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Religious discrimination Star Letter of the Month ...... insidetime LAURENCE PETCH - a voice for prisoners 1990 - 2015 Congratulations and a £25 cash prize for this month’s Star Letter. the national newspaper for prisoners published by HMP FRANKLAND Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of The New Bridge Foundation, founded in 1956 to After reading a letter in your pages about create links between the offender and the community. religious discrimination from ‘John’ at HMP Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial content. Forest Bank there was a sneaky attempt by Comments or complaints should be directed to the the governor here to bring in religious Managing Editor and not to New Bridge. discrimination by the back door.

a © not I have been here for 11 years now and it has profit Board of Directors always been the case that religious items publication4 were exempt from Volumetric Control, but now they have suddenly been included! Trevor Grove - Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, Except for - 2 sets of religious clothing, a Journalist and Writer prayer mat and one religious book. John Carter - Former international healthcare company Vice-President. Geoff Hughes - Former Governor, Belmarsh prison. So let us look a bit more closely at these Eric McGraw - Former Director, New Bridge exemptions. Who wears religious clothing and (1986-2002) and founder of Inside Time in 1990. uses a prayer mat? Oh yes, that’s right, John D Roberts - Former Company Chairman and © Fotolia.com Muslims - so he’s not going to upset them. As Managing Director employing ex-offenders. for one religious book - well that’s the Louise Shorter - Former producer, BBC Rough I am 27 years old and have been in custody Christians sorted, so his own lot are okay. So Justice programme. Justice in this country Alistair aH. E. Smith© B.Sc F.C.A.a - Chartered© for over a decade, in which time I have found the governor has covered his own religion not not myself incarcerated in over 20 prisons, from and made sure he hasn’t upset the Muslims, Accountant,profit Trustee and Treasurer,profit New Bridge seems to be all about the juvenile estate to YOI to Cat A, B and C Foundation.4 publication4 so who does that leave? Well, everybody else. service establishments - all of which seem to the money substitute the definition of rehabilitation He even came and sat in on one of our Pagan ...... with the warehousing of offenders. meetings but couldn’t seem to grasp the fact The Editorial Teama © A J REID - HMP SWALESIDE that we do not have clergy to bow and scrape not profit Moreover, throughout my prolonged period to our Gods as we are personally in contact organisation4 Whilst watching one of those ‘Police, Camera of being warehoused by this not-fit-for-pur- with our Gods and Goddesses. He could not Action’ type programmes on the box the pose criminal justice system, I have witnessed understand that if we feel guilt then we deal other night, I witnessed a significant error the transformation of Micky Mouse offenders with it personally, between us and our deity. on the part of the British criminal justice into career criminals! And, as I witness the He also could not understand that we do not system. Following a stop and search, a man same old faces continue to enter the need a confessional box. Pagans were here with a drug addiction was convicted of revolving door of the criminal justice system long before other religions, around two-and- possessing Class A drugs. The drug addicted I can only conclude that this system does not a-half thousand years before Christ followers Rachel Billington OBE Eric McGraw geezer was ordered to pay over £200 as rehabilitate offenders, it creates them! and even longer before Muslims. And we will Novelist and Author and Managing punishment, with an additional £100+ in still be here long after these religions are Journalist Editor court costs.Blavo The Nov offender 2012_Blavo in question Dec 2008 has red a border TheSHADOW.qxd people who 13/11/2012 run our criminal 09:42 justicePage 1 gone. Isn’t church attendance falling? Whilst long history of petty thefts and shoplifting, system have this deluded belief that the ours is rising. which I can only assume to be directly linked rehabilitation of prisoners consists of the to the funding of the offender’s addiction to following simple steps - make prisoners sit So can you ask NOMS or whoever professes Class A drugs. Therefore, the criminal justice level one maths & English, then stick them in to run this failing system whether religious system not only fails to deal with the issue a muggy workshop packing tea packs for a exemption is for all religions or just the in hand, but also provides a counterproduc- wage of peanuts and every now and then chosen few they worship or are terrified of? tive punishment as the imposition of a fine is force them to do so-called offending John Roberts Noel Smith likely to breed further criminal behaviour in behaviour programmes which are com- Editorial note: This letter has been sent to Operations Director and Author, writer and order to pay the fine and continue to fund pletely unproven and do nothing except NOMS for a response. Company Secretary former prisoner the drug addiction! keep trainee psychologists in employment. If that is rehabilitation then release me Editorial Assistants It is no secret that those who run the tomorrow because I’m good to go! 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I have unlawfully been denied progress. Even Why the closed visits? the Kray twins were de-categorised to CAT B Contents ...... after 15 years. I have been on it 40 years, this alone stops my progress. LYNSEY BLOOMER - A PRISONER’S Mailbag ...... 2-9 PARTNER CAT A prisoners are deemed a danger to the Newsround ...... 10-16 state and a danger to the public. My crimes Website Comments ...... 17 My partner is currently in HMP Stoke Heath. outside, are actually very low grade, they do Diary ...... 18-19 He was transferred there from HMP Hewell not warrant or justify a Cat A status. just over 3 months ago for what they said was Ombudsman - Nigel Newcomen, Prisons progress through the system! We had 3 I am constantly denied my basic human rights and Probation Ombudsman writes about the normal visits booked at HMP Hewell which i.e. attending family funerals, being kept risks from new synthetic drugs ...... 20 they kindly transferred over after two weeks hundreds of miles from my home town, being of waiting to see him. Me and our 3 children denied the right to associate with fellow arrived at Stoke Heath booked in at the inmates, not allowed to work or attend courses. visitors centre went through security stood in A forgotten IPP prisoner No form of rehabilitation whatsoever. a queue to go through to the visits hall to be ...... Going ahead with my two yearly parole hearing called out and told - ‘You’re on a closed visit!’ CHARLES ARTHUR SALVADOR - without me after I made it clear, in writing, I We have been visiting my partner for nearly HMP WAKEFIELD wished to attend so I can express my true self two years at 5 different jails never been on a in a polite and respectful way. All I received closed visit never caused any threat to I am writing this in the hope someone will read was a sealed envelope from the judge which security and we are his only visitors. We were it and help me to get justice from the system read ‘your next review is in June 2017’, he had given no prior warning and neither was he! that has created me and possibly take up my made his decision without hearing my Comment ...... 21-31 The children were sobbing. I was clearly upset cause to obtain progression through the system. defence. How am I ever going to be freed? Drink and Drugs ...... 32 and so was he. They have never seen him like I am one of the forgotten IPP prisoners left The Rule Book ...... 34 that and we weren’t given a choice. behind after IPP was deemed unlawful in 2012. I recently read of inmates suing prison head- quarters over being kept in solitary for more Art - Inside Out from The Ingram Collection launch- I demanded to see a governor who came and Everyone in jail is allowed certain rights, than a week, well I have been kept in isolated es with exhibition at The Clink ...... 35 told us his letter was still in the pigeon hole especially progress. How can I ever progress conditions for well over 35 years, out of 40 on his wing. She promised she would look whilst I am on CAT A? To be on CAT A you are a years inside! Don’t I have any human rights? into it then came back and told us there was danger to the state, public and prison. So how no specific reason for him being placed on can I be freed? Who is going to free me whilst I recently applied to attend my mother’s funeral closed visits just ‘suspicion’. She also I am still on CAT A? because she is very old and very ill, so I am promised that after a month it would be prepared for the worst. The answer I received reviewed. I waited a month, no review. I was sentenced to life with a tariff of three is basically saying ‘apply when she is dead’. Apparently due to staff shortages. After years. I am 13 years over that tariff. At my trial I sit in my cell month after month, year after nearly two months a review was done but we I was denied witnesses, I was denied a duress year creating my art. I have rehabilitated were kept on closed visits for a minimum of plea and I am an ex Broadmoor patient (I was myself. It’s time to go home now, but how? Short Story ...... 36 three months. It has now been a week over certified insane) so how was I allowed to Faith in Prison ...... 37 that three month period. I rang, they said no defend myself? I have spent decades, unlaw- Charles Salvador, is the prisoner formerly review due to lack of staff! It will be done next fully held in solitary. known as Charles Bronson Terry Waite Writes ...... 38 week! I am absolutely disgusted with the way Wellbeing ...... 39 we as a family and my partner have been Education ...... 40-41 treated at that jail. Those visits are a big part Legal ...... 42-45 of his rehabilitation and to take all contact away from me and our children has had a Legal Q&A ...... 46-47 serious effect on our family. And worst of all, Reading Groups ...... 48 we have done nothing wrong, we are no Book Reviews ...... 49 threat to security and haven’t had one open Inside Poetry ...... 50-51 visit at that jail! I have written to the governor Jailbreak ...... 52-55 and head of security yet had no reply. I’ve National Prison Radio ...... 56 read the PSO on closed visits and transfers, I suggest they read this too!

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‘HMP Highdown The 2nd Chance is a dirty hellhole!’ Programme ...... JAMES - EX PRISONER STEVEN LEE SAUNDERS -

After getting sentenced to 6 weeks custodial HMP HIGHDOWN sentence at Brighton and Hove Magistrates court for a driving offence I found myself, later I would like to say how the 2nd Chance that day, being booked into HMP Highdown. I Programme here at HMP Highdown has deserved my sentence and have been to helped me engage more within the prison. Prison before but as I am from Cumbria I have The objectives I identified with my mentor previously spent time at HMP Durham and have allowed me to be more positive and HMP Preston. From previous experience of since my mentoring sessions I have gained prison it is tough and you’re there to lose your employment on the wing, something I had freedom but not be treated like an animal and failed to do in the past. I now engage more be housed in very shocking conditions. with staff and fellow prisoners. I am due for release soon and the 2nd Chance Pro- As I am disabled, on arrival I went through the gramme’s mentoring has given me a more process of seeing the on duty nurse / doctor optimistic outlook to life as I have seen that to go through my affairs as one of my the cycle of prison and reoffending can be disability’s is sciatica and I receive medication broken. It is also a good feeling to know that for this. In fact I had my medication with me Walter Palmer and Cecil the lion people care and the bonus is that these on arrival but as they were controlled drugs people are fellow prisoners offering a second (strong painkillers) I was told I had no chance chance. I would certainly advise other of getting my medication in there. I was then Campaign against this lion killer prisoners to apply for this programme. told I would see a doctor in the next few days ...... which turned out to be 4 days. Until then I was put on basic pain relief that you can buy AUSTIN KING - HMP AYLESBURY over the counter anywhere and totally Disgusting treatment ineffective for my needs. When I finally met I recently saw a familiar face on the news and what really upset me is the fact that it took the with the prison GP he continued me on basic murder of a ‘famous’ lion called Cecil for the story and by Walter Palmer to go viral. at HMP Albany medication that just did not work and I could ...... not sleep through the pain or eat for the first Two years ago, before I came to prison, I campaigned against this man. He would post images A PRISONER’S RELATIVE days at all. After getting moved wings my of his kills on Facebook and gained a huge following. I worked closely with a group to start a petition to get Facebook to remove his page and get the police notified. Our petition ended up medication stopped altogether, this place was I am writing to you about the disgusting way getting 200,000 signatures and was sent to a site official. The response from Facebook was that totally unorganised, prisoners are treated in HMP Albany. his posts were not breaking any of Facebook’s rules. If Facebook had acted then maybe Cecil and many other rare or endangered animals would still be alive. I spent 3 weeks in there unable to sleep and in I have always believed that if you break the pain all the time with no relief, totally the I’ve never been one for animal rights but when it comes to endangered species it is ridiculous law then you get taken out of society as opposite experience to what I have encountered punishment. elsewhere. I had to share a single cell and the that someone would be happy and boast of being the possible reason for their extinction. conditions were very cramped and disgusting. If I were not in prison I would continue to campaign against this guy until he gets what he The prisoners there are being locked up in The staff couldn’t be bothered with anything deserves. Now he is being hunted let’s see how he likes it. their cells more and more, even in the really and it was all a hassle for them. Editorial note: August 10th was World Lion Day. temperatures that we have been having lately, for example on a Friday they were allowed out When I found out that Highdown had a Clink l West and Central African lions have been deemed ‘critically Restaurant I was shocked as the place is vile, of their cells till 19.30 and all of a sudden they endangered’ by the International Union for the Conservation of both physically and mentally, and I was are being locked up at 17.00, and there is no Nature (IUCN). shocked that prisoners were being held in logical reason for this to happen. these conditions in the 21st century. You are l The estimated African lion population was 250,000 in 1975. banged up 23 hours a day, and if you press The food they are given is just about fit l The estimated number alive in Africa today is 30,000. your cell bell too many times you get put on enough for a Primary School or it is barely basic, a first for me. l The amount of its habitat the African lion has lost in the past 50 edible. years is 80% - largely a result of population growth - more than The governor should be ashamed, consider- 300 million more people. I also know that they are opening Rule 39 ing it is a modern London jail. I have been correspondence and that I can send an Email locked up in Spain and France and even l Five countries have lost their entire lion population since 2002. and the recipient does not receive said Email Mexico for a night once and HMP Highdown is l 100 lions killed each year in Kenya. for days afterwards. I have known him to wait the worst I have experienced. HMP Highdown Things people say page 11 a week to receive my correspondence, which I is a dirty hellhole! think is despicable.

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prison. A cursory check would have found We all share one thing in common... Nick Hardwick, missing that figure is pure fantasy. This gives me no ...... confidence in these people. STEPHEN WEST - HMP BURE the point completely ...... Perhaps HMCIP can find a way that prisoners Every month there seems to be at least one prisoner who writes to Inside Time and attempts to SIMON M - HMP NORTHUMBERLAND can examine and comment on draft reports. compare their own crime(s) and/or sentence length/conditions to that of another. Yet, like it or This can only result in more accurate and not, we all share one common element as a result of us committing a crime. Irrespective of what When I read the piece from Nick Hardwick, focused final inspection reports. type of crime that may be, each one of us has created victims. HMCIP, in the June issue of Inside Time I almost snorted my rice crispies as I read the A crime can be compared to a stone being thrown into a calm pond. The initial impact is felt on HER MAJESTY’S INSPECTORATE OF part where he stated - ‘Let us know whether the person or persons we offended against. Yet, as these ripples spread they have the potential PRISONS to hit and consume more and more people. None of our victims or those on the periphery asked you think we’ve got it right’. for it, yet they are the consequences of our actions. I contacted Mr Hardwick when my old prison, NICK HARDWICK - HM CHIEF Therefore, to say that one crime has less of a capacity to create victims to that of another, is - in HMP Wakefield, was inspected in July 2014. I INSPECTOR OF PRISONS my opinion - small-minded, but, above all, very callous towards your own offence and victim and asked for a copy of the draft report so, as a their and our families, none of whom asked us to do what we did. person pretty much on the coalface, as a What prisoners tell us is at the heart of our prisoner, I could provide feedback on any inspection. Each inspection begins with a Maybe this is naïve but I wish that those who choose to judge and cast negative aspersions obvious errors or omissions. I was politely detailed survey of a random survey of towards others would look at their own crimes and the people they have hurt. We are all rebuffed and told that there was no chance a prisoners - a survey sample that we select prisoners and we all have victims. prisoner would ever get to see the draft and administer - and includes discussion with report! So much for ‘fighting the prisoners’ groups and with many individual prisoners. corner’. They did, however, provide the MoJ Once we have completed the draft report we Asthma and no alarm ‘Mental health and with a draft report, and no doubt incorporated send it to NOMS and ask them to comment on ...... much feedback from the governor. MALCOLM HALFORD - HMP/YOI addictions ignored’ any matters of factual accuracy. We received just two comments on the last Wakefield ...... I was upset and angry when I received the DONCASTER report to which Simon M refers; one on STEPHEN WOOLEY - HMP WYMOTT final published report on HMP Wakefield only relationships with the local authority adult I am a young offender aged 19 and I have to discover it contained so many inaccuracies safeguarding board and one correcting a been here for 4 months. I have asthma and Older prisoners (I’m 53 and have had a double and missed the point entirely. Wakefield holds reference to the ‘prison health service, breathing problems but, luckily, I haven’t yet heart bypass) should have a wing of their own some 150 Category A prisoners and 600 pointing out that health services in prison had any problems with breathing. But I would and should have life-threatening illness Category B prisoners, yet only 4 Category A were run by the NHS. just like to point out the fact that here at treated seriously and not ignored, as they are and 20 Category B prisoners get progressed

Doncaster if I was to have an asthma attack now in HMP Wymott. Mental health and per year! If you do the maths you will discover We cross check what prisoners tell us with the only thing I can do is to press the call addictions are ignored here as though they that it would take approximately 30 years to what staff, governors and other visitors say, button which makes no sound but lights up. don’t exist. get recatagorised at Wakefield. This is a major with records and written documents and by Even when I press that button for a simple failing by the prison and yet the inspectors thing they never acknowledge it and there observing what is going on. We do not allow We older prisoners are paying for our crimes had nothing to say about it. have been times when it has been more than just one prisoner to claim to speak for all in by losing our freedom, which we all accept, our reports but seek to incorporate the widest an hour before a member of staff comes. I am An obvious error in the final report, para 2.43, but to have our physical and mental health possible cross section of prisoner views. It reporting this for the safety of myself and any ‘The prison reported that 98.5% of complaints other prisoners, as if there was an emergency and serious illnesses ignored is pure cold would not be possible to allow all prisoners received a response within the required we would surely be dead before anyone sober abuse of our basic human rights. to comment on the factual accuracy of a draft timescale.’ I would say that is not true, the answers the light. Surely they are not allowed report - and I do not think we would get a actual figure being around 20%, if that. I to turn off or disable the actual alarm? I and many others here have to suffer in consistent view if we did. What we do is cannot believe that experienced inspectors silence whilst the daily battle for decent discuss our emerging findings with prisoners would swallow, unquestioningly, such Editorial note: This letter has been sent to healthcare rages on, something should be as the inspection progresses and record the obviously false statistics given to them by a NOMS for a response. done to restore our dignity. different views prisoners express to us.

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interested in taking someone with a criminal Overall, people seem less open, more more progressive in how they supervise those Creating an illusion record. Those few that profess to help those judgmental, and generally uninterested. on license, with European law directing that with records never even responded to my Opportunities that might have formerly any restrictions on free movement should be of support enquiries. existed are now shut. The population has proportionate and necessary...... risen and the pressure on services has AN EX-PRISONER - DETAILS 3. I then search for accommodation, swiftly escalated - but rather than being expanded But all is not lost. Persistence, coupled with a WITHHELD finding that the waiting list for council they have been cut back. Social divisions are viable business idea, could be the platform to housing is years long. Private is the only way worse than before. a better future. Trapped within the UK’s shores, to go - yet once again agencies have usurped Over 3 months of leaving prison - having there’s gotta be a way to move forward. Where a formerly open marketplace. None want Perhaps the most irrational aspect of this served almost 7 years inside - and I am all others turn their backs, when all faith in people on benefits, least of all someone mad cocktail is a blanket prohibition on starting to appreciate why so many ex-prison- you has been cast into darkness, your spirit coming out of prison. And, of those two who leaving the UK to get work (and accommoda- ers end up returning to those dungeons of within can still prevail. If you can trudge through proclaim to take those ‘on DSS’, one has not tion). Opportunities exist overseas, but darkness. After being cut off from society for the walls of shite that get built up around you, even responded and the other only accepts probation do not allow you to access them. so long, you find much has changed. Employ- try to think of one thing: never give up. those on a higher rate of housing benefit - Even though other European countries are ment prospects are practically made non- which is practically impossible to get. existent by a criminal record. In turn, accom- modation is severely limited and hampered 4. I seek the support of various charities, even further by the lack of employment. Both ‘Take responsibility for your own actions’ businesses and organisation that proclaim aspects feed into each other...... themselves to assist people like myself. A few NIKKY WOODFIELD - HMP CHANNINGS WOOD respond - either saying that there are no The ever-shrinking State safety network is opportunities presently available or that I being buffered by a plethora of organisations I am writing in response to a letter you published in the July issue by Zeyad El-Kaissi, titled don’t fit ‘the criteria’. and companies who profess to offer support. ‘Muslims discriminated against by the Courts’. Well, I am sick of hearing about people being They don’t. These profiteering entities offer discriminated against every time something doesn’t go their way! Against this utter void of support is probation, nothing but the guise of assistance, which whose primary concern is on setting up lead to no real opportunities. They create an The law and the ‘political correctness police’ within our country pretty much ensure that racism obstacles to moving forward. They require a illusion of support in the public’s eye, which or discrimination only comes from individuals, and not by institutions or organisations. You person to find private accommodation by can lead to some people wondering why would clearly have a case to sue otherwise, which is why these people do their whining in Inside themselves, yet need to approve any relocation. reoffending is so high. And, in prison, even I Time and not in a courtroom. Last time I found somewhere it took over a laboured under the perception that there week to be checked, and I was reprimanded were various avenues of support available. Maybe you should look at your attitude towards your crime, the fact that you feel it is ‘not a bad for putting a deposit down. The place slipped What has happened thus far? crime’ says a lot about you. You stated that you claimed £130,000 from hardworking British away at the last minute when the landlord taxpayers whilst you yourself were working and this isn’t pocket-change. If you had robbed a decided she didn’t want a former prison inmate 1. I was directed to reside in a ‘probation hostel’, bank you would not have gotten anywhere near that amount but you would be looking at a living in her property (one of 6 in the city). which initially at least provided a place to live double-figure sentence. - albeit at a cost. Now it is just a pressure Then there’s the Job Centre, whose idea of point, reminding me that I need to move on. With several thousand people like you committing the same crime we are all hit in the pocket as support consists of bi-monthly sign in dates a result. You have cheated the system and brought heat onto the honest claimants who can and a referral to a company that provides a 2. I search for employment, finding that barely survive on what they receive. So, no, the judge was not discriminating against you mislabelled ‘work programme’ which doesn’t recruitment agencies have almost entirely because of your race or religion, you committed a crime and you’re not even sorry, that’s why actually lead to any work. cornered the market. Not a single one is you go to prison.

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M N write to us at: Jefferies Solicitors Limited I Ashley House I Ashley Road I Altrincham I Cheshire I WA14 2DW Insidetime September 2015 If you would like to contribute to Mailbag, please send your letters (including your name, number www.insidetime.org and prison) to ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Mailbag 7 Too many deaths at HMP ...... ELIZABETH MOODY - DEPUTY GARY NASH - HMP EXETER OMBUDSMAN Someone needs to ask the question of what has gone so seriously wrong here at Exeter The PPO carries out independent investiga- prison to make 5 people hang themselves in tions into all deaths in prisons to understand almost as many months. And we should be what happened and identify any lessons that given an answer. If this was happening might help prisons avoid such deaths in future. anywhere but in prison this would be classed At the time Mr Nash wrote, sadly, there had as a very serious matter. That’s 5 families been four deaths at Exeter since Christmas whose lives have been wrecked yet this jail 2014. They were not all by hanging as he goes about its disgusting daily business of suggests. Two were apparently self-inflicted treating us like animals, devalued by those and two were from natural causes. Subse- who seem to look down their noses at us. quently there has been another death from natural cause. I wrote to the Ombudsman after the 4th death because the complaint I made to the prison Exeter has a specialist facility for end of life A healthy diet for prisoners? about it was obviously binned. My complaint care, which leads to a higher than expected ...... involved assaults by staff and highlighted the number of deaths from natural causes, as general staff intimidation. The complaint was prisoners transfer from elsewhere for the ANTHONY DAVID SIMPSON - HMP signed by a dozen prisoners and sent to the facilities it provides. In the cases where were Ombudsman. we have completed investigations, we have Here at HMP Leeds we recently had the those prisoners who eat the packs early. generally found that Exeter provides good bizarre sight of Healthcare handing out NHS Sadly, soon after, a 22 year old took his life, palliative care. ‘5-a-day’ leaflets to prisoners when our daily 2) Change the evening meal sweet choice the 5th death since Christmas. I really hope menus often provide only 2 distinct portions from fruit, coffee or desert to one of fruit and that one day the prison system will take some As Mr Nash says, he wrote to us after one of of fruit and vegetables, perhaps 3 if you allow coffee or fruit and desert. responsibility for what they are presiding over the deaths complaining about staff behaviour the dubious proposition that baked beans or as all who work for this monster should be at Exeter. We found that Mr Nash had submitted mushy peas can be counted. 3) Instead of providing only a vegetable accountable due to the nature of the horrible some complaints at Exeter about his treatment, accompaniment to the hot meal, make the beast they voluntarily serve. And if any of you and had received replies from prison staff, Of course, ‘5-a-day’ can be achieved if choice available choice of vegetables, pulses and who are responsible for this murderous system but that he had never completed the second is restricted to choosing the vegetarian option unsweetened fruit juice/ dried fruit allowing 2 are reading this then I hope you do feel some stage of the internal complaints process. We, for both midday and evening meals. However, from the 3. This would cater for those, like degree of responsibility for leaving a human therefore, explained to him that our Terms of recognising few of us are, by choice, vegetar- myself, who dislike the majority of vegetables. being locked in his cell with nothing to relieve Reference did not allow us to investigate his ians the menus should be constructed to his mental anguish. You left him to suffer. complaint until he had completed the prison’s meet the ‘5-a-day’ recommendation regard- The response must not be that extra fruit and internal complaints process. less of choices made. This could easily be vegetables can be purchased by prisoners, we There is something seriously and frighteningly achieved by making 3 small changes; should not have to pay for our own health whilst However, we did not ignore Mr Nash’s wrong with this system and it should be rectified, concerns. The PPO Investigator who was being in the care of the government. There and not just buried like those 5 poor men who 1) Provide a carton of unsweetened fruit juice should be a group campaigning for a prison investigating the death at Exeter contacted died in the so-called care of HMP Exeter. with the breakfast pack, which in most diet that meets NHS recommendations. It is Mr Nash directly to give him the opportunity prisons is distributed with the evening meal, clear that at HMP Leeds Healthcare does not to share any information he might have with Can you please ask the PPO what their stance despite the fact that HMCIP dislike this as it communicate with the Catering Department. us. Mr Nash did not know the man who had is on these deaths as I cannot get any answer leaves us with a fast of up to 18 hours for died and had no information that was from them? relevant to the investigation. Breakthrough Group at HMP Stafford RODMAN PEARCE ...... DAVIES & JONES SOLICITORS SOLICITORS PHIL HARRISON - HMP STAFFORD FIGHTING FOR YOU !!! 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Forced detox? Information suppressed ...... PAUL WHITTAKER - HMP DARTMOOR JON WALDRON - HMP HUMBER

I am being told that I have to detox off Subutex because it is national policy to take all current I would like to thank the Prison Reform Trust inmates who are on opiate substitute medication off their prescriptions regardless of circum- for sending me a copy of the new ‘Release on stances. Also, all inmates have to detox because maintenance prescriptions are no longer offered Temporary Licence PSI 13/2015’. Here at HMP in the community, therefore, in line with the outside community prisons also need to do the same. Humber the governor and OMU team have been suppressing the document since its I am confused because I took it upon myself to contact the outside Probation Service and drug publication on the 23-3-2015, so that prisoners support agencies who have all told me that I can still get support for my addiction from the NHS of high risk status cannot see the information and appropriate agencies should I request a maintenance prescription of Subutex, is this true? they need to challenge Cat D refusals on the grounds of being ‘high risk’. The powers here Also, can I get some advice or clarification on whether or not it is national prison policy to detox feel that this document does not apply to HMP all inmates off their opiate substitute medication regardless of their circumstances? Because I Humber OMU department, who have their am led to believe that all people are entitled to the same medical treatment in prison as they are own rules. In the words of the new OMU on the outside? Manager (stated at a prisoners rep meeting) - ‘I am not risking my job giving Category D to Document PSI 45/2010 - Integrated Drug Treatment Service, states repeatedly that a maintenance prisoners who are high risk or have outstand- No safety on G4S prescription of opiate substitute medication is an option that IDTS treatment should be delivered ing POCA’. This is the dictatorship we are in line with its community based counterpart. Failure to follow this rule contravenes Article 3 living under here. But the essential paragraph transport and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as inhuman and degrading treatment. in the PSI (the front page!) states its purpose, ...... and I quote - ‘Release on Temporary Licence Editorial note: This letter has been sent to NOMS for a response. (ROTL) is the mechanism by which offenders GORDON BENZIE - HMP BOWHOUSE may undertake activities in the community that are necessary and/or which cannot be On Friday 10th of July I was due in court and ‘Duff advice’ by solicitor - be warned! facilitated within a prison’. was placed on a G4S prison van. The seatbelt ...... A high risk prisoner cannot reduce his/her risk in my cubicle was broken and not fit for DEAN MORRIS - HMP LEWES unless in open conditions! So, inmates cannot purpose. I called out to the two guards and access vital rehabilitation or resettlement needs because this prison wants to keep us informed them that my seatbelt was broken I got 3 years for a Section 20 GBH when I was told by my solicitor to go not guilty right from the high risk in case someone relapses and the but they simply turned the radio up to a start. Yet when the case finally reached Crown Court he told me I had no choice but to plead head of OMU loses her job! This not only fails higher volume in order to drown me out. guilty. If I had said guilty from the start, as I wanted to, I would have been entitled to one-third the prisoners but also their families, MoJ, off my sentence. I have since met 6 other inmates who have had the same experience, being Courts, communities and society at large due This was dangerous and unprofessional. Are advised by a solicitor to go not guilty at the start and then guilty when the case comes up. The to the selfish act of job protection not public protection. This is why the Chief Inspector of these privatised prison transports ever reality is that the longer a solicitor can drag a case out the more money he earns. A quick guilty Prisons stated on the news yesterday ‘There inspected for safety? And, are the staff who earns a solicitor very little so they are giving duff advice in order to line their own pockets. If you is no rehabilitation in prisons’. In my view, HMP work on them given ANY training at all? are on remand, beware of this! Humber is contributing to reoffending rates.

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HANS CRUMP - HMP LITTLEHEY I would like to respond to the mailbag from Phil Green at HMP Hull (July issue) titled ‘Why pander to some addictions and not others?’ I’m not a person who particularly cares what anyone else is I would like to respond to the mailbag from in prison for, but when someone is clearly guilty, because he refers to his crime of cocaine © Fotolia.com Robert Gray - HMP Highdown (July issue) titled importation as ‘bringing joy and happiness to the UK’ and then ignorantly refers to ‘most ‘A system to work with, not against prisoners’. murderers’ getting less than 15 years, I must speak up. Prior to coming to prison I too was under the Here’s an insight for you, Mr Green. I was sentenced to life under joint enterprise, along with 3 ‘Book Rooms are delusion that prison establishments were run others. The primary offender, aged 20, got a 22 year tariff. My sister, who was 19, was a secondary like clockwork, with well-oiled procedures party but also got a 22 year tariff. My boyfriend, 20 years old and also a secondary party, got a meaningless’ and paperwork. I’m afraid Sentence Plans, in 20 year tariff. I was 16 and also a secondary party and I got an 18 year tariff. All of the secondary ...... particular, seem to be often talked about but parties in the case, including me, are maintaining their innocence and have done since arrest. I rarely seen - they seem to be the unicorns of JASON SMITH - HMYOI DEERBOLT also know many people in prison for joint enterprise and all are serving more than a 15 year tariff. the prison system. Re; Month by Month (August issue) how can And on Mr Green’s main point, the difference between alcoholics and drug users is this - the Rachel Billington say that ‘the library is I was sentenced to 2 years, 8 months in August Prison Service prefer to keep regular drug users on methadone because upon their release they important but not the books’? Yes, a library 2014 and I have still not received a Sentence know they will once again use drugs, whether it be crack or heroin. If drug users lower their can be multipurpose, but without the books it Plan even though I am over halfway through tolerance they can easily overdose and die when they use on release. Before the intervention of then becomes just another building for my sentence. Having had discussions with maintenance scripts in prison, many drug users were found dead within hours of leaving prison. meetings. As for not having books in any form both my Offending Manager in the Probation There is also medication supplied in prison that stabilises alcoholics when they arrive. Service and my Offender Supervisor here, I get or order - that’s a joke, right? If you walk into Oh, and by the way, if there was a ‘conspiracy’ to keep prison staff, solicitors, barristers and the impression they don’t agree on my plan! a library looking for a certain book or author judges in full employment then it is certainly failing somewhere or how else would they be able OMU have verbally informed me that I am too and there is no system in place then where do to cut legal aid. You should know your facts before making sweeping statements. you start? low risk to undertake any of the offending behaviour courses on offer. I have a paper I love to read and reading has kept me sane in trail of app receipts showing I was willing to NOTICE BOARD prison. I also have a friend who wasn’t a good do the courses and volunteered to do them reader but because of the library he was able even if I was not eligible (though I’ve been to build and develop his reading skills and is told that this is not possible). United Against Injustice now an accomplished reader. If we did not ...... This, of course, means that I can’t reduce my risk, have libraries we would not have a place to go BERNADETTE MAJOR - UNITED AGAINST INJUSTICE which seems to be the essential requirement when we need to look up information. The for getting reviewed down to Cat D, leading to United Against Injustice are all volunteers who use their own money for expenses. Our annual library is a great resource with an abundance open conditions - even though I am already Miscarriage of Justice Conference this year will be held on October 10th at John Foster Building, of information. ‘low risk’. For me I have found it helpful to 80-90 Mount Pleasant, from 10am till 5pm. We have some very good speakers who develop a fairly relaxed attitude to all this. are inspiring, including Prof Allan Jamieson, Director of the Forensic Institute Edinburgh - one ‘Book Rooms’ are meaningless, and should And with the right motivation/determination of the best speakers people will ever hear. There will be other speakers that have yet to only be used as a satellite of the library, not a for self-improvement a Sentence Plan is not confirm they are attending. Entrance is free and everyone welcome. replacement. Support libraries not book rooms. essential to turn my life around, make personal progress and address my past mistakes.

Rachel Billington Everyone’s journey is different, but I’ve actually Writes come to be grateful for the time and space to re-evaluate and nurture the neglected creative I’m sorry Jason Smith misunderstood my and spiritual side of myself. Personally I’ve intention in welcoming Book Rooms. I ARC LAW achieved this by doing all the interesting ASSET RECOVERY, RESTRAINT & CONFISCATION LAWYERS actually wrote ‘Libraries are all important in education courses I could - even though they prison’. I assumed everyone understands that are only Levels 1 & 2 and technically ‘below’ books are their primary purpose and added my level of having a degree. It has helped As the asset recovery and confiscation arm of Rahman Ravelli the list of events held there merely as a re-engage my brain to different areas and Solicitors, a leading nationwide niche practice, ARC offers further reason for their existence. Of course new thinking. I have also undertaken a Book Rooms are ‘satellites’. I couldn’t agree distance learning course. Finally I have found expertise, proactive and forceful representation more. In an ideal world, they would not be studying mindfulness and joining meditation/ together with a track record of success. necessary and libraries would be open and Buddhist meetings really helped me see available every hour of the day. But in the where I had gone wrong in my thinking and CONFISCATION present circumstances, Book Rooms are a behaviour, which led to me losing a good job • We have sucessfully challanged one of the UK’s largest ever confiscation orders and reduced useful additional resource. They should never and marriage in the process. the relevant amounts by over £10 million. ever supplant libraries. Indeed I’ve suggested that details about how to access the library Good luck in your journey and I hope you find • Our unique approach has helped our clients retain assets worth tens of millions of pounds. should be pinned to their walls. peace and calm. • Our tactical response to a Prosecutor’s ‘Statement of Information’ is the way to strike back in the assets battle. trapped? We can offer you trapped? • An ‘in house’ advocacy team for all prison law • We have the specialist expertise, skill and knowledge required to deal with hidden assets, Hearings-Adjudication and Parole tainted gifts, rights of spouses, third parties, • Links to specialist barristers and RESTRAINT ORDERS QCs for Judicial Reviews • These can be crippling if not handled carefully - we have the required experience and expertise. Need Help? • An excellent track record in relation to ContactNeed Michael help? Robinson POCA/Forfeiture matters CIVIL RECOVERY • We are one of the few UK firms to have dealt with these high court proceedings since Part V emmersonssolicitors • A well respected criminal department, 52 John Street, Sunderland, SR1 1QN solicitor with Crown Court Rights of POCA 2002 came into force. Expertise of dealing with Property Freezing Orders (PFOs) and Freephone 0800 193 0146 or 0191 567 6667 Audience and a team of police station Interim Recieving Orders (IROs) etc emmersons-solicitors.co.uk representatives. Please contact us for a no obligation assesment ARC Law, Rahman Ravelli Solicitors, Roma House, 59 Pellon Lane, Halifax HX1 5BE • Parole Hearings • Adjudications • Recalls 01422 346666 Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers www.rahmanravelli.co.uk tXSPOHGVMDPOWJDUJPOTtVOGBJSUSFBUNFOU>> Registered with EMAP<< tSFQSFTFOUBUJPOBUIFBSJOHTBOEBQQFBMT Insidetime September 2015 10 Newsround www.insidetime.org

progress their sentences. Their concerns were prisoners were inadequately met. There was justified: out of 847 prisoners who should not enough space for all prisoners who wanted have had a security category set, only 531 had to attend religious services to do so and there been completed.’ were insufficient activity places. Some essential THE INSPECTOR CALLS ... processes that enabled prisoners to progress Visits are very important for prisoners and and reduce the risk they would reoffend had their families. 700 prisoners at Wandsworth long backlogs, and procedures to protect the Nick Hardwick - HM Chief Inspector of Prisons had children under 18 yet Inspectors report: public were not sufficiently robust. Anxious ‘The visits booking system was in disarray, and family members could not get an answer from Inside Time highlights areas of good and bad practice, along with a prisoners and visitors said that they had con- the visits booking service.’ summary of prisoner survey responses at HMP Wandsworth. This siderable difficulty in booking visits. There was a backlog of over 1,000 emails to the visits Recently published HMCIP Reports extract is taken from the most recent Report published by HM bookings team and yet there were still Belmarsh - May 2015, Brinsford - July 2015, Inspectorate of Prisons. vacancies for visits during the inspection and Bristol - February 2015, Brixton - March for the following weekend.’ 2015, Deerbolt - May 2015, Dovegate self-inflicted. The Prisons and Probation (Training Prison) - May 2015, Dungavel Ombudsman had published his report into In summing up the report Nick Hardwick, IRC - July 201522, Foston Hall - February one of these deaths but the recommendations Chief Inspector of Prisons said; ‘Overcrowding 2015, Guys Marsh - March 2015, Highdown it contained were not yet fully embedded in and severe staff shortages had led to deterio- - June 2015, Hull - March 2015, Kirklev- practice. Inspectors were notified of two rating outcomes at HMP Wandsworth. It was ington Grange - June 2015, Littlehey - July further deaths as this report was being not simply a matter of prisoners spending 2015, Long Lartin - March 2015, Low prepared: one was self-inflicted and the other practically all day confined in shared cells the Newton - March 2015, Manchester - May an apparent homicide. Victorians had designed for one - unaccepta- 2015, - February 2015, ble though that was. Overcrowding, combined Oakwood - February 2015, Pentonville Most prisoners were doubled up in small cells with severe staff shortages, meant that almost - June 2015, Stoke Heath - August 2015, HMP Wandsworth designed for one, with an unscreened, shared every service was insufficient to meet the Styal - March 2014, Swansea - February Cat B local male prison with a Cat C toilet close to the beds. Prisoners struggled to needs of the population. There were not 2015, The Mount - August 2015, Wands- resettlement unit obtain sufficient clothing, bedding and enough staff on the wings to engage with worth - July 2015, Wetherby - June 2015, Managed by HMPS cleaning materials. Call bells went unanswered prisoners; sometimes they were absent alto- Wetherby - Keppel Unit - August 2015, , CNA: 963 for long periods. The application process gether. Essential safety processes were incon- Copies of the most recent report for your Population: 1,658 (Feb 2015) which prisoners used to make simple requests sistently applied. The needs of foreign national prison are available in the library. Unannounced Full Inspection: 23 was ineffective. The third of prisoners who February - 6 March 2015 were unemployed - more than 500 men - Published: 29th July 2015 usually spent 23 hours a day locked in their Last inspection: June 2013 cells, and the frequent curtailment of activities meant that many more were frequently ‘Deterioration due to staff shortages confined to their cells for most of the day. Midlands & South: 0121 270 1988 and overcrowding’ Daily exercise periods might be as little as 15 North: 0114 321 1000 minutes and staff shortages meant that asso- FREE Initial Advice 8% Recall 37.3% Foreign Nationals ciation periods were restricted and inconsist- 12% Aged over 50 25% Lost property on ent so prisoners were unable to use the phones arrival 56% Treated well in Reception or showers. Prisoners told Inspectors, and they Who’s on your side 40% Had legal letters opened 51% Food observed, that landings were unstaffed for long periods and this created potential for is bad or very bad 37% Don’t know who on the inside? violence to take place unnoticed and unchal- IMB are 59% Treated with respect by staff lenged. Call now for FREE Initial Advice from over 160 experts UK wide 47% Number who have felt unsafe 35% Victimised by staff 63% Difficult to see Health services had deteriorated since the last We are National Prison Law Solicitors who consistently dentist 28% Easy to get drugs 41% Not inspection mainly because of staff shortages. achieve great results for our clients. We can also help you engaged in any purposeful activities 61% The quality of nursing care by some nurses in many other areas of legal advice, so get in touch today Less than 4 hours out of cell was poor. Medicine management was also so we can help you out. weak. The regime in the Jones unit - the Now incorporating inpatient unit for patients with physical health • Sentence Calculation Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons says needs - was very poor. LEGAL • Recall (Parole board only) that ‘overcrowding and severe staff shortages AID • IPP parole review mean that almost every service at HMP Inspectors said; ‘There were insufficient • Lifer parole review Wandsworth is insufficient to meet the needs activity places for the population and attend- Legal Aid • Independent adjudication of the prison population.’ ance at those available was poor. Under A4e, • Sentence calculation • Challenge licence conditions the previous learning and skills provider, the FIXED • Re-categorisation reviews • Category ‘A’ Reviews He said; ‘HMP Wandsworth is a Victorian leadership of learning and skills and the quality FEE • Access to offending behavioural work • HDC appeals category B prison with a category C resettle- of provision had declined considerably. Man- • Early Release on conditional licence • Release on temporary licence • Pre Tariff lifer & IPP reviews ment unit. It was unacceptably overcrowded. chester College, the new provider, was Fixed Fees It held 1,630 adult men, more than any other beginning to address this as the inspection • Appeal against conviction/sentence • Judicial review in the UK, and almost 70% more than its was underway but the provision should not Other areas we can help with: certified normal accommodation of 963. The have been allowed to deteriorate in this way. population had grown and changed since the Ofsted, our partner inspectorate, declared the prison’s last inspection in 2013. The prison provision inadequate … It was a great concern had been designated a foreign national that no extra activity places had been provided prisoner hub and held over 700 foreign for the 350 category C prisoners who had Family & Divorce Child Care Child Contact Immigration nationals. The category B prisoners were been taken on when the Trinity unit opened in typical of inner city local prisons, with a high 2014 … The library and gyms were good, but incidence of mental health and substance too few prisoners could access them even FREE abuse problems. Category C prisoners had when staffing shortages did not mean they needed work, education and training opportu- were closed.’ nities. Severe staffing shortages compromised Mental Criminal Free Police Video Link into the prison’s ability to meet the needs of either ‘Offender management was in disarray, with Health Defence Station Prison where Representation available group. Since the last inspection, staffing levels severe staff shortages and disorganisation had been reduced by about 100 across all creating a backlog of risk assessments, incon- Write to us: Prison Law, Cartwright King, Norwich Union House, Nottingham, NG1 2LH grades. This was compounded by difficulty in sistent quality, and weaknesses in public pro- recruiting and retaining staff.’ tection arrangements. Throughout the inspec- tion we were inundated by prisoners with Ten prisoners had died in the two years since concerns about delays to the categorisation the last inspection. Four of the deaths were process, without which they could not

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Record number The things people say… of prisoners killed

The number of incidents of murder and man- slaughter in prisons in England and Wales last year reached the highest level since records began 36 years ago. 7 Prisoners killed in the year to the end of June ‘Cecil the lion was yours and you failed to protect him’ 16,885 Robert Mugabe (91) President of Assaults in the year Zimbabwe using the death of the much to the end of March Barack Obama on prison reform loved lion at the hands of an American dentist to criticise his country’s citizens Speaking at the National Association for the Advancement of 3,372 for not working to preserve natural Colored People (NAACP) convention in Philadelphia July 14, 2015 Assaults on staff resources from ‘Western vandals’. I want to focus on one aspect of African Americans and Latinos make up 30% Mugabe has been President of Zimbabwe American life that remains par- of our population; they make up 60% of our 27,315 for more than a quarter of a century - ticularly skewed by race and by inmates. About one in every 35 African Incidents of self-harm certainly long enough to do something wealth, a source of inequity that has ripple American men, one in every 88 Latino men is about the lucrative hunting trips effects on families and on communities and serving time right now. Among white men, organised by Zimbabwe for rich Western- ultimately on our nation - and that is our that number is one in 214. So I want to begin Michael Gove, Justice Secretary said ‘Our ers. Walter Palmer, the US dentist paid criminal justice system. with the community because I believe crime prison estate is out of date, overcrowded and £35,000 to hunt Cecil the lion. is like any other epidemic - the best time to in far too many cases insanitary and inade- Let’s look at the statistics: The United States stop it is before it even starts. If we make in- quate’. At Mugabe’s ‘obscene’ 91st Birthday is home to 5 percent of the world’s popula- vestments early in our children, we will Party, he and his estimated 20,000 guests tion, but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. reduce the need to incarcerate those kids. He added ‘This is compounded by a prison were fed a young elephant and two Think about that. Our incarceration rate is population consisting of more serious buffaloes. A local landowner also donated four times higher than China’s. We keep Also I’ve asked my Attorney General to start prisoners than in the past, and the greater a lion and a crocodile to be killed and more people behind bars than the top 35 a review of the overuse of solitary confine- availability of new psychoactive substances stuffed as an extra gift for Mugabe. European countries combined. It hasn’t ment across American prisons. The social which cause violent and psychotic behaviour’. always been the case. In 1980, there were science shows that an environment like that 500,000 people behind bars. Today there are is often more likely to make inmates more 2.2 million. It has quadrupled since 1980. Our alienated, more hostile, potentially more prison population has doubled in the last two violent. Do we really think it makes sense to decades alone. lock so many people alone in tiny cells for 23 hours a day, sometimes for months or even Over the last few decades, we’ve also locked years at a time? That is not going to make us up more and more nonviolent drug offenders safer. That’s not going to make us stronger. than ever before, for longer than ever before. And if those individuals are ultimately And that is the real reason our prison popu- released, how are they ever going to lation is so high. In far too many cases, the adapt? It’s not smart. Our prisons should be punishment simply does not fit the crime. If a place where we can train people for skills you’re a low-level drug dealer, or you violate that can help them find a job, not train them your parole, you owe some debt to society. to become more hardened criminals. You have to be held accountable and make amends. But you don’t owe 20 years. You Let’s reward prisoners with reduced don’t owe a life sentence. That’s dispropor- sentences if they complete programs that tionate to the price that should be paid. make them less likely to commit a repeat offense. Let’s invest in innovative new ap- And by the way, the taxpayers are picking up proaches to link former prisoners with the tab for that price. Every year, we spend employers and help them stay on track. Let’s $80 billion to keep folks incarcerated. Now, follow the growing number of our states and just to put that in perspective, for $80 billion, cities and private companies who have we could have universal preschool for every decided to “Ban the Box” on job applications, 3 year-old and 4 year-old in America. For $80 so that former prisoners who have done their billion, we could double the salary of every time and are now trying to get straight with More released than deported at Yarl’s Wood high school teacher in America. For $80 society have a decent shot in a job interview. billion, we could finance new roads and new And if folks have served their time, and More than double the number of migrants removed from the UK after being detained at Yarl’s bridges and new airports, job training they’ve reentered society, they should be Wood Immigration Removal Centre were released into the community, according to an inspec- programs, research and development. It’s a able to vote. tion report. Almost 900 women were released during a six-month period in which 443 women lot of money. For what we spend to keep were removed back to their home countries. everyone locked up for one year, we could Any system that allows us to turn a blind eye Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, said he was particularly concerned about the eliminate tuition at every single one of our to hopelessness and despair, that’s not a length of time the female migrants were being held at Yarl’s Wood without a clear reason. public colleges and universities. justice system, it is an injustice system. What the marchers on Washington knew, what the And now Sasha Barton, a partner of the Human Rights law firm Hodge, Jones and Allen, has Roughly one-third of the Justice Depart- marchers in Selma knew, is that justice is warned the situation was similar at other privately run detention centres. Ms Barton called on ment’s budget now goes toward incarcera- not only the absence of oppression, ministers to take much greater responsibility for what was happening in their name. tion. But every dollar they have to spend it is the presence of opportunity. keeping nonviolent drug offenders in prison “We have seen physical violence from staff, gross failures in medical care, shambolic record is a dollar they can’t spend going after drug keeping, limited understanding of mental health issues and poor communication between kingpins, or tracking down terrorists, or staff, often leading to devastating consequences such as preventable deaths” she wrote. Founded in 1909, the National Association hiring more police and giving them the for the Advancement of Colored People “We believe that the impact of the devolution of such public duties to private companies – resources that would allow them to do a (NAACP) is the nation's oldest and largest whose primary duty is to other shareholders and who lack a culture of public service, needs more effective job community policing. civil rights organisation to be urgently assessed.” Insidetime September 2015 12 Newsround www.insidetime.org

IMB reports: The things people say…

n The Independent Monitoring Board at HMP-YOI Portland have produced a damning report of the prison in which they say it is plagued with ‘Legal Highs’ which has led to a criminal network and targeting of prisoners’ families. They say the drugs have led to trading, debt, bullying, violence and unpre- dictable behaviour which the cannabis sub- stitute causes.

The IMB say they have serious safety concerns because it can ‘incline prisoners to be aggressive, uncontrolled, peculiarly “It is time to strong and difficult to subdue.’ Because, during the reporting period the ‘Legal Highs’ come out fighting” were not, by definition, illegal, the police were unwilling to assist. Former Olympic champion, Sebastian Coe dismissing the latest doping scandal Governor James Lucas said that now the made by The Sunday Times. He said ‘the prison also took adults and as a consequence allegations were a declaration of war on the drug culture came with them. athletes’...... The leaked blood doping database Serco problems in Eden n The latest IMB report on HMP/YOI contains more than 12,000 blood tests

Rochester, in Kent, has been dominated by from 5,000 athletes. It also reveals that a “Fight clubs. Illicit drug use. Lockdowns. An organisation out of control.” These are just some the ongoing effect of Ministerial decisions to third of medals, including 55 Gold, have of the allegations made about Serco-operated Mount Eden Prison in New Zealand. (John reduce staff numbers and the result of this been won in endurance events at the O’Connor writes). change has led to ‘harmful effects’ through- Olympics and World Championships by out the establishment. The changes have led athletes who have recorded suspicious The Government has fined Serco NZ$500,000 in penalties for failing to maintain terms of its to low morale amongst both staff and tests, yet the International Association of contract. The privately-run prison hit local media headlines after revelations of fight clubs, prisoners alike. Staff shortages have Athletics Federations (IAAF) has failed to under-staffing, and inmates with drugs and home-made alcohol surfaced with shocking continued to impact on the prison and have take away any of the medals. footage filmed on contraband cellphones. forced the establishment to put in place a re- stricted regime. It has now been further revealed that the A Government management team has taken overall charge of the running of the prison while IAAF - the governing body of athletics has reviewing Serco’s contract. The decision was made after invoking the ‘step in’ clause in The prison has had to cut back on the reha- suppressed a damning survey, for the Serco’s contract. Responding to this decision, a leading media commentator said: “It is bilitative aspects of the regime and education, past four years, that reveals a third of the totemic in the debate on whether the outsourcing of public sector services to private entities work, training, P.E and external health ap- world’s top competitors admitted is something we can trust.” pointments are regularly cancelled. Overall, cheating by using banned performance- the IMB says prisoners at the jail are enhancing techniques. spending more and more time locked in cells. They state that ‘…(rehabilitation) Late News: Lord Coe was appointed continues to be put aside in favour of short- President of the IAAF on Wednesday 19th term financial gains’. August, before the World Championships in Beijing. In his acceptance speech he The Board say that Rochester is still pledged to beat the drugs cheats, but generally a safe and decent environment for also come to the defence of the IAAFs prisoners, but more has to be done. record in the fight on doping.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

In response to the migration crisis in

August 4th 2015 August Calais, David Cameron sends a sniffer dog.

A senior police officer stood outside the gates of the home in Salisbury of the late Sir - the Conservative Prime Minister from 1970 - 1974. The police officer appealed for ‘victims who support the alle- gations of child sex abuse’. He was not dis- appointed: in two days allegations ‘poured in’, Amnesty votes for legal prostitution as they often do, after the ‘blame and claim’; culture took root in Britain. Human rights group Amnesty International has voted to support the decriminalisation of prostitution at their biennial International Council Meeting. Amnesty argues that criminalisa- One commentator who had worked for tion can push the trade underground and lead to greater abuses. It said its policy was based Edward Heath for over 25 years said: ‘When on consultation with a broad range of groups including sex workers and anti-trafficking you visited him you were greeted by a groups. Amnesty International now joins a host of other groups in their support for decrimi- Chris Sims, the West Midlands Chief policeman carrying a gun. When you walked nalisation, including the World Health Organisation, the United Nations AIDS programme Constable, warned last month that in his garden you were greeted by another UNAIDS, and leading medical journal The Lancet. budget cuts would mean ‘fewer bobbies policeman with a gun. When you went to a on the street’. How reassuring that two restaurant the man with the gun came too.’ West Midlands police officers could be Sex offenders crowding prisons spared to patrol -kissed streets Phrases such as sexual abuse have become of Magaluf to confront drunk, grunting so toxic that in the public mind truth or proof One in eight of the sentenced prison population is now a sex offender after a record number British teenagers. It seems that the only has become largely irrelevant. Any mention of convictions for sex offences in the past year. The MOJ report also disclosed the extent to thing police officers Brett and Martina of them is enough to deliver a verdict and a which rehabilitation of prisoners was failing. For the first time since records began a decade found was the beach. And, of course, the sentence all at once - best illustrated when ago, more than half of all the people sent to prison for serious offences in the year to March bar. PC Martina was forced to delete a the police call for victims not complainants. had 15 or more previous convictions or cautions, up from a third a decade ago. Facebook post in which she boasted she was ‘sozzled’.

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August 6th 2015 Police have been refusing to investigate attempted burglaries if the victims live in a house with an odd number - a bizarre ex- periment aimed at saving money. Leicester- shire Police trialled the scheme to assess the effectiveness of sending forensic officers to a crime scene and found it had no impact on the number of incidents or victim satis- faction. If the victim reported blood at the scene or if a suspect had been arrested officers had to attend regardless of the door number. Forensic officers also had to attend any scene involving a vulnerable victim or GPs should be able to prescribe e-cigarettes believed to be part of a series of crimes. Last on the NHS, government health officials say, week Chief Constable Thornton said forces in light of a review showing that ‘vaping’ is needed to shift their focus away from ‘tradi- 95 per cent less harmful than smoking tradi- tional’ crimes and admitted that officers tional tobacco. Public Health England (PHE) might not call round for offences such as said the gadgets do not carry the same risks break-ins. Lee Marlow on Twitter suggested: as regular cigarettes, and that 76,000 of the ‘Maybe they should trial giving a council tax 80,000 deaths caused by smoking every year rebate - and an apology - to all those living in could be stopped if smokers converted to e- odd nos’. cigarettes. Insidetime September 2015 14 Newsround www.insidetime.org

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Prime minister urges action to tackle rise in obesity during primary school years Junk food at the checkout

Prime Minister David Cameron has asked the encourages excess consumption Department of Health and Department of Education, along with TV-chef Jamie Oliver, The presence of junk food at checkout aisles, to look at what can be done to prevent the in both supermarkets and non-food stores, rise in obesity during primary school, saying induces unplanned purchases and excess “It’s a fact that 10% of children go into calorie consumption that undermine primary school obese but 20% are coming consumers’ health, according to a new report out of primary school obese and so it’s this by the Amercian non profit organisation, Obesity rates higher among London primary school period where we really need Centre for Science in the Public Interest. to do better”. school children than anywhere in UK Placing junk food at checkout is a powerful form of marketing for which food manufac- Childhood obesity rates are higher in London than the rest of the country with one in five turers pay retailers handsomely, according children classed as very overweight by the time they leave primary school, figures showed to the report. In addition, putting candy at recently. In eight London boroughs, including Southwark and Westminster, more than a children’s eye level creates unhealthy norms quarter of 11-year-olds are considered obese, while one in ten five-year-olds across the for snacks and incites conflict with parents. capital are seriously overweight. Medical evidence shows that obese children are more likely Adults also are susceptible to impulse buys, to have heart attacks and strokes in later life. Labour mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan, who as decision fatigue results after choosing compiled the figures, set out plans to prevent new fast food outlets opening within 400 metres of schools. If elected, he would use City Hall’s “planning bible” the London Plan to support among the 30,000 to 50,000 items in the local authorities bringing in tighter controls on opening junk food shops. There are over 8,000 average supermarket, according to CSPI. © Fotolia.com fast food outlets in London, many close to schools, and the number is thought to be increasing About $5.5 billion of foods, drinks, and other by 10 per cent every year. products are sold from checkout aisles at su- Food industry associations sue permarkets alone. The majority of foods and government over soda warning beverages at checkout are candy, gum, 135 diabetes amputations every week: labels energy bars, chips, cookies, soda, and other Obesity blamed for 17% rise in operations sugary drinks, according to research done by The American Beverage Association, The CSPI and others. Another survey found that California Retailers Association and Califor- shoppers who bought candy and soda at l Now an estimated 3.9million adults with diabetes in the country. nia State Outdoor Advertising Association checkout are often the same people who de- are suing the San Francisco city authorities l Figures show 7,041 amputations carried out a year due to condition. liberately avoid such products elsewhere in over proposals to put mandatory health- l Diabetes UK says 80 per cent of operations could be avoided. warnings on advertising for sugar-sweet- the store. ened nonalcoholic beverages with caloric l Claim many doctors miss early signs of problems in the feet and hands. sweeteners that contain more than 25 l More than 135 patients undergo an amputation every week due to diabetes, calories. The warning will read: “WARNING: See figures show. Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) con- tributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay. page 39 l The number has increased by 17 per cent in the last five years alone. This is a message from the City and County of San Francisco.” The soda makers say the rules are “suppressing private speech” and fail to acknowledge that soft drinks can, THE PRISON according to dietary guidelines, be consumed as part of a healthy diet. PHOENIX TRUST World Obesity Day Head doing you in? The first World Obesity Day is to be held on Stressed out? 11th October 2015. The World Obesity Federation will be using Can’t sleep? the day to raise awareness and stimulate action on obesity-related issues around the Simple yoga and world. 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l Nepal is one of only two places in the l A London apartment has gone on sale for m Do you know...? world that has a quarter hourly time zone, £75m. The five-bed flat in London’s One Quote of the Month the other being the Chatham Islands. The Hyde Park is thought to be the most odd time difference between Nepal and India expensive flat to go up for sale on the open l London is the most googled city in the has resulted in a national joke that Nepalis market. world when it comes to art galleries, per- are always 15 minutes late (or, Indians are forming arts and innovative design. The 15 minutes early). l The new owner of the most expensive capital’s theatres also generate more house bought in Britain this year faces a searches than those in any other city, l Britain produces about 14bn litres of milk bill of £10.7million… for stamp duty. The research by Google showed. The research each year, and shoppers buy about 5.2 billion mansion in London’s Mayfair was sold for also revealed that for international litres of liquid milk each year. All in all, we £90million after a major makeover. It has a searches, the Science Museum in London buy enough dairy products every year to fill ballroom for 200 guests and a separate Shaffy translating for David ranks on average as the most googled nearly 4,500 Olympic-size swimming pools. mews home for servants. Cameron in 2011 museum in the world. The Natural History l The UK’s legal aid budget is about £2 Museum comes second and third is the l In 2013, Welshman James Howells threw billion annually, compared with France’s British Museum. out his old computer hard drive - forgetting What a shoddy £290 million and Germany’s £272 million, it had 7,500 bitcoins on it, worth about £4.6 l Eating spicy food has been linked to according to the Council of Europe. reward for Britain million. He searched local landfill sites for living a longer life. A study analysed the the hard drive without success. food habits and health details of nearly half l British families pay almost three-quarters Colonel Tim Collins, The Daily a million Chinese people. It found those of a million pounds each in tax over the l Chris Froome became the first British Telegraph 15th August 2015 who ate spicy food six or seven days a week course of a lifetime. The £734,240 - in cyclist to win the Tour de France twice, with had a 14% reduced risk of dying compared 2013/14 prices - totted up by the average Britain should be ashamed of a performance so powerful it sparked alle- with people who ate it less than once a household over 40 years in work and 15 itself. On the one hand, we gations of doping in the French press. week. Eating spicy food was also associ- years of retirement includes £253,040 of appear unable, or unwilling, to There were a record ten Britons in the Tour ated with a lower risk of death from cancer, income tax, £146,775 in VAT, £92,795 in expel Jihadi preachers who foment this year, with Geraint Thomas of Wales the heart diseases and respiratory illnesses. National Insurance contributions and hatred for this country. On the other hand, £59,955 in council tax, as well as many other next-highest placed at 15th. Froome last we’re refusing sanctuary to people who won the world-famous race in 2013. l Smartphones have overtaken laptops as levies. have this country’s interests at heart and the most popular device for getting online, have served us loyally. l l in what is described as a “landmark The has been scaled down by American Barry Nelson was the first more than 20,000, three years ahead of moment” by Ofcom. Britons are spending actor to play the character James Bond, One of those people is an Afghan translator target. Latest Ministry of Defence figures, known to the British forces in some of the an hour and 54 minutes accessing the appearing in the 1954 TV version of Casino outlined in the department’s monthly most dangerous areas of Afghanistan Internet on their mobiles every day - Royale. The first Bond film, Dr. No, starring personnel report, show there are 81,700 (including working as a translator for David compared to just an hour and nine minutes Sean Connery wasn’t made until 1962. full-time trained servicemen and women in Cameron in 2011). He did so in the belief on PCs. This has been attributed to the the Army as of June this year, falling from l A Facebook study suggests that people that Britain would look out for him in the rising popularity of high-speed 4G. future. Yet now that Shaffy is facing credible 102,260 in 2010. are choosing to use “haha” and emojis over death threats from the Taliban, Britain is l Manchester United and England football “LOL” to express laughter. The research l Beijing was selected to host the 2022 refusing him asylum. captain Wayne Rooney has signed up as the claims more than half (51.4%) opt for Winter Olympics, becoming the first city NSPCC’s first ambassador for childhood. “haha”, while just 1.9% are LOLers, awarded both the winter and summer The Government has decreed that only although it didn’t look at direct messages. The striker, a father of two boys, will help games. Beijing narrowly defeated Almaty, Afghans who served the UK forces on or LOL was added to the Oxford English the charity fight abuse of children by Kazakhstan, in a vote of the International after 1 January 2013 should be eligible to Dictionary (OED) in 2011, but the origin of promoting its campaigns and services, Olympic Committee. The vote was surpris- move here. That leaves Shaffy and the phrase can be traced back to the 1980s. especially those supporting other fathers. ingly close: 44-40. hundreds of others “at the tender mercy of The charity hopes Rooney’s support will the Jihadis”. How shoddy. encourage more boys to speak out about abuse or if they are struggling with bullying If we’re really powerless to deport those or to cope with depression. extremists who hate our country, “so be it”, but let’s at least “do l An independent scientific advisory body right by these loyal translators wants the government to recommend that who have served the UK so well.” Britons take vitamin D supplements because the country lacks the bright sunshine necessary to provide enough NEWS IN BRIEF naturally. Vitamin D deficiency is linked to musculo-skeletal health, heart disease, type 1 diabetes, cancer and multiple sclerosis. l Communications regulator Ofcom says that 1.2 billion selfies were taken in the UK in 2014. Almost a third of people ques- tioned admitted to having taken a picture of themselves in the past year, with one in ten having taken one in the past week. The regulator also found that smartphones are used more than stand-alone cameras now. l The Channel Tunnel was recognised as one of the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World” by the American Society of Civil Engineers, alongside the Empire State Building, the Itaipu Dam in South America, Last year tens of thousands of Africa’s elephants were killed to supply alleged the CN Tower in Toronto, the Panama ivory to markets throughout the world. Increasingly, revenue generated from Canal, the North Sea protection works in the sale of ivory is being used to fuel war and terrorism. Animal rights groups the Netherlands, and the Golden Gate estimate that poachers in Africa kill between 25,000 and 35,000 elephants Osborne, who now finds the final nail, Bridge in San Francisco. annually - meaning more than 100 die a day. searches for the coffin. 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the ignorant public. Tom’s plight will never anything that appears to be wrong to support change as long as the justice system is used to further corrupt politicians who provide fodder make the public feel (falsely) secure, tabloids for the corrupt tabloids. The UK justice system can sell adverts based upon circulation, politi- is a joke. The difference between a Monty cians get elected by being ‘tough’ on sex Python joke and the UK justice system is that crimes - real or imagined. And the good Monty Python’s laughter brings you to tears people of the UK get off their collective arses while the UK justice system leaves you in tears. and take to the streets (peacefully) and Up in smoke demand that justice is done - that a person is Why a smoking ban in prisons has led to ‘My Friend Tom’ trouble Down Under An ex police officer discovers the truth really innocent until proven guilty. I do have about crime and punishment to laugh when I read of another ‘get tough’ on sex crimes by MPs and other males in the L - So they want prisons to go non-smoking because one prisoner was put in a cell with a J - This same exact thing is happening right justice system - if they had half a brain they’d smoker? Sorry but I thought it was cell only now to my husband. The hardest part is I am realize that being ‘male’ they are a target also in the States and he is in the UK. I am trying for false accusals and it’s not a matter of if it smoking or is that different in every prison? I to do my best to get an appeal from here by will happen to them, but WHEN will it happen? thought you went to prison as punishment myself. I know without a shadow of doubt Time to destroy courtroom cages? not for punishment. How much would be lost that he is innocent and I will fight until my last Without them there’s a better chance of on DHL who supply the canteen? 50%? 70%? breath to get him out of there and back home acquittal says John O’Connor So the smoking ban comes into place, how to me and our kids. The justice system in the long before another ‘Strangeways’ happens? UK is anything but just. S - I vividly remember when we went for one Have the authorities thought about it 100%? of the “pre-trial” hearings we were put in a Obviously not. M - This is the truth and not only should every fully enclosed dock. The 3 defendants were MP be told but it should be on the front of the one severely disabled old man, one old man L - Absolutely brilliant news! I hope the paper, not only this one but every paper. Well and me, a slightly built lady who couldn’t run smoking ban comes in sooner rather than said. My vote is for this ex copper. even if she wanted to! I also happen to have later. The idea that prisoners smoke only in severe claustrophobia, so the experience left their cells is a nonsense and widely abused G - This story goes on and on and on and as Prisons are in their me totally traumatised. Whilst I agree that with prisoners smoking all round the wing. far as I can see there’s no one willing to ‘worst state for 10 years’ there should remain a few fully enclosed Non-smoking prisoners and staff have to change it in Parliament. Better to send HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for England docks for those violent criminals that are suffer second hand smoke as a result. Let innocent people to prison than let them go. It and Wales, Nick Hardwick launches his KNOWN to be violent, for all other cases, the them use patches or e-cigarettes. I’m looks bad for the justice system to allow latest and last Annual Report 2014-15 accused should be sat alongside their barrister confident DHL will be just fine profit-wise. someone to be found innocent. The main to enable them to tell them exactly what they The prisoners now crying about a ban and reasons I see that convictions of innocent G - You want to reform prisons and stop the SHOULD be doing, instead of them being threatening potential disorder are probably people happens is: 1) Police and CPS too lazy overcrowding? Then start with the corrupt allowed to dither about and fail to bring to a the same idiots that broke the no smoking on to do anything called a thorough investiga- justice system from the cops to the CPS to the jury’s attention the relevant points that will the landings rule and spoilt it for everyone. tion. 2) They are all wanting to look good to judges. You’re a nation of punishers for free an innocent person.

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read. A longer paragraph in the introduction mistake or boob. puts together a whole lot of words found in later pages: “Armed robbery, the criminal CAKOBAKO To be cakobako with something Month by Month offence that became my raison d’etre, is a means that you’ve got more than enough of game that is littered with slang. Sometimes it. It’s from ‘caked’ meaning to be heavily by Rachel Billington known as the ‘heavy’ (because of the heavy covered with something, and is used quite a prison sentences it attracts), or ‘pavement lot by North London heroin addicts when Rachel learns about prison, police and more varied work’ (when it’s robbing security vans in the describing someone with a lot of drugs or street), or just work (because professional money, as in ‘The geezer’s cakobako with criminal slang from Noel ‘Razor’ Smith’s new book, robbers class themselves as working men; it tackle but his prices are bollocks’. ‘The Criminal Alphabet’. just so happens that robbing at gunpoint is their job). In order to carry out an armed HOTPLATE HAMSTER A hotplate hamster is a robbery you need certain tools of the trade, screw who wangles duty on the hotplate in and informative. Now he breaks new ground such as a ‘shooter’ (gun), a ‘smother‘ (mask), order to eat prisoners’ rations rather than pay with his sixth book ‘The Criminal Alphabet.’ ‘turtles’ (gloves), a ‘happy bag’ (the bag used the price of a meal in the subsidized staff to carry firearms to and the cash from the job) canteen. As ‘Razor’ Smith, Noel spent thirty three of the and a ‘jam jar’ (getaway car). last fifty four years in and out of prison or, as HANDBAG To be described as a handbag in he writes ‘mainly in.’ He also tells the reader in Once you have the tools, you’ll do a ‘recce’ criminal circles is to have your manhood called paragraph one of the book, ‘I have fifty-eight (reconnaissance) on your target, whether it be into question. A handbag is an effeminate or criminal convictions, for everything from a ‘jug’ (bank - from the days when people drippy person, someone not to be trusted in a attempted theft to armed robbery and escape buried their money in a pot or jug) or the fight. from prison.’ His point is that he is just the ‘corey’ (security vehicle), unless, that is, you person to let us into the secret of criminal are just going out on a ‘spec’ (speculation). JOHN WAYNE John Wayne is prison-issue slang, the subject of his book. ‘What I do not You must keep your eyes open for police toilet paper, because it is so very tough, just like know about criminal and prison slang could be ‘obbo posts’ (observation points) or a ‘ready- the cowboys played by the actor. written on the back of a postage stamp and eye’ (police ambush) by the ‘Sweeney’ (The still leave room for the Lord’s Prayer.’ Flying Squad). Once you go across the JOHNNY CASH The name of Johnny Cash, a ‘pavement’ (start a robbery) you must be on world famous country and pop singer who So we can assume we are in the hands of a guard for any ‘have-a-gos’ (member of the public started out at the small Sun studios in the early master as skilled in his subject as Cristiano who want to be heroes) and go for the ‘prize’. 1950s, is now used as rhyming slang for a Ronaldo in finding the goal or Stephen medical complaint: Johnny Cash = rash. Hawking in defining the universe. As its title, Now for a sample of alphabetical section entries the book is laid out alphabetically so, for (I have taken them from ten separate sections): KANGA This is yet another (rhyming) slang example, if you randomly look up , ‘COWBOY word for a prison officer (kangaroo = screw). HAT’ you will get this explanation: A cowboy BEGGAR’S LAGGING Beggar’s Lagging is two Kanga is of course the shortened version and hat is the cardboard waste pot supplied in the months imprisonment under the Vagrancy Act. is widely used in every prison by cons. strip cell or ‘strongbox’ of the segregation unit, so-called because it very much resembles BAKE Bake means I’ll see you later (rhyming PONY In racecourse parlance a pony is £25 anguage can be coldly informative, a cardboard Stetson when turned upside slang: baked potato = later). It only works due and this was soon adopted by the criminals tragically emotional or gloriously down. (And because they are sometimes worn to the cockney pronunciation ‘potater’. who frequented the races in order to extract funny. The English language is par- on the head by mentally disturbed prisoners.) money from the bookmakers for ‘protection’. ticularly impressionable and changes If someone in prison tells you they’ve just BALLOON A Balloon is a packet of drugs that It comes from the old Indian rupee note which constantly so that words may have been two weeks ‘wearing the cowboy hat’, it has been placed inside a rubber balloon and featured pictures of animals. The twenty-five halfL a dozen different meanings. Probably the means they have been held in a strip cell.’ swallowed. rupee note featured a horse. area where words come and go with most ease and invention is slang. 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on their hands to become string vests, as in ‘That Freddie is becoming a right string!’ HMP High Down launches Prisoner Services Directory SNOWDROPPERS A Snowdropper is someone written by prisoners, for who makes a living by stealing clothes from the washing-lines (as opposed to someone who prisoners steals only underwear from lines and is known as a pervert!). Finding your way in custody can be PAROLE TWOCKERS Twockers are car thieves, usually tough at times, of the teenaged joyriding variety. particularly when you do not know BOARD In fact, there’s more to this book than intrigu- which way to turn UPDATE ing and/or humorous definitions of slang. for information. Reminiscences, historical references and Prisoners at HMP High Down have recently imagined conversations to make a point, take started work on a Prisoner Services Direc- it well out of the reference book category. tory called ‘The Seven Pathways to Reduc- ing Re-offending’. To end with here’s an example of a conversa- he Parole Board is constantly Team 1 - NPS North East and North West tion (if you call it that) between prison officer looking for ways in which it can Prison Service - North East, Yorkshire & Hum- Each section of the directory explores in and prisoner, both in prison speak and in more deliver its services efficiently and berside, North West, Part of East Midlands great detail the options and services avail- normal mode: effectively and this has become (Lincoln, Morton Hall, North Sea Camp only) able at HMP High Down. These services more important since the HSE (Frankland, Full Sutton, Wakefield, Man- ‘Con: Oi, guv, what’s the apple with my include: Housing; Education, Training and SupremeT Court judgment in 2013 and the chester) COP (Northumberland, Forest bank, peter? I’m feeling tom and need to get in my Employment; Mental and Physical Health; rising number of cases we are dealing with Doncaster). flowery but there’s a gang of kanga giving me Drugs and Alcohol; Finance, Debt and Ben- each year. a spin. (Excuse me, officer, what’s going on in efits; Attitudes, Thinking and Behaviour; Team 2 - NPS Midlands my cell? I’m feeling quite ill and need to get and Children and Families. Each section As part of the constant review we do of our Prison Service - West Midlands, East Midlands in but there are several officers searching it.) comes with a summary of what the organi- resources and staff we have looked at devel- (excluding Lincoln, Morton Hall and North Sea oping a change to the way our Operations Camp) HSE (Long Lartin) COP (Lowdham sation does and how best they can provide teams are structured. At the moment, we have Grange, Ryehill, Birmingham, Oakwood). Screw: Wind yer neck in, fella. The DST are help and assistance both inside and outside four case management teams who deal with doing LBBs in there, so stop being a numpty the prison. or I’ll stick the red pen on your page 16 and prisons across all of England and Wales, as Team 3 - NPS South and South East, London well as the few cases from Scotland and Prison Service - East of England, Kent & Sussex, get you put on Basic. (Stop bothering me. The The Prisoner Services Directory itself is an Dedicated Search Team are checking Locks, Northern Ireland each year. One of the disad- Greater London, HSE (Whitemoor, Belmarsh) ever-changing entity, one which will be up- Bolts and Bars, so be patient or I’ll write you vantages of this system is that it can be COP (Peterborough, Bronzefield, Thameside). dated to include new services in the prison up and have you put on the Basic regime.) confusing for offenders to try and find out as well as updates to existing ones. The who they should contact if they have a Team 4 - NPS South West, South Central, Wales The Criminal Alphabet by Noel “Razor” Prisoner Services Directory can be found at question about their case. Prison Service - South Central, South West, Smith Published by Particular Books HMP High Down Prison Induction or by Wales, HSE (Woodhill) COP (Parc, Ashfield) RRP £14.99 (hardcover) contacting Prisoners’ Representatives. To remedy this and to improve our engage- This team will also manage cases within ment we are moving to a regional model. This Scotland and Northern Ireland. means that each of our four case management teams will focus on all the prisons in one It is our aim to have this new structure in place specific area. By making these changes we will for 1st September 2015. We will be doing a lot be able to: of work behind the scenes to prepare for this with the aim that all the cases we are dealing l Allow you to see which team will be dealing with suffer no disruption. In order to achieve with your case and to know which team you this we are leaving cases which have a listing need to contact if you have questions about date already confirmed with the current case your case; manager. These cases will stay where they are, irrespective of area, to allow continuity in the l Develop good, strong and long term management of the case. working relationships with our colleagues in probation and prisons in this area allowing us Cases which are active, but do not yet have a to deliver a good quality service and ensure hearing date, will be moved at one time. that your hearing runs as smoothly as possible As part of this work we will be updating our We have designed the areas so that they contact lists, to reflect the case managers and mirror those of our colleagues in the National the prisons and area they cover. This informa- Probation Service and the teams will cover the tion will be on the Parole Board pages of the following: Gov.uk website presently.

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l Prison staff often know little about NPS and need to be given better information about them and the signs that a prisoner is using them;

l Governors need to make sure that NPS are addressed by effective local drug supply Why reduction and violence reduction strategies;

l Drug treatment services should identify prisoners with issues arising from the use of NPS, and offer relevant treatment; risk l Bullying and intimidation need to be robustly challenged and victims supported, including taking into account the impact of bullying on the risk of suicide and self-harm; and

l The Prison Service needs to put in place a national education programme for prisoners it? outlining the effects and risks of using NPS.

This last lesson makes the important, if obvious, point that prisoners also need to help themselves and each other. NPS are only the latest in a long line of dangerous substances smuggled into prisons and abused. Perhaps it is unusual that some NPS are or have been legal in the community (although not inside) and also that clear evidence about ill-effects has, until now, been hard to come by. But the risks to physical and mental health and to Nigel Newcomen, Prisons and Probation Ombudsman writes safety in custody are now clear. about the risks from new synthetic drugs that he has recently These risks need to be understood throughout the prison community. You don’t have to be a highlighted in some of his investigations into deaths in custody drug treatment mentor or Listener to advise others about the risks of NPS, everybody © Fotolia.com needs to be aware of the risks and to ask l And there may be a risk of bullying and debt Staff heard some loud noises from her cell themselves whether using them is worth it. from trading in NPS, which can sometimes be and, thinking she was having a bad dream, My fatal investigations make clear it isn’t. Nigel Newcomen CBE linked to suicide among the more vulnerable. went to check. The woman had made a very Prisons & Probation Ombudsman deep cut and severed an artery. Despite a While the precise impact of NPS on health is swift emergency response, she later died in How to complain to the Prisons hard to gauge, there are published reports of hospital. n July, I published a short bulletin about users needing emergency treatment for heart and Probation Ombudsman lessons that could be learned from the problems, high blood pressure, psychosis and She had no history of self-harm and gave no worrying deaths of prisoners which my seizures. Some of our investigations found sign she was at risk, but after her death other independent investigations found to prisoners suffering similar symptoms, including prisoners told our investigators she had been have been associated with taking raised pulse rates, sweating and vomiting. using NPS and other drugs. Our medical Isynthetic drugs, such as spice and mamba. Some prisoners were found incoherent and reviewer considered that these drugs might These drugs imitate the effects of controlled unable to stand up properly. There were also have triggered a rapid onset psychotic drugs, particularly cannabis, stimulants and cases where the prisoner collapsed, or experi- episode. Otherwise, her actions were entirely hallucinogens. They are sometimes incorrectly enced something like a psychotic episode. out of character. described as “legal highs” - but are certainly © prisonimage.org not legal in prison. They are officially known as For example, one man became very unwell in In addition to the potential physical and New Psychoactive Substances, or NPS for short, a prison workshop after smoking NPS. He mental health risks of using NPS, our investi- l The PPO investigates complaints from which is what I will call them in this article. threw up and began behaving very strangely. gations also found examples of bullying and prisoners and those under probation supervision He was also aggressive and swore at staff, violence when users got into debt as a result in England and Wales, and from immigration NPS are made up of a bewildering and ever which was unusual for him. Staff said he was of trading in these substances. Some prisoners detainees anywhere in the UK. changing array of compounds. They are also pale, sweaty and appeared short of breath. He reported being assaulted, or asked to be l We are independent of the Prison Service, the unregulated and the chemicals used to make refused to go to hospital and was returned to moved because they were being threatened. his cell, but was found unresponsive later the Probation Service, NOMS or Immigration them vary over time and even from batch to The impact on more vulnerable prisoners can same day. The Coroner’s inquest concluded Enforcement: we are impartial and unbiased. batch. This makes testing difficult but also be fatal. that he had died from a heart attack hastened means that it is very hard to know what the l We can investigate complaints about most by the use of NPS. effects are likely to be, or how to treat people One man’s prison record was very positive; aspects of your management, supervision, care, experiencing bad side-effects. To complicate his behaviour was described as ‘exemplary’ and treatment. We can’t investigate complaints matters further, in many cases in our study, Our investigations also found examples of an and he was due to be assessed for suitability about medical treatment or about decisions by a the prisoners had been using NPS alongside apparent impact on mental health from using for an open prison. One day, he became court or the Parole Board.. prescribed medications or illicit drugs. The NPS. In some cases, we found evidence of uncharacteristically angry and shouted at a effect of such combinations is particularly hard erratic, violent and out of character behaviour l Before you complain to us, you must doctor. Early the next morning, he was found to predict. by users. This included a small number where complete all the stages of the internal com- to have hanged himself in his cell. After his the prisoner had taken his or her own life, yet plaints process first. If you are still unhappy: death, a close friend told our investigator that The bulletin looked at the deaths of 19 this action seemed out of character, and there • Write to us within three months of receiving the man had recently begun smoking NPS fre- prisoners between April 2012 and September were no obvious triggers or warning signs for the final response. quently. He had also got into debt as a result, 2014, who were known or strongly believed self-harm other than the use of NPS. • Send us a short note telling us why you are not and had apparently been forced to sell to have been using NPS. These identified three happy with the response to your complaint. possible risks associated with NPS about which One woman was over a year into her sentence, personal possessions to pay his debts. • Send us your completed complaint forms we staff and prisoners need to be aware: and had been to prison before. She was well will copy and return them to you. (If you don’t known to staff and prisoners who described The risks associated with using NPS are clearly have the complaint forms you can still complain l There may be a risk to physical health; her as ‘bubbly’. On the day she died, she had illustrated by our bulletin and, as a result, a to us but it will take us a bit longer to respond). l There may be a risk to mental health, been laughing and joking with friends, and number of lessons were identified to help Write to us at: Prisons and Probation including suicide; gave no indication that she might hurt herself. prisons deal with the issue: Ombudsman, PO Box 70769, SE1P 4XY. Insidetime September 2015 www.insidetime.org Comment 21

us, and this trait is obviously the main hindrance to any recovery, as we make it difficult for professionals to clearly identify our The needs and plan an effective course of treatment. We can be great actors. Our many years of dedication to our ‘craft’, together with the ruthless trait of our condition, can psychopathy make us some of the ‘slipperiest fish in the sea’! Our ruthlessness will sometimes know no bounds. We struggle to forgive and the word compromise has little meaning to many of us, as we often allow our emotions to cloud our spectrum judgement.

Although adept at making friends and influ- encing people to achieve a specific goal or target, the often shallowness of our feelings and superficial charm frequently means that any relationships are destined to end. Those of us with the severest forms of our condition have littered the prison system and secure hospitals for years, with little or no opportu- nity to lead a relatively normal life. We are not a new phenomenon and have probably been around ever since homo sapiens first started to walk on two feet.

Sarah Baker lays bare the We do not choose to have this condition, but I do believe that with intensive professional help and support, we can learn to manage the traits of personality disorders negative traits it brings with it. Without an © Fotolia.com initial diagnosis, some of us may not even ying, conniving, deception, manipu- imagination. We can be annoying and that we end up being detained under the realise that we have a personality disorder in lation, call them what you will, but tiresome to our families and those around us, Mental Health Act, and although we may the first place - and even after a diagnosis has these were all skills that I had finely but we are not necessarily a threat to public achieve much in our lives, our successes are been made, it is more than likely that we will developed and honed as, for safety. However, when a person with a pro- soon forgotten when the men in white coats not agree with it, in the belief that we know twenty-seven years, I struggled to pensity towards criminality, who has experi- arrive to take us away! more about ourselves than a psychiatrist who walkL the landings of some of Britain’s most enced childhood trauma, also has psycho- may have been treating personality disordered dangerous prisons. Valuable assets behind pathic traits, their effect on society can be Although the label ‘psychopath’ is one which patients for the last twenty years. We may prison bars, where craftiness and ruthlessness catastrophic. When we hurt, we often lash out the media will all too readily apply to a display to the world behaviours which appear are qualities that will keep a prisoner’s tobacco physically or verbally and hurt others with our murderer or rapist, this label can also apply to odd, bizarre, reckless or downright dangerous, tin full, and are considered admirable traits in fists, weapons or our rapier-like tongues. a burglar, shoplifter, domestic abuser - or but which to us appear normal. We may live macho alpha male-driven institutions, these What we want, we take - with no thought of anyone! It is how society defines someone parasitical lifestyles and act impulsively, with self-same qualities that ensured my daily the damage and suffering that we create in who has little or no empathy for the pain and no thought for the feelings of others. However, survival are also the ones which could lead to others. We struggle to see any other points of suffering of others. What we fear, we lock now, in the 21st century there can be recovery me rotting and dying of old age in a prison view, as not only do we believe that we are away or try to destroy. This instinctive reaction from this condition. Great strides are being hospital. smarter than those around us, but some of us may be an automatic response to any threat, made all over Britain, within both the Criminal are indeed more intelligent than the average possibly inherited from our ancestors. Unfor- Justice System and the National Health Whilst some prison staff will use the more member of the public, and it is this intelligence tunately, as those with a severe personality Service, with the opening of personality dominant, controlling and psychopathic that allows some of us to pass unnoticed, like disorder of a psychopathic type drift aimlessly disorder wings within prisons and dedicated prisoners to maintain order on a landing, psy- a chameleon, as we live according to our own through life with an inability to form meaning- units within hospital settings. Welcome as chiatrists, psychologists and Parole Board warped sense of ethics and morality. On the ful bonds with others, they leave behind a trail these units are, places will of course be limited members will spot psychopathic traits in a other side of the coin, many of us have of broken relationships, victims and emotional by the resources available. Unfortunately, heartbeat and almost immediately recognise become great artists, writers and musicians, as carnage in their wake. Their destructive with a record number of offenders being the high level of risk that we could pose to the we can think ‘outside of the box’ and are behaviour is unlikely to elicit much sympathy diagnosed as having a personality disorder, it public, should we ever be released. sometimes extremely creative in the ways we and understanding from Government policy is likely that only those who pose the most risk act, speak and perform. makers and the public. to society will receive any form of intervention With an ever-increasing public awareness of to enable them to learn the skills needed to numerous ‘mental’ conditions over the last ten As those with an autistic spectrum disorder are There is nothing glamorous or noble about the manage their condition. years, and in particular the autistic spectrum often trapped by it, so, too, are those with a crimes that many of us commit with abandon. (Asperger’s, Tourette’s, etc.,), what is less personality disorder. One easily recognisable Those of us with a personality disorder can be Mental health professionals once believed that well-known is the existence of the psychopa- trait of a personality disorder is when a person very demanding of prison and healthcare there was no effective treatment for those of thy spectrum. Although a majority of mankind repeats the same pattern of behaviour time resources, and taxpayers’ money. We can be us with a personality disorder, and many felt will have within their personality one or more and time again, expecting a different result! very tricky to manage as we are prone to be that the only way to ‘manage’ us was to lock of the behavioural traits that characterise a We commit crimes over and over again and two-faced deceivers who rarely let anyone us away until we became so old that we typical person with a personality disorder, they repeatedly end up being arrested or impris- close enough to be able to help us manage our naturally ‘burnt ourselves out’. The only other will not be as severe and dangerous as to oned; yet, left to our own devices, we lack the condition. We often display a lack of tact in options were to apply electric shocks to our warrant mental health intervention or enforced insight to change our lives and end our cycle interpersonal relationships and feel no shame brains or perform frontal lobotomies. Luckily separation by a criminal justice system. of creating victims. Although those with a per- in offending others with ribald or inappropri- for us, forensic psychology and psychiatry Generally, most people pose little or no threat sonality disorder are not generally classed as ate comments. We can get under the skin of have moved on in the last fifty years, with a to their fellow human beings. having a mental illness, some people who the most patient and agreeable of people and more humane and holistic approach to dealing suffer with an autistic spectrum disorder or delight in shocking others, until we alienate with some of the most challenging people that We all know someone who can be described identifiable mental illness may also have a per- most of those we know, starting with our you are likely to encounter in your life! as ‘not quite right in the head’, who lies for no sonality disorder. Whether due to genetics, families. We do not make a habit of listening apparent reason, steals when they have no the environment in which we were raised, or a to others or take advice. We are not often obvious reason to, and cheats with absolutely combination of the two, our condition is not interested in communicating with others, as Sarah Baker is currently resident at no thought of the consequences. Some of us one that is easily overcome without years of we force our opinions on anyone within the Bethlem Royal Hospital - London will spin elaborate tall tales of how miserable therapy. Many of us with insight and earshot and employ little subtlety when we do our childhoods were, to elicit sympathy, and knowledge of our disorder feel weak, so. We are basically a pain in the backside to The Bethlem Royal Hospital is a psychiatric try to justify our dysfunctional and feral life- powerless and a slave to a condition that can many people we come into contact with hospital in Beckenham, South East London. styles, with many of us also claiming to have destroy us and those whom we do try to care throughout our lives. We feel that our beliefs It is the oldest psychiatric hospital in the qualifications which, in reality, are no more about. We can be driven by it to act strangely are the only ones of value and we are no world, dating back to 1247. than a figment of our own rather colourful and behave in such an incomprehensible way stranger to conflict. Truth is often a stranger to Insidetime September 2015 22 Comment www.insidetime.org

worker will meet you when you arrive at And now a word about two other issues. Dublin airport if you wish. This will provide you with an opportunity to discuss what will Deportation: The situation remains that Irish happen over the following days. citizens will only be considered for deportation where a court has recommended deportation Social Welfare: For returning emigrants, the in sentencing or where the Secretary of State main qualification to be aware of is the concludes, due to the exceptional circum- Habitual Residence Condition (HRC). This is a stances of the case, the public interest requires test to see if you have made Ireland your deportation. However, no Irish national has home, check your residency and employment been deported since the special agreement history, family ties and future intentions. between the British and Irish governments in These key aspects of your situation will be February 2007 which removed Irish prisoners examined by a deciding officer. from the deportation system.

Accommodation: If you are arriving back in Transfer to Ireland while on Licence: If you Ireland with no pre-arranged accommodation have been released on licence in the UK, it or only temporary accommodation, we may be possible to apply to have your licence strongly advise that you access the support of transferred to Ireland. This is decided on a the ICPO and CMP. case-by-case basis. Please contact the ICPO for further information about this. Remember Healthcare: If you return to Ireland to live, you that there may be serious consequences for will be entitled to access the public healthcare leaving the UK without permission while on system. Depending on your income, you may licence. The only exception to this transfer of also be entitled to a Medical Card which would licence concerns prisoners on “life” licence. mean you would generally not be charged for Currently, the Irish authorities will not take any public health services including GP visits back any prisoner on a “life” licence. Going home and most prescriptions. The ICPO is continuing to advocate on behalf Post-Release Support: The ICPO invites all of prisoners in relation to the serving of “life” former clients to visit our office in Maynooth, sentences as well as the repatriation of Co Kildare, after they have been back in prisoners serving IPP (Indeterminate Public Preparing for release, returning Ireland for a few weeks/months. This gives Protection) sentences. them the opportunity to meet with staff and to discuss any issues or problems they may be to Ireland and other issues facing. Brian Hanley - Co-ordinator, ICPO, Columba Centre, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland We hope that this information will be helpful Fr Gerry McFlynn - Project Manager, ICPO, The ICPO can provide you with the details of Fr Gerry McFlynn to those of you hoping to return to make your 50-52 Camden Square, London NW1 9XB. agencies and organisations which help with home in Ireland. 12 August 2015 Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas employment and accommodation. There are a number of residential programmes in Ireland for helping people who have recently been he time leading up to release can released from prison. The ICPO may be able be particularly stressful for a to refer you to one of these programmes prisoner. You may have a great suitable for your needs. Please note that CriminalCriminal AAppealsppeals many questions about your referrals to these programmes must be made future, about where you will stay well in advance of your return to Ireland. We Tand what you will do. Some of you will opt to can also set up a meeting for you with Ledgisters Solicitors remain in the country you find yourselves in, Crosscare Migrant Project (CMP) which can while others will opt to return to Ireland vol- advise you about social welfare, healthcare or Offices in London and Manchester untarily. It is good to plan for your release as emergency accommodation. However, please best you can. note that the most the ICPO can do is put you ledgisters in touch with these agencies; we cannot fÉÄ|v|àÉÜá Here are some practical things you need to provide accommodation or employment An exclusively criminal practice offering a consider along with information about the sort ourselves. An exclusively criminal practice offering a of support available to you. 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and prisoners when I mention the category A (slightly) more visible ethnic ‘W3’ in Traveller Group meetings. A few weeks ago, I was in a prison with over 1200 prisoners in an area with a large popula- tion of Travellers. There were six Travellers at minority- travellers in prison this first Traveller Group meeting, none were registered as W3 prisoners before the meeting. Most shockingly of all not one prisoner in the and Wales. Now the figure is closer to fifty of HMP Pentonville, 23rd June 2015). entire prison was registered as ‘W3’. Given the Dr Conn Mac Gabhann Traveller Groups. I am aware of prisons that fact that many Travellers have distinctive Manager - Traveller Equality Project have campaigned aggressively to stamp out However, there is one major obstacle to literacy, family and health needs, this seems to racial name calling by staff and prisoners with making serious progress in achieving equality be a shameful waste of an opportunity. If a regard to Travellers, even disciplining officers of opportunity within prisons for Gypsies and ver five years ago when I first prison doesn’t know its prisoners how can it in response to prisoner complaints. Travellers and that is proper, effective moni- started going into prisons as positively engage with them? As literacy toring. Why does monitoring matter? It part of the Traveller Equality problems are faced by almost 70% of Traveller At a national level, the criminal justice system matters for a number of reasons. If a group Project, there was an attitude prisoners, how can a prison provide proper has made big strides in addressing Traveller doesn’t exist on the prison database then the amongst many Travellers of ‘just rehab without knowing the size of its Traveller issues in prison. Two years ago NOMS with prison has little duty to make provision for that keepingO your head down’. And who could population? blame a man or woman for not wanting to National Prison Radio established ‘Open Road’ grouping. This is bad for the particular group a monthly radio show primarily for Gypsies in that it doesn’t get the assistance that might attract attention to their ethnicity given that If prisons wish to capitalise on the huge and Travellers but also to promote cultural help in terms of say, rehab, training and hostility to their background was often at least interest amongst Gypsies and Travellers in awareness amongst non-Traveller prisoners. mental health provision. Poor monitoring of a factor in them ending up in jail. Of course, prison for self-empowerment, for education Last year, HM Inspectorate of Prisons an ethnic group is also bad for prisons because we all know that we ourselves are responsible and for training, then they need to pro-actively published a report ‘People in Prison: Gypsies, when a prison ignores the needs of a group, for our own actions. But being called a ‘dirty encourage self -identification. The HM Inspec- Romany and Travellers’ which detailed the that group are likely to be resentful and less gypo’ in the middle of a school assembly or ‘a torate report last year, using its own figures, challenges facing Travellers in prison and likely to engage in rehab. pikey’ in the local and national newspapers stated that the Traveller population of prisons made recommendations. Likewise, the Prisons does not cultivate a respect for society and its is 5% of the overall figure, 1 in every 20 and Probation Ombudsman published ‘Deaths Monitoring is a way of ensuring that the needs laws. Many Travellers routinely prevented prisoners. 5% is a significant slice of the of Travellers in Prison’ in January of this year of a prisoner group are met by the prison from entering pubs and restaurants (as I and a expenditure on education, training, healthcare which again identifies the main issues facing system and if these needs are not met by the number of Traveller friends were recently), are and rehab in prisons. All the more reason that Travellers in prison and recommends many of prison system then we can at least call the a little cynical about the notion that the law is now is the time that every Gypsy, Romany the steps advocated by the Traveller Equality system to account for failing in its duty. there for everyone. and Irish Traveller in prison stand up and be Project over the past years. Otherwise, as our campaign slogan goes ‘If counted - Register today as ‘W3 Irish Traveller you are not counted, you won’t count!’ However, in prisons in England and Wales / Gypsy’ with your Personal Officer or Equali- Despite the cuts in staff and resources in things are different. Many prisons run regular ties Officer. Traveller Groups, have Traveller Reps, and recent years many Traveller Groups have As of 2011, the prison monitoring system hold Traveller History Month celebrations in survived and even flourished. If you read P-NOMIS, included the monitoring of ‘W3 recent HM Inspectorate reports of London Irish Travellers / Gypsies’ on the system. And June. Focussed Traveller literacy and training Further advice for staff and prisoners is prisons for example, amidst the often dire yet in 2015, many prison staff and Traveller initiatives exist in a number of prisons. 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escaped, one killing a prison guard. According Paul Sullivan to Blanche’s memoirs this attack was Clyde’s Inside Time over-riding goal. So outraged was the prison department that they contacted Frank Hamer, a retired Texas Ranger, to track down and kill o many the image they have of Clyde. Hamer tracked them and set the final the infamous 1930’s outlaws ambush by predicting their movements. Just owes more to the 1967 film than four months after the raid Bonnie and Clyde reality. A recently found were dead. document, written in prison by BlancheT Barrow, the wife of Clyde’s brother The six ‘executioners’ kept shooting until they Buck, both of whom were in his ‘gang’, sheds had emptied all their shotguns, machine guns new light onto what motivated Clyde to go on and pistols into Clyde’s car; both Bonnie and a spree of violence lasting around two years. Clyde are said to have been hit by around fifty After the ambush ‘execution’ of Bonnie and bullets each including several head shots. The Clyde, on May 23rd 1934, Blanche was captured execution of suspects in the USA by the police and sentenced to ten years in prison, of which continues to this day with over 700 citizens she served six. She spent her time in prison killed so far this year (), many writing the real story of what it was like being innocent and presenting no danger. Given part of the gang and what motivated Clyde. that Clyde said he would never be taken alive and was prepared to shoot his way out of any Clyde Barrow was born into a poor farming situation, irrespective of the loss of life, you family hard hit by the Depression. In April might be forgiven for thinking there was no 1930, after a number of arrests he was sent to other way. Eastham Prison Farm in Texas, thought to be one of the most brutal of Texas’ prisons; Texas Today the US prison system still has many boasted the most brutal prison system at that prisons where prisoners are kept in appalling time with institutionalised brutalisation of conditions and prisoners are treated like prisoners by their guards. He committed his animals, often shackled when outside their first murder at the prison, murdering a fellow cell, allowed no physical contact with relatives convict who had been sexually assaulting him. and subject to frequent and humiliating ‘cavity A life sentenced prisoner agreed to ‘take the searches’ often in sight of female guards and rap’ so Clyde could get away with it. other prisoners. Many prisoners are kept in indefinite solitary confinement with no human He emerged from the prison a man changed contact except for their guards. A normal fundamentally for the worse and Blanche, in person might ask if such treatment could her memoirs, considers his treatment there affect a person so much that they may set out caused him such psychological damage that to seek revenge. If that is the case then the everything he did, post parole (February 1932) brutal treatment handed out to Clyde at Eastham was about getting even with the prison authorities. He said that he would never allow ultimately led to the deaths of 17 people. the police to catch him and would only be taken dead; according to Blanche, this was The question is: does the UK system, espe- because he knew he couldn’t cope if sent back cially in its treatment of children in privatised to the brutality of the prison system. ‘child jails’ and our Young Offender’s Institu- tions, have anything to learn? Since the cutting Clyde and his gang ranged all over the USA back of Legal Aid, children and young people driving powerful stolen cars. At that time there have limited remedies to poor treatment or was no FBI and local police often had to use abuse and reoffending rates amongst these their own cars and buy their own guns; as they groups are particularly high. Only now, 40 were poorly paid this meant old cars and years later, is there finally an enquiry into the cheap weapons. Against Clyde and his fast abuse of children at one detention centre cars and Browning machine gun they stood no (Medomsley) where there are said to have chance. At that time their crimes were not been over 1,000 victims. Men who were federal crimes so they could escape just by abused in borstals and detention centres many crossing state lines. years ago post comments on our website and are still suffering the psychological trauma. Mr Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in In January 1934 Clyde got his revenge on the and Mrs Taxpayer may well say; ‘Who cares?’ a photograph from the early 1930s. Texas prison system by mounting a raid on but ultimately, as in the Clyde Barrow case, it Eastham Prison during which five prisoners may be them who have to pay the price. Insidetime September 2015 www.insidetime.org Comment 25

the extent to which ‘the bosses’ shared the pain they so readily imposed on their subordinates and prisoners alike. Or do they hope that by Prison Service faces new hunkering down they can survive the present economic crisis, to emerge unscathed when the promised good times return? If so they are detached from reality because the fallout from round of spending cutbacks today’s economic maelstrom is predicted to last until about 2025. Mind you, by then most of these elite will have long retired on their gold-plated pensions, therefore long past Selling-off ageing prisons might soften impact on prison caring. The future is someone else’s problem. budgets says John O’Connor Yet with an economic recovery phase spanning such a lengthy lifespan, there has to be more ll government departments other than just a short-term response when dealing than health, education and with it. Long-term problems require equally defence now face a new round long-term solutions. So now is the moment to of cutbacks ranging from 20 to apply such thinking to the future location of 40% of their annual budget. Prison Service HQ. Although first mooted over AndA there’s no reason to believe the Prison 15 years ago but quietly dumped after many Service will be able to escape further cutbacks millions of pounds were wasted (sounds in addition to those imposed with ruthless effi- familiar?) on a planned relocation to the East ciency over the past four years. Over this Midlands, it’s time to bite the bullet and get period the Prison Service made £900 million of out of town and stay out. For what on earth is savings and yet must now look for further the Prison Service doing when maintaining its cost-cutting efficiencies. HQ in the heart of one of the world’s most expensive cities? But they have come at a heavy price including a “deterioration” of safety standards in prisons With almost 140 penal establishments and a rise in suicides. The influential Parlia- scattered throughout England and Wales, mentary Justice Committee found there has what is the administrative imperative that they been a steady increase in the number of have to be micromanaged from London? assaults against staff and other prisoners, as Decentralisation not only means delegating well as prisoner deaths since 2011. It found more responsibilities to a local level; it can also the government had failed to plan adequately mean relocating the headquarters function to for risks arising from staff shortages and was a less central area such as a business park in © Fotolia.com responding slowly to problems caused as a the provinces. The latter has many bottom line advantages apart from regional regeneration: result of cuts. welcomed by the Chancellor. Replacing them County, a developer which restores and less costly rent and rates, more stabilised would be new jails financed and operated by converts listed and public buildings into The Committee’s Report of its year-long workforce, less travel time between operating private contractors. homes. Shepton Mallet has special historic sig- inquiry into the impact of prison reforms found locations, cheaper housing, elimination of nificance because it was opened in 1625 and they made a “significant contribution to the central London ‘weighing’ allowances, max- Although located in prime residential areas was the UK’s oldest operating prison. deterioration in safety.” Prison reforms include imising on modern-day telecoms (including most of the London prisons are listed buildings “efficiency savings,” by which they mean staff video links) and being nearer to the coalface. cutbacks, and “changes in operational policy, so getting approval for their demolition will be But it isn’t only prisons which the Prison including a tightening of the Incentives and difficult but not insurmountable. Yet already a Service could sell off when raising money and The value and importance of this last point in Earned Privileges scheme.” string of former prisons have been successfully at the same time reduce operating cost. What particular cannot be underestimated. For all given a new lease of life including Oxford about cutting back on stand-alone administra- too often remoteness exists between the It’s hard to see how the Prison Service can which is now an up-market boutique hotel. tive offices such as national and regional reality of a prison and the ivory tower make more savings over the next four years in Liverpool’s historic Bridewell Jail is presently headquarters? There’s nothing new in this otherwise known as Prison Service HQ. And order to meet the Chancellor’s objective of undergoing conversion while a £2 million bid suggestion for I wrote about it over five years among the many useful cost-saving lessons to eliminating the budget deficit. But there’s one for crumbling Shrewsbury Jail will see it ago in an article which appeared in the be learnt from the way private sector prisons cost-saving idea being mooted by Michael converted into residential accommodation. February 2010 issue of Inside Time. Under the operate, one of the most obvious is the latter’s Gove, the new Justice Minister, which if suc- Canterbury Christchurch University has just headline ‘Relocate the ivory tower’, this article lack of any need to have headquarters, palatial cessful would see more ageing prisons dating announced plans to convert that city’s ageing asked: “To what extent did the last round of or otherwise, located in central London. back to the Victorian era sold to developers. prison into student accommodation. cutbacks impact directly on Prison Service HQ? Did delayering of middle management (aka Gaols such as Wandsworth, Brixton, Penton- Former prisoner John O’Connor is London That there’s a healthy demand for redundant the ‘suits’), so obvious at a local level, actually ville, Wormwood Scrubs, Bristol, Lincoln, Not- representative of Restore Support Network, prisons is confirmed by the recent purchase of reduce the headcount within its palatial steel tingham, etc. have long been condemned as a registered charity which mentors/befriends four jails in the south west of England. Shepton and glass edifice at Cleland Street?” totally unfit for purpose. So selling them off older ex-prisoners. Mallet, Dorchester, Gloucester and Kingston couldn’t come soon enough for the Prison [email protected] Service. And the money raised would be much (Portsmouth) were bought by City and For there has been an unhealthy silence about

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in these situations, a prisoner may feel vul- PRISON Francesca Cooney nerable and it is therefore important that REFORM appropriate measures and safeguarding take Advice & Information place. It would be particularly useful for TRUST Manager victims’ services to be made available in these cases, as the victim may not feel able to nfortunately, assaults and access support from prison staff. We believe crime in prison remain high. that provision of victim services in prisons The recent annual report from would support this process, provide advice the Chief Inspector of Prisons and advocacy both for prisoners and staff found that over the last year and enable prisoners to access their rights as Uthere were, on average, over 300 assaults a victims. week on prisoners and more than 40 of them were serious. In addition, in an average If staff are not aware of the process or don’t week, there were about 70 assaults on staff follow it properly, mistakes can be made. The and nine of them were serious. In terms of inspectorate found a situation where a Jonathan King writes crimes, every year around 20,000 incidents prisoner had made an allegation that a staff are recorded in prisons that could be classed member had seriously assaulted him. The as crimes. Appreciating the good things about being alive inspectorate team were told by prison staff that they were not investigating because the In theory, victims of serious assaults, whether police were actively investigating the matter. n a recent edition of The Spectator I too, or, at least, reasonably fair minded. staff or prisoners, are entitled to services The inspectorate team contacted the police, wrote a long piece about the false alle- under the Victims’ Code. However, prisoners who explained that they had advised the gations industry. An abridged version Times have changed. Positively, though due tell us that in practice, they are not always prison that they should investigate this in the given the opportunity to report crimes is below: eventually to pressure from the more sane first instance. committed against them. This means that I and less sexually obsessed Europeans, but they would be unable to access a criminal Young people don’t know, and older people also negatively, in that, these days, “a great The governor is not required to report minor investigation and victims’ services and may have forgotten, but being gay or story” is all that matters to the media. Par- allegations about crime or violence. These support. We are concerned that prisoners include less serious assaults, theft, disorder, bisexual was illegal until 1967 and such ticularly because of social media, and that sometimes request to report an incident to criminal damage, and having drugs in pos- behaviour was often prosecuted, leading to small but loud section of humanity which the police but may be prevented from doing session. Although these are crimes in the long prison terms and frequently death, enjoys causing and witnessing distress, and so. There is an agreement in place between community, the prison staff have the either by suicide or murder. loves nasty, cruel and damaging stories NOMS, the Association of Chief Police authority to deal with these through the which are considered the best of all. Officers and the Crown Prosecution Service prison discipline system. The adjudications Even after it was legalised, the age limit was ‘The appropriate handling of crimes in 21 and any activity below that age was Paedophilia has replaced being gay as the prisons’ that explains how incidents should system can be a quicker, more efficient way regarded as paedophilia. It may seem absurd current outrage. And “great stories” can be handled. Prison staff should facilitate the of dealing with less serious crimes as well as these days but until 1994, when the homo- now be constructed by making old gays, reporting of a crime to the police if the victim incidents in prison that are not crimes. sexual age of consent was lowered to 18, especially dead ones, out to have been wants this to happen. This does not mean that was the case. And the ages of consent paedos. So “cover ups” over men being gay that a full criminal investigation will follow as We would like to see equal provision of were not equalised and made the same for decades ago have been adapted to appear this is a decision for the police. However, services for prisoners. NOMS, the police and heterosexual and gay activity at 16, until to be cover ups of child abuse. prison staff must allow a prisoner who is a CPS have duties to comply with their respon- November 2000, by co-incidence a few days victim of a crime to report that crime to the sibilities under the Victim’s Code. The after my arrest for alleged crimes that had Of course, the far more common area of police if they wish to, even if the prison staff operation of these duties need far greater never, in fact, taken place. heterosexuality has also now been used - have decided not to report the crime directly oversight to be effective. with normal relationships later twisted to be themselves. 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neglect that are underlying factors in women’s impact is not and it is obvious that within the offending. criminal justice system we cannot simply replicate what we provide for men and hope it Women’s services like Anawim have better will work for women.” In Wales the IOM reoffending outcomes than prison and enable Cymru Women’s Pathfinder project is success- vulnerable and disadvantaged women, whose fully diverting women out of the criminal crimes are minor and whose needs have been justice system and into support services at an long overlooked, to lead productive lives. early stage. Their effectiveness impressed the Soropti- mists, an international women’s organisation Most of the solutions to women’s offending, with active clubs across the UK, during an as well as much of men’s offending, lie outside inquiry with PRT into women’s experiences in prison walls. As Melissa says, we should “listen the criminal justice system. In our report more and don’t judge a book by its covers. Transforming Lives - reducing women’s Women like me need help and the first step is imprisonment we highlight the link between that someone listens, has empathy and shows women’s experience of domestic violence and some love and kindness. I see only good things their offending, a link still not routinely in the future for me and my child.” informing police, probation and court practice. Programmes for women and men affected by Dedicated women’s services are needed more domestic violence must be a priority both in than ever now that anyone (in England and prison and in the community. The report calls Wales) serving as little as a couple of days in for more scrutiny of remand, improved prison is subject to twelve months post-cus- provision of community orders, restricted use tody supervision. Women are already being © Fotolia.com of custody for non-violent crimes, and simple recalled to prison as a result of this. On the measures like a local directory of services for other hand the new duty on the Secretary of use by the local bench. State for Justice in section 10 of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 to ‘identify and Transforming Change is in the air. In the Government’s address the specific needs of women offenders’ response to the House of Commons Justice is supposed to deliver better outcomes for Committee report on women offenders, the women. HM Inspectorate of Probation has Minister Caroline Dinenage MP, notes that just announced a thematic inspection of work “for the last two years, the female prison pop- with women offenders - something we called the lives of ulation has been consistently under 4,000 for for in our Transforming Lives report. This is the first time in a decade. I want to see still timely for the start of our new UK-wide drive fewer women in custody, especially those who to reduce women’s imprisonment. We want are primary carers of young children”. In to make sure that more women like Melissa Scotland, the decision to build a new women’s have their voices heard and get the opportu- women in trouble prison has been reversed in favour of small nity to transform their lives. This will also custodial units and community-based reduce the toll taken on the children whose she needed. “Everything” was her reply, but Jenny Earle provision. The Scottish Justice Secretary, lives are turned upside down when their mainly she wanted help with substance misuse Michael Matheson, said that “Scotland has mothers disappear behind bars. Programme Director, Reducing women’s and housing, and support to enable her to the second highest female prison population imprisonment - Prison Reform Trust deal with everyday life, including self-esteem in Northern Europe.. this is completely unac- If you would like a copy of the report Trans- and confidence. Melissa says “Anawim ceptable and does not fit with my vision of forming Lives you can write to us at Prison changed my life - everything they offered I how a modern and progressive society should Reform Trust, FREEPOST ND6125 London elissa (not her real name) had took on and completed, even doing a maths deal with female offenders.” In Northern EC1B 1PN. We would also very much like to been arrested about 45 times course and counselling. Now I even have my Ireland the Minister for Justice David Ford hear from women in prison about your expe- and had over 35 convictions, child back.” understands that “the number of women riences and what support would make the mainly for theft from shops. offenders is comparatively small but the biggest difference to you. As a child she had experi- Melissa eloquently makes the case for more Menced domestic and sexual abuse. As a young constructive non-custodial responses to woman, her life was chaotic and she was using low-level offending such as shop-lifting. The drugs, developing a crack cocaine-induced latest Annual Report of HM Chief Inspector of COMPENSATION FOR psychosis that criminal justice agencies failed Prisons 2014-15 reinforces the need for a new to identify. Over the years she was given approach, identifying much higher propor- sentences from fines to custody, with no-one tions of women than men as having a drug VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE picking up her mental health needs. Eventually problem (41% vs 28%) or an alcohol problem Helping victims plan for the future and achieve justice she was referred to Anawim women’s centre (30% vs 19%) on arrival into prison. The stag- in Birmingham to complete a ‘specified activity geringly large proportion of the women’s Our specialist team are committed to helping victims of abuse and are experts in requirement’ (now a ‘rehabilitation activity prison population who are on medication bringing action against local authorities, such as social services, and residential (77%) is evidence of the mental and physical requirement’) as part of a 12 month suspended institutions, such as children’s homes. sentence. There she was asked what support health problems and histories of trauma and Our dedicated team of male and female lawyers have a proven track record with sexual, physical and emotional abuse claims. ZZMMSS SSOOLLIICCIITTOORRSS Child abuse can take a long time to come to terms with and it can be difficult for Prison Law specialists serving prisons throughout the Midlands. victims to speak out about their traumatic experiences. Regardless of how long ago the abuse took place, you may still be able to make a claim. • IPP/LIFER ISSUES • Anything you say to us will be handled with the utmost levels of professionalism, • PAROLE APPLICATIONS • sensitivity and understanding. • CATEGORISATION • Child abuse claims are often eligible for pubic funding and Jordans are recognised by • ADJUDICATIONS • the legal services commission as one of the few specialist providers of legal aid for • JUDICIAL REVIEWS • this type of work in the UK. LICENCE CONDITIONS • • RECALLS • ›› Registered with EMAP ‹‹ Contact Simon Mears - Prison Law Specialist ZMS Solicitors 11 Bowling Green St, Leicester LE1 6AS Call Christine Sands and the team on 01924 868911 0116 247 0790 Email [email protected] Free advice & representation under legal aid Write to Neil Jordan House, Wellington Road, Dewsbury, WF13 1HL

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after a film he starred in was nominated. So I Some of the women who live here at Styal really was hobnobbing with celebrities! also acted in the drama. It was quite funny to see how they really got into it, consider- It was interesting to see how radio drama ing one of them is as quiet as a mouse! scenes are recorded. My favourite part of the There was quite a buzz in the jail due to the recording in Styal was the birth scene, which fact that ‘Sally Carman from Shameless’ involved one of the actors blowing into a was here. The women were well chuffed plastic cup as a prop for gas and air - so much that they had been asked to be involved. for the big BBC budget! The acting was so true to life that I actually thought she was Overall, I can honestly say that I was proud going to give birth. to be given the opportunity to experience how a radio drama is produced. It also gave There was a scene recorded in the gardens me the chance to experience being a pro- involving an argument between two of the duction assistant for a day! actors playing prisoners. When the actors started shouting at each other, officers rushed Bound will be broadcast as part of Sound over to break up what they thought was a real Women on Thursday September 17th at argument, involving real prisoners! midday, repeated at 6pm.

Sally Carman (Shameless, Prisoners’ Wives) makes her National Prison Radio debut playing a social worker in the drama, Bound. The importance… of talking

small. Listeners won’t give you advice, but they will give you the space you need to talk A ‘Shameless’ plug things through, without being judged. People we’ve spoken on NPR to say it really helps that Listeners are prisoners because for Bound - a National they get what it’s like to be inside, and speak to them on a level, which makes it easier to open up. The service is confidential so Prison Radio drama Listeners won’t speak to anyone about any of the conversations they’ve had.

omething new and unexpected is Ruth was Styal’s radio station orderly at the © prisonimage.org To hear more about why it can help to speak coming to National Prison Radio. time of the recording and she worked as the to a Listener, tune into Check Up, Prime It is a radio drama called Bound. Production Assistant on the drama: Speaking out about what’s on your mind can Time and Sound Women on 8th, 9th and It tells the story of a young be difficult, but even the toughest of us have 10th September on National Prison Radio. pregnant prisoner fighting to My day with the production team and the bad days, and getting things off your chest The shows are on air at midday or 6pm - or keepS her baby with her inside prison. professional cast was nerve wracking at first. I can be a big help. you can listen to all of them again on Sunday was very excited at the prospect of rubbing 13th September from 10am - 1pm. Thursday It was produced and recorded inside Styal shoulders with some famous actors. On During September we’ll be learning more 10th September is World Suicide Prevention prison and at the BBC’s drama studios as a meeting the team I was quite impressed that about the benefits of speaking to a Listener. Day, so we’ll be exploring this important partnership between the NPR team and the they were so laid back considering it was the The Listener Scheme is a peer support service issue in more detail on that day’s edition of BBC. Women in Styal along with award- first time in a prison for most of them. run by prisoners. Listeners are selected, trained Sound Women. winning writer, Cat Jones, developed the and supported by Samaritans and provide idea for the story. Some of the roles were A highlight of the day for me was interview- confidential support around the clock to their And if you’ve got something on your mind, played by prisoners too - alongside a stellar ing the cast for NPR. Sally Carmen and Sam fellow inmates. whatever it is, remember that you can speak cast, including Sally Carman, better known Holland are two of the famous actors in the to a Listener any time - just look for someone to many as Kim Haines from Prisoners’ drama. Sally told me that this wasn’t the first You can talk to Listeners about anything that wearing a Listener T-shirt, ask a member of Wives or Kelly Maguire from ’s time that an acting role has taken her into a is getting to you - it’s there for anyone who’s staff or press the bell in your cell and ask to Shameless. prison. Sam talked about attending the Oscars got something on their mind, no matter how speak to a Listener.

for female prisoners and their families. By talking family members, and/or would like more directly to family members, the research will information about taking part, then please Prison and the Family help us understand more about the experi- contact the researcher, Natalie Booth by ences, challenges and issues facing families visiting http://prisonandthefamily.myfreesi- Prison and the Family is a research study looking at the when a Mum is in prison. From the findings, tes.net/ or on 07887 379 888 or n.booth@ lives and experiences of families with a Mum in prison the study aims to produce family-centred rec- bath.ac.uk ommendations which will inform and improve sentence of up to 4 years; (2) young people policy and practice in women’s prisons. Natalie Booth (aged 15-18) whose Mum is convicted and AB MACKENZIE PhD Research Student, University of Bath serving a prison sentence of up to 4 years. Who has approved the research? SOLICITORS The research has received ethical approval We specialize in he research examines how Taking part in the research would involve one from the University of Bath, and has been • Representations to Home Office processes within women’s face-to-face interview with the researcher at a approved by the National Offender Manage- Prior to Deportation Decisions prisons are perceived to impact time and place convenient for the family ment Service (NOMS). • Appeals Against Deportation on mothering and the family, member. This interview is likely to last around • Bail Applications from the perspectives of family one hour. With the family member’s permis- Who is doing the research? membersT both inside and outside prison. sion, the interview will be audio recorded. The research is being done independently by • Representation at Police stations, Before the interview commences, family Natalie Booth, a doctoral research student Magistrates and Crown Courts Who can take part? members will be given a detailed information from the University of Bath. The research is Please contact Hakeem, Billa or Raphael The study is currently identifying two groups sheet and asked to give written consent to not being done for the government or any AB Mackenzie Solicitors of family members in the community to take taking part in the research. other agency. Unit 3, 99-103 Lomond Grove part in an informal interview as part of the Camberwell London SE5 7HN research; (1) family members caring for a Why is the research important? Who should I contact? 020 77011900 child/children (under 18 years old) whose The research is important because policy has If you are working in an organisation inter- Emergencies 07442 505012 Mum is convicted and serving a prison often overlooked the importance of family life ested in supporting the researcher to identify [email protected] Insidetime September 2015 32 Drink and Drugs www.insidetime.org

In the news… been launched by a coalition of more than 30 Inside Drink and Drugs News organisations. While the Home Office recorded 100 such crimes a week in England and Wales in 2013, it’s estimated that only Drink and Drugs News (DDN) is the monthly magazine around 6 per cent of incidences are actually for those working with drug and alcohol clients, reported. ‘We know that people can turn to including in prisons. In a regular bi-monthly column, using drugs or alcohol as a means of coping editor Claire Brown looks at what’s been happening with the stress of being targeted in a hate lately in the substance misuse field crime attack,’ said London Friend chief executive Monty Moncrieff. ‘We want to help people recognise incidents of hate n our latest issue we shared expert are involved in the brain’s reward pathways.’ crime, and provide support for them to both report it and deal with the emotional issues opinion on a ‘white crystalline killer’ - Furthermore, sugar consumption can share this might bring.’ not a class A drug, but our old friend, similar features to an addiction pathway, with ...... sugar. According to nutritionist Helen the person becoming prone to bingeing, l Growing market l Hep C delays Sandwell, a diet high in sugar is now cravings and withdrawal. New psychoactive substances (NPS) are now Charities and liver specialists have written to Ithought to be a leading culprit in developing being detected in Europe at a rate of two per health secretary Jeremy Hunt urging him to not just obesity, but also type 2 diabetes, heart In the addiction treatment world, some organ- week, according to the European Monitoring overturn attempts to limit the number of disease, stroke, fatty liver disease and some isations are starting to look closely at the effect Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction hepatitis C patients able to access new treat- (EMCDDA). More than 100 NPS were cancers. Research is also pointing at a link sugar has on mood, and the way it interacts ments. Organised by the Hepatitis C Trust, reported last year, says the European drug between a high sugar diet and Alzheimer’s. with addiction. This has led them to introduce the letter expresses concern about NHS report 2015, with the total number of sub- a low GI menu in their rehabs to keep glucose England’s ‘seemingly unprecedented requests’ stances being monitored by the agency now If we follow the World Health Organization’s levels steady, using wholemeal bread, rice and for NICE to delay access to a new generation standing at more than 450. As in previous advice from earlier this year, we should be pasta, and cutting out chocolate, cakes and of drugs on affordability grounds. NICE has years the majority of substances reported already ruled favourably on the cost-effec- limiting our sugar intake to just six teaspoons fizzy drinks. were either synthetic cannabinoids or cathi- tiveness of one drug, sofosbuvir, and is - and this includes sugars contained in fruit nones, with the internet now playing a currently appraising others. NHS England’s juice, syrup, honey and sources that we might According to the British physiologist, Dr John ‘growing role’ in supplying both NPS and arguments for delaying access were ‘abso- consider ‘natural’, as well as all the sugar Yudkin, who wrote the book ‘Pure, White and more established drugs. lutely ridiculous’, said Hepatitis C Trust chief added to food. Drinking a 500ml bottle of Deadly: The Problem of Sugar’, cutting down ...... executive, Charles Gore. coke a day would catapult you over your daily gradually on sugar has the added benefit of l Drug driving ...... limit of sugar by a whole six teaspoons. giving an increased appreciation of food. More than 400 people a month are being l Diabetes danger arrested for drug driving in England and Consuming 26 units of alcohol over a Still, I hear your objection that there are many ‘Swamping everything with sugar tends to Wales, according to figures obtained under three-day period can increase the risk of worse vices and I, for one, am not about to hide flavours,’ he says. ‘When you really have an FOI request by the Institute of Advanced developing type 2 diabetes by up to five put down this packet of Jellybabies. What is got used to taking very little sugar in your Motorists. While more than 900 arrests were times, according to a new fact sheet from made by forces between March - when the interesting - and potentially useful - though, is food and drinks, you will notice that all your Alcohol Concern, with the risk ‘particularly new offence was introduced - and May, the to understand the effect sugar can have on foods have a wide range of interesting flavours acute’ in women. Just two drinks a day, figures reveal ‘little consistency’, with the our brains as well as our bodies, and Sandwell that you had forgotten.’ meanwhile, can increase the risk of breast making more than 200 examines the hypothesis that sugar is an cancer by 18 per cent. ‘Alcohol is no ordinary arrests and other forces, including Warwick- addictive substance. item for consumption and people need to be drinkanddrugsnews.com shire, Leicestershire and Gwent, making none...... more aware of the risks associated with its ‘Researchers have described it as acting in the To order copies of Drink and use,’ said chief executive Jackie Ballard. l body in a similar way to addictive substances,’ Drugs News t: 020 7463 2085 Hate crime ‘Alcohol is linked to over 60 medical condi- A new campaign to raise awareness of LGBT she says. ‘Like addictive substances, it releases e: [email protected] tions including diabetes, cancer and high hate crime, and urge people to report it, has blood pressure’. both opioids and dopamine - chemicals that

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illicit drugs and offensive weapons, items that on their property card. However, where Disposal of Prisoners’ are illegal to possess in prisons such as mobile property is unattributed and therefore not Unauthorised Property phones, property that has been used to listed on a property card, a prisoner may still The conceal illicit items (e.g. drugs), and items be able to make a claim for the item. Where a PSI 2015-014 that are otherwise inappropriate for a prisoner claim is successful, the item can be added to to have in his or her possession, such as items Issued: 25 March 2015, Effective from: 26 the prisoner’s property card and placed in which may have been smuggled into the March 2015, Expiry Date: 29 April 2016 local storage until the point at which the prison or coerced from another prisoner’. The prisoner is permanently released. Prisoners Rule reference to the IEP levels is important since it This is a new PSI providing guidance on the must be aware that they may face an adjudi- recent power introduced by the Prisons could be used against prisoners who have cation charge for possession of unauthorised (Property) Act 2013, which amends the Prison been moved to a lower IEP level and may still property’. It might be wise for prisoners to Book Act 1952, giving Governors and Directors of have items such as a PlayStation in possession. seek an immediate check of their Property private prisons the power to destroy or Cards to ensure staff have recorded all their otherwise dispose of certain property found in Governors have the power to destroy unau- property properly. the possession of prisoners, in prisons or in thorised or unattributable property which is Inside Time’s Paul found or confiscated on or after 26 March prison vehicles. It applies to all prisons, All articles confiscated before 26 March 2015 2015. Governors must determine procedures Sullivan has a look including YOIs, in England and Wales. (except ‘Relevant Articles’ including “cameras, which require such property to be retained for Disposal, in this context, includes destroying sound-recording devices, mobile phones and into Prison Rules and a minimum of three months after it is found, or selling the Property with any profits from other devices capable of transmitting or during which period a prisoner may make rep- Instructions sales going to NACRO. receiving images, sounds or information by resentations regarding how the property is to electronic communications”) must continue to be dealt with. An item cannot be destroyed or For the purposes of this PSI, ‘Unauthorised be stored unless claimed or their continued disposed of while there is an outstanding Property’ is property which is found inside the storage would present a proven health hazard. prison or in a prison escort vehicle and dispute in relation to how it will be dealt with. appears to have no legitimate owner or The prisoner may use the complaints process to make representations about the decision. Frances Crook of The Howard League says on cannot be attributed to an individual prisoner. her blog; ‘Prisoners are being told they can Unauthorised property also includes property use the prison complaints system and put in a that was authorised in its original format, but If a prisoner makes a successful claim for the return of their property it must be held in complaint to the Prisons Ombudsman. There has since been modified by a prisoner or are several problems with this. It takes prisoners for an unauthorised purpose. storage and returned to the prisoner on release in accordance with PSI 12/2011 – months, and sometimes even years, to get a complaint resolved, by which time your book It is important prisoners are aware of this Prisoners’ Property; however, this PSI warns has been burnt. Also it requires a decent level notice within the PSI: ‘Unauthorised property that prisoners who claim back what the of literacy to write out a complaint and many is that which a prisoner is not authorised, in Governor calls ‘Unauthorised Property’ may prisoners cannot write, have learning difficul- accordance with Prison Rules, relevant PSIs or face an adjudication for a breach of the Prison ties or can’t write in English … If we want the Governor, to have in their possession. Rules for possession of an unauthorised item if Unauthorised property may vary depending they claim back their confiscated property. people to respect justice and the rule of law, on a prisoner’s Incentives and Earned Privi- we have to apply them. These new rules are The PSI states; ‘A legitimate claim might be if arbitrary and will create confusion, resent- © Gstudio Group - Fotolia.com leges (IEP) level. It includes items that are illegal to possess in the community such as the prisoner can prove that the item is listed ment and injustice.’

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n exhibition of artwork by successful lives outside prison.” prisoners chosen for one of the UK’s most important private art Chris Ingram is committed to widening public collections has opened at The access to art for both enjoyment and educa- Clink Charity’s newest restau- tional purposes. Already this year almost 200 rantA at HMP Styal, Cheshire. Inside Out objects from the Collection have been loaned to exhibitions and to several of the UK’s most Featuring art created at HMP Altcourse, HMP/ important museums. A current exhibition at YOI Bronzefield, HMP Send and HMP from The Ingram Collection launches The Lightbox in Woking, Surrey called Where’s Stafford, the exhibition is the brainchild of God Now? looks at the way art has treated Chris Ingram, entrepreneur, philanthropist with exhibition at The Clink Christianity in the last seventy years and tells and founder of The Ingram Collection, the its story by bringing together work from across biggest privately owned publicly accessible The Ingram Collection. Amongst the featured collection of Modern British and Contempo- artists are Dame Elisabeth Frink RA, John rary Art. Craxton RA, Leon Underwood and artist Paul from HMP Whatton. Over the past decade, Chris Ingram has acquired almost 650 paintings and sculptures, Chris Ingram continued: “I always buy work over 400 of which are by the most important to enjoy it and share it, so that others can also artists of the Modern British era - amongst enjoy it. The major point is that I have to be these Edward Burra, Lynn Chadwick, Elisabeth able to look at it again and again. I often find Frink, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, that art created by prisoners is, understanda- Henry Moore and Eduardo Paolozzi. bly, very emotional, presenting a real cry from the heart.” More recently, Chris Ingram has been inter- ested in ways that art can be used to help “That’s not to say it lacks technical skill. This prisoners, young offenders and people year, I was delighted to join the judging panel affected by mental health issues to rebuild of the 2015 Koestler Trust Awards. Many of their self-confidence and sense of purpose in the pieces are both moving and inspiring and order to improve their lives. Chris has now you can see that there is real creative talent added some 40 works by these artists to the behind it.” Collection - which he has named Inside Out from The Ingram Collection, reflecting how art “I want Inside Out, by acquiring offenders’ 2B or Not 2B? That is the question (HMP Send) can help to ‘unlock’ thoughts and feelings, On display at The Clink HMP Styal to launch Inside Out from The Ingram Collection work and including it in shows alongside and ultimately be a catalyst in helping prisoners classic pieces of Modern British Art, to shake on their journey to a positive life on the up the stereotype of offenders and show them outside. as people with talent and potential - and feelings - shared by all of us.” The exhibition at HMP Styal marks the launch of Inside Out and celebrates the transforma- Chris Moore, chief executive of The Clink tive powers of art in building better lives. Charity, added: “It’s great to have the oppor- tunity to show art like this in the restaurants. Chris Ingram explained: “Engaging with art is The Clink offers prisoners the chance to a tremendous tool in rebuilding self-confi- change for the better through hospitality dence and creating a purpose in life.” training and art in prisons can make a huge difference to an individual’s confidence and “Many of the artists included in The Ingram self-belief. As a charity we collaborate with Collection created work in response to huge other like-minded organisations, social enter- social change and upheaval that occurred in prises and charities that are all working the twentieth century. Art gave these people a towards changing people’s lives for the voice.” better.”

“I see parallels in prison art. Art in prisons Opportunities to extend the exhibition to other provides a welcome channel for self-expres- Clink venues at HMP High Down, HMP Brixton sion. It is a catalyst in reflecting upon the path and HMP Cardiff are currently being explored. that led offenders to prison and it provides an opportunity to develop skills and confidence, If Only…..! (HMP Altcourse) Wisdom (HMP/YOI Bronzefield) Inside Out from The Ingram Collection on display both of which are fundamental to building Inside Out from The Ingram Collection on display Tamsin Williams - Wigwam PR at The Clink HMP Styal. Image: The Koestler Trust at The Clink HMP Styal

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me feeling travel sick. But what’s that got to do with bras? Er, it doesn’t matter. What about wiring? Wiring? You don’t have to charge them up do you? No, no, I mean...Shall I just give you wireless © prisonimage.org ones? Yes please. The electric bill’s already sky high. That’s probably not surprising. Would you like seamless bras? Er no, I don’t suppose that’s necessary. © Fotolia.com Cross your heart then? Broken Bonds Of course. Why should I lie to you? Assistant: Good morning sir, can I help you? Supportive? Customer: Er yes, I’d like ten bras please. Well, I try to be, but it’s not always easy A short play - Verbatim Pieces. From the Certainly sir, which colour would you like? with so many women making demands. Well, they’re not actually for me … Yes, quite. Any padding? book of plays created by Beverley Hancock- Of course not, I wasn’t suggesting it would No, it doesn’t tend to get cold enough to be you who would be wearing them. I just need insulation. Smith and the prisoners of HMP Leicester meant … OK, let’s start again. Does the lady Would you like lace or bows? like bright colours? Oh there’s no need to gift wrap them. They’ll Well, some of them, I guess. be fine in a carrier bag. Phone on prison landing. I’ve got a best friend…well, we were best Some colours, do you mean? Might I suggest you bring the lady - er ladies friends for years and years, but since I’ve been No, some of the ladies. - in, so they could choose their own bras and Adam: You done with the phone, mate? in prison, I’ve had no contact from him. I’ve Ahem, so they’re not all for the same lady then? try them on? (pause) Cheers. wrote to him and he’s not replied and when I Oh no, ten bra’s for ten different ladies. Oh no, they’re not allowed out! finally got someone to go collect him to bring I see, so you’ve got ten ladies and you want a Not allowed out? Adam dials the number SFX of phone digits. him on a visit he says he just been too busy bra for each of them? No, well, except in emergencies. The phone rings and rings and rings. The and that’s that. Those were his words: ‘too That’s right. So, let me get this right … You’ve got ten answer phone finally kicks in. You’ve reached busy’. When you sit in here and you realise You obviously have a busy life! ladies aged between 18 and 80, and you the Vodaphone voicemail for zero, seven, five, how much time you waste, it’s hard to imagine You can say that again, you’ve no idea what never let them go out? six, three…Adam hangs up. someone not having enough time, to be too hard work it is keeping a group of women That’s right. They’re locked up, you see. busy, to spend five minutes putting a pen on a satisfied. You keep them locked up? It’s not really prison that changes you, it’s… piece of paper. You can’t be too busy for that, Yes, well, I’m sure there are many men who Well yes, can’t have them escaping can we? you shouldn’t be able to say this, but it’s but that’s life init. would be willing to try. Anyway, back to the So they’re locked up constantly? bras. Do you know the ladies sizes? More or less, obviously they get unlocked for true…prison is not that hard; life in prison is Well, I suppose most of them are between work, but … not hard. It’s controlling your mind while Adam re-dials the number SFX of phone digits. 5’2” and 5’8”. For work? You make them work? you’re in prison. Cos things change on the No, no, I meant their bra sizes. Of course. Got to pay that electric bill somehow! outside. When you land, when you first get The phone rings and rings. Finally it is Oh, do they come in different sizes? I Anyway, most of them enjoy working. here, you’ve got a certain circumstance to answered. thought a bra was a bra. I see. I think you’re pulling my leg; aren’t you? your life. When you get out, usually, nine Er, no, there’s a huge variety of styles and sizes. You’ll be telling me you handcuff them next! times out of ten, all of those circumstances Adam: Hi. Lucy? (pause) It’s daddy. Oh, well, could I just take ten mediums? Well, actually, there are times when handcuffs have changed. Medium? So you reckon the ladies are about are needed, but fortunately that doesn’t 34 or 36? happen too often. Before I came I had my son, he was just Oh no, some of them are only 18. And at I see. Excuse me a moment … Er, yes, it’s this coming up to one, I had a close relationship least one of them is a pensioner. customer here. Make sure you detain him with my daughter, my son was with me all the PURCELL PARKER I actually meant bra size 34 or 36, but never until the police arrive. time, I was, I was close to a lot of friends, I was mind. You seem to have quite a variety of ladies. Police? No you don’t understand …. Solicitors Yes, it was quite a surprise to me at first, but Oh, I think I do. I’ve read about men like you. in a certain way. When I get out, after serving BIRMINGHAM’S TOP two years, a lot of them friends are gone. I’m used to it now. I just treat them the same No, that’s what I’m trying to explain. I’ve just PRISON LAWYERS whether they’re 18 or 80. No-one’s around anymore, people have come from prison …. Licence Recalls I bet you do. Erm, what cup size would you like? That doesn’t surprise me in the least. And I’m moved house, places you used to go aren’t That’s very kind, but I really haven’t got time sure you’ll be back behind bars very shortly. there anymore. What your children are doing Prisoner Adjudications for a coffee. I need to get back with the bras. Over here, officer! is different. IPP & Lifer Parole No, what I meant was bra cup size. For HDC example, 36B or 36C. Last week I tried to talk to my daughter on the Sentence Calculations Oh, I see. 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an example of holiness and ethical behaviour • 9 April sunset - 11 April nightfall - Passover to the rest of the world. (Pesach) • 23 May At termination of Sabbath - 25 May The main beliefs and principles of Judaism are: nightfall - Pentecost (Shavuot) • God is One. • 13 September sunset -15 September nightfall • God created the world as is recorded in the - New Year (Rosh Hashanah) first chapter of Genesis. • 22 September sunset - 23 September • God gave the Torah to the Jewish people to nightfall - Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) study and to uphold. (Day of fast)) • The Jewish religion is based on the laws • 27 September sunset - 29 September contained in the Torah as expounded in the nightfall - Tabernacles (Sukkot) (includes Oral Law (Talmud) and Codes of Jewish Law. Sabbath) • The Sabbath and festivals are days of • 4 October sunset - 6 October nightfall - holiness when all weekday activity is forbidden. Rejoicing of the Law • The Jewish dietary laws are a major aspect of Judaism religious observance. As well as Kosher food, Jewish prisoners • Marriage is a holy act and sexual relations observing the Day of Atonement and Feast of outside marriage are strictly forbidden. the Passover are entitled to special meals and • The law of the land is sacrosanct and Jews these are defined in the Prison Catering must at all times be law-abiding citizens and Manual section 3.22. must train their children accordingly. © Fotolia.com • Acting with kindness, compassion and PSI 2011-051 defines what religious artefacts respect towards all people, particularly the prisoners can have in possession: Jewish elderly and vulnerable, regardless of their prisoners may have a copy of the Torah, cultural, religious or ethnic origin is a strict prayer books (Siddur), prayer cap (yarmulkah requirement of Judaism. or kippah), prayer shawl (talith), Tefillin (Phy- • This world is a preliminary to the hereafter lacteries - two strap-on leather boxes enclosing Judaism and all good deeds performed whilst on earth parchment sections of the scriptures), Tzitzit will ultimately be rewarded by God. (four cornered garment with wool fringes attached), and religious study texts and edu- The Jewish Sabbath (Shabbath) starts at sunset cational material. Inside Time’s Paul Sullivan looks on Friday and there are many restrictions regarding work and other activities which also Prison Rules 13 to 19 cover a prisoner’s right at world religions and faiths. This apply to other main festivals. Jewish prisoners to observe the religion of his/her choice. If a should not be expected to travel on their prisoner wishes to follow a particular religion Sabbath. they must register this by application to the month he focuses on Judaism prison. If you do not have a Jewish faith leader The actual religion of Judaism was founded by Judaism to name a few. The Prison Service accept Judaism and Jews at your prison you can ask the governor to Moses over 3,500 years ago in the Middle East are excused regime activities on their Sabbath. arrange regular visits from an appropriate but Jews actually trace their history back to Jews believe that there is a single God who Orthodox Jews pray three times a day and this ‘minister’ (Rule 15). Abraham. There are about 13 million Jewish not only created the universe but continues to can be done in-cell. Other than a Prayer Cap people in the World, with around 270,000 in work in the world; they believe every Jew can there is no special dress required. the UK classifying themselves as Jewish. have an individual and personal relationship For more information about Judaism prisoners with God. The Torah is the Jewish holy book For 2015 the Prison Service excused regime may write to: There are many subdivisions of Judaism and which contains the five books of Moses. activities for Jewish prisoners for the following Rev Michael Binstock MBE (Member of each has its own customs and rites. These festivals: Chaplaincy Council) divisions include Conservative Judaism, Liberal Appointed to be God’s chosen people, Jews • 3 April sunset to 5 April nightfall- Passover Visitation Committee, United Synagogue, Judaism, Orthodox Judaism and Reform believe that they must follow His laws and set (Pesach) 305 Ballards Lane, London N12 8GB

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the trusted employee had done a runner and taken with him essential records and other items leaving his boss with one awful mess to clear up. That made me feel sick in the From over the wall stomach. Not only did I feel sorry for the owner of the business but also for the idiot who once again had demonstrated that he Terry Waite writes his monthly column for Inside Time simply could not be trusted. The havoc he has caused is one thing, but he has not only harmed himself and those for whom he worked, he has harmed all of us. He has added volume to the voices of those who say [and there are many] that once a con always Terry Waite CBE a con. The ‘I told you so’ brigade will have a field day and I can understand that. He has certainly made my job harder because its have often written in this column made me question my own judgment. I about my frustrations with the Prison thought the man had put the past in the past System as it is and there is no doubt in and was now prepared to settle down into a my mind that it needs a good shake steady way of life. Obviously I was mistaken. up. So far it looks as though Mr IMichael Gove is set on making some There are some pretty clever con artists in improvements and one can only hope that our jails who will tell the most outrageous he succeeds. However, to be fair, it is not lies and will be prepared to knock their own only prison administrators and politicians grandmother on the head for sixpence. We who need to smarten up. Prisoners and ex- all know that. But how do you judge? It’s all prisoners need to get their act together also. very well complaining about the difficulties of getting back into normal life, but when Having worked for some 50 years with ex- one man or woman breaks trust in the way I offenders, I know as well as anyone how have described the repercussions are vast difficult it can be to help individuals who and they affect all of us. Yes, I know, there have fallen foul of the law get back on their are many who have learned their lesson the feet and return to mainstream life as law- “ Not only did I feel sorry for the owner of the hard way and have gone on to make a abiding citizens. There are some individuals success of life. But one bad apple has an who, without a doubt, are their own worst business but also for the idiot who once again had effect far beyond its size. It’s not easy to enemies and try as one might there is no serve time. That I know. But believe you me assisting them. I am not thinking here of demonstrated that he simply could not be trusted ” it’s not easy on the outside for those who do those unfortunates who suffer from some their level best to help ex-offenders. It’s form of mental illness but more of those who damn hard and today I feel badly let down. simply do not know what it is to go straight phoned a good friend of mine. I won’t say the takings. Eventually he was caught and did and make a decent life for themselves and what line of business he is in as I want to time for the offence. My friend, who is no their families. I firmly believe that everyone protect his privacy. What I will say is that he is fool, decided to give him a chance and after a should be given a fair chance in life but what a thoroughly decent man and does not time took him back on. For two or three years Terry Waite was a successful hostage do you do when you have put that into deserve to be treated as he has been. In a few he worked well and became a fully trusted negotiator before he himself was held practice and are let down not only once but words this is the story. employee once again. captive in Beirut between 1987 and 1991 twice by the same individual? (more than 20 years ago). He was held He runs a small business and, some years ago, This morning, when I phoned to make an captive for 1763 days; the first four years I am writing this as only this morning I one of his trusted employees made off with appointment with the business, I learned that of which were spent in solitary confinement.

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Meditation is something almost every- Arranging your body one has heard of. Most people who If you can find the right sitting position - com- Chair meditate say they sleep better, and wor- fortable, stable and upright - you are 95% of ry less. Others say that their thinking the way to getting the hang of meditation. Absolutely fine to sit on a chair! Sit up straight towards isn’t such a problem anymore and that Take ten minutes or so to experiment with the the front of the seat; don’t lean on the back. Have your they’re not as depressed. Some people positions in the pictures. Once you’ve found a feet firmly planted on the floor (prop them up if they experience a radical shift in how they position, make sure your back is upright and don’t reach the floor). see themselves, and the world, where truly relaxed. Sit on at least four inches of everyday events around them are much support; if you try to sit directly on the floor the same as ever, but they themselves with nothing under you, some of your back have learned to let go a little (or a lot). muscles will start to ache as they work unnec- Attention with the breath essarily to keep you from falling backwards or They say they wake up to life, and it be- slumping. So sit on a couple of thick books, a Take three deep long breaths then start to comes a lot more interesting, because folded pillow or anything you can find. That breathe normally in and out through the nose. they’ve learned to step out of the way way, the backbones can stack up correctly, al- Count the breaths silently to yourself: in 1, out and let it happen. It’s hard to get started lowing the back muscles to be relaxed. 2, in 3, out 4 and so on, up to 10, and then start if you’re doing it alone, which is why we from 1 again. If you lose count, it doesn’t l Keep your neck long, with the chin not matter. Just come back to 1 and keep going. put this piece together, and why we of- pointing up or down. How much and when? fer to write to people in prison about Keep going like this for five minutes to begin l Keep your eyes open, gazing down past your Meditation works when it’s practised every their meditation. with. That’s all there is to the practice. It is as nose, to a spot on the floor in front of you. day. Some prisoners tell us that they meditate simple as that! As you are counting your for several hours each day. Others might do breaths, some thinking may be going on in five minutes in the morning when they wake your mind, and it is tempting to follow your up, and five before they go to sleep. If you thoughts. This happens to us all. It is what can manage to work up to 25 minutes, that’s Full Lotus minds do. They wander and think and worry good. Might be difficult at first, but it’s a good, and plan. That’s fine. It is also possible for the stable position. Put your right foot on your mind to be still and focussed. This is also what Final tip: See if you can let go of trying to get left thigh, then your left foot on your right minds do. And actually, you’ll find that your anywhere with meditation. Don’t try to do thigh. Switch sides each time you sit. mind really enjoys being stiller. So when your anything. Keep returning your attention to attention wanders off from the breath, don’t your breath when it wanders, and know that worry. Just let it return very gently without the time and energy you put in will lead any thought, back to the breath. You might somewhere, but don’t try to be anything oth- have to do a lot of this returning. That too is er than exactly how you are. We’d love to normal. Keep with it, without judging yourself. know how you’re doing.

Half Lotus • Criminal Defence and Appeals Easier than full lotus. Pull your right foot in Specialising in all areas of criminal law, from minor close to your body and then place your left offences to serious crimes - Murder, Fraud, foot on your right thigh. Switch sides each Conspiracy to Defraud, Confiscation Proceedings time you sit. Appeals, Variation and Discharge of Restraint Order and Money Laundering • Immigration and Nationality Law Comprehensive solutions to immigration and British nationality issues. • Family Law Divorce - sound advice about your rights and the options available We cover the London area and all of the UK on serious matters. Burmese If you want a free book and CD to help you A way of sitting with both legs bent and set up a regular yoga and meditation Please contact Anthony Mordi or parallel in front of you, both ankles on the practice write to: The Prison Phoenix Trust, Michael Okogwu floor. PO Box 328, Oxford OX2 7HF. The Prison Phoenix Trust supports prisoners and Mordi & Co Solicitors prison officers in their spiritual lives First Floor 402 Holloway Road through meditation and yoga, working London, N7 6PZ with silence and the breath. The Trust supports people of any religion or none. Tel: (020) 7619 96 66 We also run weekly yoga classes for 24 Hour Emergency: 07904 953 427 inmates and prison staff. Insidetime September 2015 40 Education www.insidetime.org

He then told them about how he ended up in standing now. We can relate to one another.” prison, and encouraged the group to use edu- I said “You may not write a book, do fitness or cation to help them gain qualifications like he set up a business, but make the most out of did, he says it was a course he studied, as well your time in jail and achieve something. I told as practice in the gym that helped him come them about the interview I went to with Vir- up with a business model. He said: “I had the gin Active, when I disclosed my conviction idea, the concept for the book in prison, I and the manager said he would take a chance thought when you’re in 22 hour bang up, on me. I worked there for two years as a per- there’s a definite need for this. The Cell Work- sonal trainer and worked round the clock to out offers body weight training in a confined finish my book off when I didn’t have clients.” space. I used my imagination to start putting it together inside, I couldn’t find anything I Since publishing the book earlier this year, L.J was looking for in the library, so I had to bide hasn’t looked back. He says: “I’m really enjoy- my time until I got out and could use the in- ing my fitness career and I’m still learning ternet for research. Once I had the exercises, about running my own business, how many I wanted to break it down into muscle groups, books to buy, cost of printing per copy, how I wanted it to be educational and help people to promote it etc. I’m currently looking for- learn how to train towards what they want to ward to the future working on Volumes 2 and achieve.” 3 and releasing my own sportswear range. I hope all my hard work will pay off.”

His self-study exercise book is aimed to help people get fit on their own and was written with prisoners in mind but can be used by anyone. Written in simple, plain English, with pictures on every page and a glossy finish, L.J says visuals were important because as he is dyslexic he finds it easier to read that way, “I Cell Workout catered for myself and wrote it so it could ap- peal to everyone, I didn’t want it to be too an interview with the author L J began working towards a career in fitness scientific. I designed the logo, the front cover, after studying a personal training course of- I drew everything and gave it to a graphic de- fered by City and Guilds, which gave him the signer to replicate the visuals.” J Flanders was sitting in his cell in qualifications he needed to get a job at Virgin HMP Pentonville when he had a Active after he was released, “If I hadn’t had L J adds: “I want to give a massive thank you light bulb moment. He was going taken on that course I never would have got a to the librarian Neil Barclay, he has been so to write a book to help people get job, written the book or set up my own business.” supportive, he’s helped get my book on the fit. Three years on, that dream has canteen sheet and brought me in for a visit becomeL a reality and copies of Cell Workout and he also deserves a big thanks for what he But whilst he was motivated on his career are flying off Amazon’s virtual bookshelves. goals, he explained the difficulties of staying has done in the library at Thameside, and for everyone in prison.” On a sunny Saturday in August, the author focused and leading a normal life after leaving went back inside but this time he walked prison. He says: “The main thing is the dis- L J is currently working with the prison service through the staff entrance to HMP Thame- tractions, in jail you can’t do anything for side and was escorted to the library, where he yourself and when you come out you have to to get the book approved so it can be availa- addressed a group of 15 prisoners about how do everything, but I stuck at it. I haven’t ble across prisons but if readers would like a he reached his goals, both physically and pro- stopped since I got out because when I was in copy now, family members and friends can fessionally. L J wanted to start with something there I was climbing the walls, but hard work buy it online from Amazon or they can visit: active to break the ice: “When I first arrived, I pays off. I said to them I’ve been where you’re www.cell-workout.com thought I’d take them through my training programme to get everyone engaged so I did a 10 minute workout. I really pushed them, it If you would like advice or funding to study a distance learning course or tell us is High Intensity Training, burpees etc, a few about your experiences of prison education - write to FREEPOST Prisoners’ of them were really knackered so I knew it Education Trust (PET) or call 0203 752 5680. was definitely working” he says.

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Advertorial Fashion classes Life changing learning for Holloway’s at the Open University

has now been released and is pursuing a ca- reer in drugs and alcohol counselling. Women’s Institute ...... Last year, in May, Rob walked across the Mirriam, a Women’s Institute member at stage at an Open University Degree cere- mony to be presented as a graduate with a HMP Holloway, writes about the importance BA (Hons)(Open) having already completed of the WI network as it marks its 100th an- two Higher Education certificates. He’s still a serving prisoner but has week- niversary year end leave and time out of the prison, during the week, to study – and on this occasion to embers of the Women’s In- were ushered into the workshop to have some receive his degree. He was accompanied by stitute around the country hands on experience and we produced a mix- a member of HMPS staff who acted as his made their way to the Royal ture of quirky and elaborate pieces. At this helper because he also has a disability. Albert Hall to join the Queen month’s meeting, one of the inmates who Rob achieved his degree in six years and is in the celebrations of its 100 works in the Fashion Workshop took to the currently registered to study a Master of Arts. Myears anniversary, turning up in their best stage and gave us a quick demo of how to frocks and hats – no doubt to impress the make flowers out of fabric. This can then be ...... monarch! Alas, here at Holloway, we laboured used to decorate otherwise drab looking head Sean was convicted of a drug related offence. towards keeping matters reasonably sedate at bands, corsages, broaches etc. Again we were Although this was his first conviction, it our monthly Friday afternoon WI meeting, given the opportunity to have a go among © prisonimage.org was serious enough to warrant a long cus- held in the Resettlement Area of the prison. friendly and relaxed company. One could al- todial sentence. most forget that we were women in prison. Open University working with prisoners in the Following on from the previous month’s education department at HMP Featherstone. Knowing he faced at least eight years inside, theme, which had been presented by the The impact of WI in a place like Holloway is it seemed worthwhile for him to concentrate wonderful lady who Heads the Fashion Work- truly profound. Practical skills as those I de- his efforts on self-development. He says his elivering Higher Education to focus became education. Sean completed shop, we learned that one can make some- scribe above are being imparted within the students in prisons and secure his first module with the Open University thing out of anything… literally! We were confines of a happy and non-judgemental at- environments is key to the in 2004 and his first degree in 2008. shown some exquisitely crafted bracelets and mosphere. The difference that this makes is chokers made out of brightly coloured leather. OU’s mission ‘to be open to incalculable. Long live WI... He recalls often being asked by both prison They were all beautiful. And after our tea, we people, places, methods and Dideas’ and our modules and qualifications have staff and peers what he planned to do after been studied in prisons for the past 40 years. his studies given that a criminal conviction is a bar to most types of employment. Ad- ‘Prison education can tackle In the last twenty years we’ve awarded al- mittedly, at the time he said he did not most three hundred and thirty undergradu- know. What he said he did know was that ate honours degrees, almost two hundred the process of learning in itself provides ben- reoffending from the inside out’ ordinary degrees, and thirty three taught efits which include improving self-esteem Masters Degrees as well as hundreds of and self-confidence, opportunities to network In one of his first speeches, new Justice Secretary Michael Gove called for radical improvements Certificates and Diplomas of Higher Educa- and meet new people, participation in a pos- in educational opportunities for prisoners. tion to students in prisons, secure units and itive and rewarding activity, and perhaps, studying whilst released on licence. employment. Now the managing director of City & Guilds, Kirstie Donnelly, has joined the debate, agreeing with Mr Gove and says it’s not about the cost of providing the education but the cost of not And these are only the ones we know about! Sean is now in paid employment working providing it. She says that, like all reforms, there is no quick fix, but education within prisons Many more students have continued to half the week as a Programme Manager for must include training for work that actually exists outside prison. study post release and received their quali- a charity led and delivered by ex-offenders fications at one of the many Degree cere- and the other half for a large UK University She said; ‘As a country, it’s time we committed to understanding and improving offender learn- monies the Open University holds through- which has just accepted his application to ing to equip prisoners with skills that come with real, lifelong benefits. Boosting prison educa- out the United Kingdom. study part-time for a PhD. tion isn’t going to eliminate crime, but there is no question it can reduce reoffending and give Here are the stories (only the names have people hope. We have to give ex-offenders the opportunity to make a life for themselves on the We would love to tell your story in a future been changed) of some of the lives that outside, and turn their lives around for good.’ issue of Inside Time. You can start at intro- Open University study has changed: ductory level with an Open University Ac- cess Module. Funding for Access modules is Interested in a career ...... Do you desire to know more available (subject to eligibility) from PET. Or in PLUMBING? Mel was given a life sentence as a teenager if you’re ready to begin your Degree post of God and His Word? Then get the theory and was ordered to serve at least 15 years Access level you’ll find all our accessible knowledge you need with This correspondence course is for you! in prison. She hadn’t finished school and modules and qualifications in the Open LEARN PLUMBING studied for A levels whilst in prison before Our courses start with the basics and cover University Guide for Learners in prison she began her Open University studies 2015/16. Ask your National Careers Service We offer 10 Christian courses each the theory knowledge that a when she was 20 starting with a 10 credit with 6 to 14 lessons. If transferred Trained Plumber (NVQ Level 2) or contact or Education Manager for details. Advanced Plumber (NVQ Level 3) point Openings module. or released you can continue your is expected to have… Five years ago she received a special award studies. The Bible-based courses • Enrol at any time, work at your own pace; fit from the Open University as the student the learning into your life. are provided free of charge. who in the opinion of a panel of senior • Our courses are suitable for you, even if you are transferred to another prison. Open University staff has “travelled the For an enrolment form, write to us: greatest distance” in their student journey. • Many prisoners studying our courses receive Crossroad Bible Institute, full funding, talk to your Education Officer or Mel achieved a BSc (Honours) upper sec- Distance Learning Co-ordinator about enrolling. ond class degree in Social Sciences and Psy- PO Box 53158, London E18 9AU chology four years ago and a High Court Or for further information write to Brian Curry at: judge reduced her minimum term because Learn Plumbing, 21 Cranbourne Road, of her ‘exceptional progress’ in prison. She Ashton under Lyne, OL7 9BH Insidetime September 2015 42 Legal www.insidetime.org Why did the government cover up child abuse by ministers and members of government?

l Do remember though, that when these types Peter Garsden of allegations started to become a national Senior Partner, Quality scandal in the early 1990’s - particularly the Solicitors Abney Garsden Frank Beck case in Leicestershire (now related to Janner), many members of public found it very hard to believe to be true. I can bear he recent revelation of papers testimony to this as I started dealing with child found in a box marked “Cabinet abuse work in 1994. Secretary Miscellaneous Papers” l So the public reaction to someone saying which shows that there was a cover that a well-known member of government had up of allegations of child abuse is been interfering with small boys in 1990 would not surprising to me, not only because I have T probably have been one of disbelief. It is thus been hearing anecdotal allegations against not surprising that a senior MI5 officer might senior public figures since at least 1997, but also also not have believed it was true. because in the past we lived in a different age. l There are countless examples in the chil- A letter written in 1986 by Sir Anthony Duff, dren’s homes cases that we have dealt with followed an inquiry into an MP alleged to have over the years of members of staff refusing to a “penchant for small boys.” Sir Anthony had believe complaints by boys that another care apparently spoken to the errant MP, who © Fotolia.com worker was sexually abusing him. Thus the denied the allegations. Rather than the allega- same sort of scandal is prevalent in a non- tions being referred to the police, Sir Anthony famous, non-celebrity setting. apparently accepted the denial and did not So is it surprising to read about such an attitude eroded over the years. There are now legal pursue it further. within government departments? challenges into the way in which certain tribunals involving allegations against terror- Peter is the senior partner at QualitySo- l licitors Abney Garsden. He is Head of the The letter from Sir Anthony Duff to Sir Robert Through the eyes of 2015, it is shocking that ists are to be conducted with decisions of the Child Abuse Department which he set up Armstrong added: “At the present stage … the criminal prosecutions could be stopped Supreme Court coming into play. through the old boys network, and pressure in 1994 and is now the largest dedicated risks of political embarrassment to the govern- l Looked at through the eyes of today, clearly being applied by government. It appears to be Abuse compensation department in the ment is rather greater than the security danger.” the Official Secrets Act and threats to National tantamount to corruption. country. Peter was recently awarded Legal Security was misused and stretched unreason- Aid Lawyer of the Year at the Manchester This letter had not been found when Sir Peter ably to prevent serious allegations of child l As recently as 1997 it was a different world Legal Awards. Wanless and barrister Richard Whittam did abuse against an individual. their review. In very guarded language on where there was a lot more secrecy surround- Radio 4 Today programme, Sir Peter was loath ing the operation of government. The Data to allege a cover up. He simply commented Protection Act 1998, and the Freedom of Infor- that the reputation of public figures and gov- mation Act 2000 had not been enacted. ernment departments was given a greater l It was only in the late part of the 1980’s priority than the allegations of abuse by (1987) that the Access to Personal Files Act children - a stark and surprising revelation gave children in care access to their personal files. through the eyes of 2015. l In living memory was the Cold War, the Second World War, and the danger of “national There are yet further documents which have security” being in peril should government been found which concern Peter Morrison, CHILD become destabilised. Thus the fear was that, if Peter Hayman and William van Straubenzee. there was a scandal about the way in which a government minister had interfered with small Wanless found that a number of documents boys, it could provoke riots, at worst, or the were “missing”, and could not rule out the collapse of the system of government. possibility that they had been “non-acciden- tally” destroyed, but there was no evidence of l We still have the Official Secrets Act, which ABUSE this. What we don’t know are the circum- protects certain types of information from Helping victims rebuild their lives since 1994. stances surrounding the documents going public knowledge, but the way in which it can missing - something, no doubt, that the Goddard be invoked, and its scope has definitely been Helping you achieve justice for the abuse Our dedicated team of specialist, legal experts inquiry will look into. Certainly the whole you suffered. have a proven track record in handling contents of the box of papers has been passed We have been helping abuse victims claim child abuse claims and can help you if you have been the victim of sexual, physical or to the inquiry to consider. Examine the evidence:- their legal rights for over 15 years. emotional abuse in childhood. The law allows people to make claims l Allegations against Lord Janner never pursued for compensation even if the abuse they In 2013 we secured nearly three quarters of a million pounds in compensation for our clients. in the 1990’s and 2000’s on 4 occasions. CPS Specialists in Family suffered took place many years ago. have admitted that they made mistakes. Was We also deal with cases against children’s Speak to one of our specialist male or female there any involvement by government? & Financial Disputes homes, other institutions and social services solicitors in complete confidence. • Confiscation Proceedings for lack of care. • Prison visits • Legal Aid available l Cyril Smith not prosecuted after the Metro- • Complete confidentiality politan Police were “leaned on” by a mysteri- • Matrimonial Proceedings ous figure from government. Was this an MI5 • Cohabitee disputes officer? There is circumstantial evidence now • Property disputes QualitySolicitors in view of the above. • Child maintenance disputes Abney Garsden • Care Proceedings l claimed to have “friends” in • Children Disputes high places, particularly amongst the Leeds Police Force. I have read his police statement Offices in Barking, Romford, Grays and Kentish Town Changing the way you see lawyers. in which he threatened the police with legal In the first instance please contact us at: 0845 604 7075 [email protected] 102 - 106 South Street, action should they have the temerity to take 37 Station Road, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, SK8 5AF their Duncroft school allegations further. He Romford, ESSEX RM1 1RX implied that he had friends in high places. Tel: 01708 766155 www.abuselaw.co.uk Insidetime September 2015 www.insidetime.org Legal 43

Advertorial Unfair evidence and the right to a fair trial

evidence has been obtained in bad faith. The David Wells following are merely examples of circum- Senior Partner, stances which could fall within the remit of Wells Burcombe Solicitors Section 78: l Oppressive or aggressive questioning by the police; rticle 6 of the European Conven- l Evidence obtained in breach of the PACE tion on Human Rights provides all Codes of Conduct; persons with the right to a fair l Evidence obtained in the absence of an appro- trial. Fairness is at the heart of all priate adult (if the accused was entitled to one); criminal proceedings. Sometimes, l Evidence obtained through an unlawful search; Ahowever, prosecutions seek to introduce inher- l Evidence obtained by trickery, or by deception; ently “unfair” evidence into the criminal process. l Breaches of the European Convention on When the Judge allows such evidence to be used, Segregation Human Rights; it is often difficult to challenge. This creates l Breaches of the Codes of Practice issued obvious unfairness and can have devastating under PACE; consequences on the prospect of an acquittal. l Bad faith on the part of the police. Solicitor Abigail Fogg reports on recent This article will explain what the legal definition However, Section 78 can also be used as a general changes to the law on solitary confinement of unfair evidence is, what should be done in non-specific safeguard against unfairness and the course of a criminal trial to exclude that evidence, is an argument often relied upon by the defence and confusion to hallucinations and psychosis and finally, what can be done if you have been to seek to exclude all sorts of evidence including Abigail Fogg has been documented. Negative health effects convicted on the basis of unfair evidence. bad character and hearsay evidence. Duncan Lewis Solicitors can occur after only a few days in solitary con- finement, and the health risks rise with each What is “unfair” evidence? When in criminal proceedings does Section additional day spent in such conditions.” Lord Lane C.J. in the case of R v Quinn Crim L.R. 581 78 apply? egregation is supposed to be the last stated the following in relation to criminal trials: Applications to exclude unfair evidence have been resort. It should only be used as a In a further UN report it was warned that: made in relation to a wide range of evidential short term punishment (maximum “...The function of the judge is therefore to material. That material could include confes- 14 days after an adjudication) or as a “some of the harmful psychological effects of protect the fairness of the proceedings, and sions, identification evidence, or alibi notices. short term measure to ensure the isolation can become irreversible.” normally proceedings are fair if... all relevant safetyS of prisoners and prison staff. evidence [is heard] which either side wishes to How is unfair evidence excluded? The Supreme Court made a significant ruling place before the court, but proceedings may Usually, the Defence will make an application However, segregation has been increasingly recently in the case of Bourgass that segrega- become unfair if, for example, one side is in court to the trial judge in the absence of the used as a long term measure to avoid difficult tion that continued after 72 hours must be allowed to adduce relevant evidence which, jury stating the reasons why certain ‘evidence’ decisions in complex circumstances. approved by the Secretary of State and not the for one reason or another, the other side should not be admitted. The application is Governor of the prison. cannot properly challenge or meet.” usually made just before the evidence is due to Prisoners who are held in segregation are often be put before the jury. The Prosecution may isolated in cells for up to 23 and a half hours a The ruling stated that prisoners must be given Unfair evidence deprives the Defence of being respond. It is then up to the trial judge whether day. This prevents them accessing education, valid reasons for them being moved to segre- in a position to properly scrutinize what is or not to allow the evidence. employment, offender behaviour courses and gation and given the chance to put forward being introduced. Miscarriages of justice can from pursuing their rehabilitation programme. representations to move back to the ordinary occur. Unfair evidence can come in a variety of Can the admission of unfair evidence wings. In the cases where prisoners cannot be forms but incorporates anything which on the amount to a ground of appeal? The use of long term segregation has been given the full reasons for segregation due to face of it deprives a defendant of a fair trial. The test that the Court of Appeal applies in deciding steadily increasing as there have been cuts to security reasons they must be given the ‘gist’ of whether or not to allow an appeal is whether or prison staff to deal with complex situations. the reasons and allowed to respond accordingly. Discretion to exclude unfair evidence not the conviction is “unsafe”. This is an excep- Sadly, there has also been an alarming increase Fortunately, there is a safeguard against unfair- tionally high threshold, however, the Court of in depression, self-harm and suicides in prisons. The prison must consider all alternative ness in all criminal proceedings. Section 78 of Appeal has previously allowed appeals on the measures before resorting to segregation. the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 basis that unfair evidence was wrongly put Nelson Mandela was famously held in solitary These measures are to include transfers to (“PACE”) provides the Court with a discretion before the jury. Importantly, to succeed as a confinement for many years. This was largely other wings, to another prison, to a CSC, or to a to exclude any Prosecution evidence if: ground of appeal, the admission of that evidence because the prison feared the ‘influences’ he Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder must have had an impact on the jury’s verdict. was having on other prisoners. He experienced Unit; or closer supervision on normal location, “…it appears to the court that, having regard great hardships including hard labour in a which might include constant CCTV observa- to all the circumstances, including the circum- David Wells (Wells Burcombe) & Rebecca quarry, but he considered solitary confine- tion, and resort to powers to use physical force stances in which the evidence was obtained, the Broadbent (Barrister) ment to be the worst: so far as necessary; or the use of an incentives admission of the evidence would have such and earned privileges scheme. an adverse effect on the fairness of the pro- “I found solitary confinement the most forbid- ceedings that the court ought not to admit it.” ding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no The ruling sent a loud message that long term beginning; there is only one’s mind, which can segregation can only be used in rare and The key consideration is whether admitting a begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it extreme circumstances and cannot be relied certain piece of evidence into the proceedings really happen? One begins to question every- upon as a measure to keep good order and dis- would render those proceedings as a whole Specialists in: Appeals against Conviction & thing? cipline at prisons. unfair. This is a two-stage test. It is not always enough to demonstrate that the circumstances Sentence, CCRC, IPP Appeals and Parole, Prison The effects of long term segregation on mental The case follows global concern that segrega- under which the evidence was obtained was Adjudications & Discipline, Criminal Investiga- health are well known. The Istanbul Statement tion or solitary confinement amounts to unfair. The test usually will only be satisfied if in tions, Confiscation & POCA proceedings. on the Use and Effects of Solitary Confine- degrading inhumane treatment and in some addition to the circumstances being unfair, ment, adopted on 9 December 2007. said the cases torture. The UN has issued new guide- admitting the evidence would have an adverse For advice and assistance anywhere in England following: lines to set new international standards for impact on the fairness of the proceedings. & Wales, either in person or via video link, treatment of prisoners which include limits on please call or head office:5 Holywell Hill, St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL1 1EU “solitary confinement may cause serious psy- solitary confinement. They have indicated that What types of circumstances could be con- chological and sometimes physiological ill any period past 14 days can only be justified in sidered unfair? effects. Research suggests that between one third rare and extreme circumstances and cannot Section 78 will usually be invoked to exclude and as many as 90% of prisoners experience be the norm. These new guidelines are being evidence which has been obtained by an Telephone: 01727 840900 adverse symptoms in solitary confinement. A called the ‘Mandela rules’ which shows that improper act on the part of the police, or if 24hr Emergency Number: 07592 034170 long list of symptoms ranging from insomnia his legacy continues in prisons today. Insidetime September 2015 44 Legal www.insidetime.org

are experiencing difficulties as a result of this, a prison law solicitor may be able to assist you Release on Temporary in attempting to overcome this apparent ‘catch 22’ situation. Although unfortunately this is not presently an area of work that attracts Legal Aid. If you are offender in your Parole process then this may be something that a Licence… What has changed? solicitor can give assistance about.

What is the difference between Restricted ROTL. Resettlement Day Release (RDR) and Standard ROTLs? Emma Davies Partner All prisoners are entitled to be considered for Such release is for offenders to undertake One of the main differences between Standard Nicola Blackburn Prison Law ROTL save for:- activities that are linked to objectives in their ROTL and Restricted ROTL is the application process. The stringency of considering ROTL Hine Solicitors l Category A offenders (adult males) or restricted sentence plans. Such as paid and unpaid work status offenders (adult females/young offenders); placements, training and education, maintain applications for prisoners who would be considered for restricted ROTL is essentially as follows: l Offenders on the escape list; family ties or other activities linked to an elease on Temporary Licence l Offenders who are subject to extradition offender’s sentence plan. (ROTL) has played an important l the decision must be made by the governing proceedings; role in public protection by Resettlement Overnight Release (ROR) or deputy governor; l Remand and convicted unsentenced offenders; allowing risk management plans This is to enable offenders to participate in l the board must be chaired by a senior l Sentenced offenders who are remanded for for offenders to be tested in the overnight release and spend time at their manager deemed competent for the task by further charges or further sentencing; and communityR under strict conditions before they release address re-establishing links with the governor; are released. The procedure for ROTLs, who is l Offenders held on behalf of the Interna- family and the local community. l the offender supervisor must be probation entitled to them and when, is contained in the tional Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugo- qualified; relatively new Prison Service Instrument slavia (ICTY), the Special Court for Sierra Leone Special Purpose Licence (SPL) l the board must have a record of the views of 13/2015. This article looks into the new “two (SCSL) or the International Criminal Court (ICC). This is a short duration temporary release, the offender manager; tier” ROTL system and what this could mean often at short notice, that allows eligible l the board must have before it an indication for indeterminate sentenced prisoners. Offenders who have a history of escape, abscond offenders to respond to exceptional personal of whether the victim of the index offence has or serious ROTL failure during their current circumstances, such as medical treatment or made any representations in relation to the What is ROTL? sentence may no longer be deemed eligible for compassionate release to visit dying relatives release, including any request for conditions Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) is the ROTL unless it can be argued that there are or other tragic personal circumstances. to be attached to the release; mechanism by which offenders may undertake exceptional circumstances that mean they should. l the board must have available the EBM case activities in the community that are necessary What has changed? and/or which cannot be facilitated within In addition, Category B offenders are not file review; In 2013 and 2014 there were a series of reports l where the offender has been managed prison. ROTLs will generally take place eligible to be considered for Resettlement Day of serious offending and abscond of offenders towards the end of an offender’s sentence and or Overnight release. under EBM, the board must have available any who had been released on temporary licence. information from the EBM monitoring process. are to be used for rehabilitative purposes. As a result a review was commissioned to look What types of ROTLs are there? at the current set-up of ROTLs and the procedure Another main difference in terms of imple- Who is entitled to ROTL? There are numerous types of ROTLs that can for granting these. The review recommended mentation is that at least the first three Reset- The new provisions clearly state that there is be applied for and examples of the most not only to increase the stringency of ROTLs, tlement Day Releases for restricted ROTLs no presumption that an offender is entitled to common are listed here: but also to ensure they were granted with must be supervised or accompanied. greater consistency. Prison Service Instrument 13/2015 was issued in an attempt to do this. Whilst this process is in its early days, offenders, particularly those serving an inde- There is now a two tier approach to ROTL. More serious and high risk offenders are only terminate sentence, may find themselves considered under a new Restricted ROTL struggling to progress applications for ROTL in regime. Indeterminate sentence prisoners, all a reasonable timeframe for the following reasons: offenders subject to MAPPA and any offender assessed as high or very high risk are subject to l If considered suitable for the Enhanced Restricted ROTL. Standard ROTL will apply to Behavioural Monitoring arrangements, the all determinate prisoners who pose no higher prisoner will then require additional supervi- than medium risk of serious harm and who are sion and psychological input into their case. not eligible for MAPPA. Standard ROTL will Such resources will of course take time to find essentially operate as ROTLs did before the and implement, potentially causing delays. change in procedure. l The extra information required before a restricted ROTL application can be considered Restricted ROTLs (as above) is greater than for standard ROTL. On arrival to an open prison, all Restricted Ensuring all the relevant information is ROTL cases will be considered for inclusion in properly obtained may take time. the Enhanced Behaviour Monitoring (EBM) l Whilst supervised release is still release, the Our open, friendly solicitors working arrangements. These arrangements provide Parole Board will of course be far more inter- in Criminal Defence will help you with all enhanced monitoring and this is meant to be ested in the prisoner demonstrating trustwor- done in collaboration with the offender to thiness and manageability in the community, aspects of Prison Law including: assist in their understanding of managing their which will really only come from unescorted Licence recall • Adjudications own offence related risks more effectively. leave. If a minimum of the first three leaves Parole hearings • IPP queries therefore have to be escorted, indeterminate The process includes a review by a psycholo- prisoners will likely need further time to Judicial review • Sentence planning issues gist to see whether the offender would benefit acquire a sufficient number of independent from an increased level of supervision or man- leaves prior to a Parole Board review or oral agement throughout their time in open condi- hearing. Call us on 01865 518971 tions. This information will then be fed back into a review of OASys and the resulting assess- If you are an indeterminate sentenced prisoner or visit www.hinesolicitors.com ment and risk management information will be approaching your Parole review and are expe- fed into the Restricted ROTL application process. riencing difficulties due to the new ROTL pro- visions, consider speaking with a prison law Further guidance was meant to be issued on solicitor to see if anything can be done to assist the Enhanced Behaviour Monitoring arrange- you. You should be able to access PSI 13/2015 Oxford Freepost address ments and how it will work in practice. FREEPOST RTHU - LEKE - HAZR within the prison library which will give you However, it is yet to be published. 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Advertorial Disclosure security arrangements for the viewing and storage of The area of disclosure has always been the most con- this sensitive material and refused to obey the order, tentious area of criminal litigation and most of the the indictment was stayed; R v LR [2010] 2 Cr. App. R Abuse of Process great miscarriage of justice cases have turned on 9, CA. The Lord Chief Justice noted that there will be failures to disclose by the prosecution. The House of cases, even were the defendant is in custody, where Lords laid down final and conclusive guidance on dis- the prosecution will have to provide the material on When will a Judge throw a case out of Court closure and Public Interest Immunity applications in CD so it can be examined by the defendant with his the case R v H & C [2004] 2 AC 134 (the authors repre- lawyers in prison with undertakings by the lawyers as because of the behaviour of the Prosecution? sented ‘H’). to the use of the material.

(1996) 1 Cr App R 94, 101. Thus, if evidence that However, it is sad fact that today prosecutors are still Conclusion Aziz Rahman should have been seized by the police but now cannot not getting disclosure right. With the pressure on the Abuse of process applications should not be made Solicitor be obtained, but would have been helpful to the prosecution not to give the defence the ‘warehouse lightly. In order to persuade a court to stay an indict- Jonathan Lennon defence, then that is a ‘Category 1’ situation and the keys’ there has been an over analysis of Defence State- ment a defendant has to have the ammunition to Judge could, exceptionally, stay the trial on the basis ments and a willingness to conclude that no further support the application. That means the lawyers have Barrister that the defendant could not get a fair trial. disclosure is necessary. to be alive to the possibilities that might arise in any case and think long-term; e.g. early written, and If, however, the police had the material but mali- In a case called R v O [2007] EWCA Crim 3483 a properly justified, requests for material –not months Crown Court Judge was so exasperated by H.M. later. In other words if there is any hint of an abuse of here are many reasons why a Judge might ciously destroyed it, then that would be a ‘Category 2’ Custom’s failure to properly respond to the defence’s process application then it must be kept at the conclude that it would not be proper for case and even though the defendant could get a fair proper applications for disclosure he stayed the case forefront of the defending mind from the very outset. the courts to be used to prosecute a trial it would be unfair to try him – in as much as it as an abuse of process. The prosecution appealed and defendant. For example, delay in bringing would offend our sense of justice and bring the admin- the Court of Appeal upheld the decision. The case was proceedings, manipulation of the court’s istration of the criminal justice system into disrepute a fraud allegation where O was simply asking for Tprocedures, entrapment by police officers, loss of to do so, see e.g. R v Mullen [1999] 1 AC 42, HL. business documents held by customs after they had evidence and so on. The prosecution facing an abuse searched his premises. Customs had been taking the Jonathan Lennon is a Barrister specialising in of process application will always argue that the Judge R v Grant [2005] 2 Cr. App. R 28 is a Category 2 case. serious and complex criminal defence cases at 33 line that most of the material neither assisted the can ensure fairness by, for example, excluding any The police eavesdropped on the communications of a Chancery Lane Chambers, London. He has defence or undermined the prosecution case and was evidence which is causing dispute, or by warning the suspect and his solicitor. The Court held that unlawful extensive experience in all aspects of financial and therefore not disclosable and refused to even let the jury that the defendant has been unable to call certain acts of such a kind, amounting to a deliberate violation serious crime and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. defence have sight of the outer covers of the evidence because it has been destroyed – in other of a suspect’s right to legal privilege were such an He is ranked by both Legal 500 Chambers & Ptnrs documents. The defence were adamant that the words anything except throw the case out before it affront to the integrity of the justice system that the & is recognised in C&P’s specialist POCA and business documents could assist. The Judge was even starts. prosecution was rendered abusive. However, though Financial Crime sections; ‘he is phenomenal and eavesdropping on privileged conversations will swayed by the obstructive nature of Customs, he did is work rate is astonishing’ (2015). not even make a decision on the merits of the material Leading Case clearly put any prosecution in jeopardy the Privy in question but was pushed in the end to saying that One of the leading cases in this area is R (Ebrahim) v Council were faced with a case where they felt forced Aziz Rahman is a Solicitor- Advocate and Partner Customs had relied too heavily on the precise rule of Feltham Magistrates’ Court; Mouat v DPP [2001] 2 Cr. to disapprove the Grant case; Curtis Warren v Att. at the leading Criminal Defence firm Rahman law on disclosure, to the extent that they were inflexi- App. R, 23, DC. The High Court considered the General for Jersey [2011] 2 ALL ER 513, PC. In that Ravelli Solicitors, specialising in Human Rights, ble and obstructive. His Honour said “if the prosecu- situation where the two defendants, in two separate case the police had placed an audio probe in the Financial Crime and Large Scale Conspiracies/ tion approach the case without concession then they cases had asserted that video evidence would have defendants hire car which would be driven through a Serious crime. Rahman Ravelli are members of the can expect none” and with that he threw the case out. assisted their defences but where that the video number of overseas European countries. The police Specialist Fraud Panel and have been ranked by material was no longer available. In Mr. Mouat’s case knew that permission from those countries had been Legal 500 as an ‘exceptional’ firm with Aziz In a case involving indecent images of children, the he was videoed by an unmarked police car exceeding refused for the use of such devices but went ahead Rahman being described as ‘top class’’. The firm is defence solicitors wished to view the material and the speed limit. His defence was that he was trying to anyway. The consequent abuse of process application also ranked in Chambers & Partners. Rahman certain directions were given by the court regarding get away from a driver who was driving dangerously failed, a decision upheld on appeal. Much turned on Ravelli are a Top Tier and Band 1 firm. disclosure. The prosecution were not content with the close behind him and he had no idea it was a police the facts of the case but the Council found that the car; i.e. duress of circumstances. Once he stopped he Court of Appeal was wrong to say that deliberate was shown the video by the officers and had the invasion of a suspect’s right to legal professional choice to accept a penalty or go to trial – he elected privilege should generally lead to a stay; it may do so trial. By the time of the trial the tapes in the police car but category 2 cases were always to be a balancing had been re-used. The High Court quashed Mr. exercise for individual consideration. A cynic might Mouat’s conviction. Mr. Ebrahim was not so fortunate. say that, in other words, the defendant in that case was The strongest legal Ebrahim’s case concerned un-seized CCTV material. too big to get away. On the facts of that case the Court found that the representation in defendant had had a fair trial even though the CCTV Entrapment material was missing. The Court of Appeal said that The use of undercover officers in covert operations the fields of when considering an abuse application on this basis a often leads to accusations of abuse of process on the serious, complex Judge must consider what the duty was to preserve basis that the officers have entrapped or encouraged any video material. If the court finds that there is no an offence to take place. This aspect of abuse deserves and business such duty for the material in question to be seized or a whole article to itself but, in very short order, the preserved then there can be no stay of the prosecu- Judge has to look to see if the undercover officer has crime. The most tion. If, alternatively, there is such a duty, and it has ‘overstepped the mark’; R v Loosely; Att. General’s Ref been breached, then the court can only consider (No 3 of 2000) [2001] 1 WLR 2060, HL. To make an informed, expert staying the indictment as an exceptional measure as effective abuse challenge to any undercover operation the trial process itself can remedy the problem; e.g. by the defence really need to have sight of the senior advice for those the Judge warning the jury about missing evidence, or officers’ authorisations – made under the Regulation by him excluding certain other evidence etc. If, of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). These being prosecuted. however, the police or the prosecution appear to have authorisations are what make the intrusion into acted with “bad faith or at the very least some serious someone’s private life, e.g. by an undercover officer fault” then a stay may be more readily granted. befriending a suspect over a long period of time, lawful. In R v G.S. and Ors [2005] EWCA 887, unrep. The Ebrahim & Mouat case was followed in R v Boyd 22/4/05, the Court of Appeal found that once the law- [2004] RTR 2, CA. That was a causing death by fulness of a covert operation was under challenge all careless driving whilst unfit through drugs case. Blood the prosecution had to do was produce the authorisa- was taken from the suspect for testing but was not tions to the trial Judge – but not to the defence. properly refrigerated and it was thereafter impossible However, the case of R v Allsopp [2005] EWCA Crim for the defence to carry out their own expert analysis. 703, decided just weeks earlier appears to approve of The Court of Appeal found that the concern could not the release of authorisations to the defence and the “An exceptional firm “They are absolutely “They absolutely know what merely be addressed by excluding the evidence but challenge of covert operations by the defence (in the with exceptional people, uncompromising in they’re doing and have had to be met by a stay of the indictment. absence of the jury, see para. 28). There has been a Rahman Ravelli Solicitors advancing the proper dedicated people with a real more recent development in this area in an entrap- is the leader in the field” interests of the client” interest in the subject” Two Categories of Abuse ment case called R v Palmer & Ors [2014] EWCA Crim The Legal 500 Chambers Legal Guide Chambers Legal Guide In considering the development of case law it is clear 1681 (7/8/14). In that case the Court of Appeal was that the Higher Courts will sometimes use the abuse not only content to consider the lawfulness of a ‘sting’ of process jurisdiction to effectively ‘punish’ the police operation – the setting up of a shop by undercover Telephone Roma House, 59 Pellon 1 Fetter Lane officers to buy stolen goods – but the Crown accepted or prosecution for errors or faults. This ‘serious fault’ 01422 Lane, Halifax, West London that once the defence challenged the lawfulness of a limb of the abuse of process jurisdiction highlights the 346666 Yorkshire HX1 5BE EC4A 1BR way abuse applications fall into two broad categories; covert police operation then the authorisations should Category 1 cases where the defendant cannot receive have been disclosed – albeit in redacted form. This a fair trial, and Category 2 cases where it would be material can provide the ammunition needed in an www.rahmanravelli.co.uk / [email protected] Nationwide Service unfair for the defendant to be tried: see R v Beckford abuse challenge. If you have a question you would like answered please send to: ‘Legal’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Insidetime September 2015 46 Legal Q&A Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. (including your name, number and prison) www.insidetime.org

GC - HMP Leeds period in custody may have been dramatically AB - HMP Cardiff shortened. This once again highlights the I was recalled to prison eight years ago importance of seeking legal advice when I was sentenced to two years for com- Qon a different sentence based on a recalled to custody. Qmercial burglary. After sentencing I suspicion that I had taken amphetamine. put in applications for a transfer to HMP Tests were not taken, and I was sent straight Response supplied by Pickup & Scott Solicitors Stoke Heath. I was told that I’m a Cat-B back to prison. Am I able to challenge the ...... prisoner due to an escape from HMP Sudbury reasons for the recall given it was so long ago? MA - HMP Moorland in 2006, and also for possession of an imitation firearm in 2010 which I was a Cat-C throughout the sentence. It would seem that you wish to know I was recently taken out of my prison whether you can challenge the reasons A Qjob to start a course which I expressed I have also had one more custodial after this for recall. As a result of PSI 30/2014 all offenders interest in a year ago but I no longer wish to and was a Cat-C, I’ve put in complaints and have subject to a standard recall must be informed do now. I asked for a review of my education had no reply. Surely I should have a sentence of the reasons for their recall within 24 hours of plan, and this is yet to be done. I had been plan put in place and a be a Cat-C prisoner? the Public Protection Casework Section being told by the tutor and officer that if I didn’t notified of their return to custody. You then participate or go back to the wing I would Once you are sentenced for a new have the right to submit written representa- receive an IEP I still received the IEP even A offence, the prison will undertake an tions to the Parole Board regarding your recall though I went back to the wing. Can I be forced initial categorisation to determine a prisoner’s and the reasons behind it. Your case must then into participating and signing the paperwork security category. This procedure should be be referred to the Parole Board no later than 28 to do the course, when I no longer want to do completed on a form entitled ICA1. Inside Time days after your return to custody. You should it and mentally feel unable to do so? seek independent legal advice at this time as The decision making process is relatively you can receive assistance with drafting these Please note that there is no obligation on straightforward and in effect is a tick box Legal Forum representations. A a prisoner to undertake any courses exercise followed by a flow diagram. whilst in Prison. You cannot be forced into The first decision that must be considered is Answers to readers’ legal queries are You state in your query that you wish to challenge undertaking courses, be they on your sentence whether any factors contained in Section A are a decision to recall which was made on a plan or voluntary. However, should you refuse given on a strictly without liability present on a prisoners record. The factors are previous sentence. It is highly unlikely that any to undertake courses on your sentence plan basis. If you propose acting upon any listed below: challenge would be reviewed given the period and you face any Parole procedure, this can be of the opinions that appear, you must • If determinate sentence - current sentence of taken into account by the Parole Board when first take legal advice. of time that has elapsed. However, if you wish 10 years or over; determining your suitability for release or pro- to make a claim for compensation for wrongful • If indeterminate sentence - a tariff of 5 years gression to open conditions. Capital Defence Solicitors, Olliers detention, then seek further legal advice. or over; Solicitors, Hine Solicitors, Cartwright • Prisoner was Category A during previous However, in accordance with PSI 41/2012 King Solicitors, Crowns Solicitors, However, you state that the reason for your sentence; Offender Managers and Offender Supervisors recall was due to a suspicion that you had been • Current/previous terrorist offences; Wells Burcombe LLP Solicitors, should seek to enhance inmates’ motivation to Carrington Solicitors, Pickup & Scott taking amphetamine. Under the decision to • Prisoner has been treated as provisional recall can be made ‘in cases where the offend- change wherever possible. How much encour- Solicitors Category A whilst on remand. er’s behaviour indicates that they present an agement an inmate may have will ultimately be dependent upon the nature of their Send your Legal Queries (concise and increased RoSH to the public or an imminent If any of these factors are present then the risk of further offences being committed.’ - Offender Manager or Offender Supervisor. Prisoner will be categorised as a Category B clearly marked ‘legal’) to: David Wells, prisoner. I note from your correspondence Solicitor c/o Inside Time, Botley Mills, paragraph 4.7, PSII 30/2014. If your Offender Manager believed that the mere suspicion of If you are unhappy with the treatment you than none of these factors are present in your Botley, Southampton, Hampshire drug taking would result in an increased risk of have received by the officers in them forcing case so Section B must then be considered. SO30 2GB. For a prompt response, you to complete a sentence plan, you may wish serious harm to the public or further offences The Prison must then determine whether any readers are asked to send their queries being committed, then the decision to recall to submit a COMP1 form outlining your on white paper using black ink or concerns and stating that you no longer wish to of the following factors are present: cannot be questioned. However, with written • Previous sentence of 10 years or over; typed if possible. complete the programme stated. representations before the Parole Board, the • Current/Previous escape from closed prison, I would take this opportunity to draw your police custody (other than resisting arrest), or attention to the Prison Rules, notably Prison escort; HOWARD AND BYRNE Rule 51, paragraph 22 which states that diso- • Current or previous serious offence involving: beying a direct order can constitute being Violence, threat to life, firearms, sex, arson, SOLICITORS drugs, robbery. rownsolicitors PRISON LAW EXPERTS brought before the Independent Adjudicator C and potentially results in the imposition of If there is one factor present then the Prisoner Expert advice is only a phone call away… LEGAL 500 RECOMMENDATION THE Experts in Prison and Detention Law perfectly extra days to an inmate’s sentence. However, will be categorised as a Cat C prisoner, if there based in the Midlands with a 24/7 Nationwide Service Nationwide Coverage in such a circumstance any order forcing you are more than one then a prisoner will be a • Adjudication hearings / appeals ‘in-house’ video link facilities available to do a course could not, in my view, be seen as CAT B prisoner. It would appear that the • Parole hearings – paper / oral Specialist advice on: lawful. Prison have categorised you as a Cat B prisoner • Licence conditions / recall 4 parole reviews as you have one recorded abscond along with • Re-categorisation / transfers Response supplied by Pickup & Scott Solicitors a firearm offence. It would therefore appear • IPP Sentence issues / accessing courses 4 recalls that your initial categorisation was completed • HDC / ROTL / MDT 4 • Foreign National Prisoners adjudications in accordance with the PSI 40/2011. • Lifer panels / reviews 4 judicial review • Terrorism / SIAC representation 4 Once you have been initially categorised, you • All Judicial Review work human rights will be subject to ongoing reviews which will ALSO 4 criminal appeals take place at either 6 monthly or annual • Criminal Defence - Magistrates, Crown, SIAC & Appeals 4 criminal defence experts intervals depending on the length of your • Immigration - Tribunals, Asylum, Deportation prevention, current sentence. If you can demonstrate a 4 Human Rights - “WE get Bail” confiscation & proceeds of crime reduction in your risk ahead of these reviews, • Family and Child Care - Child contact/custody, Social Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers you should be successful in receiving your Cat Services care, divorce, separation, ancillary relief C status. The whole process is set out clearly in - “Know your rights” Contact our prison law department * Legal Aid unavailable? Free initial assessment offered PSI 40/2011 and I would suggest that you have a look at this document to assist you in under- Contact: Shiva Misra LLB (Hons) 01904 431421 standing the process. Crown Solicitors, 36 Church Street, [email protected] Bilston, Wolverhampton, WV14 0AH or write to: In the event that you disagree with the decision 01902 353 300 (24hr) made at your categorisation review you have a [email protected] Howard and Byrne right to challenge this and to ask for a further Legal Aid work undertaken. Chestnut Court 148 Lawrence Street review. To do this you need to make a formal Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers York YO10 3EB request/complaint in a COMP form. ›› Registered with EMAP ‹‹ ›› Registered with EMAP ‹‹ Response supplied by Hine Solicitors Insidetime September 2015 If you have a question you would like answered please send to: ‘Robert Banks’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, www.insidetime.org Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. (including your name, number and prison) Legal Q&A 47

due to the lapse of time I have missed the Your solicitor was wrong to suggest you demand opportunity to appeal my sentence. This to fly Business Class. If he seeks to work in the means his threat of judicial review was just Crown Court, he is required to know the law Banks on bravado. What are your comments? and if he does not like the rates of pay he should stop doing it on legal aid. If a surgeon What a cock-up! does not like National Health rates of pay, that ATo determine the release date for a 2012 is no reason to do botched surgery. The poor Sentence EDS extended sentence it is necessary to rate of pay is not an opportunity to obtain a fee answer the following questions. and provide an inadequate service. Providing the correct answer was not an onerous task. If Robert Banks, a barrister, writes Banks on Sentence. It is the second-largest sell- 1 Was the sentence before 13 April 2015? your solicitor had looked in my book he could ing criminal practitioner’s text book and is used by judges for sentencing more 2 If answer is Yes, was the offence one that is have found the answer in 30 seconds. In any event, he should know the answer. than any other. The book is classified by the Ministry of Justice as a core judicial listed in Criminal Justice Act 2003 Sch 15B? 3 If the answer to Question 2 is No, was the text book. The 2015 edition of the book and app was published recently. The app custodial term of the extended sentence 10 Your solicitor is wrong to say you have missed is for Apple iPads and Windows 8 tablets and computers and costs £99 (incl. years or more? the opportunity to appeal. If the sentence is VAT). Updates will appear in the relevant paragraph. The print copy costs £106 unlawful the Court of Appeal should grant and there will be regular updates on www.banksr.com. There is also a discount If the answer to question 1 is No or the answer leave to appeal out of time. to either question 2 or 3 is Yes, the release date available when the print copy and app are purchased together. If you have access is determined by the Parole Board and will be If, on the other hand, you don’t have a Schedule to a computer, you can follow Robert on Twitter: @BanksonSentence and you between two-thirds of the custodial term and 15B offence on your record, your sentence is can receive his weekly sentencing Alert. the whole custodial term. unlawful because extended sentences where www.banksr.com there is no Schedule 15B offence have to have If the answer to questions 2 and 3 is No, the a custodial term of 4 years or more. Police trapped me when I was selling ‘selling directly to users’. It could be argued release date is after two-thirds of the custodial Q in a gym. I was a one-man band. The that you were not selling to users but to one term has been served. You ask for my comments. It was inevitable police were furious because they watched user, so you should have been put in Category that the cuts to legal aid would lead to this and four sales on the CCTV, stopped the people as 4. Put another way, you were doing the same Your case has a Yes to questions 1 and 2, so the other shambles. You have been provided with they left the club and then three turned out to as someone who sells a wrap of coke at a party. answer is the first answer. a poor service. If your solicitor had provided have been given legal stimulants and only He or she could not be said to be street dealing. you with the correct answer at the beginning it one sale was coke. I pleaded and the Judge I will ask David Wells to write to you. Looking at the facts of your case, I wish I had would have taken him a fraction of the time he said I was acting in an organisational role as some good news for you. It is easier to say what has spent on your case because he did not know there was no-one higher. He said it was a I was given an extended sentence with went wrong than what went right. I have the law. Many solicitors are able to provide an Category 3 case as I was street dealing and Q a custodial term of three years. I was looked your case up on the Internet and I have excellent service because they know the law, that the guidelines were hard to apply. He told I would serve 2 years. My solicitors wrote found a case which exactly matches your name which saves time. Extended sentences are said he would take a mid-tariff sentence and to me and confirmed the sentence and the and the facts you give and the report says you routinely messed up. The Court of Appeal gave me 4½ years plus 1 extra year for my release date. This meant I was going to be do have a Schedule 15B conviction. recently made a whole series of errors in R v previous. Can I appeal because I should have released on 17 April 2016. When I received Bradbury 2015 EWCA 1176 when it sought to been given a lesser role? my release papers it had my eligibility for Assuming you have a Schedule 15B convic- substitute extended sentences. At the end of parole on 17 April 2016 and a release date of tion, the Judge was wrong to say in his sentenc- June, the Court of Appeal substituted an unlawful It is important to remember that the Sen- 17 April 2017. In December 2014, my solicitor ing remarks that you would serve 2 years. As extended sentence in Balasupramaniam’s case. Atencing Guidelines are a rough and obtained an e-mail from the Judge which indicated earlier, because of that conviction In those cases despite the errors it appears that ready attempt to provide the right sentence. said I would be released at the two-thirds you only become eligible to release after no one is doing anything about them. Not all situations will fit into the guidelines point as he had ordered. He said I had been serving two-thirds of your sentence and the and this is particularly true of the Drug Offences misinformed and quoted some sections of decision is made by the Parole Board, Criminal The irony is that your position has always been Guideline 2012. A recent case is significant. In Criminal Justice Act 2003. My solicitors then Justice Act 2003 s 246A(4). If the Parole Broad the same. From start to finish, whatever the R v Mellor 2015 EWCA Crim 1243, the wrote to the Sentence Calculations Board declines to release you, you stay in prison. You Judge said, you will be released between two- defendant was street dealing and there was no and then to NOMS saying they were wrong. have to be released at the end of the custodial thirds and the whole of your 3-year custodial suggestion there was anyone higher up in the My solicitors also said unless they conceded term, which in your case is 3 years. The Judge term. It is not what the Judge says that matters, chain. The Judge determined he was playing a the point they would seek judicial review. My was therefore wrong for the same reason to say it is the operation of the law. Extended lesser role and considered he had to be solicitor eventually wrote back saying I in his e-mail that release would be at the two- sentences are very unfair. If a solicitor writes to sentenced for a single sale of heroin. He started should have been sentenced under Sexual thirds point and that it was mandatory. me and says I’m unfair, I will ask him or her at 3½ years and gave 28 months with a plea. Offences Act 2003 Schedule 15B. This meant whether he or she would be happy with The Court said that they would not determine my legal team and the Judge were wrong. Your solicitor was wrong to think judicial botched surgery because of low pay. If they ask whether it was a significant or a lesser role but Who is responsible for this almighty mess? review was appropriate at any stage. If the why I don’t blame counsel, I would be happy considered it was right to start at 2½ years, My solicitor said, “Your trouble is that you sentence is unlawful, defendants should make to say there are many counsel who provide a which made 20 months on a plea. This means demand to fly Business Class but can only an appeal to the Court of Appeal. If the release very poor service. the 4½ years starting point could be argued to afford to pay stowage.” Well I am on legal aid date is incorrect one writes a letter to HM be wrong. Your case raises an interesting point so I don’t decide what he is paid. I have Prison Service explaining why it is wrong. In So there you are. Perhaps you shouldn’t have which perhaps should have been argued in R v written to the Derby Crown Court and asked my experience in almost all cases the prison asked for comments! Mellor 2015. Street dealing is a Category 3 them to comment. I am getting no sympathy decision is correct and solicitors are wrong. offence and ‘street dealing’ is defined as from anyone. My solicitor is now saying that Asking Robert and Jason questions: Please make sure your question concerns sentence and not conviction and send the Parole? Recall? Have your lawyers letter to Inside Time, marked for Robert Banks or Jason Elliott. Unless you say you Life Sentence? let you down? don’t want your question and answer Do you want Robert Banks or published, it will be assumed you have no OLLIERS SOLICITORS objection to publication. It is usually not Jason Elliott to represent you? possible to determine whether a particular CAN HELP defendant has grounds of appeal without Robert is a specialist in criminal seeing all the paperwork. Analysing all the Life Sentences IPP, MANDATORY, DISCRETIONARY, AUTOMATIC appeals against sentence. paperwork is not possible. The column is LIFE SENTENCE PRISONERS - ORAL & WRITTEN REPRESENTATION Jason is a specialist in criminal designed for simple questions and answers. appeals, trials and prison law. No-one will have their identity revealed. Recall PAROLE BOARD REPRESENTATION Letters which a) are without an address, b) Contact: cannot be read, or c) are sent direct, cannot CONTACT: JEREMY PINSON David Wells, Wells be answered. Letters sent by readers to Burcombe, Inside Time are sent on to a solicitor, who FREEPOST NEA 13621, 5 Holywell Hill, forwards them to Robert and Jason. If your MANCHESTER M3 9ZL St Albans solicitor wants to see previous questions 0161 834 1515 AL1 1EU and answers, they are at www.banksr.com. Insidetime September 2015 48 Reading Groups www.insidetime.org Reading group Shared Reading Shaun Lawrence reads at Holbeck House round-up probation hostel in West Yorkshire. Image courtesy of Matthew Meadows This month’s report comes from Heathfield, one of two This week’s session at the hostel took place personal, relationship between a workman amongst a very small group made up of two and his tools, especially if the poem was set in reading groups that PRG supports at HMP Wandsworth residents, Andy and Steve*, and one member a time when those tools weren’t so readily of staff. We read the deceptively short and available as they are today. Think about how simple-looking poem ‘A Time To Talk’ by the lack of DIY superstores would affect you if Boris Johnson’s Dream member states and their citizens: ‘the incorri- Robert Frost, which led to some quite lively you relied on hand-tools for a living - that’s of Rome has two gible desire of people to govern themselves, or discussion about location, relationships and what was happening in the group at this time. themes: it is a celebra- to be governed by people of their own race, or more topics besides. tion of the astounding from their own language group’. Steve thought that the worker in the poem achievements of the Both Andy and Steve have been residents at sounded as if he was “proud of it [his hoe] - Roman Empire, and a All in all The Dream of Rome is almost guaran- the hostel for a while, and are relatively new that’s why he stuck it in the ground like that” damning critique of the teed to spark lively debate and both book and to the shared reading group. During the which then led the discussion on to thoughts modern European author got the Heathfield group going. Most Union. agreed that Johnson is ‘a funny, clever geezer’ session they both took things at their own around the actual cost of tools at that time. who writes with easy wit and humour, as pace, at times working together and sharing Andy was particularly aware of the fact that Johnson studied Clas- when he describes a battle between the their ideas as they tried to understand exactly the tools were a means to an end - literally “a sics at Oxford in the Romans and an ancient Germanic tribe: what was happening in the poem. As is often way to makes ends meet by earning money” Bullingdon Club days before he became more the case, they both initially felt unsure of the - and he thought that workers would have famous as Mayor Boris and possible contender It was the habit of the barbarians to bring their meaning, but by re-reading a few times more respect for their tools “at that time” for future Tory leader. He knows his stuff and women up to the line of battle so they could myself, and encouraging Steve when he than they would have nowadays, since the the book is full of fascinating facts about eve- be ready to scavenge the corpses and to give offered to read aloud as well, a sense of tools were how such workers made their liveli- rything from engineering works to recipes. Did encouragement. If a barbarian retreated or meaning started to become clearer. There was hood and would have “cost a packet then”. you know that the aqueducts of ancient Gaul was beaten back, it was standard for the wives a lot of discussion about the time period that These very thoughtful comments were offered (modern France) could be as long as 75 kilo- to bare their breasts in a kind of Sun Page the poem was set, with suggestions ranging with next to no input from me as the group metres, and that they had an unwavering Three exhortation to the troops. ‘This is what gradient of 0.04, or 25 metres in every kilome- you are fighting for!’ they would cry, and the from Andy’s initially vague “it’s the olden facilitator - I just let the discussion flow - and tre? Any less and the water wouldn’t flow; any barbarian would pick up his sword, wipe the days” to Steve’s more definite “around the both the group members reached the decision greater and the pressure would burst the pipes. blood from his nose, thank the girl for remind- first world war” which he decided on “because that the worker would have been “proud and ing him and run back into battle. they’ve not got tractors” in the fields; this was respectful” of their tools and the work they As Johnson tells it, the success of the Empire the one that the group settled for. did with them. revolved around the ability of the conquerors Someone commented that ‘You can just to make those they conquered want to be imagine him at Westminster wearing a toga’ The time period in which the poem was set The conversation then moved on to the Roman: to dress, worship, speak and eat like which made us all smile. But views of Johnson was to become important when the conversa- location in the poem, which isn’t clearly stated Romans. The example offered by the book is as a politician were sharply divided between tion then moved on to the “hoe” mentioned and so left quite a lot of room for discussion. garum, a kind of fish paste made by mixing his admirers and those who thought the book’s in line 7; what exactly was a hoe and what Steve was quite certain that the speaker was whole small fish with blood and guts and then humour masked some more contentious views was it used for? on a farm or in the country somewhere leaving the disgusting mess to fester in the sun about race, class and the modern world. for a couple of months. But what is most re- because of the hills mentioned, but Andy “I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, suggested the place “could be a graveyard, markable about garum was its apparent ubiq- The Heathfield group is part of the Prison uity: garum containers have been found all Reading Groups (PRG) network, sponsored Blade-end up and five feet tall, with the wall around it” and the workman over the Empire, from Italy and France to by the University of Roehampton and gen- And plod: I go up to the stone wall could be “tending to the graves”. This put the Spain and North Africa. Johnson comments: erously supported by charities including For a friendly visit.” poem in a different light for us all, with these Give A Book www.giveabook.org.uk locations being very different - one was a What does this teach us? It shows the phe- If your prison doesn’t have a reading group, On realising it was a hand tool for weeding place of beginnings and growth while the nomenal conforming influence of Roman cul- encourage your librarian to have a look at and turning the soil, both Andy and Steve other was one of endings and memories. The tural preferences on the world they conquered. the PRG website www.roehampton.ac.uk/ began to speak about how the workman group also thought the connection between Across the Roman world, people were becom- prison-reading-groups might be “connected with it” in some way friends was good, and remarked on the way ing conditioned not just to want Roman citi- PRG also worked with National Prison beyond the just the act of holding it - as Andy the worker took time out from work - maybe, zenship, but to adore the same foul-smelling Radio to set up their book club. If you have said “it seems important to him”. As they as Steve said “marking where he’d got to” fish mulch that the Romans put on their food. access to NPR, listen out for details and explored this idea they both began to talk with his hoe - to talk with a friend. Andy ways to take part. Perhaps the nearest modern equivalent is the about what they saw as a very direct, almost thought that taking time out might mean the cultural domination of the United States worker earned less as “he’d do less work”, but through McDonald’s and Coca Cola. that it was “just as important because friends J D Solicitors are important”. Quite a meaningful end to Johnson suggests that the Roman Empire col- TurningPages Malthouse Chambers 30 Walsall Street, our reading of ‘A Time To Talk’. lapsed under the joint pressure of Christianity Willenhall WV13 2ER and Islam. Despite their differences, Christians Prisoners who can read *Names have been changed to protect identi- and Muslims shared a refusal to be assimilated Prison Law Specialists ties. to Roman ways. teach prisoners who can’t Serving the East and West Midlands The Shannon Trust Reading Plan (Turning • Parole Applications and Reviews The book makes the comparison between the The Reader Organisation is an award-win- Pages) is a simple & efficient way of • Licence Conditions and Recalls Roman Empire and the European Union but ning charitable social enterprise working to helping people to learn to read. • Categorisation and Transfers only to stress the differences: connect people through great literature. In If you would like more information on how to • Cat A Reviews and Lifer Panels weekly sessions, a practitioner reads aloud become involved, as either a Mentor or a Learner, • Sentence Planning and H.D.C. a short story or extract and a poem. 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plementing this with money he took off Personal criminals. Condemnation by Lee Child ‘Personal’, in summary, is a simple and straightforward book. A sniper takes a 14,000 to Commendation Reviewed by Trevor Lewis yard shot at the French president who is saved only by his bullet-proof screens. With the G20 by Keith How and Mick Hart This review comes from and G8 summits imminent it is surmised that Review by Vera Woodhall (Prison supplied) HMP Kirkham and the the attempted was a dress third book they have rehearsal for a bigger target, possibly even the read is ‘Personal’ by Lee president of the United States. Child. The following Who better to persuade young people to keep pointless rules, exploding hooch, dodgy review has been written The search is on for a sniper capable of making to the straight and narrow than a convicted wheeling and dealing. We also find the occa- by Trevor Lewis, a such a shot. The list is narrowed to 3 possible murderer? No-one could accuse Mick Hart of sional thought provoking question on the member of the prison suspects. The American suspect is a man that just talking hot air - his story is based on 25 causes of crime, as well as ample evidence that reading group. Reacher was responsible for jailing 16 years years’ experience at Her Majesty’s pleasure. prisoners can be a valuable resource rather previously. Reacher is tasked with tracking The organisations he founded - Keep Out and than a problem to be dealt with. The latter is Lee Child Jack Reacher down the man and possibly being bait to draw Youth Crime Solutions - have so far revealed an idea whose time has come, as evidenced by books - I must confess him out into the open. Reacher’s investigation the harsh reality of prison life to over 400,000 the many prisoner led initiatives which are that I am a fan and I am almost certain I have ranges from Paris to Arkansas and into young people who were on the verge of falling springing up throughout the country. read every one, despite only discovering the Romford, where he finally nails his man. It is a into a life of crime. books almost 3 years ago. ‘Personal’ is simple story, well-written and flows well. If I have any quibble with this book, it would different from most of the books, being set In this book, Hart tells how he progressed have to be the lack of proof-reading and partially in London and Paris. The normal Rather surprisingly, Lee Child is English and from petty thieving at the age of 8, through to editing. Whilst Keith How has done a compre- habitat for Jack Reacher is a small town in I’ve often wondered how he seems to know the armed robbery which saw him receive a hensive job of recording Mick Hart’s reminis- America. Places that don’t often get aired on so much about the American military police. life sentence at the age of 39. It’s an entertain- cences, the result is crying out for a red pen! American TV or film. He has a lot of American readers and one of ing read which gives a fascinating insight into Errors, both factual and grammatical, start his books was made into a film starring Tom prison life for any reader who may be unfamil- from only the second line; even the names and Reacher’s backstory is that he was a Major in Cruise (One Shot), so if his facts were horribly iar with the criminal justice system. But it also birth order of Hart’s children vary from chapter the military police, 6 foot 5 inches tall and all wrong you would think it would be posted all acts as a powerful message of hope for those to chapter! Some of the mistakes are uninten- muscle, and when he leaves the army he takes over the internet, so Child must know his who are only too well acquainted with prison tionally humorous: we read of a ‘hardened to the highways and byways of America with stuff. life. There is hope for life sentenced prisoners, arm robber’ (who presumably seeks to steal only the clothes on his back and a toothbrush that their lives can still make a difference, even your arm while your back is turned); children’s in his pocket. Reacher becomes a modern-day If you have never read a Lee Child book then I behind bars. Hope too for inmates serving ‘formative years’ have become their ‘informa- Lone Ranger, writing wrongs and helping the suggest that you try some of his earlier books. short sentences, that prison’s revolving door tive years’ which certainly adds a new distressed, whether it be abused wives or There are 18 books, starting with ‘The Killing does not have to suck them back inside time dimension to the phrase; even the flagship people in fear of criminals and corrupt official- Floor’. If you HAVE read previous books then and time again. Hope for the youngsters who ‘crime diversion’ scheme is referred to as a dom. Initially he only had a small pension and ‘Personal’ is as good as any of the earlier have grown up assuming that prison is more a ‘crime aversion’ scheme (not that an aversion his savings to live on but he later started sup- books and will keep the midnight oil burning. question of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’. Hope for to crime would be a bad thing!) Although the ex-offenders who long to see their own mistakes won’t detract from the book’s appeal children lead law abiding lives. Hope for prison to prisoners (after all, we are not generally and probation staff who cling to the belief that known for our insistence on good grammar!) rehabilitation is possible, despite all the they may limit its potential as a crime diversion negative statistics. Hope for victims of crime, resource for schools and youth groups. This who need to hear that good can come out of would be a shame, as Hart’s message of hope their suffering, even though the past can never deserves a wider audience. With the help of a Wrongly convicted be undone. And finally, the book shows there bit of proof reading and the addition of a few is hope for all those of us who long to make a ‘What do you think?’ discussion starters after of a crime? useful contribution to society despite our failings. each chapter, the book could easily find its way into the hands of young people through- There are plenty of humorous touches out the country. If the authors happen to read amongst Hart’s anecdotes - practical jokes this review - I’ll even volunteer to do the cor- Lost your appeal? played on prison officers, the bending of rections for you! beesleyandcompanysolicitors What next? Personal Injury and Civil Action against the Police and other authorities

• Personal Injury (accidents both in and out of custody) The CCRC can look again • Police Assault If you think your conviction or sentence is wrong • False imprisonment or Malicious Prosecution apply to the CCRC • Negligence • It won’t cost anything • Compensation for Childhood Abuse in Care • Your sentence can’t be increased if you apply • Mistreatment or Assault by Inmates or Prison Staff • You don't need a lawyer to apply, but a good one • Claim for delay in Parole hearing and review can help Contact: Mark Lees at, 736-740 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester, M20 2DW You can get some more information and a copy of the CCRC's Easy Read application form by writing to us at 0800 975 5454 (FREEPHONE) 5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW. or calling 0121 233 1473 [email protected] www.beesleysolicitors.co.uk Prisoners in Scotland should contact; The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, 5th Floor, Portland House, 17 Renfield Street, , G2 5AH. Phone: 0141 270 7030 Email: [email protected] Nationwide service available in certain cases Legal Aid available If you would like to contribute to the Poetry section, please send your poems to Insidetime September 2015 50 Inside Poetry ‘Poetry’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. www.insidetime.org

Star Poem of the Month Holiday Horror H Keith Burton - HMP The Mount Wrinkled Utopia I want an application form Tom Clark - HMP Frankland It’s a new resettlement wing Nash is knackered We wanted Revolution, we once believed in Marx Were all its kings But we did too much debating Stella Artois in the parks No saving grace Today was never meant for change, we always had tomorrow No nothing’s free Property was theft- maybe- my surplus youth was sorrow I prefer Butlins © Fotolia.com If I’d known then what I know now I wouldn’t have stood a chance Without a key! Hopes, ideas, beliefs all dumped without a second glance I’m not coming back Such cynicism grows with age; hides deep within the wrinkles Here next year The Devil’s Potion That said, I wouldn’t change the past; life’s better when it’s simples They shut my door Andrew Haikney - HMP Durham Then disappear “I hope I die ’fore I get old” once sang my generation I want the sand Awake for three days Now seventy-plus, still clinging on, bemoaning immigration The beach, the dunes Not even a peep Those fearful branches blocked our paths to what we thought was true The party night Thinking back now I needed the sleep Detritus that I miss so much, nostalgia’s toxic brew! And balloon! Out came the vodka and then the Sambuca My pen these days is blue, and now this pen is not for turning I don’t want much Can’t remember much after that But I turned my back and walked this life while barricades were burning But my closure said But I’m back in jail Utopia, now, is a good night’s sleep and memories full of time I’m lying in it What a fooker Ideals won’t magic back my teeth, still, ageing’s not a crime My unmade bed What’s it all for Older, wiser, more content? Old age; not so fantastic After all’s said Squeeze Give me back naiveté and I’ll show you who’s past it I’m washed, fed and watered Andrew Luby - HMP Hull Hips that creak and knees that burn, then thoughts that bugger-off Then filled with dread! Exercise consists of clenching arse-cheeks when I cough In my haunting dreams When thick black nights I’d love to prose and rhyme forever, just haven’t got the breath Squeeze dark hidden themes John Cooper Clarke and Pam Ayres crossed to bring my view of death Goodbye, My Friend Till they burst bright I don’t regret not having changed a world so full of shit Leigh Bolton - HMP Eastwood But I wish I’d penned a death-bed verse of old: “Oh, was that it?” Park Exploding in my mind The screams of children

Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize for ‘Star Poem of the Month’. Ruptured, burnt and blind I’m sat here on my ‘rattle’ By soulless landmines hidden And my body’s getting clean Everybody Hurts Ow That Bit of Fun So why am I more befuddled Some mother’s clutch red Mai Neo - HMP Littlehey Jamie Cooke - HMP Woodhill Than I have ever been? Dripping bags of babies Shrapnel torn and dead It My eyes, bigger than anyone’s By soldiers of Hades It may have started for a bit of fun Who’s slept this many years? Hurts to cry In my haunting dreams Hurts to realise why Ow that bit of fun I would be able to see them If they weren’t filled with tears Cold sinister steel gates I ended up inside That bit of fun Slam booming and screams Now I’m in my Peter with the clocks My head is full of ‘why fors?’ Of poor tormented inmates No good blaming anyone else About everything I’ve done I created my own reality ticking Deploy in my mind I’m catching up on pain not felt And brought suffering and pain to my victims The locks clicking for all I’ve done Tortured by the vulgar Through having been so numb And to myself Art of psychology, blind To the hidden vulture And yes of course I’m happy It hurts to move my aching body Ow that bit of fun And I love that you applaud Eating out their years That bit of fun Hurts to realise, I’ve spent years in custody And I promise I will smile soon With “treatment” session groups Prison beds, unforgiving digging into my bones A voice, a whisper inside my head When I feel less overawed A minefield of fears I’m only 33 “Why on earth did you do that son?” And never ending hoops I looked for the answer Pride is a way off I fear It hurts to endure it ‘Cos I’m feeling kinda sad To jump through I.P.P hurts, a monster of injustice For weeks and weeks and then some I’m missing my dear best friend Suffocate, die and rot Ruptured, burnt and blind But I did this to myself But with my head seeming numb The worst best friend I’ve had By soulless report writers Only I am to blame And me feeling dumb It hurts But Her Majesty has helped me No answer could come While probation clutch their Because I am human and I make And I’ve kicked ‘H’ out my bed Dripping minds of agony A lot of mistakes Ow that bit of fun Now I just need a little help Squeeze for more themes The truth hurts That bit of fun To get it out my head! Of the tortured inmates! Insidetime September 2015 If you would like to contribute to the Poetry section, please send your poems to www.insidetime.org ‘Poetry’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Inside Poetry 51

Love, Life and Freedom One big mistake The Psychiatrist Joe Danny Outlaw Now IPP Lianne - CP Brians, Spain Lost it all No longer free I was lost for years Placing his hands on the desk Ruined by fears Now I’m fighting the system He stared with vague curiosity through thin glasses Shedding so many goddamn tears Again and again “Take your time.” He said Stuck in segregation “I have time but don’t want it” I said Children’s homes to streets With types of men The tears were steadily flowing Cigarettes to weed “When did it happen?” Weed to speed Twenty nine now “Late on a warm spring day in the middle of May.” Money and greed Where’s time gone? “Where were you?” What happened to life? Loving the night life “Lost and alone in a world which made no sense.” That seemed to be so long Loving the drugs “What did you hear?” Been one of the boys One day I was a child “Loud voices in my head that spoke words I didn’t use.” Loving the thugs Confused and scared “Why did it happen?” Tossed into a world “Love drove me to protect in the only way I could.” Growing up fast So unprepared “How are you now?” Yet lost without knowing “Living on existence without meaning or purpose.” Regrets hidden well Now when I look in the mirror Removing his hands from the desk Just a smile showing I’m devastated by rage He looked at me with compassion Locked in this cage Then at twenty two “Would you like any medication?” He asked Twenty nine years of age I was truly blessed “No, I prefer to feel the pain of being alive.” I said I saw her from a distance I think I’ll be free again I left the room with tears still flowing Shining from the rest Around thirty four Maybe thirty six For the first time in my life Domestic Discord Little Miss Weeks I’m not quite sure I felt happy, loved and pure Lynne Smith - HMP Send Damien Roseveare - HMP Channings Wood From what was once a curse My tariff is four and a half From the beginning I was in denial It seemed I’d found the cure I’ve now done almost five He hit me hard and I fell to the floor Talk about my world melting around me But some of the things I’ve seen I’ll never forget her eyes How many times was that? Even Shakespeare couldn’t muster the words I’m lucky to be alive Her smile, her face I couldn’t keep score For things wanting to be said The simplicity of her beauty But mark my words for certain Every time he got pissed But fate will never let it be heard That made my heart race Freedom is the key His hand came first and then a closed fist You were my best friend, my soul mate All the reminiscing Two years down the line You can never be replaced Is just simply not for me Now I’m back on my own The bruises came and went I thought I loved you then Sat in prison Love, Life and Freedom The broken bones healed like lumps of But now I know I love you more Now this is my home That’s a bit of me cement All I want in life is to see you once more I could not find it in me to pick up the phone But at least we have the magical memories Because I didn’t want to be alone We will award a prize of £25 to the entry The Storm That not even the Gods could take, selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. Kevin Davies - HMP Highpoint My future wifey was taken early To qualify for a prize, poems should not The house would be empty And not a day passes where I don’t wish to join you have won a prize in any other competition Did you know your family bought you a star? or been published previously. Send entries The rain washed down, but I could not feel it No one in my bed to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, So when days end I can see you right near me The lightning flashed and I could not see it The bills unpaid Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. or ever from afar Please put your name, number and prison Then thunder roared, but I barely felt it I might as well be dead on the same sheet of paper as your poem. And darkness came, and my hand had dealt it I know you would want me to be happy If you win we can’t send your money if we don’t know who or where you are! I couldn’t take much more of this hell So I’ll give this life a go By submitting your poems to Inside Time Soon I was going to have to tell And I know you wouldn’t blame me for things you are agreeing that they can be pub- insidepoetry Police, friend or nurse I just can’t seem to let go lished in any of our ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, website and I needed to get rid of this appalling curse I know I’ll never be able to find anyone as any forthcoming books. You are also giv- Volume 6 mind blowing as you ing permission for Inside Time to use their All I could do was a deep groan It used to make my heart feel all tingly discretion in allowing other organisations to Copies are avail- reproduce this work if considered appropri- able at a special As I felt the crack of another broken bone When you would put your arms around me ate, unless you have clearly stated that you At last I picked up the phone And say ‘I love you baby boy’ do not want this to happen. Any work repro- discount price of duced in other publications will be on a ‘not £7.50 +£1 p&p As I consigned myself to a life alone Once I’m up there with you for profit’ basis. WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR for Inside Time I’ll be filled with so much joy WORK PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING readers, family PERMISSION: THIS IS MY OWN WORK The help I needed at last arrived I know I’ve made mistakes AND I AGREE TO INSIDE TIME PUBLISHING & friends. As I knew this was the end But from this very moment IT IN ALL ASSOCIATE SITES AND OTHER I had survived I vow to make you proud PUBLICATIONS AS APPROPRIATE. Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Tel: 0844 335 6483 As he was taken into custody As I know it’ll be worth it A new life began for me When we’re dancing in the clouds Insidetime September 2015 52 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org

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