Could Brexit Bring Back the Rope?

“I will not be silenced!” Faith Spear, beleaguered Chair of the IMB at Hollesley Bay speaks out // page 16

Cheaper pay phone call charges // page 36

“Do not destroy my “The Board has had “I suffer from a threefold the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees country because I will kill signifi cant concerns about illness of a mental obses- you. I will kill you” cultural and leadership sion, a physical allergy a voice for prisoners since Philippines President-elect values at Medway STC” and a spiritual malady” June 2016 / Issue No. 204 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profi t’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 Rodrigo Duterte tells criminals Inside Time reports Alcoholics Anonymous An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verifi ed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Newsround // page 13 Comment // page 22 Information // page 32

l New “reform” Queens Speech: prisons to be opened, Biggest prison shake-up with emphasis on Could Brexit training, rehabilitation in England and Wales and education ‘since Victorian times’ l Governors of new prisons to have freedom to agree service bring back contracts and establish their own boards

l More statistics on post-release offending the rope? and employment rates to be published

l Courts and tribunals to be modernised, © prisonimage.org A Britain with greater use of outside the My government will legislate to technology to reduce European Union reform prisons, to give individuals a delays would have no second chance HM The Queen Read more on page 17 brake on new populist demands for harsher punishments

pubs in Birmingham to see incarcerate people fast enough Denis people gathering signatures no one should have any illu- “An exceptional firm Rahman Ravelli is a leading firm in serious, MacShane on a petition urging a referen- sions that judges constitute with exceptional people, heavyweight and complex crime cases. dum on capital punishment. one of the most reactionary Rahman Ravelli Solicitors groups of powerful men and is the leader in the field” If Britain were to leave the I have little doubt that such a women in Britain. The firm’s expertise, experience and strong European Union, the way populist plebiscite would have The Legal 500 proactive defending ensures the best possible would be open to restore cap- resulted in a vote to bring back Those in favour of Brexit are outcome. Its skilled, tenacious defence solicitors ital punishment which is cur- hanging. making play of a partial ruling “They are absolutely are among the UK’s most highly rated when it rently outlawed by the EU’s from the European Court of uncompromising in comes to criminal cases and restraint and Charter of Fundamental The judge who presided over Justice about the daughter-in- advancing the proper Rights agreed by the UK and the trial in 1974 of the six in- law of the Islamist Abu Hamza confiscation proceedings. interests of the client” other member states in 2000. nocent Irishmen who were who cannot be deported by the Chambers Legal Guide wrongfully convicted of the Home Secretary. Rahman Ravelli’s hard-won reputation has been So far, Boris Johnson and Birmingham pub bombings, earned in cases involving tax fraud, financial Nigel Farage have not used the which I covered as a young In fact, the idea of taking re- “Driven by the pursuit return of the rope as one of BBC journalist, expressed re- venge on a family member of of justice and fairness to regulation, money laundering, serious fraud, bribery their emotional NatPop gret that capital punishment a disgusting man is not just all and this shines through and corruption, investment fraud and many other (Nationalist Populist) reasons had been abolished so he diffi cult under the European in every aspect” major legal issues. Not to mention its role in to isolate Britain from Europe could only impose life Convention on Human Rights Chambers Legal Guide having shaped the law in the highest courts. but a Britain outside the sentences. but also would probably con- European Union would have vene UN Conventions so that no brake on new populist de- We now know that the six men the UK would have to quit the mands for harsher were fitted up by the police United Nations as well as the Telephone Roma House, 59 Pellon 1 Fetter Lane punishments. and Crown QCs and were com- European Union to force 01422 Lane, Halifax, West London EC4A 1BR pletely innocent. through this demand. 346666 Yorkshire HX1 5BE Also in Birmingham Indeed when I fi rst began my life in the Labour Party in the But as with today’s prison www.rahmanravelli.co.uk / [email protected] Nationwide Service early 1970s it was common in junky judges who cannot Continues on page 27 2 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime June 2016

No interest in quality education insidetime Star Letter of the Month a voice for prisoners since 1990 Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize YOI Tutor - Details withheld the national newspaper for prisoners published by ‘We need proper qualifications’ I was delighted to read in the That’s it, no other considera- Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of April issue that Michael tion. The work carried out by The New Bridge Foundation, founded in 1956 to create links between the offender and the B Walker - HMP Littlehey Gove is an avid reader of the National Careers Service community. Inside Time, particularly his regarding the actual needs Just recently the media has been full of coverage of the government’s high regard of the ‘unvar- of learners to help with their A not for profi t publication. intentions to make all schools into academies. In my opinion, this is what is nished truth’ of the Mailbag rehabilitation is simply Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial required in the Prison Service. Michael Gove spouts on about ‘employability section. With this in mind, I ignored. I have lost count of content. Comments or complaints should be skills’ but the most education we get offered in prison is ‘healthy living’ hope that you will allow me the learners who have directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. classes and level 1 maths and English, which barely covers what’s taught in the opportunity to share my entered my class saying Board of Directors primary schools. I can see employer’s queueing up to offer me a job with experiences of being a Tutor - ‘Boss, why have they put those ‘qualifications’. working in this extremely me on this?’ Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, demanding environment in Journalist, Writer and serving Magistrate. “ I really cannot see my thinking-skills certifi cate getting me the hope that Mr Gove will This randomised allocation Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge read it. leads to disruption in classes Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon very far in the real world! ” by disgruntled young men Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and Forklift truck driving is available if you only have 3 months left to serve. If I would like Mr Gove to know who have no interest or need Managing Director employing former prisoners you are serving an indeterminate sentence then you can forget that. We need that my teaching colleagues for the course they have Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice to have proper skills and qualifications so that we can go in front of the and I are horrified by the been allocated to. My Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, Parole Board and demonstrate that we can survive in the workplace. I really prospect of governors lessons are now more about Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation cannot see my thinking-skills certificate getting me very far in the real world! having more autonomy crowd control and babysit- regarding education in ting than education. The Editorial Team What is required is for the Prison Service to talk to employers and ask them prisons and the proposed what qualifications and requirements would best suit their needs. Not what introduction of yet another To compound the problem, suits the politically correct education providers. Then put the necessary prison league table. This is a the deputy governor has courses in place and give us the chance to move forward. bad idea because the figures now demanded that all used to determine these classes are over-allocated to It is not rocket science, employers will give us a chance if we are qualified, so league tables will be ensure that they are always please give us the opportunity to qualify and turn our lives around. ‘massaged’ by governors to full. What this means is that Erwin James John Roberts Rachel make their establishment a proportion of the learners Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE look good. who are shown as being Director Associate Editor Categorisation for deniers employed on courses are in I work for NOVUS and in my fact being turned away from Offi ce Manager Dave E Ferguson - HMP Wakefield opinion this organisation classes because they are Lucy Forde Provisions set out in the sentence EWHC 2596: Acbein) and the tutors it employs are full. You can imagine how Administration planning, PSI (19/2014) and Chapter focussed on providing the disheartening and demoral- Sonia Miah 4 of PSO 4700 (The Lifer Manual) all In fact a recent Freedom of best they can for the learners ising this is for the learners Layout & Design clearly identify that a prisoner who Information request has revealed in their care. Unfortunately, who would actually benefit Colin Matthews maintains innocence can still achieve that if you are a Cat A prisoner held in my establishment, this from education and who Noel Smith Paul Sullivan Website Design de-categorisation, progression and at Wakefield you are far less likely to means nothing as the want to learn, yet are Commissioning Reporter and Advertising be de-categorised than at any other governor, and in particular constantly being turned Editor Gary Bultitude parole at the earliest (first) opportunity. high security prison. 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Mailbites Your language Prison breaking Mailbag 2-9 the rules, again Exactly who is Philip Davies MP? Does the system care? gives you away Bilal Zaheer Ahmad S Webster Does a prisoner have no - ex-prisoner Daill Fawcett - HMP Holme House - HMP Wakefield Page 4 human rights when they are in prison? How can they put a To the anonymous writer of the letter from HMP HMP Wakefield has derogat- Newsround 10-15 non-smoker in a cell with Frankland, ‘Fair and decent’ (April issue) I have ed from a Mandatory There is a wealth smokers? I read in the March to say I have not read such crap in a long time! issue ‘Prison staff getting high Requirement set out in the of untapped Prison Service Instruction academic talent on spice’. At least they can To me it is plainly obvious that you are either 32/2011 on Ensuring inside the criminal walk away, what about the a prison officer or governor pulling a sneaky Page 10 justice system” prisoners who are having the move. Your language gave you away like a Equality. same side effects in their cells? fart in a lift. In all the time I’ve spent in Comment 16-28 Are the prison not bothered © Fotolia.com prison (sadly, a great number of years) I have Paragraph 6.3 states - ‘Forms about prisoner health? Exposing never heard prisoners refer to having ‘ample must be available in all “He was shouting, them to second hand smoke? ‘My wife’s in there! opportunities for the gym’ - but I have heard areas of the prison, with Stinking thinking equals My wife’s in there!” Anonymous prison staff say this. Also, who in Frankland envelopes provided to would describe the food as ‘varied, healthy The Veterans’ stinking behaviour ensure privacy. The system Page 26 and sufficient’? What planet are you on if Survival Guide No more wasted lives for submitting and respond- Nick Hone - HMP Channings Wood you think prisoners talk like this? Information 29-37 I have a loved one in prison. ing to them must be private In just one week I have been Why are we all called ‘offenders’? It’s like “ It sounds like you are trying to sell and secure.’ NOMS is reducing told of two prisoners who’ve being typecast as a villain. I was told it was the cost of calls had fits and vomiting through changed from being addressed as prisoners a holiday in a 5 star hotel and not a Here, DIRF (Discrimination made by prisoners smoking Spice. Also prisoners to offenders because it was offensive. Being prison that 99% of prisoners detest ” Incident Reporting Forms) from PIN phones Page 36 Inside Information are being scalded, stabbed or called a prisoner is not offensive as it’s what forms are not available in all we all are - like it or not. But being constant- You also mention having ‘a multitude of getting beat up because they areas of the prison as they Legal 39-43 owe a debt - it’s outrageous! ly called an offender all the time including prison employment opportunities that are are not on display for Young and old men commit- probation, OMU, educational carers etc. is purposeful and financially remunerated’ “There are strict prisoners to collect. Instead, ting suicide or self-harming, very negative and has negative consequenc- - what does that even mean? Yeah, sure, we rules about when it’s becoming an ongoing es such as being called an ‘offender’ implies prisoners talk in soundbites all the time! Get prisoners must request the closed visits can issue. It breaks my heart that you always will be an offender and a grip. When you talk it’s ‘we’ this and ‘we’ forms in person from an be imposed” Page 39 when I read about another therefore no room for self-rehabilitation and that, clearly you are talking as a collective Equality Representative, Claire Salama life taken. We all know there’s keep you being punished constantly for it. for the staff. who is another prisoner! Jailbreak 44-56 no rehabilitation for most If a child is told they are naughty all the time It sounds like you are trying to sell a holiday “It’s thirty six prisoners and with some it’s a This contradicts ensuring then the child will behave in such a manner in a 5 star hotel and not a prison that 99% of years this year revolving door. In my book privacy. Furthermore, no this government are just not as expected of them. What’s the subliminal prisoners detest. So please, the next time you but the day will envelopes are provided. interested. message being reinforced here? Words are try insulting our intelligence at least have always seem like powerful messages, let’s stop the negative the balls to state that you are working ‘for’ What can be done about Page 45 yesterday to me” Sandra - Prisoners partner stereotyping. Positive thinking equals a the prison and not pretend to be one of the this? Lucy Forde positive outlook equals change which instils lads that are living there - who will not be Thanks for your hope, self-esteem, self-worth and true ‘thanking their lucky stars’ that they have ‘Thank you for saving my life’ donations reflection of past behaviour. spent a period of time in a hellhole. The Smiler - HMP Manchester Recently a friend was Contributing to Mailbag Whilst recently serving a sentence at Manchester I was released from jail and I was assaulted on two occasions which very nearly drove me to shocked to find out that he If you would like to contribute to Mailbag, please send your letters (concise and take my life. If not for the quick and definitive actions of two had died from a drug clearly marked) to ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, officers, the outcome could have been devastatingly overdose. The lads here all Hampshire SO30 2GB. Please note letters for publication June be edited. different. pulled together in order to 400 words or below enhances your chances of your letter being published. Since this incident and throughout my time on the Healthcare raise a donation for his family ‘Mailbag’, Unit I have had an exceptional level of care, respect and, towards the funeral. 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probably forgotten more about motivating All uniforms men than Mr Davies has ever learned. In terms of increasing the prison population, in it together there have been budget cuts of 40% in the Jay Tarling - HMP Leicester prison service in the last 5 years, impacting on its ability to have sufficient and experi- I read with interest the letter enced staff and be able to properly manage in the April issue from Ryan inmates. More prisons are being built but we Humpage (‘Staff using are simply not making sufficiently effective physical violence). I am use of our existing prisons as is evidenced by currently in the punishment reoffending rates. Prison needs to be a fair, block and have been for over Exactly who is safe, yet challenging environment with a a month. I am on a 3-man structured regime and approach to dealing unlock and they open my Philip Davies MP? with offending behaviour and attitudes. door dressed in full riot gear. S Webster - ex-prisoner We have a national situation, particularly in Recently they entered my I saw reference in the April issue of Inside the area of drug related offending, where cell and I ended up on the Time to a comment made by Philip Davies MP inmates receive far too little support in floor with 3 staff on top of me pinning me down, then a suggesting that more women should be jailed prison and are given maintenance doses of PO came into the cell and to make them equal to men. Also, in an methadone only to be released with the same started stamping on my article in the Sun recently relating to comments habit that brought them to prison with no ankles. This was witnessed made by Russ Trent, the new Governor at support outside only to return to prison by a deputy governor who HMP Berwyn where he outlined plans for within weeks (if not days) of release. did nothing to help or stop running the prison. Mr Trent, a former Royal it. I was refused healthcare © Fotolia.com Marine who has worked at 5 prisons and is In terms of the Criminal Justice System being for my injuries until 25 hours the current Governor of HMP Brinsford ‘brought into disrepute’, I think Mr Davies after I was assaulted and I advised staff that he wanted men to be and everyone should be more concerned by was in constant pain. referred to as Mr, that staff should knock on the actions of South Yorkshire Police at Orgreave, Hillsborough and the way it handled ‘Thanks to Bronzefield ‘room’ doors before entering, and to have I showed my injuries to in-cell telephones. Mr Davies remarked ‘It’s the child abuse situation in Rotherham. How healthcare staff, and these drivel like this that brings the Criminal Justice Institutional Racism has engendered distrust included a badly bruised Mother and Baby Unit’ of the Metropolitan Police and how if a police System and the Prison System into disrepute’. and swollen right ankle, Joni Parrington - HMP East Sutton Park officer makes a mistake or crosses the line bruising around my kidneys, he/she is far more likely to escape disciplinary I wondered just who Mr Davies is? Well, he arms and legs. No CCTV was I was sent to HMP Bronzefield in 2015. Custody was a shock sits on the Justice Select Committee, has no action or prosecution than a member of the taken of the incident as I public by being allowed to retire on health and the harsh reality of prison hit me very hard. As a mum of legal training, gained a 2.1 degree from believe that this was a 5 children, the impact really hit me, especially as my grounds. Huddersfield University in History and planned attack. I informed youngest was only 11 weeks old. Political Studies and has previously served my partner what had In terms of the prison system being brought on the Culture Media and Sport Select happened and she was so By some miracle the Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) staff into disrepute I’d be more worried about the Committee, so I can best describe him as a worried at my treatment that appeared like angels and my son was able to join me for 9 reoffending rates, why we incarcerate more Lay Member of the Justice Select Committee! she reported the matter to months on the unit. It was an absolute privilege to be there, people than any other country in Europe and the police. When the prison considering the MBU staff were focussed on the best interests why other countries manage offenders and Russ Trent, as a former Royal Marine has heard that the police were of the children. The nursery was outstanding in content and re-offending far better than we do. involved they then said that care and the support was unwavering. My son thrived and on I had a ‘weapon’, which is a lie. his 1st birthday I chose for him to return home, leaving me to Parole? Recall? The police contacted my move to open conditions, enabling me to work hard and go partner and informed her home to all my children. that their investigation Life Sentence? ended with no result but “ I will always be grateful to the MBU ladies who that they were now investi- treated me as a mum, and not just a prisoner ” OLLIERS SOLICITORS gating me for assaulting staff! Talk about all uni- The work the MBU staff put in to help me and my son was CAN HELP forms in it together! I am exceptional. They produced detailed learning journeys and still awaiting the outcome of photo-albums documenting my son’s milestones. They this investigation. Representation throughout England & Wales supported us and went to great lengths to make the separa- There is an old saying that tion as painless as possible. what happens on tour stays I will always be grateful to the MBU ladies who treated me as Life Sentences - IPP, MANDATORY, DISCRETIONARY, on tour - our version is what happens in prison will be a mum, and not just a prisoner. They genuinely care and they AUTOMATIC LIFE SENTENCE PRISONERS - ORAL & covered up by staff and are beacons of light in the darkness of the prison system. I wish to publicly thank them all. WRITTEN REPRESENTATION governors alike.

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My Offender Supervisor keeps banging on I want out about not recommending release and I keep A Micallet - HMP Wymott banging my head against the wall as I do not want release, I want to be deported. So after I am a Maltese foreign national and from almost a year I have been granted an oral day-one have always said I want to be hearing. By the way, in accordance with my deported asap. I even signed up for the Early ERS I am due to be deported in September Release Scheme (ERS). My parole date was 2016 anyway, so why subject me to parole December 2015 but I was given one in June hearings that mean nothing but cost plenty? 2015, 6 months early. Had the Parole Board I’ve had to involve a solicitor and waste legal aid. recommended release I could have been deported. Then I had another parole review If foreign nationals want out of the country, in December, for which I was granted legal then send them back, it will work out representation. cheaper in the long run.

This was not the case. Perhaps I was a little too What they Another lie I was fed while trusting. The thought of waiting to be deported at the getting out of prison was all don’t tell you! airport, was being told by a I could think of. I would Border Agency representa- advise anyone facing GR - former prisoner tive - as with the Home deportation to find out Office representative - that everything in detail and, if ‘Sort this place out or shut it’ Within the last six months I upon arrival at my destina- possible, get written was released from prison on Daniel Madden - HMP Manchester tion I would not be detained. confirmation of regulations an Early Release Scheme at your destination relating (ERS) offered by the Home Certianly for the past 3 years, and probably “ Recently, 5 minutes after lock-up, In reality however, I was to detention and far longer, this place has been falling to bits. Office for foreign nationals questioning. the roof of the wing collapsed! It sent to be deported should they arrested on the runway There has been 3 different number one when disembarking the governors since I’ve been here. glass crashing to the floor where I agree. When I originally If I’d known that in 6 received my Deportation aircraft. I was then taken to had just stood! They haven’t even the police station located at months following my release There are CCTV cameras around the prison Order, the conditions I had I’d be unemployed, living on covered the hole in the roof so it the airport and questioned that are completely destroyed and hanging to meet to stay in the UK bread crumbs, I would have for roughly two hours. I had off the walls. Recently, 5 minutes after actually rains inside the wing now in seemed unobtainable. opted to stay in prison a no access to a legal repre- lock-up, the roof of the wing collapsed! It several places ” little longer. If you’re facing sentative. They were only sent glass crashing to the floor where I had I had a meeting with a Home a similar situation stay and satisfied once I told them I just stood! They haven’t even covered the months until everybody on the wing put in a Office representative who fight your deportation order. had plans to move off out of hole in the roof so it actually rains inside the complaint form. We’ve had at least 6 assured me that if I agreed to Prison is far better than the country and they wing now in several places. different regimes in the last 12 months. the ERS offered and was living with nothing. deported my criminal record allowed me to board my next As for inspections by HMCIP, if the police would not go with me to the flight without further About 20% of the windows in this prison are phoned your house and gave you a time and country I was being sent to. incident. Month by Month Rachel broken and you would be lucky to find a a date when they were going to come and Billington page 18 toilet seat still intact. search your house, it is quite obvious that you will then get rid of all evidence and A new front in pastoral care In the last year our Ordinary Letters were cut pretend to be a good boy for the duration of from two to one, the amount of visiting hours the search. So why do HMCIP warn the R Khan - HMP Wymott were cut, we no longer get any cleaning prison before it comes? The prison puts on a materials and they completely refuse to give show pretending everything is great. Recently there has been an issue here with cross-contamination of food. We were told by the us toothpaste saying it was ‘for new prison- Imam at the Friday service not to speak or ask questions during prayers and to save our ers only’. We were refused library for 9 Sort this place out or shut it. questions for after. When the time arrived the Imam started selecting people to talk to. I was one of those selected. Some did not like this ‘pick and choose’ policy so they left. Going with the flow, I left too. DAVIES & JONES RODMAN PEARCE Later that day I received a nicking by the Imam - apparently for disruption during and after SOLICITORS SOLICITORS the service, not obeying the Imam and inciting others! I was subsequently adjudicated and FIGHTING FOR YOU !!! found guilty. No surprise as during the adjudication the Imam and the governor sat next to Specialising in each other and were on first-name terms. I lost 14 days gym, association, canteen and Experienced representation in earnings. I was not the one who was inciting but no one else got nicked. 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The long term ambition of up scenarios then convincing himself they NOMS/HMPS is for all 136 Spice survivor are true. I try to convince him but my words prisons in England to fall on deaf ears. I am reduced to tears daily become smoke free but A prisoner’s partner and my children see this and try to comfort owing to the Ruling there is me. I feel a constant ache in my belly and I’m no pressure of any legally We all know prison isn’t easy and that it is a nervous wreck, but if I end the relationship imposed deadline. not always the prisoner who does his he may get worse. sentence alone. The wives, mothers, sons As far as free nicotine and daughters do it with them. And it is I have sleepless nights, panic attacks and a patches are concerned this is damn hard. Now add spice/mamba into the constant ball of anxiety in me. All this already part of the package mix and the journey becomes 10 times because the person I love decided to smoke offered by the healthcare worse. Knowing that your loved one is legal highs. Then he smokes so much of it he © Fotolia.com providers in each establish- addicted, watching them fade away, grey has a fit and becomes scared for his life. So ment to those wishing to skin and glassy eyes, shaking like an old before you roll that joint ask yourself is it Questions on the smoking ban stop smoking. There is no man - it’s heartbreaking. worth it? Is it really worth the risk? I am a suggestion that this support strong person but I have come close to M Phillipson - HMP Leyhill would not continue if and “ I am constantly being accused of walking away, even taking my own life. when demand increases. things I am incapable of by the man I think prisoners would like give us a definitive answer in I am head-over-heels in love with ... I am lucky that he has now stopped using to know if Inside Time could order to stop all the hearsay. As highlighted in our report spice. He has been clean for 8 months and shed any light on what is of the very successful I have sleepless nights, panic attacks we are working on our relationship, trying to happening about the Editorial note: The recent introduction of the ban in and a constant ball of anxiety in me. regain and rebuild what we once had. If my smoking ban in England and High Court Ruling (featured Guernsey Prison, the policy letter reaches just one person and stops them Wales: in the April issue) overturned All this because the person I love can be implemented without from rolling that joint, stops them from the compulsory, immediate the degree of resistance and decided to smoke legal highs ” tearing their family apart then it has been 1. Is the smoking ban going ban on smoking in prisons, disruption (or repercussions) well worth writing. If you cannot stop ahead? however private prisons were Then there are the side-effects - paranoia witnessed elsewhere in the smoking legal highs for yourself then try 2. When will it start? excluded. being the worst. I am constantly being world. Introducing the policy doing it for your family and the ones who 3. Will prisoners be offered accused of things I am incapable of by the gradually with appropriate love you. Nobody deserves to suffer what I’ve free ‘stop smoking’ patches? All prisons in Wales and the man I am head-over-heels in love with, support is possible and been through. 4. Are the prisons prepared four Early Adopter prisons in knowing full well he is in that box thinking for the almost inevitable England; Exeter, Channings similar successes have repercussions? Wood, Dartmoor and Erlestoke already been achieved in are now smoke free. Open prisons in England and Wales. These are just a few ques- prisons have been completely It must be acknowledged Corrections and Clarifications tions that need answering. smoke free with the excep- that there are also potential The policy of Inside Time is to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Corrections will Here at Leyhill we are only tion of designated outside repercussions for any appear in the mailbag section of each issue and on the relevant web page. If you notice an error allowed to smoke in areas since October 2015 and organisation ignoring the please feel free to write to us at the usual address providing the date and page number from the designated areas outside, no smoke free accommodation health advice available and newspaper, alternatively have a friend or family member call or email us (see below). smoking in our rooms. is now available in the failing to protect employees remaining closed prisons or those in their care from Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, 01489 795945 I’m sure you will be able to throughout the estate. smoking related illnesses. Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. [email protected] YOU DON’T HAVE TO STOMACH THESE JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE IN PRISON

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ROTL - a vastly to blame it on councils and government policy. I do Mailbites underused tool believe these play a role but if you are not allowing the ‘I’d rather take the A prisoner’s father ability to find accommoda- risk…’ tion then there is no chance My daughter is in of being housed, this I I write in response to the Bronzefield prison serving believe is slightly different letter ‘Thanks for the bugs, the final 3 months of an 8 to short term sentences, but Guv’ (April issue). Whilst it is year sentence. She has having served 4 years all not ideal for staff to come continually applied for ROTL previous avenues have been into work ill, we must (Release on Temporary closed. consider the bigger picture. License) in the form of child With all the cuts to staffing resettlement license to PSI -13-2015 informs you that levels, if staff begin to take rebuild her relationship with ROTL is a very important time off for colds, that is her son, who was a mere 6 tool to use to get the going to lead to restricted months when she was prisoner integrated back into regimes, cancellation of sentenced. their family and the outside hospital appoint- community but a tool that is ments and agitated prisoners The prison has refused her vastly underused. At who can’t get any association this very important license Bronzefield there is current- time. I’d rather take the risk of on various minor grounds ly one prisoner out of 500 catching a cold. e.g. she needs to wait until being allocated ROTL, in the © prisonimage.org Evan Prevett - HMP Elmley she has been accessed as form of RDR for work suitable for open conditions, purposes. which then moved dates going back many decades, have been Honouring Jo from February till April. Too old to care about assessed as low risk and therefore not It seems that the hierarchy Here at HMP Whatton it is Then once this was granted eligible for treatment programmes such as at Bronzefield put profits Peter South - HMP Stafford with great sadness that we you have to wait 6 weeks for SOTP and TSP. So what is there to do for before the good of the say goodbye to our Church of checks to be completed etc. them in prison? I am sewing hems on prisoners by refusing ROTL Mr Gove’s latest aspirations to reform prisons England chaplain, Jo Honour. She has been in the prison blankets. I don’t want to do it but have been and this puts the prisoner at seem admirable as long as they don’t remain For many here she has been a population for three-and-a- threatened with punishment of extra days if risk of recall because they simply aspirations. But there is a group of tremendous source of support half years, there has been I don’t. What does Mr Gove think that will do have nowhere to go with prisoners that he, and the prison system and, personally, she has helped plenty of opportunity for for me? minimal funds and no seems to have forgotten about. There is a me immensely with many these checks to be made. chance of employment. significant and growing number of older issues and concerns that I After years of sewing blankets I will be Their only option is to men that are coming into prison thanks to have had. It is no coincidence She has also applied for RDR released into the community on licence. My re-offend and sadly at least the hysteria surrounding alleged improprie- that the chapel is full to and ROR (Resettlement Day, Offender Manager tells me that I will not be get a bed to lay in. ties of 30 or 40 years ago. Many of these men bursting every Sunday morning and Overnight Release) to are quite well educated, are not drug addicts allowed to return home as I do not live in thanks to Jo’s enjoyable, investigate accommodation or alcoholics and do not have mental health England and Wales. I have a loving wife, entertaining and heartfelt upon her release, but again supportive friend’s network, a home and a In 2015 the number of problems. The prison system revolves around services. HMP Stafford, where this is not forthcoming. job to go to. All of the things that we are told ROTLs fell by 26% from education, drug rehabilitation, alcohol Jo is transferring to, are very are vital to a prisoner’s rehabilitation, yet I the previous year and the awareness, anger management and a host of lucky and I hope you will It was only recently re- will be denied all of them. number of prisoners granted other courses. Vocational courses also are of come to appreciate Jo as vealed, (April 2016) that this ROTL fell by 30%. Yet the no value to the older prisoner - not many much as we do. Thank you, prison releases prisoners failure rate is just 0.05%. men in their 60s will want to be bricklayers So I’ll tread water for years in prison, doing your surname says it all as it who have finished their or plasterers when they leave prison. nothing very useful at all, then be released truly has been an honour sentences with tents because Justice Secretary commits to have to claim benefits and live alone in knowing you. God bless. they have nowhere to live. to increased use of ROTL Many of them, partly due to their age and the social housing for 5 years. How is that They then had the audacity John Hanson - HMP Whatton page 10 historic nature of their alleged crimes, often useful? Blackfords new ad 24.1.14:Layout 1 24/1/14 12:59 Page 1

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I entered Lincoln in December 2015 and the I have been refused a Listener after being accused of using them to traffic prison was informed immediately that I have items across the jail. I have been informed by staff that if I keep asking for a an ileostomy (stoma). I also have a large Listener then this will result in 14 days in the Segregation Unit for me! parastomal hernia making it hard for me to bend my body. I’ve had my cell stripped because I am struggling with self-harm. I’ve had complaint forms and IEP appeals either lost or destroyed. I’ve had property However, I ended up on a top bunk for the go missing and my complaints ignored. Staff bullying here has been swept first 3 weeks. Very difficult for me to get up under the carpet. I have witnessed other inmates being mistreated but they and down, especially with a stoma, meaning are too scared to come forward. Though I have complained and tried every regular use of the toilet. Eventually I was © prisonimage.org possible avenue to sort these problems I seem to get nowhere. I am so moved to another cell but with another frustrated and at my wits end and I do not know where to turn or what to do. cell-mate. No privacy, no toilet curtain or Any help or advice would be helpful. screen. Unfair on me when it comes to Amber Alert Editorial note: We cannot offer legal advice but this may be an issue where a dignity and on the other prisoner as he has David Scott - HMP Winchester my issues forced on him. Subject Access Request (SAR) under the Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) might offer some assistance. The request could ask for all wing records and ‘Intelligence There have been several serious disturbances here at Winchester Reports’ (SIRs). They may try to refuse SIRs but if they are relying on such Only with the intervention of Mental Health since the first one in December 2015, with the consequences staff did I realise I could be given a single material for any form of disciplinary procedure (and segregation would have that the prison is on a constant Amber Alert state. This has to follow an adjudication) the Information Commissioner might well consider cell status on medical grounds. Something been in place for approximately 5 months now and is not a your application fair. Also, if they are claiming Listeners are trafficking drugs that should have happened the day I arrived temporary measure, this regime is now considered the norm. - as this is my first time in prison and I had across the prison then there must be a record of disciplinary action against no idea how things worked. I have never There are many and far-reaching consequences to some of them for, what is, a very serious offence. With regard to complaints you have received an ‘induction’, I’ve picked up the restrictions being imposed on inmates and I shall deal the right to follow them through to the Prisons Ombudsman who will have everything I know from other prisoners. here with the three most serious ones. access to all prison records to investigate what is going on. You can write to the As my condition substantially affects the Ombudsman at: Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, PO Box 70769, London food I am able to eat, I’ve had constant “ Tension here is high and getting worse and I fear SE1P 4XY; you do not need to use a stamp as the prison pays the postage. problems in this area. So much so that I’ve that if management do not address the situation given up complaining. I rely on what I can Notice board buy from the canteen most days. My body soon, the consequences are going to be extreme can’t cope with what’s on offer from the and possibly fatal ” hotplate. Why we have gone a little quiet… 1) On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, prisoners are, on I’ve had to complain to the IMB in regard to average, only getting 45 minutes a day out of their cells. On been able to secure funding to wearing jeans on visits - I can’t wear Sunday that includes having to queue for kit change and continue. Believe me - we have tried. tight-fitting clothing around my abdomen. medication. Showers, cell-cleaning, admin, phone calls also We are still hoping to continue. This Both Mental Health and IMB organised 2 have to be done in that 45 minute period. might be in the form of a less plush different memos that I carry with me to visits and less frequent in-the-meantime in case I am unlucky enough to encounter an 2) We are banged up at either 10.15 hrs or 11.00 hrs on a kind of issue, or we might just be a officer intent on sending me back to the Friday morning and not opened up (except for meal collec- bit quiet (almost shut up!) for a little wing. tions) until either 14.30 or 15.15 hrs on a Saturday afternoon. while longer. The current political This means that on most weekends we are locked away for up climate has put a lot of small to 29 hours but get no exercise. I know I committed a crime, but I have been charities into the same position as Anna Robinson - Not Shut Up us. But, rest assured, if you’ve sent punished over and over again at HMP 3) Exercise is almost never available and there is no interest magazine us mail and we’ve not replied - it’s Lincoln. There must be others with stomas in or will from senior wing staff to facilitate any, despite D Wing not because we don’t care! the system and I wonder what their experi- having their own secure yard. The wing pool table has been As many of you know, we started life ences might be? This prison has taken my ‘withdrawn’ and there are no other wing activities available. in 2003, with a London wide We thought that writing to Inside will to go on. Without the Mental Health People just mill about growing increasingly frustrated. magazine of prisoners’ creative Time would be the best way of letting workers I don’t think I would be alive now. writing. Over the 13 years we have the largest number of you know. Tension here is high and getting worse and I fear that if operated, we have gone from Editorial note: An ileostomy is where the management do not address the situation soon, the conse- strength to strength with national If you want to contact us in the small bowel (small intestine) is diverted quences are going to be extreme and possibly fatal. So please coverage, international even - and meantime - you can write to me, Anna through an opening in the tummy (abdomen). can you inform us whether it is either legal or acceptable to art too - in full colour. This included Robinson, Poetry Editor, Matthew The opening is known as a stoma. A special keep us locked up for almost 30 hours at a time? And is it not in 2014-15, launching an academy for Meadows, or our trustees via Anna bag is placed over the stoma to collect waste a legal requirement to give us daily exercise? ex-offender writers and artists. Robinson, ADI, University of East products that usually pass through the colon London, University Way, London E16 (large intestine) and out of the body through Editorial note: We are looking into this and will respond in Then, suddenly, the rug was pulled 2RD. the rectum and back passage (anus). the next issue. from under our feet and we have not

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However, over recent years an insidious Dispersals or process has been under way, turning the Mailbites whole of the Dispersal system into one large punishment blocks? punishment block. The exercise fields have Skype for the deaf? B Knapp - HMP Whitemoor been closed and, here for example, over 100 I wish I was as fortunate as inmates are allocated a patch of caged the inmates of HMP It is daily becoming more difficult to tell tarmac approximately 25 x 40 yards square Magilligan who have Skype whether we are in Dispersal prisons or for ‘exercise’. No toilet facilities or adequate (Inside Time - April issue). As punishment blocks. After the Mountbatten seating for the burgeoning population of a profoundly deaf sign-lan- Report into prison security back in 1966; he pensioners kept in these places either. guage user here at Highdown actually recommended a super-max security Restrictions are now being placed to stop I am unable to use the prison on the Isle of Wight: it was decided to prisoners on the same wing, but separate standard voice phone to create a Dispersal system involving the use spurs, sharing newspapers or DVDs, etc. It contact family and friends. of several top security jails around the seems all the little acts of human kindness Sign language, as it is visual, country. that take place in these jails on a daily basis requires the video facility of are frowned upon and stamped out. Skype. HMP Highdown’s The original ethos of these prisons was to excuse for breaching the 2010 have a secure perimeter with as much The whole purpose of these places seems to Woodhill: progression Equality Act is that ‘Skype is a freedom within as possible. For the first 15 have been lost as the majority of prisoners social media platform like years or so of their existence, very experi- here are solely here because of their security Facebook’. enced Number One Governors and solidarity or regression? category (often allocated by self-aggrandis- Stephen Dering - amongst inmates saw this position main- ing police officers) or the initial length of Lorraine Etherington - Charles Salvador Art Foundation HMP Highdown tained. From their inception though, B Cat their sentence. Not for extra punishment and prison governors sought to use the dehumanisation on top of often massive In late 2012 the prisoner formerly known as Charles Bronson Dispersals as a dumping ground for any “Use your time, don’t engaged in the Violence Reduction Programme. This was recalcitrant Category B prisoners. sentences. seen as something of a mini victory for the system, as Charlie let your time use you” Who has been allowed to decide that playing had hitherto refused to engage in any psychology courses in I have served 14 months of a “ Over recent years an insidious football or walking on a patch of grass is bad his entire time in the penal system. However, he wasn’t doing 54 month sentence so when process has been under way, turning for long-term inmates and needs to be it to tick any symbolic boxes, or to ‘work the system.’ He was the staff in education told me doing it for himself. To date, Charlie has earned four certifi- banned? I would suggest that it comes from I had time to do the Open the whole of the Dispersal system cates and built up a valuable relationship with his psycholo- the same mind-set referred to in your University I jumped at it and into one large punishment block ” gist, based on trust. At his recent oral parole hearing, he was previous letters pages i.e. the introduction of applied to do Event Planning commended on his work to reduce his risk and encouraged to this ‘offender’ label. Level 2. In February I was Most Dispersal governors sought to thwart continue this, so he could evidence a sustained period of accepted onto this course and this as they knew their prisons were there for stability. However, there lies one obstacle to this, and it’s one Some of us are old enough to remember how it has made me really happy containment and not punishment. In those that has been put in place by HMP themselves. because now I am doing we used to criticise the Russians for their days several prisons such as Durham, something positive and Gulags and ‘thought-police’. Now this is Winson Green, Wormwood Scrubs and Charlie has been advised that his next prison move will be productive with my time that happening in British prisons - obey the Wandsworth (to name a few) had notorious back to HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes. If he can overlook the will help me to find a job thought police, even when their thoughts are punishment blocks where B cats from B cat numerous historical issues that cause him psychological when I am released. If anybody jails could be sent. patently wrong or you will be made to suffer. harm, he will then have another more pressing issue to deal is thinking of applying for the with. As Charlie has stated himself, he has had numerous Open University I would altercations whilst there, been denied the right to send his strongly encourage them. Use art out, had mail illegally withheld and also lost his elder your time, don’t let your time brother John whilst there. Woodhill may be perceived by use you. Tel: 0161 928 8877 Prison Service HQ as a progressive environment, but the facts would suggest otherwise. It most certainly is progres- Vick Dodsworth - prison Email: [email protected] sive if your current circumstances are a double doored cell supplied for 23 hours a day. Staff at Wakefield are, in my personal experience, highly professional and supportive, but the ‘Stop pointing the environment is a bleak and damning one. So anything else, quite frankly, is progressive. Yet, Charlie will experience a finger’ reduced canteen list, telephone calls are limited to 10 We seem to be very concerned minutes and unceremoniously cut off thereafter, mail seems about crimes against humanity to cause logistical nightmares and his routine is heavily around the world. The people It doesn’t matter where you are - if you have had an accident you disrupted. Charlie is mentally prepared for all this. However, in power like to point the what he was not prepared for, which affects many other finger at other countries and could be entitled to claim for compensation. prisoners, is the almost total absence of psychological regimes for the harsh Let us help you. courses available. Woodhill does not even offer the Violence treatment of their citizens Reduction Programme. So the recommendations of the Parole and take the moral high If you suffer an accident because of someone else then we will help you get justice. Board are not only optimistic, but totally unassailable. What ground when really they need We’ve won millions of pounds of compensation for our clients since setting up our will happen, I wonder, come Charlie’s next Parole Board to wake up and admit what law firm back in 1998. meeting when he cannot evidence any engagement with they are doing to their own psychology or willingness to reduce his risk (a risk, I might We make the entire process as simple as possible. citizens. I and many others add, that is ‘perceived’. It’s a sort of ‘The dog might bite us so have had our liberty taken No Win No Fee let’s keep him locked up’ ethos). and been incarcerated for We act for clients who have suffered due to: many years all because I could Whitemoor Prison offers the VRP which begs the question, Road traffic accidents not prove I didn’t do something. why can’t Charlie be moved there? Why do HMP insist on If I want to appeal against Accidents from work injuries repeatedly moving him to a prison that has a history of conviction for a crime that Accidents in public places self-harming, psychological abuses and causes him unneces- never even happened I must Head injuries sary pressures and difficulty? Moving a prisoner to an come up with new evidence! environment where psychological work is removed is not Cosmetic surgery and medical negligence New evidence of what? The progression. When will HMP address this issue? Brain injuries crime never happened so how can I get new evidence? Motorbike and bicycle injuries Does someone send money The British government is Albert Buildings to you in prison? doing bad things to British people on a daily basis so Scott Drive For personal injury, contact Eamonn Dunne Help improve the service by asking stop pointing the finger. 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UK has ‘most punitive’ criminal Newsbites records regime for young offenders l The Howard League is England and Wales have topped a new international ranking carrying out a research of the most punitive childhood criminal records system. The project to analyse how judges Standing Committee for Youth Justice (SCYJ) have published approach the sentencing of a report on the “international treatment of criminal records young adults (aged 18 to 25). for youths” comparing regimes in 16 jurisdictions including There is no distinct set of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and in the US, guidelines in sentencing this Ohio and Texas. age group and the Howard League want to analyse The study looked at serious crimes such as murder or rape sentencing remarks from and found that, in England and Wales, criminal records for Crown Court cases as well as children were treated in the same manner as adults regard- judgements from the Court of less of offence category. However minor a childhood crime, Appeal. They would appreci- in England and Wales that crime can never be deleted and is ate receiving copies of kept by the state for life. The report found that a child who sentencing remarks (an- offends in England and Wales is not only more likely to onymised if necessary) for acquire a criminal record, but that this record will have a defendants aged 18-25 at MTCnovo takes over child prison longer-lasting and more profound impact on them as they go time of conviction. Send to: on to adulthood. [email protected] Last month the running of Rainsbrook serious concerns and poor Ofsted reports at Secure Training Centre (child prison) was all child prisons run by G4S who have now If a child in Germany or New Zealand is arrested by the l An Ofsted inspection of taken over by the controversial company said they intend to leave the market. The YJB police and released with no further action taken, that Rainsbrook children’s prison MTCnovo who have been criticised, especial- say the poor Ofsted report on Rainsbrook information is never disclosed on criminal records checks. criticised staff for not turning ly in the USA, for brutality in its prisons. The was because of the challenges of changing However, in England and Wales, that information is held on body-worn cameras Youth Justice Board (YJB) oversaw the management companies and MTCnovo will locally by the police and may at their discretion, be disclosed during restraints. Inspectors transition. The move to MTCnovo follows address the areas that need improvement. on enhanced criminal records. Last year 60,000 cautions found instances of violence and convictions were given to youths in the UK, all of which and restraint by staff on the are attached to criminal records, some of which will need to 61 boys and 13 girls held Cuts in legal aid fuelling miscarriages of justice be disclosed for many years, some of them forever. This is a there were too frequent. The stark contrast to the statistics in New Zealand where only 48 Howard League told Inside A new report by the charity The experience of unrepre- messing up the cross-exami- children under the age of 17 were given a criminal record. Time; “These secure training Transform Justice says that sented defendants in the nation of witnesses, and centres have failed children miscarriages of justice and criminal courts’ states; getting tougher sentences More information (SCJI): tinyurl.com/grb74bh for two decades. Children long delays in the criminal “Interviewees had witnessed because they did not know Source The Justice Gap: tinyurl.com/hn2va9y have died, children have been justice system are becoming unrepresented defendants how to mitigate.” injured. Children are released more common because a not understanding what back into the community more damaged and emotion- growing number of people they were charged with, Download report: ally harmed. We cannot keep are having to represent pleading guilty when they tinyurl.com/hcorx85 inventing new ways to lock up themselves in court. would have been advised transformjustice.org.uk The report ‘Justice denied? not to, and vice versa, children. It puts them in danger, costs a fortune and is to speed up the release of IPP morally corrosive to society.” Justice Secretary commits prisoners, those serving indeterminate sentences for public l Statistics released by the to increased use of ROTL protection but are still behind Ministry of Justice show that in the year 2014/15 they Michael Gove, the justice sec- in Buckinghamshire. bars in spite of having served released 48 prisoners by retary, is planning to reverse McLoughlin was later jailed longer than the minimum term mistake; 41 from prison and 7 a decline in the numbers of for life. laid down by the courts. from courts. HMP Bullingdon prisoners released on ROTL, was the worst offender with which followed a murder and Nick Hardwick, who was then Mr Gove said; “Allowing a five prisoners released in other serious crimes commit- the chief inspector of prisons, prisoner out on temporary re- © prisonimage.org error with offences ranging ted by prisoners while on tem- described the incident as a lease is not a soft option, it is from possession of drugs, porary release in recent years. catastrophic failure and called a preparation for the hard burglary and serious assault. He insisted that the move was for the system to be tightened. Prisoner beats the choices that life on the outside Wandsworth was next with not a “soft option” and said However, prison governors demands. Release on tempo- three; one of whom was in that it would be wrong to will now be given greater say Cambridge elite rary licence requires prisoners prison for possessing a allow “very few” prominent over who should be released to commit to proper work, the A 28-year-old prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence at firearm. Other ‘offenders’ cases to “distract us from the after a 40 per cent fall, from discipline of new routines and HMP Grendon has finished top of the class in a master’s included Cardiff, Chelmsford, long-term advantages for 11,211 to 6,758, between 2013 respect for new boundaries set degree course in criminology, ahead of a dozen Cambridge Hewell, Pentonville and society”. and 2015 in the number of in- by others.” graduates. Wormwood Scrubs. mates given release on tempo- Mr Gove announced last rary licence. Philip Davies, a Tory member He was one of 22 Grendon prisoners who studied alongside l As at 31st March 2016 there December his intention to give of the justice select committee, criminology students in one of their master of philosophy were 14,920 prison officers more prisoners the opportuni- “ Allowing a prisoner said: “Prison is supposed to be modules. working in public prisons in ty to work daily in the commu- England and Wales, that’s one nity, visit dying relatives for a out on temporary punishment and the least vic- The prisoners were part of a project designed to offer elite officer for every six prisoners. few hours or stay overnight at release is not a soft tims of crime should expect is education in the prison and study alongside the Cambridge Around 1,540 officers left accommodation where they that they spend that little time option, it is a prepara- students - who benefit by seeing the prison system for real. during the year to March 31st will live on release. actually in prison.” tion for the hard The project was structured and organised by Amy Ludlow, and NOMS recruited 1,800 law lecturer at Gonville and Caius College, and Ruth new officers. About a third of Day release was scaled back choices that life on the Mark Day, head of policy at the Armstrong, research associate at St John’s College who said NOMS staff are female. after the murder of Graham Prison Reform Trust, said: outside demands ” they believe there is a wealth of untapped academic talent Buck, 66, in Little Gaddesden, “Release on temporary licence inside the criminal justice system and constructed the l The 10 most overcrowded Hertfordshire, in 2013 by Ian plays a vital role in the safe In a speech to governors, Mr Learning Together programme so that prisoners studied in prisons in April were: McLoughlin, a double murder- management and supervision Gove also backed those who an equal partnership with the Cambridge students. Kennet 187%, Leeds 171%, er. Mr Buck was killed after of offenders in the community. wished to call inmates men The prisoner now hopes to complete his MPhil at Pembroke Wandsworth 169%, going to help a neighbour who We welcome Michael Gove’s rather than prisoners, and to College, Cambridge, when he finishes his sentence. He has Preston 166%, Lincoln 157%, was being attacked by refer to their accommodation commitment to reversing the been made a conditional offer and has had two papers Swansea 156%, Exeter 155%, McLoughlin, who had been as rooms rather than cells. He dramatic decline in its use accepted by academic journals, to be published next month. Leicester 154%, Doncaster 152% allowed out of Spring Hill jail also signalled a renewed drive since 2013.” and Durham 151%. Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Newsround 11

Michael Gove and justice Record £1.5million Newsbites

inspectorates compensation paid l Justice Minister Michael Gove has appointed a Following a report into the various criminal justice inspectorates to prison staff ‘terrorism tzar’ for British justice minister Michael Gove has written to the heads of the prisons amid fears of growing various bodies including Peter Clarke, the new Chief Inspector A record £1.5million was paid in compensa- of Prisons, and Nigel Newcomen the Prisons and Probation tion to prison staff last year, more than in the radicalisation of prisoners. Ombudsman to reiterate his belief in the importance of external previous 5 years put together, following Claudia Sturt, former and independent scrutiny on both the treatment of those in alleged assaults by prisoners. Experts say governor of HMP Belmarsh, custody and the delivery of offender management services. that the level of assaults is fuelled by legal will have the title Director of highs and a shortage of staff. The highest Security, Order and Counter In his letter he says; “I have no doubt that the voice of our number of assaults on staff was at HMP Terrorism. Her first job will be Altcourse with three per week, HMYOI © prisonimage.org scrutiny bodies remains resolutely independent. They are not to counter findings of an afraid of taking a critical view, as clearly illustrated in recent Feltham and HMP Pentonville were close on-going government review inspectorate reports. As the responsible Secretary of State, behind with 100 each last year. which found, among other critical reports can make difficult and painful reading but I would High suicide rate wish it no other way. Reports can also highlight the achievements Glyn Travis, of the Prison Officers things, Muslim preachers and successes of both the hard working staff and the offenders Association, said: “These figures are an distributing extremist in newly released themselves, which I equally value and seek to learn from.” alarming wake-up call to the Ministry of literature. Justice and the public to see how prisons are prisoners Commenting on current concerns regarding the governance and extremely dangerous and violent. Budget l There have been over 100 independent of the ‘Independent Monitoring Boards’ Mr Gove cuts have reduced staffing levels leading to deliberate cell fires in A number of esteemed academics have jails with regimes where prisoners are left in writes; “I must make a reference to the role of the Independent Staffordshire prisons in the produced a research report looking at Monitoring Boards. Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) unsupervised areas.” last year; double the number incidence of suicides in recently released complement the role of the Inspectorate, providing a constant of the previous year. Paul prisoners. The research compared suicide monitoring presence compared to the penetrative but far less From a prisoner’s point of view they might rates for those released within a year to say there is also the frustration of 23 hour Shaw, technical fire safety frequent scrutiny of the Inspectorate. The Ministry of Justice has those of the general population and is lock-up in overcrowded cells with un- lead at Staffordshire Fire and invited the Justice Select Committee to consider the current published in The Lancet. governance review of IMBs.” screened toilets, inability to telephone Rescue Service warned family and friends, lack of education, prisoners that a cell fire has “ The risk of suicide in recently Calls for immediate cut workshops and ‘programmes’, delays in the potential to place all reporting causing problems with progres- prisoners and staff in released prisoners is approaching sion, and healthcare appointments cancelled significant danger. He said a in prisoner numbers due to lack of staff - to name just a few. that seen in discharged psychiatric fire started in a prison cell will between 2010 and 2012 patients ” produce toxic fumes and agrees saying: "The reforms will not fully succeed until smoke and has the potential Their methods were quite complicated but you reduce the prison to produce large quantities of their results identified 382 suicides in population. You can do carbon monoxide with fatal 244,988 individuals within one year of things if you have more consequences. Staffordshire release from prison. Which, in their termi- sensible sentencing for prisons include: Brinsford, nology, equates to 156 suicides per 100,000 Lord Ramsbotham has said people who aren't hardened Drake Hall, Featherstone, person-years. 79 of the suicides (21%) that Government prison criminals." Oakwood, Stafford, Swinfen occurred within the first month following reforms will fail unless Hall and Werrington. release. In all age categories the suicide rate prisoner numbers are Bob Neill, Conservative of newly released former prisoners was reduced before they are put chairman of the Justice Possible ban on l higher than for the general population. in place. In his opinion 30% Select Committee, said Over the past five years, of prisoners - 25,000, could 72 Scottish prisoners were prisoner numbers in England matchstick cutters The report says; “Recently released prisoners be released immediately. awarded a total of £25,000 and Wales needed to be cut are at a much greater risk of suicide than the straight away; "I think we Match cutters used by prisoners in many because they were kept in general population, especially in the first Speaking to BBC Radio 4 should be looking to start prisons to make matchstick models may be prison too long. A Scottish few weeks after release. The risk of suicide in Lord Ramsbotham said that reducing the prison popula- withdrawn from sale after a prisoner at HMP Prison Service spokesman recently released prisoners is approaching prisoners on Indeterminate tion straight away." Birmingham removed the blade from a cutter said that there were only a Sentences for Public that seen in discharged psychiatric patients. to make a dangerous weapon. Matchstick small number of errors A shared responsibility lies with the prison, Protection (IPP) and those Currently, in England and modelling has always been popular with considering the Service probation, health, and social services to who are mentally ill should Wales there are about 85,500 prisoners who often make large and elabo- processes 30,000 warrants develop more collaborative practices in be let out, adding that he prisoners including over rate models and many have won top awards providing services for this high-risk group.” estimated 30% of prisoners 20,000 Remands, IPP and from the Koestler Trust. and releases 10,000 prisoners did not need to be in prison. recalled prisoners. Many each year. Any person who is prisoners are serving sentenc- Picture: Bath Abbey, HMP Isle of Wight, Koestler held without a warrant is Report: tinyurl.com/ztz89cv Ken Clarke, justice secretary es of less than 12 months. Commended Award for Matchstick Models, 2015 unlawfully imprisoned. 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heart of the prison system Unlocking potential and I am reassured that so many people share my belief in the power of education to through education unlock potential and transform lives. If education is the engine of social The government has l Giving prison governors mobility, it is also the greater discretion over unveiled a comprehensive engineer of prisoner prisoner access to ICT and plan to ‘improve’ prison rehabilitation. education after accepting digital technology to all the points made by facilitate learning - making greater use of technology Dame Sally Coates in her will significantly improve the wide-ranging report into quality, quantity and range education in prisons in of education given to prison- England and Wales ers, while keeping important published last month. safeguards in place; Plans include: Dame Sally Coates l Shining a spotlight on l poor performance by Giving governors complete Prisoners are in prison introducing a new, stand- control of their education because they have done © prisonimage.org alone Ofsted judgement on budgets and the freedom to wrong. But once they have the standard of education in tailor a curriculum according served their time, it is just to prisons - ending the culture to the needs of their prison- them and in the interests of of complacency and taking Prisoners earn £5.4million for ers - ensuring prisoners are their communities that they tough, remedial action against provided with the education have the same decent chance those institutions who fail to opportunities and qualifica- to re-enter society success- government from work contracts immediately improve; tions that will actually help fully, to reject crime, to find them secure a meaningful and Prisoners have long been expected to work them to collect 40% of any wages earned by work, to live fulfilling lives.” worthwhile job on release; l Improving the quality of in prison but in recent years have been prisoners who ‘work out’ on RoTL place- teaching with a new scheme forced to work for as little as £8 per week on ments from open prisons. At present, 46% of prisoners l Creating tailored Personal to attract high-calibre contracts doing work for private companies. commit another crime within Learning Plans for each graduates to work in prisons Last year there were 376 such contracts Prisoners are forced to order items such as 12 months’ of release. prisoner on their arrival in for an initial two-year period ranging from making poppies for the Royal clothes and electrical items from such Improving prison education prison - ensuring each - attracting enthusiastic and British Legion to washing a rugby league companies as Argos, with whom they have is one part of the govern- prisoner’s education is inspiring professionals to club’s kit. One of the largest contracts is at an arrangement to collect around 20% of the ment’s wider prison reform prioritised while they are in transform prisons into HMP Wymott where prisoners do the values of orders, after charging prisoners an programme; investing £1.3 custody and allowing gover- learning environments with laundry for thousands of customers at a ‘administration charge’ to place the order in billion replacing ageing and nors to be held to account for education at the heart. laundry firm who pay the Prison Service the first place. ineffective prisons with new the progress of each offender buildings designed to nearly £144,000. The Methodist Church is Dame Sally Coates said; against their plan; support rehabilitation. also a prime user of cheap prison labour. Michael Gove did say; “… we need a prison “Education should be at the Surprisingly James Timpson has to pay system that sees prisoners as potential £37,000 to run his academies in prisons assets, not just liabilities.” It seems they are which are a prime source of training and doing just that. People might think that with employment to reduce reoffending. such massive profits from the forced labour and other arrangements it might be time to The Prison Service also collects around raise the ‘wages’ that prisoners receive, £1million annually from renting out-dated which haven’t risen for two decades despite television sets to prisoners and, just a few sky high ‘canteen’ prices and eye-watering years ago, the rules were changed to allow telephone charges.

£889million. The annual cost Local Development with its Newsbites of reoffending is estimated to ‘beautiful vistas, walks and be around £10billion. trails’ and affect house prices l A new report has been in the area. He said; “This published by the National l According to the latest prospect raises the spectre of Audit Office (NAO) into the government statistics the visitors to Inverness faced effects of the Government’s total number of people on with a ‘welcome to HM “Transforming Rehabilitation” their DNA database in Prison’ rather than a tradi- and the restructuring of England, Wales and Northern tional ‘welcome to Inverness’. probation services. Amyas Ireland is now over five A petition against the new Morse, head of the National million - that’s more than 1 in prison is gaining momentum Audit Office, said; ” The NPS is 10 of the adult population. with a number of public not yet operating as a truly Almost everyone who has meetings planned. national, sustainable service interaction with the police and the Ministry needs to can now have their DNA l New contracts to provide address operational issues, taken and stored indefinitely. health services at 13 adult many of which are longstand- 14,575 people whose DNA is prisons, four young offenders’ ing, such as weaknesses in stored are currently aged institutes and an immigration ICT systems. The Ministry under 10 and 33,753 are aged detention centre have been also needs to have a deeper under 18. awarded to Care UK. The understanding of risks contracts mean that Care UK associated with reduced l There is mounting is responsible for services business for CRCs. Achieving opposition to the building of including primary healthcare, value for money will require a new Inverness prison with a mental healthcare, audiology, the resolution of these prominent SNP politician podiatry, physiotherapy, fundamental issues.” There claiming it would destroy a dentistry, optometry and are 21 CRCs in England and thriving highland community. pharmacy services. In total, Wales in contracts costing Councillor Ken Gowans says Care UK will now provide care £3.7billion. The total costs for that there is widespread local to more than 22,000 inmates, all probation services in the concern that the prison a quarter of the prison year 2015-16 is forecast to be would blight the Moray Firth population. Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Newsround 13

Saudi Arabia World prison review Saudi security forces have admitted arresting and executing Mustafa Abkar, a child of 13. He was one of a group of juveniles held in January and killed in a mass execution of 47 people. They were arrested in relation to ‘political protests’. There are fears that more children, arrested in 2012, could also be executed. The use of the death penalty against juveniles is prohibited under international and Saudi law. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child recently called on China Saudi Arabia to halt the China is set to release the last prisoner still held after the practice. US President Obama Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Miao Deshun, now aged visited Saudi Arabia recently 51, is the last of 1,600 prisoners held over the protests. As well and was urged to raise the as imprisoning people the Chinese army also gunned down issue of executing children many protesters. May was the 50th anniversary of Chairman but a subsequent White Mao’s Cultural Revolution of 1966 which, in the following ten House briefi ng confi rmed he years, claimed over one million lives. had not raised the issue.

© Fotolia.com Italy Pope Francis has written to prisoners in Velletri, a city south east of Rome, telling Crisis, what crisis? them that they are loved. He was responding to a letter that the prisoners had written Prison Service 2015 in numbers to him. Pope Francis thanked the prisoners for thinking of him and told them that they l 32,313 reported incidents of self-harm l 148,023 adjudications and other people in similar l 20,518 assault incidents l 333,286 releases on RoTL situations were in his l 100 self-infl icted deaths l 5,813 recalled to prison thoughts and he often tries to Netherlands l 167 prisoners died from natural causes l 4,133 IPP prisoners, of those; visit local prisons during his With crime declining in the Netherlands, the country is looking at new ways to fi ll its prisons. The government has let Belgium l l travels. “The true measure of 6 prisoners were murdered 81% over-tariff time,” he said, “is not that of and Norway put prisoners in empty cells and now, amid the huge the clock; rather, the true fl ow of migrants into Europe, with just under 60,000 migrants Statistics just released by the of 10%. Prisoners had 13,000 recalls were in prison at the measure of time is called arriving in the Netherlands last year, several Dutch prisons have MoJ show that there were 100 additional days added at ad- same time it would account for hope.” He told the prisoners been temporarily pressed into service as asylum-seeker centres. self-infl icted deaths in prisons judications, a rise of 27% 25% of the entire prison pop- to keep hopeful and “always Janet Helder, a board member with the Dutch government in England and Wales in the (equivalent to 35 years and an ulation. At the end of 2015 be certain that God loves you agency responsible for housing asylum seekers said prisons twelve months to March 2016, added cost of £1million in pris- 6,564 recalled prisoners were personally.” often are well suited to their new use. Her organization up from 79 the previous year, oner places). in prison, nearly 8% of the currently is housing some 41,000 people at 120 locations throughout the Netherlands. “The rooms are intended for one a rise of 27%. 167 prisoners prison population. The num- Australia or two people, there are often gyms, a good kitchen,” she said. died from natural causes, up 2015 saw the number of releas- ber of people held in prison on In an unlikely turnaround, “So in that sense they tick many of the boxes we are looking at.” from 149 the previous year; es on RoTL continue to fall to remand fell to 10,066, or 12% four escaped prisoners were and there were 6 apparent just 333,286, a drop of 26% of the prison population. caught trying to break back in Belgium murders. from the previous year. 6,758 to Holtze Prison, near Darwin Soldiers were sent into prisons in Belgium last month to cover individual prisoners were The number of people convict- Australia. Staff saw them for prison staff who had been on strike for over two weeks. In the twelve months to granted RoTL, a fall of 30%. ed of sexual off ences increased escape the day before from Prison employees in Brussels were striking about low staffi ng December 2015 there were The failure rate for RoTL by 10% during 2015 and by the low security prison but levels. Some prisoners have not been getting three meals a day, 32,313 reported incidents of dropped to just 49 per 100,000 March 2016 the fi gure stood at said it wasn’t their job to showers or visits. Belgian Human Rights League President Alexis self-harm, 25% up on the pre- - that is a failure rate of 0.05%. 12,240 or nearly 15% of the chase them. The prisoners Deswaef blamed under-investment. Belgium’s prisons have vious year. A total of 9,458 RoTL is seen as a crucial way prison population. Long de- who had committed ‘low been criticised for a long time because of chronic overcrowding prisoners were reported to to prepare long term prisoners terminate sentences also in- level crimes’ now face being and poor conditions where prisoners have to eat their meals in have self-harmed. Hospital for release. creased to over a third of the sent to a high security prison. a cell three metres square with a bucket for a toilet. attendances were up 29% on entire prison population. The the previous year at 2,261. MoJ fi gures show that in the IPP population fell to 4,133, Philippines three month period October- including 71 females, but the Philippines’ president-elect Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to reintroduce capital punishment, give Also, in the twelve months to December 2015 (latest statis- percentage over-tariff rose to security forces the power to “shoot-to-kill” criminals and offer cabinet posts to communists. December 2015, there were tics); 5,813 people were re- 81%. There are about 7,400 Duterte said he wanted capital punishment - which was abolished in 2006 to be reintroduced for 20,518 assault incidents, up called to prison in England life sentenced prisoners of a wide range of crimes, particularly drugs, but also rape, murder and robbery. Capital punish- 27%; of which 2,813 were and Wales, a 28% increase on whom 54 are deemed ment by hanging, he said, should be imposed for heinous crimes, and criminals convicted of classed as ‘serious assaults’. the number for the same peri- ‘whole-life’. killing along with robbery and rape should be meted “double the hanging.” After the fi rst hanging, 15,511 were prisoner on pris- od a year earlier. The MoJ says there will be another ceremony for the second time until the head is completely severed from the oner assaults and 4,963 were that this is caused by changes In 2015 there were 95,631 in- body,” he said. He added he preferred death by hanging to a fi ring squad because he did not prisoner on staff assaults, of to the Off ender Rehabilitation ter-prison transfers of prison- want to waste bullets, and because he believed snapping the spine with a noose was more which 625 were classed as Act (ORA) 2014. 1,965 recalls ers; 60,896 prisoners had at humane. Duterte vowed during the campaign to kill tens of thousands of criminals, outraging his ‘serious’. were for people serving sen- least one transfer. critics but hypnotising tens of millions of Filipinos fed up with rampant crime and graft. He said tences of less than 12 months. he would give security forces “shoot-to-kill” orders against organised criminals or those who In this same period the num- 45% of recalls were because Safety in Custody violently resisted arrest. “If you resist, show violent resistance, my order to police (will be) to ber of adjudications increased of charges for a further of- (March 2016) shoot to kill. Shoot to kill for organised crime. You heard that? Shoot to kill for every organised by 16% to 148,023 of which fence. Over the whole of 2015 tinyurl.com/jf7z9oy crime,” he said. He said military sharp shooters would be enlisted in his campaign to kill criminals. 102,531 were ‘proved’. 38,938 21,467 people were recalled for Offender Management He complained that people no longer feared the law, and he would change that. “We have a adjudications were for ‘disre- breaching licence conditions, Statistics (Oct-Dec 2015) society now where obedience to the law is really a choice, an option only,” he said. “Do not spect’ or ‘disobedience’, a rise an increase of 22%. If all the tinyurl.com/jhjbw4n destroy my country because I will kill you. I WILL KILL YOU.” 14 Newsround // Local Prison News www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2016

Frankland l About 50 staff walked out of HMP Newsbites Wormwood Scrubs last month leaving 1,300 prisoners write prisoners locked in their cells. The Prison ‘Songs of War’ Officers’ Association said; “POA members have reluctantly withdrawn to a safe place under health and safety legislation. Management and Prisoners in Frankland are Government cannot continue to turn a blind commemorating the region’s eye to the drug culture which is making our experiences during the First prisons unsafe.” Just one day after returning to World War by writing songs work two staff were taken to hospital after that reflect the varied being assaulted. An inspection report experiences of people living published in April described prisoners in in County Durham during ‘squalid conditions’ with high levels of violence and after the war years. where some prisoners were frightened to leave their cells. Staff returned to work after a A wealth of historical l Four months after 24-year-old Sarah Reed Prisoners win award for meeting outside the prison. material including letters died in HMP Holloway, women from the building homes for doormice written by servicemen, pressure group Sisters Uncut held a protest personal diaries, memoirs, there to commemorate the 77 women who l Two investigations have been launched after have died in British prisons over the past a 19 year old man was found dead in his cell at UK conservation charity People’s Trust for Endangered press reports and trial decade. Sisters Uncut said the prison system a Young Offenders’ Institution (YOI). He was Species (PTES) has been working in partnership with HMPs transcripts were collected as was institutionally sexist and said they would found unresponsive in his cell at HMYOI Doncaster and Humber to help save the rare hazel dormouse, source material for the continue to challenge government and raise Deerbolt, last month, and paramedics whose population numbers have fallen dramatically over the Durham Hymns initiative awareness of women’s issues within the justice pronounced him dead soon afterwards. Our last century. Since 2010, men at both prisons have built and ‘Songs of War’ gives system. condolences to his family and friends. 10,963 dormouse nest boxes. The partnership between PTES Frankland’s prisoners access and the prisons is now in its sixth year and the nest boxes to this material, and the have been distributed to nearly 150 sites to provide new opportunity to write songs l Serco’s flagship prison l While the national press focus on a prison system in homes for dormice to help replace natural habitats that have inspired by it, through a HMP Thameside is struggling meltdown, amazing work is being done in prisons across the been lost. In recognition of their contribution to conserva- series of collaborative to recruit enough staff country. A good example is an exhibition at Hull Central Library tion, last month HMP Humber received the ‘Judges Gold workshops with three because local state-run of storytelling and memories of the city. ‘I Live Hull’ has been Commendation Award’ at the National Offender Management professional prisons pay significantly created by prisoners at HMP Hull and includes books, stories Service (NOMS) Wildlife Award. singer-songwriters. more. Thameside, run on a and audio recordings. It is one of many initiatives by the prison £20million a year contract library. Librarian Rebecca Binnington said; “A prisoner may Pre-release financial advice at Feltham Prison Libraries Manager pays new recruits just £17,350 have done something wrong, they’ve broken the law, but it Jacqueline Woods told a year rising to £21,000 whilst doesn’t take away the humanity of who they are. It’s important The charity MyBnk has habits - ultimately breaking Inside Time; “The Prison state prisons pay £24,500. we remember that. Creativity is allowed to create those bridges started delivering financial down the barriers to Library team work hard to The prison faced severe between the prisoner and the community on the outside.” education programmes at independent living and deliver an excellent library criticism when it opened but service and believe that by HMYOI Feltham to support supporting those trapped in a recent inspection said it was l As the closure of HMP l A partnership between creating interesting and their pre-release project debt or struggling with the improving. Serco said; Holloway draws nearer, 200 Doncaster Council and HMP innovative projects we are ‘Getting it Right’. ‘Money costs of living. The work we “Recruiting and retaining women have been moved to Lindholme in which prisoners able to help prisoners Works’ is a four part survival are doing is vital in empow- prison officers in London is the newly re-opened HMP dismantle old street lighting engage more fully with the money management pro- ering them with the challenging for both the Downview in Surrey. The MoJ to recover components for outside world. Working gramme designed especially knowledge, skills and private and public sector and says that Downview would recycling has been highly alongside professional for young people moving confidence to take control of we are keeping our rates of offer some of the best commended in the National musicians, this project into independent living. their finances as soon as pay under review to ensure facilities in women’s prisons, Government Excellence in enables participants to ‘read they are released, before it that we can continue to including a resettlement unit Public Procurement Awards. between the lines’ of the Sharan Jaswal of MyBnk told takes control of them.” recruit and retain the right providing the opportunity for 33,000 streetlamps are being material and build greater Inside Time; “We identify people.” prisoners to work outside the replaced with new LED young people’s misconcep- More information: personal understanding.” www.mybnk.org prison. Holloway, opened in technology and the old lamps tions and bad financial 1852 is set to close early in would have been dumped in l Six months ago, prison the summer. landfill. inspectors labelled HMP Maghaberry as ‘the most See our l A prison officer was sacked for blowing the whistle on the simon bethel dangerous prison ever state of HMP Lewes; saying that it had unsafe staffing levels and page in the inspected’. Despite a return CCTV cameras were not working. She spoke to the local paper, visit to check on progress by solicitors ‘Jailbreak’ section The Argos, in August 2014 after becoming frustrated because inspectors, staff say the she saw the prison getting worse, safety deteriorating and Criminal Defence & Prison Law Specialists prison is worse than ever and nothing being done to stem the problems. She was later sacked Criminal Defence THE PRISON a ‘powder keg ready to blow’. Licence & Parole Hearings for spilling the beans. 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Total UK prison population approximately 94,897 q21 Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Newsround // Local Prison News 15 HMP Parc Familes Outside celebrate 25th Birthday residents the FCDO role, and, until June affected by imprisonment. mentor their 2015, a financial contribution Their helpline reaches about own children to the Scottish Prisoners’ 1,800 callers each year; family Families Information Line support team about 500 fam- to win awards (now the Families Outside ilies, and 3-5,000 participants Support & Information benefit from their training - in- Young men at HMP Parc Helpline), set up in 1998, cluding prison staff, social have been helping their which provides a national con- workers, teachers, health pro- children through the Duke fidential freephone service. of Edinburgh’s Award and, fessionals, children’s panel members, and the judiciary. in the process, gaining DofE During 2001-02 the certificates in leadership. Families Outside started out Management Committee of the Nancy Loucks, Families This unique project, the first as ‘The Scottish Forum on Forum reviewed the progress Outside Chief Executive told in the UK where prisoners Prisons and Families’ estab- of the organisation and imple- © prisonimage.org Inside Time; “Families Outside have been able to mentor lished in 1991 by professionals mented a change of name to continues its focus on support their own children has been in criminal justice and child- Families Outside and appoint- for children and families af- HMP Styal Mother and Baby Unit delivered by the Family care organisations who recog- ed a Board of Directors with rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted Intervention Unit since 2014. nised that the needs of fami- an independent chairman; fected by imprisonment lies affected by imprisonment and recruited a full time throughout Scotland and is Stephanie Price, director of the only national organisation The Mother and Baby Unit at HMP Styal, run by Action for were overlooked by all parts Director who joined the organ- the Duke of Edinburgh’s with this sole remit. We do this Children, has been graded ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted. Action of the system. Its creation was isation in January 2003. Award in Wales, said: “We through direct support for Children told Inside Time; “Our Mother and Baby Unit at led by, then prison governor, Families Outside has contin- congratulate all the partici- through our Helpline and re- HMP/YOI Styal is a unique, supportive environment in which Alec Spencer and family mem- ued to grow ever taking an pants for the hard work and Mums are encouraged, empowered and inspired to bond with ber Moira MacLean, whose active role in the development gional family support work; commitment made towards their babies and transform their life chances long term. This son had been in prison. of policy and practice nation- through training of key profes- achieving their DofE Awards is achieved through a combination of reassuring ad-hoc ally and in supporting local- sionals; and through input to and we look forward to parenting support, targeted intervention work and high quality Initially hosted by Save the ly-based family services. In policy and practice on a local, supporting more individuals nursery provision. Mums are assessed when they arrive to Children, the Forum initiated October 2008, Families national, and international to do the same.” determine their needs and then a plan of intervention is put research into the impact of Outside started direct service basis. I am now Secretary in place to provide opportunities for Mums to change imprisonment on family mem- provision for the first time General on the Board of Corin Morgan-Armstrong, challenging areas in their lives. This can include basic baby bers, which led to the Scottish through the recruitment of Children of Prisoners Europe head of family interventions care, budgeting, communication skills, issues of bereave- Prison Service (SPS) establish- full-time family support (COPE), and Families Outside and Invisible Walls Wales at ment and loss, substance misuse and a wide range of other ing the role of Family Contact workers. is working to support the in- Parc told how the project has factors. Our Early Years setting is Ofsted registered and Development Officer (now ception of INCCIP (the delivered far more than received ‘Outstanding’ at its last inspection and again at the FCOs) within prisons. The SPS From an organisation with one International Coalition for originally anticipated and also provided continued sup- inspection in 2016.” and a half members of staff in Children of Incarcerated has bought together families port through chairmanship of 2003, Families Outside now Parents).” in a unique way, saying; For more than 145 years, Action for Children has worked in the Forum, the secondment of employs 27 people working “There is already evidence local communities across the UK to make children’s lives an officer to the Forum as the throughout Scotland on behalf More information: to support that interventions better. They take action at the earliest opportunity to help base from which to develop of children and families familiesoutside.org.uk of this nature within the children as they grow up. Today, close to 650 services custodial environment are a directly help more than 300,000 children, young people, causal factor in reducing parents and carers across the UK each year. reoffending and derailing the drift into intergenera- More information: www.actionforchildren.org.uk tional crime.” Glenochil CHILD prisoners to be allowed ‘soft porn’ ABUSE Prisoners at Glenochil are to have access to ‘adult’ Helping victims rebuild their lives since 1994. magazines after a request from a prisoner. There has Helping you achieve justice for the abuse Our dedicated team of specialist, legal experts been the expected press you suffered. have a proven track record in handling outrage with the Mirror We have been helping abuse victims claim child abuse claims and can help you if you their legal rights for over 20 years. have been the victim of sexual, physical or headlining ‘Dangerous sex emotional abuse in childhood. offenders win right to read The law allows people to make claims In 2015 we secured over one million pounds in PORN magazines in prison for compensation even if the abuse they compensation for our clients. sparking outrage’. A Prison suffered took place many years ago. Service spokesman said; We also deal with cases against children’s Speak to one of our specialist male or female Huge new workshop solicitors in complete confidence. “These publications are not homes, other institutions and social services illegal to purchase, for lack of care. • Prison visits • Legal Aid available • Complete confidentiality therefore local manage- for Oakwood ment felt if inmates wished to order them through the A huge new workshop is being built at HMP Oakwood which, QualitySolicitors prisoners’ canteen service, it is claimed, will provide 400 activity places for prisoners. they should be able to. Oakwood is expecting an extra 500 prisoners this summer. Abney Garsden While prisoners are Over 40 companies have expressed an interest in locating work to the prison where ‘employees’ will earn just a few allowed to read these Changing the way you see lawyers. magazines in their own pounds a day. G4S director Jerry Petherick, said: “We know private space, it is express- that offenders are less likely to re-offend if they gain employ- 0845 604 7075 [email protected] ly forbidden to display any ment after release and the expanded workshop will provide 37 Station Road, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, SK8 5AF of the naked images taken new opportunities for prisoners and businesses to contribute from the magazines as staff positively to society and reduce future victims of crime.” www.abuselaw.co.uk may find this offensive.” 16 Comment // Interview www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2016 “I will not be silenced!” The Chair of the Independent Monitoring Board at HMP Hollesley Bay, Faith Spear, is under pressure to resign from the rest of her board members for having publicly called for some radical reforms in how the IMB operates. Spear claims she has been subjected to ‘bullying’ for her decision to speak out about the general failings she has witnessed as an IMB member for over three years. She tells Inside Time why she decided to speak out and why she refuses to Faith Spear © Paul Sullivan bow to pressure from her board.

Paul Sullivan if she felt the other IMB members were as com- about not having their name around but I have Given what Spear has been through, with the mitted as her and doing it for the right reasons. no concerns on that.” publicity and what she describes as ‘bullying’ “No,” she says. “I felt for the majority of them by certain members of her board aft erwards I The row between Faith Spear and her IMB board it was something to do aft er they retired and At the moment the IMB have no involvement wondered how she saw her future within the at Hollesley Bay erupted last month when she had time on their hands. There were a couple with prisoners’ families and will not take com- organisation. “A good question. It’s very diffi - was discovered to be the author of an article who had more of an interest because they had plaints from them on the grounds that they have cult to answer that one. For starters, if you don’t that levelled strong criticism at the functioning been magistrates but, on the whole, no. People other routes to complain, even if the family have the support of your board, which I don’t, and make-up of the IMB. Among her concerns didn’t look at the ‘bigger picture’.” member has a problem and is too scared to I’m not sure how long I will be able to stay as was the fact that the IMB’s independence was speak directly. Did she think families should the chairman because I can’t fulfi l my duties. I compromised by its close relationship with the Her public criticisms included the obscure man- have access to the IMB? “We do have some have no intention of stepping down but I might Ministry of Justice; it lacks professional stand- ner in which new members are sought; at her access to families on Family Days or if we go to not have that choice: but when you have got ing, relying on volunteers who are mostly white, own prison an advert was pinned up at the local the Visits we get a chance to talk to people then an organisation that does not support you, does middle-class and elderly - and she questioned golf club. Vacancies are mainly advertised on but not everyone can make the visits and I think not back you - and this is not the fi rst time for why no reformed former prisoners were con- the IMB/MoJ website, a place few possible re- if we are going to be really open we need to be me personally, maybe there’s something bigger sidered to become members. cruits would be perusing. The result, she found, available to all, not just communities but to the and better out there.”

were members of advancing years who were families involved with their loved ones in Inside Time Online I met up with Spear in London and asked how more like grandparents to prisoners than peers, prison.” Does she have a message for the IMB President? she fi rst became interested in prisons and pris- she found most had privileged backgrounds, “The President needs to be a little more relevant oners. “Well my fi rst job, in my early 20s, was for the people who actually do the work on the working for NACRO,” she says. “I worked in far removed from the everyday prisoner. There are three bodies looking at prisoners’ admin arranging work placements for people treatment, the IMB, the Prisons Inspectorate ground in the prisons. They can’t just be some- when they came out of prison. But I felt that Aft er calling for more transparency and a more and the Prisons Ombudsman. For most of the body up at headquarters where we don’t really the work wasn’t proper jobs for them. It was professional approach with ‘younger blood time these work separately in their own areas know what he does. Aft er three and a half years, just ‘gardening team’ or ‘painting team.’ There lines’, Spear was called to a meeting by her and the IMB has very little contact or input to to be honest, I don’t know what his role is.” was nothing long term about it.” board members who who gave her an ultima- either of the other bodies. Does she think they And what advice would you give to anyone who tum - resign or we all will. Spear refused with should be working more closely? “Defi nitely,” was considering joining the IMB? “I think it’s Aft er leaving NACRO and working for the NHS the result that she is now the only active IMB she says, “One of the things I have been looking an excellent thing to do if you have the time it was some years before she had contact with member at Hollesley Bay. at is the IMB governance review, looking at its but you need to have a real interest in it, it’s prisons again. “The fi rst time I actually went structure. My personal opinion is that all three not something that can be just a hobby. There into a prison was about six years ago. I was I asked her if she regretted speaking out. “No, of those organisations should be working to- are a lot of young people studying psychology invited to be a Community Witness for a if you regret things you live a pretty miserable gether in some way.” and criminology who would fi nd it fascinating Restorative Justice course that was taking place life,” she says. “I don’t regret it. If people feel and it would really help them in their studies. in a local prison. It wasn’t what I expected be- it’s a personal attack on them they have mis- How independent does she think the IMB is? I would recommend people just to try it. We cause, as it was a Cat ‘D’, there were no bars understood what I said. It was never personal. “They are not truly independent. If your offi ces really need former prisoners also, they would but the prisoners there seemed to be just ordi- Life is so much easier if there’s no one there to are actually based at the MoJ it’s very diffi cult be invaluable on each board because they nary people who had made terrible actually say something controversial.” to say you are independent. A lot of the meetings would really understand what the prisoners are mistakes.” you go to are at the MoJ. It should be completely going through because they have been there What main changes would she like to see? “The separate; but it’s not.” themselves.” She says it was at that stage she felt she really recruitment process has to be diff erent: You wanted to make a diff erence but wasn’t sure really need a better cross section of society; you how. “I wasn’t sure if there was a way to get need people with various skills, diff erent ages. involved. That fi rst prison visit lit a spark, aft er Also when you take someone around a prison 7 Water Street being a mature student and studying criminol- you need to be able to have input into the in- Liverpool ogy, the thing that I was most interested in was terview process. If you don’t feel they are suit- L2 0RD prisons and the IMB gave me an opportunity able you should be able to say and give your to work within a prison. I didn’t want to work reasons. But you’re not. It’s all based on the Experts in Prison Law as an offi cer, which would constrain me, the interview, therefore, in my eyes, it’s just a Specialist Advice & Representation IMB would allow me full access to all areas of tick-box.” a prison and help identify places where I might Legal Aid for: be able to really make a diff erence. I thought Considering the backlash against her for speak- Appeals Against Joint Enterprise Convictions ing out I asked her, as an independent member that was quite a privilege.” Appeals - Conviction/Sentence Contact Gary McAteer or of the public, going in as a representative of All Parole Matters Daniel Kenyon on She spotted an advertisement in her local paper the community, did she think members should Recall and applied. Aft er being accepted she says she be able to speak more freely about what they Life Sentence Prisoners - Oral/Written Representations 07597588579 see? “I think it’s necessary. If we’re a statutory found the IMB not to be what she expected. Adjudication or “The fi rst year was exciting, as a new member watchdog we need to be not just in theory but 0151 375 9630 and learning the ropes; learning about how the in practice also. I think the local community All prisons in England and Wales covered IMB operates and also about prisons and pris- needs to know who we are, I’m not afraid for Personal instructions always taken oners’ lives but it didn’t really fulfi l me.” I asked people to know; a lot of people are concerned Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 17 ‘We would welcome former prisoners on our boards’

John Thornhill television broadcasts in which describe our concerns about the IMB have been able to a range of issues such as rising speak out about the condi- violence, increased adverse When I became President I tions in their establishments. impact of the use of drugs, the decided to spend much of my They are also encouraged to lack of sufficient education time visiting prisons and have report any serious matter im- and work opportunities, the been invited to join many IMBs mediately to the Ministers. poor management of property for a day. On those visits I have and quality and quantity of been impressed with the IMB When I became President I food. members who are committed appreciated the organisation to effectively monitoring their needed to develop and se- I introduced greater co-oper- establishments. Prisoners and cured an agreement for an ation between the IMB and the © prisonimage.org detainees have made positive external review after which Inspector of Prisons and the comments about how the IMB the National Council pub- Prisons and Probation have supported them. I have lished a programme to en- Ombudsman. In my interview heard in meetings how they hance the already positive in the last issue of Inside Time challenging Governors and work undertaken. I detailed I gave specific examples of Queens Speech: Biggest prison Directors where they feel the the programme at the IMB con- how this co-operation is work- outcomes for those in custody ference in 2015 and reported ing, with information being shake-up in England and are not fair, just and on the considerable develop- provided by IMBs that resulted humane. ments at this years’ in inspections and IMBs inves- conference. tigating where it appears that Wales “since Victorian times” We would welcome greater prisoners may have been the diversity of membership in What an subject of unfair reprisals. Our terms of age and background exciting time to new National Monitoring Inside Time report prisons will follow later this Parliament. And - including former prisoners. Framework encourages IMBs the 9 new-build prisons announced at the However those already in post join the IMB with to monitor the outcomes of Spending Review will be established with sim- are providing a dedicated and recommendations from the Six new ‘reform’ prisons are to house 5,000 ilar freedoms.” selfless service as I have wit- a new attitude to Inspectorate and Ombudsman. prisoners by end of the year. The designated nessed on my visits. Every ef- monitoring to reform prisons are: HMP Wandsworth, HMP Responding to the Queens Speech, Justice fort is taken to attract new I pay credit to the many un- Holme House, HMP Kirklevington Grange, HMP Secretary Michael Gove said: “Prisons must do members by engaging with a support prisoners paid IMB members who pro- Coldingley, HMP High Down and HMP Ranby. more to rehabilitate offenders. We will put gov- range of volunteering organi- and their tect our independence in the ernors in charge, giving them the autonomy sations, providing a recruit- manner in which they under- These prisons will give unprecedented free- they need to run prisons in the way they think ment pack for IMB members entitlements take a dedicated role whatever doms to prison governors, including financial best. By trusting governors to get on with the attending volunteering events Recently appointed their age or background. and legal freedoms, such as how the prison job, we can make sure prisons are places of in their locality and at univer- IMB members budget is spent and whether to opt-out of na- education, work and purposeful activity. These sities and colleges. Some of At the end of a recent seminar tional contracts; and operational freedoms over reforms will reduce re-offending, cut crime and the IMBs have increased the We have published for the first on our new approach to mon- education, the prison regime, family visits, and improve public safety.” diversity of their membership time a set of standards by itoring two recently appointed partnerships to provide prison work and reha- by publishing articles in their which IMBs can plan their Penal reformers welcomed the proposed re- IMB members said – ‘What an bilitation services. local press about what they do monitoring programmes to forms but with caution. Frances Crook, Chief exciting time to join the IMB in their establishment. consider all aspects of how Executive of the Howard League for Penal prisoners are treated. We are with a new attitude to moni- A new regime of transparency will hold governors to account, with comparable statistics to Reform, said: “It is hugely encouraging to see Boards are encouraged to pro- developing the Annual Report toring to support prisoners be published for each prison on reoffending, that prison reform is at the front and centre of vide a press release when they to make it sharper and more and their entitlements.’ employment rates on release, and violence and today’s Queen’s Speech. There is no public publish the Annual Report and judgemental to provide a very self-harm. service in such disarray as the prisons, and the there has been considerable clear picture of how well the rising number of assaults, deaths by suicide, media interest in recent years, prison operates to the Minister John Thornhill is president of The government will use legislation to extend and incidents of self-injury show that the need with a number of radio and and the public. These reports the IMB these freedoms much further - enabling prisons for change is urgent. “Ultimately, the success to be established as independent legal entities of these reforms will depend on whether the Are you a prisoner who has had dealings with the IMB? with the power to enter into contracts; generate government introduces positive measures to Are you an IMB member? Do you agree or disagree with Faith Spear? and retain income; and establish their own tackle overcrowding by driving down prison Write in and let us know. Please mark your envelope ‘IMB’. boards with external expertise. The proposed numbers.” changes amount to the biggest structural reform of the prisons system for more than a Juliet Lyon, Director of the Prison Reform Trust, century. said: “It's good that prison reform is at the top Cousins of the government’s agenda - for far too long “Nowhere is reform needed more than in our prisons have been our most neglected, least prisons,” said Prime Minister David Cameron. visible public service. The most pressing priority Tyrer “For too long, we have left our prisons to fester. is to restore prison safety and stem the cata- Not only does that reinforce the cycle of crime, strophic rise in suicides, violence and SOLICITORS increasing the bills of social failure that tax- disorder. payers must pick up. It writes off thousands of PRISON LAW & CRIMINAL DEFENCE More freedom for governors, long overdue ac- We can assist with: Parole, Recall, Oral hearings, MTRs and Independent Adjudication. people. So today, we start the long-overdue, long-needed change that our prisons need. No cess to modern IT, sensible plans for release on On a privately funded basis we also advise on: longer will they be warehouses for criminals; temporary license and constructive use of tag- Recategorisation, Governor adjudications and HDC they will now be places where lives are changed. ging to curtail liberty should all be part of a These new freedoms sit alongside the govern- modern justice system. Please contact - Erinne Duddy or Nicola Lines ment’s commitment to replace decrepit, ageing prisons with modern establishments suitable But reform will run into the sand unless gov- 31 Oxford Row Leeds LS1 3BE for the needs of prisoners today - to be built ernment is prepared to tackle prison numbers 0113 247 0400 with £1.3bn of investment announced at the and introduce major sentencing reform as part Spending Review. More autonomous reform of its groundbreaking Prisons Bill.” 18 Comment // Diary www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2016

common call is, ‘Hey Africa!’ impressed by the ‘Safe Way In her overall report and in her or ‘Where are you going Home’ project which helps conversation with me, Lucy Month by Month Albania?’ prisoners to make practical emphasised how often any plans for their release and re- positive contacts for Foreign In the Netherlands, Spain and integration in their home Nationals within the prison By Rachel Billington Norway, prisoners had super- country. It is part of the started in the chaplaincy vised access to Skype and Salvation Army’s chaplaincy whether the men seeking help video conference with their prison programme and is were believers or not. families. Where no visits can part-funded by the Norwegian take place, this is obviously a government. Their network Belief and Belonging cheap and effective way of reaches to 127 countries. So far I found this interesting be- men keeping in touch with they’ve settled 52 men in 21 cause it linked in with another those they love. Lucy does countries. Yury Zelentsov, report I had just received. This comment that the rooms Russian-born and able to is called ‘Belief and Belonging’ where Skyping took place var- speak Norwegian, English and and, although it specifically ied in quality and the experi- Finnish, and a prison chaplain relates to the role of Catholic ence can be spoiled if the says, ‘It’s not just putting them chaplains in prison, its find- venue is too public. on the bus - we physically take ings make clear that, even in them home and try and stay a largely secular country, the In some prisons in Sweden in touch for three months.’ chaplaincy can be a place of and Norway it is possible for families to come and stay in an apartment within the prison. In Norway, Halden prison has a small cottage for participants in a ‘Daddy’ programme which is managed by the prisoners and is a hard won privilege. The cottage is equipped with everything a family might need, including a TV, games consoles and headache pills. Reception hall, foreign national unit, Mariefred prison, Sweden In the Netherlands, consular support for their own Foreign Foreign National Prisoners; Nationals is provided - in theory Small table laid for meal, Mariefred prison. a requirement from all countries. The International Office raising public awareness of the Dutch Probation Service No-one thinks the plans to encouragement and hope for also provides 300 volunteers deal with Foreign Nationals men and women at a low point The fate of Foreign National Spain. I met her last month to Mariefred is a medium security living abroad and 45 chap- are working as they should. in their lives. prisoners is bleak. Over half discuss the report she has pub- prison 50 km west of Stockholm. lains of various faiths carry One prison director in are sent back to their own lished about her findings. She Its Director, Mohamed Gullied out visits through Epafras, a fair-minded Sweden told Lucy The report (published by countries without any attempt was looking, she told me, for was born in Somalia and un- religious organisation. A re- ‘I’ve met inmates who have Lemos & Crane) is based on a at resettlement. Many have ‘promising practice’ because derstands the problems. He cent survey revealed that 94% been in prison in Belgium, survey held in 17 prisons and little information about their there is no ‘best practice’. It says that around 85% of the of Dutch prisoners abroad re- then deported back to Africa, young offender institutions. future and often find them- seems that other Foreign Foreign Nationals are convict- ceived support, one quarter now they are here in Sweden. 332 replies were received. To selves released at short notice Nationals suffer from some of ed of drug related offences. He within a week of their arrest. They make contacts in prison, me, the most positive contri- whether into removal centres the same problems as here, believes that education is the their crimes get more serious butions came from people who or into the community. If they even in countries like Sweden, best way forward and a third Individual associations often and the criminal network is described how a visit to the speak little or no English, their famous for its civilised ap- of his staff speak at least one step in where governments growing, circulating in priest or the church helped time in prison is particularly proach to incarceration. foreign language which makes fail. In Madrid V11 Prison, Europe. We can’t just lock them. (There is a link with hard. Since they make up his task easier. The art teacher, Rachid Ismaili, a Moroccan them up without giving them Lucy’s report in that many of about one in eight of the pris- for example, is a Romanian. living in Spain has started the anything and think they will these men come from on population in England and Foreign Training is also an important Asociacion Hispano Arabe never come back. They are European countries.) One man Wales, numbering approxi- prisoners are kept part of prison life. Perhaps para el Desarro which focuses already back.’ wrote that ‘belonging to a mately 10,500, it is perhaps even more pertinent, when I on cultural interests for surprising that so little is done separately from think of overcrowding in group allows me to ask for for- Moroccans both inside prison Lucy concludes that a coher- giveness’. Others explained about their situation. the main prison in English prisons, is that foreign and outside. There are ent strategy for Foreign prisoners are kept separately gratefully that meeting the units ... A common 800,000 Moroccans living in Nationals in England and chaplain had led them back to Lucy Slade was for eight years from the main prison in units, Madrid and 1,600 in prison. Wales is urgently needed. It is a member, then chairman, of each housing 20 men in single their childhood when they had call is, ‘Hey Africa!’ The association also helps not good enough to talk about belief and had not yet made HMP Wandsworth’s Independent cells. Inside the unit is a seat- with advice and information speeding up their departure to Monitoring Board. This huge or ‘Where are you ing area, a kitchen and a laun- the mistakes that put them in from an office in the city. their home country, if, indeed, prison. This looking back- prison has a significant num- dry. Men housed there appar- they are heading there. She going Albania?’ In Norway, Lucy was wards, coupled often with a ber of Foreign Nationals and ently generally get on well. A refers to a Peer Advisor new or renewed understand- has taken some steps towards scheme running for Foreign ing of God, helped them to improving their lot, including Perhaps it is not surprising Nationals in HMP Huntercombe, look forward more peacefully. induction material translated since their prisons’ proportion one of our two Foreign into 10 languages and creating of Foreign Nationals is even National-only prisons. Serving If an important aim of prisons Foreign National orderlies higher than ours: in Sweden prisoners are trained to give is to help men and women re- with the remit of communicat- and Norway it is 34%, in the advice on immigration and generate their life and thus ing useful information to their Netherlands it is 21% and in resettlement to their fellow become better citizens, then, fellow prisoners. To Lucy, this Spain 26.7% a significant drop prisoners. This much- needed was still too little. since 2009, probably due to scheme, run by St. Giles Trust, for many, the chaplaincy with unemployment. However in is in its second year and the its belief in the efficacy of She decided to find out wheth- all these countries there were evaluation of its benefits prayer based on penitence, er there were better ideas in positive programmes both run should help in other prisons forgiveness and a new begin- other European countries and, by charities, such as The where resettlement for Foreign ning, could indeed be at the with a Winston Churchill Salvation Army and by the Nationals is an issue. forefront of prison life. Travelling Fellowship and the prison services. It is these backing of the Prison Reform ideas that Lucy wants to see The report: ‘Foreign National Prisoners; best practice in Trust, she set off for prisons in discussed and hopefully rep- Safe Way Home, Norway. Salvation Army chaplain Yury Zelentsov prison and resettlement’, can be downloaded from: Norway, Sweden, Holland and licated in some way. and Lucy Slade tinyurl.com/hvvzrqd Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 19

There is a lot of talk about for- I was to try this out I resisted Shannon Trust mer prisoners going back into because it would be embar- Turning Pages Reading prisons to help with rehabili- rassing if, as a driver of 45 Plan tation and I was amazed that years, I failed. Reading Ahead a prisoner who had spent just gets prisoners to pick six a few months at Thameside “The library’s like an reads and record their and who had worked in the oasis of calm.” reading in a diary library was so motivated that Prison Reading Groups he now goes back in to help As you enter the library you where prisoners read the with creative writing classes. see the ‘Wall of Fame’ a whole same book and discuss it Another former prisoner who series of posters showing em- in groups was a performance poet now inent authors and celebrities goes back every Friday after- who, impressed by what is Storybook Dads noon and runs a group where happening at Thameside, have Allows men to record prisoners write and perform attended to speak to the men themselves reading a book their own poetry. These men there. It’s like a who’s who and to their child on CD or seemed to be treated almost the fact that these busy people DVD as if they were part of the staff; find the time to attend is an- Neil Barclay, librarian © Paul Sullivan Rosetta Stone the current prisoners connect- other demonstration of what an E-learning programme ed with them and the prison Neil has achieved and what teaching languages at seemed to value the work they could be achieved at other various levels did. prisons; and as he told me; it’s Thameside Library - not all about funding, it is Film Club “I never read on the about dedicated staff, man- As well as broadcasting 5 outside, now I have read agement support and a lot of DVD channels to cell TVs so many books …” work by prisoners. Much of there are also live not just about books what goes on at Thameside is screenings in the library A further surprise was that not about money, a lot of it Creative Writing costs nothing, it’s about or- Paul Sullivan struck me was that although One reason the library has men can book when they want ganisation, willing manage- security was thorough it was been able to develop and func- twice weekly sessions by to go to the library using in- writers and storytellers ment and supportive staff. not overbearing and all the tion so well is that the previous cell IT systems and can spend whole sessions there, sitting, People who know me or have staff, although professional, Director (John Biggin) made Prisoners’ Advice Service reading, taking part in groups. The question here is; could read my musings over the were polite and friendly; and sure the librarian was a pro- monthly legal sessions for A problem identified by Neil this achievement be replicated years will be aware of my de- in the prison itself there was fessional and a fully function- prisoners spair at the workings of HM ing part of prison staff and new and his orderly is that of get- in every prison library? Many an air of calm and quiet with Puzzle Championship prisons and my antipathy to Director Craig Thomson is ting men motivated to attend might think it could and many prisoners employed competitions including privatised prisons. I was espe- keeping up the support. The the library for the first time. should, since it does not sim- around the prison going about crosswords, Sudoku and cially keen, then, when I got library is, in fact, staffed just Once they have been they are ply come down to funding but their work effectively with lit- backgammon an invitation to visit Serco’s by Neil and one permanent hooked: to achieve that there is more dependent on desire, HMP Thameside to see the tle apparent supervision. The officer, Michael Fiorentini, are inductions in the Library support, and motivation from work done in the library there. reason for this became clear who work together and have every day for new arrivals. prisoners and staff. as I spoke to Neil Barclay, the produced what prisoners de- time constructively in helping I would like to thank Neil, Director “The library really helps librarian, library orderlies and scribe as an oasis where the others and it has made him “You pick up a book and Craig Thomson and his staff for Shannon Trust mentors who priority is the prisoner. The aware of himself. That was the two and a half hours prisoners with literacy welcoming me to Thameside all spoke about a prison which library orderly told me that he message I got from all the res- have passed” through Reading Ahead and facilitating my visit. and Shannon Trust” sets about keeping prisoners works in the library not be- idents I spoke to; they wanted busy and improving their cause he has to but he wants to use their time constructive- Thameside Library is not just HMP Thameside is a Category knowledge of themselves and to; it is a major part of his life ly, enjoyed seeing the progress about books, and there are Having visited a number of B local prison operated by their self-esteem. where he feels he is using his made by people they help, and plenty of those, many with prisons the first thing that Serco and holding over 1,200 all agreed they also felt im- their own reviews written by men, of which around 25% are proved themselves as individ- library users. At one end of the remands. It is situated on a site uals. These were all men who, library is a row of computers. Our Team of over 25 next to HMP Belmarsh and presumably had made a mis- The Rosetta Stone language specialist advisors HMYOI Isis near Woolwich in take somewhere and were system is available where SE London. Each day up to 50 have a wealth of suffering the consequences users can learn a whole variety prisoners go out to court, some experience to offer but were determined not to let of foreign languages, they can of which return, so there is a you including: it define them and ruin their also do the theory part of the large churn. lives forever; and in their jour- driving test: tempted though • Parole Board Hearings ney they were taking many • IPP Sentence Issues with them. They were guys I What is happening in your library that you • Mandatory Lifers would be proud to call a friend would like to shout about? • Discretionary Lifers and to have as a neighbour. Write in and let us know. 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© Fotolia.com Lifting the shroud over police misconduct l Hillsborough l Killings of Jean Charles de Menezes, l Cardiff 3 & Cardiff Newsagent 3 l Rotherham paedophile scandal Mark Duggan & Azele Rodney l Eddie Browning for the Marie Wilks l Battle of Orgreave l Guildford 4 M50 murder

Keith Rose to disperse miners, 50 people outset it was obvious to the Eddie Browning for the Marie Genette Tate was a 13 year old multitude of ailments, includ- were injured to the extent that Surrey force that the Guildford Wilks M50 murder and others papergirl abducted and prob- ing cardiac and renal prob- £425,000 was paid to 39 in- 4 were not IRA members or are examples, but the depth of ably murdered in 1978. A few lems and tinnitus with severe Do police forces ever feel jured pickets in out of court terrorists, but convenient corruption necessary to ‘mis- days after the death of serial ear infections. shame about their action? Do settlements. scapegoats, so evidence was lay’ vital evidence in the trial rapist and murderer Robert individual police officers re- fabricated and convictions of 9 former police officers for Black, this deceitful and cor- Professor Henry, 82 years old, turn home at night feeling In 2015, an inquiry by the obtained. Shabby enough? the undisguised framing of the rupt police force announced was a member of EXIT, the regret for their exploits? Did Independent Police Not so, the Surrey force then Cardiff 3. Reprehensible or they were just about to charge pro-euthanasia charity and the south Yorkshire officers Complaints Commission ensured that when guilty de- routine? Robert Black with the murder. ordered for herself a suicide involved in the 96 unlawful (IPCC), uncovered widespread tectives were finally brought Just pipped at the post after 38 drug kit from Mexico. deaths at Hillsborough or in perjury by police officers in the to trial they were acquitted ‘on Since 1969 there have been years? I don’t think so, more the weeks following the Sun’s 1984 Orgreave miners trials. evidence presented’ which 5000 deaths of individuals a shameless attempt to clear Devon & Cornwall police were “Truth” story, ever hang their The IPCC kept silent as a trial was engineered to ensure an either in custody of police of- the books. tipped off about this purchase heads and feel sorrow or regret of perjurious officers was acquittal. The Deputy Chief ficers or following contact by Interpol, so acting in their for their malicious lies and judged ‘not to be in the public Constable responsible for the with police. There has never The nerve of this police force normal delicate and consider- actions? interest’. It is unsurprising cover-up, previously involved been a conviction for any of to claim to be providing ate manner for dealing with that the same senior South in Manchester’s notorious these deaths, even such a bla- Genette Tate’s family with clo- the elderly and frail, smashed South Yorkshire police spent Yorkshire police officers, with Stalker Affair, went on to be- tant event as the shooting of sure is almost beyond belief, down her front door in the £20 million trying to maintain the same solicitors, were re- come Chief Constable of an- Jean Charles de Menezes in but there is more. Devon & middle of the night. They even the 27 years of fiction that sponsible for the Battle of other force now renowned for Stockwell tube station. Cornwall police then went on took a psychiatrist with them Liverpool football fans were Orgreave lies which was the corruption, lies and bungling. Following the de Menezes to chastise the Crown to determine her state of mind. responsible for the 96 deaths. hallmark of Hillsborough. death the squad commander, Prosecution Service for not Shock at having her door The Chief Constable and Since 1969 Cressida Dick, was promoted. charging or trying the de- smashed in during the early Deputy Chief Constable of It’s not just south Yorkshire Unprincipled, unscrupulous ceased Robert Black, due to a hours? South Yorkshire police have police, there is a litany of sim- there have been or just appalling. ‘new policy of not prosecuting now both stepped down from ilar, equally foul, examples the dead’. Having confiscated all the their posts in the aftermath of throughout the country. We 5000 deaths of There are innumerable cases available drugs they could the Hillsborough Inquest ver- could look at the Metropolitan individuals either where police forces have The only trial I am aware of find the deficient and dicts, but had to be pushed, police who following the kill- shamelessly just cleared their where a dead body was put on cack-handed officers left, so no shame there. ings of Jean Charles de in custody of police books of crimes, rather than trial in England was around doubtless satisfied with their Menezes, Mark Duggan and officers or following solving them. Have the Jill 1660, after the Restoration. nights work. A couple of days You may feel that both should Azele Rodney it was revealed Dando, Birmingham or Oliver Cromwell’s corpse was later Professor Avril Henry have gone following news of that the Met had their very contact with police. Guildford pub bombing cases disinterred, put on trial, and committed suicide with drugs the Rotherham paedophile own serial killer, employed in There has never been re-opened? Obviously then beheaded after a guilty from the Mexican kit, the po- scandal, 20 plus years, 2500 their SO19 gun squad, not, as the police forces con- verdict. I’ve not heard of a sim- lice had helpfully left suspects, only 9 convictions Anthony Long. When a senior been a conviction cerned cleared the books of ilar trial since. More fiction? behind. - despicable incompetence, Met officer joked to Long that for any of these crimes when convictions were but there is more. he had always wanted to meet obtained no matter how Whilst on the subject of Devon Shameful behaviour from the Met’s serial killer, Long deaths flawed those convictions were. & Cornwall police it is worth these police forces, relevant During the miner’s strike of submitted a substantial claim pointing out their all too rou- Police Commissioners or the 1984, South Yorkshire police for hurt feelings. Contemptible, Leaving England, we move However, there are few book tine bungling which necessi- IPCC? No, simply shameless. were combatants in the infa- Mr Long? (NB Serial killers are into South Wales with its own clearings more dishonourable tates their inventive fables. mous ‘Battle of Orgreave’, defined as responsible for two lengthy catalogue of sordid and cynical than that of Devon where striking miner pickets or more killings). police behaviour. The wrong- & Cornwall police claiming to Retired Professor of Medieval were charged by mounted po- ful convictions of the Cardiff have solved the Genette Tate Culture at Exeter University, Keith Rose is currently lice. Excessive force was used Moving on, from the very 3, the Cardiff newsagent 3, case. Avril Henry, suffered from a resident at HMP Whitemoor Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 21

meant more to me than just a trium- should have said they would cam- (as my case is one of them) but many phant vindication for the families and paign to find the wealthy retired po- of the innocent people are still in Hillsborough supporters of the 96 fans who died. It lice chiefs, now living in luxury on prison, serving life sentences. As a announced to the world. Police do lie. huge pensions in mansions in Surrey brilliant investigative hack, Bob has Police do lay blame on innocent peo- and other expensive counties, who examined in forensic detail the facts ple. Police do cover up the truth. had bent the rules, changed evi- behind the convictions and his con- dence, manufactured false proof, clusions are astonishing and fright- exposed a It also showed how other aspects of convicted innocent men and women. ening. He condemns police and the society - the courts, the media - can back And got away with it by taking early Criminal Cases Review Commission up the police. I even went in front of the retirement. - who are meant to be recommending Leveson Inquiry in 2012, telling them appeals to those wrongly convicted painful truth: about the relationship between police Because now, in 2016, but who spend years being inefficient and media. They rejected my evidence, it has been strongly, and send far too few miscarriages saying it was “not on their agenda”. back for appeal. Not that it is entirely unequivocally decided, their fault. They have tiny budgets. THE POLICE When the entire population of in a coroner’s court, that Who provides the funds for those Liverpool, and many others, con- budgets, you may wonder? Answer demned The Sun in 1989 for repeating the police lied and - the Government. Really? An inde- the lies, I felt, as most did, that they covered up the truth, pendent body is funded by the poli- should not blame The Sun - even if ticians? Hard to believe, you may DO TELL LIES they did (as usual) inflate the descrip- laying blame on innocent think. I couldn’t possibly comment. tion and exaggerate the colours. people, many of whom But, like the independent Leveson Jonathan King specialist magazines - but for sheer Something which, ironically, False are dead and unable to Inquiry it is, indeed, funded by the efficiency and professionalism, the Accusers often do when making Government or, to put it another way, Sun was the best. claims about past memories. Critics defend themselves by us, the tax payers. Who can vote In 1989 I was a columnist on The Sun should have blamed those in author- for politicians (well, some of us can). newspaper. Once a week I wrote a When the Hillsborough disaster was ity who gave the paper the informa- Since the Hillsborough verdict, many page called Bizarre USA - I did it for covered in the paper, I winced at the tion and swore it was true. right wing and left wing commenta- Those same politicians who, if I re- almost ten years. The Sun was then language but assumed that the police tors have written about police behav- member correctly, visited far and away the biggest selling would not have lied. Surely, honesty Because now, in 2016, it has been iour, several adding horror at the Hillsborough and backed the police newspaper in the UK. I had a massive and the truth were essentials in police strongly, unequivocally decided, in a conduct of recent investigations. 100%. No, different people. Same mailbag. The day after I criticised behaviour, I thought. coroner’s court, that the police lied Matthew Parris in The Times has ad- jobs. And similar desires to hold on Band Aid and Live Aid, saying I felt and covered up the truth, laying mitted worries about police behav- to those jobs, please. the well intentioned charity might Eleven years later I learned the oppo- blame on innocent people, many of iour going back to the Bakewell fiasco have unexpected repercussions, the site. When allegations were made whom are dead and unable to defend that eventually released Stephen Thanks to those brave and brilliant paper got 18,600 letters about my against me, it took me some time to themselves. I cannot stress too strong- Downing in 2002, the innocent man Scousers, never giving up, there is comments, split evenly with around 50% suspect that the police might, inad- ly the importance of that decision. wrongly convicted and jailed for 27 now just a chance that many unjustly agreeing and 50% disagreeing. I be- vertently, have let slip certain infor- years before his appeal was granted. convicted, innocent people may find lieve to this day it remains the biggest mation details to confused witnesses. The Editor of the Sun in 2016 made a I met dozens of men I believed were the tide is turning. It all depends (as ever response to an opinion piece. That was when it struck me. Police serious error after that, too. It was one innocent of a variety of convictions many things do) on the media. Which behaviour. They were more concerned of the few papers that did not carry during my time in prison. knows a good story when it - eventu- The Sun was a very well run paper. with getting a high profile conviction the story on the front page. I believe ally - sees one. Whether or not it was your cup of tea, than with finding the truth. he should have written, in giant letters When society cannot rely on our po- working for it was a pleasure. Wages - HOW CAN WE MAKE AMENDS? lice to find the truth, investigative Jonathan King is a proud former and expenses were paid on time. Sub But top lawyers said defendants journalists do the job. prisoner editors phoned if they wanted to could not even suggest such a thing. That should have been not just the change anything, to the position of The Judge always supported the po- headline but the entire cover. Inside Bob Woffinden’s excellent new book The Nicholas Cases: Casualties a comma. I’ve written for most pub- lice. It would harm the defence. The Sun should have vowed to cham- The Nicholas Cases covers ten of the of Justice by Bob Woffinden lications in my time - from the Times pion a crusade to weed out and expose worst miscarriages of justice over the Hardcover £20.99 and the posh papers to more So last month’s Hillsborough verdict other examples of bent cops. They past 30 years. Admittedly I’m biased ISBN-13: 978-0993075506

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Medway Improvement Board findings ‘alarming’ Too much emphasise on control, compliance and restraint says report

of records etc. report, is that children who consistent policy on risk, re- young person’s voice is lis- Inside Time report needed to see a psychologist straint and behaviour man- tened to and a significant in- There are blurred lines of ac- were not allowed to do so dur- agement across vestment is made to improve The final report of the Medway the Board has had significant countability and an ambigu- ing school hours because of government.” links with young people’s Improvement Board was pub- concerns about cultural and ous management structure. concerns that it would have home communities, to in- lished on 30th March and leadership values at Medway The report says that a clearer an impact on their 25 hours per Barnardos run an advocacy crease the quantity and qual- made publicly available on STC and found problems that child-based vision is needed, week of education and risk a scheme commissioned by the ity of therapeutic interven- 12th May. It is a long and de- board members found driven by strong leadership. contractual penalty. “The YJB YJB that allows young people tions, and to personalise the tailed report and contains dis- ‘alarming’. The Board recommends an has not done enough to to get involved directly with education offer.” turbing revelations such as the independent Governing Body change this and current poli- decisions and discussions and attempts of G4S to impede The Improvement Board spoke is appointed to provide overall cies and practices need to be provides peer mentors and There are currently three STCs, their investigations; such as to all levels of staff at Medway oversight and scrutiny ar- reviewed.” befrienders. Almost everybody all of which are privately run. trying to block their viewing and G4S and with the YJB and rangements for safeguarding the Board spoke to criticised STCs were designed to hold of CCTV footage of incidents, their report repeats time and in all STCs. There is a lack of coordination the Barnardos scheme and the 12-14 year olds, but are now and manipulating trainees time again such people criti- by the organisations that cur- Board said they were not more likely to hold older who spoke to them. cising the ability of staff, staff rently play a role in scrutinis- training, management and Even during ing and responding to safe- Frances Crook, CEO of The oversight. Even during their their time at guarding; this increases the Howard League says; “The time at Medway, board mem- risk of safeguarding issues Howard League has been say- bers found G4S staff trying to Medway, board falling through a gap, another ing for 20 years - ever since manipulate and control them members found reason for an independent secure training centres were and manipulating and fright- governing body. first envisaged - that the con- ening trainees who had spo- G4S staff trying to cept was rotten. This report ken to them. manipulate and A history of similar concerns vindicates that view. It is dev- being raised repeatedly in let- astating to think about the There was a lack of clarity on control them and ters from whistle-blowers and thousands of children who the purpose of an STC; The manipulating and former staff. The Board was have been through the doors Board says “The purpose of concerned at the lack of of these child jails.” STCs needs to be more clearly frightening trainees weight put on information articulated with a focus on who had spoken to brought to attention by whis- The independent Medway promoting a nurturing and tle-blowers and with the lack Improvement Board was ap- safe environment.” them of protection given to them; impressed with their input: children. STCs hold both boys pointed on 26th January 2016 they say that whistle-blowers Nick Hardwick (Ex-Chief and girls, and have a higher by the Secretary of State for The culture appeared to be and children inside the STCs Inspector of Prisons) said he staff-child ratio than Young Justice as a response to a BBC based on control and contract Safeguarding measures are need to have an effective sup- felt they were not effective; a Offender Institutes. They were Panorama programme which compliance rather than reha- insufficient and outdated with port framework in which they trainee told the Board; “They originally designed to be edu- highlighted the physical and bilitation and safeguarding not enough emphasis on the feel safe to raise concerns and like come in and sit and say cation-focussed. Annually, emotional abuse of young peo- vulnerable young people. The best interests and mental well- complaints. G4S also tried to ‘are you ok?’ as if we are going STCs cost approximately ple by G4S staff at Medway emphasis on contract compli- being of the trainees. An ex- stop former staff speaking out. to talk to them like in front of £163,000 per place as at 1st STC. From their first meeting, ance may lead to falsification ample of this, given in the everyone. We don’t know April 2015. G4S has since sold A difference exists between them anyway.” its contracts to run child how behaviour management prisons. and Restrictive Physical Going forward, the Board says, Interventions (RPI) are used a more proactive model needs All three STCs have been the in the secure children’s estate to be developed that centres subject of investigations and and in other sectors. The re- on nurturing vulnerable chil- concerns about the treatment dren and the individual needs of children over the years. 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biguous manner. places. The cost of such a policy is immeasur- able. It was estimated that councils all over A few years before the report was made public, Britain spent around £30 million per year on Professor Doll was a guest on ‘Desert Island employing people to enforce the ban. Discs’ and made the comment: ‘The effects of other people smoking in my presence is so small 25% of adults in Britain still smoke. The number it doesn’t worry me’. He was asked to retract of smokers in prison is estimated at 85%. This his statement the next day by the BMC. of course represents a majority of the population in prisons. Notably, the MoJ’s report on The main body which the anti-smoking lobby passive smoking in prisons has been withheld, had hoped to back their cause was the World possibly because, as with so many studies con- Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO had ducted in the past, the findings are likely to find spent millions on anti-smoking campaigns and nothing, and there is no significant danger to advertising. In the late 1980s it had commis- anyone. To publish its likely findings would sioned its own department, the International make the ‘no smoking in prisons’ policy much Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) for a of a red herring and totally without foundation. gigantean study into the effects of environmental tobacco smoke. By the late 1990s the study Non-smokers in prison have more than ade- © Fotolia.com was near finished, yet the WHO withheld its quate provisions for a smoke-free environment. publication because the findings were not what Although they may find the smell obnoxious, they had expected. it does not do you any harm whatsoever. As far N Thorpe a cigarette must be harmful, to even more out- as prisons are concerned, it is a classic case of the rageous claims that it caused cot deaths In short, the eminent epidemiologists and can- minority forcing their opinion on the majority. amongst babies. In 1948 a nationwide study/survey showed that cer specialists from all over Europe found no 82% of adult males were smokers and that the evidence that there was any significant risk The evidence on passive smoking reveals there Most of these claims were repeated endlessly by number of female smokers was rising. Around from passive smoking. Furthermore, and quite is no evidence, and it never ceases to amaze media agencies, without even a check on the the same time, two professors from the Medical astonishingly, was that there was also some how governments and societies spend obscene facts or the credibility of the sources. The an- Research Council, Richard Doll and Austin Hill, evidence that children who were brought up amounts of money proving something just does ti-smoking lobby presented more unfounded investigated the causes of a ‘phenomenal’ rise in a smoky atmosphere actually built up a de- not exist. Look at the science. And to those claims as their tactics increased towards their in lung cancer over the previous 25 years. Their gree of protection from the risks of cancer. awaiting the MoJ report, be careful what you cause. One of these claims was about the cost paper was published in 1950 and proved over- wish for. to the NHS, which, in 1997, was estimated at whelmingly that there was a link between Despite all non-evidence, convenient fictions around £600 million per year. But then compare smoking and lung cancer. Further investigation were brought about by the anti-smoking lobby, this to the then £6 billion per year that the also revealed a link with other diseases such and soon smoking was banned in all public N Thorpe is resident at HMP Nottingham Exchequer received in taxes from the tobacco as heart disease, and that smoking could de- companies. crease life expectancy by up to 10 years. Inside Time would welcome comment from any medical expert who can Another claim made by the British Medical Doll and Hill’s research was endorsed by the throw some additional light on this subject. Council (BMC) was that a passive smokers risk Royal College of Physicians and as news of the Write in and let us know. Please mark your envelope ‘Smoking’. of heart disease was the same as someone smok- damning reports filtered through to the public ing 20 a day, despite only inhaling 1% of the the smoking habit started to fall markedly smoke. In 2003 the largest and most compre- throughout the 1960s. In 1974, 51% were still hensive study into passive smoking was made ASN LAW smoking and by 1982 the number of smokers public; this was the Eastrom/Kabat study which SOLICITORS had fallen to 35%. was started decades earlier. This was the study Anthony Stokoe • Joel Binns commissioned by the American Cancer Society, Rasheed Nujeerallee Most of the attention at this time was focussed • Criminal Defence and Appeals which studied 118,000 adults, 35,000 of whom on the self-harming effect of smoking but as Specialising in all areas of criminal law, from minor Independent Prison Law had one partner who was a non-smoker. 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The ACS, disap- around 118,000 smokers, paying specific atten- Comprehensive solutions to immigration and British advice/representation pointed with the results, pulled their funding. tion to 35,000 subjects who had never smoked nationality issues. Desperate to see their lifelong work published, for Male and Female Prisoners but lived with partners who did. Two academ- Eastrom and Kabat turned to the only source • Family Law ics, James Eastrom and Geoffrey Kabat carried • Adjudications • Lifer/IPP Specialist who would fund their project, the American Divorce - sound advice about your rights and the out the study, the results of which wouldn’t be • Recall • Parole • Judicial Reviews Tobacco Companies. Of course, this led to much options available known for decades. 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Men describe alle- INNOCENT with depressing when the jury were not pres- man’s children are suffering Following the publication of Etc) of the Criminal Justice and gations being made to stymie regularity, and have been ent) that he believed that the also, and isn’t that a form of the letter “We are surviving Public Order Act 1994 states contact with children after coming to us for years. Apart witnesses had ‘sat around the abuse? JP says; “It seems as if victims of a false accuser and that judges no longer have to messy divorces: As one poster from giving basic information kitchen table to get their sto- I could have written this letter wrongful conviction. Our fam- warn juries about convicting put it; “Decent people, both in about the appeals system ob- ries straight!’”. “So how can myself as I too am dealing with ily is in trauma”, in our April the accused on the uncorrob- and out of prison, have a taining documents etc., and we have a justice system that this same situation. My hus- issue, our website has been orated evidence of the accuser moral duty to speak out if they pointing them to the excellent allows a court case to progress band is locked away for charg- inundated with comments where the person is charged have information that could help organisations, we strug- with just one person’s word es he was convicted of with no from people in a similar posi- with a sexual offence. This has help these suffering gle to say anything helpful. I against another?” proof, no evidence, nothing, tion. Many say that men, often given rise to situations like families.” wish we could do more.” claimed to have taken place partners and fathers, were that related in one comment “What has happened to the years and years ago. Our chil- convicted with no evidence, which said; “We too have had A poster says; “There must be law we once looked up to, dren are suffering incredibly except the word of one per- our family ripped apart by What has so many wrongly accused and where is the true justice, when over this.” son; nearly always the cases false accusations, with wit- happened to the wrongly convicted victims in anyone can lie and then be relate to accusations of abuse nesses giving evidence of what law we once looked prison now; who will help paid for it in compensation We will give the last word to many years, often decades, the so called victims told them?” The problem is that money?” J; “No one ‘in power’ wants to before and families despair them; nobody actually had up to, where is the when you mix ‘sex’, ‘abuse’ help people like us, as it does when they are told they have any evidence.” Is it, as one true justice, when and ‘children’ even the most Of course, many will say that not look good on them. I have to find evidence that proves person put it; “Convict, con- strong willed turn away - just the families are delusional and contacted my local MP with no innocence when there was no vict, convict is the mantra and anyone can lie and in case. As another person too quick to believe their hus- joy. The establishment knows ‘evidence’ in the first place. hide anything that might make then be paid for it says; “Unfortunately, for band, brother or father; they what is going on as in the that less likely. Those accused many the answer is ‘no one will not believe that people failed operation Midland, Disturbingly many of the ac- often don’t even know what in compensation can or will help them’. They can and do lie. Quite rightly when the Met ended up apol- cusers were known to police they are being accused of.” money? are screwed.” they will say that abuse is ogising (of sorts) to Lord as serial accusers and many Another person says; “Nobody wrong and perpetrators must Brittan’s widow. That poor had a history of mental health seems to want to rock the boat. And so the comments keep be apprehended and dealt man went to his death bed not There are stories of police problems. Neither of these, it What did happen to ‘innocent coming, powerful, distressing with. As one of our corre- knowing that all along there trawling; acting on the word would be claimed, mean the till proven guilty’ … now it testaments to fundamental spondents pointed out; when were no charges made against of one dubious witness, claim- accuser is lying, but in the seems it’s ‘guilty unless you failures; “We put our trust in a man is wrongfully accused, him.” face of no supportive evidence can prove where you were ing they are ‘believable’; ar- their word is taken against every second for the last 10+ resting, searching and leaking that of a man, often in later years.” information to the tabloid If you have been affected by false allegations there are a number of organisations offering advice and assistance: years, with a history of a sta- press. Beneath the ‘celebrity’ ble family and no previous People commenting describe stories, where the accused has FASO False Allegation Support Organisation www.false-allegations.org.uk resources and friends to assist, convictions. whole families ripped apart FACT Falsely Accused Carers and Teachers www.factuk.org and ordinary people’s faith in are hundreds, if not thou- PAFAA People Against False Allegations of Abuse www.pafaa.org.uk/wordpress Section 32 (Part III Course of British justice ‘shattered’. sands, with no such resources. 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would go with him. We It’s not much fun to be a found the exact coordinates prisoner anywhere but my of where the ship sank and Terry Waite CBE conditions in prison, one day Harold and I set off compared to what these men for Indonesia. To cut a long had to endure, were as story short, we managed to The state of UK prisons nothing. I took with me to hire a boat, the captain of There has been much the Memorial Service one of which knew the shallow © Fotolia.com discussion in recent weeks the former prisoners whom I waters where the ship sank. about how bad conditions have known for many years. He said that the mast was are in prisons in the UK. Harold was not entirely still visible at low tide. So, They are not good and have truthful when, at the start of we had a wreath made and been made worse by the cuts the War, he declared his age one blustery morning set Tales of Wisdom enforced on the Prison as being 15 and thus entered sail. We soon found the ship system by the government of the Navy as a boy entrant and Harold threw the wreath the day. True, the govern- aged 14. in the waters as a tribute to Our man on the inside tells it like it is ment is not the cause of all his many dead comrades of the troubles as many prisons Being young all those years ago. Later we Sid Arter - but then their acts of goodness will be missed are well beyond their useful and fit he managed tracked down the site of the by those that need to see the good that good- life and ought to have been old prison camp, now a ness can do! I do wonder how often staff enter replaced by previous to swim ashore and supermarket! reports of good onto a prisoner’s record - like governments years ago. was immediately Showing in many walks of life maybe we are swift to However, we are landed now Don’t let it get you down judge and slow to praise? with a system that needs a captured by a Well, back to today. You compassion total overall and that will not Japanese soldier and may be experiencing poor For many years I worked in education and be easily accomplished. told to start digging conditions but, without any For many people, in all life settings, from both training in industry and came to realise that doubt at all, they will be a spiritual path or not there is an inclination challenge and support are mutually connected. Thinking of others his grave. many times better than those to ‘do good’; to show kindness, generosity and If you want an individual to change you need During the days of my Harold had to endure. I am goodwill towards others. Within prisons it is to challenge them regarding their learning and incarceration as a hostage, Alas, his life on the ocean not excusing the conditions therefore not unusual to see and hear of acts behaviour and also support them to make those conditions were far from wave was short-lived for his in our prisons; they do need of compassion towards others, however, it is changes. If you just challenge, individuals good. I spent most of the ship was torpedoed and sank improvement; but no man or significantly less easy! often get overwhelmed and if you just support day chained to the wall and off the coast of Indonesia woman should be defeated then stagnation or even regression occurs. I slept on the floor. There was when Harold had been on by them. It’s a fact that the Not only are acts of generosity appreciated they sat one day in a high street chain coffee house no possibility of getting any board for only a matter of situation is bad for prison- may also be viewed with suspicion by other and a colleague wrote SET on a piece of paper exercise, or of conversing weeks. Being young and fit ers. The vast majority of prisoners - who might cynically wonder what while she explained how to motivate an indi- with anyone, as I was kept he managed to swim ashore, those who work in prisons you are after! Or worse than that, any sign of vidual. S - Support - our role was to explain we for almost five years in total a distance of about two do not like the situation as it compassion is seen as a weakness and exploita- would give support, whatever. E- Empathise - solitary. That meant for the miles, and was immediately is. It’s not pleasant for them tion of weaker prisoners is not unusual despite our role was to seek to understand the world majority of the time I had no captured by a Japanese to have to work in an efforts by the staff to prevent it. It might also of that individual. T-Truth - whatever we do we books, radio or TV. Naturally soldier and told to start atmosphere of tension and be that the custody staff see acts of compassion must be truthful. Eg. “I will be here for you as I felt a bit down from time to digging his grave. He had hostility. All I can say is as manipulative behaviour or a sign of taxing your boss and will do what I can to help you time but when I began to feel just started to dig when he don’t let the situation get or a form of debt repayment. As a species hu- deliver at work, I understand the challenges sorry for myself, I remem- heard a voice behind him you down and for your own mans have thrived in part because they co-op- you have at home and to become as effective bered the millions of people say in perfect English ‘You’re sake keep away from legal erate with each other and acts of compassion as you can here at work - however, the truth is in this world who had in a fine mess!’ He turned highs and other narcotics not only bring people together they may be unless you improve we will need to terminate suffered far more than I ever around and saw a Japanese that are in many of our jails. aspects of a prisoner’s behaviour that need your contract, which neither of us want or see would. Only this morning I Officer. He learnt that this When eventually you do developing. Prisoners are often seen as selfish as desirable.” heard on the radio how man had been educated in come out, you want to come and self-centred and courses target developing millions of Chinese people the USA and had returned to out with good health, and skills of consideration and empathy. Maybe such a compassionate approach is need- were driven from their Japan only to be conscripted drugs will not help you at ed in the prison service - a service that supports homes during the cultural into the Japanese Army. He all. If you are feeling low Do remember all it takes for bad to prevail is prisoners, empathises with them and overall revolution and hundreds of told Harold that he could not and there are Listeners in for good people to stop their acts of goodness. is truthful. We should remember that many thousands of them starved to set him free but he would not your prison, talk with them. Maybe we should have both; wings where the people in prison are damaged by life experi- death. be executed. However, he They will be more than vulnerable are accommodated - but also wings ences; we should of course challenge them - but would be sent to a Prisoner happy to listen and to share where the compassionate are housed together with compassionate support. Prisoners of War of War camp where he was your concerns. Recently I attended the to spend the remainder of annual memorial service for the War years. They were Sorry, this sounds a bit like the Far Eastern Prisoners of terrible years and make the preaching and I suppose it We are local to: HMYOI AYLESBURY & HMPs BULLINGDON, War, or FEPOW’s as they are conditions you and I have is. Although you are locked GRENDON, WOODHILL, READING and SPRINGHILL but known. Although the experienced seem like a up for the moment, you still memorial Church in Norfolk piece of cake! 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For a long time now I now, in his eighties, he hostage negotiator before he PICKUP & SCOTT SOLICITORS have been associated with would like to revisit the PICKUP & SCOTT SOLICITORS himself was held captive in this group and also with place where his ship went 6 Bourbon Street ~ Aylesbury ~ Bucks ~ HP20 2RR Beirut for 1763 days between 6 Bourbon Street ~ Aylesbury ~ Bucks ~ HP20 2RR COFEPOW, which stands for down. He did not want to go 1987 and 1991; the first four 01296 397 794 the Children of the Far alone and his wife did not 01296 397 794 years were spent in solitary Eastern Prisoners of War. want to travel so I said I Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers confinement. 26 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2016

man’s face that he knew. He Corporal in the Royal Tank knew. I grabbed the police- Regiment. With the exception man’s torch and took two of of the Irish Regiments, all the my men down the gaping hole combat units of the British in the ground, climbing over Army rotated through tours of rubble, slabs of brick and con- duty in Northern Ireland - in- crete and gushing water. In itially four months at a time the thick smoke the torch was and returning to the Province useless. We scrabbled around often within a year. Forty years blindly. Then we heard a loud- on it is easy to forget the in- hailer above calling for us to tensity of the violence during get out fast as there was a car the so called ‘Troubles’. In parked overhead with 500lb 1972 alone, 102 British soldiers of explosives inside.” lost their lives fighting to keep Northern Ireland as an integral “I was about to give the order Richard Dannatt speaking at part of the United Kingdom. when one of my men found a the book launch woman’s shoe. We dug franti- The intensity of what Jimmy cally with our bare hands. for life in 1974. Johnson went through in Then I found her. She looked Northern Ireland in the 1970s like a large rag doll smashed Since the nineteen nineties, is both different and similar to to pieces. All that was left of when Johnson first became what other soldiers, sailors, her clothing was a piece of rag aware that his violent post- airmen and marines have gone around her neck; other parts army behaviour might be through in the Falklands, in of her had been blown off. linked to combat related PTSD the Balkans, in Iraq and © Fotolia.com Even her toes were missing. I he has spent his years in pris- Afghanistan in more recent covered her with my combat on collating as much informa- decades. And like many of jacket and carried her out to tion as he could on PTSD and those servicemen, Jimmy was an ambulance.” its effects on the mind. Since a dedicated soldier, a bold 2003 he has been self-publish- leader and courageous - he Johnson said he remembers ing his widely respected has the oak leaf of a Mention The Veterans’ shouting at the doctor in the Survival Guide for Veterans in Dispatches on his Northern back of the ambulance, “Save and Their Families. Now with Ireland General Service Medal her!” He said her face remind- charitable funding Veterans to prove it. And yet Jimmy suf- ed him of his wife’s face. “The in Prison has published his fered mental illness that led to doctor turned to me and very survival guide in a high qual- the murder of two men and he Survival Guide quietly said, ‘Sorry son, but ity paperback book which is faces the prospect of perhaps she’s dead.’ Outside the ambulance I started to shake and New book by former soldier aims to help tremble and sweat like I had never sweated before. veterans suffering combat related PTSD Someone led me into the back of a Land Rover where I sat Erwin James personal experiences as a sol- minutes he had cordoned off and tried to smoke a cigarette. der during ‘The Troubles’ in the area and mounted guards I heard women’s voices and Northern Ireland in the book to provide cover against snip- laughter, and then a woman and presents what has been ers in case it was a set-up. leaned into the open back described by former Director door of the vehicle and said, General of the British army We dug frantically ‘Don’t worry, son, she was medical services, Major only a catholic.” That night he General Dr R Short as a ‘mag- with our bare hands. was injected with a tranquil- James Johnson in 1968 num opus’ of an examination Then I found her. She liser to help him sleep. “I of the impact of combat relat- looked like a large rag never thought I’d be able to ed PTSD. sleep again,” he said. distributed free of charge to never being released from doll smashed to pieces. any veteran or their families. prison. It did not have to be Johnson joined the army aged All that was left of her For his actions in trying to like this. Jimmy Johnson is the 17, and was first involved in clothing was a piece of save the woman’s life in the General the Lord Dannatt: “I author of this book and his action in Aden in the 1960s, underground toilet, Johnson first met Jimmy Johnson in motivation for writing it is to where he demonstrated the rag around her neck; received a “mentioned in des- 2011 in a small room in the prevent others from following leadership qualities that led other parts of her had patches” - an award given in Category A wing of Her the path that his life took. to his promotion to corporal been blown off. Even recognition of exceptional Majesty’s Prison Frankland and tank commander. Later he heroism or other noteworthy where high-risk prisoners Jimmy stands to make no fi- served two tours of duty in her toes were missing. action. It was the highest were held. Situated just out- nancial gain from this book. Launching The Veterans’ Northern Ireland, during I covered her with my award earned by somebody in side the City of Durham, en- He would like to join me in Survival Guide last month at which he was involved in sup- combat jacket and his unit since the Korean War. tering that prison was an al- thanking the Army Benevolent the Queen’s House in the pressing riots, controlling But procedures to help sol- most surreal experience. I had Fund, now The Soldiers’ Tower of London, Richard missile-throwing crowds, and carried her out to an diers deal with the aftermath first set foot there in December Charity, Help for Heroes and Dannatt, (General the Lord clearing areas where bombs ambulance. of traumatic events relating to 1980 when my battalion, 1st Jim Davidson of Care after Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL Chief had been laid. their service activities then Battalion The Green Howards, Combat for providing the of the General Staff 2006- Raised voices caught his at- were scant. There were few was tasked to run the prison funding for the publication of 2009), said The Veterans’ The incident that affected him tention. A man was screaming options available to help the during a strike by the Prison the Veterans’ Survival Guide. Survival Guide, by former tank most profoundly occurred at a policeman and pointing soldiers wind down or de- Officers Association (POA), It is Jimmy’s authentic ac- commander Jimmy Johnson while he was leading a mobile at the toilet. Johnson spoke to stress after bombings or riots which was in dispute with the count of his own experiences was important because, “It patrol of two Land Rovers and me a few years ago from or other intensely violent in- Home Office. I did not expect and opinions, which he will- will help us all to understand seven men through the centre Frankland prison where he is cidents. Alcohol was the main to return thirty-one years later ingly shares in the fervent the issues surrounding com- of Lurgan in March 1972. A still being held as a Category medication. “We just went to to visit an ex-Army double hope of helping others tread a bat related PTSD (Post massive explosion a hundred A prisoner. “He was shouting, the mess and drank ourselves murderer. This book is different path to the one that Traumatic Stress Disorder) yards in front of Johnson’s ve- ‘My wife’s in there! My wife’s out of it,” said Johnson. Jimmy’s story. he trod.” among veterans of our armed hicle brought the patrol to a in there!’ and I raced towards Without help or support or any forces and especially among halt. A bomb had been deto- the man”, he said. “He was acknowledgement that he By the time the Veterans’ those who find themselves in nated in an underground toi- becoming hysterical and the might be suffering from PTSD Survival Guide is published prison.” Johnson, now in his let. Johnson saw people scat- policeman, looking terrified, Johnson’s life spiralled into Jimmy Johnson will be seven- The Veterans’ Survival Guide fourth decade of life imprison- tering through swirling clouds was adamant the toilet was the dark places and events ty, but in the early 1970s he published by Veterans in Prison ment for murder, details his of thick black smoke. Within empty. But I could see by the that led to his imprisonment was a young and successful ISBN: 978-1-78396-272-3 Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 27 Could Brexit Spat out on Nineveh A confi ned space can assist self refl ection and bring back provide relative safety from a raging storm

Owen Davies For much of my life sentence I had a battle with © Fotolia.com the rope? the authorities as to how I would spend my time in jail. I wanted to write. I wanted to learn how There are many stories from antiquity on the to write and I was very dedicated to learning value of the enclosed space and its use in the my trade. I read and wrote almost all day, every Denis Macshane thinks it could development and success of the human being. day for many years, but I had to fi ght for it and Jonah in the whale, Noah and the Ark and the go on Basic for a number of months and spend Trojans and the wooden horse to mention a time down the block and get beaten up by pris- by a Tory Attorney General in reform but I was told that few. Jonah, for instance, could be compared to Continued from front page on staff and make a couple of serious attempts the 1950s. British judges did not want to a prisoner who refused to follow his calling for at taking my life before the system bent for my adopt the practice of adding a good in life, whatever that might be. God want- Indeed, the more worrying needs. aspect of the European Union Nonetheless in recent years loss of civic rights to a custo- ed Jonah to go to Nineveh to preach the gospel anything that has the word dial sentence. but he refused. He tried to escape the Lord on membership debate from the I was well-educated before I went to prison; I “Europe” in its title seems to a boat trip across the Mediterranean, but the point of view of prison policy had a BA in literature and I was a qualified provoke rage and loathing Again we see our judges oper- Lord whipped up a storm, Jonah was thrown is whether a Brexit vote would teacher. I’d had some success as a writer. I’d from some politicians and ed- ating in a blinkered rejection overboard and was swallowed by a whale. He also lead to an exit from the written and directed two plays and published itors and so the ECHR and the of a modest reform that was was spat out on the shores of Nineveh after European Court of Human poetry. A couple of governors told me I was Council of Europe has been acceptable in similar coun- three days in the belly of the whale and Rights and the Council of educated enough and couldn’t go on education lumped in with the European tries. In fact, it would be no preached the gospel. Europe. because I was taking up valuable space needed Union as something the isola- bad thing if MPs and candi- by my less educated peers. They wanted me to tionists want to do away with. dates did have to come into The story could be the analogy of a prisoner’s The Home Secretary, Theresa work; doing things I didn’t want to do, things prisons to canvass for votes as life. His refusal to choose the good path and May, for example, has dutiful- that were not useful in my rehabilitation. I was One problem has been the de- they might see fi rst-hand the the shipwreck of life sending him into the belly ly stayed loyal to Prime always willing to do Off ending Behaviour Work. mand from the Council of shocking overcrowding and of the whale or the cell of a prison. Inside the Minister David Cameron’s of- But I refused to waste my time working for 10 Europe that UK allows prison- the huge difficulties prison whale he fi nds a place of refl ection and com- fi cial government line that the pound a week, when any chance I had at cre- ers the right to vote. This has staff have handling the mas- parative safety. A storm might be raging on the UK should stay in the EU but ating a future for myself lay in writing. surface of the sea but in the whale he is safe. she has said that she would been the norm for 50 years in sive increase in prison num- Switzerland which is some- bers in recent years. The whale can dive to a mile below the sea but like Britain to opt out of the I published a novel in 2011 (‘These Mortal Cells’ times held up as the model the prisoner is unaware of anything going on European Convention on available on Amazon), I regularly contribute to non-EU nation the UK should None of these themes are like- at all. He can write. He can create. A writer Human Rights. Inside Time and upon release I became a fi lm emulate. ly to surface in the referendum needs to be detached from the world to be able maker. I set up my own fi lm company and have debate save the complaint that to write. Aft er his imprisonment he can be spat This is far more worrying to made two short fi lms, one documentary and a out on the shores of his Nineveh to ply the trade prisoners, especially those a British minister cannot wil- feature fi lm. The feature fi lm can be viewed in he was originally called for; but he needed the who have been abused in pris- If Brexit does ly-nilly deport the odd prison- its entirety on my website at www.justdandy- er or two. But if Brexit does time in the whale. on or denied fair treatment as happen, the door fi lms.org. My time in the whale was certainly the ECHR has been an impor- happen, the door will open to well spent. I haven’t come close to re-off ending I read in last month’s Inside Time of Mr Gove’s tant defender of the future populist decisions in the two and a half years since I was released. will open to future ideas on reform for the prison system. I was defenceless. aimed at making life worse for The Criminal Justice System could learn a lot interested in particular on his emphasis on populist decisions prisoners and removing the from stories from antiquity because the education and time spent out of cell. 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But following his speech at can, surely Michael Gove can at the levels it currently exists first-hand, the chronic short- numbers of people in prison, the Annual General Meeting too?!’ (85,381 men and women in age of courses, meaningful and that he ‘couldn’t possibly’ of the Howard League for England and Wales as of 13th jobs, and access to volunteer- achieve his planned reforms Penal Reform last year, I per- I remained stubbornly pessi- May 2016). ing opportunities (a must for with the figures as they cur- haps wondered if I had judged mistic about the whole busi- gaining your Enhanced status rently stand. Following the Mr Gove a little too harshly. ness. ‘If the Justice Secretary ‘I’m confident’, he continued, these days) as the system cur- Queen’s Speech, the Prison He talked with passion about turns out to do all the things ‘that we can keep people in rently stands. Reform Trust released a state- ending the ‘social care-to- he promised tonight’, I told safe and decent circumstanc- ment taking a similar prison’ pipeline. He talked him, ‘I will eat my hat’. Cookie es in prisons which are at or And it bothers me that much position. about the importance of ‘re- grinned and shook my hand. near capacity’, and surmised of what I see in the land of The Secret demption’ and ‘opportunities’ ‘You’re on’, he told me. that this could be achieved prisons’ research nowadays But I’m not eating my hat just for people while in prison and without creating new policy rarely explicitly challenges yet. I think we too should sub- Criminologist upon release. And, important- But as Gove swiftly began to to force a reduction in the ‘prison overcrowding’. (There scribe to the notions that Mr ly, he spoke strongly about the undo some of the damage number of people in prison. are exceptions, but these are Gove spoke of at the Howard Injecting a large measure importance of giving people caused across the prison es- few and far between). There League meeting, and have of humanity into the in prison something which tate by his tornado-like prede- But if Mr Gove had ever spent is little serious attention given hope; hope that Mr Gove too criminological can be in short support be- cessor, Chris Grayling, my hat a considerable amount of time to the old-school notions of can change. And that just as perspective hind the carceral walls. Hope. and I began to greatly regret in any such prison, and taken ‘abolitionism’, with most peo- he reversed the criminal Even senior figures within the my cynicism... a look into any of the cells ple choosing to work within courts costs, the Legal Aid Howard League reported where men are two’d up, or in the present system rather than cuts, and the book ban, that Prison being ‘blown away’ by Gove’s As many of you will know, Mr women’s prisons where ‘dor- taking a more critical perspec- he will have the courage of his ‘principles’ that night. And Gove: scrapped the much-ma- mitories’ are shared by five tive on ‘the prison question’ convictions to make good on reforms in no-one was more delighted ligned, mandatory ‘criminal women, I would challenge more broadly. The sad result his acknowledgement in the with this, it seemed to me, courts charge’; suspended him to answer me this: Where is that overcrowding remains Q&A at that Howard League the Queen’s than my pal, Cookie. cuts to Legal Aid fees; and re- is the decency in having to implicit within many studies, event that the prison popula- versed Grayling’s infamous undertake your toilet routines but only insomuch as it is tion must be reduced. speech might Now Cookie - who I have ‘book ban’. with between one and four taken as the normal state of known for almost all of my other people within spitting affairs. A situation made all Moreover, if he is serious mean I have adult life - has spent a fair bit So Cookie was dismayed sev- distance of your person, with the more disconcerting by the about giving people opportu- of time on the other side of the eral months ago to see the only a small screen or shower rocketing numbers of self- nities, and closing down the to eat my hat wall. Having completed a de- Justice Secretary quoted in a curtain (if you are lucky) to harm and suicide, and the ‘care-to-prison’ pipeline, then gree while inside, and become Guardian interview as saying maintain a pretence of ever-increasing popularity of further capacity-building be- - but not just a successful academic him- that in his opinion, ‘there was privacy? non-traditional psychoactive yond the 85,000 places al- self, Cookie is one of the most no need to ‘manage down the substances. ready available must NOT be yet… optimistic and forward-think- prison population’’. Indeed, And his claim that he would allowed to happen. ing people I know. at the start of March this year, ‘like to see a significant in- In May this year, former HM When Michael Gove was an- he stoically maintained that crease in the amount of time Chief Inspector of Prisons, Sir Because we all know that cre- nounced as Justice Secretary ‘Just face it’, he taunted me, artificially reducing the pris- that prisoners spend out of David Ramsbotham, heavily ating more prison places will last year, my heart sank. What while we were in the pub, dis- on population was not neces- their cells, working [and] challenged the Justice simply result in more people could a former Minister for secting Gove’s speech later sary, noting that the Treasury learning’ again seemed to Secretary’s current position, being sent to fill them. Education possibly know that night. ‘You. Were. 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people, sometimes doing terrible and expensive damage, they then rifle Interestingly though, a large propor- through the personal belongings of tion of convicted burglars claimed whole families, children and babies they would feel guilty if they knew included, and take what they want. their break-in had impacted directly And sometimes (all too commonly) on a family or vulnerable person, leaving behind devastated and fright- with 92 per cent saying they would ened victims whose lives have been regret causing suffering to an elderly impacted by this most personal of or disabled person, and 93 per cent crimes.” with a child.

The survey interviewed 125 male and Twenty three per cent of respondents 21 female prisoners, including 75 con- saying they were surprised to hear victed burglars. Revealingly, half of burglaries can affect a child’s ability all the prisoners surveyed (170) said to sleep, and 26 per cent that it can they had been a victim of burglary at lead to recurring nightmares. some point, and that the experience had left them feeling “angry” and Another 41 per cent said they didn’t “violated”. know that the experience can affect a youngsters’ self-confidence and The research performance at school, and 38 per cent that it can lead to increased ep- findings show that it’s isodes of bedwetting. important to educate The research findings show that it’s © Fotolia.com prisoners about the important to educate prisoners about impact burglaries can the impact burglaries can have to help reduce the incidence of reof- have to help reduce the fending and protect more families Stolen childhoods incidence of reoffending from the trauma of break-ins. and protect more Noel Smith continued; “When you’re families from the a criminal, you don’t think of your Prisoners believe burglars should receive tougher victims. To you, they’re not people, trauma of break-ins because if you personalise them it’s sentences especially when their victims are children another thing that will stop you from But of those serving time for burglary, committing the crime. But to help l 73% say judges are l 61% serving time l 43% didn’t think 43 per cent said they didn’t think stop reoffending, we need to work on about how children would be affected instilling victim empathy and show too lenient on burglars for burglary had not about how children before breaking in to a property, burglars the impact of their crimes.” considered the impact would be affected while 16 per cent said they believed their crime had little or no impact on www.adt.co.uk/takenomore l 93% would feel of their crimes the people whose home they burgled. guilty if they knew l 92% would regret that any children had l 50% had been a causing suffering to been left traumatised victim of burglary at an elderly or disabled by their crimes some point person

More campaign and conducted with a fascinating look into the minds of the assistance of Inside Time, six in convicted criminals, and particularly 10 (61%) prisoners serving time for burglars. It shows that most people burglary admitted they had not con- who burgle family homes have no idea sidered the impact of their crimes on how much emotional trauma they can youngsters living in the houses they cause to children and young people. broke into. “We know that when a burglary takes However, nine in ten (93%) said they place it can be devastating and while would feel guilty if they knew that we always encourage homeowners to any children had been left trauma- take security precautions, we also tised by their crimes. want to get to the root of the problem.

Meanwhile, two fifths of convicts “Most burglars appeared concerned claimed they were “surprised” that to know how much hurt they might youngsters often suffer from long- have caused, and this was one of the term traumas including bedwetting, purposes of the exercise. It shows we Three out of four prisoners believe nightmares and self-confidence is- can help prevent reoffending by lead- burglars who target homes where sues after their family’s homes are ing burglars to see the real effects of children live should receive tougher burgled, according to the survey. targeting a family home.” sentences, according to a new report. In response to the findings, ADT, Former inmate Noel Smith, 55, now In a revealing survey of Britain’s pris- Britain’s leading security firm, is now Inside Time’s Commissioning Editor, on population, 73 per cent of convicts aiming to target offenders by showing spent much of 30 years in jail for crimes said they thought judges are too le- them the real effect when they burgle such as armed robbery, and said: nient on burglars, especially when a family home, with a hard-hitting their victims include the young and campaign in prison newspaper Inside “I mean, think about it for a second vulnerable. Time. - what do dwelling house burglars actually do? The facts show that they In the survey, part of ADT’s Take No An ADT spokesperson said: “This is break into the homes of ordinary © Fotolia.com 30 Information // Drink and Drugs www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2016

Green light to e-cigs Inside Drink & Drugs News DDN News Round-up E-cigarettes are much safer than smoking, do not result in the normalisation of smoking Drink and Drugs News (DDN) is the monthly magazine for those working and do not act as a gateway to with drug and alcohol clients, including in prisons. In a regular bi-monthly smoking, says a report from the column, editor Claire Brown looks at what’s been happening lately in the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). E-cigarette use is limited ‘almost substance misuse field entirely’ to people who already smoke, says the RCP, with the So can an event that was were among the countries that report finding ‘no evidence’ that dubbed a ‘huge disappoint- had called for the UNGASS to the products have attracted Claire Brown ment’, with an outcome take place. significant use among DDN Editor document that was ‘watered non-smokers. However the down and heavily caveated by But the reaction from the UK © Fotolia.com report says that concerns about the need for consensus’ leave delegates was one of disap- the effects of long-term use In April the United Nations us with any positives? pointment at the lack of any A quiet drink ‘cannot be dismissed’, although held a special meeting on the agreed change. It soon became Much of the UK’s alcohol consumption is ‘moderate and social’, There were some rays of hope, the risks are likely to be less world drug problem. There apparent that tackling the according to the latest study by the University of Sheffield’s alcohol according to Ann Fordham of than 5 per cent of those asso- was much anticipation of this world’s drug problems means research group. In the two years to 2011 almost half of ‘drinking the International Drug Policy ciated with smoking tobacco. event, referred to as the UN very different things to different occasions’ involved ‘moderate, relaxed drinking in the home’, says General Assembly Special Consortium. ‘It’s clear that countries; many could not even the study, which is based on the alcohol diaries of 90,000 people. Stark stats Session (UNGASS); its date things have shifted,’ she said. consider the need to end the ‘Far from the stereotypes of binge Britain or a nation of pub drinkers, Smoking is the ‘single largest was set almost 20 years ago ‘More and more governments death penalty for drug offences. we find that British drinking culture mixes relaxed routine home factor’ in the difference in life and it offered equal rep- are openly voicing their dis- drinking with elements of excess,’ said senior research fellow John pleasure with the dominant expectancy between people resentation to all 193 UN ‘Probably one of the most de- Holmes. punitive approach to drugs.’ with mental health conditions member states. pressing moments was when The meeting helped to build Crystal clear Canadian cannabis and the general population, Indonesia said that their drug according to a report from Before the meeting there was important momentum for A new report on MDMA in Canada will introduce legisla- laws - which involve the use Action on Smoking and Health much talk of developing inte- change, she said, bringing Europe has been issued by the tion in spring 2017 to legalise of the death penalty - were (ASH). Those with a mental grated human rights based new voices calling for reform, and regulate marijuana, the compliant with international European Monitoring Centre health condition are twice as approaches to drugs policy. ‘from criminal justice, devel- country’s health minister Jane human rights,’ said Niamh for Drugs and Drug Addiction likely to smoke, says the document, Some of the leading think tanks opment, peace building, pal- Philpott told the UNGASS in Eastwood from the human (EMCDDA). Recent changes in which calls for national targets and campaigners in the UK liative care, human rights, racial New York. The legislation would rights organisation Release. Europe’s MDMA/ecstasy market alongside better access to med- were even beginning to talk justice and religious groups’. ensure ‘we keep marijuana out ‘This was moments after a looks at the ‘resurgence’ of the ications, evidence-based about their vision for moving of the hands of children and colleague from an Indonesian ‘Nine countries stood up in drug and wider availability of services and peer support. towards decriminalising or NGO who represents those profits out of the hands of front of the world and called high-strength tablets and crystals. legalising drugs, ie allowing sentenced to the death penalty criminals’, she stated. ‘While this for legislation,’ added Steve While the average MDMA To order copies of governments to regulate drugs had eloquently outlined the plan challenges the status quo Rolles of the think tank Drink and Drugs News instead of them being con- horror faced by those who content of pills in the 1990s and in many countries, we are Transform. ‘It’s nine more telephone: 020 7463 2085 trolled by criminals. 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It is also a risk to the forcement and treatment. punctured circle of treatment public and communities be- l A risk to physical health through drug toxicity, seizures or Together with prisons, proba- and support for prisoners. cause, and should anyone be heart failure; tion, police and courts this surprised, prisoners on release l A risk to mental health, with extreme and unpredictable figure could top £4 billion a There are other obstacles con- revert back to their former way behaviour and psychotic episodes, sometimes linked to suicide year. This amount is actually tributing to this. UK prisons of life that includes chronic and self-harm; and under the value of the UK’s frequently fall short of mini- drug use and offending. illegal drug market; which is mum standards and do not l The risk of associated problems of debt and bullying, which £4.6 billion according to adhere to best practice. Tough The way forward is for all UK may increase the risk of suicide and self-harm among the Home Office approximations. sentencing has a direct link to prisons adhering to minimum vulnerable. prison overcrowding. standards and best practice, He said 39 deaths in prisons between 2013 and 2015 had been Then the broader social and However, this practise contin- for smart sentencing to re- © Fotolia.com identified where it was known or strongly suspected that ues in courtrooms all across economic costs of drug-related place harsh sentencing; and prisoners used NPS before their death. crime top out at an incredible the UK. highly improved, extensive £16 billion each year in treatment at the sacrifice of and progressive drug treat- l Two have no cause of death; England and Wales. Non-violent drug using of- other significant interventions ment, that benefits us all. Not fenders are sent to already like self-help fellowships, psy- more punishment. l Two were the result of drug toxicity and the drugs included NPS; overcrowded prisons where chological and social Associated with illegal drug l Six were the result of natural causes but NPS may have played interventions. use are also a range of psycho- partial provision of drug treat- However, within the present a part. In one case for example, the prisoner died of a heart logical, physical and social ment makes it so limited that funding the possibility of attack after taking NPS and our clinical reviewer considered that Any prison staff responsible harms. The drugs themselves it’s just luck that their name achieving a minimum stand- NPS may have been the trigger for the attack; cause damage to the body. comes up for treatment. for drug treatment will verify ard of care in all UK prisons is Injecting drugs increase the that their finest efforts can be extremely slim. ‘Tough on l One death was a homicide of a prisoner involved with NPS by risk of contracting infections Essentially this is human be- curtailed from difficulties aris- Crime’ vote seeking politicians another prisoner suspected of smoking NPS; and ing from dealing with a hard like blood born virus. There ings being car parked in vast will always block common l The remaining 28 deaths were self-inflicted. Some involved are also harms to families and warehouses with scant reha- to engage group of people. sense progress, and criminal psychotic episodes probably resulting from NPS, for others NPS communities resulting from bilitation and drug treatment However, their efforts are justice drug treatment will appeared to exacerbate vulnerability. drug-related violence and and with barely any construc- more than curtailed and are continue directionless with crime; so efficient and func- tive ways to recovery. actually thwarted when they ill-informed priorities. A copy of the full speech can be found at: www.ppo.gov.uk tional drug treatment is impor- are up against such an appall- A Learning Lessons Bulletin on NPS was published in July 2015: tant for everyone. Increased funding and expan- ing lack of resource and have tinyurl.com/zxw2y9v sion of prison drug services to rely on a half-cocked, dis- Kevin C. 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58 years of bringing freedom to those imprisoned PRISON Ryan Harman Response Codes was introduced by NOMS to REFORM Advice and Information Service learn from PPO investigations. The instruction by the demon drink TRUST Manager contains clear directions on when staff should call an emergency medical code, which should Submitted by Bruce Budge a meeting was set up in the prison. As in result in an ambulance being called immedi- England and Wales when prisoners were moved ately. This includes incidents where there are around the prison system in Scotland they made signs of chest pain, difficulty in breathing, un- The first prison meeting was formed in requests for meetings to be held in other prisons consciousness, severe loss of blood, severe Wakefield prison on 27th Dec 1957 when the and soon meetings were held in Peterhead, burns or scalds, choking, fitting or concussion, Leeds group of Alcoholics Anonymous respond- Edinburgh, Perth and Gourock prison. As severe allergic reactions or a suspected stroke. ed to a prisoner who had learned of AA while Alcoholics Anonymous held no record of its It advises staff that if they are in any doubt in prison in America. As this meeting was treat- members it is difficult to establish how many about the nature of the injury, they must call ed as an experiment, for a period of 5 years no of its current members first made contact with an ambulance. It also states that local protocols other Prison Groups were formed in England AA in Prison but evidence suggests that many should prevent any unnecessary delay in es- and Wales until 1963. After this time as prison- of those who attended prison meetings continue corting ambulances and paramedics to the ers were moved around the country they would to attend AA on release and go on to lead sober make contact to request help in getting a group and worthwhile lives. AA has transformed the patient and discharging them from the started in the prisons and AA groups began to lives of many inmates. Our actions and thoughts prison. flourish The first Prison meeting was formed in have been put on a more positive footing. We Scotland in Barlinnie Prison in 1960. The editor try to practice the Programme in our daily liv- PSI24/2011 - Management and Security of of the Scottish Daily Express had learned of AAs ing. This would be impossible if the hand of AA Nights also includes relevant instructions in- experience in American prisons and was keen had not been there to guide us. We no longer cluding guidance that ‘the preservation of life to see if AA could be introduced to Scottish feel the pain, frustration and fear that accom- should take precedence’ over normal directions prisons. He made contact with AA and found pany the active alcoholic. We have thrown off the for unlocking cells. It also makes further refer- the members willing to help. A few weeks later chains that bound us. Today we have Freedom. ence to the need for unhindered admission of the emergency services during the night state. Despite these instructions, in his 2014/2015 The Greatest for a drink, but that wasn’t an I had spent 22 years taking option now. I decided after a something that made me feel annual report the PPO continues to find failures © Fotolia.com Liberation few days that I HAD to do different or usually not to feel to follow these instructions when responding something about my drinking. anything at all. I was finally to emergencies. Clearly these lessons still need to be learned. My name is Davy and At this point I had no idea ready to look at myself and I recently had the pleasure of meeting with I’m an alcoholic. The what I was getting into and the part I had played in the groups of older male prisoners to discuss the One emerging factor may be complicating mat- acceptance of this statement just to be clear, I didn’t drink world. My behaviours, my matters that are most pressing to their age ters further. The prevalence of New Psychoactive was to set me on a journey of every day, so in my head I attitudes, my beliefs, my group in custody. As ever, it was a valuable Substances (NPS) was raised as a significant recovery and self-discovery. A couldn’t be an alcoholic but I character defects and attempt opportunity to get the views of people at the contributor to the problem (as indeed it was to journey where I would finally knew, or at least I thought I on a daily basis to live my life centre of our work. become comfortable in my knew my drinking was the sober and clean with honesty many problems). Prisoners felt that regular incidents caused by ‘spice’ were dominating own skin. problem. and integrity, helping others. One concern quickly and overwhelmingly stood the attention of staff and leaving little for those This is done with the help of out amongst those raised. There were who had other medical issues. In other cases Every time I lifted a drink, just It turns out that my drinking my sponsor (someone who wide-ranging reports that responses to medical medical symptoms were not taken seriously one drink, I ended up drunk was but a symptom of the you can relate to and more emergencies were so poor that prisoners, par- due to their similarity to those of spice use. With in a black out coming to in way I viewed the world, my importantly someone who ticularly those who are older and have pre-ex- the PPO recently reporting a rise in the number hospitals, police cells, the place in it, the way I viewed you can see is well, full of isting health issues, were left with genuine fear of deaths in which NPS may have played a part, streets, strange houses. others and most importantly gratitude for their sobriety for their lives. Sometimes I even made it myself. Alcohol did something and trying to live a productive it is apparent that NPS are having a wide effect on the safety of the prison environment. It home but had no idea where for me. For a long time, it and sober life.) I’ll be eternally Those I spoke to attributed the poor responses would be hard to overstate the importance of I’d been, who I’d been with or freed me up and took away grateful for the patience and to a number of factors. Anxieties particularly what I’d done or who to. This individuals not experimenting with these dan- any worries, concerns or guidance I was shown when I focussed on incidents occurring at times of low led to fear and anxiety, not gerous and unpredictable drugs... feelings of inadequacy. But first got sober and am still staffing such as during night state. Limited knowing whether it was the over a short period of time shown today. availability of staff authorised to unlock cells police chapping my door or Recent figures show a significant increase in the compulsion to drink and had led to long delays in accessing those in someone wanting to do me deaths in custody. In the 12 months to March the obsession that I could I attend 3 or 4 meetings a need of emergency assistance. There were com- harm because of the things I’d 2016 there were 290 deaths in prison custody, someday drink safely took week now and I joined a plaints that some prison staff had made unrea- done in a blackout. Regardless an increase of 51 compared to the previous 12 over. By the end of my prayer and meditation group sonable judgements about the urgency of a of how bad things got, my months. It is as yet unclear what the main con- drinking I was spending which has been instrumental person’s health need, sometimes with little head told me it was never that tributors to this rise are, but it is a worrying hundreds of pounds on in my recovery and continued interaction, which caused delay in getting help. bad and I’d be away once trend nonetheless. With people aged 60 and cocaine, when I bought a sobriety. I am surrounded by Emergency services getting held up at the gate more on a bender to repeat it over the fastest growing age group in the prison carry out so I wouldn’t get people who simply “get it”, was also a recurring factor, regardless of time all over again. estate, the associated health problems which drunk, but I ALWAYS ended and understand the disease of day, with reports of ambulances stood at the accompany this group need to be better pro- up drunk. I never thought, and indeed the disease of gate for up to thirty minutes despite attending After years of this behaviour, I vided for. even once of just not drinking. alcoholism. for a serious medical emergency. found myself sobering up in I was to discover I suffer from prison once again. I’d been As one prisoner I met eloquently and rightly a threefold illness of a mental I believe I had to be locked up Sadly these are not new issues, though this told of alleged crimes put it ‘the sentence imposed by the court was obsession, a physical allergy away from alcohol to get makes them no more acceptable. Our advice committed by myself, to a period of imprisonment and loss of liberty. It and a spiritual malady. sober. That’s been my and information service has heard of poor re- which I had no alibi, no experience and my life began, was not... that older vulnerable prisoners with sponses for serious incidents, such as those reason or sane argument for really truly began, the day I the increased propensity to suffer the most I quickly identified myself as experiencing symptoms of a stroke. PPO inves- doing so. The only common an alcoholic by listening to walked into my first AA common cause of deaths in the UK, heart attack tigations into fatal incidents have also made theme was I had blacked out other alcoholics sharing their meeting. I now thank God in or stroke, be subjected to a period of high risk observations and repeated recommendations once again. The feelings of experiences, their thoughts the evening for another sober of death.’ about emergency responses, highlighting a lack fear, remorse, guilt, uncertain- and views and their feelings. I day and I thank him again in of staff understanding of medical codes, poor ty and impending doom were also heard that I did not need the morning for another communication with the control room and running riot in my head. The to feel the way I did any opportunity to help carry the You can contact the Prison Reform Trust’s emergency services being delayed by security charges were serious. This is longer. That there is a message of AA to the advice team at FREEPOST ND6125 London processes when moving through the vehicle usually when I would reach solution…. still suffering alcoholic. EC1B 1PN. Our free information line is open lock and prison grounds. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 3.30-5.30. The number is 0808 802 0060 and does not Bruce Budge is a member of the sub committee to the board of Alcoholics Anonymous for prisons In 2013, PSI 03/2013 - Medical Emergency need to be put on your pin. // Through the Gate

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You must take with you two benefits before you went into living in a Hostel. forms of identification eg pass- prison you will probably need port, driving licence - some- to put in a new claim once you Income Support for Under 18’s The Careers Lady thing that proves who you are. are released as previous ben- is currently £57.90. Discussions efits may have stopped. with your adviser at Interview The Adviser at the office will would clarify your entitle- The first step through the door discuss any entitlements with Previous Benefit payments ments and how to claim. you. You may be eligible for and entitlements may change other benefits, (as well as JSA), or stop if you, your partner or All Jobcentre offices have com- to your future such as: your child is: puters in order for you to look at current available jobs and l Help from your local council; l Sent to prison or a young you do not need an interview Help for Job Seekers coming out of prison l Assistance from Scottish offender’s institution; to drop in and use these. Welfare fund in Scotland; l In custody awaiting trial. are out of work and looking l Discretionary Assistance If you feel uncomfortable or for work. To get it you must: fund in Wales. It is important therefore that intimidated, all advisers have you tell the Tax Credit office separate booths or private in- l Be actively looking for work; Usually Jobseekers Allowance about your prison sentence. terview rooms. l Available to work either part is paid every two weeks into time or full time; your bank account . If you do You cannot claim JSA if you It is important that you tell l Be over 18 (there are differ- not have a bank account the are released on temporary li- your adviser all the facts about ent guidelines for young peo- Support Worker/ Work Coach cence (ROTL). your circumstances so that ple 16-18) and under State from the Job Centre can ar- Pension Age; range for a ‘Simple Payment’ l Live in Great Britain. plan to be set up. This will enable you to draw out your As soon as you leave prison JSA from anywhere where they you should register online at display a Yellow P sign out- www.gov.uk/jsaonline leav- side. The sign will say Pay ing your phone details if you Point and be quite prominent have one. You will then get a Coming out of prison with no Having financial support dur- outside the shop. This could text or phone call within 2 prospects of work can feel ing this time is important and be a garage, a small conveni- days to arrange a JSA inter- daunting. However remember therefore whichever route you ence store such as a local view at your local Jobcentre you may have skills you feel is suitable, you must first Co-op or Spar shop. Plus office. gained whilst in prison or any arrange for an interview with previous employment. You your local Jobcentre Plus office JSA is currently £73.10 per If you can’t apply online con- will have personal qualities and discuss what help you week and paid fortnightly at a tact your local Jobcentre Plus that will extend to any number need in order to move forward sum of £146.20. office to arrange an interview. You can get more information, they can see what benefits and of jobs where training is of- with your work plan. advice and guidance from help they can give you. In order to receive this you fered. You may even want to websites such as: Circumstance regarding your You won’t get JSA if you don’t must be actively looking for return to some form of skill Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) is crimes will not be passed on go to the interview. work during your fortnightly training or education. the main benefit paid if you l NACRO; to employers. appointments with your l Prison Reform Trust; Jobcentre Plus Work Coach. l Hardman Trust; However if there are some jobs This could be looking in news- l Unlock. you cannot be put forward for papers, shop windows, friends you must tell them at your in- and family. However you will If you are under 18 and over terview. e.g. not being able to have to prove you have been 16 you will not be able to claim do some practical jobs through doing this as your Work Coach benefits if you are still living a disability or if the circum- is entitled to check with any with parents or someone act- stance of your crime means employers you have spoken to ing as a parent. that you are not able to work or Job application forms you with children. have submitted. During this However if you are estranged time it would be useful if you from your family you will be Lastly, just feel positive about could update your CV. entitled to Income Support. your future. There is help The local Jobcentre Plus Office available and many organisa- As well as JSA you may be able or Careers Adviser will help tions are set up to help ex-pris- to access other financial or you with this. oners into work, training or practical support but your education. Putting trust into Adviser will discuss this with You do not need a permanent other people can be the first step you on your first visit. Even address e.g. you can still claim to a more constructive future. though you have been claiming if you are sleeping rough or Good Luck!

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again this year, this time for both the How to nominate: adult and young people’s estate. The four Please write to Nina Champion at Photo: Rebecca Radmore categories are: FREEPOST: PRISONERS EDUCATION TRUST. In your letter (maximum 1 A4 side “If you really want to 1. Outstanding teacher or education staff; per nomination), please give: 2. Outstanding officer or instructor; These were the words of a prisoner learner 3. Outstanding peer mentor, learning • Your name, prison and prison number; you can turn it around” last year who nominated Officer Clive champion or student council rep; • The name of the person you are Vincent at HMP Erlestoke for Prisoner 4. Outstanding individual e.g. governor, Learning Alliance (PLA) award. The nom- librarian, volunteer, charity worker, ca- nominating; Neil, a PET learner, shares how he went ination was successful, and Officer Vincent reers advisor. • Their job title; from involvement in organised crime was named an “outstanding officer or in- • The category you are nominating them structor” for the support he gave to pris- Staff winners will receive a certificate and for; to working for a major gym chain oners completing distance-learning gift bag including items made by prison- • Why you are nominating them. courses. ers. Prisoner winners will receive a cer- From a young age I was constantly in trouble with the Old Bill. tificate and a book of their choice. You might want to think about specific I never really went to school - me and my pals would always After receiving his award at the annual Everyone nominated receive a certificate. examples of how they have helped or sign in and then slip off all day. I never wanted to work so edu- PLA conference last year, Officer Vincent inspired you, how they have promoted cation didn’t matter for me. I just lived for the day and never said “I was humbled with the comments In the peer mentor category last year, one learning in your prison and how they thought about the future - I was young, it didn’t matter. I never made. Like many other prison officers, I got to sit my exams as I was sent to Feltham Young Offenders’ winner was able to be escorted from pris- have ‘gone the extra mile’ to help you and work hard to try to encourage change in Institution at a young age. on to collect his award, while his family others achieve. These awards are an op- the people that we work with. Sometimes watched from the audience. The two portunity to thank those who support and it works, sometimes it doesn't, but we keep learners who nominated him said he went I gradually got involved in more organised crime and received promote learning in your establishment, on trying. This is not always recognised. “way beyond his remit”. “He spends time 10 years for bank robbery. Later I got another 11 years for doing So days like today help.” motivating people who are struggling whatever their role and wherever they are the same thing but armed. through a lack of support from other based in the prison. We look forward to The PLA is running the awards scheme sources,” they told us. receiving your nominations. It’s all I knew how to do. But how long could I keep doing this for? I was getting older and things were changing. I’d spent so long in jail I was falling behind in life, so I had to come up with a plan. I also needed help, but I didn’t have a clue what was Personal Trainer available to us prisoners. What I knew is that I liked the gym and was good at it, and had passed a few gym courses as I worked as a gym orderly. That’s when a physical education instructor told me about the distance learning Open University Access and Fitness Instruction courses funded by Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET).

Last year, Level 3 in personal freelance - a route that is pop- theoretically, i.e. through a It was either make a living and career out of this, or get a 20 training was PET’s most popular among ex-prisoners - or textbook. wrapped around me next time I decided to run in a bank, so I ular course, as more than 90 find employment in one of the applied to PET to do a Introduction to Sport, Fitness and Course men and women in custody 2,000 gyms across the One person who recently ap- Management course. applied to study the theory country. plied for this course wrote to It was quite straightforward getting everything set up, and it Notes behind an effective workout, PET: “I came from a place was funded which was an added bonus. It took me two years to and the tools and techniques This has been the experience where I was overweight, but do. It was hard and it did take real concentration to get through, PET provides used to improve other people’s of Neil, whose story appears since being in prison I have but I needed to guarantee I could work as a personal trainer on funding for over fitness. on this page, and LJ Flanders, dedicated myself to fitness release. I knew that when I got out I needed to keep busy and whose Cell Workout book has and nutrition, and have earn money, and this kept me motivated. 300 types of For PET’s Advice Manager found success with readers reaped the benefits. I want to distance-learn- John Lister, the rate of appli- both inside and outside pris- use my new passion to help There was help available while I was doing the course - I was cations makes sense. “The ons. LJ, who studied a City and me live a healthy lifestyle and able to get internet print-offs sent in, books, and a call to my ing courses. gym is one of the few activities Guilds personal training to help others to be the best course tutor from outside, which helped a lot. The education staff also did all they could for me. It may not have been quick available for people in prison, course while at Pentonville they can be. This is a market Every month we at times, (we know how slow jail can be), but I always got what and can provide a much-need- prison, says this was vital in which has captured my heart I needed in the end. shine a spotlight ed release after so much time securing a job after release: “If and I believe I can have a great on one of them. spent in a cell,” he says. “A lot I hadn’t taken on that course future and a second chance in After serving nearly 12 years I have now been out for five months of our applications come from I never would have got a job, life doing this.” and have had so many job interviews. They were all impressed people who have been talent- written the book or set up my by my qualifications but my serious record has been a problem. ed in sport before entering own business,” he says. Related subjects: Sports I got to the point when I had been offered four jobs, but when custody, particularly from Coaching NCFE , Nutrition and they saw all my pre-convictions they changed their mind. I never former footballers and John recommends that those Weight Management, gave up though, and finally this month I started a job as a personal trainer in a major gym chain. boxers.” interested in a career as a fit- Business Skills Course for ness instructor should also Exercise Professionals, Five months looking isn’t bad going. The qualifications made a With the help of a qualifica- consider taking a Level 3 Exercise for Older Adults massive difference as I have plenty of routes to earn money tion, it is a hobby that can be course in Nutrition and Weight Award (all Level 3 awards). within the gym. I’m 35 now and it just proves that it is never too turned into a job opportunity. Management, as this is a skill late to make something of yourself and have a good career in Fitness instructors can work that can be learnt entirely Cell Workout by LJ page 47 something you love but also pays well, if you put the work in and learn. While you’re in jail what else are you going to do? It If you would like advice or funding to study a distance learning course or tell is the perfect place - you have too much time on your hands. If us about your experiences of prison education write to FREEPOST Prisoners’ you really want to you can turn it around; the help is there and Education Trust (PET) or call 0203 752 5680. the courses are funded. It’s easier than you realise. Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Information 35 How to survive in Approved Premises Being released on licence to a hostel can be challenging and stressful. One man who managed the successful transition from prison to AP shares what he learnt

I was very apprehensive about manage you. Don’t keep work if it is part of your li- At first probation were reluc- requested was. It’s normally Try to give other residents re- having to go to an Approved spouting off rules that under- cence. This can of course be tant to recall on that issue either up to three months, or spect, try to adjust to the Premises (AP), also known as mine their feeling of control. offensive, especially to those alone, but now they are taking a minimum of three months. change in environment. It’s a ‘hostel’. Not just because of Being quietly aware is the best who are maintaining their in- a zero tolerance approach. not prison, please don’t forget the fact that it was some two way to cope. One of the biggest nocence. So, how can you I would strongly urge you to that. Don’t try to deal with dis- hundred and fifty plus miles control mechanisms in make a reasonable argument I would advise you to chill, look for yourself on the agreements with other resi- enjoy your first step to free- Ministry of Justice website from my home, and even fur- PI09/2015 is the ‘Good for not participating? dents by yourself. Fisticuffs ther from the prison I was at. Behaviour Mechanism’. dom. It’s so easy to get caught when you get out and read the isn’t wise. Stealing isn’t some- It was more to do with what I If you have an active appeal up in the relief of finally get- PI I mentioned. I would en- thing you should have to en- had read and been told about Alcohol then just give them the appeal ting out and going and cele- courage you to understand the dure either. The hostels are hostels which was far from Whilst at the AP you may be number and that should be the brating, but hold off. Take it powers that the National encouraging. asked to be tested to show that end of the matter. If you are steady. Get yourself settled. Probation Service have over wired up like Big Brother. you are not consuming drugs seeking to appeal and waiting Get used to the staff and get you. It is significant. Don’t be Don’t lend money to anyone, I have, at the time of writing or alcohol if this is in your li- to hear from a solicitor then it yourself into a good routine. ignorant of it. You can also keep your nose clean and this, been out now for eleven cence or related to prior of- becomes more of an issue but Show compliance and do the read the Approved Premises hopefully you will be out of months, five of which I spent fending. Even if it’s not on maybe there are areas that little that is asked of you. If Rules which should be avail- there quicker than you expect in an AP. I saw nine people your licence it’s a good idea to probation can engage with you cause no problems the able at your hostel or, again, and maybe you’ll get some- recalled to prison during that agree if asked. If testing is on you. If for example you know hostel staff will support you. on line. thing out of it which will help time. I have read a number of your licence you risk recall if that something happened but Cause trouble and they have you get started again. negative opinions on hostels you fail. My advice is NOT to not what you were convicted to report it to your probation No-one wants to be in an in this newspaper and I can drink or take drugs other than of, or that bad character officer, it’s their job. Approved Premises but we are totally sympathise with the prescribed by a doctor whilst brought up in the trial was in all in the same boat regardless The author is a former authors’ opinions. But this is you reside at an AP. part or fully accurate then Environment of what has happened to us. prisoner of HMP Littlehey the system we have and I there is an area that they can There is no specific time peri- wanted to give those of you be seen to be addressing with od for your stay. A lot depends with long licences a clear pic- Always be polite you. I should also make it clear on your probation officer, your You may find these downloads useful; there may be ture, and perhaps a better that any “Offender Work” you licence period and, of course, internet connections at your hostel or you can use to your probation computers in most public libraries understanding of what it’s like have done whilst in custody to some extent you. You may to hopefully reduce the anxi- officer and the staff. doesn’t excuse you from work get an idea how long your pro- PI09-2015 www.tinyurl.com/h6cltrj ety and fear of being forced to Show respect even that the probation service bation officer wants your stay Approved Premises Manual www.tinyurl.com/z2wu2kr go to one. I also wanted to give when they are direct wants you to do in the to be by asking your key work- Alcohol Treatment www.tinyurl.com/zrxja9g you an insight into how pro- community. er to clarify what the period Licence Conditions www.tinyurl.com/j6up6a3 bation work and what to look and impolite to you. out for. I have become very It’s a hard pill to Regime interested in this controversial swallow sometimes The staff check the rooms in area of reintegration and re- but don’t give them the early hours and at 11pm habilitation and I hope what I every night. You will be ex- have learnt will be useful to an easy way to pected to pay for your stay, the you. provoke you amount will depend upon the type of hostel and whether PI guidelines food is provided. I’d recom- There are a number of I know for some of you the mend getting a bank account Probation Instructions relat- urge to have a drink or two will as quickly as possible; if you ing to APs that are worth a be too much. In that case be haven’t got ID speak to the read. PI32/2014, including sure once you have had a hostel staff. Barclays is nor- annex A gives a good insight drink to go to your room when mally fairly good, but you may into what goes on behind the you get back to the AP, rather need to speak to the manager scenes at APs, their aims and than stay in the communal who will tell you what he strategies. Having this infor- areas. Remove as much risk as needs. Once you have a bank mation is extremely reassur- possible. account you can get your ben- ing. Be in no doubt you are efits paid into that account being assessed in every way So, I hear you ask, will I be making the whole process so possible to identify anything recalled if I return to the AP much easier. in your behaviour which and under the influence of would indicate offending or drink or drugs? You would Slowly I got used to the atmos- behaviour which has been think that there would be a phere of the place and soon linked to the offending in your clear answer to this, but it learned how to get on. Getting OASys report. Being moni- largely depends on your into a good new routine tored in this way may be offen- Probation Officer. The AP staff seemed to help a lot. If food is sive to you, especially if they will email them. Most likely supplied you get one good hot are trying to make a connec- you will receive a warning, but meal a day. There may be a tion to something that you don’t think that’s the end of rota of small duties to do, deny ever doing. That’s why the matter. If you are later re- which to be honest takes very you need to be clear headed called for other reasons this little time, so nothing all the time. warning will be most likely strenuous. added to the recall dossier. It’s also important to under- As time passed some residents stand the system that controls Offender work moved on and some went back Canter Levin & Berg you, and to do so in a non-con- As part of your sentence in the to prison. A number were fail- 1 Temple Square, frontational manner. As part of your sentence in the ing drug tests and coming in 24 Dale Street, Remember, your probation community you will be expect- past their curfew times and we Liverpool, L2 5RL officer must feel they can ed to do behaviour related had an issue with legal highs. 36 Information // The Rule Book www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2016

Section 1.14 of the PSI sets out man- prisoners and these organisations time but governors may consider ap- The Interception of datory actions that not only set out must be treated as confi dential and plications for additional contact Communications the requirement and method of inter- not intercepted. numbers where exceptional circum- The ception but also mandate for the pro- stances apply. Subject to the prison’s in Prisons and tection of privileged calls. Relevant • The prisoner’s legal adviser; regime, prisoners must have free points for prisoners include: • Courts; access to telephones during associ- RULE Security Measures • Bar Council; ation and at such other times as are • There must be no interception of • Law Society; reasonably practicable and PSI 2016-004 communications between a prisoner • Offi cial Solicitor; appropriate. Book Issued: 07 April 2016, Effective, and his/her legal representative un- • Criminal Cases Review Commission indefi nitely from: 04 July 2016-04-18 less exceptionally authorised; (CCRC); Arrangements for prisoners to con- • Parliamentary Commissioner for tact the media are set out in PSI with Paul Sullivan Part One - Telephones • Prisoners must not be allowed to Administration (PCA); 2010-037. This PSI sets out the arrangements contact the victim of their crime with- • Office for the Supervision of for the recording, monitoring, and out prior authorisations to do so. Solicitors (OSS); The PSI states: There are several com- retention of authorised prisoner com- Prisoners also cannot contact witness- • Care Quality Commission; panies that off er a service to reduce munications by way of the PIN phone es, or anyone else who does not wish • Office of the Legal Services the cost that a prisoner pays, in par- system or written communications, to be contacted by them; Ombudsman; ticular to mobile telephones - the and replaces PSI 2012-024 ‘Call • Prisons and Probation Ombudsman prisoner still pays a set amount but Enabling’ and applies to all adult • Calls to legal advisers must not be (PPO); the remainder of the call is paid by prisons and YOIs in England and made by PIN phone until a prisoner’s • Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of the recipient of the call - but such Wales. PIN phone account has been properly Prisons (HMIP); diversion or re-routing services are The Regulation of Investigatory set up and the legal number checked. • Equality and Human Rights not permitted. The communications Powers Act (RIPA) provides the A request for a legal or other confi den- Commission (EHRC); compact is clear at point 10 that tele- framework for named public author- tial call before a PIN account has been • Equality Advisory Support Service phone calls to numbers which are ities to use specifi c covert investiga- set up must not be made on a PIN (EASS); known to divert or route to another tive techniques in order to lawfully phone as it will be recorded; • Members of Parliament (MP) or number are not permitted. It is of interfere with the right of privacy of Members of the National Assembly course appreciated that without a • All prisoners will be made aware for Wales (AM) or Members of European others where this is necessary and technological solution, this will be that their communications are subject Parliament (MEP); proportionate to do so for a purpose diffi cult to police. cited in the Act. Section 4 (4) of RIPA to interception, that all telephone • Information Commissioner’s Offi ce calls to personal numbers will be re- (ICO); makes lawful the interception of com- Each prison will have a local list of corded and that intercepted telephone • Embassy or Consular Offi cials; munications in a prison provided telephone numbers, such as the calls may be monitored. Certain pris- • Samaritans; such interception is undertaken in Samaritans, which are globally avail- oners will be told that their commu- • Registered Medical Practitioner in accordance with the Prison Rules. able without application at that pris- nications will be monitored. cases in which a prisoner is receiving The Prison Rules were amended aft er on. Prisoners should ask for a copy treatment for a life threatening illness; the introduction of the Human Rights of the local list. Act (1998) to more clearly defi ne the Paragraph 2.1 states: Prisoners have • Electoral Registration Offi cer. a right to communicate confi dentially restrictions that were necessary and The PSI also covers written commu- proportionate to control prisoner with all of the organisations or bodies Prisoners are allowed up to 20 per- © Gstudio Group - Fotolia.com below. Therefore telephone and writ- sonal contact numbers and 15 legal nications and I will cover that in Part communications with others outside Two, next month. of prison. ten communications between and confi dential contacts at any one

Inside Information Update from NOMS: Cheaper pay phone call charges It is estimated that prisoners make over 5.5 million phone calls through PIN phones each month and the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) actively encourages prisoners to maintain outside contacts and meaningful family ties.

NOMS is reducing the cost of calls made by prisoners from PIN phones by 50% for young people under the age of 18, and by 10% for the rest of the estate. The changes will automatically take effect from 1 June 2016 and will mean signifi cant reductions in the call charges to both fi xed lines and mobile phones. The table below sets out the old and new charge rates:

Type of call Time of day Old Rates Adult & YO Young People (Under 18) Calls to UK Weekdays 9.17p 8.27p 4.6p fi xed line (midnight Sunday to midday Friday) Weekend 8.16p 7.35p 4.1p (midday Friday to midnight Sunday) Calls to UK Weekdays 20.4p 18.4p 10.3p mobiles (midnight Sunday to midday Friday) Weekend 13.2p 12.0p 6.7p (midday Friday to midnight Sunday) International Weekdays and weekend 63.73p 57.3p 31.9p calls (this is an average, rates may vary depending on the country ›› Registered with EMAP ‹‹ being called) Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Information // The Inspector Calls 37 The Inspector Calls Inside Time highlights areas of good and bad practice, from the most recent Reports published by HM Inspectorate of Prisons

HMYOI Glen Parva HMP Leeds Young offender institution holding Male local prison serving West Yorkshire courts sentenced and remanded young male Unannounced Full Inspection: 30 Nov-11 Dec 2015 adults aged 18 to 21 Announced Full Inspection: 9-13 Nov 2015 Safety W W W W Respect W W W W Safety W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W Respect W W W W Resettlement W W W W HMP & YOI Bronzefield HMP Full Sutton Purposeful Activity W W W W Resettlement A designated female resettlement prison, High security prison for category A and B W W W W “Less safe - more violent’” also a high security prison for restricted adult males “A well-led prison but further improve- Outcomes for prisoners at Leeds had deterio- status women as well as a local prison. Unannounced Full Inspection: 11-22 Jan 2016 Unannounced Full Inspection: 9-20 Nov 2015 ments necessary” rated since the last inspection. In particular Inspectors were concerned about a significant Safety W W W W incidence of violence. They said the prevalence Safety W W W W Staff and managers at HMYOI Glen Parva Respect W W W W of new NPS substances was a major factor al- Respect W W W W should be commended for the improvements Purposeful Activity W W W W though robust action was being taken. The use Purposeful Activity W W W W they have made, but there was more to do, said of force was high, as was the use of segregation, Resettlement W W W W Resettlement W W W W Martin Lomas, Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons. At the last inspection it was described oversight of which was poor. There had been seven self-inflicted deaths since 2013; “Staff “A very good & improved women’s prison” “A high-performing high security prison” as ‘a custody model that was not working’. At this inspection, Inspectors were pleased to note were caring, but it was concerning that some issues identified following PPO investigations that security structures were in place to con- Bronzefield is managed by Sodexo and is cur- Security was well managed and violence was into recent deaths still needed to be fully ad- front gang and drug activity and a strategic rently taking women from Holloway, which is rare but their key criticism of the way safety dressed. These included frailties in early days approach to tackling drug supply was begin- closing. Inspectors said that the prison held a processes, where we saw a poor reception en- was managed concerned the segregation unit; ning to achieve some success. complex mix of prisoners aged from 18-70 in- in contrast with general findings in the prison. vironment, the failure of reception staff to pass cluding ‘Restricted Status’ women (equivalent on key information about vulnerabilities, over- Significant numbers of prisoners had been seg- However, Inspectors found that levels of vio- to male Cat A) 40% of the women had problems spill away from the first night landing and some regated and some for extended periods of time, lence was high and increasing and levels of with drugs and 66% had emotional or mental poor management of ACCT processes for those they said; “… in our view, management super- self-harm were also increasing with three young health problems. The support for women in prisoners at risk of self-harm or suicide.” vision was insufficient and accountability was men taking their own lives in less than two their early days were ‘some of the best inspec- lacking.” The use of illicit drugs was low, in- years. Although the prison had been refur- The level of overcrowding is high and the ma- tors had seen’. Relationships between prisoners bished some cells were in poor condition and jority of cells were poorly equipped - prisoners cluding the new NPS substances. Incidents of and staff were very good with proportionate too many were overcrowded. Time out of cell said there were problems obtaining bedding, self-harm were rare but management of pris- security and low use of force. The Mother and had deteriorated with over 25% found locked clothing and cleaning materials. Inspectors Baby Unit provided excellent care and support. oners in crisis had improved. Accommodation up during the working day. Many association found a positive and decent ‘staff culture’ but Inspectors were concerned that there were still was generally good and Inspectors found rela- periods were routinely cancelled and the work- said that the reduction in staff numbers was two women who had been in Segregation for tionships between prisoners and staff ‘formal ing day was too short. Punctuality at activity having a significant impact. over two years. but respectful’. Time out of cell was good and was poor. Arrangements to improve the quality Describing the report as ‘disappointing’ Martin there was plenty of purposeful activity but of learning and skills were insufficient and Lomas, Deputy Chief Inspector, said; “This was The report says; “HMP Bronzefield was a very many prisoners could only be employed taking too long. a disappointing inspection of a prison which good and improved prison. Outcomes for the part-time. we assessed to have deteriorated in three of our highly complex population were at least rea- Martin Lomas said; “The staff group were com- four healthy prison tests. Fundamental issues sonably good or better in all our healthy prison mitted and keen to do a good job, the right Martin Lomas, Deputy Chief Inspector, said; around safety were having a significant desta- tests, with the quality of respect and work to priorities were being identified and higher ex- bilising impact across the prison and needed “The establishment is well led, confident and resettle prisoners particularly strong. It is a pectations were being set. Running Glen Parva to be addressed urgently. It was also concerning capable. It has a clearly defined role and dis- credit to the very capable leadership within the well is tough but improvements were clearly that some aspects of early days support were prison, and the committed and motivated staff charges its responsibility with proportionality evident. The governor and her team were doing too frail to provide reassurance that the many group that the challenges they face continue and ensures some good outcomes for those a good job and deserve credit for the improve- vulnerable men received into the prison were to be met in such a positive and caring way.” held.” ments they had made.” provided with an appropriate level of care.”

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public safety, for the prevention of crime and input into decisions relating to closed visits.” for securing or maintaining good order and discipline. The measures are intended to prevent The PSI also does not require the prison to pro- the smuggling of contraband through visits. vide the intelligence relied upon for their decision; however the Ombudsman held that “staff The PPO highlighted the following key points could reasonably have provided more detail”. in his report: Challenging closed visits l Closed visits should only be applied where What is clear from the PPO’s report is the re- prisoners are proved or reasonably suspected quirement that closed visits should only be of involvement in the smuggling of prohibited imposed where there is a real risk that contra- items through visits. It is not enough for a pris- band will be smuggled through a visit. This risk oner to have been found in possession of con- must be considered on an individual basis. It traband. For example, if a mobile phone is found is wrong for a prison to have a policy which during a cell search, the prison still needs to be automatically places a prisoner on closed visits reasonably sure that the prisoner received it for any reason e.g. a mobile phone being found during a visit, in order to impose closed visits. or a proven MDT.

l The prison needs only be satisfi ed of the need If you feel that you may have been wrongly for closed visits on the “balance of placed on closed visits, or that your closed visits probabilities”. have unnecessarily continued aft er a period of © prisonimage.org three months, you should appeal to the l Cases must be considered on an individual Governor. basis and any decision to put a prisoner on closed visits must be proportionate to the risk l Appeals are dealt with through the normal they are meant to be reducing. The prison must Request and Complaints process (Comp1; Closed Visits consider the prisoner’s ECHR Article 8 rights Comp1a forms available on the wing). (right to private and family life). l Governors are required to expedite appeals A successful challenge by the l Closed visits, in the fi rst instance, may be and to try to resolve the issue within one month imposed for up to three months’ duration. of applying closed visits. Governors may extend the period if the prisoner Howard League for Penal Reform poses a renewed risk. l To strengthen an appeal, prisoners should: • request written reasons for the closed visits; Claire Salama the complaint, fi nding that on both occasions, l The prison must take into account: the nature • include written reasons why the closed visits the prison had wrongly applied closed visits to of the contraband they suspect will be smug- should be ended; the young person. The PPO further found that gled, whether the prisoner has a history of in- • request to be kept updated with the outcome The Howard League for Penal Reform has been HMYOI Aylesbury’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policy volvement with that type of contraband, wheth- of each monthly review; concerned about the high use of closed visits introduced in April 2015 was unfair and con- er there is intelligence or evidence to suggest • request a gist (summary) of any ‘intelligence’ in some prisons over the past year. The physical fl icted with the PSI which governs closed visits that closed visits would be necessary and the relied upon by the prison. separation by a pane of glass during both social - PSI 15/2011. The zero tolerance policy stated prisoner’s index off ence and criminal record. and legal visits completely changes the nature that all off enders found in possession of mobile l If you are unhappy with the prison’s response of a visit. The prison authorities recognise that phones or mobile phone accessories would l An adjudication does not have to have been to your Comp1 and Comp1a, you should escalate visits are key to a prisoner’s mental and emo- automatically be placed on closed visits for brought or proven for the prison to justify im- the matter up to the PPO. tional health and well-being in prison; they are three months. The PPO recommended that the posing closed visits. important for both the prisoner and those close prison remove the policy and apologise to the l A copy of PSI 15/2011, ‘Management and to them. It is for that reason there are strict rules young person. Review of closed visits Security at Visits’ should be available in the about when closed visits can be imposed. These Monthly reviews must be carried out by the prison library for any further information. rules are not always followed. It is possible other prisons may also not be Governor to assess whether closed visits are still applying the PSI properly, placing prisoners at necessary. If you are under 21 and need help or advice with The Howard League recently complained to the risk of being placed on closed visits closed visits, or any other prison law issue, please Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (‘PPO’) on unlawfully. The PSI does not require the prison to involve call the Howard League for Penal Reform’s ad- behalf of a young person at HMYOI Aylesbury prisoners in the decision to impose closed visits, vice line on 0808 801 0308. The number is free who felt he was wrongly placed on closed visits When can prisoners be placed on closed nor in any decision to extend a period of closed to call, confi dential and already registered on following a cell search where a mobile phone visits? visits. In our recent report, however, the your PIN. The advice line is open Monday - was found. It was never formally established Closed visits are meant to be an administrative Ombudsman concluded, “given the fundamen- Friday, between 9am-12pm and 2pm-5pm. that the phone belonged to the young person, measure, not a punishment. Prison Rule 34(3) tal importance of visits in maintaining mean- who was an enhanced prisoner. 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It is also lack of resources and apparent recent changes in the Probation been a signifi cant increase in means the requirements that supervision of those prisoners understandable why prisoners increased workload of Off ender can be imposed are more lim- Service which are ever more the number of prisoners sub- after release. A Ministry of may fi nd it diffi cult to open up Managers, be more able to ited than the list of licence important now that every adult ject to probation supervision. Justice spokesman recently and communicate with their provide accurate reports and conditions that are available. prisoner released is subject to All prisoners sentenced to a commented: “Thanks to these Off ender Manager whom they support to the Parole Board Furthermore, there are diff er- Probation Service supervision. reforms, off enders in prison have yet to meet. Prisoners are who may be considering a custodial sentence of more ent implications if post sen- This Article seeks to look at than one day but less than 24 for less than 12 months are also fi nding, with the lack of decision regarding release. tence supervision is breached. resources, that they are being the impact of those changes, months, for an off ence com- now receiving support from If an offender breaches any the probation service for the allocated a diff erent Off ender Will anything happen to whether they have so far been mitted on or aft er 1st February element of their post sentence very first time.” Although Manager on such a regular improve the workload of the successful and what to do if / 2015, will now be subject to supervision then they will be clearly it is helpful that pris- basis that they feel unable to Probation Service? when subject to Probation supervision by the Probation liable to be summoned to ap- oners who might not have had continue forming relationships At a time when public services Supervision. Service. This is called ‘post pear before a magistrates’ support or supervision are with their Probation Officer are at their maximum capacity, sentence supervision’ and court. If the breach is proved, getting assistance, this added through fear that it is a futile it is becoming an increasing What changes have been the court may order that they what this means is that pris- workload has placed addition- exercise as they are likely to concern that the National made? be sentenced to a custodial oners will be on licence aft er al pressures on the workload change over the coming Probation Service are not In 2014 the Government made sentence for up to 14 days, or release and at risk of recall if months. providing the service to pris- signifi cant changes to the way impose further sanctions such of those working in the they commit any other of- oners that they require. The in which the Probation Service as unpaid work or electronic Probation Service. fence(s) or breach any licence What can be done to address Ministry of Justice have re- would be run and eff ectively location monitoring. Criminal conditions during the second The National Audit offi ce, who these concerns? leased a statement in light of the service was divided into legal aid is available for these half of the custodial term. They conducted a report into the Prisoners should try and main- the report’s fi ndings and have two. Community Rehabilitation proceedings, so it is important will now also be subject to an Probation Services’ reforms tain regular contact with their stated that: “Major transitions Companies (CRCs) were set up that an offender contacts a additional period of supervi- commented that: “Its front-line Probation Offi cer as the more in public services are always to deal with low and medi- criminal defence solicitor to sion by the Probation Service managers face increasing contact a prisoner wishes to challenging but fi gures show um-risk offenders, with the assist if they receive such a in the community aft er their pressure, including dealing have, the better chances there the performance of the new National Probation Service summons. licence period ends. This with higher than expected are of a strong and positive probation system, introduced (NPS) put in place to deal with post-sentence supervision What is the effect of the workloads, now of high-risk relationship. Contact can be only a year ago, is continually the supervision of high-risk period tops up the licence Probation Service now being off enders, while assimilating maintained through updating improving … However, we are off enders. period to make a total of 12 involved in these sentences? a heavy infl ux of trainees, who telephone calls or letters and not are not complacent and months’ supervision after Prior to 1st February 2015, the will take time to become fully it is important that this is are addressing the problems The work undertaken by the release. Probation Service would not eff ective professionals.” The maintained even if they go which have been identifi ed. CRCs was outsourced to private report has raised concerns that ignored; as there may then be Public protection is our top the CRCs are not achieving grounds to complain. priority and we will continue their targets and that there is to support staff to deliver these no consistency with the per- For those prisoners that are important changes.” formance of each CRC and this due a review for their parole varies signifi cantly across the or recall, it is important to Those subject to supervision country. One of the main issues discuss this lack of contact by the Probation Service are raised with respect to the NPS, with an experienced Prison therefore encouraged to be who deal with high-risk of- Law Solicitor as representa- proactive in their engagement fenders, was that they are tions can be submitted to the with the system and to be quick facing a far higher than pre- Probation Service requesting to identify if there are any is- dicted caseload. that the Off ender Manager visit sues with contact or forming the prisoner in person if they a relationship with their What does this mean for have never met in person be- Off ender Manager, particularly prisoners? fore. Representations may be if they are shortly due to un- Many prisoners have been left able to be draft ed to the Parole dertake a review by the Parole feeling let down by their Board about any issues a pris- Board. If they have a prison Probation Offi cers, more com- oner has had with contact law solicitor, a discussion with monly referred to as Off ender which may assist with the them about resolving issues Managers. Issues such as in- Parole Board’s understanding may assist any concerns that Our open, friendly solicitors working accuracies within OASys reof these issues during the re- they have or alternatively in Criminal Defence will help you with all ports, recommendations that view process. seeking the help of their prison do not support progression Off ender Supervisor who will aspects of Prison Law including: and licence conditions that do Prisoners should also always be based in the Offender Licence recall • Adjudications not necessarily reflect risk carefully consider any docu- Management Unit department factors are common - which is mentation or reports prepared may help resolve any issues. Parole hearings • IPP queries further frustrated by the lack by their Offender Manager, Judicial review • Sentence planning issues of contact prisoners have with particularly where they are If you need any help or advice their Off ender Manager. Oft en, being produced for their Parole with any prison law issues due to the distance required Review or Recall Review. If please contact the Prison Law Call us on 01865 518971 to travel to prisons and the any concerns are raised about Department at Hine Solicitors. lack of resources, Probation the contents of the documents, Telephone 01865 518973 or or visit www.hinesolicitors.com Offi cers are either conducting they should contact an expe- FREEPOST RTHU LEKE HAZR meetings by video link or have rienced Prison Law Solicitor Hine Solicitors, Seymour found themselves unable to or speak to their Offender House, 285 Banbury Road, communicate with the prisoner Supervisor within the prison Oxford, OX2 7JF. 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Advertorial Advertorial A system in chaos Expertise + Enthusiasm Solicitors join forces with students to help David Wells understanding. How long this will last is anyone’s guess. The Government’s latest an- prisoners overturn miscarriages of justice nouncement is to give Governors more control of spending to tackle rehabilitation and other Historically, I haven’t got involved directly with by one of the Centre’s solici- Criminal Cases Review problem areas. many prison law enquiries to my firm as there tors to help prepare a case for Commission; are staff far better qualified than me to advise submission to the Criminal I was asked recently what I would change if l I do not have the money to on these types of cases. However, since my Cases Review Commission. article a few months ago concerning compen- given the chance. I suspect that the person who pay for a solicitor to help me; For example, students from sation for delays in Parole reviews, I have de- asked wished they hadn’t. My answer wasn’t l I have five years or more Birmingham University veloped a greater professional interest in parole a short one. Although I recognise there are all left to serve or am serving an worked on a case involving and the parole process. This has coincided with too many issues that need addressing in our IPP sentence. my work with IPP and other lifer inmates whom prisons, two things do bother me more than thousands of pages of phone records. While solicitors may I am well used to dealing with at appeal level. anything else, and I apologise to inmates in If you would like to be consid- lack the time and resources to advance if you do not fall into either category. Following the disbanding of ered for the program, please review all these records, the Nobody can have anything but praise for the Firstly, and this reflected my answer to the the Innocence Network UK, write to us at the address students built a phone record various campaign groups who helped persuade question, I would immediately look to reduce prisoner and writer Mark below with an outline of what database that allowed the re- the Supreme Court that the law on joint enter- the test for release for over tariff IPP and lifer Alexander wrote an insightful happened from your perspec- cords to be analysed for trends prise in murder cases was plainly wrong and inmates. My guess is that at some point, pos- article in Inside Time (April tive, including details such as and patterns. At Sheffield has been wrongly interpreted and applied for sibly even this year, the Government will look 2015) discussing how univer- names, dates, locations etc.; Hallam University, students decades. I now have a very active role, together to do this. My motivation for this is nothing to sities should take this oppor- and any ideas for further in- examined forensic evidence with some very experienced barristers in re- do with reducing the prison population. There tunity to consider a new ap- vestigation that you think the and combed through police viewing over 40 secondary party murder are so many easier ways to address that. It is proach and new collaborations. case requires. Also, please records to identify possible convictions and almost all of those cases are simply a matter of what is humane and fair. send us copies of any public alternative suspects. heading for either appeal or review by the The Centre for Criminal legal documents that you may Secondly, I would immediately reinstate legal Criminal Cases Review Commission. There are Appeals has been doing just Would you like your case to have in your possession such aid funding to enable inmates to challenge similar prison reform campaign groups who I that. Over the last eight be part of our program? as the trial judge’s summing up. hope achieve similar success. decisions made by prisons by way of judicial months the Centre has been review. The complaints system is fundamen- working with six universities l I do not currently have a Please write to us with details The prison system is in complete meltdown. tally flawed in ways that could take up this on miscarriage of justice cases. legal representative; of your conviction: The problems faced by Governors, Directors entire issue of Inside Time. I found it to be one Working in teams of eight to l I am the victim of a Centre for Criminal Appeals and prison staff over drugs, violence and sui- of the most appalling decisions by the twelve, students are first miscarriage of justice; City Law School, 2-10 Princeton cide attempts is an article all on its own, but Government of the decade when legal aid was trained in criminal appeals Street, London WC1R 4BH the system of progression, assessment of risk removed to challenge decisions made by pris- law before being supervised l I need help applying to the and consideration for release on parole for lifers ons. Accountability is the key to good order and those on recall is equally shambolic. and discipline within the prison environment. Representing prisoners, seeking justice Staffing shortages within prisons are not the Most complaints made by inmates I review are only obvious staffing concerns. The Parole either not responded to at all, or if they are, Board has had its own problems in this respect. they fail spectacularly to properly address the I was incensed this week when a colleague told issue raised. No-one is really prepared to wait me that the Parole Board dealing with a delay months to get a response from the Prisons of 3 months for a client’s review had sent a Ombudsman. Sadly, quite a significant number Walsh Solicitors letter saying that it did not feel that 3 months of the prison population are not able to properly was a long delay -.truly shocking. Not surpris- draft complaints and so are left to simply put Criminal Defence And Prison Law Experts ingly, my colleague and I share a different view up or shut up. There’s little wonder why prisons 24 hours a day/7 days a week and the Parole Board will receive our collective are full of violence and disorder. Rarely has views on this immediately. the prison system been in the news more than of late. The BBC news on 19th May showed a For Prison, Police and any other Criminal But I am not saying anything that inmates don’t TV crew inside a prison in London. Not even already know. The purpose of this article is not the most unsympathetic to inmates could ig- Matters throughout England and Wales to list the numerous problems faced daily by nore the pictures shown. inmates. Articles in Inside Time which simply Call Walsh Solicitors 0161 672 2267 remind inmates of just how bad things have Wells Burcombe represent the interests of in- become are not well received by them. mates across the UK on a daily basis. Do you require assistance regarding forthcoming Michael Gove, the new Justice Secretary, on the face of it appears to show some David Wells is a Partner at Wells Burcombe LLP Parole Hearings, Adjudications, Sentence Calculation or anything involving Prison Law Regulations? Call Walsh Solicitors 0161 672 2267

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I think it was to the so-called evidence, my solicitor tried to tary drafting errors in the Criminal Justice Act used to determine guilt for matters which help her prevent me from seeing my kids. show inconsistencies with her statement 2003 s 51, witnesses cannot give evidence by should be determined by a jury. This issue is Well I wasn’t going to have that and against which of course she didn’t have, so it was a live link if the defendant pleaded not guilty. complicated and there is no room here to list my solicitor’s advice we had a Newton hear- shambles. She just avoided all the key ques- all the principles to consider. ing. My ex-partner arranged to be as far away tions. I gave evidence and the Judge wasn’t So if the evidence was improperly received, as possible to make it difficult for her to give remotely interested. As I feared the Judge what then? What about the loss of credit for having a evidence and be caught out lying. She went simply took my partner’s statement as the This is more complicated. The Judge cannot Newton hearing? to see her mother in Scotland. My partner said truth and really gave it to me with 30 months. sentence you on the basis of your partner’s If a defendant contests the prosecution version it would be disruptive for the kids to be taken She had reduced the credit for my plea be- account when you have contested significant of the facts and there is a Newton hearing where all the way to near the Court [in the West cause of the Newton from full credit to just 6 sections of it without a Newton hearing unless his or her account is rejected, the defendant Country]. The Judge sided with her and tried months, so I am banged up here. My solicitor your account is ‘manifestly false’, Criminal will lose some and on occasions all the credit to get me to drop the Newton. The prosecution then said he would think about an appeal. I Practice Directions 2015 EWCA Crim 1567 para for pleading guilty, Reduction in Sentence for backed my lying partner to the hilt. In the end rang him over and over again and eventually VII B.10. If you exclude your partner’s evidence, a Guilty Plea Guideline 2007 para 4.3. In your it was agreed she could give evidence by live I received a piece of paper that said the Judge there was a sort of Newton hearing. case your credit for pleading guilty was reduced link. Well, on the day the link didn’t work was able to make up her own mind about the from a third off (33.33% off) to 16.67% off, which and the Judge, who was desperate to have evidence and there was no appeal. It didn’t If the Judge said when giving her reasons that means you lost exactly half your credit. This is the case concluded, said the witness was to deal with much else. How can this be fair? if she ignored your ex-partner’s evidence and the sort of deduction the Court of Appeal would give evidence by telephone on loudspeaker. What can I do about it? looked at the other evidence she found the consider appropriate. If your Newton hearing At the back of the Court I could hear very little prosecution case proved because of your evi- is held to be fundamentally defective, you and when I complained the Judge said we (A Newton hearing is when a Judge determines dence, there is unlikely to be an appeal. I doubt should have your full credit restored. must make do with what was available. She a factual dispute by hearing evidence.) that happened. On the limited material I have, kept saying if she wasn’t sure of something I think the Court of Appeal should hold that the What advice were you entitled to receive she would give me the benefit of the doubt. A The simple answer is that it isn’t fair and you hearing was defective and the evidence after the sentence? 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corridors and then stopped at another set of gates in front of more locked, heavy wooden Dogknife doors. There was me, the one- Men? Oh Pause! armed girl, and a mix-raced girl with Indian ink tattoos on her Last month we published an article by arms and neck. Prison Widow was in prison because he was “What’s HRT?” Liam Rodgers about how writing a book like Jack the Ripper. In his gruff voice, Mister S. goes, I replied, “Husband in prison saved his life. The novel was ‘Welcome to Unit 14,’ for some On Easter Sunday, a few of my friends texted me which read, “Erm, no”, I began to explain, Replacement Therapy!” called Dogknife, below is an extract. reason he turned to me and “He has been in prison, yes, grinned like a nutter, ‘or Beirut, “Happy Easter hun, have you for selling dodgy perfume on He shook his head and said, as it’s often called’. got any eggs?” I had suicidal thoughts or spe- the market, and people started “I promise you with all my cial food requirements, I want- He came onto the wing with us I replied by saying, “Actually to call him, Jack the Rip Off”. heart that I will never ever go ed to be near another person, back to prison - oh which re- to stay talking to him, not be on because that’s where he worked no I haven’t because my ova- full-time. ries were removed five years The Nurse smiled and replied, minds me, I need to ring pro- my todd in a locked room. The “Thank goodness for that! It bation and tell them that I’m screw probably din’t give a shit ago when I had my The noise of fifty or more girls must have been the effect of going to be a bit late because about me, but it was good to hysterectomy”. out on association, when they the pre-med getting you all I’m here”. be with another being that’s can ring home and play pool confused!” breathing and living. It’s like if My pals should know this; be- and games of cards or whatev- I passed him my mobile phone you’re sat at home watching a cause they visited me at the er, hit me straight away. They When my other half came back and he rang his probation of- horror film and you’re shitting hospital and brought me a had table-tennis and ta- from the loo, the nurse started ficer. The conversation went yourself, but you’ve got a dog bunch of grapes; which I ble-football, too. The associa- chuckling and said to him, like this: or cat with you so it’s alright. threw at the wall because I tion area was like the size of a thought they were someone’s “Have you any Opium you can sell me?” I tried to take no notice of the tennis court. A few voices called piles. I know, I know, but I was “Hi, I’m just ringing to let you five or six other girls that were out to the mixed-race girl, who high on morphine at the time. know that I’ll be a bit late for My partner replied, “No love, waiting to get taken to a cell. answered to ‘Shanty’, not her my appointment this after- I gave up drug dealing years They seemed older than me; real name, who waved back and My partner came to visit too. noon because my wife has just ago!” even if they weren’t, I felt like shouted, ‘Yeah, safe rude-girl, He took one look at me and had a vasectomy and I’m at You could read a hun- the youngest. One of them only good to see ya!’ She walked into said, “You look awful! I bet the hospital with her at the dred books about I coughed so much I nearly had one arm and all the others, the space and up to a small crowd you don’t have this operation moment”. going inside prison for the first burst my catheter! who all looked like smack- of girls around a pool table. The again love!” time, about getting loaded onto heads because they had greasy screws din’t care that Shanty Wonderful! Just wonderful! the sweatbox security bus with “She meant Opium as in the hair and were scabby and skin- was doing her own thing. Well no, I don’t suppose I tinted windows that make the bloody perfume by Yves Saint ny and sniffing up snot all the would because wombs, ova- I was in a hospital bed wincing sky look weird; you can see out, I din’t want to stare at anyone Laurent!” I cursed clenching while, were asking about it and ries and the rest of the repro- in agony with friend’s texting but no-one can see in; a tight little so I turned to watch the Scouse my fists at him. touching the stump. I just sat ductive organs don’t tend to me calling me Lara Croft - space to sit during the journey. officer chatting to a few more staring at the floor trying to grow back do they? Womb Raider! screws in a tiny office, with win- Luckily the nurse thought he Once you arrive it’s always the have a serious face on me. dows all around it, next to The nurse came on the ward was joking and it was back to The nurses refused to top up same set up: big walls, fences Valerie told me you’ve got to where we came in. The win- to do her observations and she the serious stuff. my morphine because I had with barbed wire, screws with look mean and then people dows of the office let them see looked a bit wary of my part- used the limit (hardly surpris- keys on chains, CCTV, and big ain’t in a rush to fuck with you. what was going on in the entire ner. When he nipped to the loo My stomach was sore and felt ing) and now my partner’s gates and doors. The reception I sat there looking moody, in a association space. There and I asked her what the matter like a lorry had run over it. A probation officer thinks I’m a area where they strip you, search room like a doctor’s waiting then I couldn’t see any cells. was. She composed herself, hysterectomy is a major oper- lady boy and will probably ask you and give you a toothbrush, area, with ten shitty chairs took a deep breath and whis- ation and one that takes some me if Thailand is a good place a cup, a bowl, a knife, fork, and welded to the floor and two We were told to go in the office pered, “Shouldn’t your part- months to recover from. to visit! spoon - all plastic shit - tooth- CCTV cameras watching us. and a different officer told us to ner still be in prison?” paste and some pieces of paper grab some blankets and sheets After an hour or more of wait- The nurse explained that be- He set off to his probation ap- with rules and regulations writ- from a little cupboard. We fol- ing, a red-faced screw with a Apparently, when I was ad- cause all my reproductive or- pointment and me? Well I ten all over them. They also give lowed him through the associ- rough Scouse accent, angry ministered my pre-med before gans had been removed, I grabbed the gas and air and you your prison number and ation room to a large door that eyes and tense fists, came into the op, I started slurring my would need HRT. blissfully floated off to the take your photo. Then they tell led to the corridors, what they the room. speech and told her and the Island of Phuket - minus the you what wing you’re going on call landings. We went up the consultant that my partner My other half piped up, man AND the woman bits! and you wait until everyone ‘Right then, scum-bags, lets go!’ stairs inside until we got to the else who came in with you has top, or the three’s landing, and been, wotcha-call-it? We followed the mardy screw, we walked to cell thirteen. Processed. After all the other who one of the other girls called girls have been processed, you ‘Mister S.’, along a series of cor- ‘Walters and Harris in here.’ We go to your new home. ridors, which were dark and shuffled into the cell and the smelly. We rushed to keep up musty air was rank with the Two vibes that I picked up on with Mister S. and his clip-clop smell of cheesy feet and sweat. straight away was the smell of steps and after three or four the place and the massive feel- minutes of skipping behind we ‘You might wanna open the ings of loneliness. stopped at a shut set of thick window to let some air in,’ said metal gates that were in front the screw, ‘and don’t press the The pong was like the one you © Fotolia.com of two heavy wooden doors. emergency bell unless one of get in hospitals because the The screw read quickly from a you’s dying or you’ll be in whole area has to be detergent clip-board and some of the girls trouble’. cleaned every day, but it was reacted rapidly, as if they were The Prison Widow Library also mixed with summat else, expecting to be smacked if they ‘No problem boss,’ said Harris, like the grim smell of a place din’t move fast enough. the girl with one arm. As you can see, I have my own unique little library. However, I need a that doesn’t get much sunlight Unlocking the gates and doors few more books! Can you help? I have a collection of Prison and Crime or fresh air through windows. he ushered them onto the wing. The screw locked us in and that It’s a smell you don’t forget, be- books and a general interest section. The Scouse screw said, ‘Off you was it: I was in jail proper at lieve me. go, losers,’ and another screw seventeen years old. All about Prisons by Jay Hull How to Win a Raffle by Tom Bowler waiting for them showed them The loneliness: you feel it as How to Keep your Vehicle Safe by Nick Carr Jungle Traps by Annette Falls soon as you’re stood waiting to the room to sit in and shut the be celled - wearing washed, but doors on us. Prison Visiting by Pat Downs Caring for Monkeys by Pat Gibbons crap fitting prison tracksuits - Dogknife by Liam Rodgers Mister S. glared at the rest of us. 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post it notes for my ideas - easy to move about of our 2000 piece using the Writer’s Journey or stick over each other. Another idea was to template. Really struggling with this as it is too Diary of use index cards and have three sections in your biased towards fantasy/sci-fi etc but I will beat box - you can juggle these as well. I have both the dragon that is Vogler or ignore him!! now - there’s posh! We also have to find some inspiration - an ar- a creative We also discussed, at length, a graph based ticle, photo, advert, stone that looks weird! on ‘The Writer’s Journey’ by Vogler. This is a Think about how it inspires you, bring it in and study of mythological structure - geared to- talk about why you chose it. At a total loss on wards action and adventure and, as Craig tes- this one - hardly an exercise to get creative © Fotolia.com writer tified, towards script and screenplay writing. juices flowing; think I’ll take a photo of my late I confessed to not being able to see exactly how father. He inspired me to try harder, especially Lucy Forde l At the bottom right of the arc you have your it would work in the book I happened to be if (as now) I found it difficult. He always made end - something you should have decided on reading at the time and found it a little confus- me feel that I could climb higher and reach for before you start from the middle to the end. Do ing. However, once I saw the class notes - avail- Lesson Three you want a happy or sad ending, depending able on request - I could see how it works al- what I wanted. Just wish he was here to discuss More positive responses for last minute home- on the genre you have chosen it could be vic- though still not hugely relevant to my the matter with him now and to be with me at work. The tutor said it was a place he’d like to torious or tragedy - plenty of scope. masterpiece (or the book I am now reading!) my future book signings. I took the photo of visit by the description. It is a place I’d like to my Dad and we then had to write a piece about own and lives in my imagination! In a basic short story structure the example arc Assignment 3, we have to try and write a bit more the ‘thing’ we had taken in: we were shown went as follows: Tonight’s session was a bit heavy - very inform- l Set up a character - beginning; Assignment Three ative but hard work. We discussed story arcs - this I found very helpful. l Set up a situation; The day my father died was company - she stopped me him at all. Its thirty six years l Set up the character’s problem; the worst day of my life. I and asked how my father this year but the day will knew his time was near and was. I desperately needed to always seem like yesterday to l Show them trying to solve the problem wanted to spend as much get back to him but Hazel me. Middle - middle; time as possible with him. I wouldn’t stop bloody talking. l They fail, usually making the problem worse: resented my mother’s I eventually got away and l They make a final attempt and either succeed presence and that of my rushed home ignoring any Think of someone or some- or fail: siblings. I was dispatched to other enquiries. As I fell in the thing that has inspired you front door, my mother came Beginning End l Their result is validated; we know this time the chemist to buy some and in approximately 200 that what we saw is the final attempt - end. sponge lollipops, he was downstairs and I knew that words tell us about them or unable to swallow at this time he’d gone. I went and sat with why they inspired you. Any l At bottom left of the arc you have the begin- Regardless of what you are writing this is a so drinks, particularly his him, told him I loved him and selected for publication will ning of your character’s ‘journey’; pretty good template for all types of work. From beloved cups of tea, were out got angry because he had receive a small prize. l At the top of the arc you will have the middle the beginning to middle you can put in your of the question. On the way died so young. I’m glad he of the ‘journey’ - they may have gone through ideas, juggle them about, change them com- back I bumped into a friend knew my children and that Remember we are happy to good and bad scenarios before they reach this pletely - you are the master! I went home and of my parents - she was in they have good memories of share any of the fact sheets if you are interested. point; drew an arc on a large sheet of paper and used their amateur dramatic him, their cousins didn’t know

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years; and his activism work with the charity As you do the postures, pay close attention Stonewall. to your breathing. Take slow, deep breaths, Yoga to and focus on the way the air feels as it flows Ian McKellen co-founded Stonewall in 1989 in and out of you. After you finish the with ex-Eastenders actor Michael Cashman, routine, sit still for a couple of minutes and to fight for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and just notice how you feel as you continue to Transgender (LGBT) rights in the UK. The observe your breath moving in and out. You lucky audience of prisoners and staff de-stress can come back to this place of calm at any members were given a fascinating insight time throughout the day or night, just by into the life of a stage and screen legend; be tuning into your breath. sure to tune in Wednesday 8th June at 12 Do you ever feel irritable? Have trouble noon or 6pm to hear it. sleeping? Find it hard to focus on anything? When you’re feeling stressed out and just The Prison David Lammy, Labour MP for Tottenham, can’t relax or get your head together, try this North London, recently visited NPR to tell us yoga routine. You will find ease in your body Phoenix Trust about a review he’s conducting for the and mind, and maybe even a little joy in the government, that’s finding out why people of smallest of things. Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) heritage are heavily over-represented at most stages of the criminal justice system (CJS), 1 Cat 6 Knees to Chest and what can be done about it. Breathe in. 5 slow breaths. Rock back and forth if you like. The review will look into the way the CJS deals with young people and adults from BAME backgrounds - from the court system, to prisons and Y.Os, through to rehabilitation in the community. Listen to Prime Time on Bringing big names Wednesday 29th June to hear more, including how you can contribute your voice and Cow Lying Twists experience to the review. 2 to the airwaves Breathe out - flow 7 5 slow breaths each side. between these two Acting legend Sir Ian McKellen is probably Also on 29th June is Ask an Officer. Officers postures with the best known for playing Gandalf in Lord of the Paul and Sonja will be in the studio for the breath. Rings and The Hobbit and Magneto in X-Men. last time to answer YOUR questions. If you’d Do each Sir Ian visited HMP Thameside to talk about like to submit a question for this final edition, 10 times. his life and career to date; how it was to live please write to Ask an Officer, National as a gay man, facing discrimination and Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF possible imprisonment during the ‘illegal’ as soon as possible.

Feedback on 3 Down Dog Kick the Habit Hold this pose for 5 slow breaths. For Legs Up Wall Healthcare an extra challenge, lift up your right 8 The trick to this is This month on NPR we’re hearing all the reasons you should leg for 3 breaths, then your left. getting your sitting kick the habit, in partnership with the National Offender bones as close to the Have you heard of the CQC? Management Service. It stands for Care Quality wall (or door) as possible before taking your legs Commission, and they want There are loads of health risks associated with smoking. The to hear from you, as we’ve overhead. Stay in this toxins in cigarette smoke increase your heart rate, thicken position and relax for at been finding out on NPR. your blood and narrow your arteries, doubling your risk of a least 10 breaths - or heart attack. The chemicals you inhale when you smoke The CQC is an independent several minutes if you cause mutations in your body which can lead to cancer. And body that inspects all health want to. cigarettes are also damaging to your skin, your bones, your and care services in England, brain, your mouth and your fertility. In fact, Smoking is the including in prisons. Their Child biggest cause of preventable deaths in England, accounting job is to make sure good care 4 Stay like this for 10 slow breaths, or for more than 80,000 deaths each year. One in two smokers is being provided, and if a longer if you wish. will die from a smoking-related disease. health service is not run properly they take action. If you quit smoking, there are loads of benefits. You’ll feel 9 Rest The CQC wants to hear about healthier, you’ll taste and smell things better, and you’ll be Lie still and count 20 deep, slow your experiences of care in less out of breath and able to train for longer at the gym. Plus breaths, allowing the body to relax the last year - to help their you’ll have more money to spend on other things and you’ll more and more with each out- inspectors check if care is be setting a good example for your family. If you want to quit breath. If any thoughts or worries good or if it needs to improve. smoking, you can ask to move to a smoke free area in your prison. come to mind, let them go and keep They can’t sort out people’s 5 Bridge concentrating on your breath and individual complaints, but Jonny from HMP Brixton said it really helped him: “Being in Lie with your feet close to your bum your body. If your back hurts, you your confidential feedback an environment where there’s less people smoking around, and lift your hips upwards. Hold for can also lie with your knees bent, could help ensure other temptation is less in your face. It was a really big help.” 5 slow breaths. Come down slowly gently resting against each other. people don’t receive poor care. and rest for 3 deep, slow breaths. E-cigarettes are now even cheaper to buy. The Nicotine Repeat twice more if you’re feeling To speak to the CQC, add Replacement Alliance say that e-cigarettes are deemed to be strong. their number to your pin at least 95% safer than smoking, and while we don’t know 03000 61 61 61. everything about their effects, they are a great option if you’re looking to cut down or quit. You can also write to CQC, Confidential Access, Citygate, Desmond quit using nicotine patches and says he’s already NE1 4PA. Remember to say feeling loads better: “I can train for much longer, I can which health service and breathe, I can smell, and I feel much better about myself for which prison you are telling not smoking, and that’s the truth!” If you want a free book and CD them about. You don’t have to help you set up a regular yoga to give your name if you If you want to give up smoking, speak to healthcare or a and meditation practice write to don’t want to. member of staff. The Prison Phoenix Trust, PO Box

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To Dad, I miss being daddy’s girl and I’m sorry I’ve disappointed you. Happy Father’s Day, love you The Reader from Tina xxx Margaret Meyer reads with prisoners on the PIPE at HMP Wayland Father, thanks for putting up with me and listening to all my rants. Enjoy this Father’s Day think of? What would we then D says; ‘It’s very visual. You’re the best Dad in the whole world. I love you regret? I’m almost there. I’m in that more than you will ever know. I miss you. Dean xxx wagon, watching the sun N’s attention has been caught come up, and the hare. I could Jonathan, you make my mum so happy, you protect Hi Dad, have a Happy Father’s Day, love you lots, by the scene in which Morgan lift my own hand and point to her and keep her safe, yous both deserve the best miss you a lot, lots of love, Michael xxx takes some souvenirs, includ- it.’ in life, thank you for everything, Thomas ing toy life-rings, from the LV U DAD H Bob Rub Shin Sky Titanic’s gift shop. ‘That ship F says: ‘To me it’s a reminder Happy Father’s Day Dad Have a good one, love had every imaginable luxury. about living in the moment. Jimmy xxx Dear Daddy, happy Father’s Day to you. We loves Everything,’ he says, with a The hare, the pointing man - and miss you so much, looking so forward to when wry smile, ‘except lifeboats.’ it’s like a photograph of a Dad, Thanks for your support throughout my life- you come home so we can see you. Love Alishia, S is thinking about the flight- piece of time. And then it’s time, society and the family appreciate all you have Marshall, Kasey-Lou, Louie and Destinée xx fight reflex and whether it’s gone. I think you have to do done. Happy Father’s Day! possible to know in advance that - take mental snapshots To my gorgeous husband, best friend, soulmate how people are likely to react. of these moments when they Happy Father’s Day, Dad you’re my best friend and and children’s daddy. Thank you for 15 beautiful It’s an important considera- come - and make the most of my hero. Thank you for all you’ve done, love you years together and for blessing me to be your chil- tion in those ‘more people them.’ dren’s mummy. Thank you for our 5 beautiful and than lifeboats’ situations, HAPPY FATHER’S DAY DAD!!! I hope you like your It’s a dull and wet East Anglian present? You’re the best Dad I could ever want! amazing children. Love your wife Tracy xx afternoon, but in the when as S says ‘we are under ‘It’s hard to do that,’ says S. the ultimate pressure’. S’s ‘Take right now: my mind’s LOVE YOU! Association Room something Happy Father’s Day to all the dads on lockdown, question strikes a chord and jumped to the game of chess unusual is unfolding. This is keep it real and strong and remember you will be the debate heats up: who I’m about to go and play. I To my Dad Vincent Aitken, they say you only get the weekly get-together of the out there soon, waking up to you babies jumping would make for the nearest don’t want to be thinking 1 Mum and thousands of Dads… Not me, I just got PIPE’s (Psychologically in- the 1 Dad and I love you from Emma x on the bed. Lol, Tracy & family formed and planned environ- lifeboat? Who would risk their about chess. I want to be own lives to help others? What thinking about this poem.’ ment) Shared Reading group, D Meek Hi Dad, hope you enjoy this day. Sorry I do we think, a hundred years Have a great day Dad, hope you had a good hol- and we are all here for differ- iday, say hello to everyone for me! Nick Hone x can’t be with you in body but I am in spirit! ent reasons. Some participants later, about Edwardian preoc- I turn to S and ask him if he’d are looking to fill in time after cupations with social class read the poem for us again, work; others want a break and gender, which meant that which he does; this second from the noise and routine of wealthy women were sent to read-through seems to bring the wing. Today what unites the lifeboats, while lower class new depth to our thinking. ‘I us is the drama of the sinking men were left behind? never thought I’d read poetry of the Titanic - the unsinkable like this,’ he says. ‘But then I ship turned death trap - If you were to take a straw poll never thought I’d have conver- brought vividly to life by Beryl of the reading group, the con- sations like this, in a place like Bainbridge in her novel Every sensus would be that most this.’ Wrongly convicted Man For Himself. Twenty-two- don’t like poetry. And yet it’s year-old Morgan, a wealthy the poem, which rounds off ‘Nor me,’ says P. ‘If you just of a crime? American passenger, has sessions each week, that so think about this moment, here somehow survived the sinking often brings insight. Today’s in the group. I think this is an and has managed to get him- choice, Encounter by Polish extraordinary conversation - self to a lifeboat: writer Czeslaw Milosz, takes with some fairly extraordinary us to a more reflective mood: people.’ I don’t know how long I swam Lost your appeal? under that lidded sea - time We were riding through frozen We are suddenly aware of the had stopped with my breath - fields in a wagon at dawn. time, which is up. The chess and just as it seemed as if my A red wing rose in the game beckons. ‘Good session,’ lungs would burst the black- darkness. says B, coming over to shake ness paled and I kicked to the my hand. ‘It got us thinking surface. I had thought I was And suddenly a hare ran about stuff we don’t normally What next? entering paradise, for I was across the road. consider.’ alive and about to breathe One of us pointed to it with again, and then I heard the his hand. cries of souls in torment and believed myself to be in hell. That was long ago. 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l There could be some truth to the old adage l Bras sold at Marks & Do you know? about apples: eating one a day really does Spencer are reportedly seem to help prevent an early death. causing disruption at Researchers at the University of Western airports because the Australia tracked 1,456 women aged 70 to 85 underwiring is setting off for 15 years and found that those who ate security scanners. The more than 100g [one small apple] per day had problem is caused by a a 35% reduced risk of dying early compared special metal which is only with those who consumed the only one per used by M&S for bras. The month. Daily Express chain, which sells 23m bras a year, is trying to rectify the l London was the fi rst city in the world to l It is no secret that texting while driving is reach a population of one million, doing so in problem. The Sun newspaper dangerous, but studies have found that 1811. It remained the largest city in the world says the “weapons of mass texting while walking is also dangerous. Aft er until 1957, when it was overtaken by Tokyo. distraction” are “sparking all texting while walking could lead to you l Police in Ohio were forced to appeal to would-be drug MSN terror alerts”. The Sun walking into lamp posts, potholes, an open punters over Facebook because their calls to an accused manhole, or worse, oncoming traffi c. In fact dealer were interrupting an investigation. Alliance police this is such a disturbing trend that over in the department arrested Steve Notman last month, but his city of Augsburg, Germany, offi cials have customer’s incessant calls kept disrupting attempts to search created new traffi c lights designed to warn the phone. The post read: “PLEASE STOP CALLING Steve those who text and walk. As you can see in Notman’s cell phone. He was arrested tonight by SIU detec- the photo above, since people who text and tives….again…. for ALLEGEDLY (on video) selling crystal meth walk basically have their eyes pointed here in Alliance. We have his phone and are trying to read all downwards, these new traffi c lights have your texts requesting drugs and going through all of his been embedded in the ground in hopes that contacts (with his permission) but you keep calling and texting the person will be able to notice them time and it’s really annoying. First of all, he is all out of drugs for before they unknowingly walk into an tonight. Secondly you don’t need to call - we will come to you oncoming car or bus without paying atten- soon enough. Oh, and his ringtone is terrible! Thank you so tion. According to city offi cials, the installa- much for your patience.” UniLad tion of the traffi c lights were prompted aft er a 15-year old girl was killed by a tram while l A mother with two l A new study claims that texting and walking. Unsurprisingly some children at nursery needs to wives become less stressed weren’t too thrilled with the idea as they earn at least £40,000 a year aft er their husbands die. believe that it is a waste of taxpayers’ money. l to make any profi t from Researchers at the University A new nuclear power station being constructed in Britain will be the most In fact it has recently been suggested that going to work [aft er deduct- of Padova said that although expensive object on earth. The proposed nuclear power station in Hinkley, over in the US, some states are considering ing the costs of childcare, the presence of a wife may Somerset will cost up to £24 billion. The plant will cost 18 times more than the making texting and walking illegal. That travel and pension contribu- bring benefi ts for men in Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building - and almost fi ve times more than the being said, other parts of the world aren’t so tions]. A salary of £60,000 terms of household manage- Large Hadron Collider. In contrast, the UK’s newest power station Sizewell B harsh. For example over in Antwerp, would leave her with £36 a ment and healthcare, women cost a comparatively meagre (but still eye-watering) £2.3 billion when it was Belgium, a special lane has been created for day aft er deductions. The are “more likely to feel completed in 1995. But while Hinckley might be the most expensive object on those who text and walk to prevent them average woman in a full-time stressed and fi nd their role Earth, it’s certainly not the most expensive in the Universe. That honour goes from bumping into other people, although job earns £24,202. The restrictive and frustrating”. to the International Space Station, which was constructed at a cost of £77.6bn. who’s to say that they will be able to stay in Sunday Times Daily Mail Metro their lines anyway, right?

l A number of werewolf sightings have been reported in woods outside of Hull, l Police are on the hunt for sparking locals to organise a a hunt for the beast on the next full moon. Over a man who hopped onto a the past months, witnesses have come forward to speak of spotting a huge, moving lorry and fi lled bin hairy creature around the Barmston Drain, a man-made channel near the town bags with unopened cigarette of Beverley. Some locals believe the sightings are evidence of a mythical boxes last month. News of Yorkshire beast called ‘Old Stinker’. A woman who sighted the potential the huge tobacco theft broke, werewolf in December told the Express ‘It was stood upright one moment. The with police asking anyone next it was down on all fours running like a dog. I was terrifi ed. ‘It vaulted 30ft from the area who’s recently over to the other side and vanished up the embankment and over a wall into been sold cigarettes by a some allotments.’ Another couple said they saw something ‘tall and hairy’ man - and not bought them eating a dog next to the channel, which runs through the countryside. They from a shop - to come forward. added that it jumped over an 8ft -high fence, with the animal in its mouth. l Debenhams is to start selling XXXXXL sized The thief was reportedly Witnesses and folklore experts have been quick to link the sightings to the men’s clothes. The retailer said it decided to wearing a high-vis vest when well-known legend of Old Stinker. Old Stinker is said to roam in the Yorkshire introduce the larger size, which will have a he hopped on the red lorry in Wolds, an area of beautiful countryside north of the Barmston Drain. More 64in chest and a 20in collar, aft er being South Lanarkshire, before he specifi cally, the beast is supposed to stalk the Wold Newton Triangle, an area inundated with requests. One in nine mens- opened the doors and helped known for mysterious activity. For centuries, tales have circulated of zombies, wear purchases in Debenhams stores are now himself to a massive amount ghosts, the Old Stinker werewolf and other paranormal activity. Daily Mail in sizes larger than XXL. The Observer of cigarettes. Vice

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Star Poem of the Month Silent Memories Too big Congratulations to this months winner Dave Hall - HMP Wymott who receives our £25 prize Nightmares, memories that come back around to fail In my bed, ‘not making a sound’ Somebody You’d treat me and hold me tight Brian Franklin Thames Filling me with fear ‘almost every night’ - Corcoran State Prison, Lou Napolitano - HMP Stocken Looking up to you, you was my hero California After what you did, it went to zero When I was a mere nipper Trusting you, liking you, a member of staff Like a plant My mother spoke to me Tickling me, trying to make me laugh Determined to grow ‘Look son, I am a cheap junkie stripper My bedroom chair against my door None of us will ever be treated with impunity While standing still To stop you hurting me some more It’s all about being ‘somebody’, you see’. Adapting of necessity What a secret between you and me With no need for memory Touching me under the table while eating my tea My dad said he was too drunk to work See … my dreams have That wasn’t your job in the children’s home His body now much too frail pockets The aimless life driving him berserk! Separating me so I was all alone With holes in them I believe he much preferred his second home - jail Fighting, stealing to seek different attention And I’ve forgotten My teachers forever said I was bound to fail The abuse I couldn’t face or even mention No mother or father to take care of me What they once held I once shot a man, for simply stealing my car Brothers, sisters or any other family But, I don’t care Denied it, of course, my instinct always to tell an untruth The years went by and I became older Because my next dreams ‘Shooting’ here and there; my life increasingly bizarre I met a lovely girl and cried on her shoulder Will be too big Looking back on my blameable dysfunctional youth She gave me strength to raise the alarm Too big to fall through the It were not my parents, but I, that made me so uncouth But he was respected with lots of charm holes I was a liar, there was no belief And I’ll grow above the dirt Then I spied you and coloured deeply, as never before Telling on you, you gave me grief My discernment but a hand playing the chords of emotion There was no more trust after that Below the dirt You did not require a venal, vulgar often vapid bore Hiding my emotions under my hat Through the dirt Wanted a future with happiness - not a burden Poor Donald I was moved and never saw you again And because of the dirt I quickly decided I had to become ‘somebody’ a revelation But those silent memories remain the same Like a plant Bertrand Maurer - HMP Maidstone I studied, I learned, tried to make myself attractive to you My worship begged for an approving sign Donald Trump! Donald Trump! When our eyes finally met, you looked away, unbelieving it true What a joke is his face The reinvented person I’d become made you mine A sad joke I admit but a joke nonetheless I intend to keep you now, until the end of time From a dump out of town Comes a joker with a frown Ninja Rat Skank On his head a strange mane Donald Trump is his name Scott Sanders - HMP Winchester Can you see? Can you see? On his tongue a hissing snake Now I’m good looking healthy off heroin In his eyes the ashes and the stake No more rat poison I’m a junglist veteran I’m a different person not on ketamine Listen to him, listen to him who bellows “Burn to death who dares and chooses Dropped out the weed, left out amphetamine To come and invade my village! No fixed abode, done crime, done the time, back on road Actually, all those who entered a pact In a hostel, bedsit I am no longer a toad With the wrong side of my village! No more holes in my clothes on my toes yes it shows All the pigs and rapists in the street Defeated my inner demons now my aura glows All the streets in my village in fact!” Get a nice girlfriend was stuck on me like glue Too many problems I been through with enemies with bad shoes Donald Trump! Donald Trump! The wrong attitude and different points of view He really would if he could Oakwood I blew my nose on a Big Issue with the Brew Crew Sell his kids for tinned meat Christopher Wilkes - HMP Hewell If only it would help please! Ignored the jealous haters that try to diss you To get rid of the heat Welcome to Oakwood now sign for your things; you’re going to be here for a while Forgave those who trespassed against me, left out voodoo That burns and carbonizes Follow the officers onto your wings; accept what you’re given and smile Human pin cushion those scars won’t leave me and you Poor him, just there under the skin Don’t break the rules and do as you’re told or we’ll give you an IEP Can’t keep me down I’m spiritual and positive Where the mighty demon touched him You’re costing the taxpayer thousands of pounds so that everything in here is free Anybody negative avoid them at the post office There’s healthcare and welfare, fitness and gym with a tennis and footballing school Always stay focused, move forward my prerogative Poor Donald Trump! Poor Donald Trump! But if you prefer to stay on your wing, there’s ping pong, snooker and pool Had a rethink in HMP, avoid the narcotics my new logic Donald Trump is so poor! If religion’s your thing, then please take your pick, you really are spoilt for choice Life’s too short to be an addict or an alcoholic Let us all pray and hail! Just get on the kiosk and submit an app then click to select and rejoice! So just be happy and don’t be demonic! Poor Donald already Trumps in hell! Muslim or Christian, Buddhist or Sikh, Catholic, Pagan or Jew? Whichever your preference we’ll find you a faith, salvation is waiting for you We’ll make sure we feed you three times a day, the choices you wouldn’t believe Look at me We’ll feed you so much you’ll be happy to stay; in fact we don’t want you to leave There’s under floor heating and climate control in this free all-inclusive hotel Mark Wightwick - HMP Isle of Wight With a courtesy button in every room you can press if you’re not feeling well So be not concerned with the cost of your health as the hotel will tot up the fee I get out a bed that’s been shaped by men before me Her Majesty’s Government pick up the tab so all of your treatment is free I wear the clothes of a thousand men before me With free education your future’s assured, you can study and get your degree I eat food I would not choose to eat With so many courses you’ll never be bored and you won’t need a loan coz it’s free I stand in a shower where thousands have stood There’s a hundred and thirty five channels on your very own colour TV And a digital kiosk to buy what you want ... So I hope you’re beginning to see ... before me I walk and talk in a way I no longer recognise You committed a crime so they put you in here; the logic is really insane I am not me I am you No wonder most residents, after they leave, can’t wait to come back again One of the thousand men before you You’ll always be welcome at Oakwood Hotel as you’re making them thousands of pounds © Fotolia.com So I look in the mirror and they all look back at me The ridiculous myth that crime doesn’t pay, is not half as daft as it sounds! Insidetime June 2016 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 51 Frustration Chemicals in my bloodstream Dean Lovell - HMP Wormwood Scrubs Mark Nourse - HMP Winchester

Frustration comes frustration goes Is spice really any way of life? Like a raging bull from head to toe Just for a moment I thought it was nice Tick tock in my head, please make it stop NPS in my bloodstream and smoke in the sky I hear it so clear but don’t have a clock An extreme price to pay for getting so high I feel so powerless I cannot lie Are you listening mate my frustration begins Chemicals pound my heart am I about to die? No I don’t smoke and have no skins My children look lost and try to be brave You asked me yesterday and the day before My wife and mother cry as they stand by my grave My frustration is building, can’t take much more A mental disorder? A psychotic attack? A paranoid delusion? There’s no going back Are you listening, are you listening, what’s that about My name is called for an MDT! That’s where Do you not speak English, my frustrations out The prison takes my pee and analyses it for drugs over 500 there be Yes I’m listening, you’re talking to me I’m gripped by fear as it’s sent to the laboratory Stop saying that shit, it’s frustrating you see Under the misuse of drugs act if found guilty they can punish me 21 days cellular confinement 28 days with no monetary entitlement I’m not your mate, your friend or bro Time to be honest and get realistic put in an app and speak to Phoenix We all have problems now f*** off and go For the future I love my family don’t want to be another statistic © Fotolia.com Frustration, frustration will you please leave me Time for change I don’t want to be addicted or even worse Ten years have passed I’m IPP Dead or psychiatric But! And this u We will award a prize of 2 Girls 2 Worlds £25 to the entry selected as is an important one Bradley Rogers & Anthony Hunt - HMP La Moye our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. To qualify for a prize, poems Philip O’Neill - HMP Swaleside Together we talk about two different girls should not have won a prize in So much in common but in two different worlds any other competition or been You say ya wanna change We talk about them constant always on the brain published previously. Send entries ‘Oh but the past holds me back’ And how we would treat them all we want is the same to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, You say ya wanna change We can always tell when ones phone-calls not gone well Hampshire, SO30 2GB. Please ‘Oh but my sins and troubles are too big of a stack Straight to the pad, gone sick in cell put your name, number and Back the next day to try his luck prison on the same sheet of paper You say ya wanna change Straight to voicemail all you hear is f**k! as your poem. If you win we can’t ‘Oh but I’ll have just one more night out with Jack’ send your money if we don’t When its bang up we just drill each other’s head You say ya wanna change know who or where you are! Talking about this and that and what we would have said ‘Oh but my self-worth and confidence are just By submitting your poems to Morning we awake one’s gone to the phone so crap’ Inside Time you are agreeing Just to say he’s sorry but all she does is moan that they can be published in any You say ya wanna change of our ‘not for profit links’, these The phone slams down he loses his head ‘Oh but I can get respect for my learnt include the newspaper, website Bang goes the door slumps straight back to bed intimidatory tack’d’ and any forthcoming books. You So talking to girls its ups and downs © Fotolia.com are also giving permission for You say ya wanna change One day it’s all smiles the next it’s all frowns Inside Time to use their discretion ‘Oh but the future of responsibilities is a scary fact’ in allowing other organisations So together we talk about two different women to reproduce this work if consid- You say ya wanna change SHOCKED! Phone credits gone all for a head drilling ered appropriate, unless you So we decide all girls are just the same ‘Oh but I’ve learnt to hide within false perceptions Michael Wyatt - HMP Erlestoke have clearly stated that you do behind the pack’ When you’re in prison it’s all just a game not want this to happen. Any My ceiling has a crack in it work reproduced in other publi- You say ya wanna change cations will be on a ‘not for profit’ My cupboard door is bust ‘Oh but no one wants me back’ basis. Please note poems for pub- My window fails to close right up lication June be edited. When You say ya wanna change My pipes are caked in rust submitting your work please ‘Oh please show me the way back’ include the following permis- My bedside cabinet has no back sion: this is my own work and You say ya wanna change Used on picture frames! I agree to Inside Time pub- ‘Oh it’s the fear that is holding me back’ My mirror is cracked and scratched right up lishing it in all associate sites My lino’s full of stains and other publications as You say ya wanna change appropriate. © Fotolia.com Then listen to the small still voice within you My sink doesn’t have a plug That’s God and have faith My taps clank and hiss on use For he wants you back My TV won’t work on Channel 5 Pond Life (Shalom-Rapha-Olam-Rohi) My door has had abuse Paul Berry - HMP Liverpool Would you My light is coloured smoke gold-brown The ‘Spiz’, the ‘Spizzle’ they’re all goin’ crazy!! like to be a Offering Officers these days, no control or too fat and lazy My toilet won’t flush on cue published Scarlett Stephens - HMP Eastwood Park My noticeboard is peppered white An epidemic that gets worse day by day With toothpaste used as glue Let the lads smoke ‘weed’ poet? Give me a song If I had my way I will sing it out of tune My toilet seat is missing Hum me a line The ‘Mamba’, the ‘Samba’ the latest ‘Man Down’ I’ll be yours for all of time The pan has a dark embedded skid They come through the servery with an unusual frown Then write to: A kettle lays dead in the corner ‘Poetry’, Inside Time, Hold my hand The ambulances and sirens to the jail door With missing lead and lid Botley Mills, Botley, And I’ll hold yours Can the NHS take much more? Do not command Southampton, But lead and I’ll lead My first time in you see This is a product totally ‘man made’ Hampshire SO30 2GB Love and I’ll love Unaware what to expect Not grown in a pot with light and shade Set your Be my friend forever This cell of mine is home for now Governors and government you need to act fast thoughts free! 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Chess has truly taught me much over the 5. It is an insect, and the first 11. Which vehicle is spelled years. I transfer chess skills to my real life. part of its name is the name the same forwards and Many times I have sought to retaliate quickly of another insect. What is it? backwards? against people who may have wronged or annoyed me but chess has taught me that ______sometimes - it is prudent to wait, re-evaluate Across Down my position and perhaps find a new way 6. What English word retains 12. I am lighter than air but a forward. After all, if life was a game of chess the same pronunciation, even million men cannot lift me up, 1. An idealised young hero or lover (6,8) 1. The Winged Horse, a northern then some of the critical things we do (the after you take away four of its What am I? 8. The Holy —, legendary object of a constellation between Cygnus and decisions we make) are the moves. Some will five letters? ______quest (5) Aquarius (7) be good, some bad and some indifferent but ______9. The ability to read and write (8) 2. A visual representation (5) for sure every move has consequences. This is not a lecture to inmates, many of whom 11. Charlie Chaplin’s middle name (7) 3. A cosmetic, typically of oily consistency, support this column with great spirit but the 12. A very strong, pungent red pepper (7) used to cleanse or soothe the skin (4,5) Answers to all puzzles are in the next issue. Only Puzzles on 4. A person accused of or guilty of an skills and disciplines learned can truly be 13. Classic western film starring Alan the ‘Prize Winning Puzzles’ page have prizes for completing. offence (7) transferred to our everyday lives to make them Ladd (5) 5. A device, unseen by the audience, better. I want people to appreciate that. 15. Periodical (1709-11) written, displaying a television script to a For this month’s puzzle I want you to forget Matt Stansfield - HMP Bristol edited, and published by speaker or performer (7) about your surroundings and focus solely on Richard Steele with the collaboration 6. “The quality of — is not strained” Wordsearch // Bones of the Body the possibilities before you. Black just played Bones of the Body of Joseph Addison (3,6) (Shakespeare) (5) his knight to e5 attacking the knight on f3 that 17. Containing compressed air (9) 7. American actor who starred in the is pinned to the queen. Why was this not a 20. City in western Belgium, capital of 1991 film “The Prince of Tides”(4,5) F F G H Z X V M B C F S E T H H K R A H clever move? White to play. the province of East Flanders (5) 10. River that flows into the North Sea G L A S D F G M Z S D A B C S E F U B F 22. Edith —, American novelist, author at Sunderland (4) H A A B C D U S E F S F G M K L V M P W of “The House of Mirth” (7) 14. A cocktail of gin or brandy with 8 T C V S B N C B M Q W R D G Y E H E P Q 24. A light umbrella used to give shade creme de cacao and cream (9) 16. A procedure or set of rules for H Z B A R G H D V N H Y J M R R T F O S from the sun (7) 7 calculation or problem-solving (9) F H B E P A V B N C F D T T Y U O B J G 26. Actor who played Batman in the 17. A chess piece of the smallest size B N T I U N T I T U G H E A B C D U U B 1960s TV series (4,4) 6 and value (4) J S U B G L M A N D I B L E E F F R K G 27. A woman’s undergarment 18. A place where leather is produced (7) 5 L U G Q Z U Z C Y I R A V C H G I S H S combining panties and a chemise top (5) 19. In architecture, the crowning 28. Song that was a hit for Manfred feature of a column (7) 4 B I E W I O M F H A I Z Z C S H B H M S Mann in 1966 (6,8) 21. A huntsman’s cry to the hounds on Q D Q N V B N U E B L A V B U I U D K D sighting a fox (5-2) 3 A A A Z X V G T I N L Q N G R J L D L T 23. Give rise to a desire by being V R Z C V G N T B L H G N N E K A U O D attractive or inviting (5) 2 25. The largest country of the African C L A V I C L E E U I T D G M L O M P T 1 continent (5) A C V B N A X T S E R T F H U M N E I G

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