“Why not call “Wow, it felt like he’d hit me with a yourselves sledgehammer. Tears welled up in my eyes. I felt like scum. I was totally ‘Freebirds’? You devastated and completely shocked” were Jailbirds John Chapman and Restorative Justice but soon you’ll Comment // page 23 all be free” Russell Brand address- Post-Incarceration the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees ing the contestants of Syndrome: How the system the ‘Pitch Perfect’ a voice for prisoners since 1990 programme makes sure life means life John Roberts reports The Secret Criminologist July 2016 / Issue No. 205 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profit’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Comment // page 19 Comment // page 27

“The UK’s decision to leave the European Union should not derail the government’s IPP families commitment to a prison reform agenda”

do know is that both the Prime Minister and the Justice Secretary have made a strong commit- ment to reform prisons, our least visible most neglected public service, and plans are being march on drawn up right now for new policy and legis- lation. One thing is clear, that if there is to be even less money available then the only way to afford reform is to make sure that prison is used only as a last resort and for the shortest Parliament possible time given the crime.” Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, was less optimistic. 4,000 IPP prisoners remain in ‘over- She told us: “If one thing is clear for the world of prisons, it is that Michael Gove’s reform agen- crowded slum’ prisons as the Parole June 23rd 2016 - Brexit Day da must now be in doubt, as it is unlikely that he will remain Justice Secretary in a new ad- Board is too afraid to order release says Outgoing Director of the Prison Reform Trust ministration. Even if he did stay at the Ministry Juliet Lyon said that it was too early to tell just of Justice, it seems likely that the government how the leave vote and David Cameron’s resig- will be in a state of political paralysis well into former Justice Secretary Ken Clarke nation as Prime Minister last month will affect next year and much energy will be diverted into prison reform. She told Inside Time: “What we negotiations with the European Union.”

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They came ducing the sentence in 2003, loved ones, former Justice from all parts of the country; which often gave a prisoner a Ward’s Building 7 New Square Secretary Ken Clarke said it England, Wales and even short tariff but made it incum- Central Switchboard was ‘absurd’ that 80% of pris- Scotland with a sense of real bent upon them to prove they 31 - 39 High Bridge Lincolns Inn oners serving IPP sentences anger about how their part- were no longer a risk before Newcastle Upon Tyne 0191 232 1006 London WC2A 3QS were way beyond their origi- ners, brothers, sons and fa- being released. (By Appointment) nal tariffs and called for the thers were being treated and NE1 1EW Parole Board to have more ranged from mums with young Continued on page 16 Founding members of the Association of Prison Lawyers power to free them. children to elderly people, 2 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime July 2016 insidetime Star Letter of the Month Smoking ban a voice for prisoners since 1990 Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize the national newspaper for prisoners published by a shambles Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of The New Bridge Foundation, founded in 1956 to Internal Restorative Justice Vape Kid - HMP Dartmoor create links between the offender and the Name Supplied - HMP Rye Hill community. I am completely frustrated with the way in A not for profi t publication. Internal Restorative Justice searching I sought a solution meeting exactly what the which the smoking ban at Dartmoor has been has been trialled at Rye Hill through the internal issue was, he immediately introduced. The information leafl ets/booklets Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial distributed to prisoners had the wrong days/ content. Comments or complaints should be for the last few months, as a restorative justice. apologised for what he had directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. way of sorting out disputes, done. I then had a chance to dates in them. Tobacco products were confronting bullying “The ‘harmer’ was explain how I had been removed from the canteen earlier than the Board of Directors aff ected. The ‘harmer’ was date we were given. A deliberate attempt to behaviour and reducing genuinely shocked violence. genuinely shocked when he reduce the amount left in the system? 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This problem should have been and, rather than sort it out, The Editorial Team has done the ‘harm’ - need to little bit dubious about anticipated and done a lot sooner. It is a the feelings can become a agree to a face-to-face get whether this scheme would wonder that no one died, yet! running sore that can eat together. I admit I was really work, I can now say how away at you. apprehensive prior to the much better it has made me With these cell-checks and the increased meeting, but was greatly feel. If you have had a row need for medical attention, compliant In my case, I simply could reassured by the two with someone or believe that prisoners had to suff er longer periods of not understand why the facilitators - one a prison a prisoner, or a member of bang-up and lost association. 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Mailbites Healthcare services in prison Why only six prisons? Mailbag 2-9 “I am now Name supplied - HMP Wandsworth Name Withheld - HMP Ashfield expected to serve ‘Thank you life in prison for Whilst we are in prison we are supposed to be able to access the same medical Listening to the news in May I was drawn to the breaking a sink” for your support’ treatment provided by the NHS and have the same waiting times as people on lead story about prison reform being in the Page 8 Jeff Marsh Recently my wife became the outside. But, what do you do if the prison you are being held in does not Queen’s Speech. The basics of the story was a bill to give prison governors ‘unprecedented’ very ill and had to be taken to have the services you need? Newsround 10-15 new powers. It is billed as the biggest shake- hospital, where she stayed for For example, I have long-term back problems caused by an accident, and I up of the Prison Service since Victorian times. “He is also claiming over 4 weeks. She had for hurt feelings pneumonia and another need to see a physiotherapist but I cannot access one because that service is not available in this prison. But suppose I was able and willing to pay for a It went on to say that 6 prisons will get control because prison infection and it was the over budgets and daily regimes. David staff called him hardest time me and the private healthcare service like a physio? Would the prison take me for an Page 12 appointment, or allow them to come into the prison? Can I have private health Cameron even goes on to say that the changes ‘Marble Man’” family have had to go would ‘extend life changes for all’. I have cover with, say, BUPA, whilst in prison? Is this possible? Comment 16-28 through since I came into been in prison for seven years and the prison prison. I am very close to my Editorial note system has steadily declined over that time, “The only rights wife, 3 children and the rest In theory you could pay for your own physiotherapist but you would have to so any reform is more than welcome. However, you have are the of our family. So we would all also cover the cost of prison staff involved in your treatment. If you need to see if these reforms are so good for all, why is it ones I decide to like to take this opportunity a physio then prison healthcare should arrange an appointment for you. If this only being offered in 6 prisons out of 137? give you” Page 25 to say ‘thank you’ to all the does not happen then you should use the formal complaints procedure. staff here at Altcourse who All prisons already have different regimes and Information 29-37 supported us through these even though governors have guidelines that difficult times and have gone they have to follow they still change what they The benefits of above and beyond their want to suit the running of their prison. As for quitting & the best normal duties to support me managing their own budgets, prison budgets way to overcome the and my family. Also a big are now so tight they struggle to even cover challenges while thank you to Emily, our the basics. So, if governors are to be allowed Page 31 serving a sentence lawyer, MUMU, and everyone to manage their own budgets does this mean Legal 38-43 else who was kind enough to that they can expect an increase in budgets to achieve the desired results? I think not. help our family through these “I wake up every hard times. A grateful morning scared of Any reform within a failing prison system is prisoner and his family. what the day may more than welcome, but if it is half-hearted hold” Name supplied - then sadly it will be doomed before it begins. Page 39 James Ward HMP Altcourse So come on Cameron, put your hand in your pocket and give governors the extra money Jailbreak 44-56 National needed for reform, and give ALL prisons a “This is a good chance, not just 6 of them. sign for Frankfurt Prisoners Council and it has filled © Fotolia.com Thank you for publishing my Former president of the Prison Governors me with a lot of Page 46 announcement regarding the Association Eoin McLennan-Murray page 22 confidence” forming of the National Prisoners Council in your Barking mad? offer no support at all. I’m supposed No support to have weekly visits with them but April issue. I have received a Dean ward - HMP Leeds surprising and overwhelming Jason Butler - HMP Norwich I’ve been here 9 weeks and only seen them 5 times. Even when I do see response from both prisoners I was reading the Star Letter in the May Issue (‘Why can’t I have a dog’) and them it’s like they are not really and organisations from across found it very interesting. Then I was recently watching a programme on I write about the letter in May’s issue interested. They ask if I’m ok and the UK, and it would appear television about Australian prisons where inmates look after and train guide by Mr Keith Mileham (Autism in then just disappear instead of trying that the forming of the dogs for the blind. The prisoners have the dogs for between 18 months and 2 custody). I am autistic and find it to engage and find out what is really National Prisoners Council is years until they are no longer puppies but fully trained guide-dogs. This is all extremely hard to socialise with going on. to be well received. I would done with the full cooperation of the relevant bodies and charities. other people. I receive more support like to thank all those who from fellow inmates than I do from Suicide is the number one killer of So, why could we not have a scheme like this in UK prisons? There could be a any of the staff here. The trouble is responded and assure people with autism, due to depres- designated prison for it, with lifers and long-termers doing the training. If it can that staff have no training in how to everybody that I will be sion, so basically from lack of be done in Australian prisons then why not here? It would give prisoners a definite deal with autistic prisoners so they replying to each and every support. I hope this gets through to individual letter personally. sense of responsibility and achievement and let them give something back to assume that all prisoners with autism are extremely clever and have issues those in charge - we need at least one Big thanks to Inside Time for the community. It’s just an idea, so I hope you don’t think I’m barking mad. with OCD. A lazy diagnosis which is doctor or member of staff who has giving all prisoners a voice. been trained in dealing with the Editorial note not true. autistic on each wing. Is this too Wayne Sowerby - Inside Time is investigating how and where animals are used in prisons. Watch much to ask? HMP North Sea Camp out for an article on the subject in a forthcoming issue. The mental health team in this prison ‘Feeling seriously violated after strip-search’ Janine Doolan - KWP Solicitors Prison Law Supervisor and Crime Consultant OJ - HMP Huntercombe

Legal Aid for I was asked by staff, during a strip-search for down and full searches. Full searches are now • Parole •Adjudications • Re-call an outside hospital appointment, to hand very rare and risk assessed in female prisons him my underwear. I was a bit taken aback at and in child and young persons’ establish- • Judicial Review • Appeals this request, even in Category B prisons this ments they have been all but banned because is not done. We are usually asked to drop of their previous excessive use. Affordable Fixed Rates for underwear to the knees, but no member of staff has ever asked me to hand over my For male prisoners these searches are com- • Recategorisation • HDC underwear to them and then turn around. I mon, for example before cell searches, after • Pre-tariff Parole Reports feel seriously violated. Please can someone visits and before and after prison transfers. tell me the strip-search procedure as it should The frequency may depend upon the category Instructions taken from all prisons officially be conducted under PSI or PSO. of prison. The annexes to PSI 2011-67 sets out the precise procedure for a male Full Search 20/22 Mathew Street, Liverpool, L2 6RE Editorial note which is also reproduced in our Inside Direct Dial 0151 321 2231 The procedures for strip searches, now called Information guidebook 2015/16 Section 9 Mobile: 07842 996 400 ‘Full Searches’ are set out within PSI 2011-067. page 24, which is available in all prison Its annexes set out the full procedures for rub libraries. 4 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime July 2016

NOMS and DHL equals ‘ex- Mailbites ploiters of the disadvantaged’ Another black- Name supplied - HMP Wakefield market product! Recently, prisoners got onto Last year I became concerned at the diff erence in prices the roof at HMP Swansea in between the Duracell D batteries on sale by DHL on the protest at the prison becom- canteen list and identical batteries on sale in the Argos ing ‘smoke free’. Though, let’s catalogue. Of course, because DHL were selling the batteries I be serious, no prison is going was not allowed to buy them from Argos. to be smoke-free, ever. The big money to be earned in Under the Freedom of Information Act, I asked the Ministry at smoke-free prisons is not what price had DHL purchased the batteries. Aft er repeated from drugs, but from illegal refusals to provide this data, the Information Commissioner tobacco. Tobacco now sells at eventually ordered them to disclose this information. between £100 and £200 for a 2-ounce pouch. Seriously, the © prisonimage.org “It does explain why the MoJ refuses to allow government haven’t really prisoners to purchase from Argos, or other suppli- thought this through, have they? All they are doing is ridiculous it is to implement a regime that is ers, items sold by DHL on the canteen list” creating another black-mar- almost impossible to comply with. Also, I had Impossible regime? ket product that will make an IEP review and my time on Basic was Simon Tillotson - HMP Leeds The facts are that batteries on sale by DHL for £3.49 were those who smuggle things extended for a further 14 days. This is because purchased by DHL for £1.67, making a profi t margin of £1.82 into prison very rich.© Fotolia.com My when I was initially placed on Basic the staff - a mark-up of 110%! As is the case on all items sold by DHL We are supposed to be unlocked at 7.30am in question is - why didn’t they did not come to my cell and take the television. all the profi t goes to the MoJ and is, supposedly, used to cover order to collect medication and for move- just designate some prisons of How can that be my fault? I have a cell-mate the cost of providing the canteen service. Unsurprisingly, the ments to the work area by 8am. Due to a lack every category as smoke- who is on Standard regime, so he is being MoJ makes a gross profi t from providing this service. of staff we are oft en not unlocked until 7.45 or free? Why do the government punished yet has done nothing wrong. 7.50. Last week we were not unlocked until have to impose further It may not be the case that all items turn such an obscene 7.55! Once unlocked I went straight to join restrictions on an already Editorial note profi t, but it does explain why the MoJ refuses to allow the long queue for morning medication. heavily-restricted population? The problems with regime ‘Meds’ and work prisoners to purchase from Argos, or other suppliers, items Whilst waiting for my meds, the last call for should be progressed through the internal sold by DHL on the canteen list. Fireproof duvets, bed-linen Smokers United - HMP Exeter workshops was sounded. This left me with an formal complaints procedure. Any prisoner on and towels are placed on the canteen lists because of the impossible choice - leave my meds, which is Standard regime is entitled to keep the TV. If profi ts that can be made. A profi teer is described as one who not really an option, or collect my meds and ‘What year is it?’ the TV has been removed from the cell of a takes advantage of another; an exploiter of the risk missing movements to work, which What year is it on the mainland? Standard regime prisoner because he or she is disadvantaged. would result in a ‘refusal to work’ and being forced to share a cell with a Basic regime Because here at HMP Isle of placed on Basic regime. prisoner this also should be addressed through Wight it seems to be around the internal formal complaints procedure. NOMS Writes 1816 instead of 2016! There I chose to collect my meds as my health is Prisoners placed on Basic regime who have has been no hot water at all more important to me. So, inevitably, I was TVs removed should ensure they are not still Although the National Off ender Management Service (NOMS) no for 3 wings and the Seg for placed on Basic regime for ‘refusal to work’. being charged for them. longer sells the Duracell D Battery, at the time of your request, over 2 weeks now. Whilst I Where’s the fairness or justice in that? How the cost charged to NOMS by the provider, DHL, of a two-pack of am aware that HMP Parkhurst these batteries, including VAT, was £1.67. Batteries were sold to was built in the Victorian era, prisoners at a cost of £3.49 including VAT, making the margin £1.82. I see no reason as to why we Parole? Recall? should be stuck in a time The provider, DHL, does not derive any profi t from the sales of warp. We now have to go to products. The margin made from the diff erence between the the gym in order to have a Life Sentence? selling price and cost price remains with NOMS and covers the shower - there are 5 shower cost of providing the prison canteen service. stalls in the gym. Those of you OLLIERS SOLICITORS You may recall that we have already responded to the issue with a mathematical bent about health and safety in our letter of 10 June 2015. could work out that 5 showers between 200 men is not ideal. CAN HELP The practice of splitting batteries no longer takes place. NOMS The staff are facilitating one were aware of this practice previously. shower-run per wing, per day, Representation throughout England & Wales so, potentially, we can go You can also fi nd more information by reading the full text of the without a shower for 3 or 4 days. FOIA, at www.legislation.aov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/43 LM B - HMP Isle of Wight Life Sentences - IPP, MANDATORY, DISCRETIONARY, AUTOMATIC LIFE SENTENCE PRISONERS - ORAL & ATTENTION LIFERS WRITTEN REPRESENTATION Are you being released in the next six Appeals & Prison Law Specialists months? • Appeals against Conviction (Joint Enterprise) If so, this research team would like to hear from you for a television documentary about • Appeals against Sentence / IPP Sentence Recall - PAROLE BOARD REPRESENTATION 'life after life'. • Parole Board Reviews • Licence Recalls We want to know how you are preparing for CONTACT: JEREMY PINSON Our London office • Independent Adjudications before the Judge the outside world and how have you coped without your family. 1 Heddon Street • CCRC FREEPOST NEA 13621, • Judicial Review How was your experience inside? MANCHESTER M3 9ZL Mayfair • Re-Categorisation What are your plans outside? 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I am a traveller, serving 5 years here at Stoke Heath with my brother, Danny. Both of us I am a transgender woman applied for jobs but were told by the officer in charge of employment that we couldn’t do most and have been transitioning jobs because we cannot read or write properly. I then asked if we could go on the gardens for a few months and realise party or reskilling and we were told no, because there are other travellers working on those the difficulties LGBT jobs and ‘travellers fight a lot’! prisoners face every day. To transition or to ‘come out’ in I have no violence on my record and have never had a fight in my life. To be discriminated society is hard enough, but against in this way is shocking. I asked the member of staff if he would tell black prisoners that to do it in prison is even they could not have a job somewhere because there was already black guys working there and harder. Being ‘brave’ doesn’t they might stab each other. He had no answer. count for anything in the © Fotolia.com reality of prison life. When we arrived here we were told that this is a ‘working jail’ and that everyone has to work, but now they will not give us a job because of stereotyping. It is a disgrace. Sadly, LGBT prisoners, in ‘Surely smokers are addicts?’ particular Trans prisoners are Kevin Midgley - HMP Wealstun We have put in an official complaint about this matter but no one has replied or even spoken among the most vulnerable to us about it. We are now unemployed and locked up 22 hours a day, 200 miles from our to mental health problems home town and unable to even get visits. Things are bad here for travellers. including high rates of I have just been reading the Newsround item titled ‘Smoking suicide. I question whether trouble at Swansea’ in the May issue, and this got me thinking our prisons are equipped to about the official line of the prison authorities about prisoners Sentenced to 20 years at the age of 85 support LGBT prisoners? being ‘able to buy’ patches or e-cigarettes. As far as I am aware, smoking is considered an addiction and the fact that Name and address supplied “Being ‘brave’ doesn’t the prison service offer prisoners nicotine patches (nicotine being classed as an ‘addictive substance’) for smoking I sympathise with the family who wrote the of the students were from 10 - 15 both boys count for anything in the cessation confirms that they know this to be an addiction open letter to the Prime Minister (April and girls. We always had an open house for reality of prison life” problem. If this indeed is the case then why are prisoners issue). My husband has been sentenced to 20 our children’s friends. being made to purchase items such as patches and e-ciga- years for historic crimes he has not commit- So often, in my experience, rettes instead of these being provided for us? ted, which were supposed to have happened I think that this whole system stinks LGBT prisoners do not have some 50+ years ago. Although we thought we regarding historic sex crimes as people are a platform to voice their “It is not prisoners making the choice to stop had a good solicitor and barrister it was getting on the bandwagon to claim compen- concerns. I am suggesting a obvious that he was condemned before sation by lying in court. How can anybody once a month LGBT drop-in smoking, it is being forced upon us and, as such, anything was said. He was sentenced in his accuse a person 50 years on when they are in session in some prisons, led surely those who forced it on us should pay for the 85th year with failing health. their twilight years, let alone the judge who primarily by prisoners; share was so nasty as to suggest that I went back to your experiences and mentor replacements” When I saw his solicitor after the sentencing my comfortable life. How does she know others in a relaxed environ- I was told that the court and jury had all the what my life was like? ment. It won’t cost much but If I was in prison and addicted to heroin I would not be evidence. I beg to differ as it took me weeks it might save lives. Winning expected to purchase methadone from the canteen supplier, to go through the social services records, Our whole family has suffered throughout awards and putting together or to pay for diazepam if addicted to alcohol, so why should police records and statements made by my the lead up to the trial and now with the policies which fail are great smokers be treated differently? It is not prisoners making the husband and the accusers, as well as those imprisonment of my husband. Our daughter, for ticking boxes in the choice to stop smoking, it is being forced upon us and, as people who supported him. Also the trial who is now disabled, has had fits and is very Equality & Diversity box, such, surely those who forced it on us should pay for the lasted just over two weeks. At the court before unstable and the grandchildren miss their however, these things do not replacements. Before the smoking ban, if I chose, of my own the trial the judge told the solicitors to edit grandfather very much. He is not allowed to support LGBT prisoners. free will, to give up smoking in prison I would have been the information given as it was too long and even speak or send a letter to our grand- offered nicotine replacements free of charge because it is a they edited a lot of information, some of which daughter who is only 17. What harm would it do? Transgangsta Bites Back health issue. So why should it be different just because the we thought relevant - therefore some of the page 25 system has forced this on us? questions we thought would be asked were not. Just because of Savile I believe that all men from the 50s/60s plus are now in danger The lies that have been told by the accusers especially if there has been a feud of any DAVIES & JONES RODMAN PEARCE even go so far as to say that he was discredit- kind, this could easily cause conjecture. ed from the Navy, if that was so then his Would it not save the government £136.000 SOLICITORS SOLICITORS papers would have the corner cut off, which per year for these aged people to be looked FIGHTING FOR YOU !!! he has not, he still has his naval papers after on home arrest or be tagged? Specialising in Experienced representation in intact and also a good record of conduct. 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There but for the grace of God…? Mailbites Charles Knight - address withheld Justice for prisoners’ I am concerned about the health and well-being of Mr John Kelly, who is a families? fellow prisoner and a good friend of mine. I have known John for just over 2 With all the recent publicity years, having met him at HMP Buckley Hall. surrounding the terrible events at Hillsborough, where When I arrived at HMP Risley, I saw that John was looking okay and that he the police deliberately lied in had a young carer. I had noticed over previous months that his health and order to cover up their part in well-being had deteriorated rapidly. Unfortunately it takes a lot of time and the deaths of 97 Liverpool effort to look after John’s personal and physical needs and this took its toll on fans, I have to ask when are his carer, who had to give up his duties. This caused John a great deal of stress the government and Ministry and instability. of Justice going to be held accountable for the many Although there are a few people who will take on the job of carer out of sheer deaths in prison custody over devotion and dedication, John’s carer was one of these, unfortunately there the years? When do prisoners’ are also those who do it for personal gain. The Prison Service say that carers families get answers and should be paid by the NHS as their work is saving them vast sums of money justice for the total lack of and they would have to supply physical carers for disabled prisoners other- care, support and protection wise. But the NHS are saying that it is up to the Prison Service to pay their own due to the total incompetence employees to care for disabled prisoners. of those responsible for running the prison system? Meanwhile, the only people suffering because of this is the patient. John Stop treating us like children cannot go to work as he has no carer to push him over to the workshop, this is Mr Newey - HMP Oakwood a deplorable situation. People in the prison system who look after disabled Robbie Bleach - HMP Whitemoor prisoners should be respected for the job they do and valued and be paid. ‘You only get an OO with Typhoo’ Mr Gove, I think the ideas you are prison system treats us like children. I am out of prison now and some people might ask - Mr Knight, what has this putting in place for the prison For example, the film The Good, The got to do with you? Well, I am 70 years-old and there, but for the grace of God, Since they have introduced population can really work, I’ve Bad and The Ugly (starring Clint go I. It could well be me in that situation. the no smoking policy here, a always said that education is the way Eastwood) carries an 18 film certifi- growing number of people forward. I, myself, am dyslexic and cate, so therefore I cannot buy it! ‘The Irish are have begun smoking Typhoo my reading and spelling was bad, so Déjà vu teabags. Apparently, if you much so that I would pretend I had a The absolute irony of it is that you mix the leaves from the bags, painful injury to my hand when allow us to rent televisions, where Robert Shaw - foreigners too’ and it is only Typhoo that HMP Channings Wood works, with nicotine patches filling out forms so that I could get 18+ certificate films and programmes James Brennan - HMP Leyhill someone else to fill them out for me. are available to us all on a daily then you can get a half-decent basis! One of your ideas, Mr Gove, is Channings Wood currently smoke. Also, there is the very Inside Time has covered the Irish situation I have now taken and passed many to start calling ‘cells’ rooms, a great has over 17 staff members off real possibility that security over the years and we are grateful and hope courses and am a qualified Level 4 idea and very cheap to implement, sick. How do we know this? may now push for a ban on you continue to do so. For months, if not Drug, Alcohol and Solvent Abuse but would you not consider allowing The governor wrote a notice Typhoo teabags, the most years now, I have been listening to MPs and Councillor, also a personal fitness at least Enhanced prisoners an telling us so. Now we have popular brand in the canteen. trainer. I hold 6 diplomas and am option to purchase certificate 18 films split association at weekends others going on about how Britain must This ill-thought out smoking helping other prisoners to learn IT. (obviously excluding pornography). until further notice. decrease the number of foreign prisoners in ban in prisons is doing her prisons. They complain that not enough nothing but making the of these foreign prisoners are being deported “I can buy adult magazines, The vast majority of the prison If the truth were told, HMP is tobacco smugglers rich and population do know the difference in an unparalleled crisis. It is or repatriated. But, as an Irish national, it is dicing with smoker’s health. but when it comes to films finding it nigh on impossible hard to listen to this when I and dozens, between fantasy and reality. As Smokey - HMP Exeter and games, for some strange Enhanced prisoners we are allowed a to recruit new officers, and maybe hundreds, of my countrymen have and unknown reason, the DVD player (at our own expense, the drop-out rate on training been trying to get deported for years. In my False names before the Mail and its readers start them is immense. Also, a case, 8 years! prison system treats us like salivating and foaming) or a PS2 for high percentage leave the and anonymous children” when we are locked up for long service within the first 2 An agreement that took place between the I just want to say that I agree periods. An incentive to make us years of joining. The cost to Irish and English governments in 2007 seems with some of your readers But I would like to know why, as I think about what we will lose if we the taxpayer is huge. to be the barrier. The UK and Eire agreed not who say that those who write am an adult in an adult prison, I am misbehave. to deport Irish prisoners. The excuse given into the paper and do not not able to purchase any films or Nearby prisons, desperate was that ‘the border is too soft so any Irish give their names, or give computer games with an 18 rating? I Prison is hard and sometimes the for staff too, have to get their person deported from the UK could come obvious false names, should can buy adult magazines, but when only respite that prisoners get to feel staff from all over the region back’. That argument only holds water if the be ashamed of themselves. it comes to films and games, for some ‘normal’ for a couple of hours is to keep their establishments deportee is forced to leave. Many Irish Benjamin Oldi-Yongitar - strange and unknown reason, the when watching a good film. skeleton-staffed. The big prisoners would never want to come back HMP Holme House question, of course, is why? and we are happy to agree not to do so. In my opinion it comes down There is a clause in the 2007 agreement that Cold water and pure boredom at Highdown to the age-old primary allows for ‘dangerous Irish nationals’ to be SOTP - ‘Give it a go’ reasons - salary, benefits, deported. So for those of us being held For a lot of people asked to Jeff Dix - HMP Highdown working practise and past-tariff for public protection reasons that do the SOTP (Sex Offenders working environment. The clause CAN and SHOULD be used to deport Treatment Programme) it is a For a good 2 months now there has been no education or workshops here. Prison Service is literally at us. If we are too ‘dangerous’ to release after very daunting prospect. To be How is this supposed to aid our rehabilitation or be justified to the taxpayer? breaking point and unless it having served our sentences then, by asked to go into a room with is restructured it will further We are all sat on our arses doing nothing except watching endless TV and definition, we must be ‘dangerous Irish another eight strangers and deteriorate. getting bored due to ‘staff shortages’. We still get paid for the courses we nationals’. Does that not stand to reason? two facilitators to talk and be should be on, but again, surely the taxpayers won’t be happy with that? asked about your offence is Prisoners being banged up The UKBA and other organisations refuse to enough to put anyone off. in their cells for long periods even speak to us about deportation. The term And for weeks now there has been no hot water on some of the wings. We may The course may not work for of time will almost certainly ‘discrimination’ comes to mind. When all as well just stand under a bucket of cold water for showers. We also have to everyone but you have nothing reach a climax in one of Her other foreign national prisoners can be sent wash our cutlery, crockery and hands under ice-cold water. They do the same to lose and a lot to gain if it Majesty’s prisons one of home, is it not discrimination to not even works for you. I am really on the servery, which cannot be good for health and hygiene as cold water is these days unless the consider Irish nationals for the same pleased I have done the course. no good for killing bacteria. It’s a wonder we all haven’t got food poisoning! situation is resolved. What treatment? Just give it a go. What have will the cost be then? Does you got to lose? Nothing. No matter how many times we complain to staff about this, nothing gets done. anybody remember the I welcome advice or correspondence on this I would be ashamed to house animals here with nothing to exercise their Strangeways riots? ...hmm, issue from any prisoners or agencies who Name Supplied - minds and a really unhealthy environment. déjà vu. want to contact me. HMP/YOI Moorland 8 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime July 2016

IPP should be absolute that there are some in prison who never were Offender or Prisoner ‘offenders’ but are in prison because of a Is this legal? priority Bruce Kent - Member of the executive wrongful conviction. Name supplied - HMP Swaleside Simon Crawford - HMP Bure committee of Prisoners Maintaining Innocence The hurdles put in front of them by the CCRC and the Court of Appeal are often too high for At Swaleside, DHL are splitting multipacks I read with interest the interview with Michael Nick Hone (Inside Time June ‘16) is quite right. them to be able to get a conviction over- and selling them as single items at the pack Gove in the April issue of Inside Time, in To describe those in prison as ‘offenders’ is a turned but that does not mean they are price. For example A4 refill writing pads particular with regard to IPP prisoners having negative term with bad consequences. Nick actually ‘offenders’. a ‘clear path to exit’. I notice that he has makes this very clear. But ‘offender’ is also come in packs of two but they are split and spoken to the new Chair for the Parole Board factually untrue, at least for some in prison. PMI is not able to take up individual cases sold for £1.25. Shouldn’t the price be £1.25 for asking that he make it a priority to process though we are glad to have details. But we two? Another example is packs of three IPP prisoners. Let us hope that his efforts are We, all volunteers, who work with Prisoners are doing what we can to get the current sponges - split and sold for 60p each. I have better than those of his predecessor, who was Maintaining Innocence (PMI), know very well unfair system changed. spoken to the DHL manager who claims to be also going to make things easier for IPPs. looking into the matter but to date has not responded. “Is it not time our new progressive Living in fear The governor at Swaleside has also advised of Nadine Wallace - Justice Secretary got hold of this plans to cut the wages of DHL employees insidious piece of legislation and HMP Bronzefield based on their educational levels - is this fair? sorted it out once and for all?” I received my sentence for a second GBH offence when I Writes The Parole Board at present is not fit for NOMS was 18, in 2000, I was given purpose, but to be fair this is not the fault of a 3 year tariff and I now find its dedicated staff who over the last 12 months Prisoner wages are being reassessed with a myself recalled for minor have been placed under unbelievable pressure view to providing full employment at HMP infractions yet again. The due to cuts in their resources. IPP prisoners Swaleside. This means that the pot of money courts say I am unable to now not only find themselves long over tariff for prisoner wages needs to be spread across have contact with my child but set reviews are no longer taking place. the whole population. To make this allocation as I am at risk of recall for fair, it has been decided to introduce Tiered the rest of my life, therefore I I have now served 10½ years on a tariff that ‘Life in prison for breaking a sink!’ Working, allocating pay to a band of work, am unable to offer stability expired in October 2007. My parole target education, programmes and behaviour. If a was set for October last year, but despite Jeff Marsh - HMP Hewell to a child. How can I have a family of my own? This is a prisoner wishes to progress onto a higher pay positive reports and recommendations I am band, then he will be required to attain the I am an IPP prisoner, having done 7 years out of a 2-year tariff. fundamental human right. still waiting for a hearing, like many others. necessary educational and vocational I was released for 14 months before being arrested for Is it not time our new progressive Justice qualifications and IEP status. As the Coates criminal damage to the bathroom sink of a friend. It was I have never reoffended, I Secretary got hold of this insidious piece of review states, we want to give the opportunity legislation and sorted it out once and for all? alcohol- fuelled anger. I was sentenced for this the very next have been violence free for for prisoners to develop themselves and It is an affront to British values and justice day and received 12 months conditional discharge. The judge 16 years, yet Probation keeps progress on their reducing reoffending journey. costing millions of pounds for the taxpayer said that it wasn’t serious enough to send me back to prison. me at high-risk. The Parole The new pay review and tiered working keeping people in prison who no longer need Board have stated that my rewards self-improvement and progress, to be there. The sentences now bear abso- I was re-arrested the next morning and informed that the risk is overestimated and mirroring real life. lutely no relevance to the crimes they Probation Service wanted me recalled back to prison. When I have placed me as moderate. committed. Also, having spent so much time was 5 months into my recall I received an oral hearing. I was How can I progress? I have in prison we still have to serve 10 years on recommended release by both my Offender Manager and been living in fear for the With regard to the products sold from DHL, the license if we are released. Offender Supervisor, but was shocked when the Parole Board last 16 years, fear of never unit cost is correct. The items are ‘shipped’ to refused both my release and open conditions, on the grounds being released, fear of being the ‘warehouse’ in multi packs. This may be in So, Mr Gove, if you are truly committed to that I did not learn anything from the offending behaviour recalled. I literally shake with units of two, three or even twelve. The cost per giving prisoners a new chance at life then courses I had completed. I am now expected to serve life in anxiety and nerves without unit is correct and set by NOMS. The products the injustices of the IPP legislation should be prison for breaking a sink. Surely this is disproportionate and medication. All caused by are not ‘retail’ multipacks; Prisoners are not Blackfords new ad 24.1.14:Layout 1 24/1/14 12:59 Page 1 your absolute priority. plain wrong? this abusive sentence. paying double or triple the value.

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Will my benefits be as an excuse for bad reinstated or will I have to apply for PIP? Even if I’m granted behaviour, however, as I am PIP will I lose my severe disability allowance? not a constant nuisance, I am not one of them. When my appeal against conviction is heard and if I am acquitted can I claim backdated money as this would show my Over the 7 years I have innocence and the fact that I should not have been in prison served I have learned ways in the first place? If the Appeal Court rule that my indictment to channel my energy and was unlawful, as the evidence clearly points towards, then the outbursts, one way being my trial and conviction were invalid, which should mean that art work. Another being © prisonimage.org my benefits return to how they were before all this began? reading. But since arriving here at Garth my art work ‘Put prison phones BT prison phone. On the out I would proba- Writes and reading have all but bly spend that amount in a month and be come to a halt. We have not out to tender’ using my phone a lot more. Isn’t it about time Debbie Sadler - Advice Manager, Unlock been getting any library so that NOMS got us prisoners a better deal or 26 of us on the wing got Shane Woodford - HMP Hull even put the prisoners’ phones out to tender As you’re aware, pension payments are suspended once you together and filled out 26 so that other companies could compete for are convicted and won’t recommence until you are released. COMP1 forms and took them As I stand talking to my loved ones on the the contract? This introduction of competi- Government guidance states that if you’re on remand and don’t to the S.O. To date these wing phone I can’t help thinking of BT’s tion for BT might have the result of getting us receive a conviction, then you would be entitled to a lump sum forms have not even been latest announcement that their profits now cheaper phone calls. reimbursement when you are released. As a successful appeal processed. I was informed by exceed £3 billion, as I watch my credit tick Hello, is there anyone there? would result in you not receiving a conviction, then you should a member of staff that away. I wonder exactly how much profit BT be entitled to a reimbursement of the pension you would have - ‘Library is no longer a make from prisoners? Can anyone supply this Editorial note received if you hadn’t been in prison. statutory right’ - is this true? information? The cynic in me also wonders if There is a contract between BT and NOMS Personal Independence Payments (PIP) help with extra costs NOMS benefit financially from encouraging and an agreement on call costs (a review of Concerning my art work I caused by long term ill health or a disability. It is based upon me ‘to maintain family ties’? which was published in the May issue of Inside have been accepted by The Time). Due to commercial sensitivity NOMS the level of help you need because of how your condition Burnbake Trust for funding affects you. Even if you were to win your appeal, you wouldn’t In prison I spend between £8 and £15 per are unable to provide detailed information on for art materials, but 10 be entitled to any reimbursement. The argument being that the week keeping in touch with my family via a costings and profits. weeks later the governors support the PIP paid for in the community was either provided here are all refusing to sign to you by staff in the prison or would not have been necessary off the grant, one governor due to your being in prison. stating - ‘I don’t know what SPECIALISTS IN PRISON LAW, PAROLE DELAYS, you are doing behind your EQUALITY CLAIMS, PERSONAL INJURY, As you know, severe disability allowance is a non-contributory Kesar & Co benefit which has now been replaced by Employment Support door’ - intimating that there CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE, MENTAL HEALTH, might be some sort of vague IMMIGRATION AND DEFENCE. Allowance. You would only be entitled to a reimbursement of SOLICITORS these types of benefit if they were contribution based. security implications to prisoners having art as their Our clients regularly receive compensation for the delayed parole hearings, ranging from hobby. I have had numerous ‘Man-hating ideology’ art grants over the years and £300 to £4,500. We offer a free, no-commitment assessment of the merits of your case. not once have I abused the Simeon Hope - HMP Barlinnie We recognise that life in prison can be dangerous and injuries frequent. system. I have done art for Koestler and to give to the Our solicitors assist with claims based on assaults by other prisoners or officers The piece by ‘Karen’ in May’s issue (From prisoner to case children in my family as gifts. who resort to unlawful use of force. These matters include injuries at work or avoidable manager) represents a disturbing trend. We are seeing the accidents resulting in substantial amounts of damages. status of the female prisoner changing from the wicked virago So all my ways of channelling into hapless martyr, with rarely a word about their victims. my energy have been removed. Another area of concern is the growing number of complaints about direct and indirect Blame is transferred to ‘men controlling them’ which - as in I aired my frustration at this discrimination based predominantly on age, disability, gender and religion. much feminist discourse - degrades women to incompetents. and I was removed from my employment, so now I am Our specialists assist prisoners who have received delayed or inadequate A prisoner’s low risk to society; the contribution of early, constantly behind my door medical treatment, as well as those who have been refused medication or experienced negative experiences; environmental influences; separation from with nothing to do. I have abrupt, unjustified withdrawal of opiate substitutes used for overcoming addiction. family; the need to learn useful skills: none of these factors exhausted the internal gender-specific so why portray women as uniquely affected complaints system and We also assist prisoners who feel that their mental health has been ignored or neglected. by them? Is prison life for women really ‘much more complex’ would like to know if there is This includes, but it is not limited to, assessment of the custodial environment than for men? Perhaps ‘Karen’ needs to meet a few male serving, anything else I can try? and alternative treatment arrangements. or former, prisoners, who will show her their complex lives. Editorial note Serving prisoners may receive further charges based on the allegations pre-dating their It is time to counter sexist, man-hating ideology with clearly PSI 2015-02 ‘Prison Library current conviction or triggered by incidents in prison. If so, we may be able to help with reasoned debates about the over-use of imprisonment for all Service’ states in a ‘mandatory criminal defence and/or representation in the confiscation proceedings. kinds of people, instead of special pleading for one gender on instruction’: Governors must spurious grounds. ensure as a minimum that a We offer legal aid, subject to assessment in the areas of prison law, criminal defence, prisoner’s statutory entitlement immigration, mental health, action against the police and public law. In the alternative, we to library provision is met. Corrections and Clarifications Access to the library must be accept instructions from privately paying clients as well as “no win-no fee” agreements. weekly, for a minimum The policy of Inside Time is to correct significant errors as soon duration of thirty minutes. Contact us in writing at: Kesar & Co Solicitors, as possible. 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Rising self-harm rates show growing New research into damage Newsbites despair amongst IPP prisoners caused by wrongful conviction l A group of sniffer dogs A new report by the Prison Reform Trust shows that IPP have been undergoing four prisoners have the highest incidence of self-harm in the The charity Miscarriages of Justice week training sessions so they prison system. For every 1,000 IPP prisoners there were 550 Organisation (MOJO) is backing a new study can sniff out a whole range of incidents of self harm (compared with 324 for determinate into the eff ects of being the victim of a new psychoactive substances sentence prisoners). miscarriage of justice in Scotland. Leading in prisons. They are now criminologists from the University of Oxford being deployed to all public The Prison Reform Trust says; “Four out of every fi ve people will interview victims who are now free. and private prisons in England serving an IPP are still stuck behind bars despite having Lead researcher Laura Tilt said; “This will be and Wales. The dogs’ sensitive served their minimum term. 719 people sentenced to an IPP one of the fi rst studies of its kind in the UK. noses can detect thousands sentence with an original tariff of less than two years are still Research on wrongful convictions has of versions of the drugs, in custody beyond their tariff . This group would not have focused on how they occur and are over- which is diffi cult because been eligible to receive an IPP if they had been convicted of turned. In the UK legislation has now subtle changes of composition an off ence following reforms to the sentence introduced in signifi cantly restricted the possibility of can alter the smell. 2009. Many would have been likely to have received a obtaining compensation.” She said the report relatively short determinate sentence.” l could inform what post-release support is A judge who faces a available, or should be available to repair the disciplinary hearing for The Prison Reform Trust estimates that the cost so far of harms caused by wrongful conviction. remarks he made about incarceration beyond tariff is at least £500 million. Every year racism has claimed he has Charity claims the cost is increasing by over £125 million. www.miscarriagesofjustice.org been denied a fair hearing because he cannot be legally represented or call witnesses. 100% success Probation Inspectorate Judge Peter Herbert, chair of publish report on ‘Desistance the Society of Black Lawyers has been informed that the in stopping and Young People’ hearing will last only two A new report ‘Desistance and Young People’ hours, that he may not be reoffending has been released by HM Inspectorate of legally represented and Probation in which Dame Glenys Stacey, cannot call any witnesses. A charity to help stop military veterans in HM Chief Inspector of Probation, says; “One Prisoners reading of his prison reoff ending is claiming a 100% positive and sustained relationship with a plight may well contemplate success rate. Care Aft er Combat was formed youth worker can make all the diff erence in their own problems with two years ago and is headed by comedian Jim helping young people leave crime behind.” calling witnesses and getting Davidson and Falklands hero Simon Weston. She said; “Those successful in desisting from legal aid when disputing Statistics show that 6% of the prison popula- crime laid great store on a trusting, open and More arrests at G4S Prison Service decisions or tion were former members of the armed collaborative relationship with a YOT worker adjudications. forces. or other professional, seeing it as the biggest Medway children’s prison l factor in their achievement.” G4S failed to provide The charity has helped 100 former prisoners Five more G4S staff from Medway child prison have been enough guards for the 2012 stay crime free for six months aft er release “One positive and sustained rela- arrested as a police investigation into the treatment of London Olympics, was found and was recently given £1m by the Government. to be charging for ‘phantom’ tionship with a youth worker can children at the Secure Training Centre (STC) continues. That Executive Chairman Jim Davidson said; “We brings the total arrested to 10; the fi ve previously arrested electronic tags on criminals give each veteran inmate a mentor, also a make all the difference in helping staff are still on police bail. 14 staff have been suspended and who were either dead or in veteran, of a similar age, who may even have young people leave crime behind” G4S claim that its reporting structure at the centre has been jail and is in the process of been in his regiment. They meet up every changed to increase accountability. During July G4S will hand handing back all of its child week for the 18 months before the inmate’s Inspectors were concerned to fi nd that, in some back all of its child prison contracts back to the MoJ. prison contracts to the MoJ release and they form a bond. That continues cases, case managers felt that children were after the Medway child prison until at least 12 months aft er release.” sometimes slotted into existing projects that Peter Neden, G4S’s president for the UK and Ireland, told the scandal. Now security giant they thought unlikely to prove eff ective. Some Daily Telegraph “From the outset in this investigation, we G4S will shortly be handed The volunteer mentors are paid £50 per day case managers reported spending too much have given Kent police our full support in pursuing any the keys to the Royal Mint, and are trained to NOMS standards. Davidson time getting young people into unpaid work, members of our staff who may have broken the law. The making it the fi rst private says; “We try to give them back some with enforcement action if they didn’t complete behaviour exposed by some members of our staff at the sector company to guard the self-esteem. We remind them that the public it. Many young people persisting in crime had Medway Secure Training Centre in January was completely offi cial coin maker in its understands that they screwed up, and the found unpaid work ineff ective in promoting unacceptable, and as a consequence we immediately 1,130-year history. From July, public loves the fact that they want to do desistance. On the other hand, those young dismissed the individuals directly involved. the fi rm’s security offi cers, better for themselves in society. The public people who desisted from crime had much including ex-Gurkhas, will want to help, they show this with their more positive experiences of unpaid work. “Since the allegations came to light, a great deal of time has work at Llantrisant in South donations and the Government wants to help, been focused on understanding how such behaviours came to Wales, patrolling the Royal and it shows this with its money. It’s a The full report can be downloaded be condoned in one of our businesses, and Kent police can Mint and its visitor centre. win-win for everyone.” from: www.tinyurl.com/hknclas expect our continued co-operation.” Prison death spurs calls PURCELL PARKER for healthcare reform Solicitors Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers BIRMINGHAM’S TOP Following the death of another man from apparently self-infl icted injuries, prison Award winning firm offering specialist advice on prisoners’ rights PRISON LAWYERS reform groups are warning about the ‘rising Licence Recalls tide of self-harm and suicides’ and say the • Lifer panels • Inquest Prisoner Adjudications prison system is in disarray. 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The Carlile Inquiry 10 years on Guide to encourage New Bridge 60th anniversary celebration Newsbites early guilty pleas The “illegal, systemic, physical abuse of children, sanctioned l by the state” was laid bare in a landmark report last month could cause chaos The brains of teenagers published by the Howard League for Penal Reform on the use with serious antisocial of restraint, solitary confi nement and strip-searching in child Four thousand extra prison behaviour problems may prisons in England and Wales. places could be needed if have developed differently, guidelines designed to The Times reported. Researchers The report reveals that the majority of children in custody are encourage court defendants looking at MRI scans of the detained in institutions where restraint is routinely - and to make early guilty pleas are brains of teenagers from YOIs unlawfully - used to get them to obey orders. Children have adopted, a parliamentary had far more uniformity in suff ered 4,350 injuries in the last fi ve years while being report warned. The guideline cortical thickness, which is restrained. Although the number of boys and girls in custody proposed by the Sentencing used as a measure of brain has fallen, the rate of restraint has more than doubled. The Council would make clear development. In normally report, The Carlile Inquiry 10 years on, looks at what progress that defendants can benefi t developing brains some has been made since the Howard League published the from a one-third reduction Princess Alexandra, Patron of New Bridge with Michael Spurr, regions would be expected to fi ndings of an independent inquiry, chaired by Lord Carlile of to their sentence only if they CEO of NOMS at the New Bridge 60th anniversary celebration at develop at different rates and Berriew QC, into the use of restraint, solitary confi nement and plead guilty on their fi rst The Clink, HMP Brixton. different times. But the study, strip-searching in penal institutions for children. appearance in court - rather by a team from the University than at the fi rst reasonable The Princess had the opportunity of chatting to some of the of Southampton, did not fi nd Lord Carlile’s team recommended that restraint should never opportunity. And it will prisoners working in the The Clink restaurant and kitchen. this in people with aggressive be used as a punishment or to secure compliance. The courts reduce from a quarter to one- It was clear to see how much they enjoyed this and that they and antisocial behaviours. have since held that using physical force on a child to get fi ft h the discount on off er for appreciated the training they were receiving in preparation This showed that there might them to do as they are told is unlawful. The recent report shows pleading guilty at a later for life later on. be specifi c causes in child- that this unlawful practice is widespread in young off ender stage in proceedings. The hood, either environmental institutions, however, and accounts for 22 to 34 per cent of all House of Commons Justice Michael Spurr spoke about the prison reform agenda , the or genetic, for some antiso- times force is used on children. The deliberate infl iction of Committee warned that challenges and the positives about prisons today and the role cial behaviour. pain on children to secure compliance is banned in all forms defendants who miss the of New Bridge . “Each individual has a journey to go on and of child custody. The report states that more than a third of all fi rst deadline for a guilty the help a New Bridge volunteer can give can help them not l In a ruling, published in approved restraint ‘techniques’ that can be used on children plea may now opt to go for only survive prison but not re-off end once released.” March, the Scottish Public involve force that causes the deliberate infl iction of pain. full jury trial, rather than Service Ombudsman (SPSO) take the less generous one- Hardman Trust celebrates criticised the Scottish Prison Lord Carlile said: “I am very pleased that, as a result of my fi ft h reduction on off er. This Service for failing to include report and thanks to tireless campaigning by the Howard could lead to longer sentences, the latest and most up-to-date League, children in custody are no longer routinely strip- the council has estimated 21 years of Award making information on a prisoner’s searched. It shows that change for the better can happen. We that 1,000 more prison places Risk Management Team now need the Ministry of Justice to go further. It is time that the may be needed even if more (RMT) paperwork despite government recognises that the use of force on children, defendants take advantage staff being aware of it. simply to make them do what they are told, is both unacceptable of the one-third discount. Guidance says staff at an RMT and unlawful. A healthy response to children in trouble with And the report said that the meeting should thoroughly the law, which has their welfare at its heart, would recognise number could rise to 4,000 research all relevant informa- this use of violence by adults as an admission of failure.” if more opt for jury trial. tion and take account of it. In Terry Lock James Timpson its ruling the SPSO recom- A special event in London Reform Trust and a dedicated mended that all relevant recently celebrated 21 years supporter and employer of information about the Tel: 0161 928 8877 of Award making to prisoners former prisoners spoke of how prisoner’s history should be by the Hardman Trust. Terry they can be the best, most obtained and ensure his next Email: [email protected] Lock, who served 18 years in honest, most hardworking, RMT takes account of the prison, visibly moved the and loyal employees. He told most up-to-date information. assembled sponsors, volun- how he considers the three teers and award winners as most important things for a l A data breach involving the he told how it was with the former prisoner are: a job, personal details of hundreds help of a fi nancial award accommodation and people of Northern Ireland Prison from the Hardman Trust that who believe in them. Service staff has been he was able to buy the described as “a major computer he needed for a job Hardman Awards are for embarrassment” is not being It doesn’t matter where you are - if you have had an accident you he was to step straight into women prisoners and Cat ‘D’ treated as a major security could be entitled to claim for compensation. as a consultant at Lound, male prisoners serving long breach. The information was Mulrenan, Jeff eries Solicitors sentences who are working accidentally sent to an outside Let us help you. the day aft er release. 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Zimbabwe World prison review Prisons in Zimbabwe are so overcrowded and underfund- ed that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had to step in to provide water, food and blankets to prisoners. In a move to ease congestion in the country’s jails, which hold around 20,000 prisoners, Zimbabwe authorities have pardoned 2,000 prisoners, mostly women and juveniles, appealing to them to quit their life of crime. Beveren Prison Belgium Senior Belgian lawyers have Belgian prisoners allowed access to the South Africa condemned their prison It is not only the UK that has prison restaurants open to the system as ‘disastrous’ when public. Pollsmoor maximum security prison in South Africa, they joined a protest against, internet in their cell via PrisonCloud where Nelson Mandela was held between 1982 and 1988 has what they say, is their now opened its own facility where the waiters and chefs are A world-first system called Wim Adriaenssen, deputy prisoners with iPads. Sir Martin governments failure to fund prisoners. A local businessman who eats there says; “The PrisonCloud has been director of the prison, has no Narey, who is pushing the the justice system properly. service is nice, the food is good and is very cheap.” The prison introduced in Beveren Prison regrets about the system idea, told the Telegraph last Their protest came during an holds about 8,000 prisoners in what has been described as in Antwerp, allowing prison- despite objections from Belgian December: “When I joined ongoing strike by Belgian ‘deeply disturbing, inhumane and appalling’ conditions but the ers to access the internet, society which compared it to the prison service in 1982 prison staff who describe restaurant holds just 30 diners in a Spartan room with plastic make calls and download a hotel. He explained: people were terrified of conditions in the prisons as seats and piped pop music. films from the privacy of their “Inmates can go to a website allowing prisoners to have FM ‘terrible’ and ‘mediaeval’. own cell, the BBCs Today where they can see what jobs radios. They worried about Programme reports. Palestine The youngest Palestinian prisoner, a 12 year-old boy called This system is a world-first Shadi, has sent his mother a letter from prison in which he says; and a radical move. So much “I want you to keep your head up high like a palm tree that so it has caught the eye of cannot be moved by the wind or even an earthquake.” Israeli criminal justice experts authorities have denied the family any visits to the child. In across the world, keen to April, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem said that of around know whether the benefits © Fotolia.com 7,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails there were 414 minors, will outweigh the risks. including 13 ‘administrative detainees’. Recently a 12 year-old USA girl was released after two months in custody. A typical cell has a TV monitor, A prisoner in West Virginia is a keyboard, a mouse, a suing prison authorities for Brazil headset and a special piece removing marbles he had After the latest prison riot, of hardware that is connect- are offered. If they have a having telephones on wings.” implanted into his tattooed leaving 14 dead, officials are ed to a server. Every prisoner legal problem, they can get penis. He said he was looking for ways to ‘humanize’ has a USB stick, a username help from PrisonCloud and “New tech always freaks people threatened with segregation Brazil’s brutal prison system, and password. They can they can see the books they out. But giving prisoners iPads from other prisoners unless which is plagued by severe access the internet, but only want to read. It’s a connec- would allow them to keep in he had them removed. He is overcrowding, gang violence also claiming for hurt feelings and a lack of institutional certain sites. tion with the outside world. touch with family members Russia because prison staff called control, leading to situations of PrisonCloud has more and spend time in their cells A suspect nicknamed ‘snake him ‘Marble Man’. extreme cruelty for prisoners. They can also make calls from positive sides than downsides.” more constructively.” man’ was recorded by CCTV their cell rather than go onto cameras escaping a Russian the landing to use the phone, There are no plans to install UK Justice Minister Michael USA prison cell by squeezing his they can download films PrisonCloud in the UK. Even Gove said his department was The USA has banned imports from two Chinese companies they body through a tiny food (including porn), music and though David Cameron says looking into whether such say use forced prison labour. US human rights advocates and hatch. The shirtless man loses play computer games. They he wants a modern and changes could improve the US government say they believe people are still forced to his underwear while squeez- can order extra items from efficient prison system fit for outcomes in prisons. work in Chinese prisons. This may raise a wry smile on the faces ing through the small space the canteen, ask for library the 21st Century. of US prisoners languishing in privatised prisons and forced to and dresses himself in the books, officially communi- More information work for private companies at minimum ‘wages’. British prisoners hallway before fleeing. It was cate with prison staff and see Although officials have been about Prison Cloud might also be surprised as their £8 a week pay for working for unclear whether he was their court records. considering providing some ebo-enterprises.com private businesses raised £5.4m for the UK government. recaptured by police.

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Erlestoke Governor Man dies after being given paracetamol for malaria Newsbites An inquest has heard how a prisoner Leone and told police medical staff disagrees with MoJ over riot at HMP Doncaster died of malaria he had been bitten by a mosquito, l A smuggling ring has been busted at HMP when prison doctors thought he had showing them the bite mark. A A serious disturbance at HMP Erlestoke last month is being Preston involving a prison health worker and fl u. A jury in an inquest into the forensic medical expert was called investigated by police. Although the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) three prisoners. Smuggled items included man’s death found that all four who despite his vomiting and claimed only three men were involved and the prison was drugs, alcohol, clothing, mobile phones and doctors and one nurse responsible diahorrea prescribed paracetamol running normally within days the Prison Offi cers’ Association food. The prison worker got four and a half for his care at the prison had ‘acted or before the man was sent to court and (POA) claimed that more men were involved and two wings at years for ‘wilfully neglecting to perform his omitted to act’, amounting to negli- then on to HMP Doncaster. He the Category C prison were ‘destroyed’ and 130 prisoners were duty as a holder of public offi ce’ and the gence and resulting in his death. became more and more ill and was transferred to other prisons. The POA said that the problems prisoners got additional time added to their eventually admitted to hospital were about a lack of regime caused by staff shortages. sentences. Senior Crown Prosecutor for CPS The man had arrived from Sierra where he died. North West, Brett Gerrity, said the prisoners Relatives of prisoners told the BBC that the men were kept involved ‘thought they were above the law by locked in their cells for three days, without hot food, hot orchestrating what was in effect a personal water and no prison offi cers on some wings. The wife of an delivery service’. He said the items were Erlestoke prisoner speaking to a local newspaper claimed that ‘clearly intended for onward supply’ to fellow her husband told her that the problems were caused by the prisoners. pilot ban on smoking at the prison. She said that many prisoners would rather move prison, even to a higher category l Thirty two prisoners at HMP Lancaster as long as they can still smoke. She told the Wiltshire Times Farms raised over £1,000 for a youth charity that the prison had been on lockdown because of a shortage by running a half marathon. The money was of staff and on the day the riot started prisoners had only had raised for the Brathay Trust a charity that helps a sandwich and a glass of water. change the lives of 7,000 youngsters a year. Lancaster Farms PE Offi cer Darren Leeming A spokesman for the POA said; “It is impossible that damage was running a marathon to raise funds for the that needed 130 men to be moved could have been caused by charity and, after hearing about it, the three prisoners. This was a riot whatever they say about it.” prisoners decided to support him by running He said that specialist teams from across the south west were their own marathon. He said; “When the lads called to deal with the incident. Staff had been worried about heard that I was running a marathon they the mood in the prison the week before aft er prisoners had wanted to support me. We came up with the climbed on to an administration block but denied there was idea of a fundraising running challenge and set intelligence to suggest the riot was sparked by the smoking ban. up an early bird running club, before work, to help them prepare.” Erlestoke Governor, Steve Hodson, told how there had been a Scottish prison’s garden wins award number of incidents leading up to the riot and admitted that A garden created by prisoners from HMP Glenochil and HMP Cornton Vale l HMP Oakwood, once called ‘Jokewood’, is the smoking ban had raised tensions but denied that it was called ‘Within These Walls’ was the winner of the People’s Choice award at the hitting the record books. The G4S prison with the main reason for unrest. He blamed a shortage of staff Garden Scotland show. More than 40 men and women from both prisons around 1,600 prisoners held 514 adjudications caused by vacancies, sickness and staff holidays which meant designed the garden to take visitors on a journey through the life of a prisoner in 2015 giving out 5,404 extra days in prison as that prisoners were locked in their cells and only unlocked for - from the initial dark and lonely days through to the brighter moments of punishments. HMP Birmingham, another G4S meals. Dismissing claims by the MoJ that only three men were creating new friendships and embarking on new endeavours. prison held 289 adjudications, handing out involved he said that once a few men had smashed their way 4,138 extra days. HMP Featherstone, a public out of their cells other men became involved and those still Tom Fox from the Scottish Prison Service told Inside Time; “This was a great prison the same size as Oakwood held just 228 locked in cells began smashing up their cells. Despite MoJ opportunity to showcase the skills of the men and women from the prisons adjudications and added 3,608 days to claims that the prison was back to normal within days Mr across Scotland, and to help people understand what life is like within the prisoners’ sentences. Hodson said it could be months before repairs can be complet- prison walls. One of the key features of the garden was a wrought iron tree of ed. He did have some good news for the prisoners who remain hope, which we wanted to represent the hope of all those living within the l A prisoner in his 60’s has been arrested on at Erlestoke - because so many prisoners had to be moved out prisons. We’re delighted to have won this award - it’s a real testament to the suspicion of murder after another prisoner there was now suffi cient staff for a return to normal regime. hard work put in by all those involved.” was found dead at HMP Long Lartin. It is thought he was beaten to death in a prison EQUITY LAW SOLICITORS HMP Kennet to close workshop. An ambulance was called but the HERE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! prisoner was pronounced dead despite • Appeals against conviction & sentence See our Michael Gove has announced his intention to advanced life support from the paramedics. In • Parole board representation March a prisoner was jailed for life for the page in the close HMP Kennet by July 2017 and not renew • Adjudication representation murder of another prisoner and in 2013 two • Confiscation Proceedings the lease on the property from Mersey Care Quality Representation in ‘Jailbreak’ section NHS Trust. He said; “The staff at HMP Kennet prisoners were jailed for the murder of Criminal Defence, Appeals & Reviews and Prison Law have been undertaking excellent work with another prisoner at Long Lartin. The Prison - Nationwide service - THE PRISON the prisoners from Merseyside and surround- Offi cers’ Association says that this is the 11th Contact us today for immediate advice and suspicious death at Long Lartin in 20 months. representation on 0207 9988 105 ing areas. The prison however does not or write to: Equity Law Solicitors PHOENIX TRUST provide an ideal environment for the 11 Peckham High Street, London, SE15 5EB rehabilitation of the men it holds. Its design l G4S has been advertising for a new Director and layout make it diffi cult to operate, it has for HMP Altcourse. The position comes with a Head doing you in? the highest levels of crowding in the estate salary of £100,000 per year plus bonuses, Stressed out? and is one of the most expensive category C company car, excellent pension and private prisons in the country. Closing facilities like healthcare. The person must be able to Can’t sleep? that at HMP Kennet will enable us to invest provide ‘a progressive environment dedicated Forensic Accountants the money in a modern prison estate, with to reducing re-offending and enabling CONFISCATION PROCEEDINGS Simple yoga and facilities for training and rehabilitation that individuals to fulfi l their potential back in their UNDER POCA! local community’. If you are interested you Bartfields have considerable UK wide experience of meditation practice, help prisoners turn their lives around.” analysing and revising prosecution benefit calculations Kennet is the old Ashworth Hospital site and must, they say, share G4S ethics & values and within tight deadlines. (Legal aid available) working with silence and the has been a category ‘C/D’ semi-open resettle- be able to inspire and win hearts and minds. Free prison visit for all pre-confiscation hearing cases Recent Cases: breath, might just transform ment prison since 2006. In the latest MoJ Applicants will be vetted by G4S and the Youth Prosecution Benefit Bartfields Benefit your life in more ways than fi gures Kennet is the most overcrowded Justice Board (YJB). For more information Mr M £69,000 £8,000 prison with 338 prisoners squeezed into about how G4S prisons run check out the Mr C £3,684,000 £47,000 you think ... Interested? accommodation for just 175 - that’s 193% latest Inspection Reports on Birmingham and Mrs D £271,000 £45,000 Mr O £378,000 £16,000 overcrowding. Parc. Mr L £1,015,000 £111,000 Write to The Prison Phoenix Trust P.O. Box 328, Oxford, OX2 7HF. Mrs N £785,000 £103,000 Is there a good news story at your prison? Contact Raymond Davidson on 0113 2449051 Write in and let us know. Please mark your envelope ‘Good news’. 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The drone in Birmingham went out of develop new ways of handling the For more information visit: www.veteransinprison.co.uk transition to civilian life. Photograph: control and crashed to the FF Gaiden: Control (2016) ground. Both drones were Healthcare Stafford prison recovered and are being investigated. The latest improves at visitor group incidents demonstrate the PlayStation game helps veterans gets prestigious novel methods being used to HMP Leicester disrupt this method of award smuggling drugs, phones and in prison deal with trauma Following criticism from the weapons into prisons. Care Quality Commission HMP Stafford Prison Visitors A digital art project at HMPs Altcourse and piece of art in its own right, which was l Last year the Youth Justice Liverpool allows ex-servicemen to use a virtual screened at Fact. One prisoner at HMP (CQC) that prisoners at HMP Volunteer Group has been Leicester with mental health Board (YJB) and HMYOI Parc world to explore their past experiences, the Altcourse said: “I did not know that this awarded The Queen’s Award joined forces to develop a Guardian reported. project would click so well with me. The issues were not receiving the for Voluntary Service, the care and treatment they pilot approach for the ideas behind it were so true to how I felt.” highest award given to controlled testing of Skype at needed the Leicestershire Working with prisoners, Fact - the Liverpool- voluntary groups across the the prison. Skype was trialled Partnership NHS Trust, which based media, film and digital art centre The effectiveness of this Veterans in Practice UK and ‘recognises out- as an additional resource for provides the healthcare - have produced a film called FF Gaiden. It programme has amazed prison staff. Prisoners standing work done in the family contact, meetings with services for the prisoners, uses the world created by game Grand Theft were better behaved, expressed feelings of local community, setting a youth offending team staff has increased the number of Auto V to play out a series of personal self worth and were more prepared to and other resettlement staff, including the appoint- national benchmark for testimonies, including family perspectives. participate in other activities to improve their activities. That pilot launched ment of two permanent excellence in volunteering’. rehabilitation. As a result, the Armed Forces in May 2015 and has just psychiatrists, who hold The games (with violent content removed) Covenant Fund has been awarded to Fact come to an end. The YJB says twice-weekly clinics. The Bridget Cameron, vice chair form a virtual world canvas on which this funding to work with prisoner veterans in that the pilot confirmed that treatment for prisoners with of the Board of Directors, group of prisoners explored their own HMPs Altcourse and Liverpool (and with a video facility such as Skype diabetes was also criticised. HALOW (Birmingham), traumatic experiences. Their input is now a their families) for a further six months. can be an invaluable resource which runs the centre, said; for maintaining contact with After a return visit CQC “HALOW was thrilled to hear families who may struggle to Inspectors said; “During this that the volunteers working visit in person and for focused inspection we found within the Visitors’ Centre providing additional support the trust had undertaken a had been awarded the to young people during series of initiatives to address Queen’s Award for Voluntary difficult periods, at short this concern, including Service 2016. They are a notice. holding a weekly allocation talented group of people, meeting of all mental health many of whom have worked l A vehicle maintenance referrals that had been in the centre for many years workshop has been opened received following a mental CHILD and well deserve this at HMP Highpoint. The health triage assessment. We prestigious award.” workshop was created after observed that care planning surveys of the prisoners for patients with complex The group is one of 193 revealed that vehicle health needs and lifelong charities, social enterprises maintenance was a training conditions had improved. programme they would like ABUSE We saw that patients and voluntary groups to to see provided. 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Parliament was, as one beyond their original sentence “We know they done demonstrator put it, nearly as unless they pose a significant wrong but that doesn’t bad as the chaos in the justice public risk. I have been press- make what they are doing system with the marchers ing the Government to act and to them now right.” being let in just eight at a time will continue, alongside the along with visiting schoolchil- families of IPP prisoners, to dren. Eventually most man- push for urgent action to ad- “I am worried about my aged to find their way to the dress this issue.” partner’s mental state, he lobby where they had to wait needs to have some idea either to be called to speak to Justice Secretary Michael Gove when he will get out, it’s their MP or for their MP to has now ordered a review of like mental torture.” enter the lobby to join them. the position of thousands of prisoners serving an IPP. Over I waited with Shelley and Sally 4,000 people sentenced with “My son got an IPP who both have loved ones an IPP remain in prison, with sentence, the other person serving an IPP sentence as nearly 400 having served involved in his crime got they waited for their constitu- more than five times the min- two years and was out ency MP Oliver Letwin. After imum term they were given. speaking to him for 15 minutes long ago.” they were hopeful. “He seemed Frances Crook, CEO of the really interested and helpful,” Howard League met with pro- “My man was told he had Families marching for IPP’s freedom said Shelley. “He said he read testers and told Inside Time; to do certain courses then the sentencing report I brought “I know some people have they moved him to a prison for him to see and thought it when people are going to lose when they haven't got any, and been calling for a review but I Continued from front page looked unfair and would look that didn’t do them.” their control, what's going to you don't prepare them for a don’t think there should be a further in to it.” In 2012 Ken Clarke abolished happen to them when they're job, you're actually toughen- review; I want something “They have an OASys the sentence but made no released.” ing up some of these people done, we’ve had enough re- move to free the thousands of and they're likely to be more views. I know the Parole Board report and it says there, in mainly men, over tariff. of a risk when they come out.” is going to concentrate on get- black and white, what Recently he told the BBC: “It ting people out and that’s they should be doing to is quite absurd that there are At the demonstration, cor- what needs to happen - we help with the IPP sentence ralled outside Parliament on people who might be there for need to move those people out but the reports are not the rest of their lives, in theo- a narrow pavement, the pro- as soon as possible. We don’t implemented. My man has ry, who are serving a sentence testers swapped stories of the need a review we need to do Shelley and Sally with Oliver been waiting two years which Parliament agreed to injustices they said were being something now. I would like Letwin MP get rid of because it hadn't Ken Clarke MP ‘slum prisons’ meted out on their loved ones. the Life Licence lifted from all and not one element of his worked as anybody intended. Walking past, Labour leader IPPs. If they need a period of OASys report has been Jo Stevens, Shadow Justice The trouble is this ridiculous Describing prisons as ‘over- Jeremy Corbyn was asked by supervision after release it implemented to date.” burden on the Parole Board of crowded slums’ Ken Clarke a number of people for his Minister and Shadow Solicitor saying they can only release said; “So long as you don't views on the sentence but he General, hosted a meeting, people if it's proved to them tackle mental health prob- was in too much of a hurry to following the lobby, and told IPP: The facts us how she heard examples of that they're not really a danger lems, you don't tackle drug answer. IPPs were introduced by Labour Justice Minister David Blunkett prisoners sentenced to two to the public. No prisoner can abuse properly, you don't give and implemented from 2005. The idea was to ensure that people years still being in prison ten prove that - you never know people some basic education The chaos of entering convicted of dangerous violent and sexual offences stayed in years later. “There are severe prison for as long as they presented a risk to society. Under the problems accessing the cours- system, a person who was convicted of a specified violent or Our Team of over 25 es necessary to be able to specialist advisors sexual offence would be given an IPP if the offence was not so prove to the Parole Board that serious as to merit a life sentence. Once they had served their have a wealth of prisoners have been rehabili- “tariff” they would have to satisfy the Parole Board that they no experience to offer tated and are ready for re- longer posed a risk before they could be released. you including: lease,” she said. The main concerns about IPPs now are that: • Parole Board Hearings • IPP Sentence Issues l People convicted of less serious offences were given very • Mandatory Lifers short tariffs but have been kept in prison for a long time after these have expired. • Discretionary Lifers • Automatic Lifers l The prison and parole systems cannot cope with the need • Sentence Planning Boards to give all the short tariff prisoners appropriate access to • Re-categorisation rehabilitative and resettlement programmes so that they can • Category A Reviews Shadow Justice Secretary Jo demonstrate they are no longer a risk to society. • DSPD Assessments Stevens “urgent action needed” l The administrative delays have resulted in huge uncertainty National means near YOU! • Accessing Courses and perceived injustice for prisoners and litigation. • Parole “Lack of resources and fund- We can help you in ANY l • Recall ing means the rate at which The rapid increase in the numbers of those on IPPs has PRISON in England and Wales, • Independent Adjudications the Parole Board is processing contributed to prison overcrowding, which in turn has ex- acerbated the problems with providing rehabilitation. at ANY TIME. • Governor Adjudications IPP cases is far too slow. There You can also write to us FREEPOST at: • Challenge of MDT’s is a huge backlog of cases that The last Government introduced amendments to the Legal Aid, • HDC “Tagging” at the current rate of resolu- Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill to abolish IPPs. FREEPOST RTAB-BATB-HGAU tion will take up to 10 years to • Transfer Under the new provisions, life sentences would be imposed on Carringtons Solicitors work through. At a time when • Judicial Review conviction for a second serious offence and there were new Nottingham our prisons are grossly over- • Tariff Representations provisions for extended sentences. The new regime came into crowded and understaffed and NG2 2JR • IPP Sentence Appeals force on 3 December 2012. drug use, violence, self harm Tel: 01150115 958986 34720983 • Police Interviews and suicides are at their high- A government report on IPPs ‘Sentences of Imprisonment for est ever levels, we should not Public Protection’ was published in 2015 and can be down- be keeping people in prison loaded at: http://tinyurl.com/z2yvddl Insidetime July 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 17

“My partner served 2 years over tariff. He got no help when he was released There is no rehabilitation and got recalled with a 2 year determinate sen- tence. When that sentence for sex offenders ends in August he will have to serve his IPP Joe - London present! They claim that infor- Probation are so risk-averse sentence again.” mation is only shared on a and anxious to cover their I have recently been released ‘need to know’ basis. Well in own backs that they see risk the case of the church, they where there is none: the more “It was a silly petty crime. from a long sentence for sex wanted to tell a team of a open and up-front I am with IPP families not forgetting He would have been better off ences against children. I did lots of work on myself in jail, dozen or so ‘minders’ who them about my activities, the off if he had murdered or could monitor me on a rota more scope it gives them for should be the same as anyone Commenting on the case of 31 raped someone.” understood myself much bet- ter and was looking forward system. We all know that some seeing ‘risk’ - so I’ve learnt to else gets on a sentence but it year old James Ward who re- people can’t resist sharing a tell them as little as possible. should not be a life licence, mains in prison after being to a fresh start and a second “My man was the third in juicy bit of gossip with ‘just The system encourages us to that’s completely unfair. given a 10-month tariff IPP in chance to lead a useful and the country to get IPP and one other person’ who then be evasive and uncooperative, Already there are people who 2006, Ken Clarke said; "He productive life. I believed all 13 years on he is still in tells one other person … before which must be a risk factor in have been recalled to prison, shouldn't be there almost 10 the rhetoric about rehabilita- prison.” long, someone who lives in my itself! about 300 last year, for ‘ad- years after he's finished the tion. But aft er 6 months I have street will fi nd out and I will ministrative misdemeanours’. sentence … You have a few to say none of it applies to sex be hounded out of my home. And before other readers write If somebody commits another thousand people still in our “Even when they eventually off enders. in to accuse me of having a crime, then they commit a fur- prisons with no idea when get to ‘D’ Cat they still have ther crime, you deal with that they're going to get out and a 18 months or more to do.” The majority of ‘rehabilita- If I become friends with some- ‘poor me’ pity party, let me say crime. You can’t return some- Parole Board that daren't let tion-positive’ schemes ex- one who I later discover has I don’t think all these meas- body to prison for something them out for fear of public at- “People don’t realise, even clude sex offenders. contact with any children or ures are unreasonable. It is you fear they might do, it’s tack if one of them does some- when they get out, it’s a Community groups, charities grandchildren, I have to tell vital to protect children from and churches do run a lot of grossly unfair and that should thing serious and they've said life sentence.” them my past. So it’s too risky abuse and I am pleased soci- change - so it’s not just the they were satisfi ed that they helpful groups/programmes to try to get to know anyone. ety is finally getting its act which accept former prisoners people who are in prison, it’s were safe.” IPP was abolished in I’m even ‘discouraged’ by the together and taking child pro- “ - but sex off enders are banned a much more complicated December 2012 - what are police from visiting social net- tection issues seriously. These because they also work with working sites - despite it not restrictions are the conse- problem including the licence ‘Trapped’ but just one of they going to do about the the off enders’ families. Mental being a licence condition. So quences of our crime and we period aft erwards.” so many page 39 forgotten IPPs? ” health groups can’t take us in I’m stuck within my 4 walls have to accept them. No, my case we are a risk to their other with no job, no voluntary work, reason for writing is to say it’s ‘vulnerable’ clients. Many em- no education, no friends, no time for the authorities to Justice Secretary Michael Gove accepts ployers are positive about em- social contacts, no church and come clean and say ‘No, we IPP sentences ‘lawful’ but further measures ploying former prisoners - ex- no support network, living in don’t believe in rehabilitation cept sex offenders, because constant fear of neighbours for sex off enders’. It’s time for the public would object and discovering my past. Not a lot society to admit openly that being sought to assist progression they would lose trade. diff erent to prison then! they will never accept us back. In a reply to a letter from Robert Neill MP, indeterminate sentence prisoners had been Then at least we will not waste If I want to attend any social Chairman of the Justice Committee who asked enrolled on the Regime since it opened in Apart from the risk to my safe- time in prison doing painful activity group, join a sports for information on the situation regarding IPP December 2014; there are currently 160 prison- ty, what does this do to my work to be rehabilitated, and team, attend a church, register prisoners, Justice Secretary Michael Gove said: ers participating in the Regime, 28 of whom are mental well-being and self-es- we will not set ourselves up at a library, enrol on a course “The Court of Appeal confi rmed that IPP sen- legacy cases, that is, who were at HMP Warren teem? I’ve done years of pain- for further disillusionment … Probation will have to dis- tences are lawful sentences. These prisoners Hill when the Progress Regime opened. You ful work to start believing I and disappointment. Maybe continue to be detained because the risk they may also be interested to know that the Regime close about my off ence, which puts me at risk from vigilantes. have some self-worth and that it’s time for a modern-day are assessed to pose is too great to be safely has to date produced 24 releases, which is ex- ‘there is more to me than my equivalent of the ‘leper colo- managed in the community. We continue, how- tremely positive. Offi cials are giving consider- If I get a job or do any volun- crime’ - but Probation and so- ny’ or the Old Testament’s ever, to take measures to progress prisoners ation to a second Progression Regime which is tary work, ditto. They refused ciety obviously don’t believe ‘cities of refuge’ where socie- towards rehabilitation and release as detailed likely to be located in the North of England, to let me take a job I was actu- in my letter of 20th April. In addition, I have and analysis is underway to identify which ally offered, on the grounds this. Evidently they don’t be- ty’s outcasts could at least live asked Nick Hardwick, Chairman of the Parole cohorts of indeterminate sentence prisoners that ‘there might be under-18s lieve sex offenders can ever a normal life with one anoth- Board, to identify further measures to support would benefi t from this opportunity.” working there’ - well, surely really be rehabilitated, so all er, despite being excluded IPP prisoners’ progression. that applies to every job? their expensive interventions from society as a whole. HMP Warren Hill holds Indeterminate Probation even told my GP are pointless. The truth is, so- Because there is certainly no “In response to your questions about the sentenced Cat C Male Prisoners, who surgery reception staff to mon- ciety just can’t ever accommo- chance of a ‘life beyond pris- Progression Regime at HMP Warren Hill, I can cannot move to open conditions working itor me in the waiting room in date us back whilst still keep- on’ for sex offenders confirm that, as at 13th May, a total of 159 to a Progression Regime. case there were children ing children safe. otherwise.

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Deloitte UK where he worked pretty simple, they’re a whole Prison Reading Groups for ten years, five of them as a load of people who want to As a professional author, I’m Month by Month partner. His mistake, he freely work and a whole load of jobs naturally interested in encour- admits, was leaving Deloitte’s looking for workers. Yet no- aging reading groups and I’m to help set up a Nigerian Bank, body is doing the joining-up particularly impressed by the By Rachel Billington which ended with a prison in between.’ He says it’s all a groups running in prisons. I sentence for fraud. question of talking to big busi- understand how difficult it is ness and says that PROSPER to get men and women out of Almost certainly the paths of currently has contracts with the cells and into a library. Too Ed Tullett and Michael Mitie, Whitbread (who own often keen readers find them- Corrigan would never have Premier Inns and Costa selves locked behind their cell crossed without their meeting Coffee), Hilton and Google.’ door when the book they’ve in HMP Brixton. While Tullett In Durham and Leeds at recent read is being discussed - frus- knows just about everything meetings PROSPER arranged trating for everyone. there is to know about the run- job interviews for twenty men. ning of prisons, Corrigan But the Prison Reading Groups brings his management train- Corrigan and Tullett want to (PRG), led by the indomitable ing and, of course, his own organise Academies inside Sarah Turvey of the University personal understanding of prison, such as Bounce Back of Roehampton and her what a prisoner needs to set where painters and decorators friends, don’t do discourage- him/her on the right track. can train knowing already that ment. That view was rein- jobs are available on the out- forced when I spoke at a day PROSPER was founded in 2014 side. Both men emphasize the conference they held at by Corrigan when he teamed importance of targeted train- Roehampton. The large hall up with another ex-prisoner ing so that roofers must be was filled with an absolute Steve Newell. They have finan- trained in areas where roofers mixture of volunteers: stu- cial support from ARC are needed and chefs where dents, academics, business- InterCapital Ltd’s Andrew chefs are needed. Where those men, ex-prisoners, plus prison Dixon. PROSPER works in wishing to be self-employed professionals including many three areas: ‘Employability - are concerned, PROSPER is of the brightest librarians and finding a job, developing skills supported by the UK’s Start-up the added bonus of a special and self-presentation; Pre- Loans, have seen nearly fifty constable. The people might Former governor Ed Tullett, Rachel Billington and Michael Corrigan employability - the initial businesses emerge under their have different backgrounds steps leading to be able to get guidance. Not lacking in con- but they all described a great Former prisoner and governor PROSPER employment; Entrepreneurship fidence, Corrigan says time talking books and/or po- - setting up businesses. PROSPER’S mission is to set etry with their groups. In the large hall they swapped sto- It’s not often I find myself talk- Meanwhile Corrigan, who was workshops, an atmosphere he up a thousand businesses by ries and tips - from lists of ing to a prison governor and a already category D and serv- describes as ‘complete chaos’ Corrigan was always clear that 2020. prisoner in the same room - ing his time in HMP Belmarsh and ‘a lesson in how not to run he wanted to run a business popular books to the horrified reaction of a group member at outside prison, that is. In fact arrived on the understanding a prison.’ Following time in himself (or social enterprise) Tullett comments, ‘The big the suggesting of ending each Ed Tullett retired a year ago as that he would have quicker Pentonville, Belmarsh, which he believes is the best gap which I can really see, is session with a poem ‘Is that a prison governor of HMP access from Brixton to an open Cookham Wood/East Sutton way forward, not least be- that you’ve got lots of custom- hymn!’ Clearly he hadn’t been Brixton and Michael Corrigan prison such as Ford, ‘by the Park and Elmley, Tullett found cause he has seen the sort of ers who want workers. It ought reading Inside Time. On a left Brixton in 2012 after serv- golf course’ as he describes it. himself back at Brixton as waste and lack of accountabil- to be easier than it is to feed more positive note, other ing a sentence for fraud. So I What he found in his new Governor in 2010. He told me ity which happens in so much some of the eighty thousand group leaders reported the should say they are an ex-pris- place of residence horrified ‘I’m not a visionary.’ His creed of the charitable sector. in prison, probably twenty popularity of poetry giving as on governor and an ex-prison- him. He told me, ‘I used to im- was simple, ‘I wanted to make thousand in London, into Practically speaking, Corrigan examples, ‘The Shropshire er. We met to talk about how agine I was a bit part actor in it work a bit better. Help to work. Prisoners have skills, they came together and about a Colditz movie. But Belmarsh reorganise it. Get people on mentions some of their work Lad’ by A.E. Houseman, most have worked before com- PROSPER, a company set up is a very well-run prison, side.’ over the last year which in- ‘Wind’ by Ted Hughes and ing in and I think the govern- by Michael Corrigan to help hugely resourced … I could do cludes a contract from Serco ‘Dover Beach’ by Matthew ment is missing a trick here.’ employment among prisoners, anything from degree level His time at Brixton was not to look at and review their Arnold. and now joined by Tullett as stuff to working in a gym. easy. The problem of drugs prison workshops which de- Or as Corrigan puts it, ‘We’re an advisor. When I moved to Brixton it coming into the prison, possi- spite good facilities he de- PRG was founded in 1999 and very good at giving advice.’ was the biggest culture shock. bly from outside workers, scribes as ‘dire, certainly in now has over forty groups in I have an immediate sense But I could see the opportunity meant there was always a dan- terms of any employment out- thirty five prisons; it reports With the success of their work that they enjoy each other’s was there and then I met Ed.’ ger that prison service head- comes.’ In this area of employ- regularly in Inside Time. PRG in Brixton on record, it looks company and respect each quarter would close the newly ment Corrigan believes that also supports Family Groups as if they might be a good bet other’s talents. They both own Tullett recognised Corrigan started ROTL programme. the large number of compa- in prisons. for the future and their allot- allotments which may not had some good ideas and in- Tullett argued that the benefit nies paid to help get jobs for ments may have to get used to seem the most important as- vited him to give a presenta- of work to the men - and to prisoners ‘don’t do it very Reading Group Round-up a few weeds this summer. pect of their life but clearly is tion. Corrigan called his talk society - outweighed the pos- well’. He says, ‘To me it seems page 48 a positive bond. They met in ‘M. I.’ and to Tullett’s inquiry sible rise in drugs in the pris- Brixton at a time when Tullett ‘What the Hell is that?’ an- on. ‘You’ve just got to be im- had been given the go-ahead swered ‘Management placable,’ he says, ‘and hold to turn a local prison into a Information.’ Tullett com- your nerve.’ training prison and organise ments now that ‘Without ROTL (Release on temporary Michael we couldn’t have Michael Corrigan’s CV begins licence) for men who had done what we did.’ From my on an unexpected note when come to Brixton from past meetings with Tullett this he worked for four and a half For expert legal advice, assistance and representation in Latchmere House after its clo- openness to the prisoner’s years as a butler to the Lord Prison Law, Criminal Appeals and Reviews matters. sure. Tullett aimed to send out voice doesn’t surprise me. He Mayor of London. He then 100 men each day. He ex- has always been a practical changed direction. He re- Legal Aid available for Fixed fees for plained, ‘From 2012 the MoJ kind of governor who took trained, eventually becoming • Post Tariff Parole Reviews • Recatagorisation built us workshops. We had ideas from where he found a Company Secretary in the • Recall Reviews • HDC Bounce Back, Clink and other them without prejudice. insurance sector, worked for • Independent Adjudications • Pre-tariff Parole Reviews training. Two of our wings Colette Bow setting up field • Sentence Calculations • Release on Temporary Licence were turned over to category Tullett’s career inside prisons monitoring for the city regula- • Appeal against Convictions & Sentences • Governor’s adjudication D, totally unsuitable environ- included a couple of years in tor, becoming an expert on • Applications to CCRC • Immigration & Deportation ment but near the biggest la- Brixton between 1999 and pensions mis-selling, a big • Judicial Reviews • Family bour market in Europe. 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Ideas ranging from a community centre within does and without doubt very good at it. “This Harlesden, a mobile burger van to feed the is our fourth time doing this and it just keeps homeless, a vehicle maintenance workshop for getting better and better! Teaching prisoners ex-offenders and an international football how to become entrepreneurs really is the best scouting academy to help children from or- job in the world. I use my nine years of banking phanages develop football skills within Ghana experience with Barclays and my personal jour- were amongst the very interesting pitches. They ney to inspire others to make that much needed had all been coached to a high standard and change. With no experience of speaking in pub- presented their plans with amazing confidence; lic there were understandably a few nerves as however judges did question why they were the pitching time approached, but it was so referring to themselves as ex-offenders. “But uplifting and rewarding when they all did so that’s what we’re told we are” retorted James. well.” “When you’re in here you’re told you’re an offender”. This ‘label’ wasn’t popular with any “This was one of the best things that has hap- of the judges and in typical Brand style, Russell pened since I’ve been here,” says Leo currently provided an instant ‘off the cuff’ alternative. on remand - the course brought us all together “Why not call yourselves ‘Freebirds’? You were by helping us to develop our business ideas Jailbirds but soon you’ll all be free”. Laughter together as a team. The event with the judges all round - but I thought seriously, what a nice was fantastic! I stood in front of fifty odd people idea. and pitched my business idea, which in itself is a massive thing for me. Simone is living proof Akala articulately explained that unfortunately that this is real. She came here with an open Simone Haynes, ‘Principles in Finance’ with judges; Akala, Russell Brand and Chaka Bars projects accessing funding are unlikely to be heart, a book she wrote for us on being an en- successful with their bids if they do not use the trepreneur to teach a bunch of prisoners and recognized funding terminology. “To gain fi- blew our minds with caring and knowledge. All nancial support you have to label inmates and I can say is thanks for putting me on this”. put them in said box you are trying to remove as a barrier, which is a direct contradiction to The event came to a close with Russell Brand the work you are trying to achieve.” who, without notes, remarkably addressed each Dragons in man that pitched individually, remembering their name, recalling their business idea and giving them each positive feedback as to what he liked about their ideas, the way they pitched and why they will be a success. “I’m truly im- pressed,” remarked Julie Porter, the Education Manager. “This was a great event and I hope Pentonville we can do many more”. John Roberts Understanding Enterprise and is a nationally It is exciting to see these types of events taking recognised qualification. Once they have un- place in prisons as they are far from easy to dergone this learning process and demonstrate organise, especially in these difficult times in prisons. It is only made possible with the coop- that they understand how to map different Akala, Chaka Bars, Justin Finlayson, Russell “I can’t believe I just won! business models to suit their lifestyles, under- eration of dedicated and forward thinking Brand, Trey (receiving his winners cheque), Gary Governors and staff who recognise the benefits Going into this I didn’t believe stand the meaning of different social enterpris- John Lewis, John Roberts and Erik Mesel es, how to pitch their business idea and the and are willing to put in the required effort. I could actually create a proper ‘do’s’ and ‘don’ts’ of managing a business, this Inside Time is proud to support and help pro- business, register my website culminates in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ styled event on The winning idea, by a unanimous decision mote life changing initiatives like this and con- the seventh day when prominent members of was called Rapid Stitch - a mobile alterations/ gratulate Simone on her achievements. address and get funding to the community are then invited into the prison sewing business. Trey, who went to the London to be part of a panel that judge their individual College of Fashion and has several qualifica- help start before I’d even Names of prisoners have been changed in this pitches. The winner receives a prize fund of tions in tailoring, designed a mobile business report for data protection purposes. finished my sentence. And all £500 and the support of a business mentor.” with a van fully equipped with sewing ma- chines, tapestry etc., enabling a bespoke same- For more information on the programme please of this started from us just When I arrived to take my place as a judge on day repair and alteration service. The judges contact: [email protected] being given a book” the panel at Pentonville on June 15th I found felt this business would benefit most from the that I was in very interesting company. My £500 prize fund due to its simplicity and be- These are the words of Trey, winner at HMP co-judges were Russell Brand (comedian), cause it filled what was considered to be a real ‘Money Behind Bars - Pentonville. Along with seven other prisoners Akala (Hip-hop Shakespeare Founder & gap in the market. Some of the other community A Guide to Being an he completed the ‘Pitch Perfect’ programme, a Rapper), Chaka Bars (Fitness Guru - projects will also be likely to qualify for funding Entrepreneur in Prison’ will seven day intensive course about planning a Spartanfam), Justin Finlayson (Entrepreneur), and grants and help with applications will be be available on Amazon successful business whilst in prison. The eight Erik Mesel (Funding Manager at John Lyons given. soon. To pre-order your copy competitors then pitched their ideas to a Charity) and Gary John Lewis (Philanthropist). visit the website ‘Dragon’s Den’ style panel of judges and Trey I knew any event with Russell Brand was bound Simone is clearly passionate about what she www.Principlesinfinance.com came out on top. to be entertaining and there was no disappoint- ment! As with all my fellow judges, Brand was Simone Haynes, founder of the charity engaging, supportive and non-judgmental. ‘Principles In Finance’ who designed and de- Scott-Moncrieff & Associates livered the programme in Pentonville told Each contender pitching shared their personal Inside Time “The idea is to help prisoners iden- journey whilst presenting their business idea Nationwide Prison Law Experts and Solicitors tify a viable business model and create a brand, to an audience of fifty other prisoners and sev- then, if it is considered viable we connect them eral members of staff. Our role as judges was with a network of people outside to support to consider the feasibility of the business idea their venture. We have also run these courses and give feedback on the pitch. They were very in Wormwood Scrubs and Feltham YOI.” impressive.

Having been asked to join the judging panel of Moreover, taking into consideration what came this Dragon’s Den style event at Pentonville, I out as part of the back stories there was an asked Simone to explain the structure of the insight into what had led to their spell in prison. programme and tell me exactly how it worked. This was a powerful illustration of the resilience and determination each had to turn their lives Call: 0207 841 1099 “The first stage is in a classroom and based on around. The programme had clearly had an our ‘Money Behind Bars’ book. This is embed- impact on their confidence and they believed ded within the prisons Small Firms Enterprise in themselves once again. All that was needed Or write to: Scomo, 88 Kingsway, Holborn, London WC2B 6AA Development Initiative (SFEDI) level 1, was a chance to make it happen. 20 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2016

living dead, doing the Largactyl psychopath. There were vari- weeks of me receiving shouts shuffle around my cell. ous other tests, including an of ‘Psycho!’ and ‘Nutter!’ (I interview with eminent psy- still get them on occasions) Many years later, whilst serv- chiatrist Tony Maden, who from, it seems, every white- ing my life sentence, I was asked a few questions about van driver in Hampshire. I mentally assessed for HMP my teenage behaviour. At the could do nothing but shrug my Grendon, and found to have a end of this interview, which shoulders, I guess it is the ‘severe personality disorder’. was all filmed, Dr Maden told price of dealing with the Another label. I completed 5 me - ‘I would say that you are media these days. People who years of intense therapy and definitely a psychopath, and know me think I should rail psychodrama before I was had I been talking to you 20 or against the label of ‘psycho- judged ‘safe’ to be released 30 years ago I would be con- path’, but to me it is just an- back into the world via 2 years cerned that your psychopathy other wrong tag that has been in Blantyre House. would be very dangerous. But hung around my neck by oth- you are a man in your 50s and ers. It means absolutely noth- Then a couple of years ago I I would say that the dangerous ing to me (which probably was approached by a televi- years are behind you and that proves I’m a psychopath to sion production company who you are putting your efforts some people). were putting together a 3-part into more positive things, so I documentary on psychopaths, have no worries about you.’ The message I suppose I am for Channel 5. I must admit, I trying to convey here is that was intrigued when they of- I was pleased to hear Dr labels can be bothersome and fered to put me through all the Maden’s assessment and so I can cause damage to those official tests and examinations thanked him. who have been labelled, but, to see if I was actually a psy- when it comes down to the chopath. Of course, I was sure Unfortunately, the production bottom line, they are only that they would find out no company decided that it someone’s opinion. such thing, as I say, I have would make for ‘sexier’ televi- been examined by several psy- sion if they cleverly edited this © Fotolia.com chiatrists during my 3 decades conversation. The screened of incarceration and I spent 5 version on Channel 5 had Dr years in intense group therapy Maden telling me - ‘I would overseen by psychiatrists and say that you are definitely a psychologists, and not once psychopath.’ And then me was I given any intimation smiling and saying ‘Thank you that I might be a psychopath. very much.’ As if I was pleased Labelled a I was told that I have the traits to be labelled a psychopath on of a sociopath, but on the psy- national television! chopath question all was quiet. I did wonder how, or if, this ‘Mad’ Frankie Fraser For the documentary - called very public diagnosis would ‘Meet the Psychopaths’ - I had affect my life. Surely those who I remember talking to infa- psychopath a brain scan. It came as a great knew me would take this with mous London mobster Frankie surprise to me when the re- a pinch of salt? It was, after Fraser some years ago in sults of this scan showed that all, just another label. Then, a Wandsworth prison, and ask- I have severe damage to my week after Meet the Psychopaths ing him if he was really ‘mad’. Inside Time’s commissioning editor shares frontal lobes, an indication of aired on Channel 5, I was sur- Frank gave me that look, the psychopathy. I had been hit prised to see the programme one he reserved for potential his mental health journey in the head with an iron-bar featuring as part of Channel victims who were about to feel at the age of 12, and this left 4’s ‘Gogglebox’ (a show in the bite of his pliers, and slow- me with undiagnosed brain which ordinary families are ly shook his head. ‘Don’t fuck- where the average time served “ This is what labels damage. The production com- filmed watching television ing matter whether I am or by ‘trainees’ was 9 months. do. They stick. If pany took me to Birmingham, and their reactions). I was not,’ he said, ‘they say I am Borstals were little more than where I sat through several quite shocked to hear people and that’s the end of it.’ Frank gladiator schools for up-and- people think you’re Noel Smith MAD, then everything computer-generated tests. I who did not know me express- had been labelled as a ‘psy- coming young criminals by had several electrodes at- ing fear and a slight revulsion cho’ early on in his criminal the late 1970s, bloody battle- you do, everything you tached to my head and was for me when Dr Maden made career and had been carrying When I was a lot younger there grounds where tough reputa- think, will have MAD shown pictures of faces in his pronouncement on my it around for so long that it had was some suspicion on the tions were made and consoli- stamped across it ” various states of emotion and mental state. I quickly got over become part of his name - Mad part of the authorities that I dated. I did not settle in well, I had to identify the emotions. this (as psychopaths do!) and Frankie Fraser. He no longer Nathan Filer, author of might be suffering from some and some of my violent ac- I did not do well, and, appar- got on with my life. cared what people thought of The Shock of the Fall: form of mental illness. At the tions led to me being shang- ently, this was another indi- it. And I have reached the Costa Book of the Year 2013 age of 15, I was convicted at haied from the wing by several cation that I may be a There then followed several same point. the Old Bailey for armed rob- large members of staff, forci- bery and jailed for 3 years bly injected with a tranquillis- night-patrol officer. The es- under section 53 the Children er and rushed on a prison van cape was a failure and I ended ZZMMSS SSOOLLIICCIITTOORRSS & Young Persons Act 1935. The to the hospital wing in up in an underground cell in relevant part of the Act which Rochester Borstal for what the solitary confinement for 9 Prison Law specialists serving prisons throughout the Midlands. governor informed me was applied to me was that I was a months. In that cold, dim cell • IPP/LIFER ISSUES • juvenile who had been ‘con- ‘mental observation’. I woke I finally did go a little bit mad. victed of crimes that would up in a padded-cell, wearing I broke the metal tag from my • PAROLE APPLICATIONS • a canvas straitjacket. Not warrant a sentence of 14 years prison-issue jeans, sharpened • CATEGORISATION • imprisonment, or more, in an something I would recom- it by rubbing it on the concrete adult.’ This was a ‘no remis- mend for anyone, let alone floor, and attempted to end my • ADJUDICATIONS • someone like me who suffers sion’ sentence, I had to gain life by ripping out the veins in • JUDICIAL REVIEWS • parole through good behav- from claustrophobia. It was a my left arm. I was about an iour or serve every day of the nightmare period for me as I hour away from being sec- LICENCE CONDITIONS • sentence. I served every day was kept tranquillised on tioned under the Mental Health • RECALLS • of the sentence. Largactyl. Act, but the need to punish rather than care stayed the Contact Simon Mears - Prison Law Specialist The sentence was so rarely On Christmas Eve 1977, at the hand of the official in charge ZMS Solicitors 11 Bowling Green St, Leicester LE1 6AS handed out that the only place age of 17, I attempted to break of my mental health. I spent 0116 247 0790 they could find for me to serve out of the Borstal and ended months drugged up, a slow, Free advice & representation under legal aid it was in the borstal system, up seriously assaulting a drooling wreck, one of the Insidetime July 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 21 The family rock Do tough sentences Families may help in reducing reoffending, deter crime? but are we unwittingly enabling their return Penelope Gibbs protected from murderers, convicted of two serious to prison? muggers and rapists - and it off ences would be impris- makes many who are oned for life on committing Alison Henderson I am visiting my partner on his third prison Nearly half the British tempted to commit crime their third off ence. This third sentence? He’s comfortable knowing that when population supports the think twice”. Since that time off ence did not need to be he goes to prison, I’ll visit and do my prison death penalty and two thirds our prison population has serious to count, so people Over the past few weeks, my blog has featured widow thing all over again because that’s what agree with the argument that doubled, fuelled for the most ending up serving life posts from prisoner’s families and ex-off enders families do. I’m not reducing reoff ending, I’m “the best way to reduce part not by sentencing more sentences aft er lying on a who have spoken about reoff ending and ways actually encouraging it. Let us not forget; the re-off ending is to increase people to imprisonment, but driving theory test or to reduce it. system needs bottoms on beds otherwise thou- the deterrent eff ect of by tougher sentences. shoplift ing. If deterrent sands would not be able to aff ord their mort- sentencing - by sending Average prison sentences sentencing works, this According to many organisations, families are gages. So to say that families are the key to more off enders to prison, have increased steadily (up draconian three strikes law the key to reducing reoff ending but there are reducing reoff ending is a complete and utter making prison life harder, four months vs twenty years should have prevented strong arguments against this. cop out. It’s a mind game played extremely making sentences longer, ago) and continue to do so. anyone aff ected committing well. and making community that third crime. But it didn’t. But as Tom Gash points out, An economic study conclud- Many off enders who are addicted to drugs come punishments more demand- there is plenty of evidence to ed that people on two strikes from supportive loving families, many of whom ing”. But as Tom Gash points show that tougher sentences were only 12.5% less likely to have kicked their loved-one’s backside to the out in his excellent new book, Criminal: The truth have little impact on crime. be arrested aft er the new law curb simply because they can do no more - and Finland in 1960s decided to than before it. Another study rightfully so. about why people do bad things, there is little reduce their prison popula- suggested that the threat of evidence that tough sentenc- tion. They removed nearly punishment might have Some families do in fact reduce reoff ending by es do deter crime. all fi ne defaulters from encouraged two strikers to using a tactic called enabling. Junkies love prison, then reduced the commit more serious third enablers, monies given to them by their nearest There is a deep-seated numbers of those impris- crimes as “rather be hanged and dearest enables them to get high without © Fotolia.com popular belief (found in our oned for theft , drink-driving for a sheep than a lamb”. committing crime. reframing research) that and other non-violent Mum, dad, grandma, committing crime is a crimes. Suspended sentenc- If you understand that crime Mum, dad, grandma, grandpa, partner, hus- grandpa, partner, husband rational act - that criminals es became the norm for is most oft en a spontaneous, band and wife, would rather give their addict logically weigh up the fi rst-time off enders who had reckless act, rather than a loved-one a tenner here and there in order to and wife would rather give chances of being caught and been given prison sentences rational, considered choice, keep them out of jail. So yes, that’s one way of their addict loved-one a the severity of their punish- of less than two years. Crime it makes sense that severity reducing reoff ending - it’s not the right way by ment, against the gains to be did in fact go up signifi cantly of punishment does not deter. a long shot, but the addict is desperate and the tenner here and there in order made from committing a from 1960 to the late 1980s, But the belief in the criminal families give in because how can they refuse to keep them out of jail crime. Because most people but it went up no more in as “rational actor” and the their loved one a tenner for food or twenty quid think that crime is an Finland than in other deterrent eff ect of prison is for electric and nappies? The verbal gymnastics individual, rational choice, Scandinavian countries, very strong. Let’s hope we addicts do for a bag of gear is endless and even- Like many other families I am not paid to reduce they also deduce that if with low prison populations. can shift those beliefs. tually it takes its toll. reoff ending. I was under the impression that punishment is made more Crime also went up steeply probation offi cers and other professionals work- severe, potential criminals in USA where the prison Eventually the inevitable happens and the ing in the system are paid for such roles? will make a diff erent choice. population soared. Penelope Gibbs is the phone calls start. Your partner, son, daughter, This belief has led to a raft of Director of Transform Justice In America new tough laws is banged up and they need money for toiletries Why do we never hear; probation offi cers are “tough on crime” policies in were brought in, the and stamps etc - or do they? the key to reducing reoff ending? Why has the USA, Canada and in the UK. 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Erwin James world. Like Blantyre House, Bastoy holds men often for facts and figures about prison issues I was the evening duty governor the day that Leon serving long prison sentences for serious crimes and prisoners to the Bromley Briefings, the Brittan announced that they were reviewing all After thirty seven years and two months work- and today boasts the lowest reoffending rates prison fact file compiled by the Prison Reform the lifer tarrifs. Following that announcement, ing for the Prison Service, Eoin McLennan- in Europe. Sadly, Blantyre House is now closed, Trust. “It’s an excellent publication and so well there were men on my wing who were getting Murray retired and moved to a house he built but its ethos lives on in Bastoy Prison Island researched,” he says. “I refer to it so much. years and years added on to the minimum terms in Spain. After his retirement however he joined and other similarly regimed prisons around About half of the people in prison are in for a that had been set by their trial judges. This the board of the Howard League for Penal Norway. drug related offence. So it’s a real driver. happened out of the blue, and I just thought it Reform and returns periodically for board meet- was so unjust. I’m a fair man - but I thought ings and other prison reform events. On a recent trip to the UK from Spain, okay, if you’re going to make the tariffs longer McLennan-Murray agreed to meet me for lunch don’t make it retrospective when men had been I’ve met McLennan-Murray a number of times and a chat. He retired at the end of last year, working towards a particular timescale and over the years and always found him to be finishing off his career as the Governor of then the posts were moved sometimes by more thoughtful, progressive and human in his atti- Coldingley Category C prison in Surrey. I won- than a decade. tude towards prisoners and prisons. When he dered whether after so long steeped in the pris- was the Governor in charge of Blantyre House on system if it wasn’t really time for him to “Of course now there is a huge problem with prison in Kent a delegation of government and forget prisons? “It should be shouldn’t it”, he the IPP prisoners, some four thousand or so in prison officials from Norway visited him and he laughs, “but I invested almost four decades of the system. They’ve abolished that sentence, gave a presentation explaining how Blantyre my life in something really important, and in but they won’t make it retrospective and let House had achieved the lowest reoffending that time you can see what’s good and what people out who are serving a sentence that figures for released prisoners in England and isn’t good. So when something is happening in effectively no longer exists. People languishing Wales - a remarkable 8 percent, when the na- the prison system, with all the experience I have in prison who were given relatively short tariffs, tional average was around 50 percent within I think I can identify things that are sensible of a year or two, still in prison ten or twelve the first 12 months of release. The prison had and things which aren’t. So I like to let people years later - well that’s just not right.” this impact on reoffending he said, because its know that, either in media interviews, or as a ethos was all about trusting prisoners to be trustee of the Howard League. I like to deal with What does he think of the government’s plans honest and responsible. “Trust is the key,” he the substantive stuff, and I always try, when I to reform the prison system, as shared with told them. The fact that the majority of the pris- can, to raise some of the important issues, like Inside Time in our April issue by Justice oners in Blantyre House were at the end of long the size of the prison population, our current Eoin McLennan-Murray Secretary Michael Gove? “More autonomy and prison sentences for serious crimes made its approach to drugs in society - how they drive power for governors - absolutely, that’s how it success all the more remarkable. so much inquisitive crime and hence so many should be. It’s like going back to what we had more of the serious problems in our prisons.” People languishing in before, where we had some say over our budget, The Norwegians went away and created Bastoy prison who were given you could design your own regime, you could Prison Island, the first ecological prison in the As well as his own experience he says he refers relatively short tariffs, of recruit your own staff. a year or two, still in prison “When I first governed Blantyre House I had far more autonomy. The landscape we were ten or twelve years later - operating on was not so restricted. Even though well that’s just not right Michael Howard (former Home Secretary) tight- ened up on ROTL it wasn’t as draconian as Chris Grayling’s actions. And now Michael Gove is The other thing I talk about a lot is sentence relaxing Grayling’s restrictions to those gover- length. How we have increased sentencing, so nors that have autonomy. now judges are handing down longer sentences than ever before. And then at the other end of “I spoke to the Governor at Coldingley recently the scale the ineffectiveness of short who told me she was about to release her first sentences.” Category D prisoners. But the Service is in a bad way. So many prisons are struggling and I don’t How was it as a prison governor when you saw think they know what to do. I think by giving prisoners with increasingly longer sentences governors autonomy they’re hoping that that coming into your prison and somehow you have is going to perhaps stabilise certain prisons. to offer a regime that provides some rehabili- DOES THE TAX MAN OWE YOU MONEY? tation? “Well, I remember being duty governor “And I think locally you can do something at a IF YOU ENTERED PRISON AFTER 6 APRIL 2011 AND PAID TAX YOU MAY BE DUE A REFUND. at Gartree. I had about forty lifers on my wing. local level. I don’t think it will particularly affect rehabilitation. It will just restore, hopefully, a ARE YOU RECEIVING TAX DEMANDS OR PENALTIES THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND? little bit of decency and create more purposeful ARE YOU SETTING UP A BUSINESS AFTER YOU ARE RELEASED AND NEED TAX ADVICE? regimes. The dichotomy of these prison reforms however - well giving governors autonomy; IF THE ANSWER IS ‘YES’ YOU NEED TO CONTACT THE TA X ACADEMY™ fabulous, it’s the right thing to do. They still haven’t quite worked out what the boundaries THE TAX ACADEMY™ Include as much information as possible: are. It will be up to those governors to find what their boundaries are. But the problem is that Unit 4, Ffordd yr Onnen • Prison number Lon Parcwr Business Park though autonomy is a good thing, it’s not going • Your full name including middle name to transform the service. Ruthin • Your date of birth Denbighshire LL15 1NJ • National insurance number The bigger issues that are really holding the 01824 704535 • Employment history Service back now are the violence and the drugs. And of course most of the violence is as [email protected] • Contact address/number on the outside a result of the drugs. And one last thing about www.thetaxacademy.co.uk Please advise if you change Prisons after responding. this - what a lot of people don’t realise is that only two of the Governors in charge of the six The Tax Academy™ is a Social Enterprise created by Paul Retout, a Tax Specialist to help Prisoners with their reform prisons have actual autonomy - the other tax affairs in Prison and on the outside. He was recently profiled in ‘The Times’ – ‘Tax Rebates for Cellmates’ four are answerable to the person at the MoJ having run tax seminars for inmates in HMP Wandsworth. who controls the budget.” Insidetime July 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 23 My victim shook my hand and I broke down in tears The impact of a I said the same to him. Restorative Justice He asked me why I broke into his burger van. I explained I had been on drugs at the time. I encounter can have a also explained some background on me and why I had been using M-CAT. Two years before profound effect on both I’d had a house fire which seriously burned my the victim and the per- three and a half year old son leaving him with 55 per cent burns. We got a new home with the petrator - here one man help of the Lord Mayor of Bristol, George Ferguson. As the months went by I took my son Is HMP Parc juvenile explains how it changed to all the physio appointments, but I was feeling terrible guilt for failing to keep my darling son his life for the better from danger. I blamed myself. I think I was also unit another Medway? suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder John Chapman as I had saved my son from the fire. It hurts too Inside Time report much to write about the specific details. On 30th May 2015 I was sentenced to three years Alan and I agreed a plan to make good the harm imprisonment. So off to HMP Bristol for me. I At the same time as the BBC it is imperative that our rec- unit for young people aged I had caused him. He didn’t want me to work also had two other offences outstanding. While Panorama programme was ommendations about refresh- 15-17 with significantly more for free for him which I had offered. Instead he I was in Bristol prison I had a visit from ‘proba- being secretly filmed at G4S er training in child protection, time out of cell than at other asked me to get clean from drugs and to sort Medway children’s prison, the and knowledge about the centres around the country tion’. I duly attended as instructed where I my life out and become an honest man. He told Prisons Inspectorate was in- whistle-blowing policy, are and ‘many instances’ of good found that it wasn’t ‘probation’- but a facilitator me that when I get out, if I’m clean from drugs, specting the juvenile unit at acted upon as a matter of ur- work by staff and partners. from Bristol Crown Court Restorative Justice to visit him at his burger van for a coffee and a G4S managed HMP Parc in gency. Similarly, the reasons While inspectors reported that which is part of the Probation Service. I sat bite to eat. I was stunned. south Wales. This unit can why children have reported an 89 per cent of young people down at a table facing a lady who then informs house up to 64 children, from increase in victimisation by said they felt safe and safe- me that she is here to ask me if I would consider Wow, it felt like he’d hit me age 15, but at the time of the staff must be investigated and guarding and child protection a face to face meeting with the owner of a burger inspection held just 38. What understood.” arrangements remained effec- van that I had burgled. She explained the meet- with a sledgehammer. Tears the inspection found was tive, concerns were raised about ing would be held at the prison, in a safe envi- welled up in my eyes. I felt like shocking and, in many ways, Despite the findings of his the number of young people ronment with her and another facilitator along mirrored the findings of the Inspectors, Clarke says; “In who said they felt victimised.” with the victim, Alan. scum. I was totally devastated Panorama programme. summary, while overall we and completely shocked were still able confidently to Janet Wallsgrove, Director of There would also be two officers present to • 41% of children said they judge that outcomes under the Parc said; “ The centre is now ensure there would be no aggression or fighting. had been victimised by staff; ‘safety’ element of the healthy more settled and we have Immediately I said yes. She told me she had And then he dropped the bombshell on me. He • 45% of children said they were prison test were ‘reasonably stepped up our survey activity already spoken with Alan and he was willing explained that he only ran his business for not treated with respect by staff; good’, there is a real need for and enhanced the representa- and eager to speak to me to get answers and to therapeutic reasons. I didn’t understand until • The ‘use of force’ had tripled the leadership team at Parc to tion of young people at our help him to move forward. I was also told that he said that he was suffering with Parkinson’s since the last inspection in understand what sits behind safeguarding meetings to bet- a report would be sent to the Crown Court and disease. Wow, it felt like he’d hit me with a 2014 with over 200 incidents the negative aspects of these ter understand their percep- the judge would take it into account when sen- sledgehammer. Tears welled up in my eyes. I recorded in the previous six findings.” tions and interactions with our tencing me. To me it was a win win situation, felt like scum. I was totally devastated and months on less than 40 staff group.” or so I thought. completely shocked. children; The report found: • 43% of boys said they had • Safety outcomes were Michael Spurr, Chief Executive It took about a month to make the final arrange- So I promised Alan that I would do exactly as been restrained; reasonably good; of the National Offender ments, but as the day of the meeting came closer he asked and would look forward to going to • Adjudications were running • Respect outcomes were Management Service, said; I started feeling anxious, but still determined visit him upon my release. And it’s because of at 77 per month, 79% of boys reasonably good; “As the report notes, there is to face up to what I had done wrong and hope- this that I am unwilling to commit any kind of had had an adjudication; • Purposeful activity was some very positive work being fully say sorry. I’d only committed these offenc- crime or take drugs again. Once I got to six • 25% of boys said they had reasonably good; undertaken with young people es because I was under the influence of mephe- months off release I started the 12 steps drug- been assaulted by other boys; • Resettlement outcomes were in Parc with a high level of drone (also known as meow meow or M-CAT.) free course to give me the tools I need to stay • Only 20% of children said reasonably good. purposeful activity and good clean when I get out. staff would take their victimi- education and resettlement So finally the day arrived. I remember I went to sation seriously; Frances Crook, CEO of the provision. The number of education as I was doing the Inside Recovery Alan and I talked for a while longer during that • 52% of boys said complaints Howard League told Inside young people in custody has course. Then my OMU officer came to collect visit and when it came to the end of the session were not dealt with fairly; Time; “The report on Parc’s continued to fall but the chal- me. As I walked towards the multi-faith room he shook my hand again and gave me a man • Some children told the children’s unit chimes with lenges presented by those who where the meeting was to be held I could feel hug. I was touched. And then before he walked Inspectors that they had been recent scandals seen in Secure remain, particularly in terms tears well up and I hadn’t even met Alan. out he shook my hand one last time. As he restrained and hurt in areas Training Centres (STCs) run by of violence, are considerable. walked away I broke down in tears. I’d never not covered by CCTV such as G4S. The Howard League is The Director and her team are I pulled myself together and walked into the felt so bad about myself in my life. This was all in cells. also aware of serious allega- committed to providing a safe multi-faith room not knowing what to expect. the motivation I needed to sort my life out. I tions of racist abuse of chil- and positive environment for In my mind I’d got a picture of big guy looking wish I’d done restorative justice twenty five In his report Peter Clarke, HM dren at Parc, which are being young people in their care and to get revenge on me. But what I found was a years ago. There would be far fewer victims in Chief Inspector of Prisons investigated.” will use the findings from this real shock. I sat down opposite Alan with a the world if I had done so. says; “In light of the recent report to address areas of con- facilitator on each side of us. Prison officers sat allegations that have been In response to the report G4S cern to achieve improvement.” against the wall to one side. Alan was a slim made about the treatment of say; “Inspectors reported that guy around 55 years old. 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I doubt it. the person asking you. Or if they don’t feel the same about you. I was Very early on, in Belmarsh, known never an official Listener but always then as Hellmarsh (is it still?), I en- an unofficial one. Bigots in prison countered several very large, intimi- dating, often black inmates. Almost So I made many friends in prison. I Jonathan King Jewish; terrific performers and pro- to them. Who cares what people, who universally we got on terrifically. found something to like in almost ducers are often gay and, as Adele have never met you, decide? I always Those with the most frightening everyone, including those I was has recently shown, there are even found some fans absurd. If they liked image had designed it to protect strongly advised not to speak to. As the mighty Muhammad Ali dies, some pretty good women in music. my music - fine. But judging a human themselves and frequently, I discov- Everyone was welcome in my cell, to and we witness further hatred at foot- being you have never met in person ered, that was because nobody had sit and talk. I enjoyed their company. ball games and in clubs in Florida, I So I anticipated being confronted by is as ludicrous to me as, these days, ever listened to them. Not family, not Which is why my three and a half feel inspired to write about racism some inmates and officers who were people having online “friends” they friends, certainly not society. I’m in- years in Her Majesty’s Estate were and bigotry in prison. During my racist or anti-gay or bigoted in some have never met. Like what I say and trigued by human beings. I like peo- some of the happiest in my life. three and a half years locked up in way. Prison is a microcosm of the what I produce by listening or read- ple. I find it really interesting where Her Majesty’s Luxury Estate, a time wider world. I was astonished, for ing. But only like or dislike me if they came from, how they grew up, And I found very little racism or big- I greatly enjoyed, I saw, heard and example, to discover that the most you’ve met me. what interests them, why they are as otry. And, if I did, I stopped it. Be met many different types of people. popular newspaper in prison was the they are. So I listened a lot. I know they screws or staff or inmates or That was one of the reasons I enjoyed same as in outside Britain - the now those of you who know me and think chaplains, I told them to cease. And myself so much. Out here, in the nor- Those with the most (I’m pleased to say) defunct News of I never stop talking, think I never they did. mal world, I tended to mix only with the World. Pretty rapidly, incidental- frightening image had listen, but I do. Genuinely. Not pre- those with whom I was directly in- ly, I discovered how to sell to them tending, but out of real interest. That When I left Belmarsh for Maidstone, volved, mainly media people in jour- designed it to protect and the other papers false, but enter- was one reason why, I’m proud to several officers said to me “you made nalism, promotion, music. I joked taining, stories about myself, in re- themselves and frequently, say, during my time inside three dif- this a happier place JK”. I replied - that, when I entered the British jail turn for Mars bars and hard cash. I discovered, that was ferent jails, I helped a dozen wrongly perhaps not happier but certainly system, I found myself in a far supe- convicted men get their appeals camper. I had, by then, got several rior moral universe. Believe me, se- In my case I was prepared for the ho- because nobody had granted. I was intrigued by the in- very solid bouncer types mincing rial killers are, in many respects, mophobes. There would have been ever listened to them competence of lawyers, the corrup- about saying “what’s a girl to do?” more decent and moral than some of no point in trying to disguise my bi- tion of cops, and the laziness of judg- the Editors of national newspapers I sexuality. It had been exaggerated all es. I talked, read deps, analysed and You’d be surprised by how effective have encountered and terrorists over the media after my trial. But I’ve Which is one reason I always admired suggested. teaching a thug to call you “darling” could teach kindness and decency to never been one to hide my character the image of Muhammad Ali from afar. can be. several famous television presenters, anyway; not for any moral reason or Although I’ve never met him, every I stopped a lot of bullying of other producers or key journalists. fear, simply because I can’t be both- time I saw him on TV or read about prisoners by inmates simply by ask- A little campness brings much joy to ered. With JK you get what you see or him, I liked his image. A tolerant, ing the bullies to stop. Which they an all-male prison. But one of the great things about the meet. People either like me or they bright, funny, hugely attractive per- did. Why? Because they liked and music world, my main home, was don’t; that’s up to them. sonality. Whether I would have liked respected me and knew I liked and that there is no room for bigotry. Most him as a person, I cannot say. I hugely Jonathan King is a proud former respected them. You don’t stop doing of the best music makers are black; If people want to judge me by what admire the work of my hero Charles prisoner something if you don’t like or respect the finest song writers tended to be they read in the tabloids, good luck Dickens. Would I have liked the man? Parole.... Recall...... solicitors Recat...... Adjudication...... Why not let our experienced Prison Law Team provide you with the help you need?

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position within the POA to Transsexual Prisoners, omit- trans behind bars. I can only publicise the increased level ted to mention the biggest include your own personal of danger to both prison of- issue that my trans sisters and experiences in the book if you fi cers and prisoners because I have regarding PSI 7/2011 - also give me signed, written of government reforms, it that legally, it is not worth the permission. My publisher and would be a noble cause if he paper it is written on. bank manager may not like it, could continue to be a role but I will personally guarantee model to his union’s members I have been to buy a copy of the book and and fully support, openly, post it free of charge to any both transgendered staff and told by Governors contributors. (I, too, have to transgendered prisoners. of jails across the pay for copies of my own books!) Call me cynical if you wish, country, ‘The only Never before has this book but that opportunists such as been needed so much. At a Maria Miller MP, Lord rights you have are time when an increasing num- Cashman, Baroness Barker, the ones I decide ber of transgendered prisoners Lord Faulks, Baroness Hayter are coming through prison and Peter Dawson, Deputy to give you’ gates, for trans prisoners Director of the Prison Reform themselves, their families, Trust, should come out in sup- It is a disappointment to me friends and prison staff, my port of trans issues, was that it is regarded as a docu- book could prove to be inval- shocking. Why had it taken ment of worth. Whether delib- uable. With an emphasis on © Fotolia.com them so long to become so erately or not, this PSI is put transwomen transitioning be- vocal? Why did they decide to together in such ambiguous hind bars, the book compre- come out of the woodwork and terms that prison Governors hensively covers topics such jump on the Tara Hudson are able to interpret it in any as Gender Identity Clinic bandwagon? Is it because she way that suits them. This be- Appointments, Changing Transgangsta was young, photogenic and came obvious, after I and Name by Deed Poll, Clothing serving a short sentence other prison trans activists Tips, Make-up for Beginners, (though traumatising for any challenged the interpretation and Voice Pitch Shifting, trans prisoner)? Some might of a particular Governor. As among others. My motive for say that they were only paying for the ‘mandatory’ italicised writing this book was anger at Bites Back lip service to a cause that instructions within the docu- my own treatment since tran- would increase their public ment, many of my trans sisters sitioning. I would never wish profi le. Would they have been and I have been told by my own trauma of being beat- Calling all transmen and transwomen behind so vocal if Tara had been in Governors of jails across the en up, spat at, slashed twice her mid-50s, serving a life sen- country, ‘The only rights you with razor blades, raped, bars (unless you are in an open prison!) tence, denied trans-suitable have are the ones I decide to stabbed and scarred for life make-up to maintain her fem- give you.’ With our entitle- with scalding water mixed Sarah Baker to ‘hide’ us on vulnerable pris- off, forced to resign, or be inine appearance, and lacked ment to legal aid for judicial with sugar, not even on my oner wings. dragged, kicking and scream- 100,000 petition signatures? review severely curtailed, worst enemy. ing, into the 21st century! My contact at the Ministry of l Governors refusing to address many of us have no choice but Injustice tells me that there are the serious issue of overt trans- Whilst these people may in- to go back to our cells and en- To have a prison Governor snarl When Nick Hardwick, former approximately one hundred phobic comments and threats deed be ardent and sincere dure ‘the slings and arrows of and call me a ‘Transgangsta’ HM Chief Inspector of Prisons trans prisoners in English pris- from pseudo-religious prisoners. supporters of reforming the outrageous fortune’. for my terrier-like persistence ons. I would argue that, statis- highlighted ‘the absence of conditions that my trans in improving the lot of my pris- tically, compared to England’s l Being side-lined, marginalised decency and humanity in brothers and sisters live Following the success of my on trans family, I felt almost population outside in the free and denied jobs in positions some of our jails’, and described under, I cannot but wonder if fi rst book, Life Imprisonment: honoured! world, the one hundred esti- of trust, especially just aft er the conditions in many prisons this burst of ‘enlightenment’ An Unoffi cial Guide by Alan mation seems fl awed, to me, transition. as being ‘as bad as you could will be anything more than Baker, ISBN 978-1-904380-93-1, at least. In three prisons alone, l Prison offi cers not reporting possibly imagine, and proba- temporary. It is a shame that published by Waterside Press, I personally know of thirty, too acts of violence upon trans- bly more so’, he could not more emphasis could not have my second book, Transsexuality afraid to live ‘in role’, for fear gendered prisoners and ignor- have been more succinct. With been focused on trans issues Behind Bars: A Prisoner’s of attack from other prisoners. ing verbal abuse from other many prisoners having to live before two of my trans sisters Guide by Sarah Baker, should For those of us who do live ‘in prisoners, as well as that under regimes that promote had already committed sui- be off to the publisher within role’, there appears to be a which occurs in visits halls feelings of despair, anxiety cide this year! the next few months. number of issues that contin- from prisoners and their and loneliness, many of us are ue to rear their ugly heads, visitors. overwhelmed by the whole Within the past eleven Meanwhile, anyone with trans these being: futility of our imprisonment. months, I have been punched issues is welcome to write to l With love, Sarah XXX A lack of NHS treatment that in the face in view of a prison me at HMP Lewes and share l Prison Governors persistent- is routinely off ered to trans- Equally, when Prisons offi cer and, while on suicide their experiences of being ly refusing to acknowledge gendered people outside of the Minister Andrew Selous said watch, told by another to ‘get their responsibilities accord- prison system. to the House of Commons that on and kill yourself!’ Has prison changed the way you or others ing to PSI 7/2011, and both the l ‘decency is at the heart of the see you? Who were you before and who are Human Rights/Equality Acts. The diffi culty in obtaining copies of gender identity clinic prison system’, I struggled to I hope that our current equal- you now? Do you have a story to tell? l Despite many prison reports in prison mental recognise what prison system ities minister will not follow Governors making the right ‘po- health in-reach department. he was referring to. With the in the footsteps of Sadiq Khan We are looking for people who identify as litically correct’ noises, many number of prison suicides hit- MP (before his election as transgender, bisexual, lesbian, gay, or l Diffi culty in getting access to continue to turn a blind eye ting record highs last year and Mayor of London) who, when anything in-between, to get involved in an showers in prisons that are now regarding transphobia in their incidents of self-harm becom- I asked for his help aft er seg- exciting new lm project about prison and operating restrictive regimes. jails, from prisoners and staff . ing more frequent, I would regation staff at HMP Elmley identity. If you are interested please get in have little choice but to con- refused to let me wear female l Prison Governors refusing Of course, not all transgen- touch with an answer to this question: ‘Can clude that, as a whole, the clothing, sent me a letter sup- to allow transwomen to have dered prisoners have the same you describe a time in your life when you felt prison population is being porting the decision of the trans suitable make-up posted issues. Many prison Governors like a dierent person?’ failed by the law, health ser- prison to ignore the Human or handed in on visits. are more open-minded and vices and, ultimately, by the Rights Act, the Equalities Act, supportive of their prisoners, l Governors backing their seg- present government. and my ‘protected character- Email Jaz at donotpassgo. [email protected], whatever their issues may be. regation staff who deny tran- istics’ which these Acts were or write to Jaz Pitt: National Film and Likewise, with wing managers swomen access to their own Steve Gillan, General Secretary created to guarantee. As for Television School, Beacons eld Studios, and landing staff. However, female clothing and make-up. of the Prison Officers’ Peter Dawson, whilst I believe Station Rd, Beacons eld HP9 1LG. there is a dominant and vocal Association, is correct in say- that he is an honourable man, l Trans prisoners being forced minority of staff whose minds ing that our prisons are badly his Inside Time article of and coerced into leaving nor- are so closed to diversity issues understaff ed. As he has, in the December 2015 on PSI 7/2011, mal location wings, as staff try that they need to be pensioned past, highlighted and used his The Care and Management of No address for Accommodation and Support Services for Bail and Home your bail or HDC Detention Curfew application? Talk to your Wing Officer If you have no address to go to for the period of bail or Home Detention Curfew (HDC/tag), or an address that isn’t suitable - BASS can help. Stonham BASS can offer accommodation and support to defendants on bail and offenders eligible for Home Detention Curfew (HDC/ tag). We have properties across the country where you would have your own bedroom in a small, shared (single gender) house. If you have children it may be possible for them to join you in a house on your own. Get in touch with a prison staff member to find out more.

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combat situations, and natu- experienced on the out. that the years - sometimes bread now on offer at the su- community-based alterna- ral disasters). Overcrowding and the poor even decades - of institutional permarket). A guy I once in- tives to prison (including the living conditions that result life had left its mark on them. terviewed - let’s call him increased use of ‘drug Sound familiar? It might well do. from this; the threat or expe- Post-release, recurrent dis- Sparky (he was an electrician courts’); converting 80% of rience of being physically as- tressing dreams (mostly before coming inside) - had ‘correctional facilities’ into Criminological studies have saulted (which are ever-in- nightmares about going back spent almost 30 years in pris- educational, vocational, and shown that women and men creasing, thanks to the to prison), sleep disturbances on, and described his ROTL rehabilitative programmes; sent to prison often have high introduction of once-legal (caused by years of flashing experiences as “terrifying”. eliminating long mandatory levels of existing PTSD, asso- highs into the prison system); torches and noise from other He struggled with new tech- minimum sentences; and con- ciated to trauma experienced being torn away from one’s prisoners), and ‘emotional nology (“What the fuck is a structing ‘universal pre-re- The Secret prior to imprisonment. People partner, parents, or children; numbing’ (based on an endur- ‘smartphone’ anyway?!”, he lease programmes’. Criminologist coming to prison are actually isolation and loneliness (or ing need to be strong/hide asked me during our first more likely to experience perhaps worse - the ever-con- weakness) were frequently meeting), lived in constant “Reducing PICS can Injecting a large measure PTSD than those who are stant presence of others). described by the men and fear of being “outed as a mur- never incarcerated. For exam- women they interviewed as derer” in the hostel he stayed only be achieved by of humanity into the dismantling our exist- criminological ple, a study of 1,000 incarcer- “Post-Incarceration symptoms caused by their in- at, or in his fledging new ca- ated men across 11 European carceration. And while these reer in a call centre (only his perspective Syndrome is particularly ing ‘well-intentioned countries, including England, men often met the diagnostic boss knew about where he but misguided’ criminal found that 1 in 6 of those serv- a problem for long-term criteria for complex PTSD, it went ‘home’ to every night). ing at least 5 years had devel- lifers” was rare for this to have been The stress of “living a lie” was justice apparatus” The Problem oped PTSD during their life- clinically recognised or immense. And Sparky felt that of Post- time. Other studies show that And a small number of crimi- treated. he had no-one to turn to for This fits with Liem and women in prison have the nologists are now beginning this, frightened that if he ad- Kunst’s conclusion (and I Incarceration highest levels of all when it to finally focus not only on the Liem and Kunst’s interview- mitted his ever-rising panic would agree) that it is the con- comes to experiences of com- impact of these experiences ees talked about the ways in about his post-release exist- tinued systemic failure to ad- Syndrome plex trauma (for example, on the person during impris- which ‘institutionalised per- ence to his Offender equately recognise and treat diagnoses of PTSD among onment, but the enduring sonality traits’ showed that Supervisor, they would read PICS and prison-induced PTSD - not the individual Since the 1980s, the incarcerated women in negative impact of this on in- long-term imprisonment had that as ‘risk’ and immediately themselves - that is the prob- Diagnostics and Statistical Australia was shown as being dividuals long after they are changed them, and shaped ship him out of open lem here. And that if criminal Manual (the holy book of psy- ten times higher than among released - they called this Post the person they were post-re- conditions. justice systems are able to chiatrists everywhere) has non-imprisoned women). Incarceration Syndrome (or lease - some described “being truly support ‘successful recognised the existence of PICS, for short). PICS, they on edge” 24/7, feeling de- American addictions counsel- re-entry into society’, they post-traumatic stress disor- However, recent studies have argue, is a particular problem tached and unable to trust lor Terrence Gorski suggests must be honest about the der. Defined as an anxiety started to identify something for individuals who have anyone (loved ones included, that reducing PICS can only damage of ‘the prison’ as an disorder ‘characterized by which anyone with prison ex- served long life sentences. who found this particularly be achieved by dismantling institution, and act upon this. persistent re-experiencing, perience could have told them hard to understand), and feel- our existing ‘well-intentioned And Gorski’s ideas seem to me avoidance, hyper arousal and a long time ago; that some- Marieke Liem and Maarten ing completely overwhelmed but misguided’ criminal jus- like a pretty good place to emotional numbing’, it has times, the trauma experi- Kunst interviewed recently by the choices one had to tice apparatus. Instead, he start. been identified across a range enced during a prison sen- released ‘lifers’ in the US, who make post-release (from how argues, we must implement of ‘survivor’ groups (e.g. those tence is equal to - or even had served an average of 19 to fill your day to how to cope public policies aimed at the who have survived rape, greater than - that years inside. And they found with the 40 different types of following: creating more The Secret Criminologist Walsh Solicitors Criminal Defence And Prison Law Experts 24 hours a day/7 days a week

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Fortunately it was not and I was able to book an appointment for 4 days later. Had it been From over the wall an emergency one of the doctors would have Healthcare contacted me on the day, to assess over the Terry Waite writes his monthly column for Inside Time phone the urgency and if necessary I would have been seen that day. Just a few days ago I returned beaten in front of his mother. from a visit to the occupied He was then hauled off to jail Given the rates of tobacco use, use of illicit territories of Palestine. I have where he spent fourteen substances and the fact that at least 50% of Terry Waite CBE been visiting this part of the months because he refused to prisoners were on some form of medication on world for well over thirty years sign a paper admitting his arrival it is worrying that 75% suggest access and have seen, during that guilt. ‘How could I sign?’ he to health care is not good. Combined with the Big Brother time, the increasing repres- asked me, ‘when I did not growing elderly population in prison it seems Anyone who has ever been sions imposed upon the throw stones.’ His father, who that health is an area of prison life that needs locked up will appreciate what Palestinians. When the State worked in Israel, had his per- the same funding as the population at large if a precious gift freedom is. of Israel was created, follow- mit to enter Israel withdrawn not more! Oh but then the public and media ing World War Two, there was and was thus thrown out of will moan about prisoners getting better health When people tell me, as they understandable sympathy for work. Had he not had another care than the general population who again sometimes do, that life inside the Jewish people who had son who was working and who will lament the cushy life in prison! is too easy for prisoners, it is suffered horribly at the hands could bring in some income, almost certain that they have of their Nazi persecutors. the family would have been Cushy, indeed for ‘Charlie’, the homeless street never been inside a prison and Nothing can describe the un- left destitute. Such stories are drinker that I met last week at a day centre, certainly never banged up in speakable ways in which they commonplace. Tales of who had enjoyed prison! He even bought a a cell over a weekend. As a were treated. I still remember discount kitchen knife to get three months nation, we pride ourselves on seeing pictures of the Jewish Far more serious are the illegal custody for possession of a bladed item, over maintaining freedom and I survivors of the concentration Jewish settlements which Christmas! One of so few who enjoyed the com- suppose that compared with camps on their release. They spread right across the territo- forts of a bed in a room with a stranger; pref- were little more than walking Wisdom many other nations we are not ry and which are a deliberate erable to a shop doorway and who found an in doing too badly. Personally, I skeletons and it is hard to be- attempt by the Government of cell toilet preferable to a bush. He was delighted don’t like the fact that there lieve how their captors could Israel to grab more land. There with a light in his sleeping area and a TV - what are cameras everywhere in our have treated them in such an are so many stories, far more Our man on a bonus! He was very pleased with the steel larger cities recording our unspeakable manner. It was serious than the ones I have toe-capped work boots that were given to him; every movement but on the on that wave of sympathy that related, which illustrate just which he proudly showed me - “Better than the other hand I recognise that in a National Home for the Jewish what lack of freedom means the inside tells leaking trainers I went in with and I got socks!”. this day and age it is necessary People was established in to these people. to accept certain restrictions Palestine and thus the State of He did however, have one complaint - he had for our safety. Israel was carved out of the After my tour of the Occupied it like it is hoped that in three months he would have got territory. Many Palestinian Territories I went to Tel Aviv his toenails cut, a new set of dentures and Sid Arter Providing that there are prop- people were forced out of their in Israel just a short time after someone to look at least at his hernia - but he er safeguards in place to pro- homes and today there are four Israelis had been stabbed told me. “A great library, great chapel, but lousy tect the privacy of individuals refugee camps in Palestine to death by two Palestinian health care - I never saw the dentist and the then personally I am willing occupied by second and third cousins. I had coffee with one doctor lost interest when I told him about my generations of those who were Healthcare to accept the situation. of the relatives of one of the use of street medication, long term mental evacuated from their homes. men who were murdered. health issues and alcohol use! Mind you they Freedom of speech Because of the policy followed access did give me patches to help stop smoking - There is not space to enter into I am not so contented when it by the Government of Israel which I was able to sell and buy a few treats!” is becoming increasingly dif- a detailed history of that re- people on both sides of the On New Year’s Day our son woke with tooth gion in this short article but ficult to speak freely. When I divide suffer, and it is tragic. ache and within two hours I had an appoint- In theory prisoners are entitled to the same suffice to say that today, the was a boy, my auntie always It is shameful that when any- ment to see an NHS dentist - who prescribed health care provision as the rest of the popu- territory surrounding Israel is referred to me as ‘Duckie’. one tries to point to the injus- antibiotics and a treatment plan and by that lation but ‘Charlie’ suggested it was very much under illegal occupation and That was a common expres- tices of the situation in the evening the pain had subsided. I wonder how otherwise; indeed following my advice he went the Palestinian people are sub- sion in Staffordshire, just as Territories one is accused of many prisoners have a 7 day dental service that to the drop-in centre in the city centre for the ject to terrible restrictions on ‘Luv’ was in the North of being anti-Semitic. All I can sees emergencies on the day they seek an ap- their freedom. To travel, or to homeless and was seen that day. He is now England. Not so long ago, staff say to that is rubbish! Both pointment? Indeed within 5 days our son had looking forward to a few days in hospital hav- in an old peoples’ home were dig a well, Palestinians have sides of the divide have a right had root canal treatment and within 2 weeks ing his hernia repaired - he may be disappoint- brought to book for calling the to obtain a permit from the to live in peace and with jus- the treatment of that tooth was complete and ed it might be a day case - but he thinks it will residents ‘Duck’! This seems Israeli authorities. ‘Of course tice. Both are sadly lacking in we paid nothing. be done within three months! “It’s a good job to me totally ridiculous and I you can dig a well,’ they say. this region and where they are I’m out of prison- it would be a couple of years think there are many people ‘Just apply for a permit.’ So, a absent, great suffering is Equally I called our General Practitioner last before I got to see the doctor - let alone get this who think that so called polit- poor farmer I know, whose experienced. week - “Is it an emergency” I was asked. hernia done!” ical correctness has got way father and grandfather had farmed the same land that he out of hand. So, back to this country. You was now farming, applied for may have fallen foul of the law a permit. He waited and wait- Right to live in peace and are paying the price for We are local to: HMYOI AYLESBURY & HMPs BULLINGDON, ed and no permit was granted. However, these petty matters, that. The law can be an ass at Finally, in desperation, he dug GRENDON, WOODHILL, READING and SPRINGHILL but annoying as they may be, are times but where it is flaunted, the well. What happened? Lo Pickup & Scott Solicitors also cover many other prisons. as nothing when you experi- and where justice is absent, and behold along came the ence a situation where severe then all hell breaks loose. And occupying Army and promptly We cover all aspects of Prison Law and unjust restrictions are I, for one, don’t want to spend filled it in because he has no imposed on people. Before I the remainder of my life in • Life Sentences • IPPs • Parole Hearings • Recalls permit. go further let me make it quite hell. • Adjudications • VPs • Immigration issues clear that in a moment, when Last week I sat in the house I tell you of what I recently Contact: Anna De La Mare, Harleena Johal-Basi, experienced, I am not in any with the family of a young Please contact: way prejudiced against any Palestinian lad who had re- Terry Waite was a successful CMhaarrialo Vttiell aLryicoon oart : ethnic or religious group. I am cently been released from pris- hostage negotiator before he PICKUP & SCOTT SOLICITORS on. Some children had been PICKUP & SCOTT SOLICITORS sorry to have to emphasise himself was held captive in 6 Bourbon Street ~ Aylesbury ~ Bucks ~ HP20 2RR that but when anyone re- throwing stones at the occu- Beirut for 1763 days between 6 Bourbon Street ~ Aylesbury ~ Bucks ~ HP20 2RR counts what I shall recount in pying army. 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Russia. are published will be done so Road, London, N1 4HS. Letters anonymously. must be received by the end of At a time when travel was usu- July to give the charity enough ally uncomfortable and often Taking part is easy. Howard time to send a pack to you. dangerous, he ventured nearly League members will receive 80,000 miles on horseback a pack in the post with Howard League membership and spent some £30,000 of his everything you need, includ- is free for prisoners and their own money - the equivalent ing a pre-paid self-addressed families. The charity cam- value of several million envelope and a diary sheet. paigns for less crime, safer pounds today - in his determi- communities and fewer peo- nation to improve prison If you are not currently a mem- ple in prison. conditions. ber but would like to receive a pack, please send a letter, in- Charlie Whelton is a member He entered prisons in disguise, cluding your name, prison and of the Campaigns Team at the in defiance of governments prison number, to: Prison Howard League for Penal who feared the power of his Diaries, The Howard League Reform pen, and his work had influ- for Penal Reform, 1 Ardleigh ence as far afield as Germany, America and Russia. Obituary - ‘Miss Elwell’

Howard died of “gaol fever”, which she hoped would a form of typhus, in Kherson © Fotolia.com simply cheer people up. She in Ukraine in 1790. also campaigned for reforms to the prison service and for Could you help the Howard justice for individuals she felt League by keeping a record of had been wronged. She gave A day in the life… what you do on Friday 2 her life to lost causes and the September? What you put in underdog and through The Howard League for Penal Reform is calling on people your diary entry is up to you, motivation and persistence but it would be particularly achieved an incredible in prison to record just one day of their prison experience. helpful to include details such amount. Have your say and give the outside world a true picture of as what you were wearing, when you had a shower, what Her central philosophy was UK prison life in the 21st century you ate, what exercise you that if people were shown Miss Bernadette Elwell, who had, and which activities you dignity and respect they has died aged 69 of cancer, Charlie Whelton Politicians have been urged to keep a diary for one day - took part in. could grow as individuals and founded a prisoner support act as official figures show that Friday 2 September 2016. that no one was beyond group called MARST which there have been a rising num- redemption. To some provided small grants to The world’s oldest penal re- ber of deaths, assaults and That day has been chosen be- prisoners she was their only enhance the lives of prisoners form charity, the Howard incidents of self-injury in cause it would have been the friend and champion. League for Penal Reform, cel- prisons. 290th birthday of John or those just released. Part of MARST’s work was to send ebrates its 150th birthday this Howard, the 18th-century Miss Elwell was fiercely out a monthly newsletter and year - and it would like to hear Now the Howard League is penal reformer after whom the © Fotolia.com independent in thought and individual letters to hundreds from you. launching a survey of prison- charity is named. deed and never shied away of men in prison throughout ers to ensure that the everyday from controversial opinions. the UK. These were a curious Prison reform is at its highest experiences of people in pris- Howard inspected not only Collecting diary entries from She was a woman of extraor- mixture of comments on point on the political agenda for on are taken into account. prisons in England and Wales, across the country will help to dinary courage, energy and current affairs, discussion of many years after the govern- but also Ireland and Scotland, give people a fuller under- generosity and she will be the prisoner’s personal lives ment announced plans to change The charity is asking prisoners and then almost every other standing of what life is really greatly missed by all those and jokes and amusing trivia the way that jails are run. up and down the country to country in Europe, including like in prison. Any entries that she tried to help.

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Give time to think ‘outside the could be delivering door-to- wants help stacking bricks. In box’ and make your CV rele- door information leaflets or fact you might be surprised to vant to each individual job delivering free newspapers. find that one small job can The Careers Lady you are applying for. You Even though this may not be lead to another more perma- could have a CV done profes- too challenging you can use nent position if you can show sionally but be aware they can these small jobs to include in good timekeeping, enthusi- The first step through the door charge large sums of money your CV to show employers that asm, commitment and that and may not be much better you have a good work ethic. you are trustworthy. These than the one you did yourself. personal qualities are what to your future Leg Work employers look for. Research employers Having registered with the Job Centre start to do your own job Your Job Centre adviser will If possible ask your visitors to Remember you can always searching. Print off several Job hunting: Where to look. ask for company names or em- bring in local newspapers learn new skills to add to these copies of your CV and leave ployers details in order to fol- where you could look for com- personal qualities. copies with local companies, What to do. How to do it. low up your applications. panies who are expanding and look for job advertisements in Keep a log of all these contact may be looking for potential Knowing how to look for work new staff. Send out your CV to shop windows and even your is the first step to finding a job. We all think we know how to you will have to show that you details to show at your them even if they are not cur- local shop may have adverts Once you have been success- find a job. Sometimes having have been actively looking appointment. rently recruiting. If your CV is for part time work. Using your ful in finding and getting that the confidence to take it one and applying for jobs. good they may consider inter- initiative shows your willing- first job you will start to devel- step further can be a little Talk to family and friends viewing you with a view to ness to work. op your confidence. If the job more challenging. On your first visit you will Many people find jobs just future employment. is not entirely what you are have been shown how to use through talking to family and Advertise your services looking for then continue to When you leave prison you the computers in the Job friends. Once you know your Use Job Search sites Put cards in local shops or look for something you would will have visited your local Job Centre in order to look at cur- release date (or even before If you can use the Internet look newsagents advertising your- like to do. Centre Plus and made contact rent available jobs. You may that) your family and friends at other job search sites. Local self as a gardener or DIY man. with an Advisor who will help not need an appointment to can be useful sources of infor- employers often use these to You may have learnt skills in Finally you through the process of use these computers but they mation for local jobs, which advertise specific jobs. prison that you can offer. l Take your time and get your registering, and as well as ad- will only be available during you may be suitable for. These shops may charge you CV as acceptable as it could be. vice on how to look for jobs, office opening times. Consider seasonal work 50p a week for your card to be they will ask you what skills Update your CV l Keep your appointments As a temporary measure why in the shop window or a con- you have to offer and what type However there are other ways Make use of any time you have with Job Centre Plus. They can not consider seasonal work. tribution to a charity box. of work you are looking for. to look for jobs, which you can before release to update your stop your financial support if Often companies need extra do as well. If you look for em- CV. Following your release you miss appointments or do staff at Christmas time or to Word of mouth By signing up to claim Job ployment other than the jobs you can always use the IT fa- not show you are actively cover their staff holidays. Continue asking family and Seekers Allowance (JSA) you that the Job Centre have then cilities in the library or even looking and applying for jobs. Nurseries and Garden centres friends if they could help. are committed to turn up for you will need to be prepared the Job Centre in order to make are always looking for people They may know a neighbour l Don’t give up. If at first you regular 2 weekly visits to the to show evidence of this in this look more professional willing to work in greenhouses who might need someone to don’t succeed - just keep trying. Job Centre. During these visits order to be able to claim JSA. rather than a handwritten one. potting up plants or fruit and mow their lawn or weed their vegetable picking. Other ideas garden or a local builder who Good Luck!

However bear in mind that your criminal conviction may prevent you from working with The Hub vulnerable groups or young people. However it your questions answered might also be an asset. You will need to discuss this with the Adviser at a Job Centre who will be able to ask you the relevant questions to Wrongly convicted advise you on this. of a crime? Mentoring Programmes mostly involve one to one mentoring relationships for about 12 months within an approximate commitment of 1-2 hours per month (programmes like this vary across the country so research is important). Lost your appeal? However bear in mind that this is almost always volunteering work. It would however give you the opportunity to find out if this is the type of work you want a career in. You must be least 21 years of age and have a level © Fotolia.com of maturity and life experience to support a range of vulnerable people. Your criminal What next? conviction does not necessarily prevent you Helping others as a career from being a Mentor but security checks will Name supplied - HMP Bure be made. Honesty regarding your conviction is the best policy. Q I have met a lot of people in prison, each with their own stories to tell and their own Volunteering work The CCRC can look again issues and struggles. Looking back at this I Research local youth groups or church have decided that I would like a career organisations who are committed to working If you think your conviction or sentence is wrong involving the rehabilitation of offenders. Is with young people to prevent them becoming apply to the CCRC this type of career prohibited for a person involved in criminal activities. • It won’t cost anything with a criminal record like myself? If it is • Your sentence can’t be increased if you apply permissible, can anyone tell me what jobs Qualifications • You don't need a lawyer to apply, but a good one are available for ex-prisoners? An Information, Guidance and Advice qualifi- can help cation is something for you to consider. Your A Prison can often identify skills and qualities local college will be the best place to see what in a person that would probably not have been relevant courses are available. It might be You can get some more information and a copy of the CCRC's Easy Read application form by writing to us at identified outside. Clearly you have discovered something your local Job Centre can help you 5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW. or calling 0121 233 1473 something in yourself that you can offer others. with advice on this.

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The longer you take to ask for the money the less likely you are to get it. I have fallen for 'the cheque's in the post' ex- cuse myself more than once. The longer a customer takes to pay up, and the more far- fetched become the excuses for the delay, the less likely you are to ever get your cash.

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The video’s message is ments are most important. Advice on the benefi ts of quitting and the best way to custodial sentence? Are you simple: ‘cash is king’. To be Make those payments but overcome the challenges while serving a prison sentence looking forward to fi nding em- clear, it's not just small busi- leave the rest until later. Secondly, chase your custom- ployment - or perhaps you nesses that can run out of Louise Ross Talk to someone who’s going through it at the prefer the idea of being cash. What do the mighty HMV ers and perhaps off er them a small discount for early settle- same time. They might feel wobbly when you’re self-employed? If so, your stores, BHS, Northern Rock doing fi ne, or the other way around. It’ll help ment. Resist the temptation to Maybe you’ve tried before, when you were on self-employment plan hope- bank and, dare I say it, the to get someone else through the tough times, fully shows you busy and Greek Government, all have in borrow money to bridge a the outside. Now you’re here, this could be the ‘cash gap’ if you can - debt is because you both understand what you’re going making a tidy profi t - all good common? Yes, indeed - they time you stop smoking for good. through. news. And world domination? all ran a little low on cash, the often (too) expensive and, without wanting to state the Well, that's obviously just a life-blood of any organisation. It’s never 100% easy, when you’ve smoked for The more physical activity you can do, the eas- question of time. So, why is it Without cash in your business, obvious, usually needs repay- years, but these words might help you tackle ing! So avoid loans if you pos- ier you’ll fi nd it when you stop smoking. 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Carruthers (Cleese) has www.aa-pik-wielkabrytania.org.pl then send it out immediately and has over 25 years’ ised I hadn’t thought about smoking for most email: [email protected] no idea about cash flow - not next week or next month. investment experience. of the day! 32 Information www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2016 Prisons Ombudsman says use of force should be a last resort Inside Time report C&R team has arrived at the cell; l In some cases the team were told at a briefing that they should only give the prisoner “one In releasing his latest ‘Learning Lessons Report’ more chance” to comply and then use force, on the use of force Nigel Newcomen, the Prisons which pre-disposed the team to use force; and Probation Ombudsman said; “In some l There were some occasions where the Supervising ways it is reassuring that there are relatively Officer deferred to the lead (“Number One”) few complaints to my office about alleged phys- officer rather than taking a supervisory role © prisonimage.org ical abuse of detainees by custodial staff. In throughout the incident; 2014-15, of 2,303 complaints eligible for inves- tigation, only 50 involved such allegations. l Sometimes officers find it difficult when pris- oners blatantly disregard their orders and may Making a complaint “They are, however, among the most serious use one-on-one force rather than alternative and important complaints that I receive as they disciplinary methods; Ryan Harman important complaints and re- using a COMP 2 form. These go to the heart of the humanity and legitimacy l Some prisoners don’t get a proper healthcare PRISON REFORM Advice and Info frain from making multiple forms and envelopes to seal of the prison system. Ensuring independent examination immediately after an incident in- TRUST Service Manager complaints about the same them in should be readily investigations into allegations of physical abuse volving force, because they are too worked up; and is, therefore, essential to maintaining safety issue whilst within the normal available with the other forms. l In some cases there have been suspicious time limits for the prison to You can address it to the and giving assurance of the proper treatment The complaints system within similarities of language in Use of Force state- respond. However, PSI 02/2012 Governing Governor, the of those in custody. My investigations also en- prisons is the main recourse ments provided by different officers. is clear that ‘a prisoner’s right Deputy Director of Custody sure that staff are held to account for misbe- you have for raising and re- to make a complaint must in (DDC) or the Chair of the IMB. haviour and I have had to recommend discipli- solving treatment which you The lessons the report says should be learned no instance be completely We advise using this only nary action on a number of occasions. Equally, think has been unfair or at l The arrival of the C&R team in a planned withdrawn’. when appropriate as other- in other cases, my investigations have provided odds with the prison rules and removal should be treated as a new situation; wise it can be returned to you assurance that use of force by staff was appro- instructions. Despite this, we You should receive a response to pursue through the normal priate and their behaviour exemplary in difficult l Briefings prior to a planned removal should are sometimes surprised by to a complaint within 5 work- channels and therefore delay circumstances.” cover the likely risks rather than being prescrip- how little some people know ing days. If this is genuinely a proper response. Read the tive about when force should be used; about how the complaints sys- not possible the prison can notes on the COMP 2 form Prison Service policy on the use of force is set tem should work. We thought l The roles of the Supervising Officer and the provide an interim response carefully to help you decide if out in Prison Service Order (PSO) 1600 which the following reminder of Number One Officer in the C&R team are different; to explain the reason for the your complaint is suitable. says that “the use of force is justified and there- some of the key points in PSI delay and let you know when fore lawful, only if: it is reasonable in the cir- l A one-on-one use of force is very risky and 02/2012 Prisoner Complaints you should get a full reply. If you feel a complaint is still cumstances, it is necessary, no more force than should be used only if there is immediate risk would be useful. necessary is used and it is proportionate to the to life or limb; You should be kept informed not resolved after appeal, you about the progress of your can ask the Prisons and seriousness of the circumstances.” PSO 1600 Both ordinary complaint l A brief view by a nurse through the hatch of complaint and receive the full Probation Ombudsman (PPO) makes clear that the type of harm the member forms (COMP 1) and appeal a cell door will not meet the requirement for a response in a reasonable time. to look into it. The PPO will of staff is trying to prevent should be consid- forms (COMP 1A) must be prisoner to be examined by a healthcare prac- More information about time only investigate complaints ered. This may cover risk to life or limb, risk to made freely available to pris- titioner following a use of force; and limits can be found in Annex once you have completed the property or risk to the good order of the estab- oners on the wing, close to the B of PSI 02/2012. internal complaints process, lishment. The PSO also states that staff should l Staff must write their Annex A Use of Force box in which the completed and it should be less than always try to prevent a conflict where possible statements independently. forms are submitted. Although We sometimes get sight of writ- three months since you had a and that control and restraint (C&R) “must only this seems like a basic require- ten responses which are diffi- response to the final stage of be used as a last resort after all other means of ment, we have had a number cult to read, fail to address issues your complaint. Prisoners de-escalating the incident, not involving the PSO 1600 can be downloaded at: of reports recently that forms raised or give limited explana- sometimes report that their use of force, have been repeatedly tried and www.tinyurl.com/h9uh95c. The report can be have not been readily availa- tions. This is contrary to the complaints are being lost or failed.” download at: www.tinyurl.com/hror5jc. ble and that it can be difficult PSI which states that respons- hindered at the prison and You can write to The Prisons and Probation to get hold of them. The report found Ombudsman at: Prisons and Probation es should address the issues therefore preventing them raised, and should be polite from seeking help from the l In a number of cases, there had been no at- Ombudsman, PO Box 70769, London, SE1P 4XY The complaints system should and legible. A clear explanation PPO. You can however com- tempts to de-escalate the situation once the (you do not need a stamp on the envelope). be inclusive. Establishments should be provided for any plain to the PPO if you have must have arrangements in complaint which is not upheld. not had a final reply to your place that will allow a prisoner complaint within 6 weeks. to make a formal complaint If you are unhappy with the orally to a member of staff if response to your complaint If you are experiencing diffi- needed. Those with limited you can appeal using a COMP culties with any of the above, use of English may be allowed 1A form, which you should do including difficulty in accessing Our Prison Law Department can assist prisoners under Legal Aid for a number of issues including: to submit a complaint in their within 7 calendar days of re- forms and being banned from own language, though the ceiving the response. You making complaints, please • Recall (IPP/Lifer and Determinate) prison may require longer to should receive a response to contact us for information and • Parole (IPP/Lifer and Determinate) respond to these cases. • Independent Adjudications the appeal within 5 working advice on the subject. days and it should be answered The prison does have the au- We assist prisoners throughout England and Wales offering competitive fixed fees on all other by someone at a higher level thority to impose restrictions You can contact the Prison General Prison Law matters including Re-Categorisation and Sentence Planning. in the management structure on the number of complaints Reform Trust’s advice team at For further information or assistance please contact than the person who provided you make, such as limiting FREEPOST ND6125 London the original response. Matthew Smith or Nicola Maynard you to one per day, if you are EC1B 1PN. 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Mother and Baby Units. We have real clear guidance; l Where scans or other appointments concerns about the capacity for need to happen in hospital, officers 8. be provided with essential items for Birth Charter for Community Rehabilitation Companies should observe prison guidance labour and the early postnatal period; and Probation Services to deliver that which specifies that they should not same level of support. 9. receive appropriate care during be present during medical women in prison in transfer between prison and hospital. consultations; “The Birth Charter is based on the l Women should be provided with expertise we have developed by work- Women with babies in prison photos from scans as women in pris- ing with women in prison and from should: on are not able to purchase these. England & Wales listening to what they have told us They should also be able to apply for about their experiences. We have sup- 10. be encouraged and supported in permission for a partner or family ported over 1,500 women through their chosen method of infant feeding; member to be present at the scan; what is a challenging time in any new 11. be supported to express, store mother’s life. This work has given us and transport their breast milk safely, l A pregnant woman in prison should a unique understanding of the needs if they are separated from their baby; be able to speak to a midwife 24 hours of this vulnerable group of women a day about any concerns she may and babies. We have also drawn upon 12. be given the same opportunities have (e.g. if she has a severe head- the available evidence from policy and support to nurture and bond with ache, is bleeding or feels her baby is and research; given examples of ex- their babies as women in the not moving). The midwife can then isting best practice in women’s pris- community; make an assessment and provide the ons; and included quotes from women 13. be entitled to additional family appropriate care and support. who were pregnant, gave birth or visits. l spent time in prison with their If it is not possible to see a midwife babies.” in person, then a woman should have All pregnant women and new phone access to a midwife 24 hours mothers should: The Charter says that pregnant a day; women in prison should: 14. be able to access counselling l At night, there should be a timely when needed; 1. have access to the same standard response to pregnant women’s buzz- ers. Once a woman has been assessed © prisonimage.org of antenatal care as women in the 15. receive appropriate resettlement community; services after release from prison. by a midwife, prison staff should A female prisoner with her 3 month old baby in a Mother and Baby Unit. facilitate timely access to hospital 2. be able to attend antenatal classes Among their recommendations when advised to do so. and prepare for their baby’s birth; Birth Companions say comprehensive recommendations for The Charter is a major step forward, Inside Time report 3. be housed, fed and moved in a way Government and the Prison Service l Regular antenatal clinics should be looking at the provision of care to that ensures the well-being of mother on improving the care for pregnant provided in prisons and run by a spe- pregnant women and new mothers and baby; Every year, around 600 pregnant women and new mothers held in pris- cialist team of midwives; in prison and as well as providing ons in England and Wales. women are held in prisons in England 4. be told whether they have a place l All pregnant women should, where detailed guidance on the care they and Wales and about 100 babies are on a Mother and Baby Unit as soon as possible, have access to a scan at a should receive the Charter also give Naomi Delap, Director of Birth born to women prisoners. Although possible after arriving in prison; regular clinic inside the prison. The examples of good practice within the Companions, told inside Time; there are several pieces of national scan should be undertaken by an prison system which could be used “Providing the right support for preg- 5. have appropriate support if electing and international legislation in place ultrasonographer, obstetrician or as models of good practice through- nant women and new mums in prison for termination of pregnancy. to protect their health and well-be- trained midwife or GP; out the system. ing, many of these women do not get is a complex issue, requiring careful During childbirth, women should: the care and support to which they and balanced consideration. While are entitled. 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“Unless you’ve been to prison or worked there, For some guests, the experience is very close it’s a world that’s completely hidden,” he said. to home, said Akiel. “This just adds to the stigma and mythology around jails and around the people in them. “A few days ago a man came in who had re- The project aims to counter this by bringing a cently been to prison himself. He started look- cell into the city centre and by telling stories ing around the space very carefully and noticed that aren’t sensationalist, but are as close to my cell mate’s tobacco. Although he said he’d reality as possible. been a non-smoker since his release he imme- diately asked for some ‘burn’, sat down and “What I’ve been most surprised at is the amount started rolling. Straight away he was back to of people who have actually thanked me for prison language and prison life.” the opportunity to visit and ‘get inside’ prison life.” In developing his character’s back story - that of a recovering alcoholic who has assaulted a When the exhibition first opened the cell only had one occupant. Now, reflecting increased man after witnessing a sexual assault - Akiel overcrowding in the real estate, it has two. On said he wanted to create a story that was “nu- the day PET visited GOTOJAIL in Coventry, the anced” and “thought provoking.” cell was manned by Akiel and Danny , or ‘Tony’ and ‘Neil’, as they were known to their visitors. “People will come with a degree of judgement Both have worked as freelance actors since the - saying you’re violent, you’re this, you’re that. Cell in the City end of their sentences. My intention is to challenge their judgement - giving them layers to the circumstances that Danny says part of his role is to gently challenge lead to prison.” On a drizzly Friday afternoon in Coventry, shoppers the views of people coming into the space. were offered an unusual break from their trips to “You get people coming in saying “oh this is Akiel now works as a storyteller in schools, nice; this is easy”, he said. “I leave them talking where he shares tales of his prison journey Argos and Primark - a chance to go to prison! a little for a while and then I say “excuse me” alongside stories from West Africa. While he and go and shut the door. When you shut the was in prison, PET funded him to take a course For the past six years, the charity Rideout has on the bunk bed. Visitors are encouraged to door and the flap it completely changes the in counselling, after which he was trained as a planted a replica jail cell in public spaces across engage with them, asking questions about their atmosphere. That’s when you see people begin Listener for the Samaritans. the UK. From Cheltenham to Wolverhampton, backgrounds, surroundings and prison expe- to panic - often they need to get out straight away.” the GOTOJAIL exhibition has worked to increase riences. The cellmates are actors, who also Akiel said the course helped to change his ex- public understanding about prison life, and to happen to be former prisoners. perience of prison and the way he dealt with “A lot of people end up being sympathetic, but encourage debate about the purpose of locking his own problems. “It made me aware of the people up and the conditions of our jails. Over 4,000 people have visited the exhibition it’s only through the stories we tell - talking games we play; of manipulation; of the com- since it started running. Saul Hewish, Rideout’s about what we have to cope with, what obsta- plicated way that prison can affect your mind The cell is not empty. It is usually occupied by co-director, says the public response has been cles we’ve faced, how we’ve found help or not and emotional state,” he said. two people in prison-issue clothing, who perch “overwhelmingly positive”. found help.” PLA Awards 2016: Nomination Business Start Up deadline approaching! According to research by the locksmith’s apprenticeship sausage-making company, to Centre for Entrepreneurs, 79% schemes once he was in open starting their own falconry The Prisoner Learning Alliance (PLA) is collecting nominations for of prisoners are interested in conditions. companies. One man PET has its annual award ceremony, recognising staff and prisoners who starting up their own busi- funded for a number of cours- have made an outstanding contribution to education. ness, compared to just 40% of NEC’s Business Start Up is one es is planning to open his own the general population. For PET’s most popular courses for novelty coffin-making busi- The awards are unique in that we only invite nominations from many, a key advantage of aspiring entrepreneurs, teach- ness after release. those currently in custody. The awards present a chance to thank Course self-employment is avoiding ing each stage of setting up a those who have gone the extra mile to promote education and the need to need to disclose a business, from how to create Specific courses aimed at start- support others to realise their learning potential. Notes criminal record, and the bar- a business plan, to how to se- ing a digital business, and riers that this can present. cure funding, to handling cash becoming a self-employed The four categories are flow, to managing staff. fitness instructor, are also l Outstanding teacher or education staff; PET provides ‘Gareth’ had always worked in available. l Outstanding officer or instructor; funding for over the retail industry before John Lister, PET’s Advice l Outstanding peer mentor, learning champion or student council rep; going to prison. Applying for Manager, says: “The NEC Related courses: GCSE, AS l Outstanding individual e.g. governor, librarian, volunteer, charity 300 types of a Business Start Up course course is the most general and Level and A Level Business worker, careers advisor. distance-learn- with PET, he wrote: “As I now the most practical we offer. As Studies; Level 3 Certificate in The deadline for nominations is 11 July. have a criminal record I feel it well as breaking the process Principles of Customer ing courses. will be very difficult to get a of starting a business down Service, Level 3 Certificate in How to nominate Every month we job once I am released, so my into bite-sized modules, it First Line Management, CMI Please write to Nina Champion at FREEPOST: PRISONERS hope is to start my own busi- helps to answer the most im- Level 5 Certificate in EDUCATION TRUST. In your letter (maximum 1 A4 side per nom- shine a spotlight ness. I feel this course will be portant question - is this idea Management and Leadership, ination), please give: Your name, prison and prison number. The on one of them. really helpful for my future feasible? I’ve met a lot of peo- Creating a Digital Business name of the person you are nominating. Their job title. The category and may improve my chances ple in prison with really ambi- Level 2 you are nominating them for. Why you are nominating them. of success.” tious business plans but who often haven’t thought of the A full PET curriculum is avail- These awards are an opportunity to thank those who support and ‘Paul’ meanwhile, applied for practical, and sometimes able from each prison’s educa- promote learning in your establishment, whatever their role and a Start Up course after gaining mundane, details of how it tion department. If you would wherever they are based in the prison. We look forward to receiving eight months’ work experi- will actually work.” like advice or funding to study your nominations. ence with Timpson, which is a distance learning course or known for its open policy to- Former PET learners have tell us about your experiences The awards ceremony is due to take place on 16 September in wards former prisoners. 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communications with others outside If a letter is sent to a ‘non-contact’ • To disclose to the Police or another The Interception of prison. address by any prisoner in the estab- Agency (where disclosure is The of Communications lishment it will be read to ensure that permitted); Opening and reading the barred prisoner is not using oth- • Where a letter is to be copied as part in Prisons and Para: 2.7 states that all social letters ers to communicate. The Public of the Parole Dossier where it is rel- going into or out of a prison may be Protection Manual gives additional evant to the risk factors under RULE Security Measures opened to check for illicit enclosures. guidance with respect to prisoners consideration; Except in high security prisons or on identifi ed as presenting a risk, or po- (part two) a prisoner by prisoner basis the letters tential risk, to children or subject to • Where it needs to be translated; will not be read unless illicit enclo- harassment measures. • Where a letter may be relevant to a Book PSI 2016-004 sures are found. There must be an Prison and Probation Ombudsman Issued: 07 April 2016, Effective, auditable record of all communica- The PSI states that the governor can (PPO) death in custody investigation with Paul Sullivan indefi nitely from: 04 July 2016 tions monitored or read. pass the duty of monitoring or read- or another investigation; ing mail to anyone else although this • Where a copy of a letter is necessary This PSI sets out the arrangements Prisoners have a right to communicate would usually be done in the for risk management or investigative for the recording, monitoring, and confi dentially with all of the organi- Mailroom. purposes; retention of authorised prisoner com- sations or bodies listed in last month’s • Where advice is required from the munications by way of the PIN phone Rule Book. Therefore telephone and Stopped letters Deputy Director of Custody (DDC) or system or written communications, written communications between If a Manager decides to stop a letter another part of NOMS, and in order and replaces PSI 2012-024 ‘Call prisoners and these organisations from reaching the intended recipient, not to delay receipt of the letter un- Enabling’ and applies to all adult must be treated as confi dential and there are several options open: duly, a copy is taken and attached to prisons and YOIs in England and not intercepted. Prisons will normally • It could be returned to the Prisoner the request for advice; Wales. check that letters to legal advisers are asking that he/she revises the letter to legitimate legal contacts. (this relates to outgoing correspond- • If the volume of letters being mon- The Regulation of Investigatory ence only); itored exceeds staffi ng commitment Powers Act (RIPA) provides the Outgoing letters to everyone except at the time the letter is received; • It could be retained in Security and framework for named public author- those listed for privilege communica- a copy used for the purposes of an • Where otherwise authorised by a ities to use specifi c covert investiga- tions must be handed in unsealed. investigation; Manager. tive techniques in order to lawfully Letters to privilege recipients should be handed in sealed. interfere with the right of privacy of • It could be retained in Security and Copies of letters must not be retained others where this is necessary and a copy given to Police (or another for protracted periods and certainly Non-contact addresses proportionate to do so for a purpose Agency); not beyond three months of the date • If a member of the public requests cited in the Act. Section 4 (4) of RIPA • Aft er investigations have conclud- of the letter or the date the copy was to receive no contact from a prisoner, makes lawful the interception of com- ed, it could be placed in stored prop- taken (if diff erent) unless this can be the prisoner must be prevented from munications in a prison provided erty or destroyed. justifi ed and this is authorised by the making contact. This is a non-contact such interception is undertaken in Authorising Offi cer for interception. address. accordance with the Prison Rules. Copying of letters The Prison Rules were amended aft er • Prisoners must not be allowed to Para 2.65 states that: Written corre- There are oft en issues relating to pris- the introduction of the Human Rights contact victims unless there is prior spondence must not be copied unless oners writing to the media. Specifi c Act (1998) to more clearly defi ne the agreement to do so and it has been © Gstudio Group - Fotolia.com necessary in line with Prison Rule instructions regarding prisoners and restrictions that were necessary and concluded that it is in the interests of 35A(4) for one of the following contact with the media are contained proportionate to control prisoner the victim to have such contact. reasons: within PSI 2010-037.

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HMP/YOI Moorland HMP/YOI Parc Category C adult and young adult men also Category B local prison holding convicted holds adult male foreign national prisoners male adult prisoners and young offenders and a national resource for men convicted and young people of sexual offences. Unannounced Full Inspection: 30 November Unannounced Full Inspection: 1-12 February 2016 - 1 December 2015

HMP Nottingham HMP Forest Bank Safety W W W W Safety W W W W Category B local prison for adult and young Category B local prison holding young adult Respect W W W W Respect W W W W and adult males adult men managed by Sodexo Purposeful Activity W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W Resettlement W W W W Resettlement W W W W Announced Full Inspection: 1-5 February 2016 Unannounced Full Inspection: 8-9 & 15-19 February 2016 “New psychoactive substances threaten- Safety W W W W “A well-run prison, but some safety Respect W W W W Safety W W W W ing stability of prison” concerns” Respect W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W Resettlement W W W W Chief Inspector, Peter Clarke, says; “The prison It is a concern that the Inspectorate’s report Resettlement W W W W is in the process of adapting to its new role as describes the prison as holding ’convicted and a resettlement prison for the area. The recent remand sex offenders’ since all remand prison- “Still not safe despite some progress made” “A well led local prison” history of the prison has been one of uncertain- ers are surely innocent and cannot be described ty and disruption and at one point the prison In publishing this report the new Chief This report highlights high levels of self-harm as ‘offenders’. had been earmarked for privatisation.” Inspector, Peter Clarke says there is still too and prisoners too frightened to leave their cells. much violence and disorder. The prison was Too many prisoners ‘in crisis’ were held on the Parc is one of the largest prisons in England last inspected in 2014 and this was an an- segregation wing or subject to other restrictions. • the threat posed to the stability of the prison and Wales, holding over 1,600 prisoners, and nounced inspection to focus the prison on fixing The prison’s IEP scheme is, say Inspectors, by new psychoactive substances (NPS) is severe Chief Inspector Peter Clarke says that levels of concerns. As well as the violence and disorder ‘punitive, insufficiently focused on the individ- and despite some positive initiatives, the situ- violence are high and many prisoners feel un- the report highlights high levels of ‘use of force’ ual and ineffective as a motivational tool’. ation appears to be deteriorating and needs to safe. The report says that although the prison and serious allegations against staff were not be addressed; has responded to the high levels of violence being taken seriously enough. Many men had Although initiatives were in place to reduce • forty-eight per cent of prisoners now say it is and self-harm, more needs to be done to address high levels of vulnerability and mental health violence the prison’s own analysis showed that easy to get drugs at Moorland compared to 28% this and the sense amongst prisoners that they problems and some men with complex issues 40% of violent incidents was due to new psy- at the last inspection; were not safe. CCTV was used to monitor some and problematic behaviour were inappropri- choactive substances (NPS); on a positive note, the use of segregation had reduced and the ‘use vulnerable prisoners which the Inspectors ately held in the Segregation Unit. • the number of violent incidents, fights and of force’ was not excessive. thought unsafe. assaults had increased since the last inspection Commenting on the report Peter Clarke said; in 2012 and levels were also higher than at Prisoners had a good amount of time out of cell New psychoactive substances (NPS) such as “There is no doubt that this prison has suffered similar prisons; and there were enough activity places for all Spice were easy to get and this was having a from a lack of continuity and consistency in its prisoners to be employed part-time. In summing leadership. At the time of this inspection there • almost one in five prisoners surveyed said severe negative effect on overall safety and up, Peter Clarke, Chief Inspector says; “The had been five governors in the space of four they felt unsafe at the time of the inspection. stability. The use of force was very high but the experience most prisoners had of Forest Bank Chief Inspector says it is proportionate and years. The current governor has grasped some was reasonable. However, those who were more Substantial improvements had been made to ‘governance was excellent’. difficult issues and laid some good if inevitably marginalised due to poor behaviour, self-harm fragile foundations. However, our understand- or mental health issues had a much less positive the availability and management of work, train- ing is that he too will shortly move to another experience and this required attention. This ing and education and the prison had success- Despite giving the prison full marks for pur- prison. For the future, every effort should be inspection found that the prison was well led, fully introduced SOTP in response to being poseful activity the report says that too many made to stabilise the leadership of this chal- competent and confident in its approach and re-roled as a national resource for holding men prisoners are locked in their cells during the lenging prison.” it coped well.” convicted of sexual offences. core day.

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Advertorial Advertorial respect of two factors I want to discuss and which are in my IPP and Lifer inmates view open to some interpreta- tion. Firstly, what can consti- Appeals, Reviews, Parole, Recall, Compensation tute ‘exceptional circumstanc- es’ and secondly, how fatal is David Wells appeal have confirmed that the overriding the laying of a charge if it is principle when considering appeals is one of out of time. merit. However much the court of appeal seeks Last week, Wells Burcombe were involved in to discourage out of time appeals from convict- The answer to both of them is an appeal before the court of appeal in a case ed and sentenced defendants, the fact remains one of proportionality in that involving an IPP inmate. He was over tariff by that the court of appeal will uphold a sentence if we take the out of time issue 6 years, the appeal was considerably out of or conviction appeal - even if considerably out first. This was discussed in the time and the client had been repeatedly denied of time - where the appeal raises arguable case of R (Garland) v Secretary release by an ever increasing risk averse Parole grounds. In other words, however reluctant of State for Justice [2011] Board. His only realistic hope for release was the court of appeal is to interfere with jury EWCA Civ [2011] WLR (D) 333. a successful appeal. Everything was in the verdicts and sentences imposed by judges, the To put in a nutshell it asks the balance. It was a very nervous time for all court will do so if an obvious injustice has hypothetical question, if a concerned as this case was heard after the occurred. charge was just a short period court of appeal’s recent review of a number of out of time would this be fatal? similar IPP appeals, all of which were That being said, advising in sentencing and The answer which seems to be dismissed. conviction cases has never been more difficult. © Fotolia.com distilled is in certain circum- The court of appeal can be very inconsistent stances, NO! Again fact and It turned out to be an impressive result. The in its approach. Trying to predict outcomes at degree appear to play a big client’s IPP sentence was quashed and substi- appeal level is very difficult indeed. It helps part, a short period of time tuted with a determinate sentence. The good considerably if experienced lawyers are in- may not in certain circum- volved. All too often convicted and sentenced Let’s do the stances render the charge news did not stop there. The length of the de- terminate sentence imposed meant that the defendants are advised by their original bar- void, certainly it would be client was released immediately. No more risters that no appeal grounds exist. It’s all too foolish to rely only on the fact anguish and mental fragility. No more Parole easy to simply say no. Many of the enquiries that the charge was put before Board reviews and no licence conditions. Back Wells Burcombe receive are reviewed by some Time Warp... an adjudicator a few minutes to life with his family and a chance to move of the most experienced solicitors and barris- or even hours late; there ap- on. ters in the country at appeal level. Robert pears significant latitude on the part of an Independent Banks, for example, who is the author of one Sarah Connolly administrative procedure of This is obviously a success story and yes this of the leading sentencing textbooks, together Adjudicator to exercise some an Independent Adjudication discretion. does not happen with every IPP and lifer ap- with Wells Burcombe, have reviewed many and is controlled by PSI sentences and have identified grounds for peal. However, this case does highlight a Independent Adjudications 47/2011. In particular Para 2.19 appeal. That discretion of course is number of very important factors that lawyers (IAs) are prevalent at the mo- states: fettered see R v Soneji [2006] and future applicants and appellants should ment. Some more cynical than “Save in exceptional circum- The message in this article therefore is perhaps 1 AC 340. If the Prisoner can be alert to when contemplating an appeal and I may say due to them being stances an adjudication hear- twofold; Firstly, identify and instruct experi- show prejudice to himself as when advising on appeal. used as a blunt tool to keep ing must be opened by an enced lawyers for any appeal. Secondly, don’t a result of the delay no matter order against a tide of staff adjudicator no later than a day be discouraged in asking for a review of your how short, then he would have The Court of Appeal in its recent review of a cuts but that’s another article following the laying of a number of IPP appeals made it very clear that case if you are technically out of time (over the a strong argument to render altogether. charge, unless that day is a any following adjudication out of time IPP appeals (and by implication out 28-day time limit in which to appeal against Sunday or public holiday.” conviction or sentence). If an appeal is consid- invalid. of time appeals generally) would not be re- The time of service or laying ered to have merit by experienced lawyers, ceived favourably by the court. The court was of a charge is of great impor- Well that seems pretty clear, there is a better chance of success on appeal, Experience of challenging this keen to stress that it was not for the court of tance within the but care has to be taken in appeal to correct the injustice that had oc- even if an appeal is considered and lodged out kind of issue has raised an ar- curred by the IPP sentence where the law had of time. gument sometimes advanced been applied correctly at the time of sentence, by prison officers but more and that it was a matter for parliament to If you would like Wells Burcombe to review When you often by IAs that is of excep- address. your case, please get in touch. tional circumstances, it is my feel no one’s experience that this is occa- For me, the most interesting aspect of this case sionally advanced by IAs or is that by allowing this appeal, the court of David Wells is a Partner at Wells Burcombe LLP helping prison officers as a catch all to excuse the delay. 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Advertorial Meanwhile James is undergoing his fi ft h Parole Review. The Parole Board ‘Trapped’ but just one of so many has just deferred his case for a psy- chiatric report and refused our re- quest for an immediate oral hearing James does not assault people or The radio programme has produced The case of James Ward, who has mental direction, despite the fraught parole threaten them. He is a young looking discussion around the subject of IPPs system that means many prisoners thirty one year old who quite often with the story being featured in news- health issues and was jailed under the are waiting unreasonable lengths of feels despair. He has told me that he papers and on panel shows. It has indeterminate sentencing scheme for ten would happily accept a further ten clearly informed many people for the time for a chance to have their deten- years in custody today if he was given first time about this situation. We tion reviewed. We hope to challenge months. Ten years later he is still trapped a release date at the end of it. For wanted to expose James’ situation to the delay. in the system James the lack of certainty becomes unbearable. To his credit, despite everything, he is struggling on and Pippa Carruthers trying to focus on having a life outside again. He puts this entirely down to his family who visit him and urge him On 30th May the BBC’s Today to keep going. Programme on Radio 4 ran a piece about the case of prisoner James Ward. His case highlights the quite shocking The title of the piece was The prisoner eff ects of the imposition of IPP sen- ‘trapped’ 10 years into a 10-month jail tences on those who are quite simply sentence. The radio show played ex- trapped in prison. On the radio pro- cerpts from James’ letters to the pro- gramme, Kenneth Clarke, former gramme and also featured the voices “I wake up every Justice Secretary who brought IPPs to of his family, movingly expressing morning scared of what their feelings about his situation. an end called prisons “overcrowded the day may hold” slums” and expressed the view that it James' parents Christine and Bill Ward and his sister April described him as ‘lost James is 31 and an IPP prisoner who was quite absurd that “there are peo- and confused’ James Ward has been in prison on his current sen- ple who are serving a sentence, which Parliament agreed to get rid of be- tence for ten years. He got an IPP for increase the pressure on Michael We know James’ story is just one of cause it hadn’t worked as anybody setting a fi re in his prison cell when Gove, the Secretary of State for thousands where sentences of intended, a few years ago”. He sug- he was serving a previous 21 month how the law allows him to remain Justice, to address the continued in- Imprisonment for Public Protection, gested the test for release should sentence at HMP Glen Parva. He was there year aft er year. His time in cus- justice. Although he told the Justice introduced in 2005, have resulted in change. twenty. tody has not been smooth. The men- Committee in May that there were no gross injustice and sentence lengths tal health problems that caused him current plans to change the release that simply do not reflect what In August 2006 the Judge handed to set the fi re in late 2005, continue In relation to James’ case he said “He’s test or otherwise legislate, he has happened. down the IPP, setting a tariff of 9 to overwhelm him sometimes, and he been punished for burning the mat- sought assistance from the current months and 29 days. Ten years later has a prison record that refl ects this. tress in his cell, he shouldn’t be there Chairman of the Parole Board with a James is still inside and struggling to He has been moved around many almost ten years aft er he’s fi nished review of measures to support the Pippa Carruthers is a Prison Law come to terms with his sentence and prisons. the sentence”. progression of IPP prisoners. Specialist at Howard & Byrne Solicitors

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At the two- If you are subject to Parole, for prisoners in this position. criteria? thirds point a prisoner will be your release prior to the expiry It is advisable that anyone l They have a previous con- What is an Extended An adult is liable to receive an entitled to either automatic viction for a Schedule 15B of- of the custodial element will subject to such a review seek Determinate Sentence? EDS if the following is met: release or have their suitability fence (Schedule 15B to the be a matter for the Parole assistance from a prison law With the abolition of IPP sen- for release considered at a Board. The Parole review pro- specialist. l They were convicted of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 tences, the Extended Parole review. cess will work in the same way off ence in question aft er 3rd contains a further list of violent Determinate Sentence (EDS) as most other Parole reviews. What happens after I am December 2012. The date the and sexual off ences, separate is not necessarily a replace- As your two-thirds point ap- released? off ence was committed is not to Schedule 15). ment, but is aimed at off ering If the Parole proaches, your Parole review Regardless of whether an EDS relevant. extra protection to the public or Board are satisfi ed will commence, and the Parole prisoner is released at the two- for dangerous offences. The l The off ence in question is a Board will consider whether thirds point, at the end of the l The court is minded to im- sentence is made up of two specifi ed off ence (there are a that a prisoner can you are suitable to be released custodial term or somewhere pose a sentence of at least 4 parts; a custodial element and list of a number of violent or at that point. The test for re- in between (following an an- years. be safely released a licence element. The sexual off ences contained in lease is whether: nual review), release will be at the two-thirds subject to licence. 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which it would be lawful to seize the property; i.e. they get the application right the second time round! In R (Chatwani) v NCA [2015] EWHC 1283 (Admin) it Challenging search warrants was held that it would be rare for the High Court to refuse permission for temporary stay of the quashing of a warrant whilst the police made an application to the Crown Court - such stay applications would only be refused if there had been bad faith on the The calm before the storm… part of the police in securing the warrant. Conclusion the Court heavily criticizing the SFO. The actions on its own. The restructuring actually involved some Not all errors by prosecutors will lead to a search concerned two brothers, Robert and Vincent complex arrangements between RT, his trust, off-shore warrant being quashed. The test is a high one. That Tchenguiz, who were wealthy, well known businessmen. companies and others but the SFO’s version evidenced said there is an increasing tendency for the Courts Jonathan Lennon The facts of the case deserve some consideration. a clear ‘lack of understanding’ by the investigator to come down heavily on the prosecution where they and Aziz Rahman and at least one serious factual omission about a can be shown to have presented the Judge with a The brothers had banked with the Icelandic bank technical aspect of the arrangements. The Court misleading picture. Some might think that because - Kaupthing. That bank had provided them with of s59 of the 2001 Act it is not worth challenging You have just had your home or your business found that it was a “matter of great regret that the substantial loans for various business ventures since search warrants. We disagree; if an Warrant has searched by the police, or some other investigation Information adopted the tone it exhibited and did at least 2004. In 2008 the Kaupthing bank collapsed been obtained unlawfully it can be quashed; that agency. You have been arrested, questioned and, if not clearly explain the arrangements.” (para 112). as part of the major world-wide banking crisis. A sends a signal to the police on how to behave - per- you’re lucky, bailed. You may even have been charged. The effect was that the Information contained a committee was set up by those concerned with en- mission to stay the quashing of the warrant might Now suddenly, your life has become complicated ‘serious defect’ as it “did not explain the reality of suring the return of as much of the debt owed to the not be sought, or if sought refused and of course the and stressful. But most of all, the real problem is the position” in respect of the relied upon restruc- bank as possible. The committee instructed a large Crown Court, second time round, will be a lot less worry; worry about the course of potential criminal turing (see para 120). UK based accountancy and insolvency practice, likely to grant a warrant where it has got it wrong litigation and what the future holds in store. This Grant Thornton (“GT”), to investigate on their behalf. Once the suspect has sight of the Information presented once and the defence are now there to argue against though is just the calm before the storm. The committee got their report; it suggested that the to the judge there is then the opportunity to go through it. All in all s59 should not stop litigants challenging From our clients in this situation, the strongest sen- lending by the bank to the brothers’ interests was it to see if the Judge has had everything and has warrants where appropriate. timent of all is pure anger that the privacy of their highly irregular, e.g. that no proper due diligence been painted a fair and accurate picture - or whether Storm clouds may be gathering but there may be home has been unjustly invaded and the simmering had been carried out and that senior management the Crown have just picked out their favourite bits. good protection for the pro-active litigant. resentment of being regarded as a ‘suspect’. at the bank had manipulated financial data to allow excessive lending to take place. Section 59 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 Challenging the validity of the search warrant is not If the High Court quashes a search warrant, what Jonathan Lennon is a Barrister specialising in serious an option in every case. But a proper challenge, in In 2011 the SFO became involved and was provided then? Ordinarily the answer would be the return of and complex criminal defence cases at Carmelite the right case, can be a powerful tool in taking the with a copy of the GT report. A formal investigation the material and possibly damages. That could be Chambers, London. He has extensive experience in fight to the prosecution and, just possibly, landing commenced which led to the SFO producing its a fatal blow to the investigation. Parliament came all aspects of financial and serious crime and the that first and maybe fatal punch. ‘Information’ to a Judge sitting at the Old Bailey to up with a mechanism to allow an investigative au- secure search warrants. The brothers’ premises were thority to try and keep their investigation on the rails Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He is ranked by both Legal 500 Chambers & Ptnrs & is recognised in C&P’s The Law searched and they were both arrested. The Judicial following a quashing of a warrant by the High Court. specialist POCA and Financial Crime sections; ‘he is The majority of warrants are issued under the Police Review challenges which followed examined in detail the complex commercial arrangements that Once a warrant is quashed then under s59 of this phenomenal and is work rate is astonishing’ (2015). and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) or under the 2001 Act the police can apply to the High Court for Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Applicants must state the brothers engaged in with the bank but essentially permission to retain the material for a short time Aziz Rahman is a Solicitor Advocate and Partner at the object of the search and provide sufficient infor- the Court’s ultimate, and serious criticisms of the whilst it re-applies to the Crown Court for, in effect the leading Criminal Defence firm Rahman Ravelli mation to satisfy the Court that it is necessary. There SFO, boiled down to over-enthusiasm (to put it kindly) a new Order justifying the old seizure; see generally Solicitors, specialising in Human Rights, Financial must be reasonable grounds for believing that an by the investigators in the presentation of their case R (Panesar) v Central Criminal Court [2015] 1 WLR Crime and Large Scale Conspiracies/Serious crime. offence has been committed and that there is material to the Old Bailey Judge. 2577. In those circumstances, the Crown Court has Rahman Ravelli are members of the Specialist Fraud on the premises likely to be of substantial value to a discretion to authorise the retention of the material Panel and have been ranked by Legal 500 as an the investigation. There are numerous other proce- Misleading the Old Bailey Judge seized, despite the unlawfulness of the original ‘exceptional’ firm with Aziz Rahman being described dural rules that must be followed regarding both One striking example of the SFO’s failure to properly search, if, were the material to be returned, it would as ‘top class’’. The firm is also ranked in Chambers & the application and the conduct of the search. These present its case to the Old Bailey Judge was its be immediately appropriate to issue a warrant under Partners. Rahman Ravelli are a Top Tier and Band 1 firm. rules are important, get it wrong and the search and complete reliance on the GT report. the warrant may be quashed or the property returned This is something we see often in cases that start off because the proper procedure was not adhered to. with a civil aspect but develop into fraud allegations. If that happens that may be the end of any chance The police are sent material, created by others, to The strongest legal of the prosecution using the product of the searches demonstrate the guilt of their potential civil opponents. in any subsequent prosecution. representation in In this case there was no independent scrutiny of In R (Cook) v Serious Organised Crime Agency [2011] GT’s findings despite the SFO’s complete reliance upon the fields of 1 WLR 144, SOCA (now the NCA) were investigating it. So, for example, just before the collapse of Kaupthing a fraud allegation. Warrants were applied for, issued large sums were transferred to a Luxembourg account. serious, complex and the searches undertaken. The warrants only This was relied upon by GT as a possible attempt to provided details of the relevant addresses in schedules dishonestly remove funds from those entitled to and business to the warrant that were then not left at the searched them. The fact was however that there were other premises, in contravention of the rules. Though the plausible innocent explanations for this transaction crime. The most officers were lawfully at the premises, the seizures that the Old Bailey Judge had not been made aware were rendered unlawful. SOCA agreed to pay damages of. This was because the SFO had simply not inves- informed, expert and certain legal costs. But that was not the end of tigated those possibilities because it relied so heavily it because when the suspect asked for the return of on the GT report. This aspect weighed heavily in the advice for those his property he was told that SOCA were re-seizing High Court’s ultimate damming of the SFO. the items under powers in PACE. Cook started a civil Judicial Review action. The High Court held that the Duty of Applicants being prosecuted. unlawful seizure could not be rendered lawful by It has long been the case that the courts must control subsequent re-seizure. SOCA had to take care in the invasion of privacy that is involved when the drafting warrants in the future and Cook’s material State seeks to search the premises of an individual was to be returned. However, SOCA were later involved or a company. All the material relating to the grant in a similar Judicial Review with the same Judge, of a warrant must be provided to the Judge. The case Leveson LJ, but the opposite result; R (Cummins) v of the Texan cricket billionaire was a case in point Manchester Crown Court [2010] EWHC (Admin) 2111. when Hughes LJ said in re Standford [2010] 1 WLR In the Cummins case SOCA, in their investigation 941, 191, that in presenting the case the advocate of a money-laundering allegation, had again im- must; …put his defence hat on and ask himself, what, properly seized material and were forced to return if he was representing the defendant or a party with “An exceptional firm “They are absolutely “They absolutely know what it. This time however SOCA obtained a Production a relevant interest, he would say to the judge. with exceptional people, uncompromising in they’re doing and have Order under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 com- pelling Cummins to deliver to SOCA the very same The Judge must be personally satisfied that there Rahman Ravelli Solicitors advancing the proper dedicated people with a real material. This was possible because of the particular are proper grounds for suspicion and the application is the leader in the field” interests of the client” interest in the subject” offence being investigated. The Court found there should never be a rubber-stamping exercise. The Legal 500 Chambers Legal Guide Chambers Legal Guide was no reason why SOCA should be in any worse In the Tchenguiz case the SFO had manifestly failed position than if the warrant had never been sought in this duty. Another example of this is that the or why those the subject of an unlawful warrant Information put before the Old Bailey Judge included Telephone Roma House, 59 Pellon 1 Fetter Lane should somehow be better off. a central allegation that one of the brothers - ‘RT’, 01422 Lane, Halifax, West London EC4A 1BR R (R. Tchenguiz & R20 Ltd) v Serious Fraud Office & colluded in dishonest borrowing from the bank. The 346666 Yorkshire HX1 5BE Also in Birmingham Others [2012] EWHC 2254 (Admin). 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MR - HMP Swaleside prisoners who were repre- writing to the Prisons & as they may be able to offer using the COMP1 and senting themselves a laptop, Probation Ombudsman who help and support with your COMP1A procedure. Q I write in respect to HMP it would still be possible for carry out independent bereavement. Swaleside breaching my that person to have a fair investigations into com- You finally ask how you Article 6 ECHR rights by trial under Article 6. plaints in custody. Response provided by Hine would seek a transfer away failing to issue me with an Solicitors from your holding establish- access to justice laptop, Further to this guidance PSI Response provided by Hine ment. I would suggest that which I require for the 75/2011 provides that Solicitors BK - HMP Risley you use the requests preparation of my appeal. prisoners must meet the procedure at your prison,

My application for an access strict eligibility criteria MM - HMP Holme House Q I am a Foreign National there may be a separate form to justice (A2J) laptop was and coming up to the before they are provided Q Is there any prison rule to request such a move. In approved by the prison in halfway point of my with laptop computer which allows prisoners to any event you should receive April 2015 and I am still sentence and have less than facilities and the need for the obtain the phone call a response to any move Legal waiting for the laptop. I 24 months more to serve. I facilities must be essential to recordings of their pin within 7 days of the submis- have submitted numerous was looking forward to the progress of legal phone? My mother passed sion of your request. If you applications and com- putting in my application proceedings. away recently and I put in a remain unsatisfied with the plaints which have gone for Cat-D. I was informed Forum request to the Governor to response, then I would again unanswered or resolved. that the policy in the prison Service Specification for give me the call recordings advise you to follow the Can you please advise on is that Foreign Nationals Answers are kindly Residential services states so I could keep them for my complaints procedure. You what rules and laws apply will not be getting Cat-D provided by: that where prisoners refuse memories. The Governor would then receive a in these circumstances and to seek or are unable to status. The policy guidance response from Prison Service Hine Solicitors replied stating that there is what action I can take? obtain professional advice 52/2011 clearly states that Headquarters within six Reeds Solicitors no such system to give me the categorisation process and wish to initiate and/or the phone recordings. I weeks of your complaint. Frisby & Co Solicitors A The human rights applies equally to British conduct legal proceedings have been emotionally and Pickup & Scott Solicitors information booklet which and Foreign National personally, he must be given psychologically harmed by Please note that in determin- Olliers Solicitors was published by the Prison prisoners. I conclude that Cartwright King Solicitors the necessary facilities to do the relevant authorities at ing whether a transfer Law Trust in 2014 states that this treatment is nothing Emmersons Solicitors so in accordance with Article Holme House. should be granted, external you may be entitled to an other than racist. I have 6. Only when eligibility factors will be taken into access to justice (A2J) laptop also been placed over 150 Answers to readers’ legal criteria are met, such A PSI 49/2011 provides that account such as family, if you are bringing a legal miles away from my queries are given on a strictly facilities or measures may telephone calls may be community ties, length of claim. There is no absolute children and they have not without liability basis. If you include the provision of a monitored and all tele- sentence, whether you are rule that you will automati- been able to visit me. How propose acting upon any of laptop computer. phones calls will be record- required to undertake any cally be entitled to an A2J do I get a transfer from the opinions that appear, you ed. Unfortunately there are offender behaviour courses laptop and they are only here? must first take legal advice. As your application for an no provisions in the PSI that within your current estab- given to people who would access to justice laptop has grant a prisoner access to lishment etc. Send your Legal Queries not be able to prepare for been approved it is likely A In answer to your first these recordings and in any question, you are right in (concise and clearly marked their case without it. The that you have satisfied the If you remain unsatisfied event, recordings are that Categorisation should ‘legal’) to: David Wells, guidance also states that an eligibility criteria and the with the responses you have automatically deleted after not be affected by issues Solicitor c/o Inside Time, A2J laptop should not be issue now is why there has been given, I would advise Botley Mills, Botley, 90 days unless they have such as race, ethnicity or given to an individual if it been significant delays in you to write to the Prisons Southampton, Hampshire been tagged for a security nationality, PSI 40/2011, would make things more you receiving the laptop. and Probation Ombudsman SO30 2GB. concern. paragraph 3.2. The statement convenient. In the case of R Given that you have enclosing copies of any (on the application of that because you are a exhausted the internal I would advise that you put complaints you have sent For a prompt response, readers Ponting) v Governor of HM foreign national, you are not are asked to send their complaints procedure and in an application to access and any responses you have Prisons Whitemoor and eligible for Category D status queries on white paper using have failed to receive a the prisons counselling received regarding this issue. Another [2002], the Court of is wholly incorrect and you black ink or typed if possible. response from the services which you are Response provided by Pick Up Appeal decided that if a Independent Monitoring should submit a formal entitled to under PSI 04/2015 & Scott Solicitors prison did not give all Board, I would suggest complaint regarding this

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committing the offence. barrister or solicitor was able to show that your family was supporting you, that clearly might If the Judge had used the guideline to assist help. Banks him, he would have started at Category 4 as you say. The three roles in the guideline - lead- The usual advice is to allow the family to make ing, significant and lesser - imply that there are up their own mind and expect them to be smart- a number of individuals concerned in the of- ly dressed and to show respect to the Court. As on Sentence fence, which makes it difficult when there is it will not make much or any difference, I sug- Robert Banks, a barrister, writes Banks on Sentence. It is the second-largest selling only one person doing the suppling. In your gest you spend the time before sentence work- criminal practitioner’s text book and is used by judges for sentencing more than any case most judges would ascribe a significant ing with your family to collect reports to show role to you. 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Courts are keen to keep defend- can be no grounds for an appeal for an offence ants in employment and to prevent people who www.banksr.com with a starting point of 4 years. have not offended before from entering what has been described as the ‘corrosive atmos- Q I visited a mate of mine in prison. He is an approach has been approved by the Court of If you apply comparable cases, a 4-year starting phere’ in Young Offender Institutions. addict like me so I understand the importance Appeal in R v Kavanagh 2008 EWCA Crim 855. point would not be out of line. of maintaining a habit. I took him in a birth- Guidance about conveying drugs into prison Note: Inside Time is sorry to say that there is day present of some heroin and I got past the has recently been given. In R v Ormiston 2016 Q I have pleaded to affray. It was at a club now a long delay for letters being sent to me. dogs. The CCTV caught me shaking hands EWCA Crim 363 para 10, the Court said: “Drugs and someone was out of order and it all kicked This is because a member of staff has been off with him and then him hiding the wrap. I was and drug substitutes are entirely inimical to the off. The case has gone over for reports. I am sick. I’m delighted to hear that she has now arrested and although it was a plea I was sent rule of the law within a prison and become a 19 and it is my first offence. I am in two minds recovered. When I receive the recent letters, I to the Crown Court. I was charged under the currency within prison. They are used to extort about whether my family should come to shall reply to them as soon as I can. Prison Act [1952]. The Judge said the guide- or bully and the evil they do is even worse than court. What do you think? I won’t see my lines don’t apply and sentenced me to 2 years the evil done within our open society. It is im- solicitor before the hearing. 8 months having started at 4 years. If they portant to underline that the gravity of the of- had used the guideline I would have been fending is in relation to the prison setting and Asking Robert & Jason questions A This is a question that should be posed to sentenced at Category 4 with a lesser role, that therefore the use of the drugs guideline is your solicitor. You should be able to ring him giving me a starting point of 18 months. They not entirely appropriate notwithstanding that Please make sure your question concerns sentence or her. I am afraid I do not know how serious made a huge song and dance about my pre- it might be appropriate in certain cases of and not conviction and send the letter to Inside the affray was. Your family is entitled to be vious for supplying heroin and cocaine. Why offending.” Time, marked for Robert Banks or Jason Elliott. present. 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This enigmatically titled vol- tempted murder in 2003. He also calls for separate test- Martin H has worked in male prisons for ten fraternity, where abuse, addiction, violence ume is a collection of ten “au- ing, analysis and interpreta- years as a Buddhist chaplain. In Natural and suicide are the norm. thentic crime mysteries” 6. Gordon Park, convicted in tion of scientific evidence: Manhood he uses his experience of working which, according to Bob 2005 of the murder of his wife, “too often the defence opinion with male prisoners to examine the reasons Addiction is a phenomenon of paramount im- Woffinden, “demonstrate that reported missing in 1976, her is based merely on an assess- why, so often, men are rendered socially inept portance to Martin H, inextricable with prison, judicial standards in Britain body found on the bottom of ment of the Crown scientist’s and spiritually starved. He points us to the but not just the physical prison of bricks and today are hardly as secure as Coniston water in 1997. report, not on an assessment social, psychological and physiological condi- mortar, the prison of the mind in which all men the authorities would like us of the original data.” tioning men are subject to, leading to cyclical, without spiritual nourishment are serving a life to believe.” 7. George Robinson, convict- Furthermore, collection, pres- destructive patterns of behaviour and sentence. Drugs, alcohol, sex and work are ed of rape in 2002. ervation and storage of evi- recidivism. some of the addictions the book discusses. The Nicholas of the title was dential material is paramount Natural Manhood suggests the 12 step pro- Bishop of Constantinople in 8. Rob Giannetto, convicted since technological advances Today’s overcrowded prison system is seen as gramme as a path of spiritual recovery and the first century, himself a vic- of the murder of his wife Julia mean “we can never know the consequence of a society that moulds young growth. Adhering to this tradition, Martin H tim of injustice and later in 1995. today what evidential infor- boys into ‘bigger boys’ and not responsible keeps his identity anonymous as is the collec- last-minute rescuer from exe- mation exhibits may yield men. Natural Manhood looks to recover the tion of personal stories of men in the book, who cution of three wrongly con- 9. Jonathan King, convicted tomorrow.” rites of passage and patriarchal bonds missing reveal their heartfelt struggles of addiction, victed men, making him a in 2001 of sexual assault of between men in the modern age. Martin H ac- lifted from them by accepting a Higher Power suitable patron saint of victims boys in the 1980s. Woffinden advocates “clean knowledges the lack of patriarchal guidance into their lives. of injustice, in addition to his slate appeals,” ignoring pre- for young men, leaving them without the emo- seasonal duties. 10. Karl Watson, convicted of vious legal history and avoid- tional balance necessary for normal living. Natural Manhood uses poetry and beautifully the murder of John Shippey in ing apportioning of blame for executed illustrations to enhance the message The ten cases Woffinden con- 1992. legal mistakes, and formal Natural Manhood examines the ways in which of togetherness, brotherhood and freedom. The siders, in his engaging, erudite ten-minute, rubber-stamping men, seeking to escape from their own life, are images and simple poems offer those readers and expansive style, are: Quoting the inscription on the hearings at the Court of Appeal unable to face life on life’s terms. Many pris- with poor literacy skills - as many prisoners UK Supreme Court: “injustice to quash any conviction the oners are men who have reached the point of have - a way of accessing the universal message 1. Glyn Razzell, convicted of anywhere is a threat to justice CCRC should refer back. exhaustion: rock bottom. This is the point in of the book, which is that only by a spiritual the Swindon murder of his everywhere”, Woffinden coun- their lives when no amount of ducking and awakening will men possess the ability to trans- estranged wife Linda in 2002, ters that, historically, since no Fundamentally, he lambasts diving can displace the reality of incarceration. form their lives, from being rooted in addiction whose body has never been justice system, even the the inertia of our justice sys- In prison there is no looking away from where and delusion, to being engaged, creative and found, if indeed she is even British, could be entirely per- tem, which only serves “to sap you are. The criminal lifestyle of the street is ultimately free men. dead, she having been seen fect, “the occasional error was the spiritual and material re- gone, only to be replaced by the madness of alive the day after Razzell sup- the price paid by some unfor- sources of all those who would prison life: a monotonous minute by minute Natural Manhood from Prison Towards Inner PRT Time Mag_Ad_2016-rev_125x140.pdf 1 09/06/2016 19:51 posedly killed her. tunate, in order that the integ- wish to challenge it” and, after drudgery; a microcosm of the criminal Freedom by Martin H. ISBN: 978-0957485617 rity of the system could be thirty years in the business, he Price £10.50 (Amazon) 2. Jong Yoon Rhee, convicted maintained.” He stresses that should know. of the murder of his wife recent reform should have Natalie, who died in a fire at been of the trial process rather The Nicholas Cases: Casualties the Snowdonia cottage where than the appeals process, with of Justice by Bob Woffinden; they were holidaying in 1997, the damage already done. Bojangles Books, 512 pages, and from which Jong Yoon £20.00 escaped through a window. Avoiding legalese jargon in favour of clear, plain speak- Short story 3. Emma Bates, convicted of ing, Woffinden argues for Comment/ the murder by stabbing of her proper trial transcripts, an end partner Wayne Hill in 2009, in to prosecution and defence Inside Justice, part of Inside article what she claimed was counsel being appointed from Time, is funded by charitable self-defence. the same chambers, and en- donations from the Esmee Lyric/rap couragement of jurors to ac- Fairbairn Foundation, Inside 4. 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what he meant but the others Conformity piece incorporating our three had thought of their stories I don’t find it easy to pictures; I threw an abacus, a and gave a brief outline, I conform, with some things I keyhole and a skyscraper - didn’t have a clue. I’d like to do, of course; keeping to writer’s block didn’t come into Diary of point out though that half way speed limits, following it, my brain shut down and through someone else’s syn- training material when seeped out of my ears. opsis I had a flash of inspira- training new Samaritans; tion and now have a plan for how I behave towards callers We talked about future ses- a Creative my short story. We have the at work - all goes without sions and it was decided to three week Easter holiday to saying. ditch poetry (phew) and write it - we never had three non-fiction, this because most weeks at Easter when I went However, I don’t think I people were concentrating on Writer to school! conform to the stereotypical fiction at the moment. When granny. I have taken my asked what we would like to To help with writer’s block we grandchildren to concerts, discuss in those lessons I re- were given ten minutes to do ranging from Bob the Builder quested a session on how to something called Free and, the following weekend, write a synopsis so that when Writing, we were told to write Bon Jovi. We’ve gone to I submit the next Booker prize ‘I’m stuck’ or describe the football and cricket matches, I can send in a well written classroom if we got stuck! I run into the sea with all our and appropriate synopsis - the was flummoxed to start with clothes on - shoes included. others were pleased with that, but then wrote for the rest of I’ve done the granny things so at least one idea went down Lucy Forde reflection I think she may ac- whether it is a short story or the time about family relation- - knitted baby clothes, read well! tually be right. Creative writ- the next War and Peace. The ships - triggered in part about stories, babysat (lots) but ing classes - so learned to date reader should be made to want the piece I did about my fa- they talk about the helicopter We were then given our holi- - are good for helping with the Lesson Four to know what is going to hap- ther’s death. It was actually ride, meeting their motor- day assignment. When we practicality of getting your I read an interesting comment pen to the first character they quite cathartic but not sure sport hero when I took them return after Easter we have to story drafted out; see week on by Tracy Chevalier (Girl with come across or how a situation how it really helps with writ- to watch Touring Cars. I may submit a 2000 word short character arcs etc, but the a pearl earring) in the Stella is going to pan out. We were er’s block, perhaps it’s like not conform but hopefully my story - at least I have an idea writer still has to have the magazine at the weekend in discouraged from using dia- clearing a blocked drain when grandchildren will have some now. Off to the drawing board original idea for the plot, the reply to the comment: The de- logue to start a piece - there you get that sudden rush of colourful memories of our or laptop whilst avoiding characters they develop and bate about whether or not you was some debate on this and water leaving the sink! time together. checking social media, can teach creative writing is a how to bring them all together it was agreed that if it is inte- emails, football team - basi- in a way that will keep the funny one: “Nobody ever says gral to the ‘plot’ some dia- After the break we played For our next game we had to cally anything that keeps me reader captivated. I suppose to a pianist, ‘Oh, you don’t logue would be ok. What has some writing games; we were choose three dice and throw away from homework, told it’s a bit like following a recipe need a conservatoire, why to be remembered is that there each given a word/subject and them - each side had a picture you - back to being a stroppy - if you put ingredients in to don’t you just practice your are really no right or wrong had to write for ten minutes on it and we had to write a teenager! the mix in the wrong order it piano, then you’ll get good.’ answers and each writer has on the subject! J got ‘traffic may not turn out to look or Good creative writing courses their own opinion. jams’; J2 was given ‘culinary provide discipline, advice and taste like the recipe! delights’; T had ‘in laws’; C the This month we invite you to submit your two hundred words criticism ... But there is that Tonight we discussed ‘writer’s delights of ‘the most boring on CONFORMITY. Send them in marking your envelope extra magic fairy dust that We started the evening dis- block’ - very appropriate! Part job and I got ‘conformity’ Creative Writing. Course notes and copy of 2000 word good writers have that can’t cussing ‘Beginnings’ - the of last week’s homework was when I looked as blank as I homework are available on request. most important thing about be taught.” to consider our 2000 word felt Craig offered me another any piece of work is to grab short story; I was the only one - ‘clueless’, oh how appropri- Below are some of the many entries we have so far received in the reader’s interest as soon Maybe Tracy Chevalier is who took something in for in- ate. As it turned out I went response to the ‘Diary of a Creative Writer’. Do please keep as they start reading the piece being a tad precious but on spiration and it wasn’t quite with Conformity. sending them in; every story published will receive £5.

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A shot rang out, and the target fell on impact. As I sit in the visitor’s hall, I’m thinking of how If you’ve seen the ‘Rocky’ films, you’ve seen my dream cell. It’s a large ramshackle building Gina smiled to herself; she wanted to prove a dominated by the central boxing ring. As you cross the warped wooden flooring, stained by you’ve been feeling since the proceedings of point. An argument that has caused rows at blood and sweat, the boards creaking beneath your feet and weave through the gauntlet of my hearing. The anticipation of seeing you for home was settled and Simon had to pay. swinging bags, their rich perfume of cracked leather wafting back and forth, the boxing ring the first time since my sentencing is starting to looms larger, causing tingles of fright and excitement to shiver down your spine. get to me as other families walk through the Her job done, all Gina wanted to do was get door. I just stare at the floor until I hear your out of there. She needed to get home; she ‘Bolts and bars’ are done each day by exotic ring girls, my personal officer is Manny Pacguiao. As voice. I turn and see your beautiful face promised the babysitter that she wouldn’t be you tentatively climb over the reassuringly sturdy ropes that encompass the arena within, and late - again. looking down at me. I’m overwhelmed with your feet sink into the comforting sprung floor of the ring, Pacguiao will be waiting to put you emotions as I stand and hurl my arms around through your paces on the pads; the first and only personal officer to ever be of any use to anyone! The prize was hers, and all this because Simon you. You pull me closer as we hold each other couldn’t keep his mouth shut. In the pub After a work-out in my cell, there are shower facilities, but, like all spit and sawdust boxing clubs, as close as possible without merging our tonight he brought it up again; and in front of they barely work - therefore I’ll just stick a set of prison showers in my dream cell to save time bodies into one another. My mind wanders for his mates. (something all dream cells should do). a moment as I think of what I’m putting you through, even though I only wanted better for Gina, annoyed, drove Simon out to the old fairground; she led him to the far side of the If you’re not too exhausted, you can leave the boxing area behind, with its broken window panes, you in the first place. field. He told her where to stand. ancient posters, advertising fights from the glory days, peeling from the walls, and sounds of grunting and the dull thud of gloves striking bags and enter the gym instead. There are only free-weights This is the last place I wanted you to end up Gina picked up and loaded the rifle. She in my gym, as you can tell right away from the clanking of steel that meets you as you step onto being in. As curiosity gets the better of me, I quietened the noises in her head. The lights the heavy duty rubber matting. In the background you can hear an angry track playing - it’s by wonder why you’re even willing to still be with and the screams of the people were shut out ‘Chase and Status’ - but there are no fancy gizmos and not a TV in sight; this gym’s on basic! me and wait for me. I’m still unsure what I’ve of her mind. Finally, but visitors aren’t allowed to see, my own bedroom is beyond the gym. It’s very Spartan, done exactly to deserve this love you’re giving to discourage idleness, but there’s a massage parlour off to the left with a team of sport’s me, all I do know is I’m more than grateful for At one with the weapon she let out a breath. Gina squeezed the trigger gently. The row of masseurs and physiotherapists on hand 24/7 - and not a healthcare app in sight! it and this second chance of being. When I’m ducks fell. One shot on target and the goldfish out I’ll no longer waste life worrying of in the transparent bag was hers. It was her Of course, my dream cell would mean having to share for it to be effective, and I do prefer single possibilities that could be, but instead take daughter’s really - another promise she had to cell status... I also prefer life to be as Spartan as possible... You know what, if I could really have responsibility without the negativity. keep was done. my dream cell, I reckon I’ll just stick to the tiny, bare, cold and uncomfortable one I have already! 46 Jailbreak // Fitness www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2016 The iron willed Ironman Shoulder Did you expect to win?

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boxing technique, muscular Shadow Boxing Training strength, speed & power, cardio & muscular endurance, Cell Workout When many people think of although more commonly rhythm, footwork, offence boxing they think of two they use a mirror. It is a and defence and overall people punching each other popular exercise for fighters fighting ability and a full Get the body you want Inside & Out in a ring. Like most sports, and fitness personnel to body workout. performed by an expert, it is hone their technique, an artform. condition their muscles, Shadow boxing is simple, “Only a man who knows what it is like to be warm up/cool down, or even cost effective, no equipment defeated can reach down to the bottom of his The term shadow boxing for mental preparation. required, can be performed soul and come up with the extra ounce of power comes from a training method anywhere and is a risk free it takes to win when the match is even.” that boxers (or anybody) use Performed correctly with the form of boxing, so give it a where they pretend to box right goals in mind, shadow go, working to your own their shadow on a wall, boxing can improve your “Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions ability. are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to Set a goal area. A pro would spend anything up to 1 hour have last-minute stamina, they have to be a Improving in shadow boxing would be the first a day shadow boxing. Performing straight through, little faster, they have to have the skill and the goal but to break it down a bit here are a few with no rest. Keep your body moving through- will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” things to think about: out. If you’re getting tired then slow it down.

Outside of the ring he devoted his time to jus- Technique: working on a particular move- Think tice, the sick and underprivileged. During his ment? a certain punch? A defensive move? Go During your training, stay alert. Remind lifetime he received many awards for his slow, take your time and check your form in yourself what your goals are. Work on the area the mirror. Repetition is important, to perfect you are looking to improve in, maybe speed or achievements inside and outside of the ring. your technique. strategy? Focus on it, one thing at a time. Undoubtedly he had a natural talent but Ali considered himself an ordinary man who had Co-ordination: instead of trying to force a Feedback to work hard to develop a talent he was given. movement, try to find a way for your body to One reason for training in the gym, is that allow a movement to feel natural. 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The report this month comes passion for nature generally and for the kestrel from Stephen P and the group ‘Kes’ in particular. Colette asked the group if at Wymott. They recently anyone had experienced a similar kind of pas- read Barry Hines’s 1968 sion for a subject that helped them cope with novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the trials of life. which became Ken Loach’s After a short silence, the answers came: ‘art’, classic film Kes a year later. ‘physics and astronomy’, ‘creative writing’. Ian expressed his love of Rome and Bill regaled the Amazingly almost everyone had read the book. group with stories of Santiago de Compostella Living prison history: More amazingly still, it was universally enjoyed. in Spain. Other passions included music, poetry Craig started things off: ‘It was a bit like my own and etymology. Pete D was silent about his life’, he said. Stephen U felt that it was inform- private passion but the way he devoured the The closure of HMP Holloway on ative about falconry and gave great details of final chocolate biscuit suggested a love of the history of this ancient pursuit. Bill liked the ‘ate-emology’. style, describing it as a ‘stream of conscious- National Prison Radio ness.’ He even referenced a phrase that he par- The story of ‘Kes’ resonates and moves us be- from all walks of life and We’ll hear some astonishing ticularly liked: ‘boiler pipes like branches of a cause it destroys the lie that people on the mar- carried out of a campaign testimony from the suffra- beanstalk’. Now there’s poetry! gins are defined by their circumstances and which included large amounts gettes, as they describe in their surroundings. Billy is a heroic figure of criminal damage - smash- painful detail the torturous Paul struggled at first with the South Yorkshire whose love of nature transcends and transforms ing windows, slashing famous regime. vernacular, but soon got the hang of it. Ian, his environment. Despite the tragic end to the This month the most famous paintings, even setting off born and bred in Yorkshire, relished a book set story, the message of the book is one of hope women’s prison in the country bombs. We’ll also hear about the five in ‘the best place in England’. Nigel thought in beauty. will lock its doors for the very women who were executed the use of dialect was ‘very homely’ and felt he last time. Their real protests began once within the prison grounds. could relate especially to the family scenes. His One final sad note to the proceedings was the they were inside the prison Among them was Edith favourite was at the beginning of the book news that Barry Hines had died recently. Pete HMP Holloway opened in walls though. Many went on Thompson, who along with where the mother asks a reluctant Billy Casper told the group that Hines had been quite a pro- 1852 as a prison for men, hunger strike to demand her lover, Freddie Bywaters, to go to the shop for ‘ciggies’ which results in lific author in his time but was remembered women and boys. Some of better conditions. The prison was sentenced to death for slapstick chase round the kitchen. primarily for just this book and its successful those who were sent there authorities responded by the murder of her husband transformation into film. One of the conse- were as young as eight. force-feeding them. Percy in 1922. Pete D and Pete G concurred on the innovative quences of this book choice was the commit- Crimes ranged from stealing use of language. Pete D loved the phrase from ment by the library to obtain some other of shoes to disturbing the church On Tuesday July 5th, National Many then and now believed DH Lawrence: ‘If men were as much men as Hines’s books. If he is looking down from that congregation for being drunk. Prison Radio will be broad- Edith to have been innocent lizards are like lizards’. Pete G loved the use of great eyrie in the sky, I’m sure he would have casting a special programme - and that Freddie was solely words - ‘tanner’, ‘snicket’, ‘snap’ - and the au- been delighted by the enjoyment he has given People were punished by to mark the shutting down of responsible for the killing. It’s thor’s ability to render an urban setting as po- to our book club. Thanks Barry! being made to walk on the this institution. widely accepted that the fact etic. Stephen P said the book made him ‘proud treadmill - like a giant hamster Edith was having an affair - a to be working class’. wheel. In some prisons people Tales from the Castle - The moral outrage for a woman climbed the equivalent of half Story of Holloway Prison, will - had a big influence on the Muhammad, as ever, made a revelatory contri- The Wymott group is part of the Prison the height of Mount Everest feature the voices of some of outcome of the case. bution: ‘The story shows two sides of life, dark- Reading Groups (PRG) network, sponsored by every day. the last remaining women ness and light, freedom and captivity’. The the University of Roehampton and generously being held in the prison. Tales from the Castle - The hawk, he thought, represents freedom when supported by charities including Give A Book Holloway was converted to a Story of Holloway Prison is he is allowed to fly, but is ironically kept a www.giveabook.org.uk. If your prison doesn’t prison just for women at the It’s being presented by Adele part of a very special HMP prisoner. have a reading group, encourage your turn of the following century. Roberts from BBC Radio 1, Holloway Takeover Day on librarian to have a look at the PRG website who regularly walks past the National Prison Radio on What was not in dispute was Billy Casper’s www.prison-reading-groups.org.uk Among the most notable prison on her way to and from Tuesday 5th July. The prisoners have been the her home, which is nearby. programme is broadcast at suffragettes. About a thousand midday and 6pm. And catch Perrie Lectures writing competition of them were held in Holloway The women at Holloway will the Request Show at 1pm and between 1905 and 1914. be giving their thoughts about 7pm to hear two solid hours The Perrie Lectures, named As we did in 2014 and 2015 following question as a the closure, but they’ve also of requests from women at after Bill Perrie, who was a we are running an essay heading: The suffragettes wanted equal been investigating its the prison. prominent Prison Governor competition for serving How do mental health rights for women, in particular fascinating history. well aware of the need to prisoners and are looking for issues impact on the the right to vote. They came reflect the concept of essays of no more than 2000 experience of imprisonment humanity in his dealings with words around the theme of the and the running of prison his staff and those in his care, lectures ‘Mental Health’. regimes? Stay on the Straightline are this year running an essay Entries should be marked competition for serving There will be prizes of £30, If you’re a music fan, being in prison can be tough that are filling global dancefloors to keep you “Perrie Competition” and sent prisoners. £20 and £10 for the best three - particularly if you enjoy clubbing. The main in touch with what’s happening. to: Perrie Lectures, C/o New entries and the winning entry room in Fabric is a long way from a prison wing. Bridge, 1a Elm Park, LONDON The theme for 2016 is ‘Mental will be published in Inside And every week we’ll have the Straightline SW2 2TX. Health’. We are currently Time. But National Prison Radio is launching a brand Takeover Mix, where a guest DJ will put contacting potential speakers new programme designed to be the next best thing. together an exclusive set of cuts that are The closing date for the and a chair for the day and Anyone wishing to enter the guaranteed to get the crowds jumping. competition is 20 August will definitely be presenting competition should send an Straightline will be coming out of your speakers 2016 and the winners will be some current models of best essay of no more than 2000 for two hours every Friday night between 8pm Make sure you tune in to Straightline, Friday notified following the lectures practice at the lectures in words, ideally typed and and 10pm. We’ll be playing cutting edge tracks nights from 8pm, on National Prison Radio. September. double spaced, using the on 22 September 2016. Insidetime July 2016 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Do You Know? 49

l The 2016 Global Peace l The cashless society is l Many teenagers fantasise about making their fi rst million Do you know? Index, released in June, says coming ever closer: new - and according to new projections, that magic milestone the confl icts in Syria, Iraq, fi gures show that in 2015, could be sooner than some people think. Analysis of earnings Yemen, Libya, and else- only 45% of UK transactions where in the Middle East were made in cash, down data from the Offi ce for National Statistics suggests the typical have caused the number of from 64% in 2005. However, 18-year-old who enters the world of work this year will earn a violent deaths due to confl ict cheques are still in business. total of £1m by 2044, when they will be 46. As well as having to hit a 25-year high. But if Although few retailers now the prospect of £1 million to look forward to, earners will also we take out the Middle East accept them, 546 million the world would have were signed last year. Daily have paid over £238,000 in tax and national insurance by become more peaceful. Express that point. Financial Times Although this was the silver lining, much of the report l A new study shows that refl ected the bleaker results going to church could be the of confl ict and war. Terrorist secret to a long life. attacks are at an all-time Researchers at Harvard © Fotolia.com high, and more people are University tracked 75,000 displaced than at any time women for 16 years, and l Sheep are feared to have gone on a ‘psychotic rampage’ since World War II. More aft er eating cannabis plants dumped in a Welsh village. The than 100,000 were killed in found that the regular remains of an illegal cannabis factory was fl y-tipped and confl ict in 2014, up from church-goers were a third worried locals fear the sheep have been munching the plants. nearly 20,000 in 2008. Syria, less likely to die during that County councillor Ioan Richard raised the alarm, saying the where nearly 67,000 people period. Daily Mail sheep have been ‘roaming the village’ causing havoc by were killed in 2014, accounted breaking into homes. Mr Richard said: “There is already a for the bulk of the increase. l Researchers from the fl ock of sheep roaming the village causing a nuisance. They The United Nations has said University of Bristol’s are getting in people’s gardens and one even entered a the number of displaced Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group found that bungalow and left a mess in the bedroom.” He warned of the people is likely to have ‘far l An extraordinary amount of equipment is required to turn pub-goers tend to slow down dangers of the rest of the fl ock discovering the remains of the surpassed’ a record 60 million Monaco’s ordinary roads into a fully-fl edged F1 race circuit. when drinking out of a cannabis plantation. “I dread to think what will happen if last year. The index showed Some 33km of safety rails are installed, 20,000 square metres straight glass compared to a they eat what could well be cannabis plants - we could have that most attacks it classifi ed of wire catch fencing, 3,600 tyres for tyre barriers and 1,100 curved one, and that glasses an outbreak of psychotic sheep rampaging through the as terrorist were concentrat- tonnes of grandstand seating for spectators. Sky village.” A Swansea Council spokesman said it acted swift ly ed in fi ve countries - Syria, with measurement markings to clear the cannabis remains, but could not confi rm if any Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, l In 1980, the average FTSE l In the last week of May the also curb chugging times. So sheep had eaten the plants. Telegraph and Pakistan. Vice 100 top executive earned 25 International Space Station if you want a beer but want times as much as the average made its 100,000th orbit to resist the urge to down it: ask the bartender to serve it l The rising proportion of people who describe themselves as employee in the same company. around Earth since its in a Pyrex measuring jug. not ascribing to any type of religion considerably outnumbers By 2007, the multiple had launch on 20 November, Similarly, bar owners should Christian people in England and Wales, a new study has risen to 120. Last year it 1988. That amounts to stood at 130. Daily Telegraph 2,643,342,240 miles. BBC now only serve booze out of found. In 2014, 48.5 per cent of people said they had no fi sh bowls to get customers religion - or were ‘nones’ - compared to 43.5 per cent of people l There are far more men called John leading the UK’s biggest drinking more. Munchies who identifi ed as Christian - Anglicans, Catholics and other companies than women. There are 17 men called John denominations - researchers at St Mary’s Catholic University - outnumbering all the female bosses (7) put together. Men l The history of why Q is © Fotolia.com in Twickenham found. The percentage of ‘nones’ has almost called Dave also outnumber women, by 2:1. Guardian almost always followed by U doubled from 2011, when 25 per cent of people referred to is fascinating, and dates l A tiny sea bird has made themselves as having no religion. The study, Contemporary l A recent YouGov poll carried out by The Movember back to when the Normans the longest ever known Catholicism in England and Wales, launched in June, Foundation found that 12 percent of men over the age of 18 invaded England in 1066. annual migration, which don’t have a close friend they would discuss a serious life Before that, English didn’t analysed data collected through British Social Attitudes saw it fl y from problem with. That’s two and a half million men across even have a Q; it used “cw” Northumberland to surveys over three decades. The Independent Britain. Over a quarter of men said they got in touch with their to replicate the sound. Aft er Antarctica and back. The mates less than once a month, and 9 percent said they don’t the invasion, though, the record breaking Arctic tern l Of the 1.3 million British l When French emperor remember the last time they made contact with their friends. spelling of English was covered a mammoth citizens who currently reside Napoleon Bonaparte met his This can develop into a serious problem in later life. Research changed to match the French 96,000km in its journey in other EU countries, more Waterloo, he wasn’t actually by the World Health Organisation has shown that a lack of ways: “cw” was replaced down to its winter home in than 300,000 live in Spain; in Waterloo. In fact, close friends has a signifi cant impact on men’s health in the with “qu.” So can we blame the Weddell Sea before Bonaparte never stepped long term, leaving us at risk of depression, anxiety and it on the French? Not 250,000 live in Ireland; returning to the Farne foot in the Belgian town. The suicide. Sarah Coghlan, head of Movember UK, said: “Many exactly, because they got 185,000 in France; and Islands. And during its battle with the forces of the men we’ve spoken to don’t actually realise how shallow their that spelling from the lifetime, it will complete this 103,000 in Germany. It is not Duke of Wellington took part relationships have become until they face a signifi cant Romans ... who actually got journey enough times to clear what their status would three miles away, along the challenge, such as bereavement, breakdown of a relationship, it from the Etruscans, who clock up around be were the UK to leave the Mont Saint Jean Ridge. fatherhood or loss of employment - and yet that is of course actually got it from the 3,000,000km. BBC EU. The Independent History Magazine when good friends are needed most.” Vice Phoenicians. Gizmodo

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Star Poem There now follows Mariax of the Month an appeal on behalf Brian Kerridge - HMP Winchester Congratulations to this of The Blatta Orientalis months winner who I hate these days when I’m locked away, Overthinking and guessing is a strain to da brain, receives our £25 prize Protection League It’s confusing not an illusion, Brian Darby - HMP North Sea Camp It’s hard to have left love behind, Love Da fing dats against me is my mind, “I am a common cockroach Playing games, being spiteful makes me fink dat she’s lied. All The Way As anyone can see And I’m here to appeal to you- I try to forget these thoughts Paul Lumsden - HMP Edinburgh No easy task for me; In my sights by spending some time writing these rhymes. But, you see, I’m feeling threatened She says, she’s honest, and will always be mine, Dementia has driven By your boots and toxic sprays. I’d rather be deleting than repeating these thoughts dat I hide That perfect image Quite frankly, I can’t understand Closer to cold ground These warmongering ways She’s loving, caring and spoils me and kind. Some fantastic heaven? It can’t be anything I’ve said But what’s dis prick constantly hanging around by your side. I’ll want you forever and your love I hold with pride. Married when the cloth cap As, vocally, I’m mute; My only crime, it seems to me, I hope you’re looking forward to da day I come home & make And gnawed pipe Who Are We this my last stink inside. Is you don’t find me cute? Were icons in their day, Lee Potter - HMP Wayland That emphatic masculinity! I’m squat, so what? Get over it. And please step over me. Who are we? Bus fares were cheap I’ve no wish to be squashed and spread That wage war Chimney stacks belched smoke, Throughout wherever you may be. Upon our mother earth And peep shows Mind you, that helps to spread my eggs Beautiful, even though Amused working folk. So all would not be lost. Ravaged and ransacked and raped Therefore, before you stamp on me, By the strong in numbers The photo album Please think about the cost. Strong with metal and guns and machines and gods From sepia into colour, Revenge would be my brood’s to take, We, who eat dead meat wrapped in plastic From Kodak to mobile camera packaging Snapshots of two together. They’d infest you in hordes You’d soon find unpenned cockroaches Are messier than swords. Who are we? Back in the day That chew pills and invent disease They leave faeces in your dinner, Sophistry seemed With attention spans Trample on your daily bread A vague peculiarity, As long as a headline in a celebrity magazine And a stamp cost a penny. With filthy feet as they compete We, who babysit out kids To get their bellies fed, With chemical shit and smart TVs Enola Gay and Big Boy Once here, you know, we’re hard to shift, Went on their way, Tenacious as flu mucus Who are we? A rising sun never set And, since we’re radiation proof, That stare at screens On the many who died that day. It does no good to nuke us. and work all day For should you opt to stamp with bombs To pay for the car There’s a lot of history We’ll prove our real worth That drives us to work In a long-time together, By meekly, once you’re stomped to bits We, with man-made maladies of the mind A tender story Advancing blindly towards oblivion Of Him and Her. Inheriting the earth. Till then, let’s try to get along, Who are we? Live and, maybe let live? As their old hands clasp With poisonous thoughts I gasp, For where strangers can coexist Of death and carnage © Fotolia.com Love all the way There’s little to forgive. Of looting, plunder and prey Appears so different today. Thank you” Until nothing remains Until the earth A game played by men As desolate as the moon with funny shaped balls Sits alone What’s my poison? Naked, nuclear and toxic Narissa Williams - HMP Send Jamie Shoesmith - HMP Wandsworth One question has started to bug my friends, u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry Back in the day, at first it waz the cider to drink, with a whiskey chaser to taste so Why do you like rugby they ask me? selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. To see you later, As kidz at school, we went from cherry knocking front to back doorz They ask are you sure it’s a sport qualify for a prize, poems should not have won a with screw driverz we open car windows to go on a motorway tour, as the And not just a fight? prize in any other competition or been published boredom crept in, the street highs were always local. By the looks of that scrum they don’t seem too polite. previously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Why do they pile in real close, and Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, On foot to the corner shop smokin rolled cigs to burn then our hearts start to They get real close face to face, SO30 2GB. Please put your name, number and And they have no concept of personal space. yearn, at the ages of twelve coughing and chokin pure spirits provakin with the prison on the same sheet of paper as your poem. devil in the top flat, with smack and crack, as a youth I said forget that, moms There’s no telling what they’ll do. If you win we can’t send your money if we don’t They just do what they like. would of gave me a slap with very loud back chat, dealers walking around with know who or where you are! If you think that’s sport, you can go take a hike. pockets fat, people attacking, just to get a ASBO, friend or foe, people whispering By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are They’re all overweight, not slim or athletic. this hear moto, no longer did I look forward to this once a year Santa’s grotto. agreeing that they can be published in any of our Compared to most sportsmen they’re pretty pathetic. ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, Their goal’s called a ‘Try’ but why no-one knows, As a gifted kid, from the age of fifteen, smoking hash pipes, with this feeling, I waz website and any forthcoming books. You are also “A try to do what?” is the question they ask. alright, high as a kite, with the need to fight the inner enemy, mental health was a giving permission for Inside Time to use their dis- And them goalposts they look weird as well, they don’t even have nets. struggle, with booze and brown trying to remove this masked clown, on cretion in allowing other organisations to reproduce They look like those aerials on old TV sets. Halloween trick or treat was ever so neat, you must be crazy this here prison this work if considered appropriate, unless you have When they’re fed up of kicking, they pick up the ball. system has not got me beat, so I live on the road for ten years at a time. clearly stated that you do not want this to happen. And they just run off - that’s not sporting at all! Any work reproduced in other publications will be All this I’d accept, but for one further fact. I like the young me this reality always comes back ghosts me, say hello father sit on a ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note poems for Whoever designed this ball deserves to be sacked in church to pray, that’s an unspoken message from this here life’s god, I’m still publication may be edited. When submitting For the shape of the ball, what’s wrong with round? trying to get out this foggy smoked filled room, to be attacked by verbs then your work please include the following per- What part of ball did they not understand. knives and gunz, survival kicks in, so what’s my poison? Can I carry on with mission: this is my own work and I agree to That’s reason enough for the game to be banned. nothing in my blood stream, like the queen I want to live long, so say goodbye to Inside Time publishing it in all associate sites But I tell them I’m addicted, so all I can say, hell, when this comes, hopefully heavens got my back. and other publications as appropriate. 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‘Inside Time is proud to Support publish the overall winner Kim Roberts - HMP Eastwood of the 2016 Novus Enigma We in prison depend on those We have left behind; for our very existence Poetry Competition. The Without their support and acknowledge, we cease to exist in the outside world. entries came from 38 pris- We fade before our very eyes We feel life slipping away as the people drift further away from us. ons in England and Wales.’ It’s like being shipwrecked in a hostile land, the land of the lost. And half the time, the people who supply you with the vital elements of life and hope; get tired, or too busy or simply don’t care anymore. The Old’uns So, like death we cease to exist. and the Young Something My Mask John B - HMP Kirkham you said Jay Griffiths - HMP Garth “Onward Soldiers!” rang out the command, Lloyd Dennis - HMP Isle of Just after the break of dawn. I wore my mask today Sing Billy Sing Wight Cohorts of men climbed over the top, It helps me keep people away James Murphy - HMP Lowdham Grange Some Old ‘Uns, but most barely born. Something you said that day People don’t know the real me That’s the way I want it to be No guitar allowed in Lowdham Grange Dispersed all the cloud These men lined up and marched across After Billy Bragg has poured his rage, Balanced the elements I’m scared to let my true colours show This Godforsaken land. Re-shifted the ground. So I’m lost in darkness And now they lie there silently The governor has banned them due to the metal, And really don’t know The Legions of the Damned. But still it’s safe to use the kettle. Something you said that day Who I am anymore Filtered my brain I’m lost behind my steel door. No sooner had their march began, Strings could be used for tattoos or to barricade the door, Decongested my lungs Than the mouths of cannons spoke No weekend rendition of faith no more. Made me healthy again. I try to get by day to day With voices louder than a peal of bells But the mask is heavy Ringing through the smoke. No Dylan, no Slash or Hendrix will be played and Something you said that day And people say all enquires will be delayed. Altered my path That I look sad The tongues of flame that left the throats Set my map with my compass And my head is down Of these devilish weapons of war What of the old guitars will they rot and decay? Cut my journey by half. It’s easy to smile, don’t be a sad clown Spat shards of steel across the sky. Or guts become nylon and sounds all array Explosions by the score Something you said that day Sometime I wish I could fit in Rang out across the battlefield. Yet in the past you could visit and pay Transfigured my guise To get involved to mingle in Men fell, both young and old. To sit in San Quentin and watch Johnny Cash play! Morphed fuel into ashes To be a friend to someone Satan sat smiling, honing his scythe, So my phoenix could rise. To laugh to giggle to have some fun Midst the bodies of those once so bold. Oh my stringless soul sits and smokes a fag I’m hoping you read this Mr Billy Bragg Something you said that day But would that just be a different mask The enemy soldiers shouldered their arms, Killed turmoil and strife A heavier one, it wouldn’t last “Fire at will’” their corporal yelled. Sing us a song to free our strings A rapid swipe of your tongue So a sad clown I’m destined to be The crack of rifles, the volleys of shots, and listen to the music as our jail sings. May have just saved a life. I’m quite scared to just be me. And the cries of those already felled.

Their brothers tumbled like skittles, But still they advanced blindly as They clambered up the wooden steps Muhammad Ali From trenches spewing poisonous gas. Hugh Kunz - HMP Leyhill Into the carnage of the Western Front, Muhammad Ali has passed away Where Angels feared to go. Not here to fight another day Passchendaele, the Somme and Flanders Field, But he would face any man Where now only poppies grow. Floating like a butterfly Stinging like a bee A mother’s loss of her only son, A boxing ballerina Her heartache and the pain. Round after round The boy she kissed as he went off to War, © Fotolia.com With the heart of a lion Never to come home again. And just two gloved hands Known only to families and loved ones, But if you think he’s gone to rest Don’t Grow Grass The names of so many men. Watch the lightning strike At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, Jamie Starbuck - HMP Long Lartin © Fotolia.com Hear the thunder roar We will remember them. That’s Muhammad beating the devil I see wasted grass just outside As the angels applaud Our freedom was what they were fighting for Quite far long and just as wide In the Great War, it is said. I see dogs run lonely as a hog bound hedge But they made the ultimate sacrifice, What a waste we could grow veg. And oh, what a price they paid.

Viewed from Seg and where I sit The Generals who sanctioned these conflicts I see five trees and no privet The blood spilt will stain their hands. A few circles of bland daffodils They sent young men to die. For what? I see lost opportunity to learn new skills. Barren fields in foreign lands.

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Let’s grow some stuff you could say Two minutes silence on Armistice Day We’ll make food ourselves, no need to pay Is all we’re asked to give, Our food will have goodness and niceness and taste For those brave young men, who gave all they had, Less for the bin to go to waste So in peace others may live. 52 Jailbreak // Prize Winning Puzzles www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2016 Read all about it! Caption Competition Last Months £25 Winner 1. What was the name of the MP tragically Mark Ellson HMP Lowdham Grange murdered in her constituency? 2. Who won the Formula 1 GP in Baku? 3. Who manages the Welsh football team at the European Championships? Fonesavvy providers of ‘landline type 4. What make of car won the 2016 Le Mans 24 numbers’ for mobile phones. hour race? Proud sponsors of Inside Time’s 5. Which Star Wars actor was killed by his own car? PRIZE quiz ‘Read all about it!’ 6. St Thomas’s hospital in London has unveiled If you don’t want callers to be disadvantaged a statue to the black nurse who served in the or put off by the high cost of calling your Crimea, what was her name? mobile - just get a landline number for it. 7. In which country did Major Tim Peake land Calls to mobiles don’t have to be expensive! A £25 prize is on offer for the best caption to after his trip to the International Space Station? this month’s picture. 8. How much did Sir Philip Green sell BHS for? Full details are available on our main advert in Inside Time and at What do you think is being said or thought 9. At which historic Wiltshire site was the www.fonesavvy.co.uk here? summer solstice celebrated? 10. Which band are in court over a riff in their recording of Stairway to Heaven? Last Months Winners That’s it daddy, J S Wright HMP Manchester (£25) Answers to last months News Quiz: kiss goodbye to all your Wayne Adamson HMP Frankland (£5) 1. Manchester United, 3. MS804, 4. Ukraine, 5. money and free time! Harmony of the Seas, 6. 23rd June, 7. Billie Piper Muriel Southall HMP New Hall (£5) The image above went ‘viral’ in May after one 8. Vauxhall Zafira, 9. Sadiq Khan, 10. Donald Trump ‘Reddit’ user asked members to put a caption and Hilary Clinton See box to the right for details of how to enter to this intimate father and son first cuddle.

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Some try to hide, some try to exist - hence why I am encouraging this in prisons. 2. It is everything to someone, to cheat, but time will show, Secondly, prison governors and senior staff will and nothing to everyone else. we always will meet, try as need to play their part to support such an initiative. What is it? you might, to guess my name, We are a way from this yet, but it is an aspiration. I promise you’ll know, when ______you I do claim. John from HMP Norwich asks who the current World Champion is. His name is Magnus Carlsen 3. What has a mouth but can’t ______and he is from Norway. He defends his title this chew? November, probably in New York. His opponent 9. First you see me in the will be the Russian Sergey Karjakan. Both players ______grass dressed in yellow; next I are very young and I expect some very memo- am in dainty white, then I fly 4. A man says,”Brothers and rable games. I shall keep readers posted in this away. What am I? sisters, have I none, but that column about the outcome. man’s father is my father’s ______Zack from HMP Hewell asks how to set up a son.” Who is he pointing at? prison chess club. Again, this is something that 10. Hands she has but does needs support from the Governor but inmates ______not hold, teeth she has but need to push collectively. If there is enough de- does not bite, feet she has but mand, I have found that prisons staff will listen 5. If it is two hours later, then they are cold, eyes she has but and try to accommodate. I can visit your prisons it will take half as much time without sight. Who is she? (after an official invite from the governor or staff till it’s midnight as it would be representative) and help to kick-start a chess if it were an hour later. What ______club. It’s easy really. You need people and chess time is it? Across Down sets! If you are able to meet at a regular time, 11. 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