“I see these people with no Rachel way out and make the con- nection. It was a special and beautiful experience.” MIRI

“He was my hero” From boys to men in jail Rounding up the year Former prisoner John Crilly 36 years in prison for a Rachel Billington revisits talks about the day he helped murder the authorities knew the highs and lows of her the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees thwart the Fishmongers Hall terror attack - and calls for they did not commit. 2019 diary. a voice for prisoners since  prisoners to take action on Comment // page 30 Comment // page 18 Joint Enterprise. January 2020 / Issue No. 247 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profit’ publication/ ISSN 1743-7342 A VERY HAPPY NEW DECADE TO ALL OUR READERS An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Comment // pages 20-23 A THOUSAND YEARS PRISON More than 1,000 years of added days are handed out annually to prisoners found to have broken the rules, and use of the punishment by prisons has doubled in four years Inside Time report have passed their release date but must serve out their added time. The bill to taxpayers is “Thank you chaps” 16 an estimated £40 million a year for the extra The findings, based on figures from the Min- prison places, plus an unknown sum in Legal istry of Justice, will emerge in a report to be Aid costs because prisoners facing possible Virgin Trains and prisoners work together published early this year. The report will high- added days are entitled to solicitors at their light wide differences between prisons in their adjudication hearings. The leap in the use of to help homeless people – and their dogs use of added days as punishment. It will also added days as punishment has coincided with reveal a race gap with Black, Asian and ethnic a rise in violence inside prisons. Official fig- minority prisoners more likely to have days ures have shown a sharp increase in prison- NEWS FLASH! CHALLENGE TO PAROLE ‘RECONSIDERATION ‘PROCEDURE! 13 added on to their sentences than white er-on-prisoner and prisoner-on-staff assaults prisoners. over recent years.

It means that at any time, around 1,000 prison CRIMINAL Mark Carter places are being taken up by prisoners who Continued on page 14 Head of LAW Criminal Law Leading defence solicitors in: Tory win means more prisoners Legal Conspiracies Robbery Murder Gang offences Prisoner numbers are set to rise after the landslide Manslaughter Fraud Conservative victory in the general election services Drug offences POCA

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Boris Johnson keeps his job as Justice Secre- Legal Parole Sentence Calculation UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor tary, Priti Patel MP remains Aid: Pre-tariff review Cat A Review Home Secretary and Lucy create space, the Conserva- Recall Lifer/IPP removal Inside Time report Frazer MP is still the prisons from open conditions tives also pledged to build Independent minister. All three were first Adjudications 10,000 extra prison places at appointed in 2019. In the elec- The Tory manifesto, which a cost of £2.5 billion. Oversee- tion, on December 12, the PRISONER HOTLINE will now form a blueprint for ing the initiatives will be an Conservatives won an overall Boris Johnson’s time as Prime unchanged line-up of Govern- majority of 80 seats, giving 0161 833 9253 Minister, included pledges to ment ministers, after a them the opportunity to im- FREEPHONE bolster criminal justice. post-election reshuffle left plement their policies over those responsible for prisons the next five years. 0800 1444 111 Experts believe the policies and policing in their posts. www.cmsolicitors.co.uk Write to: • St James’s House MANCHESTER M6 5FW will mean thousands more • 15 Old Bailey LONDON EC4M 7EF people being locked up. To Robert Buckland QC MP Continued on page 14 2 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime January 2020 Whatever happened to… Prison is a killer insidetime Mailbites a voice for prisoners since 1990 J Smith - HMP Barlinnie L Gleeson - HMP Armley The government haven’t a Give everyone a chance the national newspaper for prisoners published What is justice? This is a question that I’ve found myself ask- clue how the prison system Louis Burdett - HMP Swaleside by Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned ing more times than I care to count during my incarceration. is failing. One of the reasons subsidiary of The New Bridge Foundation, Sadly, I’m not sure I know anymore. Sure, I can give you the I am writing to highlight the crazy distribution founded in 1956 to create links between the for so much reoffending is legal definition; ‘Justice is behaviour or treatment that is of jobs here. It should be one-job, one-prison- offender and the community PUBLISHED because there’s very little to right and fair. It is the administration of the law in a fair and er, but some guys here have 3 or 4 jobs each, WEEKLY ONLINE AND MONTHLY IN PRINT do here, so most prisoners reasonable way.’ and even though they only get paid for one turn to Spice to take the days job they are still depriving other prisoners of away. They banned smoking Board of Directors However, these are just words. Maybe justice truly is no more work. Perhaps the prison is doing this to save than a made-up word to win politicians votes and allow the and now, as a consequence, money by employing one prisoner to do every prison is flooded with Trevor Grove - Chairman Former Editor Sunday populace to sleep safe and sound in their beds at night. Our numerous jobs, or perhaps there is another Telegraph, Journalist, Writer and former Magistrate. prisons are full to bursting with people convicted of sex- Spice and one of the reasons reason? I don’t really give a toss which, but this Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge crimes, more often than not the only evidence being hearsay so many people ‘go under’ needs to be sorted out by giving everyone an Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon from the accuser, who the jury will believe no matter how on this drug is because with- equal chance at work. John D Roberts Company Director employing often they change their minds or are found to be lying. I’d out tobacco to dilute it, it has former prisoners to be smoked pure. Louise Shorter CEO Inside Justice and former argue that the stigma around sex-crime leads to innumerable We don’t want a life of crime producer BBC Rough Justice unsafe convictions. The juries, being only human, will err on Compare how healthy peo- David Evans - HMP Holme House Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, the side of caution. ple used to look coming out Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation of prison in the old days, Out soon. Writing this to express my gratitude Phil Wheatley Former Director General of Prison Whatever happened to the idea of innocent until proven now people are coming out to those who have helped me through this Service. guilty? It used to be a cornerstone of our judicial system. looking much worse than dark time. You have to be given something Sadly, it no longer exists as the onus is now on the accused to when they went in. Spice is before you earn it. Give us homes, give us jobs, The insideteam prove his or her innocence. I used to see things in simple rampant, the food is dis- give us a bit of respect, give us what we need, black and white but since my own trial I have come to realise graceful, very little fresh-air and we will give back what we can. Some of us, it is all just subtle shades of grey. I don’t say that people are or exercise, it’s no wonder and I’d like to include myself in this, don’t want blatantly lying, though some obviously are, but that years, people are looking worse. a life of crime. We don’t want years of isolation maybe even decades later the memory isn’t so great. But, and loneliness. We want to live life to the full, what about ‘reasonable doubt’? Again, another cornerstone I have been in and out of but we need help. I’d like to thank all of those of our judicial system that, sadly, no longer matters. prison since I was 17, and who work in the prison system and reside John Roberts I’ve never learned a thing in here. Here’s to the givers and supporters. Publisher We live in a democracy, for which I am thankful, but our ver- here, only how to do more Thank you all. and Director sion of democracy is fundamentally flawed as people, by crime. They think that doing their very nature, make mistakes. Therefore, the odds of get- a few courses will change Praise for healthcare ting a fair trial are stacked against us. So, once again, what is our lives around, which is a Name withheld - HMP Wakefield justice? Can anyone honestly say any of this has been admin- joke because the only reason istered in a fair and reasonable way? prisoners do the courses is I would like to say that the healthcare at this to get out early, not to learn prison is excellent. I have attended appoint- We should all remember that if 99% of all people in prison are anything. The government ments with GPs, nursing staff and found all Erwin James Rachel Noel Smith guilty, that still leaves one in every hundred who are inno- are the real criminals, and staff to be professional, understanding and Editor in Chief Billington OBE Commissioning cent. It could very easily be you or someone you care about. it’s all about money. courteous. Well done. Associate Editor Editor Stupidity beyond belief Name withheld - HMP Birmingham Offi cially the LARGEST I really had to chuckle at the letter from Danny Prison Law Dodsworth, HMP Gartree, (November issue), but wondered if anyone could really be that Ben Leapman Paul Sullivan David Roberts Practice in Reporter and Editorial Operations The National Prison Law Specialists the Country cavalier about their own life? It really is a good Feature Writer Assistant Manager example of how dense the majority of people Trusted by more prisoners in England and who deludingly nicknamed themselves Wales than any other Solicitors. ‘Brexiteers’ are, when really a more accurate but less catchy nickname of ‘Quitters’ would With Experts across the Country, have been in order. Seriously, mate, get a grip. we can represent you in ANY PRISON. 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Hopefully it will show the public that counselling session at healthcare when I stopped to con- 25 it looks like the Name withheld - HMP Buckley Hall no matter how bad our crimes, at heart we are verse with another inmate. At that short moment in time I elves, rather than all just human and will put ourselves in harm’s had forgotten what the hour (11am) meant momentarily. As I The Grinch, are in How long did Mr John Crilly spend behind the way in order to help others. These lads, who spoke to this inmate I failed to notice, as did he, that every- Page 17 charge.” door? In 2005, he and his co-defendant were put their own lives in danger, are just part of a one had stood still in silence. Comment 18-33 convicted of murder, but John was released in huge prisoner population who are far from the “This experience 2018 after a landmark ruling reduced his con- ‘monsters’ that the tabloid media make us out A few seconds later a member of staff approached us and is universal, not viction to manslaughter, as a result of the Joint to be. You have only got to read this paper said, ‘Show some f*****g respect, can’t you see that everyone about gender.” Enterprise law being misinterpreted, proving every month to see how many prisoners are is standing still?’ I replied that I hadn’t noticed and there was putting events on for various charities; not that the law does make mistakes. no reason to be so aggressive. In an instant his demeanour Page 26 from the comfort of their own homes and with became even more hostile and in a threatening tone he told No doubt Mr Crilly would have been told that the help of professionals, but from prison cells me, ‘I’ll show you aggression, if you want me to.’ I immedi- Information 34-38 where the average weekly wage is £9. Many he was ‘in denial’ and ‘justifying’ his actions ately put my hands into my pockets and walked away, but I “Not everyone and would have gotten a hard time for his letters also from prisoners trying to do their couldn’t help myself and turned back. I said to him, ‘You who hears voices troubles from a biased and irrational audi- bit for the environment with recycling don’t have to behave like that, I apologise for talking, we all is unwell.” ence. Eyeballs would have rolled every time he schemes. Nobody is irredeemable. The likes of have different things on our mind.’ The Sun and The Daily Mail will still monster mentioned being wrongly convicted. Page 35 us off, but maybe now fewer people will On my way back to the wing I became angry with myself that believe the nonsense they spout. Let’s hope Legal 39-45 John got out and last month he stood up to be I had allowed him to talk to me in that way. He had used abu- so. I have never had occasion to be proud of counted when he helped bring down a terror- sive words and threats to make his point, his threatening be- prisoners, but I am proud of what those lads “Losing a loved ist murderer. The terrorist was holding large haviour made me feel like he would use violence against me did when it counted. I hope none of them one whilst in pris- knives and wearing a fake (though no one knew all because I hadn’t stood still at 11am. Is that showing re- suffer for doing the right thing. on is tragic.” at the time) suicide vest, but John Crilly ran at spect? I was lost in my own thoughts which I am entitled to this man to stop him from harming others. be, it is not compulsory to stand still. Page 39 What will it take? My grandparents are Jewish, I never got to meet them. My fa- Jailbreak 46-60 He has been hailed as a hero and rightly so, he Bruce Child - HMP The Verne ther fought in the Second World War and my mother was a was willing, if needed, to give his life to save “At midnight, a I am certain that the vast majority of inmates staff driver. My dad was wounded at Dunkirk and family others. I bet none of the nay-sayers in the sys- Union Jack flag watched reports of the violence and murder members died in the camps, so nobody has the right to tell tem ever saw that coming when they were was raised at the perpetrated at the Cambridge University Pris- me about respect. I often think about those who gave their rolling their eyes at his claims of wrongful con- EEC headquarters oner Education project in December, with lives so that I could live. And I know that member of staff is viction. Prison psychologists claim they can Page 47 in Brussels to mark horror. There will be many letters to Inside Time free today because of what others gave. I have respect for easily predict future behaviour, but none of the occasion.” expressing dismay at the actions, sympathising them, but not for him. them predicted this. with those that suffered and praising all those that helped prevent further death. I doubt John Crilly should be remembered as the per- though that the actions of the ex-offenders fect example of how a violent drug-abuser, will receive much acknowledgement for the who previously funded his lifestyle by taking help that they gave beyond these pages. things that didn’t belong to him, can rehabili- tate and not just reintegrate but protect the The perpetrator of the Fishmonger’s Hall attack public as well. What he did on that bridge will had already been convicted of planning an at- never take back or change what he was in- tack and had served a sentence for it. So, what volved in in 2005, but I hope his action pro- will it take for politicians to stop and look at the vides proof that he no longer poses a risk to facts? Prison does not work. Locking people the public. up may contain the problem for a while, but in reality it only postpones and exacerbates it. Well done, John Crilly, I hope you stay on the path, stay clean and sober, and, if you don’t By the time this letter is printed, if chosen, we get the medal you so rightly deserve, always will have a new government and hopefully remember that what you did on that day they take a long, hard look at our fractured makes you a good man. Tell yourself this in prison system and focus on giving us the re- times of adversity and you will always make sources needed to really change lives. the right choice. Fishmongers’ Hall terror focus pages 20-23 Contributing to Mailbag If you would like to contribute to Mailbag, please send your letters to the address on the left. It is very important that you ensure the following details are on all paperwork sent to Inside Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUMBER & PRISON. Failure to do so will prevent us responding to you and your submission being withheld from publication. 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To educate, Microplastic Mailbites or not? is killing us Peter Smith - Life should mean life Name withheld - HMP Wakefield Benjamin Burns - Rampton Hospital HMP Leeds I don’t normally support Conservative manifesto plans, There is something that I There is a notice on the pris- think every prisoner should however I welcome plans for whole life sentences for child oner information board ex- be aware of, which could be killers as part of tougher sentencing proposals outlined by horting inmates to consider doing irreparable damage to Justice Secretary Robert Buckland MP. Whole life sentences are signing up for the Open Uni- each and every one of us, already available, however, under the new proposals such versity courses. This is, of and, since last month, all sentences would be automatic except in cases of extreme course, very noble and laud- Facing the storm staff members who work on mitigation. It is right in cases of monstrous evil involving the able but before we heap © Deposit Photos the landings. premeditated murder of a child that such offenders can and praise on this establishment must expect to die in custody. It should come as no surprise we do need to look more Microplastic is the culprit. that child killers are hated and despised by the general prison closely at the actuality. Be like the buffalo Since the introduction of the population. Some would argue that the death penalty would be Michael Maisey - Former prisoner ban on ceramic and glass, more appropriate rather than spending taxpayers money I have recently transferred every prisoner has had to eat housing these monsters. It is about time that sentences here and should have Over the last 12 years of being sober and working on myself, I and drink from plastic properly reflected the seriousness and evil of such crimes. started my 4th year of study have learned many new ways and ancient teachings to help plates, bowls, cups and eat with plastic cutlery. A recent in October. However, a major me live a life of purpose, joy and meaning. The most interest- study by the World Health Ever decreasing circles problem which can be laid ing teachings for me have come from the Native American Organisation (WHO) has Geoffrey Wadley - HMP Hull directly at the feet of this es- tradition. tablishment has prevented found that in a petri-dish, I thought that if someone has mental health problems it’s down this from happening and microplastic has the ability to healthcare to care for them, but whenever I go to see a I spent time with Native American Elders learning about their to destroy the human im- will also directly affect any- ways and traditions around the sacred sweat lodge ceremony, doctor or mental health staff and say that I need help, all I seem one else considering study mune system. Studies have to get is ‘we’ll see you soon’, but ‘soon’ never seems to come. a ceremony which I hold on my men’s retreat in Devon, they not been carried out inside a whilst here. When I talk to wing staff about it all they do is shrug and tell me taught me about lots of things, but the most powerful story living human body, but it is they don’t work with mental health. This sort of casual attitude was the one of the buffalo. expected that this can be All of us who are studying to our real problems can lead to self-harm or other trouble. carried out soon. with the Open University I have seen prisoners go to talk to staff about their problems know that some study mate- “When a storm is brewing, the buffalo is the only and they have ended up on Basic regime because they become I have seen the number of rials are provided on disc for animal that walks towards it. They herd together, men diagnosed with cancer - agitated. And, it has to be said, some staff talk to inmates in an the purpose of in-cell study. putting the oldest and weakest in the middle and terminal and treatable - in- abusive and insulting way, which only adds to the problem. We are also all aware that head into the eye of the storm.” crease at an alarming rate the format will not play on a here. Yes, I agree, it could be Mince pies DVD but requires either a The buffalo represents the direction of the south, the colour a coincidence, but it could Name withheld - HMP Moorland computer or Blu-Ray player. also be down to our overuse associated with the direction of the south is red, because at This is the issue. of plastics. Each time we fill midday when the sun is at its hottest, it’s in the south. The This Christmas, mince pies have been removed from the our plastic cups with boiling south is also the direction of the warrior, the colour red also canteen list. Christmas is not the same without the traditional The governor here will not water and stir our drinks relates to the blood which runs through our veins. innocent mince pie. Can HMPPS tell us why mince pies have allow possession of a Blu- with our plastic spoons, mi- been banned? Ray or computer in-cell. So, croplastics end up inside our A healthy warrior in today’s age is very similar to the buffalo. this avenue of study is se- bodies. When we cut our Response provided by HMPPS - Mince pies have not been A healthy warrior walks towards the storm, even when verely restricted. To further food with our plastic knife banned at HMP Moorland. They were temporarily removed afraid, they are loyal to a just cause, they help those less for- compound the problem only and fork on our plastic due to the foil containers. one Virtual Campus session tunate or weaker than them, they respect their elders, they plates, microplastics end up per week is allowed so are humble, and they know true strength isn’t just physical. in our food. When we store catch-up is impossible, if It’s mental, emotional and spiritual too. our food in plastic tubs in No family contact you consider that the Open the wing freezer, microplas- Mr ABC - HMP Wymott University prefer essays to The ancient and sacred teachings from the Native Americans tics end up on the food. We I am currently a prisoner at Wymott and have been here for a be typed rather than still fascinates me today. If you’re going through a storm at are ingesting large amounts few months. I am from the West Midlands, so my home and handwritten. the moment, keep going, and if someone less fortunate is of plastic. family are some distance from here. My mother is ill and going through it too, try and shelter them as much as you can. cannot travel the distance from Coventry. Since arriving here It is a proven fact that mi- In conclusion, if you are an I’ve had no family contact and cannot maintain any family ties. croplastic is carcinogenic. inmate at HMP Leeds you PS - One of the elders I learnt a lot from is Wa-Na-Nee-Chee of I have been told on several occasions that no establishment in How long before it is linked have been warned about the the Ojibway Nation from Turtle Mountain Reservation in North the West Midlands or surrounding area will accept me. How is consequences of signing up Dakota. If you’re interested in finding out more yourself, he has to the increase in cancer di- agnosis within the prison this possible? They are a prison and I am a prisoner, what do to study with the Open written a book I found really valuable. It’s called Great Grand- you mean they won’t accept me? I would like to know if they University. father Spirit. estate? Back in reality, does anyone at the MoJ really give are breaking any laws, Standing Orders or PSIs? I am aware of a damn if prisoners are get- accumulated visits, yet they tell me the same. Surely this cannot Snail email mail… ting cancer from the preva- go on. Can anyone offer advice? We are sent to prison as punishment, not to be punished whilst in custody. Conor Beckett - HMP Channings Wood lence of plastic in prisons? I think not. But, should the POA dig up enough facts to Email a prisoner, what a great idea. My partner is 7 months pregnant and it is great that she Staff sick from Spice prove it has affected one of can email me about how my son is doing and any updates from midwives, etc. It’s lovely that I Joe Vaughan - HMP Wymott their members, I guess there can get photos sent to me all within 24-hours. The only problem is when I write my replies to would be one hell of a I am currently on the therapeutic community here, and we are send back to my wife it takes 7 to 9 days for her to get them. So, in the long-run, it would be shitstorm. normally out of our cells all day in order to attend recovery faster to send a 1st Class letter. Is there any reason why it should take so long for replies when groups. Recently there has been a lot of New psychoactive it only takes 24-hours for me to get her incoming emails? What plans does the MoJ substances (NPS) on the wing, which has resulted in prison staff have to reduce or prevent the Response provided by Emailaprisoner going home sick because they are inhaling the fumes. So, in ingestion of microplastic by We are extremely disappointed to hear that reply messages could take this long to be received. order to tackle this the governor has decided to keep us locked prisoners and staff? Are The service does work extremely efficiently, and we have very positive feedback from both up. This is not solving the problem, it is just making us more there any studies being car- customers and prisoners. There is no time limit to reply sheets being used and once written they stressed as we are not getting the support we need and are ried out to look at ways plas- are handed in on the wing, along with all out-going mail. When they are scanned in the more likely to use NPS. So, basically, we are suffering because tic use for cutlery, plates, mailroom on a daily basis, within five minutes the message is in the customers emailaprisoner of the small number of people using Spice. The governor should bowls and cups can be inbox and they are notified. Our Prison Liaison Manager will contact the prison in question and target and get rid of the culprits instead of putting a blanket stopped? Food for thought? look into this complaint fully. The service is set up to make communication easier and quicker punishment on the rest of us. Let’s do the right thing and get You decide. and so we very much take on board the importance of the service working as it should. the wing back on track. £2,799 COMPENSATION due to a slip in the shower

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Living with the voices Where is justice? Mailbites David Evans - HMP Holme House A prisoner’s mother Not metal, apparently Thursday 22.54 / Still can’t sleep. Voices I must agree with three of Kevin Willis - HMP Leyhill non-stop. Usual horror show, I hope this isn’t the letters appearing in the happening. Cup of coffee, third this hour, I’m November issue: ‘A pinch of I refer to Damien’s notes about ‘Unlocking a stress drinker. People I’ve met today mak- salt’, ‘Subject to the same talent’ in December’s issue, in which he ing an appearance. Saying terrible, terrible prejudice’ & ‘Karma’. described AC/DC as a ‘metal band’. Really!? things. They have probably been the one band who To compound the situation have been incorrectly termed ‘heavy metal’ Friday 00.45 / Had two more cups, feel too regarding miscarriages of more than any other - except for Motorhead. full. Probation Officer says F*** you, I knew justice, of which I am Yes, AC/DC were one of the biggest bands in Doing time? Give me rhyme convinced there are quite a © Deposit Photos she never liked me. Soon I’ll lay down and the world during the 1980s, and played a sometime, in between the angels and the few, there are many barriers uniquely accessible brand of hard rock with a Poetic licence Probation Officer, I’ll pass out, hopefully. I to reversing these wrongful sound so stripped down it was practically welcome sleep. Sleep’s my friend. It’s a convictions such as - ‘de- custom-made as music examples for gui- niers’ deemed to be not ad- Matthew R Wright - HMP Peterborough break. I don’t take my meds though, which tar-teachers, but the band emerged, as real mitting to their guilt; mental help me sleep. They zombify me. Can’t get fans will know from an Aussie pub-rock scene health and support issues etc. I must declare that my intentions are not to discredit some of any work done. The messages stop. that produced very little, internationally, and the fine work my fellow prisoners send to Inside Time, the Yes, there is an appeal sys- represented a distillation of blue-collar life the often purging of the heart and soul, outpourings of true emo- Friday 07.40 / On the landing the lights are like of which Springsteen can only dream. tion onto the page. My aim is to inspire to a greater extent: tem, but this could seem a on, but they haven’t opened my door. Voices With a name pulled from a sewing-machine poetical content that extends beyond the boundary of prison say it’s because they are talking about me in risky strategy to the wrong- owned by the mother of Angus and Malcolm walls and the subjective nature of its content. the office. Why are they always talking be- fully convicted. What was Young, and with ‘Back in Black’ being the huge hind my back? Another cup of coffee. Meds wrong in the first ‘justice’ process could be deemed to monster success it was, AC/DC were certainly I wish to extol the virtues of objective poetical content on a queue. Not zombie meds. Think the nurse be just as likely to happen in enormous fun. But, as Lemmy kept telling far greater, diverse subject matter, i.e. nature, space and the likes me but gotta remind myself that I’m the second with more disas- journos about his band, AC/DC were NOT a universe, politics, purpose, passion and its many parame- crazy. Back to my cell for another cup of coffee. ters. As opposed to the current theme of poetical works being trous results for the wrong- metal band - just a good time rock ‘n’ roll band fully accused victim. with a distinctive boogie swagger and hard about prison; one’s strife, life and wife. Friday 14.37 / Association time but I’ve locked myself in my cell, having a cuppa. Someone rock attitude. I don’t think many people “It starts with setting the mind free, allowing the comes to my door shouting about the noise can comprehend the devas- soul to wander anywhere it wishes to wander, and during the night. I think he’s going to kill me, tating consequences caused You are not alone upon anything it wishes so to ponder.” soon as the door opens. A voice says he’s told by these cases in which one Austin Halliday - HMP Featherstone everyone he’s going to stab me. Proof. Breathe, person’s word is prioritised I lost my sister to a drug overdose just under a My hope is to free the imaginations of my fellow prisoners, he’s just a bit upset, no one’s going to die. It’s over another. It’s a nev- month ago and I’m still coming to terms with even though our bodies cannot be freed our spirits most cer- OK. It’s OK. I’m boiling the kettle, if he comes er-ending nightmare for the the fact that she’s gone. I have lost two other tainly can. So rather than focusing on the fine establish- in I’ll chuck it in his face. It’s him or me. No accused, their family & their sisters the same way, but they are all in a ments we are currently serving in, why don’t we all go out for one comes in my cell. I tell myself this isn’t friends. All due to a combi- better place now in God’s hands. I would just the day? See where we end up, see where our imaginations real. I don’t know what to think. nation of a ‘witch-hunt’ and take us, the world really is your oyster, even when confined broken ‘justice’ system. like to say a few words to your readers. To to such circumstance as ours. Friday 18.25 / I’m seeing things, strange anyone that has lost a loved one while being in things. I believe this, this is real. I think Finally, has any accuser prison, please hang on in there, you are not Let’s stop writing about prison and how it makes us feel - let’s about suicide every night. Nearly did it to- chosen to take back their alone and there is lots of help out there if you start writing about what is out there in the world; it’s a free- night. Man says, I don’t care. I just want to false allegations or is it a know where to look, chapel, case-worker, dom we can steal. I look forward perhaps to reading a more relax, I just want to live. Live without fear. case of ‘out of sight, out of wing-staff, other prisoners, you just need to diverse collection of poems across a broader spectrum from Tomorrow will be just the same. mind’. What would be the find the strength and the right time for you. the real freedom that inspires great work. Life amidst the voices page 35 consequences to them? What you give out you get back tenfold.

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My hands are very tender, and my fingers feel ate like airports - once you systems, support networks or practical advice is given to HMP Norwich like hot razor-blades, so much so that I can no longer prick go through airport security people leaving prison, it is pretty poor. them to draw blood for my sugar levels. prices go up by at least a There are long delays in third. Why? Because there getting incoming mail, some My main point concerns the menu, it caters for vegans, vege- are no other options, it’s buy “It costs tens of thousands of pounds to keep letters being delayed by tarians, Halal, etc, but nothing for diabetics. Then look at the it or do without it. DHL have someone in prison. If a quarter of that amount several weeks, which is a canteen sheet and the only sugar-free item is Polo Mints, so a monopoly and no other was put towards supporting prison leavers and huge issue. A lot of people I cannot even buy my own healthy food. A few miles from the company supplies the can- here on remand or going prison there is a shop that has a whole isle dedicated to sug- teen. So, they can do what setting up some support the prison population through appeal procedures ar-free foods, from sausages to sweets. They are quite expen- they like and charge what would drop overnight.” have deadlines for legal sive compared to other goods, but I have told the prison that they like. paperwork being submitted. I am willing to pay for these items if they could be delivered. Pretty much all prison leavers can expect is they will have When we ask why this is All I get is NO, and the mumble of ‘security’. Yes, sex-offenders are guilty regular meetings with their parole officer, who will ask them happening, we are told it is questions about what they have been doing or where they because many of the OSGs It would seem that due to complacency and ignorance my before they even step into have been. The role of the Probation Officer is to monitor the (Operational Support Grade) 3-year sentence could well turn out to be a life sentence. the dock. They are judged newly released prisoner and if they step out of line to recall have been off sick and there and sentenced on the word them back to prison. are not enough staff to sort of someone who is simply out post at the gate. Is this A national disgrace? out for financial gain. They Why can’t prison leavers be put on the council house waiting acceptable to HMPPS? are guilty regardless, just list as a priority by their parole officer? This should be done Scott - HMP Berwyn the word of a woman for all prison leavers who have nowhere to live. And what Response provided scorned is all it takes. about a free monthly bus pass to get them around in the by HMPPS Having been at Berwyn for quite some time I have seen the search for jobs? HMP Norwich and the wider population here grow to over 1,600 prisoners. Berwyn, I am Over 60 and in jail, why? prison estate recognises the told, is now classed as a RED site, meaning they don’t have There are so many ways to It appears to me there is little or no support given to people importance of prisoner mail enough staff to operate a normal regime. Officers are being combat this and reduce the leaving prison. They are kicked out to fend for themselves, and in terms of maintaining offered overtime at a rate of £23+ per hour simply so that prison overflow. I doubt that if they put a foot out of line they are recalled to prison where family links and dealing with prisoners can get out of their cells for work and association. many over 60s have the abil- they cost the taxpayer 35k a year to house. Just by taking a legal paperwork and we The number of new staff that have left, and continue to leave, small percentage of the cost of that and putting it towards af- strive to process and deliver ity to do much except sit qui- must be ringing alarm bells with the governor and the MoJ. tercare would reduce the prison population and save money. mail within a timely manner. etly in a chair, but if they If a prisoner has a specific were assessed maybe they “No matter who you ask, staff or inmates, you To be fair, any help or support toward prison leavers would complaint about the delivery could be released to the care go a long way because there really is nothing right now. If of individual mail they are will hear that Berwyn is not safe.” of family and friends and be you keep doing what you are doing then you will keep get- able to raise a complaint put under house arrest. ting what you are getting. Change needs to happen in order through the internal Four times a day we have movements between activities, to reduce crime, the revolving door of prison and the high complaints procedure. Forms where you can see up to 1,300 prisoners crowded onto one Barristers, they don’t care, population. We need change. are available on every wing. pathway trying to get to other parts of the prison. It often it’s just money to them, and feels like walking through a mob of football hooligans on they care even less if you are match day. Fights, slashings and drug deals are common- on Legal Aid. place at these times. On the house-blocks the staircase is one ASN LAW of the most dangerous places. Despite the cameras, drug Staff. Here at Full Sutton the SOLICITORS deals and arranged fights take place there. staff are very good. 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“If you can’t stand the heat…” What Kaizen Not how I see it Mailbites did for me Name withheld - HMP Styal Nothing being done for OLRs YoYo - HMP Littlehey I read the mailbag in the November issue Name withheld - HMP Glenochil about Styal prison being ‘like a little village’ I’ve had time to reflect on The scandal of the Scottish OLR (Order for and how helpful staff and the healthcare are, Lifelong Restrictions) highlighted in your what Kaizen did for me, and I did not recognise this as Styal. I have what I’ve learned from it. November issue was correctly compared to been here for years and I am still waiting to Within recent weeks it has the IPP sentences south of the border. find this ‘little village’ with the helpful staff. become apparent that Pro- However, as Scotland has no effective bation have an ignorant, dis- advocacy organisation for prisoners, nothing missive attitude towards There are over 400 women in this prison, has been done to address its problems. OLR and I’d bet they will all tell you the same prisoners are stuck in a complex web of © Deposit Photos programmes. There is con- flict. And, from recent Pa- thing - the old houses are freezing, with competing authorities, each conducting ‘worst role Board decisions, they many repairs needed. It takes weeks to get a case scenario’ risk-assessments without access What kind of animal? also have the same attitude healthcare appointment, the mental-health to any independent testing. No wonder almost Lee Brown - HMP Littlehey towards Probation provisions are woefully inadequate, and no OLRs have ever been released. Perhaps the recommendations. many poor women are ill and self-harm to Prison Reform Trust could conduct some research with OLR prisoners and lobby the Please, can someone kindly advise me, fulfilling my curious draw attention to it. There are never enough Kaizen has been about me; Scottish government to bring about some disposition, as to what creature, precisely, my current accom- staff, so we are always locked up, the food is modation was designed for? my abusive upbringing and much-needed change in these unfair and slop and many women have to scrape to buy the way it influenced my ex- psychologically damaging sentences? food from the canteen. “I can only imagine that the temperature which it ploitative view of the world and the people in it. Re- Poor service? is kept at would suggest an ideal habitat for an jected at birth, adopted for “I have to say that the staff are quite S Taylor - HMP Stafford iguana or some other tropical creature residing in convenience into an abu- rude to our visitors and the com- the Amazonian regions of South America.” sive, uncaring and neglect- Like many other prisons we are allegedly ful family, I became the plaint system is a waste of time as looked after by a company called Care UK. The whipping-boy at 5-years-old, Despite my own attempts, and those of my colleagues, to we rarely get a reply. At least once a only issue I have with this is the second-rate the target of constant abuse have windows open, and creating all manner of jerry-rigged service. I was diagnosed with an infection until I was on the streets at week in here some poor woman will contraptions to cover and contain the heat coming off the roughly 6-weeks ago and was given a week’s 15. Regular beatings and pipes, and despite the approach of the bleak midwinter try to kill herself, and self-harm is at worth of antibiotics. After the week I was hours in the blackness of the months, I appear to be having to constantly remind myself retested, and was told that the infection had coal shed left me feeling an all-time high.” that I am not in the equatorial regions of Brazil, but in rural not cleared up. But, 6-weeks further down the worthless, I was taught re- Cambridgeshire. line and despite numerous requests and apps I spect through fear. So, I took Which is why we are annoyed at whoever cannot get any more treatment. I would be this to be the norm of family wrote the original letter praising this place, At this time of great concern for our planet as penguins and interested to find out if it is just HMP Stafford life, reinforcing disobedi- polar bears mourn the disappearance of icecaps at the Poles, because things are never going to change for that has this poor service? Speaking with other ence to get love or attention, and droughts in Namibia produce unfortunate conditions re- the better if fantasists tell everyone we are inmates here we have concluded that this as I saw it. I was always in sulting in the mass death of infant elephants, such a waste of living in perfect conditions. This place is a company should be better named ‘Don’t Care trouble and took the skills of energy on myself seems a misplaced generosity of our mess, and nobody should be lying about that. UK’. fear and respect to my earthly resources. school and social life. Naturally, a Comp1 would be perhaps appropriate in such cir- Of course, now in my 60s, I cumstances, but it seems apparent to me that such action Child Abuse. Helping victims achieve justice. had known much of this; re- may result in other undesirable circumstances such as, but pressed the sensitive issues not limited to, a loss of hot-water for days and/or my iguana and admission, and still re- Sports Abuse Compensation terrarium being turned into an enclosure more suited to that press some which I can’t of a penguin. Furthermore, it seems a reasonable suggestion cope with and which still Operation Hydrant is a police investigation into allegations of to say that this message is far too facetious to utilise as a for- tug at my depression. I obvi- mal complaint, and such a suggestion would likely be correct. non-recent child sexual abuse. It’s revealed that there’s been ously needed help decades 2,807 reported incidents of non-recent child sexual abuse in ago, there was none. How do Vast numbers of hours spent in my iguana terrarium has at football and at least 80 sports coaches have been convicted of you tell someone you were least inspired my creative energy, especially during the past like that? You attend a child sexual abuse in the UK since 2016. weekend of restricted regime. It was when I awoke in a hot group, you listen to other sweat that it occurred to me that perhaps the assumption of people’s stories; you relate, accommodating humans in iguana terrariums is probably Our specialist abuse solicitors have a proven track record in and it gives you the courage untrue. I therefore considered that perhaps I am residing in handling sports abuse claims and can help you if you have been to talk because of their hon- some form of heat-chamber previously used in the fermenta- sexually abused in childhood. We can help you claim esty and trust. The biggest tion of alcohol during this prison’s previous life as a brew- compensation from the sports organisation or individual step I’ve ever taken is to ask ery? I can only assume that the realisation of henceforth not for help; and that’s what responsible for the abuse. being able to organise a piss-up in a brewery is what resulted Kaizen did for me. in the decision to build a prison instead? To find out more information about making a claim please Incorrect calculations, again? contact our Abuse Claims Solicitors for free legal advice. Richard N Riley - HMP The Verne If you have been abused as a child in a sporting organisation we would recommend that you report the abuse to the police as I read with interest the piece by Gene Gibson, a former prisoner, in the August 2019 issue. soon as possible. Mr Gibson had been serving a 31-year sentence for drug-trafficking offences and had a confis- cation order against him. He explained that once his assets had been sold and the money paid in to the Court, the Court would then ask the prison to remit the days from his confiscation Prison Visits Legal Aid Available Complete Confidentiality order sentence that were commensurate to the money that was paid in. But it turned out that the prisons had all been calculating the sentences wrongly since 2001. 100 Talbot Road, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0PG Mr Gibson took his case all the way to the Supreme Court and won. The Supreme Court ruled SIMPSON T. 0808 239 8516 that the Prison Service and the MoJ had been using a calculation that was fundamentally MILLAR wrong. I believe that I fall into the same category as Mr Gibson and I am excited at possibly The open lawyers E. [email protected] getting a refund from the MoJ. However, there is no detail in Mr Gibson’s article on how to go simpsonmillar.co.uk | abuselaw.co.uk about claiming, have you any information on this? Authorised and Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Registration No. 424940. Editorial note A good place to start would be to seek legal advice. Insidetime January 2020 ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Mailbag 9 Rantings No confidence in complaints system Buy your A gift Chris ‘Eesa’ Weston - HMP Onley of delusion own mattress HH - HMP Full Sutton Damien Keogh - HMP Hull Until a few months ago I was the library orderly in HMP Not- tingham. I was in the library one July afternoon when, out of Sabine McNeil - What are the rules on prisoners giving a gift to another It is with both sadness and nowhere, I was confronted by another inmate, who told me, HMP Bronzefield prisoner, such as £200 or a mini-stereo system, or asking slight despairing amusement in front of everyone, ‘Are you so-and-so?’ I replied ‘Yes, I am, your family to send a cheque to another prisoner? Are we that I read the rantings of why?’ He said, ‘Because your wing SO has told me that I can’t Once again prison creates allowed to give each other gifts? delusional Brexiteer Danny move to your wing because you are there, and you are an ex- problems and totally avoida- Dodsworth at HMP Gartree. Response provided by HMPPS tremist and that I should sort it out with you.’ ble stress that nobody ‘out ‘Operation Yellowhammer’ PSI 12/2011 para 2.9 states that: “Prisoners must not be allowed there’ would imagine. made predictions about He told me that the Senior Officer had described my physical to transfer ‘in possession property’ to the ownership of other what would happen in the Hence, our first-hand expe- prisoners, unless the Governor is satisfied that such transfers are appearance and where I worked and told the prisoner to ‘sort rience is so valuable. But event of a no-deal Brexit and it out’ with me. Just to clarify; I am not a TACT prisoner or an voluntary and for acceptable reasons (e.g., not the result of what happens to our feelings looked to mitigate the extremist in any way. My security file had a few SIRs regard- bullying or taxing, or in exchange for illicit items), and that they once we’ve formulated them disaster. It clearly highlight- ing radicalisation, but this was years ago. will not undermine the IEP scheme or good order or discipline. ed that there was no viable into a complaint? What hap- Authorised transfers of property must be recorded on all the safeguard to guarantee free I approached the Imams and told them everything and they pens to the pain I’ve been appropriate property record cards.” movement of essential feeling every single night - immediately advised me to complain officially, which I did. I HMP Full Sutton’s Prisoner Information Notice (No 006/2019) medication, where it is except for 3-months when I also contacted my solicitor, who wrote to the prison and told - “Gifting of Items” outlines the local circumstances at that produced in the European them that this is a massive Data Protection breach which po- slept on 2 mattresses appar- Union. For Danny’s sake, I prison where a prisoner can make an application to give a gift. tentially puts my safety in jeopardy. My solicitor’s letter was ently by mistake? Requests to gift will be considered for exceptional circumstanc- hope healthcare at HMP received by HMP Nottingham on the 7th of August 2019, and I Gartree are better than the es only and include on transfer/release, or life limiting illness, was transferred here to Onley on the 8th of August 2019. A Healthcare were told by the vast majority of healthcare and are subject to the following restrictions: clear indication of how serious they deemed the situation. Prisoners Advice Service providers in UK prisons. It • Money will not be considered for gifting; seems clear that with the (PAS) that they are required Unfortunately, as of now, I still have not received an answer • Any purchase made within the last 6 months will not be state of the country at the ‘to make reasonable adjust- to my initial complaint which I submitted whilst still in HMP approved for gifting; moment politicians and the Nottingham. I have submitted a further 5 complaints about ments’ so that a new mat- • Prisoners who wish to gift or are an intended recipient will be country at large place the them refusing to answer my initial complaint. tress was delivered without wellbeing of prisoners at the taking the old one away. In subject to a volumetric check; lower end of their priorities. The fact that HMP Nottingham are blatantly refusing to an- my attempts at getting my • Gifting of property to a charitable organisation will be considered; Danny puts his faith in an swer my complaint about a Senior Officer divulging my secu- Chronic Pain Syndrome rec- • Prisoners not subject to VRS/CSIP measures; ideology that does not rity information to another prisoner, and jeopardising my ognised so that I can survive • Prisoners not currently completing adjudication awards. consider the health of safety, clearly indicates that they know they have messed up in this toxic environment, I vulnerable prisoners with and are liable for significant damages. have already acquired a physical and mental-health Money being wasted wheelchair thanks to my needs. Is risking access to I find it hypocritical that if I do something wrong I am imme- friends and supporters. That David Young - HMP Leeds life-saving medication worth diately taken to task for it, but if an officer engages in wrong- the outcome that is still very doing he is protected and faces no consequences. How does took 6-weeks of begging for In September, I met with my solicitor to sign paperwork in uncertain? ‘Brexit, even if HMPPS expect us to have confidence in the complaints pro- permission and the threat of which I agreed to repay £995 proceeds of crime. I was advised you die’? Speak for yourself. cedure when the rules are not followed? being handcuffed on my back while being carried. that all matters could now be concluded in court and that I That was when I sat on the could simply attend via video-link. floor because my hip was The video-link between myself at the prison and the court did hurting too much. I was take place two weeks later, as agreed, but unfortunately FREE forced to crawl with my failed due to a technical problem. The Judge was aware of my crutches. attendance and was also aware that I had given my barrister QUOTES consent to conclude all matters on the day. However, the Ever since I had my hip dis- Judge decided to adjourn due to the video-link failure and as located in a car accident I a result my next attendance would be required in person. I wish I could make my pain had to attend court and as a result I needed to be transported visible. But here, rules mat- to Sheffield Crown Court, a 2-hour journey. This was an ad- ter and THEIR happiness, journed hearing which took just 15-minutes to conclude, but a not OUR relieving of pain. hearing that meant I was now relocated to HMP Leeds, 100- miles further North. PAY YOUR POCA Health & Safety say the mat- Do you need money to pay for your con scation? tress could slip (if there were I fully accept and shall pay the £995 owing, I had already 2) even though it didn’t for agreed to do so. 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Not black or white, but grey What if I’m innocent? Prisoners saving the planet Financial J Bedford-Turner - HMP Highdown Steve Kidd - HMP Berwyn disadvantage Name withheld - HMP Risley Journalists often proudly assert that there The issue of prisoners maintaining innocence and the Parole are no ‘political prisoners’ or ‘prisoners of Board has raised its ugly head again recently. The Parole Board Myself and the entire prison conscience’ in UK prisons. But, I beg to dif- has agreed to release a man who served 12-years over his tar- are the victims of illegal tax- fer, such prisoners do exist, they are just iff for murder. He has always maintained his innocence so he ation and extortion. The fact conveniently classified as ‘hate criminals’. could not do courses, show remorse, or tell anyone where the that we are not able to take Thought criminals, hate criminals, political body is buried. Only he knows if he is guilty but, if he is, then up part-time work, a second prisoners of conscience - it is merely a ques- why the hell would he have been willing to spend 12-years on job, or increase our income tion of semantics. top of the 19 he was given? If he isn’t guilty then he has spent in prison means we must ask © Deposit Photos 31-years incarcerated for a murder he did not commit. our family or friends to in- This is a dodge that non-western countries crease any contribution they have now got wise to, for I hear that in order History tells us that many people have maintained their inno- The ultimate make to our living expenses. to sidestep critics, China is now labelling its cence because of one telling aspect - they were innocent - the own political prisoners as hate criminals too. Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Cardiff Three, Sam environmentalist It is not criminals who are The UK’s Ministry of Justice ‘Discrimination Hallam, Sean Hodgson. doing this to us, but those Incident Reporting Form (DIRF) lists the fol- Bruce Child - HMP The Verne responsible for the running lowing categories of discrimination as Maintaining innocence cannot be a bar to progression. It’s of our prisons. If you take grounds for complaint - disability, gender, about the alleged offender’s risk to the public on release. To With the increasing focus on climate change, HMP Risley as an example - marriage or civil partnership, gender reas- keep a prisoner for another 12-years over tariff because they problems in the environment and the grow- we are paid £10.30 per week, signment, pregnancy or maternity, age, race, have maintained innocence is not the actions of a just and ing realisation that we all need to consume which is supposed to pay for sexual orientation, and religion or belief. fair system. It’s blackmail to try and force a prisoner to admit less, I would like to suggest that prisoners, whatever we need. So, if what to something they cannot due to their innocence. as a group, are among the most socially re- we need costs £10.30 per That last category, religion or belief, is at Stolen innocence! pages 20-21 sponsible in the country. week the contribution we are least partly the result of the European Court required to ask our friends of Human Rights, important but relatively re- Our air miles are zero, on average each pris- and family is zero. If what cently Arthur Redfearn ruling, which estab- oner makes only one vehicle journey a year, we need costs, say, £15.30, lished that an individual’s political ideals our consumption of food is limited, there are then we must ask our loved- and beliefs are part and parcel of that indi- no unnecessary deliveries of food to my door. ones for a £5 contribution or vidual’s belief system and are therefore fully do without essential items. protected under discrimination legislation. All that we eat is delivered in one large lorry The problem is that prices The UK government (it must be admitted, to minimise emissions from transport. Our keep going up, but the money rather grudgingly) accepted this ruling and hot water and heating are centrally produced we are getting as wages from adopted it into UK law. This means, of to maximise efficiencies. Our consumption the prison is not. It means that course, no UK citizen or UK resident © Deposit Photos of consumer goods is severely limited and our family and friends are (whether inside prison or out) can be dis- Expensive vapes even our game-consoles are recycled. being required to increase criminated against because of his/her politi- the contribution they make cal persuasion, ideals or beliefs - however Steve Lowe - HMP Erlestoke Some of us are involved in sorting waste to towards our living expenses. unfashionable or ‘hateful’ some may con- ensure as much as possible is recycled. We sider them to be. This has far-reaching impli- Every man and woman held in HMP’s glorious accommoda- grow some of our food and make our clothes In this prison, this taxation/ cations that have not yet worked their way tion must have realised by now that DHL has got us by the and furniture to minimise transport costs extortion is being increased through British society or indeed Britain’s short and curlies when it comes to canteen prices. Every price and avoid the exploitation of foreign workers by another factor. The prison prison system. seems significantly increased compared to outside, but the and children. is reducing the things they obvious main culprit is our vapes. once provided, meaning we UK prisons currently prohibit the possession “With a little fine-tuning of DHL are required to cover the cost of certain items and these include mobile We pay £3.99 for 3 of the cheapest, nastiest, tackiest vapes packaging, the addition of a wind of providing them for our- phones, drugs, weapons, pornography and that have ever been produced. Every week they seem to run selves and as we are not see- ‘hate-literature’. Mobile phones, drugs, out faster, too. It would appear that the very same vapes are turbine or two and a few dozen solar ing an equivalent increase in weapons and pornography are self-explana- sold for £1 in Poundland. I doubt that DHL bods just roll into panels, we could be carbon-neutral our prison wages, who then tory and present no real problem with identi- Poundland and pick them up cheap, I would suggest that well before the rest of the country in must cover the increase in fication as they are objective items and easy they instead go to Poundland’s suppliers and pick them up living expenses except our to recognise. ‘Hate-literature’, on the other even cheaper! 2050.” family and friends? We are hand, being largely a subjective matter, is no longer provided with less easy to define and recognise and so pre- I believe that when a retailer buys from a supplier they will As a lifestyle, the prison system has much to bread at the majority of our sents a less clear-cut case. No listing of pro- normally put on a 400% mark-up for profit, wages, rent, etc - recommend it to those who are environmen- meals, no margarine is pro- hibited political publications (i.e. ‘Hate- of course, DHL use prison labour mostly and don’t pay rent tally aware. If publicised it might even raise vided, no jam, no coffee sa- literature’) currently exists to aid prison au- on the prison premises they use, so I guess their mark-up is the prisoner profile in the eyes of the general chets. How many other thorities in the censoring of items mailed to all profit. So, DHL is really raking it in from their monopoly, public. Perhaps the Tories proposals to in- things are we going to be prisoners - i.e. in deciding which magazines now I’ve just got to hope I win the Star Letter, so I’ll be able to crease the prison population and keep us in- asked to provide ourselves and books are allowed to be received and once again afford the privilege of having my strides pulled side for longer is the answer to the problem while the prison budget re- read by prisoners, and which are not. down on canteen day by DHL. of climate change! Happy New Year! mains the same? Deton Solicitors Important Parole Case Coming Up? DEFENDING YOUR CAUSE!!! Forensic Accountants Get Someone Experienced Representation in Prison Law, CONFISCATION PROCEEDINGS Criminal Defence and Appeal & Reviews UNDER POCA! Who Gives a $@*#! 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Bonus for probation company where more than half reoffend Newsbites

Inside Time Exclusive The Government announced reforms proved controversial. Rise in violence and self-harm in 2019 that it would reverse An inquiry by the all-party New probation Violence and self-harm have hit record highs in English and Grayling’s reforms, scrap the Commons Justice Committee contracts offered Welsh prisons, official figures have shown. Prison officers and A probation company has CRCs and renationalise found that the new structure earned a performance bonus probation as a single service was failing, with its report Private firms have been prison reform campaigners said the findings highlighted grave - even though more than half - but not until 2021. warning: “We are un- invited to bid for £1.26 problems in the system, with staff shortages and restricted of the people it supervises go convinced that Transforming billion of contracts to regimes adding to the frustration felt by prisoners. In the year on to commit further crimes. The Ministry of Justice Rehabilitation will ever provide rehabilitation, to June there were 34,112 assaults in prisons, up by 5% on the released the latest perfor- deliver the kind of probation training and unpaid work previous year. Among these were 10,424 assaults on staff, a rise Durham Tees Valley CRC has mance figures for CRCs a service we need.” for offenders on proba- of 10%. The figures are the highest since records began in 2009. the highest reoffending rate week before election day. tion. The contracts form On an average day there were 94 assaults of which 29 were of all the 21 regional ‘commu- They showed that across the The MPs singled out the part of a shake-up which targeted at staff. Also in the year to September there were 308 nity rehabilitation compa- country, 44.6% of people bonus payment system for is expected to take effect deaths in prison custody, of which 90 were self-inflicted. Both nies’ which operate proba- supervised by CRCs reoffend- criticism, stating: “The in 2021. Although figures were little changed from the previous year’s totals. tion in England and Wales. probation will become a ed within a year, each payment by results mecha- Self-harm reached a record high of 60,594 incidents in the 12 single publicly-owned committing an average of 4.7 nism in the contracts with months to June 2019, up 22% from the previous 12 months. In According to Government further crimes. CRCs is not working as a service, in a reversal of response to the figures, prison officers’ leaders blamed public figures, 50.7% of the people sufficient incentive to drive Chris Grayling’s 2014 spending cuts which had led to staff shortages, resulting in it began to supervise between London had the lowest improvement.” reforms, some of its October and December 2017 reoffending rate, of 41.1%. functions will still be prisoners being locked up for extended periods. had committed fresh offences Besides Durham Tees Valley The chairman of the Justice carried out by the private within 12 months. Those who only one other region had a Committee, Conservative MP sector. Critics claimed the Timpsons hires more ex-offenders did reoffend committed an rate of more than half: Bob Neill, said at the time: details of the contracts Shoe repair business Timpsons now employs 674 ex-offenders, average of 6.9 further crimes. Humberside, Lincolnshire “There are major questions to suggested there would be a company record. Chief executive James Timpson announced and North Yorkshire, with be answered on a whole too much emphasis on the figure on Twitter, adding: “That means if my colleagues Yet the Ministry of Justice quick interventions and 50.6%. range of issues including the were all still locked up we would be one of the larger prisons in said it would receive a payout not enough on longer-term support people get when the UK!” The family-owned company has long had a policy of under the “payment by Twelve CRCs qualified for they leave custody, the measures such as provid- considering ex-offenders for suitable positions - except results” system because the performance bonuses while performance of probation ing ex-offenders with individuals convicted of sexual or terrorism offences, who are figure was below a bench- the other nine missed out. providers, contracts with housing, jobs and help to mark based on the reoffend- None suffered a deduction in CRCs, poor staff morale and overcome addictions. excluded. It also runs training academies in five prisons. ing rate in the region in 2011. their payments, which they the involvement of the Mr Timpson is also chair of the Prison Reform Trust. Mike Trace, chief execu- could have done had the voluntary sector. This has a tive of the Forward Trust, CRCs and the bonus payments reoffending rate in their negative impact on the Awards for legal advice schemes said: “There’s a tendency system were introduced by region risen significantly number of individuals who Schemes offering free legal help to prisoners and immigration to go for stack ‘em high former justice secretary Chris above its 2011 level. go on to reoffend.” detainees have been recognised with awards. The initiatives Grayling in 2014 in his much and treat ‘em cheap programmes to show were praised at the LawWorks Annual Pro Bono Awards, which criticised Transforming Reoffending among offend- Durham Tees Valley CRC is something is being done.” celebrate unpaid work done by lawyers. One award went to the Rehabilitation reforms. These ers supervised by the owned by a consortium of campaign group Bail for Immigration Detainees and four law saw the probation service National Probation Service nine state and voluntary The National Association firms, which formed a partnership offering free advice to split in two, with CRCs was lower overall, with rates sector organisations includ- of Probation Officers people facing deportation. Clients include prisoners and awarded contracts worth between 33% and 41% in the ing councils, an NHS trust criticised the continued people held in immigration detention. Another award went to £2.5 billion over seven years English regions and 46% in and a social housing involvement of the private the Cardiff Law School Pro Bono Clinic, which runs an to take on low-level cases Wales. provider. In 2019, HM sector, and called for full Innocence Project helping prisoners to appeal their convictions while the National Probation Inspectorate of Probation in nationalisation to provide in cases where a miscarriage of justice is suspected. The Open Service oversaw more Even before they were 2019 awarded it a rating of a “fully joined up and Justice Prison Partnership, in which Open University law serious offenders. introduced, Grayling’s “requires improvement”. integrated” service. students visit prisons to assist prisoner peer advisers trained by St Giles Trust, was shortlisted for one of the awards. Winners The Johnson Partnership were presented with their awards by Lady Hale, President of the Supreme Court, at the event in London on 3rd December.

Our dedicatedSolicitors prison law team have years of experience Artworks tour churches representing prisoners and fighting for their rights. An exhibition of prisoners’ art has been displayed at more than Our team ensure all prisoners nationwide can have the 40 churches. The 40 artworks from Styal and Thorn Cross best representation available. prisons, on the theme of “A Journey into Light”, were first We have specialist and expert knowledge in the areas of shown at Chester Cathedral then taken on a 14-month tour parole board proceedings, adjudications and other areas around the diocese. Hannah Jones, a spokesperson for the such as HDC and re-categorisation. ‘Nicking’ church, said: “The aim of the exhibition is to demonstrate to On a legal aid basis we can represent clients for: visitors that behind every prisoner’s conviction and sentence is Adjudication Before The Judge Licence Recalls a personal story of love, hope and loss. We quickly saw the Lifer/IPP Reviews Judicial Reviews Cat A Reviews positive impact it would have. On the opening night at Chester Pre Tarriff Reviews Oral Hearings ‘Nicked’ Cathedral, as guests walked around the exhibition, some were We are also able to represent prison law clients on a moved to tears as they read the stories behind the artwork and number of other prisons law matters for which legal aid is not available which include: allowed themselves to be transformed in their understanding ‘Adjudications’ of what it means to be a prisoner.” The final stop on the Challenging License Conditions Adjudications Before The Governor exhibition’s tour was St George’s Church, Stockport, where it Whatever it is called, it can lead to an closed with a carol concert on 17th Dec. Contact Us For A Quote extra 6 weeks on your sentence. Prison Law Department Don’t go it alone, get expert lawyers Keeping Safe Call 0115 9419141 on your side. 24 Hours a day New Year message from the IAP 7 days a week Call us: 01642 247656 Our promise to you: in 2020 we will do all we can to Nottingham Office J make sure that active steps are taken to protect life and Cannon Courtyeard P that you are kept safe. Wishing everyone in custody a Off Long Row peaceful New Year. With warmest wishes, Juliet Lyon Nottingham, NG1 6JE Write to us: 102-108 Borough Road, [email protected] Middlesbrough, Teesside TS1 2HJ and colleagues on the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody - Freepost IAP OFFICES NATIONWIDE Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Newsround 13

Looking Newsbites Back... SPICE DEATH VIDEO Charity helps record number into work through the Inside However, Dei Keith Jones A charity that help ex-prisoners to find jobs has helped a record Time archives said the extra security number of people into work. In the first 10 months of 2019, 322 should have been in place January 2010 former prisoners found jobs with the assistance of Clean Sheet. earlier. He told ITV Wales: “I The organisation’s previous best annual total was 312, set in had to lose my son for them 2018. Sam Graham, chief operating officer, announced the to spend more money on figure at a reception at the House of Lords for the charity’s their prisons and it’s wrong. supporters. She said: “That’s 322 people who have found hope It’s wrong. The prison and purpose again, 322 people with a secure income, 322 service has been running for people rebuilding their lives.” Clean Sheet recruits ex-prisoners a long time. They know all nationwide as members. Those who sign up gain access to a directory of more than 140 employers who pledge to consider Luke tried to the faults in every prison by ex-offenders who apply for suitable vacancies. It also works help others - RIP now, so a super-prison should never have been inside one prison, Norwich, and hopes to expand into more. Clean Sheet was founded in 2010 by Jane Gould, who led it as get their money at the end of opened without all the Inside Time report an independent charity for nine years before retiring when it the day they’re not facilities up and running.” merged in 2019 with the Langley House Trust, which provides bothered.” A prisoner who made a video Luke Jones was serving a accommodation for former prisoners. warning of the danger of Thump away He had discussed with four-year sentence and at the using drugs in jail died officers the possibility of time of his death he was six Probation deaths “I recently had the displeasure weeks later after taking moving off Alwen wing onto months away from being Campaigners have called for an urgent investigation into the of sharing a cell with a Spice. In the video, recorded a different wing where Spice released. He had self-harmed number of people committing suicide while on probation, after bible-thumping believer, with the permission of the was less available. Carol 60 times at the prison and new figures showed a record rise. In the year to March, 1,093 although mercifully our time authorities at HMP Berwyn, Dolan, the custodial had apparently attempted to people died while under probation supervision, either follow- together was brief. As an Luke Jones said he had never manager on Alwen wing at take his own life days earlier, ing release from prison or under a court order. At least 337 of atheist and free-thinker, I used Spice before coming the time, told the inquest the inquest heard. Following the deaths were self-inflicted, according to figures from the barely raised an eyebrow into prison. The following that drug use was happening this, he was placed on Ministry of Justice - a rise of 19% on the previous year’s total. when he started spouting the month he was found “frequently” in that part of constant watch, reduced to The true number who took their own life is likely to be higher usual nonsense about the slumped and covered in the jail. four checks per hour on the because many of the deaths were still under investigation. virgin birth, walking on water vomit in his cell. He was Deborah Coles, executive director of INQUEST, said the day before he was found and the resurrection.” rushed to hospital, where he incidents called for “urgent scrutiny” and criticised the “current Rachel James, the prison’s dead. Mailbag - HMP Manchester was pronounced dead. head of custody, said that lack of independent investigation”. She said: “What is known is that people are being released into failing support systems, before Jones died there had Two weeks before his death ‘I missed my little chicks.’ A pathologist told his inquest been a problem with Spice poverty and an absence of services for mental health and he had been dismissed from “The reason Katie Price (the that his death, in March arriving in the prison via the additions. This is state abandonment. This is the violence of his kitchen job for fighting, former model Jordan) gave 2018, was caused by heart post, including fake Rule 39 austerity.” Also among the deaths, 47 men were victims of which the inquest heard was the organisers of ‘I’m a problems ‘promoted by the legal letters. She said homicide - meaning that men on probation were 10 times a “setback” to his prison life. Celebrity’ for leaving the use of this drug’, and would scanners which can detect more likely to become victims of murder or manslaughter than Dei Keith Jones told the jungle early. She said she was have been ‘very rapid’. The illegal drugs in mail were men in the general population. prepared to forego her fee to jury at the inquest, which now being used and the inquest that his son had fly home to her three children concluded in December 2019, situation was improving, but shown no signs of any who she was missing very found that “systematic it was “still a prison mental health problems failings” in preventing illegal before being sent to prison. ‘Reconsideration’ much. But instead of getting stabilising”. drugs from entering the He said he could not on the first plane home, she prison had contributed to understand why the decided to stay on for a few After Jones died, a family procedure challenged Jones’s death. He was the observations on his son had more days and enjoy the liaison officer told his father, first person to die at Berwyn, been reduced, especially Andrew Sperling successfully challenged in a Australian sunshine.” Dei Keith Jones, that he had a “super-prison” holding given his record of judicial review claim brought The things they say been using the synthetic more than 2,000 prisoners, drug when he was feeling drug-taking. by two of the victims of John The High Court has granted which opened a year earlier. “low”. Speaking after the Worboys’ offending. Name away permission for a judicial inquest, a Ministry of Justice The inquest was told that on review challenge to the “The prison service’s motto is In his video, Jones said: spokesman said: “HMP the day Luke Jones died, a “reconsideration” procedure All prisoners whose release ‘decency, dignity and duty of “People will try to push you Berwyn has since ramped-up prison officer checked on introduced by the Secretary has been directed by the care’ and they use words like on drugs or put it under your its drug defences with him in his cell at 17:33 and of State for Justice through Parole Board now remain in respect, humanity, diversity nose. All they want to do is increased checks, a new again at 18:07 when he was the Parole Board Rules custody for at least 21 days and empathy. So why do line their own pockets dedicated search team, a found slumped. Staff called 2019. This procedure after the release direction prison officers/staff address - they’re not bothered if you full-time sniffer dog, tighter a “code blue” emergency removed the Parole Board’s has been made. If the prisoners by surname? This go in your pad and curl over visiting procedures and a full alert, entered his cell, found ability to make an immedi- Secretary of State applies needs to be stamped out as a and die of it; as long as they review of its CCTV.” he had shallow breathing, ate, binding direction for for reconsideration, the matter of urgency because it’s and put him in the recovery prisoner remains in custody disrespectful, ignorant, release when considering a Our team of specialists can o er position. A nurse assisted prisoner’s parole review. until the application has degrading, judgemental, free advice and assistance in prison officers until para- Instead, any direction for been considered by an inhumane, undignified, and relation to Legally Aided issues, medics arrived. He was release is now “provisional” assessment panel of the smacks of victimisation.” including: pronounced dead at 19.20. for a period of, at least, 21 Parole Board. If that panel Mailbag - Address supplied Solicitor Michael Strain, who days while the Secretary of agrees that the decision was Lifer/IPP Parole Board Reviews (Pre/Post Tari ) has several clients at HMP State for Justice decides irrational or procedurally Whinge away Recalls Berwyn, said some had whether to apply for the unfair, the case will be Independent Adjudications “I am a whinger, in fact I see it asked to be transferred to decision to be reconsidered. referred to a different panel Category A Reviews as a basic human right. I other prisons. He said: “I of the Parole Board to be whinged when I was fitted up; We can also o er competitive xed fees for matters have clients who want me to The reconsideration system looked at again. The I whinged when I was wrongly which are not currently covered by Legal Aid such as: try and get them back into applies to parole decisions challenge claims that the convicted; I whinged when I Sentence planning/calculations Altcourse in Liverpool, for every prisoner serving an reconsideration procedure is was sentenced; and I haven’t Challenging Licence Conditions which is a Category B prison indeterminate or extended unlawful. The case will be stopped whinging since. And Re-categorisation for more serious offenders. sentence. It was brought heard in the High Court in if the institutionalised, broken Accessing O ending Behaviour Programmes It’s a stricter prison but they into law in July 2019 as a Cardiff later this year. and brainwashed brigade Contact us today: Address: prefer being in there because response to the decision of a amongst us don’t approve of T: 01752 600833 Genesis O ce 6, 235 Union Street they feel safer and at less Panel of the Parole Board to my whinging, then tough!” risk of being forced to take direct the release of John @: o [email protected] Plymouth, Devon PL1 3HN Andrew Sperling is a solicitor Mailbag - HMP Frankland these drugs.” Worboys. This was at SL5 14 Newsround www.insidetime.org Insidetime January 2020

handed a total of just under a Category C male prison 160,000 added days, holding 680 adults and Tory win means more prisoners equivalent to 438 years. The young offenders. In 2018 it Continued from front page total rose each year until in gave out 12,440 added days. 2018 it reached 380,169 days Next highest were or 1,041 years. Over the same Pentonville (11,426 added Further pledges made by the party include spending an extra period, the total number of days) and Oakwood (10,036 £100 million to crack down on crime within prisons; creating prisoners fell slightly, from added days). At the other a National Prisoner Education Service to improve the quality 84,684 in June 2014 to end of the scale, open of teaching in jails; and increasing employment opportuni- 82,649 in June 2018. prisons and those holding ties in prison and post-release. Victims of crime will get new lifers or sex offenders tended rights to be informed when the perpetrator comes up for pa- As the number of proven to issue the fewest added role, and to apply to attend the parole hearing. adjudications rose, so did days. In 2018 Gartree gave the number that were either out none, Hollesley Bay 15 Violent and sexual offenders sentenced to more than four dismissed or not proceeded and Ashfield 30. years will have to serve two-thirds of the time in prison, in- with. Responding to the stead of half. Whole-life sentences will become the starting findings, Andrew Neilson, In the women’s estate, the point for child killers, while the maximum sentence for as- Director of Campaigns at the prison making the most use saulting a police or prison officer may rise from one year to Howard League, said: “The of the punishment was two years. “Do I really need more time in here?” more we punish someone, Drake Hall, which holds 322 © Andy Aitchison/Library image the harder we make it for prisoners and awarded 3,524 The system by which the Attorney General can apply to have them to change their lives. added days. Under the “unduly lenient” sentences lengthened will be extended to The fact that the number of internal disciplinary system cover sexual abuse and harassment. The ‘victim surcharge’ 1,000 years jail additional days handed in English and Welsh paid by all convicts will increase by 25%. A former head of down in prisons has prisons, prisoners accused Scotland Yard warned before the election that recruiting doubled in four years, while of breaking rules can be ‘New solutions must be found’ 20,000 more police would mean more arrests, potentially violence and self-injury called to a first adjudication leaving prosecutors, courts and prisons struggling. Lord Blair behind bars have continued in front of a governor or Continued from front page in Scotland scrapped the to rise, is a clear sign that said of the rise in police numbers: “If it comes into place practice in 2002. another senior member of new solutions must be prison staff. Punishments without the other parts of the criminal justice system being Transactions involving found. The Howard League can include removing equally supported, you end up with a system that will not be Campaigners fear that while will publish these figures in able to cope.” He also predicted that another Conservative contraband such as drugs or adjudications and added privileges, restricting access mobile phones are thought a briefing, to be published in to money or work, or solitary election promise, that people charged with knife crime days were originally early 2020, which will should appear in court within a week, would prove “not pos- to be the most common intended to punish severe confinement. reason for prisoners to have consider this important sible” to deliver. unacceptable behaviour, issue through the lens of days added on. The report they are increasingly being In more serious cases, the will be published by the justice and fairness in prison can refer the case to used as a routine behaviour prisons.” Howard League for Penal management tool. an external adjudicator - a Reform, which is campaign- district judge - who has the The prison that made the ing for the abolition of added According to the official power to impose up to 42 days as a punishment in most use of added days as added days. At this stage the figures, in 2014 prisoners in punishment was Rochester, England and Wales. Prisons England and Wales were prisoner is entitled to Legal Aid so they can be represent- ed by a solicitor at the hearing. Around one in ten adjudications results in the awarding of added days. They can only be handed to prisoners serving determi- nate sentences, not to those “We know the score” on indeterminate sentences © Andy Aitchison/Library image or being held on remand. This means that two Former prisoners prisoners breaking the same rule in the same prison can land jobs in prisons receive different Get the flu jab before the flu gets you punishments. The Prison Service has said that ex-offenders make valuable employees in prisons. It defended its practice of employing l What are the common Keep warm If rule-breaking by a people with convictions after a newspaper investigation l symptoms of flu? Take paracetamol or ibuprofen to prisoner amounts to a found that more than 200 prison staff have criminal records. lower your temperature and treat criminal offence, it can also l aches and pains Fever be referred to police for A spokesman for the Prison Service said: l Aching muscles l Drink plenty of water to avoid possible prosecution. There l Chills and sweats dehydration were almost 205,000 “Reformed ex-offenders bring valuable skills and l Headache adjudications in 2018, a rise experience to rehabilitation roles. All applicants l Dry, persistent cough If I get flu how can I help of 71% from the figure seven l undergo rigorous checks.” Fatigue and weakness to stop further spread? years earlier. The Howard l Nasal congestion League said that adjudica- The Sunday Mirror reported that the Prison Service employs l Sore throat l Avoid using common areas tions were the most common 158 ex-offenders, with a further 46 working at private jails, l Keep your living environment clean reason for prisoners calling citing figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. l Cover your mouth and nose with What should I do its legal helpline. Cases It was not clear whether they were employed as prison a tissue when coughing or sneezing being sent to external officers or in other roles. According to the newspaper, the if I have symptoms? l Sit at least three feet away from adjudications include some crimes they were convicted of are understood to include drug l Inform a member of staff others, if possible incidents of apparently offences and affray. IMMEDIATLEY l Discourage visitors, especially trivial rule-breaking. In one children and vulnerable adults case dealt with by the The Prison Officers’ Association called for an inquiry. Its l Support the prison by adhering to What is the usual treatment? Howard League, a boy had chairman Mark Fairhurst said: “This needs to be fully other restrictions which may be been adjudicated for investigated. It could clearly conflict with the nature of the l Rest and sleep needed squirting milk. The case was job. We are worried about organised criminals infiltrating the eventually dismissed on the service to smuggle contraband. Five or 10 years ago, most Public Health basis that it was not serious applicants with records would have been turned down flat. England Ask healthcare if you are eligible enough to have been sent to Now, with the Government panicking about critical staffing the judge in the first place. levels, they are being welcomed with open arms.” Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Newsround 15

US cops test snare gun Singing for good Nigerian prison scam World prison review A “Batman-style” weapon that ensnares The head of a maximum-se- suspects by wrapping them in a cord is being curity jail and a prison doctor “Let me in!” trialled by police forces across America. have been arrested in The BolaWrap gun fires an eight-foot Kevlar Nigeria, following allegations line with hooked weights at each end at a that they enabled a prisoner speed of 350 miles per hour. Anyone hit will to conduct internet scams. find the cord wrapped around their legs or Hope Olusegun Aroke carried torso, stopping them from moving. out a million-dollar fraud while serving a 24-year jail The weapon, which has a range of eight sentence - for fraud. He had metres, is meant to be a “less lethal” option Prisoners release Christmas album access to a mobile phone and designed to reduce the use of physical force Prisoners at Ireland’s biggest jail have released the internet. by police. But civil liberties campaigners are an album of Christmas songs for charity. The warning that the new device, made by private 10-track recording, called Jingle Jangle, The country’s Economic and Rapper can’t perform in jail firm Wrap Technologies, could escalate features songs including Jingle Bells, Deck the Financial Crimes Commission An American rapper’s offer to perform in a Swedish prison violence rather than reduce it. Halls and Silent Night. It was recorded in the (EFCC) said the two prison where he served time has been rejected by officials. A$AP prison church as a collaboration between staff were arrested for Rocky was held for a month at Kronoberg Prison while awaiting Small forces in Arizona and North Carolina Mountjoy Inhouse Voices and a workplace falsifying medical reports that trial for assault after a street brawl last summer. He was eventu- have already tested the BolaWrap, and now choir from SOLAS, a training organisation that enabled Aroke to get ally convicted and handed a suspended sentence. He flew 200 officers in Los Angeles will be trained in runs courses for prisoners. treatment outside prison in a home to the USA following the incident, but was due to return how to use it. police hospital. to Sweden to perform at Stockholm’s Ericsson Globe arena on Proceeds will go to the Dublin Simon One police chief whose force already uses the After getting himself December 11. As part of his trip, he asked if he could put on a Community, a homelessness charity. Among concert for inmates. But Vilhelm Grevik of Sweden’s Prison and device said it was helping his officers to make admitted to a police hospital, the songs on the album is The Auld Triangle, Probation Service said it would not be possible to organise the arrests. Chief Herbert Blake of Hendersonville authorities say Aroke moved versions of which have been released by The event inside the jail, citing logistical and security concerns. Police Department, North Carolina, said: “It to a hotel, receiving guests basically gives us the opportunity to rush or Pogues and The Dubliners. The title refers to a and attending parties. charge them once we get them restrained with large metal triangle which used to be beaten Mom sent to prison for helping son escape from jail daily at Mountjoy to wake up the prisoners. A San Antonio mother has been sentenced to 10 years in prison the BolaWrap, then we can do what we need He had claimed to be a Caroline Jones, co-ordinator of the SOLAS for helping her son and two other inmates escape from a to do as police officers.” student of computer science, choir, said: “It is a very raw recording. The county jail last year. According to testimony from her trial, De but was in fact the “arrow Arroyo worked with two others to smuggle a saw blade and John Raphling, a senior researcher at Human conditions weren’t perfect, but it is a very head of an intricate web of other contraband into the Bexar County Jail to help her son, Rights Watch in the US, said: “Tools like these human piece of work. You never know - you internet fraud schemes that Luis Antonio Arroyo, and inmates Jacob Brownson and Eric create the illusion that police involvement is might see us at number one.” traverse two continents”, it Trevino escape on March 2, 2018. The three men, who were in going to be less violent. The reality is that as said. He had used the jail on capital murder charges, were captured within an hour of we’ve seen with Tasers and other ‘less lethal’ Photograph: Eddie Mullins, Governor of fictitious name Akinwunmi their escape. Luis Arroyo was sentenced in March to 99 years in weapons, they will be used to expand police Mountjoy and Nikki Gallagher, Director of Sorinmade to open two bank prison on the escape charge. He went to trial two months later violence. Rather than giving more power to Communications and Secretariat at SOLAS with accounts and bought a luxury on two murder charges and was acquitted. Brownson and police, we should be rethinking what the role the SOLAS Workplace Choir and the Mountjoy car and homes during his Trevino are currently awaiting trial. of police is in our country.” Prison Inhouse Voices. time in prison. BBC

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The Listener group at HMP Stafford held two events in Toys are us… 2019 to raise money for The Samaritans. The first event Toy shop at Stocken was a mixed marathon event held on the 5th of March, HMP Stocken partnered with HisChurch and this involved The Lis- Uniform gift charity last month to organise a Christmas teners, gym-course mem- toyshop for the staff and prisoners. The char- When Virgin Trains lost its franchise to run ity provided over 200 brand new toys at dis- bers and prison staff as they the West Coast Mainline, there was a silver counted prices for the prisoners to purchase attempted to complete 26 lining for rough sleepers. The company’s for their children or loved ones. miles of walking, running staff uniforms have been ‘upcycled’ into and cross-training, plus an blankets for the homeless - by prisoners at The men arrived at their allocated time slot exhausting 100,000 metres HMP Northumberland’s textile factory. As eager to pick the perfect gift. They were able on the rowing-machine. This well as making blankets the prison work- “Thank you!” to browse the pop-up shop and take their shop is also producing scarves and dog was a great success and we chosen gifts to the ‘till’ for payment. They coats. All will be given away to people raised a fantastic £785.73 for then moved across to the wrapping station to sleeping on the streets. A previous batch of Poppy bench The Samaritans. handwrite a special gift tag and wrap the gift old uniforms was given by Virgin Trains to ready to either be posted out or handed out A remembrance bench made by prisoners at Dovegate will HMP Northumberland in 2018, when the Our second event was held on on an upcoming visit. take pride of place in a new community garden in Uttoxeter, National Suicide Awareness company updated its uniform design. Staffs. The bench is inscribed with a poppy, the words ‘Lest Approximately 30 million tonnes of corpo- Day, with the aim of this be- One man said; “This is the best thing that’s We Forget’ and images of war. It was presented by the town’s rate wear are sent to landfill each year in the coming an annual event to ever been done in a prison I’ve been to. I’ve Poppy Appeal to be a feature in Uttoxeter Community Gar- UK. The prison called the work “a fantastic raise money for The Samari- never been able to actually pick a toy myself den, with the handover ceremony featured in Uttoxeter & opportunity for our offenders within the Miscarriage of Justice?for my kids at Christmas. It’s been great and Cheadle Voice magazine. tans and awareness for men- establishment to learn new skills which will has meant a lot and I want to thank staff for tal-health. This involvedAS HLEhelpY them SonceM theyIT haveH been & released”. CO walking 100 miles,O u10,000r expe rienced and dedicated team are specialists in letting it happen.” Achievement for Warren Hill burpees and bench-pressing Appeals & CCRC 1.000,000 kilos. Again,Under thetak ing work for privately funded clientPrisoners’s only. art raises over HMP Warren Hill has been accredited as an “Enabling Listeners took part with thePa role Board Representation Environment” by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It is help of gym-courseFo membersr both le gally aided and privately funded £500clients for charity believed to be the first men’s closed prison to receive and staff and together we full-establishment accreditation. Some prisons gain the raisedAll P£383.21riso nbringing Law ourma tters including IndependenThet A event,djud ai csilentatio auction,ns was held inside the prison, status for particular wings or units. Announcing the total for the year to an amazOn b-ehalf of privately funded clientswith. outside visitors including prisoners’ relatives invited In all privately funded matters we will quote you a reasonable fixed fee - staged where appropriate. development on social media, the prison said: “We are so ing £1,168.94. in for the occasion. Money raised went to two charities: proud of this achievement - four years of creating a positive Professional and approachable we offer a Nationwide Service anPact,d acc whichept ag supportsency wo rprisonersk and their families, and culture working as a community.” It added: “With the I would like to express the for Parole Board Representation. Care After Combat, which supports ex-services personnel standards running through everything we do, a clear For a prompt response please write or call gratitude of the Listeners to in prison. 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The man was team removed the hobby kit, which he enjoyed © Andy Aitchison/Library image originally given an IPP sentence with a minimum of three and a Prisons, as the ‘worst prison he had ever using. An inquiry by the Prisons and Probation half years to serve and said that after 18 months at North Sea been to’, has revealed the ongoing row Ombudsman into his death, in March 2018, Prison food is Camp, and a year past his minimum sentence, he was frustrated. between G4S, who used to run it, and the criticised the decision to remove the easel. ‘insanely Prison Service, who took back control last TB scare at Humber Harper, 56, was 15 years into a life sentence appetising’ year, which centred on the installation of A prisoner has been put into isolation and others have been and had a history of suicide attempts. He told CCTV cameras. tested in a tuberculosis scare at HMP Humber. One individual a Samaritans volunteer - who was in the It is a Yuletide tradition was found to have arrived at the prison with a form of infection prison to support its Listeners - that he - newspapers reporting on known as latent TB, in which the body carries the TB bacteria Birmingham had the highest level of assaults intended to use the wooden easel in an the “lavish” festive meals but shows no symptoms and is not infectious. People with on staff and violence for a number of years attempt to take his own life. He gave his served to prisoners. This latent TB can go on to develop the disease, which is infectious and it was agreed the cameras should be permission for the information to be passed year’s Christmas menu at and can be deadly. As a precaution, the infected prisoner was fitted; however, there was an argument over on to prison staff. When the volunteer told a HMP New Hall provoked removed to an external healthcare unit and tests were carried several years as to who was responsible for Custodial Manager about the threat, officers envy at the Huddersfield Examiner, which declared: out on others who may have come into contact with him. Staff the cost of fitting them and therefore, despite were sent to remove the item from the cell. “On December 25 it looks and prisoners were kept informed, and the prison’s visitor the problems, and calls from the IMB to fit centre remained open. The ombudsman’s report called the decision like the elves, rather than them, it was never done. The Grinch, are in charge.” to confiscate the easel “inappropriately Legionaires outbreak at Cornton Vale heavy-handed”, and concluded that staff The newspaper reported that Last month a wing at Cornton Vale had to be shut down, and A full body scanner was promised for the should have spoken to the prisoner and prison reception, last year, to try to spot “things certainly pick up at women moved, after a Legionella outbreak was confirmed. An assessed the risk before taking such action. It lunch time” for residents, drugs and weapons entering the prison via SPS spokesperson said: “Routine water sampling has identified a said: “The importance to Mr Harper of his with roast turkey, bacon, small number of water outlets within Skye House at Cornton new prisoners but funding was never tapestry easel and in-cell work to him were sausage, and sage and onion Vale tested positive for legionella bacteria. As a precautionary secured, a situation which Peter Clarke well known to staff. In these circumstances stuffing - or a vegetarian measure five women were relocated within the establishment described as “inexplicable”. the decision to remove the easel without option of red onion and whilst remedial work is carried out.” considering its impact and the possible mushroom stroganoff - served Following publication of the IMB report the reaction appear particularly ill-considered. with roast and new potatoes, No photocopy of seized post The significant information was not that Mr Ministry of Justice now say that cameras will sprouts, carrots and gravy. A prisoner whose post was seized on suspicion that it contained Harper had threatened to hang himself using be fitted within weeks and the body scanner Dessert is Christmas pudding drugs has lost a legal bid to be given a photocopy of the contents. wood in his cell, but that he had threatened will also be fitted and operational within the with vanilla flavoured sauce David Gilday was sent a greetings card while at HMP Glenochil, to hang himself. Mr Harper did not need to or fruit salad. but staff confiscated it after a sniffer dog detected drugs in it. coming months as part of the governments have wood in his cell to attempt suicide or He went to court arguing that if he could not have the card £100million funding of new security self-harm, as was very sadly demonstrated The same paper scrutinised itself, he should at least be presented with a copy so he could measures at prisons. less than 90 minutes later.” the Christmas catering at find out who had sent it and what it said. The Scottish Prison HMP Leeds, commenting: Service told the court that the card, received in March 2019, “The proposed menu looks had been sealed in an evidence bag, and opening it to make a festive from the get-go.” photocopy could mean officers inhaling the drug. It means Mr Lunchtime options at Leeds Gilday must wait until he is released to receive the card. included sliced turkey crown, two chicken legs, fish Drug scanners check post cake, minced beef curry or A prison’s new scanning machines detected 68 items of mail Quorn escalope - all served contaminated with drugs in one month. HMP Kilmarnock, a with roast potatoes, stuffing private prison run by Serco, now checks incoming post with a ball, sprouts, baby carrots, £30,000 device called an Itemiser. Mail which tests positive is pigs in blankets, Yorkshire handed over to police, while the prisoner it was addressed to is pudding and gravy. Choices informed that they will not be receiving their post due to Your Prison Injury Specialists for afters included Christmas contamination. Stevie Erskine, assistant director of resettlement pudding and custard. In the facilities at the prison, said: “We have two Itemisers and they final sentence, the newspa- have been a game-changer. Since this machine has been in per reminded its readers that place, some guys know there is mail arriving for them and they the food budget in English don’t even bother coming down for it.” and Welsh prisons is £2.02 Medical Negligence per prisoner per day. Terror Unit at Woodhill closed At the other end of the It has been revealed that a specialist unit at Woodhill, designed country, the Plymouth Herald to hold dangerous terrorists, was closed just four days after the wrote: “Vegan, fish and attack on London Bridge. The Separation Centre was one of halal-friendly dishes and three set up to hold dangerous Islamists who, it was feared, delicious meat dripping in would try to radicalise other prisoners. The Ministry of Justice Accident Claims has said the closure is temporary as it was not currently gravy - it sounds like a festive banquet fit for a king. needed. There are currently 224 prisoners deemed to be Yet this is in fact what’s on ‘terrorists’ of whom around 170 are classified as ‘Islamists’. the menu for inmates at HMP Dartmoor this Christmas Day.” New prison in Wales For the main course the The Ministry of Justice has unveiled plans to build a new, 1,600 Assault Claims paper reports: “There’s five prisoner, C-cat prison in Port Talbot, Wales. The proposed site is options to choose from - and at Baglan, next to the M4. Welsh Assembly member David Rees they all sound insanely said; “Local businesses have a chance to grow from this. Maybe appetising. And there’s when visitors come we‘ll have opportunities for cafés and taxis lashings all round of ‘rich’ to benefit. It‘s an opportunity we cannot afford to miss and Call us: 0161 429 8383 / Freephone: 0800 387 967 brown gravy. Then there’s those jobs are important to us.” The BBC’s home affairs lush puddings, cheeses, correspondent Danny Shaw, said; “There is the possibility – and salads and mince pies to it‘s just speculation at the moment – that [the opening of a Write to us: Prudential Buildings, 63 St Petersgate, Stockport, SK1 1DH keep everyone topped up prison in Port Talbot] might enable the government to close throughout the day in the down Swansea Prison, which is an older prison, and which has a spirit of Christmas.” far smaller number of inmates.” 18 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime January 2020

Low In May, outgoing Chief The good, bad and ugly... Inspector of Probation Dame Glenys Stacey told Inside Time that the service is ‘irre- Another year in the life and interesting deemably flawed’. This should be the last nail in the times of our prisons coffin of Chris Grayling’s shocking decision to split the Month by Month service into a public National Probation Service and a plethora of private compa- look at the ‘Highs’ and ‘Lows’ of 2019. The nies. “We want you to succeed” Lows are mostly pieces of general prison Credit: HMP Pentonville Rachel Billington news. The Highs are mostly based on my Low High monthly reports, since I try to search out Also in May, Prisons Minister Education comes in various forms. I watch men in Pentonville A new year, a new government but will the good things going on behind the Rory Stewart is moved away to another post. He had prom- team up with students, male and female, from Westminster there be anything new for prisoners? They walls. They give a few reasons why it’s ised to resign in August if ten University at a graduation ceremony following a criminology say you have to understand the past to worth hoping that 2020 becomes a Happy hand-picked prisons, show- course. A week or two later, I listen to Jezz Wright telling me predict the future so here’s my personal New Year. My best wishes to you all! ered with cash for extra staff about his brainchild ‘Wayout TV’ where education is delivered and security, had not Low into the cell by the TV. Since I talked to Jezz the programme has improved their performance. Drugs in prison become an Maybe he is lucky to go before spread from HMP Wayland round the prison estate and I plan ever greater problem. In an the reckoning. to fi nd out more in 2020. interview with Inside Time editor Erwin James, Chief Low/High Inspector of Prisons Peter In September/October, pris- Clarke says: ‘Sadly, about ons get a lot of media atten- 13% of prisoners come out the tion with one cinema fi lm, and other end with a drug habit two series, one on Channel 4 they didn’t have when they and one on ITV. I write about went in’. them all and wonder just how High/Low horrifi ed an alien landing in ‘Choices’ is a first-rate play the UK would be if he saw the about each person’s choice to sort of violence, misery and “Astonishing trust” use or not use drugs in prison. sheer ineptitude that goes on © Khulisa - Library image It is written by a prisoner and inside our prisons. Then I High I see it in HMP Guys Marsh remind myself fi rstly, that it HMP Peterborough and I look in on a therapy session run by with an enthusiastic prison is good if the government watch this sort of thing (if Khulisa. I’m astonished by the level of trust between the men. audience. It shows just how they do) and secondly, that They’re even prepared to argue the pros and cons of a statement bleak the future is for those who make the wrong choice, there are many good things

such as: ‘You should beat your children’. This is a place for Credit: All sketches by Harriet Riddell. taking the road to loneliness, going on inside prison that discussion where tolerance is top of the agenda. It reminds me despair and even death. But High don’t rate air-time. In fact the that where tolerance heads out, anger comes bowling in. These it also points the way forward HMP Winchester had a bad press in a Channel 4 fi lm later in cinema fi lm, ‘A Second Chance’ made by Rex Bloomstein, is men - at the end of their course - are friendly, interested and for those who make the right the year. But in early summer I went along and saw a remark- open. decision. about the programme run by able performance called ‘How you see me, How you don’t’ - the Timpson company to train refl ecting the ideas arising out of ten sessions discussing and prisoners to work in their High acting out or writing down the problems of re-entering the shops when they get back into Sometimes people talk about world as an ex-prisoner. As always, I was struck by the sup- the world. Timpson’s now prisoners as if they’re chil- employ 600 former prisoners. dren and can’t do anything portive relationship between the men. for themselves. It feels good to go to HMP Rye Hill in Low March and sit in on two self- The Childrens’ Unit at Feltham help initiatives, P.E.N and A is issued with an Urgent A.S.S.I.S.T. There are others Notifi cation Protocol from the like them and in January 2020 Chief Inspector or Prisons. I shall sit in on a prisoner Inside Time reports on our council in HMP Erlestoke. front page: ‘Violent incidents up by 45% since January 2019; 40% of children said they had Breaking clean felt unsafe; self-harm ‘tripled’ Low/High since last inspection’. Women make up only five per cent of prisoners but, if you factor in their children and other members of their families for High which they are responsible, their situation deserves much more In August I allow myself to attention. There should be no write about something close more than a handful of women to my heart: reading. I travel locked away. Low/High to HMP Thameside to join in Too many children have par- with a Prison Reading Group In February, I celebrate the ents in prison. 60% of women session. On any journey, I Intense rapping all-women Clean Break theatrical prisoners have children and take three books in case one company’s 40 years of existence 7% of school-age children disappoints, one disappears, with their play, ‘Inside Bitch’. I have prisoner parents. But or I fi nish one too quickly. A High also enjoy HMP Styal’s new mag- where are their voices? In a book makes everyday life Excellent heartfelt poetry continues to fi ll two pages of our azine, Off the Cuff (left ). Although book called ‘Seen and bearable and, if I was in pris- paper. And now our RAP page is catching up with the numbers. very diff erent, both projects use Unheard’ Lucy Baldwin and on, it would be my essential In September I return to HMP Guys Marsh to sit in on a RAP the creative arts to communicate Ben Raikes collect 100 poems. lifeline - so fi ve stars to librar- project run by professional musician and composer Toby with their fellows and the outside Annie, aged fi ve, writes: ians and everyone who sup- Langton-Gilks. Basically he brings his skills to help rappers world. P.S. I’d love to see more of ‘I miss my mum / That’s it / ports literacy and encourages record their musical backgrounds - plus words of course. This your prison mags. The end’ the pleasure of reading. is a serious two hours of intense concentration… fascinating. Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Comment 19

We have printed over Inside 2019 720,000 papers. Kept the office open for over Now 2019 has come to an end, we have 2,080 hours and have been reflecting on just some of the had over 190 prize win- things you and Inside Time have achieved ners.

Justine Best Add to this the large volume of phone calls we get from prisoners and their families, so many it’s hard to keep count! Firstly, thank you to all our readers and con- tributors. 2019 was a busy year for the Inside Please keep sending us your thoughts, views Time postman and we are pleased to report and comments and keep engaging in the var- that our incoming mail has increased. Our ious sections of the paper. After all, it is your Behind the mask new ‘Rap Page’ has been a real hit with our newspaper! We are thrilled to be of service to readers and we have also introduced a mes- all our readers, and contributors inside and High sage page for ‘Grandparents Day’, which has out. Best wishes for 2020 and keep your letters Autumn brings the usual round of Koestler events of which the already proved very popular. coming. exhibition of paintings in the Royal Festival Hall, London is the most high profile. This year they were chosen by jazz sax- ophonist Soweto Kinch. Themed by his desire to ‘peer behind 1400 the mask’ the paintings struck me as particularly vivid and Last year’s letters powerful. Over all categories, there were nearly eight thousand entries. 1200

Low Low 1000 Beware of growing old - particularly in prison. A baby is born and dies in a cell at HMP New figures reveal that prisoners aged 60-plus 800 are the fastest growing group in Britain’s pris- Bronzefield. The mother was alone. ons, making up 16% of the incarcerated pop- 600 ulation, or 13,500. By 2020 it’s expected to rise Deborah Coles, director of the charity Inquest to 15,000. The cause comes in a rise in the length of sentences and the increase in con- says, ‘There must be the most robust scrutiny 400 victions for historic sex offences. of how this tragic death was able to happen’. 200 High In December I pay a thrilling 0 visit to HMP Pentonville Mailbags Poetry Rap Misc Legal Occasions Jailbreak where ShakeItUp has been an eight-week course in ‘Improv’ (improvise +) which culmi- We can help you with all nates in a show created by the BEING ON YOUR residents for the residents - SIDE IS ONE THING. Criminal and Prison Law cases and staff of course. FIGHTING YOUR CRIMINAL LAW CORNER IS ANOTHER. • Police Interview Assistance The theatre company starts WE DO BOTH. Ex- top cop tells it how it is from where Shakespeare left • Magistrates Court off and the performance zings • Crown Court Advocacy High/Low At the annual Longford Trust lecture given in late November into the 21st century whilst • Defending false allegations Lord Blair (above), a former head of Scotland Yard, describes aiming to improve ‘listening, • Miscarriage of Justice the criminal justice system as so neglected that it’s ‘a matter of creativity, teamwork, public serious national concern.’ He says that raising police numbers, • Court of Appeal Applications as promised by the new government, is nothing like the whole speaking and presentation’ - answer. The speech is reported widely in all media. to name but a few. • CCRC Applications

It is impossible to end this We will always assess if you are eligible PRISON LAW round-up without remem- for legal aid. If you are not eligible for legal aid we o er a ordable  xed prices. • Independent Adjudications bering Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, who died while Mark Newby, Hollie Alcock and Nick • Parole Board Hearings helping prisoners towards a Hayles are all Solicitor Advocates and • IPP and Lifer reviews will always reply to your letters and calls. better future - may they rest • Pre Tari and Guittard Applications in peace. I also remember the brave men, including a • Cat A reviews former prisoner, a prisoner QualitySolicitors • HDC applications on ROTL and one on licence, Jordans • Sentence Calculation and Planning Ian Wright and Arsene Wenger who tackled the murderer.

High I have no doubt that even Last year I reported on ‘The Twinning Project’ which plans to such a dreadful tragedy will For Life’s Important Moments match football league clubs with prisons, running training not deter Learning Together courses for referees and coaches. The project kicked off with Led by Mark Newby, Solicitor Advocate with a strong record for quashing convictions and other similar projects 10 clubs and now has 50. Also in December I interview the man Doncaster offi ce: 01302 365 374 4 Priory Place, Doncaster, DN1 1BP from bringing hope into behind the idea, David Dein, who is determined to push the www.qualitysolicitors.com/jordans programme through to all prisons. I’ll report on the full inter- places of disappointment view next month. and despair. 20 Comment // Feature www.insidetime.org Insidetime January 2020

the Cambridge graduate who coordinated the Learning To- gether programme he says From Zero to Hero changed his life. He said Jack was, ‘easy to talk to’ and When a former prisoner carried out a terrorist attack at Fishmongers’ Hall ‘made you feel comfortable’. in London, leaving two dead, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was quick to But asked whether he would describe himself as a hero he blame early release and pledge new restrictions on ex-offenders. But a said: ‘No. Jack gave up his different story also emerged that day. While Usman Khan lashed out life, he would be my hero.’ He with knives, it was another ex-prisoner, John Crilly, who emerged as a had been fighting Khan in- hero when he held the attacker at bay armed only with a fire extinguisher. side the corridor of Fishmon- gers’ Hall when he snatched the extinguisher from the He pointed out that if he had My hero wall. “At first I thought throw not been released, he could Crilly paid tribute to Jack Mer- that at him,” he told a tabloid not have played his part in ritt, 25, who along with Saskia newspaper, “then I thought I Ben Leapman helping to halt Khan’s attack Jones also lost his life in the could spray it and soak the - “I would not have been attack. He described himself belt, maybe short-circuit the there.” as being ‘close friends’ with belt. I started spraying him The former prisoner who and it seemed to do the job. I thwarted a terrorist attack was spraying it in his eyes. He using a fire extinguisher has was all covered in foam and called on prisoners to join his then he came bursting campaign for justice. John through it again with the Crilly served 13 years before knives. He’d gone for the door his conviction was over- and I followed him out. He turned with help from the started heading to the bridge campaign group JENGbA and I remember just seeing all (Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by these people and screaming Association). Since his re- at them to move. I keep spray- lease in 2018 he has played an ing him, he can’t see.” Believ- active part in the group. It ing the attacker was wearing was while he was at a confer- a live suicide belt, he and an- ence on rehabilitating ex-of- other man caught him off bal- fenders on November 29 that ance, “and then we all just he got caught up in the terror- jumped on him.” Once the Thank you Jack, Saskia and colleagues ist incident. Speaking to In- attacker was on his back side Time a week after the Crilly tried to get the blades others who were with them events at Fishmongers’ Hall, They took with which he had killed Jack can also be liable. In what Crilly, 48, urged prisoners to Extinguishing the threat Merritt and Saskia Jones out their time to shoot was seen as a landmark rul- join his campaign for justice. of his hands, “and then the - it wasn’t all ing in 2016, known as the police were there, telling us to Jogee case, the Supreme Court back off him - they immedi- gung-ho. They found that the law had taken ately tasered him. They took kept telling him to a ‘wrong turn’, but so far their time to shoot - it wasn’t Crilly is the only person to all gung-ho. They kept telling stop moving. I was have been freed under the WILSONS AUCTIONS him to stop moving. I was shouting, ‘just new guidance. Since leaving shouting, ‘just shoot him’. prison he has lobbied Parlia- WE CAN SELL YOUR ASSETS They shot him twice and he shoot him’. They ment, taken part in demon- was still moving. He had the strations and handed out · Do you have an outstanding confiscation order? belt on. They shot him again.” shot him twice and leaflets. He believes that · Would you like a free valuation and a no obligation he was still mov- many other people currently quote to sell your assets for the highest price? Mentor in prison ought to have their Crilly was freed on licence in ing. He had the joint enterprise convictions 2018 after the law on joint en- belt on. They shot quashed. He said: “I’ve met terprise was changed. A for- WILSONS AUCTIONS CAN HELP him again.” people inside - I’ve read a lot As the sole agent for over 40 law enforcement agencies, Wilsons Auctions specialises mer heroin addict, he was of the cases that are more de- involved in a Manchester bur- serving than my case.” He in selling assets that are subject to confiscation proceedings, often in sensitive JENGbA glary that went fatally wrong said he even felt a sense of circumstances. We are the largest independent auction company in the UK and Ireland Crilly was at HMP Frankland when his co-defendant killed ‘survivor’s guilt’ that he had and with 80 years of experience, we can sell assets worldwide. when he first made contact Augustine Maduemezia, 71, been freed while so many oth- with JENGbA and its founders with a single punch. For this, ers still hadn’t. he says he is profoundly Jan Cunliffe and Gloria Morri- sorry. “My life has been spent son, having read about the group in Inside Time. Action wishing that day never hap- “JENGbA helped me with Urging prisoners to take ac- pened,” he says. He credits everything,” he said. “They tion, Crilly, who gained an Jewellery Cars Property All Assets Jack Merritt with being cen- got me lawyers and told me Open University law degree tral to his success at turning what I needed to focus on, while behind bars, said: “It’s his life around. He was stud- and people I should write to. important now, more than For more information ying for a law degree while They gave me a bit of hope ever, that people start sup- serving his time, and had that people were listening porting it and keep fighting. FREEPHONE 0300 124 0438 mentored Jack as a law stu- Prisoners need to start pull- Simply provide us with the following Name Solicitor (if any) and fighting for me. If it dent visiting the jail. Jack had ing their fingers out. People I details and we can do the rest! Prison / Prison Number Your Asset Details wasn’t for them, I’d still be come to Crilly’s graduation, waiting for a barrister with a was inside with wanted and to celebrate when he be- conscience.” The group, led JENGbA to do everything. came the first prisoner re- Trench Lock 2, Telford, Shropshire, TF1 5YL by people who have loved They’re just lying in their leased after the law changed ones in prison, campaigns on beds while the families are on joint enterprise. “If I’d met behalf of those convicted trying. I would encourage the www.wilsonsauctions.com Jack much earlier in my life, under the law of joint enter- lads to start writing letters to Northern Ireland | England | Republic of Ireland | Scotland | Wales maybe things would have prise. This states that if some- MPs, judges, the media … been different,” he says. one commits a serious crime, anyone.” Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Comment // Feature 21

Conference of hope - Usman Khan (in puffa jacket) in foreground refrain from further description, because it is John Crilly, rightly likely that I shall be required to do so at the Inquests: and it would be inappropriate to do celebrated by The Sun as a so prematurely. To my left, Amy Ludlow was hero, seized a fire extinguisher, shouting into her mobile phone “Police and ambulance, now”; and I naturally moved to- spraying the attacker on wards her. A crowd gathered. There were shouts of a bomb being in the building; and everyone London Bridge. was required to vacate instantly. The evacuation rushed towards the perpetrator, punching out was swift and calm. Outside in the street we as he was with knives strapped to both wrists, heard, but did not observe, a number of shots. rather than seeking shelter. One, rushing past The perpetrator, Usman Khan, an invitee to the me, grabbed an ornamental narwhal tusk. John Conference, was killed by armed police. Crilly, rightly celebrated by The Sun as a hero, seized a fire extinguisher, spraying the attacker But the relevance of this tragic and horrific event, on London Bridge. This does not diminish the in which my friend Jack Merritt and another roles undertaken by the kitchen porter from the inspirational young woman, Saskia Jones, who Fishmongers’ Hall, who grappled with Khan, volunteered for Learning Together, lost their driving him back into the entrance hall, where lives, and others were so gravely injured, is not he was forced out of the building; other equally just yet another terrorist incident, sad though brave members of the public and an off-duty these invariably are, in which members of the police officer, who joined in the fracas, until public, seemingly capriciously, are caught up. Fishmongers’ Hall terror armed police rapidly arrived on the scene. Perhaps it was the heightened awareness of Learning Together is not a bunch of well-mean- those who have spent so many years on the ing do-gooders, but a serious, academically-fo- Eye-witness account of the unfolding tragedy on wings of violent jails which gave these former cused, thought-through organisation, which is prisoners the training they needed to respond 29 November - ‘angry shouts, frenzied screams’ having real success with some of the most dif- with such courage in a situation where most of ficult and overlooked people in society. More us were mesmerised in shock. happened has been widely publicised in the important, it is a family: and those who were media). I knew that John was attending the present on 29 November were not only academ- The lesson I draw from this experience, and event, and I was keen to meet him since we had ics, students and volunteers, but serving and John Samuels QC which I hope will be drawn by others, is not started corresponding in August 2018 but had released prisoners, out in the community, who only that these former prisoners deserve gal- never previously been able to meet up. I spoke had profited hugely from what co-education lantry awards for what they did; but, of equal to Jack again before the opening addresses start- has meant for them, as well as for those students It was a glorious, late November morning: The importance, they can truly be identified as re- ed; and Ruth Armstrong explained that John who, in developing links with serving prisoners, City of London glowing at its proud and historic habilitated individuals, rightly standing up was present, but had gone outside the Hall for have enriched their own education. best. All had been going so well: a memorable with their fellow citizens in solidarity to protect a cigarette. Carol Concert for Prisoners’ Education Trust the each other. I salute them. previous evening, heralding the joys of And this is where my own experience of the Christmas, with readings at the service from Nothing out of the ordinary occurred in the events, enhanced by Press coverage and what those former prisoners who had so profited from subsequent workshop sessions, in which the I now know, was even more memorable. His Honour John Samuels QC is President of their distance learning experiences. What could participants split into two groups, of about 50 Heedless of their own safety, many of those Prisoners’ Education Trust; and a former possibly go wrong at the celebratory Conference each: brilliantly facilitated by two visitors from former prisoners, including John Crilly, another Crown Court Judge and judicial member of the to mark the 5th anniversary of ‘Learning the USA. The plan was for both groups to rejoin prisoner on ROTL, and at least one on licence, Parole Board Together’, the inspirational Institute of for a plenary session, before adjourning for a Criminology movement in which I have been celebratory cake. privileged to play a small part, as a friend and colleague of its co-directors, Dr Ruth Armstrong Just before the workshop sessions ended, I left and Dr Amy Ludlow? to go downstairs for a comfort break. On my return, there was John Crilly, waiting for me; The opening events were like a family gathering, with his friend Gareth, who had distinguished or a reunion of old friends, as colleagues, old himself so brilliantly in the first Learning Shaw and Co and new, foregathered for refreshments before Together course at HMP Grendon. It was obvious Specialist Accident Compensation Solicitors the opening addresses. I was delighted to meet that both of them wanted some privacy to dis- OVER 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN PERSONAL INJURY CLAIMS up with a former resident of HMP Warren Hill, cuss matters with me, so I went out to the bal- whom I had got to know in my visits there, and cony overlooking the main staircase of in subsequent correspondence: now in open Fishmongers’ Hall. I was quickly in deep con- conditions, this was his first experience of free- versation with both of them. So far as I know, dom for 14 ½ years. In a brief conversation with only the three of us were on the balcony. Dental Treatment Jack Merritt, course coordinator for the Learning Together courses in HMPs Grendon, Whitemoor Suddenly angry shouts, interspersed with the Medical Care and Warren Hill, I asked Jack if he had seen my frenzied screams of a woman, came from below. mentee, John Crilly (whom I only name because I looked down from the balcony; and what I General Accident Claims his involvement in what subsequently saw below me is unlikely ever to leave me. I Call Chris or Sharon about your claim on:

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and continues to be, an unmit- the least of your worries when, tea and have a little think igated disaster. Serious crimes like Khan, you’re willing to die about that one. committed on parole have in- for your ideology. creased by 50% since privati- It’s worth mentioning The Sun sation and it’s not hard to see They then blamed the current headline: ‘LONDON BRIDGE why: they usher you in; ask Labour government for a New HERO IS CONVICTED very basic questions; tick a Labour David Blunkett policy MURDERER’. Honestly, I’ve box; then kick you out the door. from 2008 of automatic release never seen anything like it and for people halfway through the duality of ‘people can do A functional probation service their sentence - something that bad things then do good costs time and money and I was subject to. Without this, things’ sent the Twittersphere these days the service has nei- we’d see even higher rates of of bored blokes into moral ther. Ideological offenders imprisonment and bear in freefall. On a surface level it’s need a lot of both. For every mind we already have the embarrassing, but on a deeper penny pinched, the human toll highest imprisonment per cap- level it reveals a hierarchy of is the price we end up paying. ita rate in Western Europe. ill-informed judgements with The effects can generally be more than a hint of racism. swept under the carpet, left in doorways, under bridges, ma- The Sun head- The basic brigade were like, ligned as ne’er do wells, locked line: ‘London Bridge ‘Murderer defeats terrorist?!’ up again and again; the char- … like a fox had just defeated acter of every town centre is hero is convicted a rat. ‘Scum’ to ‘Hero’ in 10 affected by these cuts, this murderer’. Honestly, seconds flat - then ‘He’s not a © Deposit Photos particular example just hap- hero’ 20 seconds later. ‘He pens to be murderous and I’ve never seen should never be released from newsworthy. prison - Oh - what - the ‘hero’ anything like it and was on day release from pris- Atrocity on the Bridge Historically, and presently, the duality of ‘people on...?’ Yet beyond the destruc- there’s no way for the Tories tion derby of moral mud-sling- Witness to London Bridge terror attack criticises ‘dys- to frame the above in their fa- can do bad things man-ship, the human cost is functional system’ and calls out disingenuous politicians vour. They will need to use lies then do good actual. and media manipulation. Within hours, Prime Minister things’ sent the It’s deeply sad that Usman Carl Cattermole here a while!’ A trillion more extremism behind, seeking to Boris Johnson had begun that Twittersphere of Khan was sucked back into police turned up; stuffed in become, as stated in a letter very process. Despite the fa- extremism. It’s sadder still that vans, cars and 4x4s, riding penned from his prison cell, ‘a ther of the first named victim, bored blokes into his victims lost their lives and I witnessed the attack on horses, bikes and mopeds, and good British citizen’. However, Jack Merritt, saying his son moral freefall. are now being used by politi- London Bridge on Friday 29 two minutes later we were or- his requests for help had fallen would not want his death to cians as collateral for exactly November. Like the victims of dered to evacuate. on overstretched ears - it’s a be used to argue for further what they stood against (Jack the attack, I’m a prison cam- well established pattern be- imprisonment, the PM was They’re just using this to con- Merritt’s Master’s thesis was paigner (Jack Merritt, one of Beyond the cordon I sat down hind bars - prisoners aren’t already using it to argue to tinue their draconian societal entitled ‘A Critical Analysis of the deceased, followed my in a doorway next to a group helped even when they’re a incarcerate people for longer vision: no investment in our the Over-Representation of work on social media). Like of city boys who began to opine captive audience… drug users and longer. communities, just lock us up BAME Males aged 18-21 in the the assailant, I’m an ex-pris- … ‘we need to burn them on a desperate to get clean can’t when we fail. Build American- British Prison System’). oner and was failed by prison, pyre!’ - I stood up and asked, access treatment courses; illit- The Prime Minister and his style mega jails at exponen- as most of us are. ‘who do you mean: “them”?’ erate prisoners, keen to learn death penalty-supporting cab- tially massive cost to the tax It’s exponentially sadder that I sat back down, thinking to basic literacy skills, rely on inet member Priti Patel turned payer - then use the tabloids this poisonous but digestible There’s so much more than myself, here we go, it’s hap- charities with wavering fund- up on the scene then proceed- to paper over the blatant fail- narrative of prison-solves-so- meets the eye when it comes pening again. Four generic ing; underclass prisoners ed to wheel out the trites: ures and blame the victims. cial-issues will be further to this case so let me explain responses: frontline services who’ve made a misguided at- pushed by a millionaire owned what I saw and break down run towards the disaster; tempt at escaping poverty are ‘Dangerous criminals’ need Stating the obvious, those with media at the detriment of vir- the political narratives that builders take it in their stride; released poorer than ever; ‘longer sentences’. Listen: in murderous instinct are psy- tually everyone except them- have ensued. So… at 1.55pm office workers run in panic; those suffering from trauma a dysfunctional system that chopathic. What’s also obvi- selves. The evident complexity on the day, a metallically crisp ‘posh boys’ sit safely on the and mental illness (veterans only serves to magnify peo- ous, but often overlooked is deeply favours a metered dis- winter day, I passed the north sidelines getting warmed up and victims of child abuse ple’s detriments and cause that politicians and their cussion, yet has and will be side of London Bridge. A big for the political football to alike) are locked up 23/7. further harm, it does not mat- media apologists who form used to bolster mistruths and lump of a policeman frantically follow. ter if you lock someone up for and reinforce systems with misnomers. orders me through a construc- That this pattern also applies ten years or forty. He called for such lack of understanding of tion site doorway, shouting: In both physical and philo- to terrorism suspects beggars a minimum 14-year sentence basic human behaviours, sys- Carl Cattermole, a former pris- ‘Bomb Threat - Mooovvve!!’ sophical terms, minutes after belief, yet it’s fully believable for terrorism… long prison tems that reliably produce oner and author of the highly the event and with no details, if you’ve seen the state of our sentences are no deterrent for further harm, are also display- acclaimed: ‘Prison: A Survival I stood watching the situation we’re already rushing towards prison system. Prison doesn’t your average crime (I can attest ing psychopathy. Systemic Guide’ - published by Ebury unfurl from a second-floor polarisation. These basic nar- disappear social problems, it to that) … and I suspect they’re psychopathy … go get a cup of Press (20 June 2019). window with a crew of bewil- ratives rapidly became a lot temporarily disappears people dered builders in Hi-Viz. more complex as more info to a place that magnifies det- Armed police pinged past was imparted. A lot to unpack, riments. 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kind-hearted, bright and hard- Every time working role models could have their lives cut so short in Jack was around, this way. Especially when their he made me feel lives were dedicated to reha- bilitation and fighting the in- as though I can equalities of the criminal jus- tice system and wider society. achieve great They were trying to help peo- things. ple like you and me when they were killed. weightlifting. She no doubt would have shown us a thing Every time Jack was around, or two in the weights room. he made me feel as though I can achieve great things. A They were two very bright and Nathan Joshua true inspiration, he was not in talented people, who had a © Fotolia.com his job to be nosey, or to judge deep and transformative effect us for the lives we had led; on our lives. I will never forget We’ll miss you Saskia We’ll miss you Jack Gone but never when he spent time with us, it what you have done to help forgotten was as though we were friends me Jack. I will always remem- on an academic journey to- ber the changes you helped Today was a very sad day. You gether. And he is a man that I me to make. May you both Rest A tragedy that touches us all see, I have spent the past two will never forget for that in Peace. Heaven knows, Jack years working alongside the reason. would want this whole tragic Raymond Smith But I do want to say this. From the outset, I Learning Together organisa- experience to create unity, not admired the dedication of those teachers who tion and this coming Monday, Doing a degree in prison can division, and I’m in no doubt have chosen to teach in prison, and those who along with a few of my peers; feel like a solitary experience; that it’s what anyone related Exactly 12 months ago, at this time, I was settling run training courses. Now, I add to that my picked to be mentors on the yet people like Jack made the to Learning Together will con- down to spend the third night of what turned respect for their courage. Plus for the pharma- upcoming courses, we were whole experience of learning tinue to advocate moving for- out to be 6 months in Pentonville. During my cists and medical staff as well as all the other due to meet with Jack Merritt something to appreciate and ward. My only hope is that the stay it was the education classes that kept my services that are much needed. And indeed the and the team to arrange the get excited about. I never met Learning Together movement can continue to expand and head together. I met a lot of people who learned prison officers and administrators as well as details of the upcoming Saskia, however there are men inspire, in all the ways that we so much from their time in those sessions and volunteers and prison monitors. Not only be- Learning Together courses. on my landing who did spend dream about. from that, gained nothing but admiration for cause of the long hours they work, but because Tragically, the meeting was time with her. I’m told that she all the staff involved, writing a piece published we have all seen how they react so professionally cancelled after Jack Merritt, was very funny, loved helping, in Inside Time on my release praising everyone when they are threatened and abused, even along with Saskia Jones, was and was clearly dedicated to Nathan Joshua, a nom de her work. She also had many for their efforts. attacked, by those inside perhaps high on drugs taken away from us. I fail to plume, is a resident of HMP talents, such as singing and or perhaps just taking out frustration caused comprehend how such Grendon Early yesterday morning, in central London, I by a perceived unfairness not because they are attended a meeting, ‘Reframing Tough Justice’, responsible, but because they happen to be attended by representatives from a number of standing in front of the aggrieved person. This organisations who are putting together pro- murderous attack was not even within a prison Funding cuts have undermined the prison system for years grammes to assist rehabilitation. One runs but in the beautiful surrounds of one of London’s Restorative Justice, a second organises training oldest buildings. This threat is clearly carried making it more dangerous, less tolerant and poorly equipped. for those ex-prisoners wanting to work in the outside the prison walls. That is a heavy burden We have specialist solicitors who may be able to help you with: building trade and a third focuses on keeping to bear. young people out of prison. The room was full Assaults by police or prison Care in the community after of their staff and supporters; all of whom are Nobody should die in such a setting. Two young talented and dedicated to making sure everyone people - who have already given so much and o cers release in prison has a fair chance when they leave. were determined to give much more of them- Excessive use of force Serious injuries, long-term selves - have been killed. We should think of High-risk/unlawful restraint health conditions and But shockingly, of course, four days ago I, and them and do what we can, certainly ensure that methods terminal illness all of you, saw images of the murderous attack each and every one of us treats all staff and on two young people near Fishmongers’ Hall volunteers with human respect. We should not Unauthorised use of hand Discrimination based on in central London, one of whom was a course take out anger on anyone when they are in fact cus/chains disabilities, gender, religion, tutor and one a volunteer at ‘Learning Together’, not responsible for whatever it is that troubles Restraint of ill and disabled ethnicity etc. a Cambridge-based organisation who stage us, nor even if they are. We should also try and criminology classes for inside and outside learn- ensure others behave with civility by creating prisoners Lack of employment and ers, the type of course that many of you reading a supportive atmosphere in groups where we Frequently missed hospital training opportunities this will have seen or been through. And the are taking part. And we should recognise that appointments Denial of risk reduction attack was carried out by a man out on ‘tag’ these staff are on our side - then take advantage Care needs assessments and courses to foreign nationals who had been through this course and had been of the educational opportunities they give and invited to attend the conference to celebrate not of the people themselves. plans Access to housing upon their 5 years of success. Assessments of carers release Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones should not die Reasonable adjustments Access to education, both I do not know, and cannot even begin to imagine, without a legacy, and if that can be a reduction why and how this happened. I fully respect the in disruption of classes in prisons it would be Lack of mobility equipment whilst in prison and in the expressed hope of the families of those two inadequate but appropriate. It would be to the Risk assessment of carers community young people, 25 and 23 years old, that it should benefit of everyone, because in all classes at not be used for political purposes but know, some time an angry, tired inmate will create and see, that this will not happen during a difficulty for the staff or others by their actions. Contact us at our new o ce: General Election. The families do not want this Let that person never again be you or me - let tragedy to lead to longer sentences and draco- that be a New Year’s resolution that will help 27 London Road, Bromley, nian punishments. Despite their expressed our friends and colleagues and, of course, will wishes, a distasteful debate is already under- help us in lessons and in life. BR1 1DG way. We must hope it does not result in knee-jerk decisions and bad law - as has happened too Tel: 020 8181 3100 many times before. Raymond Smith is a former prisoner 24 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime January 2020 Inside Voices ‘Prison is not about living,

So, how about we train prison officers in having good people it’s about surviving…’ skills? I would argue that this could have the biggest effect Noel Smith talks to Steve Newark about his prison and in rehabilitating prisoners. For Sir Martin to say, post prison journey ‘Rehabilitation in prison is the new so-called ‘super-prisons’ are a good virtually impossible’, is, I feel, idea, they would be a massive improvement a wrong assumption. We over the gloomy and depressing Victorian jails, should at least try to rehabili- Noel Smith that’s for sure. tate and not just give up on prisoners. By prison officers Eventually you were given an IPP sentence. Did having a 5 minute chat to pris- The first time I met Steve (who was then a serv- it come as a surprise? oners they can find the barriers ing prisoner) was in HMP Erlestoke in 2017, to their rehabilitation and then when I was invited in for the first Penned Up Not really, I knew a bit about IPP before I got work hard to overcome these Festival. Penned Up is the brainchild of David it. I was given a 3-year tariff, but it was evident in order to create the rehabil- Kendall and Mark Hewitt who, in 2017, wanted that tariffs mean little when it comes to IPP. I itative culture that prisons to see if it was possible to hold a literary festi- decided to read up everything on my new sen- “Just treat me like a human being” val inside the walls of Erlestoke Prison. They tence, getting prepared for the battle ahead. I

© Andy Aitchison/Library image should be striving for. put on a week-long festival with such guests found out pretty soon how hard it was to pro- Prison officers are on the front as Charley Boorman, Billy Bragg, Levi Roots gress on that sentence, but I was determined Prison officers line and are the ‘information and Tony Adams, Erwin James, and I. Two to do it. I bounced from prison to prison, en- gatherers’. Key workers, per- years later I returned for the 2019 Penned Up gaging in courses and trying to work towards eventual release and eventually ended up at sonal officers and ACCT asses- Festival, and this time I was interviewed by Steve, in front of an audience of prisoners, on Erlestoke. I was offered a job working on the sors all have a role to play in my favourite true crime books. This time Steve prison magazine, The Manor, and this reawak- need people skills the daily interventions they was a free man and had come back to the ened my interest in writing and education. have with prisoners, but if prison specifically for the event. these conversations are not Jack Denny - criminal justice system and And Erlestoke is where you became involved in recorded and shared with oth- Penned Up? HMP North Sea Camp within prisons. I have seen ers, then how can we expect both sides of the system, and the adequate individual reha- Yes, I first became involved in the Penned-Up I have always believed in re- bilitative needs of that prison- I am writing in response to a committee when as part of The Manor team I habilitation and supporting er to ever be met? speech given by Sir Martin was invited. Slowly I took on more and more prisoners to prepare for re- Narey at the annual confer- responsibility. I wanted to help create some- lease, which is what the Prison My point is that just positively ence of the International thing that people could enjoy long after I’d Service purpose statement interacting with prisoners can Corrections and Prisons made it to the other side of the wall. It helped make a massive impact on how Association, which took place stands for. I agree with Sir me to grow in confidence as a person. they view staff and their will- in October. Sir Martin, former Martin that prisons need to be ingness to engage. For exam- Director General of HM Prison decent environments and that The thing is that a lot of people just give up ple, if a prisoner tells staff that when faced with a sentence like that - never Service for England & Wales, everyone should be treated he/she would like to start up give up. I was shunted around a few jails, but set out his beliefs as to what with dignity and respect. But, a business on release then the I never lost sight of my desire to get out. I ended prisons should be like and the I would say to Sir Martin that prison officer may be aware of up serving over 8-years out of a 3-year tariff changes that should take staff treating prisoners with and changed my life. See, prison shouldn’t be dignity and respect is rehabil- a business course running and place. only about punishment, it should really reha- itation in itself. similarly make the prisoner aware of the course. That 5 bilitate people. Sir Martin’s belief is that pris- minute chat could change a ons shouldn’t bother with try- Staff act as role-models and prisoner’s life, but what that Tariffs mean little when it comes to IPP How are you feeling about life these days? ing to rehabilitate prisoners, subsequently create a rehabil- prison officer has contributed but instead they should be itative culture. I have always towards is the wider rehabili- I’ve got to be honest, the transition from prison made into decent places to driven for prison reform to to the outside world is hard but luckily I’m tative agenda. By that I mean Jailed for GBH at 21, his last sentence, at age stay. He argues: ‘Forget all the better support changing the doing well with my building maintenance by preventing the prisoner 29, was an IPP with a 3-year tariff, of which he cures and innovations. Just lives of prisoners and prevent served 8½ years before being released. These work and doing the odd thing to do with prison from reoffending brings down make prisons decent and re- reoffending. In my opinion, days Steve is busy with his own building firm and my previous life. I’m quite proud that the associated cost of reoffend- spectful places, where per- but also makes time to do talks on life behind when you now Google my name there is posi- this change lies with prison ing (currently at £18.1 billion haps our children could safely bars and is a prison consultant. Inside Time tive things instead of the previous negative officers themselves. They have annually, according to a House live. And as you do so, some spoke to Steve about his past and what sort of stuff. the ultimate role to play, and of Commons speech by Bob prisoners will take the oppor- life he has found after release. I would argue this point until Neill MP, Chairman of the tunity to change’. I go blue in the face. Justice Select Committee), it Hi Steve, let’s just go right back to the beginning. reduces crime and victims, I am a prisoner serving a 2-year How did you get into crime? We need prison officers that makes the public safer, in- sentence for fraud, so not your Dedicated Prison Lawyers For You focus on rehabilitation of pris- creases public confidence, average prisoner. I’m 22 years- I done the sort of usual criminal stuff when I Over 60 years’ combined experience oners and their impact on the brings down the prison popu- old, ‘Enhanced’ and at an open was a teenager, shoplifting, criminal damage, wider rehabilitation agenda. lation, which in turn prevents prison. After 3 weeks in custo- drunk and disorderly, that sort of thing. The IPP & Lifer Parole Reviews During my work in prisons I overcrowding, which means dy I was already here at an trouble is that these low-level crimes bring you we can then have the decent Licence Recalls open prison. That took hard have seen how good prison to the attention of the authorities. I suppose I conditions Sir Martin talks got into crime through alcohol. I know it’s easy work and dedication and I’ve officers have changed lives Independent Adjudications about. to blame drink, but I also had emotional issues lost count of how many letters and prisoners’ ways of think- and I was bullied, and this all played a part in Sentence Calculations I’ve sent to governors, the IMB ing. For example; a 5 minute Although Sir Martin has good my downfall. and my Offender Supervisor. chat could change a prisoner’s Criminal Defence Work intentions, and I agree with This taught me that if you want view, encourage engagement the need to have decent con- You got your first prison sentence at the age of something in prison then you with staff and also encourage Call Stephanie Brownlees today on ditions, I feel that rehabilita- 21, how was your first impression of prison? have to fight for it and liaise engagement with rehabilita- 01902 275 042 tive activities like education tion is vital and that prison with staff. I was quite taken aback by prison, I wasn’t or job searches, therefore pre- officers need to use their peo- ple skills to implement this expecting it to be such a dump, you know? The West Midlands House, Gipsy Lane, Before coming to prison, I paring that prisoner for effectively. sounds and smells are all alien, but the trouble Willenhall WV13 2HA worked extensively across the release. is that you get used to it. I personally think that MICHAEL PURDON SOLICITOR SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED AN EXPERT PAROLE - RECALL PRE-TARIFF REVIEWS CAT A REVIEWS-TARIFF REVIEWS NATIONWIDE SERVICE Founding members, serving for 3 years as Chair and Deputy Chair of the Association of Prison Lawyers

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I served my sentence at HMPs Hollo- the days and years following my re- opportunity to establish links with way, East Sutton Park and Bronze- lease who have served sentences in HMP and, hopefully, the London field. To say that I was inadequately prisons across the UK gave me dif- College of Fashion. prepared for release from private ferent support, humour and insight sector maintained Sodexo managed and yet, simultaneously, there re- Where would you like to see Leather Bronzefield is belittlement. Follow- mains commonality of experience. Inside Out in a few years? ing confiscation, divorce, profes- Even latterly, through the phenom- sional disciplinary and bankruptcy enal male led team at St Giles Trust, Leather is the starting point, given proceedings while a serving prisoner I have come to realise the different the collaboration and vision of my I walked from Bronzefield possessing (yet similar) challenges are experi- colleagues and the founding trus- one bag, no ID, no bank account, no- enced by male prisoners. This expe- tees. We want to see Leather Inside where to live and no viable way of rience is universal, not about gender. Out installed and active in a majority redeveloping a relationship with my of prisons in England and Wales in only child. Standard HMP discharge During the phase of establishing the next five years, with designated grant and a travel warrant into cen- registration for Leather Inside Out, workshop space and ongoing in-cell tral London did not help. the Charities Commission of Eng- projects. We see ourselves in part- land and Wales asked relentless nership, not competition, with the “I want to make a difference” Leather Inside Out’s founding philos- questions that would put HMP to charitable sector and welcome the ophy was shaped by this experience shame in their pedanticism. Initially opportunity to collaborate with and the fact that women with whom its repetitive questioning about gen- other third sector stakeholders. Our Zach Langley her death would not be for no rea- I served were facing release in very der diversity and equality seemed ambition is to see a new British man- son. In this context I accepted that similar situations, many without the reminiscent of the innumerable ufacturing alternative developed in order to make a success of any support that they needed. signs posted throughout public and expanded, not just for the fash- How did the idea for Leather Inside future charity and testimonial to areas in HMP and which one sees, ion and accessories industries, but Out come about? her, I must use my former profes- daily, without reading. But eventu- beyond and to provide a new em- sional contacts and skills, return to Following confisca- ally I realised that while the chal- ployment model for British industry I had the idea for establishing a the corporate and financial world - tion, divorce, professional lenge of rolling Leather Inside Out’s that harnesses the extraordinary prison rehabilitation charity whilst in order to seek corporate support, mission across a larger estate - 4,000 talent and opportunity that exists a prisoner at Holloway but the years funding and guidance to ensure her disciplinary and bank- women seemed a manageable bene- among prisoners in England and following my 2012 release proved legacy was properly realised and ruptcy proceedings while ficiary group compared to 85,000 in Wales both in terms of rehabilitative challenging. Like many ex-offend- given the best start so as to really the male estate - I knew with cer- opportunity and as a future manu- ers, my confidence had been eroded. help other ex-offenders, beyond the a serving prisoner I tainty that there can be no other facturing force. Survival on the ‘out’ was an ordeal charitable cliché of good intentions. walked from Bronzefield way. ‘We are in this together’ - tar- on every level: financially, socially It felt and sometimes still feels like geting the female estate alone makes Design for Life is an interesting con- and in terms of employment. returning to the Dark Arts but what possessing one bag, no no sense to Leather Inside Out’s cept and it would be great if you could emerged over these years - aside ID, no bank account, broad vision. put down a few sentences on this pro- My so-called ‘rehabilitation’ experi- from working with extraordinary ject and its unique approach. ences helped me to understand what colleagues, some now close friends, nowhere to live and no How many employees do you have for was needed to make ‘living again’ who shared my passion for change this first course in Downview? Design for Life is Leather Inside Out’s possible, but it felt elusive. I was and second chances - was a 10 year viable way of redevel- creative and educational programme, aware that the services and support business plan, commercial proper- oping a relationship The staff at HMP Downview have delivering serving prisoners an op- offered by the charitable and volun- ties in which to house and develop welcomed and helped Leather Inside portunity to learn transferable fash- tary sectors, however well intended, Leather Inside Out and its funding. with my only child. Out develop its understanding of ion industry and craft skills in were limited and could not deliver delivering its prison project, Design training whilst earning the National to ‘real’ prisoners in providing prop- In the short term, Leather Inside Out However, rehabilitation - for me - has for Life. For our trial phase we are Minimum Wage compared to HMP’s erly remunerated employment, rele- has already established links with been its own journey, as demanding proposing an in-cell project remu- average pay of £6 per week, which vant education and proper practical HMPs Downview and East Sutton and in many ways as difficult as the nerated at National Minimum Wage, will lead to meaningful, skilled work support. Ironically for a woman who Park to start ‘Design for Life’ project other side of my sentence, the pun- although in time we hope to share and reintegrating into society fol- has spent the majority of her sen- work in August 2020. We are also ishment. ‘Punishment’ is tangible - resources with the London College lowing release, including within the tence seeking release and freedom preparing presentations to HMPs it’s early bang up four days a week (in of Fashion which manages excellent Leather Inside Out Group. Design for via appeal and ROTL applications, I Send and Bronzefield, together with a good week); it’s queuing for a phone workshop facilities at Downview. Life will offer a series of collabora- realised that I missed my former some in the male estate - specifically for forty-five minutes only to hear the tions with British accessories de- prison ‘sisters’ and knowing that my HMPs Highpoint, Standford Hill, words ‘rooms, ladies’ when you lift We hope that Downview will allo- signers, proposing that its collections, experience was shared and sup- Forest Hill and Ford. In parallel, we the handset; it’s filling in multiple cate 6-8 residents to participate in celebrating handcraft techniques ported, as during my time inside. are establishing links with educa- forms over a six-week period to re- the project. Given the pilot nature of and partly made in prisons, will be tion and industry providers in the ceive a parcel which could have been this phase, these participants can- made available for retail from au- The death of my mother in 2014 was North of England; notably Manches- sorted out with a single email and a not be ‘employees’ because the work tumn 2020. Design for Life will launch a massive personal watershed. Her ter and Nottingham Trent universi- modicum of common sense on the will be performed in-cell. Nonethe- it first collaboration collection at support during my trial and its sur- ties. We are developing these out - to discover the coveted item is less, we are working with Downview SS19-20 London Fashion Week in rounding events, sentence and re- relationships to ensure that we can not allowed on the props list which on establishing a pay structure that partnership with London based de- lease period was fundamental. I deliver our mission across prisons changed seven weeks previously reflects the core vision of Leather signer label Anat Nicole, led by have no doubt that her long- term, throughout England and Wales, not without any known notice to a single Inside Out - specifically that all par- Leather Inside Out’s founding trus- terminal illness was exacerbated by merely to focus on the South East. resident. ticipant beneficiaries are remuner- tees Nicole Riedweg and Anat Mc- stress caused by me - for which I nec- ated at an hourly rate commensurate Kenzie, without whom my own essarily accept ultimate responsibil- Are you just focusing on the female Rehabilitation is different. It is a pro- to the National Minimum Wage. rehabilitation would not have been ity, also the fact that my daughter, estate? cess of self-examination taking in possible or complete. her only grandchild, was never able many experiences from the remark- How will this training lead on to paid to say goodbye to ‘Granny.’ My original focus, during the sum- able people who make ‘living again’ jobs in the future? Zach Langley is a former resident at mer of 2014, was on the female estate a reality. Here I emphasise people. HMP Ford I was and remain determined that because that was what I knew. The men that I have encountered in Now is Leather Inside Out’s Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Comment 27 Voicing your truth An ever-growing audience in the speaking industry for former prisoners to deliver keynote speeches, guest lectures and media comments on the state of our prisons and crimi- nal justice process presents an unexpected career path. The ‘Lived Experience’ narrative has never been so in demand

London. The event, in front speaking engagements since Obviously, in order to take up of an audience of 2000 paying I left prison; I have spoken to any sort of career in public customers, involved 5 speak- students, probation officers, speaking there are certain ers having to speak for 15 min- magistrates, security experts, things you must have. 1) a utes, without notes. The screenwriters and even the clear speaking voice 2) a good other four speakers were fa- Conservative Carlton Club, knowledge of your subject, mous authors and political about UK prisons and our and 3) the ability to think on pundits, all with books to sell criminal justice system. At your feet. Most events will and veterans of the public least three times every month also ask you to take a Q&A speaking circuit. I sat back- I get phone calls or emails session from the audience, Speaking from the heart… stage, sipping my cup of tea asking if I can supply ex-pris- which can sometimes be a bit and humming a tune whilst oners to talk about various testing – one of the questions nothing but Gospel, that can prison, where every word you all around me was panic. One subjects to the media, but I’m I often get is ‘do you have any give you the mettle you need send out is scrutinised and slightly sweating speaker, not an agency, just a working bug-eyed with anxiety, ex-criminal. So, there is defi- money buried?’ and the an- Noel Smith to talk to anyone. Also, there censored, where if you try to is the fact that I was honing tell the media outside about looked aghast at my unwor- nitely scope out here for artic- swer to that is a resounding my writing for many years in the conditions you are being ried demeanour. ‘Aren’t you ulate ex-prisoners/criminals NO. Another of the most often the pages of Inside Time held in you could find your- going to look at your notes?’ to impart their hard-won asked questions is about Being a career criminal in my whilst in prison, which gave self silenced and in worse He cried. I took another sip of knowledge and experience ‘prison showers’, but don’t let previous life, before finding me a good overview of what conditions; outside there are tea and shrugged. ‘I have no and get paid for it. that put you off. Some people rehabilitation and leaving was going on and allowed me people who are actually inter- notes.’ I replied, calmly. I ask very good questions, par- that life behind, has helped to get feedback on my opin- ested in what you have to say. thought he was going to faint. A lot of the time I speak for ticularly students who are me in some ways. For a start, ions. The fact that I could not It seems to me that rather In the event I could have spo- nothing, maybe because I studying psychology or crim- I’m never short of a few words read or write when I first than wanting to shut you up, ken for an hour but was love the sound of my own inology. And it is good that whenever anyone sticks a mi- started my three decades be- the British public are eager to dragged off stage just as I was voice, but the average fee for people are taking more notice crophone in front of me. Un- hind bars and that I am now hear exactly what goes on in getting into my stride. an hour of talking is around about prison and prisoners. like many ‘straight-goers’, the commissioning editor at our prisons, because all most £300, depending on the who seem to find public this fine paper must surely of them ever get is the tired The fact is there seems to be budget of the organisation, There can be a career for speaking a frightening pros- an almost insatiable appetite though I know at least one give everyone a bit of hope for old mocking chestnuts from those who leave prison with pect, I relish it. I guess my their own future. our dreary and predictable amongst the general public to speaker at the top-end of the their wits still about them and lack of fear comes from the tabloid press. hear what is really going on game who can command up the ability to speak about experience of giving evidence The thing is, there are many in our prisons. Far from ac- to £5,000 per speech. Even their experiences. For those from the box in my many opportunities for ex-prisoners When I was on home-leave cepting the tabloid headlines that is peanuts compared to Crown Court trials, having to to give their views to the from my last sentence I was at face value, more and more some ex-ministers who can who know that writing a book convince a jury that the lies I media and general public. asked to speak about my life people are wanting to hear command up to £50,000 per is a long and arduous road was telling them were Unlike when you are in in prison at an event in North the truth. I have done many speech. Talking is not cheap. sometimes it’s good to speak.

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working days and who always used the phrase ‘measure The right to justice twice, cut once’. And for whom the phrase, ‘a bad workman Terry G.M. Smith (BA Hons) - HMP Highpoint that keep presenting weak and insubstantial blames his tools’, would have convictions that have violated and contravened been so true. As a carpenter the most basic of English laws, such as drafting he never cut into wood, which When you are sent to prison you are not only the indictment, arraignment, disclosure and cannot be corrected after you deprived of your freedom you are also disen- joint enterprise? How long must the man-made have cut it, unless he was sure franchised of your legal and human rights and doctrine of the ‘proviso’ be used to reject and it was the right cut. He would entitlements. As the law states, every person dismiss flawless appeals? How long must the never say it was the saw that who has been convicted and sentenced by a only chance of a successful appeal depend on made the mistake but the per- court is entitled to have that conviction and how much publicity the applicant has in the son using it. sentence reviewed by a higher court or tribunal. community? Why is it that senior and junior Sid Arter - “Oh it’s a mistake on the com- counsel in Chambers up and down the land are puter!” Fortunately I had not So it is true of all those people Unfortunately, we live in a Kafkaesque appeal reluctant to take on appeals work as they are driven off; had I discovered in our modern world who system where your grounds of appeal are re- frequently admonished and castigated by Blame the tools! the mistake later in the day I blame the computer, a ma- viewed by a single judge on the papers who, Appeal Court judges that are neck-deep in so would have ended up with a chine, for making mistakes. more often than not, refuses leave to appeal much bias and prejudice that they don’t even In our modern world it is not sandwich I didn’t want and In life we all make mistakes and the all-important Representation Order. know that they are wallowing in the stuff? uncommon to hear the phrase not the one I wanted and had but might learn from these two Thus the applicant has to renew the application - ‘it’s a computer error’. I re- ordered. accounts about how to re- to be heard by the full court or two or three We have now reached the stage where the legal cently bought a shirt on-line spond when a mistake hap- judges and the applicant is neither legally rep- profession and its clientele in prison are au fait from a company and when it Computers are of course a ma- pens. First double-check be- resented nor allowed to appear in person. The with the wholly negative decisions and judge- arrived it was not the size I chine that has to be told what fore you act to make sure what judgement is decided sub rosa and is read out ments of the Court of Appeal. It does not take a had ordered. When I contacted to do; it has to be programmed you are about to do or say is to the court in a matter of minutes and is not crystal ball to forewarn the bench and their the company they told me it and operated by a person. I the right thing in the first appealable to the Supreme Court because you wingers that the dark days of dodgy decisions was a mistake on their com- would like to hear - “I am sorry, place. Once you have acted, were not granted leave to appeal by the single are becoming too predictable, habitual and puter. They exchanged the whoever programmed the you have made the ‘cut in the judge and received a decision on the review frequent. The last time the judicial planets were shirt but not without me being computer must have given it wood’ and cannot turn back and not on an authorised judgement on the all in alignment on such matters of unreason- inconvenienced; I had to get the wrong instructions, or I time; and if unfortunately you appeal. ableness, irrationality and unfairness was in in touch with them and post think I might have pressed the do make a mistake, don’t the fall of 1989 when the Birmingham Six, the wrong shirt back before wrong button.” It’s too easy to blame the equipment or the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven sent shivers getting what I had ordered. blame the machine, a machine tool, but apologise and seek It does not take a crystal along the spine of the judiciary. that only did what it was told to discover which person ball to forewarn the bench I ordered a meal at a fast food to do. made the error and learn so This time there is no stockpile of similarly wrong- restaurant last week and when the mistake is not repeated. and their wingers that the fully convicted prisoners speckled across the it arrived the sandwich had This new situation reminded dark days of dodgy decisions prison estate … small wonder. Legal Aid for the wrong filling; so I spoke me of my grandfather, who Sid Arter is a teacher and judicially reviewable decisions is non-existent to the chap that served me was a carpenter for all his entertainer are becoming too predictable, and depends upon pro bono counsel or prisoners habitual and frequent. who have learnt the bare bones of the law. THE LEADING TAX SUPPORT SERVICE IN PRISONS History tells us, in quite unequivocal terms, that We learn through hard-won experience that the publicity is the key to justice and fairness within appeal against conviction and sentence is all a our judiciary. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord grade ‘A’ chimera - something that is hoped for, Justices and High Court judges absolutely de- DOES THE but illusory or impossible to achieve. But what plore the public taking an interest in matters of makes matters worse, more time and effort was law and order. They see law and order as their spent by the current judicial incumbents at The domain and their domain alone. For example TAXMAN OWE Strand in closing down perfectly arguable and - who recalls the front-page of the Daily Mail credible grounds of appeal than would have which called High Court judges ‘The enemy of been spent in giving permission to proceed to the people’ over the Brexit fiasco? The focus of YOU MONEY? the full court. Therefore it is emphatically argued the news media on the dark corners of the courts and advanced that the Royal Courts of Justice made them sit up and justify and legitimise their Free Four Year Tax Review have become cunningly intellectually dishonest raison d’etre. and hypocritical. Moreover, we learn that at a rough estimate of 85,000 prisoners in the British Include as much information as possible: penal system whereby at least 20% (approxi- • Prison/Prison number mately 17,000 prisoners) are believed to be the DO YOU HAVE... • Your full name including middle name recipients of one miscarriage of justice or • Your date of birth another. • National insurance number TAX DEBT? • Employment history The scale of the problem is a dire indictment • Contact address/number on the outside on the judiciary of England & Wales. 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the school, who had been at Kincaid, now retired, stood do everything in our power the site messing around and by his investigation and de- not only to release them, but were thrown out of the build- nied he had concocted a case to support them as they re-ac- ing half an hour before the against the three boys. He climatize into society.” She shooting. said: “What would I get out of added: “We know that people that? You think for one min- of colour bear the brunt of the Three witnesses, all pupils at ute I want to send three young criminal justice system. As the school, were shown photos boys to prison for the rest of we try to make strides toward of the trio and initially failed their life? I didn’t know those reducing mass incarceration, to identify them. But the wit- boys. I didn’t know them from we have to be honest about nesses were repeatedly ques- Adam. Why would I want to how race plays into the crim- tioned by police over the do something like that?” inal justice system.” following months without their parents present, and at Conviction Integrity Units Shawn Armbrust, executive the trial they gave positive Around 50 prosecutors’ of- director of the Mid-Atlantic identifications, since recanted. fices across the US have set up Innocence Project which CIUs to review old cases. Bal- worked on the case, said the When Chestnut was arrested timore’s has now secured the three men: “Would never at his home, a Georgetown overturning of nine convic- have gotten out without a jacket was found in his bed- tions since Mosby took charge CIU”. She added: “Nobody room. His mother produced a in 2015, while the one in Phil- could believe multiple wit- Stolen innocence! receipt for it, and there was no adelphia has cleared 10 mur- nesses would lie about the forensic evidence linking it to der convictions since last same event. You just have to For 36 years, Andrew Stewart, Ransom Watkins and Alfred the victim, yet the jury was year. Mosby said of Chestnut, wonder about how many Chestnut (above L-R) maintained their innocence as they told that it was the victim’s Watkins and Stewart: “The cases there are in places jacket. The lead detective in system failed them. They where prosecutors aren’t will- served out life sentences for a murder they didn’t commit the case, Donald Kincaid, al- should never have had to see ing to take a serious look at legedly told Chestnut during the inside of a jail cell. We will claims of innocence.” granted a writ of innocence. Marilyn Mosby, interviewed one interview: “You have two The case, in the US city of Bal- on television and wrote her a strikes against you: you’re timore, turned a focus onto handwritten letter asking her ‘Britain could learn from America’ Ben Leapman black and I have a badge.” how authorities deal with al- to look into his case. Her of- CIUs versus CCRC leged miscarriages of fice reviewed the evidence, Torture Britain could learn lessons from America when it comes to justice. re-interviewed witnesses and The three childhood friends Defence lawyers were never tackling miscarriages of justice, according to an expert who uncovered a series of mis- were convicted as teenagers told of the holes in the prose- has studied both systems. Marika Henneberg compared In Baltimore, the state district takes by police. On November of a horrific crime - shooting cution case, despite asking Conviction Integrity Units (CIU) in the US, like the one in- attorney’s office - the US 22nd she visited the three dead a schoolboy just to steal for full disclosure. Following volved in the Baltimore case, with the Criminal Cases Review equivalent of the Crown Pros- men in prison to tell them his jacket. All three insisted their conviction the three Commission (CCRC) in England and Wales. The CCRC - an ecution Service - has estab- they were to be released, and they had nothing to do with men spent their first 12 years independent, taxpayer-funded body established in 1997 to lished a Conviction Integrity they spent one final weekend it. Even when they became in custody together at Mary- investigate alleged miscarriages of justice - has been criti- Unit to review past cases in jail before a brief court ap- eligible for parole, they were land Penitentiary, where they cised for the low success rate of applicants, with only around where there are doubts over pearance on November 25th denied release because they gave each other moral sup- 2% of the cases it looks at being referred to the Court of the evidence. when the charges against refused to admit their guilt. port, before being split up. Appeal. Some of its investigations have been thwarted when them were dismissed. As the Describing his time in cus- police forces declined to release evidence that led to a Handwritten letter three walked out of the court- But the three men, now in tody, Watkins said this week: conviction. their fifties, have been de- Whilst two of the convicted house as free men to a crowd “At 16 years old, they threw men had resigned themselves of supporters and television clared innocent and freed to me in a prison among a bunch By contrast, the 50 CIUs around the US are set up inside to remaining behind bars, crews, Chestnut said: “This is restart their lives, after pros- of animals. The things I had prosecutors’ offices, allowing easier access to evidence. Ms one of them, Chestnut, never overwhelming. I always ecutors admitted they had got to go through, it was torture. Henneberg, a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth gave up fighting. In May 2019 dreamed of this. My mom, the case wrong and a judge There’s no other way to de- and head of the university’s Criminal Justice Clinic, which he saw the head of the CIU, this is what she’s been hold- scribe it.” Stewart developed helps prisoners with appeals, said that establishing CIU- ing on to forever; to see her a strong Christian faith be- style units within regional offices of the Crown Prosecution son come home.” hind bars, even teaching Service could be an effective way to investigate wrongful Bible classes. He said he had convictions in the UK. In a paper published in 2019 in the The three may now face a come to believe that: “If this International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, she wrote: fresh courtroom fight to se- is where God wants me to rest “The appeal system in England and Wales urgently needs cure compensation. Whilst my head for the rest of my life, to be reformed. CIUs modelled on those in the USA may be the law in the US state of Mar- this is where I’m going to the solution to problems relating to disclosure, both pre-trial yland allows for such pay- serve Jesus Christ for the rest and post-conviction, and may be a more efficient solution ments, there is no working of my life.” than the CCRC. The combination of the CCRC being under-re- system to make them sourced and risk averse on the one hand, and the lack of automatically. When the three became eligi- third party access [to evidence] and people willing and able ble for parole, the parole com- to help potential CCRC applicants with their applications on Witnesses missioners backed their the other hand, is very problematic. Finding conclusive The chain of events began in release but it was blocked by evidence of innocence (or guilt!) strengthens the integrity November 1983 when DeWitt the state governor due to their of any criminal justice system, and CIUs operating out of the Duckett, 14, was shot in the stance of maintaining inno- 14 CPS areas in England and Wales would be well placed to hallway of Harlem Park Junior cence. Meanwhile the other carry out such important work.” High School in the middle of suspect, Willis, went on to be the afternoon by a killer who A arrested multiple times on However, other experts point out that CIUs cover only a small charity providing expert took his Georgetown Univer- drug and assault charges be- portion of the US, are often underfunded and vary in effec- sity jacket. Witnesses pointed and legal advice to prisoners fore he was himself shot dead tiveness. Dr Hannah Quirk of King’s College London said the finger at Michael Willis, in 2002. CIUs face potential conflicts of interest when prosecutors who claim they are innocent. then 18. One student identi- investigate convictions secured by their colleagues. She fied him, another saw him No regrets said: “If I was wrongly convicted, I would rather be here If that’s you, please write to us at: run and discard a handgun as At the three men’s brief final than there.” One Business Village, West Dock Street, police arrived, another heard court hearing, Baltimore Cir- him confess to the shooting Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire HU3 4HH cuit Court Judge Charles J. Professor Kent Roach of the University of Toronto said: and another saw him wearing Peters declared them inno- “Some CIUs in the US are quite successful in exonerating or email: [email protected] a Georgetown jacket that cent and added: “On behalf of people - as in this horrible case involving Chestnut, Watkins www.insidejustice.co.uk night. But police identified as the criminal justice system - and Stewart … Other units are, however, less successful. their prime suspects Chest- and I’m sure this means very Much depends on the initiative and resources put into the nut, 16, Watkins, 16, and little to you - I’m going to specific unit.” Stewart, 17, all ex-pupils of apologize.” Yet Detective Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Comment // Focus 31

British court shame // UK has a less than exemplary history of miscarriages of justice

Barry George Sean Hodgson Stefan Kiszko Stephen Downing The murder of the Crimewatch presenter Jill When 22-year-old barmaid Teresa De Simone When 11-year-old Lesley Molseed was mur- The 27 years that Stephen Downing spent in Dando, shot dead on her doorstep in Fulham, was found raped and strangled in her car be- dered in Rochdale in 1975, police identified tax prison are thought to make him the long- west London, shocked the nation in 1999. hind a pub in Southampton, Sean Hodgson clerk Stefan Kiszko as their prime suspect after est-serving victim of a miscarriage of justice Under pressure to solve the case, police told a Roman Catholic priest that he had been three teenage girls came forward to say he had in British history. Wendy Sewell, a 32-year- the killer. The murder, in 1979, was one of hun- old legal secretary, was found badly beaten launched the biggest criminal investigation exposed himself to them the day before the dreds of crimes that he had confessed to - be- and sexually assaulted in a cemetery in since the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper in the killing. Kiszko, who was 23 but had a mental 1970s, yet found no apparent motive and few cause, as his lawyers told his trial, he was a Bakewell, Derbyshire in 1973. She died in pathological liar. But Hodgson, 30, originally age of 12, said he had never met the victim and hospital two days later. Suspicion fell on the leads. A year after the killing they arrested from Tow Law, County Durham, was convicted had been tending to his father’s grave, miles cemetery’s 17-year-old groundskeeper, Barry George, a 39-year-old local eccentric. and sentenced to life. away, at the time of the murder. But after two Downing, who had discovered the victim. George had previous convictions for at- days of questioning without a solicitor present, Despite having learning difficulties, and a tempted rape, indecent assault and imper- In 1998, after Hodgson had served 19 years in Kiszko confessed. He later said he signed the reading age of 11, he was questioned by po- sonating a policeman. He was obsessed with prison, his lawyers asked for new tests to be statement thinking it meant he could go home. lice for nine hours without a lawyer present, celebrities and had adopted names including carried out on forensic material from the crime after which he signed a confession. Paul Gadd, the real name of Gary Glitter, and scene. Advances in science by that point meant Forensic evidence showed he could not have Barry Bulsara, the real surname of Freddie DNA samples should have been able to deter- Downing claimed his clothes had the vic- been the killer. Sperm was found on the victim, Mercury. Nevertheless there was little evi- mine whether he was the real killer. However, tim’s blood on them because he had tended dence linking him to the shooting. his lawyers were wrongly told that the material while a semen sample taken from Kiszko con- to her, but a forensic scientist told his trial no longer existed. It was only in 2008, when tained no sperm due to a medical condition. the following year that the splashes were “a At his trial in 2001, one witness identified his new solicitors made fresh inquiries, that But this was never disclosed to his defence textbook example” that would only be found him as having been in Jill Dando’s street four the exhibits were located and analysed. lawyers. Kiszko was convicted by a 10-2 verdict on the assailant. A jury convicted him unan- and a half hours before the murder. The jury and sentenced to life in 1976, with the victim’s imously. No full transcript of the trial exists. was told that he had lied in interview and The results showed that Hodgson, who suf- family calling for his execution. His appeal was Due to his age, Downing was sentenced to tried to create a false alibi. The strongest fered from a severe personality disorder, could dismissed in 1978. He continued to maintain detention at Her Majesty’s Pleasure for a min- evidence was a single speck of firearm dis- not have been responsible. His conviction was his innocence, despite being told he would imum of 10 years - but then found himself charge residue found in his overcoat a year quashed and he was finally freed in 2009 after never be freed on parole until he admitted he ineligible for parole because he was classed serving 27 years in prison, of which the final as “in denial of murder”. In 1994, Downing’s after the murder. George was convicted of was the killer. He developed schizophrenia 11 years were the result of mistakes blamed on despairing family wrote to the local newspa- murder and sentenced to life. In 2002 the while in prison. the Forensic Science Service. He left prison per, the Matlock Mercury. Its editor, Don Court of Appeal upheld the conviction. wearing a new watch given to him by the Hale, took up the case and ran a campaign, prison governor on the Isle of Wight, where he Following pressure from the international cam- suggesting other possible suspects. In 1997 In 2006, a BBC Panorama documentary cast had served most of his sentence, and looking paign group Justice, the Home Office reopened the case was referred to the Criminal Cases doubt on George’s guilt, with forensic ex- forward to watching his football team, the case in 1991. A fresh police investigation Review Commission. perts saying the speck of residue could have Sunderland. uncovered the problem with the forensic evi- come from other sources, including contam- dence, while a private detective found a wit- In 2001 Downing was freed on appeal and ination while the coat was in police hands. On the steps of the Royal Courts of Justice in ness to back up Kiszko’s alibi. The three girls the following year the Court of Appeal over- The Criminal Cases Review Commission re- London, he declared himself: “Ecstatic to be admitted they had made up their story. The turned the conviction, finding it to be unsafe ferred the case to the Court of Appeal, which free again”. But he looked emaciated and the due to the way police obtained his confes- Court of Appeal overturned the conviction in quashed the conviction in 2007. George was years inside had taken their toll. Despite re- sion and advances in forensic science cast- 1992, ruling that Kiszko … “Cannot have been freed after seven years in prison. At a retrial ceiving compensation, he struggled to adapt ing doubt on the blood evidence. A fresh the murderer”, and after 17 years in prison he in 2008, at which the jury were not told about to life on the outside and died of emphysema police investigation in 2002 interviewed was freed. In 2007, another man was convicted the speck of residue, George was acquitted. in 2012 at the age of 61. It was eventually es- 1,600 suspected people but failed to link of the murder of Lesley Molseed and sentenced He was denied compensation. The murder tablished that the true suspected murderer was anyone else with the murder, which remains remains unsolved. David Lace, who took his own life in 1988. to life. unsolved.

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a firm but shaky grip on the alcohol vapour in my lungs perched on a lamppost in read- Inside Voices banister and stumbled slowly was exhaled. iness to swoop to its next mor- downstairs; the unmistakable sel. I listened to a serene mel- scent of lavender masking any I picked up my phone that was ody bellowed out by the birds. lurking smell of stale lodged down the side of the The sounds roused me, they alcohol. sofa, alarmed at seeing I had made me smile; I can’t remem- missed over one hundred calls. ber the last time I smiled. I In the kitchen, stains of spilt Whilst I was drinking the pre- reflected momentarily on the coffee and fruit juice were vious evening in my protective Alcoholics Anonymous meet- clearly visible on the work- cocoon, I was unaware family ing I was attending in the af- tops. Trembling and on edge, and friends had been desper- ternoon. It is a safe environ- I struggled to pour orange juice ately trying to speak to me. I ment to discuss alcoholism into my glass, agonising as I suddenly lost all sense of my and the quest for sobriety. The was spilling it and my body surroundings, just like in the feeling of hope is almost tan- screaming at me … ‘I desper- movies when a bomb explodes gible, presenting itself in every ately needed that!’ I could and the soldier is lost and con- corner of the room. Hope has never find a solution to quench fused; my dad on the other end removed my shackles, it has my thirst, it just wasn’t of the phone told me my sister dislodged the anchor. I have possible. had lost her battle with alco- surfaced - leaving the ship be- holism. There was torment in hind. Prison has freed me from my dad’s sobbing when he I ventured outside with an my imprisonment, hope is spoke to me - I knew he was unlit cigarette clasped be- bringing me resolve. tween my dry and cracking thinking that alcohol would Vivid images of light lips, and a carrier-bag in my also rob him of his son.

© Andy Aitchison/Library image It would be wrong of me to left hand. I whimpered at the suggest that prison life is plain loose stones from the tarmac I accompanied my dad to the sailing - on the contrary, it can drive embedding into my feet, hospital. In my confusion I be the loneliest place on earth whilst walking towards the bin would be entering a morgue when guilt and remorse stir The depths of hope where the full reality of death containing garden waste. I your emotions. Whilst I was opened the lid to be greeted hit me. The vivid images cou- suffocating at the depths of the Daniel Smith - HMP Wymott myself; how things might have to it. Alcohol very nearly de- by a putrid stench and the pled with the realisation as to ocean floor, I can still suffocate been so different? stroyed me. slimy texture of rotting grass. just what alcohol is capable of inside these concrete walls. It Very carefully, I moved aside weren’t enough to stop me should never have taken a Alcohol and its absolute power I knew that ship would never The cacophony of my alarm a section of the grass and the drinking. had mercilessly dragged me surface. I wasn’t sure whether hastened my waking. My le- carrier-bag was emptied of its prison sentence to tackle alco- down to the bitterly cold I would, but more significantly thargic eyes led me to the bath- contents, the grass reposi- Back at my house, I thought holism, and it is something depths of the ocean floor. The whether I wanted to? My soul room. I filled the sink with cold tioned to cover over the empty about my sister. She died which I profoundly regret. I sheer enormity of coming to was lost, and I felt hollow, with water, splashed it on my face, brandy bottles I had just put alone, no one to comfort her. will not allow self-pity to terms with the fact that alcohol bitter, selfish venom coursing then a glance in the mirror re- there. I wiped the grass from I opened a new bottle of brandy swamp me; I will use my ex- had entrenched me took time through my veins, keeping me vealed a redness of sunset my hands onto the bricks of - I don’t remember drifting off periences to help others on to comprehend. alive for an existence rather displacing the whites of my the house before lighting my to sleep. their journey, reminding them than a life. eyes. My slowly awakening cigarette, inhaling, craving that there is always hope. I dreamt that I was standing consciousness asked the ques- nicotine. I opened my curtains to reveal in front of a sunken naval ship. I was imprisoned by alcohol tion; did I have enough alcohol the rigid, insensible bars of my I have befriended myself again In service it was heroic, and and not by the metal bars we to see me through the evening? Inside the house I opted for window. The light sprayed in place of the false friend al- sailed with a purpose, but now know prison to be. I needed chewing-gum instead of further into my prison cell as cohol. I am fourteen-months lay wistful, still and decaying. alcohol, it was my friend, the I was living alone now; the brushing my teeth. Full and the curtains parted. The grass sober and I know hope is my I was helpless and entirely solution to my problems, al- worthless promises that I opened packets were scattered outside was glistening in the ally as my journey continues. alone, without compassion, ways withholding judgement would stop drinking couldn’t all over the house to mask my sunshine as the dew captured I love listening to the first verse pity or empathy. I questioned … I just couldn’t close the door put a halt on my divorce. I took stagnating breath, as the the light. A lone seagull of Amazing Grace.

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Emmaus is not for everyone, but those who do come to it At the request of a prisoner, HMP Leicester’s Library Terry Waite CBE experience a caring and supportive community. That is not the case for many former offenders extended an invitation to Russell Brand to talk who, on discharge, find themselves in a bleak about his book, ‘Recovery’ I first started writing this column in 2011. I was world. introduced to the paper by Eric McGraw, who Jamie at one time was the managing editor of Inside For the past two years I have been trying, as Meeting Russell Brand was Time. Eric, now retired, was and still is a lovely yet in vain, to find employment for a former a great experience for me. man and over the years became a good friend. highly qualified offender. If those to whom he Hearing about his addictions has applied reply at all, the excuse often given and how he came out the We only met infrequently but when we did he is that he is too highly qualified. I am not going other side. Also, when he ad- was unfailingly cheerful and full of good hu- to give up and neither is he, although he has mitted it is still an everyday mour. I have memories of sitting with him in been brought to the point of total despair by thing that doesn’t go away, Buckingham Palace at the Butler Trust awards. the constant rejections. but with belief and support from others, he has managed We managed to find a couple of chairs near to to control his addictions. I ap- some sandwiches and as the guests mingled Alas, despite the efforts of preciate how he was very with the great and the good, he and I tucked many good campaigners, both down to earth, and did not in and exchanged banter! within the justice system and “If I can do it so can you” look down on anyone. We were equals. Before coming to Inside Time, Eric had worked beyond, we have gone back- on population studies at the United Nations Nathan and when that came to an end he took on this wards not forwards. On Tuesday 3rd December Benn newspaper. He has no idea that I am mentioning 2019, a fresh and bright morn- I was asked to come and listen to a guy talk about his book Readers of this column do not need me to tell It’s about addictive personality, so I thought what the f**k him in this article and I do so because long ing, there was a mingled aura them that the world can be a pretty tough place So I took myself to the Chapel to have a little look before the cuts imposed by government which of excitement and anticipa- for many people and in some respects is getting Celebrities are just like us, this is what I took brought the Prison Service to its knees, and tion amidst the chatter that devastated the Probation Service, Eric was tougher. However we can take heart that there thronged the warm walls of The stand-up comic Russell Brand leading the campaign for prison reform. David are people such as the father of young Jack the Chapel. This you might I sat in awe when he took the stand Ramsbotham, a former Chief Inspector of Merritt, who was not shy to stand up in public find rather peculiar for a One of the best comedians in the land Prisons and an old soldier was another. I could and shame those who had attempted to make Tuesday morning in early De- Shared his life story, all the grime and grand go on and list a whole string of people who political capital out of the tragic death of his cember and before you ask, it recognized that nothing short of total reform son and others. We can be justly proud of the was not the second coming of I could relate to a lot of what he said was required both in the prison system itself work of the Institute of Criminology at It’s like he took his book straight from his head Christ, well not quite! but also in the whole system of aftercare. Alas, Cambridge. We can applaud the bravery of an He answered every question he was fed despite the efforts of many good campaigners, ex-offender and at least know that there are He’s brought new life to me, I no longer feel dead Following what seemed like both within the justice system and beyond, we people such as Eric McGraw and David hours, but in reality was only have gone backwards not forwards. Ramsbotham, and many others, who have not If he can face his addiction, then so can I given up and will work for reform for as long a few minutes, the momen- Maybe I’ll beat this behaviour before I die That I’ll never know, unless I try Why do I write as I do? Well, for many years I as they last. tous moment dawned. In His name is Russell Brand, what a guy have been doing my limited best to help dis- walked the king of life expe- charged men and women get settled into so- I started by saying that I have written monthly rience himself, Russell Brand. Damien called ‘normal’ life and it’s been damned hard. for Inside Time since 2011. Now comes the time Low and behold, he was actu- most of the questions were ‘Everyone is just a human around recovery and the All it needs is one dreadful crime to hit the to take a bit of a break and so from this column ally here! Humbly decked in a body, with human fears and Twelve Step Program. We headlines, and the general public is justly out- onwards, I will only be writing to you each long black coat, signature frailties,’ this was the deep were all enthralled and hun- raged, for politicians to jump on the bandwagon quarter. I passed my 80th birthday some skinny jeans and a pair of heartfelt answer from Russell gry for his knowledge on this and promote the ‘throw the key away’ mantra. months ago and need to give others a chance. jaded yellow converse that So, I hope the New Year will be good for you. concealed burgundy socks Brand to the question I was subject. One recent example was over the London Bridge asking him, ‘Why did he take Keep as cheerful as possible. Remember, you (his beloved West Ham’s shooting. Well that was redeemed somewhat the time and effort to visit He acknowledged how badly still have life … and that is a precious gift. Yours, colour). by the fact that one of the individuals who did people in prison?’ he had behaved, both before Terry. his best to stop the massacre was himself a and when fame first en- lifer. I can only hope that people will learn from Russell proudly, but humbly, The first I learnt of this event croached upon his life. He is this example that you simply cannot generalize Terry Waite was a successful hostage negoti- told the audience that his life was from a poster on the li- now the exact opposite to that about offenders - each case must be taken on ator before he himself was held captive in has taken on new meaning. brary door. It read, ‘A talk with person. Instead of being loud its merits. Beirut for 1763 days between 1987 and 1991; But far from being perfect, Russell Brand’. I had to look and brash, he is loud and the first four years were spent in solitary Russell says that he still bat- twice. I did not believe I had humble. The warm, caring If you are really going to help offenders who confinement. tles his demons every day. correctly comprehended the family man Russell Brand is want to be helped then that’s almost impossible information that was staring not portrayed in the media. I in large institutions. Smaller units are required Smiling widely, Russell me directly in the face. It was am now preparing to abolish and these are costly in the short term. The value GRAHAM & CO talked about becoming a re- a lot more likely to be portly my own addictions. of giving really skilled training to individuals sponsible, loving father and columnist and star sign fiend, CRIMINAL SOLICITORS has certainly been shown by the Clink, where Russell Grant! But no, the co- Thanks to Alistair Fruish PRISON LAW how that experience has those who have been equipped to become first Adjudications changed him for the greater median was coming to HMP (Writer in Residence) for or- rate chefs have been able to get a job on dis- Home Detention Curfew good. He talked on how when- Leicester and space was ganising it and thanks again Oral Hearings charge and only a handful return to jail. ever he can, he makes his pre- limited. to Russell for not only showing CRIMINAL DEFENCE Recall up, but for being so inspira- Confiscation vious wrongs as right as tional and introducing me to I have often written about Emmaus for the Crown Court Representation possible. And tries to lend a Fraud Then he came into the chapel meditation - a way of dealing homeless in this column. In the weeks prior to compassionate hand of ser- Assault/ Drug Cases and after Christmas I have been especially APPEALS and sat down next to me on with my anger - which in jail INCLUDING VARIATIONS AND DISCHARGES vice to those suffering within the front row. ‘Hello, I’m Rus- occupied in visiting some of our communities SOPO can sometimes be intense. I CCRC Applications society. sell. Who are you?’ Then he now have a way of blocking out up and down the country. In each community POCA Appeals and enforcement. shook my hand. After a few the constant harping on of four there are always a number of residents who FUNDING Legal Aid Available on permitted services All-in-all, I think it was an more introductions, Russell hundred plus prisoners; whin- have done time but I have to say I have met Fixed Fees Available amazing day, a real treat. I took a seat in front of us, at ing about there being no caf- some great people and made many friendships. 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Consideration should be given to your health if force is being used. Staff should be aware of Use of Force any signs that someone is having medical dif- ficulties when using force. If a medical emer- PRISON gency occurs, the person should be released REFORM Marc Conway from all holds and medical advice should be TRUST Policy Officer sought immediately. Healthcare staff should be present whenever possible if there are plans to use force. There are also separate require- In October 2018, then Prisons Minister Rory ments if a planned use of force is directed at a Stewart announced the intention to roll out the prisoner known or suspected to be pregnant. use of PAVA incapacitant spray to prison of- ficers across the country. Prison Reform Trust After an incident involving use of force a report have been deeply concerned about this drive, should always be completed by staff involved. not least because of some of the experiences The report should include details about what of use of force that people have described to happened before force was used, what type of us through our advice service. If force has been force was used and why. You should be exam- used against you whilst in custody it is impor- ined by a member of healthcare as soon as tant to understand what the basis for this was possible and within 24 hours after force has - to help you understand whether it was justi- been used. They should complete an injury fied or not. report, called F213, even if you do not have Hear this… injuries. © Deposit Photos It is important to start by saying that force should always be seen as a last resort - wher- ever possible staff should try to resolve a situ- In light of the addition of ation using ‘de-escalation and communication Life amidst the voices skills to manage aggression and prevent vio- PAVA spray to prisons, it is I am a therapist with Neal’s 2. Be in the present. lence from escalating as far as possible’. When important that careful moni- Yard in London where I work Meditation can help im- considering using force in self-defence, staff mensely with this: some pris- toring takes place to ensure Kath Qualtrough with clients to understand the should consider if there are other options root causes of their chal- ons run meditation courses, available - such as retreating and summoning that its use is justified and a lenges in life, enabling us to otherwise your library may help. Prison rule 47/YOI rule 50 also says that: Recently David from HMP then strategise how the client have audio or written mate- ‘No officer shall act deliberately in a manner last resort - this was not always Holme House wrote about can overcome these chal- rial to help you begin a short calculated to provoke a prisoner.’ the case in the prisons where “living with the voices”. A few lenges and live their best life. meditation practice. As little I have also worked with men as two minutes a day can weeks before David’s letter Prison Service Order (PSO) 1600 Use of Force PAVA was piloted. and women in medium and work wonders. was published we ran a ses- contains details about when and how force maximum security prisons, sion for our Listeners in HMP should be used. The PSO states: and in my spare time I volun- 3. Get good sleep. If you think force used against you was not Wandsworth, training them ‘The use of force by one person on another justified you can make a complaint using the teer as a Samaritan. My expe- Even if it initially means you to support those in emotional need to ask whether you can without consent is unlawful unless it is internal complaints system. You can ask for rience of working in prisons distress who are hearing has taught me that mental have medication to help with justified. photos to be taken of any injuries you received, voices. The same training has health challenges can be this, or you need to stop if this has not happened already, and for any been run for Listeners in HMP magnified to the extreme in drinking caffeine after 4pm The use of force will be justified, and therefore CCTV or Body Worn Video Camera footage to Pentonville. that environment, and the for a while. lawful, only: be saved. The prison should look at the reports • If it is reasonable in the circumstances; work of the Listeners in pris- made by prison staff and healthcare staff when Hearing voices is a common • If it is necessary; ons is therefore, in my view, 4. Connect with others. considering your complaint. They may also symptom of a mental illness. • If no more force than is necessary is used; so important. Listeners are One conversation a day, per- need to speak to you, to staff involved, or other However, not everyone who • If it is proportionate to the seriousness of the not there to cure mental haps with a Listener if you witnesses. The prison may need longer than hears voices is unwell. In Da- circumstances’. health challenges: instead, need it to be confidential, can the usual 5 working days to investigate and vid’s case, though, he men- they support those who are help reframe your thoughts. respond to your complaint. You should still tioned thinking about suicide suffering from such chal- PSO 1600 describes each of these points in receive an interim response explaining this. “every night”. So it sounds lenges, using the techniques 5. Live as healthy a life more detail. Whether it is reasonable to use like, at the moment, he needs we teach the Listeners during as you can in prison. force will be different in each case. PSO 1600 In light of the addition of PAVA spray to pris- support with what he is their training course. Try adding one healthy as- says that things to think about when deciding ons, it is important that careful monitoring suffering. pect to your day, possibly just if using force is reasonable include the size, takes place to ensure that its use is justified Where someone is in a posi- a couple of stretches from the age and sex of both the prisoner and the mem- and a last resort - this was not always the case Treatments for hearing voices tion to manage their own ‘Cell Workout’ book written ber of staff, and whether there are weapons in the prisons where PAVA was piloted. We are can include medication, talk- mental health challenges, a by ex-offender LJ Flanders involved. also aware the evidence shows that force is ing therapies and peer sup- first port of call is often to (check the library), or sub- sometimes used disproportionately against a port. These same treatments reach out for trusted support. tract one unhealthy aspect The PSO says that ‘the action taken must be particular group. The Prison Service’s own are proposed for a number of Trust is, in my view, a most from your daily diet. necessary’. Staff should consider what type of “Equality Analysis” acknowledges that there other mental health chal- valuable currency in life, and harm they are trying to prevent to decide if 6. Do something is a “statistically significant trend towards lenges. My purpose in writing it may be hard to find in the using force is necessary. This could include prison environment. So a for yourself every day. disproportionality in use of force practice, in this article is to open a con- risk to life, risk to limb, risk to property or risk starting point could be run- Read, call someone, write to particular towards younger prisoners, BAME versation about how you can to good order. The PSO says that ‘it is clearly ning yourself through this someone, meditate, exercise; prisoners and Muslim prisoners”. Prison Re- manage any mental health easier to justify force as ‘necessary’ if there is six-point checklist. whatever you get a small form Trust will continue to pay close attention challenge you face whilst a risk to life or limb’. Force used in self-defence amount of joy from, do that. to the use of force in general, and to the rollout managing your time in may also be more easily demonstrated as ‘nec- 1. Reframe unhelpful of PAVA in particular. prison, however long or short essary’. However, the PSO also says that ‘it is thoughts. What else works for you, to your time in prison may be. not enough that a prisoner be given any ‘lawful If you have a negative manage your mental health This will often mean getting order’ to do something and has refused to do so’. thought, or voice, that runs in prison? I would like to grow whatever support you need to on repeat then you could try this conversation. It’s impor- You can contact the Prison Reform Trust’s advice manage your particular chal- writing it down and listing tant to stay healthy, inside PSO 1600 states that ‘no more force than is team at: FREEPOST ND6125 London EC1B 1PN. lenges. In David’s case, this out all the evidence that and out. Be good to yourself. necessary shall be used. Any greater force than Our free information line is open 3.30pm- may not lead to a life without makes you think it is true. is necessary could be deemed as unlawful.’ 5.30pm on Monday and Thursday, and the voices: it may instead be a Then write down all the life 10.30am-12.30pm on Wednesday. The number life where the cause of the evidence you have that it is Kath Qualtrough MSc, MA, Staff should be able to demonstrate that the ac- is 0808 802 0060 and does not need to be put voices was identified, to then not true. 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recommendation is that the how the DPS could be made MoJ should set out the perfor- more accessible and less time mance measures that will be consuming for service provid- used to hold service providers ers and prison staff. The PLA and governors to account. also noted that a similar sys- tem is being considered as The Justice Select Committee, 3. Supporting governors and part of the MoJ’s probation a cross-party group of MPs prison staff reforms; a full evaluation of that examines the work of the In the evidence submitted by the roll-out of the DPS must Ministry of Justice (MoJ), has the PLA, they noted that the be undertaken before this published a review of Prison training on managing the happens. Governance. The review looks new education contracts has at the role of prison gover- been too little and too late, 5. The length of DPS nors, exploring who they are and that some prison staff contracts accountable to, and how the were not yet confident about Another of the PLA’s concerns MoJ and the Prison Service managing and monitoring the has been that the DPS con- should oversee prisons. new contracts. tracts are too short. This is particularly problematic for The Prisoner Learning Alli- The Justice Select Committee providing information, ad- ance (PLA), a network that welcomed the changes to ed- vice and guidance services, brings together organisations ucation provision, believing which is over half of the over- Citizens inside and individuals with exper- they represent an opportunity all DPS spend at the moment. tise in prison education, sub- to deliver positive change to The committee agreed, stat- mitted evidence to help the support rehabilitation. How- A guide to promoting active citizenship in prison ing there is clear evidence to committee examine how edu- ever, they were also con- suggest that small providers cation was working in pris- cerned to hear that some Samaritans’ Listener scheme. It could be get- need longer-term contracts to ons. In the review, the governors do not feel they ting involved in organising activities, like offer them security. Their rec- committee made five recom- have the skills or support to HMP Erlestoke’s literature festival, or demo- ommendation, strongly sup- mendations for improving manage the new education cratic participation like User Voice councils. ported by the PLA, is that the education, all of which sup- contracts. This represents a MoJ should enable contracts The toolkit - Citizens Inside: A guide to creat- port changes that the PLA real risk to the long-term suc- We have launched a toolkit to give people liv- of longer than one year to be ing active participation in prisons - helps read- would like to see made. cess of the new arrangements. ing and working in prison the tools and inspi- offered. ers on every step of the way, from planning to The committee recommend ration to promote active citizenship. 1. Promoting the importance that the MoJ urgently review delivering a new active citizenship project. It When will the MoJ respond? is packed with tips to help you overcome chal- of education in prisons the training and support Active citizenship is about people’s involve- Now a new government is in lenges and activities to make sure your project The Committee stated that available to governors and ment in the world around them. It is the action place, we expect the Prison is a success. education is an important their teams. of engaging with issues, ideas, people and part of the prison regime and Service and MoJ to respond to communities, and has the potential to be a the review and say what they Funded by the European Commission, the the MoJ needs to ensure that 4. Monitoring the DPS powerful force for good in prisons. It can help will do about the recommen- toolkit was made possible by a collaboration it keeps its focus on this, and The Dynamic Purchasing Sys- people prepare for life after prison too - able to dations. As part of the PLA, of European social justice organisations from other purposeful activity. tem (DPS), also introduced in contribute to society, participate and belong. Prisoners’ Education Trust is Belgium, Croatia, Italy, the UK and the They recommend that the MoJ April 2019, allows governors looking forward to continuing Netherlands. reviews the training available to purchase smaller, more Active citizenship projects can take lots of dif- to prison officers and gover- specialist education services. to advocate for positive ferent forms in prison. They can range from If you’re interested in promoting active citizen- nors to ensure they are best The PLA has been working changes in prison activities that bring members of the commu- ship and would like a copy of the toolkit, write able to support access to with Clinks to monitor and education. nity into prison, like prison-university part- to us at: FREEPOST, Prisoners’ Education education. evaluate how these contracts nerships, to peer support projects like the Trust. have been running. If you have experienced any 2. Accountability for change to the education education With the PLA raising con- your prison provides since The committee also noted cerns about the complexity April 2019, we’d love to hear Make studying your that there is a lack of clarity and waiting periods involved from you. Write to us at: about the new arrangements in the process, the Justice Se- FREEPOST, Prisoners’ Edu- for providing education, in- lect Committee recommended cation Trust. New Year’s resolution! troduced in April 2019. Their that the MoJ urgently review

study towards a range of qual- ifications. Our most popular Pickup & Scott cover the majority of courses focus on construc- prisons in the South East including tion, fitness instruction, but not limited to: HMP Bullingdon, counselling, and starting a HMYOI Aylesbury, HMP Woodhill, business, as well as Open Uni- HMP The Mount, HMP Bedford, versity Access Modules, GCSEs, A Levels and more. HMP Grendon & Springhill

If you’d like any advice about We are able to assist with all which course to study or for aspects of prison law, including: Please contact more information about how The Prison Law Dept at: to apply, write to us at: FREE- • Parole Board Reviews Pickup & Scott Solicitors POST, Prisoners’ Education • Recall to Prison 6 Bourbon Street Trust. Our advice team would Aylesbury Have you made your New ers’ Education Trust! be happy to help! You can also • Independent Adjudications Bucks HP20 2RR Year’s resolutions yet? Think- speak to your prison’s Educa- • Sentence Calculation ing of studying or re-training? Every month, we fund hun- tion Department. 01296 397 794 Why not apply for a distance dreds of people in prisons Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers learning course with Prison- across England and Wales to 38 Information www.insidetime.org Insidetime January 2020

necessary to disclose information about your probably be refused if you didn’t disclose an Moving on... conviction to a potential employer. If this is unspent conviction. the case, make sure you are informed of the employer’s policy on criminal records and Travel share this with your probation officer. If the Licences generally include a standard condi- The seven criminal record employer has a policy of not asking but proba- tion which prevents you from travelling out- tion insists that you do, you should ask for side of the UK without the prior permission of clear reasons, preferably in writing. your probation officer. Permission is usually stages - leaving prison only given in exceptional circumstances. If If you’ve been working for an outside employer you do wish to travel abroad whilst on licence, Unlock’s Debbie Sadler provides some information on whilst in prison, the prison should inform your we’d suggest speaking to your probation of- employer of your release date. If you’re going ficer who should be able to give you an indica- things you need to know as you prepare to leave prison to continue working for the same employer, tion as to whether approval would be given and how to make a formal application. make sure you give them your personal bank Many people who contact our helpline are Employment and criminal record checks account details upon release. If you don’t, you Other looking for answers to specific questions. How- When you leave prison, your conviction will may find that your wages will continue being If you’re likely to be homeless on release from ever, some say: “I’ve just been cautioned/con- be unspent under the Rehabilitation of Offend- paid into the central prison account. prison then you should make the prison aware victed at court - what do I need to know?” To ers Act for at least 2 years (the time will depend of this at the earliest opportunity. The national help those people, we’ve identified the ‘seven on the length of your sentence). That means it Many people leaving shortage of housing stock means that it can be stages of a criminal record’ and developed will be disclosed on all levels of criminal re- difficult to secure housing upon release, espe- information on how to deal with the conse- prison are totally unprepared cord check, and when applying for jobs you’ll cially if you don’t have a connection with a quences of having a criminal record at each need to disclose it to an employer if asked. If for dealing with the practical local area. In many cases, you may need the stage. You can find out more at https://hub. you have previous convictions, you should impact of living with a criminal permission of your probation officer to reside unlock.org.uk/stages/. check whether these are spent. record in the community. at a certain address. Whether you’re looking Stage 1 - You’ve just received a caution; to rent from a local authority, housing associ- Recruitment practices vary - many jobs will ation or privately, you will often be asked to Stage 2 - You’ve just received a conviction; ask about criminal records on application, but Education disclose unspent convictions. Stage 3 - You’re leaving prison; there are a growing number of employers who For anybody considering applying for a course Stage 4 - You’re on probation; have ‘banned the box’. They delay asking ques- at university through UCAS, you will no longer For many people prison offers stability and tions about criminal records until interview or be required to disclose unspent convictions structure and coping on your own upon release Stage 5 - You have an unspent conviction; after offer, which gives you a better chance to for the majority of courses (other than those can be stressful. However, there are many or- Stage 6 - Your conviction is spent; be assessed on your skills and abilities first. leading to professions exempt from the ROA, ganisations that can offer information, advice Stage 7 - Your caution/conviction is filtered. for example teacher, nurse etc). However, in- and support to people leaving prison and we’d When it comes to disclosing your conviction/s, dividual universities have their own admis- always recommend that you ask for help if you In this article, we’re concentrating on stage 3 be prepared. Some people find that a disclosure sions policies and you may find that they’ll ask need it. - leaving prison. We’ll look at some of the other statement can help them get their thoughts in about unspent convictions, or about any li- stages in future articles. some kind of order. The statement can be cence conditions or restrictions that could shared with the employer or used as a prompt affect your ability to complete the course. Being released from prison is a significant step when disclosing face-to-face. It can also be in going back to a ‘normal life’. However, many used as evidence of what’s been disclosed. Insurance Unlock is an independent charity for people people leaving prison are totally unprepared While you’re on licence, you may need to get All the time your conviction is unspent you for dealing with the practical impact of living with convictions and our helpline provides con- permission from your probation officer before will need to disclose it to an insurer if asked. with a criminal record in the community. This fidential peer advice on overcoming the effects undertaking any paid or voluntary work. If If they find out about a conviction that you can often leave them feeling extremely of criminal records. You can call: 01634 your probation officer doesn’t feel that the role haven’t told them about they’ll usually cancel stressed and anxious and in the worst case 247350 Monday to Friday, 10-4 (the num- you’ve applied for is suitable for you, they can your policy. If you make a claim, insurers may scenario could see them losing their job or ber does not need to be put on your pin) or write refuse you permission. If you’re subject to carry out a basic DBS check to establish even getting into further trouble with the po- to Unlock, MCSC, 39-48 Marsham Street, Mai whether your convictions were spent at the lice. We’ve set out below some of the things we MAPPA (due to a violent or sexual offence), dstone, Kent, ME14 1HH. Our website is www. time you took out your policy. Your claim will think you need to know. your probation officer may feel that it’s unlock.org.uk.

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April 2015 with a custodial Evidently, there were extreme term of less than 10 years flaws in the risk management would be automatically re- plan developed for Khan’s re- SOLICITORS Beatrice Webster leased once two-thirds of the lease, given that - for example wellsburcombe custodial sentence had been - there was no exclusion zone Sentences of Imprisonment served. Those sentenced be- preventing Khan from living for Public Protection (IPPs) fore 13 April 2015 with a cus- within 20 miles of his co-de- were developed as a form of todial term of more than 10 fendants, and he was able to indeterminate sentence to years could be released by the create a hoax terrorist device protect the public from seri- Parole Board at the two-thirds and stab two victims. Khan’s ous offenders whose crimes stage of their sentence or if licence did not allow for travel did not merit a life sentence. they weren’t, would be re- to London and special per- After coming into force in leased automatically at the mission was therefore 2005, IPP sentences ended up end of the custodial term. granted for him to participate being used far more widely in Cambridge University’s than originally intended. Usman Khan had been given ‘Learning Together Five Year Prisons were therefore get- an IPP sentence in 2012 for Celebration’ event at which he ting ‘clogged’ with prisoners terrorism charges. The sen- murdered his two victims. POLICE INVESTIGATIONS COURT PROCEEDINGS tence given meant Khan serving IPP sentences and it Whether prisoners are serv- would have served at least was also causing a burden for ing indeterminate or determi- eight years and would not l Are you about to be interviewed l Have you received a postal families of IPP prisoners and nate sentences, the risk have been released unless he by the Police? requisition? this sentence was abolished management plan is essential could convince the Parole in 2012. both for the management of Board he was no longer a l Facing the prospect of fresh l Have you been charged with offenders in the eyes of the threat and that his risk was charges? new offences? Extended Sentences for Public National Probation Service manageable in the commu- Protection (EPPs) were intro- but also for the success of the nity. However, some of Khan’s l Want to avoid an additional l Do you have a hearing coming duced in April 2005 and these release in the eyes of the pris- co-defendants had been sen- sentence? up and need representation? are a type of determinate sen- oner, so it is extremely impor- tenced with determinate sen- tence which include two parts: tant that this is agreed between tences whereby they would be l Waiting for the Police to make l Are your current lawyers doing a custodial term (of which parties and in those cases released after they had served a decision on potential fresh enough to help? half is served and the remain- where the Parole Board has der is served in the commu- half of their sentences. charges? the power to release, these l Do you face POCA proceedings? nity on licence) and an negotiations form part of the Khan appealed his sentence l Concerned over Police delays in extended period on licence, hearing process. The Parole in 2013, and senior judges of as decided by the court. Board can only agree a li- making a decision? the Court of Appeal agreed he cence condition if they feel it On an EPP, those sentenced should have been treated the l Had no update from your Solicitor? is necessary and proportion- after 4 April 2005 but before same way as his co-defend- ate for risk management and l 14 July 2008 would be eligible ants, and so he was given an Been recalled and worried about as a solicitor our role is a vital for parole at the halfway point extended determinate sen- being charged with new offences? one in these negotiations. of their custodial sentences. tence of 16 years with a mini- If not released at this stage, EPP mum term (custodial part) of Our Prison Law team at Reeds prisoners would automati- eight years. Solicitors can put forward cally be released at the end of representations about the ap- theirReeds custodial are pleasedsentence. to Khanwelcome was released 3 new on licence Prison propriatenessLaw Consultants of offending However, the law changed so subject to a risk management behaviour and risk reduction thatto thosetheir sentencedgrowing on team: or planSophie which includedGhashghaei-Pour, GPS tag- programmes Nirinder for clients and afterDhillon 14 July & 2008, Emma and con Gauden.- ging, a requirement to reside can commission independent APPEALS victed before 3 December in an approved premise, a psychological assessments 2012,We could have be releasedoffices auto Nationwide- non-contact and condition we can with therefore where necessary provide and also as- l Do you feel your sentence is too maticallyassistance at the halfway all over point the his Country former associates, with our and newest an sist inoffices negotiations located for licence long? obligation to engage with the ofin their Eastbourne, custodial sentences. Catford and Brighton. conditions. For those seeking Desistance and Disengage- expert legal advice for Parole l Do you disagree with your Lawyers EPP sentences were replaced ment Programme, which in- Hearings our team is always about not lodging an appeal? byOur Extended commitment Determinate and servicevolves tailored to you, counselling does noton stop hand whento assist. you PRISON LAW Sentencesleave the(EDS) dock. in December Reeds and solicitors psychological are intervendedicated- to providing l Wrongly convicted? 2012. On an EDS, those pris- legal expertise along withtion for unparalleled those convictions client of care.ThisBeatrice Webster service is a l Due for parole? oners sentenced before 13 l Concerned about disclosure also includes issues youterrorism may offences. experience in custody.Trainee Solicitor at Reeds. l Been recalled? failures? RTXS-CHLX-SYRC l Due for a category A review l Let down at trial by your legal Reeds Solicitors - Offices Nationwide team? 403 Silbury Boulevard l Suffered parole delays that Milton Keynes - MK9 2AH you feel you should be l Do you feel you have grounds compensated for? to appeal? Our Prison Law Team are able to offer advice and assistance under the Legal Aid Scheme for the following issues: LEGAL AID / PRIVATE REPRESENTATION / NATIONWIDE SERVICE Determine/ IPP Recall Independent Adjudications Parole Sentence Calculations Herts, Beds, Bucks, Essex London & Thames Valley, Appointment only Kent, Surrey Our experienced Solicitors also offer competitive fixed fees 5 Holywell Hill, St Albans, 4 Britannia Court, The Green 13 Halstead Road, for general Prison Law matters including: Hertfordshire AL1 1EU. West Drayton, Middlesex Wanstead, Re-categorisation Sentence Planning Pre-Tariff Sifts Tel: 01727 840900 UB7 7PN. Tel: 01895 449288 London E11 2AY. 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Q I’m on remand. My barris- very well point to a starting QI was interviewed by a pro- • Strong personal mitigation In that case they quashed an ter has advised me to think point much lower than the 7 bation officer - they’ve pre- or immediate sentence of impris- long and hard before I enter years. After that, the Judge has pared a pre-sentence report. • Immediate custody will re- onment and replaced it with a a guilty plea. He says that if to consider whether there are The report says I should get sult in significant harmful suspended sentence. I hold my hands up, I’ll be matters that would make it a suspended sentence. Does impact to others. sentenced as a “third strike unjust to impose a sentence of the Judge have to follow this? The Court also recently con- drug dealer”. I’m only 7 years (less credit for any The Court has the power to sidered the possibility that charged with low-level street guilty plea). This issue is A For sentences imposed on consider suspending a sen- health issues may amount to tence where the appropriate dealing, so what does that fact-sensitive, so there has or after 1st February 2017, the sufficient personal mitigation term would be up to 2 years. mean for my sentence? been a strong suggestion that Sentencing Council has pub- to enable a prison sentence to you should have the benefit of lished a Guideline. A sentenc- be suspended.9 While that ar- The Court of Appeal recently A S. 110 Powers of Criminal a pre-sentence report.4 ing Judge has to ensure that gument was rejected on the Sentencing Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 considered the Guideline, and, However, the absence of a any restriction on your liberty facts of the case, it remains of created minimum terms for applying it to the facts of that pre-sentence report will not is commensurate with the se- relevance to the issue of Answers are kindly 7 case, said: “…it could not be certain repeat offences, in- necessarily make your sen- riousness of the offence. For provided by: Jason Elliott, said that the offender presented whether a sentence should be cluding those convicted of (or tence excessive in the eyes of offences that pass the custody a barrister at Jason Elliott a risk or danger to the public. suspended. pleading guilty to) a 3rd rele- 5 threshold, consideration Associates Ltd, a barrister the Court of Appeal. Nor could it be said that he had vant drugs offence. Where the should still be given to wheth- led entity specialising in a history of poor compliance A positive pre-sentence report 3 offences are made out, the er a community sentence Prison Law and Criminal It doesn’t necessarily mean with court orders. In addition, can be of great assistance in minimum term is 7 years. The could provide sufficient re- Appeals. that a statutory minimum sen- it could be said that there was seeking to persuade a Judge provision explicitly doesn’t tence would be unjust just striction on your liberty. Where the seriousness of the offence a realistic prospect of rehabil- that a prison sentence should apply if the circumstances of because the previous offences puts the case on the cusp of itation given the applicant’s be suspended. It’s important Answers to readers’ legal the offences or the offender didn’t result in prison sentenc- custody, imprisonment should age and previous good charac- to keep in mind that the Judge queries are given on a strictly would make it unjust to impose es, nor will the age of the pre- ter. Equally it could also be said 1 not be imposed if the impact doesn’t need to follow the rec- without liability basis. If you a sentence of 7 years or more. vious convictions necessarily of the sentence would be that there was strong personal ommendation, but it certainly propose acting upon any of have such an effect.6 They are, disproportionate. mitigation including, not least, can’t do any harm. It’s worth the opinions that appear, you Credit is still available for however, matters that need to the extended period of time raising the issue of whether a must first take legal advice. guilty pleas, and that can take be considered. during which the threat of pros- The Guideline says that a cus- sentence should or could be the sentence below 7 years, ecution had hung over the ap- Send your Sentencing Query todial sentence should not be suspended in all cases where but credit is limited to 20%, Your antecedents put you at plicant and his family. And it (concise and clearly marked suspended if: the appropriate prison term is rather than the usual 33% for risk of a term of 7 years but, if could also be said that custody ‘Sentencing Query’) to: • You present a risk to the in the region of 2 years or less. a guilty plea at the earliest you do plead guilty, you public; could result in an adverse im- Inside Time, Botley Mills, 2 opportunity. should be given credit for that • Custody is the only appro- pact upon others. The only Botley, Southampton, factor listed in the Guidelines Hampshire SO30 2GB. plea. The Judge also has the priate sentence, or 1. S. 110(2) The Court of Appeal has said discretion to find that the im- • You have a poor history of that the judge addressed was 2. s. 144 Criminal Justice Act 2003 that sentencing Judges should position of a minimum term compliance with court orders. whether appropriate punish- 3. R v Silvera [2013] EWCA Crim 1764 For a prompt response, 4. R v Densham [2014] EWCA Crim 2552 look at the relevant Sentencing would be unjust. If (s) he ment could only be achieved by readers are asked to send immediate custody but without 5. R v Woofe [2019] EWCA Crim 2249 Guideline first, before they doesn’t exercise that discre- Factors that can weigh in your 6. R v Gallone [2014] EWCA Crim 1140 their queries on white paper taking account of other poten- using black ink or typed if even begin to consider the 7 tion in your favour you should favour are: 7. s. 148(2)(b) Criminal Justice Act 2003 3 tially relevant factors that was 8. R v Montaut [2019] EWCA Crim 2252, years statutory minimum. In consider seeking advice on • A realistic prospect of possible. a finding that was arrived at [26] your case, the Guideline may appeal. rehabilitation; 9. R v Kargbo [2019] EWCA Crim 2226 upon a conclusionary basis.”8 Specialists in Prison Law

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Anon HMP Kirkham The statutory exclusions of the requirement of a Community terrorism, it has been quashed overcome that hurdle, the mis- scheme remain unchanged by Order, those who have ever under an appeal under Section carriages of justice team at the Q Please can someone con- the recent changes in policy. been recalled to prison for fail- 7 of the Terrorism Act or it has Ministry of Justice take the firm the changes to the HDC These provide that HDC is only ing to comply with HDC curfew been quashed on an appeal final decision as to whether policy. available to offenders who are conditions; and those returned under Schedule 3 of the the applicant will qualify for serving a sentence of impris- to custody by the court for Terrorism Prevention and payment. If the decision is that A The requirements and ap- onment of at least 12 weeks, committing an imprisonable Investigation Act 2011. he does qualify for compensa- proach to HDC remain largely but less than four years, and offence during an ‘at-risk pe- tion, then an independent the same, but the following who have served the requisite riod’ of a previous sentence. The second condition is that assessor determines the changes to policy are custodial period of the sen- the conviction must have been amount of the award in such highlighted: tence. This is reached once the We are unaware if any of these reversed or the applicant par- cases. offender has served at least a exclusions apply to your sen- doned on the grounds that new Prison Law & • Decisions on HDC may now quarter of the sentence, and a tence, so we are unable to or newly discovered facts Section 133A of the Criminal Compensation be taken by Directors of minimum of 28 days. The max- comment on the applicability showed beyond reasonable Justice Act 1988 sets out what Contracted Prisons - the imum period of release is 135 of these further exclusions to doubt that the person did not the independent assessor has Controller will continue to days. There is ongoing consul- your particular case. commit the offence unless the to assess when deciding on the Hine Solicitors monitor the Director’s compli- tation in respect of extending non-disclosure of this fact was amount of compensation pay- Stevens Solicitors Response by Hine Solicitors ance in this area. this maximum period up to six wholly or partially attributable able in respect of a person who Michael Jefferies Injury months, however this is yet to to the applicant. pursuant to Section 133, be- Lawyers T HMP Portland • Decisions around presumed be implemented. comes eligible for compensa- Tates Solicitors The Anti-social behaviour tion for a miscarriage of AGI Criminal Solicitors unsuitable offenders remain Q If a conviction is quashed, with the Governor, but there Given that you have received is the person liable for com- crime and Policing Act 2014 justice. is no longer any requirement a custodial sentence of 7.5 pensation after spending amended to Section 133 of the Answers to readers’ legal to consult or notify the HDC years, this would mean that time in custody, if so how is Criminal Justice Act 1988 and The assessor will take into con- queries are given on a unfortunately you remain un- restricts compensation now to sideration what it deems is Policy team. this calculated? strictly without liability suitable for HDC, notwith- only those who can demon- attributable to suffering, basis. If you propose acting standing the recent changes strate their innocence beyond harm, reputation or similar • Offenders sentenced to 4 A Compensation is payable upon any of the opinions in policy. reasonable doubt. This posi- damage - and in doing so will years or more imprisonment pursuant to Section 133 of the that appear, you must first tion was further affirmed in have specific regard in particu- by an overseas court but who Criminal Justice Act 1988. Two take legal advice. There are also other exclusions the Supreme Court cases ear- lar to the following: have less than 4 years to serve conditions must be met. Send your Prison Law which continue to apply, not- lier this year of R (Hallam) vs. after repatriation to the UK are withstanding the recent The Secretary of State for 1. The seriousness of the of- Query (concise and clearly The first condition is whether presumed unsuitable for re- changes including; those con- Justice, R (Nealon) vs. The fence of which the person was marked ‘Prison Law Query’) the conviction has been re- lease on HDC. victed of a sexual offence who Secretary of State for Justice convicted and the severity of to: David Wells, Solicitor versed. A conviction is re- are required to register; those 2019 in which the Supreme the punishment suffered as a c/o Inside Time, Botley versed if it has been quashed • In addition to electronically currently serving an extended Court ruled by a majority of result of the conviction, and Mills, Botley, Southampton, on an appeal out of time and monitored curfew, from 1 April sentence for violent or sexual 5–2 that the present scheme Hampshire SO30 2GB. the applicant is not subject to 2019 it will be possible to im- offences; those serving a sen- for awarding compensation to 2. 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Jefferies Solicitors is a specialist report will detail the injury you have a result of this delay (if any). It will released I was still experiencing pain personal injury law firm dedicated suffered, the treatment you have be important to establish whether and limited movement and an x-ray to helping you with accident received, and assess the extent of the delay is due to the Prison and/ showed a fracture which should have any ongoing disability. Importantly, it or the Healthcare Department, or been dealt with when I was in prison. claims, personal injury, industrial will give a prognosis of when you are the Hospital which you have been I have now been told that I will need diseases and medical negligence likely to recover from your injuries. referred to. It would be advisable to an operation to fuse my wrist which I compensation claims, including Your solicitor will then look at other start your claim as soon as possible wouldn’t have needed if the fracture claims that have arisen from an successful cases where people have as the law provides a strict three- was dealt with when I was in prison. incident in prison. suffered similar injuries with a similar year deadline for commencing Court prognosis period and assess the proceedings. Can I make a claim even though the If you have suffered an accident or value of your claim. Your solicitor accident wasn’t the prison’s fault? injury on the road, had an accident will also consider any financial losses Q. Some of my inmates have been that your injury may have caused threatening me and I am very or injury in a public place, been A. Yes, providing Healthcare failed to or is likely to cause in the future. worried that I am going to be refer you to the hospital in the past injured as a result of medical Don’t listen to tales of what other attacked. I’ve told a wing officer 3 years you may be able to make malpractice or negligence or had people have claimed – each claim for about the threats but he hasn’t a claim for clinical negligence. A work-related accident while in compensation is very different! done anything about it and has said specialist clinical negligence solicitor prison, the expert solicitors at that he’ll keep an eye on it. Is there can investigate your claim. They will Q. I had problems with my wisdom anything else that I can do? Jefferies can help you. apply for your medical records and teeth before coming into prison. I review them to ascertain if and how If you have been injured while in told the dentist that I had problems A. Prisons have procedures to follow healthcare failed in their duty of prison, contact our specialist injury with these teeth when I was first when it comes to these types of care to you. Your solicitor will then seen and they advised me that situations. The officer should record investigate whether this has caused lawyers to find out if you have I needed them removing at the all threats under their violence or attributed to the need for you to grounds to claim. Hospital. I was told that I would be reduction strategy documentation, have an operation which you would referred to the Hospital but I have it is not enough for them simply not otherwise have needed. Write to us at Jefferies Solicitors still not been for the extractions to “keep an eye on it”. Put your Limited, The Triangle, 8 Cross Street, and I have now been waiting over 18 complaint in writing on a COMP1 to Q. What happens if I am going ahead Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 1EQ. months. I feel as though the prison formally make the complaint and with a claim and I move prisons? Will is just ignoring my requests for an ask to see the safety officer as soon the prison inform my solicitor that appointment despite me having as possible. Keep all copies of any they have moved me? Q. I’ve been burnt badly using a complained of severe pain on several complaints or other paperwork. This kettle in my cell. I’ve been told that occasions. Can I make a claim? is very important; if you are attacked A. No, the prison will not correspond if I make a personal injury claim it it will be the only way to prove that with your solicitor. It is your could be worth a lot of money and A. Yes. Although it is not uncommon the prison was aware of the threat responsibility to keep your solicitor someone else has said it won’t be for the waiting list for dental to you. The prison would not be able updated with your current prison worth anything. How do you know extractions at Hospital to be to deny that they were aware of the address. It is very important that what a claim is worth? relatively long (up to/around 18 threats made towards you; instead, you update your solicitor as soon weeks), there appears to have they would have to show the steps as possible as, otherwise, there may A. Your solicitor will be able to value been an unreasonable delay in your they took to protect you. be delays in arranging a medical the injury element of your claim from treatment. You would be entitled to appointment for you or obtaining your medical report. Your solicitor claim for the pain and suffering you Q. I fell and injured my wrist in a your instructions. Ultimately, if your will arrange for a medical expert to have experienced as a result of the sports hall. No-one was to blame solicitor is unable to contact you visit you in prison who will examine delay and any other damage to your for my fall but Healthcare refused after several attempts, then your file you and prepare a report. This dental health which has occurred as to refer me for an x-ray. When I was may be closed.

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IT_January_Q&A.indd 1 18/12/2019 09:32 compensation NEGLIGENCE FOR PRESSURE SORES Adam developed painful pressure sores and was left with permanent scarring after he was not supplied a pressure relieving mattress from the prison. We helped him secure £18,000.

Adam was a paraplegic and relied on a wheelchair. Upon arriving at prison, he was seen by a GP and requested a pressure- relieving mattress but wasn’t given one for more than 2 years. Just over 12 months after his request, he noticed discolouration on both hips and his lower back, which developed into three pressure sores. Adam was given dressings by healthcare but left to dress the wound himself instead of receiving wound care from healthcare. While the sores healed, he was left with significant scarring.

At Prison Injury Lawyers, we contacted a medical expert who said that Adam should have received a pressure-relieving mattress within 48 hours. They also said that he should have been given proper dressing for his pressure sores immediately and that healthcare had been negligent in failing to do so. We settled Adam’s claim in April 2019 for £18,000.

“We understand prisoners and prison injury claims. We are the UK’s leading Prison Injury Lawyers and will fight for what you deserve.”

At Prison Injury Lawyers, we can help you claim for:

 Dental negligence  Workplace accidents  Bunk bed falls  Medical negligence  Burns  Transport accidents  Slips, trips and falls  Assaults  Accidents in the gym

0800 808 9577 I prisoninjurylawyers.co.uk The Triangle 8 Cross Street Altrincham [email protected] Cheshire WA14 1EQ

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IT_Jan_PIL.indd 1 18/12/2019 09:32 46 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org Insidetime January 2020 Reading Group Round-Up Promoting reading and reading groups in prisons

Daphne du Maurier, Jamaica Inn: chosen by a men’s group who wanted something from a woman’s point of view ‘we don’t get much of that in here’.

‘I loved the way the whole book zoned in on Mary’s feelings.’

‘You could really feel that squelchy bog-land on the moor’.

‘I was watching football but reading it at the same time. That’s how good it was’. Love Songs and Letters

George Orwell, 1984: broadcasting from the NPR receiving letters - just like you Orwell’s classic dystopian studios every Friday evening love receiving them inside. novel that gave us so many at 5pm, straight after NPR Fri- When someone takes the time PRG celebrates a birthday iconic phrases: ‘Big Brother’, day. And if you miss that to write to you, it’s a special ‘Room 101’, the ‘Ministry of broadcast, it’s also on every way of telling them that they and a Longford Trust Award Truth’, the ‘Two-Minute Hate’. What are your New Year’s res- Sunday night at 10pm, after have a place in your heart. olutions? Maybe to keep your Motherland Music. And if you know someone who Prison Reading Groups (PRG) tests and no right or wrong ‘It’s not exactly a laugh’. pad tidy? To use the gym more finds reading and writing dif- often? Or maybe it’s to do bet- celebrated our 20th birthday answers. The emphasis above ‘I thought it was brilliant but But it’s not just straight love ficult, how about telling them ter at keeping your relation- this year. We began in 1999 all is on the pleasure of read- I had to push myself through songs. We’ve also got tips and how they can get help with ships going. If you’ve got with reading groups in two ing and getting together to - a great book but hard advice for writing those let- their reading from a Shannon people on the outside that you prisons; today we support 50 talk about books. Becoming a reading’. ters home. It’s not always easy Trust Mentor? They’re the groups in more than 40 pris- reader is about choice, so the care about, it’s important to to know where to start with a people in prison who help ons nationwide. groups themselves choose ‘The first time I read it was keep feeding these relation- letter and it can be difficult to others improve their reading, what they read. Our funding down the block for something ships with good stuff - lots of find the right words. The NPR so they could soon be reading We were also delighted to be means that members receive that wasn’t my fault. I couldn’t warm words and love. presenters will give you good and writing letters too. awarded one of the 2019 new copies, which are theirs believe how it captured what advice and tips for finding the Longford Trust prizes for Out- to keep or pass on to others on I was thinking and feeling’. National Prison Radio has a right words to tell your people Keep it locked to National standing Contribution to the wing or to family outside. show just for that, and this on the outside how and what Prison Radio in 2020 for hun- Prison Reform - a great birth- Christy Lefteri, The month it’s going to be bigger you’re doing and how you’re dreds of radio programmes day present! In her accept- The books chosen are varied Beekeeper of Aleppo: and better. Love Bug, sup- feeling. made by prisoners, for prison- ported by Shannon Trust, is ance speech, PRG director and ambitious. A few recent Refugees rebuilding their ers. It could change your life! an hour of love songs, Sarah Turvey commended choices and comments from lives after fleeing Syria. People on the outside love both librarians and volun- different groups give a good teers: ‘Our work relies on the sense of this variety and the ‘We’re all aware of the situa- commitment and energy of lively conversations the tion in Syria but reading it in A Long Stretch the prison librarians who run books provoke. this novel made it all the more See our powerful’. so many of the projects that National Prison Radio is proud to be teaming page in the bring confidence and ambi- up once again with the Prison Phoenix Trust tion to prisoners and help ‘When the young boy asked ‘Jailbreak’ section make prisons more socialised ‘Are we going to drown’, I to bring you an hour of yoga and meditation and civilised places. Our vol- thought about how I would every week. Freedom Inside brings you voices answer my own son.’ THE PRISON unteers are extraordinary. from inside and outside prison, along with They bring in the outside ‘I’ve read 10 books now in this guided yoga and meditation sessions - an ac- world and an infectious de- PHOENIX TRUST reading group and this is the tivity you can do safely in your cell, and which light in books, reading and one with the greatest impact can improve your physical and mental health. other people.’ for me’. Head doing you in? Her highest praise went to the Stressed out? Charles Dickens, Yoga and meditation have proven benefits, like prisoner members of our improving your sleep and reducing anxiety, Can’t sleep? groups: ‘Above all, this award A Christmas Carol belongs to our members. and Freedom Inside will introduce you to some ‘Interesting for me, I’m from Simple yoga and Everyone here this evening Poland and had never heard techniques that can help you start your yoga and everyone listening live of this story’. practice, or improve your practice if you al- meditation practice, through National Prison ready have some experience. working with silence and the Radio knows how daunting Tom Rob Smith, Child 44: ‘It’s about second chances, prison can be. Joining a read- Stalinist Russia and a serial we all know about that in breath, might just transform ing group can feel very risky, child-killer. here. I love it at the end when In each programme we hear dialogue between your life in more ways than people inside and outside prison, all of whom especially for an inexperi- ‘Glad I opened myself up to Scrooge realises he can start you think ... Interested? enced reader who may never something I wouldn’t nor- again and begins jigging have experience of yoga. The show’s team of have read a book before. But mally read.’ around like a lunatic’. yoga instructors will also lead you through a Write to The Prison Phoenix Trust it can also be a first step to- session, each one with a different focus. P.O. Box 328, Oxford, OX2 7HF. wards lasting change.’ ‘Russia under Stalin, just like If your prison doesn’t have a in here: you can’t challenge reading group, encourage your Tune in to Freedom Inside with the Prison We’d love to hear from you anytime and have The principles of PRG are sim- authority, they’re never in the librarian to look at the Prison several free books and CDs, which could ple: groups are voluntary and wrong. When I leave I’m going Reading Groups website www. Phoenix Trust on NPR every Friday afternoon help you build and maintain a daily practice. informal - no certificates, no to blow the lid off’. prisonreadinggroups.org.uk. at 3pm, repeated on Sundays at 8am and 5pm. Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak 47 On this day… January 1st 1973 Behind the gate The life and infamous times of Britain’s prisons: Britain enters Europe! this month HMP Liverpool (Walton)

Treaty of Paris and similarly the Billington Family, who, between them, sent a mid-ranking civil serv- accounted for 15 executions at the prison. Like ant from the Board of Trade as Noel Smith the Pierrepoint’s, the Billington’s were very an observer to the ministerial much a family fi rm. Between 1887 and 1964, Messina Conference which 60 men and two women were hanged at led to the Treaty of Rome. HMP Liverpool, formerly known as Walton Jail, Walton. There were eight double-executions is a category B and C local male prison operat- at the jail. In 1964 the last judicial hangings Shortly after the creation of ed by HMPPS. were carried out at Walton and Strangeways simultaneously. Aft er this date the death pen- the ECSC in 1952, the UK be- alty was commuted to life imprisonment. came the first country to es- The prison was constructed between 1848 and tablish a Delegation in 1855 and was built to a design by Borough Luxembourg, the seat of the Surveyor John Weightman, in order to replace During the Liverpool blitz of WWII, on 18th of Edward Heath signs new deal High Authority (present-day an 18th century establishment set in the centre of Liverpool which had become too crowded December 1940, German high-explosive European Commission) at the for current needs. It was built on the panopti- bombs fell onto the prison, partially demolish- Inside reporter Britain’s entry to the Common time. On 24 December 1953, con (radial) principle and constructed in ing a wing and killing 22 prisoners. The body Market. the High Authority invited the Hornby Road, Liverpool, with an initial capac- of one of these prisoners was only found Britain had twice failed to British Government to enter ity for 1,000 inmates. At the time it was one of 11-years later when the rubble was finally gain entry to the European The European Economic into negotiations for the es- the largest and most modern prisons in the UK. removed. Economic Community, once Community (EEC) was first tablishment of an associa- established by the Treaty of in 1963 and again in 1967, so tion. On 29 April 1954, the The prison originally held both male and In May 2003, an inspection report from HMCIP Rome in 1957. Then it con- it was with a great fanfare on British Government invited female prisoners. In the early 1900s the prison severely criticised the prison for its overcrowd- the first of January 1973 that sisted of six member states: the High Authority to London became the site of one of the most important ing and poor industrial relations which had Britain became a ful- Belgium, France, Italy, Lux- to begin discussions on the suffragette prison protests. The Women’s led to an ‘unacceptable regime’. It found that ly-fledged member of the embourg, West Germany and proposed association and on Social and Political Union (WSPU) was found- parts of the jail were unclean, had cockroach EEC. The Republic of Ireland the Netherlands. When pro- 21 December 1954 the Agree- ed by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903, and, aft er infestation and broken windows. Showers and and Denmark joined on the posals for a European Cus- ment of Association was several arrests of its members, the Union com- kit-change were once a week. same day, bringing the num- toms Union were advanced signed in London - entering mitted itself to a policy of direct militant action A further inspection in 2010 stated that drugs, ber of countries in the union after World War II, there was into force on 23 September in order to get the vote for women. Many of the bullying and violence were prevalent at the up to nine. At midnight, a widespread political opposi- 1955. This was the first exam- suff ragettes were locked up in prison where prison, despite improvements in other areas. Union Jack flag was raised at tion in the UK: the Federation ple of an EU Association they continued their disruptive actions. The It then emerged that the prison had to refund the EEC headquarters in of British Industries and the Agreement. The Agreement of women went on hunger-strike in 1909, and the over £10,000 to prisoners who were over- Brussels to mark the occa- government’s economic min- prison authorities at Walton fed them by force, Association established a charged for watching in-cell television. The sion. Conservative Prime istries opposed British partic- which created much sympathy and public feel- Standing Council of Associa- prison had been charging £1 per prisoner per Minister Edward Heath was ipation, as the establishment ing towards the suff ragettes, and much hatred tion which was intended to week, instead of £1 per cell. As of May 2009, ‘optimistic’ that Britain’s of a common external tariff directed against the prison. provide ‘a means for the con- the population of Liverpool prison was 1,184, membership will bring pros- would mean the end of the tinuous exchange of informa- one of the largest in the UK. perity to the country. He said: For as long as Capital Punishment was in force, Imperial Preference system of tion and for consultation in ‘It is going to be a gradual Walton Jail was known as a ‘death prison’ due trade within the British Em- regard to matters of common In October 2017, the governor of the prison was development and obviously to the large number of executions carried out pire and the Commonwealth interest concerning coal and dismissed aft er a surprise inspection found things are not going to hap- there. Walton’s predecessor was Kirkdale Gaol, of Nations and would expose steel’ (Article 6). The first the prison in a ‘squalid’ state. pen overnight.’ which was eventually closed down in 1892. For British business to increased meeting took place on 17 No- many years Walton and Kirkdale prisons competition from the conti- vember 1955 in Luxembourg. shared the same gallows, which was transport- The prison consists of 8 wings. The cells have Britain’s previous member- nent, in particular from At the second meeting, on 22 ed between prisons. The beam of the Walton integral sanitation. The prison off ers educa- ship applications were vetoed Germany. March 1956 in London, the gallows was long enough to hang three men tion and training courses, provided by Novus, by French President Charles High Authority and the Brit- simultaneously. The Walton gallows remained as well as workshops and accredited psychol- de Gaulle, who doubted the ogy courses. The prison houses a hugely suc- Meanwhile, the Labour Party ish Government agreed to in use until the last execution in 1964. UKs political will. However, cessful radio station - ‘Walton Radio’ - off ering believed that it would lead to open tariff negotiations. That it is thought that his real fear a cost-of-living increase for The hanging at Walton was originally done by prisoners radio production qualifi cations and was that English would be- year the British government the British working class, an executioner named James Berry, who was music technology qualifications. There is a come the common language also made a counter-proposal forcing them to consume succeeded by a family of executioners called Listener scheme in operation at the prison, of the community. After de to the Treaty of Rome negoti- supported by The Samaritans. There is also a more expensive agricultural Gaulle relinquished the ations, advocating the crea- resettlement unit which comprises a Citizens produce from continental Eu- French presidency in 1969, tion of a larger but less Advice Unit, Connexions, Shelter and Job rope instead of cheaper food the UK made a third and suc- integrated free-trade area Centre Plus. from the imperial dominions, MASZ PROBLEM Z cessful attempt to join. The encompassing all members of and that what they saw as the Treaty of Accession was the Organisation for Euro- An IMB report last October stated that improve- domination of mainland signed in January 1972, and pean Economic co-operation ments had been made under Pia Sinha, the western European politics by the Parliament’s European (now the OECD): this would PICIEM? governor appointed to overhaul the prison. anti-socialist Christian de- Communities Act 1972 was have established a European ANONIMOWI ALKOHOLICY MOGA Following more than 300 visits to the jail, mocracy would threaten the enacted on the 17th of Octo- trade bloc but would not have CI POMOC throughout 2018, the IMB stated: “Prisoners newly constructed welfare ber and the UKs instrument introduced a common exter- Zadzwon lub napisz: are treated fairly and with decency and staff state introduced by the Attlee of ratification was deposited nal tariff, which would have make every eff ort to accommodate even the most challenging prisoners. Prisoners are the next day, letting the UK’s ministry. As a result, the UK’s allowed the UK to maintain 020 3916 00 97 treated humanely at HMP Liverpool. IMB membership of the EEC come initial attitude to moves to- an Imperial Preference pol- Poniedzialek - Piatek 19.00 - 21.00 members have witnessed very skilled manage- into effect on the 1st of Janu- ward European economic in- icy. However, this effort was ment of prisoners by staff . This is especially ary 1973. tegration was rather not successful. Subsequently, Sobota i Niedziela 17.00 - 21.00 evident in the Care and Separation Unit (CSU). detached: it was only an ob- political opinion in Britain [email protected] The overall condition of the prison is much-im- Edward Heath, who died in server to the negotiations on shifted towards greater en- www.aa-pik-wielkabrytania.org.pl proved and prisoners are no longer housed in the creation of the ECSC gagement with the European ALCOHOLICS ANNONYMOUS POLISH SPEAKING HELPLINE July 2005, regarded his great- inappropriate conditions.” est achievement as securing which culminated in the 1951 Communities. 48 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org Insidetime January 2020

achieve their goals; which in Flanders, explaining that I uneducated when I was Cell Workout turn helps me. loved what he does, and it younger and looking back, I took off from there. I have feel if there was something Fitness has kept me on the right been involved in a few events like Cell Workout around then track now for years. I’ve taken with LJ and most recently there’s a good chance I could part in a few marathons and HMP Brixton celebrated its have been steered in the right Fitness is the right track! ultra marathons and steadily 200th birthday and we have direction. ticked over, which has helped more in the diary which is me live a clean and sober life. amazing. I feel extremely We have a new year ahead of Continuing guest pieces by an LJ Cell Workout graduate I have a real passion for what privileged to be working with us, so let’s make those posi- I do now. I came across Cell him and all the team. tive changes and make it our Workout on Instagram after best yet! wounding, for which I was affecting all my friends and following John McAvoy, who’s By doing the right things on a sentenced to 2 years 6 months. family around me but I just also been a huge inspiration daily basis my life gets better During my time in jail I tried didn’t care at the time. After Photography by Tommy in my journey. I messaged LJ and better. I was very to use it the best I could. Not a few more spells in jail, I fi- Banham & Federico Gangemi really knowing what I wanted nally threw in the towel and to do at that stage, I enrolled it was in 2012/2013 when I on a bricklaying course whilst started to get help for my James’s Workout / 15 minute AMRAP (As Many Rounds As Possible) at HMP Blakenhurst (now addiction. Hewell) but unfortunately my education stopped there and My life has been far from per- Press Ups Butterfly Sit Ups Squats I was then transferred to HMP fect but I don’t regret any of it x 5 Reps x 10 Reps x 15 Reps Ashwell where I just worked as it’s made me who I am and trained. today. In 2013 I was blessed with my daughter, who On release, I immediately changed my life more than started drinking and recrea- anything or anyone ever has. James Woodley tional drug taking which Whilst working in the con- ended me straight back inside struction industry and find- I’m a 33 year-old personal as I was on tag - there was a ing myself training all the trainer from Birmingham. brief spell on the run before I time I decided this wasn’t the Training/Fitness has been a handed myself in. career path I wanted to go big part of my life for the last down, so in early 2017 I suc- 8 years after my brother intro- By this point in my life it ap- cessfully passed my Crossfit duced me to circuit training peared I had a problem with level 1 course and the follow- and running in an attempt to alcohol - once I started I ing year my level 3 personal steer me back onto the couldn’t stop; it was that sim- trainer course. I currently ‘straight and narrow’. ple and when I was on it I work in a rehab centre, treat- changed for the worse, mak- ing addiction as well as per- My first taster of jail was in ing bad decision after bad sonal training. I love what I 2008 and then sentenced in decision. I was so consumed do and get massive job satis- 2009 for a Section 20 in ‘self’ it was massively faction by helping others

God longs to welcome RECONNECTING WITH GOD everyone who will choose At the beginning of this New The Bible tells us that, even when he to come back to Him. Year, do you need to reconnect was some distance from home, he was with God? spotted by his father - obviously looking out for him - who ran to greet him. One of the best known stories that Jesus There was no lecture, just a hug. And told is The Parable of The Prodigal Son.* did he take him on as a servant? No, In case you are not familiar with it, it of course he didn’t. He welcomed him is the story of two sons. The younger home as a son. son asked his father for his share of Jesus was teaching that, like the father, Whether you have been away for three years or for twenty or even his inheritance: he wanted to leave God longs to welcome everyone who will longer and wherever you have been and whatever you may have home and enjoy life. His father agreed choose to come back to Him. done, why not ask God to receive you back as His child? although no doubt worried that his son would squander his inheritance.

INNER STRUGGLES

JOHN PHILLIPS And, needless to say, that is precisely So he got up and went to his father.INNER STRUGGLES If you have never had God in your life, Life is a mixture of happiness and pain; of laughter and INNER what happened. When desperate, the son tears; of celebration and grief; of soaring and crawling. But while he was still a long way off,For some, life brings more joy than sorrow; for others, why not write to us? life is hard with only rare moments of real joy. For us all STRUGGLES there are times when we struggle. swallowed his pride and made his way This book uses verses from the Bible as a means of his father saw him and was filled offeringwith hope and comfort to those who recognise their need of God’s help in their struggles. We would love to explain what it means

home, hoping that his father might take Following an insurance career in the City of London, compassion for him; he ran to his son,John Phillips is now actively engaged in Christian to have a personal relationship with God ministry in Banstead, Surrey. He is a Director of him back as a servant. BeaconLight Trust. JOHNPHILLIPS threw his arms round him and kissed him. and provide you with a copy of our book, Luke 15:20 Inner Struggles. * You can read this parable in Luke chapter 15 verses 11-32

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Trouble sleeping is incredibly common, both in prison and on the outside, and can be frustrating and miserable. Luckily, there are steps you can take to help yourself drop off. One of the things that people most often say after starting yoga and meditation is that their sleep has improved. Try this routine just before you go to sleep. You may be able to do most of it on your bed. Keep your attention on your breath as you move through these postures and movements. Let us know if they help!

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Persistence and perception Jail Pad Musings Kieran Swankie - HMP Hull Will Bell - HMP Durham

You might not want to hear but I need you to listen Here I am, sat in my Jail pad, You can get anywhere in life with constant persistence Gotta keep my head up, no feeling sad Try to keep in mind that progressions not instant At the end of the day it aint all that bad, I never had a lot but I’ll use what im given I’ll be out one day, feeling so glad. Im talking about the discipline of perception I’ll be out these gates and on my way, To change the way we look at things is a hard life lesson I hope I’m not back here one day, I’ve been working on myself ever since I got sectioned but there’s one thing I want to say, Im still about and I take it as a blessing before I step back into the community.

I need to do well for myself and I started believing I wrote this rhyme for all to see, I was in jail watching television and reading My time in Jail is going easily Obstacles come see how I beat them But once released what will I be, Opportunities arise you can watch how I seize them Will I reoffend? End my spree? Rap Star of the Month © Deposit Photos I guess we’ll see Congratulations to this months Done a lot of wrong and I understand why im hated For now I’m on remand in pad 18 winner who receives our £25 prize I just want to show my family im dedicated To change for the better because they are appreciated The Clock I don’t dwell on the past coz I know I’ll never change it So there you go, that’s my story, Andrew Senior - Stuck banged up in HMP HMP Birmingham A Life of crime I know im not a badman I had I hard time in jail Screaming no retreat or no surrender Like I was on self destruct mode when I went off the rails Don’t wanna be a re-offender Darren Head - HMP Hatfield I realise now it is a form of education to fail Tick tock, tick tock Got to keep my head up do my time I was sinking back then but now im ready to sail Standing in the dock Sat with a pen writing a rhyme Getting time, its a shock On my release date Tryna be rap star in the Inside Time But the clock never stops I’ma be kicked out the prison gate 2017 sectioned off in Peppercorn Mills What is going on with my head am I mentally ill Tock tick, tock tick With a handful of change and a tent I got all this anger inside embedded deep like a drill For a punch and a kick For me to pitch up beside a park bench Imagine getting yourself locked up just so you could get a meal Stay free Plus I got a fat lip All this time makes me sick Yet I’m a P.P.O Don’t strike out! - HMP Risley Ding dong, ding dong At high risk of reoffending I know what your thinking but im not asking for your sympathy You can see the way I tell the story like its history Head ponding like a gong Plus I’m drug dependant I respect you being honest if you can say that your not listening Chorus x Doing time is long Looks like prisons where I’m ending back up I want to keep doing music wanna blow up like TNT Avoid my fate, avoid my fate, fate But I know I did wrong Dong ding, dong ding It’s like I’ve been set up to fail Violence will get you put behind the gate, gate Now Im chilling on a wing They wanna send me back to Jail Im just a young man coming to the end of his sentence Listen kids chill it ain’t a thrill, thrill On my life I mean what I say do you believe in redemption No I dont wanna sing Can’t believe I have to sleep rough You could end up getting killed or even kill, kill I hope my family accepts me back its deeper than a learnt lesson Its a serious thing While Cops wanna put my hands in cuffs Its regaining everything I lost in my rain of adolescence Tick tock, tick tock How my supposed to show you minors From young ages some kids raised with violence Now Im sitting in the block Don’t laugh don’t mock That I’m such a major ill rhymer They never tell no one and they keep it silent This is hell this is hot Think I was one of those kids and I used to respect it When I live out a bin liner Tock tick, tock tick Police came when I was 4 and said its just a domestic Amongst these autograph signers Lewis Benit - HMP Forest Bank Heart heavy like a brick But when I got to 10 my fists could connect No brains must be thick Took it into school my bully hit the deck Doing life in the nick Chorus I think about the life that I could of led Later using weapons thinking I’d get respect Ding dong, ding dong No matter how hard I try And I think about the words that I could of said All I got was prison and hit back by regret My head must be gone I can’t escape a life of crime I’ve got all these different thoughts going through my head, I am telling you kids violence is a curse Freedom is my song Im so sorry for my wrong Instead of running from sirens And I know they wont stop ye until I am dead It takes everything you love away or even worse Dong ding, dong ding All I wanna do is spit rhymes I know I’ve done wrong but I wanna make things right, You could be the person laying dead in a hearse Now the lights getting dim I know the past is gone and the future is in sight. No matter how hard I try This is why my rhyme has truth to the verse Feeling heavy in my limbs I can’t escape a life of crime I just want forgiveness for the crimes that I’ve commited, So put down ya fists and weapons and reject that life Ive never been a king Instead of running from sirens And all the things I’ve done wrong to the police I have admitted Get yourself a future with a husband or wife Tick tock, tock tick All I wanna do is spit rhymes I’m going down a different path and to that I am sure, With violence all you get is pure pain and strife Ding dong, dong ding And all my sincere apologies to me they are pure. Still that’s easy when compared to EDS or life Prison aint a joke and I aint laughing My discharge grant went like pooth It wer’nt enough for time in the booth Socialite Hell Chorus x I’m not flushing my life down the pan u We will award a prize of I sit here writing lyrics from an HMP It’s time to make moves cos I’ve got plans Kelly Woodward - HMP Downview £25 to the entry selected as Listen to my words kids just chill and stay free our ‘Rap Star of the Month’. My P.O’s getting in my way This f*ck*d up timewarp driving me mad, I got one then two, now I’m on my three Send entries to: Inside Time, She’s not shy to recall me but hey I guess it’s payback for a life of bad I lost what I loved yeah it’s all gone for me Rap, Botley Mills, Botley, How was I late for my appointment Spend my life playing with fire, This is my third strike and I have to change Southampton, Hampshire, It’s no wonder I’m stuck behind this wire When I slept in her office doorway So listen to me young ones coz this aint a game SO30 2GB. Try to keep rhymes But don’t be quick in judging me, under 300 words. When No address so can’t claim JSA You don’t want to be embarrassed when they Coz you don’t know what others life be, submitting your work please But I got to get money some way I try to play the game like most, mention your name include the following So I do the only way I can Just for society to shut you down like ghost, Not like me, they say mine, then add he’s insane permission: ‘This is my own Balied up I go rob a bank Work your ass off to the bone, You gotta stay focused and study in school work and I agree to Inside Yo these rounds are live Just to be asking a mate for a loan, If you got troubles at home just handle it cool Time publishing it in all The game I play the risk is life, Use ya brain and abide by society’s rules associate sites and other How else am I supposed to survive So I’ll probably have no one take me for their wife, Don’t copy what you see like me and end up a fool publications as appropriate.’ When there’s no jobs insight Unless society caters for all, By submitting your rhymes to Now I have to go but I hope you take My future no longer looks bright Many more people will share my downfall, Inside Time you are agreeing to You read my words, Something from this rhyme to help avoid my fate our terms, to read them in full Does it ring a bell, I’m truly gonna change before I exit that gate see the Inside Poetry pages in Chorus You see we’re already on our way to hell. One more violent crime my life is over, TOO LATE this issue. 52 Jailbreak // Inside Poetry www.insidetime.org Insidetime January 2020

Star Poem of the Month Unattainable Congratulations to this months winner who Cuz - HMP The Mount receives our £25 prize Maybe it’s the best thing Ode to Johnny Doe That thing you’ll never match Or running to a skyline A.G. Morgan - HMP Littlehey A place you’ll never catch It could be a mirror Alarm bells are ringing With no face looking back Steel doors are banging Or a finish that never started The staff in a panic A truth without a fact © Deposit Photos Another man’s found hanging Hell or Glory Saying what you are thinking Without a single thought This time he’s gone and done it Simon Taylor - HMP Swaleside Or asking for a refund Attic Attack They found him way too late For something you never bought RS Bradshaw - HMP Ashfield One way or another The sun starts to rise for a mournful day He’s going out the gate And we prepare for either hell or for glory The day was pretty dismal In fear we live but are forced to stay She had nothing much to do Caught up in a system Who will survive to tell their story? Where no one really cared So decided to clear the attic There were things there far from new His head in a noose The guns fill my ears and the planes fill the skies Like an animal snared And dark sorrow has now filled my heart She hooked the ladder into the loft My fear and my grief cause tears in my eyes And looked round in dismay The constant intimidation My soul was turned black from the start Messed with his head As trying to clear out all this stuff Would take her most of the day! That’s how Johnny Doe This war has no love, not a friend in the land Ended up brown bread Just a chill that’s felt deep to the bone She rolled up her sleeves, getting stuck in, But brothers we are and together we stand Finding old clothes hardly worn He tried to talk to many And we thank God we do not stand alone But deaf ears heard his plight But they were so outdated now They were stylish before she was born! No soothing words of comfort In holes we scurry, like animals we live Meant Johnny quit the fight And we pray to our God above Her mum and dad stored things Few treasures we have, but gladly would give That didn’t need to be stored Johnny’s cell is cleared For a moment with the ones that we love Possessions thrown away But she knew exactly what they were like Their memories they loved to hoard That same night someone’s sleeping Our Gods do not answer - our prayers fall Where poor cold Johnny lay on deaf ears She bagged the clothes and set them aside Left to drown in our sorrow and grief Ready to throw down the hatch Johnny’s soon forgotten Will we be remembered, in days, weeks and years? And then she’d call out to her dad As no one gives a toss Will our leaders lay an annual wreath? But one dear mother’s weeping To stand by to catch them

Mourning her son’s loss Now today came the order, we go over the top © Deposit Photos She then came across a metal box And we prepare for the up-coming madness That had a lock and key Too many are blasé Will we go, or will they tell us to stop? The eleventh hour But the key was there so To the human cost Do I care? All I feel now is sadness Blasé our default setting She opened it up Alan Ward - HMP Wymott To see what she would see As compassion’s long since lost But over we go, and countless lives are spent Except mine, I go on with my story The icebergs are melting Her heart was warmed by photos So next time you see a Johnny My brothers I hope are heaven sent Of her as a little child In some mental strife I continue to face hell or glory. Forcing rivers to rise high Embraced in the arms of her loving dad Stop and show compassion A month’s rain in the one day As she looked at him beguiled You might just save a life. Ride your bang-up Still much more in the sky From little girl to teenager Walthari Nikalaj - HMP Birmingham With the climate changing rapidly Her parents were always there World leaders acting blind Captured in each photograph The little The prison house is a home A pictorial childhood shared For a time away from home! Scientists urging reactions For lads who can only repossess Conclusive evidence that they find She was just about to lock the box blind bird Their lives on the out When she found a document Paul Lumsden - HMP Castle Huntly By a small time on the phone! School children protesting for futures That made her heart turn cold Their lives being washed away Like a block of setting cement The days run on a regime Couldn’t be heard No time to wait ‘til tomorrow’ Where time does not reign She found her birth certificate In the deep, dark wood The clock is immaterial Major actions required today And it chilled her to the bone Behind a penitent plumage When the days are all the same! As the words that jumped out Couldn’t speak as he should Warmer seas killing the coral From the page read: ‘Father unknown’ The majority of hours Warnings denied or ignored And where living Are spent confined in a cell She stepped down from the ladder Feels like a long time dead And if we fight with the clock Wildfires and rainforest clearing Descending step by step Trees and foliage It will become a “box of hell!” Earth’s lung crushed and destroyed Wishing she hadn’t opened that box Become bars in the head. And wishing she could forget Ride your bang-up “Brother!” Scorching summers becoming the norm Is the philosophy of the lag! But each rung of the ladder There’s many a deed Flash flooding bringing more sorrow Many never imagined Which is often a ‘Freudian’ admission Was a step way back in time Of the lad who can’t! We’ve taken the warning far too late They could’ve done Of Daddy and her childhood Who brags!!! It’s almost “The day after tomorrow” The stigma of having sinned A childhood so sublime Night time is one of two things Then her warm heart melted After a long time blind So we now say to the rich Either silent or as loud as day! At the man in the room All those that hold the power There’s mind transformation Where the mind conflicts between Not angry or raving mad New joys to find Rebellion and the acceptance of The climate crisis is upon us now Knowing he wasn’t her father Even among dark and damnation. “Come what may!” This is “The Eleventh Hour!” But would always be her dad. Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 53 Jackanory Prison life Jane Evans - HMP Eastwood Park Nicky Hughes - HMP Stocken Bacon tops and green flip-flops Newsreaders talk about drones in prison, B*tches acting like they know me They should hear these lads droning about their social position, Thanks for your treatment programmes and your therapies Hot off the press, yet another true story, But the guilt, the shame the remorse, what’s in me A fabricated life in all its glory, Just makes me feel worthless, surely my solution lies in me “Outside I drive an Audi, own two houses and a boat” Re-evaluated self-esteem and redirecting purpose So why you wearing two-stripes, junkie pants and prison coat? I’ll grow when I’m ready, just help plant the seed. Man please stop lying, your fables are painful, Because hope is the drug that every prisoner needs Nobody believes you; your tales are shameful, A new identity a source of inspiration, just show me examples Stop trying so hard, just relax, be yourself, Of the people who succeed You should take off your mask, leave it up on the shelf So I can believe that I’m valued and needed. © Deposit Photos Like the fog on the yard, your lies block out the view, Coz they keep sticking this stigma on me Soon the fog will have lifted and we will see the real you, So welcome to my judgment room None of us are perfect; we all have our flaws, Screwed - Prison Crush Where there’s barely room for two But we are all just the same, behind steel doors, Just think this prison, aint for long Anon - HMP Eastwood Park Drop the act, take control, be the master of your destiny, Got my babies waiting for me It’s time you started striving to be the guy you profess to be Sitting on this chair, wondering how I got here Just as I’m thinking - I’m over this crush Wake up; ditch the b*llsh*t, pretences and lies, This jail got me going in despair coz prison I see you in the corridor and start to blush Come out and join us from behind your disguise, Just simply aint for me Your continuous patience and respect This is your chance to create a real life story, Has certainly had a huge effect Don’t be just another prison Jackanory. My coach always use to say Willie Lynch Respect goes a long way You may think - I’m arrogant coz I pretend you aint there Time served Joe Gynane - HMP Belmarsh You may think - I’m arrogant and that I don’t care Anonymous - HMP Barlinnie Let me tell you - you are wrong I’m trying my hardest to put this front on On the banks of the James River Telling myself “never to fall for a screw!” Second after second, minute after minute, hour after hour, Stands Willie Lynch Nothing could be more then untrue Day after day, week after week, month after month, A sadistic gravedigger Feeling like a fool Season after season, year after year and Delivering a speech on the method of how to- Fighting against my own rule Decade after decade -train a ….. I may seem confident but you make me shy Sometimes I see you - I just want to die I’ll give the N word a circle Wake up and collect half-pint of milk, Eye contact - I try to avoid Sit on chair for 5 hours then collect lunch, Slaves hung from trees Don’t need another part of me destroyed Sit on chair for 5½ hours then collect dinner, Faces turning purple People say I’m like a flame Sit on chair for 4 hours then go to bed, African descendants They are drawn in but I also cause pain Sleep for 9½ hours then wake up…. Swinging from trees like the trees are wearing- Men approach me with the wrong mind -Pendants They usually forget how to be kind Liberation day, again They mainly only have one aim My pen dents your conscience Walk about nervous and aimless, But I’m like a tiger they can’t seem to tame No home, no job, no money, no clue I rise above the nonsense Little do they know What to do. To create imagery which vividly brings history to- It’s my mind they have to blow -Life I carry a baggage of hidden emotion Hostels, again, one stop failure sure thing! Willie’s plan was to set old against young I wish I could give you all of my devotion I hide my passion Drinkies, druggies and dregs of society Man against wife Welcome to our house of shame. Like it’s a new fashion It’s no trifling matter I want to give you everything I got Wish Monopoly had a ‘get into jail free’ card! On a plantation Things could get steamy- things could get hot Homesick for my four-walled sanctuary, A stolen population However there are things I can’t set free Strung out for my routine, second after second, Unable to decipher the white man’s chatter I need a man to own/control and dare Minute after minute, hour after hour, Welcome to a black history lesson To take charge of me Unfortunately I have to live by prison rules Day after day, week after week, month after month, Supplied by a white rapper Season after season, year after year And keep on using professional tools With a lynch rope I dream about the day they let me out And decade after decade … They pinch hope closed I can tell you my opinion out loud In the fields where the cane grows You can’t tell me it’s not appropriate or fit u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our Living a life they aint chose Because frankly by then I wouldn’t give a sh*t! ‘Star Poem of the Month’. To qualify for a prize, poems should But maybe I’m going to put it into the Inside Time Tendrils of steam rising from damp clothes not have won a prize in any other competition or been published So you can read it like you just did along these lines!! previously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Receiving blows Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. From the plantation masters It is very important that you ensure the following details are Generations of black children sired by white fathers Memory A race classed as a sub species on all paperwork sent to Inside Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON ET - HMP Hull NUMBER & PRISON. Failure to do so will prevent us Transported on ships which stink of faeces responding to you and your submission being withheld from As I make my ablutions The past is not yet a forgotten land publication. We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer I think about the financial institutions But a misty morning’s lowland vale Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. That were founded on the back of slaves Blanketed in grey, dew-heavy air. By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that My knowledge is ancient like the scratchings found- they can be published in any of our ‘not for profit links’, these Cautious steps along the trail’s hidden path In caves- include the newspaper, website and any forthcoming books. You That I only suspect leads to places known are also giving permission for Inside Time to use their discretion Lynch the innovator When a momentary breeze unravels the obscuring veil. in allowing other organisations to reproduce this work if Modifying behaviour considered appropriate, unless you have clearly stated that you To increase production A radiance of sunrise’ sunlight gifts clarity; do not want this to happen. Any work reproduced in other The seduction of wealth was all apparent Reveals a wondrous vision of sights recalled publications will be on a ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note poems Pristine in form, superbly defined, pleasingly familiar. A genius with misused talent for publication may be edited. When submitting your work please include the following permission: ‘This is my own To the field they’re supplied Too soon the frustrating mist swirls in again; work and I agree to Inside Time publishing it in all But what if in another field he’d applied his mind The image lost once more to thickening grey associate sites and other publications as appropriate.’ He wouldn’t be remembered as a scourge on mankind. Instilling fear that this future is now my memory lane. 54 Jailbreak // Prize Winning Competitions www.insidetime.org Insidetime January 2020

The online support Caption Competition Read all about it! community for family & friends who have a loved one in prision Last Months £25 Winner A £25 prize is on offer for the best caption to 1. How many Fridays are there in January? John Harvey HMP Dovegate this month’s picture. Proud sponsors of Inside Time’s 2. What colour is January’s birthstone? PRIZE quiz ‘Read all about it!’ Pussies are 3. Which party won the recent General We have over 3000 Election? for life not just for members using Prison Chat UK Christmas! 4. Where is Winter’s Love Island’s villa this year? (PCUK) who offer support and advice to those outside prison. 5. On what date is Burns night this year? To find out more... 6. Which Eastender’s character was mistakenly see our advert on the back page thought to be the father of Sharon’s baby?

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Inside Knowledge // All the answers are within this issue of Inside Time - all you have to do is find them! How to enter: Send your entry on a separate sheet The first three names to be drawn with all-correct answers (or nearest) will tion of BAME males aged 18-21 in the British prison system’? receive a £25 cash prize. There will also be two £5 runner up prizes. 11. In 2018, which prison gave out no added days as punishment? of paper. Make sure your 12. Timpsons shoe repair business now employs how many ex-offenders? NAME, NUMBER & 13. Who said after his son’s tragic death in HMP Berwyn: ‘I had to lose my son for 1. Who says the British public are eager to hear exactly what goes on in our prisons? PRISON is on all sheets. 2. Which show is broadcast from the National Prison Radio studios at 5pm every them to spend more money on their prisons and it’s wrong’? Friday evening? 14. Over the past few years who has worked with HMRC to highlight the unique Failure to do so will 3. Who says: ‘I’ll grow when I’m ready, just help plant the seed, because hope is problems a prisoner faces dealing with their tax affairs whist in prison? invalidate your entry. 15. Who says trust is a most valuable currency in life, and may be hard to find in the drug that every prisoner needs’? We will be using the new 4. Who passed his 80th birthday some months ago? the prison environment? 5. Who, celebrated as a hero, seized a fire extinguisher, spraying the attacker on ‘Money Transfer Service’ London Bridge? Answers to Last Month’s Inside Knowledge Prize Quiz 1. Rachel Billington, 2. Terry for prize money so include 6. Who talked about becoming a responsible, loving father and how that Waite, 3. Danny Taylor, 4. Noel Smith, 5. Seven, 6. John Massey, 7. Juliet Lyon, 8. Sharon your DOB on your entries. experience has changed him for the greater good? Grenham-Thompson, 9. Tom Phillips, 10. HMP Leicester, 11. Jason, 12. The Secret Life of 7. Whose conviction was quashed and he was freed after serving 27 years in prison: Prisons, 13. Karen Otmani, 14. 104, 15. Raymond Smith Post to: ‘jailbreak’. Inside the final 11 years the result of mistakes blamed on the Forensic Science Service? The three £25 Prize winners are: The £5 runner up prizes go to: Time, Botley Mills, Botley, 8. At which prison were mince pies temporarily removed due to the foil containers? Karl Matthews HMP Bure Kenneth Ramsey HMP Edinburgh 9. Who is running off to Spain with Margie Clarke? Southampton, Hampshire Phillip Powell HMP Frankland Alan Robertson HMP Doncaster 10. Whose Masters’ thesis was entitled, ‘A critical analysis of the over-representa- SO30 2GB. Alex Toth HMP Swaleside

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‘They’ is Word of the Year Anagram Square Criss Cross Do you know? US dictionary, Merriam- Webster, has made ‘they’ it’s Word of 2019. The pronoun Rearrange the letters in each row to form a word. Write your has been used more because answers into the blank grid. people who are non-binary The first letter from each word, use it in place of he or she. reading down, will spell the Searches for ‘they‘ increased mystery keyword. by 313% in 2019. Explaining their decision, they said: ‘The 1 SOPME shifting use of ‘they’ has been the subject of increasing study 2 TAHER and commentary in recent years.’ They mentioned pop 3 GLAEN Spot of the Tops star Sam Smith, who came out Spotify has revealed its biggest songs, albums and artists of the as non-binary in March and 4 DCLHI last decade, with Drake emerging as the most-streamed artist of confirmed in September that TVNEE the 2010s. The Canadian star has racked up more than 28 billion they used they/them pronouns. 5 streams, with his most popular song, One Dance, played 1.7 They wrote on Instagram: ‘I billion times alone. It was dwarfed by Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of understand there will be many mistakes and misgendering, but You, whose 2.4 billion streams, made it the decade’s most 1 3 LETTER RAT ONTO DISCO SMELT listened-to track. The end-of-decade charts are presumably all I ask is you please please try. I hope you can see me like AGE SIR TRUE DROOP SPIES skewed towards more recent songs because of the growth in 2 AGO TIC YETI ISSUE STOIC Spotify’s user-base. The service had just 7 million users in 2009, I see myself now.’ Metro APT LASER but now boasts 248 million monthly active users, of which 113 3 BRA 4 LETTER 5 LETTER MUTED 6 LETTER million are paid subscribers. 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We will be using the new Ed Sheeran 1) Someone You Loved / Lewis Capaldi Male Female ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize Post Malone 2) Bad Guy / Billie Eilish money so include your DOB on Ariana Grande 3) I Don’t Care / Ed Sheeran 1. Alfie Bella your entries. Drake 4) Vossi Bop / Stormzy 2. Max Poppy Billie Eilish 5) 7 Rings / Ariana Grande 3. Charlie Lola 4. Teddy Luna Biggest albums of 2019 (UK) Fun facts... 5. Buddy Molly 1) Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent / Lewis Capaldi 6. Milo Daisy 2) No. 6 Collaborations Project / Ed Sheeran 7. Oscar Ruby • Westerners had already 3) When We All Fall Asleep… / Billie Eilish 8. Bailey Coco named Australia long before 4) Hollywood’s Bleeding / Post Malone 9. Archie Rosie they discovered it actually 5) Thank U, Next / Ariana Grande 10. Barney Millie existed. The name comes from Terra Australis, meaning ‘southern land’, a hypotheti- Good news / Inspiring, Positive Stories cal southern continent theo- rised in the 2nd century. joints force him to become Quotes Speaking my language • Nottingham was originally more and more hunchbacked A team of scientists from the called Snotingham after a over time. The severe spinal “Honestly, if I were two-faced, Universe. That makes us UK and Australia teamed up to Saxon leader called Snot. deformity left him unable to would I be showing you this something very special.” use underwater loudspeakers sit up or lie flat. During the • 80% of illness is caused by one?” ABRAHAM LINCOLN STEPHEN HAWKING to try and entice fish back to four-stage surgery, medics faecal matter. A gram of fae- dead coral reefs and poten- “When I was growing up I “Lock up your libraries if you Man folded in half stands broke and rebuilt Li’s spine ces can contain 10 million tially help them recover. They always wanted to be some- like; but there is no gate, no straight after 28 years one section at a time, then viruses, 1 million bacteria, placed loudspeakers on patches one. Now I realize I should lock, no bolt, that you can set Incredible images show a man straightened his entire spinal 1,000 parasite cysts, and 100 of dead coral in the Great have been more specific.” upon the freedom of my whose face was pressed against column. Li Hua said: ‘Of worm eggs. Barrier Reef and discovered LILY TOMLIN mind.” VIRGINIA WOOLF. his thighs finally able to stand course I won’t be able to do that twice as many fish arrived • Just thinking about a bright again after nearly three decades. anything too extreme like “We are just an advanced “I’m sure the universe is full - and stayed - compared to light can cause your pupils to Li Hua, 46, was diagnosed boxing or playing tennis, but breed of monkeys on a minor of intelligent life. It’s just been equivalent patches where no change shape. planet of a very average star. too intelligent to come here.” with ankylosing spondylitis in all regular bodily movements sound was played. “Healthy • You can unboil an egg by But we can understand the ARTHUR. C. CLARKE 1991, which saw pain in his will not be a problem.’ Metro coral reefs are remarkably using urea, the main compo- noisy places - the crackle of British teacher lives after heart stops for six hours nent of urine. Best jokes of 2019 snapping shrimp and the A British teacher in Spain whose heart stopped beating for more whoops and grunts of fish than six hours was revived in a case that doctors said was • Since its launch in 1969, • “I took my friend to the • “Can anyone remind me combine to form a dazzling “exceptional in the world”. Audrey Schoeman, 34, was brought Boeing have only produced seaside but I ignored him all day how to use WD-40? I’m a bit biological soundscape. Juvenile back to life after suffering cardiac arrest induced by hypothermia around 1,500 747s, of which and just sat by the rock pool rusty.” Stevie Vegas fish hone in on these sounds in November when she was caught in a Pyrenees snowstorm with two-thirds have now been talking to some coral. Keep when they’re looking for a her husband. She was rescued, flown to hospital and survived scrapped or taken out of ser- • “Sleep is my favourite thing your friends close and your place to settle,” said one of the thanks to close co-ordination between rescuers and medical staff. vice. in the world. It’s the reason anemones closer.” Colin Leggo study’s authors, “Reefs become “It is an exceptional case in the world; the longest cardiac arrest I get up in the morning.” • The longest prison sentence ghostly quiet when they are documented in Spain,” Eduard Argudo, the doctor who led the • “A thesaurus is great. There’s Ross Smith ever handed down was given degraded, as the shrimps and hospital’s operation to save her life, said. “There are almost no no other word for it.” Ross Smith to a Thai woman who cases of people whose hearts have stopped for so long and have “Someone stole my antide- fish disappear, but by using defrauded over 16,000 peo- been able to survive.” Mrs Schoeman, does not remember the • “Seaweed is really good for pressants. Whoever they are, loudspeakers to restore this ple in a pyramid scheme. She rescue but thanked the emergency services and medical staff you. If you’re ever in trouble, I hope they’re happy.” lost soundscape, we can attract was given 141,078 years, but “who did more than is normal to save me”. The Times sea kelp.” Robert Thomas Richard Stott young fish back again.” CNN released after 8. Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 57

January Births The path to success Did I say that? Top climate 2 January 2003 change facts... Greta Thunberg. Climate 1 4 2 3 2 change activist. (16 y/o). 1. It has been 3-5 million 3 January 1969 6 6 9 4 6 years since the earth reached Michael Schumacher. concentrations of CO2 like we Seven-time Formula One 9 5 3 9 3 have today. Back then the World Champion. (50 y/o). earth’s temperature was 2-3°c warmer and the sea level was 8 January 1947-2016 2 5 6 2 9 David Bowie. One of the 10-20 meters higher. most popular musicians 2 for over five decades. Died 6 7 3 4 2. The 20 warmest years on 10 January 2016 (aged 69). record have been in the past Start at the bottom left square “…Put them against the wall…” #“Lets get Brexit done, but 22 years. The years 2015, 15 January 1929-1968 and move up, down, left or right Activist Greta Thunberg on political leaders, (for which she first lets get breakfast done.” 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 had Martin Luther King Jr. Civil until you reach the finish. Add the later apologised). PM Boris Johnson’s early the highest temperatures Rights Activist. Assassinated numbers as you go. Can you morning quip after election since 1880. 4 April 1968 (aged 39). make exactly 40? “So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management victory. problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a 3. More than 1 million species GEF BAD CHI friend! Chill Greta, Chill!” are at risk of extinction by President Donald Trump tells 16 year-old climate activist climate change. Extinction is a Using the letters G,E,F,B,A,D,C,H & I fill in the Greta Thunberg to work on ‘anger management’ and ‘chill’. natural phenomenon, blank squares. Each letter A-I must appear claiming about five species only once in each line column and 3x3 grid. per year. But some experts “Check for cat “The day she and “Everyone knew he suggest we’re in the midst of before switching Dad adopted me couldn’t lead the the sixth mass extinction on.” was the day I won working class out - one that is caused mostly by Courtney Drury’s the lottery.” of a paper bag.” human activity. “They would rather have a note on washing Broadcaster Nicky Former Labour minister Alan dog than a black person.” 4. Air pollution kills 800 machine after Campbell’s tribute Sir Lenny Henry hitting out Neil Speed is a Johnson on Jeremy people every hour or 13 every kitten Posey had to his mother at producers for never hiring former prisoner Corbyn after minute, accounting for more to be rescued Sheila who died a black actor to play the who came up Labour’s cata- than three times the amount mid-cycle. aged 96. Time Lord. with the concept strophic defeat. of people who die from of GEF BAD CHI malaria, tuberculosis and column, so I am not going anywhere, anytime whilst in prison. AIDS combined each year. Inside Chess soon folks! There are still prisons to visit and GEF BAD CHI by The five main sources of air work to do. I am still promoting my book ‘Chess Neil Speed is by Carl Portman pollution are indoor burning Behind Bars’ too. published by of fossil fuels; industry, including power generation; Xlibris. £12.35 Welcome to 2020. It is a new year and indeed a To demonstrate how good Ding Liren actually transport, especially vehicles new decade. I am given to wondering what will is, I give you a position from the game Carlsen- with diesel engines; agricul- Catchphrase happen in the chess world in the next ten years. Liren from St Louis in 2019. Carlsen was White ture, including livestock, I believe that we will see stronger computer and was looking to checkmate Liren on f8. which produces methane and The object is to try to figure out the well-known saying, person, programs of course, and that Artificial Intelligence However, the Chinese player had other ideas. ammonia, rice paddies, which place, or thing that each square is meant to represent. might even play a part in predictions, preparation You can be him and take the glory. What would produce methane, and the and in trying to ‘solve’ chess. I am hoping that you play now as Black, and why? I will send a burning of agricultural waste; women and juniors will take a more prominent book prize to the winner! Note that this time and open waste burning and role in the game and that chess becomes more Black is playing up the board because I want you organic waste in landfills. available to the general public. There really are to see this from Liren’s point of view. some great things happening ‘out there’ in the 5. Sea levels are rising at the Shires and we need to celebrate success more. 8 fastest rate in 3,000 years, an average three millimetres per In human terms it is still very difficult to see 7 year. The two major causes of anyone taking the crown off Magnus Carlsen’s sea level rise are thermal head. I thought that the Armenian Levon Aronian 6 expansion - the ocean is might have been the man to do this in the last warming and warmer water decade but alas for him, he has fallen short. 5 expands - and melting of Carlsen remains the best match player. Look out glaciers and ice sheets that though for the Chinese player Ding Liren. He is 4 increases the flow of water. one to watch. He seems not to be afraid of Magnus Antarctica and Greenland (a very important psychological factor) and he 3 hold enough frozen water to really is a fine imaginative player. raise global sea levels by Dear Editor 2 about 65 metres if they were There are truck-loads of younger players coming to melt completely. • How come it is a pair of fraudsters paying my water through, but to be the best in the world you have 1 knickers, yet only a single bra? bill. Phil - Exeter to have that something special, including an 6. Two-thirds of extreme If any item of clothing should all-round game which includes the mental for- A B C D E F G H weather events in the last 20 be associated with pairs of • Car owners. Interested in finding out what your vehicle titude, the sheer gumption to be able to cope Write to me with your answer, care of The English years were influenced by things, it is a bra, surely? with the stresses and demands away from the Chess Federation at The Watch Oak, Chain Lane, humans. The number of Sometimes I find the world is worth? Simply use the ‘We Buy Any Car’ online evalua- board - being the number one person on the Battle, East Sussex TN33 OYD. Please note that floods and heavy rains has such a confusing place. planet for actually moving the chess pieces you should always write to me at the ECF not via quadrupled since 1980 and Wendy - Essex tion tool and multiply the resulting quote by 20. Mike around helps too. Inside Time. Also, please include your prison doubled since 2004. Extreme - Edinburgh number and if you can, the date and what months temperatures, droughts and • When I pay my utility bills What about your scribe? Well, I will be doing lots puzzle you are entering. wildfires have also more than over the phone to one of • All these years of research of development work with the English Chess doubled in the last 40 years. those automated payment by genitic engineers and all Federation, playing in tournaments and club The answer to December’s puzzle was 1.Qg5-f6+ While no extreme weather systems, I have to jump through we’ve got is Dolly the sheep. games. I will look to organise some chess events Qc7-g7 (If …Rg8-g7 then 2.Re6-e8 mate) and now event is ever down to a single hoops giving passwords and What’s wrong with a Narwal myself and perhaps even play abroad. I still want 2.Re6-e7! Simply wins the queen or mates Black cause, climate scientists are answering security questions. and a horse to make a unicorn? to improve my game and I will be trying very on h7. increasingly exploring the I’m so glad that security is Come on, boffins, show some hard to reach 180 grade and get near to the ELO human fingerprints on floods, tight, as the last thing I want is imagination. It’s not rocket 2000 I once was. I am certainly going to continue The winner of the November and December heatwaves, droughts and one of these cunning science. Gene - Wells with my chess in prisons work, and writing this puzzles to be announced. storms. T V N E E

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3 January 1496 0 4 1 0 5 7 2 5 1 3 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying 4 3 9 1 8 9 4 9 8 0 machine. 9 7 8 4 5 3 7 2 5 5 5 January 2016 9 1 5 6 2 8 1 4 9 0 First batsman to ever score 1000 runs in a single innings in cricket - 15 year-old Mumbai 3 3 2 8 7 0 4 3 6 7 schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade is 1009 not out. 6 4 6 7 8 6 9 5 8 1 8 January 1708 5 7 4 9 0 9 4 6 6 1 Spanish armada headed by the San Jose and 1 7 1 4 5 3 8 5 9 3 loaded with gold sunk after British Navy attacks off coast of Colombia. The value of the cargo 1 0 2 6 8 2 3 4 9 6 on the flagship alone exceeded Spain’s annual 3 9 5 2 9 0 2 0 1 9 national income. It was rediscovered 2015 by a salvage company and worth around $17bn. 1985,1985, 041057, 041057, 240644, 240644, 0507113, 69581, 0507113, 7477879, 69581,7645, 82349, 7477879, 7645, 82349, 99365, 395290, 2019, 99365, 395290, 2019, 22596, 42659 11 January 1922 22596, 42659 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, Thanks to Matthew Costar HMP Highdown on Canadian Leonard Thompson, aged 14. for compiling this Number Search. If you fancy compiling one please send in max 10 x 10 grid 13 January 1842 complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it Dr. William Brydon, a surgeon in the British we will send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, include your name, number and prison. We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize becomes famous for (reputedly) being the sole money so include your DOB on your entries. survivor of an army of 16,500 when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad. Sudoku // Hard 14 January 1761 Third Battle of Panipat: In one of the largest battles of the century, the mostly Muslim 5 4 1 Afghani Durrani Empire defeats the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in Northern India. An 3 5 6 estimated 60,000-70,000 were killed in the 2 1 4 3 fighting and about 40,000 Maratha prisoners massacred afterwards. 7 4

14 January 1794 2 7 8 6 Dr Jessee Bennet of Edom, Virginia, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation in 8 1 the US on his wife. 6 7 1 3 15 January 1919 1 3 4 Two million gallons of molasses flood Boston

Massachusetts in the “Great Molasses Flood” 4 7 9 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2019. All rights reserved. when a storage tank burst, drowning 21 and Daily Sudoku: Sun 1-Dec-2019 injuring 150. © MW Released life sentenced prisoner Word Morph 19 January 1977 Brainteaser Can you morph one word into another by just World’s largest crowd gathering - the Hindu changing one letter at a time? It isn’t quite as Kumbh Mela in India attracts a then record 15 easy as you think! million people. Where is the missing pound? Can you solve 6 9 8 5 4 3 1 2 7 the puzzle? 3 4 1 8 2 7 9 5 6 20 January 1982 COATED Heavy metal musician Ozzy Osbourne bites the Three friends are splitting the bill after a meal 5 7 2 1 9 6 4 3 8 head off a bat on stage in Des Moines, Iowa. out at a restaurant. The waiter says the bill is £30, so the guests split it evenly and pay £10 each. 7 1 6 9 5 2 8 4 3 23 January 1897 Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier As he’s walking away the waiter realises that 4 2 3 7 1 8 5 6 9 County, West Virginia. Resulting murder trial of Send a message he’s overcharged the group and the bill should her husband perhaps only case in US history only be £25. 9 8 5 6 3 4 2 7 1 to your loved one COILED where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped 2 6 7 4 8 1 3 9 5 secure a conviction. on Valentine’s Day In order to rectify this, he takes the £5 that is owed to the guests in order to bring the bill Just1 3for laughs9 2 6 5 7 8 4 24 January 1935 Send your message (max 25 words). They down to £25. On the way back to the table, he 1st canned beer, “Krueger’s Cream Ale,” is sold

can read it and view the whole issue on realises that he cannot divide £5 equally 8 5 4 3 7 9 6 1 2 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2019. All rights reserved. • Walking past a farm, I saw a sign that said: by American company Krueger Brewing Co. our free access website www.insidetime. between three people. ‘Duck,Daily Sudoku: eggs’. Sun I thought: 1-Dec-2019 “That’s a funny placehard for org Postal subscriptions are also availa- 25 January 1858 a comma” -then it hit me. ble. If you’re outside, and your message is As the customers are still unaware of the actual Felix Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” first to somebody in prison, send it to Inside total of the revised bill, the waiter decides to played, at wedding of Queen Victoria’s daughter • My friend keeps saying “cheer up man it Time ‘Valentines Message’ Botley Mills, just give each of the three friends £1 each and http://www.dailysudoku.com/ Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia. could be worse, you could be stuck under- Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB or then keep the leftover £2 as a tip for himself. ground in a hole full of water.” I know he 26 January 1972 [email protected] means well. Serbian air stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives Closing date 24th Jan and don’t forget to Basically, each customer got £1 back: meaning 10,160m fall without parachute - world’s include your full details too! they only paid £9 each; bringing the total paid • A Kamikaze pilot is teaching a bunch of to £27. The waiter has the leftover £2. students and he says... “Look carefully - I’m highest fall without a parachute. Inside Time’s Valentine’s message service is only going to do this once.” sponsored by Jailmate Cards. Why not send 28 January 1887 The £27 the customers paid, + the £2 the waiter your loved one in prison a card ‘with a dif- In a snowstorm at Fort Keogh, Montana, the kept = £29 so, if the diners originally handed • Why do scuba divers fall backwards out of ference’. Go to www.jailmatecards.co.uk you’ll world’s largest snowflakes are reported, being over £30, what happened to the remaining £1? the boat? Because if they fell forwards they’d love what you see! See back page for advert. 15 inches (38 cm) wide and 8 inches (20 cm) thick. Answer in next months issue. still be in the boat. Insidetime January 2020 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 59

Jailbreak – January 2020 Would you believe it? The joke’s on you! WordsearchWord search // Winter Sports Winter Sports - John Bennett HMP Bure • This guy wakes up one morning to find a Y L M A K R S O A Q R C V E P E L N I X gorilla in a tree near his house. He looks in the D O K Y P O L E S L M H A O P I S T E T phone book for a gorilla removal service until I E B T A S E D Z D A A L I E C O N G L he finds one. “Is it a boy or girl gorilla?” the S T T I R N D H E B A L D B A E I E R M service guy asks. “Boy,” is the man’s response. E R L B N W L F C N D F A O E D R L K O “Oh yeah, I can do it. I’ll be right there”, says the service guy. An hour later the service guy P Y H O A D O O C E B P R E W A L G J H shows up with a stick, a Chihuahua, a shotgun, O D R A G L I F T W K I U O S N C F R L Y S N D N T O N V M S P I C Q C H B T A Who’s ‘an old’ boy then? and a pair of handcuffs. He then gives the man F L S S N E N I G A T E O R K E L I S N Normally they only live to the some instructions: “Now, I’m going to climb age of around 50 years old, this tree and poke the gorilla with the stick N R U Z S R L K H O I S M N C D X U L G but this school parrot has just until he falls. When he does, the trained A E W G J B S A T R C N H H E B S H O L Ciggy, Ciggy Bang, Bang! celebrated his 70th birthday. Chihuahua will bite the gorilla’s testicles off. S K E L E T O N G Z K N E S O R E N P A A smoker accidentally blew up his car when he Sim has been a pet at the The gorilla will then cross his hands to protect R G G B Y O T N R O P G A X D C S Q E U lit a cigarette after spraying the interior with air Rouge Bouillon School in himself and allow you to put the handcuffs on L T A O B B I A T H L O N C K E K L S F freshener. Witnesses said they heard an Jersey, since 1988 and has had him.” The man asks, “What do I do with the E B M K G O D S O M Z C W L I T A E T E “enormous bang” when the car and nearby a colourful history. He was shotgun?” The service guy replies, “If I fall out B O B O N G A C R O S S C O U N T R Y M buildings were rocked by the explosion. The rehomed at the school after of the tree before the gorilla, shoot the blast was so strong it shattered the Seat’s N A A L L G L A D G I N U G S V I P L L living in Briggs toy shop that Chihuahua.” windows and caused parts of the car, including Y R W D I A M E J U Q N E L R T N T E P had to close and then in 1991 a door and the boot, to buckle. Windows at P D G U M N F L S L A L O M Q I G V H Y he survived a roof fire that • A boy holding duct tape walks by an old man nearby businesses in a busy street in Halifax, A M S L K R I I P S E L T K U P R G L O destroyed part of the building on a bench. The old man says, “what’re you West Yorkshire, were also blown out. The where he lived. Pupils at the doing with that duct tape?” The boy replies BIATHLON, BINDING, BOARD, BOB, CROSS COUNTRY, DOWNHILL, driver had a lucky escape, suffering only minor BIATHLON, BINDING, BOARD, BOB, CROSS COUNTRY, DOWNHILL, DRAGLIFT, GATE, GOGGLES, school help with his daily saying, “I’m going to go catch some ducks.” The DRAGLIFT,HALFPIPE, HOCKEY, GATE, ICE DANCE, GOGGLES, LANGLAUF, HALFPIPE, LUGE, MOGULS, HOCKEY, PISTE, POLES, ICEPUCK, DANCE, SKATING, injuries that “could have been worse”. care, including feeding him old man says, “you can’t catch ducks with duct LANGLAUF,SKELETON, SLALOM, LUGE, SLED, SLOPESTYLE, MOGULS, STICK, PISTE, TOBOGGAN POLES, PUCK, SKATING, Manchester Evening News and cleaning out his cage. tape.” Sure enough, the boy comes back later SKELETON,Anagram – Daniel SLALOM, Nichols HMP SLED,Lincoln SLOPESTYLE, STICK, TOBOGGAN They helped celebrate his holding a bunch of ducks wrapped in duct S O P M E Thanks to John Bennett HMP Bure for compiling this Wordsearch. If 70th birthday with par- tape. The next day the boy passes the old man youT fancyA H compilingE R one for us please send in max 20 x 20 grid rot-themed decorations for holding chicken wire. The old man asks what completeG L A withE answersN shown on a grid. If we use it we will send you £5 his cage, extra nuts and a cake he has chicken wire for and the boy says he’s asD a thankC L you!H I Remember to include your name, number, prison. We that was edible to both Sim going to catch some chickens. The old man will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so and the children who look tells him that he can’t, and 4 hours later the include your DOB on your entries. after him. The Metro boy comes back with a bunch of chickens wrapped in chicken wire. The day after, the kid Quick Crossword comes by with a plant in a pot. The old man asks, “what’s that you got there?” The boy The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls replies saying, “it’s a pussy willow.” The old Howler monkeys are the loudest land animals man then says, “wait right there, imma gettin on Earth, capable of bellowing at volumes of my hat, I’m coming with you.” 140 decibels, which is on the level of gunshots or fireworks. Not surprisingly, male howlers • The Difference Between Heaven And Hell. Move over Beethoven frequently use this power to advertise their In Heaven ... The British are the police, the In the most ambitious project sexual fitness, catcalling females with their French are the cooks, the Swiss are the gov- of its type ever attempted, a ear-splitting roars. But in a beautiful twist of ernment, the Italians are the lovers, the computer has been set to expectations, scientists have now found that Germans are the mechanics. work to complete Beethoven’s the louder the monkey’s calls, the smaller the In Hell ... The British are the cooks, the French unfinished 10th symphony. monkey’s balls. A louder, small-balled monkey are the government, the Swiss are the lovers, And they plan to put the is more likely to develop a harem of females the Italians are the mechanics, the Germans results to the test in a public with whom he has exclusive breeding access. are the police. performance by a full The quieter, well-endowed monkeys, on the symphony orchestra in other hand, tend to end up in larger groups • A guy goes into a store and asks if they sell Beethoven’s birthplace, the containing many males and females that potato clocks. The assistant says “Sorry sir, we German city of Bonn, next copulate freely with each other. In this don’t. We have battery clocks, electrical year. The project is part of non-exclusive group, males compete for clocks, wind up clocks. In fact I’ve never heard celebrations planned to mark paternity quite literally with their balls. The of a potato clock.” the 250th anniversary of the bigger a male’s sperm count, the more he is to The man says... “Neither have I, but I start my composer’s birth. It is known edge out all the other males that are mating new job at nine tomorrow and my wife said I Beethoven was working on a with the same females. In this way, howler should get a potato clock.” Across Down 10th symphony in his final monkeys have evolved two sexual strategies— years from references in his calls versus balls—to the exclusion of each Words of the month 1. Bring to maturity (7) 1. Total loss of hope (7) letters and the accounts of his other. Loud monkeys need to secure exclusive 7. Revolve or spin (6) 2. Place where an event is contemporaries. Gerhard von access to females because they would have 8. Open and genuine (7) held (5) Breuning, the composer’s trouble keeping up with their big-balled • NYKTILATHRAIOPHÁGOS (Ancient Greek) - 9. Den (4) 3. Vegetable (4) friend, wrote of Beethoven counterparts, who are more likely to fertilize someone who secretly eats during the night. 10. Yes votes (4) 4. Make ready [7) telling his father how the 12. Fix up (7) 5. Strong and sturdy (8) females due to larger sperm production. • TRUEL - a duel between three people. work would have a “new Quieter monkeys have less success attracting 14. Hermit (7) 6. Thin cord (6) gravitational force” that would females with their bellows, but they are • TUFSHAN (Saudi Arabic) - the feeling of 16. Tree part (4) 11. Austrian city (8) go beyond even his celebrat- locked-and-loaded where it counts. Vice hopelessness when your hopes for your future 18. Arm or leg (4) 12. In pieces (7) ed 9th symphony, one of the outstrip the objective reality. 20. Dispossess (7) 13. An intellectual (7) most revolutionary works of Cowboy pigeons • ADELASTER - the name given to all newly 21. Private-evening party (6) 15. Newspaper boss (6) its time. But Beethoven left For reasons unknown, discovered plants while botanists work out the 22. Connected (7) 17. Card game [5) behind only a few fragmen- somebody is putting cowboy scientific name and genus. 19. Gemstone [4) tary musical sketches of what hats on pigeons in Las Vegas. he planned. Machine In December, there were • ELTERNTAXI (German) - literally “parent The last word... learning software is fed not taxi”, the taxi service provided by parents multiple reports of well- only with the musical sketches dropping their children at school/football/vio- dressed birds sporting lin lessons. Beethoven left behind for the “Prison has taught me that there is a part symphony, but also with cowboy headwear, raising • EUCATASTROPHE - a happy ending to a story. of you that no one can ever take from you, other examples of his work many, many questions. Who and of the composers who is doing this? How? Why? 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