. She had been Talking people down and I don’t think anyone actually patrolling the landings and corridors Despite the evident problems across believed me. Nobody really took it Football mad On the night that of HMP Gartree in Leicestershire for the prison estate, Bailey reminisces seriously. I didn’t really do a lot of What went through her mind the three years. “Once I’d got through often about her old job. “I think a lot singing at work - though I did sing moment she knew she had won? “I I won the whole prison the first auditions I took a three about my old colleagues and how down the corridors sometimes as the was desperate to see Leicester play,” was banging on their month break,” she explains during tough it is for them,” she says. “To go acoustics were great. When all the she says. “That was the only thing I a lull in rehearsals for her starring into work every day not knowing prisoners were locked up I used to was excited about, but not just going cell doors. They only what you are going to be up against role in the new musical Fat Friends sing as I patrolled the corridors. I to see the lads play - I was going to usually do that for which opened at the Grand Theatre can be incredibly stressful and loved it. But then obviously I needed be singing at half-time on the pitch. in Leeds last month. “My colleagues demanding. But it can be a very some time off as the audition was on I was literally in my element about football finals and and the Governor were fantastic rewarding job when you look at the a day that I was supposed to be work- that, I couldn’t wait.” bigger picture. In terms of the pres- ing and I had no TOIL (Time Off In midnight on the last about it. But the further I got in the The impact of her win must have competition I wasn’t sure I’d be going sures, there are a lot of things you Lieu) left at all. I ended up owing day of the year. That’s have to do on a daily basis that could hours which I had to pay back. When been extraordinarily life changing. back. Then I remember at Boot Camp Life as a professional performer potentially be quite dangerous. In I won the X Factor I had a letter from around 700 prisoners having a conversation with a couple couldn't be more different than the Gartree where I worked I was in awe the prison saying I owed them of governors and asking for an offi- life of a serving prison officer. “It’s all banging at once for cial career break. They basically said of some of the officers I worked with. money.” The way they dealt with situations, been life-changing,” she says, “but me. Can you imagine it wouldn’t be in the best interests of it hasn’t changed me. It never has. I violent confrontations that could As a former prisoner I could imagine the prison or me for me to go back still live in the same house. I’m still that?” have been really serous, I saw how the interest that prisoners serving in after all as there was just so much in contact with most of the people I about my personal life, my family worked in the prison with and I still There must have been some chal- and where we live on the show.” like to do as much as I can for the lenging times as she walked the Prison Service and support the pris- landings? “The most challenging In the four years since Bailey won on officers. I have to say I take my hat part was not taking your work home,” the biggest talent show in the coun- off to anyone who works as a prison she says. “When you see stuff at work try the rates of violence, self-harm officer right now. It’s not an easy it’s so hard not to take it home, you’re and suicide across the prison system time. I want to be able to let the pub- wondering if that person’s going to have escalated to record levels. lic know, that what these men and be alive the next day. The best and Regimes have become more and women do is phenomenal. The pub- most satisfying part is when you see more limited as many of the most lic rarely get to see the value of the a prisoner start to change. You see experienced prison officers have officers, it’s all about what the pris- the light bulb switch on and when taken voluntary redundancy, leaving oners do, the problems, the drugs you see them trying and making a the prisons dangerously short of staff and riots. But the officers, it’s one of real effort you see them become bet- able to maintain effective control. the best of the public services and I ter people and you know something good is going to come from the sen- NPS (New Psychoactive Substances) “Nobody believed I was a real singer” think they deserve recognition for such as Spice and Mamba have flood- sam-bailey.com what they do. tence.” Insidetime December 2017 www.insidetime.org Comment 21 A journey through the Inside Voices All thieves and violent crimi- Moral low ground nals have committed acts of therapy looking glass abuse; their victims have been irreparably damaged too. Just M Sammon wrong, there are some very because they are not sex solicitors, academics, film pro- I imagined so many things I twisted, predatory offenders crimes it does not diminish ducers, and anyone else resi- wanted to do once I got out. within the VP community, and the effect they have had on I am currently serving a dents invite are able to visit And it’s all coming true. There I am not for one moment their victims. The reason that 30-month sentence for a the wing, socialise and learn is a life outside and it’s good.” defending them, but we are many VPs write in complain- sex-offence, yet I have never about work done here. Many not all the same. ing about being ‘slagged off’ tried to justify my offence or residents use the afternoon to I felt psychic as I looked round is that we are the only section to blame anyone but myself build ties with their offender the room at the residents of the prison population con- for my actions. There is no It beggars manager. -they’re all thinking I need to tinually vilified by other excuse for ANY crime, not only do my therapy. I certainly was belief that someone wrong-doers in a transparent sex-crime; so I absolutely con- I walked downstairs freshly thinking that anyway, and not attempt to convince them- cur with the sentiment that who has brutally shaved, scented with after- just to prove to the parole board selves, and us, that their own Inside Time should not pro- shave, and happy to meet the I’m no longer a danger but also crimes are less serious. It beg- vide a platform for prisoners taken another guests on my community’s so, like T, I will become stronger gars belief that someone who to make excuses for what they recent social day. “Yo Harold, mentally and will work harder human being’s life has brutally taken another have done, nor to express what’s happening?” smiled T, and smarter to materialise my human being’s life is regarded ‘twisted and sickening views’. is regarded more a friend and ex-resident, who dreams. If universities teach more highly than someone This should be a given and strolled onto the wing as if he students to think; Grendon highly than some- like me. They are welcomed contrary to the views of some owned the place (understand- teaches residents tolerance and into the main community, of last month’s contributors I one like me.

© Fotolia.com ably after spending 6 years that hard work pays. revered and free to occupy the have never seen any evidence here). “All good bro,” I greeted moral high ground over any of this occurring. Mr ‘name withheld’, wot dun Harold Mose and after a quick catch up he There are also other aspects to just a few commercial burgla- and all sex-offenders. was whisked away to reconnect life post-release -better family Maybe some readers should ries should maybe try to with other residents and staff. relationships, less impulsivity I don’t spend my time search- try to avoid speculation and convince the person who put Promising It’s funny how a few months and a clearer understanding ing for someone whose crime sweeping generalisation. One blood, sweat and tears into of freedom brings a glow in that we can achieve more than is worse than mine. They have constant that comes from the building up the business that Futures one’s skin I thought. we thought we could (among already been judged and that ‘nonce-bashers’ is that they he robbed, that they have not a list longer than a psycholo- is why they are in prison. My use the term ‘sex-offender’ as been affected because they You know you’re in Grendon And it seemed to most he was gist’s dictionary). I looked to crime is no better or worse a one-size-fits-all term that were not the victim of a sex-of- when you wake up with a lap- walking proof that Grendon my right and sat next to me than anyone else’s. It is all assumes that all people con- fence. Try telling the terrified top on your side, your calendar assists you to create a better was another friend and ex-res- relative. I am responsible for victed of a sex-offence are as old lady who cannot face leav- is full of event dates and you’re life. Towards the end of the ident who had visited from what I done. People need to bad as one another. This sim- ing her home since having her slightly dreading nine a.m. The afternoon the community room open conditions. What he said take responsibility for what ply is not true. This is like handbag snatched, or the fam- once just bearable group meet- filled with residents and guests. earlier in the afternoon rang they have done and stop try- saying that someone who ily who no longer feel safe in ings, however, become less Speeches were given by our in my mind -“Stick it out here. ing to divert attention from shoplifts a couple of DVDs is their home since being bur- intense; Open University essays therapy manager, some poetry I tell you summat, I’m glad I their own crimes. Some exactly the same as a violent gled, or the person who saved are typed up by those involved was read by residents and, of came here. It helped me loads.” should remember that those armed robber. No sane person for years to buy their dream in higher learning; and after course, T was invited to speak. who shout loudest usually would believe this to be true, car only to have it stolen, that drinking coffee with Ministry “After 10 years in prison, my Many days have passed since have the most to hide. yet much of the population of they are not victims. Tell these of Justice prison coordinators, time here was the hardest time then but I remember when I’m ‘ordinary’ criminals are inca- people that they have not been and criminology professors, I ever done. Probably the hardest feeling stressed and over- pable of acknowledging this abused in any way. I think or playing the steel pans along- thing I ever done” he explained. whelmed that I’ve come too far M Sammon is resident at simple truism. Don’t get me they might disagree. side prison staff during black “But I tell you now it set me up to turn around. The finishing HMP Littlehey history month one can be left to live a better life outside.” line is ahead and I’ll continue wondering what unique expe- working on my therapy targets rience will happen next… He was dressed in a business until I move on. And I hope, one ASN LAW suit (no blazer though) and day, I will arrive outside the gate, SOLICITORS One of these is the opportunity looked as though he was living glowing of freedom, with a Anthony Stokoe • Joel Binns for an ex-resident, if invited a better life -entrepreneurial message to share to those who Rasheed Nujeerallee by a community member or essence oozing from his pres- have lives awaiting them more member of staff, to visit the ence. “I’d like to thank the beautiful than they can imagine. Independent Prison Law Expert since 1994 wing for Social Day. Social Days residents here that helped me But just don’t know it - yet… are special afternoon hosted on my journey. I’ve been out ‘People Before Profit’ on each community twice a for nearly a year now and, I Continuing the Fight and Challenge Harold Mose, a nom de plume, year. Professionals such as tell you all, stick to your Despite Legal Aid Cuts probation officers, therapists, dreams. When I was in Grendon is a resident of HMP Grendon No Gimmicks just straight advice/representation for Male and Female Prisoners • Adjudications • Lifer/IPP Specialist • Recall • Parole • Judicial Reviews • Mental Health Law Expert • Human Rights - European & International Fixed Fee advice for • Categorisation • Cat A Reviews • Pre-tariff Sift/Hearings Do not Delay Call/Write Now Suite 8 Vine House 143 London Road Kingston KT2 6NH 020 8549 4282 NATIONWIDE SERVICE 22 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017

in 1986, when Ann Wetherall, the Prison Phoenix Trust's Inside Voices founder, was working on a research project into the spiritual experiences arising from imprisonment. Writing No honour amongst thieves to prisoners, as part of her research, led her to conclude Every man for himself in the new prison order that there was a spiritual hun- Grant Stanley tional. Most prisoners take these jobs for altru- ger among prisoners that was istic reasons, but prison staff have become not being met. She felt that, if Times have surely changed and gone are the more inventive in their information-collecting prisoners could be introduced days when there was an unwritten code of and interrogation techniques. This was to be to meditation and yoga and conduct between criminals in prison. There expected from staff, but what is disappointing then given support in their was a hierarchy amongst prisoners and the is the fact that some prisoners feel it is accept- efforts, they might well feel wings ran themselves. Bullying was not toler- able and necessary to volunteer information differently about themselves. ated, disputes were settled man-to-man in the to staff, implicating others. recess, baroning was moderately controlled The first regular prison yoga Prison has become every-man-for-himself and and theft from cells was unacceptable. It was the petty adherence to rules deprives us of classes officially started in always ‘us’ and ‘them’, when it came to prison feeling like normal human beings. 1989 and are expanding all the staff and they knew their place, i.e. to lock us Psychologists and Probation Officers increase time. Over 170 weekly classes up, unlock us and, if they were lucky, to catch risk because they believe some of us are becom- in approximately 87 secure us in the act of breaking a rule. ing institutionalised and is there any wonder establishments are now being when some of the pathetic rules are aimed at supported by the Trust. However, this is no longer the case. Bullying is uncontrolled, cell-thieves are rife and instead making us ‘good prisoners’ but not necessar- ily ‘good people’. Support is given through of shaking a man’s hand after a fair fight, you now have to watch your back for fear of a shank teaching, workshops, corre- I get it, I really do; protecting the vulnerable in the derriere. spondence, books, CDs and is important, reduction of violence is important, newsletters and also through How did the prison system adapt to these but have any of these new rules or the intro- the training of yoga teachers changes, and why did it change in such a dra- duction of representatives impacted self-harm Rising from the ashes for work in prison. matically short period of time? Necessity and numbers, reduced violent incidents or even a change of guard is the simple answer. reduced reoffending? The answer is a resound- Letter writing plays an impor- ing NO! So why make changes? When staffing numbers were cut by a third, the Dancing to the tant part in the Trust's work Prisons employ inmate councils to feedback ‘old guard’ took early retirement and a new and many requests come to the constructive opportunities to improve, but Trust every day. During the generation of staff were employed with no guid- ance from those that went before them. This rarely do they actually listen and implement last 12 months, they sent out drop in prison staff created a vacuum that the any suggestions and instead they make bizarre music of Yoga 3,341 packs of books and CDs. decisions that have no benefit to prisoners. system seemed to fill with changes for prison- ers, changes to the IEP scheme, additional rules Christmas card sale brings small The Trust's pioneering work Prisoners are losing backbone and governors imposed and staff reverting to adherence and are capitalising on this weakness to impose with prisoners and prison staff enforcement of all rules, governors creating a but beautiful source of funding has been given regular recog- even more restrictions and operationally bizarre network of information-suppliers in the guise rules. The system is long overdue a widespread for the Prison Phoenix Trust nition over the years. In 2011, of Insiders, Equality Reps and Listeners. it was awarded the highest meltdown so that self-important and supercil- Now, before all the Insiders, Equality Reps and ious governors will start to seriously engage Maggie Pernot-Deschamps years on and yoga is part of my accolade a voluntary organi- Listeners start jumping on their soap-boxes, with operational staff and prisoners. daily routine and life... This sation can receive: The not everyone is a tell-tale and the information keeps me focussed and calm, Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. they divulge to staff is not necessarily inten- Grant Stanley is resident at HMP Whatton Everyone knows about the ready for whatever prison life Phoenix, a mythical bird ris- throws at me... Thank you for The Prison Phoenix Trust is a ing from its ashes, and there- being there to encourage ways registered charity which is fore linked to the idea of of coping with prison life. It is independent of any religion. definitely working for me.” rebirth, while the ashes sym- It honours all religions and VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE bolize destruction and even works with people of any faith From HMP Liverpool: “At devastation. Let's listen to the or no faith at all. All its fund- Helping victims plan for the future and achieve justice voices of men and women who stressful times... I have been ing comes from grants and have ended up behind bars using the book and CD. It has donations. One small but Our specialist team are committed to helping victims of abuse and are experts in and yet have managed to leave helped me a lot... I have only beautiful source of funding bringing action against local authorities, such as social services, and residential the ashes of their former exist- been using it a week and it's comes from the sale of institutions, such as children’s homes. ence behind, to embark on the made a major difference in Christmas cards. Each year the arduous process of being myself. The yoga and medita- card is drawn by a prisoner. It Our dedicated team of male and female lawyers have a proven track record with reborn, to life and hope. tion have made me see life from reflects the Trust's work or can sexual, physical and emotional abuse claims. a different perspective. And it be an image suggesting hope Child abuse can take a long time to come to terms with and it can be difficult for From HMYOI Polmont: “I'm has made me take a step back and peace. All the prisoners four months into my first ever from self-harming. It has prob- who enter the competition victims to speak out about their traumatic experiences. Regardless of how long ago sentence and I'm finding it real- ably saved my life.” receive 2 free packs of cards. the abuse took place, you may still be able to make a claim. ly hard. Three weeks ago the In 2016, the drawing on the These words come from the Anything you say to us will be handled with the utmost levels of professionalism, guys from chaplaincy told me card was a snowman yogi, in about the Friday afternoon quarterly newsletter pub- the pose called natarajasana, sensitivity and understanding. lished by a charity that has yoga classes so I put my name the dancer. down. To my surprise I actual- taken the mythical bird as its symbol - the Prison Phoenix ly enjoyed it... 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Are we doing enough Noel Smith Many cell windows had On the 6th of October 1993, we were discussing prisoners to help our fellow citizens who then Home Secretary Michael and McKenzie called them have lost their way and ended been broken out over the years, Howard vehemently stated at ‘pigs’.” up behind bars, or are we sim- The report on prison living conditions by the so that when cells were vacated the Conservative Party con- ply creating more failure, Prison Inspectorate we highlighted in last ference that “Prison works. It This kind of mentality has no more crime, more prison and month’s issue of Inside Time - Catalogue of the pigeons would move in. ensures that we are protected place in modern society and more victims? If Governments disgrace, (p31) - appears to be to be rattling a from murderers, muggers and harms the very principles that continue to refuse change, if lot of cages (forgive the pun). But to people of ally put your bed together from the component rapists - and it makes many who penology is based on. Yet a society continue to refuse my era, who first went to prison in the 1970s, parts that had not been stripped and thrown are tempted to commit crime number of Whitehall officials rehabilitation, then we as a it just seems like nothing has changed. The out of the window. Many cell windows had think twice. This may mean that still seem to harbour this type democratic society will con- filth and degradation of prison conditions have been broken out over the years, so that when been with us for a long time, and nothing will more people will go to prison. of mentality. Even the former tinue to fail. cells were vacated the pigeons would move in. I do not flinch from this. We PM David Cameron, can be change until politicians are forced to confront Often you would be shown to a cell that was the problem head-on. shall no longer judge the suc- quoted as stating in 2015 that Any prison system that turns covered in graffiti, pigeon droppings, and some- cess of our justice system by a the thought of prisoners being out released prisoners with no times blood and human excrement. Your fur- Vermin fall in our prison population.” given the right to vote made accommodation, no job, no niture, if you were lucky enough to have any, Many of us will remember HMP Wormwood him feel “physically sick.” money and no skills, cannot would be in several pieces, drawers missing, Scrubs being condemned by health inspectors When we look at this statement What kind of message do be regarded as working. That doors gone or hanging off, and your ablutions for the atrocious conditions, not once but twice, we may loosely agree with these two statements portray is probably one of the many bucket would be as used and stained as some back in the late 1970s. Most, if not all, of the Michael Howard, in the sense to both citizens and its pris- reasons as to why we current- of the modern-day cell toilets. that prison works by keeping oners within the UK? Sir Victorian local prisons had vermin and cock- ly have a 47% reoffending rate roach problems, as well as very poor sanitation criminals off the streets, how- Winston Churchill once said within the UK. This fact alone, Too many bodies - “there is goodness in every from their 100-year-old sewage systems. ever, if “prison works” then shows that our prisons are It comes as no surprise that our prisons are in man’s heart, we just need to Wading through pools of raw sewage during why are so many ex-offenders failing on an unprecedented such a state, to use a biker’s term - our prisons find the key to unlock it.” So, why the slop-out years was not unusual on a lot of committing further crimes scale. If we continue to fill our are being ridden hard and put away wet, there are we, as a civilised society prison wings. I remember when the rule was and coming back to prison on prisons with dejection, gloom, is no respite where repairs (even if budgets an unprecedented scale? not attempting to do just that? that prison blankets were washed or exchanged were to allow) can be done, no down-time misery and pain, then we will every 7-years! continue to fill our streets with where deep-cleaning can occur. If you pack The limited data that is cur- Our prisons more criminals - that is a fact. our system with too many bodies, cut the budg- rently available to me shows Blood and excrement ets and privatise the maintenance contracts so that the UK had a 47% reof- should be places of Conditions were so bad in YOIs, that when When we look at the 95,000 that profit is the marker on whether repairs can fending rate during 2005, remanded to Ashford Remand Centre you were hope, rehabilitation plus prisoners within UK pris- be carried out, then you will have what we have compared to Norway, who had often expected to actually make your bed. I - a broken and dilapidated system with filthy ons, we need to be asking a 20% reoffending rate in the and purpose, and don’t mean sort out the bedclothes, but to actu- and crumbling infrastructure. ourselves this - when these same period. So, if our prisons ultimately work for people leave prison do we really are working in the sense want them to be angry or reha- of deterrence, punishment the many and not bilitated? I know which I and rehabilitation, then why would prefer, so let’s take a are the UKs recidivism rates the few. so much higher than some of chance and put rehabilitation our Western counterparts? If any prison is to truly work, before punishment. Our pris- rehabilitation has to be at the ons should be places of hope, The answer lies within our top of its agenda. There needs rehabilitation and purpose, society, where a majority of to be ‘tough on crime’, ‘tough and ultimately work for the UK citizens still have a “lock- on the causes of crime’ many and not the few. em-up-and-throw-away-the- approach, to tackle the on-go- key” attitude. To quote Richard ing failures within our UK “Change is the morally right Burgon (Inside Time August prison estate. 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After several weeks of a num- ber of small items going missing From over the wall the students got together and confronted the teacher telling him that he should punish the Terry Waite writes his monthly column for Inside Time student and if he did not they would all leave and his work I am often very angry at some of the injustices would come to an end. in this world. Angry at the way thousands of The teacher listened to their Terry Waite CBE kids around the world never have a chance in life. Angry at the fact that although there is request and asked all the stu- plenty of food in the world millions go hungry. dents to meet that evening. He Angry when I see people whose home has been told them that most of them When I read an article I often wonder where broken into cry at the loss of what few valuables were wise and should be the writer is when he or she is writing. If you pleased that amongst all their they had. Angry that some politicians think have a curiosity about me then let me tell you lessons they had learnt the that by locking people up for years on end they I am somewhere in the heart of rural Suffolk importance of honesty and are solving the problem of crime. Yes, there are Second chances abound in the classroom not a million miles away from Highpoint. If © Deposit Photos that they clearly knew right many things that make me angry but if I were anyone in that establishment is reading this from wrong. And such was to translate that anger into violence I too would then you may be interested to know that each their wisdom that they were deservedly be behind bars. It is a fact, believe time I drive past the jail I think of you. Not you free to leave his studies as me or not, that eventually anger does more Tales of Wisdom in particular because obviously I don’t know they had much to offer the harm to those who harbour it than to those who you are but I do think of those who are wider world; indeed they whom it is directed against. Our man on the inside tells it like it is spending time inside and I wonder if you read could leave and teach others Inside Time. Sid Arter Unfortunately one of the stu- as well as learn elsewhere. Anger is a normal human dents was not too honest and The house I live in was built well over 500 years amongst other ‘crimes’, used He then announced that the ago and, although across the years it has been emotion but it need not The dishonest to steal food, bed linen and one amongst them who had adapted, some original features remain. There destroy. With the right under- books. His fellow students taken things was not free to are ornately carved beams which are reputed student found out and told the teacher leave - “He doesn’t even know to have been installed in this house when Bury standing and approach the and they asked that the stu- right from wrong, and who There was once a famous will teach him if I do not? I will Abbey was destroyed at the time of the dent should be thrown out or flames generated by this force teacher and people came from allow him to stay here even if Reformation. You wouldn’t expect me to support punished. The teacher did terrorism or acts of violence and I don’t but if need not burn but they can far and wide to study and stay all the rest of you leave.” with him. The students lived nothing and when later the anyone is tempted to point fingers at Islam warm and make life more student was caught in a simi- because of some of the terrible things that have at his home and slept in dor- Tears flooded the face of the mitories in the grounds and lar act, his colleagues com- happened in recent years it’s as well to remember tolerable for all of us. dishonest student, for all each day would have lessons plained to the teacher again. that Christians have been savage one to another desire to steal had vanished on life, philosophy and right- And again the teacher did across the ages. Hanging was commonplace - such was his learning from Take extreme forms of anger that lead to murder. eous living. nothing. this day. and drawing and quartering virtually the order When another person is murdered something of the day when the beams were fitted in our in the murderer dies also. One may be so pos- house. Violence can be caused by many factors. sessed by anger that at the time one does not see what a destructive effect it is having. In Years ago I remember a hostage who, when he recent years I have met with former members was locked up, could not control his anger. You of some of the violent groups that operated in might reasonably argue that he had something Ireland during the height of the troubles. Years to be angry about! However, whenever a guard later, some of them have met relatives of those came in to bring him food the hostage lunged who were killed and then have realised how at him despite the fact that he was secured to terribly destructive their acts were. Well, the the wall by chains. What happened? Well he good news is that forgiveness is possible and, was savagely beaten time and time again by although the dead can’t be brought back to life, guards who were having none of it. As I said, something positive can be done. Restorative you could argue that he had a just reason to be Justice brings together those who have com- angry but his way of dealing with it was futile. mitted crimes with their victims. It’s not an It simply brought him further pain and suffering easy process but time and time again it has to add to the pain he already felt as a result of been possible for the victim or the victims rel- being chained up. atives to understand more completely the per- petrator and for that person themselves to Recently I published a new book entitled ‘Out understand more deeply the effect their actions of the Silence’. It’s a book of reflections I have have had on others. It’s a damn difficult process made across life and is a mixture of narrative but has led, in many instances, to something and verse. In speaking about anger I wrote the positive coming out of what seems to be an following: impossible situation. Anger is like a consuming fire Anger is a normal human emotion but it need Seeking all whom it may devour. not destroy. With the right understanding and Do not extinguish the flames totally approach the flames generated by this force But warm yourself need not burn but they can warm and make By the gentle glow of the embers. life more tolerable for all of us. There is not a living soul who does not experi- By the way, I do wish you all a very Happy ence anger. It’s a normal human emotion and Christmas even though it may not be the best no human being is exempt from it. I have known Christmas you have had. I’ve spent several a number of very well known people who have Christmas days chained to the wall so I do chosen to go on an anger management course know what it’s like! just to be able to get some degree of control over what can be such a destructive force. 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tle harder sometimes. It means the category A and CSC reviews. It is Parole Board can be more satisfied hard to see why they should not be Unlawful Legal Aid cuts that they are providing fair hearings. subject to the same kind of safe- They can rely on good lawyers to guards. provide advice to their clients which Still waiting for guidance from MoJ and Parole Board Parole Board members might other- What should people do if they need wise have to provide. They can rely help with one of these cases now? on the communication chains which Andrew Sperling are not available to prisoners. It is possible that more information will be provided in the coming The fourth Lord Chancellor in four Prisoners can weeks, particularly if the MoJ, the years, David Lidington, has with- Legal Aid Agency and the Parole drawn an appeal to the Supreme seek legal advice in Board accept that they have a respon- Court against the Court of Appeal’s the interim period even sibility to provide it. They could ruling that several cuts to legal aid engage with prisoners who are affect- for prisoners were unlawful. It has if legal aid is not yet ed as well as their lawyers. Prisoners taken over six months for this deci- available for their can seek legal advice in the interim sion to be made. period even if legal aid is not yet cases. available for their cases. A Statutory Instrument is now being drafted to reinstate legal aid for: Similar considerations apply to Prisoners should be able to make 1. Pre-tariff expiry reviews before the Category A and CSC reviews. They informed choices about what to do Parole Board; are important and often complex with their cases. They may wish to 2. Category A reviews; reviews. They bear a lot of similari- carry on with their reviews. They The Supreme Court 3. Close Supervision Centre reviews. ties to parole reviews. They rely on may decide they want to postpone dossiers of evidence, some of which them. Prisoners who have had will involve disputed psychological It is likely to take up to three months reviews in recent months without advice. The Court of Appeal decided They explained the importance of evidence or contested facts. Opinion before the legal aid cuts will be reversed. legal advice or representation might that the failure to provide legal aid pre-tariff reviews for prisoners serv- evidence can and should be chal- This means that prisoners who need argue that they have been unfairly created systemic unfairness. If a sys- ing indeterminate sentences. They lenged in appropriate cases. legal help with these cases from tem is unfair in February 2018, it is acknowledged the problems that can disadvantaged. February 2018 should be entitled to Prisoners might want to gather their unfair in December 2017 and January arise in these cases if prisoners are own evidence. Unrepresented pris- legal aid if they qualify financially. Providing reliable information and 2018. Both the MoJ and the Parole unrepresented. The scale of this prob- oners are disadvantaged in many guidance is an essential part of a fair Board have a responsibility to be lem has been masked by the willing- ways. Some of these prisoners will The situation is a lot less clear for system. It will be a great shame if pro-active and provide answers. The ness of some agencies to provide free have learning difficulties, suffer from people who need help before legal MoJ has let this unfair situation drift representation. Some prisoners will officials decide that doing nothing aid is restored. There are reviews mental illness or be vulnerable in for far too long. They have spent a have borrowed money or called on some other way. and hoping the problem will resolve which will be happening within the significant amount of money in legal family members to pay for legal rep- itself is the best response. next three months. costs defending the indefensible. resentation. The Court of Appeal judgment does not deal with the new separation At the time of writing, neither the Andrew Sperling is the Managing The Parole Board provided evidence Representation by good lawyers helps centres because they were created Ministry of Justice nor the Parole Director of SL5 Legal, 39 Warren in the case brought by the Howard both prisoners and the Parole Board after those proceedings. They will Board have issued any guidance or Street, London W1T 6AF. League and Prisoners Advice Service. - even if it might make their job a lit- involve similar decision-making as Specialists in Prison Law

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Kimmett Edgar needed; they should clarify the duties of officers to improve consistency; and the prison should do more to celebrate prisoners’ achievements. “Prisoner participation is a term which means the development among prisoners Fresh insights of an active, instead of a merely passive, An aim of these forums was to provide manag- participation in the planning and manage- ers with fresh insights into prisoners’ experi- ment of as many aspects as possible of ence. We think they achieved this. For example: their community life. It is yet another tech- nique for helping to develop self-responsi- One looked at how to treat prisoners as respon- bility and self-respect.” sible adults. A man described visits and Commissioners of Prisons - 1957 explained that if he left his assigned seat, his visit would be stopped. When his wife brought Sixty years later much has changed, but the their young children, and the children became goal of a prison regime where people are able disruptive, she had to bring them back to the to take responsibility for themselves and their table. If he tried to discipline them, staff would environment remains just as important. bring the visit to an end. He said his children knew that he had to behave, just as they did. With the support of the Milo & Violet Cripps Prisoners ask for, “Commitment, transparency, respect, His role as father - his adult status - was com- Charitable Trust, Prison Reform Trust (PRT) ‘a chance’, to work with us, follow through, and trust” promised. His story shows how the residents’ launched our active citizen forums because we experience and knowledge can broaden our wanted to tap into the expertise of people who understanding of a system that is too often live in prisons and ask them how to improve them. Prisoners can be taken for granted. The purpose is to discuss a specific area of Another forum brought a fresh perspective to prison life and suggest improvements. Each the challenge of making best use of time inside. forum meets four times, building up a picture We asked them what they would tell a young of the problem and its causes. We look at what part of the solution man who continually got into trouble. The the prison is currently doing to address the members made clear that their first step would problem. And finally, the group agrees on what be to ask him what he wanted out of life. They the prison should do to tackle it. On behalf of ‘Active Citizens’ forums allow people would let him know that they had been in his the forum, PRT submits a report, with recom- shoes. Turning to more practical advice, they mendations, to the governor. in prison to demonstrate expertise suggested getting him interested in education or workshops; giving him a job to minimize We ran them in many types of prison, includ- time banged up; and helping him to set targets. ing locals, prisons for women, and training A problem might be caused by a combination prisons. We have just finished our tenth one, of government policy, prison management, After the four sessions, the forum’s report is Enabling responsibility so this is a good time to share the news with how officers run the wing, and the behaviour sent to the governor, listing their suggestions Each active citizens forum is a creative process readers of Inside Time. The topics we consid- of other people who live on the wings. The for improving the prison, as well as the evi- that belongs to its members. They set the rules ered included: preventing fights and assaults; clean environment forum explained that when dence on which those were based. The gover- for working together, discuss the problem and debts in prison; keeping the wing clean; build- cleaning materials were in short supply, it was nor or a senior manager are invited to meet the its causes, and come up with their own solu- ing a caring community in prison; and making hard to do cell cleans. People on the wings members to discuss the proposals and the next tions. No one knows ahead of time what they the most of time inside. For most groups, the wouldn’t challenge others who litter. Prison steps for the prison. will propose; they are free to decide on what theme was chosen by the governor. But two officers didn’t take pride in keeping the wing to recommend. As the groups worked, members chose their own topic. clean, and standards fell. At that meeting, one forum member said, “We offered both criticisms and solutions in a pos- don’t want this to stop when PRT goes. We need itive and constructive spirit. Their views were Solutions to problems The third session discusses what the prison is all of this wing’s support, because if you put valued as a contribution to the task set for the The first meeting of the forum involves an open currently doing about the problem. For exam- something into it, you will take pride in it.” forum. discussion: what the problems are, who are ple, members explained how delays in making affected, and how the problem harms people. repairs raised frustrations and contributed to An important test of the method is whether Sixty years on, we’re still challenged by the Consider, as an example, the group who looked wings looking run-down. Asked what they their recommendations are implemented. As Prisons Commissioners’ vision for prisoner at keeping the environment clean. They explained wanted from managers, they said: “Commitment, one member said, “We need to see some change participation. PRT’s active citizen forums con- that when one person was discharged, their transparency, respect, ‘a chance’, to work with to believe that this prison wants to progress.” tribute by enabling members to take responsi- cell wasn’t cleaned before a new person arrived. us, follow through, and trust.” bility for their prison community in a new way. So, we asked one forum why change is hard to We hope that the active citizens programme “You walk into a cell. It’s dirty. The furniture The final session begins with a blank sheet: achieve. Reasons they gave included: a lack of keeps growing and that we can continue to is broken. There’s graffiti. There is no cleaning it’s up to the members to come up with solu- resources, managers and staff not being learn from participants in these forums in the done between prisoners.” tions. The forum agreed to set up ... “a regular accountable, and indifference to their needs, future. working party to clean, paint and maintain and a lack of hope among prisoners. Another member said: “You go in a cell and the wing.” They proposed that managers it’s like a crack house.” should make a big push to improve cleanliness, The same group suggested solutions: managers Dr Kimmett Edgar is Head of Research at the and set a standard which the wings would then should listen to prisoners’ perspectives, espe- Prison Reform Trust and is coordinating the The second session looks at who is responsible. be able to maintain. cially in targeting resources where they are most Active Citizens project Miscarriage of Justice? MASZ PROBLEM Forensic Accountants ASHLEY SMITH & CO Z PICIEM? CONFISCATION PROCEEDINGS Our experienced and dedicated team are specialists in UNDER POCA! 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Longford Prize Winner - Safe Ground The judges’ citation: Founded in 1993 by Antonia Rubinstein Acclaimed fi lm director to and Polly Freeman, and working through drama, dialogue and debate with serving prisoners, Safe Ground has an outstanding and independently-verifi ed track record of reaching the angry deliver Longford Lecture 2017 young men who both commit crime and are victims of crime. Its ‘Man Up’ and ‘Fathers Inside’ programmes challenge those Veteran fi lm maker whose fi lm I, Daniel Blake won the Palme d’Or at the in both the adult and the youth estate to develop a greater 2016 Cannes Film Festival, and the 2017 BAFTA for Outstanding British self-awareness and resilience that will lead them to change the Film says he hopes to “rattle cages” when he gives the fi fteenth annual entrenched patterns of their lives. Longford Lecture this month Outstanding Achievement Award: Niki Gould The judges’ citation: We were hugely impressed by the work of (Editorial Note: Jim m y Ken Loach is director of televi- Niki Gould, head of women’s community services at the Nelson O’Connor was born into pover- sion and independent fi lm. He Trust since 2010. Supporting inmates through the gates, and is known for his socially critical ty and eventually became a standing shoulder-to-shoulder with them as they confront the small-time criminal based in directing style and for his challenges of rebuilding their lives, she combines the calm Notting Hill. He was found socialist ideals, evident in his guilty of being involved in the fi lm treatment of social issues purposefulness of a model professional with what one colleague murder of a man known to receive such as poverty (Poor Cow, describes as ‘a below-the-surface ferocious, iron-willed stub- stolen goods. O’Connor pro- 1967), homelessness (Cathy bornness driven on by a keen sense of social justice’. tested his innocence. The date Come Home, 1966) and labour for his hanging was set for his rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Outstanding Achievement Award: David Jolie birthday in Pentonville in 1942. Navigators, 2001). Loach's fi lm The judges’ citation: David Jolie does extraordinary work on When the then Home Secretary Kes (1969) was voted the sev- Herbert Morrison received enth greatest British fi lm of the the front-line of some of the toughest parts of London, with information that O’Connor was 20th century in a poll by the some of the most damaged and needy people in the capital. His not in fact the murderer, he British Film Institute. Two of involvement with St Giles Trust started in 2005 while he was reprieved the condemned man his films, The Wind That still a serving prisoner, and he has subsequently taken on days before the drop day and Shakes the Barley (2006) and challenging leadership roles there working with homeless O’Connor’s sentence was com- I, Daniel Blake (2016) received prison leavers, and as part of the Outliers programme that muted to life. While in prison the Palme d'Or at the Cannes O’Connor educated himself by Film Festival, making him the engages with those who have fallen through every other safety reading widely and taking a ninth filmmaker to win the net. As his nomination puts it: ‘David is living proof that ex-pris- correspondence course in writ- award twice. oners are the very best people to help others rehabilitate’. ing with the Ruskin Trade Union college. Upon release he began a career as a profession- al writer and wrote the fi rst of The Pinter Poem the BBC’s Wednesday Plays. In all he wrote 13 television plays. An award for poets in prison In 1994 another man confessed to the murder on his deathbed, The inaugural winning poem: Ken Loach but the confession was never made into an affidavit - so O’Connor’s conviction stood Prisoner Ken Loach change the framework of soci- until his death in 2001 aged 83.) Charles Sharp - HMP Wakefi eld ety to give people different choices. A long time ago I went Someone like me delivering the Do not condemn me for all that I do This is a huge responsibility. into one of the London prisons lecture, is not about making Fundamentally I am the same as you When Jon Snow asked me to and met one of the fi rst writers an expert speech - it’s about Try not to censor all my words do this it was hard to refuse I worked with - a man called trying to provide a wider pic- It’s only the chatter you’ve often heard Jimmy O’Connor, who was as I have total respect for him. ture really. I hope to rattle a few Do not intrude upon my thoughts It is also a chance for me to sentenced to hang for murder cages. That would be a good Antonia Fraser Or in the trap of prejudice you’ll be caught learn something. Most of the and was within a few days of thing to do, that’s the important execution in Dartmoor when In every life mistakes occur people in the audience will thing - to put diff erent people “Poetry was central to the life of Harold Pinter he was reprieved. He served In that, I’m just like him or her understand the issues, and in the dock. We know who the and thus became central to our life together,” 11 years of his life sentence, I’m paying the price for what I’ve done probably know more than me. people are in the dock today, says Antonia Fraser, widow of the Nobel Prize- and while in prison he taught Once I’m out let it be gone What I hope to do is disentan- but I know that if I and others winning playwright and poet Harold Pinter. himself to write and became Don’t hound me forever for one misdeed gle the roots of the problems had not been so lucky - we too In his memory, and as Frank (Lord) Longford’s a playwright. Allow me to truly, hereafter, be free - and look at how we can could be there. daughter, she has established the Pinter Poem Award. “As an actor,” she says, “Harold par- Burn me not with the prison brand ticularly enjoyed reading poetry aloud. In this Let me go and simply shake my hand Stevens So lic itors way, we oft en read from the poems printed in I am not just things I’ve done Deton Solicitors Deton Solicitors Incorporating Rose, Williams & Partners Inside Time. This led to discussions about poet- Like you, I am a mother’s son DEFENDING YOUR CAUSE!!! DEFENDING YOUR CAUSE!!! Criminal Litigation & Advocacy Specialists ry, prisoners and what part writing poems All that I want is a chance to be free Experienced Representation in Prison Law, Prison Law Experts might play in their lives. I had the inspiration You’ve no idea how much that means to me. 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this very difficult circum- stance.” (Criminal lawyer) Inside Voices

Access to justice means ensur- ing that defendants under- Young man - say NO to Crime! stand and can participate in their own criminal justice Important message from Charles Salvador (formerly known as process. This is challenging Charles Bronson) who last month married his third wife, former in the best of circumstances, Coronation Street actress Paula Williamson given we often put defendants in a secure dock, and use com- plex procedures and lan- guage. There is evidence that forcing or encouraging defendants to appear on video compromises their effective participation. Respondents to our survey, including magis- “Little interaction” in video courts

© prisonimage.org trates, were concerned that being on video changed defendants’ behaviour in two Video ways, both negative. “You can only see their face [on video] and there is little inter- action. In my experience unless justice game you have time with the young person to prepare, it is very Convenience is the lowest common hard to tell the difference

between surly teenage behav- Credit: Andrew Parkin denominator of access to justice iour, a total lack of confidence and/or significant learning Charles Salvador Is crime worth it? Let’s say you make £1 million Penelope Gibbs articulate their defence. Video difficulties and a lack of under- and serve 10 years, is it worth it? 10 years of courts jeopardise and compro- standing.” (YOT officer) nothing. Believe me, money can’t buy a life and mise that relationship. There Advice for young offenders the truth is very few in prison made much Convenience is great when all are technical problems which In some cases, being remote money. Most crimes are pathetic, committed other things are equal. Making mean that defendants trying made defendants feel they “What would I say to youngsters who are about by idiots. Prisons are full of idiots. They have services easy to access is to talk to their lawyer over were not part of the proceed- to take the road to crime? Simple! Put the brakes to be clowns to keep coming inside. Look at on. Stop and think! The facts are simple, it’s a important. But not if it com- video can’t hear or see well, ings and disengage. In other me, 4 decades lost! All for what? If you follow promises the values of the road to hell. Don’t do it. and the service often breaks cases, being remote made my footsteps you’re following a madman so service itself. Our new report down. The fifteen minute time defendants frustrated, and think! It’s your life, your shout. It’s one hell of - Defendants on video: con- You can never get that time back. It’s lost, for- slots allowed for consultations robbed them of the ability to a gamble. veyor belt justice or a revolu- ever gone. A waste of life. Imagine it, for years, are not nearly long enough, gauge the atmosphere of the tion in access - suggests that decades. Try and work out the damage and particularly when it is the first Look your mother in the eyes and ask yourself, video justice may threaten room and the impact of their pain it will have on your family life. It’s actu- meeting between lawyer and do I really want to put her through hell? Do I access to justice. behaviour. Lawyers said ally horrific. I’ll tell you what it does: it destroys client. The Lammy report really want to throw away my freedom? It’s defendants were more likely lives and turns people into heartless souls. highlighted that defendants your choice and only yours. Do you expect Video courts (where defend- to swear and walk out. Those When you’re young you think it’s clever it from BAME communities too girlfriends to wait for you? Don’t be deluded. ants appear on video into with mental health problems, makes you feel tough, you’re with the boys often distrust the legal profes- They don’t. Why should they? You’re a loser court from prisons and police learning difficulties and/or doing your porridge. Big tough guys but your sion. Our research suggests that’s why. Whilst you’re inside, she’s outside stations) have been presented autism are doubly disadvan- mothers at home crying her eyes out. She has video justice is a recipe for having a party and who can blame her. Your as a huge step forward in con- increasing that distrust. taged, particularly if their to save up every month to visit you in all weath- venience, and thus access to disability is “hidden”. ers. She has to be searched and security mates all have a job earning a wage. Going on justice. It is true that prisoners checked to get in to see you. Your mother is just holidays, buying nice clothes and enjoying life. on video avoid the apparently Being remote Without effective participation another statistic of your crime spree. She’s a You’re banged up in a stinking cell lumpy and disgusting “sweat box” vans, made defendants there is no access to justice. victim too. Imagine her visiting you for 20 to smelly. You’re behind that steel door coz you’re and hours waiting in a court And without evidence, we 30 years. Imagine the stress, the worry, the a loser. You may have a son or daughter. What cell for a fifteen minute frustrated, and have no real idea how great is pain. Her son’s throwing away his life. It hurts about them? You betrayed them. They needed appearance. Vans transport- robbed them of the the negative (or positive) her. Then she dies broken hearted and you’re you. You chose crime now do the time. See what you lost. By the time you get out those kids are ing prisoners regularly arrive impact of video hearings on still in prison. You weren’t there for her. You grown-ups. You lost out on fatherhood. at court late, thus delaying ability to gauge the participation of defend- never were. You may be refused to attend her hearings and sometimes keep- ants. Prison to court video funeral. Then when it’s all over, who visits you the atmosphere of You walk out of prison to a world that left you ing witnesses waiting. And links have been running for 17 then? If and when you get out, you go to visit behind. Your hairs grey, your eyes no longer the inconvenience prisoners the room and the years. In that time no in-depth the grave, what can you say? shine. You’re a bitter old man. That’s your fear most is that they will be research has been done on the impact of their future, that’s if you make it out. Lots don’t. They transferred to a completely impact of video on defend- This is only a small part of the prison world. It’s cold, cruel and wicked. There is no glamour die in prison. They may get stabbed up. They new prison at the end of the behaviour. ants’ participation, or on the court day. So for prisoners, or achievements in a prison cell. Then you need may die of stress, bad diets and some turn to outcome of their cases. Nor video courts are definitely to think about the violence, the rapes, the sui- drugs. It’s a cr*p existence. Do yourself a favour, “On those occasions when the has anyone challenged the more convenient. As well as cides, the depression and the madness. It all turn your back on it. Life’s so precious. Priceless. video link works, we have very convenience argument. If (maybe) saving the courts ser- rubs off on you. Years and years of emptiness, Enjoy it. So that’s my truthful opinion on why limited time. We often use a lot travelling to court is inconven- vice money. of it shouting for the custody hopelessness, being told when to eat, when to crime don’t pay. ient, why not improve the get up, when to go to the exercise yard, when staff at the other end to hear journey rather than abolish But is anything lost for the us on the video screen in the to shower. Being told when you can see, when If after you read this you decide to step into the the physical court hearing? gain in convenience? A poten- video room, and then come in to sh*t, when to sleep. Being controlled. Cr*p world of crime, then don’t be moaning and tially huge impact on genuine and speak to us. When the food, cr*p clothes, cr*p bedding, and a cr*p crying when you get your collar felt and land access to justice? As it is, defendant is produced on the life. This is what comes with crime. in the big black pit of doom. So many youngsters defendants frequently feel come into this world whining and moaning other end, he seems remote, Penelope Gibbs is Director of excluded from our complex You may get a short sentence. You may get a long ‘poor me’. Blaming the world, human rights and I often find I can’t be sure Transform Justice criminal justice system. Good if he understands my empathy/ one or you may get life. Whatever you get you’ve cr*p. Well welcome to the funny farm, your advocates are the gatekeepers sympathy/other emotions The full report can down- lost your life. No birds, no luxuries, no sweet straight jacket awaits.” to that system - they advise which are essential to cultivat- loaded from: smells, just a lot of porridge. That’s what you’re and support their clients and ing a working relationship in www.tinyurl.com/ybwjb4j7 looking at. A boring existence, soul destroying. PS. Do it for your mum, say no to crime.’ 30 Comment // Focus www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017 “We didn’t meet in some cocktail bar…”

Peter’s story the chocolate Hobnobs on and taking part in the offer that persuaded him. Restorative Justice movement “Whatever it was, I agreed.” I understand completely that On 6 March 2002 Peter Woolf He says. “All of a sudden I was victims can feel guilty as well. committed his last crime. He’d important. I was the first per- For years I’d blocked out any spent over 18 years of life in son in Pentonville to go sense of conscience or guilt prison on various sentences, through the process. Other about my behaviour. But sud- committing his first crime prisoners said I had to be mad denly in that room with Will when he was just ten years to do it, ‘what you doing meet- the barriers came down. The old. A lifestyle of drugs, vio- ing with these people. They blocks fell and a transition lence and calamitous crimi- might attack you, they’ll be took place. The process RJ: A chance to share pain and say sorry nality had brought significant

© Deposit Photos furious’ etc etc. Well the day dropped from my head, into highs, but more significant came, and my bravado left me. my heart, and I started under- lows. “It was my job,” he says, I was walking to the meeting standing what these people “I never thought about the with a prison officer and I were talking about. Basically impact of my criminal actions. started having big doubts. Just they’d said to me, ‘glad you’re Restoring hope I was just a criminal.” His last as we got to the door of the here because you’ve caused crime however would change room for the meeting I turned us a lot of pain. And now his life forever. and was about to say, take me you’re here we want to share Expansion of Restorative Justice delivery in back to my cell, when the door our pain with you.’ At the end “I was in the house I was bur- opened and Kim Smith, who of the meeting I understood Thames Valley and London prisons gling and looked in the ward- was facilitating the meeting about another human being’s robe for a clean set of clothes. and Wormwood Scrubs. By this stage I was a drug-ad- Inside Time report dicted alcoholic vagrant. My Normally it is offender supervisors who make life had gone from Park Lane Thames Valley Restorative Justice Service is the referrals so any prisoner interested should to a park bench. In this house working with the Restorative Justice charity talk to their OS. The RJ facilitation is undertak- I opened the wardrobe and Why Me? to deliver RJ to all of the five prisons en by either Why Me? for the London prisons saw a huge pair of shoes. I in the Thames Valley and seven London pris- or Thames Valley Restorative Justice Service thought wow, the person who ons. The charity was founded by Will Riley, an for those in the Thamse Valley. Both organisa- owns this place must be a real- Islington businessman and victim of crime. tions have the Restorative Justice Quality Mark. ly big guy. As I thought it, in Will was burgled by Peter Woolf, who was then There are some criteria for the kind of cases real time, a voice behind me a long term career criminal with a catalogue of that are being sought. These are: says, ‘What are you doing in convictions and prison sentences behind him. my house?’ I turned around l Where the perpetrator either pleaded guilty and there was Will Riley, six or now accepts responsibility. Will met Peter in prison in a Restorative Justice foot four, ex-university oars- meeting and had the opportunity to tell him l There is a named victim. So drug dealing or man and fit as a fiddle. So we how he felt about what Peter had done. He thefts and frauds from institutions aren't in had this big fight, I hit him on Peter Woolf (left) and Will Riley challenged Peter and got some answers - then the frame. However if someone was hurt or the head with a piece of his his life changed for the better. He could open threatened in the course of that offence, then cooker, we rolled down a flight was stood there. In I went, and pain and how I was responsi- his front door without fear. Following the meet- they would be an identifiable victim. of stairs. Then I picked up a there were two of my victims. ble for that pain. Suddenly flower pot and smashed him ing Peter changed his thinking and his ways l That the offence is not a sexual one or domes- I recognised Will Riley imme- these people took on the role after years of crime and dysfunction - which over the head with that. All diately.” as representatives of all the tic abuse. We do take referrals for these kinds the blood was pouring out of meant that hundreds more people did not of cases, but only where the victim approach- people I’d ever harmed, all my become his victims. This is the power and the his head. Eventually in the For the first forty five minutes little life.” es us first, not where the initial referral comes struggle he managed to potential of Restorative Justice. from the prisoner. Peter played the game, dis- manoeuvre me out of the prop- playing phoney body lan- At the end of the meeting the The new project is funded by money from Why erty to stop the place getting guage and saying what he victims expressed an interest People in these and other prisons might be smashed up. He was just try- Me?’s region of the Prison Service. It seeks to approached to take part in RJ that is nothing thought they wanted to hear in Peter’s life, asked him to get referrals from the following prisons: ing to protect his home. I got “talking the talk,” with no real give up drugs and crime, and to do with this project. This could be because arrested later for another bur- Aylesbury, Brixton, Bullingdon, Grendon and there's an RJ organisation working in the pris- connection to the process. asked if they could keep in Springhill, Huntercombe, Isis, The Mount, glary on DNA and once again Then Will Riley startled him. touch with him and hear oner’s home area, or because a victim has come I’m back in prison. About a Onley, Pentonville, Wandsworth, Woodhill forward and requested RJ. “I said to Will Riley, ‘Will, about his progress. “I’d burnt month later I had a visitor when we first met…’ - then he all my bridges by then,” he from a policeman called Kim just went mad. He said, ‘When says, “no-one wrote to me. At c Smith. He was doing some we first fucking well met? We first I made changes to my life M . IVOR . FARRELL random research for some- didn’t meet in some cocktail because I felt I owed it to these Northern Irish Solicitors thing called ‘Restorative jus- bar. You broke into my house… people. But as I made the tice,’ he said. ‘We’d like you to You did this, you did that.’ effort, doing courses like • Criminal Appeals (Sentence or Conviction) WE’RE HERE TO HELP take part’, he said to me. I said Then he started telling me of Turning Point and RAPT, I • Parole Hearings Please call us on nah, not for me, and I got up all the emotional turmoil he’d started to get very positive and walked out. • Proceeds of Crime/Confiscation Hearings 028 9023 7053 or 028 9032 4565 been in ever since. Here’s this affirmations. From then I • Police Interviews under PACE throughout or write to us at big man, telling me that every never looked back.” NI and in Prisons A fortnight later officer Smith time he puts the key in his 129 Springfield Road returned and said to Peter that door to go into his home, his Peter went on to help Will • All Criminal Defence Cases Belfast BT12 7AE if he was half the man he hand trembles uncontrollably Riley found the charity Why • Judicial Review & Human Rights Cases thought he was he would be IT’S THAT SIMPLE!! because, even though its irra- Me? In 2009 he published his • Family Law prepared to meet with the vic- tional, he thinks I’m behind first book - The Damage tims of his crimes, “And you’ll • Injury Claims within the Prison it. Then he turns to his wife Done (Bantam Books, £10.99). answer the questions they • Welfare Issues who was sitting next to me He is currently the director of want to ask you. Only you can and says, ‘please forgive me Peter F Woolf Consultancy • Prison Visits Arranged within 24hrs give them closure.” Peter says for allowing this to happen.’ I limited and is a professional he wasn’t sure if he was feel- didn’t understand his guilt at motivator, public speaker [email protected] www.mcivorfarrell.co.uk ing magnanimous or if it was first. Now, through studying and addiction specialist. Insidetime December 2017 www.insidetime.org Comment // Focus 31 “He hadn’t been able to “They were keen for “I wish I could have had work due to his injuries” me to stop taking drugs” the courage earlier”

Lewis’s story trouble when you come out.” Victor’s story ally I just say yes or no. I was Mo’s story This was the question I feared He hadn’t been able to work shocked by the reaction of the the most. It took me four due to his injuries. He had a victims whose houses I had After I did the months and four A4 pads to I just wanted to meet fractured skull and brain inju- burgled. It was totally differ- In 2015 I approached Sycamore Tree pro- write the next letter. My mind up with my victim and ry. I’ve pretty well put some- ent from what I had expected. my offender supervi- gramme at HMP Bullingdon I sor about RJ. I’d been in prison went totally blank when I was see what I put him and his one out of a job and earning a They didn’t shout at me or get was asked if I wanted to do RJ. trying to write. I felt the fam- family through and how it mad. They were interested in many years by then. I had a living. His job involved help- This was in 2012. I was 53 ily were watching me. I didn’t affected him. We didn’t plan me and why I had done it. I lot of guilt I wanted to explore ing people in the community. years old and had been in and want to sound as if I had an on doing it. We was all drunk was relieved when it was over, and it took me a lot of time to I’ve been writing letters to him out of various prisons and excuse for my behaviour. All and ended up taking his but I found it liberating that be honest about what I’d done. through RJ at his request to let other institutions, including they knew was from court and belongings and beating him him know what I’m doing. He they had been interested in children’s homes, for most of The victim’s family never got it was lies. Therefore, telling up. After that I just felt sorry for wanted to know why we done me and my plans when I was my life. I mostly did burglaries the chance to know what I’d the truth was important. I him and wanted to meet him. it. If I see him when I get out just a nobody. of houses but also shoplifting, done. I was anxious to start would wake up thinking about I’ll acknowledge him and say, taking cars and fraud. Most of I don’t wanna keep coming They were keen for me to stop with - and thinking more the letter. ‘how’re you doing?’ it was for drugs. about myself. I was asked to into prison. I’ve been in prison taking drugs. One of them asked where some of the prop- write a letter of apology to the I was relieved they were going before. I wanted to change my He’s a good guy. He’s got a I told the prison I was inter- erty was that I had stolen, but victim’s family. It took me a to read it as they wanted to know ways and not keep committing good heart and means well. I ested in RJ but then immedi- I had thrown it in the canal long time to write it but it was what happened and I hope it crime. Drinking isn’t the prob- just wish we’d met differently. ately regretted it. I worried and so couldn’t return it. One only one page. helped them. It was a slow lem for me. My anger and my In my cell before the meeting about the reactions of the of the victims, a woman, told process. Some members of the temper is. I want to change I didn’t know what to expect. victims who I thought would me that she felt better having The family said it was difficult family had read it and others things for me and my family. I thought about pulling out go mad at me. But once I’d said met me as she was at home at to see me but had some ques- were keeping it for when they When I first met my victim, I but decided I might as well I would do it I felt I couldn’t the time of the burglary and tions they wanted me to were ready to read it. was scared of the confronta- actually meet him and learn back out. But the closer it got she had been worried about answer. They said they didn’t tion. I thought he’d go off on something from what I’ve to the date of the conference, being on her own since. want to put pressure on me, I wish I could have had the one and be really angry. I was done. My mum is pleased that the more it bugged me. I but hearing that made it hard. courage earlier. I was cowardly. surprised he’d come and met RJ happened, pleased I actu- couldn’t sleep and it was on Restorative Justice came at a They were finding it very dif- me. My mum was with me. He ally met him and am sorting my mind 24/7. I could do something right, by time in my life when I had ficult and all these years later it out. My mum is happy I’m telling the truth. There’s a lot came in. I told him how sorry decided I’d had enough of visit the grave every week and on the right track. I went to meet the victims of of guys who find it hard to be I was. He didn’t go off on one. prison. I had other support but are still grieving. Then I two of my burglaries with my honest about what they’ve He was chilled about it. RJ was one of the things that thought that I wake up every probation officer and my hous- done. The truth is ugly, dis- I want to go into schools and has helped me to stay away morning and don’t think ing worker. The victims were gusting and hard to take in. It He felt sad and sorry for me other places in the community from drugs and crime and about him or his family. already there. It was nerve was a way of me dealing with being in prison. He said “I with him if he wants to, to tell start a new life before it was wracking. I’m not used to what I’ve done by keep- hope you do well while you’re people not to go down too late. They are really decent people. in prison and will stay out of the same path as me. speaking to people and usu- Their top question was why? ing the truth to myself.

Who said ‘Happy Christmas’? For many people Christmas is one of the happiest seasons of the year. But for many it is not: it is a time of great sadness. And that may be true for you and especially so if you no longer have contact with any family.

And yet for Christians, above all else Christmas should be a time of celebrating the birth of Jesus: God’s gift of a Saviour to the world, demonstrating His great love for us.

Whatever our circumstances, let us focus this Christmas upon Jesus as we bring our worship to God, giving thanks for His greatest of all gifts.

But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, ‘Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.’ Matthew 1:20-21 NIVUK

We pray that, alongside the pain of being isolated this Christmas, you will also experience the peace, hope and joy of knowing Jesus as your Saviour.

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are making progress sorting we are already trying to do that, media cannot watch oral hear- 2) Independence of the Parole 3) Diversity of Parole Board out some long-standing issues. and some of the ways I think ings like they can with court Board The Parole Board of 2017 is not Nick Hardwick we could do things better: hearings. People that don’t The Parole Board is an ‘inde- very representative of the Parole Board We have almost eliminated have a copy of the decision pendent court-like body’ but communities it serves. I think Chairman our backlog. Radio Shows have to guess why a decision sometimes people are con- we will make better decisions We are working with National has been made and that oft en fused about where we fi t in the if we can draw from the expe- In the Past We are also working hard to Prison Radio to make leads to news stories that criminal justice system. rience and insights of mem- reduce the IPP population, ‘Understanding Parole’, a aren’t true. That isn’t clear or bers from all parts of the com- Backlogs, prisoners waiting too People oft en ask things like: working with prisons and pro- series of radio shows explain- fair to anyone. munity. We have too few mem- long for their parole decision, “What’s the diff erence between bation to make this a smooth- ing how parole works for pris- bers from black and minority mental health issues. These probation and the Parole were issues that were written er and faster process for peo- oners. These will be aired from At the moment, if victims ethnic communities and we Board?”, “What is the PPCS?” about in the Board's fi rst report ple that are well past their 11 December. We are also attend a hearing, they have to work to make sure that future of its work in 1968. Sound tariff . I know sometimes peo- working with BBC Radio 4 to leave aft er they have given a members recruitment It is important not just to be familiar? They may well do, ple with an IPP sentence feel make a documentary on victim statement. Should they improves this. because these are still things like giving up hope. Well, in parole that should help the be able to stay for the whole independent but also to be that we must focus on to improve 2016/17, 46% of all IPP deci- public understand what the hearing? Should a prisoner's seen to be independent. We Starting a Conversation the experience of parole for sions resulted in release and Board does. friends and family? The pub- will think about our relation- We need to start a conversa- prisoners and their families. 24% in progression. The num- lic? At a practical level, there ships with other parts of the tion on how to improve parole. ber of IPP prisoners yet to be I have never been are obviously limits to this system to ensure we work effi - Prisoners are a big part of that When the Parole Board started, released is down from 6080 in because hearings are held in ciently together but do not do conversation and we would oral hearings didn’t exist. In 2012 to 3107 now. happy that the Parole prisons - but I think that if we the same work twice or con- appreciate your ideas on how that fi rst year, the Board dealt Board is based in the do not make the system more fuse our independent respon- we can work to make parole a with less than 100 cases. A panel There is more to do of course. Ministry of Justice open, all the public and media sibilities. fairer, clearer system. of about 12 members would We have too many adjourn- have to go on is media reports ments and deferrals, we want headquarters and I from the time of a trial about So please write to me at the make decisions sat round a It is also important that we are to speed the system up more what a prisoner was like then Parole Board with your ideas: table with very little informa- am pleased we will be seen to be independent of pol- tion about the person whose and we can do more I think to - not what they are like now Nick Hardwick, Chair, The moving out of the MoJ iticians. I have never been future they were deciding. improve our decision making. and the progress they have Parole Board, 52 Queen Anne’s building to our own made. Nothing is going to hap- happy that the Parole Board Gate, London, SW1H 9AG, or is based in the Ministry of Prisoners didn’t have the The Future offi ces next year. pen quickly about this and write to Inside Time and get a opportunity to speak to Parole There are three longer term there will be a formal consul- Justice headquarters and I am debate going there. Board members to talk about areas we want to work on to tation process but I am inter- pleased we will be moving out Nick Hardwick is Chair of the their own experience in pris- make further improvements Decision Letters ested to know what readers of of the MoJ building to our own Parole Board for England on and what plans they had and we are going to consult It is good that prisoners are Inside Time think. offi ces next year. and Wales for the future. They were only on all of them. I would wel- given their parole decision given the result and were not come prisoners’ views as part letters but prisoners have given the reasons for the of this - you can either write often told me they are often Parole Board’s decision. to me at the Parole Board very difficult to understand SPECIALISTS IN PRISON LAW, PAROLE DELAYS, directly or tell us what you and they need someone else EQUALITY CLAIMS, PERSONAL INJURY, Present think via the letters columns to explain them. We will work Kesar & Co CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE, IMMIGRATION, The Parole Board has changed in Inside Time: to make these letters simpler CRIMINAL APPEALS AND DEFENCE. a great deal over the last 50 and clearer. We also think that S O L I C I T O R S years. In 2016/17 there were 1) Openness and transparency victims and the public should CRIMINAL DEFENCE SPECIALISTS: 7,377 oral hearings and 16,866 There is a famous quote that be able to know why we make cases dealt with on the papers. says, “if justice is to be done, the decisions we do. A lot of 1. Offences committed in prison There are now about 245 mem- it needs to be seen to be done.” information about individual 2. Historic offences bers and prisoners are able to I think that quote applies to prisoners and victims would 3. Extradition give written representations, the Parole Board. We can do have to be kept private but I speak for themselves about a lot more to provide informa- think we could make much PAROLE the progress they have made tion in diff erent ways to make more information available We are the Parole Hearing specialists with experience totalling more than 25 years! at an oral hearing, and have a confusing process clearer to than we do at present. a detailed written explanation prisoners, victims, and the We will get you an oral hearing and work with you to ensure that you can either of the Parole Board’s decision. public. Oral Hearings progress or get released. In special cases we take active steps to have you re- The Parole Board is a ‘court- leased into rehab as an alternative to open conditions. As we promised we would, we Here are some of the ways that like body’, yet the public and We specialise in difficult cases for lifers and IPP prisoners and, when possible, we do not hesitate to challenge refusals by applications for judicial review. 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will receive. If you can, ask Advice Bureau that can help not need to go back too far but someone to check it over before you to complete the application list your most recent education The Careers Lady you send it. forms. Don’t forget to ask for experience - attending educa- help from members of your tion classes in prison will be l If you are completing a writ- family or friends. most relevant here, particularly ten job application form, prac- if you have passed any exams. The fi rst step through the door tice your answers on a blank Preparation is the key piece of paper fi rst in case you - particularly if this may be l Think about the references to your future make any mistakes. for future work you will need to supply. They cannot be any family members l Always always use black ink l On a blank piece of paper but could include anyone that summer bedding plant season as the employer is likely to want write out your employment has known you for some time as well as those larger Garden to photocopy your form. history - use the most recent and can give you a character Centres that want help picking fi rst. You will need to supply reference. Your Personal fruit and vegetables. l Complete the information the company name or employ- Offi cer may be willing to supply on the form in CAPITAL LETTERS. er, the address as well as the his/her name for you to All these are golden opportu- The information you give will dates you started the employ- include. nities for anyone willing to be much clearer and readable ment and when you fi nished work in areas of work they this way. - particularly giving the reason l If there is a section on ‘other would not have an opportunity why you stopped working at related experience’ you may to apply for as a full time po- l Answer all the questions with that job. You may also need to have computer skills, languag- sition but would most certainly relevant information to the job give a short list of responsibil- es you speak or machinery or contribute with work experi- you are applying for. This is ities and key roles that you did equipment you are skilled at ence that can be included on in that position. very important because it using. your CV and job application shows the employer that you forms in the future. l Prepare alternative answers have skills and knowledge l Lastly, don’t leave any sec- if you have not had continuous about the job. tion blank and make sure that Applying for these jobs will employment. If you have no all the information you supply Golden opportunities through the seasons almost certainly be the same work history, have not worked © Deposit Photos l You might want to apply for is accurate. Read it over several through a job application form for some time or been in prison these temporary jobs if they times or ask someone else to but local employers may simply for a long time you will still are ones you are only interested check it over before you submit interview applicants to make need to put something in the Seasonal work in but, remember it may be it. Don’t forget to photocopy sure they have the appropriate employment history box. something you had not thought it if you have handwritten it. Temporary positions can provide work personal qualities to work as about before and be surprised Your local library will often part of a team, be good time- l Prison - write down any jobs experience and employment history at how well it inspires you to provide photocopying services keepers and reliable. you did in prison. All these will think about a long term career. you can access. There are a number of times be retail jobs advertised in shop be relevant to show any em- in the year where temporary windows or through agencies General tips if you need to ployer that the prison have l Keep a photocopy of the form Remember, your form may not work becomes available. This that deal with employers that complete a job application given you responsibilities dur- if possible as a reminder of the be the only one that the employ- is called ‘seasonal work’ and just want extra help during the form ing your prison time. information you have provided er will receive so make it stand may off er you a way into work Christmas rush. During the in case you are called for an out. This is your fi rst step to which can help you to gain summer Garden Nurseries are l The application form will l Record information regard- interview. This also helps when getting an interview and a job. experience, increase the op- almost always looking to re- provide an employer with a ing your education. You will applying for other jobs. portunities for further work or cruit temporary staff who can fi rst impression of you. So you just to earn extra money. help by working in need to do your best to make l Remember there are advisers I’m happy to give general advice on job searching and career Greenhouses, replanting seed- sure your form stands out from at the Job Centre or Citizens planning, however please feel free to write to me at Inside Time At this time of year there may lings in preparation for the any others that the employer for any specifi c advice or guidance you may need.

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34 Information // Education www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017 Why prison Joint Winner - Poetry Winner - Short Story Winner - Essay Crime is of no concern ‘The Professor’ education when u get the chance Michael - HMP Kirkham to learn A Game of Thrones fan gets drawn into English ‘Connor’ - HMP Winchester history, thanks to an unexpected friendship matters with a terribly well-spoken older prisoner. The past is a foreign country The cell was filled with books, volumes of They do things differently there A rudderless boat

You are never too old to learn every kind piled high against the tatty graffi- © Deposit Photos tied walls of his single pad. Or too clever Sarah-Jane - HMP Lewes Aye when we were all young “House of Stewart you were after, if my mem- All of us wished we could do ory serves me well,” he said as he rummaged Coming from a family where education was To mark the second International Day of Something better through one of the literary mounds. neither valued nor respected, I entered the Education in Prisons, we asked Inside ‘care’ system and was placed into residential “Fascinating, you know, how much of actual Time readers to submit poems, short sto- And those that tried and tried homes where education was not promoted. history finds its way into these supposed ries and essays addressing the question: Whilst it just seemed to leave you A clear message was conveyed to me, that works of fiction. Lifted straight from scholar- “Why does Education in Prison Matter?” Dry of water to let the river of no-one expected me to achieve anything ly text, most of it.” We received dozens of submissions in Thoughts flow worthwhile in life whatsoever. [...] I became each category, and a panel of PET staff I spent the next 45 minutes listening to this angry with society and bitterness coursed and volunteers whittled them down to And those, who just had it made bespectacled, scruffy old man lead me through my veins until it seemed to corrode my whole spirit. I had many aspirations, yet the strongest. Every winner received a It seemed found it dead easy through a magical world of royal courts, no ideas of how to reach any of my goals in book of their choice, up to the value of To do a brilliant pass to aristocratic feuds, forbidden romance and The man on the wing battlefield horrors that rivalled anything any life. Like a rudderless boat, I drifted through £15. If you see your name here and have life causing as much pain and misery as Who’d bang in the winning box-set had to offer. not heard from PET, please get in touch I could to those around me, in some attempt Past me in goals as head hung low with our FREEPOST address. I sat transfixed. I had no idea that ‘this’ was to alleviate the pain I was feeling. In spite of I’d walk home for dinner history. low levels of confidence and self-esteem, I was a very selfish person. Joint Winner - Poetry But all of us have a faucet When he finished he simply looked up and handed me the book. In life it may just seem the Runners Up: Mark, HMP Wayland, Michael, Taps turned too tight “All yours old man.” HMP Kirkham But, to learn how to draw And not to fight I could feel my face turn scarlet. I just looked at him. What was I going to do with it - batter Congratulations to all our winners! If you Would’ve really won many have a passion for creative writing you someone round the head?” An auld gunslinger’s fight might be interested in a distance learning course to develop your talents - ask your Runners Up: Sean, HMP Stocken, Jaime, HMP And why I find it so great education department how to apply. To learn now I’m older Thorn Cross, Adrian, HMP supplied Have patience to eat all my Scrummy veg for dinner My cell – my study Is that learning opens your Life to something so much Bigger then being dragged Into the gutter courtesy of HMP Winchester behind The locked door

I get out and meet other

© Deposit Photos Guys wanting more than The drab shite life of crime Art is Plan and Form And I’m going to learn from them Try with this pen paper and brushes Alan - HMP Stocken Of mine Art is Plan and Form And paint a bright future Created inside doors Up in the stars Compartmentalised for sure Because pictures shock all sorts And I’ll never forget the boys So I start with a line Behind bars A steady Staedtler 6 is fine Who broke away Allow the scene to slip from mind From guns and grenades Through fingers we shall find And dance a cool tough ballet © PET On the paper scribbles wait Tip-toing, without a sound Outlines of Caper Learning how to love, to be free Start a degree with PET Left for later History Involving 1 and three schoolmates Philosophy Last year 50 people in prison were able to start a degree inside without the burden of a loan, thanks to a partnership between Prisoners’ Education Trust, the Open University and the Garfield So clever Pen and Mighty Sword Socrates How now I wield both Weston Foundation. And we are now recruiting for the 2018 intake! The funding covers the first J.C. I never knew the words we use 60 credits of Open University study, roughly equivalent to half a year at undergraduate level. Could make us seem so close There are a number of options available, including: You can do anything dudes And now that I can read • The Arts • Science and Health • Languages And dissuade this young man Lovely ladies too Close the door it’s • Business and Management • Social Sciences • Sport and Fitness I can use this Education, in relation • The Environment • Youth Justice From this place in incarceration The end of the word To let him know Cut your new keys To be eligible, you should have already completed an OU Access course or be able to demon- The way to go To freedom strate the ability to start studying at that level. You must also have between six months and eight Till he becomes a man Forget Huxley’s sad ending years remaining on your sentence at the time you start the first module. Now I know his plan To his Brave New World and To find out more, speak to your education department. You will need to register on the module Sorry son Find a brave new classroom. with the OU before 11 January to be part of the February 2018 intake. Insidetime December 2017 www.insidetime.org Information 35 Inside Drink & Drugs News Smoke free prisons Drink and Drugs News (DDN) is the monthly magazine for those working with drug and alcohol clients, including in prisons. In a regular bi-monthly PRISON Ryan Harman One question that we have heard regularly is REFORM Advice and Info Service Manager whether banning smoking in prisons is a column, editor Claire Brown looks at what’s been happening lately in the TRUST breach of Human Rights. There is actually no substance misuse field. www.drinkanddrugsnews.com ‘right to smoke’ recognised in our law or by the It has been impossible to pick up a copy of Hobnobs. My gay and recovery he explains, or it could be to European Court of Human Rights. Some people Inside Time in recent months without being identities were at odds and any other area of life - consum- have argued that a smoking ban breaches struck by one thing - the impact of the move to Claire Brown even now, nine years on, I’m erism, materialism, the way Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998 which smoke free prisons is being felt across the pris- DDN Editor feeling conflicted.’ you relate to romantic partner- is the ‘right to a private and family life’. on estate. Reactions have been mixed - though ships - ‘those subtle forms of However, it is more complicated than that. most smokers are understandably upset by the He goes on to describe being addiction, whereby your identity Article 8 is a ‘qualified right’ which means it change, some have been glad of the incentive We talk so readily about the on the recovery community’s and wellbeing are attached to can be restricted if needed to balance with the to quit. There are mixed reactions from science of addiction and how ‘wider margins’ and says, external phenomena’. interests or rights of others. On the other hand, our brains are wired, but ‘there’s a sense of homeless- non-smokers too- some pleased about the Article 2, the ‘right to life’, is an ‘absolute right’ potential improvements for their health whilst recent contributions to DDN ness - where do I belong?’ For Beck Gee-Cohen is all-too which means it cannot be taken away under others concerned that the subsequent unrest have made us think more Mark, art became the central familiar with this idea. He now any circumstances or for any reason. Therefore, about the value of connection strategy for recovery; a way of trains people in all kinds of is far from ideal in a system which is already any right to smoke that might come under and the need to belong. reframing addiction and organisations to be supportive under pressure. Article 8 can be restricted if it interferes with recovery identities and of their LGBTQ+ colleagues, another person’s right to life, such as harm to ‘As a gay man in recovery, my engaging in dialogue about but he talks from the heart This change has been taking place in a staged health caused by second hand smoke. challenging stereotypes. ‘Art own treatment experiences about being a trans person in process since NOMS announced their commit- helps me feel good about clearly demonstrated that the recovery from addiction. ment in 2015, with Wales and prisons in the Most importantly, if you do not feel that you “one shoe fits all” approach myself, gives me a reason to South West being the first to make the move are getting the support you need to cope with doesn’t work,’ Mark Prest told get out of bed in the morning ‘When we have to hide our last year. YOIs, Mental Health Units and high these changes, make sure you raise this with us. ‘To my knowledge I was and a purpose for living,’ he says. authentic self, when we are security hospitals have also been smoke free for healthcare and/or prison staff and use the the only out gay in the rehab. not what society says we should some time. The policy is national, and includes internal complaints procedures if necessary. It’s since felt to me that my This need for connection in be, we turn to drugs and alcohol all prisons in the public and private estate, for sexuality and its relationship an alienating culture is central for relief,’ he told me. ‘We might men and women alike. The process is expected to my alcoholism were simply to Russell Brand’s new book, do things we wouldn’t normally to be completed by the end of March 2018. ignored by my counsellors. I ‘Recovery: Freedom from our Addictions’. ‘We’re all on the do - and a lot of that is about You can contact the Prison Reform Trust’s advice exited rehab with much of the As prisons go smoke free, a variety of support scale of addiction,’ he told me, finding acceptance and team at FREEPOST ND6125 London EC1B 1PN. hurt and harm from my failed should be available through healthcare includ- relationship hangovers still and explained that he’d relieving the pain of being not Our free information line is open Monday, ing psychosocial interventions, nicotine firmly in place. Post-rehab I’ve written the book to get to grips wanted and not seen.’ I’m Tuesday and Thursday 3.30-5.30. The number replacement therapies such as patches and come to think of this as feeling with the thorny problem of hopeful that the articles will is 0808 802 0060 and does not need to be put lozenges, and medication if needed. If you do like a pile of broken biscuits ‘being human’. The addiction encourage a more open-heart- on your pin. From 2nd January 2018 we will be not wish to engage with healthcare, electron- instead of a full packet of might be to drugs or alcohol, ed approach to treatment. discontinuing our Tuesday afternoon session ic cigarettes and patches should also be avail- and replacing it with a Wednesday morning DDN News Round-up able on canteen. session from 10.30am to 12.30pm.

Opioid emergency Bets are off Public Health England is US president Donald Trump has declared the country’s opioid crisis The government has announced a ‘nationwide public health emergency’ and said that he is ‘mobi- that it intends to reduce the reminding all eligible people in lising his entire administration’ to address the situation, the White maximum stakes allowed on prison and their family members House has announced. Last year more than 2m Americans had an Fixed Odds Betting Terminals addiction to illicit or prescription opioids, with drug overdoses (FOBTs) as part of its gambling to get their flu jab. now the leading cause of ‘injury death’ in the US, outnumbering review. Known as the ‘crack cocaine both traffic and gun fatalities. There were more than 52,000 drug of gambling’, the controversial The flu immunisation programme offers protection against the effects of overdose deaths in 2015, with the White House expecting 2016’s machines currently allow users flu to as many eligible people as possible, particularly those most at risk. total to exceed 64,000 - a rate of 175 deaths per day. to bet up to £100 a time. The In 2017/18, the flu jab will be offered to those aged 65 years or over government will now consult and those aged six months to under 65 in clinical risk groups. Dark days on cutting the stakes to as little The UK is responsible for almost 10 per cent of global ‘darknet’ as £2, while other measures Hygiene is also an important way to avoid catching flu and preventing its sales of fentanyl - making it the largest seller in Europe - according include stricter advertising spread. Remember to carry tissues and use them to catch coughs or guidelines and revised codes of to the Oxford Internet Institute’s ‘darknet mapping project’. The sneezes, bin the used tissues as soon as possible and then wash your US accounts for almost 40 per cent of global trade, followed by practice for online gambling. Canada and Australia at 15 and 12 per cent. While China is respon- ‘Given the strong evidence and hands and kill the germs. sible for just 4 per cent of sales, this doesn’t necessarily mean that public concerns about the risks of high stakes gaming machines China is not the ‘ultimate site of production’, the researchers stress, A bad bout of flu is much worse than a heavy cold. as many western sellers are more likely to be intermediaries than on the high street, we are convinced producers. The UK saw more than 60 deaths related to fentanyl of the need for action,’ said Symptoms include fever, chills, headaches and or its analogues in the first eight months of 2017 alone. gambling minister Tracey Crouch. aching muscles, as well as a cough and sore throat. If you get complications caused by flu, you could Police pullback Timely interventions become seriously ill. Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has removed the country’s The first four weeks of treatment, police force from its lead role in his violent crackdown on drugs, as well as the first four after the Philippine government has announced. The lead body will now leaving it, are ‘critical interven- There is common myth that the flu jab gives you flu be the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), with the police, tion points to reduce mortality but it doesn't. The injected flu jab given to adults armed forces and ‘ad hoc anti-drug task forces’ instructed to leave risk’, says an NHS Health contains inactivated flu viruses, so it can't give you flu. it as the sole agency in all anti-drug operations. Duterte previously Scotland evidence review on suspended the crackdown in order to address problems of police drug-related deaths. Complex corruption after a Korean businessman was allegedly murdered psychological and social barriers Remember it’s never too late to have the flu jab as for many people flu is an on police premises and there were widespread protests this summer, also need to be addressed to unpleasant illness however for some it is extremely dangerous and can be lethal as well as condemnation by the country’s powerful Catholic Church, support people to access therefore the best way to protect yourself is to get the flu jab. after an unarmed 17-year-old student was shot dead by police. services, it stresses.

Is DDN in your library? So what are you waiting for? Get down to the healthcare centre and Your prison can receive monthly printed issues of DDN magazine free of charge by have the jab, protect yourself from a potentially deadly virus. emailing [email protected]. DDN is also online at www.drinkanddrugsnews.com 36 Information // HM Inspectorate of Prisons www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017 The Inspector Calls Inside Time highlights areas of good and bad practice from the most recent Reports published by HM Inspectorate of Prisons

HMP Preston HMYOI Wetherby Category B local resettlement prison for young adult and adult males and Keppel Unit Holds boys aged 15 to 18 Unannounced Inspection: 6-17 March 2017 Published: 27 July 2017 Unannounced Inspection: 13-24 March 2017 Published: 19 September 2017 Safety W W W W Respect W W W W Safety W W W W Purposeful Activity W W WW Respect W W W W (but better in Keppel) HMP Grendon HMYOI Aylesbury Purposeful Activity W W W W Grendon provides group therapy and Resettlement W W W W Closed young offender institution holding Resettlement W W W W structured community living in which 18-21-year-old male prisoners serving from prisoners are encouraged to have shared four years to life imprisonment “Preston was better than many other local “Greater stability for boys but violence is responsibility for day-to-day decision-mak- jails and could make further progress” Unannounced Inspection: 4-5 & 24-28 April ing and problem-solving. still too high” 2017 Published: 17 August 2017 “Preston remained a traditional and stable in- Unannounced Inspection: 8-18 May 2017 Wetherby has some extremely challenging Safety W W W W stitution despite having many of the disadvan- Published: 14 September 2017 young people but had improved and become Respect W W W W tages common to old, inner-city prisons. In more stable over the last year. There was a re- Safety W W W W Purposeful Activity W WW W many areas it continued to do better than com- stored ‘sense of purpose and confi dence’ in the Respect W W W W Resettlement W W W W parable prisons. The prison could, however, do Purposeful Activity W W W W more and there is no room for complacency. running of the Keppel Unit, a self-contained specialist facility holding ‘some of the most Resettlement W W W W “Safety concerns and staff shortages” With more consistency, greater imagination and better coordination, even better outcomes challenging and vulnerable young people cur- rently held anywhere in a custodial setting’. “An impressive prison working with The latest report says that Aylesbury had dete- are within the prison’s grasp. The management team was competent, settled and committed to However, Inspectors found, in the wider long-sentenced prisoners” riorated further in some areas and safety was the success of the prison. The staff group were Wetherby prison, there were high levels of vi- a major concern. At its last inspection in 2015, olence between boys and rising numbers of It was four stars all round as Inspectors said capable and confi dent. Preston was a reasonably inspectors commented on debilitating staff assaults on staff . Bullying was also a problem. Grendon off ered excellent opportunities to the good prison; it should be ambitious and a very shortages which had negative consequences The latest report fi nds that: men it held to understand and address their good prison.” for prisoners. This more recent inspection found • while there was improvement in behaviour off ending behaviour. Other than the ‘outdated’ little progress had been made and some areas management strategies, with more effort to automated night-sanitation system there were Although there had been four self-inflicted had deteriorated further. Inspectors found vol- ‘incentivise boys’, the approach to violence many positive comments; deaths since the last inspection, levels of self- atile and frustrated young people, too few staff reduction in general was still not adequate. In • violent incidents remained infrequent, the harm were lower than Inspectors fi nd at similar and many who were inexperienced, and pris- particular, Inspectors found that many ap- prison operates without a segregation unit and prisons. On the down side Inspectors said that oners locked up for long periods with no activity proaches to security or the use of segregation very few men were required to move to other although staff were generally experienced and and too little sentence progression. These factors “lacked proportionality and were needlessly jails for security or disciplinary reasons; treated prisoners decently, there was some poor led to some poor outcomes and safety was a restrictive”. They observed “an overbearing • although the physical fabric of the prison was practice and culture that needed to be chal- major concern. focus on risk rather than the needs of the boys”. shabby, men showed respect towards their living lenged, and Healthcare had deteriorated, they • the wider prison operated a restricted daily environment and staff made eff orts to ensure found some positive aspects: Inspectors were concerned to fi nd that: routine and time out of cell was insuffi cient. they had the wherewithal to live decently; • violence was not increasing, but there was the During the working day inspectors found nearly • relationships between staff and prisoners and potential for more eff ective work in this area; • nearly two-thirds of prisoners reported that half of boys in the wider Wetherby prison locked among prisoners were excellent and under- • the prison was generally calm and vulnerable they had felt unsafe at some point and there were in cells - though the situation was much better pinned much that was positive about Grendon; prisoners were now receiving better support; high levels of sometimes very serious violence; on Keppel. • therapy was the main purposeful activity and • prisoners in crisis said they felt supported by • mechanisms of accountability for the very • Inspectors also found that work to promote consumed a signifi cant proportion of the day; staff and mental health input was good; high use of force had eff ectively broken down equality was weak. Boys from a black and mi- • time out of cell was excellent, a range of ac- • although the amount of time prisoners spent and management oversight was very poor; nority ethnic background reported a “signifi - tivities were off ered and work, skills and learning out of their cells had deteriorated, 85% of pris- • many residential units were in poor condition cantly worse experience of victimisation by provision had improved; and oners were still engaged in either work, training other boys and staff ” but there was a lack of • the whole prison was focused on providing a and basic standards of decency were not being or education; clarity at Wetherby on whether racist abuse rehabilitative culture and environment. achieved; • Ofsted judged the eff ectiveness of learning, • the management of equality and diversity was skills and work to be ‘good’ overall. was being managed eff ectively. In summing up Chief Inspector Peter Clarke weak; said: “The strong picture we reported at our • time out of cell remained poor and work, Report: https://tinyurl.com/y75ojds7 Report: https://tinyurl.com/y6uwv98j previous inspection had been enhanced, and training and education activities, despite some outcomes were even better. Nearly all recom- improvements, were too limited; and mendations we made previously had been • lack of staff in the off ender management unit Why use achieved, or signifi cant progress made in doing undermined risk assessment and rehabilitation Let us help you so. Many men at the prison recognised the ben- work. efi ts of the opportunities off ered and how they • Expert Prison Law Team shortlisted for the would help them live off ending-free lives in the Mr Clarke said: “It is time to stop rediscovering Northern Law Awards for their success in future. This was in no small part down to the the same problems and to take concerted action helping prisoners. to deal with them at all levels. Some areas of strong, principled and focused leadership of • Michael Robinson, John Griffith and Clark concern, such as poor governance of use of the prison, which provided more junior staff Robinson have acted for thousands of clients and prisoners with role models, exemplifying force, could be addressed by the establishment. in your position. the positive behaviour and thinking expected Others, such as staffi ng and diffi culties with 52 John Street, 137A Back High Street, of them. Not every prison can or needs to be a securing progressive transfers for prisoners, Sunderland SR1 1QN Gosforth, Newcastle NE3 4ET • Excellent track record in POCA/Forfeiture cases. therapeutic community, but the values, prin- needed action from HMPPS. 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Choking back tears they where safe to talk without fear credibility gaining amazing told me there had been a death of judgement or the responses support from staff , Samaritans and that I was to get the team that the prison is bound by its and other prisoners and our ready to go out. They were all duty of care to have. As has journey began to move for- visibly upset and I’d actually been said many times before ward. watched a couple of the staff we have no figures to deter- mine how many lives are saved by this scheme - sadly we can only show the fi gures of those who have died, incidents that cause so much distress to all involved. There is no sadder Sam Gyimah Jackie Doyle-Price Nick Hurd time on a prison landing than when someone you have Juliet Lyon go-ahead for increased staff training in mental shared space with takes their health awareness and suicide prevention. You own lives and it aff ects every- As Inside Time readers will know, the Independent can read more about the action he is taking and one without exception. Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) is plans to make prison safer early in the New Year. hugely grateful to the very many prisoners who The key to the success of the took time during the year to write in to IAP Jackie Doyle-Price is improving response to Listeners is fi rst the consist- in tears at the bottom of the Freepost, or to leave messages via Prison Radio, mental health need and developing liaison and ency in every aspect of how There is nothing diversion services in police stations and courts. wing who had been working on how best to prevent suicide and self-harm. these schemes are implement- more heart-break- Now we are grateful to the three Ministers pic- Nick Hurd is pressing ahead with implement- ed in every establishment. We on her. The Sams were called tured, Sam Gyimah for prisons and probation, ing the recommendations of Dame Elish all need to be singing from the ing than when in and they were there sup- Jackie Doyle-Price for public health and Nick Angiolini's report on preventing deaths in ‘same hymn sheet’. I have porting us and out listening Hurd for policing, who have welcomed your police custody and wants to increase support been blessed to have been a such a tragic event with us and for us the ideas and are giving active consideration to the for families. What you can be sure of is that Listener in a number of estab- takes place but it is Governor gave us the room solutions you propose. Over the last few weeks your ideas and proposals have reached people lishments and I’m sure there outside his offi ce. I have had the chance to meet each of these with the power to change things for the better. are many establishments who also in that dark Ministers in turn and, with a copy of our Inside understand that this scheme There is nothing more heart- Conference time that humani- Time Keeping Safe four page spread on the table only operates because of con- breaking than when such a in front of us, discuss with them what they can At the Samaritans Listener conference it was great fi dentiality. This being the key ty and kindness tragic event takes place but it do to keep people safe. to hear from women in prison about improve- to a successful scheme that is shines through. is also in that dark time that ments already made because of our IAP report trusted by the prisoners. humanity and kindness Ideas and proposals from 60 women prisoners and 45 health and Somewhere safe they can talk shines through - something I justice professionals. These included improved I remember when an ex Sam Gyimah is determined to get to grips with without judgement or Listener took her own life. She have witnessed fi rst-hand on the harm done by Spice and reduce drugs, debt contact with families, better transfer of infor- response - something a prison many occasions from mation and more use of peer support. The IAP was well known in the prison and violence in prison. He has also given the employee is duty bound by and was so funny she did an Samaritans staff and has just one aim and that is to prevent deaths there duty of care to imple- Listeners. I have been blessed in any form of state custody. As a result of our amazing impression of Patrick ment. Swayze in Dirty Dancing and to live this journey with some partnership with Inside Time, we have adopted of the most amazing inspira- a new guiding principle that all our work, had been an amazing listener See our The Listeners scheme has when part of the team. It was tional people. It’s been a whether in prisons, hospitals, police custody, been on an amazing journey shocking journey, a sad jour- page in the Friday aft ernoon and I’d been immigration and detention centres or approved over the years and has grown ney, a beautiful journey and premises, must take into account the views of at work with her that morning. ‘Jailbreak’ section and developed with the same a truly humbling one. people who live there - the experts by experience. The regime was on lockdown core principle at its heart, of and I just knew in my gut So may I wish you a good Christmas and a providing somewhere safe for something was wrong. I Berny is a former resident of THE PRISON peaceful New Year as we work together to keep people to talk. Somewhere looked out of a window HMP and gave a keynote people safe. they can trust. 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The progression, but also because time he served on his IPP de- all the parts involved in it to As mentioned in the fi rst part process involves a lot of essen- the independent psychologist spite a short tariff of less than work eff ectively; the Prison, It’s possible that there has also of this joint article in last month’s tial research about an individ- may contribute by identifying 10 months. Although his case the Probation Service, the been a slight improvement in the issue of Inside Time, an ‘inde- ual’s case, and ultimately the treatment or support pathways is shocking we are aware it is Public Protection Casework approach to the test for release. pendent’ psychologist is con- writing of a report. It is a nec- that could help you. 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The inter- experience to help them to The Parole Board directed is no legal recourse or sanction. not doing so on behalf of the view time is important, as this think carefully about risk man- James’ release in September So much depends on how well It was foreseeable that those system that detains you. An is your opportunity to have a agement and treatment. Our 2017 following a second oral an off ender manager has pre- likely to receive an IPP sentence hearing during the course of pared the case and I’ve lost would include individuals with independent assessment might say and to ensure that your independence means that we his review. The review started count of how many times I have complex pasts. Imposing an be useful if you have already voice is heard. All our psy- work with a range of leading in January 2016 and the release used the phrase “It doesn’t IPP sentence has oft en meant been assessed and you wish chologists are genuine down law fi rms throughout the UK, decision arrived over 18 months to obtain a second opinion, or matter whether or not you are requiring those complex indi- to earth people who treat peo- such as Wells Burcombe, and later. His case was beset with supporting release, you still viduals to fi t neatly into a cus- where there is no existing re- ple with respect and, impor- we cover all of the prisons of the delays that can affl ict many have to prepare a full release todial environment, to fi t neatly port but you and your solicitor tantly, take care in listening. England and Wales. We only Parole Reviews; lack of ade- plan, including suitable iden- into a slow and under-re- think that an assessment might This helps to ensure that the have fully qualifi ed and expe- quate information, lack of re- tifi ed accommodation”. sourced rehabilitative process help your case in some way. report that is prepared is thor- rienced psychologists working sources in prison, an over- centred around structured ough and factually correct, and with us. An independent as- whelmed Parole Board. The I met James Ward at the end of programmes that apply a one Dr Tully, Forensic Psychologist this provides opportunity for sessment conducted by my repeated failure of the Prison 2011 and immediately felt that fi t approach to their off ending writes: you to tell us if there are any team is always conducted by to respond to Parole Board his IPP sentence could not be behaviour. Hardly surprising inaccuracies in existing a highly qualifi ed psychologist. directions for a psychiatric justifi ed. In early 2012 we ap- that this has oft en failed to work. ‘The process of psychological reports. We only take instructions from assessment report was shock- pealed it. A Single Judge re- assessment will usually in- solicitors and not directly from ing and soul destroying. Of fused permission. We progressed We hope that the publicity volve at least one interview Once the report is complete, the person being assessed - course the stress involved with it anyway. The Full Court re- around James Ward’s case will with you and a review of your you and your solicitor will dis- please speak to your solicitor a problematic review just adds fused it. It is now with the CCRC. add to the pressure on the prison records. Usually, for cuss it and if it is helpful to about an independent psycho- to the existing stress for a per- Powers that Be to address the parole assessments, some form your case, you can decide that logical assessment and they son who has to deal with such Although the law is as yet un- law as it applies to those subject an uncertain future. James had changed, it feels like there may to an IPP sentence. In the mean- of risk assessment is involved. the report is then served. In can get in touch with us. to deal with so much more possibly be a slight shift in time we hope to continue sup- This might include violence parole cases, this means serv- because of the way his review wider attitudes towards IPP porting the vulnerable to nav- risk assessment (a tool called ing the report on The Parole Tully Forensic Psychology Ltd unfolded. However he fi nally sentences. It has of course re- igate the Parole Review process the HCR-20v3 is commonly Board and other agencies con- is a leading provider of inde- encountered some good luck quired individuals like James and to see many more IPP used) or sexual risk assessment cerned with your case. The pendent psychological assess- when his case was allocated Ward to serve ridiculous prisoners released. (a tool called RSVP is common- independent psychologist will ments with a team of Forensic to a Parole Board Panel who lengths of time for such con- ly used). When I visit a person be required to attend your pa- Psychologists and Clinical were proactive, practical and cern to be expressed. 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The Briefing and this can result in you being The second type of adjudica- The first thing you must do Casework Unit will consider charged with a disciplinary tion is before an Independent when you receive your nicking your review request and make off ence. An ‘adjudication’ is Adjudicator. Independent sheet is to check that the cor- a recommendation to a Deputy the procedure whereby off enc- Adjudicators are District Judges rect procedure has been fol- Director of Custody or the es are dealt with internally who come into the prison in lowed. You must be issued Director of High Security. within the prison. order to deal with the charge. your nicking sheet within 48 They may decide to: In addition to the punish- hours of the alleged off ence 1. Uphold the adjudicator’s How many types of ‘adjudi- ments listed above, Independent being discovered and this decision; cation’ exist? Adjudicators have the power includes weekends and bank 2. Mitigate the punishment There are two types of adjudi- to impose up to a maximum holidays. You must then be (reduce it to something less cation. The fi rst is before the of 42 additional days onto your brought before the Governor severe); or Governor who is a senior sentence for each time you are within 24 hours of being 3. Quash the fi nding of guilt member of prison staff. The found guilty of an off ence. If charged with the alleged and punishment. Governor has the power to the Governor decides to refer offence. If these time limits impose a caution, loss of pris- your case to an Independent have not been adhered to If you wish to appeal against on earnings, loss of IEP priv- Adjudicator, you should con- there is an argument that the a finding of guilt by the ileges, exclusion from associ- sider contacting a prison law charge should be dismissed. 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Since Who will charge you with the However, if your case is not siders that the off ence is seri- in order to fi nd you guilty of ment but has no power to December 2013 legal aid has offence? referred to the police or no ous enough to merit this pun- the offence otherwise your quash the Independent not been available for adjudi- You will be charged by a mem- prosecution follows, then the ishment if you are found case will be dismissed. If you Adjudicator’s fi nding of guilt. cations before the Governor ber of prison staff who wit- Governor will decide whether guilty, then your case should would like to see the elements You can only challenge an and therefore a prison law nessed or discovered the to refer the case to the be referred. You must appear that must be proved for your Independent Adjudicator’s solicitor would not usually be alleged off ence. This person Independent Adjudicator. If before the Independent offence you should consult fi nding of guilt by way of judi- Adjudicator within 28 days of Prison Rule 51 paragraphs 1-25 cial review. your case being referred. and the Prisoner Discipline Procedures PSI 47/2011. What can we do? If the time limits for charging You should obtain expert legal you or opening the hearing How will you be sentenced if advice in relation to any have not been met, you or your you are found guilty by the appearance before the solicitor will be given an oppor- Independent Adjudicator? Independent Adjudicator. tunity to make representations If the Independent Adjudicator There may be a technical rea- to the adjudicator at the start is satisfied that the charge son as to why the charge of the hearing. 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Grounds for appeal for yourself - this is the form profi le cases. However here are tests were all done between informed about convictions One Inside Time reader wrote to make an application to the a couple of facts that might help 2013 and 2017 when the prob- causing particular concern and to ask what he should do about Court of Appeal asking for per- to correct the false impression. lem was discovered. we have off ered the benefi t of launching an appeal aft er, in mission to appeal, also known our experience and expertise his own words, having failed as “leave to appeal”. The CCRC’s two highest profi le Most of the tests (around 7,000) to those now looking at the to get positive advice on ap- cases of recent years have been relate to driving off ences, but potential impact of Randox results peal. He seems to have been The reader also said that his those of the footballer Ched around 1,000 relate to other on the safety of convictions. advised by more than one law- friends had forked out more than Evans and the soldier Alexander offences including rape and yer that there did not seem to £30,000 to two lawyers trying Blackman, aka Marine A. murder. We are told that a pro- You may remember that back be any grounds for appeal in to get a positive advice on ap- gramme of retesting aff ected in June, when we last wrote his case. peal. The reader said that the Between July 2014 when Ched samples is already underway, about Randox, we mentioned lawyers had taken the money Evans applied to us, and that the cases of people in cus- the advice off ered by the re- Appeals Firstly, it is important to say but had basically not done December 2016 when we re- tody are a top priority and that nowned appeals barrister and that if you have approached a what they said they would do. ferred Alexander Blackman’s all priority retesting should be author of the Taylor on Criminal lawyer, a solicitor or a barrister, In a situation like this, where case for appeal, the CCRC sent complete by mid-2018. Appeals, Paul Taylor of The Criminal Cases Review and the advice they have given there is a claim that money was 70 other cases for appeal. Very Doughty Street Chambers. Commission (CCRC) is the is that they can see no grounds paid for work that was not few of these cases received Since the Randox issue first publicly funded body on which you can appeal, it done, it would be sensible to significant public or media came to light, the CCRC has What he said then remains responsible for investigat- will always be sensible to con- think about complaining for- attention and very few of the been talking to the Crown wholly relevant today: ing alleged miscarriages sider that advice carefully. mally to the relevant authority people whose cases we referred Prosecution Service (CPS) and “…even if the allegations of data of justice in England and Even if it is not what you had (for solicitors that is the had any kind of support from the Forensic Science Regulator. tampering are proved this will Wales. They are the only hoped to hear, you should Solicitors Regulation Authority a campaign. In fact, most of not provide an automatic body with the power to think very seriously about the and for barristers it is the Bar the people applied to us with No one knows how many cases ground of appeal against con- send a case back to the advice they gave. Standards Board). It is also either no help, or with just the there may be where the relia- viction for all cases in which courts for a second appeal. worth thinking about fi rst using help of their lawyer or friends bility of a Randox drug test might [Randox] carried out forensic Having said that, you do not the complaints process if the and family. aff ect the safety of a conviction. testing. Indeed even in cases In this regular column have to accept their advice. company concerned has one. But it is clear that the situation where the test data is shown to they answer questions Lawyers, like everyone else, Randox has the potential to generate have been manipulated the about what they do and can make mistakes. Also, Not so high profi le The Randox drug testing scan- a considerable number of cases central question will be: how more widely about sometimes things may have In a couple of letters we have dal has been in the news again. for the CCRC as the statutory important was this fl awed evi- miscarriages of justice. changed since advice was received recently, people have We mentioned Randox in this body responsible for inde- dence to the outcome of the given and the prospects for said they thought there was column back in June. Since pendently reviewing potential trial? If it was a peripheral mat- The CCRC apologises appeal might have changed no chance the CCRC would be then it seems the scale of the miscarriages of justice. ter that was not central to the but is unable to answer because of some new evidence interested in their case because problem has got worse. At a main issues to be determined questions relating to or development in the law. they believe that we are only press conference on 21st Because of that, we have asked by the jury, the Court of Appeal individual cases. interested in cases with a high November by the National that the CPS makes sure to ex- is unlikely to interfere. However, It is a good idea to try to get public profile and/or lots of Police Chiefs Council and the plain the role and relevance of if it can be shown that fresh Send your Appeal Queries advice from a lawyer if you can supporters. Forensic Science Regulator it the CCRC to any people that they evidence (demonstrating that to: ‘CCRC Q&A’ Inside Time, fi nd one willing to help, but was confirmed that around contact because their convic- the data presented was unreli- Botley Mills, Botley, you don’t actually need to be It may be that this impression 10,000 tests (mainly for drugs tions may be aff ected by prob- able) might reasonably have Southampton, Hampshire legally represented to appeal. has been created by the fact that, in blood) carried out by Randox lems with Randox test results. aff ected the jury’s decision to SO30 2GB. You can start the appeal pro- by defi nition, people generally Testing Services now cannot convict, the appeal is very likely cess by fi lling in the form NG only get to hear about the high be relied upon. The aff ected We have also asked to be kept to succeed.” cm PRISONER HOTLINE 0161 833 9253 CONVICTED OF JOINT ENTERPRISE? 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to have a detoxification effect that, when activated, can pro- tect the brain from mental All is Calm, All is Bright illness.” The Prison Phoenix Trust Exercise is also believed to encourage the body to release This is a yoga routine designed to help you feel chilled out and safe. It is nice to give serotonin, which improves yourself a gift at this time of year, and taking 15 minutes out of your day to look after mood. Ultra-marathon run- yourself can be a great one. For this routine, use your pillow and blanket, and any- ners often speak of ‘surfing a wave of serotonin’ while cov- thing soft you can find. Use them as often as you want in the poses - the aim here is to ering the type of distances be comfortable. You might find this routine nice to do last thing at night - you should that make non-runners cringe. be able to do all of it in bed. Enjoy it, and best wishes from us all. Running needs no special equipment © Deposit Photos Runners protect themselves from cancer It’s common sense that an Runners Corner active lifestyle begets a Running is free, you can do it anywhere, healthy body - but jogging Forward Fold over seems to be particularly ben- Crossed Legs and it burns more calories than any eficial when it comes to help- Child Supported Bridge Lie like this, with padding under Sit cross legged and stretch other mainstream exercise ing ward off the evils of can- forward. Give yourself a few Place your feet flat on the cer. In a wide-ranging paper, your bum and head if that floor, as close to your bum as makes you more comfortable. breaths to find the place that’s Finnish scientists revealed you can get them. Slip pillows Stay like this for 10 slow breaths. comfortable for you and then Running for breeding partner,” said the their conclusions after study- take 10 slow breaths. 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What Scientists from Cambridge meat for his family.” was more interesting was that Seated Forward Bend University studied 542 run- those who ran - or did exercise Thread the Needle Runners tend to be happier Sit on your blankets and ners at the Robin Hood mara- of a similar intensity - for 30 Starting on hands and knees, It’s long been the insistence pillows with your legs out in thon in Nottingham and minutes a day were the most reach your right arm to the left front of you - it is fine if your found that those who finished of avid runners that going for protected, exhibiting “a 50 until your shoulder rests on the Lying Twists knees are bent. Drape your faster were more likely to have a jog makes them feel better. percent reduction in the risk floor or on your pillow. Stay like Lie on your back and pull your torso forward over your legs stronger sex drives and high- To the uninitiated, it can of dying prematurely from this for 10 slow breaths and knees over your chest. Swing and nod a couple of times to er sperm counts. sound like the pious sermon cancer.” then repeat on the other side. them over to the left, keeping of the faintly unhinged - but your shoulders flat on the floor. relax your neck. Stay here for 10 slow breaths. They posit that the good run- there is now concrete scientif- Runners can hear better Stay for 10 deep breaths and ners are likely to have good ic evidence to substantiate According to research con- repeat on the other side. stamina in their blood, thanks their claim. ducted at Bellarmine University to ancestors who were excel- in Kentucky, US, running lent persistence hunters. Men Researchers at the Karolinska increases blood flow to your who could catch dinner would Institute in Sweden discov- ears, which results in also have the pick of the ered that aerobic exercise like improved hearing. females, meaning that they jogging purges the blood of a Banana passed down stronger genes substance known as kynure- Dr. Paul Loprinzi studied Lie on your back and stretch to their progeny. nine, which accumulates dur- 1,082 adult women and con- both your arms and legs to the ing times of stress and is cluded that those with higher left, with your back still flat on “The observation that endur- believed to be linked to cardiorespiratory fitness had the floor. You can hook the ance running ability is con- depression. better hearing function at right leg over the left one, or nected to reproductive poten- high and low frequencies. The pull gently on the right arm Sitting tial in men suggests that Dr Jorge Ruas, principal inves- women with higher aerobic with the left one to increase the Place your blankets and pillows women in our hunter-gatherer tigator at the Department of fitness were six per cent more stretch. Stay for 5 deep breaths so you have at least four inches past were able to observe run- Physiology and Pharmacology likely to have good hearing and repeat on the other side. under your sitting bones. Focus ning as a signal for a good said: “Skeletal muscle appears than bad hearing. on your breath. Count your breaths silently to yourself: in 1, Our commitment and service to you, does not stop when you leave the dock. Reeds solicitors out 2, in 3, out 4 and so on, up are dedicated to providing legal expertise along to 10, and then start from 1 with unparalleled client care. This service also again. If you lose count, it includes issues you may experience in custody. Deer Pose doesn’t matter. 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Lionel Messi Workout Argentina is mostly a catholic country, but football is their true religion, and they Cell Workout LOVE Messi. So I thought I would write a workout that delves into the technical training and moves (without a ball), that makes him the world’s greatest footballer. Hopefully this will help in your performance next time you have a game with the Get the body you want Inside & Out officers. For obvious reasons, some of these exercises need to be performed outside in the yard, or gym hall.

For explosive pace For ultra-agility For superior balance ‘W’ run Get-ups Alphabet drill 10 breaths. Lay 5 cones in a W This is great for leg drive. Lie To get superior glutes, balance shape, 10 metres across the on the floor (always alternate on your left leg. Extend your top, and 5 metres deep. Start position: back, side, front, etc) right leg in front and draw the on the furthest left point, jog count to 5, then get up as alphabet, then repeat on the backwards to the second quickly as possible, then sprint other side, maintaining posture point, sprint to the third, jog 5m. Perform 3 sets of 8. This and balance the whole time. backwards to fourth and trains total-body coordination. Repeat on other leg. sprint away to the right point. LJ: Reflections from South America Wait 20 secs, then reverse.

LJ Flanders country without the possibility of a life project. Being born in a context of extreme poverty, malnutrition, health problems, lack of educa- Anniversary tion, violence, social exclusion and very few possibilities of insertion in the job market does On the 25th October 2012 I was released from not provide many opportunities of a decent life. Highpoint prison gates. There are some dates This scenario does not only affect those living you never forget and a certain letter/number this situation -even though they are the first and For superior balance For ultra-agility combo that is assigned personally to you, most serious victims- but they also afflict soci- Shelf stacker which is etched on the brain also. ety as a whole. Socially disintegrated, a country Two-footed bounds Builds core stability. Reach does not have many opportunities for progress. Lay out cones the same as the and lunge down with both Five years on, I was landing in Argentina We understand that in order to achieve a true For explosive pace horizontal hops exercise, but hands to the outside of your through the invitation of El Desafio, with many impact our actions must be planned for the long Dead leg run instead of hopping, bound right ankle, explode from thanks to National Alliance of Sport (NASDC) term and framed in an integral vision in which Set 8 hurdles or cones in a with two legs over the first 3, there in a diagonal movement and the amazing power of their network. I was all these factors are considered. We do not offer straight line, with the final one then sprint and swerve across the body, as if putting visiting the city of Rosario in Argentina for the merely individual aid, we work together with the 5m out from the end. Run down through the 9, 12 and 3 something from the floor onto Happy Cities Festival organised by El Desafio, families, the community and society in general the cones, lifting one leg high o’clock cones and back to the a shelf. Do 15 reps on each side. an organisation whose aim is to empower pov- to create programs that promote development. over each. Use a good 90-degree start. Perform 3 sets of 4. erty-stricken children in Rosario. Participants of our programs, children and the arm drive and push your knee community are not mere receptors of services, high. Sprint out to the last Cell Workout by LJ Flanders I met the co-founder and Executive Director they are agents of social change. cone, repeat with opposite leg. A bodyweight Mario Raimondi when he came to England look- training guide ing for ideas for new youth sport programmes. We understand that in order to achieve a true designed for He visited me with Justin Coleman, Co-Founder, impact our actions must be planned for the long Secretariat and Head of the NASDC in HMP term and framed in an integral vision in which use in a Wandsworth to understand about the Cell all these factors are considered. We do not offer prison cell. Workout Workshop. As Mario said “In Argentinian merely individual aid, we work together with the This 234 page prisons, there is no such thing as rehabilitation, families, the community and society in general book will guide you with to see LJ working so positively with these guys to create programs that promote development. step-by-step instructions was huge”. Participants of our programs, children and the performing 204 exercises, community are not mere receptors of services, with photographs and From the impact of this visit, my ticket was booked they are agents of social change”. For ultra-agility For superior balance sample workouts. The to guest alongside some very influential speak- Backward lunge with exercises are suitable for ers and take part in the festival. Over the course What an amazing festival and experience. It Horizontal hops side flexion any age, ability and fitness of the 2 days I spoke to the 3,000 participants was an honour to take part and be inspired by Set out 6 cones: 3 in a straight line, at a hopping distance; Start with feet shoulder-width about my story, the book and Workshops and the work they do. level and offers progres- then from the end, one at 9 apart, knees bent and core also visited the young offenders to meet and sion for everyone. o’clock, one at 12, one at 3, all tensed. Step back into a deep work out with the young people. Thank you again Mario and all the organisers for the invite and for translating and looking after 5m away. Hop to each cone, lunge with right leg, extend Price: £16.99 then sprint out to one of the your right arm overhead and ISBN: 9781473656017 From the El Desafio website, their vision is: me so well, I couldn’t have wished for more. final cones. Walk back and side flex. Push back to the start Publisher: Hodder & alternate the hopping leg. Do with left leg. Do 8 reps of 6 Stoughton “There are many persons and children in our What a way to spend an anniversary! 3 sets of 8 reps. each side. www.cell-workout.com

Workshop Ted Talk Organisers and speakers El Desafio celebration 46 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017 Understanding parole like what you need to do to get The Reader parole, what the Parole Board are doing about the backlog of cases and what’s being done Hiding in Boxes The group also thought about what ‘a box to about IPP prisoners. hide in’ might look like and, although many of us thought of it in terms of a room of some sort, Alongside Martin and Sonia I waited until the large woman with the awful hat we’ll hear from the Prisoners took up her sack of groceries and went out, peer- E shared that when he was young he would often go to a graveyard near to where he lived Advice Service (an independ- ing at the tomatoes and lettuce on her way. The ent charity who offer free legal as that was where he felt safe - it was his place clerk asked me what mine was. advice and support), members to go in order to escape or to hide. It opened of the Parole Board and Simon, our minds to the possibility that a box may not “Have you got a box,” I asked, “a large box? I want who has been through the necessarily have four walls. a box to hide in” process himself. “You want a box?” he asked. “I want a box to hide in,” I said. You feel better when it gets dark. ing the board my hope and This special discussion pro- “Whatta you mean?” he said. “You mean a big box?” confidence for the future all gramme, Understanding E talked about how the darkness can help him helped and gave me the best Parole will also be broadcast I said I meant a big box, big enough to hold me. feel better, when the masks of the day are removed chance of a positive answer.” in January and February. “I haven’t got any boxes,” he said. “Only cartons and it’s just you alone with your thoughts. He If you’re up for parole, you can Throughout the day on NPR that cans come in.” shared how, when there is less visual stimula- find loads of useful informa- Martin Jones, Chief Executive tion, he felt that ‘more goes on in your head’ tion about it on National you’ll hear information about of the Parole Board, said: “As things like: The Shared Reading Group at HMP Magilligan and, for him, this was a positive thing. Prison Radio - starting this the Parole Board turns 50 we’re • what to do with your paper- recently read James Thurber’s short story A Box month. asking ourselves how we can I haven’t found one yet. But I still have this work dossier; be more open and transparent. to Hide In and were initially struck by the • preparing for an oral hearing; ‘strangeness’ of a request for a box to hide in. overpowering urge to hide in a box. Maybe it Parole is a complicated pro- We’ve recognised that we need cess. All the paperwork and • what happens on the day; to keep you better informed However, we soon began to reflect on the times will go away. Maybe I’ll be all right. Maybe it legal language can be over- • how the Parole Board make about how the parole process when we have felt the desire to hide away from will get worse. It’s hard to say. whelming. decisions. works, and provide information our everyday lives. We talked about the need in ways that are easier to to have our own space and also about those A couple of the men in the group related to the But it’s also really important Going through understand. Working with times when we just want to close the door and idea of a ‘box to hide in’ in terms of their per- to get your head around it. National Prison Radio for this have some ‘self-time’. Some of the men men- sonal experience of depression. For them, the parole is not an box represented depression and they shared Understanding Parole project tioned how difficult it can be, when living in The Parole Board turns 50 this easy process, but is a great opportunity for the prison, to find that space and to ‘block out’ the their need to hide from people and their desire to avoid daily interactions with others during year, and to mark this anni- tune into NPR for Board to do that.” noises of life going on around them 24 hours versary National Prison Radio a day. They talked, too, of what it’s like to ‘dou- this period in their lives. This allowed us a profound insight into the depth of the story has teamed up with them to some straightfor- Going through parole is not an ble up’ in a cell and how, in those circumstanc- bring you a straightforward easy process, but tune into and its personal relevance for the individual’s ward advice and es, there is never an escape. guide to how parole works. NPR for some straightforward present in the group. As we contemplated this advice and answers. R quipped that he would ‘quite happily ditch answers. There was nothing for it but to face life out. I We’ve spoken to people who’ve his box’ (cell)! didn’t feel strong and I had this overpowering been through the process and Plus you have a chance to have Tune into NPR from Monday desire to hide in a box for a long time. we’ll be getting their advice your say. 11 December for information on what you need to know. For about parole. Our special dis- In October we opened our We wondered about the meaning of ‘to face life Pamela Howe is Reader Leader at HMP example from Simon, Head of cussion programme freephone line to gather your out’ and M related very much with the idea of Magilligan N. Ireland Support for Coaching Inside Understanding Parole will be not feeling that one could cope with life on and Out: questions about parole. broadcast on Monday 11 certain days and how we can want to avoid the The Reader has been running Shared Reading December at 8am and 9pm, And on Monday 11 December, world on those days as it seems easier than groups in prisons, secured units and Approved “Going through parole was repeated at 5pm on Friday 15 you can hear these questions facing life. It led us on to think about the masks Premises for nearly a decade. Each week a hard work and stressful - but December. put to Martin Jones, CEO of the we use to hide behind and how we can often Reader Leader brings a short story or extract definitely worth the effort. Parole Board, and Sonia pretend to be happy and well when we feel and a poem which they read aloud and invite Having a solicitor, discussing If you miss it, catch it again on Crozier, Director of Probation. anything but that in reality. the group to discuss. Anyone in the group is wel- release with my Offender Monday 8 January and come to read too, some do, some don’t. Everyone Manager and family, under- Monday 12 February 2018. is welcome to share their thoughts and feelings They’ll be discussing things “It’s a form of escape”, I told him. “Hiding in standing the dossier and show- about what has been read although some peo- a box, it circumscribes your worries and the ple choose to reflect on these privately. Either range of your anguish. You don’t see people, way is fine, the point of Shared Reading is to Christmas on NPR either.” come together and enjoy a great story together. Lots of activities close down over Christmas, We pondered over what was meant by ‘circum- but National Prison Radio will continue to broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week scribed’ and felt that the box, perhaps, would throughout the Christmas period. be able to contain our fears, anxieties or worries and that it would also hold us so that we felt On Christmas Day we’ll have our traditional safe and secure inside it. Thinking about the Christmas service, and in the final hours of ‘range of our anguish’ we discussed how 2017, we’ll have 5 straight hours of requests anguish seems to be a more powerful word from 7pm as we count down to midnight, and than anxiety and is almost like a deep-seated find out which prison gets the honour of hav- distress or a heart-felt pain. We wondered if ing the final request of 2017. the box, in some way, would contain the extent of our anguish and prevent it from becoming This year we’ve received well over 10,000 let- overwhelming. S shared how he closed the ters and messages - but we want more! door of his cell when he didn’t want to see people and related his cell to the idea of ‘a box So make sure you get your New Year’s Eve to hide in’. We talked about how, as a prisoner, requests into National Prison Radio, HMP one can retain some degree of control by hav- Brixton, London SW2 5XF. ing the ability to choose when to open or close the cell door and, thereby, choosing when to And make NPR your home throughout the interact with others. Christmas and New Year period. We’re here

© Deposit Photos for you all day, every day. Insidetime December 2017 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak// Inside History 47 On this day… 17th December 1903 Behind the gate The life and infamous times of Britain’s prisons: this month HMP Cardiff

Noel Smith Mattan’s conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal 35 years after his execution in February 1998, his case being the fi rst to be referred to the Appeal Court by the newly Cardiff prison formed Criminal Cases Review Commission. Following the quashing of his conviction, Mattan’s body was exhumed from the grounds of the prison and buried in consecrated ground in the Muslim Section of Cardiff cemetery. His family were awarded £725,000 in compensa- tion. His tombstone bears the inscription - ‘Killed by injustice’.

HMP Cardiff is a category B male adult prison, located in the Adamsdown area of Cardiff, Flying high, free as a bird South Wales, which can hold up to 784 prison- ers. A local prison, it serves the courts of the surrounding area. On a wing and prayer By 1814, the existing Cardiff Gaol was deemed insuffi cient for coping with both the scale of demand and quality of building to cope with Wright brothers make fi rst powered fl ight the quickly expanding industrial town, so the Mahmood Mattan was wrongly convicted of murder idea was to build a new county jail for In spite of an underwhelming powered airplane, which they weren’t sure they’d ever see Glamorgan. Building started in 1827, and the new audience of fi ve people, the simply called the Flyer, the each other again.” stone building located south of Crockherbtown The three Victorian wings of the prison under- Wright brothers, Orville and Wrights returned to their wind opened at the end of 1832, capable of housing went a major refurbishment programme in Wilbur, made aviation history tunnel data and the lift and The last obstacle to powered 80 prisoners, including 20 debtors. 1996, and the prison’s capacity was extended today when their aircraft - drag equations. To carry the fl ight was the propulsion sys- by the commissioning of three new wings (C, Flyer 1, (or Kitty Hawk as it is weight of an engine, propel- tem. The term propulsion sys- Cardiff was an ‘execution prison’ and a total D and E) with the number of places for life-sen- more commonly known) lers, and added structural tem is important. Wilbur and of 20 judicial executions took place there. The tenced prisoners also increased. -managed the first powered reinforcement, they had to Orville recognized that devel- condemned were all hanged for the capital fl ight. Their plane made four increase the wing area to more oping an eff ective propeller, crime of murder, the fi rst execution being in In 1997, Cardiff prison was criticised for chain- fl ights in all, the longest last- than 500 square feet. and an effi cient transmission August 1900, when a William Lacey, aged ing sick inmates to their hospital beds aft er a ing almost a minute, achiev- linkage to the power plant, 29-years, met his end on the Cardiff gallows. probe into the death of a prisoner. The prison ing 850ft of distance and an Allowing 200 pounds for the was just as crucial as building The remains of executed prisoners were buried was again criticised in 2001 for its cell-share altitude of several feet. propulsion system, they esti- a suitable engine. in unmarked graves within the walls of the policy in the wake of another inmate’s death. mated that the aircraft with prison. This was standard for prison executions In 2002 the prison was criticised yet again for Orville and Wilbur Wright pilot would weigh 625 pounds. Seeking a power plant for their as the church refused to have murderers buried its poor record in dealing with drug-abuse and have been interested in avia- Based on this estimate, they airplane, the Wrights contact- in consecrated ground. providing decent recreation facilities for tion since 1896 when they calculated power, thrust, and ed many of the dozens of fi rms inmates. learned of European interest speed requirements and con- that by then were manufac- The last, and most contentious execution at in sustained fl ight. While run- cluded they needed an turing gasoline engines. Ten the prison was on the 3rd of September 1952, Today, Cardiff ’s regime includes full-time edu- ning a bicycle shop they have 8-horsepower engine gener- responded, but none could when Mahmood Mattan, aged 28 years, was cation, prison workshops and training courses. studied aviation and built ating 90 pounds of thrust to meet power and weight convicted of murdering Lilly Volpert on 6th of There is a resettlement unit that off ers various kites and gliders to learn the achieve a minimum airspeed requirements the Wrights March 1952 in the Cardiff docklands. The mur- off ending behaviour courses and work-based essentials of aircraft control of 23 miles per hour. specifi ed, or could do so at a der was in the course of a robbery at an outfi t- courses, and a detox unit accommodating 50 before attempting powered reasonable price. Undeterred, ters shop and £100 was stolen (the equivalent prisoners. fl i g h t . The Wrights used their proven the brothers decided to build of £2,641 in today’s money). Mahmood was a canard biplane confi guration, their own. Somali and former merchant seaman, and was HMP Cardiff , like many older prisons, has a They made 900 successful which was rooted in their ini- convicted on the word of one witness. chequered history. glider fl ights in 1902 in Norht tial 1899 kite design. Key to Speaking after the flight Carolina while they solved the the Flyer’s success was its Wilbur Wright said: problems of getting an engine three-axis control system, light enough and powerful which featured wing-warping “I confess that in 1901 I said to enough to lift a plane off the for lateral balance, a moveable my brother Orville that man ground. In the end, the broth- rudder, and an elevator for would not fl y for fi ft y years. The ers built their own 12-16hp pitch control. The right wing fact that the great scientist engine and propeller as well was four inches longer than believed in flying machines FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE SOUTH EAST as the body of the aircraft . the left to compensate for the was the one thing that encour- WE ARE A RESPECTED ‘LEGAL 500’ FIRM FRANCHISED BY THE LEGAL AID AGENCY AND OUR engine being heavier than and aged us to begin our studies. DEDICATED AND EXPERIENCED TEAM IS AVAILABLE TO HELP YOU IN ANY AREA OF LITIGATION Kitty Hawk dimensions mounted to the right of the It is possible to fly without Wingspan: 40 ft 4 in pilot. The wings were rigged motors, but not without knowl- 01732 360999 Wing Area: 510 sq ft with a slight droop to reduce edge and skill. The desire to fl y Length: 21 ft 1 in the eff ects of crosswinds. is an idea handed down to us

Height: 9 ft 4 in by our ancestors who... looked All aspects of criminal law, including Legal aid is available for housing All Aspects of matrimonial & children Weight: 750 lb with pilot John T Daniels, Kitty Hawk enviously on the birds soaring Appeals/CCRC/Confiscation Orders. issues if a person is at risk of losing disputes, including proceedings their home or is homeless providing involving the Local Authority Engine: Horizontal 4-cylinder, lifesaving crewman said aft er freely through space... on the All aspects of prison law, including their case is within the provisions of water-cooled, 12 horsepower the fi rst fl ight: “Aft er a while infi nite highway of the air. Men adjudications, parole, DLP, recall, LASPO 2014 and they are financially Divorce, domestic violence, categorisation, and judicial Review eligible. cohabitation and civil partnerships they shook hands, and we become wise just as they Advice can be given on what can be Police interviews in custody All aspects of financial disputes Kitty Hawk weighs only 605lb couldn’t help notice how they become rich, more by what done to protect your home whilst ( London & South East ) you are in prison and how to apply and is launched off a trolley held on to each other’s hand, they save than by what they for social housing on release. along a greased 60ft launch- sort o’like they hated to let go; receive.” ing track. To design their fi rst like two folks parting who 2-4 Bradford Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1DU 48 Jailbreak // Inside Poetry www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017 Time Stiff Upper Lip Callum McAusland - HMP Birmingham T J Withey - HMP Brixton

There is no past, the future’s a made up world Immured in a world bereft of laughter There’s only the present, the moment, the here and now One without happily ever after Don’t get lost in the dwelling or thinking what will be Despite locked doors, some are in denial Don’t rob yourself of the moment this is your life, you own it Total shock, with or without trial But if you’re never happy and always moaning Just pick yourself up, stop groaning Let’s see if you got the nuts, prove it There are some who wear their heart on their sleeves Time, time and time again catches up with us all And they’ll do so until the day they leave Have you got time for dinner? Others don their disguise and brave face Maybe if I got the time I’ll give you a call And strut with confidence about the place Can I lend some time please or have you got some time to borrow? I got loads of time it comes at a price, ah stuff it I’ll buy some tomorrow My eyes again have sprung another tear Time goes slow, time going fast A sign of being so utterly weak I aint got time for this or I’ll have some time for that Or perhaps a show of some inner strength Feels like Monday but it’s Sunday, what are they talking about Able to express emotions at length Uneducated children of men don’t be so dim The knowledge is present, look within Know there is no days, weeks, months or years When I reflect on my hot spring of tears © Deposit Photos It’s all an illusion Maybe it is bravery and not fear Hold on to your fears, keep your wit sharp Far too often we’re told ‘stiff upper lip’ Letter to Santa Hold your cards close to your chest ‘Pull yourself together and get a grip’ Charles Sharp - HMP Wakefield Don’t let loved ones break your heart So don’t waste this time you’ve been given, yes given not earned It is good to discuss just how we feel Hey old man, how are you doing? Because if you fail your exam they’re gonna send you back to earth If we don’t, we may never truly heal I’m here in this prison cell, just stewing So use your time don’t abuse it and try to help every human being If we can’t talk we’re more prone to implode Try to wash away your material thinking and the substances you’re abusing Long time since I wrote to you For without help, life’s a long lonely road Was just a kid, now I’m 32 It’s hard I know because I’m also one that uses So make time to cook food together, make time to share your thoughts You never listened to me before Be honest, be open, life can be hard if you’re not coping There is no shame in shedding tears I wasn’t as good as the kid next door So make time to share your feelings, those open wounds you could be healing There’s much misplaced bravado among our peers Mum was a slapper, Dad a loser So never forget to live in the moment and remember The anonymity of publicly crying Spent all his time on the battle cruiser This is your life, you own it Has nothing on potentially dying

I used to envy the other kids They got toys but I never did Scotland They call me white girl I used to cry on Christmas morning Only gift I got was a slap for moaning Ryan Smith - HMP Glenochil Kisella Hillman - HMP Eastwood Park.

Haggis never sleep and Irn-Bru I hated you with a passion old lad Does my voice impress you? Hills glens and tartan too For making me feel I had always been bad Does my grammar please you? As I grew older I lost my confusion Cities and towns with history galore Does my polite persona lead you? Realising you were just a consumer illusion Whiskey, teacakes, shortbread and more Burns, Wallace and Carnegie too They call me white girl Yet, even though I know you’re not real Festivals, parties, plenty to do I’m mellow gentle like a flower about to bloom The idea of you causes people to feel Scotland also has a darker side Does my figure excite you? Spreading love and unconditional joy Drug addiction and death rates high Does my happy persona irritate you? To all the little girls and boys Crime ridden schemes and ned youths Does my warmth warm you? Buckfast, heroin, methadone too Sir Mo Farah Does my faith scare you? Through all the years the notion persists This is my Scotland, this is my home It would be great if you did exist They call me white girl So I’ll give you another try jolly old man (The family man) My motto is to kill them with kindness Give us a hand here if you can George Fendick - HMP Forest Bank Does my honesty challenge you? Does my black skin fool you? Send me a gift to my family at home I’m Sorry He’s the man of many “Mo”ments Is my laugh infectious? Please let them know they are never alone Who will never be “Sir”passed Lee Paul Bloor - HMP Stoke Heath Would you believe me if I told you? The love I have for them will always be Training high up in the mountains That English is my second language? They can put that under the Christmas Tree To conquer the running tracks I’m sorry mum for being bad With the hard work of the winter banished I’m sorry for acting like ‘Jack the lad’ As a black British female, One day I’ll be going home again Adding stamina to his body’s fuel tanks I’ve never meant to be a pest I have never been called white girl We will have a great time together then To fulfil his dreams of becoming champion But I’m little different to all the rest However in prison it is evident I am And, each Christmas time I’ll consider and pause And stashing more athletic glory I’m sorry for being expelled from 3 different schools To thank you for the love, the greatest gift of all From the way I talk, walk, dress and sound In our nationwide memory banks I just never could follow their silly rules Good old Santa Claus That’s why they call me white girl From the start, the adrenaline was flowing To obey the law and all the rest His heart beating away I’m sorry for always being in and out of jail STOP Like an atomic metronome My life’s become as hard as a nail The Sun Sets Like Jelly Primed to turbo-charge Michael Wyatt - HMP Erlestoke I’m sorry for not trying Mark Wightwick - HMP Parkhurst Down the back straight I’m sorry for lying And bring his tenth I’m sorry for drug dealing STOP if you’re seeing RED The sun sets like jelly while the seasick sailors Gold Medallion home Both selling and buying Shout ‘stop’ inside your head On a flying boat drift across the sky Then there was a quick glance Here I am stuck in this nick Don’t be impulsive They drop their nets into the yoghurt sea and pull Up to the main stand I really do feel a d**k Best to forgive Out flying pigs from the depths To help his muscular pain I keep trying to change my ways Or count to ten The captain shouts to cast the nets again and pull That said, “I am still just Mo Farah To earn some of your pride and praise Or go for a walk out the The family man, even if I really dislike them bullies in blue When you feel calm Great white pig instead! I’m on top of the world again” They always hound me for more than I’m due Then we can talk The great white pig is a rare and tasty animal indeed Yet on his final international outing Early in the morning, 3-4 o’clock When DANGER has lost its D “Buck up the nets” comes to the whispers With his power beginning to wane When they know I’m in bed And ANGER removed “No more mouth clenchers are left in this yoghurt” He may have only taken silver That’s when they knock Then you’re safe So they set sail to a new land called rice office, milk, But his golden legacy will From this day on what I’m to do Including me drink Forever remain Is completely avoid them bizzys in blue GREEN light approved Stink and left a trail of blue grass in the sky Insidetime December 2017 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 49

Star Poem of the Month “Good morning FTS aka ‘Take the pills’ Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize officer” Luke Harlow - HMP Rye Hill Pearce Murray - HMP Wandsworth Take the pills they give you, let your mind turn to mush Noise of Segregation They will pull you from all sense of feeling if you don’t try to push James Jones - HMP Lindholme The rattle of keys Take the pills they tell you not to, feel the heavy buzz When you lie there in a catatonic heap let the bastards rush Awakes the never ending time machine Do what they tell you to, play their silly petty game Noise coming from the end of the landing Drowning my dream of If you try to be individual you will only go insane The noise of the morning bell chiming, then yells Pearly white pipes The food is always tasteless and all the wings are fucking bleak Of ‘get yourselves ready’, daily routines ready steady Beautifully bunched bottles of beer You pray and pray all night for something oh so kind as sleep In a smoky smelly room of an unfamiliar place Then all goes quiet, before the noise of next door ‘The man’ is always heavy handed or just plain incompetent Yawning, gaping, his mouth wide open whilst fighting Cold and wet, yet You want to scream your little head off but there is just no place to vent And arguing with his invisible forum The sunshine hurts my eyes So lye back on your bed and cry until your eyes are raw My toothpaste held curtain Cos there’s just no way to win this fucking daft one-sided war Lines sliding up the landing. Voices shouting Laughing at my stressful state And just take the pills they give you, close your eyes and slip away Tie that smoke on, so I can pull it back up the landing Reminding me of what a waste There’s just one thing they can’t control so maybe today is the day! I tell myself I am Toilets flushing, doors getting banged Christ another day Voices of people shouting, who’s that banging? “Oi it’s me I need my flap opening” Grey in my eyes Spice Nights Much like the morning clouds Sarah Jane Baker - HMP Lewes Noise in the background of radios blasting Of winter rain Someone else singing along, then someone shouting My paralyzing fear is fading Mewling like a jailhouse junkie “Oi apply for prisons got more talent” I’m comfortable with it now Puking blood splattering 7 minutes and 13 seconds Pitter Patter. Footsteps coming up the landing Creating ladybird polka-dotted cell walls Then that dreaded noise of keys rattling From a shining smiling face Spewing my way to my own destruction Then wondering what’s going to happen No time to talk or hate I peel my body from the bed No time to live or love Screams and shouts, yelps of someone in pain Letting out a sickly groan Just time enough Kicking and screaming, Sticking, smelling and stinking To punch myself in the face Yep, that’s definitely someone new in segregation Of my night of nightmares Or bang my head against a brick stippled I am happy my cell-mate © prisonimage.org And magnolia painted concrete box Dinner time boys, plates and bowls Prostrate, kneeling, no room for feeling YES! As someone shouts we’ve scored a goal Still sleeps tight Smoking a ten pound rock Dinner time for the officers. Play-time for the prisoners No one should see this sight My window Long ago lost its power to shock Oi, next door? WHAT? Fish that line and save me a smoke No one will hold this tight Ronald Sharp - HMP Norwich It’s mine and mine to fight Now far too long ago to remember Pulse racing, heart pumping Noise of lags back on the landing, lots of abuse It will never see the light I stand by my window Migraine thumping Getting spat on the landing Gaze at what I can see Chuck another lump in Then shouts from the screws, do you want another hiding A splash of water My portal to the world Teatime comes and goes, A flick of the hair It keeps me company A smile and I’m there You know its nearly time to go behind doors Hours I can spend That’s when you know it’s time for peace and quiet My everyday make-up all prepared A simple shield Stood by its side So all you convicts bear in mind Yet stronger than life’s lonely sword Searching the distance For my life left behind Segregation is no place for your mind I feel great now If that’s what you’re wanting, I dare you to come I swear I do, I would not lie The little window wide But the only peace and quiet I can guarantee I’m ready to be read Fresh air wanders in Is when you agree to go back to the wing I really hope I care So cool and clean

Tomorrows clouds might not be there Raises hairs on my skin © Deposit Photos I can feel it everywhere Danny Lets the sun reach me It’s off to the yard I go Time Even on my darkest day Thomas Farrell - HMP Risley I wonder who won’t be there So warm and welcome James White - HMP Portland “Good morning officer” Danny was a nice kid. We used to smoke the spice If only it would stay It took away the bars for us. We thought the buzz was nice You do the crime you do the time they say He was my next door neighbour. We got on very well Mum Press my face to the bars You’ve broke the rules and now you have to pay We’d pass each other smokes an that into each others’ cell Nose touches the pane The clock is now your enemy Nick Shreeve - HMP Wayland Every inch closer The sun is a distant memory We started to really chase the spice. We’d have some every day Small freedom is gained The tramp of boots, the clang of keys We’d sell some of our canteen or we’d find some other way Dear almighty God above I watch the birds You’re quarantined like some disease When you’re smoking spice if you just like getting stoned Tell my mum I send my love You did the crime you do the time they said It takes you back to this place to a completely different zone And the clouds too I miss her each and every day As they all float by Consequence of the twisted life you led Shouts echo from behind steel doors Sometimes you can go over and be really close to death And in my heart is where she’ll stay My iron barred view Their boots pound unseen corridors Then when you don’t have it the rattle makes you sweat When she was here I had no fear But now it’s time for you to pause When your pulse it hits 150 that can’t be good for you Now she’s gone it feels so wrong I yearn to be with them Take stock and find the get out clause Say bye bye to your telly it’s being taken by a screw Often I feel like just going crazy Out of this cell I can’t believe cancer took my old lady Back to my world You fret and scheme, yet still unseen One day we had no tobacco. Danny said ‘let’s have a pipe’ I know that I am not the only one Away from this hell How to redeem the man you’ve been It was me that took the first lick. Let me tell you I was whiped That has lost a loving, caring mum And still you hear, amidst screams and fear I passed Danny my lighter. He licked up in his cell My sister and brother have also passed away But just my window Voices in your head and all too clear I couldn’t hear him dying. So I couldn’t hit the bell I hope I see them again some day Is as far as I get The reasons you ended here Now his family have lost a loved one. And me I’ve lost a friend For now my angels you must lay and rest My faithful companion But now you know deep in your heart It’s time to make my mind up. Do I want my life to end? But never ever forget you were the best For a long time yet This is no end, this is the start u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. To qualify By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they can be published in any of our for a prize, poems should not have won a prize in any other competition or been published previously. ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, website and any forthcoming books. You are also giving Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in allowing other organisations to reproduce this work if considered appropriate, unless you have clearly stated that you do not want this to happen. Any work It is very important that you ensure the following details are on all paperwork sent to Inside reproduced in other publications will be on a ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note poems for publication Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUMBER & PRISON. Failure to do so will prevent us responding to December be edited. When submitting your work please include the following permission: you and your submission being withheld from publication. We will be using the new ‘Money ‘This is my own work and I agree to Inside Time publishing it in all associate sites and other Transfer Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. publications as appropriate.’ 50 Jailbreak // Xmas Messages www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017

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this. We are actually celebrat- and yodelling hosannas. I’ve ing the birth of a man destined already got my little angels - I for crucifixion, born to a pen- thank heaven for them every The spirit of Christmas niless single mother who day… so I won’t fret if it’s a no (without even the pleasure of show from the kings. Frankly How one prison family tries hard to keep the festive dream alive the process of conception and any kind of incense reminds aft er a long donkey ride), begot me unpleasantly of my Goth Josie Bevan her only nipper in a lowly stable. days and Gold can’t buy our heart’s desire anyway. If Mary Mother of God wasn’t Decorating the tree is my living the dream what makes There is only one present we favourite Christmas tradition, me so special? I am not convinced really want. To be together, mostly because, unlike the the Christmas fairy really wel- anyhow, anywhere, his place dinner, all present-wrapping comes the spiky tip of our tree or ours - we don’t give a figgy and a sub-prime bank bal- that close to her dainty parts. pudding where. But Christmas ance, I’m not responsible for isn’t about getting what you it. Our firstborn was trained The Ghost of want, it’s about giving what up for the decorations job you can and making it through many years ago. She oversees last Christmas Past the day without too many the operation with clinical is dead and buried. dirty jokes from Grandad precision, outlawing tinsel, about stockings. It’s about resuscitating dodgy fairy There will be no itchy jumpers and food-regret lights, hiding any particular- rattling of chains all washed down with hot ly nasty baubles in the bushy toddy and spice (or… just the lower branches and “acciden- and moaning this Spice if misfortune has it that tally” euthanising the occa- festive season. This you’re also spending the day sional preschool craft mon- at Her Majesty’s pleasure and strosity underfoot. year I’m going with you haven’t got the will to “Loving a prisoner is like the Ghost of resist.) I am required only for the final loving a ghost” positioning of the fairy as fam- © Deposit Photos Christmas Present. Life is never quite what you ily tradition dictates that this wanted. It never was and job must be done by the If we’re honest Christmas is the recently bereaved we were The Ghost of last Christmas And Santa must get burns in never will be. Christmas is no youngest member of the tribe always a mixed bag - it virtu- still in shock and unable to Past is dead and buried. There unreachable places every year exception but the turning of held precariously aloft by ally never snows, I am invar- muster cheer no matter how will be no rattling of chains (though it doesn’t take the every year delivers one thing Dad… or, when he is unavail- iably seated between a wail- many glasses of sherry we left and moaning this festive sea- brightest bulb on the tree to we do want: the passing of able, Mum. Since Dad was ing toddler and someone with out for Santa - that bad boy… son. This year I’m going with realise that breaking and time. One day our Ghost of celebrating the festive season encroaching dementia - and This year we’re not doing mis- the Ghost of Christmas Present. entering via a chimney won’t Christmas Future will be pres- with Her Majesty last year, the no one honestly really likes ery. I refuse. It’s so last season. Living in the moment is the go well.) ent and correct at our table task was left to me, which sprouts. But you can’t deny Loving a prisoner is like loving way all prison families sur- again. Our family back togeth- almost resulted in broken win- that Christmas is all about a ghost. Love and longing vive - the past is history and This year I’m all about lower- er, back from the dead, belat- dows and surgical pine needle kith and kin which isn’t easy without flesh or bone. There the future is, well if not a mys- ing expectations and getting ed but reincarnated, the past removal. This year therefore, on a prison family. is always a phantom in our tery, oft en too far off for com- into the spirit. I’ll be carolling behind us, the future wide (a year in which I appear to midst because we can’t and fort. Besides, what’s not to tidings of happiness and joy open - the best and only pres- have shrunk and our youngest Last year was the emotional won’t forget him, but the spec- love about a present? along with Santa’s best little ent I have ever truly needed. now takes a size 6 shoe,) I’m equivalent of a Yuletide power tre sitting at our crimbo table helpers so help me God. stuffing tradition up the cut: all frozen turkey, frosty this year is going to be wear- It seems to me that the true Turkey’s jacksie, breaking out air and brooding silent tellys. ing a novelty jumper, smoking message of the Christmas Mary cut her losses and sucked Josie Bevan is the author of the the step ladder and revisiting Only months had passed since a fat cigar and will be heckling story is about making the best it up. Before she knew it angels hugely popular Blog, Prison the true spirit of Christmas. Dad’s incarceration and like the Queen’s speech! of things. 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Connect these 9 dots with 4 straight lines. You are in prison with Barry & Albert. The 3 of you may all go free.” He tells Albert to answer 20 things yule never knew about you are in a line looking straight ahead. You’re first. Albert is a very honest and intelligent Christmas in front, then Barry, then Albert. A guard has 3 person, but he says, “I don’t know, there’s no way of knowing for sure.” The guard then asks black & 2 white hats. He randomly puts one on 1. US scientists calculated that Santa would Barry. Barry is also intelligent and rational, but each of your heads. Albert can see your hat & have to visit 822 homes a second to deliver all he also cannot tell. He comes to you, and you Barry’s, Barry can see yours, and you can see the world’s presents on Christmas Eve, say the colour of your hat with 100% certainty. no one’s. None of you know what colour you travelling at 650 miles a second. Fill In Puzzle #26 -- haveww onw .bigopolis.comyour own head. The guard says, “If The guard has no choice but to release all 3 of anyone can tell me with 100% certainty the you. What colour hat were you wearing and 2. Despite the tale of three wise men paying colour of your own hat, uttering no one else’s, how did you know? homage to baby Jesus, the Bible never gives a number. Matthew’s Gospel refers to merely Never Ending Line “wise men”. 3 LETTERS SERA INAPT AUNTIE LACERTA Begin wherever you want and draw one line through all of the doors, but you cannot go 3. Hanging stockings out comes from the CBS throughTHIS the same door twice.METER Hard, but possible! CLEVER LATERAL Dutch custom of leaving shoes packed with food for St Nicholas’s donkeys. He would leave IRE TOOT MINOR FUNNEL LEANDER small gifts in return. KIN Connect these 16 dots with 6 lines. TORN PERIL MUTTER MELANIN 4. There is no reference to angels singing LEA YALE QUAKE NOTION MEMENTO anywhere in the Bible. LEE REPEL QUIVER NANETTE 5. The word Noel derives from the French expression “les bonnes nouvelles” or “the good MBA 5 LETTERS SARAN VENEER ONETIME news”. OER ADORE SLEEP VARIATE 6. Many theologians estimate that Jesus wasn’t born on December 25 but sometime in ORE AGATE SPIKY 7 LETTERS VENISON September between 6BC and 30AD.

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How many species have yet Anagram Square Cryptic Crossword Do you know? to be discovered? You can estimate the total Rearrange the letters in each number of species in the row to form a word. Write your world by graphing the answers into the blank grid. decreasing number of new The first letter from each word, species discovered each year reading down, will spell the mystery keyword. to predict the end point. Or you can extrapolate the number of new species found 1 ACDRS per hectare of rainforest, to Santa Claus gets the boot the number of hectares that 2 NEETA Britain’s National Trust has told Santa Claus to haven’t been studied. Or you 3 get back on his sleigh and get out of town, or at can graph the body size of OCALL least out of the organization’s famous estates each new species found, on 4 VLELE and homes. He’s too American. 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An hour later the man opens pet, but I don’t want a boring or nor- been so grumpy if people the matchbox and says “Hello mr cen- mal pet - no cats, dogs, or birds - I ‘Cure for baldness’ A real emergency hadn’t left him hanging for tipede, fancy going to the pub for a want something different.” The pet For many men, going bald is just about the worst West Ham fans have been high fives all the time.” Rhys few drinks!?” The centipede says “I shop owner informs him that he has a thing they can imagine happening to them. warned by police not to call James heard you the first time!!! I’m putting talking centipede. “Really?,” the man South Korean scientists have cooked up a 999 over their team’s poor my shoes on!” chemical that’s been shown to promote hair replied, “How much?” The owner performance. The club’s latest “If you don’t know what growth in mice. 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Figuring it first match in charge. “Ringing to say I’ve been dry for six The Titanic, and that from the begin- protein that controls the hair growth and must be tired from the journey, he 999 because @WestHamUtd years.” Alfie Moore ning he warned all the people that the developed a new substance that promotes hair decides to leave it for an hour and try have lost again and you aren’t boat would sink, but they ignored regeneration by controlling the function of the again later. An hour later he opens the sure what to do is not accept- “Who discovered we could him. However, they were warned protein. ‘We expect that the newly developed matchbox and says “Hello Mr centi- substance will contribute to the development able! 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4 December 1977 9 0 4 6 4 6 7 1 6 4 Malaysian Airline System Flight 653, flying from 1 3 3 0 5 0 7 8 4 1 Penang to Kuala Lumpur, was hijacked and crashed at Tanjung Kupang. All 100 people on 1 8 8 9 5 1 5 6 8 2 board were killed. The circumstances of the 2 2 2 4 2 4 4 6 2 0 hijacking and crash, and the identities and motives of the hijackers, are unknown. 1 1 7 4 7 7 5 7 5 6 2 1 8 7 2 8 0 5 6 0 5 December 1952 6 5 0 3 0 9 6 8 4 8 The Great Smog of London. Dense, cold, smoke-filled fog descended upon London, 1 8 8 0 6 0 9 2 1 1 bringing the city to a standstill for 4 days. Over 2 9 5 2 1 9 0 1 6 8 4,000 people died. 1 2 9 8 7 5 7 9 8 2 6 December 1917 Halifax Explosion, Nova Scotia, Canada. 93847, 050784,93847, 6681, 050784, 120608, 6681, 56410, 120608, 54770, 56410, 54770, 1101, 1983, 2190, The Norwegian steamship SS Imo collided with 1101, 1983, 2190, 030968 030968 the French munitions ship SS Mont-Blanc which was loaded with explosives to be Thanks to Scott Wareing, HMP Garth for compiling this Number Search. If you fancy transported to the war in Europe. The collision compiling one please send in max 10 x 10 grid caused a fire on board the Mont-Blanc, which complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it ignited its cargo. The massive explosion we will send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to destroyed the Richmond District of Halifax, include your name, number and prison. We will be killed nearly 2,000 and injured 9,000. using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. 7 December 1977 Death of Peter Carl Goldmark. Best known for Sudoku // Very Hard 1 developing the 33 /3 rpm long playing record (LP), which revolutionised the recording industry. 2 6 4 He also developed a colour television system - it was not adopted commercially as it was 7 6 4 incompatible with existing black-and-white broadcasts, but it was used for closed-circuit, 4 5 2 scientific and educational purposes. He also 4 2 3 1 developed an early home video recorder, and a scanning system for NASA which allowed it to 1 9 send back images from the Moon. 9 8 7 2 23 December 1992 5 3 2 British tabloid newspaper The Sun published the Queen’s Christmas speech two days early. 6 3 1 (Its future availability to the press was restricted.)

5 3 6 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2017. All rights reserved. 23 December 2002 Daily Sudoku: Tue 7-Nov-2017 The first time a manned conventional aircraft Word Morph and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV/drone) engaged in combat. An Iraqi MiG-25 shot down Can you morph one word into another by just changing one letter at a time? It isn’t quite as a U.S. MQ-1 Predator UAV that was performing 2 6 1 5 4 8 7 9 3 reconnaissance over Iraq’s no fly zone. The Predator easy as you think! fired an air-to-air heat-seeking missile at the 3 5 7 2 9 6 8 1 4 MiG, but the missile became distracted when cost the MiG fired a missile of its own. The Predator 8 9 4 1 3 7 5 6 2 was destroyed when the MiG’s missile hit it. 7 4 5 9 2 3 6 8 1 1 8 2 4 6 5 3 7 9 25 December 1987 © MW Released life sentenced prisoner In the British television soap opera Coronation Street Hilda Ogden left the street to become 9 3 6 8 7 1 4 2 5 her doctor’s housekeeper in the country. It was Ten lucky readers 5 7 3 6 1 9 2 4 8 one of the most-watched episodes in the FREE PRIZE DRAW bowl show’s history. can select one of 6 2 9 3 8 4 1 5 7

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Inside Chess Wordsearch //Jailbreak Christmas December 2017 Would you believe it? Wordsearch: Christmas will soon be present – Robbie Ellis, HMP Littlehey by Carl Portman Y A S C I T O P E A C E T A R I X O I L E S I P O B A M G I O D E L I M N F V O It is time to dip into the Yule mailbag. Tony from S A T Y E D X A P O D I K S A L I C E C HMP Stafford asks if I have any puzzles or chess S N S G I F A O T A G O H S I R O Z M H news to send him. Many inmates ask me this I T O S N M Y H B I T A P A H J T I I A question understandably because of the lack of P A T H R I O N O P A U L R O L E T C E information about chess. I wish I could help O C T I C L G E V I D X O P I B O R O L everyone on an individual level, but that is just R L A T L A I N E D O C D U P D Y U O P The offending courgette discovered in the not feasible on my limited voluntary time. I can man's garden. E A S Y M O S S I X I T U F E O R Y A E Pic: German police only hope that my puzzles in this newspaper are E U P R E S E N T S T I R F A Q I E N R Bomb fears squashed Having a gay old time of some help. I must recommend you to see what D S E E T H G O P U L P E O L A L N D H Police in Germany were relieved when a call Tortoises have extraordinary you can obtain from your prison library or family N A I K L E V A R E R O Y I O B A M R A I G O C U R I K L I K L R X U A N I R I about a potential unexploded Second World long lives, during which they and friends. War bomb turned out to actually be a monster E N T A D V E N T O D I L A P E A H O S have the chance to copulate, courgette. A worried 81-year-old called police Davide from HMP Winchester asks for suggestions R O B R E Y O R A N G A B O C L O C N E reproduce and keep their when he spotted the 16inch (40cm) vegetable on how to open a chess game. In very general I L K C O I R E B M E C E D D V A R D D species alive. For one fella in his garden. Police rushed to the scene in terms (there are always exceptions to rules in A S L E I G H I Y O P A S R Y E T I I E though, called Jonathan, Bretten and quickly established it was nothing chess) you should begin by getting your central R A T S A S E C H R I S T M A S O T A L (believed to be the oldest to be afraid of. Offi cers who responded to the pawns out, then develop your knights and bishops H N E E Y A R T O E A D R S S K I G V S living creature on the planet, callout said the summer squash “really did look (the minor pieces) and castle early. Get your A P P Y W L L U R X F Z Q U P M K H B O very like a bomb”. The offending vegetable, at 186-years-old) he never queen out (not too far initially) then bring your which was very dark in colour, weighed about ADVENT,ADVENT, BAUBLE, CAROL CAROL SINGING, SINGING, CHIMNEY, CHRISTMAS, CHIMNEY, DECEMBER, CHRISTMAS, ELVES, HOLLY, once reproduced, which rooks to the centre. After this you need your plan 11lb (5kg). Police believe someone threw it DECEMBER,HYMNES PEACE, ELVES, PRESENTS, HOLLY, REINDEER, HYMNES, RUDOLPH, SANTA PEACE, CLAUS, PRESENTS, STAR, SLEIGH, TOYS, mystifi ed his keepers. He - and of course that is all down to you. All of the TURKEY, XMAS PUDDING over a hedge into the garden. “A homeowner REINDEER, RUDOLPH, SANTA CLAUS, STAR, SLEIGH, TOYS, spent most of his long life above depend upon what moves your opponent excitedly rang Bretten police station and said TURKEY, XMAS PUDDING with Frederica, his female that he had found a World War II bomb in his plays but playing logical moves giving yourself companion, but it turns out Thanks to Robbie Ellis, HMP Littlehey for compiling this Wordsearch. garden,” police said. “As it turned out to be a space and scope should see you have a good he’s gay. He recently ‘came game. If you fancy compiling one for us please send in max 20 x 20 grid vegetable, the bomb disposal unit did not have complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it we will send you £5 out’ after it was discovered to be called. The courgette must have been as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number, prison. We thrown by an unknown person over the garden that Frederica is actually a My new book ‘Chess Behind Bars’ has everything will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so hedge of the ultimately relieved man, who took bloke, now called Frederic, a chess fan would want. It includes the history include your DOB on your entries. care of their disposal himself.” The Telegraph and for obvious reason that’s of the game and the rules; there is advice on how why the two never had any to study and motivate yourself. There is a selection Quick Crossword kids. The pair met in 1991 of games and many puzzles to solve at different when Frederic arrived as a gift levels. Basically - a smorgasbord of chess. If Santa for the governor of St Helena. does not visit your prison then you can obtain However, whoever had a copy direct from the publishers at Quality Chess. previously handled Frederic and whoever examined him, Today’s puzzle is fairly easy in order to give every- clearly weren’t that good at one the opportunity to enter as the prize will be their jobs. A recent examina- different since it is Christmas (see below). Black tion revealed the tortoise’s just played his knight to d7 after it was attacked by the pawn on e5. Was this the correct move? Our Lord and Savoury actual gender, which If not, why not? Greggs has apologised for replacing the baby explained the mystery behind Jesus with a sausage roll in the launch of its Jonathan not laying his seed advent calendar. Photos promoting the baker’s around properly. People then new Advent calendar showed three wise men labelled this as him ‘coming 8 gathered round a manger in the traditional out as gay’. According to The 7 fashion but, rather than gazing in wonder at Times the pair regularly the son of God, their eyes fall upon a Greggs mated on Sunday mornings pastry. But it was met with serious backlash 6 throughout the 90s, which led online as offended fans accused the budget their owners and vets to 5 chain of religious insensitivity and vowed to believe that there’d be babies boycott it. Twitter users said that replacing 4 Jesus, who was Jewish, with a pork product was soon. It wasn’t to be, and no “inappropriate”. Greggs said in a statement: one thought to check if 3 “We’re really sorry to have caused any offence, Frederica actually had a penis. Across Down this was never our intention.” Lad Bible 2 1. Turn turtle (7) 1. English city (8) 1 5. Coffee bar (4) 2. Tranquil (8) ‘Jedi’ attacked by Jesus Oh, my cod! 7. By way of (3) 3. Certainly (6)

The Force was not so strong Police were called to a Manchester takeaway A B C D E F G H 8. Heavy fall of rain (8) 4. ______Woodward, actor (6) with a ‘Jedi’ who broke his after staff poured gravy on a man’s fi sh and chips. 9. Female relative (5) 5. Base metal (6) ankle after an assault by a Local accounts say that the disagreement began 10. Spool (4) 6. Revolting (4) fellow Halloween party-go- when staff handed him his chips, only to then take A chess book is the prize if you are first out of 13. Prevalent (4) 11. Women’s underwear (8) er dressed as Jesus. The them away again to apply a generous covering of the hat. 14. A complete defeat (4) 12. Dilapidated (8) man dressed as Jesus is gravy. By the time police arrived, the chippy had 18. Long bounding stride (4) 15. Vouchers (6) understood to have punched closed. Offi cers recorded a public order offence. Write to me with your answer, care of The English 19. Bode (5) 16. Of or befi tting a hero (6) the Star Wars Jedi in the A tweet from the Greater Manchester Police city Chess Federation at The Watch Oak, Chain Lane, 21. Mortgage, informally (4,4) 17. Large wine bottle (6) face, causing him to fall to centre account said: “999 from fi sh & chip shop Battle, East Sussex TN33 OYD. Please note that 22. Rend (3) 20. Chuck (4) the ground and break his earlier this week - customer kicking off, appar- you should always write to me at the ECF not via 23. Poses a question (4) ankle. The victim was left ently because they put gravy on his chips. Shop InsideTime. Also please include your prison num- 24. Remark (7) needing hospital treatment. was closed when we got there later, and in the ber and if you can, the date. A police spokesman said: absence of any other calls, we’ve assumed no-one The last word... “Offi cers would like to trace got battered.” However, not everyone found the The answer to November’s puzzle was 1.Qxh7+ a man described as in his Manchester police tweet funny with people Nxh7 2.Ng6+ Kg8 3.Bd5# winner to be mid 20s, about 5ft 10 and complaining about its funny nature. GMP replied: announced. “The way of Heaven is to benefi t others medium build, with long ‘Our occasional irreverence not to everyone’s and not to injure” Lao-Tzu 6th century BC brown hair, a beard, and liking but has bought us a huge platform for the The winner of October’s puzzle was Rob from wearing long robes.” serious stuff like wanted and missing appeals.’ HMP Stafford. 60 Jailbreak // National Prison Radio www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2017 National Prison Radio is currently available in prisons December 2017 across England and Wales. What’s on National Prison Radio // December 2017 We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, into your National Prison Radio is currently available in prisons across England and Wales. We broadcast 24-hours a day, seven days a week,cell. into If your your prisoncell. has National Prison Radio, you can listen through your TV by using the tuning buttons on If your prison has National PrisonWhat’s Radio, you can listen on through National your TV by using the tuningPrison buttons on yourRadio? remote control. your remote control.

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