Santa Comes Early! Bicycles Repaired and Recycled by Prisoners in HMP Parc Received with Glee by Children in Lupeni Children’S Orphanage, Hunedoara, Romania

New monthly columnist “There’s a whole spectrum “An MC is like a gladiator; Frank Cotton tells a riveting of difference we can make, thrown into a sonic amphi- story of the ups and downs even if it is just giving people theatre provided by the DJ” the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees of a prison leaver’s journey worth and value.” Glam vicar Mr Gee a voice for prisoners since 1990 Jailbreak // page 45 Comment // page 25 Jailbreak // page 51 December 2018 / Issue No. 234 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profit’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL OUR READERS 68 page issue including 2019 wall planner An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations PROGRESS CHECKED! From next year, HM Inspectorate of Prisons is to carry out the first Independent Review of Progress (IRP) of prisons where inspections have revealed ‘serious concerns’ Inside Time report independent view of progress Prisons that will receive an to ministers," they added. IRP include those that are subject to an Urgent Notifica- 15 The process of IRPs will be Earlier this year, the Justice tion Protocol - the mechanism Credit : Richard Lewisohn overseen by Peter Clarke, HM Select Committee said there by which the Inspectorate can Chief Inspector of Prisons. A should be greater ministerial instruct the Justice Secretary Charity and Hope in HMP Bronzefield spokesperson for the Inspec- accountability for ensuring to respond publicly, within 28 torate said that the new re- The Pimlico Opera production of Sweet Charity, starring Olivier Award-winning that the watchdog's recom- days, with plans to improve views will help to improve mendations are implemented. actor Laura Pitt-Pulford (above) as Charity Hope Valentine, plays to ‘enraptured’ conditions at a prison it has accountability to ministers Following a damning report audience - with prisoners in the Middlesex prison performing alongside profes- found to have significant about the progress prisons are showing little improvement of sional actors. problems in. A prison may making towards achieving conditions seen at HMP Liv- the inspectorate’s recommen- erpool in inspections two also be subject to a review if dations between inspections. years apart, MPs on the com- it is found to be unsafe be- "Low achievement by prisons mittee said ministers and HM cause of high levels of violence, against inspectorate recom- Prisons and Probation Ser- but falls short of the thresh- mendations has been a fea- vice were effectively ‘marking old for an urgent notification. ture at some of the prisons their own homework’ when it Clarke has issued four urgent that have caused HMIP most came to ensuring the inspec- notifications this year. concern, and the IRP process torate's recommendations is intended to give an early were enacted. ‘Still much to do’ page 12

NEWS FLASH! Drug and phone Hit Squads to target 100 jails 11 Credit: Vasele Neme 15 Santa comes early! Bicycles repaired and recycled by prisoners in HMP Parc received with glee by children in Lupeni children’s orphanage, Hunedoara, Romania. 2 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime December 2018

PPI claims insidetime Positive thinking Mailbites a voice for prisoners since 1990 Alexander Akinyele - HMP Risley Alan Burgess - HMP Whatton Great article the national newspaper for prisoners published by As an avid reader of Inside Time, I have to say that there is a lot S B Parker - HMP Dartmoor Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of of negativity emitting from most of the letters sent in. Though The expiry for mis-sold PPI The New Bridge Foundation, founded in 1956 to I want to thank N Gully in HMP Parkhurst for I agree with many of the issues raised, because they are the claims is next year, and I have create links between the offender and the being the first correspondent in my life to reality of prison life, if we take a step back and look at life in read letters from prisoners community. inspire me to write to a newspaper. Gully’s our prisons through the microscopic lens of positivity you saying they could not claim piece, ‘Maintaining innocence’ in the Inside A not for profit publication. will realise that in the midst of constant bang-ups, below par because the company claim- Voices section was probably the most spot-on Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial food, lack of adequate care and attention from prison officers ing for it need you to have a no-nonsense description of the current state content. Comments or complaints should be and the prison establishment, etc., there lies a wisp of positivity. contactable phone number. directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. of miscarriages of justice I’ve read so far. The system is rigged, beginning with the Blair/Jack Talking to many other inmates, I have noticed a common de- I experienced this myself and Straw designed edict - ‘believe the complain- Board of Directors nominator between them, which is low self-esteem. They be- solved it by writing to my ant’ (whether true or not), and Theresa May’s lieve they cannot amount to anything in life. The government personal banking adviser Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, - ‘believe the victims at all costs’. Someone can and the Prison Service, in my view, should shoulder the asking him for a list of loans/ Journalist, Writer and former Magistrate. be sent to prison for a long time and be blame due to the fact that they fail to recognise that the psy- insurance/cards that may Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge advised not to give evidence when there is no chological welfare and personal development of prisoners is have PPI attached. A couple Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon hard evidence against them. It is unjust. Thank Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh imperative in rehabilitation. of weeks later he sent me a you, N Gully. John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and list of these and highlighted Managing Director employing former prisoners There are some questions that you will need to ask yourself; the ones that he thought had Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice How do you see yourself? What do you think of yourself and PPI attached. Along with Blue screen blues Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, your future? And do you see yourself through your failures? this list he enclosed a form Andre Bailey - HMP Pentonville Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation If you do, let me fill you in on something - failure is an event, for me to fill in to send to a it isn’t you. So, don’t let your past failures define who you are Every time it rains the televisions in Pentonville department of the same and what you can achieve. Make the most of negative situa- go to a blank blue screen. It has been a nice The Editorial Team bank that dealt with PPI tions and seize any glimmer of opportunity in prison to gain dry summer but when we did have a few drops claims, but I did not fill it qualifications or learn new skills. of rain the TV service was disrupted, and we out, thinking that it would were limited to NPR (National Prison Radio). If we take away the ordeal of prison from the life story of Nel- not be worth doing so. This has been going on since I came here in son Mandela I am afraid we will be left with not such a grand January, and when we had the cold weather life story. Same should apply to us. We should let our prison How wrong I was because known as ‘The Beast From The East’, we had experience transcend our setbacks or failures, as with the even though I never re- no TV for 4 days. We are a bit sick and tired of Erwin James John Roberts Rachel likes of Ricky Tomlinson, Noel Smith, Leroy Skeete, Erwin turned the form, I noticed a this as we pay a weekly fee to use the TVs, and Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE James and many more out there. month or two later that my we are obviously not getting value for money. Director Associate Editor account statement showed a As the weather draws in we are worried as to My challenge to you is - keep your head up and start thinking credit of over £13,000. When how we will now spend our 23-hour-per-day Commercial positively about yourself and your future and endeavour to I queried it, I was told that it lock-up in our cells without the television Manager transmit that positive energy to others around you. Positive was my PPI rebate. I don’t service we are all paying for. David Roberts thinking can help you do everything better than negative know if all banks do this, Head of thinking will. It is my belief that we are all born with a tal- but Lloyds certainly came up Mail chaos at Berwyn Administration ent, with positive thinking you can find yours. trumps for me. Justine Best Scott Bott - HMP Berwyn Noel Smith Paul Sullivan Layout & Design The systems in place for processing outgoing Commissioning Reporter Colin Matthews Editor and incoming mail here are not fit for purpose. Website Design Governors won’t even acknowledge that a and Advertising MICHAEL PURDON SOLICITOR problem exists. Some officers refuse to collect Gary Bultitude the mail from the mail-room, some claim they Correspondence don’t have time and others simply say it is not General: Inside Time Botley Mills, Botley, SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED AN their job. I guess the most annoying reply from Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. staff when asked if they can get the mail is ‘I Accounts & Admin: Inside Time, PO Box 251, have not seen any’, and this usually comes Hedge End, Hampshire SO30 4XJ. 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A question of Prison wife life Mailbag 2-9 independence “It might be poss- Name supplied ible for a National Name withheld - Prisons Vogueing HMP Rye Hill I am walking into the visiting area, all nervous, waiting on Tournament to be my seating. I feel like I’m playing Russian roulette. We have Page 7 organised.” No one can predict the future been given a 3-seater sofa for visitors, one wide table in the Newsround 10-15 of anyone. But, I could tell middle and single chair for the resident. That kind of seating you what would happen if gives us very little chance for any form of closeness. Reach- “Table tennis acts you got a jug of boiling water ing across the table to sneak in little kisses makes our necks as an incentive for and poured it over your own all stiff. Don’t get me started on our muscles and aches... good behaviour, head. Anyone could tell you with prisoners Not listening Page 14 ‘holding it down’.” the outcome of that. © prisonimage.org / Library image Although! There are different sets of seating available, where Calls to the Samaritans must not you can sit next to your partner, and you are still separated Comment 16-28 The Parole Board are meant by the wooden wall. So, the rules are kept, but you’ve got the “Sport is one way to be an independent body be monitored privilege to hold hands, kiss and stroke. I politely ask the of- to give them a who assess prisoners risk for ficer why he didn’t give us the ‘couples table’ and he ex- chance, a fresh release, but they’re inde- Last month Inside Time published a letter from a family mem- plains, dryly: “It is very busy today and those tables are start.” pendence comes into ques- ber of a prisoner in Frankland regarding the confidentiality of reserved for VP’s...” Page 16 tion when the Parole Board prisoners’ calls to the Samaritans. The letter, headed Listening Information 29-34 seek out and use psycholo- in? stated that the prisoner, “… recently made a call to the Sa- Not wanting to lose more time we leave it. Our visit is booked gists to conduct ‘psychologi- maritans. He was then surprised that the officers were wind- for 2pm and lasts until 4:15. In theory, 9 out of 10 times my “Self-employment could be worth cal risk assessments’ on ing him up about it. I thought calls to the Samaritans were partner arrives at 2:15 and by 4:05 officers are rushing us out confidential and had been for some time? I am appalled to considering.” offenders before their parole as fast as they possibly can. hearings. hear this. Can they act in this manner?” Page 30 The Staff Officer to the Executive Director of the Long Term and “Halfway through the visit more than five ‘couples “If the Parole Board are Legal 35-39 High Security Estate responded to our request for clarification. tables’ remain empty. I don’t think ghosts should wholly independent, be seated too, even if we can’t see them... Or “The Scottish sys- they should be able to Prison Service Instruction 2011-64 Management of Prisoners tem is not fairer; at Risk of Harm to Self, To Others and From Others sets out Her maybe that is just one of the officers’ jokes to assess risk and make just much more Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) framework wind visitors up as much as residents...” arrogant; and their own judgements.” for delivering safer custody procedures and practices to ensure Page 36 meanwhile, lives that prisons are safe places for all those who live and work And then they would roll their eyes about riots... what a rid- are changed there. Within that framework are a number of measures to irreparably.” The fact that they do not, dle! What about compassion and rehabilitation in Her Majes- breaches the principle of Ju- ensure that prisoners with underlying self-harming/suicidal behaviour can be supported, including peer support schemes. ty’s pleasure residency? Well... as one of the officers said to Jailbreak 40-60 dicial independence of the my partner: “Did you not see the name of the prison? It’s parole system and process. “Cheeky popsie HMP Frankland works closely with the Samaritans in order HMP Long Lartin. Everything is long here.” told me to be a to provide its residents with a source of support if required. Psychologists who can con- good boy.” Prisoners are able to call the Samaritans either via the PIN Ha! They got that one right. Seems like they have a long way duct psychological risk as- Phone system or if this is not possible - for example, during to go to change for the better. Page 47 sessments seem to predict the night - there is a designated mobile phone which a pris- offender’s futures within the oner can request to use, which will only connect the caller few hours they tend to spend with the Samaritans. To use this facility, a prisoner would Contributing to Mailbag with their subject. We can have to make it known to a prison officer that they wish to If you would like to contribute to Mailbag, please send your letters to the predict reoffending with make such a call, so that they can be brought the mobile, and address on the left. It is very important that you ensure the following details are about 60% (or less) accu- their use of it would be logged in order to maintain the secu- on all paperwork sent to Inside Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUMBER & PRISON. racy, bearing in mind that rity of the phone. 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Carrington Advert 75x265 09.2018.indd 1 22/10/2018 17:31 4 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime December 2018 On the Letters Wire The Growth Where there’s Project blame… ‘Inhumane torture’ Name withheld - David Adams - Paul Hodgson - HMP Coldingley HMP Rye Hill HMP Guys Marsh I am writing with extreme concern and absolute disgust at the It seems to me that too many governor of Coldingley’ s recent decision to withhold each and As Albert Einstein once said people are willing to ignore every item of mail that comes into this prison. Be it photos of - ‘Insanity is doing the same what is right under their our families, birthday cards, Christmas cards, legal letters, the thing over and over again noses, and when things go whole lot goes straight into our stored prop. This action shows expecting different results’. wrong they’re the first ones a complete disregard for our emotional health and wellbeing This is what is going on in to complain. For example; with the attachments and support we take from our personal prisons and it needs to Mr. Jones walks past a damp patch on the floor 3 times, mail from loved ones. We all need our mail and prisoners are change. For years the prison Rich Loizou, Richard Roberts, Simon Blevins no exception. Stop this unlawful and inhumane torture, it is not system has been doing the then suddenly he slips on it right. No extremely poor-quality black & white (but mostly same thing and as a result, and twists his ankle, leaving him in a lot of pain. Now he black) photocopies of our photos, cards and letters can be a statistics are not improving. Frack off wants someone to blame, but substitute in any way, shape or form. Those responsible for the Evan Prevett - HMP Lewes why didn’t he tell someone implementation of such a practise should be deeply ashamed If a difference is to be made, about the damp patch on the and disgusted with themselves. something new and ‘outside There was an extremely rare victory for British justice in Oc- floor so that someone could the box’ has to happen. It’s tober this year when three Court of Appeal judges quashed arrange to have it sorted? Mail lottery great that ‘residents’ can get prison sentences of over a year given to three protesters who qualifications but what good Mr K - HMP Bedford climbed onto lorries in a protest over fracking. Too many people just don’t are they if these people do want to get involved, espe- I’ve been here at Bedford for 4 months and in that time, I’ve not understand themselves, I have absolutely no opinion, positive or negative, on frack- cially if it means confronta- had incoming mail that my partner has sent me just disappear. I their values and how to ing, however, this case clearly highlights some extremely im- tion. If we were prepared to have a bit of an idea what may have happened due to my own change their outlook? portant points to be considered about freedom of expression stand together we would experiences here. I have had the whole of the wing’s mail given and the right to protest in our country. prevail. Muggers wouldn’t to me not once but twice. Which gives me a bit of an idea Prisons need to encourage mug, rapists wouldn’t rape, about where my own mail may have gone. I’d like to think that personal development, pro- These men were the first environmental protestors to be and burglars wouldn’t burgle. most people would hand the mail back to staff if they get given mote wellbeing and estab- jailed since the 1930s. They spent over three weeks in prison But the sad fact is that these it in error, but I’m guessing that not everybody is like that. The lish a positive environment. before they were freed by the Court of Appeal. Worryingly, days we are too isolated, we mail that has gone on the missing list included legal mail, which These are some of the princi- the judges commented that the correct sentence in this case don’t even know our neigh- is incredibly frustrating and only increases the stress levels, ples that The Growth Project was unpaid work, but the demonstrators were originally bours. Will we ever get back given sentences of 15 and 16 months. especially dealing with your loved ones and having to request a is promoting here at Guys the common courtesy that new set of case papers from my legal team. Stop treating our Marsh. we once had? I doubt it, The Court of Appeal was exactly right in this case. The state mail like it doesn’t matter. these days it is dog eat dog, should NEVER imprison people for peaceful, non-violent pro- everyone is out for them- For change to happen you testing. In any case, protesting, when done peacefully, selves. Sad but true. Looking have to tread a long hard The human side of censorship should never be discouraged and citizens must fight to resist out for each other is a dying road, but Rome wasn’t built L Terry - HMP Dovegate any attempt to prevent legitimate protests. trend, a thing of the past. in a day. The Growth Project I would like to try and explain something to the unfeeling and is about trying to create a robot-like prison authorities who think the way of solving an ‘rehab culture’ which it does 01865 987781 out-of-control drug problem is by banning prisoners mail in by empathising the princi- [email protected] favour of cheap and mostly illegible photocopies. It is not only ples of growth - Authentic www.theburnsidepartnership.com what the actual letter or card says that is important to the Leadership, Meaningful prisoner, it is knowing that this piece of card or paper has been work and Relationships, In- in your loved one’s hands, that they have taken time out of their vesting in People, Tasting Sorting it out day to send you in a small piece of love. Even the smell of your Freedom, Pro-Social Ways of When you are in prison it is very difficult to deal partner’s perfume on the paper or just the smell of home is Coping, Experiencing Joy with property and finances on the outside. enough to evoke good thoughts and memories. Knowing that and Freedom and Experienc- you are holding something that has been in the hands of your ing Normality. child is a small comfort in prison. Photocopying our mail is not This can be done by making a power of attorney just a ‘security issue’, it is a human issue. For some of us that bit The Growth Project has where you appoint someone you trust to do what of mail is our link and anchor to the outside world of reality made me believe in myself you need and deal with everything for you. and normality. The system should be ashamed that with all the and my ability to turn my resources and organisation they have, they can do no better life around, and I know I am You should also make sure that you have a Will in than blanket ban our mail. What a sad age we live in. not alone in feeling this. As a result, if I was to leave this place to make sure that those you care about receive your property On dangerous ground establishment to live a happy and fulfilling life, after you are gone. Name supplied - HMP Dartmoor and never return, then In light of prisons now photocopying all incoming mail, I have surely this is a priceless in- We can help you with specialist advice on all to wonder about the legality of doing this to legal mail. I’m vestment for the MoJ? quite sure that the prison authorities have no right to interfere aspects of law relating to your personal legal with or open Rule 39 mail, without specific security intelli- If the government really affairs. This includes powers of attorney, Wills, gence, though they have been doing it for years and their past cares about us, and wants change of name, probate issues and protecting excuses about it being ‘opened in error’ do not fly when their us to change, then all pris- your property. policy is suddenly to open and photocopy all incoming mail. I ons should look at creating a wonder how soon it will be before somebody takes this for rehab culture. Statistics can- We are very experienced in dealing with these judicial review and ends up with a huge piece of compensation not get worse, they can only and a dressing-down for these over-zealous and ignorant improve. areas for prisoners and will either visit you or we prison authorities? If I wanted every screw and his dog to know can work remotely with you or work with family or the details of my appeal, I would invite them to the Court of Life is a gift and it offers us friends to help sort it out. Appeal to listen while my case is presented to the judges. the privilege, opportunity I don’t want them reading my legal mail and having details of and responsibility to give my defence or presentation in advance. The whole idea of something back by becom- Contact Edward James or Jessamie Henry by post, phone or email. confidential legal mail is to stop anyone tipping off the ing more. Let’s support prosecution and giving them an unfair advantage. The opening growth and start to make a The Carpenters’ Workshop, Blenheim Palace Sawmills, Combe, Oxfordshire OX29 8ET of legal mail is a black stain on the prison system. difference. Insidetime December 2018 ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Mailbag 5 ‘TB at Erlestoke’ Female TC IEP rethink Cherie Cooper - HMP Send Name supplied - HMP Erlestoke Mark Newcombe - HMP Nottingham I’ve read Inside Time for the Been inside over 12-years and at my 37th I would like to raise awareness of what is an past 6-years and 99% of the extremely concerning situation in this prison, with each and every one of them hav- time it’s not exactly positive, ing all kinds of incentives and allowances. prison. The prison authorities appear to be but for good reason - given trying to cover it up, even stopping prisoners But I have a few of my own that should be the state of our prison sys- introduced. (or trying to) from telling their Probation tem. But I thought I might Officers. shine a positive light on the A start would be an increase of Private Cash Therapeutic Community transfers, and for those that don’t receive In January/February 2017, there was found to (TC) here at Send. We are the cash from outside, a chance to earn it. Why be live cases of Tuberculosis at Erlestoke. A only female DTC in the coun- can’t everyone be offered in-cell work/educa- couple of months ago the prison, in conjunc- try and the staff here work tion? It would be simple enough to do this. tion with healthcare, decided to conduct TB so hard with us every day to Calling, building and growing © Deposit Photos I strongly believe that if we had the means to tests but only on prisoners who were here be- make sure we have a posi- purchase a decent canteen each week, most tween the above dates. Multiple people have tive future outside of prison. ‘Happy birthday Berwyn call-centre’ been found to have active TB, and in some it prisoners would not feel the need to sell Glenn - HMP Berwyn drugs, brew hooch or bully others. is latent. I’ve been here since May this year, and I’m only early in Census Group opened a call centre on November 6, 2017 at Pin credit should be allowed from private “The people with active TB are in no my therapy but I can tell you HMP Berwyn. I was lucky enough to be selected to start there cash once a week. There should be cell now, I’m looking forward to way being isolated from the rest of on the first day. Over the past year the call-centre has grown checks once a week and cleanest cell wins taking this journey with the into a workplace of around 50 men. Amanda, the manager, extra credit. us, or even from visitors.” TC staff and the girls here on makes every effort to ensure that we are treated like employ- J wing. We are a strong com- A green/red slip scheme for attitude/behav- ees, rather than prisoners. Bethan, who has recently joined They are still able to associate with us, share munity and I just wanted to iour. When a specified amount of ‘greens’ the team as Amanda’s deputy, has given a new drive and the same feeding facilities, exercise, gym, say ‘Thank You’ to them all. are earned, you can exchange them for can- workshops and education, they even have focus to build and grow the call-centre, which is soon to ex- teen or phone credit. The red slips take away pand and will offer 150 vacancies once we move to our new visits at the same time as us and our fami- I have seven years left but greens on the scoring system. building in spring 2019. lies, putting the whole public at risk. with the TC on my side I can Once a week be able to order from a local finally see a positive future Census Group recognise that rehabilitation in custody re- bakers/fresh produce. This has many bene- I’m all for not ‘punishing’ people for being for me and my family. So, quires one-to-one support and training to enable men to have fits and would be great for local businesses. ill. After all, it’s not their fault. But in the in- thank you again and good the best chance of a successful integration back into society. terests of health surely there should be luck to all who are taking Kelly, one of the owners of Census Group, visits often to see Everyone should be given a turn to work on measures put in place to minimise the risk of this hard journey with me. how things are. Kelly is straight-talking, honest and takes a the servery, depending on hygiene and further contamination? At present it is like Also, a big thank you to Noel keen interest in every man working here. behaviour. they don’t care, and to make matters worse, ‘Razor’ Smith for writing ‘A healthcare is refusing to give BCG vaccina- Rusty Gun’ as it has given Set up NPS/Spice mentors who are ex-Spice Census Group offer employment to men after release and this tions to anyone that wasn’t here Jan/Feb me the hope that TC works, users who will be paid a wage to do groups ‘through the gate’ approach is giving men a realistic opportu- 2017, despite there still being a risk of con- and we can learn from our or one-to-one sessions. nity to turn away from crime and live law-abiding lives. tamination from the current cases. mistakes. It was like reading Happy birthday Berwyn call-centre. Thank you for reading my thoughts. Duty of care? Yeah, right. about our community!

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On the Safer Custody Learning Fresh meat, foul taste Christmas Wire Grant Stanley BSc (Hons) M.A - HMP Whatton LR Wooden - HMP Holme House This prison has benefited from an infusion of new blood in Bah, humbug! the staffing department and this should be a positive story, In August you published a but, unfortunately, it is not. J Ferris - HMP Wandsworth letter from me about my time under the ACTT and how In the desperate rush to fill vacancies, the recruitment pro- It would seem that it is coming up to that time vulnerable I was when the cess has been forfeited. Don’t get me wrong, some of the ‘new of year again, when we deck the halls with governor removed my obser- starts’ have all the right qualities for a successful career in boughs of holly…except if you are in prison. vation and the ACTT. In the the Prison Service and will be a massive benefit to us prison- October issue there was a ers; great interpersonal skills, life experiences, a reasonable I know that people outside will be reading reply to my letter from ‘Safer level of education and an altruistic nature. their tabloid rags, tutting and shaking their Custody Learning’, and I heads at the absolute luxury we in prison are would like to comment on this. On the other hand, we have what I endearingly call the ‘Straight from Asda’ recruits, who have absolutely no inter- subjected to in these holiday camps! But, let Myself and the writer from personal skills, a self-serving agenda, an ego that is stoked me give you a fl avour of what Christmas in Safer Custody Learning by the wearing of a uniform and an eagerness to issue IEPs prison is really like. (whatever that simplistic like they are on a commission. title means), ‘Care in Custody’ Will there be a Christmas tree? - yes, but it October issue, can both Governors that spend time on the shop-floor, senior officers will normally be in some draughty hallway agree on one thing, he does and experienced officers, all recognise that prisoners ensure where no prisoner ever goes, or on the centre not know me or my case. the smooth running of a prison and not officers. These new where the screws can enjoy it. Usually some Every time there is a death recruits are either taught or encouraged to march around the dying brown-tinged spruce with the minimum Festive fun behind bars in custody, families, as well prison like jackbooted Gestapo, advised that every prisoner of baubles, pretty forlorn and only a shadow © prisonimage.org as prisoners, are sick of hear- will seek to take advantage of their inexperience, so they of what a real Christmas tree should be. ing and reading the words should speak to the prisoners as though they are scum. Wonderful Christmas time ‘lessons will be learned’. Christmas cards? Erm, not really, but we may These people need to wake up What prison officers are not taught is what impact their deci- have some poor-quality photocopies of Name Supplied - HMP Whitemoor and realise that there is noth- sions and behaviour have on the liberty of prisoners. For Christmas cards to put up on our battleship ing to learn about being safe. those prisoners serving an IPP, EPP, Life Sentence or recall, grey cell walls. I wonder how long it will take the gutter IEPs and adjudications constitute a substantial obstacle to press to print their usual old chestnut about Me being constantly observed release. They don’t seem to realise that IEPs and adjudica- some prisoners living the life of Santa in our “Presents? No. Not unless you count kept me alive. I told that gov- tions for pathetic reasons encourage a lack of respect and fantastically-run prisons? ernor I was not strong enough trust for the issuing officers. an extra packet of generic ready- to come off my watch because salted crisps in your lock-up pack as I’ve noticed that every Yuletide, some I knew what I was thinking They are too naïve to realise that a working snivelling little hack on one of the red/black and how I felt about what I “ a present. Oh, and a tangerine.” tops or one of the local papers, who can’t be was going to do. The fact relationship with prisoners is what rehabilitation bothered to do his/her job and fi nd some that he held a review with- is all about.” Christmas dinner? Yes, but not as you know news, will get hold of a prison Christmas out even asking me to be it. A cold slice of tinned turkey, or a withered menu and actually believe that the food present, or take part in any Whatton has spent thousands of tax-payers’ pounds to pro- drumstick if you are really lucky. Overcooked mentioned on it bears any relation to the way, and one of the nurses mote a ‘Rehabilitative Culture’ and yet, in the 12-months mushy veg, roast potatoes with black bits food which is actually served. who attended has told me since this initiative was implemented, there has been no visi- and Christmas pudding with brandy-free that she told the governor ble evidence of this culture and some of the new officers are brandy sauce. Their readers will ‘ooh’ and ‘aah’ in disgust herself I would make an at- demonstrating the antithesis of an inclusive culture. and outrage over what ‘them criminal tempt on my life, makes it Plenty of fun? Er, no. But plenty of lock-up vermin’ is being given, as though it were a worse. What would the gov- The biggest ‘gang’ in prison is the officers, and whether they with no access to phones, gym, education or feast of majestic proportions instead of just ernor have told the Coroner? are new officers or experienced, at Whatton you cannot chal- visits. Just our portable £1 a week TV with 9 an overcooked mess of cheap meat and veg. Would he have told them lenge IEPs or adjudications. Staff close ranks and ignore evi- channels so that we can enjoy the festive Their howls of outrage will be heard that I had stated I would do dence (or conveniently lose evidence), custodial managers season as though it were the 1980s instead of throughout the land, as they wipe gravy and it again? I doubt it. condone irrational decisions to show support for their new the 21st century. brandy sauce from their well-fed chins and charges and to demonstrate loyalty. compose letters of complaint. But, as The governor’s directions and his actions jeopardised But, the worst part of being in prison for someone once said - there is probably more A lot of prisoners just give up and accept punishments, don’t my basic human right to life. Christmas is that we are away from our nutrition in the paper menu than in the challenge evidence or simply are not familiar with their Maybe if these people from children, family and friends. I know there actual meal it advertises. rights and protections. There are a few prisoners who do the so-called Prison Im- are people who will say that if I don’t like it know the rules, but by god they hate us for it. 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Star Letter of the Month Sarah’s Law Mailbites Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize Lee Brewster - HMP Berwyn Give it to the children What happened to Sarah’s Mr Keating - HMP Pentonville Law? After reading a piece in October’s issue called After watching TV about kids starving to death in Yemen, or ‘Stop trying to hide’, by An- Children In Need, I would like to request that DHL put back the drew Taylor, regarding Donation Box that used to be on the canteen sheets. It used to sex-offenders being able to be on the back of the sheet, so inmates could donate any amount use a loophole in the law to they wanted to. Hopefully people will donate to children’s change their names, I find it charities. Every week I get paid £1.50 by HMP, which is an insult absolutely diabolical. as I do not want their crappy money, but I know if 80,000 inmates donated it could change a lot of things for a lot of kids. Sarah Payne was abducted and killed in 2001, and millions of public-spirited peo- The true whinger ple campaigned with her TRWW - HMP Parc parents to get Sarah’s Law I was smiling as I read the November issue of your fine publica- onto the statute books. It tion. On Page 8 in Mailbites I read the letter by Craig Halliday of was supposed to stop sex-of- HMP Leyhill (Mistaken whinger). Mr Halliday, please accept my fenders from hiding in plain sincere apologies for you being mistaken for me. If people had view and entitled the public read my contributions more carefully, they would have noticed to be informed when a Strike a pose... sex-offender is living in their that I write from HMP Parc. So, for those who are guessing, © prisonimage.org area, for the safety of vul- incorrectly, I am in Parc and nowhere else. I’m not the Scarlet Pimpernel! disciplinary measures will be invoked, nerable women and children. Vogueing for freedom should they fail to dance. Once the benefits A child died for this law, and Name withheld - HMP Littlehey of this vigorous yet compact form of self-ex- He who shouts the loudest… pression become apparent to an inmate, it is her parents wanted to stop it Name supplied - HMP Berwyn likely they would choose to develop their happening to others. Being I am writing concerning a subject that affects As an openly gay man, I have often experienced homophobia, skills. Those inmates possessing the greatest put on a Sex-Offenders Reg- us all in prison, our health and self-esteem. but nothing as bad as what I now experience in prison. It is like skills could hold lessons on the wing. In- ister is all well and good, but if people do not know who stepping back in time to the 15th century. But the most Confined as we often are, in small cells deed, Wing Vogueing Instructor may even be a new employment option in British prisons. they are then it is not annoying and confusing part is that it often comes from the sometimes for many hours at a time, exercis- enough. We should respect undercover queens and closet gays who are the most vocal, ing can be difficult. This problem can be fur- the millions of people who probably to disguise their true natures. Eventually a chaplain ther exacerbated by overcrowding. Large and Prison officers could give feedback to in- signed up for this law to be explained to me that people tend to preach about stuff they expansive movements are not easy to per- mates, perhaps even suggesting grooming produced and sex-offenders struggle with themselves. This made so much sense to me. In all form especially when there are two of you. tips and new looks that might heighten their being allowed to ‘hide’ be- my years in jail it is never the straight males, content in their Further, as with the nation’s population as a feelings of health, self-worth and inner beauty. Should some of the older inmates ex- hind name changes should own masculinity, who have any problem with me. Only those whole, the prison population is aging. Older not be allowed. inmates can find physical exercise difficult, hibit a resistance to this new regime, it might with something to hide seem to shout the loudest. and for some the gym might be a bit intimi- be possible to persuade them by suggesting dating. This slow decline into a more seden- the hand-jive as a short-term intermediate tary lifestyle can bring with it poor health activity. Once commenced it should not be and the subsequent loss of self-esteem that long before they contemporise and join in this can cause. with everyone else.

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This is a Blackwatch site in I’m sure that most of your This was a man who on one occasion ripped rapid descent and we, the poor stiffs who en- readers will have been aware out the eye of an individual because he be- dure, are plunging into a hellish abyss. lieved he was carrying a sword under his of, if not directly affected by, the mass revolt of our nation’s toga. It turned out the man was carrying I dare the inspectors to call again, even they writing tablets. Yet, even after mistakenly prison officers in September. would be amazed at how fast apathy can de- ripping his eye out, Augustus sentenced the stroy a place like this. Here are some HMP man to death, not for what he did but as a What the news reports about Exeter facts and faults - OLs (Ordinary Let- lesson to people that he was the emperor. this revolt showed me, and ters) have not been issued for 7 weeks, we do many others, is that our not get NPR, I have had one sheet on my bed Augustus lived in constant fear of losing his prison system is full to the power and he came to realise that it was the for weeks, apps and complaint forms disap- brim with prison officers lower classes that held the decision and they pear, and much more. who blindly follow orders Nice, but not so naughty could topple him via an uprising. In fear, Au- gustus decided to appease the lower orders from above, even when I have now started writing my COMP1s in du- by giving them gifts of food and by building those orders are of criminal plicate and logging them myself, but some huge coliseum and amphitheatres where he intent and nature. people cannot read or write, and this prison Top shelf put on entertainment for them - gladiator does not facilitate anything as fundamen- The Phantom G - HMP Parc battles, theatrical plays designed to distract “For years I’ve tried to tally important and self-improving as teach- the people from their oppression. This became ing people to read. This might be somewhat of a taboo subject. As a former Di- known as a campaign of bread and circuses. show prison officers versity & Equalities rep, I would say that it is a subject that that they have an There are no toe-to-toe groups or anything needs looking at. Our government has plans to launch a con- overriding duty of care like that here. I have been trying to get a job sultation on a new IEP scheme which gives since I arrived, but I have now given up. All Being a 33-year old male who has been in custody for dou- prison governors the power to design their to prisoners, which is of the Governor’s hype about in-cell phones ble-digits now, and I do sincerely miss the female form, in own programme of ‘incentives’ tailored to ingrained in civil law. ” improving prisoner-family bonds and rela- every other establishment I have been in prior to this one, the their own prisons, and they want us to tell tionships is guff to us as most of us cannot them how to make this scheme better. Well, men held within have been allowed to purchase magazines And as prison officers are ul- afford PIN credit. allow me to be the first to say, ‘Go and f*** of the ‘top shelf’ variety. timately civil servants they yourselves’. I don’t know if I am more angered But there are things that Exeter regularly by the blatant disregard that this govern- too are working under the Then, in late 2017 I was transferred to HMP Parc and glossy tops the charts with, such as hot-water as- ment has for our human rights as individuals restraint of that law. What is magazines are banned here. In fact, if you are found to have saults, prisoner on prisoner violence, pris- and their need to excessively punish us to gain most telling is that it actu- oner on staff assaults and suicides in any image that would raise an eyebrow you can expect a public ‘support’, or the fact that we, as men ally states in this section of custody. I may not be a Cambridge University nicking or an IEP warning. This includes the once famous and women in slavery, have lost all sense of civil law that not even the Page 3 from the Sun, the majority of pictures from The Star mathematician, but it doesn’t really take a dignity and self-preservation to the extent Home Secretary can limit or and 99.9% of The Sport. genius to see a very sad, very avoidable pat- that a TV with 9 channels can silence us. waiver their legal obligation tern here, one of apathy, neglect, irresponsi- to their duty. So, if they bility, lack of empathy and serious violence, “As a red-blooded heterosexual I cannot engage We have endured being kidnapped from our think the non-defence of ‘I homes and families, locked up in an unclean self-harm and suicide. in the study of the female figure. But, I can pur- was just following orders’ and unsafe environment, forced to work for will help them they are chase, if I so wish to, Durex Extra Safe Condoms not enough pay to support ourselves, let If only we were encouraged to do something and also KY Jelly from the canteen.” alone our families, fed substandard food and mistaken. for ourselves and given the tools and support treated like animals. In fact, animals hold to better ourselves. Better and happier peo- It seems we are now swamped Now, correct me if I am wrong but I am quite sure that it is il- more rights than us. ple would evolve and emerge from this dark with staff who will happily legal to engage in acts of homosexuality whilst in prison? place of failure and misery. A person who is and willingly break the law Furthermore, if I go to healthcare and ask, I will be issued I want to be paid a real wage for the work I learning to read, who can listen to others with condoms! do so I can support my family, I want good as long as their orders to do and identify with them, is able to feel decent quality food, more protein and less carbs, I so come from the POA. and stay focused. want to smoke if I feel like it, I want my fam- I have no issues if individuals wish to be involved in such be- ily to be able to call me on the phone instead haviour as long as everyone has given their consent. 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After reading the Star Letter of the Month HMP Barlinnie rarely gets any good press at all. ITV did a documentary fea- from the October issue about outrageous and turing Ross Kemp, and, personally, I think he only focused on the negative nonsensical prison rules (referred to as GSP), side of things, with one prisoner describing the place as a ‘bear pit’. here is one that has an effect on civilians wishing to visit prisoners at Full Sutton. Sure, as the biggest prison establishment in Scotland, and being home to some of the country’s most prolific criminals, it is only obvious that there will Visitors using a wheelchair are not permitted be some aspects of negativity. to bring their own wheelchair into the visitor centre. It is a high-security establishment, so “On the other hand, there is a lot of positive things going it seems like a sensible rule. With this in on in here and, in my opinion, the prisoners and staff are not mind you would assume there would be adequate facilities to accommodate these receiving the deserved amount of credit.” No replies visitors. © Deposit Photos At the top of the list is The Reach Out Recovery Café where I have been a valid member for the past 13-months. Members of the community give up their time My visitor has had issues on a couple of occa- Is Banksy working in censor’s office? every Thursday to come into Barlinnie on a voluntary basis to offer hope that sions with the prison wheelchairs, including there is light at the end of the tunnel of addiction. It is entirely staffed by pris- Gareth - HMP Whatton a flat tyre and a lack of suitable armrest (or oners and civilians. There are no prison officers present, so that prisoners at- non-adjustable). I raised this issue with the tending can open up and be honest about their personal drug problems I hate to rain on Banksy’s parade and the recent art exhibi- prison and, after some time, I was informed without risking an MDT and ending up on a governor’s report. tion where a piece of his artwork was passed through a con- that a suitable wheelchair had been sourced. cealed paper-shredder, but this concept has been in use in After I recovered from the shock of a positive Ten years ago, this would have been unthinkable, never mind achievable, so prisons for years. At least, it is the only explanation I can outcome, I let my visitor know and subse- my hat comes off to the interventions department for giving this idea the reach as to why so many paper-based general applications quently a visit was booked. green light. Slowly it is becoming clear that throughcare is the tool to put an and COMP1 forms go ‘missing’ after they have been posted in end to repeat offending. Against all odds, Barlinnie’s Recovery Café is a com- the appropriate box. My visitor was provided with the wheelchair plete success. on arrival and set off to do the security “I’ve had less than 50% of general apps returned checks. Issue number 1 - the wheelchair did Also, Street Soccer Scotland have, for the past 8-weeks, worked hard to train and an astonishing 0% return rate on my COMP1 not fit through the scanning machine. After 10-prisoners to become coaches, receiving a recognised Scottish vocational qualification after taking a training-session with fellow inmates. This course submissions.” some delay to everyone in the queue behind, this was overcome by adjusting the machine. builds relationships, fitness, confidence and wellbeing. Issue number 2 - the wheelchair did not fit The system of handling complaints and applications is I also participated recently in a Scottish Drug Forum training course based on through the door to the visits hall. More de- clearly flawed, it causes unnecessary distress for prisoners administering Naloxone in the event of an opiate overdose. This could mean lays to people in the queue. Eventually my and shows a flagrant disregard to data protection legislation, the difference between life and death. The pack, containing Naloxone, will be visitor had to be given an old, not-fit-for-pur- given that these forms contain personal information. Such placed in my personal property for me to collect on my release. standards would never be allowed to prevail outside of pose wheelchair and was still not allowed to prison, so why is it happening inside? bring in his own perfectly suitable Lastly, but by no means least, every convicted prisoner is invited to the Fork- wheelchair. lift Training centre to undergo training to learn how to operate a counterbal- Getting replies to applications and complaints and then re- ance forklift truck. These are only a small number of the beneficial turning the paperwork to prisoners really isn’t rocket-sci- On that day, several visitors did not make it opportunities on offer to prisoners at Barlinnie. ence, yet here at Whatton they fail more than they ever into the visits hall until late due to this non- succeed at this simple task. Given that the default response sensical rule with wheelchairs. Either review I would like to say a big well done to all outside agencies in partnership with from staff when you ask them a question is ‘Put it in an app’, the rule or provide adequate facilities please. Barlinnie who have allowed these first steps for inmates to become valuable surely a more effective system is needed? That or remove the At the time of writing the situation remains members of society. Every prisoner deserves a second chance, so thanks for paper shredders from the box. unresolved. the 100% effort.

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Newsbites Deterioration in New private prisons prisoner safety Peter Clarke staying on as Chief Inspector of Prisons The latest statistics from the Prisons Minister Rory real fears that corners will be assessed and will take on the The government have decided to reappoint Peter Clarke as HM Ministry of Justice which Stewart has announced that cut too as the private provider role if bids do not Chief Inspector of Prisons for a further year. The extension detail deaths in custody to the two new prisons contractors running these meet quality or value for starts from 1st February. Mr Clarke was appointed in February September 2018 and assaults currently being built, Glen new prisons put profits first. money thresholds.” 2016, on the departure of Nick Hardwick. His tenure has been and self-harm to June 2018 Parva and Wellingborough, Public accountability is also notable for some forthright inspection results and the intro- will both be privately likely to be undermined as have been published. duction of the Urgent Notification Protocol whereby he can managed. the private companies, refer prisons directly to the Secretary of State if he has serious hiding behind the cloak of “There were 325 deaths concerns; he has used the protocol four times. The move was criticised by commercial confidentiality, in prison custody in the his opposite number Richard have no requirement to Burgon who said: “Just how publish staffing levels for ‘Innocent people being convicted’ 12 months to September bad does it have to get until example.” Lord Burnett of Maldon, the Lord Chief Justice of England and 2018, up 8% from the the government ends its Wales, has warned Members of Parliament (MPs) that defend- previous year.” obsession with the private ants may end up being wrongly convicted because there is a sector running huge swathes Andrew Neilson: “A lack of resources for forensic investigations. Giving evidence to of our justice system in order mistake that will haunt Of these, 5 were homicides, the Justice Select Committee, last month, he said it was ‘critical’ to make a quick profit? This future governments.” up from 3 incidents in the that forensic investigations were carried out where they were summer two flagship justice previous year. There were 87 privatisations ran aground, ‘reasonably needed’. It wasn’t only innocent people being self-inflicted deaths, up from with HMP Birmingham Andrew Neilson, Director of convicted but, he said, it worked both ways and guilty people 78 in the previous year, 4 of brought back under public Campaigns at the Howard may not get convicted. His comments were made as the Justice which occurred in the female Rory Stewart: “We will control and the government League for Penal Reform, Committee considered the on-going problem of the failure of estate, compared to 5 provide a ‘public sector forced to end the private told Inside Time: “This is a police and prosecutors to properly disclose evidence, including incidents in the previous 12 benchmark’.” probation contracts early. disappointing decision. forensic material. months. There were 165 But the Tories refuse to learn There is no evidence that the deaths due to natural causes, the lessons. There are very Responding to criticism, Mr private sector can run Ex-forces in prison a decrease of 16% from 197 Stewart said: “We are prisons any better than the Since January 2015, as part of the Basic Custody Screening in the previous year. There planning to launch a public sector, and the best (BCS) interview, people entering custody have been asked are 68 deaths awaiting competition later this year to example of that is whether they had previously served in the armed services. This classification. establish a framework from Birmingham prison, which information has been used by the Ministry of Justice to estimate which the operators of the has been taken back into In the 12 months to June 2018, new prisons will be chosen. public hands. Whether the the number of ex-service personnel in prison in England and there were 49,565 incidents, HM Prison and Probation jails are run privately or Wales. Despite previous ‘guestimates’ the latest figures show up 20% from the previous Service will not take part in publicly, the decision to that, as at 30 June2018, there were 2,032 ex-service personnel year, and a new record high. the prison competition. We persist with building larger in prison, which equates to around 4% of the population, and On a quarterly basis, the will provide a ‘public sector and larger prisons is a their average age was 44 years (9 years older than the average Richard Burgon: “Just how number of incidents is up benchmark’ against which mistake that will haunt non-ex-service prisoners). The data does not differentiate the bad does it have to get?” 13% at 13,662. Incidents operators’ bids can be future governments.” time elapsed between leaving the forces and entering prison. requiring hospital attendance increased by 11% to 3,151, the Low poppy pay highest recorded. The number The charity War on Want has criticised the Royal British Legion of prisoners who self-harmed for getting prisoners to make their poppies for an average pay in the 12 months to June 2018 of just £10 a week. Asad Rehman, the charity’s executive was 12,142 (a rate of 143 director said: “Charities have to live by the values they espouse prisoners per 1,000), up 10% and make sure people aren’t being exploited and are paid a from the previous year, and living wage for their products. My grandfather fought in the also a record figure. In the 12 First World War. Many veterans would say that they fought for months to June 2018, the a society that wasn’t based on that kind of exploitation. The number of self-harm end doesn’t justify the means. Exploitation of cheap labour, incidents per self-harming whether it is in prisons or out of prisons is deeply problematic.” male increased from 3.4 in the previous year to 3.7, Biggest drone gang jailed while self-harm prolificacy After what has been described by police as the biggest ever among females increased conspiracy to fly over £500,000 worth of drugs into prisons from 6.6 in the previous year using drones, seven members of the gang, which made 55 to 7.6 incidents per drone ‘deliveries’ are now behind bars themselves. They got self-harming individual. between three and ten years, totalling 37 years. Five other members of the gang were given suspended sentences. The There were 32,559 assault gang flew cannabis and synthetic cannabis - along with incidents in the 12 months to amphetamines, crack cocaine and heroin to prisons in June 2018, up 20% from the previous year. In the 12 Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Worcestershire, Warrington, months to June 2018, there Lancashire and Liverpool. were 3,951 serious assaults, up 7% from the previous Revolving on year. Both of these figures The Revolving Doors Agency celebrated its 25th birthday in are the highest recorded. October by publishing an important new report: 1,800,000 Missed Opportunities showing the extent of the revolving door. There were 23,448 prison- New analysis by the charity has found that last year, 60,000 er-on-prisoner assaults in cautions or convictions for minor offences were given to the 12 months to June 2018, people who had offended 11 or more times. The data reveals up 19% from the previous that these individuals had a total of over 1.8 million previous year. Of these, 3,063 (13%) sentencing occasions where the criminal justice system failed were serious assaults, an to provide an effective intervention, when they were dealt with increase of 5%. There were for similar minor offences, in order to prevent or to break the 9,485 assaults on staff in the cycle of personal crisis and crime. 12 months to June 2018, up ›› Registered with EMAP ‹‹ Credit: www.russellwebster.com 27% from the previous year. Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Newsround 11

Looking Hit Squads Newsbites Back... to hit hard Prisoner profiles through the Inside Figures released by the government show that, as of 31st Time archives Specially trained hit squads of prison officers September 2018, there are still a large number of IPP prisoners December 2010 are to be sent into more than 100 prisons who have long exceeded their original ‘tariff including 129 who across Britain to seize drugs, drones and originally received tariffs of less than two years but are now mobile phones. One hundred new staff are to more than 10 years over tariff. There are still 2,319 IPP prisoners be recruited to combat gangs and organised still in prison who are over tariff; 1,398 of whom are five or crime who are blamed for inciting record more years over tariff. There were 6,635 prisoners on recall and levels of violence in jails. The tactics have 9,571 being held on remand, and 9,686 prisoners serving until now been restricted to the country’s Increasing life chances © Deposit Photos indefinite sentences. 9,017 prisoners were serving more than 10 eight high security prisons but will be years. There were 613 under 17-year-olds being held, of which extended to all the one hundred-plus male, New housing strategy 158 were on remand. 48% of adult prisoners declared as closed jails. The teams will use the latest Christian, 15.5% Muslim; other religions had relatively small mobile phone detecting technology, search for prison leavers dogs, specialist cameras to get into pipes, followers whilst 30.6% declared no religion. 4,860 prisoners scanners and metal detectors to seek out were aged over 60, of whom 661 were aged over 70; a 6% rise Getting prisoners back Justice Secretary David Gauke has announced drugs, mobile phones and drones. over the last year. to work a new scheme to help prevent released prisoners from being homeless and becoming “Former leader of the Prison officials say they are engaged in a “cat Budget cuts for MoJ Conservative Party Iain ‘rough sleepers’. Three prisons, Leeds, and mouse game” with inmates who are The Bar Council, the organisation which represents barristers in Duncan Smith last month Pentonville and Bristol, have been chosen to deploying increasingly sophisticated tactics England and Wales has criticised the government over cuts to pledged to prioritise employ- pilot the scheme, which will cost £6million. to hide their illegal wares such as hollowing Ministry of Justice (MoJ) budgets over the last ten years. They ment opportunities for prison The pilots are aimed specifically at prisoners out furniture to hold drugs or mobiles, hiding serving short sentences who are at high risk say that whilst government spending rose by 13% the funding leavers. “I know that many of miniature phones in electrical equipment or them really want to get back of returning to prison because research for the Ministry of Justice has fallen by 27%, and funding for the down toilet pipes. Announcing the measure shows that those who are homeless or in Crown Prosecution Service by 34%. Legal Aid funding has also to work. We are looking, right last month, David Gauke, the Justice temporary accommodation are significantly fallen by 32%. Andrew Walker, QC, the Bar Council chairman, now, at how we can do better Secretary, said, “The dedicated search teams more likely to reoffend within a year than said: “Why has the CPS taken such a hard hit, alongside criminal than just giving them a £46 will be deployed across the entire closed those with a stable place to live. legal aid? With less money spent per prosecution, both the resettlement grant and leaving adult male estate to effectively bust drug the rest to them. As we reshape victims of crime and the innocent who are prosecuted are dealers and gangs who trade in contraband The pilot will see a new partnership approach our complicated benefits being let down”. He added: “Without urgent re-investment, the in prisons. The ability to have people who, between prisons, local authorities, probation systems we will give priority day in day out, search cells, know every trick government risks losing public faith in its ability to perform one of to getting ex-offenders back staff, charities and others who will work in the book, have seen it all before, is a big together to provide the support prisoners need its most basic but essential functions: keeping us safe from crime.” into the habit of work.” advantage. I am keen to take on the crime when they are released - such as signing up Lead story - front page kingpins, to do everything we can to disrupt for benefits - but will primarily be focused on Budget boost for MoJ their activity. That’s why I have also concen- finding them suitable accommodation. In the Budget on 29th October it was announced that the All a dream trated on a financial crime unit.” Ministry of Justice would receive an extra £52million to tackle “A lady in a recent Question Housing benefit top ups and rental deposits prison violence, improve the prisons and courts estate and Time audience pointed out It is estimated that there around 6,500 will ensure that accommodation will be boost the operational capacity of the Parole Board. The how ‘easy’ it is in prison. She prisoners with links to organised crime in provided from the day people leave prison, Treasury will also fund the cost of building a new prison at Glen said that ‘they’ (prisoners) get England and Wales out of a total prison with ‘wrap around support’ from key workers Parva which will accommodate around 1,680 prisoners. a free Nintendo to play on population of more than 83,000. The squads to address other needs which may normally The MoJ say: “An extra £30 million will be spent on prisons this their flat screen TVs and that if will rely on intelligence to target suspects cause the loss of a tenancy, such as attending financial year on top of the £40 million we announced over the they are in a bad mood they including those who are known to deliberate- appropriate probation and employment summer. The money will go towards further improvements to just smash them up and then ly breach their licences on release so they can appointments. get given a brand new one the return to jail. Pilot searches in the past few safety, security and decency on top of those already announced such as the roll-out of body scanners and phone-blocking next day because it is their months netted more than 140 illegal phones. Mr Gauke said: “These ground-breaking pilots Human Rights! Weeks later, I Evidence found through their searches will will help prevent rough sleeping among technology … Another £6.5 million will be invested across the was transferred to a Cat C then be used to support disciplinary action or vulnerable ex-offenders and support them as wider justice system, including a further £1.5 million for the prison. The first night I arrived, criminal prosecutions that could extend their they start a new life after prison. As well as Parole Board to boost its operational capacity.” I walked into a cell that was time in jail. The MoJ has also introduced ensuring people have somewhere to live, kitted out with a 26-inch LCD airport-security style scanners, phone-block- dedicated key worker support will help Screen TV, complete with the ing technology, and the financial crime unit ex-offenders manage the practical challenges full SKY package. Then I was to target the crime gangs operating in of finding a job and other issues that come handed a free games console prisons. “It is clearly a significant challenge with trying to reintegrate into society. Every with 5 games and was bid a that we face,” said Mr Gauke. “The existence time we help an ex-prisoner into a new life cheery ‘goodnight’ by the of organised crime is clear. The evidence that - with a stable home, strong relationships officer. I started to play one of it is at the heart of a lot of our problems, and a regular job - we increase the chances of the games but got stuck on directly or indirectly, is also clear.” seeing fewer victims of crime in the future.” level 4 and launched the games console right through the TV screen. An officer came Local To: HMP Bullingdon, to the door and calmly cleaned up the mess. He then HMYOI Aylesbury, HMP Woodhill, issued me with a new TV and HMP The Mount & HMP Grendon Charlie: getting ready to jig games console within the hour. 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“You want MORE? No research into ‘Still much to do’ radicalisation In a surprise move the Inspector not happy with Prison Service response to inspections Ministry of Justice has blocked moves to carry out a drug-detection dogs and study of why prisoners phone-blocking technology. convert to Islam and become We are under no illusions radicalised in prison. The that we will see immediate study would have taken results in every prison place over three years and across the estate - but we are was generally welcomed by confident that this extra in- experts outside the MoJ vestment is making a differ- including Max Hill, the ence and its impact will © Deposit Photos independent reviewer of increase over the coming terrorism laws. The research months and years.” Judges super pay rise criticised headed by Dr Matthew There were raised eyebrows at a commission’s recommendation Wilkinson and including Incidence of that High Court judges should receive a pay rise of 32%, researchers from Cambridge self-harm is going equivalent to more than £1,100 per week and taking their and London universities, has been given the green light in © Paul Sullivan salaries up to nearly a quarter of a million pounds or £4,600 up in a very per week. Their pay rise of £60,000 would be more than double France and Switzerland. He Inside Time report year, inspectors found fail- worrying way. the average annual salary in the UK, nearly three times what told The Times: “Prison ings on one or more of the an average nurse, police constable or prison officer earns. governors want our inde- key indicators for preventing pendent research to discover In a presentation to the Jus- In response to the Prison self-harm and suicide. The pay rise has been justified by claims of low morale and what is actually happening tice Select committee last Service’s apparent lack of attention to their reports, the long hours - most courts sit from 10:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to on their prison wings; not month, HM Chief Inspector He warned that drugs were inspectorate is now develop- 16:00 with long holiday breaks. There have also been changes what is feared or suspected of Prisons Peter Clarke destabilising too many jails ing the methodology for In- to their lucrative pension. to happen.” In June 2018 (above) attacked the Prison and were directly associated dependent Reviews of there were 12,894 prisoners Service for failing to take his with rising violence. He also Progress (IRPs). The first full The judges may well never see the pay rise because the (nearly 1 in 7) who declared critical inspections of pris- pointed to a “direct correla- reviews will be published in government fear a backlash from public sector workers their religion as Muslim, of ons seriously. Four jails he tion” between worsening 2019, but no date has been including nurses, soldiers, teachers, doctors and prison these 228 were convicted of had identified as in crisis safety levels and falls in set for the publication of the officers who have had minimal pay rises and have seen the terrorist offences. It is had failed to implement as prison officer numbers: “In first one. Following his reap- real value of their earnings fall for many years. The best they thought the Prison Service many as 80% of his recom- the five years leading up to pointment as Chief Inspector have been offered is a 3% pay rise which, for some, will be did not want outsiders mendations. “It suggests to 2013, levels of violence were for a further 12 months, spread over many years. invading their territory, they me a lack of focus and to put steady or even slightly de- Clarke told his staff that said the Joint Extremism it crudely not taking us seri- clining in some areas. there was, “still much to do” The MoJ said that judges believed their pay was inadequate Unit and the Home Office ously,” said Mr Clarke, a for- “Since 2013, there’s been an during what was “an impor- which had led to a deterioration of morale and disenchant- were carrying out their own mer head of counter- inexorable rise. The correla- tant time in the history of ment - and their workload was too high. research. terrorism for the Metropoli- tion is that the second half the inspectorate”. “The past tan Police. of that decade coincides year has been one of very with the reduction in staff significant change and solid It suggests to numbers within the estate.” achievement,” he said. “This me a lack of focus has come about on the back A Prison Service spokesman of a great deal of hard work and to put it said: “We have recruited and at times fearless report- 4,300 new prison officers crudely not taking ing in difficult circum- over the last two years - stances. However, there is us seriously. bringing staffing in public still much to do to embed prisons to its highest level and drive forward the im- On prison safety, he said all for five years - with 1,400 pact of the urgent notifica- the indicators were “going in more due to begin training tion protocol, to develop and the wrong direction,” in- soon. We are also investing implement the independent cluding prisoner assaults on an extra £70 million to im- reviews of progress, and staff and prisoner attacks on prove safety, security and through our core work to en- each other. “Incidence of decency - tackling the drugs sure that we continue to in- self-harm is going up in a which we know are fuelling crease our impact in line very worrying way,” he told much of the violence. This with our purpose, values the justice committee. In 90% includes spending on new and remit.” of his reports on prisons last x-ray scanners, Why go it alone?

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Prison protests up Madagascan jail horror Big shake up for IMBs World prison review Amnesty International have criticised prison conditions in Protests across England and Madagascar saying people From 1st November, the governance structure for Wales rose 19% in the year - including children - who Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) changed following a 2017-18 to 6,719. Peter Dawson, have not been found guilty of government consultation, which was reviewed and revised by former prison governor and any crime are dying in the National Chair, Dame Anne Owers after her appointment director of the Prison Reform Madagascar’s prisons due to in November 2017. Dame Anne was a Chief Inspector of Trust said grievances that appalling conditions. In a new Prisons before Nick Hardwick, and then Peter Clarke. The new cause protests are mostly report called ‘Punished for structure is designed to strengthen independence, effective- ‘day-to-day things’, like not being poor: unjustified, ness and impact of IMBs at a time when their role is becoming having access to medication, not being let out of cells at excessive and prolonged increasingly important in highlighting conditions and pre-trial detention in treatment in prisons and Immigration Removal Centres. the right time, or not getting clean clothing on a regular Madagascar’ which is based basis. He said that lack of on visits to nine prisons Dame Anne will chair a national Management Board, which staff has a knock-on effect around the country, they say: will be responsible for setting the strategies, policies and “More than 11,000 people on the day-to-day running of RoboCop procedures that underpin IMBs’ work. The initial membership have been arbitrarily placed the prison, which can cause Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No - and nor is it Superman, although of the Management Board is drawn from IMB members: Will in pre-trial detention which prisoners to become frustrated it’s not a million miles away. Here, the crime-fighters in Baker, Pauline Fellows, Keith Jamieson, Jane Leech, Mike and increases the likelihood question are the police of Dubai, on their new propeller-pow- often lasts for years. This has Siswick, Alex Sutherland and Brian Thomas. They will be of protest incidents. Mr ered flying motorcycles (above). Police say the hoverbikes will resulted in severe overcrowd- joined by two external members, with experience in finance/ Dawson said: “The solution help them ‘fight crime in the skies’ - no, not seagulls up to ing which, coupled with lack audit and equality/diversity. is all about nipping things in mischief, but incidents occurring in hard-to-reach areas. As of food, medical care and the bud. Often these things exciting as they seem, the bikes are effectively giant drones you unhygienic facilities, is Alongside the Management Board, there will be a network have started with something can ride - actually, that is pretty cool. They are 253lbs bat- damaging the health of of regional representatives to provide direct support to IMBs that could be solved with a tery-powered machines with the ability to fly for up to 40 detainees and putting lives at in their region and liaise with the Chair and Management single phone call.” The minutes, going 60mph before needing recharged. Police in risk. They say cells are dark, Board, ensuring that ‘the needs and views of the regions are Howard League for Penal Dubai hope to have the hoverbikes rolled out to use in action filthy and extremely overcrowded, and there is a lack integral to the development of national strategies, policies Reform said that protesting by 2020 - so the police have just over a year to perfect their of air or light, posing serious and plans’. Eleven regional representatives have been is a ‘sign of desperation’. RoboCop-style moves. Lad Bible risks to detainees’ physical appointed and were joined by two additional representa- Chief executive Frances Crook said that a low number of Prison break-in! and mental well-being. None tives. They formally took on their role on 1st December, after recorded incidents may not be Some men are desperate to escape from prison, but a South of the prisons separated a handover period during November. an indicator of a prison doing African man decided to go the other way and broke into a pre-trial and sentenced well. She said: “It depends prison in Eastern Cape; the purpose being to steal an official prisoners, with three not even The IMB are working to ensure that their information is acted on how things are recorded car. Eastern Cape correctional services spokesperson Nobuntu appropriately separating on more swiftly and informs policy and practice. This will by prison staff. They could Gantana said it is unknown how the man gained entry to the children and adults. They include promoting consistency in the way that they monitor try to downplay problems in facility, but watchtower guards set off alarms thinking an escape documented poor sanitation, and report and strengthen the evidence base for their the prison by under-record- was underway. She said: “The guards chased the man‚ thinking absence of healthcare, lack of findings. The National Chair will regularly visit boards to ing incidents or exaggerate he was an escaping prisoner. However‚ after counting the adequate food, and limited discuss their work and look at all annual reports (an overall reports to try and show that prisoners and getting a full number‚ it later appeared that the access for families across all national annual report will be published early in 2019). they’re under pressure.” suspect was an intruder.” The man escaped capture. prisons visited.

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Warren Hill thumbs-up The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for HMP Warren Hill have praised the staff for being imaginative and dedicated. The prison has a rich arts and culture programme (aided by Snape Maltings and the Red Rose Chain Theatre) which helps both the sense of community within the prison and many individuals in their personal progress. Warren Hill was recently rated the top performing prison in the country and its pioneering system, under which every prison officer is a key worker for a small number of men, has been adopted as the national model.

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Credit: HMP Brixton Isle of Man self-harm falls Good news from Isle of Man Prison where incidents of Lord Farmer cuts the Brixton on track self-harm have continued to fall. Manx Radio reports that there ribbon with Bright were just 36 cases of self-harm at the prison between June 2013 Horizons and HMP In an interview with Construction News, and March 2017. The prison, at Jurby, has a capacity of about Bronzefield staff HMP Brixton’s head of reducing re-offend- 138 prisoners, all held in single cells, and was opened in 2008. Credit: HMP Bronzefield ing, Graham Horlock, said that the prison was targeting the likes of HS2 and TfL as Forgotten locking Child-centred play facility for partners for a rail training facility within the A Prison Custody Officer at troubled HMP Addiewell has been grounds of the prison. He said that such a sacked after he forgot to lock an internal gate. Staff are not Bronzefield visitors facility would give prisoners skills so they happy because they say people have forgotten to lock gates can work in the rail environment. many times and have not been sacked. A few months ago we Children are benefiting from a new child-centred play environment at HMP reported how staff forgot to lock up a prisoner for the night Bronzefield. This is the fifth prison ‘Bright Space’ opened in UK prisons by The Brixton is looking for a company to invest in and he spent hours wandering around before being noticed. Bright Horizons Foundation for Children. The Bright Space contains defined building the new facility of a disused plot play areas, for babies through to teens, and opportunities for children and inside the prison which already offers five Double death mystery at Stocken their mothers to enjoy role play, art, construction, reading, games, and construction training programmes in: A police investigation is underway at HMP Stocken after two homework activities together. It is designed to support positive interactions painting and decorating; drylining; scaffold- prisoners died there on the same day in October. The news has between children and their mothers; and to encourage more children to visit ing; CSCS; and health and safety. only recently been released. Leicestershire police say the men more frequently, so that family relationships can be maintained, to support died on separate wings and their deaths are being treated as reduced reoffending. The painting and decorating and dry lining ‘unexplained’. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman also training programmes are run by an innova- investigates all deaths in custody. Ian Whiteside, Director of Bronzefield said: “It was a great honour to welcome tive charity called ‘Bounceback’ which has Lord Farmer to the prison to officially open the family room; he used his time recognised a severe shortage of labour in Drug problems in NI jails here to talk with some of the residents and staff who are helping to inform his London and aims to give prisoners the skills The Northern Ireland Independent Monitoring Boards (IMB) latest review, looking at family ties in the female prison estate.” to fill these well paid jobs upon release. published their annual report last month citing drugs as one of the main problems with NI prisons. They say that drug dogs are failing to spot New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) at the point Lives at the ‘Invisible walls’ of entry and the fact that the make of these drugs is constantly changing exacerbates the problem. Their other concern is the crossroads Following a visit to Parc failing mental health of many prisoners. HMP Magilligan has prison, Welsh Secretary Alun one mental health nurse and the IMB say she is ‘overwhelmed’. HMP Altcourse’s ‘Crossroads Initiative’ has Cairns said that strengthening won a High Sheriffs Award for ‘Services to the family ties can play a crucial Naughty goings-on at The Mount role in helping prisoners to Community’. Crossroads is a programme HMP The Mount has been described as ‘being in chaos’ after turn their lives around which aims to educate young people (14-15 two female officers resigned and another two were suspended years of age) who have been identified as Enhancing the game beyond the prison gates.

Photo Credit: Alexis Maryon for having ‘inappropriate relationships’ with prisoners. A prison ‘high-risk’ and tackle the dangers of anti-so- source told tabloid newspapers that The Mount had had an cial behaviours, substance misuse and ‘influx of young and inexperienced staff’ who didn’t appreciate low-level crime involvement. Young people Table tennis that having such relationships was illegal. who have been identified by their school, parents or the police take part in a group We didn’t mean to let you go session which is led by prisoners who reduces violence Information has just been released that, in a three-week period describe what a typical day in prison is like, in August, four prisoners were released by mistake. They were With support from Sport England, Brighton Alun Cairns: Inspiring and what wrong life choices led them to released from HMPs Norwich, Onley, Styal and Isis. A Ministry prison in the first place. Table Tennis Club provides regular table experience. tennis sessions and offers Level 1 coaching of Justice spokesperson said that all the prisoners had been subsequently returned to prison and that such incidents were courses to prisoners and staff at HMP High After his visit Mr Cairns said: During the day, the prison’s drama group very rare. Technically a person released in error is ‘unlawfully at Down. The sessions have seen a reduction in “Safe and secure prison performs a play in front of the young people, large’. after which they tell their own stories. They violence among prisoners who are taking part. environments are just the foundation for successful detail all the significant events that have Statistics from Highdown show an 83 per cent Catapulted into jail affected them, and how if they had made rehabilitation. But as Lord reduction in incidents of violence among A man caught trying to deliver illicit items into HMP Ranby by different choices, they would not be in Farmer’s review outlined last prisoners and a 14 per cent increase in the using a catapult has been given a four-year prison sentence. prison. There is a focus on explaining to the year, building and nurturing number employed in prison jobs since the Packages found within the grounds included; diamorphine, young people that they do not have to follow family relationships is also table tennis project started. cannabis and tobacco. Local police said: “We hope it sends the a crowd just to ‘fit in’ and that they are a fundamentally important if people are to change. It has message out to anyone thinking of carrying out similar acts that person in their own right; they are allowed to A prison spokesman said: “Table tennis acts been inspiring to meet the we have methods in place and proactively do everything we make their own choices. as an incentive for good behaviour, with passionate staff at HMP Parc can to prevent it, and that these cases will be taken seriously by prisoners “holding it down”, knowing that and to experience how they the courts.” The young people walk around the prison they will not be allowed to take part if they are pursuing trailblazing visiting areas where the men live, work and behave badly. It may be goodbye to Barlinnie exercise with plenty of opportunity to initiatives like ‘Invisible Walls Wales’. It’s also been Plans are afoot in Scotland to close the notorious HMP Barlinnie, interact with the men who accompany them Last month, eleven men completed their Table an experience to listen to in Glasgow, and build a new £100million super-prison in the for the day. Altcourse say that the Feedback Tennis England Level 1 Coaching Assessments. prisoners who have taken up city. The prison has long had problems with infrastructure, from the young people, group leaders and A 100% pass rate. A participating prisoner told the opportunities available, vermin and violence. Barlinnie, which was designed to hold guardians is always extremely positive and us: “It has made me want to keep my using their own drive and 1,000 prisoners, has been criticised for being constantly encouraging. Some have said that a young enhanced status and stopped me from getting determination to change as overcrowded and conditions there are considered to be the person having taken part in the programme any red or negative entries as I would not be they look towards life worst in Scotland. The proposed new prison would hold up to has now altered the course of their life. able to attend the sessions if I did.” beyond the prison gates.” 2,000 prisoners. Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Newsround // Local Prison News 15

Death rate The Sweetest Spot the alien… slashed at Woodhill Charity Pimlico Opera is a charity More staff and a range of training in mental which produces performances health has halted the high numbers of in prisons. They get no public self-inflicted deaths at HMP Woodhill. funding but since 1991, with Twenty men have taken their own lives at the their first production of prison since 2011 but the range of measures Sweeney Todd at Wormwood © Deposit Photos taken have cut deaths to just one since 2016. Scrubs, they have taken Pact’s ‘Operation Elf’ Governor Nicola Marfleet said that 80% of more than 50,000 members prisoners at her prison had mental health of the public into prisons, brings joy to children issues; despite this there were no deaths 1,000+ prisoners have between December 2016 and May 2018. participated, and 9,000 This is Operation Elf’s third year. Operation prisoners have seen a show. Elf is about ensuring children who have a Commenting on the success, Ms Marfleet parent in prison have the best possible said: “What I knew about mental health They were last at Bronzefield Christmas. Nearly 200,000 children in the UK before I worked at Woodhill is far less than I in 2014 performing Sister Act. have been directly affected by the imprison- know now. We’ve had a whole range of Their latest production ‘Sweet ment of a parent this year. Last year over 350 training... and we make sure every single Charity’ was running at children felt remembered with their own man coming through our reception is seen by Bronzefield from 9th to 17th special Christmas. mental health. We encourage our prison November to an enraptured officers to play pool with the men because audience. The cast consists The Universe in Brixton This year, the charity PACT (Prison Advice & that builds up easy banter, that relationship mainly of prisoners who To celebrate the bicentenary of the Royal Astronomical Care Trust) will again be delivering gifts gives me hope that when somebody is in spent five weeks working it Society (RAS), the Society has established an Outreach and through special Christmas family days in crisis and needs help they will come and say. up into a top-quality show Engagement Fund to support astronomy and geophysics prisons, youth sessions, support groups and I think there will always be risk of another with a live orchestra. Most of projects for diverse sections of the community. Charity some sent through the post. Gifts are distrib- death but one of the things we are doing is them have never acted Bounce Back, which trains prisoners in various aspects of the uted to visitor centres, then prison-based making sure that we can say we have done before - or been inside a construction industry and endeavours to find them work after staff and volunteers make sure they get to the the best that we are able to do.” theatre. Charity was played release, is one of ten organisations nationwide to have been children - as a gift from their own parents, by Laura Pitt-Pulford (Olivier awarded one of the 5-year RAS grants for an ongoing pro- not from charity. So even mums and dads in Andy Baxter of the Prison Officers Award Best Actress in a gramme that will increase prisoner engagement in astronomy. prison and/or parents who are struggling to Association said: “We feel the project in Musical nomination) and it get by without the help of their partners get place at Woodhill would be of benefit to the was directed by Nikki Commenting on the award, Bounce Back says: ”When prison to give their own children a nice present. Prison Service if rolled out nationally.” Woollaston whose credits spaces are designed to foster personal change and hope, they include ’The King And I’ and are more likely to reduce reoffending and prison violence. This year they hope to give a gift to nearly Prison Reform Trust director Peter Dawson ‘Gypsy’ in the West End. Over the last 2 years we have been exploring new ways to use 1000 children in London who are separated said: “The passion and care that Nicola and our painting and decorating expertise to enhance spaces in from their loved ones this Christmas; working her staff give to this is obvious... New staff is Bronzefield director, Ian two prisons, HMP High Down and HMP Brixton. In each with HMPs Belmarsh, Brixton, Coldingley, absolutely the answer, but it will take time ... Whiteside, said: “Staging space, co-created with the prisoners, we worked with an artist Huntercombe, Isis, Pentonville, Wandsworth it takes years to learn those skills and get this event with Pimlico to develop themes and informative illustrations that the and Wormwood Scrubs. those instincts.” Opera is an excellent way to prisoners would value. In HMP Brixton we used the RAS develop offenders’ interper- project for inspiration in the Visitors’ Centre, and the Fellows sonal skills, their discipline, helped us create an interactive ‘Universe’ in the children’s Legal aid may be their teamworking skills and area. In addition we created a magic forest to reduce the available on your case. build their confidence, impact on children of the experience of visiting prison and ultimately giving them the going through the security scanners. Throughout this, the best chance of finding participants have the chance to take real ownership of the employment upon release.” project, creatively leading the plans for re-design themselves.

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were David’s final words to Twinning Project working. He me - spoken with total confi - began by pointing out to his dence. receptive audience: ‘Football is a leveller, an ice-breaker Nevertheless, when I received which improves mental and the invitation to Wembley physical health.’ His blueprint Stadium, I was still unsure is for club coaches to go into what to expect. I certainly prison two or three times a was not prepared for literally week, each course lasting 12 hundreds of people fi lling a weeks and taking in 16 men, huge room behind the stadi- Ian Wright with four courses per year and um and comprising a mix of a two-year commitment from football managers, players, clubs for at least two days per staff etc. and prison gover- already endorsed across the football community, includ- week. His first aim is to get nors, officers, gym teachers twenty clubs ‘locked in’ etc. Add to this rows of press ing the FA, Premier League, English Football League, the (David’s words!) and then - David was on BBC Radio 4 reach out for a hundred. ‘World at One’ and the launch PFA, PGMOL (representing was reported widely in the referees) and LMA (represent- newspapers - plus, in full ing coaches). force, the Very Important People. Since these organisations will be expected to lay out the funds to pay for the project, this sounded like an important roll-call. Martin Glenn, Chief Executive of the FA said: ‘The FA believes that Rory Stewart MP football is For All and this fantastic initiative will show- case the very best of football Questions remain for the future. Will football clubs Ian Wright and Arsene Wenger and its capacity to inspire.’ Richard Scudamore, Premier pick up this ball and run with League Executive Chairman it? Will they find the money said: ‘I applaud him (David and the time? Will coaches John McAvoy Dein) for his commitment and and referees also enter the for bringing clubs and the arena to open new doors for men in prison? Will prisons A force for good As a strategist, David knew Ministry of Justice together in allocate the staff needed to that to get anywhere with the this important area.’ Shaun Harvey, EFL Chief Executive make the project possible? Football revolution as clubs encouraged to Twinning Project he needed Will prison coaches and club to get the support of the top said: ‘The EFL is happy to support this initiative as club coaches work well together? ‘twin’ with local jails brass at the Ministry of Justice Will the right men (and and the various football community schemes are well towards getting those indi- women) on either side step up Month by Month organisations. It took him to help? No-one could pretend several years, while Justice viduals in the prison back on the right tracks and as a what David Dein argues for so Ministers came and went, to passionately is an ‘easy ask’. prison system? People ask me pin down the 2018 man at the result, reducing crime in their local area.’ I took my own mini-poll, ques- helm, David Gauke, but even- tioning staff from HMP But I listened to him and, in - aren’t you terrified Rachel Billington tually Dein had government Birmingham and from about ten minutes, I became going into prisons? backing. As Prisons Minister The FA believes Chelsea FA about their reac- convinced that he was not But I get so welcomed Rory Stewart said on the day, that football is For All tions to the launch. Derek only onto a good idea but he Prison-wide initiatives are ‘I am delighted to support this Harrison of Birmingham pris- was the one to make it run. In when I go into prisons. and this fantastic rare if not unheard of in our fantastic programme ... the on responded: ‘A great idea! fact the basic idea, to link underfunded criminal justice I get the magic two Twinning Project ... will help initiative will show- Especially for an inner city.’ individual prisons with indi- system. In the summer, a words: ‘Thank you.’ prisoners develop connec- case the very best of Derek went on to point out vidual football clubs, is not a friend led me over to David tions with their communities, that further training could new one. I reported on the When I was at football and its Dein with the words, ‘You grow their confidence and help men raise their qualifi ca- programme that Queens Park need to talk to him; he’s plan- Arsenal and the boost their employment pros- capacity to inspire. tions from what is now possi- Rangers has with HMP ning something revolution- results weren’t going pects.’ We look forward to ble. Phil Hastings from Wormwood Scrubs a few ary for prisons’. I was scepti- Chelsea Football Club months back, and there are well I got another two playing our part. cal, if not disbelieving. Why Foundation informed me that quite a number more spread Martin Glenn, Chief ever would David Dein, a words, and it wasn’t they were already working in across the country. Executive of the Football septuagenarian millionaire happy birthday. HMP Chelmsford and shortly Setting the right tone Association who sold his shares in would be going into Feltham, David’s new plan, which he David Dein Arsenal Football Club for a and was equally enthusiastic talked about so passionately Also in the front row to sup- reported seventy-fi ve million about what the Twinning that aft ernoon, is called the port the man who brought pounds, and enjoys spending he has said since, ‘Football Project could off er. time on his yacht in warm ‘Twinning Project’ and envis- can be a powerful force for him to Arsenal was ex-supre- ages every single prison being mo Arsene Wenger. Aft er the waters, want to enter the good, and the Twinning The launch is an exciting fi rst linked to a football club. As event, he said to me: ‘Sport is muddle and gloom of our Project will use this to help step forward and the next few people change their lives one way to give them a chance, a fresh start.’ He com- months will show how many when they are released from ‘twinnings’ have been prison.’ Words are easy, of Arsene Wenger mented on the all too common practise of locking young achieved. David has promised course, but the point about to talk to me then about its David is that, as former Vice- The man introducing the men in cells for much of the day and night: ‘You wouldn’t progress. Meanwhile, he com- Chairman of both the Football Minister, and hosting the mented on the launch with Association and Arsenal, he event, was iconic former do it to animals.’ Greg Dyke, former chairman of the FA, what seems invincible opti- has the right connections and Arsenal footballer Ian Wright, mism: ‘lt’s very rare that the indomitable will to see it now a BBC commentator but told me enthusiastically: ‘Brilliant! Brilliant idea!’ something gets 100% support through. He has already visit- long ago an inmate of HMP from the press … but we did!’ ed 106 prisons talking about Chelmsford. His comment on the Twinning Project and this unhappy period was suc- All good omens, but it was for Rachel reports on the shows no sign of letting up. cinct, ‘I was lucky… I found David himself to explain a bit anniversary of the charity David Dein ‘I’ll invite you to the launch’ football.’ The project is more about how he sees the Switchback on next page Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Comment 17

see kindness.’ She is helped in this aim, she informed us, Conversations with Clare by her prison staff of whom 80% are in their fi rst six months in the prison and whom she described as ‘awesome.’ ‘Help means hope’ Later, reading the booklet More Human, More Eff ective, Prisons chief speaks alongside Hardman Award published by Switchback to mark their fi rst ten years, and winners at Supreme Court pass on what they have Award is an investment in learnt, Emily’s chosen word your potential and your Finding a new life seemed totally appropriate. Credit: Switchback dreams. The figures are there, of course, 78% of trainees who This is the work of the completed Switchback moved Hardman Trust. Each year Switching to into work, only 8% reoff end- they carve out pathways of ed, but what was more impor- change for up to 18 long-sen- tant were the smiling faces of tence prisoners, offering the men who received their fi nancial awards and a direc- a better future help and also the recommen- tory packed with information dations for change. I can’t list on fi nance and support. Charity celebrates ten years of them all but here are the ones that caught my eye: The event was well attended hope-bringing by over 130 people and Lord • Dedicate a private space on Wilson gave a tour of the The Girdler’s Hall is a small - now Sous Chef.’ There were every prison wing for pur- Supreme Court to all the invit- mansion with a vaguely his- more. poseful one-to-one conversa- Investing in potential ed guests. He said, “When I torical feel which sits in a tions with prisoners. small garden surrounded by For me, these photos told the took over from Lord Woolf as • Incorporate wrap-around the towering glass blocks of whole story: these men were ages less reoff ending. I may patron six months ago, I had support into new prisoner the modern city of London. I not numbers on a prison list be stepping down next year big shoes to fill but having employment initiatives to walked towards it on a dark or in a probation offi cer’s diary but I hope to leave a positive been invited to attend an ensure jobs are sustained. Clare Barstow evening with a sense of sur- or on some housing or council legacy for the Prison Service.” award ceremony at Standford prise. How could such a list, but real human beings • Incentivise data accuracy in Hill prison I was incredibly human-sized place survive Michael Spurr, outgoing head There were also speeches by moved by the determination among the jostling, ever-in- of the Prison Service, praised former prisoners who had of everyone I met. The prison- creasing monsters? Then it the Hardman Trust charity for won awards and all had ers were keen to change their struck me how apposite a set- the work it does giving grants found employment thanks to lives around and the grant ting it was for the charity to long term prisoners in a being given grants for lap- would help provide the tools, whose 10th anniversary I had speech at the Supreme Court. tops, hairdressing tools, equipment and training to do come to celebrate. At the charity event he spoke counselling courses etc. this.” about the problems faced by Switchback is a small charity those leaving prison. Award winners Obi, Clare and I also met some people from helping prisoners aged 18 to Scott took a break from their small family run charities 30 with through-the-gate-re- He said, “Prison charities are work, studies and newborns that help fund the grants. to address the charity’s Hardman produce a directory lease into London. Their Telling the whole story very unpopular to potential emphasis is not on size but on Credit: Switchback donors but they are unaware patron, donors and volun- listing grants available and the individual and they stress of the huge impact they can teers with words of thanks useful information which is over and over again that it is with their own problems and prison to enable timely reset- make on society. Only 25 per and inspiration. They said distributed through Inside personal relationships which their own failures. Inside the tlement planning (release cent of long term prisoners that help had meant hope - Time and available in your will make all the diff erence to hall there was the same sense dates are oft en incorrect). reoff end, but it is still an area and that there is nothing ‘lux- library. An audio taster CD a young man who fi nds him- of small, but carefully target- which is desperately short of ury’ about prison (as in some has just been produced and • Develop a distinct resettle- self in prison but wants to ed. As Switchback’s CEO Alice funds. By giving grants for newspaper’s sunny take) but both the directory and audio ment plan for each local area make a new life for himself. Dawnay said, ‘We are work- education, training and that it is easy to give in to neg- version can also be down- to join up services and One of the other requirements ing in the cracks of a broken employment, the Hardman ativity and to lose your confi - loaded from the charity’s employers round prisons. for Switchback ‘trainees’ is system.’ She noted that there Trust can actually mean the dence. They said that in pris- website. that they are committed to were so many men in prison • End Friday and bank holi- diff erence between a prisoner on, the promise of change change, although requiring who were determined to day releases when too many leaving with hope or with carries currency: tools, equip- fall through the cracks due to despair. By investing in these ment, vocational and aca- help to do so. change their lives and fi nd a Clare Barstow is a writer and key services being closed. charities, you are investing in demic courses are the founda- job but unable to contend former resident of HMPPS Setting the right tone with homelessness and/or a future society that encour- tion of a future. A Hardman mental health or drug issues. Finally, a few numbers about The aim of the Switchback Switchback trainees: 89% are Our commitment and service to you, does not mentor is to gain their train- from black, Asian or Minority stop when you leave the dock. eeds solicitors ees’ trust and then, aft er they Ethnic backgrounds; 40% are dedicated to providing legal expertise along leave prison, work out with leave prison homeless; 42% with unparalleled client care. his service also them, over many months, have never had a job; 42% includes issues you may experience in custody. what employment will suit have never lived independent- their personality and skills. It ly; 53% have drug or alcohol Our Prison Law eam are able to offer advice and assistance under the Legal Aid cheme for the following issues is expected they will enjoy problems; 69% have anger or eterie ecall arole deedet Addicatio Setece Calclatio Credit: Switchback their jobs. aggression issues; 36% have re-ari evie Cat A evie CSC evie no qualifications. With this Thinking about this, I entered Our exerienced olicitors also offer cometitive fixed fees for general Prison Law matters including the mansion and found myself The ubiquitous Rory Stewart catalogue of disadvantages, confronted with blown-up noted Switchback’s determi- it is no wonder that Switchback e-cateoriatio Setece lai photographs of men with nation to work at a human expect, on average, to have Contact our team now by calling 1 2 or write to us calling our reeost address grinning, pleased faces. I level ‘with huge admiration’. sixteen months total contact S-C-SC - eed Solicitor - Silr olevard - M KS - 2A read the labels: ‘Shakur - aged Supporters include HMP Isis with a trainee. 25 - released Dec. 2013 - now Governor Emily Thomas, who cafe assistant.’ ‘Elton - aged asked: ‘How do you set a tone Those smiling faces I admired 22 - released April 2018 - now in prison?’ and answered her as I came into the hall are gallery assistant.’ ‘Mark - own question with a surpris- human beings and deserved aged 28 - released April 2018 ing word: ‘Kindness. I want to no less. 18 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2018 Inside Voices Garden Chronicles Top Tips for staying drug and Jenny Greengrass alcohol free over Christmas Sprouting hope Christmas is coming and there are now adverts on the television making fun of the common Nick Gully - HMP Parkhurst Don’t get too hungry contact NA or AA and ask for sprout. I am not sure how it has become a tra- The brain struggles to know a sponsor (a kind of mentor) dition that families have to include sprouts on the difference between crav- who will be there to support Having been clean and sober their Christmas menu when not at other times. ing for food and craving for you. When you are strong Children are forced to try at least one before for many years, in and out of drugs and alcohol, so the im- enough in your own recovery leaving the Christmas table and continuing to prison, I thought it might be portant thing is to keep your you can be there to help others play with their presents. What on earth is it helpful to share some tips on blood sugar levels stable by who want to get clean and about the sprout that people find so offensive? how to get through Christmas eating regularly, with a mix- sober too. We give it away to without ‘using’ or drinking. ture of protein, carbs and keep it - by walking our own My garden has a whole row of sprouts all ready The easiest way of remember- fruit and veg. I always have a talk! to pick, not just for the Christmas table but all ing this is to make sure you couple of tins of baked beans year round. My family love them, and I readily stop yourself from feeling too and some bananas and noo- Don’t get too tired freeze bagfuls for enjoying throughout the year. Little green morsels S.H.I.T. dles on stand-by in case my Get good and regular down- blood sugars dip and I start time and sleep. I have an Now I can understand that just boiling these little that some animal had tried to get at them in craving. Don’t get too stressed 8-to-8 rule whereby I don’t green morsels may not have much of an ap- the night. worry about anything be- peal, but our most favourite method is to slice By planning ahead and get- Don’t get too isolated ting your Christmas cards out tween 8pm and 8am, and if them and fry in garlic and butter. Scrummy! There is a huge hole in front of the run. Clearly Reach out to some good peo- something comes to mind I let some frantic predator had smelt its prey. For- early, get to the gym to relieve ple. One thing I learnt in my it go by practicing mindful- So today I was off up the garden to start col- tunately it hit concrete and could not make any some tension and have a cell early recovery was that an ness, where I bring my atten- lecting our little green gems. The frost has had headway to get into the coop. It looks suspi- exercise plan. Do some med- addict on their own is an ad- tion back to my breath and an effect on the sweetness of the vegetable, so ciously like a badger as we have a badger sett itation, tai-chi and yoga to dict in bad company. That focus on the present moment. they are truly ready for picking. I am now nearby and the hole was so big. Badgers can said a recovering addict chill out. Keep out of debt and If I can’t sleep, I focus on my winding the garden down for the winter. My be vicious and often outrun cars, although we hanging out with using ad- live within your means. Keep breath again and count from greenhouse is full to capacity with vulnerable do see many killed when they try to cross our dicts is really bad news. Avoid out of prison politics and 1-10 and then come back to 1 plants that I hope to save over the cold months. busy roads. ‘war stories’ about your using avoid mindless gossip. Have again once I’ve noticed that But my polytunnel is still thriving and we are and drinking days (let’s face no drink or drugs in your cell, my mind has wandered into picking kale and Swiss chard daily. I think our ducks may have been witness to it, it was shit!) and tell anyone including unauthorized meds the past or future. the attempted break-in as they have become you usually hang out with that you might have as I had a bit of a shock this week when I went to very nervous. Our plan today is to make doubly who drinks or uses that it’s Remember, a lot of people get let the chickens out. They are shut up every sure that the coop is secure and warm for these back-up. Write a gratitude list nothing personal but you through Christmas on ‘white- evening as soon as the light fades and they go beautiful little birds. each day of the good things need to get and stay clean and you have in your life that you knuckle’ sobriety and then in eagerly to snuggle up in the nest box. The sober - you owe it to your fam- three hens and cockerel seem to find a way of I have it in mind to try and encourage the badg- don’t want to ruin. Give up pick up in the New Year, so use ily and want to get out and fitting in to this little box which was only made ers and the foxes to try the vegetarian option blame and self-pity; accept have a good life. If your this time to build the right foundation for the future and for egg-laying, but I have peeped in on the odd - my delicious sprouts would be a wonderful where you are and make a prison has some kind of sup- occasion to find them all in one feathery hud- alternative to chicken … fresh commitment to rise port then use it and if they start to follow your dreams. The world has been waiting dle, keeping warm. On this particular morning again and have a good life run NA or AA meetings then for you! Hugs not drugs! I went over as usual to let them out so they Jenny Greengrass is a keen amateur after jail. get to them. If not, you can could wander around the garden, and found horticulturist

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would never be empty. Surely everyone who indicating that the English longbowmen could drinks alcohol in a pub is going to be at least still fight them. Somebody should warn the slightly drunk after their first drink? Scots about this!

Here’s a good one; Section 59 of the Metropol- But it is not only the Scots that English law itan Police Act 1839 states that it is illegal to holds in contempt. Chester, right on the Welsh/ fire a cannon within 300 yards of a dwelling English border, passed a city ordinance that house. So, if you have any old cannons laying no Welshman should be allowed to enter Ches- around and you fancy firing one on your street, ter before sunrise, or to stay after sunset. Once think on, it is a criminal offence. again, the origins of this law can be found in the fear of Celtic hordes launching an invasion Be careful with your spring cleaning, because in darkness and taking the English by according to Section 28 of the Town Police surprise. Clauses Act 1847, it is illegal to beat or shake a carpet or rug in a public street. One exception On a less warlike note, it is illegal to place a to this law is that you are allowed to shake or stamp, which bears the monarch’s head, up- beat a doormat in the street, but only before side down on a letter or card. You can actually 8am. be charged with Treason for this act, and until “Hello hello hello…” relatively recently Treason in this country car- In the city of York, it is permissible to kill a ried the death penalty. So be careful when Scotsman, as long as you shoot him with a bow preparing your outgoing mail. In yer hat, constable … or how and arrow. Though it is not permissible to do it on a Sunday. This dates back to when the It is also against the law to erect a washing line people of York lived in terror of a Scottish in- across any public street. This dates from when the law really is a funny ass vasion, and when Scottish raiders would come city and town buildings rarely went above two There are many strange laws still on the statute across the border and steal cattle and horses. stories, and it was to stop troops on horses, and books in this country. I’m sure everyone has It seems a bit extreme in this day and age, but carrying lances or pikes, from getting tangled heard the one about London taxis being re- it’s just as well that bowmen are now as rare up. You can still be sent to the bridewell for Noel Smith quired to carry a bale of hay on board … ‘in as rocking-horse’s*. drying your washing on a line across a street. order to feed the horse’, despite the fact that The law is a funny old subject; sometimes horses haven’t pulled cabs around the city for But - hang on - there is also an ancient law, I will finish with an oldie but goodie. There is funny ha-ha and sometimes just funny strange. over 100 years. But here are a few more that from Royal Decree, that states all English still a law in place that states pregnant women When you actually think about it, a UK crim- you may not have heard about. males over the age of 14 must carry out at least must be allowed to urinate wherever they get inal trial would look pretty bizarre to an out- two-hours of longbow practise every week! At the urge to whilst out and about. It is recom- sider. You have both the defence and For example, according to the law it is actually the time this law came into force, England’s mended that the perfect place for pregnant prosecution barristers dressed up in black illegal to be drunk in a public house. Yes, I kid greatest asset were its bowmen. They were so women to urinate in a city or town setting will robes and wearing horsehair wigs, a group of you not. Who would believe that people might devastating against an enemy force that the be into the helmet of a constable. I’d love to 12 random members of the public who, with end up drunk by consuming alcohol in a pub? French who captured longbowmen during bat- hear that this activity is coming back into no training in law, are expected to reach a legal Since 1872, it has been a criminal offence for tle would cut off two fingers from their bow- vogue, as I believe some police officers are verdict on the defendant and (usually) an oc- a pub landlord to allow drunkenness in his hand and then release them. It is thought that nothing but piss-takers! togenarian in a robe and horsehair wig to pass premises. I suggest that if there were enough the insulting gesture of sticking two-fingers sentence. It’s a bit like a pantomime. police officers enforcing that law, the courts up was originally a taunt to the French Merry Christmas, lawbreakers.

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ties of life in the trenches. magazine and displays. His Papadopulos - the Dean of arrival meant that we were Salisbury Cathedral. But in May of this year we able to reciprocate by creating were introduced to Leigh a series of drawings that Since the event we have had Chalmers from Salisbury Ca- could be displayed in Salis- copies of articles from as di- thedral. As part of an out- bury Cathedral. verse publications as the Bel- reach programme, she fast Telegraph, The suggested that the Stonema- Cumberland News and even sons at Salisbury could create publications from Jersey, a birdbath to serve as a per- however, I can’t help but feel manent memorial for the that the Ministry of Justice’s prison and she asked for our press office missed a golden ideas. A group of us got to- opportunity here. Their zeal- gether and began to work on ous control of the media potential designs. meant that all but The Guard- ian articles were basically a Over the following months, copy and paste of a Whitehall and after much debate, we press release. There was little designed a pyramidal, tradi- or no examination of the mo- tional style of memorial. We tivations for this prisoner-led wanted a side for each of the Coming along nicely initiative or the legacy that we Credit: HMP Erlestoke three branches of the Armed have begun. Successful team effort Forces - Army, Navy and Air One of these drawings fea- Credit: HMP Erlestoke Force. We decided that the tured 16 year-old John Corn- Throughout the months of main face should depict a bat- well VC, the youngest VC October and November, I tlefield grave that would ac- winner of World War 1. We have seen prisoners and staff A remarkable display knowledge the tens of were proud to hear that the standing side by side looking thousands of men whose bod- display in Salisbury Cathe- at our prisoner created dis- ies were never identified. dral had been seen by a living plays or reading our prisoner Then the masons at Salisbury relative of this brave young created magazine. I had to of remembrance set about creating the memo- man. It gave us a real sense of smile as I noticed that this rial based on our design. connection to the world out- was a uniquely unifying pro- Prisoners, staff and local community work together to side the prison walls. ject. Prisoners and staff found some commonalities; they create stunning war memorial at HMP Erlestoke The week leading up to the could put aside their differ- dedication ceremony was ences to reflect on the sacri- The Jailhouse Moose actually happened during the We established two key crite- spent in preparing an exhibi- fices made in their name. Just First World War. As far as ria. First, we would try to tion in the Erlestoke visits as the men in those trenches those we asked were con- leave the politics behind. We centre. It included prisoner could put aside their differ- I spent another Guy Fawkes cerned, Franz Ferdinand was would remember the individ- artwork, poetry, our maga- ences for Christmas Day, com- Night listening to the distant a pop group and the war was uals that sacrificed so much zine and a selection of images memorating the Centenary of crack and scream of fireworks a white man’s affair confined for us, not the monarchies or and posters from the war. the Armistice from 1918 in and on occasion I saw a flash to trenches in France. A small governments that gave the some ways inspired an Armi- of colour in the sky above the team of us set out to explore orders. Second, we would not However, we were over- stice of our very own. razor-wire fences. Bonfire ways to educate and inform glorify war. whelmed by the number of Night is another stark re- another generation, to ex- attendees from outside the All giving thanks minder that those of us in plain what really happened. We produced a 72 page full-col- Stone me! prison. We had media repre- Credit: HMP Erlestoke prison are separate. We are We were mindful of the our magazine that gave an sentatives from the BBC, The outside of society. This year phrase - “Those who are igno- overview of the events of the The masons were under so Guardian, Getty Images and we have been the voyeurs rant of their history are war. We explored the cause of much pressure that they had several local papers. There peeping through the fences at doomed to repeat it.” the war, the reach of the war to work in pairs on opposite were visitors from SSAFA and Royal Weddings, a World Cup and how it impacted on peo- sides of the memorial. But many other agencies. But per- and so much more. But the After consultation with staff ple right across the world. Our their hard work paid off and haps most importantly, we all marking of the Centenary of and governors, our initial efforts were supported by The we were ready to have the me- got to meet the team of stone- the Armistice was an event plan was to plant a commem- Imperial War Museum, who morial installed in time for a masons that had worked so that was too important to dedication ceremony on 13th hard to create our memorial.

orative tree somewhere in the supplied us with a wealth of Credit: HMP Erlestoke watch from afar. prison grounds and to design images and resources. November. some informative posters and After a speech by Elizabeth On this momentous occasion We began our preparations in displays. But as we researched We also created a number of One of the key memorial de- Williams, the Learning and we were no longer prisoners, May 2017. Having spoken to and spoke to people, we themed displays that changed signers, JOTT, is an accom- Skills manager, we went out- separate from society. When peers and to staff we discov- quickly realised that we each week. Our topics included plished artist here at HMP side for a dedication cere- we dedicated our memorial ered that very few people re- would have to do much more the War in the Air, Changing Erlestoke and his drawings mony led by the Very we too were citizens of the ally understood what had than we had anticipated. Women’s roles and the reali- were a huge part of our Reverend Nicholas world giving thanks.

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creating safe spaces for discussions on vio- views around masculinity and fatherhood lence are not routine. Some may say “we do were shared; as one man said to me: “It was talk about violence”. Yes, that may be the case really good to see that others shared my but are the men and women allowed to really views”. discuss their thoughts on subjects such as verbal abuse, harassment, sexual assault, do- Discussing healthy norms is something we mestic abuse and other forms of violence? In don’t do that often. In my view we fail to use my experience this isn’t the reality. the power of these norms in addressing things like violence. When we know that others share My experience of working in prisons informs our views, we are more likely to support each me that a majority of those in prison have some other than go through the day fearing each other. pretty healthy attitudes and know violence is wrong. For many it’s the setting that poses the Next step for me was to identify the challenges problem. As I discuss above, prisons are highly to the values communicated by the group. This Graham Goulden: Talking sense charged with many prisoners on guard at all is where I was able to bring in conversations Credit: Graham Goulden times. Not to respond with violence is seen as on peer pressure, violence and abuse. I tend a weakness. Creating a space where healthy to adopt a bystander approach when talking views and beliefs can come out is one area that about violence. This approach takes away a Reducing violence I know works. victim, perpetrator binary and identifies the group as simply friends and peers. Again, this I recently worked in a number of Scottish pris- isn’t an approach that is ‘finger-pointy’. What Fighting fire with fire may not be the answer, says ex-cop ons with groups of dads. I took the stance: it does do is to allow groups to discuss violence “Who doesn’t want to be a good dad?” I talked as being the solution rather than the problem. Graham Goulden Individuals are sent to prison as part of a pun- about their roles as fathers and what types of ishment. However, prisons should also be con- fathers they wanted to be. It was very clear that Using this approach, we talked about sidered as places of rehabilitation where a many had either lacked a father in their lives name-calling, intimidation, hate crime and With a backdrop of increasing levels of vio- focus is on stopping the revolving door of peo- or had experienced abuse at their father’s domestic abuse. I was able to raise awareness lence taking place within prisons in England ple coming back to prison. How we create a hands. Being aware of this helped me gain a of these issues, challenge thinking, and in- and Wales, it is perfectly normal for responses space for transformation will support many rapport with the men. I must add that as an spire them to act in the future to support, even to be considered. These are needed, not only individuals make the changes in their lives ex-police officer working in jails, I knew the challenge, friends. to protect staff but also for those men and women that the majority desperately want. In my view challenges. Honesty and trust were key in who are sent there to serve a sentence. it’s this space that will provide the perfect these sessions. Discussing my previous occu- Thirty years as a police officer taught me many place for discussions on violence to take place. pation was the first thing I did. I talked about things, but it was the power of relationships In recent weeks we have observed prison staff my early years as an officer with a simple aim that was key for me. Investing in conversations being issued with protective equipment as one Prisons present both reachable and teachable to fill prisons. I then talked about my own allows the real person to come to the surface. response to this violence. Have we stopped to moments, however challenges remain. Prison journey and how I now work to empty prisons. What we see in our prisons are men and consider the impact of these tools within a cultures are highly charged. Male and female women conforming to norms that are opposite setting where trauma is part of the make-up of prisoners will bring with them biographies of Investing in the relationship at this time al- to who they really are. Bringing these healthy many of those residing there? Could situations violence. Many have been victims of abuse as lowed me to get into some really deep issues norms to the surface will help create the space be made worse when these tools are used, and children. For the young and adult male pris- with the men, all of whom confidently shared that is needed for real transformation. they will? Are we in many ways fighting fire oners, they also bring with them a biography their ideals and values as men and fathers. with fire? of masculinity that will be toxic. Violence will This positive starting point is another tool I Surely we owe it to prison staff, prisoners and favour. A lot of these men I know have had the So, what responses will make the difference be the tool of communicating their masculin- society to create these discussions. inside prisons? Should we also consider the ity. Whilst these are clear challenges, having finger pointed at them from a young age. Al- All giving thanks potential for these responses to support wider a better knowledge of trauma will help counter lowing them to talk about their healthy values Graham Goulden spent 30 years as a Scottish societal violence prevention? Could we help any challenges. gave them a starting point that for them isn’t Police Officer. For the last 9 years of his service shape the attitudes of those in our prisons that often the norm. Importantly, by sharing their he was a Chief Inspector with the Scottish Vio- may help shape attitudes in wider society? I For me, developing and building relationships values the group were able to bond. The dis- lence Reduction Unit. For more information; think so. are key. This might seem obvious; however, cussions provided reassurance that healthy www.grahamgoulden.com

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Our counsellor helps our passing the salt and pepper… This Christmas we are selling trainees face up to stumbling the kind of skills that help wooden decorations ‘glammed blocks and barriers that they people get on in life. up’ with a bit of glitter, beau- may never have dealt with, tiful wooden bowls and plates and our resettlement worker We do pottery here too … hand-turned on our lathe helps with the maze of bene- though not many of our train- from local trees, pottery dec- fits, employment and ees will go on to become pot- orations and mugs and bowls housing. ters (though one of them made on our potter’s wheel, already has!), but by spend- as well as green tomato chut- However we also teach our ing some time in our art room ney cooked in our kitchen guys skills that we believe can many of them discover some- from our own tomatoes and lead directly to employment, thing they had never experi- rich hand balm made with or can be transferable to the enced before. The joy of flowers from our garden. workplace. We expect them to making with your own hands, turn up when they say they the ability to work out how to It’s wholesome - it may sound will, to let us know in ad- bring something to life that old-fashioned, but it is mixed vance if they are not coming, you have imagined in your with a heavy dose of trust and to be polite, respectful and head; the pride felt when respect that can literally bring follow the rules. We eat lunch someone buys something at people back to life. We all together every day so staff the shop that you have made, trust each other and we share mix with the trainees and and the knowledge that that the ups and downs of our own often we invite guests who money will contribute to lives, and bit by bit that trust can be anyone from a local keeping the project going for helps our trainees realise that supporter to a judge or police yourself and others. there is a life outside crime, officer. Eating in a commu- New growth and it can be really good. nity like this is something We grow and harvest vegeta- many of us do every day at bles and flowers, sell them in Spread the word - we need home, but we know it can be our shop to regular customers more projects like this to give completely alien to some of and enjoy them at the table. people a chance to change our trainees. It’s a good skill Magic in the making Most of our trainees don’t ar- their lives. to learn though - making con- rive as gardeners. Some of versation, finding out about them find a love of the soil while Taking the time to turn lives around others’ lives, talking about working outside. All of them works its magic on us. delicious lunches and laugh ourselves, sometimes debat- Caroline Voaden is Opera- ing the big issues of the day, learn the connection between tions Manager at LandWorks at the strangeness of the garden, spade and table. It’s true what people say … world as the old trees around but always being polite, - www.landworks.org.uk Caroline Voaden that the land nourishes the us blow in the wind. soul and can restore a broken Our LandWorks shop is built spirit. There’s nothing like This Christmas we are proud Bottle of death from wood and with the 100m spending a morning in the to have counted more than of twinkling fairy lights we wind and coming inside for a five years’ work - we have a The sobering consequences have just hung up it’s begin- hot meal in front of a fire to track record that we can prove ning to look rather like a make you feel rooted, works and we want others to of short-lived drunken ‘fun’ cheesy Christmas grotto … grounded and alive. It’s a know about it. We’d love to world away from the walls of see projects like LandWorks with glittery decorations and Chris Parsons a lot of wooden candlesticks. a prison or the dirty pave- blossom across the country so Not everyone here is a mas- ments of the city; the air here that other prisons can build a sive fan of Christmas, but we is clean and the food is good. relationship with them like all enjoy seeing more people we have with HMP Channings It’s September 2017, and Mrs Parsons had coming into the shop and sup- Our project has grown from Wood. decided a trip to the bottle bank was in order. porting our project by buying an old quarry with a portaca- So, I carefully placed a box of empties on the gifts for family and friends. bin to a site that includes a What do we do that is so spe- back seat of the car and we set off to Paignton Jamie and his beloved lurcher fully equipped woodworking cial? Probably one of the main sea front for a stroll, then home via the bottle Corley (Image: Facebook) We’re celebrating our sixth shop, a market garden, ingredients is time. We know bank. It was a lovely early autumn Sunday Christmas at LandWorks this chicken pen, flower beds, you can’t turn someone’s life afternoon, the sun lowering as we left Paign- problem with alcohol … they come because year and it feels like a mile- polytunnels, an art room and around overnight, and you ton, when we spotted Jamie - smiling and they have committed a crime. The crime they stone for our project, which a large, wooden clad building have to dig deep to resolve waving at us. are prosecuted for is often just the pinnacle we believe is unique in the with a woodburning stove some of the issues that have of a pyramid, but not the problem …a pyra- UK. As far as we know we are where we drink tea, eat led to crime in the first place. We would often see Jamie on the highways mid of life, of lifestyle, of bad decisions, the only resettlement project and byways of the South Hams and we always abuse, a multitude of combinations very often for day release prisoners that (as many did) gave him a lift. He was home- featuring drugs and alcohol. Turning for a future provides a comprehensive, less, almost a traveller, but also longed to holistic programme outside settle down. He was great company. He had A sobering thought is that alcohol is involved the prison estate to help them attended LandWorks on a community order, in around 47% of all violent crime (Institute develop a non-criminal iden- desperately battling his demons and a con- of Alcohol Studies). I don’t know if you would tity and rebuild or restart a stant struggle with alcohol. agree, but most of us (if we are honest) have life. We offer the same pro- some sort of a relationship with alcohol, gramme to those involved He fell into the car, placed his bottle of QC somewhere in our own pyramid of life... with the Probation Service Sherry in amongst our box of empties, chatted and CRCs. happily and then just fell asleep. We arrived The judiciary (I am sure) long to guide people at the bottle bank. Jamie awoke with a start, into help and recovery, not always just cus- It’s not the kind of setting thanked us politely and got out of the car. tody because there are so few other options most of our guys are familiar Then with a look of utter panic dived back in, available. with, or comfortable in … sur- rummaged amongst the empties, stepped rounded by enormous trees, back out and triumphantly held up his half As Jamie explained to me once …“See drink- with cows grazing just across full bottle of QC. To be honest I think we were ing Chris - it’s like short-lived fun with per- the road, this is not the inner all glad he found it. manent consequences.” city so many of them are used to. But the environment We often have people who are in recovery at Jamie was killed on the 26th September 2017 shapes our work and the LandWorks and I use breathalysers and drug in a hit and run accident. name, LandWorks, is no coin- tests to help maintain a safe environment for Chris Parsons is the manager of LandWorks - cidence. We work on the land, those battling addiction. But people don’t www.landworks.org.uk but in turn the land also come to LandWorks because they have a Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Comment 23

behaviour such as drug use or sleeping pills, they are often with action, such as the inclu- Inside Voices gambling; poor sleep is often used, out of convenience, to sion of ear plugs and eye a precursor to addition simply sedate a person, pre- masks on the canteen list, as relapse. venting good quality, restor- well as sleep promoting ative sleep from occurring, agents like camomile and There are many barriers to a thus solving no problems long peppermint teas. I question Dreaming of better sleep good night’s sleep whilst term. Rarely will you wake up the benefit of shining a torch serving time in prison. The refreshed following a night on the eyes of inmates at 5am on emotional control. environment is by far the drinking alcohol, it’s a seda- every morning, interrupting largest barrier; noise, light, tive drug. You would also be the most important stage of The part of the brain involved thin mattresses and high cell more likely to hit the coffee sleep (late morning REM in generating strong emotions temperatures will keep peo- late into the day to stay sleep), and long-term solu- is called the amygdala - a ple awake at night and are awake, leading to a vicious tions such as blue light filters primitive structure some- difficult to change; short of cycle of stimulants and and increased noise insula- times referred to as our ‘liz- building new cells. People’s depressants. tion should be considered, ard’ or ‘chimp’ brain. The area habits are another barrier; bearing in mind that the im- involved in thought process- some inmates do themselves The environ- mediate costs will be offset in ing, judgement and impulse no favours by drinking caf- time by a vast reduction in control is called the prefron- feinated drinks all day whilst ment is by far the expensive, destructive tal cortex. If the amygdala is staring at blue light emitting largest barrier; behaviour. the gas pedal of emotions, the screens, unaware that these prefrontal cortex is very much behaviours are keeping them noise, light, thin The Prison Service banned the brake pedal. In experi- up. The toughest barrier is mattresses and high smoking last year as a public mental studies, sleep depriva- physical - people with anxiety health campaign to better the Not so sweet dreams © Deposit Photos tion, either over one night or or fear will ruminate in the cell temperatures lives of both prisoners and many, was shown to increase evening when alone, driving staff. Therefore the will Tim Kerr - HMP Altcourse reasons, leading to a number activity in the amygdala by their ‘fight or flight’ response will keep people should be there to improve the of issues. up to 60%, as a result of the into keeping them on edge awake at night. sleep of inmates, as the bene- prefrontal cortex malfunc- and awake. fits will far outstrip that of What if I told you that it’s pos- There are many advantages to tioning due to the effects of I believe one immediate solu- smoking cessation. How can sible to reduce aggression, a life filled with a full eight sleep deprivation. Put simply, Sleeping tablets are not the tion is education; cheap, easy the Prison Service be consid- violence and drug use within hours of uninterrupted sleep even a small deficit in sleep easy answer they may appear to implement, and with meas- ered rehabilitative if it is wil- the prison population and, each and every night, from reduces people’s control over to be. Sleep is not simply a urable results. By informing fully or negligently causing better still, it wouldn’t cost a the physical (boosted im- their emotions and makes case of closing one’s eyes and inmates about the benefits of permanent damage to in- penny? It’s something we all mune system, reduction in them liable to become angry; skipping eight hours ahead; sleep, and how implementing mates’ brains, and conse- already do and take for cardiovascular disease, and I’m sure we’ve all noticed we it is a very active set of pro- a good sleep routine may quentially their future granted, but something we slowing the ageing process to become more irritable follow- cesses occurring within the solve some of their problems, emotions, behaviours and are all probably guilty of ne- name a few) to the mental, ing a run of nightshifts. Fur- brain, which are heavily sub- you give them agency to make actions? glecting; despite its plethora including improved memory ther studies show the dued with the use of tran- a positive change in their of benefits. I am of course function and a lower risk of dopamine reward system be- quilizing agents. Besides the lives, possibly leading to talking about sleep, some- developing dementia. But comes hyperactive when numerous side effects, addic- other changes. It would be * References to all claims can be thing which many prisoners most important to a prison sleep deprived, leading peo- tion potential, and resale pragmatic for the Prison Ser- found in the book ‘Why we sleep’ struggle with for a variety of population is the effects it has ple to seek out reward-based value associated with vice to match this information by Dr Matthew Walker Fighting for the Rights of Vulnerable Immigration Detainees in Prison Vulnerable immigration detainees in prison are not given the same rights as those held in immigration removal centres. Duncan Lewis Solicitors are leading a challenge to address the Home Office’s failure to provide safeguards for potentially vulnerable immigration detainees held in the prison estate, which could find them unsuitable for detention. Solicitors Our Challenge Vulnerable detainees held in immigration removal centres can be identified Our specialist team of prison immigration solicitors are as unsuitable for detention under a Rule 35 assessment. This includes: currently bringing a judicial review on behalf of a claimant who was held under immigration powers in prison. Whilst in prison he disclosed that he was a victim of torture, but since there is no • Victims of torture obligation on medical staff to report torture or health concerns • Modern slavery victims to the Home Office, he remained in detention. • Victims of trafficking • Those with mental health problems We have submitted to the High Court that this is unlawful discrimination, as it breaches Article 14 of the European If you believe you fall under any of these categories, we want to hear from Convention on Human Rights and the Equality Act. you, as you may be eligible to join our challenge.

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Christmas holiday. Because of staff cuts, this farmer’s story, the neighbour time spent alone may be longer than usual. It’s offered him the services of the cat that lived in his home. The Terry Waite CBE at such times that it’s easy for depression to set in. I soon learned that I had to put family and cat was old and fat and he friends right to the back of my mind. Those scarcely seemed to notice who have never been incarcerated may find when he was carried away by Peace to others this difficult to understand but there will be the doubtful farmer. For two some of you who know that constantly to be weeks the cat did little more Whenever I sit down to write this monthly col- thinking of those on the outside, and constantly than sleep all day and night. umn to you I have to keep in mind the fact that longing for the freedom that seems so far away, The farmer wanted to give the you won’t read it until several weeks after I takes you nowhere. Somehow, each individual cat back to the neighbour as it have posted it. This is because first of all it has has to find the way appropriate to him or herself was eating so much and to be mailed to the editor and then printed in of living in the present. In my prison cell I had achieving nothing. The neigh- Inside Time. I am writing this in the middle of to learn how to live for the day; how to keep bour insisted he keep him a November, and of course the edition in which my brain active; how not to fall into deep de- © Deposit Photos while longer; assuring him the my contribution will appear will be the pression. One size does not fit all. We are all rat’s days were close to an end. Christmas edition. different and each must find their own way of coping with deprivation. It can be done, as Sid Arter This time the trader offered The rat became accustomed to Christmas is never an easy time when you are many have shown in the past. him a large and grizzled cat the presence of the lazy old cat inside. Having spent several Christmas days and guaranteed that no rat and was soon up to his old in solitary I can speak from experience. I re- Although we can’t live our lives over again, The rat could escape this master tricks even, on occasion, bra- member especially one Christmas Day when I and although we will always be marked by the mouser. The rat knew enough zenly dancing around the old sat chained in my cell somewhere in downtown past, it is possible to move forward. One fact to stay clear of this tough alley cat as he slept. Then one day, Beirut. It was cold and the electricity had failed, is that we, as individuals, are constantly chang- and the cat cat, but when the cat slept, the as the rat went about his busi- not for the first time! I was some years into my ing. In many respects, now that I am in the rat ran about. Half the day the ness without any concern, he captivity and so by this time I had been given latter years of my life, I am a very different There once lived a farmer who rat would hide, but the other passed close by the cat who a book. On this occasion I was reading through half he again had the run of person than I was forty years ago. I have learned was plagued by a large and swiftly struck out his paw and one volume of an encyclopedia and, as this was the farmhouse. The farmer lessons, some the hard way. I deeply regret clever rat who had the run of pinned the rat to the floor, the only reading I had, I rationed myself to read brought this cat back to the some of the stupid mistakes I have made, but the farmhouse. This annoyed dispatching him. just a couple of pages each day. On Christmas I refuse to allow them to prevent me from mov- the farmer no end, so he went vender who shook his head in Day I had reached the letter ‘M’ and an article ing forward and making some success of life. despair saying he had given to the village to buy a cat. A The moral of the story is that on Karl Marx. This was not the sort of reading the farmer his best cats and street trader sold him a splen- sometimes we do better to sit I was accustomed to on Christmas Day of all When I talk about success I am not talking there was nothing more he did black cat that he said patiently waiting for the right days, but Marx had some interesting things to about financial success. Of course we all need could do. would catch the rat; indeed, opportunity to come by … say and I read the column with interest. enough to manage on, and I am not decrying the cat was very lean and fit that. To my mind success, in part, means being looking. But the rat was even Returning home with his There was a guard on duty who was pretty at ease with yourself and being more compas- quicker than the cat and after money, the farmer met a sullen and his job was to make sure that I got sionate to others. If that sounds over-sentimen- a week with no success the neighbour and asked his ad- Sid Arter is a teacher fed from time to time. I knew I couldn’t expect tal believe you me it isn’t. I always remember farmer returned the cat. vice. After hearing the and entertainer too much from him and I was not surprised Bishop Desmond Tutu, with whom I worked when he brought me my Christmas dinner; a many times in South Africa, refusing to allow cold tomato and a hard-boiled egg with some hate or bitterness to enter his life. I have been flatbread. ‘Well,’ I thought to myself, ‘it’s better in his home when he has received death threats Lambeth Children’s Homes than many people in world get!’ That of course over the telephone. I have been in the courtroom is true, as the number of people in the world when attempts were made to discredit him. who go hungry all the year round is totally Always he attempted to show compassion to Redress Scheme unacceptable. those who hated him and what he stood for. I learned a lot from him. Applications for compensation are now However, back to Christmas. It can be a difficult time not only for those who are banged-up but So this Christmas, although you are not in an open until 1 January 2020. for many who live alone, or even for those who easy place, turn your thoughts to those who live with others. Everyone is expected to be have a much tougher life than you have. Let Lambeth Council has set up a Redress Scheme for full of good cheer and happiness, and such me assure you, there are plenty of them. sentiments cannot be turned on at will. If you Whether you have faith or not, Muslim, Jew, people who, as children, were abused or feared are unhappy deep within yourself then to try Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian or whatever and turn these feelings off and be jolly is very religion, I do pray that this Christmas you may abuse at a Lambeth Children’s Home and/or difficult. find peace within and are able to communicate something of that peace to others. Shirley Oaks Primary School. Some of you reading this will be alone and locked in your cell for at least part of the Until the New Year, Terry Waite There are two types of compensation Stevens So lic itors payment available: Incorporating Rose, Williams & Partners Criminal Litigation & Advocacy Specialists Harm’s Way Payment and Prison Law Experts Please contact We take pride in providing a Individual Redress Payment Andrew Mandleberg, full range of Michelle Patterson or Harpreet Jhawar Criminal and Prison Law To nd out more about the Scheme, eligibility and for • Parole Applications • Lifer Panels Services. to make a claim, visit lambeth.gov.uk/redress • Adjudications • Licence Recall • All criminal proceedings & appeals FOR ASSISTANCE PLEASE CONTACT or email [email protected] Union House, Uttoxeter Road, Hannah Rumgay - Prison Law Solicitor Longton, Stoke on Trent ST3 1NX Strictly Private and Con dential 0845 095 0011 Tates, 2 Park Square East, (local rate) Leeds, West Yorkshire LS1 2NE Lambeth Redress Team, Agency work undertaken 24 hour Emergency Helpline 07659 111000 0113 242 2290 PO Box 747, Winchester SO23 5DP Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Comment 25 Hold on for Christmas Former prison chaplain and one time ‘Glam vicar’ from Radio 2 says don’t forget the chaplaincy is there for you at Christmas

time and had two babies and so I had calling to work with prisoners.” What difference could the prison been doing part-time work for a par- chaplaincy actually make to prison- ish and other part-time jobs to bring So what could a chaplain bring to the ers and their families? “For some of in some money. The time came for me children in the STC? “I think for the guys,” she says, “when released, to get into work full-time. I was look- them, or anyone later that I was the experiences they had, the reli- ing around the various parish jobs, working with as a chaplain, I hope I gious or spiritual experiences, have nothing was really working out, and brought an independence of changed their lives and helped get then, by chance, I saw a job adver- thought,” she says, “some kindness them on the right track. Sometimes tised in a local newspaper looking for - as a Christian, what I wanted to we would get a phone call that a pris- a full-time chaplain to work at the communicate was that the person in oner’s relative was close to death newly opened Oakhill Secure Train- front of me had value and was im- and could we get them out to visit ing Centre (STC). I thought ‘it’s a job; portant. Whatever age people are in them. It was often difficult, with all it’s working with kids’. I had done the prison system, they are pretty the forms and risk-assessments, but that before, let’s give it a go. I applied, much devalued by their experiences, it made such a big difference to the went for an interview and found my- the people around them, and the prisoner and their family that they self doing the job.” system and, especially for children could meet in person that last time. who are at the start of their lives, There’s a whole spectrum of differ- That sense of being there is so much still to build on that ence we can make - even if it is just is positive. That sense of being given giving people worth and value.” given hope and treated hope and treated with dignity, with value and with care, was something Christmas can be a very difficult with dignity, with value really important that I could do.” time for prisoners, so I asked her if Being a prison chaplain – “no easy job” and with care, was some- she had a message to prisoners On the subject of comments about struggling at that time? “I remember thing really important people in the adult estate attending how difficult it is in the run-up to away’ but wished she could be there that I could do.” Chapel for reasons other than reli- Christmas, my message would be to earlier in the process. It became ob- gious, she says, “There’s always a just hold on. If you need to, then vious that people needed someone It was after doing some training and few guys who go to take advantage, please contact people in your Chap- Paul Sullivan to be there for them before, during walking through the gates that she for whatever reason, but by-and- laincy who will sit and talk with you, and after the crisis. This held to- realised she felt quite comfortable, large the vast majority of people I have a cup of tea and even have a gether with her growing faith, which and it grew on her from there. Having encountered coming to chapel - laugh. Hang on in there, it won’t al- Sharon Grenham-Thompson (above) had helped her pull through some been inside prisons during her legal maybe they weren’t all ‘card-carry- ways be this bad.” is a priest in the Anglican Church, dark times in her own life. “I was career the gates and bars did not ing Christians’ but they came ordained in 1998. In her early twen- attending a very active church, a very phase her. However, she says, “I because they were curious, and to ties she had been to university and exciting place to be,” she says, “with came to realise quite quickly that it have curiosity about some of the big The Reverend Sharon Grenham- qualified as a civil law solicitor. She a very supportive vicar, so it just is no easy job. I was working with questions in life, even if they did not Thompson left the Prison Service in says that she found a faith whilst at struck me that this may be the place twelve to seventeen year-olds who subscribe to it all, I welcomed that. 2016 and is currently Team Leader of university and went to church, but to bring all those aspects together.” had got themselves into trouble. They The Chapel, services, discussion Watling Valley Ecumenical Partner- her work made her want to do more were an ebullient bunch, so I had to groups, are places where people can ship in Milton Keynes. She has writ- for people at a really bad stage in She got involved with prison chap- wise-up quickly. I was surprised how ask questions and think them ten a book about her experiences: their life. After the legal processes laincy by accident, she says. “I had quickly I felt comfortable in that en- through with honesty. I would wel- ‘Jail Bird’ - published 2016 by Lion were through she would ‘wave them been in parish ministry for some vironment. I feel that, maybe, I had a come anyone to come.” Hudson, ISBN: 978-0-7459-6877-3

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about the pressure they feel as they get ready No looking back to feed back work done in groups by themselves and others. It’s not uncommon for people to Six years after its inception, Jailmate founder Dee Dee Cruize pass on their feedback duty in fear. In my time explains why she decided to create her hugely popular card I have seen many an empty seat representing the struggles of a man who is not in the right service for prisoners and their families space to hear the inner workings of his mind and spirit relayed to a room full of people.

There is continual debate about how feedback John Roberts should be done, what should be mentioned, in what detail and whether a group or an individual needs to step up. Understandably there is even In 2012, I interviewed Dee Dee debate about whether staff are always up to (right), founder of Jailmate date with feedback. Additionally, and I don’t Cards, and six years on de- wish to worry anybody who is considering com- © Fotolia.com cided to catch up with her and ing to Grendon, but each group actually has a Reece Johnson see how things were going. book in which they are expected to write their Dee Dee spent several years feedback after they have given it verbally during visiting her then boyfriend Feedbacking for the truth the meeting, which unfortunately can go un- when he was serving an IPP edited for weeks. sentence. Her life had fallen When a resident arrives on the assessment wing apart and she was balancing The debate is important because it is not enough here at Grendon they are assigned a group. a full-time job whilst trying to do the ‘work’ and leave the room. The process During their time as part of this group they will desperately to support her of feedback is therapeutic itself - it is an oppor- begin to get an understanding of how group man. He was struggling with tunity to learn from others outside of the group. therapy works, whilst being assessed to check life in prison and she was It also acts as a lighthouse, providing a way for they are suitable for therapy on one of the main struggling with her life out- those in choppy waters to find encouragement communities. In most cases each residents group side, which had been turned and support from community members who will be made up of people they have never met upside down. They wrote to may have had no idea what they’ve been through before or people they don’t know. This remains each other regularly and he or what they are currently going through. true for those men who are deemed suitable for phoned as often as he could, therapy when they are assigned a new and but the call charges restricted Nonetheless, for anyone considering applying permanent group on one of the therapy wings. the frequency. She loyally vis- to Grendon I do not have all the answers in ited him in every prison regard to how and why it is important to be In my experience one thing that remains con- around the country he was willing to share your most personal issues with troversial about group therapy is the idea of sent to. Life was difficult to a room full of other strangers. But I can say that the need and that Dee Dee for a while now and we are a complete strangers knowing some of your most say the least and this went on allowing others to see the ‘real you’ encourages was not the only one looking normal couple again and personal issues. However, another thing that for ten long years. them to let you see them. And with the trans- for suitable cards to send to we’re a mum and dad now is crucial to the fabric of therapy here at Grendon parency of feedback, and the therapeutic com- people in prison. Apart from too! It hasn’t all been easy, is the notion of transparency; therefore every During the visits they dis- munity model on the whole, hopefully we can Jailmate there is still nowhere but we got through all the bad session that takes place is fed back to the entire cussed various business all see through the b******* and see ourselves else to go for a range of cards times. We’ve had some issues community. Some may consider the process of ideas, as Dee Dee had always for who we truly are. specifically designed for peo- since prisons had to start pho- ‘feedback’ as self-explanatory but for those who planned to work for herself at ple in prison. tocopying letters, and in some are unsure, feedback occurs immediately after some point and it was still her prisons even cards as well, every group therapy session (Tuesday to Thursday) Reece Johnson, a nom de plume, is a resident dream in spite of this major ‘Good Luck With The Hearing’ but as our cards are clearly whilst the core creative therapies are fed back of HMP Grendon setback. “The idea of Jailmate and ‘Keep Calm and Get Pa- sent directly by the printers first thing during Monday’s therapy meeting. came to me,” she says, “be- role’ as well as ‘We’re All they do tend to get through cause I liked to send cards Thinking Of You In There’ and OK in most cases. There’s al- To dramatise the process of giving feedback Goscimski & Associates rather than write letters - we a simple ‘Missing You’ are ways going to be the odd would be to compare it to a scene in a Mafia spent so much time talking on amongst the hundreds of issue, which is irritating, but movie where the top five crime families (groups) CZY JESTEŚ NIEZADOWOLONY Z TWOJEGO ADWOKATA? the phone and during visits I messages on Jailmate’s spe- people understand this is out have their representatives take turns (daily in CZY CHCIAŁBYŚ SIE ODWOŁAĆ OD WYROKU? thought cards with little per- cially designed range of of our control. The prison of- this case) to explain their negotiations and CZY GROZI CI DEPORTACJA? sonal messages would mean cards, and new designs are ficers have a difficult job to do deliberations (target-based therapy work) to MY CI MOŻEMY POMÓC ! more and be likely to cheer continually being added. and we have to respect that. I the wider conglomerate (the community). 100% POLSKA KANCELARIA him up. The right ones could Readers may be aware that am sure security will soon get also decorate his drab cell Inside Time competition to grips with these drug prob- Nevertheless, whilst this may sound like the ALEXANDER GOŚCIMSKI walls and he would be able to prize-winners all receive a lems and as they say, ‘normal context for an episode of the ‘Sopranos’ this E:[email protected] T:0203 290 1115 M:07895 723 159 GOSCIMSKI & ASSOCIATES, 77-79 STATION ROAD, LONDON, E4 7QE think of me thinking of him card from us which has been service will soon be resumed’. isn’t too far off the mark. Residents often talk whenever he glanced up at specially designed by Jail- them. 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Imam Suhel Mulla. If things had gone another Yes, but a cautious optimism things, give them a bit of way for me, I would probably because I think there is now money and let them get on What did you tell the new now be in the House of Lords, more daylight coming into with it. officers? some old relic, drinking too prison and I give Inside Time much and pontificating…. I’m considerable credit for this as Have you any plans on becom- I talked about the chemistry much happier now. their correspondence means ing a vicar? between staff and inmates. at least people know what is There was a thing called the Any plans for Christmas? happening in prison, and also At the moment I’m a Deacon, Personal Officer Scheme the fact that we can see new but in a year, unless some- when I was inside, and there Yes, at Christmas I shall be in officers coming in. The big- thing ridiculous happens, I was a wonderful man when I HMP Long Lartin for Christ- gest reason I’m optimistic is will become a full priest, a was at Standford Hill called mas Day. because I think there are vicar. Joe Rook, who really made it more people than ever before work. I now talk regularly to Why do you think prisons are focusing on rehabilitation. And will you still work in all new incoming prison in such a state these days? prisons? officers. Do you place a value on edu- Well, the Osborne cuts were a cation in our prisons? Of course. So, how do you really feel tragedy. I was Chief Secretary about prison? to the Treasury, so I under- Yes, I do, people should take What message would you give stand how it works - the Chan- the chances that are on offer. to all prisoners? I have a great affection for the cellor and the Treasury always The one thing that the state prison culture, and the whole propose to cut everything to doesn’t do very well is reha- I would say that the whole world of prisons. There are a the bone, but strong Ministers bilitation. At the moment we Christian Gospel is about new heck of a lot of good people in will tell them that they can’t have the failed scheme of hope and giving people sec- there, both prisoners and possibly cut anything by more Transforming Rehabilita- prison officers, and I can, to than two percent or there’ll be tion…community rehabilita- ond chances. The Lord gives people the water of life, but Reverend Aitken: In prison for Christmas a certain extent, sniff them terrible trouble. But unfortu- tion companies, who get John Stillwell/PA out quite quickly. nately, we had some very in- really quite a lot of money, I you have to be prepared to experienced Ministers, like think it’s about £80billion a haul it up in your own bucket. had changed since his stint of What kind of chaplain are you? Chris Grayling, so this was a year or something. I believe It’s a combination of the porridge at Belmarsh. big tragedy. we should stop the state try- spiritual and the practical. Noel Smith I’m not the kind of chaplain ing to run everything; we God gives second chances, Three days after my ordina- who is a hand-wringer every Do you have any optimism for should find little platoons of even to the most unattractive tion I started work as a prison time somebody says they are the present system? experts that can actually do figures. The first time I met Jonathan chaplain in HMP Pentonville going to commit suicide or Aitken was in somewhat un- and I was not at all nervous something, I look at things fortunate circumstances. It about doing my pastoral work from all angles. was back in 1997 when he, a with prisoners, but I was one-time Cabinet Minister for nervous about how I would be What about the prisoners’ at- the Conservatives and firm treated by the staff. For exam- titude toward you - do they favourite to one day lead his ple, only a year ago I was know who you are? Party, had been jailed for 18 asked to give a talk at Worm- months at the Old Bailey on a wood Scrubs at the Christmas No, most of them don’t. The charge of perjury. At that carol service, at which I was word goes around but Penton- Wrongly convicted time I was on remand at HMP an honoured guest. But after- ville holds a huge number of of a crime? Belmarsh, awaiting trial on wards I was then told, sorry remand prisoners and some- multiple charges of armed but you can’t come into the thing like 68 nationalities, so robbery and firearm posses- Officers Mess, because they I wouldn’t expect them to. sion. Aitken was placed two have a rule that no ex-of- cells away from me on the fender will EVER be allowed Are you happy doing this job? same landing and despite me into the Officers Mess. So, the Lost your appeal? being a Tory-hating, dyed-in- culture can be very hostile. I can honestly say that I can’t the-wool card-carrying La- remember any other time in bour man, we got on What about in Pentonville? my life, apart from probably surprisingly well. on my honeymoon, when I Well, on my first morning I have been so happy and so Aitken is a spiritual man and met the Duty Governor and he fulfilled. What next? just before coming to prison said, ‘We’ve met before’. Then his faith had been foremost in he said I could be useful for What were your feelings about his mind. I can well remember, his next appointment. It prison before you actually at the time, how the media and turned out that there was a came back to work inside various pundits were quick to gang of around 40 brand- prisons? ridicule his ‘so-called’ prison new, first-day-on-the-job The CCRC can look again conversion to religion. But prison officers who had ar- Well, I like to think that I was If you think your conviction or sentence is wrong that was almost 20 years ago, rived at the prison. He gave never a ‘lock-them-up-and- apply to the CCRC and this summer just gone I them a pretty tough talk throw-the-key-away’ sort of • It won’t cost anything was among those proud to about life in the job - then he person. What changed that • Your sentence can’t be increased if you apply attend Jonathan Aitken’s or- announced, ‘The Reverend was coming to prison and • You don't need a lawyer to apply, but a good one dination and celebration at Aitken would like to say a few suddenly realising that on the can help the Old Bailey when he was words!’ “Now I am really en- landings we’re all equal and ordained as a Deacon and be- joying the teamwork in our some of the guys hadn’t ever You can get some more information and a copy of the came a prison chaplain. chaplaincy in Pentonville had a chance. CCRC's Easy Read application form by writing to us at where I am being well trained 5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW. or calling 0121 233 1473 A couple of weeks ago I met by the Senior Anglican Chap- How do you think your life Prisoners in Scotland should contact; The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, 5th Floor, up with the Rev. Aitken to ask lain, The Revd Jo Davies and would have panned out had Portland House, 17 Renfi eld Street, Glasgow, G2 5AH. Phone: 0141 270 7030 Email: [email protected] him just how much his life the Managing Chaplain, you not gone to prison? 28 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2018

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Longford Prize winners 2018 ‘strongest ever field’ By Mike Nicholls - HMP Dartmoor

Peter Stanford rights, due process and the one little understood front- The free man’s sun shines down upon the yard. rule of law, and to outlaw the line of the criminal justice Sunlight, like stars, glints from the razor wire. It was one of our strongest death penalty. Its contribu- system. Her success in con- Embedded fl akes of mica shine from out fi elds ever, and the Longford tion is especially valued, the veying their experience to The granite blocks that shape the cruel walls. Prize judges (chair John judges believed, in these new audiences - through a Podmore, with Peter Dawson uncertain times around the BBC podcast, school visits, a A raucous laugh rings out from the one who has of PRT, Sir Joseph Pilling of New globe, and they commended BAFTA-nominated children’s Forgotten for the moment how he’s caged Bridge, Lord Ramsbotham, in particular its work in Saudi documentary and a Daily And others share his momentary joy: Arabia on behalf of 18 young Chloe Billington, Dr Jason Mail feature among other ave- We captives are at exercise today. Warr [ex Longford Scholar], men currently facing execution nues - demonstrates her suc- for the ‘crime’ of protesting. political journalist Mary cess in reaching the parts of A seagull circles, silent overhead - Riddell, and me) selected the the public debate that others Unknown to it confi nement such as ours. struggle to reach. following group of recipients to support their education, For him the sea, the moor and endless sky - ranging from a big, high-pro- have been priceless, the judg- Are kingdom free and freedom’s legacy. fi le, international organisation, The Pinter poem es believed, in the life of those The winning 2018 Pinter through a longstanding and who receive them, while the Soft breezes blow to cool our captive trudge unsung volunteer-sustained Poem is, Exercise Yard - Some continuing work of Haven Where we, about the yard, still penned, can go body, to an inspiring individual: thoughts in blank verse by Distribution should be Mike Nicholls from HMP Dart- In endless goal-less ambulation round, applauded for sustaining a Until recalled, too soon, again to bars. Longford Prize Winner moor. It was read at the an- vital lifeline to prisons through Outstanding Achievement nual Longford Lecture on Longford Prize 2018, worth thick and thin, including £5,000 and sponsored by the Award Wednesday 28 November, Yet here, above all else, there’s time to think: periods when sending books And fi nally the judges made and won a prize of £100. The The days will dawn when we are free again McGrath Charitable Trust to prisons was banned. goes to - Haven Distribution, an Outstanding Achievement award was established by the And, taking lessons learned whilst kept confi ned, founded 22 years ago and still Award to Josie Bevan (above), historian Antonia Fraser, Can exercise in boundless open space. run and funded entirely by whose popular Prison Bag Lord Longford’s daughter, in volunteers. It keeps a low pro- blog tells, with unflinching memory of her late husband, One thing we learn, when we are kept within, fi le but achieved so much in honesty, what it means to be the Nobel Laureate, Harold Is how to value freedom when we’re out. sending tens of thousands of a prisoner’s family. Bevan Pinter, and celebrates the best So, ‘till the gate swings open once again, books over two decades to every Highly Commended writes from personal experi- poem published in the pages Make each day count instead of counting days. prison in the United Kingdom. The judges also Highly ence, the judges said, but of Inside Time during that year. speaks with eloquence, In the past two years HMP Commended ‘Reprieve’, First published in the October 2018 issue of Inside Time. Mike humour and passion on Stocken, to quote just one exam- which this year celebrates the Nicholls is going to spend part of his prize on an electronic behalf of others like her ple, has received 769. These 20th anniversary of its tire- Peter Stanford is director of dictionary. books, requested by prisoners less eff orts to uphold human whose voices are not heard on the Longford Trust

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There are going to be a few months estate. Currently, digital provision is of upheaval while the new systems really patchy and there’s not an over- and services come into place. For all strategy or the resources to sup- Our top five prison prisons that are already struggling port the rollout. This has to be a to provide services this might mean priority for HMPPS. Technology they get more resources and the ser- skills are an important part of em- vices improve, or it could mean that ployability and developing life the situation worsens. It’s part of my skills. education priorities role to monitor this. 5. Opening up universities to people to remove the obstacles facing learn- Another key priority is to track HMIP, with convictions ers, ensuring they have access to ed- Ofsted, Estyn and Independent Mon- Following this year’s announcement ucational materials and time to work itoring Board (IMB) reports to see by the Universities and Colleges Ad- and research in the library. Of the what’s happening with prison learn- missions Service (UCAS) to ban the prisons inspected last year, only five ing across England and Wales, good box, there is real momentum behind in 10 had sufficient activity places and bad. One of the messages that opening up universities to people and six in 10 didn’t use these places I’d like to get across is how much a with convictions. But it’s important properly. This needs to change. regime can impact on education. to remember that while UCAS have taken this important and welcome I’m still shocked that some people in 3. Learning from people inside and step, this hasn’t come into place prison can work really hard on their ensuring your voices are heard across all universities. distance learning course, study and It’s important to ensure that the pol- revise and then, because of adminis- icy work we’re doing is relevant and We’re working hard to push this for- trative and regime reasons, aren’t we can’t do that unless we’re contin- ward: in November we held an event able to sit their exams. We’re going to uously talking to people with lived for university outreach and widen- look at prisons that have got this right experience. PET regularly consults ing participation teams to share Going the distance and work out how we can promote with our alumni Advisory Group on good practice. It was a good oppor- best practice. our work plans and they do a bril- tunity to encourage universities to ensure that everyone can access liant job of keeping us on track. review their admissions policies and high-quality education inside. We’ll also take a look at whether in- processes. We want to work with dividual learning plans are working Of course, it’s important to get the universities and colleges to ensure In this article, Francesca sets out and whether careers advice services views of people currently serving education is open to everyone. PET’s top policy priorities over the are up and running properly. too. Thanks to funding from Eras- Francesca Cooney started as PET’s coming months. We want to ensure mus+, over the next few months we What do you think about our educa- Head of Policy in September, having our learners’ voices are at the heart 2. Making sure prison education is are running participation workshops tion priorities? Have we missed previously managed the advice ser- of what we do, so we would love to well-resourced and effective in prisons to help us shape our ser- something? What do you think vice at the Prison Reform Trust and hear your thoughts on what needs to Another of my priorities has to be vices, developed and facilitated by needs to change in prison learning? also worked at Her Majesty’s Inspec- change in prison education too. monitoring the new education con- someone with lived experience. We would love to hear your thoughts. torate of Prisons. tracts and funding arrangements We will share what we learn through 1. Supporting people to complete 4. Campaigning for access to digital social media and on our website. All Her role at PET means she is respon- distance learning courses that come into place in April, and trying to get the message out to poli- technology contributions will be anonymised sible for championing prison educa- unless requested otherwise. tion and working to improve the way My number one priority is ensuring cymakers that the resources need to Following the PLA conference in that the people we help are able to be adequate and the commissioning September, the PLA’s members gave it is run. She also leads the Prisoner Please send your thoughts to FREE- Learning Alliance (PLA), bringing achieve their learning goals. First - the way new organisations are se- us a clear steer that they’d like us to POST, Prisoners’ Education Trust. together charities, universities and and foremost, this means complet- lected to work in prisons - needs to be campaign for access to digital tech- people who work in prisons, to ing the course they’ve taken. I want effective. nology across the whole prison Deaf Awareness and Sign Language Your Rights Our Responsibility The course explores the dif- people with hearing issues. ferent kinds of hearing loss, This course would afford my as well as introducing learn- employment chances a great ers to British, American and boost by making me more at- We specialise in Prison Law, we also offer expertise in Spanish sign language and tractive to employers.” Criminal Appeals and Immigration the deaf-blind manual alphabet. Helping people is at the heart We pride ourselves on delivering a client centric service, Course Notes Straight talking legal experts who put your needs first of other learners’ motivation PET fund over 300 types of Malcolm, who is taking the for studying. Harry writes, “I We provide legal aid services in : We offer competitive distance-learning courses. course, is part of a prison feel this course will not only • Parole Hearings Fixed Fees: To apply, you will need to: Deafness is the third most group that raises awareness benefit me but the people I • Adjudications • Re-categorisation matters l Have at least six months common disability in the of communicating effectively hope to work for and with and • Sentence calculations • Sentence planning left to serve in custody; world. By 2035, the charity with people with hearing the community as a whole, • Licence recalls l Be serving your sentence Action on Hearing Loss esti- loss. He is also losing his own and I would like the chance to • Governor • Pre-Tariff & Tariff Reviews adjudications in a prison in England or mates there will be over 15 hearing and applied to do the give something back.” • Challenges to Parole Board • Independent risk Wales; million people with hearing course to understand how to decisions assessments l Have Level 2 Numeracy loss across the UK - that’s one live with hearing loss: “This Perhaps Harry sums it up best • Cat A Review Boards • HDC /ROTLS and Literacy, but we can in five of us. If you’re inter- course could help me to com- though with the closing line • Challenges to Close Supervision • Segregation Centre and Separation Centres be flexible depending on ested in finding out more municate better, as at the mo- of his application: “I am up • Transfers about what it means to be ment I find it hard to hear for the challenge of learning the applicant and the We offer fixed fees in, Bail Applications, Deportation chosen course. deaf, PET has just the course what’s being said. Also I new things.” and Asylum. for you. could help others with this We offer fixed fees in all Immigration matters. To look at a full curricu- disability.” This course is perfect as an We have Legal Representatives who speak Lithuanian and lum, or for more informa- BSY’s Deaf Awareness & Sign introduction to deaf aware- Bengali and can assist you. Language course will help Other applicants have consid- ness and sign language: as tion about how to apply, For more information, please contact please speak to your learners to consider attitudes ered the impact the course well as giving you an oppor- Kathryn Reece-Thomas or Sara Watson prison’s Education to deafness, gain an under- might have on their career tunity to learn more about T: 0203 841 8580 Department. You can also standing of the challenges it prospects. Andrew wrote, “It this growing issue, the course write to FREEPOST, brings, and find out how they would be sensible to enhance can also be used as a founda- ReeceThomasWatson, 758 H olloway Road, Islington, London N19 3JF Prisoners’ Education Trust. can help people who are deaf employment possibilities by tion qualification towards or hard of hearing. being competent in assisting further studies. 30 Information // Through the gate www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2018

Moving on... insurance brokers who can provide policies to people The Careers Lady with a criminal record. 2. If you want to set up your business as a limited com- The first step through the door pany, make sure that your conviction does not disqual- to your future ify you from being a director. You’ll usually have been told at Court if you are disqualified.

3. Consider whether you want your name attached to your work. If details of your conviction were featured in the

© Deposit Photos media, you may want to consider changing your name before setting up your Setting up your business. 4. If you’re thinking of work- own business ing as a contractor, then you may be asked to provide de- Unlock’s Debbie Sadler answers questions tails of your criminal record and you may need to have to assist with life after prison. This month © Deposit Photos formal criminal record she looks at setting up your own business checks. following release from prison Stronger through rejection What support is available? There are many organisations As a careers adviser, I would love to be able to stage, it is easy to ask the employer what the Many of us have thought your own hard work. that can offer support and guarantee my help would ensure that all my reasons were for the rejection. If you are not about starting our own busi- mentoring to individuals clients have a 100% success rate at getting the even getting to that stage, and you are contin- ness at some point. However, Salary: Your earning potential looking to set up their own not many people get around first job they applied for. Realistically, not every uously getting rejected at the initial application could be higher, but you’ll business. Details of these are to trying and for those that interview or job application will end up with a form stage, then it is difficult not to form your need to be prepared to work available from the Unlock do, it’s not always as easy as hard. person getting the job. The main thing is that own negative thoughts over why this is. So office. they think it’s going to be. you can pick yourself up from the rejection and many companies may not even respond to your Disadvantages learn from it. application and so you are left confused as to If you’re claiming job seekers ‘why’. If you have done all your homework on However, for people with convictions, disclosing a crimi- No employee benefits: You allowance or universal credit Before prison you may have had a good job, researching the company, looking to ensure you won’t be entitled to sick pay then you may be eligible to been motivated and successful. Prison means have the stated requirements for the job, and nal record to an employer can or holiday pay - if you take apply for a New Enterprise things may have changed. The job market might you have enclosed the covering letter asking for mean that they don’t get in- time off, you won’t get paid. Allowance. You’ll be put in have moved on and the demands from potential an opportunity to discuss the break in your work vited to interviews or are touch with a mentor who’ll employers may be higher in certain industries. history, then it is difficult to accept the rejection. turned down for jobs and this Long hours: Your working day Employers are often inundated with job appli- can lead people to seriously give you advice and support may be longer and more irreg- cations and have their own methods of selection. But, and this is a big BUT, you will need to move consider running their own to start your business and ular and, as you concentrate They will have to start the rejection process on and persevere and think about how you are business. help you put together a busi- on getting your business off from early on, as they will not have the time to going to overcome your negative thoughts. You ness plan. Once your busi- the ground, you may spend interview every applicant. have no idea what the employer is actually Having a good understanding ness plan has been agreed, thinking. Their requirements may not fit in with of the advantages and disad- less time with family or you may be entitled to a There will always be employers that are nervous what you have to offer, so you need some sort vantages of being self-em- friends. weekly allowance to top up of applicants with a prison history, so getting of feedback to help work out what you can do ployed, rather than being an your salary and/or a loan to employee, is really over that hurdle will be the first step. I have to improve. Unpredictable finances: Your help with start-up costs. important. talked at length in past columns about how to income may initially be irreg- ular and it may be a while put together a good CV, complete a winning Don’t let your negative thinking get in the way If you have willpower, deter- Advantages before your business starts application form, and the skills needed to be of practical knowledge which can turn your mination and self-discipline, making a profit. successful at the interview. However, life is not negative thoughts into what you can do to be Less chance of discrimination: and enjoy making your own always a textbook guarantee and coping with positive about the rejection. It’s unlikely that you’ll be decisions, then self-employ- Questions you should ask rejection (probably many times over) is some- asked to disclose your crimi- ment could be worth thing that can defeat even the most resilient In my experience, and I have had plenty of yourself nal record to the majority of considering. job applicant. rejections, I have learnt from my mistakes and your customers unless you Although your criminal re- become better and more confident that what I want to take on certain types cord will have less of an im- There is a book by Rhonda Byrne called ‘The had to offer was just not what the company of contract (for example Gov- pact if you’re self-employed, Secret’. In this book the author talks about were looking for. What is the point of mistakes ernment contracts). there are still some key ques- mindset and how our thoughts and attraction if you don’t learn from them? tions that you should be ask- of thoughts can have an effect on how we cope Debbie Sadler is the advice Independence: You’ll be able ing yourself before you take with rejection. If you can’t address your negative thoughts, manager at Unlock, an inde- to set the hours you work to fit the first step(s) to setting up then how can you break the pattern and im- pendent charity for people around other commitments; your business: Having a negative thought can build on other prove? Be driven by the need to do better next with convictions and our help- for example, attending proba- negative thoughts. This is particularly crucial time. Think about what you can do to prevent line provides confidential peer tion appointments or com- 1. All the time your convic- if you think about job application rejections. It rejection. Turn your negative thoughts into advice on overcoming the pleting courses. tion is unspent, you’ll need to could simply have been that the employer had positive thinking and positive action. effects of criminal records. disclose it to insurance com- too many applicants and had to make decisions You can call 01634 247350 on how to reduce the number in order to make The right job is waiting for you, no matter how Job satisfaction: Working for panies. Try to find out what Monday to Friday, 10-4 (the the process of selection easier. It might not have many applications have resulted in rejections. yourself means you won’t the cost of business insurance number does not need to be been that the applicant simply did not have the If your job interview doesn’t go your way, and have to get involved in office is likely to be and whether put on your pin) or write to requirements necessary for the job. you don’t get the result you hoped for, don’t dwell politics or worry about col- you’ll have any difficulties in Unlock, MCSC, 39-48 on it. Immediately look for what you can learn leagues finding out about getting insurance due to the Marsham Street, Maidstone, And so a series of negative thoughts can start from the experience and come away stronger your criminal record. Also, nature of your offence. Un- Kent, ME14 1HH. Our website to develop. If you are rejected from the interview and more motivated. It’s all in the ‘thinking’. you’ll reap the rewards of lock has a list of commercial is www.unlock.org.uk. 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Advertorial help you plan your business. • Hairdresser (several prisons run or want to learn. Think about your courses); business and try and find out as From prisoners The key to a successful business on much about it as you can. For in- • Window cleaner; release is the detailed planning that stance, try and get information on you put into it whilst in prison. Over • IT - software writer (Duane Jackson the market size, value of the sector, the coming weeks, Cell Study will be wrote an accounting package called level of competitors etc; to entrepreneurs taking a look at the various aspects ‘Kashflow’ whilst in prison and sold • Use the ‘elevator pitch’ with of going self-employed and working it for several million to Iris colleagues; The Tax Academy launches Cellstudy with you on a Business Plan. software); • Greetings card entrepreneur (Dee • Start thinking about your competitors; Paul Retout research it amongst other prisoners Developing your business strategy Dee Cruize wrote her business plan and teachers and then plan the busi- Firstly, think about the business that when visiting her partner inside and • What will be the pricing of your ness. At the hub of creating a new you would like to start. What are the launched this special prison-based business? One of the main barriers to gaining customer needs you are trying to online card service whilst he was in business is the ‘Business Plan’. • Are there any legal requirements? employment on release is having a meet? Think about how your busi- prison); Protecting your idea - trademark/ criminal record. As I mentioned last ness will meet those needs whilst Many prospective entrepreneurs on • Accountant; patent; month, even trying to get insurance the ‘outside’ do not have the time to making a profit. Try the ‘elevator for your car on release can be diffi- structure and plan their business, pitch’ with a colleague. This is a short • Personal trainer (Samson McNab • Think about your training needs; cult. Many individuals find that try- and many fail in the first twelve summary spoken aloud for 30-60 sec- - one of our clients - has just left HMP In January 2019 we will begin to look Prescoed and set up as a fitness ing to get a job after release with a months. Whilst many see writing a onds answering the question ‘what at the Business Plan in some detail. trainer); criminal record is an almost insur- business plan as ‘boring and turgid’, does your business do?’ Not only can mountable task; the simple statistic as they can take a lot of time and this ‘pitch’ be useful for clarifying • Telecoms entrepreneur (Ben Sturge Get your tax affairs in order being that less than 25% of individ- thought, prison time provides the your business but it can also be used designed ‘Fonesavvy’ whilst in pre-release uals leaving prison will have a job ideal opportunity to write it, and, for networking. Try it amongst your prison, offering cheap calls for pris- Remember to contact The Tax Acad- when they leave prison; therefore where possible, to use the resources friends! oners calling mobiles outside. He emy CIC to review your tax affairs to many individuals leaving prison are within prisons to enhance it. launched the company on his re- ensure they are up-to-date. There is turning to self-employment. It is no Here are some ideas and examples of lease and the service is used exten- nothing worse than being released surprise that the Report ‘From In- previous successes: sively in UK prisons); from prison, then finding out that mates to Entrepreneurs’ by the Cen- you have tax penalties and tax debt • Gardener; • E Mail entrepreneur Derek Jones tre for Entrepreneurs recently stated that need to be resolved with HMRC. • Dog walking/grooming; designed the ‘Email a Prisoner’ ser- that almost 60% of those in prison vice whilst in prison. The service is wanted to find out more about going • Florist (Gina Moffat spent six years now in every UK prison and in sev- self-employed after release. The idea of ‘Cell Study’ is to use your in HMP Holloway but created the eral other countries); Paul Retout created The Tax prison time to your personal advan- ‘Blooming Scent’ business); Academy CIC whilst in HMP Most people, on release, want to get • Bricklaying; tage and plan to go self-employed on • Catering; Wandsworth and HMP Brixton. on with their lives and planning a release. Quite simply being in prison • General building work; Paul now represents the prison business can be a real focus whilst • Handyman; is not a barrier to thinking about the network at the HMRC Individual in prison. Being in prison gives you future. 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PRISON Ryan Harman threatened with homelessness. services from looking into al- Hopelessness or hope? REFORM Advice and Info ternatives for you or making TRUST Service Manager Before making a referral, pris- referrals to other housing op- ons must have your consent to tions if there are any. Last month we wrote about do so and to include your con- A mixed time some of the current and up- tact details so that the housing After receiving the referral, it coming changes outlined in authority can contact you is up to the local housing au- gained such as learning sign language. the recently published Manage about it. They should also thority as to what action is Currently, one man is developing a mental the Custodial Sentence Policy allow you to identify the hous- taken. As a minimum, housing health app to enable people to communicate ing authority in England which authorities should always re- Juliet Lyon CBE Framework. Also included in and find ways out of their depression. this document is a reference you would like the notification spond to any referral received. Somehow in these bleak, noisy places, people to a new duty that prisons now to go to. You should be aware However, if the housing au- Christmas and the coming New Year is a mixed have found time to reflect. Someone wrote have in relation to resettle- that it is often much more dif- thority’s subsequent contact time for many - none more so than if you are recently: ‘I am a changed man when it comes ment. The Homelessness ficult to get housing in an area with you gives them reason to spending that time in prison. Some people to committing crimes because I have had a lot Reduction Act 2017 introduced which you have no local con- believe that you might be seem cheerful, others can feel lonely and sad. of years of my life in prison to be able to think a duty on public authorities in nection to - it is worth getting homeless or threatened with It’s worth remembering that there are other about my victims, my family and who I want England, including prisons, more advice from resettlement homelessness then it should prisoners, staff , chaplains, healthcare staff , to be in life and I can tell you that I don’t want to refer anyone who may be services in the prison if you are trigger a homelessness appli- Listeners, Insiders, prison visitors and volun- to be the sort of person who hurts people and homeless or threatened with not sure about this. cation under Part 7 of the teers who you can talk to. pray all my past victims have somehow found homelessness to local housing Housing Act 1996. This means the strength to rebuild their lives and move authorities. The exact procedures for refer- that they will consider your It was this time last year that the Independent forwards.’ rals will be different in different circumstances, eligibility and Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) The policy framework ac- areas, as agreed between the whether you might be in pri- published the Keeping Safe report which set Keeping our promise knowledges this duty with the prison and local authorities. It ority need, to decide what out the views of 150 prisoners across 60 prisons This is what you can hope for, and reasonably following paragraph, 4.46: is the housing authority’s re- duties they owe you. They may on how best to prevent suicide and self-harm. expect, from the IAP now and next year: a ‘Governors must ensure that sponsibility to make sure that also look at your local connec- Since then some hopeful changes have been safety assessment developed to protect pris- there are processes in place to these procedures are in place tion and whether you might made to staff numbers and regimes, first oners and staff ; guidelines on embedding and comply with the duty to refer and to manage the referrals. be considered ‘intentionally nights, improved visits and in-cell telephones implementing safer custody recommendations under the Homelessness However, the Code of Guidance homeless’. You should get ad- in some prisons. There is more support for the by, amongst others, the Prisons Inspectorate, Reduction Act 2017 with effect says that ‘arrangements with vice from the resettlement Samaritans and safer custody teams. But there Coroners and the Prisons and Probation from October 2018. This would prisons should ensure that the services at the prison as to is still a long way to go to make prisons the Ombudsman; and a large scale Keeping Safe usually be completed by 6 referral is made well in ad- what this might mean for you. safe, decent places you want them to be. event to reenforce your messages and make weeks before release. For short vance of the release date and You can also get advice from sure that lessons are learned. We are commit- sentences the referral would that, with the individual’s con- Shelter on 0808 800 4444 - we From your letters ted to consulting people held in custody, and need to be completed as soon sent, appropriate information understand that this number From your letters to Freepost IAP, which we their families, and gathering research evi- as possible’. is supplied with the referral’. is usually already cleared so receive under confi dential access, it’s clear that dence to inform the expert advice we give. you shouldn’t need to add it the lingering indeterminate sentence for public The Homelessness Code of Please be aware that, unfortu- to your PIN. nately, a referral being made protection (IPP) is having a damaging impact We don’t want to raise false hopes, but at the Guidance for Local Authorities is no guarantee of getting You can contact the Prison on people’s mental and physical health. Many same time we will keep our promise to make has been updated with more housing for your release and Reform Trust’s advice team at feel ‘isolated and forgotten’. One man made it sure that your views on how to prevent suicide, details about this duty in that the prison’s responsibility FREEPOST ND6125 London plain: ‘Better progression and plans to get us drug-related deaths and self-harm reach Chapter 4. It says that public under the Homelessness EC1B 1PN. Our free informa- out are imperative, as this lack of hope opens Ministers and offi cials and all those with the authorities such as prisons are Reduction Act only extends to tion line number is 0808 802 a black hole fi lled with despair.’ The IAP has authority to change things for the better. As an ‘required to notify a housing making the referral. However, 0060 and does not need to be agreed, before Christmas, to present a dossier independent body, the IAP will stick with this authority of service users they this does not stop resettlement put on your pin. of your letters to the Justice and Public Health whatever happens politically. And together we consider may be homeless or Ministers responsible for prisoners’ health and will keep people safe. to follow this up with meetings as early as possible in January. We understand and accept DAVIES & JONES that ‘IPP prisoners need support not to be See our Juliet Lyon is Chair of the Independent ignored.’ page in the SOLICITORS Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) The strength of the human spirit ‘Jailbreak’ section Specialising in Time and again when I read your letters I am Please write in to ‘FREEPOST IAP’. 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HMP Ranby HMP Kirkham Category C male adult training and Male category D open prison resettlement prison Unannounced Inspection: 25 June-5 July 2018 Unannounced Inspection: 4-15 June 2018 Published: 6 November 2018 Published: 18 October 2018 Safety W W W W Safety W W W W Respect W W W W Respect W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W HMP Manchester HMP & YOI Chelmsford Purposeful Activity W W W W Resettlement W W W W Core local prison holding male prisoners Category B local and resettlement prison for Resettlement W W W W received from the Greater Manchester adult and young adult men. “Successful jail but should address courts as well as category A prisoners, also Unannounced Inspection: 21 May-7 June 2018 “Clear improvement over three years but prisoners’ perception of negative treat- has a discrete close supervision centre Published: 12 October 2018 continued focus on drugs needed” ment by staff” Unannounced Inspection: 27, 28 June, 9-12 Safety W W W W July 2018 Published: 20 November 2018 Respect W W W W The report says: “We last inspected HMP Ranby Kirkham holds more than 600 men drawing SafetyW W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W in 2014, followed by a very early return in 2015. close to the end of long sentences, nearly half Respect W W W W Resettlement W W W W At the time we had very significant concerns for drugs offences. Inspectors say there “was Purposeful Activity W W WW little violence or bullying among prisoners, “High drug-fuelled violence and self-harm for the establishment, which we considered Resettlement W W W W unsafe and in a state of crisis, and which we including 117 classed as presenting a high risk but inspectors believe leadership can of harm and a fifth of whom were linked to Important local prison that needs to guard thought at the time was in danger of being “ tackle problems” organised crime gangs. Use of force by staff was against complacency and ‘up its game’” overwhelmed by illegal drugs, but at this inspection our findings were much more rare. Inspectors noted that the prison was trying Introducing the report, Inspectors said: “At our to create a “motivational and incentivising Commenting on this inspection, HM Chief last inspection in 2016, we reported that pro- encouraging. culture.” Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke said he was gress had stalled and that outcomes had dete- told that in the very near future the prison would riorated, which led to the prison being rated as “Recorded violence had increased marginally become a training prison for category B pris- not sufficiently good in all four of our healthy but most of it, with a few exceptions, was minor. The grounds of the prison were excellent and oners. It was envisaged that the prison would prison tests. Any optimism we had in 2016 was Again, levels of violence now reflected more residential accommodation was maintained reasonably well despite signs of wear and tear. retain its high security responsibilities. not borne out at this inspection, where some closely those in other similar prisons. As before, The food provided was popular with most pris- outcomes had deteriorated markedly.” much of the violence was related to drugs and Despite a reasonable inspection in 2014, Mr oners. Monthly consultation meetings with associated debt. Testing indicated that drug Clarke says that this inspection “was disap- The report continues: “We had significant con- prisoners were well attended and useful but usage remained high, at about 28%, and nearly pointing in that our assessments indicated cerns about the safety of the establishment. despite an efficient complaints system, prison- two-thirds of prisoners thought drugs were easy deterioration in all these tests, except for reha- Levels of violence were far too high and not ers were not confident in using it for fear of to obtain in the prison. Balanced against this, bilitation and release planning. Fewer new enough had been done to ensure the underlying being seen as problematic and of being returned the prison had a very good understanding of prisoners were now arriving at Manchester as causes were understood or addressed. Until to closed conditions. We found no evidence to the challenges it faced and significant efforts the prison prepared for its transition to a training recently the prison’s strategy relied almost ex- support these views, although the prison should function but, despite this, reception arrange- clusively on punishing poor behaviour when were being undertaken to target anti-social take them seriously and address the issue as ments took too long and lacked rigour in the it occurred. There were early signs that a more behaviour. The management of intelligence part of its drive to improve relationships and assessment of risk.” proactive approach was being adopted, and was good, the prison had implemented meas- prisoner confidence. some enthusiastic safer custody staff wanted ures to combat the drugs problem and work to The prison has ‘significant’ levels of violence and to make a difference. This new focus needed to incentivise positive behaviour had started. in the six months before the inspection had 177 Many prisoners said they felt victimised by ‘rude be maintained and developed. There were early signs that these initiatives assaults, 45 against staff. Mr Clarke says: “Two- and abrupt staff’. Their negative perceptions were beginning to be effective. thirds of prisoners indicated to us that they had “Much of the violence was related to the supply were not reflected by staff, 72% of whom thought felt unsafe during their time at Manchester, and and use of illicit drugs, and the positive drug staff-prisoner relationships were good. Peter a third stated they felt unsafe at the time we testing rate was among the highest we have “Staff-prisoner relationships were good, and Clarke said: “There was sufficient evidence, in inspected. Nearly two-thirds indicated to us seen at over 40%. There was a focus on reducing most prisoners felt respected. It was clear that our view, to suggest the prisoners may have that they had been victimised by other prisoners the supply of illicit drugs and providing drug prisoners held on the prison’s smaller units had a point, and that the approach of some, and over half felt victimised by staff. users with support, but these challenges re- were receiving better attention than those on certainly too many, staff was unsupportive of mained significant. The level of finds was con- the busier, larger wings, where the lack of any the ethos to which the prison aspired. Addressing Use of force was increasing in the prison and sistently high: in a single month, the prison form of key worker arrangement was an omis- this shortcoming in the quality of staff-prisoner was now also comparable to levels in similar had seized 28 drug packages, 44 mobile phones sion. The development of collaborative ‘ena- relationships was the key priority to emerge prisons. The quality of scrutiny had not, how- and 18 parcels that had been thrown over the bling environments’ on some of the wings ever, kept pace with the increase … Mandatory from this inspection.” perimeter wall. The estimated value in the pris- seemed to us to be a useful and encouraging drug testing indicated a positive rate of 18%, on of the items seized during that month alone initiative, although their effectiveness had yet including new psychoactive substances (NPS), was in excess of £15,000. Drug misuse was a serious problem for the pris- and there was considerable evidence that point- to be fully assessed.” on and had worsened since the previous in- ed to the ready accessibility of illegal drugs. “The prison did not have sufficient staff to de- spection in 2013. However, most positive tests liver the advertised regime, and nearly all of Summing up, Mr Clarke says: “HMP Ranby had were for cannabis (51%) and cocaine (25%). The report says that “poor housekeeping, litter the prisoners were negatively affected by re- proven to be a difficult prison to run and still had There had been no positive tests for New and a failure to remove rubbish had encouraged strictions to prisoners’ time out of cell. Over many problems to fix. The key priority remained Psychoactive Substances (NPS) which have a vermin problem. Servery areas were often 40% of those who did not attend activities were undoubtedly the continuing battle against caused huge problems in other jails. found to be dirty and standards set by staff for usually locked up every day for 21 to 22 hours.” drugs, which undermined everything. But that the cleaners were lacklustre. was not the whole picture. The prison was well Summing up, Mr Clarke said: “Kirkham con- Summing up, Mr Clarke says: “As long as the led by a competent and effective governor, Summing up, Mr Clarke said: “Local managers leadership of the prison remains consistent and tinues to be an effective open resettlement had a stated commitment to ensuring the basics vital support continues, there is no reason why supported by a capable senior team and staff prison. Good outcomes were evident, and this were right, although if we had an overarching the very serious problems cannot be addressed. group. We observed much good practice, and was reflected in a good report … Offender man- criticism it would be that, in fact, the basics Leadership at both local and regional level an openness to innovative ideas as well as an agement provision required some new and were not always well attended to. The prison readily acknowledged the gravity of the issues attention to detail. The governor had sought to joined-up thinking and, in our view, staff need- had to guard against complacency and in many facing the jail and HMPPS had already placed attend to getting the basics right and in our view ed to ensure they were fully committed to the respects ‘up its game’.” the prison in ‘special measures’.” the prison had unquestionably improved.” prison’s values and purpose.” Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Legal 35

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When a man- to offenders when they are Those prisoners who had their • That the prisoner is suffer- Prior to December 2003, those The release of a life sentence convicted of offences for tariff set by the Home datory life sentence ing from a terminal illness subject to a minimum term in prisoner is granted by the Secretary, whose tariff is yet and death is likely to occur accordance with the above which life imprisonment is Secretary of State, who refers is imposed the would have their tariff set by the maximum penalty for that to expire, can apply to the very shortly, or the prisoner is the consideration for release Court must deter- bedridden or similarly inca- the Home Secretary. However, offence. Offences which carry High Court to have a new min- to the Parole Board. Should following legal challenge the a maximum sentence of life imum term set. Should these pacitated, for example, those the Parole Board direct the mine a minimum paralysed or suffering from a power to set a minimum term imprisonment include: prisoners not apply their orig- release of a prisoner, the term to be served severe stoke; and was transferred to judges as inal tariff, as set by the Home Secretary of State is bound by • Manslaughter; Secretary, will apply. of 18th December 2003. This that decision. by the offender • The risk of re-offending is minimal; and The Parole Board will consid- before they can be er a dossier of papers contain- considered for • Further imprisonment ing information about the would reduce the prisoner’s prisoner’s offending history, release by the life expectancy; and their time in custody, and also Parole Board. any potential plans to manage • There are adequate arrange- them in the community on ments for the prisoner’s care licence. In order for the Parole The prisoner is given 30 days and treatment outside prison; Board to direct the release of to prepare representations, and a prisoner, oral evidence must which are considered by the be taken. Secretary of State. Should it • Early release will bring be felt that the case fits the some significant benefit to What happens when I am relevant criteria the case is the prisoner or his/her family. released? submitted to a High Court Life sentence prisoners judge who will recommend if Do I need a lawyer? released into the community the tariff should be reduced Having expert legal advice is are subject to a life licence. and if so, by how much. crucial for those serving a life There are both standard and sentence. 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the police, the accused is immediately Scottish charged, regardless of burden of proof. This is the ‘minimum’ needed for trial. The ‘Moorov Doctrine’, which supports two witnesses com- SOLICITORS system flawed ing forward with ‘similar’ stories, dates and wellsburcombe time-lines, is used almost exclusively. Al- though guidance in the Jury manual suggests A prisoner’s mother ‘caution’, and the relationship of the accusers should be taken into account, this is never The Scottish legal system has for many years done. Siblings and other family members and ‘rested on their laurels’, claiming to be fairer friends, given the long period between arrest and more robust in their pursuit of justice than and trial, have time to collude and perfect a the rest of the UK. However, my son and many ‘script’ for the court, often giving Oscar-win- others wrongfully incarcerated in HMP Edin- ning performances. Once again it cheapens burgh would challenge this ‘ideal’ knowing at and trivialises genuine cases of abuse - which first-hand that dozens of miscarriages of jus- clearly we all believe should be addressed. tice are occurring because, in the words of a committed defence lawyer, the whole system In Scottish law statutes there is provision for is ‘crumbling’. the evidence to be looked at periodically to assess whether a trial is required, but this in POLICE INVESTIGATIONS COURT PROCEEDINGS It begins with Police Scotland who unlike their practice is seldom carried out. If you are southern counterparts works directly on the charged you will be tried, and usually for his- l Are you about to be interviewed l Have you received a postal instructions of the Crown Prosecution Service. torical cases in High Court, you will be con- by the Police? requisition? By actively seeking to secure prosecutions they victed. In most courts in Europe the do not carry out thorough and independent requirement for a conviction is two-thirds of l Facing the prospect of fresh l Have you been charged with investigations, therefore they only interview the jury; in Scotland the majority is 8-7. charges? new offences? witnesses who are more likely to secure a conviction and ignore relevant key witnesses who There are prisoners considered ‘innocent in l Want to avoid an additional l Do you have a hearing coming would offer support for the accused. In our the eyes of the law’, on remand for months. sentence? up and need representation? case we, as parents, and our other son were Where cases should come to trial within twelve never interviewed by Police Scotland but more months of charges, in my son’s case, it was l Waiting for the Police to make l Are your current lawyers doing distant family members were. They were of almost double that time. In prison now for a decision on potential fresh enough to help? almost six months, he is waiting to appeal, but course unable to substantiate any of the claims charges? made by his accusers. not before obtaining the Judge’s report in re- l Do you face POCA proceedings? sponse to our points of law. This should have l Concerned over Police delays in taken 4-6 weeks, but is not with us now, into It seems very noble to base a justice system on making a decision? the need for corroboration, but in practice the week ten. Effectively, the judge is impeding police will keep interviewing until they obtain my son’s right to appeal, but there are no sanc- l Had no update from your Solicitor? this; sometimes actively seeking individuals tions for lateness, unlike those for us should outside of the original complaint to corrobo- we be late or fail to appear at court. l Been recalled and worried about rate distress or disclosure. The accused can being charged with new offences? also inadvertently corroborate himself in the The Justice system in the UK is flawed. We all initial and subsequent interviews with police. read the papers, but if my son had been tried The advice to answer ‘no comment’ is for the in England I am of the firm belief that he would purpose of protection of self-incrimination, not have been convicted. Given that his accus- however flimsy. ers also made allegations about events in Eng- land as well as Scotland, and that the CPS in Under UK law after an arrest, while on bail, England did not even charge him, he was con- the lawyers of those accused can present a victed on the very same evidence in Scotland. 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Advertorial can seek to vary or discharge a PFO. A PFO can be The future and unexplained wealth orders challenged, for instance, where there has been There is a new tool in the armoury - the Unexplained Civil Recovery Orders material non-disclosure to the Court granting the Wealth Order (UWO). The Criminal Finances Act Order; remembering of course that the Defendant 2017 amended POCA to bring in this new investi- will not have been present, there is therefore an gative tool. There has been much media interest The latest way to lose everything… enhanced duty on the applicant to ensure he in this as the NCA were expected to use UWOs to pleads the case fully and fairly; see e.g. Re: attack the ‘McMafia’ types - e.g. some eastern committed the act complained of’. That is perhaps Stanford International Bank (In Receivership) European oligarch with a multi-million pound why Lord Phillips recognised the difficulty and [2010] EWCA Civ. 137 where a Restraint Order was property in Mayfair with no real explanation of set aside for misrepresentation and material how he/she became so spectacularly wealthy - or Jonathan Lennon said; “this confusing area of Strasbourg law would benefit from consideration by the Grand Chamber”. non-disclosure; though the Court re-imposed the at least legitimately. The person on the end of a and Aziz Rahman Order after hearing full argument. UWO must explain his wealth. That is not to pros- The upshot is that although Article 6 does apply ecute them but the start of the civil recovery pro- to civil recovery proceedings – the Gale case The PFO will only last a certain period of time, at cess. The idea is that the answer to a UWO will Many readers will know all too well about the makes it possible for the NCA to pursue Defendants, which point the PFO will be lifted unless the NCA then lead to a PFO and then civil recovery proceed- Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and what are ings. So UWOs should mean that the civil recovery acquitted in the Crown Court, in the High Court. have formally issued an application for a Civil often regarded as the unduly harsh provisions of process is being used more and more to target the But it does not mean that they can in all circum- Recovery Order. That is when the formal steps the confiscation regime in Part 2 of the Act. What ‘big fish’ that move in very different circles to most stances simply apply the far lower civil standard. leading to trial will then happen. many may not realise is that there is an even more of the rest of us. However, our prediction is that draconian tool for prosecutors contained in Part 5. All depends on the facts of the case. The arguments for the actual trial may simply be despite the hype, UWOs will be slow to be utilised by the NCA and others, but over time the prosecu- When can the proceedings be started? factual and rely on inferences about alleged crim- POCA led to the creation, with a great fanfare, of tion agencies will do what they always seem to do, In most cases the NCA will first of all apply for a inal conduct and any lack of obvious legitimate a new agency called the Assets Recovery Agency which is leave the big targets alone and start using Property Freezing Order (PFO) under s245A. This income or tax returns which could support the (ARA). The ARA was charged with the ‘recovery’ tools like this to attack the low-hanging fruit - e.g. will be without notice; i.e. the NCA will see a Judge purchase of the two houses and so on. of the proceeds of crime by the civil, not criminal someone acquitted in the Crown Court of some- route. The Agency was to issue proceedings in the in private and freeze the assets that are suspected However, in ARA v Green & Ors [2005] EWHC thing far less exciting and easier to prove than the High Court seeking the recovery of property which to be ‘recoverable’ – potentially all of a Defendant’s (Admin) 3168, the Court considered just what had bribery and corruption allegations that the was said to be, or ‘represented’, the proceeds of assets. After the PFO is secured the NCA will usu- to be proven. The Judge found that though there McMafia types are accused of. crime – or as the Act puts it … ‘property obtained ally then issue its civil recovery action within the is no requirement to allege any specific criminal through unlawful conduct’ (s304). The Defendants time limit on the PFO – usually up to about 1 year. offence, a claim for civil recovery cannot be sus- Jonathan Lennon is a Barrister specialising in serious in these civil actions would not of course be risk- and complex criminal defence cases. He is based at tained purely on the basis of there being no iden- ing jail, but they stood to lose everything they had. What property can be ‘recovered’? Carmelite Chambers in London. He is ranked by tifiable lawful income. But remember this is not Anything: The NCA is enabled to seek a Recovery Chambers & Ptnrs; ‘he is phenomenal and his work criminal – it is civil and pretty much everything But the ARA was not a success. It was abolished Order for any ‘recoverable property’– that is any rate is astonishing’ (2015). ‘One of the best juniors in in 2008 and its functions taken over by the Serious property obtained through unlawful conduct or is ‘in’ (i.e. in evidence) – including hearsay and financial crime, and someone with a phenomenal brain and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) which has property which represents property so obtained. intelligence, there is little in the way of evidence and a capacity for hard work.’ (2017) - co-author of ‘Covert subsequently been replaced by the National Crime This will include money in bank accounts, cars, that will not be permitted by the High Court Human Intelligence Sources’ Waterside Press, 2009. houses, anything. It is also not limited to proper- because there is no jury. However, in a case called Agency (NCA). Now, all the main prosecuting Aziz Rahman is a Solicitor- Advocate and Partner at ty in the Defendant’s possession. In many cases SOCA v Pelekanos [2009] EWHC 2307 (QB) SOCA agencies have the ability to issue civil recovery the leading Criminal Defence firm Rahman Ravelli proceedings, but at present most civil recovery third parties - especially family members - are attempted to rely on ‘intelligence’ – i.e. un-sourced hearsay. Mr. Justice Hamblen said that the evi- Solicitors, specialising in Human Rights, Financial actions are started by the NCA. roped into the litigation as the money is traced Crime and Large Scale Conspiracies/Serious crime. dence amounted to un-attributable multiple hear- through to properties that have passed to others. Rahman Ravelli are members of the Specialist Fraud say accounts which could not be investigated and Part 5 of POCA enables the NCA to issue proceed- In such cases there is a defence of innocent pos- Panel and have recently been ranked by Legal 500 as was effectively un-challengeable. The Court found ings against any person who it ‘thinks’ holds prop- session (s308), but it can be seen that the legisla- an ‘excellent’ firm with Aziz Rahman being described erty which is, or represents, property obtained tion is punitive and is aimed at the property rath- it could attach “no real weight” to the evidence. as ‘first class and very experienced’. through unlawful conduct. The NCA need not er than the person. bother with the cumbersome task of obtaining a criminal conviction from a jury who are ‘convinced Unlike criminal proceedings, civil recovery litiga- beyond reasonable doubt’ that the suspect is tion concentrates on specific property, i.e. the indeed guilty. The civil standard of proof applies, house, car, boat, bank account etc and the Court A leading firm even though what is being alleged is straight crim- ask the question – is this ‘recoverable property’? inal offending. If so, then the Court makes the Order affecting offering the those items of property; the ownership is passed Article 6 of the European Convention by the Order from the Defendant to the State. strongest legal of Human Rights The authors were instructed in a case that chal- Funding representation lenged the universal application of the civil stand- If all the available assets are tied up by the PFO, ard of proof (balance of probabilities) in civil then the Defendant may need access to his/her to those being recovery proceedings where the principal frozen property to pay for the legal fees of the Defendant had already been acquitted in criminal defence in the litigation. This is strictly controlled investigated proceedings – in our case in criminal proceedings by the NCA/Court as the more money the defence overseas. Despite the acquittal, SOCA nonetheless lawyers charge, the less money will be left for any or prosecuted pursued Mr. Gale’s assets alleging, in part, the eventual Civil Recovery Order after trial. Of course very same criminal allegations he had been if the Defendants win they can expect to get their in serious and acquitted of. The case was the very first POCA civil legal costs back from the NCA. recovery case to reach the highest Court in the complex crime cases. land; Gale & Ors v SOCA [2011] UKSC 49. It is absolutely vital that Defendants, and their lawyers, sort out the issue of legal funding from Article 6 of the European Convention is the right frozen assets (if that is what is required) at the very to a fair trial, which includes the right to be pre- outset. Otherwise the risk is that the NCA will sumed innocent. Reliance was made in argument ramp-up the pressure and start to use the litigation on established Strasbourg case law to the effect as a stranglehold on the lawyer who has not got that if criminal allegations are going to be made an approved variation to the PFO from the Court • Specialists in defending cases • Expertise in arguing admissibility of in non-criminal proceedings (especially where for his/her legal fees. There is a set procedure in involving large-scale police operations. evidence, abuse of process, disclosure those allegations had already been tried leading place to establish the qualifications for the right and public interest immunity. to acquittal) then standard of proof had to be the of access to your own money – but it is not straight- • Experienced defenders in Regulation criminal standard as part and parcel of the right forward and requires a degree of patience and of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) • Our reputation ensures the very best to a fair trial under Article 6. expertise. Ideally, the Defendant is able to fund cases involving informants, undercover experts represent our clients. his/her own defence without having to go cap in police, surveillance and interception of The Supreme Court found that the Strasbourg hand to the NCA, who will then start demanding communications. • We have helped shape the law. Court had taken a ‘wrong turn’ (para 32) and sug- to know the relevance of enquiries and so on. gested that what the European Court may have meant was that a public authority could never The litigation Roma House, 59 Pellon 36 Whitefriars 3 Brindley Place, suggest that an acquitted Defendant should have Service of the PFO is just the start of it. There may Lane, Halifax, West Street, London, Birmingham, West been convicted on the application of the criminal well be Disclosure Orders as well, which can Yorkshire HX1 5BE EC4Y 8BQ Midlands, B1 2JB standard of proof. Respectfully, there is no differ- include compulsory interviews with the NCA – Tel: 01422 346666 Tel: 0203 947 1539 Tel: 0121 206 2287 ence between a Court, following an acquittal, there is no right to silence as the answers cannot saying, ‘we think the criminal Court got the wrong be used in criminal litigation. result’ or the same Court stating that; ‘we find on www.rahmanravelli.co.uk / [email protected] Nationwide Service the balance of probabilities that the defendant There may be a challenge to the PFO. The defence 38 Legal // Q&A ‘Legal’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Insidetime December 2018

Until recently we generally that there had been some im- org.uk and downloaded on- aimed to send an update letter portant changes to the rules line at www.justice.org.uk/ to an applicant at least every on how to lodge appeals our-work/publications/ CCRC update against convictions and sen- eight weeks, even if we did not how-to-appeal/ have a great deal to tell them tences from the Crown Court. New cheaper CCRC phone be treated as confi dential. about developments in their We mentioned the new form New CCRC video for prison number case. NGs for lodging appeals and visitors We have introduced a new Changes in CCRC communi- new appeal information book- A new CCRC video is currently local rate phone number for cations with applicants We are now taking a diff erent lets from HM Courts Service being shown in the prison the CCRC. The number is 0300 The new local rate CCRC phone approach where we will nor- and the charity Justice. visitor waiting rooms of four 456 2669. Local rate 0300 num- number is just one part of mally aim to send an update North East Prisons. We have bers are special landline-rate some wider changes we are to an applicant (or their nom- Justice has now sent into every arranged for the 30 second Appeals phone numbers that are making to how we communi- inated representative) at least single prison copies of its ex- fi lm explaining the role of the charged at local rate no matter cate with applicants and their every twelve weeks, but in the cellent updated booklet ‘How CCRC to be shown on a ‘loop’ where you are dialling from. representatives. update we will aim to provide to Appeal: A Guide to the alongside fi lms by other crim- The Criminal Cases Review It means that calls to the a good deal more meaningful Criminal Appeal System’. inal justice organisations and Commission (CCRC) is the Commission should now only At the CCRC we try our best to information. charities. All the fi lms are si- publicly funded body ever be charged as a local call listen to what applicants and ‘How to Appeal’ provides sim- lent as the TVs in waiting areas responsible for investigat- no matter where you are call- their representatives tell us This will include things like ple, accessible information on do not play sound. The idea of ing alleged miscarriages ing from within the UK. about how we go about our details of what work the CCRC the appeal system and on pro- the CCRC fi lm is to provide a of justice in England and business. Where we can, we has been doing on the case, cedures. The booklet is in a brief introduction to who we Wales. They are the only Whenever you call the CCRC, try to make changes in re- such as how our review has simple question and answer are and what we do and to give body with the power to our phone number should be sponse to what we hear. The progressed, what material has format which refl ects the main contact details in case anyone questions asked by prisoners. send a case back to the on the prison’s list of legal current changes to how we been obtained and considered who sees it wants to contact It contains examples of appeal courts for a second appeal. numbers. If this is not the case communicate with applicants by the CCRC (for instance that us for more information. We forms; a fl owchart of the entire in the prison where you are, and reps have been informed the Commission has got hold hope to be able to show this In this regular column appeals system; information please raise it with a prison by what we’ve been hearing of and looked at the Crown short fi lm in the prison visitor they answer questions on how and when to appeal; offi cer. If you cannot do that, from various people, includ- Court fi le and the Police and waiting rooms of more prisons about what they do and obtained the defence fi le from what lawyers can do when please let us know and we will ing members of the CCRC in the future. more widely about legal aid is available and what raise it with the prison. Stakeholder Forum which is a the applicant’s previous miscarriages of justice. solicitors). grounds of appeal the Court group of individuals and or- Any questions of Appeal can look at. The general rules for commu- ganisations with a special If you have a question for the The CCRC apologises We hope that people will feel nication between prisoners interest in appeals and the CCRC please send it to Inside but is unable to answer better informed about the pro- Justice has sent copies of the and the CCRC are set out in CCRC or who actually repre- Time (CCRC QA) Botley Mills, questions relating to gress of their application to us booklet to every prison library Prison Service Order 4400 sent people in appeals or CCRC Botley, Southampton SO30 individual cases. and be more satisfi ed with our and some prisons have asked Prisoner Communications applications. 2GB. We will generally have communication with them. for extra copies. Copies are Chapter 3 -The Criminal Cases to steer clear of discussing Send your Appeal available (free) for convicted Review Commission. It in- Perhaps the most obvious dif- Queries to: ‘CCRC Q&A’ Information on how to people and their families by specific facts of individual cludes the rules that telephone ference that CCRC applicants Inside Time, Botley Mills, appeal phoning Justice on 020 7329 cases but we will, where pos- calls and all correspondence will notice is that we have Botley, Southampton, In our last Inside Time article 5100. It can also be obtained sible, try to answer questions between prisoners and the changed how and when we Hampshire SO30 2GB. (in October) we mentioned by emailing admin@justice. in this column in an honest CCRC must, wherever possible, update them about their cases. and clear way. Specialists in Prison Law

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released when the Parole Board first erty is referenced in PSI 12/2011. The Q I am serving an indeterminate The crucial element here is that ‘as- considers their case are more likely to relevant section that covers your sentence in addition to being subject sessment of a prisoner’s individual be required to spend a period of time query is that of 2.39. This is in respect to licence recall on a determinate risks and needs may support earlier in open conditions prior to release. of a transfer when the item is too large. sentence. The indeterminate sen- categorisation’. The Parole Board have Identifying such cases is clearly im- It does not speak about power that tence was imposed due to me com- undertaken a risk assessment, far su- portant and staff in Offender the radio transmits. This is deter- mitting further offences whilst on perior to that undertaken by a prison, Management Units have a vital role mined by the particular establish- licence for the determinate sentence. and have recommended that you meet in ensuring their reports to the Parole ment. Each establishment, as men- The Parole Board recently consid- the criteria for transfer to the open es- Board reflect this’. tioned above, has different rules in ered my case and recommended tate. That decision has been approved terms of what power the radio/stereo that I progress to open conditions. by the Secretary of State within the The decision should initially be chal- transmits. The section states the fol- This was subsequently approved by Ministry of Justice. The Prison Service lenged through the usual prison ap- lowing: “On occasion, prisoners will the Secretary of State. However, the is an executive agency governed by plication/complaints procedure, arrive on transfer from another estab- Prison Law & prison has refused to facilitate my Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation citing the above. If the prison still lishment with items such as a large transfer on the basis I may not re- Service (HMPPS), sponsored by the refuses to progress you to the open stereo which is not permitted in the Compensation main in the open estate for more Ministry of Justice. It would seem one estate I suggest you contact a prison receiving establishment’s facility list than two years; my determinate li- branch/agency within the Ministry of lawyer who is able to consider seeking but was permitted at the previous es- Hine Solicitors cence does not end until 2021. Justice is at odds with the decision judicial review of the decision. tablishment. Governors must consider Stevens Solicitors reached by another branch/agency Unfortunately, there is no other rem- these items on a case by case basis. Jordons Solicitors A It is most strange that the prison within the Ministry of Justice. edy available to you. Unless the item/s is considered a risk

Carringtons Solicitors has taken the decision to overrule the to good order, discipline, security, Response by Carringtons Solicitors Duncan Lewis Solicitors Secretary of State’s approval for you Paragraph 30 of the same PSI states: safety and/or exceed volumetric con- Michael Jefferies Injury Lawyers to transfer to the open estate. This is ‘Prisoners serving an indeterminate trol limits the prisoner should normally MS HMP Wealstun irrespective of the fact that you have sentence (ISPs) will be considered for be allowed to retain it in possession. longer than 2 years left until your li- category D in line with the provisions However, the fact that an item was Answers to readers’ legal queries Q On a move to Wealstun my prop- cence expiry date for the determinate of PSO 4700 (PSI 36/2010)’. allowed on this basis does not give the are given on a strictly without erty was taken off me. Once it had sentence. The prison is relying on PSI prisoner any right to replace it ‘like for liability basis. If you propose acting been searched and returned, I no- 40/2011, paragraph 29, which states: Of note is the fact that within Chapter like’. Any replacement must comply upon any of the opinions that appear, ticed things were missing, mainly ‘Although each case is considered on 4 of PSO 4700 it clearly states: ‘10.5: with the local facility”. you must first take legal advice. my stereo. I was told that I could not its individual merits, prisoners Short tariff ISPs with tariffs of 30 take the stereo in as it transmitted should not generally be categorised months can be compared with deter- I hope the above answer assists. I am Send your Prison Law Query (concise more than 30 watts. Are they alas Category ‘D’ if they have more than minates serving 4 to 5 years, 80% of sorry that you were not permitted to and clearly marked ‘Prison Law lowed to do this? 2 years to serve to their earliest release whom are released from closed prisons. bring this item into the new estab- Query’) to: David Wells, Solicitor date. Two years is considered to be It is, therefore, not essential for those lishment. I would recommend that you c/o Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, A Each prison has its own rules in the maximum time a prisoner should short tariff ISPs who are likely to be ask the establishment for the guid- Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. terms of what possessions can be kept spend in open conditions. However, released on tariff expiry to spend a ance in terms of your property that by a prisoner and the maximum ca- assessment of a prisoner’s individual period in open conditions, but the prin- you are allowed to have in your pos- For a prompt response, readers are pabilities in terms of volumetric unit risks and needs may support earlier ciple as to whether a period in open session. This will make it clear as to asked to send their queries on white those items permit. It may be the case categorisation to ‘D’. Such cases must conditions is necessary is a decision what power is permitted in radios/ paper using black ink or typed if that the previous establishment you have the reasons for their categorisa- which must be made on a case by case stereos. possible. were in permitted the item, however tion fully documented and confirmed basis, taking into account the present- unfortunately Wealstun does not. Response by Hine Solicitors in writing by the Governing Governor: ing circumstances’.

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10, and then start from 1 a lot of this returning. That again. If you lose count, it too is normal. Keep with it, A guide to meditation doesn’t matter. Just come without judging yourself. back to 1 and keep going. How much and when? The Prison Phoenix Trust Keep going like this for five Meditation works when it’s minutes to begin with. practised every day. Some That’s all there is to the prac- prisoners tell us that they You might have heard about tice. It is as simple as that! meditate for several hours “Sometimes I feel terrified meditation and its benefits. As you are counting your each day. Others might do at the thought of my Most people who meditate breaths, some thinking may five minutes in the morning mind. Every minute, I feel say they sleep better, and be going on in your mind, when they wake up, and five so much worry about my worry less. Others say that and it is tempting to follow before they go to sleep. If family. It’s just really hard Half Lotus their thinking isn’t such a your thoughts. This happens you can manage to work up being away from the peo- Easier than Full Lotus. Pull problem anymore and that to us all. It is what minds do. to 25 minutes, that’s good. ple I love and who love your right foot in close to they’re not as depressed. They wander and think and me. Doing meditation your body and then place Some people experience a worry and plan. That’s fine. Final tip: See if you can let go helps me stop worrying. your left foot on your right Chair It is also possible for the mind of trying to get anywhere radical shift in how they see Working gradually, I’ll get thigh. Switch sides each themselves, and the world, It’s also absolutely fine to sit to be still and focussed. This with meditation. Don’t try to there. As human beings time you sit. on a chair, or on the edge of is also what minds do. And do anything. Keep returning where everyday events we like everything to work around them are much the your bed. Sit up straight to- actually, you’ll find that your attention to your breath our own way. We don’t wards the front of the seat; same as ever, but they them- your mind really enjoys when it wanders, and know like patience. The mind is don’t lean on the back. Have selves have learned to let go being stiller. So when your that the time and energy you the trouble. Our thoughts your feet firmly planted on a little (or a lot). attention wanders off from put in will lead somewhere, certainly affect our atti- the floor (prop them up if the breath, don’t worry. Just but don’t try to be anything tudes and moods. When a they don’t reach the floor). With all these good things let it return very gently with- other than exactly how you person is full of wrong are. We’d love to know how that can come from meditat- out any thought, back to the thoughts, he is miserable, breath. You might have to do you’re doing. ing, many people mean to and when someone is mis- Attention with the breath take up meditation but it erable, he usually ends up Take three deep long breaths can be hard to get started, making others miserable then start to breathe nor- If you want a free book and CD to help you set especially on your own. also.” mally in and out through the up a regular yoga and meditation practice write This is why we put this piece S - HMP Wandsworth nose. Count the breaths si- to The Prison Phoenix Trust, PO Box 328, Oxford together, and why we offer lently to yourself: in 1, out 2, OX2 7HF. to write to people in prison l in 3, out 4 and so on, up to about their meditation. Keep your neck long, with the chin not pointing up or Burmese down. Arranging your body A way of sitting with both If you can find the right sit- legs bent and parallel in l Keep your eyes open, gaz- ting position - comfortable, front of you, both ankles on ing down past your nose, to a stable and upright - you are the floor. spot on the floor in front of well on the way to getting you. the hang of meditation. Take ten minutes or so to experi- ment with the positions in the pictures. Once you’ve found a position, make sure your back is upright and truly relaxed. Sit on at least four inches of support; if you try to sit directly on the floor with nothing under you, some of your back muscles will start to ache as they work unnecessarily to keep you from falling backwards or slumping. So sit on Full Lotus a couple of thick books, a Might be difficult at first, but Get the flu jab before the flu gets you folded pillow or anything it’s a good, stable position. Seiza l Keep warm you can find. That way, the What are the common Put your right foot on your Kneel with two cushions or l Take paracetamol or ibuprofen to backbones can stack up cor- left thigh, then your left foot a thick rolled up blanket be- symptoms of flu? lower your temperature and treat rectly, allowing the back on your right thigh. Switch tween your bum and your l Fever aches and pains muscles to be relaxed. sides each time you sit. feet. l Aching muscles l Drink plenty of water to avoid l Chills and sweats dehydration l Headache CANTERS CRIME l Dry, persistent cough If I get flu how can I help Deton Solicitors We are a friendly rm, with solicitors and legally l DEFENDING YOUR CAUSE!!! Fatigue and weakness quali ed sta who are experts in their particular l Nasal congestion to stop further spread? 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© Deposit Photos there will be many thousands like it by love. Jesus willingly sacrificed across the country. I am referring to the His life, enduring horrific suffering, as nativity play I shall attend this month. He took the punishment which we all deserve. 'The little Lord Mindfulness Jesus laid down Carol Rowley Words of John, choose how to respond. We that attention to the breath, to are aware of our actions, lead- His sweet head.' one of Jesus’ disciples: What is mindfulness? Mind- be able to allow that to find ing them, not being led by fulness is a mind-body ap- balance, is a gift to the self.” them. We learn to move away The parents always take great delight See what great love the proach to life that helps us to Trisha Hills from our auto-pilot, recognise in capturing on camera those moments relate differently to experi- Father has lavished on us, when we are reacting, seeing which will cause them (and perhaps ences. It involves paying at- It is meditation that will help that we should be called ourselves and our behaviour tention to our thoughts and you to grow, to find inner the children too) to laugh again many in a different light. children of God! And that feelings in a way that in- strength, to feel and under- years later. creases our ability to manage stand your actions and is what we are! ... Step 7 thoughts. difficult situations and make It will include, as it always does, the Meditation and 1 John 3:1 NIV-UK wise choices. Following on carol, Away in a Manger, which speaks Mindfulness Step 8 from last month here are steps of Jesus laying down His sweet head. 5-8. “Each morning we are born “Sunsets are proof that end- It is easy to forget that, about thirty Stay positive…. work hard …. again. What we do today is ings can be beautiful too.” three years later, with a crown of make it happen… what matters most.” Breathworks thorns on His head, Jesus laid down Everyone who is a follower of Jesus is a Buddha His life. true child of God. For them, Christmas is By developing a new relation- a very special time of great celebration. Step 5 It is meditation that allows us ship with the conditions we If you are not a Christian yourself and Finding the present to cultivate mindfulness. We find ourselves in, we can ...thirty three would like to know more about what it moment can follow guidance that begin to respond creatively. teaches us kindly awareness, Experiences no longer over- years later, really means to be a child of God, please “We are alive in the present both of ourselves and others. whelm us, we can find quiet do write to us at the address below. moment. The only moment for To be able to bring kindness places within rest, get back in with a crown us is to be alive…” to yourself is a true gift, the touch with ourselves. We of thorns on His I can understand that Christmas will be Thich Nhat Hanh more comfortable it becomes learn to bring kindness in. an especially painful time for those in to receive, the easier it then prison and for their families. I pray that No matter who you are, or becomes to give. head, Jesus laid all may know God’s peace during what your daily life consists “The simple act of sitting, pay- down His life. this season and throughout 2019. of, there will be a mindfulness These Mindfulness steps are ing attention to your balance, practice that will work for brought to you with hope and John Phillips front and back, side to side, is Most people are more comfortable you. Finding your practice, peace by Carol Rowley, Bud- a gift to the body. To then bring applying yourself to your dhist Chaplain, HMP Styal. with the picture of the baby Jesus in practice, develops your expe- the manger, than that of Jesus on the If you would like to know how you can rience of mindfulness. Allow- cross. That is understandable for we ing it in, to help and improve be a true child of God, please write to: Our team of specialists can o er are excited by a new life and fear the your life. To experience and free advice and assistance in thought of death. BeaconLight Trust, understand present moment relation to Legally Aided issues, PO Box 91, Banstead, awareness - what is happen- including: ing right here, right now. Why did Jesus have to die like that? If Surrey, SM7 9BA Lifer/IPP Parole Board Reviews (Pre/Post Tari ) Jesus was truly the Son of God, why did Step 6 Recalls God allow it to happen? Many people Independent Adjudications Finding stillness in every Category A Reviews ask this sort of question. 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Six Hours of your requests. initially sat quietly at a distance from the We really want lots and lots of Shared Reading groups group, but as the reading aloud progressed she requests from you, so that we grew more attentive and was soon listening can count down to the very “I’ve been in here for - it’ll be 28 years in 3 intently to the story. days. And to be honest, this is the best part last request of 2018. This year of my week. This makes you feel human.” Though clearly uncertain about speaking in you can call National Prison Shared Reading group member, Cat ‘A’ prison. front of the group, she volunteered a few Radio on 0808 123 1234 to thoughts and then visibly relaxed when they leave your song request. For over a decade, The Reader has been run- were welcomed. When we then gave the poem Remember, this is New Year’s ning Shared Reading groups in prisons, secure an initial reading, I could tell that immediately Eve, so dig out your best feel- units and Approved Premises. Each week the Dee seemed to make connections not only with good tracks. Or you can write Reader Leader brings a short story or book the ideas within it, but also between the poem to us at: National Prison extract and a poem that are read aloud and and the story we’d read earlier. “It’s a thing Radio, HMP Brixton, London that happens to us all - this ‘need at times to SW2 5XF. discussed with the group. Everyone is wel- “Merry Christmas listeners!”

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We’ve also When I agreed, but wondered aloud why this And on Christmas Day we’ve got all your favourites, includ- Christmas is a tough time to Not Love Perhaps by ASJ Tessimond might only be ‘at times’ and not always, she got a very special line-up of ing On The Road, We Are mentioned how it isn’t always easy to talk be in prison. Activities slow shows: Straightline, NPR Fresh, down, regimes change. It can ‘Something perhaps especially our own: about things, and that “it has to be the right Decibel, Bob and Beyond, be very unsettling to think 8am and 5pm: The women at A need at times to be together and talk - time” for everybody involved and that there Love Bug and lots, lots more. about Christmas in the out- HMP Styal will be bringing And then the finding we can walk “has to be trust there”. The group immediately side world while you’re locked you their selection of the 12 More firmly through dark narrow places picked this idea up and spoke animatedly National Prison Radio is here up in jail. That’s why National best Christmas songs of all And meet more easily nightmare faces’ about how love, like trust, is such a fragile for you throughout Christmas. thing, that it can appear and disappear Prison Radio keeps running time. We’re your friend, so if you’re … 24 hours a day, 7 days a Shaun Lawrence quickly, but that when it’s allowed to grow it finding Christmas hard to becomes stronger. After a moment of quiet week, throughout the Midday and 6pm: The very deal with then switch us on to reflection, while we all considered that idea, Christmas period. And this special NPR Christmas Day keep you company. I have spent the past three years leading Dee tentatively said: “That’s when you can do year we’ve got a bumper set of show. Shared Reading groups in prisons, including anything. Like it says, you can walk in the special programmes to keep National Prison Radio broad- some high-security facilities, as well as in pro- dark, not be scared of your nightmares, when you company throughout 1pm and 7pm: Christmas Day casts 365 days a year into pris- bation hostels, with both men and women. I you’ve got trust or love”. December, right up to mid- requests. on cells across England and have also visited groups in other prisons and night on New Year’s Eve. Wales. Our programmes are hostels led by colleagues in my team. The com- Though I no longer read with Dee, I still won- And it doesn’t stop there. On made by prisoners, for prison- mon thread running through all of these der what had happened in the group that had Porridge: Our world-class New Year’s Eve we’ll be start- ers. We’re the first national groups is the trust that builds up, usually over allowed that trust to bloom in such a short breakfast show continues ing the countdown to mid- radio station in the world just a few weeks, between the readers, and the way space of time. Had I done something specific throughout Christmas with a night at 6pm when we’ve got for prisoners. that this trust allows everyone in the room to that had helped to encourage her, or had it all series of Porridge Music approach the reading on their own terms. simply been a case of the ‘right poem at the Specials, bringing you a wide right time’, and that was what had helped variety of sounds. And on Sometimes, however, this trust can flourish make such a strong connection? Christmas Day don’t forget to much more quickly. This happened to me in tune in to our annual Porridge I’m still not really certain. 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Thank you for the June (nan) keep off the Sher- ever. Happy Xmas, love Kelly Wealstun, VTC lads and the of year but stay strong, we’ll and hugs always, Phil xx continued support. All my love ry’s- not long now Nan. Stay David + Maria, Happy Christ- Leeds lads in the system, merry soon be free. TJ Sean xxxx strong, keep warm and safe. mas to you both. Thank you for Xmas and a PG New Year, Lundy To my beautiful girl Becki, I Love from Sean xxx your love and support. Jingle To my beautiful princess Emily. have no words to say to you Suko, Just to say Happy ‘first’ Bells!!! See you in the New Happy Christmas Aiden, Char- I hope you’ve been a good girl other than I love you, merry Christmas to you, and 3 month Merry Xmas to Mum and Dad, Year. Phil xx lie, Jack, Dave, Mum, Jodie, for mummy, eating all your xmas babe. Love your boy- anniversary, loving every min- Jill, Shaam and Jajnderjeet, Uncle Mina, Ella, Tashy, Mark, Deb- greens. Lots of love daddy friend Blacky xxx ute of every day we’re together. Richard, Uncle Phillip, family, To the D1 massive! You know bie, Harrison, Austin, Emelia, (Sean) xxxxx Love you forever Nikki xxxx Auntie Nettie and family. Also who you are. Love Zena (Have Lee, Claire, Archie, Oscar, to Alex and family. Geoff a good one as always) x x x Thomas, Maddison love Mum/ To my best friends Chianny + Lesley & Charlotte, Just a few Auntie- Karen x x Marquitta, Happy Xmas girls, nuff little words to wish you and the All the best for Christmas and To my family whom I am proud love & respect, Zena Zee x x x family a really great Christmas, New year ahead to Howard, to be a part of and my friends. To Mum, Dad, Marcus, Daniel love you all, Trev x x x Ibs, Arty, Karim, Luke, Dave, Wishing you all a joyous, & Jamie. Merry Christmas, I hope To Tracey and TJ. Hope you Rob, Jason, Jamie, Mark, Tj peaceful Christmas. Love from you all have a lovely day. 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“Hiya Jason, you seem happy. Bin shopping?” like pregnant sows. Sue. Transferred from Holloway for another Looking Up New Start back home, she was one of the few The past spilled out as he untied the bags, women staying there, a new extension for fe- bundles of letters, tatty photographs and con- males that opened only months before. Weird, fiscated items that had somehow wound up in Inside Time is both proud and excited to present our brand to be in mixed company again. his stored property. He smiled as he spotted new monthly columnist former prisoner Frank Cotton his old flask, carefully unscrewing its base. “Hi Sue. No… just noticed the sign on the gate. He’d hidden masses of gear in there for months, - whose fictional story of life after prison chronicles the ups, Seen it?” before some sniffer dogs had sussed it. Happy downs, challenges and triumphs of a prison leaver’s journey “Yeah. Sam’s got a box of letters to stick back days… on, but someone keeps pinching them. Nice watch by the way. Did you nick it down town?” And then there, amongst the junk, were Sally’s Memories amongst the junk Jason fumed. “It was a Christmas present as it returned letters and parcels, carefully tied happens.” with green bed string. He fished them all out, “Only joking …touchy! I saw you getting it from lined up in yearly order. For her sixth birthday Sam. He’s well jealous. By the way, don’t leave he’d made a puppet with scraps of wood and it in your room - he searches them when people fabric nicked from assembly shops, a little boy are out.” in shorts, the blonde wood coloured with tea Jason sighed. Only there five minutes and al- to match how he remembered her olive skin. ready having to watch his back. He held the slim package in his hands. She’d be too old for it now. Stillborn, the little boy Sue’s face glowed pink as she finished her had never danced. smoke. Mid-thirties, Jason guessed, quite tasty, but sharp and mischievous with it. The He closed his eyes. Kneeling amongst relics, sort of woman his uncle had warned him about he prayed silently she’d be well and happy and each and every time Jason met one. Sparks understand, when she was older, how hard danced as Sue screwed out her smoke. “You he’d tried. He took a hostel pillowcase from his going to the carols later Jay? One of them Gos- locker and carefully packed Sally’s packages pel groups is coming in to save our souls for inside. Somehow, some day, he’d deliver them Jesus.” all to her in person. “They’re saving arseholes for Jesus?” “Ha! Ha! There’s free mince pies - dining room There was a sudden dull roar of laughter from at eight if you fancy one. Get one while they’re outside as the ‘God Squad’ arrived, blasting hot.” ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ through walls and into locked rooms. Jason checked Sue threw him a look no woman had given him his Tag, the dials glowing like a crown of stars. in a long time. Almost blushing, he shrugged Eight o’clock. Sue waiting in the dining room Image credit: MW credit: Image foolishly as he crept inside. “Aye… mebbe… got with hot mince pies. He licked his lips and some kit to sort first…” He avoided Sam’s gaze smiled. Maybe just one little taste… it was Frank Cotton car park, a children’s choir singing Away in a as he sidled past reception to his room, locking Christmas, after all. Manger was being bludgeoned mercilessly by the door behind him. No spy-hole at least. He their heavy brass. A small girl’s face, made sat at the foot of his bed, his sacks of old kit Frank Cotton is a former resident of HMPPS angelic by guttering candlelight, caught Ja- Christmas Lights son’s eye. Sally…

There was a package waiting for him at the No… impossible. His daughter and her mother desk. “It arrived yesterday Jason,” said Sam, had moved down South years ago. Sally would sliding it over suspiciously. “You’ll have to be ten in February: six Christmases to catch open it in front of me, sorry.” Jason flashed up on - that’s if she even remembered what he Sam a sour look - a screw by any other name. looked like. Maybe some substitute Dad had National Prison Law Solicitors Jason opened the parcel gingerly and found a erased her memory of him, like a Community handwritten note accompanying a smart black Payback team whitewashing graffiti in an www.instalaw.co.uk watch. underpass. Instalaw Solicitors have over 40 years combined experience “Happy Christmas Jason, hope this helps keep- In one of the Branston bags were all the cards representing prisoners rights and we can represent you no matter where you ing track of those meetings coming up. Re- and presents he’d sent her through probation, are in the country! gards, Ken.” returned unopened by her unforgiving mother. Specialists in Parole Board paper reviews, oral hearings & independent adjudications He swallowed hard and turned away - going Jason smiled. Ken had been his Alcoholics back through the crowd, passing rough sleep- Anonymous sponsor for three years, even ers muttering ‘any change…’ at his feet as they Our Prison Law Experts can help you with: speaking at his parole board. Ken was reliable, huddled around sandwich bags and small an- trustworthy and ridiculously wealthy from his imals that may have been dogs. A nearby pub • Parole Board oral hearings • Mandatory Lifer Reviews days as a City trader. Sam stared jealously as bellowed seventies pop songs, a stained-glass • Paper Parole Reviews • IPP Paper & Oral Parole Reviews Jason strapped the black Tag round his wrist. doorway belched beer and customers wearing • Recalls • Independent Adjudications “Curfew’s seven Jason, don’t forget now.” paper crowns with golden glasses of ale in • Discretionary Lifer Reviews • Private cases (Transfer/HDC) hand, smoking slyly under a garland of mis- Sam buzzed the glass door open and Jason tletoe. Jason paused… one step into licensed stepped out of the lobby for the first time, tak- premises and he’d be in breach of his parole Call us today for free advice on: 01782 560 155 ing in a deep breath of cold evening air. The conditions. He backed off, festive jingles drive down from Full Sutton prison had been mocking. Instalaw, 4th Floor Parliament House, tedious and miserable, jammed in the prison ‘…look to the future, now, it’s only just 42 - 46 Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham, NG1 2AG minibus with bin bags of old property, finally beguuuun…’ released from storage in Branston. Letters, Instalaw, 2nd Floor Copthall House, King Street, books, even an old vacuum flask, miracu- Returning slowly to the hostel he spotted its lously intact. vandalised signpost for the first time and laughed out loud as he walked up the path. The streets were dark and shining wet, ter- raced houses had Christmas trees frantically OVERCOURT A.PROVED P.EN.ISES flashing from bay windows and wire reindeer RESIDENTS ONLY Stephen Luke - Partner (Nottingham) blinking foolishly on lawns. Nearer town he DELIVERIES AT REAR Reise Wright - Prison Law Advocate BA HONS (Nottingham) passed three hawthorn trees on a hill, the middle one crowned with blue lights. The Salva- There was a red glow from the smokers’ shelter Plus Nationwide Consultant Prison Law Advisors tion Army was at full volume in a crowded Aldi and a hint of perfume mixed with tobacco. 46 Jailbreak // PRT Writing Competition www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2018

Next up is Spoken Word - and behind closed cell doors or who lie in bed all Akala reads aloud some of the day. You must want to change and be ready to Making prisoner contenders, which this year What is change your whole life around. People who face explore the theme Speak Out. their demons ‘head on’ almost definitely, in my The winning entry perfectly opinion, won’t be back inside in the future. voices heard captures the topic, opening with the lines: “Cometh the prison for? Prison is meant to rehabilitate people, but a lot Reflections on the Prison Reform Trust hour, cometh the day / Say how of the time inside mental health is not dealt writing competition judging day you feel in your own special PRT Writing Comp - Comment with and people aren’t medicated correctly - way”. In second place is the causing all sorts of issues with self-harm and intensely political “By Any section winner suicide. winners. Means Necessary”, while joint third place is shared between Throughout my life my main demon has been Sometimes you think, why me? And what’s the I was very lucky to be involved Eleanor March an account of mental health drugs. A countless number of times I have ended point? But if you get your mind into being a in this year’s competition as a issues and a piece about prison up arrested and charged for theft of things I can student, and classes, then time flies. I’m con- volunteer; shortlisting entries listeners. sell for money for drugs and this has built up fident this time I will get out and go back to for the Short Story category. I One hour into the judging of to many prison sentences and remands. finish college and stay clean. It’s the first time read over a hundred pieces of the Prison Reform Trust writ- Finally it’s time for the Alternatives have been offered like Community I’ve ever felt like this in my life. ing competition, there’s a di- writing on the theme of Inside Comment category, judged by Payback and Drug Treatment Testing Orders Out. There were stories about lemma. An entry to the former MP Chris Mullin and (DTTOs). On occasions these have got me on Prison makes people reflect on their own lives Comment category reads more life inside, of friends and fam- Inside Time Editor Erwin track and clean for short periods, but I have and sometimes, sober or straight, locked-up like a Spoken Word piece. ily in the outside world, of James. A deeply satirical piece always relapsed. I’m hoping after this long does work at scaring people into not coming Should the judges consider it escape and release. that advertises prison as a sentence (26 months) I will stay clean and happy back, but time usually almost always guarantees on that basis instead? Rapper, post-Brexit alternative to for- without drugs. Although my Methadone pre- these people will be back because they haven’t author and Spoken Word The judging day is held at the eign holidays divides the judg- scription is still running it enables me to live learned how to live in society - they’ve just judge Akala reads the piece offices of The Guardian in es. It’s a great piece of writing an ordinary, happy life to a certain extent. learned how to shut themselves away behind aloud: “It’s not like I can grass Kings Cross, hosted by the but does it address the theme a door all day, which they end up doing at home or show any weakness, so I newspaper’s Managing Editor ‘What is prison for’? Eventually Prison is meant to take criminals off the streets after their release. become stronger and lose all Sheila Pulham. Time is short the judges compromise and when there are no other options. Whilst inside my sweetness…” The room is - they have only three hours to put the piece in second place. prison we are given the chance to better our Miscarriage of Justice?Family usually becomes the main thought in unanimous - the piece is re- consider 50 entries across the First prize goes to a thoughtful lives. At first when I came in years ago I had peoples’ minds in here; all the things we should classified as Spoken Word and three categories of ‘Short discussion of the rehabilitativeASH LneverEY done S longM enoughITH to use & it to Cmy advan-O have done for our kids or parents come to a goes on to win the ‘21 and Story’, ‘Spoken Word’, and power of prison, whichOur ex con-perienctageed a nord realise dedica thatted thetea mtime ar emay spe becia helpful.lists in head and guilt kicks in. This is a painful feeling Under’ award for the ‘Comment’. cludes that the ability to Appeals & CCRC you cannot explain or understand unless you category. change rests with the individ- After withdrawals from drugs are finished, if Undertaking work for privately funded clients only. experience it. Short Story is the first category ual: “Prison doesn’t work for you’re ready for change you get your head into This moment sums up the to be considered, judged by those who hide away behindPa rolthee B sentenceoard orR remandepres anden stoptati chasingon drugs For both legally aided and privately funded clients To me, prison is a local rehab that I use to my ethos behind the competition. novelists Rachel Billington closed cell doors or who lie in and hanging around troubled people. This is a The judges, staff and volun- and Minette Walters. After bedA allll Pday”.rison Law mattehardrs i nlessonclud thatin gtakes Ind timeep eton learn.dent Adjudicadvantage,ations doing education and getting stable teers go out of their way to some debate, the top prize goes On behalf of privately funded clients. and clean inside a big wall - lack of freedom is unearth the best writing from to a story about an older pris- ThanksIn all pr itova ttheely fmanyunded talented matters we wIfi lyou’rel quote motivated, you a reas smartonable and fixe ready,d fee - educationstaged wh ere theapp ronlyopria thingte. that frustrates me. Prison has our prisons and share it with oner with dementia, who ar- writers who entered this year’s and work can really change prison from a feeling helped me this time but only because I’m older rives in prison asking when he Professional and approachable we offer a Nationwide Service and accept ageandncy smarter work and know what I can benefit from the world. Months of prepara- competition, and the efforts of for ofP astoppingrole Boa timerd R etop rmovingesentat timeion. productively. tion have led to this point: can phone his wife, forgetting the judges, staff and volun- Doing classes or work helps confidence and in here. My focus has shifted from jumping he has been imprisoned for her For a prompt response please write or call around with the so-called ‘cool people,’ to hang- hundreds of entries are re- teers, moreA ofs htheseley voices Sm willith &social Co, skills Cri m- evenina qualificationsl Defence if Syoup ewant.cia lists ceived from prisons all over murder. The judges describe now be heard. This helps you get into a routine and mixing ing around with my fellow students who like the country; the competition the piece as ‘topical and heart- 4-6 Lee Higwithh Rpeopleoad who, L oatn firstdo youn, maySE not13 mix5L withQ to play cards or talk smart conversation that organisers read every piece breaking’. Second prize goes in Hall. engages my brain, instead of ‘he said/she said’ and shortlist the best entries; to a darkly humorous story Eleanor March is a PhD 0208 463 0099 childlike gossip that most prisoners chat about researcher and the judges choose the about a corrupt prison officer. Prison doesn’t work for people who hide away all the time. Miscarriage of Justice? What’s it like to M c. IVOR . FARRELL Contact have a parent Northern Irish Solicitors ASHLEY SMITH & CO in prison? 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I didn’t know what to say. He looked so desperate that I tried to change the subject while I had a think. Foes

“You’ve got your shirt on inside out mate. How about you let me give you a hand there hey?” and friends I thought he might complain, but he seemed Rap/Spoken winner 1st prize used to it: raising his hands and saying: “Reach for the sky like a good little boy!” It made me Cometh the hour, cometh the day shiver. The shirt came off over his head and I Say how you feel in your own special way reversed it before handing it back Don’t hold back. Let it out “Thank you old chap.” He took it by the collar Sigh it, whisper, scream and shout and pushed a sleeve back through the armhole. Say what you see. Say how you feel It may be rubbish. It may be real “Why are you turning it inside out?” Be you old. Be you young “Needs to be reversed you see. Then it looks Open your mouth and untie your tongue right in the mirror when you’ve got it on.” Words can hurt. Words can soothe “Ahhhh.” Words can end and words can move Talk together. Talk alone “Have you seen her?” Still needed time to think, so I left him sipping © prisonimage.org his tea and went off to the stores; picked him Talk in your sleep. Talk down the phone luggage on the floor. Won’t be getting a tip from up a couple of tee-shirts and some jogging bot- Speak about living and not of the dead me if that’s their attitude, I can tell you!” toms. Thought about some bedding but: he Say how you feel about what’s in your head needs to be in Healthcare. So knowing that Inside out Speak out! Don’t be afraid “Tea? Coffee?” Spikey was in the office I went across and knocked. He listened then shrugged his shoul- Believe in what you’ve just said Short Story Winner “Not for me old chap. I’ll have to be getting on; ders. “Not sure they’ll take him, but I don’t mind I’ve lost my wife you see, and she’ll be getting Tell a joke or sing a song having a butchers if you think it’ll do any good?” anxious if I’m not there to deal with people.” Tell them they’re right. I made him tea. At the cell, just for a second I thought he’d fallen Tell them they’re wrong Officers don’t carry property bags: not for pris- over. Till I saw the ripped bags and realized “This room! D’you think they know I’m Speak in riddles. Talk and make sense. oners they don’t. So it might’ve been the sight that his watch was gone. Spikey took out his Fergusson, Peter Fergusson down here with But to the wrong ears it can sound like of two of them toting bags that caught my eye. radio and called a health emergency in. I could Beddoes? The logistics people you know. What Certainly wasn’t the old guy shuffling along see blood and, scared that he really was hurt, nonsense my wife’s going to make of it I couldn’t say.” behind them: all bent and shrunken, with a I knelt down. Turned out to be a broken nose And thank the time it takes to say He looked lost, so I sat him down on the closed walking stick in his hand and something odd and when I touched him he opened his eyes toilet lid and passed him a cup. To those who see in a spiritual way about his clothes? When I looked closer I saw and smiled: his shirt was open and that he had to keep tight So tell your foes or tell your friends “Perhaps we could phone her?” hold of his kecks to stop them falling down. “Ah, its Astley isn’t it? I wonder old chap, you What your words meant in the end. He frowned. “Well, there we go again. …you …you haven’t seen my wife have you?” “Shepherd! We’re gonna put Mr Fergusson in Extraordinary thing! This young popsie down- with you. He’s a bit...” The screw paused while stairs took my tie and shoelaces then she stole she searched for the politically correct term my phone! Cheeky young mare! I said to her, “doolally”. I let them leave then offered him you’ll be getting a very stiff letter from our travel my hand. people. Not at all the sort of service I’d expect “Hi, how you doing? I’m Vern or Vernon.” if you’re looking for repeat business. Need to buck your ideas up young lady.” Automatically his hand shot out as he snapped into the well-rehearsed ritual of a ‘hail-fellow- “Dear me.” He gave a satisfied grin and took a well-met’ executive to junior handshake. The sip of tea. sort which are firm and brief; even his voice “Mr Fergusson, you do know you’re in prison was confident: don’t you? That this is prison? That you’re an “Fergusson, Peter Fergusson. M.D. for Beddoes, inmate? A prisoner?” you know … the logistics people.” Then the poise collapsed and he looked around in con-fu- He looked bewildered, then: “Yes! MacNeice sion. “Must apologize old chap for not wearing explained. Prison. Got the form; somewhere.” a tie. Extraordinary young woman took it off He bent and searched the bags. It was only as me downstairs! Just a moment ago. Cheeky I watched him doing this while struggling to popsie told me to be a good boy.” keep his trousers up and his shirt closed that I realized what the problem was. He had all his “Oh dear. So is it Pete? Peter?” clothes on inside out. I was just about to say “Errr … perhaps Mr Fergusson would be more something when he handed me his court errr...” papers.

“Fine, and would Mr Fergusson like a cup of “Peter Alden Fergusson … seventy-eight … tea?” charged with murder … sentence … life … to serve at least twelve years.” I was thrown. “You “Ohhh, kind of you old chap but I’ll have to be murdered your wife?” getting on soon. I seem to have lost my wife. “Yes. She wouldn’t listen you see. Refused to D’you think the chambermaid might help?” bring my work suit. Some nonsense about re- tirement. I got very angry with her. Do you think I filled the kettle: this could take a while. we could phone her? Because you know she worries if she doesn’t hear from me.” “Chambermaid?” “She’s dead.” “Popsie who just left.” “As you say, yes, indeed she is. I was very very “Miss Cassatt? She’s the S.O.” angry with her. Just a quick call old chap? Just “Is she? Is she? Ah!” From which I guessed he’d to put her mind at rest.” never heard the term before. “Appalling service “She ...” “She’ll be worrying you see.” anyway -look at how they’ve just dropped my 48 Jailbreak // Inside Poetry www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2018

Star Poem of the Month Decision How long is a piece of string? Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize Steven Rajewski - Milne - HMP Humber HMP Wealstun How brave is brave Hard Times Lock the locks Doing the deed leading to grave A pound for all the tears I’ve cried Dahlia Scott - HMP Peterborough Stop the clocks Am I the chicken? A rich man committing suicide Up is down, square is round Hello ladies and gentlemen how are you all today? Or am I the fox? Do it or don’t Dig that hole - coffin in ground Can you spare three minutes to hear what I’ve to say? Probation service I berate © Deposit Photos Take it or leave I’m not another ‘down-and-out’ begging on the train Fire burning fiercely, cremate Fall for the madness I’m bipolar and I’m homeless and I’m feeling hunger pains Down is up and round is square Mallard Get some reprieve I’ve actually been made homeless through no fault of mine A razor to vein would I date Spit it or quit I’m an autistic poet who’s fallen on hard times Jay Naun - HMP Winchester A cut up, a cut across Leave and let go How much blood would I loss I lost my dad in January; I nursed him till the end Back it or sack it HMP Winchester houses a duck I am rich but not in wealth Now my life is lonely; ‘cos dad was my best friend Or go with the flow Rich in problems, mental health When I lost dad unfortunately I also lost my home The species is mallard, what a stroke of good luck Take it and run Will they come or detour and go I’m an autistic poet who’s found herself alone There is this duck with a wonky leg Start to have fun They make appointments but do not show Dad taught me family values; he was ever so brave It limps around like a man with a peg Eat in or out Nearly time - Parole Board Watching how I’ve ended up must have him turning in his grave I’ve been feeding it ever since it was young Wine with your meal Razor blades, paracetamol stored I also battle addiction; some days I do not eat I’ve watched it grow to what it’s become Has lost its appeal Waiting for decisions, dates My socks are damp and full of holes; I’ve blisters on my feet Whenever I can I feed it some bread Choose your own choice A decision I feed it up until it is well fed Use your own voice I hope none of you people ever get to know On my fate On the yard whenever I can go See things with vision What it’s like living on the streets; having no place to go Hear a shout, a crash, a bang I take with me some water and a bowl And make a decision I never planned to be a beggar; it never entered my head A hook, a rope, a place to hang Now poetry I’ve always loved; I used to write poems in bed Now it is all watered and fed I clean my cell from top to bottom I never imagined this would happen to me All it needs is to find somewhere to bed My last day on Earth was fu**ing rotten People shake their heads and look at me with pity I hope one day that she’ll lay some eggs Light The light it fades, it’s going black Others grab their children’s hands as they pass me by Another generation of ducks to be fed Yes boys and girls, parole knock-back I stare fixedly at the floor; can’t let them see me cry Scott Bishop - Goodbye … Thanks for listening to what I have to say Not a Red Rose HMP Littlehey Walking through lush grass, barefoot It will be appreciated if you donate something today Colin Cadamartriea - HMP Hull It needn’t be very much; it matters not how small Sunset Retiring to a ‘man hut’ Having friends and family for a meal It’s also okay to give nothing at all Sunrise Not a Red Rose or a Satin Rose Feeling a feminine feel Next time you see someone begging I gave you an onion These are my portals to you Ordering pizza or Chinese Before you make up your mind It’s a moon wrapped in brown paper For I know you see them Getting up when you please It promises light Every day without flow Take a few moments to ask how they are … Sleeping in a comfy bed Like the careful undressing of love The same time as I For they may have fallen on hard times Not giving up, wishing you were dead Our one thing in common Here, it will blind you with tears Living a free and normal life Like a love, it will make your reflection The thing that we share Getting a home, a job, maybe a wife What is prison for? A wobbling photo of grief Light through the window Not repeating past deeds or crimes Pulling you near Enjoying life, enjoying time Claire Morgan - HMP Eastwood Park I am trying to be thankful When I come home Not wishing time away Not a cute card or a Kissogram The light we can share Not wishing away the days A time to reflect or just add some respect I gave you an onion But for now my angels This isn’t life, its merely existing Or hide away from the world, not watched or rechecked Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips Just know that I’m near My sentence … ‘how long is a piece of string’ A bed for the night and three meals in my belly Possessive and faithful Like the sun I will follow No luxury Warm showers with soap and shampoo, no longer am I smelly Of a release date for me As we are My boys everywhere I’ve got my own clothes and my washing is done For as long as we are together I don’t know if I’ll ever be free The ‘suits’ and the wings say … ‘it’s not meant to be fun’ Will this be my final resting place? Take it, platinum loops Dream As parole doesn’t seem to fit my face My life on the out is harsh, busy with grief Shrink like a wedding ring Not neat and tidy If you like - lethal Matthew Murrell - Its scent will cling to your fingers Men follow me, hit me, and then I’m out hiding Like I cling to your hand HMP Lindholme A verse for a curse Safe and secure, all worries thought through I’m growing in a way I never ever thought true Please wake me when free Robert Thomas - HMP Parkhurst Until then leave us be Getting meds and I’m working days Unspoken Here am never locked up, ever This is to alcohol, my old so-called friend Start early- skies are clear blue And can roam in nice weather You would have seen me to my bitter end But the days they fly by and I’m smiling Name supplied - HMP/YOI Chelmsford A place with no iron bars You were a comfort once, or so I thought Cos for once I’m using my head Just soft top cars Yet you hid away when I got caught Life could not be more positive Can someone out there help me? The only sentence is from foxy I feel like I’m broken No jail? Then I’d be dead brown In my future you no longer figure Dead, out in the ocean Teaching me how to go down I’ll chase you away with courage, with vigour Always out in the open Let me stay inside fantasy You can charge me like a raging bull Change So how did this happen To go where I fancy I’ll repel you, my toolbox full We changed so much, hoping Jamie Skinner - HMP Long Lartin Here in this trance That our dreams could never break open I hold some significance When you’re an urge, I’ll take a walk I feel done now; I’m broken Why can’t you be real? Challenge yourself; all is not lost in prison When you’re a craving, I’ll use self-talk I guess it’s my fault I’m roping For once no need to steal Having an education is key String me up, I’m dropping Hate rising in confinement You’ll kick and scream louder and longer Another chance in life is on the horizon Down to the deep I’m going Then consumed by resentment You’ll grow weak as I grow stronger Another vision; never give up, get a degree It ‘aint your fault I’m stopping So let me live my dream Get education yourself with the NEC or OU This is where I belong, unspoken With problems floating down a You were an unwanted guest, don’t come back Everyone is capable of change for the better Just waiting for my door to be open stream This verse is for you, I’m on the attack You’ll be amazed at what you can do I’m never coming back, these are words Please only awake me So on your way out, please close the door Sign up today! And change YOU! unspoken Only when am free You’re not needed in my life anymore Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 49

“We are family” Not wrapped up in our cosy beds But on the carpet in a heap

The day began in earnest Around 11 o’clock The kids now had their second wind And were running all amok

The twins were playing hunters They crept up on the cat They tied him up in fairy lights He wasn’t keen on that

Ho-Ho-Ho A thousand volts shot up his tail And set his fur alight Merry Charles Sharp - HMP Wakefield He sits in his basket shaking now Christmas And he won’t go out at night So Christmas is upon us The family have arrived ‘Wrecking Ball’ our Staﬃ e If it’s anything like last year Is normally quite chilled We’ll be lucky to survive

But when Uncle Bill approached his bowl © Deposit Photos He wasn’t really thrilled The midnight service was a fi asco ‘Twas Christmas Day It really was a fright Christmas Poem Trying to lace his water with Morgan’s Spicy The congregation was far too merry Martin Haigh - HMP Isle of Wight Rum Brian Cleaver - HMP Isle of Wight It was not a silent night Didn’t work out quite as planned ‘Twas Christmas Day in the prison And Uncle had to run Jingle keys, jingle keys, jingle all the way The carols were unusual Christmas here at Albany And the cold grey walls were bare They didn’t come out as planned Will it simply be another day? No holly was draped round the windows Captain Morgan did nothing to allay Bill’s The choir all seemed tipsy No ivy to brighten the stairs abject fear Will we have turkey, tinsel and a tree? And the organist was canned For the health and safety guardians The Staffi e caught him bang to rights As I’ve not been good this year Forbade such festive things Bill’s in A & E now I guess I will have to wait and see There was something lurking in the manger They said it was a fi re risk Having stitches in his rear It wasn’t quite the thing I shall make a few decorations for my cell To have them on the wings Baby Jesus was a power ranger And hang them up So lunch arrived at last And the Archangel has no wings Anything to break up the long hours of bang up And the offi cers with their key-chains The vultures gather near Put on a festive face Not a delicate repast A few days off work for staff , prisoners and the like Granddad’s not the man he was But ‘Jingle Keys’ is a toneless dirge They att acked it without fear One thing I know for certain He can no longer hold his liquor In this most unseasonal place There won’t be any inmates riding a shiny new red bike A pint of eggnog and a brandy snap They grin and are contented Granny really likes her grub Has him mooning at the vicar We don’t have a chimney With twice their usual pay Especially Christmas dinner Santa has no key They’re spectres at what seems to us The turkey and the trimmings Back home we sett led gently It will be up to the Governor To be just another day And the stuffi ng is a winner To sleep on Christmas Eve To bring Christmas stockings to you and me Knowing that tomorrow And these guardians of we, the inmates It makes her rather fl atulent The Governor mustn’t worry Survey us whilst we wait Would bring horrors we could not conceive Although she says she’s not We don’t expect him to take this task on himself In the queue for pre-cooked turkey She cracked one off on Boxing Day I’m sure he can get those ‘short staff ’ we often hear about Proff ering a plastic plate But before that, dad must climb the stairs And blew her bloomers off To dress up as an elf! God rest ye lonely prisoners To put out all the gifts Let not this food dismay So, ninja like, he crept with care Christmas is coming, the goose might be getting fat I overdid the brandy Remember ‘tis not Christmas here Hoping this year’s choices wouldn’t cause a There’s only one thing on my ‘wish list’ In the Christmas pud But just another day family rift And that’s my C cat! It was rather volatile But it smelled really good Look upon Christmas as a few days to have rest ‘Twas Christmas day in the prison But there’s our youngest, Kevin 2019 will soon be upon us And the light was fading fast A bright litt le chap I lit it with a taper And for that I wish you all the very best The allott ed time for exercise He wasn’t clear who Santa was It exploded with a bang Had drearily shuffl ed past So decided on a trap The year, like this poem, draws quickly to a close Like napalm it fl ew everywhere I wonder what the New Year will bring The call for curfew rang out clear Distant bells began to clang I guess no one really knows Someone had found the Christmas cheer A tripwire halfway up the stairs Hark! How the offi cers all sing He thought would catch the guy The fi reman were very good Merry Christmas! ‘Tis time for ‘Bang up’ on the wing It really worked incredibly well They had it out in seconds He heard his quarry cry Though it blew our granddad’s eyebrows off u They’ll grow back, the doctor reckons We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. To Dad hit the wire with gusto and the presents qualify for a prize, poems should not have won a prize in any other competition or been published went awry Now, I sit here in the aftermath previously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. Kevin got to see Santa fl ying through the sky Another Christmas done But we know when things go up they fall to It is very important that you ensure the following details are on all paperwork sent to Inside A merry time was had by all Earth at last Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUMBER & PRISON. Failure to do so will prevent us responding to And all the grub has gone That’s why poor old Father spent Christmas you and your submission being withheld from publication. We will be using the new ‘Money in a body cast Transfer Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. The Wildebeest have crossed The Serengeti plain By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they can be published in any of our We got back from the hospital at 5:30am Normal service will be resumed ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, website and any forthcoming books. You are also By 6 o’clock the kids were up Let’s not do it again? giving permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in allowing other organisations to reproduce With the usual mayhem Mum was throwing up this work if considered appropriate, unless you have clearly stated that you do not want this to It really takes a toll on me happen. Any work reproduced in other publications will be on a ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note The thought strikes me with fear By 8 toys were in the cupboard poems for publication December be edited. When submitting your work please include the Looks like I’ll be back in therapy And we were all asleep following permission: ‘This is my own work and I agree to Inside Time publishing it in all And on tablets for another year associate sites and other publications as appropriate.’ 50 Jailbreak // Inside Rap www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2018 Lost The Ones Final Lap Tomorrow Daniel Campbell - HMP Rye Hill Gollum - HMP Lindholme James Fuller - HMP Ranby Anytime we argue Regret the things that I said Banged up one last time Every single person needs a purpose in this life All them spiteful things going round in my head Pick a path to stick with and then personalise Finally straight for my crime Without you in my life Are you doing what you wanna do and working it right? My hearts gone dead Still I’ve paid at Or are you burning up the pipe, or hurting on your wife? Different colour chicks The cost of my prime Jumping in and out my bed Can you never leave the house without your burner or your knife? Still searching for the one Are you working through the night or are you first up with the light? All rides on morning unlock But I know you was the one Whether burning up the erb or working in a shirt and tie Remember all them night F**k sake stop watching the clock You gotta come to terms with universal certainties of life You laid your head on my chest Seven PM already in bed Don’t just sit and take it, don’t just work it to survive And I kissed you on your head So many plans inside my head Told you your the best You gotta, learn to thrive, let my, verse supply I couldn’t live if you left Support to walk through darkness take a turn into the light Rap Star of the Month Now your gone and I’m pissed Last night went slow Let my word and rhyme, serve their purpose as your guide. Congratulations to this months winner who Memory’s in my head As these eyes show I’m on a high, I know tomorrow’s mine Remember them till I’m dead receives our £25 prize Tried counting stupid sheep I’m not a prisoner to the past and I’m not living out on borrowed time Walk a thousand miles I’ll take a bullet to the head Still impossible for any sleep I don’t replicate mistakes I’ve made I’m taking off the blinds If I could have one night I’m meditating daily and attaining state of hollow mind Life - Cards Dealt Just to talk with you in bed It’s here this special day Tomorrow’s yours, if you’re following the cause I’ll tell you sorry for the things that I said Eight AM am on my way You will reach a higher target if you get up off all-fours J Mac 10 - HMP Altcourse Lay you on my chest again Use the force, you was born with it, grip it in your claws Tell you your my only friend Cuz I’ve paid my dues I wasn’t brought up, I was dragged up I know I messed up Playing pool with snapped cues Make it yours, a new resource, that you can use to open doors Love from my mum but my dad he came stuck Hope we could start again You are awesome, a walking orb of energy I know he cared but life it was ruff Tell that I love you till my life endz Too many people live entire lives imprisoned mentally Living in a bottle and his temper was tough Really shit that final lap Make you my wife Yea, everybody dies, but a lot of people never live Chance after chance mandy one more Door swings open No more chicks on the side Everyone decides if they’re alive and who they’re riding with She always give it to him just wasn’t worth war No more lies ere to hide It’s a rap. Then once again he do the same thing If you’ve never failed, you’ve never really lived Wer stepping on egg shells now where he’s bin Every mistake that you make in life can change into a positive Choosing alcohol over the family ting Tomorrow is, not promised, any day could bring apocalypse He shoulda been an idol he shoulda been king So get up off rock bottom now before they close the coffin lid. Instead he’s like a dying flower to me in Spring Could have been part of my life flourishing But obviously is another direction The cider and black was more interesting Straighten Up Very daunting it’s still haunting Paul Latham - HMP Liverpool But I was dealt these cards I’m not moaning (Chorus 1) I wish I could restart life My mother protected me from the world I guess that makes me a re**rd right My father threatened me with it Cos if I did that, then every moment gone, would I just relive that? I’m not perishing from the hard times It’s a struggle to be alive But, through the trouble we strive

No cliché, no gimmick © prisonimage.org That woman is the star of my life Cos we’re built to survive Done every lickle ting for me Life of a Prison Issue Mental illness, can be conquered Wouldn’t change her for the whole world Through ones willness Loved her through pain and glory Adam Jacobson - HMP Wymott Your soul god will bless Just like he did when humans were in the wilderness! (16 bar 2) This is prison issue rhymes this is prison issue My fathers in jail, my brother in jail, now I’m in jail wrapping prison issue drugs into prison tissue My life made me into a solider Can you see the same trial this is straight from the heart this is prison visual A family man, for them I would move the biggest boulder Promised myself I wouldn’t end up stale Mother says, I told you to change but you didn’t listen did you And anything mediocre, I’ll just step over Rotting in a cell and what it entail I use to run round wings with a snooker ball in a sock I need to be strong, stop doin wrong There’s no hiding ... Vail I ran through the ones and then stopped Cos everyday I become older! In court no ... bail Wing staff radioed for back up they all flocked Life go slow ... snail four riot squad came with shield the shit was lookin like a set up Some don’t see the light, so dangle from it inside of a cell Letters sent home ... mail getting out of breath I should of started doin press ups Cos they felt they’re inside of hell! I see similarities of me and that man no time to think though some other tornadoes met up Did anyone hear e fellow soldier who fell! It’s everything I promised that I would be fam all I had in my pockets was an ID card an some ketchup Nope, but it left a f**kin rumour to be spread like a tumour Time to break the link but change it remains where did I get me though? Set you wave length tuner to this Man was born free yet everywhere he’s in chains yeah yeah where did it get me though? I’m speaking from the heart back then it wa froze it got me three months block they didn’t let me go I came straight outta that hell straight to a cell You gotta go through thorns to find the rose it got me prison issue tracksuits in prison classrooms Ahh the stories I could tell would torment Satan and make that He thought he was king so I de-thrown him around prison lifer’s with prison tattoo’s b**ch yell! I was dealt these cards still not moaning I guess I’m not thinking straight behind the prison gate they got me twenty sixth in line with my prison dinner plate (chorus 2) Don’t fall into his grasps and squeeze out your last gasps, f**k that that’s why I push in bro bad boys push in My mother protected me from the world Blow in his face with gastric gas I’m not waiting twenty minutes for a prison puddin My father threatened me with it Pay that mother-f**ker back, make his lips clap like a slap it’s flapjack night you hear me bro? it’s flapjack night I’m not perishing from hard times Ask for help, cos the world wants you back! I’m excited cos prison puddin slacked last night No cliché, no gimmick Your family too, don’t do what he wants you to do its prison baked my man its prison made That woman is the star of my life The worlds wants you, so does your family too. I chill with bad influences I need some different mates Done every lickle ting for me prison phone calls upset me it just really gets me Wouldn’t change her for the whole world and sometimes I jus feel like smashin up my prison tele u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our Loved her through pain and glory but then I’m left with prison walls and prison thoughts ‘Rap Star of the Month’. Send entries to: Inside Time, Rap, Botley (hook) probation are hating no release until I do prison courses Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. Try to keep Pulling out aces pulling out a king this is the prison me talking its just the prison me rhymes under 300 words. By submitting your rhymes to Inside These are just the cards dealt in my life ting. but when my prison time is done ill be a different me. Time you are agreeing to our terms, see page 49. Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak 51 Rapping like a Gladiator ‘It’s the beat that underscores the words’

Take T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The The stage has lights, it has cessful Spoken Word poems would probably have to Hollow Men’ mics, it has speakers, it has fail to work outside of the stretch some words beyond people. If ice is compact and stage, simply because on recognition just to satisfy the We are the hollow men fixed, water’s fluidity seeks stage you can play around drum’s demand. We are the stuff ed men motion, the words now have with volume, pauses, accents Leaning together to dance off the tongue. and facial expressions. All Thus when writing a Rap, my Headpiece filled with straw. these conversational dynam- advice would be to compose Alas! So I took the same T.S. Eliot ics form a part of the poem. it to music. If printed poetry Our dried voices, when poem and read it out loud at a has to satisfy the page and We whisper together show. Suddenly the word Rap is an entirely different Spoken Word has to satisfy the Are quiet and meaningless ‘dry’ felt different to me. I endeavour altogether. I grew stage, then Rap is dictated to As wind in dry grass became more conscious of its up on Rap; I was raised with by the drumbeat. These chang- Or rats’ feet over broken glass repetition as I felt myself say- two turntables and a micro- es in conditions necessitate a In our dry cellar ing it. I’ve recited this poem phone, so I understand the change in state, but the fun- many times and listened to skill involved. In my opinion, damental compositions are Shape without form, shade several renditions of it (my Rap is solely defined by the the same, just like water. without colour, favourite being Marlon beat. An MC is like a gladia- Paralysed force, gesture with- Brando in the fi lm ‘Apocalypse tor; thrown into a sonic out motion; Now’). But if I’m honest, I pre- amphitheatre provided by the Mr Gee has been a veteran on fer reading this poem in a DJ and has to rely on their lyr- the UK’s Spoken Word scene Those who have crossed book much more than I do ical skill to negotiate between for two decades. Perhaps best With direct eyes, to death’s hearing it being read aloud. each kick and snare. known as the ‘Poet Laureate’ other Kingdom on Russell Brand’s radio show, Remember us - if at all - not as lost This is because the rules of Whereas a written poem or a he has toured the world many Violent souls, but only the stage nurture a diff erent Spoken Word poem can loose- times with the comedian and As the hollow men relationship. Where the page ly play around with cadence his work has featured in the The stuff ed men. requires solitude, the stage and tempo, an MC has to be Times, Guardian and New feeds off an audience. Where locked into the rhythm. Even Statesman. He’s presented sev- When I fi rst read this I loved the page operates in silence, if the rap is printed or recited eral radio series: ‘Bespoken its simplicity, the economis- the stage embraces volume. acapella, you can always feel Word’, ‘Rhyme & Reason’ and Mr Gee in person ing of words and the use of When writing a Spoken Word the beat that underscores the ‘Poetic Justice’ - all on BBC Radio the word ‘dry’ to describe the poem, ask yourself ‘How does words. So while it wouldn’t be 4, the latter of which focused Mr Gee Poetry, Spoken Word and grass, the cellar and the voic- this sound as a natural con- impossible to turn T.S. Eliot’s on the extensive rehabilitation Rap. These are similar art es. I even liked the way that it versation?’ Some very suc- poem into a Rap, the MC work that he does in prisons. forms that require the similar appeared still on the page as Water can assume different skill of wordplay. Yet by a quiet lament of futility forms as environments and changing the means by which which spoke only to me. climates change. Raise the such words are presented, we heat and it becomes steam, can conjure up very diff erent This close relationship has to drop the temperature and it experiences. And in doing so, be understood. When writing forms ice. Each has its own we create our own lyrical ver- for print, ask yourself ‘Are my advantages and disadvantag- sions of water, ice and steam. words embracing this for- es and changes in conditions The act of reading is usually mat?’ The page has no music, inevitably create a change in a solitary endeavour. This is no volume, no distractions, state. Even clouds and hail, where the author’s words no echoes. It’s where ideas are which are both born of the greet the reader’s eyes and free to dance around uninter- sky, still share the same start to converse. It all feels rupted and paint a myriad of aquatic composition: two very personal, very one-to- pictures that the reader can parts hydrogen and one part one and very special. So even re-read and enjoy again. oxygen. if you are reading somebody else’s words, you tend to hear Spoken Word poetry however Such fundamentals can be them in your own voice and brings a change of tempera- applied when trying to under- with your own speech pat- ture. Here is where written stand the diff erences between terns. words collide with the stage.

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WordsearchJailbreak December 2018 // Festive Mix Criss Cross FESTIVE MIX – Robbie Ellis, HMP Littlehey A Y K I B E K C E S T B A B Y J E S U S L L A N A M W O N S O M E E A N I Z O T I L R A N I E T P O B A M T I H H A Q N R O Q Z S A N M I L I P I A R O K N A E Attwood Solicitors are proud to A H E I A L E A T H E I R R U X I E O S E M I S T L E T O E R O Y I N I B W K E sponsor this MONTH’S FESTIVE M A Y A R A S I C A I M S O A E I S E R PUZZLE PAGES. I N T C E S I O G E G C O R N I E S S P A G I S A R O M E H O S A E S A N T U I N E V A O C R I S A B I Z O A E M O A S O R I G I R N A G I K E S I C K L C L O S A T L O A F I A K R I L N E L A K C A E C A O V I N K O S O A I L I B O I A L T I N S E L O Y C U L K N E S F E N T I R I L R I P E R H A N U L G O C A G N A O N E S A N O S B A J O C A E I J E A M F E N A M O J A R O L E S G O L D I S C L L O I G I D F E E W O C T A S R O B E E F H E O F E S L L E B E L G N I J A G 3 LETTER 4 LETTER ELEGY ENCORE N C I D V O A M O U N A L I E C O E S R CUB ACNE EXILE SECEDE EAR BOYS GNOME TELLER FESTIVEANGEL, BABY JESUS,MIX: CHIMNEY, ANGEL, EBENEZER BABY SCROOGE, JESUS, ELF, CHIMNEY, FRANKINCENSE, EBENEZER GOLD, HOLLY, JACK FROST, JINGLE BELLS, MANGER, MISTLETOE, MYRRH, NATIVITY, PRESENTS, SANTA CLAUS, SLEIGH EBB EWER LINEN SCROOGE,BELLS, SNOWMAN, ELF, STOCKING, FRANKINCENSE, TINSEL GOLD, HOLLY, JACK FROST, EON ISLE OCHRE 9 LETTER Find our contact details and our JINGLE BELLS, MANGER, MISTLETOE, MYRRH, NATIVITY, PRESENTS, ERR OBOE OGRES HEARTBURN SANTA CLAUS, SLEIGH BELLS, SNOWMAN, STOCKING, TINSEL monthly riddle on page 55. FRY OGLE OMEGA (Start here) Thanks to Robbie Ellis, HMP Littlehey for compiling these wordsearches. HIT PAID OPTIC If you fancy compiling one for us please send in max 20 x 20 grid ILL YOUR REFER complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it we will send you £5 INN THETA as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number, prison. We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so OBI 5 LETTER include your DOB on your entries. PRY APRON 6 LETTER SAG DARED ABROAD Fun facts... • TYPEWRITER is the longest from history. Spades - King the horse has a all four legs word that can be made using David, Clubs - Alexander the on the ground, the person Round the bend • The Mona Lisa has no eye- the letters only on one row of Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, died of natural causes. the keyboard. Diamonds - Julius Caesar. brows. • Rats multiply so quickly that • “I Am” is the shortest com- • You can’t kill yourself by • If a statue of a person in the in 18 months, two rats could plete sentence in the English holding your breath. park on a horse has both have over a million descendants. front legs in the air, the per- language. • It is physically impossible for • Most lipstick contains fish son died in battle. If the horse pigs to look up into the sky. scales. • The name of all the conti- has one front leg in the air, nents end with the same let- • Each king in a deck of playing the person died as a result of • The cigarette lighter was ter that they start with. cards represents great kings wounds received in battle. If invented before the match. The Hollywood and the Ivy

There are clues to 25 Christmas movies in this picture: Can you name them all? (answers next month)

ACROSS DOWN 3. Head towards (2,3) 1. Mother (3) 7 Currency unit (4) 2. Gas, symbol N (8) 8 Favourite saying (5) 3. Seabird (4) 9 Shoe ties (5) 4. Verbal (4) 11. Roman home (5) 5. Italian bread (8) 13. Honest (4) 12. Bury (5) 15 Heroic tale (4) 14. Phonetic alphabet word (4) 16 Body powder (6) 18. Spring month (3) 19. Sharp-pointed sword (4) 20. ____ Karenina, Tolstoy AROUND THE CORNER heroine (4) 1. Swampland tree (8) 6. Characteristic of country life (6) 10. Large country (6) 17. Kazakhstan’s largest city (6)

A Christmas gift

1. As a Christmas gift, parents buy 16 computer games for their 3 children. The youngest gets 1/8 of the games, the middle child gets 1/4 of the games and the oldest gets 1/2 of the games.” How many games does each child receive and how many do the parents keep?

2. Two mums and 2 daughters went out for Christmas dinner. Each ate one portion, yet only three portions were eaten in total. How is this possible? Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 53

1-2-8 Can you spot the robin? Number Cross

Prepare a piece of A4 paper, then fold it four Each number below corresponds to a letter. We’ve filled in four times to form 8 squares. Write on the to get you started, can you figure out the rest? squares in the top row the numbers 1, 8, 7, 4, and write on the squares in the bottom row the numbers 2, 3, 6, 5.

1 8 7 4

2 3 6 5

Now your task is to fold the piece of paper several times, so that the squares end up on top of each other, with the numbers appearing in ascending order top to bottom, and 1 face up.

Crosssearch Letterbox Snakes alive!

Honeycombe

Cross out the letters above that appear more than once This befuddling cousin of the Japanese num- to spell out a word. What is it? ber-puzzle Soduku, requires you to fill in the Match the crossword clues given to the word gaps with the numbers one to nine as directed search above. (answers next month) by the arithmetic ‘operations’ - so that the snake-shaped equation makes sense and gives ACROSS DOWN the solution ‘66’. This Vietnamese number Achieve African desert puzzle was originally for eight-year-olds! Before all else Downy Burial ceremony Hairy fruit Extract cargo Hunt for Horned animal Killer whale Inundates Rant Can you spot the sheep? Matt ____, actor Rectangular Visions Ruse Was ill Totally in favour Write the six-letter answers to these clues around their clue Wrinkly fabric Uncle’s child numbers in the grid, reading clockwise or anti-clockwise, starting from the hexagon above the clue number. You’ll need Lifebook to decide which direction they travel. (answers next month) 1. Fixed 11. Clear-headedness I am trying to make friends outside of 2. Condemned 12. Horse’s gait Facebook while applying the same principles. 3. Dreaded 13. Finer 4. Harvested 14. Fatal Therefore, every day I walk down the street 5. Perceived Intuitively 15. Customary and tell passers-by what I have eaten, how I 6. Struggle 16. Not susceptible feel at the moment, what I have done the night 7. Brawn 17. Male name before, what I will do later and with whom. 8. Brick debris 18. Flashy, vulgar 9. General populace 19. Heavy mooring rope I give them pictures of my family, Max and 10. Picturesque 20. Slay Nini, the bunnies that live under my shed and of me watering my flowers, taking things apart in the garage, painting my house, standing in Riddle me this front of landmarks like Lake Raystown, driving around Bristol, having lunch and doing what 1. I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be anybody and everybody does every day. broken. What am I?

I also listen to their conversations, give the 2. I flop around on sticks and sometimes you cheer me as I do, “thumbs up” and tell them I like them. I desperately need a white powder to do what needs to be done, and looking at me you might wonder why I look like I am And it works just like Facebook! I already have about to go swimming. What am I? four people following me: two police officers, 3. I have a home and a big space, I have keys but I have no a private investigator and a psychiatrist. locks, I have lots of letters but I have no mailbox. What am I? 54 Jailbreak // Prize Winning Competitions www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2018 Read all about it! Caption Competition Last Months £25 Winner A £25 prize is on offer for the best caption 1. At Christmas, what are sausages wrapped in Fonesavvy providers of ‘landline type Darren Cowland - HMP Grendon to this month’s picture. bacon known as? numbers’ for mobile phones. 2. Who won between Tyson Fury and Deontay Proud sponsors of Inside Time’s Wilder in the WBC heavyweight title fight? PRIZE quiz ‘Read all about it!’ 3. Which comic book legend sadly died in If you don’t want callers to be disadvantaged November? or put off by the high cost of calling your 4. Who won ‘I’m a celebrity get me out of here’ mobile - just get a landline number for it. 2018? Calls to mobiles don’t have to be expensive! 5. Which Royal recently celebrated his 70th Full details are available on our main birthday? advert in Inside Time and at 6. In the festive song ‘The twelve days of www.fonesavvy.co.uk McVities said the Credit: Amy Kennedy Christmas’ how many rings were given on the penguin contract was fifth day? Last Months Winners Another animal themed one this month. What Lee Bastable - HMP Featherstone (£25) signed, sealed and delivered, 7. Shane Richie has recently returned to which do you think these cheeky monkeys are saying? Marc Cope - HMP Stafford (£5) but this really takes the ‘soap’ playing Alfie Moon? Phillip Powell - HMP Frankland (£5) biscuit! 8. What nationality is ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ See box to the right for details of how to enter Closing date for judge Bruno Tonioli? Answers to last months News Quiz: Above is one of the finalists of the all 1. Harry and Megan, 2. Conor McGregor, 3. Paddy 9. What is the name of Alan Sugar’s female 2018 Comedy Wildlife Photography competi- advisor on The Apprentice? McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff, 4. Sinead O’Connor, 5. Declan Donnelly and Holly Willoughby, 6. Girls, Awards. The winner was Mary tions is 10. What is the name of Father Christmas’ 7. 5th November, 8. Keanu Taylor, 9. 30, 10. Raheem McGowan with her wonderful 25/01/19 famous reindeer with a red nose? Sterling surprised squirrel “caught in the act”!

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Why aren’t animals with Anagram Square Cryptic Crossword Do you know? larger brains more intelligent than us? Rearrange the letters in each There are two reasons. First, row to form a word. Write your brain structure is more answers into the blank grid. important than brain size, and The first letter from each word, human brains with their reading down, will spell the mystery keyword. highly folded and complicated cortex can do things no other brains can. Second, 1 EESZI relative size is more important PAMCL than absolute size. The ratio 2 of brain weight to body 3 DUREN Head to head: chocolate vs crisps weight is about 1:5000 for In the battle between two of the nation’s fish, 1:220 for birds and 1:180 4 RIFLL favourite snacks, which between chocolate and for mammals, with the most crisps are the healthier (or unhealthy as the intelligent species generally 5 FARRI case may be)? having the highest ratio. For example magpies and crows CHOCOLATE V CRISPS have a higher ratio than most 1 240kcal energy per bar/packet 169kcal birds, and social mammals 530kcal energy per 100g 520kcal such as chimpanzees and 2 56g sugar per 100g 2.6g dolphins have a higher ratio 18.5g saturated fat per 100g 2.5g than other mammals. The 3 0.23g salt per 100g 1.22g human ratio is highest at about 1:50. The largest brain 4 Both snacks have roughly the same number of of all belongs to the sperm 5 calories by weight, but the calories in milk whale, but dolphins have a chocolate come from sugar and saturated fat, higher ratio and are capable whereas crisps are mainly starch and monoun- of imitation and can recog- Thanks to Rob McPhillips, HMP saturated fat. A packet of crisps also weighs less nise themselves in a mirror. Stafford. If you fancy compiling Across Down an Anagram Square for us please than even a small bar of Dairy Milk. Apart from What they think of human just send it in 5 x 5 squares, 1. Ignorant, like a policeman that’s new 1. Poison found in university, juice the salt, crisps are a bit healthier than choco- intelligence we do not know.. complete with answers shown on coming in (10) knocked over (4) late. BBC Focus BBC Focus a grid. If we use it we will send you £5 as a thank you! 6. Service in which one gets married 2. Son and heir swimming around Remember to include your name, - fool! (4) near the beach? (7) First public spaces, then number, prison. We will be using 9. Connected ideas a Scot worked out (10) 3. Look at the score and square up to a prisons and now council the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ 10. Learner overwhelmed by expression difficult situation (4,3,5) for prize money so include your homes! DOB on your entries. of surprise and merriment (4) 4. Providing fresh ammunition to back A Parliamentary report has 12 & 13. Say nothing about computers Lib Dem (8) recommended that smoking etc.? No problem! (4,7,2) 5. Leave the scene with old lover, Fun facts... 15. Indian capital (8) accompanied by silly tune (6) should be banned in social 16. English king’s companion is a gas (6) 7. Capital city worker found in map housing. But residents across • The Mayans were big fans 18. Frightened when female’s issued a book (not Sweden’s capital) (7) the country believe that what of puns, and would employ reprimand (6) 8. The sweater looks dreadful, beloved! (10) they do in their own home is them heavily in verbal duels 20. Heavy rain in county getting to 11. Drunk after session and going their own business. The involving riddles and rhymes river, then old city (8) nowhere (7,5) recommendation has been Zig-a-zig ... Ugh! - similar to a modern day rap 23. Game trials are held here (9) 14. What snooker players do, mad folk! (10) made in a report which has A Spice Girls songwriter has made claims about 24. Give away secrets in hotel lobby (4) 17. Gosh, dweeb pocketing drug gets battle. found that smoking is now the origin of their famous phrase “zig-a-zig-ah”. 26. Charge boy when egg’s been caught! (8) It features in their smash hit Wannabe when ‘highly concentrated’ on • In ancient Greece, celery nabbed (4) 19. Hold forth about a little girl being they sing “I wanna really really really wanna council estates, where it is was a prominent part of the 27. A lot of mistakes in a recording brilliant (7) zig-a-zig-ah” but they have never revealed what twice as common as in other badly made (10) 21. Gibbons seen somewhere in Florida (7) it actually means. The music source explained: burial process. The dead 28. Glut of eggs at Easter (4) 22. Poodle has goose troubled? Time tenures. Tenants are also less “Most of our studio neighbours were way cooler were often crowned with it, 29. Patience needed by principal to intervene (6) likely to quit despite trying as than us, we had Orbital and Chemical Brothers and “to need celery” was to inclined to be impulsive (10) 25. Bunch of criminals go around often as other smokers, it next door. But there was this one 80s pop dude be close to death. Scotland (4) adds. The report, by two All who hated us for encroaching what he consid- Party Parliamentary Groups ered ‘his turf’ which was boy bands and girl • British Army tanks have been equipped with tea mak- Traffic light Maze and charity Action on bands. This guy had this nasty habit of taking a dump in the shared khazi while smoking a cigar, ing facilities since 1945. Smoking and Health (ASH), so we took to referring to him as ‘s**t and cigars’. suggests new social housing Travel During the recording this phrase was thrown • McDonald’s replaced its along the could be designated smoke- around a lot and must have worked its way into coffee spoons with flat stir- paths from free - and suggests offering Mel B’s subconscious who pretty much wrote all rers in 1979 to stop people start to tenants vaping kits. It also the lyrics. She may have considered ‘s*** and using them as cocaine finish and points out that most private cigar’ for a minute - but eventually settled on spoons. go through landlords include no-smoking ‘Zig-a-zig-ah’ instead.” So ‘zig-a-zig-ah’ might the dots clauses in agreements. sound like nonsense, but in fact the girls were • Hippos can retract their in the order using it as a statement against the sexist testicles over a foot into their red, green figureheads in the music industry. Girl Power. Council house tenant Lisa body to stop rivals from bit- yellow, red, ing them. green, Hepple said: “I smoke in the yellow and comfort of my own home Frigid to hot • Historically, syphilis has so on... because if I smoke anywhere Milk bottle labels will change colour to warn been known as ‘the French else I feel like a leper. How do people if their fridge is too warm under a new trial to reduce the amount which goes sour and disease’ in Italy, Malta, they propose to police that gets tipped down the sink. The colour-chang- Germany and Poland, ‘the - are you going to have the ing labels will start appearing on supermarket Italian disease’ in France, ‘the smoking Gestapo knocking on bottles from next year. Households are Spanish disease’ in the your door? What people do in Netherlands, ‘the Polish dis- If you fancy compiling a maze for us please just send it in. If we use it we will send you throwing away £25 million of unconsumed £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number, prison. We will be using the their own home is their own milk a year, which goes off while sitting in the ease’ in Russia and ‘the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. business.” The Mirror fridge. The Telegraph Christian disease’ in Turkey. Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 57

Fun quotes... The path to success Did I say that? Top facts... • Run for Office? No. I’ve slept with too many 5 8 2 3 7 Snow women, I’ve done too many drugs, and I’ve been 4 7 8 4 2 1. Scotland sees the most to too many parties. snow in the UK, with snow or sleet falling on 52 days on George Clooney 2 1 8 9 7 average. • We don’t have unsung hereos anymore. Every 2 6 3 8 2 2. Snowflakes always have six “I use my talent AND my “Just love them for who “Prison is s*, but it’s hero has sung a song in sides. The water molecules sexuality all the time they are and allow them to worth it,” that snowflakes are made of some film. Shirish Kunder 7 1 1 6 7 because I choose to. Women feel safe. And those little Freed fracking protester, can only fit together in a way can be sexual AND talented. digs and the little knocks • What’s my talent? Well, a Simon Blevins, jailed for 16 that results in a six-sided ice Start at the bottom left square Naked and dignified. It’s and the abuse that they bear can juggle and stand months, vows to keep crystal. and move up, down, left or right OUR choice.” subtly get that we don’t on a ball and he’s talented, fighting injustice. Fellow until you reach the finish. Add the Pop star Ariana Grande hit know about, perhaps they 3. Igloos can be more than 40 but he’s not famous. Kim numbers as you go. Can you out at Piers Morgan in defence won’t penetrate as deep.” inmate told him: ‘I’m here degrees warmer inside than Kardashian make exactly 48? of comments he made about John Bishop gave the perfect because I’m greedy, you’re outside. And they’re warmed women who chose to show advice for parents whose here because you care about entirely by body heat. Since off their bodies. child has come out to them. the planet’. GEF BAD CHI fresh, compacted snow is approximately 90 to 95 Using the letters G,E,F,B,A,D,C,H & I fill in the “I think it’s worth it to declare “I will never forget. I was percent trapped air (meaning blank squares. Each letter A-I must appear Jesus to these people. Please explaining ‘I got stabbed it can’t move and transfer only once in each line column and 3x3 grid. do not be angry at them or here, there, there....’ They heat) it’s a great insulator. at God if I get killed.” had faces of horror - and Many animals, such as bears, US missionary John Allen that’s when it dawned on dig deep holes in the snow to Chau writing to his parents me. Where I come from is hibernate through the winter. days before he was fatally mad. Of course it’s shocking shot with a volley of arrows I’ve been stabbed. Of course 4. The Guinness Book of by uncontacted and it shouldn’t be normal.” World Records states that a Neil Speed is a endangered Sentinelese Rapper Stormzy says it giant snowflake was found at former prisoner tribespeople on India’s wasn’t until he left his south Fort Keogh, Montana on who came up remote Andaman island London community that he January 28, 1887. It was 15 with the concept where indigenous people realised it isn’t normal to be inches wide and 8 inches thick. of GEF BAD CHI are protected. stabbed. whilst in prison. GEF BAD CHI by 5. Constructed each January Neil Speed is on ice and snow, the ‘Wapusk published by Inside Chess 8 Trail’ road has a length of 467 Xlibris. £12.35 by Carl Portman miles and links Gillam, 7 Manitoba with Peawanuk, Ontario, Canada. ‘Wapusk Catchphrase Tony, from HMP Stafford asked me five questions 6 Trail’ is the longest seasonal which I am delighted to answer via this column. winter road in the world. The object is to try to figure out the well-known saying, person, I started playing chess when I was 12 which is 5 place, or thing that each square is meant to represent. actually quite late. A school teacher taught me 6. While snowflakes appear how to play. My best rating was almost 2000 ELO 4 white as they fall through the which is fairly strong and means I just about sky or as they accumulate on BARS BARS BARS know where the pieces go! As for my favourite 3 the ground as snowfall, they GOOD LAST BARS BARS BARS players past and present, I would say José Raul are in fact totally clear. The 2 PAT BARS BARS BARS Capablanca from the deceased list and Anatoly ice though is not transparent GOOD LAST Karpov from the land of the living. As to my BARS BARS BARS 1 like a sheet of glass is, but THE favourite game between grandmasters I love the rather is translucent meaning game Capablanca v Treybal from 1929 because light only passes through it taught me so much about chess. In particular A B C D E F G H indirectly. The many sides of there’s no need always to dive in and attack from cover the range of players which is not easy. the ice crystals cause diffuse the start. One can wait and choose the right reflection of the whole light LOOK ULEAP YYY MEN moment to attack. You can be a python as well A back copy of Chess Monthly donated by the spectrum which results in MOMENTA as a cobra in chess. Finally, my three favourite London Chess Centre is the prize for the first snowflakes appearing to be chess books (not in order) are The Sorcerer’s correct entry drawn. white in colour. Apprentice by David Bronstein (written so that anyone can understand it and the chess is fas- Write to me with your answer, care of The English 7. Whilst the vision of a Dear Editor... cinating), Anatoly Karpov’s Games as World Chess Federation at The Watch Oak, Chain Lane, Christmas Day surrounded by Champion 1975-77, from a period when his chess Battle, East Sussex TN33 OYD. Please note that snow fills Christmas cards, was almost unearthly, and finally if I am very you should always write to me at the ECF not via • Motorists, enjoy the benefits • Health experts say, ‘Every movies and songs, snow is naughty I will say I am rather proud of my own InsideTime. Also, please include your prison of advisory signs warning of cigarette you smoke takes 10 actually much more likely in book ‘Chess Behind Bars’ because it does what number and if you can, the date and what month’s things like ‘Severe congestion seconds off your life’. To January and February than in it is meant to do and is a ‘chess bible’ for chess puzzle you are entering. M6, J9-J11’ by first committing combat this, at the end of December. In the UK, snow or players - especially prisoners. (Okay, if you push the junction numbering every day work out how sleet falls on an average of 3.9 me - you should also try the short book, Chess The gorgeous answer to November’s puzzle was system for the entire British many seconds you have ‘lost’, days in December, compared Fundamentals, by Capablanca which is excellent). 1.Nd3-e5! threatening to go to f7 and deliver motorway network to and simply go to bed that to 5.3 days in January, 5.6 Yuletide blessings to all in the prison service, checkmate. Note that the Black king is unable to memory. Aaron - Aldershot much later, or wake up that days in February and 4.2 days especially those who have supported chess. move so he is looking for a stalemate. 1…d6xe5 much earlier the next morning. in March. There has been a Please do keep those puzzle entries and chess (forced) 2.d4-d5 (not taking the pawn or it is • Ribena Toothkind, my arse. Hey presto! Your lost time is widespread covering of snow questions coming in 2019 and I might even see Black to move and a draw by stalemate!) 2…e5- I recently lost a crown trying returned. Harold - Orkney (over 40% of weather stations you on a prison visit. e4. 3.d5-d6 e4-e3 4.d6-d7 e3xd2 5.d7-d8 = Knight to get the plastic straw off the reporting snow) only four (not a queen which would only draw the game.) carton. Dale - Bolton • Find out if a person is vegan times in the last 51 years. This month’s puzzle saw me as Black playing 5…d2-d1=Q 6.Nd8-f7 checkmate. by asking them any question Those hoping for a white against Brammer in Germany in 2001. White • Audi owners. Move your about anything at all. If they Christmas should be heartened (moving up the board) is about to play 25.Re1xe7. Winner to be announced. driver’s seat forward so that are vegan, this fact will be to hear that snow has at least After he played this I forced his resignation, but you can get even closer to the incorporated into their fallen on Christmas Day how? Can I just say that my chess problems are The winner of October’s puzzle was Terry from car in front. Alfred - Frome answer. Barry - Wrexham somewhere in the UK 38 easy for some and difficult for others - I try to HMP Dartmoor. times in the last 52 years. Anagram – Rob McPhillips, HMP Stafford

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S E I Z E C L A M P U N D E R Jailbreak // Just for Fun www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2018 58 F R I L L F R I A R In this month... Number Search: Search Mohammed Ali, HMP Full Sutton 1 December 1948 8 1 9 0 4 2 9 9 3 2 The Tamam Shud case (also known as the 1 2 3 2 4 0 5 9 3 3 Mystery of the Somerton Man). The body of a man was found on a beach near Adelaide, 4 4 6 9 2 4 3 6 7 5 Australia. A scrap of paper in his pocket led to a 8 0 4 2 1 3 7 6 5 2 rare copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that contained a secret code. Despite interna- 9 1 6 7 8 5 8 3 8 0 tional assistance, the man remains unidentified, 5 0 7 3 5 6 4 8 3 0 and his cause of death remains unknown. 2 1 6 0 4 9 7 2 5 1 5 December 1958 7 5 4 4 1 6 5 1 4 5 Britain’s first motorway, the Preston bypass, 2 3 6 7 2 8 1 6 8 4 was officially opened. (It is now part of the M6 motorway.) 9 9 8 8 7 6 2 0 9 1

6 December 1768 1904,1904, 14895, 14895, 998876, 998876, 12324059, 12324059,3564, 72816, 9966382, 3564, 42137, 72816, 54416, 235200 9966382, 42137, 54416, 235200 The first instalment of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published. (It was Thanks to Mohammed Ali, HMP Full Sutton for published as 100 weekly instalments, and compiling this Number Search. If you fancy compiling one please send in max 10 x 10 grid formed 3 volumes when they were all collected complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it together.) we will send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number and prison. We will be 8 December 1943 using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. Colossus Mark I, the world’s first programma- ble, electronic, digital computer, was completed, tested, and found to work satisfactorily. Sudoku // Very Hard It was then dismantled and shipped (on 18th January 1944) to Britain’s secret cryptanalysis headquarters at Bletchley Park. It began 9 4 operating there on 5th February, helping with the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher. 1 8 7 4 7 4 2 6 9 December 1868 The world’s first traffic lights were installed 4 8 6 outside the Houses of Parliament in London. They had semaphore arms, similar to railway 8 1 4 2 signals, and were lit by gas lamps at night. They were operated manually by a police officer. 3 6 7 (The first set exploded on 2nd January 1869 6 4 5 1 due to a gas leak 2 1 6 3 9 December 1968

The Mother of All Demos. American computer 7 5 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2018. All rights reserved. pioneer Douglas Engelbart gave the first public Daily Sudoku: Sat 3-Nov-2018 very hard demonstration of the mouse, graphical user Word Morph interface, hypertext and dynamic linking, email, and video teleconferencing at the Fall Joint Can you morph one word into another by just Computer Conference in San Francisco, changing one letter at a time? It isn’t quite as California. easy2 as3 you think!6 9 5 4 1 7 8

10 December 1968 1 8 9 6 rats7 2 3 4 5 300 million yen robbery, Tokyo, Japan. A thief dressed as a police officer told bank employees 7 5 4 1 8 3 9 2 6 transporting staff bonuses that police had received a warning that dynamite had been 4 7 2 8 3 1 6 5 9 placed in their car. Smoke and flames were 8 6 1 5 9 7 4 3 2 seen coming from beneath the car and the employees retreated. The thief then entered 5 9 3 2 4 6 8 1 7 the car and drove off with the money. It was

© MW Released life sentenced prisoner mice the single largest heist in Japanese history at 6 4 7 3 2 9 5 8 1 that time. The case remains unsolved. (The amount stolen was equivalent to $817,520 at Just9 2for laughs5 4 /1 Mitch8 7Hedberg6 3 that time.) PAROLE HEARING COMING UP?

3 1 8 7 6 5 2 9 4 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2018. All rights reserved. • I hate dreaming. Because when you wanna Daily Sudoku: Sat 3-Nov-2018 very hard 14 December 1918 A producer making a lm for Channel 4 would like sleep, you wanna sleep. Dreaming is work, you 1918 British general election. The first in which to hear from long term prisoners in Scottish Jails know? Like, there I am, laying in my comforta- women (over 30) and all men (over 21) were ble bed. It’s beautiful. Next thing you know, I eligible to vote. Votes were not counted until awaiting parole. have to build a go-kart with my ex landlord.http://www.dailysudoku.com/ 28th December. David Lloyd George’s Liberal coalition was re-elected. We’ll lm your journey, your tribunal and hear from • I want to hang a map of the world in my you directly about the parole process and your house. Then I’m gonna put pins into all the 24 December 1818 hopes for getting out. Everything you say is o the locations I’ve travelled to, but first I’m gonna The popular Christmas carol Silent Night was record, until you decide for sure to take part. have to travel to the top two corners of the performed for the first time, at Midnight Mass map, so it won’t fall down. at a parish church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It was written just a few hours earlier • I think Pringles’ initial intention was to make by teacher and church organist Franz Xaver tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber Gruber, to lyrics by priest Joseph Mohr. was supposed to show up, a big truck load of E: [email protected] / T: 07917 316 640 potatoes arrived. And Pringles is a laid back A: Red Sky Productions, Four Winds Pavilion,Paci c Quay, Glasgow G51 1DZ © www.ideas4writers.co.uk company, they said, “F**k it, cut ‘em up.” Insidetime December 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 59

Would you believe it? The joke’s on you Wordsearch // Painting and Decorating Painting and Decorating – Robert Thomas, HMP Parkhurst • There once was this guy who was going on a T A O C R E D N U S O L G M I R P L X Z date to the movies with a beautiful girl. Before Q B P L A D D E C F I L E R E N E P I O he went, he made the mistake of eating a S T N A S P E R L L V E C P R R N D E W jumbo can of beans. Right after he picked her C S S O L G A C R I N R P E D E C O A R up, he felt the need to fart, but he fi gured he R U G L N P S G N O S I T A M Y I L P L could wait until they got to the movies. When A L A O P W L Y I N R Y V F I L L E R A they got there, he asked her if she wanted P A P R E T L S A T P L C N E P O P S D some popcorn and Coke. She said sure, so he E S E A P S V O S R O L L E A T T R O D went to the bathroom. The line was long, so R A R P I S S L G E M I R P K E P A S E he went back to the lobby, got the food, and P N O L X N O I S L U M E L E L P V E R went back into the cinema. When the movie E D K E T T T O G O S R S M T A A T P E Group of camels found was over, he goes to the bathroom again, still R P W E O P D B L L I F M A T R Q J I P loitering in Lidl car park with a tremendously long line. So he fi gures he J A T S T E N E R P W O S J N L L A W L Seven camels ran away from can wait until he drops her off. When they pull E P A P Z T O I N U T U L I M R E L L U The body of Adonis the circus… and decided to up into her driveway, she exclaims, ‘’Oh good- L E T R A S L P P E S C S S O L T T A M take a trip to Lidl. A bizarre ie. My grandparents are here. Come on in and U R O L L E R E B L P H A K O S R E S B ‘Young God’, old dog more like... photo showed the animals meet them.’’ He agrees, although he felt like M S I O N P U B L I N M T T K E T P A L A 69-year-old pensioner who says he has the lurking in the moonlight exploding at this point. They go in and sit E T R A Y L M L E V E L T I R I P S W I body of a 45-year-old is taking action to legally outside the budget supermar- down at the table. Finally, he couldn’t hold it V A R N S C R A B R U S L A D D G L S N change his age to improve his job prospects ket in Bergen, Germany. in any longer and tried to let it seep out a little P R I M E R S T R I P R T R A P A S T E and luck with women on Tinder. Dutch Confused members of the at a time. As he squeezed out a toxic blast, he entrepreneur Emile Ratelband is hoping he will public called police, who were EMULSION,EMULSION, FILLER, FILLER,GLOSS, KETTLE, GLOSS, LADDER, KETTLE, MATT, PAINT LADDER, BRUSH, PASTE, MATT, PENCIL, PLUMBLINE, PAINT aimed it towards the family’s hound dog Duke, PRIMER, ROLLER, SANDPAPER, SCRAPER, SPIRIT LEVEL, SPONGE, STRIPPER, TRAY, UNDERCOAT, be able to change his date of birth from 11 greeted by the unusual sight. BRUSH, PASTE, PENCIL, PLUMBLINE, PRIMER, ROLLER, in the hope that they might blame the pooch VARNISH, VINYL SILK, WALLPAER March 1949 to 11 March 1969 after his doctors Policeman Thorsten Wallheinke SANDPAPER, SCRAPER, SPIRIT LEVEL, SPONGE, STRIPPER, for the horrendous fart. The girl’s father stands said he had the body of someone more than said: ‘An employee of the TRAY, UNDERCOAT, VARNISH, VINYL SILK, WALLPAPER 20 years younger than himself. The self-help circus had not closed the gate up and shouts ‘’Duke!’’ and sits back down. guru - who described himself as a “young god” properly, so that the animals ‘’Great!’’ he thought. ‘’They really think it’s the Thanks to Robert Thomas, HMP Parkhurst for compiling this - is taking action against his local authority were able to run away.’ Police dog!’’ So, he starts bombarding the room with Wordsearch. If you fancy compiling one for us please send in max 20 x 20 grid complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it we will after it refused to change his age on official in Celle seemed to see the a couple, more powerful, louder stinkers. send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number, documents. Mr Ratelband told De Telegraaf: funny side, as they tweeted: Once again, the girl’s father stands up, shouts prison. We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize “You can change your name. You can change ‘They were waiting for the ‘’Duke!!’’ and sits back down. Finally, he lets it money so include your DOB on your entries. your gender. Why not your age? Nowhere are best deals!’ The force said the all go and the loudest most hair-curling fart you so discriminated against as with your age.” animals were recaptured and you’ve ever heard - the smell rippled through Quick Crossword The entrepreneur said his legal age affected his safely returned to the circus. It the dining room. The girl’s father stands up employment opportunities as well as his love is not the first high-profile again. ‘’Duke, get the hell out from under him life. He said: “When I’m 69, I am limited. If I’m camel escape to hit Germany before he shits on you!’’ 49, then I can buy a new house, drive a this year. In April, police were different car. I can take up more work. When forced to respond after two of • Late one night a man is driving down the I’m on Tinder and it says I’m 69, I don’t get an the animals escaped from a answer. When I’m 49, with the face I have, I will circus in Bremen and were road, speeding quite a bit. A cop notices how be in a luxurious position.” Mr Ratelband said found grazing near a fast he is going and pulls him over. The cop he would give up his pension if the courts ruled McDonald’s restaurant. The says to the man, “Are you aware of how fast in his favour. Sky News Metro you were going?” The man replies, “Yes I am. I’m trying to escape a robbery I got involved Aah! Brexit in.” The cop gives him a sceptical look and Brexit has people worried says, “Were you the one being robbed?” The about jobs, security, trade and man casually replies, “No, I committed the apparently Bisto. The Bisto robbery.” The cop looks shocked that the man part may surprise many but it admitted this. “So you’re telling me you were was a legitimate concern for a speeding...AND committed a robbery?” “Yes,” woman interviewed in the man calmly says. “I have the loot in the Northern Ireland in back.” The cop begins to get angry. “Sir, I’m November. You would have afraid you have to come with me.” The cop thought she’d be more reaches in the window to subdue the man. concerned about the Irish “Don’t do that!” the man yells fearfully. “I’m border and how that was scared you will fi nd the gun in my glove com- going to get sorted but the Now that’s doggy style partment!” The cop pulls his hand out. “Wait lack of instant gravy seemed There were some heart-warming scenes on here,” he says. The cop calls for backup. Soon Across Down to be weighing heaviest on Hollywood Boulevard in November as Snoop cops, cars, and helicopters are fl ooding the her mind. ‘Bisto is being Dogg was finally recognised for his long career area. The man is cuffed quickly and taken 1. Frequented by ghosts (7) 1. Telephone advice service (8) 5. Augur (4) 2. Intact (8) stockpiled because of the by being awarded a star on the Hollywood towards a car. However, before he gets in, a 7. Tennis shot (3) 3. Sounded a horn (6) Brexit,’ she told Channel 4 Walk of Fame. After thanking music producer cop walks up to him and says, while gesturing 8. Acquired without trouble (2,1,5) 4. Speaks slowly (6) news. ‘So my mum has sent Quincy Jones, Dr. Dre, fans and family, the to the cop that pulled him over, “Sir, this 47-year-old also had a big thank you for 9. Slack (5) 5. Roar (6) me downtown to buy Bisto offi cer informed us that you had committed a 10. Plunder (4) 6. Import tax (4) - she doesn’t like the granules himself. “Last but not least, I wanna thank me, I robbery, had stolen loot in the trunk of your wanna thank me for believing in me. I wanna 13. Knit with this (4) 11. Bullfighter (8) you see.’Her mum became car, and had a loaded gun in your glove com- thank me for doing all this hard work. I wanna 14. Require (4.) 12. Italian city (8) concerned after Premier partment. However, we found none of these thank me for having no days off. I wanna thank 18. Pleasant (4) 15. Small depression in the Foods, which owns Bisto, things in your car.” The man replies, “Yeah, and me for never quitting. I wanna thank me for 19. Belonging to them (5) flesh (6) announced it was stockpiling always being a giver and trying to give more I bet that liar said I was speeding too!” 21. Ended or finished (8) 16. Decapitate (6) raw materials as a contingen- than I receive. I wanna thank me for trying to do 22. Lair (3) 17. Emphasise (6) cy to make sure it could more right than wrong.” Snoop then ended the • A man is walking through his local mall and 23. This place (4) 20. Painful (4) supply products in the case of iconic speech with a last thank you and notices a Mexican bookstore. He decides to 24. Merit (7) a no deal Brexit. It said the compliment to himself, saying: “I wanna thank go in because he has never seen a Mexican absence of certainty over the me for just being me at all times. Snoop Dogg, bookstore before. He browses through the The last word... arrangements for the UK’s you a bad mother f***er.” The rapper also store and fi nally asks the clerk, “Do you have departure from the EU was celebrated the 25th anniversary of his debut the book on Donald Trump’s foreign policies “Reading gives us someplace to go the main problem and this album Doggystyle in November. Doggystyle with Mexico?” The clerk replies, “F*you, get when we have to stay where we are...” could cause a gridlock in UK sold more than 11 million copies worldwide. out, stay out!” The man replies, “Yeah, that’s Mason Cooley ports. The Metro Salute to a legend. the one!” 60 Jailbreak // National Prison Radio www.insidetime.org Insidetime December 2018 National Prison Radio is available in prisons across December 2018 England and Wales, and HMP Grampian in Scotland. What’s on National Prison Radio // December 2018 We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, into your cell. If your prison has National Prison Radio, you can National Prison Radio is currently available in prisons across England and Wales. 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