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PRISON SERVICE JOURPRISON SERVICE NAL JOUR NAL September 2018 No 239 This edition includes: Unlocking talent at HMP Leicester Kate Herrity, Simon Bland, Ralph Lubkowski and Phil Novis The Bigger Picture: Digital Storytelling, Creativity and Resilience in Prisons Dr Victoria Anderson Scratching the Surface: A service evaluation of an applied theatre intervention for female offenders. Dr Zoe Stephenson and Andy Watson MBE Performing Punishment, Transporting Audiences: Clean Break Theatre Company’s Sweatbox Dr Aylwyn Walsh Performance Matters: The Case for Including Performance in Prison Music Projects Sarah Doxat-Pratt Special Edition The Arts in Prison ­ Contents Dr Michael Fiddler is a Senior 2 Editorial Comment Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich and Dr Michael Fiddler and Alli Black Alli Black is Deputy Governor at HMP Kirkham. Purpose and editorial arrangements Kate Herrity is a PhD candidate in the 4 Unlocking talent at HMP Leicester department of Criminology, University of Leicester; Simon Bland is a resettlement Kate Herrity, Simon Bland, Ralph Lubkowski and The Prison Service Journal is a peer reviewed journal published by HM Prison Service of England and Wales. caseworker; Ralph Lubkowski is Phil Novis Governor at HMP Stafford; and Phil Its purpose is to promote discussion on issues related to the work of the Prison Service, the wider criminal justice Novis is Governor at HMP Nottingham. system and associated fields. It aims to present reliable information and a range of views about these issues. The editor is responsible for the style and content of each edition, and for managing production and the Dr Victoria Anderson is Chair of 10 The Bigger Picture: Digital Storytelling, Creativity Stretch Charity and a Visiting Journal’s budget. The editor is supported by an editorial board — a body of volunteers all of whom have worked Researcher at Cardiff University’s and Resilience in Prisons School of Journalism, Media and for the Prison Service in various capacities. The editorial board considers all articles submitted and decides the out - Cultural Studies. Dr Victoria Anderson line and composition of each edition, although the editor retains an over-riding discretion in deciding which arti - cles are published and their precise length and language. Dr Zoe Stephenson is a Lecturer in 16 Scratching the Surface: A service evaluation of an Forensic Psychology at the University From May 2011 each edition is available electronically from the website of the Centre for Crime of Birmingham, UK. Andy Watson applied theatre intervention for female offenders. MBE is the Artistic Director and CEO and Justice Studies. This is available at http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/psj.html of Geese Theatre Company, UK. Dr Zoe Stephenson and Andy Watson MBE Circulation of editions and submission of articles Dr Aylwyn Walsh is Programme 22 Performing Punishment, Transporting Audiences: Six editions of the Journal, printed at HMP Leyhill, are published each year with a circulation of approximately Leader of the MA in Applied Theatre and Intervention at University of Clean Break Theatre Company’s Sweatbox 6,500 per edition. The editor welcomes articles which should be up to c.4,000 words and submitted by email to Leeds’ School of Performance and Cultural Industries,and artistic director Dr Aylwyn Walsh [email protected] or as hard copy and on disk to Prison Service Journal , c/o Print Shop Manager, of Ministry of Untold Stories. HMP Leyhill, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 8BT. All other correspondence may also be sent to the Editor at this address or to [email protected] . Sarah Doxat-Pratt is a doctoral 27 Performance Matters: The Case for Including researcher at the University of Footnotes are preferred to endnotes, which must be kept to a minimum. All articles are subject to peer Nottingham and University of Performance in Prison Music Projects review and may be altered in accordance with house style. No payments are made for articles. Leicester, with inter-institutional funding from the AHRC-funded Sarah Doxat-Pratt Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Subscriptions The Journal is distributed to every Prison Service establishment in England and Wales. Individual members of staff need not subscribe and can obtain free copies from their establishment. Subscriptions are invited from other individuals and bodies outside the Prison Service at the following rates, which include postage: United Kingdom Editorial Board Paul Addicott Dr Jamie Bennett (Editor) Dr Amy Ludlow single copy £7.00 HMPPS University of Cambridge Dr Ruth Armstrong Governor HMP Grendon & Springhill Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden one year’s subscription £40.00 (organisations or individuals in their professional capacity) University of Cambridge Paul Crossey (Deputy Editor) Queen’s University, Belfast Dr Rachel Bell HMP Huntercombe Dr Ruth Mann £35.00 (private individuals) HMP Wandsworth HMPPS Alli Black Dr Karen Harrison (Reviews Editor) William Payne HMP Kirkham University of Hull Independent Maggie Bolger Steve Hall George Pugh Overseas Prison Service College, Newbold Revel Independent HMP Belmarsh Professor Alyson Brown Professor Yvonne Jewkes Dr David Scott single copy £10.00 Edge Hill University University of Kent Open University Gareth Evans Dr Helen Johnston Christopher Stacey one year’s subscription £50.00 (organisations or individuals in their professional capacity) Independent University of Hull Unlock Dr Ben Crewe Dr Bill Davies Ray Taylor £40.00 (private individuals) University of Cambridge Leeds Beckett University HMPPS Dr Sacha Darke Martin Kettle Mike Wheatley University of Westminster Church of England HMPPS Dr Michael Fiddler Dr Victoria Knight Kim Workman Orders for subscriptions (and back copies which are charged at the single copy rate) should be sent with a University of Greenwich De Montfort University Rethinking Crime and Punishment, NZ Dr Kate Gooch Monica Lloyd Adrian Rowbottom, Mike Tinning cheque made payable to ‘HM Prison Service’ to Prison Service Journal , c/o Print Shop Manager, HMP Leyhill, University of Leicester University of Birmingham HMP Leyhill Printshop Chris Gunderson HMPPS Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 8BT. Prison Service Journal Issue 239 Issue 239 Prison Service Journal September 2018 Music, education, and opportunity Katy Haigh is Executive Director of 33 Good Vibrations. Laura Caulfield is Katy Haigh and Laura Caulfield Professor and Chair of the Institute for Community Research and Development at the University of Wolverhampton. 40 Music and identity in prison: Music as a Kate Herrity is a PhD candidate at the University of Leicester. technology of the self Kate Herrity Yvonne Jewkes is a Professor at the 48 In Place of Hate School of Social Policy, Sociology and Yvonne Jewkes Social Research at the University of Kent. 50 Edmund Clark’s Artistic Residency at HMP Professor Elizabeth Yardley is Professor of Criminology and Head of Grendon: Exploring the impact upon residents the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Birmingham City Elizabeth Yardley and Dan Rusu University and Dan Rusu is a Research Assistant and PhD Student within the Centre for Applied Criminology at Birmingham City University. 58 Interview with Edmund Clark Edmund Clark was the Artist-in- residence at HMP Grendon (2014-18). Edmund Clark and Michael Fiddler He is interviewed by Michael Fiddler , University of Greenwich. Cover design by Mike Tinning . HMP Leyhill. Sweatbox by Chloe Moss . Photographer: Katherine Leedale. Credit: Clean Break Theatre Company. Gongs: photo credit: Francois Boutemy ,2010. Flipchart: photo 2 credit: Gigi Chiying Lam ,2016. 1.98m , Detail from Oresteia and My Shadow’s Reflection: © Edmund Clark , courtesy Ikon Gallery , Birmingham The Editorial Board wishes to make clear that the views expressed by contributors are their own and do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Prison Service. Printed at HMP Leyhill on 115 gsm and 200 gsm Galerie Art Satin Set in 10 on 13 pt Frutiger Light Circulation approx 6,500 ISSN 0300-3558 „ Crown Copyright 2018 Issue 239 Prison Service Journal 1 Editorial Comment The arts in prison Dr Michael Fiddler is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich and Alli Black is Deputy Governor at HMP Kirkham. Let us begin with a single image: Harou-Romain’s considered evaluations set out by several of the Plan for a penitentiary, 1840. 1 If the reader is contributors here. The central innovation that is unfamiliar with the title, they may well know the important in all of the articles that follow arrives in image itself from the plate section of Foucault’s Herrity et al’s expression of art existing as a ‘benign Discipline and Punish . It depicts an imagined view gateway’. This sees the transformative aspects of art from a cell within Bentham’s Panopticon. The being captured and made to cascade throughout inhabitant of the cell—seemingly unaware of our other aspects of prison life. In their article, Kate presence behind them—is kneeling. Theyface Herrity, Simon Bland, Ralph Lubkowski and Phil outwards, towards the central observation tower. Novis detail the ‘Talent Unlocked’ arts festival that There are several ways in which we can read this ran at HMP Leicester in November 2017. For the particular image. For example, is the figure kneeling authors, the festival acted as precisely this sort of in silent penitence or are they engaged in some form gateway, providing benefits to staff-prisoner of labour? On first being introduced to a poorly relationships, civic participation and educational reproduced version of this image in an undergraduate engagement. As these contributors themselves note lecture some years ago, it struck one of the editors of in the piece, ‘the difficulty in capturing these this special edition as the embodiment of Bentham’s processes in a measurable, quantifiable form was a ‘mill to grind rogues honest’. 2 It appeared as though source of frustration’. the architecture of the building bore down upon the The frustrations and difficulties of many arts- lone figure.

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