“I passed my mother in the corridor and she said to my gran, ‘Oh mam, look at that poor boy’, and I cried out ‘Mam, it’s me!’ As she recognised my voice her face turned to stone.”

Simon Weston (left) speaks to Inside Time // PAGE 18

“Panic began to rise in my “I made sure that “I’ve got an allergy to drugs. the National Newspaper for & Detainees chest as hand-sized spiders rather than me serve I don’t break out in lumps and appeared from nowhere and time, I made time bumps, I break out in hand- a voice for prisoners since 1990 dashed blindly over me.” serve me.” cuffs, misery, pain and loss.” September 2018 / Issue No. 231 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profit’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 Island of dreams Leroy Skeete Billy Moore An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Comment // page 28 Comment // page 20 Comment // page 21 ‘THE WORST EVER ’ HM Chief Inspector of l The most violent local prison l Drug use and dealing carried out openly in front of staff

l ‘Poorly led’ staff locked 14 themselves in offices l Communal areas filthy with HMP Hull - best prison garden ‘cockroaches, vermin, blood “An outstanding performance” Royal Horticultural Society judge HMP BIRMINGHAM and vomit’

Inside Time report given a prison the lowest Describing conditions for NEWS FLASH! Governor of Berwyn and Governor of Styal suspended score of all four criteria of prisoners, the Board added: 14 Safety, Respect, Purposeful “… toilets in cells with no The Ministry of has Activity and Rehabilitation. screen; a generally dirty, poor announced that it is taking environment; litter; objects in over control of HMP Birming- In May the Independent Mon- stairwells; broken windows; ham from G4S for an initial itoring Board chairman wrote heating broken or excessive; six-month period whilst it to the Justice Minister ex- broken showers; lack of ket- tries to sort out the problems pressing his concerns about tles and even, on occasions, which culminated in Chief what he described as ‘unac- lack of kit and bedding, with Inspector of Prisons Peter ceptable conditions’ at the cockroaches ever present”. Clarke invoking the Urgent prison. It said “… put simply, Notification Protocol. For the prison fails to provide a only the second time, the safe and decent environment Prisons Inspectorate has on an almost daily basis”. Continued page 10 Governors off

© Inside Time to Boot Camp! l £10m earmarked to improve conditions in ten worst prisons l Minister pledges to quit if no 19 significant change in 12 months Doing my bird but not in prison Mark, above, is one of the beneficiaries of the Government’s new drug offence diver- sion programme. Instead of prison, Mark was sentenced to a term of ‘community re- habilitation’ which he serves at Landworks, the Devon charity teaching life-skills to prisoners from HMP Channings Wood and 12 © Paul Sullivan others sent by the probation service. “The people here are inspiring me and support- “Judge me on my results” ing me to live a better way,” he says. Prisons Minister Rory Stewart 2 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime September 2018

Less than human The silver lining Mailbites insidetime Name withheld - a voice for prisoners since 1990 David Adams - HMP Guys Marsh HMP Isle of Wight All just talk the national newspaper for prisoners published by Adam Senior - HMP Leeds There’s so much negativity and suffering in jail and it doesn’t Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Before prison, I had always need to be that way. Every event in our lives has a purpose, I’ve recently been transferred from hospital The New Bridge Foundation, founded in 1956 to considered myself mentally create links between the offender and the there is a powerful intention in every situation, so rather back here to Leeds prison as I have been strong; I had a family and a community. than sitting behind your door in a negative state, take a new diagnosed with a personality disorder. I was career to be proud of, I reassured that I would get extra support from A not for profit publication. worked hard to improve the approach and look for the silver lining. mental health and help to get on a PIPE unit, Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial lives of those I met and vol- Focus on solutions and you will be able to make the most out but since being back I’ve had no support content. Comments or complaints should be unteered what spare-time I whatsoever. The only time mental health came directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. had. I worked to build a fu- of your sentence. In life and in prison you will always find to see me was when I had my ACCT review as ture for myself and then…in what you are looking for, if you’re angry you will find , they were asked by staff to attend. When I Board of Directors an instant it was all gone. but if you are happy then you will find happiness. Prison is what you think it is, change you’re thinking and you can informed them of my situation I was told that Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, My career was over, my change your sentence. there is a staff shortage. All I need is a bit of Journalist, Writer and former Magistrate. friends turned away and less help, so please get more staff. Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon than a year into my sentence “I see prison as a pool of opportunities, and I can’t Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh I have decided that the kind- make the most of this pool by sitting on the side, I I’m no lag John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and est thing I can do for my RH Bowman - HMP Lindholme Managing Director employing former prisoners family is to cease all contact. have to dive in to reap the benefits, which is what I note a constant referral to prisoners as ‘lags’, Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice This sentence should be we should all do.” Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, mine alone to serve. which I find repulsive. I am not a ‘lag’ and nor Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation are a lot of the prisoners I meet. Stop referring Prison will not rehabilitate you, you have to rehabilitate But, in this short time, I have to me as a lag as it is offensive and quite yourself. So, don’t sit around expecting to magically become realised that I am no longer probably libellous. The Editorial Team rehabilitated and then get upset when you are back in jail in human, I am a number, a 6-months’ time. Get up and find the opportunities that will statistic, treated with indif- help you. All power comes from within, no other person has No ference, I have been robbed power over your destiny, take control now. Stuart Parkinson - HMP Liverpool of all purpose. There is no life for me when I leave these I have met so many people in here who claim walls and those I have spoken Use this time to learn more about yourself, discover what they are innocent. I work in healthcare and I to in custody feel the same. your true values are and set goals according to those values. get many prisoners, old, frail and in wheel- Erwin James John Roberts Rachel Make your family proud and when your life is finally pris- chairs who have been convicted of historic sex Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE I know that when I finally on-free, you can look back on your sentence, stick your fin- offences and who are in their 80s and 90s. Director Associate Editor leave, I will be alone, unem- gers up to it and say, ‘I beat you’. Most of these guys don’t even know what day ployed and despised by soci- it is, let alone what happened in the 1960s/70s. Commercial ety. An outcast, a monster, Somebody once said to me - ‘Sometimes we need to trust that This country seems to have no shame at all in Manager in my mind I am already our own disappointments may be opportunities in disguise’. jailing these people just on the word of an David Roberts dead. How will years in a My sentence is just that. If you the opportunity to bet- accuser, this whole business has gone too far. Head of cage change the fact that I ter yourself now, then when can you ever hope to encounter Men are getting set up day after day, just for Administration have nothing else to lose. the opportunity again? spite or for the sake of a bit of compensation, Justine Best how is this justice? Noel Smith Paul Sullivan Layout & Design Commissioning Reporter Colin Matthews Editor D Cat misery Website Design and Advertising Lee Abus - HMP Wandsworth Gary Bultitude At the time of writing this letter there are currently Correspondence over 100 D cat prisoners in this B cat prison. The last transfer of D cats to a D cat prison was General: Inside Time Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, SO30 2GB. over a month ago, and that was just 5 prison- Accounts & Admin: Inside Time, PO Box 251, ers. 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Falling to bits Star Letter of the Month Mailbag 2-9 “Organic chickens Name withheld - HMP Dartmoor Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize get treated better than we do.” The infrastructure here at Dartmoor is totally rotten. The buildings are well-past their sell-by date and need to be demolished. The average building here is 160 years old and very decayed. Page 4 Putting inmates into this deteriorating environment will not induce them to change their ways, it will only accelerate their hatred of the prison system. Improve your wellbeing Newsround 10-15 Youssef Wahid - HMP Whitemoor “Being in prison Most prisoners are introduced to drug by poorly-run prisons, serving boring days and was f***ing nights locked up with no hope of improving their lives. And they soon get the clear message, Prison can be a very hard environment. Especially emotion- embarrassing and why would anyone earn £300 a week doing a job they hate when they can earn £400 a day ally. Emotions are hard to control, but even without a ful- invasive and was selling drugs, and they don’t even pay tax on that! Page 13 ly-fledged strategy for regulation, you can adapt some basic not OKl” techniques to improve your wellbeing. Here are five tips for To put people back on the straight and narrow something has to change. Locking people up Comment 16-30 with no hope and no change does nothing to alleviate this problem. The prison service sees us emotional health. “Here is a giant as a meal ticket and could not give a toss whether we live or die. Hence the growing suicide among human rate and incidents of self-harm. This disgraceful situation has to change, or nothing will im- Be active. Physical exercise and intellectual engagement beings.” prove in our society. usually prevent people from focusing on negative emotions too much. Strain your body once in a while at the gym, or Page 16 enjoy good food or books, such pastimes can make it easier Second Side affects to look at the bright side of life. Information 31-37 Name withheld - HMP Holme House “Inside Time Try new habits. Disrupting your routine can help you focus takes a look at chance? I came into prison a few months ago armed with two packets on positive events and avoid boredom. For example, start a exciting develop- ments at the Tax Brian Cleaver - of tobacco, as I had no idea that prisons had become diary and take note of nice things that happen to you. Reserve Page35 Academy.” HMP Isle of Wight non-smoking. The staff in reception put the tobacco in my a few minutes each day to remind yourself of happy times. personal property and issued me with the standard Logic Legal 38-43 PRO smokers kit. Be social. Mingle with folks that you like. An active social I feel I must write concerning life is an effective means to overcome everyday worries and “Healthcare of the write-up in your July Yesterday, with a bit of time to kill, I read through the in- mild anxieties. prisoners should be issue regarding HM Pasties struction leaflet for the first time and I was shocked to see of an equal standard which has left me confused to that available in the advice from the manufacturers. Below are two extracts Be thankful. Being grateful for what you receive enhances and quite disappointed. Page 40 the community.” from the instruction booklet for Logic PRO. satisfaction. Jailbreak 44-56 • Disposal - Dispose of used Logic PRO capsule receptacles re- Lee Wakeman, the man who Don’t set the bar too high. It is possible you want happiness sponsibly and use appropriate containment to avoid environ- “The offi cers created the business, says he too much. Putting pressure on yourself to be merry all of the knows how important it is to mental contamination. are armed only time may itself become a source of discontent. It is okay, and with a wooden be given that second chance • Safety instructions and warnings - Consult a healthcare pro- healthy, to experience a spectrum of emotions. truncheon and of turning his life around fessional before using any Logic product if you are on any Page 47 a rattle.” after leaving prison. He then medication or suffer from any allergies. I wish you all a happy healthy life. ends the piece by saying: ‘We will work with anyone, It goes on to say the product should not be used by anyone at with the exception of sex-of- risk or suffering from various health conditions and list a fenders’. I am a convicted whole host of side effects. So, my question is twofold, firstly, sex-offender and I am dis- is the Prison Service in breach of environmental regulations gusted and ashamed of my for failing to provide the correct facility for disposal of the WILSONS AUCTIONS past actions. I’m 100% com- device and used capsules correctly? mitted to my rehabilitation WE CAN SELL YOUR ASSETS Secondly, I was issued with the device without any health and am very confident that · Do you have an outstanding confiscation order? on release I will be able to advice, questions about my health or my suitability to use the device. After check-in I was then referred to the reception lead a law-abiding lifestyle. · Would you like a free valuation and a no obligation nurse who asked about my medication and state of health, quote to sell your assets for the highest price? but at no time mentioned the vape kit. I suffer from diabetes If Lee Wakeman thinks that I and high blood pressure, both of which the manufacturer do not also deserve a second states their product should not be used by people at risk of. chance, then why not just WILSONS AUCTIONS CAN HELP As the sole agent for over 40 law enforcement agencies, Wilsons Auctions specialises lock me up forever and throw Has the Prison Service broken the law by issuing the smokers in selling assets that are subject to confiscation proceedings, often in sensitive away the key? What chance kit without following the manufacturer’s advice or advising us circumstances. We are the largest independent auction company in the UK and Ireland is there for people like me? of the associated risks? Perhaps the Prison Service have failed and with 80 years of experience, we can sell assets worldwide. to consider all of the requirements of this smoking substitute HM Pasties page 25 in their haste to impose a smoking ban on the prison system.

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Insidetime September 2018 Repatriation Current of discontent Incarceration of Pakistani Peter Wilson - HMP Whatton - Victorian style prisoners, please Name withheld - As a reader of Inside Time newspaper, I cannot help noticing HMP Dartmoor Babar Shah - that there is an underlying current of discontent in virtually HMP Highpoint South all the letters and comment published. It is all aimed at the I have been incarcerated prison regime, Administration, Parole Board, etc, and I have here for 10 months, and, in Dear Home Secretary Mr to say that I agree with many of the comments, depending on that time, we are usually Javid, on the 10th of July, the my experience of particular prisons written about, but the locked up for 23 hours per Chief Justice of Pakistan basic fact remains; we are all incarcerated for a very good day. Sometimes, like during gave an order to his govern- reason. We have all transgressed against society and are holidays, we can be locked ment to bring back all being punished for it, to a greater or lesser degree depending up for days, even weeks. Pakistani prisoners from on your sentence. foreign prisons within a Over Christmas there was © Deposit Photos six-month time-frame. Here Some prisons are extremely antiquated and were built in an 12-days of non-stop lock-up. “The drinks are on me” in the UK there are approxi- era when was much harsher than today. A prime That means no showers, no mately one-thousand example is Leicester Prison and, no doubt, some others. Such gym, no visits. For various Chickens get treated better Pakistani prisoners awaiting prisons give rise to the justifiable moans we hear on a daily given reasons gym has been basis nationwide. I have spent time in Leicester Prison and Name withheld - HMP Bronzefield repatriation, with at least cancelled 77 times since half of them applied and compared to Whatton the two prisons are like chalk and cheese. Christmas (I am keeping willing to leave the UK. Now count). On several occasions during my stay at Her Majesty’s pleasure This prison has a good reputation, in that there is an ex- that the Pakistani I have heard prisoners being compared to animals, usually tremely low level of antagonism and outbursts of aggression. Government are asking for I have been informed that people saying that animals would not be treated in the way that Due, in my opinion, to the amount of facilities and opportu- the return of these prison- Prince Charles actually we are. We do get three mediocre meals per day, a bed to sleep nities here on every level. It has won awards for the lovely owns this prison and has in and a roof over our heads, so we are better off than some. ers, and bearing in mind stretches of greenery, flowers and shrubs, carefully nurtured refused any more funding this time of austerity we are by the green-fingered inmates and the garden workers for the upkeep. They reckon However, today, on what has been the hottest day of the year living in, overcrowding in among the paid inmates. the jail needs £47 million in so far, our houseblock was suddenly without water. No water prisons in the UK and the order to straighten it out. at all! Not for washing, drinking or flushing the toilet. We were burden of these prisoners on There are also wide opportunities to enhance education and locked up for hours with nothing to keep ourselves hydrated. UK taxpayers, could you practical skills. Woodwork and building, to name but two. facilitate in speedy repatria- Inmates who have had very little education in their lives, Now it seems that the governors here are trying to Whilst I do understand that things like this happen some- tion of these prisoners? In some who cannot read or write now have the chance, through provoke unrest so that they times, I can’t help but think that with an improved communi- many cases these prisoners the efforts of the dedicated Shannon Trust, to realise an abil- can go to the government for cations system between us and management/staff we might have been away from their ity which should have been theirs from an early age. There is extra cash. I have just been have collected water in advance of the maintenance work families for a long time, a comprehensive list of classes on a variety of subjects, cov- informed by staff that we will and the whole thing would probably not have descended into need to maintain family ties ering everything from numeracy to business studies. No one be locked up for the next 3 a banging and screaming match. and being in their home can say there is not enough here to combat the intransigent country to complete their spectre of boredom. days with no access to phones, showers, gym, exercise and In conclusion - communicate - so that in future no one feels sentences would facilitate Whilst the food is not prepared by ‘cordon bleu’ chefs, and no visits. How can they keep that organic chickens get treated better than we do. this. the amount spent on food per inmate is minimal, it is ade- getting away with this? quate and plentiful. As for healthcare; I have found it ex- tremely helpful and considerate and have never had cause It is no wonder a lot of Rehabilitative culture? for complaint. My single cell is more than adequate, with its prisoners here turn to drugs, Stephen Faulkner - HMP Featherstone own shower cubicle and sink and toilet. and suicide and self-harm are on the rise. Somebody All in all, I hope my comments are acceptable, but I can only Following a question raised on the ‘Ask Steve’ slot on the ‘Wayout TV’ prison channel - what is should take some notice, speak of my own experience and others may have their own before the inevitable rehabilitative culture? The rubbish that HMPPS is now spouting on the matter has got me opinions. thinking. How can there be a rehabilitative culture when there are roughly 3,500 prisoners happens. still serving the now-defunct arbitrary and unlawful IPP sentence which was scrapped in 2012 following an ECHR ruling? 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On the Wire Give us the real thing N.O.N.C.E. myths Mailbites Alister Goldie - HMP Brixton Charles Ferndale - HMP Long Lartin Broadsword calling Danny Boy Veteran education As a I often hear and read how committed the crimi- First, rapist - this means to Michael Allen - HMP Manchester nal justice services and the prison services are to the rehabil- take by force and to forcibly C Thompson - HMP Rye Hill Could someone tell me why HMP Manchester itation of prisoners. It is natural then for me to wonder what remove. So, in effect, this Dear veterans of the armed forces, I have been is meant by rehabilitation? The term seems even less coher- means burglars, robbers and does not receive National ? I feel it is a fantastic service which really helps looking into education opportunities, ent than is the term democracy. In what follows I shall at- thieves. Also, to take with- specifically distance learning. Are you aware prisoners get through their time and offers tempt a brief analysis of what real rehabilitation might entail. out a person’s consent in- that those who have served in the forces can great information, advice and guidance. It is a cludes fraudsters. So, in still apply for Enhanced Learning Credits Rehabilitation implies the restoration of powers and skills a real shame we can’t receive it here. reality we are all ‘rapists’ (ELC)? person once had. The power to get a job for which you are (those who are convicted). skilled could be a form of rehabilitation. But the entire crimi- ‘Exposure’ I did 7-years, being discharged in late 2016, nal justice system, along with the prison service, are designed The Phantom Gobshite - HMP Bure and I’m entitled to 3 x £1000 ELC claims, to minimise the use of skills a prisoner might have and to vir- Secondly, N.O.N.C.E. (Not Of expiring in 2022. For more information get tually exclude any chance of legal employment when a pris- Normal Criminal Element or Great reading in the July issue. Regarding the staff or your people to look at wwwenhanc- oner is released. I know lots of prisoners who have returned Enterprise). So, can someone television documentary - ‘Exposure Prisons edlearningcredits.com, your VICS may have to crime because they had no practical alternative. And often explain to me what is a ‘nor- uncovered: out of control?’ (ITV). I can honestly information or go through the Royal British they did so to support their families. The best kept secret in mal’ crime? What is the dif- say that I think the only time prisons will ever Legion, as I did. is the percentage of crimes committed on behalf ference between a crime get better is when individuals, both staff and of others. Some criminologists put it at 90%. and a N.O.N.C.E. crime? No prisoners, are held personally accountable for The full details of the scheme are; Education crime is ‘normal’. their actions. I have witnessed in all 12 prisons Branch, Army Personnel Services Group, I once had a good friend who was a heroin addict and a fam- I have been in, behaviours by both staff and ily man. He routinely went out at night armed with a pistol to Flume Command, Floor 2, Zone 4, Ramillies inmates that would warrant prison sentences rob the money he needed to buy heroin and also to support Of course, there is a differ- Building, Marlborough Lines, Monxton Rd, of years. Whenever a dubious incident occurs his family. I hated heroin addiction and robbery. He was ence between a sexual of- Hants, SP11 8HJ. management close ranks, the CCTV evidence lucky enough never to have shot anyone or to have been shot fender and a non-sexual goes missing and ‘investigations are conduct- himself. His life would have been transformed by good lead- offender, we all distinguish I hope this information helps other veterans ed’ resulting in nothing. We hear, almost ership on the part of the people who seem to monopolise, at between them. But, we are across the prison estate. constantly, ‘I will reform the justice system’, our cost, the Houses of Parliament. all in for rape and N.O.N.C.E but all of the toffee-nosed MPs haven’t got a crimes, no matter what wing Veterans in custody howler My friend needed his heroin to have been prescribed by his clue, and 96% of staff don’t have a clue either. you are on you should think Gary Mason - HMP Rye Hill doctor (as was done when I was a clinical psychologist); he should have been given a regular supply of clean needles; before you speak. Oh, how I laughed after reading Mr Scott’s Thank you Parc there should have been no stigma attached to his serious ad- letter about Veterans in Custody (VIC) in the Shaun Freeston - HMP Parc diction so allowing him to be a normal citizen. He should Editorial note August issue. As a veteran myself I would like have been allowed to do a job which earned a dignified wage The acronym N.O.N.C.E. After being inside for 8 years on IPP I’ve been to assure Mr Scott that we do not ‘bang on’ or trained for such a job if he actually lacked the skills. He comes from HMP Wakefield in around 10 jails. I was sent here over 3 years about our tours of duty, not that he would should have been helped to do what he could to be proud of ago, and I was rebellious and violent against have any understanding of the concept of at the turn of the century and and for which he could be respected for, and, above all, he the system. While in the Seg (my 7th week) a ‘duty’ anyway. The last meeting of VIC here was marked on the cell card should have been saved from the . manager, Mr Goodridge, who has since passed was to arrange a 24-hour endurance event to of any prisoner who may away, came to do a review on me and asked raise money for a number of charities. We have been in danger of Humiliation is one of the most injurious things that can be me to tell him my story. I thought, okay. I then raised over £1,400. done to a person, but the British system and violence from other prisoners - it means ‘Not On Normal spent an hour explaining after which he said prison service are built entirely around the idea that it is he was going to give me a chance to prove Had Mr Scott bothered to enquire, he would good to humiliate criminals. Any serious commitment to re- Courtyard Exercise’. So that myself and the space to do it. He then put me have learned that the vast majority of veterans habilitation must start by understanding that no-one is made staff would not open their on the Enhanced wing. Wow, what a decision in custody are there as a consequence of PTSD better by humiliation. Prisons are full of people who commit- doors when other prisoners he made. And 3-years later I’ve worked my or the government failure to honour the ted crimes in an attempt to escape humiliation. were out. ‘military covenant’ leaving ex-servicemen way up to become the most trusted in the virtually destitute. warehouse, and I’ve put in the work to change and Clarifications my ways, learn what makes me tick and how I Old soldiers deserve some respect The policy of Inside Time is to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Corrections will view life. It’s been challenging and emotional at times. But coming to terms with my inner Name withheld - HMP Highdown appear in the mailbag section of each issue and on the relevant web page. If you notice an error please feel free to write to us at the usual address providing the date and page number from the demons paid off when I was granted parole at Whilst I agree with Ian Scott of HMP Rye Hill’s newspaper, alternatively have a friend or family member call or email us (see below). the end of my tariff. Though I put in a lot of letter titled ‘Such snobbery’ (August issue), hard work myself, it has also involved hard that ex-servicemen, such as myself, should not • In the August issue, page 3 - the mailbag from Rob Mac of HMP Stafford, titled ‘Giving back to work from wing staff, OMU workers and many society’ - the correct amount raised by the charity shop in the prison was £14,000 and not £1,400. be treated any differently from other prison- others who have put their trust, experience ers, there is however one related irregularity and belief into my journey. should be that deserves more attention. Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, 01489 795945 given to those who truly want to help, I’m Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. [email protected] eternally grateful. I have come across many ‘old soldiers’ who are homeless and imprisoned, or purposefully break their license conditions in order not to have to sleep on the streets. In effect, lots of Reg no. 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As far relax is in your cell, but you have a cellmate who is often not so is required to do a Health as the cause of the problem needed or wanted in what is, essentially, your home. & Safety course or lose their goes, I think that everyone job. This is run by Weston here, inmates and officers, College. Here at Erlestoke I am on a wing that has a downstairs that share the responsibility. The consists of double cells and an upstairs landing of single problem is the library. cells. The cells here are a nightmare to share as they were Bright blessings to all On turning up to do this compulsory course I was originally built for one man but due to the height of the ceil- I am an avid reader and I be- ings they were legally allowed to be made into double cells. lieve that access to, and en- Religious given a workbook (2 pages) couragement to read books and an apology from the tutor “When these cells were converted to double is a foundation block of edu- Andrew Ashman - HMP for being made to attend. She then started to reel off the occupancy it was only supposed to be a tempo- cation and rehabilitation. A decently stocked prison li- I am an active Pagan witch and on the outside attend meets, answers, repeating them for rary measure, a quick fix for the overcrowding brary should be a given. but also work solitary a lot of the time. I find it really difficult the slower pupils. I was in the problem. That was a long time ago and there Sadly, the library here is not and frustrating to properly practice my religion in prison de- class for 7-minutes in total. spite it being 2018. doesn’t seem to be any plans to make them single only below par, it is actually a tragic joke. The tutor collected the work- cells again. ” In this prison we have recently lost our Pagan chaplain, books and started issuing my In a prison this big I was ex- which leaves an even bigger hole in things. I understand that certificate, along with certif- It doesn’t help that our wing gets a lot of stick and is often re- pecting to be spoilt for due to obvious security issues we can’t exactly have such icates for the whole class, ferred to as ‘the Gaza’. Unfortunately, that means we are choice by the library, but in- tools as an athame and in my current establishment I am for- before even marking the often forgotten about and at the bottom of the prison stead I was shocked. The tunate enough to be allowed tarot cards, but we can’t have workbooks. I found this to hierarchy. whole of the horror section runes, etc. Our library has just one book on Paganism and lit- be pointless and expressed consists of 4-books! That’s erally not a single book on the craft. my concerns asking what I have been in a double cell now for 10-months and although from one single genre, so happens if there really is an I am apparently up to third place on the ever-changing list for you can imagine what the Can I maybe suggest that it is time that us Pagans/Witches accident in the workplace, a single cell it will likely be months before I get a cell to my- rest is like. Tumbleweeds are were given more access to practise our religions? Maybe or- would Weston College be self. The space in which we are expected to live is drastically blowing around the shelves. ganisations such as the Pagan Federation could set up a fa- held accountable for not de- small and cannot hold two men in any semblance of comfort. cility to supply newsletters/ magazines, etc to prisons and livering a proper Health & It is an absolute outrage that we are forced to live in such I have to say that the lack of that governors allow that to happen. Why are the prison sys- Safety course? The tutor just shrugged her shoulders. cramped conditions in the 21st century. There are not even books on the shelves are tem keen to promote so-called mainstream religions but will two cabinets or wardrobes for our personal belongings, and down to two things - prison- not support the proper practise of Paganism/ Wicca? Could someone find out how if we do manage to acquire a locker we then receive a nega- ers stealing the books and I see prisoners with prayer mats, clothing, books and even much Weston College gets tive IEP for having furniture that does not belong to us. not returning them, and staff throwing books in the free calendars supplied by the chaplaincy. Is it not time for paid per person for deliver- Pagans/Wiccans to get a bit more of a ‘shout out’ in the ing this phony course, and The windows are useless vents that neither let air in or out, bin when they do cell-clear- prison chaplaincy on a national basis? If any Pagans/Wic- how much the prison gets so in this current heat we feel like slabs of meat being slowly ances. To me, this is as bad cans want to drop me a line I will always reply. per person they put on it? It cooked. We also have the so-called luxury of having showers as burning books, it’s a will be interesting to hear if in our cells but due to the heat if we shower while the door is tragedy. I do hope others will support me in asking HMPPS to be more any other establishments banged up the whole cell turns into our own personal sauna. I personally think that read- accepting and more positive in supporting Pagans on practis- are delivering this course in ing is one of the greatest es- ing our religion whilst in prison. Bright blessings. the same way. Now, don’t get me wrong, I get along with my cellmate just capes you will find in jail, fine and sometimes its good to have some company, but the and reading should be en- cells are simply not made for two people. I understand that couraged relentlessly. It all we are here as a punishment and it is not supposed to be a Offi cially starts with a good selection holiday-camp but surely, we have the right to live in a space the LARGEST of books and staff who un- that suits our needs as human beings? I am having some prison law derstand the value of liter- provider in problems on the out right now and need time to myself, but acy. If we teach young The National Prison Law Specialists the country that’s not an option. prisoners to read and that Trusted by more prisoners in England and Wales throwing books in the bin is than any other solicitors. Are there any rules regarding cells and minimum require- a crime, we may just im- ments? I am currently going through the complaints process prove their lot. With Experts across the country, about this matter, but I can’t see it going anywhere. After all, ‘Where a good book we can represent you in ANY PRISON. 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Carrington Advert 120x125.indd 1 05/03/2018 14:51 Insidetime September 2018 ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Mailbag 7 Sorry, I misjudged you First offender Please throw the Brian Cleaver - HMP Isle of Wight Name withheld - HMP Northumberland book at me… I am currently in HMP IoW, having come into prison last October. This is my first time in I would like to say from the Mark Cardwell - HMP Holme House prison and prior to coming, if I read in the outset that I have been papers or saw on TV, people pleading their treated with more respect I came into prison in January 2018, I suffer innocence then my default setting was - ‘I’m and dignity than I thought I from depression, anxiety and tremors, which have contributed to me ending up in prison sure there’s no smoke without fire. They was due by the guards and in the first place. I’ve seen the mental health would say they were innocent, wouldn’t other staff . people, and did a course of cognitive behav- they?’ However, what I have iour therapy, which did help a little with the depression. I then saw a doctor, and, after Well, after only 9-months I can honestly say I learned is that as a 1st time “Wish I wasn’t here” off ender I am looked down tests, he mentioned a kind of therapy called stand well and truly corrected. © prisonimage.org on by some of the other ISTDP, but I was told that it’s not available Prison is hard enough prisoners. Every time I ask on the NHS. “Not everyone I’ve met so far who someone how to do some- Mark Wrightwick - HMP Parkhurst thing I am ridiculed and told So, my family looked into ISTDP therapy for maintain their innocence are inno- me and found a book explaining it. They or- I must be a fi rst-timer. As if cent, but it is not for me, or you, to dered the book via Waterstones, which was The Sunday papers recently hauled out the old chestnut of that’s a bad thing. judge them. It is something for them ‘prisons = holiday camps’. They are claiming that all prison- very expensive. I waited for 2-months but no book arrived. I ended up having to put in ers have PlayStations, showers and phones in-cell, and are When I came to prison I was to deal with, or not..” many apps, a COMP1 and even a COMP2 to all ‘having a good time’. very apprehensive, not the governor, which was ignored. I was told knowing what to expect. However, I have met some truly decent peo- The big questions that should be asked in the media are, do that no book had arrived at the prison, so I Like all new prisoners I went ple in prison who maintain their innocence we want prisoners to be cut off from the outside world so that produced the tracking receipt showing that onto the induction wing simply because they clearly are. I have no they end up losing all contact with their family and friends? the book had been delivered to the prison on where I was met with chants law degree, nor do I proclaim to be brain of Should prisoners be allowed to phone their legal representa- the 11th of April. Britain, but I do feel that I have some com- tives? How do we allow prisoners contact without giving of ‘fresh meat’, this is meant to intimidate. Also, the mon-sense. If I can clearly see that you are them access to phones? I was then told that the book had been young and vulnerable undoubtedly innocent then why, oh why, judged NFI (Not For Issue), but with no ex- newcomers are targeted for cannot our country’s finest trained barristers There are good reasons why some prisons have installed planation as to why. I put in several more sugar and vapes. and judges not see the same? phones and showers in cells. It is because if a prisoner has apps looking for an explanation, but they access to in-cell shower and phone they can be left locked in were ignored. When I eventually got some their cells for much longer than would be otherwise accept- While you learn to look out It is to these people (and they know who they co-operation they just told me that they able. Thus, saving on staff hours. If we want prisoners to be for each other on the are) that I say sorry, I misjudged you, and ‘couldn’t find it’ and I would have to apply released into society and lead law-abiding lives, then why induction wing, you can for a refund! It is now July and I’m still wait- sorry that you have been misjudged. I sincerely would we refuse them access to phones and being able to at imagine how disappointed I ing for that refund. wish you well with your appeals and cam- least shower in private? was to have scrawled on my paigns for the freedom you so rightly deserve. door in felt-tip ‘Get off this As you can imagine, this is all very frustrat- The behaviour society expects from people leaving prison fl oor’ when I was fi rst given ing and making my health worse. I wouldn’t We read or hear daily that our prisons are will not be brought about by chastisement while in prison. a cell on the wing. mind so much if it was just recreational read- critically overcrowded, well, perhaps its time Prisons should be about change and the opportunity for im- ing, but it is there to help with my health and for the system to get a move on and send provement. They should be safe places where people can Surely, we are all in this rehabilitation. What is it with the prison sys- home all those people who are obviously in- grow and flourish through being educated and shown the together and it is hard tem and books? nocent and free up some space. Keeping right way to behave. The fact that prisoners are allowed con- enough to get through truly innocent people in prison is surely the tact with their families and are allowed to wash in private without people making it I am now looking forward to my release and biggest crime of all. should be no business of the tabloid media. harder. being able to get proper help.

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However, having been intrigued by a real life-saver when you where many of us lose hope, we lose faith an article titled ‘Why are we dying early?’ by need to know what’s and we give up caring. Not me. I can’t do Mr Christopher Thiele in the July issue, I happening around the that, I want to lead by example, no matter thought I would offer my humble views. prison system. how painful it is. The article was aimed at drawing attention I would like to know how Throughout my journey so far, I am given to the average life-expectancy amongst the “A price to be paid” male prison population in England and © Deposit Photos many fellow inmates around negative labels, both from inmates and staff, Wales. Mr Thiele states that, according to the UK have no outside but I’m a campaigner, I aim to make a differ- statistics obtained via the Office of National Brexit advice contacts? How many hear ence. Am I a dreamer? Yes, to have a dream the words ‘Got a visit booked come true you must first dream it…as a Statistics (ONS), average life-expectancy for Colin Campbell - HMP Wakefield males residing in England & Wales currently for the weekend, can’t wait’, dreamer. I have a learning disorder. Does it stands at a quite respectable 76 years. But as stop me? No, certainly not. After listening to the Brexit comments from the politicians of or ‘Lovely letter from the Mrs I continued reading I was really quite as- all sections of all parties, squabbling like children, backbit- today’, and feel a pang of tounded to learn that statistical information ing, temporarily giving up their own standing in the scheme loneliness? How many do “I get bullied for being different, offered by the Trust (PRT), has of things and downright lying, in order to get their own way not get visits or letters? even officers torment me for being the average life-expectancy for the same and enhance their own future positions in Parliament, I can- gender down to a paltry 58 years for prison- not help but wonder what sort of OASys scores these people autistic, I got a recent COMP1 back ers incarcerated in the same two countries I entered prison last October, would end up with? Whatever their scores I think the whole unfortunately my family and from the Custodial Manager and, mentioned above. country can clearly see by their behaviour that these politi- friends decided they no cians are sadly lacking in a great many departments. according to her, officers taunting Why such a significant decrease? England & longer wanted to know me, me for being autistic is Wales, as part of the UK, are an extremely For goodness sake, sort yourselves out and start putting the which hurt, especially as I wealthy and prosperous nation. I therefore country first for a change. At the moment it is all too clear was in a relationship for ‘self-expression’.” find it worrying that as inmates we have a that party politics and self-advancement are the only reasons 11-years. It took me 4-months life-expectancy on a par with some of the so- for being a politician. The electorate have a right to expect to come to terms with the I was so disgusted with the reply that I’ve called Third World countries. I believe any more from the people they have voted into a highly-paid job. thought of having nobody sent it to my MP as evidence that prison does aspiring conspiracy theorist would burn an Politicians should realise that every constituency consists of only the other inmates on allow officers to bully inmates as it is a form extraordinary amount of midnight oil trying a mixture of voters, therefore at this particular time it is only the wing. It is really hard of ‘self-expression’. What kind of a mad to pursue a viable conclusion to this the overall good of this country that should be on every poli- world is prison? adjusting to life, now, nearly conundrum. tician’s mind, regardless of party. 10-months has passed when Inmates say to me - ‘Man up and grow a pair’ Having gained no formal qualifications, I I still think I may get a letter “Stop all the posing and put your heads together - I see their logic, it’s us against them, I have couldn’t possibly offer any medical or scien- or visit, but no chance. faith but not in a corrupt criminal justice tific reasons behind this abnormal drop in for the benefit of the country before the electorate system. I want answers to the questions that life-span. I will, however, offer a couple of bangs your self-serving, egotistic heads together You hear the prison system most of you don’t care about, I am leading by opinions. My first culprit is the ‘gruel’ mas- encouraging people to keep and you end up losing your lucrative seats.” example and when I am released I shall still querading as food that we are served on a in contact with the outside daily basis. For example; the ‘mechanically be demanding answers. I will be getting the No problem facing you at this time is entirely intractable, al- but what are you supposed separated meat’ shaped into sausages or public involved, signing petitions, too many though there are clearly areas where you will have to give to do when the outside burgers look to contain as much nutrition as rather more than you would have wanted to if we had re- people give up too soon. doesn’t want to know? There carbon monoxide. mained part of the ‘European club’ - a price will have to be doesn’t seem to be any paid for leaving and remember we are now very much cast in Somebody has to make a stand, outside of My second suspect would be inadequate the part of the child and not the parent. Pay what we must solution, just get on with it. I prison they don’t know what is really hap- healthcare. At times it seems as though our and move on as best we can - together. Remember, Europe is am now thinking about pening and most don’t care. Do you see a lot hearts actually have to cease to pump before still there on our doorstep. It represents a huge market and perhaps swapping stories of similarities here? I have considered the we are offered anything other than paraceta- we still need to work with them in some way or other. Noth- and words of encourage- possibility that not everyone wants to be mol or ibuprofen. Lastly, it could be some- ing is closed to us forever. ment, advice and a listening helped, that is their choice. 10-years from thing as simple as actually ‘something in the ear to anyone who wants to now I could be a household name, or I could water’. Every single day whilst I’ve been im- If the current behaviour being displayed by our politicians send me a letter. I have just be living off benefits. We all make prisoned I’ve wanted the time to pass was to be mirrored by prisoners, a 2nd year trainee psycholo- withheld my name and quickly. Having discovered these statistics, I gist would be recommending a number of courses and, in choices, we all live with our mistakes, one may have a change of heart while it is actu- this instance, that would be justified. We are Great Britain, number, but perhaps Inside man can make a difference. Too often we ally beating. Has the death penalty really and nothing will diminish that, not even the bad behaviour Time could forward me any hear - ‘you’re a criminal, you don’t have a fu- been abolished in Britain? of some of our Parliamentarians. correspondence. ture’ - but I aim to change all that.

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Mailbites Recovery Café at Barlinnie Not that bad Count your blessings Gary Rough - HMP Barlinnie A thankful prisoner - Nigel Hunter - HMP Wymott ‘Soft on lags’, says Sun HMP Manchester Evan Prevett - HMP Lewes I read every issue of Inside Time. There’s a lot of good stuff; In response to the Mailbag, ‘Prisoners of poverty’ by J Elder (July issue). Poverty, by the well-written poems that have relevance to our circum- A lot of TV documentaries My attention was recently drawn by a fellow definition, is the state of being very poor. It prisoner to an article in a newspaper that I stances; some negative stuff, complaints etc, and loads of in- show the negative side of spirational articles / letters. Now I would like to put the is fair to say that homeless people across the lovingly refer to as toilet-paper (The Sun), this prison, but they are set UK and throughout the world are indeed living primarily because it is often smeared with record straight about something here at Barlinnie that needs in the past and this does not some recognition. in poverty. Refugees from many countries bull-excrement. In this article we are reliably reflect the current situation. don’t know if they will be able to feed them- informed that there is a ‘political storm Phoenix Futures are an organisation that gave prisoners here selves, have a roof over their heads or even a brewing’ over the implementation of in-cell I arrived here a little more the backing and support to set up a Recovery Café within the dry bed to sleep in, these people are indeed telephones in UK prisons. This is, apparently, than a year ago and I was in prison. It has already won a Partnership Award and it is re- in poverty. Children starving in Africa and being too ‘soft on lags’. As it has been proven a very bad place both ally turning lives around; not only the lives of prisoners but across the globe rely on handouts from inter- that maintaining family ties reduces reoffend- mentally and physically. But also their families are in a much better place. I know this be- national aid and, in many cases, have no ac- ing, prisoners are increasingly locked in their as I entered reception the cause I am one of the lucky people here reaping the benefits. cess to clean water. They are living in poverty. cells for longer periods and self-harm inci- staff were really helpful and My family see me getting better every day and I also witness dents are as common as ever, increasingly All of the aforementioned have committed the positive change in fellow prisoners from the day they caring, which made it a little worrying media attitudes are creeping into no crime. Yet, these people live with this come here until their liberation day. bit easier and was much policy and are often not making Ministers appreciated. hardship and the majority would give their think about the merits of a policy, but what right arm to be in a position where - You get 3 The Recovery Café ticks every box in eradicating problems the media will put on it. Time to shut meals a day, a dry bed to sleep in, access to like addiction issues, housing, and support and intervention On arriving at the Induction down these tabloid rags. clean water, free education, free electricity, in the community, or intervention whilst people are still in wing I had to have an ACCT clothes and shoes provided free, access to prison. You are given a peer mentor who will steer you straight. review and despite it being healthcare (albeit, restricted). Forgiveness This can all be done as long as the individual is willing. 8pm a chaplaincy worker Georgie Fendick - HMP Lowdham Grange and mental health worker J Elder, myself and most other prisoners are attended. The support I It is freeing to become aware that we do not The attraction of the Recovery Café is that it is run and policed in prison because society has placed us here received made a lot of have to be victims of our past and can learn by prisoners with the help and full support of a few volun- due to actions attributed to ourselves. Despite difference. The following new ways of responding. But there is a step teers from Phoenix Futures. Prisoners can now sit in a room this, society deems it humane to provide us morning, I was moved onto beyond this recognition…it is the step of with their fellow prisoners and speak honestly and openly with all of the benefits listed above. Mr Elder forgiveness. Forgiveness is love practised without any worries about personal or sensitive information a wing and I was apprehen- seems to infer that he is unhappy at not having among people who love poorly. It sets us free being brought back to the halls, or worse, being passed to sive due to a bad experience money to spend on his canteen each week, the without wanting anything in return. At some prison officers. It is totally confidential, and the group of lads in the past. But, to my consequence being that he has to borrow and thoughts one stands perplexed - especially at support each other and show a great deal of respect. surprise, the staff were get into debt. What does society owe any of us? the sight of men’s sin - and wonders whether really polite and helpful. one should use force or humble love. Always The Café first started in 2016, and at first it was Thursday af- Life is hard, but I would suggest it is not as decide to use humble love. If you resolve to do ternoons only, now this has been extended to the full day. We I know how it feels to be at hard as Mr Elder is making out. My advice that, once and for all, you can subdue the are also given access to a small gym for activities and recrea- your lowest, so I just want to would be to get a job and work your way up whole world. Loving humility is marvellously tion rooms. This is what the prison system has been lacking thank all staff here who are the pay-bands and earn that higher paid job strong, the strongest of all things, and in my for so long, so massive thanks to everyone involved for mak- doing a great job. A positive by your own enthusiasm and effort, instead opinion, there is nothing else like it. ing this project such a great success. evolution is happening here. of poverty. It is what most of us do.

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From 20th Au- (along with seven staff cars) been asleep at the wheel”. with 80 aged over 70. Now gust, the running of the in the secure staff car park, He said that “ineffective prison officers at HMP prison was taken over by the and Chief Inspector Peter frontline management and Grampian are the latest to be Prison Service (HMPPS), in Clarke having to leave a wing leadership” were at the heart Prison with a troubled past given training on how to cope accordance with the Criminal because he was becoming of the prison’s problems. Paul Sullivan with people suffering from Justice Act 1991 and as part of affected by the drugs being these ailments. Around 249 their contract with G4S. This smoked there, Mr Clarke de- prison staff in Scotland have resulted in: HMP Birmingham (above) became the first public prison to scribed the state of HMP Bir- attended sessions which be handed over to a private company in October 2011 by mingham as “appalling and highlight the impact on • Putting in place one of the then Justice Secretary Ken Clarke who argued that privati- squalid”. He said that since people’s lives, the changed Prison Service’s best gover- sation would save money and improve the reoffending rates. their last inspection, 18 nors to lead the prison, as capacity for communication months before, the prison well as a strong senior man- Originally opened over 160 years ago, there was a public and what it means for had suffered a “dramatic agement team; outcry in 1853 when evidence emerged of gross neglect prisoners’ memories. deterioration”. Peter Clarke: “No • Allocating an initial 30 and routine that included starvation, ex- confidence in the ability extra, experienced HMPPS cessive use of the straitjacket and forcing prisoners to Mr Clarke said: “I was not of the prison.” officers to bolster existing work a machine in their cells for no purposeful reason ex- surprised to find that of the staffing at the prison; cept to force them to complete hard labour. If they failed to 70 recommendations we made • Reducing the prison’s ca- perform the task set, they would not be fed. at our last inspection, only Concluding his referral letter pacity by 300 places while Paula Harriott (PPN) 14 had been achieved. None Mr Clarke said: “I was as- improvement action is In December 2016 a riot, described as the ‘biggest for 30 © Paul Sullivan of the four main recommen- tounded that HMP Birming- underway. years’ saw Birmingham prisoners steal keys and release Prisoner Policy Network dations, concerning violence, ham had been allowed to prisoners as 500 went on a 12-hour rampage; lighting bon- (PPN) update staff-prisoner relationships, deteriorate so dramatically Both Justice Minister David fires and throwing televisions out of windows - £6million Over 500 prisoners have poor regimes and a lack of over the 18 months since the Gauke and Prisons Minister of damage was caused. engaged with the project so focus on education, training previous inspection. A factor Rory Stewart visited the far; by letter to our Freepost and work had been met.” in my decision to invoke the prison recently and decided February 2017 was the last published inspection, where ND6125 London EC1B 1PN, or Urgent Notification Protocol that they needed to act and the Prisons Inspectorate carried out an unannounced in- by phone to our globally Some prisoners locked is that at present I can have make immediate improve- spection and identified drugs as a key area that needed to cleared no 0207 251 5070. themselves in their cells but no confidence in the ability ments. G4S said it ‘welcomed’ be addressed. They said: “The safety and stability of the Responses are from individual had urine and faeces thrown of the prison to make im- the development as an oppor- prison was clearly being adversely affected by the high prisoners, groups of prisoners, through broken observation provements. There has tunity to ‘urgently address’ volume of illicit drugs.” The Inspectorate said that the and Prison Councils. Please panels. One prisoner was clearly been an abject fail- the various problems. Rory huge turnaround (churn) of prisoners, many on , keep the responses coming: sitting on a bed with no mat- ure of contract management Stewart said: “What we have presented ‘significant challenges’. “What incentives work in tress because it was ‘stolen’ and delivery … the inertia seen at HMP Birmingham is prison?” YOU know the three days before and not re- that seems to have gripped unacceptable and it has be- In June 2017 a coroner severely criticised the prison after a answers, please let us know. placed. A third of prisoners both those monitoring the come clear that drastic action prisoner who threatened to kill himself was found tested positive for drugs, contract and delivering it on is required to bring about the hanged. The prison did not consider him to be of high risk Summer heatwave of suicide. The coroner wrote to the Justice Minister de- with half of prisoners saying the ground has led to one of improvements we require.” caused tensions to rise manding improvements to help prevent future deaths. Tensions rose as the continu-

SURVIVORS OF September 2017 saw a seven-hour stand-off between pris- ing heatwave during July and oners and staff after prisoners refused to return to their August sent temperatures cells. Tornado officers were sent to Birmingham to resolve soaring in prison cells across the problem. One wing was severely damaged. the UK. HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, has In October 2017, the IMB published their report for the pre- been highlighting the lack of vious year, describing how a limited regime continued; with proper ventilation in cells and FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE prisoners merely … “warehoused in overcrowded, spartan, during the recent high dirty accommodation with little opportunity for rehabilitation.” temperatures cells have been Our specialist legal team have an outstanding track record in representing victims of sexual, described as ‘ovens’. To make physical and emotional abuse. December 2017 saw special Tornado riot squad officers things worse, the windows in again sent to Birmingham after serious disorder which newly built prisons do not Disclosing details of past abuse can be difficult and often traumatic. Your dedicated lawyer will saw fires started and paper records destroyed. Keys were open and even in older advise on the merits of your claim and will support you through the claims process to ensure taken from a custody officer which gave access to all resi- prisons, most have mesh your voice is finally heard. dential areas. G4S described damage as ‘superficial’. covering windows which prevents or limits their Can you make a claim? In March 2018, two improvement notices were served on opening. United Nations (UN) HMP Birmingham. The Prison Service said: “We are clear rules state that all cells should We recover compensation for abuse in schools, children’s home, detention centres with foster that prisons should be places of safety and reform and are have natural and artificial carers, religious organisations and sports clubs and many more…. working closely with G4S to improve conditions for pris- ventilation: HMPs Exeter, oners at HMP Birmingham.” Durham and Wormwood Even if your abuse occurred many years ago you may still be able to make a successful claim. Scrubs have all been criticised In April, six prisoners live-streamed themselves smoking for dire conditions and lack of At Jordans Solicitors we pride ourselves on handling each case with professionalism, sensitivity drugs and playing with mobile phones and in the same basic ventilation. Problems and understanding and adhere to strict professional rules of confidentiality month the warned that Birmingham are exacerbated by over- was in crisis after five prisoners died there in the space of What to do now:- Registered with crowding which sees two seven weeks. prisoners forced to share a Speak to one of our team in complete confidence: emailaprisoner cell designed for one, and Call: 0800 9555 094 In August 2018 a G4S custody officer was robbed in the staff shortages mean that prison car park a few days before masked men broke into Email us at: [email protected] many prisoners can spend up the staff car park using an angle-grinder to cut through Write to us at Jordans Solicitors, Abuse department, Neil Jordan House, Wellington Road, to 23 hours a day locked in the fence and torched ten cars. Dewsbury, WF13 1HL these cells.

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Looking Newsbites Back... Are prisons really smoke free? through the Inside Speaking in Parliament, Keith Barron MP praised the Prison Time archives Service for making prisons ‘smoke free’, and Steve Brine MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care September 2015 agreed with him saying he thought the Prison Service deserves great credit given how ingrained smoking was with prisoners. What they both don’t seem to understand is that far from prisons being smoke free they are now enveloped in a haze of spice smoke, so much so that health care staff are threatening New CPS withdrawal and prison officers are collapsing. Some prisons are calling ambulances every single day. None of these things boss named occurred when prisoners smoked simple tobacco. Smuggling of illicit drugs has gone through the roof and tobacco has become The government have a currency and forcing prisoners into debt. Prisons are making announced that the current more money selling e-cigarettes than they made from tobacco, Independent Reviewer of but the latest scare story is that prisoners are loading e-ciga- Terrorism Legislation, Max rettes with spice. ‘Unacceptable’ “Giz a bed guv” Hill (above), will be the new “Nick Hardwick, Chief © prisonimage.org Director of Public Prosecutions DNA database in further expansion Inspector of Prisons says that (DPP), taking over from Alison Latest statistics from the government show that, in the UK ‘overcrowding and severe staff Bid to help homeless Saunders in November. nearly 5.5 million individuals have their DNA recorded on the shortages mean that almost police national database including 13,421 aged under 16 and every service at HMP Confidence in the criminal nearly 88,000 aged over 65. The figures show the ever increasing Wandsworth is insufficient to released prisoners justice system was severely number of people whose DNA has been gathered. Everybody meet the needs of the prison damaged after a number of arrested, charged or not, has their DNA added to the database A new £100million ‘Rough Sleeping Strategy’ has been launched population.’ He said; ‘HMP serious cases collapsed and this is never removed unless the individual is prepared to by the government which includes a new pilot scheme to help Wandsworth is a Victorian because police and prosecu- fight for its removal, if they are released without charge. category B prison with a released prisoners. The number of people sleeping rough has tors had failed to disclose category C resettlement unit. increased substantially over the last five years and Prisons vital evidence to defence Minister Rory Stewart recognises that prisoners are often the Drugs in Scottish prisons double in five years It was unacceptably over- lawyers. The collapsed trials The Scottish Labour Party have analysed figures for drugs in ones who end up on the streets. He says: “Too many rough crowded. It held 1,630 adult prompted a review of every Scottish prisons and say problems with drugs have more than sleepers come straight from prison - moving from their jail men, more than any other in live rape and serious sexual doubled in the past five years. In 2017/18, there were 945 cells into this outdoor life of isolation, vulnerability and the UK, and almost 70% more assault prosecution in incidents where a male prisoner was found “administering or addiction. On the streets, without a job, without mental health than its certified normal England and Wales, which allowing to be administered a controlled drug to oneself”. In support, or a bed for the night - they are sucked back into a accommodation of 963.” found issues with the 2012/13 the figure was just 509. The number of men caught criminal life, reoffend, and soon end up back in prison. We An Inspector Calls disclosure of unused material consuming or concealing “an unauthorised or prohibited must do much more to help rough sleepers, and ex-prisoners in 47 cases. MPs criticised Ms substance” soared from 124 to 618 over the same period, in particular, to find a house and re-establish a more stable Saunders over long-term according to Labour analysis. Second chances life. It is not just good for them, it is vital for public safety. “I would like to say how the failings that saw vital evidence 2nd Chance Programme here withheld from defence Riot officers to get Tasers “As part of the rough sleeping initiative we will invest £3 lawyers in rape and serious at HMP Highdown has helped million per year for 2 years in a pilot scheme which will The Prison Service has announced that members of its Tornado me engage more within the sexual assault cases. Her teams, the specialist squads deployed to quell disturbances in include a new team of dedicated officers, who will spend time response was unacceptable, prison. The objectives I with offenders, when they are still in jail and in the communi- prisons, are to be issued with Tasers. They are also looking at identified with my mentor and she failed to admit that deploying drones to monitor prisons during ‘incidents’. ty, to ensure that they are much better equipped for life there could have been untold have allowed me to be more outside the prison walls. positive and since my wrongful convictions because Prisoner property claims of disclosure failures. mentoring sessions I have “The particular focus of these pilots will be prisoners on very The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has revealed that in the year gained employment on the 2017-18 over £220,000 was paid to prisoners for lost or short sentences - often the most difficult group to engage Mr Hill said he was “hon- wing, something I had failed damaged property. Problems with prisoners’ property are well with. The officers will ensure that the prisoners are fully oured” to be taking over from to do in the past.” known and documented. In 2017 the Prisons and Probation signed up to the benefits, an employment support system and Ms Saunders, adding: “This Mailbag Ombudsman told the Prison Service to “Get a grip” on the way that their bank accounts are setup before they leave prison. is a challenging time for the it treats prisoners’ property. Independent Monitoring Boards But their key task will be to find suitable housing, and to CPS, with the rise in complex We all have victims (IMB) regularly flag up the number of complaints they receive provide support for prisoners to sustain their new cases and negative publicity “Every month there seems to about lost or damaged property. Commenting on the latest accommodation. about its handling of disclo- be at least one prisoner who figure, Bob Neill, chair of the Commons Justice Committee sure in some cases. I have writes to Inside Time and commented on how commonly the problem was raised when “None of this will be easy. But every time we help an ex-pris- seen first-hand the sterling attempts to compare their he visited prisons: “Until prisons properly follow the clear oner set up a new and better life, with a roof over their head, work of the CPS and I am own crime(s) and/or sentence guidance from the Ombudsman, scarce resources, not to relationships with family, basic support, and a job, we determined to restore public length/conditions to that of mention taxpayers’ money, will continue to be wasted.” dramatically reduce the chance of their reoffending.” trust in all of its work.” another. 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more initiatives to reduce drugs and vi- Latest safety in custody figures olence in the ten worst prisons: Hull, The Prison Service has reported its latest Safety Boot camp governors Humber, Isis, Leeds, Lindholme, Moor- in Custody figures... land, Nottingham, Ranby, Wealstun and to the rank of brigadier who could give Wormwood Scrubs. Continued from front page The number of deaths Of these, 892 were serious an insight into how the military staff col- continues to fall compared assaults on staff, up 11% lege model operates. The request met a This follows the announcement, reported to the previous 12-month from the previous year. In positive response from the MoD. A brig- last month in Inside Time, that Justice period the latest quarter the number adier will be seconded for up to a year to Secretary David Gauke had announced of assaults on staff increased help prison officials develop the idea. a £30million package to tackle organised There were 310 deaths in by 4% to a new record high crime in prisons and introduce incen- The plan has, however, been greeted tives for good behaviour. Mr Gauke an- prison custody in the 12 of 2,427 incidents. months to June 2018, down with dismay in some prison quarters. nounced £7million to be spent on 2% from the previous year. “What do they know about governing a improvements to safety, to include a full Of these, 5 were homicides, prison?” one jail source said. “Leader- range of new security measures includ- Prisons Minister, up from 2 incidents in the ship skills needed in a prison are not the ing airport style scanners which have “New ethos” same as going to war.” Yet one of the best already proved effective at HMP

previous year. There were 77 © Paul Sullivan self-inflicted deaths, down performing prisons in the country is Col- Belmarsh. chester military jail, praised earlier this from 99 in the previous year, year by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons 3 of which occurred in the ‘I’ll quit if I fail’ Threat to resign following an unannounced inspection female estate, compared to 6 Speaking to the BBC, Mr Stewart said: “I Prison governors are to be sent for mili- for its ‘positive’ culture - where drugs and believe in the prison service, I believe in incidents in the previous 12 tary style training in an effort to improve violence are ‘virtually unknown’. our prison officers, I believe this can be months. Deborah Coles: the leadership skills of senior manage- “Dramatically cut the turned around. I want you to judge me ment. Prisons minister Rory Stewart Intervention on those results and I will resign if I don’t Self-harm incidents prison population and (above) wants assistance from the Army’s As part of a £10m intervention to restore succeed.” Mr Stewart said the changes continue to rise, reaching invest in community top brass on devising a military-style hope and positivity in ten of England’s would pave the way for a “new ethos and new record high alternatives” staff college to develop their potential, most “challenging” jails, involving a new direction” for prisons, “It is vital we although a suggestion that governors clampdown on drugs and mobile phones, set challenging standards so prisons are In the 12 months to March Deborah Coles, Director of should wear uniforms has apparently new body scanners and sniffer dogs are places where offenders can turn their 2018, there were 46,859 been abandoned. The plan is just one INQUEST said: “These to be introduced. The Ministry of Justice lives around. We need to make these pris- incidents of self-harm, up element of a new package to try and turn statistics point to the said the £10m investment will improve ons calmer, more orderly places and in 16% from the previous year. around the crisis currently facing the security and conditions at jails in York- disturbing reality of prison the end that comes down to challenging The number of self-harming prison system. shire, Nottinghamshire and London. The life with escalating levels of and managing prisoners consistently, individuals increased by 8% dogs have been trained to detect psycho- distress, self-harm, homicide firmly and fairly.” to 11,854. Rory Stewart (above), who served briefly active substances such as Spice. There is and violence. The only way in the legendary Scottish regiment The also to be a programme of repairs and Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon to improve safety and reduce Assaults and serious Black Watch before joining the diplo- improvements to cell windows and pe- said the government must go “…much prison deaths is to dramati- assaults continue to rise, matic service, wants to set up a staff col- rimeter security in the prisons. further, and set out an emergency plan cally cut the prison popula- reaching record highs lege for prison governors as part of a across the prison estate with substantial tion and invest in communi- drive to give them high-quality training. In further moves to try and address the new funding to put an end to this crisis There were 31,025 assault ty alternatives. Findings He wrote to the Ministry of Defence ear- crisis in prisons across England and and make our prisons safe and humane incidents in the 12 months to from inquests continue to lier this year asking for access to staff up Wales, Rory Stewart has announced for staff and inmates”. March 2018, up 16% from the expose neglect and inade- previous year. In the 12 quate health and mental Community reha- months to March 2018, there health care as contributing were 3,926 serious assaults, to avoidable and premature bilitation pilots up 9% from the previous deaths. The criminal justice year. Both of these figures system cannot deal with Justice Secretary David Gauke are the highest recorded. In societal problems of mental has announced 5 pilot the most recent quarter, and physical ill heath, drug schemes to steer vulnerable assaults increased by 6% to misuse and poverty.” ‘offenders’ to community 8,243 incidents. treatments. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) say: “In 5 pilot Prisoner-on-prisoner areas (Birmingham, assaults continue to rise, Plymouth, Sefton, Milton reaching record highs Keynes and ), justice and health services There were 22,374 prison- have signed up to a new er-on-prisoner assaults in protocol that will help to divert the 12 months to March 2018, relevant offenders away from up 16% from the previous frequently ineffective short- year. Of these, 3,081 (14%) term custodial sentences and towards treatment that aims were serious assaults, an Juliet Lyon: “Still have a to tackle the root cause of increase of 9% in the long way to go” their criminality.” A recently number of serious incidents published study from the from the previous year. Both Juliet Lyon, head of the MoJ found that when figures are record highs. Independent Advisory Panel offenders were handed mental Prisoner-on-prisoner on Deaths in Custody and health treatment requirements assaults saw an increase of lead on our ‘Keeping Safe’ as part of their sentence, 6% in the latest quarter, with collaboration, told Inside they were significantly less 5,901 incidents. Time: “It’s vital that likely to reoffend compared prisoners and staff work with similar cases where this Assaults on staff continue to was not the case. Mr Gauke rise, reaching record highs together to reduce the risk of violence and self-harm. said: “I want to improve confidence in community There were 9,003 assaults on Deaths in custody have sentences, and early staff in the 12 months to begun to fall but we still evidence from these [pilots] March 2018, up 26% from the have a long way to go before has shown that treatment previous year. There has prisons become the decent, safe places they should be.” requirements can have a been a change in how these significant impact in incidents are recorded since improving rehabilitation and Download full report: April 2017 which may have addressing the underlying https://tinyurl.com/y7nsb7lz contributed to the increase. causes of offending.” Insidetime September 2018 www.insidetime.org Newsround // World News 13

Japanese prisoner Recycling World prison review dies of heatstroke seized phones As temperatures soared across the world, prison cells A Lancashire company has in many countries became got a lucrative contract like ovens. In Nagoya Prison, recycling mobile phones and in Japan, a male prisoner in SIM cards confiscated from his 40s died of heatstroke, prisoners. Around 14,000 locked alone in a cell with no phones, ranging from tiny air-conditioning. According to devices to modern smart- officials, a guard found the phones, and thousands more prisoner unresponsive having SIM cards, are confiscated vomited while lying on his from prisoners each year. bed in his cell. He was taken Boxing not clever After being forensically to a hospital, where he was © Deposit Photos examined the phones go to confirmed dead. He was the company Recycling Lives found to have died of Prison boxing ban to stay which crushes and recycles heatstroke. The temperature them. The company breaks in his cell, one hour after he Boxing should be taught in prisons in England and Wales in down phones into compo- was found collapsed was 34 an effort to improve discipline and boost education, says nents such as plastics and degrees Celsius (93 degrees Professor Rosie Meek, an independent expert. She says that precious metals. ministers should consider allowing combat sports - with the Fahrenheit). The cell where “Don’t look at me!” the prisoner was being held current ban a “missed opportunity” to cut offending. As well as operating a © Deposit Photos was ventilated by a window, Currently, there is a blanket ban on all martial arts and national recycling and waste boxing in prisons in England and Wales. management business, Overly social and a fan in a corridor blew Recycling Lives also runs the In Idaho, prisons take photographs of new prisoners’ naked air into the cell. To prevent In the report, commissioned by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), most effective offender bodies allegedly to identify tattoos and other identifying marks. suicide, there are no fans Professor Meek reviewed the current provision of sport in rehabilitation of its kind in This is not allowed in the UK and the dangers of such intimate inside the cells at the facility. prisons, young offenders’ institutions and secure children’s the UK working in 10 prisons photography has come to the fore in Idaho as a Department of Credit: Mainichi Japan homes. She said ‘professional staff’ from across the secure across the UK, engaging Corrections Officer (custody officer) was found to have viewed estate - alongside male and female prisoners - had expressed hundreds of men and women the photographs of a former prisoner and then contacted her Escape in Indonesia frustration that boxing-related programmes were not offered in workshops, known as on social media to make personal comments about her body. Police in Indonesia are in prison. ‘HMP Academies’. Prisoners She was shocked and felt degraded replying: “Being in prison searching for 25 prisoners undertake recycling or was f***ing embarrassing and invasive and was not OK. So after 31 escaped by sawing Although the government accepted some of Professor Meek’s fabrication processes to thank you for reminding me every CO [correction officer] can through bars on a ventilation findings, it refused to reassess its blanket ban on martial arts develop life and work skills to look at my body and my past up … How many other incidences window. Six were quickly in prison. A statement from the Ministry of Justice said: “Our help reduce their risk of do you think have occurred? How many other victims and how recaptured but the others are priority must be the safety and security of the custodial reoffending on release. For many other employees?” The officer’s conduct was discovered still evading police. Last year environment and the wellbeing of staff, participants and every 100 prisoners released when an official, who monitors social media, discovered the 200 prisoners managed a other prisoners. We have no plans to make boxing or martial through its programmes, just messages and reported it. The Idaho Department of mass breakout from a prison arts-based activities permissible.” three reoffend. Corrections say an officer is under investigation. in Sumatra.

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Super prison governor suspended Russ Trent, the governor of HMP Berwyn, Britain’s largest prison, has been suspended after undisclosed allegations were made against him. Mr Trent took up his position in 2015, overseeing work to complete the £250million super-prison. Although opened in February 2017 it is still only half-full. Despite his commitment to rehabilitation and treating prison- ers with respect, the prison has attracted for high drug use amongst prisoners and excessive ‘added days’. In January allegations were made of assaults on prisoners by staff. The Green...... grows Prison Service said Mr Trent had been suspended as part of “standard procedures” during an investigation. The reward of work Styal prison governor suspended The Governor of Cheshire’s HMP Styal, Mahala McGuffie, has Organic garden supports been suspended while investigations are carried out into an addiction recovery allegation against her. The Prison Service says it is standard practice that Governors should be relieved of their duties while A programme set up at Rye Hill to provide an enquires continue. environment to support prisoners who have a background of drug misuse with the aim of Dangerous contraband seized at HMP Grampian assisting their recovery, wider health and According to the Scottish tabloid press an horrific array of well-being, has got the thumbs up from prisoners. ‘dangerous’ items have been confiscated from prisoners at HMP ...the produce ...oh! The Rye Hill Garden Project is delivered by Grampian in the last year including nine Kinder eggs, thirteen Garden Organic’s Master Gardener pro- gramme team and works in conjunction with toiletry items and twenty-one books. Commenting on the Hull wins best prison garden award Substance Misuse Services (SMS) and G4S, seizures, including an ‘unauthorised lump of cheese’, Scottish which operates the prison, and is funded by Shadow Justice Secretary Liam Kerr said the levels of items HMP Hull has been judged the best kept prison garden in England and Wales Public Health England (Northamptonshire). being seized was concerning. He said: “Prisons are meant to be by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and awarded the Windlesham Trophy highly secure. A number of these items can be used for very for the first time. Prisoners on the project said: “Makes my dangerous ends.” head feel clearer being in the garden. I like Hull uses its gardens for rehabilitation and training; many prisoners have the fresh air so I’m not always inside. I like Delicate washing achieved formal qualifications. Every week, fresh produce such as lettuce, the people on the project. I like to be moving According to the latest Independent Monitoring Board report onions and beetroot is harvested from the gardens for the prison kitchen with around, I like the principle of work and don’t for HMP North Sea Camp, transgender prisoners are complain- the surplus donated to a local food bank. like being still.” ing that their laundry needs are not being met and are de- “I find the whole experience extremely manding a ‘Delicates Only’ wash cycle for their underwear. The garden is tended to by a 20-strong team of prisoners and, as well as positive and helpful in lots of ways. The most vegetables, includes wildflower areas, bug hotels and bat boxes to attract prominent factor is the freedom. It’s fantastic wildlife, a memorial garden for staff, and a colourful display of 10,000 Spice of life at Portland for me to get off the wing; it feels to me as bedding plants including African marigolds to welcome visitors. Prison officers at HMP/YOI Portland say staff have been left though I’m working outside of the jail.” unwell after being exposed to fumes from prisoners smoking RHS judge Robert Haslam said: “Congratulations to Hull on an outstanding “Work is rewarding. We can taste what we’re substances like Spice. An inside source said an ambulance was performance. Their attention to detail was instantly obvious with consistently growing. I’ve never done gardening before this called every day to a prisoner suffering the effects of the drug. high horticultural standards met across all areas of the garden. The wonderful prison. I didn’t know I liked it, but I love it.” In a statement the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said: “The health team spirit displayed from management through to the prisoners was incredible.” Credit: www.gardenorganic.org.uk and safety of our prison officers comes first which is why we have strict procedures at HMP Portland to ensure they do not enter rooms where there is a risk of inhaling Spice fumes, unless The Johnson Partnership in an absolute emergency.” Glyn Travis, from the Prison Officers’ Association (POA), said the Ministry of Justice was “failing to Our dedicatedSolicitors prison law team have years of experience acknowledge and report” new psychoactive substance incidents representing prisoners and fighting for their rights. from prison staff. Neither the MoJ or the POA seem to be addressing the problems for the 80% of prisoners who are not Our team ensure all prisoners nationwide can have the best representation available. using the drug and, potentially, are more at risk than prison staff. We have specialist and expert knowledge in the areas of parole board proceedings, adjudications and other areas Deaths following contact with police rise such as HDC and re-categorisation. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has released On a legal aid basis we can represent clients for: their annual statistics on deaths during or following police contact in England and Wales. In the financial year 2017/18, the Adjudication Before The Judge Licence Recalls Lifer/IPP Reviews Judicial Reviews Cat A Reviews Refreshing garden IOPC recorded a total of 283 deaths following police contact. Pre Tarriff Reviews Oral Hearings Image: reachdigital Of these deaths there were 23 in or following police custody, We are also able to represent prison law clients on a HMP Leicester new garden four police shootings (three of which were terrorism related), number of other prisons law matters for which 29 relating to road traffic incidents, 57 apparent suicides legal aid is not available which include: A new therapeutic garden has been created within the walls of following custody and 170 ‘other’ deaths following police contact. Challenging License Conditions HMP Leicester by prisoners and volunteers. Prisoners came up During this period, black people have been significantly Adjudications Before The Governor with ideas for the design of the gardens and are in charge of overrepresented in deaths following the use of force by the police. Contact Us For A Quote maintenance and upkeep. The area outside the main wing and exercise yard has been transformed with ornamental plants, Norwich prison staff not happy Prison Law Department benches and even a water feature. The prison has shared some A has spoken out about conditions in HMP Call 0115 9419141 of the comments prisoners have made about the garden project. Norwich claiming that forty staff were on sick leave, with one 24 Hours a day “I enjoy something of nature, plants growing, attractive off for more than a year after being stabbed in the neck. He 7 days a week wildlife birds.” says that the staffing shortages are so great that officers with Nottingham Office J less than 12month’s experience are now training new staff. He “It makes me feel not as trapped when I get the chance to get Cannon Courtyeard P says: “I would say morale is very low and everyone is at the end out there.” Off Long Row of their tether. We have multiple people who are off sick and a Nottingham, NG1 6JE “To walk round the garden makes me feel better, refreshed.” lot of that is mental fatigue and stress.” Prisoners there might [email protected] “It makes me feel happy and able to cope with the things I say that if conditions are so bad for staff, what does it say about OFFICES NATIONWIDE have wrong with me.” conditions for prisoners at the jail? Insidetime September 2018 www.insidetime.org Newsround // Local Prison News 15

Calls for inspection Drugs pilot Scottish charity Newsbites at Lowdham Grange sends politicians showing results to prison after riots A £9 million pilot project to clamp down on 2018 is the Year of Young People and to coincide with The Howard League is calling for an inspec- drugs supply and consumption at HMP this Scottish charity Families tion of HMP Lowdham Grange after disorder Holme House, with a major emphasis on Outside is urging members broke out at the prison three times in eleven tackling addiction, has been announced by Justice Secretary David Gauke. of the Scottish Parliament days during July. Families of prisoners held (MSPs) to visit their local there claim the atmosphere is ‘scary’. Serco, Security has been bolstered by new body prisons by public transport who run the prison, said incidents were scanners and extra sniffer dogs to help and experience the problems minor and they used stun guns to bring the prevent drugs entering the prison whilst faced by families visiting prison under control. extra healthcare workers have been drafted family members in prison. in to support recovering users and help Massive fire next to HMP Manchester Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard prisoners kick the drug habit and focussing Professor Nancy Loucks, Prisoners at HMP Manchester could be excused from coughing League, said: “This has been a long hot on the provision of much better support for chief executive at Families last month, and it was nothing to do with smoking. An old mill summer, and it sounds like Lowdham Grange prisoners willing to participate in rehabilita- Outside said the charity filled with furniture, in Southall Street, next to the prison went has problems. Perhaps it is time for the tion programmes. A paramedic is based at knows of one father in up in a massive blaze at 5am and needed ten fire engines to inspectorate to conduct an inspection, as the prison full-time, as well as other health Shetland who regularly tackle the blaze. Parts of the building collapsed as fireman used hydraulic platforms to direct their hoses. Thick plumes of only one report has been published on the staff, including a specialist psychologist to undertakes a 24 hour round smoke blanketed the area and many local roads were closed prison in the last seven years. The events of deliver enhanced substance misuse services. trip, so his daughter can visit her mother in HMP with people asked to avoid the area. the past few days illustrate how prisons can There are also prisoner mentors offering Grampian. Whilst that is an deteriorate very quickly. They also show how fellow prisoners advice and support, if they extreme example, she said: HMP chaplains on telly important it is for prisons to have robust and are interested in enrolling in one of the “Even visits on the mainland The BBC broadcast a documentary last month illustrating the imaginative management and careful prison’s drugs rehabilitation programmes. can take significant time important role of Catholic chaplains within Scottish prisons. oversight of staff.” The ground-breaking ‘Drug Recovery Prison’ depending on where the The priest at the centre of the film, set in HMP Edinburgh, is (DRP) pilot, at Holme House, adopts a family is in relation to the urging Catholics to ‘learn about the great work we do within Mark Hanson, Serco’s contract director at wide-ranging approach and is jointly funded prison. Trying to complete Scottish prisons.’ Bishop Joseph Toal of Motherwell Diocese, Lowdham Grange, said: “There have been by the Ministry of Justice and NHS England. these journeys with children who is the president of the Pastoral and Social Care three recent minor incidents of concerted The pilot, which began in April 2017, is can make them even more Commission, said: “Catholic chaplains work as a team across the indiscipline at the prison and officers have already showing progress - with a rise in challenging. Anyone who , and include priests, deacons and lay intervened professionally and effectively to drug seizures in the prison and an increase has children of their own chaplains, as well as volunteers.” In the documentary ‘Faith bring each of them to a close, using standard in the number of offenders in education and will have faced similar Behind Bars’, Catholic, Protestant and Muslim chaplains showed procedures and equipment.” work. The pilot will run until 2020. experiences, but instead of the role of each religion within the prison. ending up at a zoo or a PRISONS INSPECTORATE HAS MOVED theme park, you end up at Food throw-overs prison security where you, Please note the new address for HM Inspectorate of Prisons 3rd Floor, 10 South Colonnade, According to the Daily Mail, prisoners at HMP Thorn Cross are and the rest of your family, Canary Wharf, London E14 4PU HMIP’s enquiry line remains the same: 020 7 340 0500. getting their friends to throw items over the wall for them; but are then searched and rather than drugs or mobile phones, according to The Mail, the surveilled.” items thrown over include fillet steak, sausages and fresh fish because the prisoners are unhappy with the they Families Outside is the SPECIALISTS IN PRISON LAW, PAROLE DELAYS, are served. Other items believed to have been thrown over Scottish national charity include tins of tuna, salmon, and packets of bacon. 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riages. During his time away, his second wife, Winnie Mandela, was taken into pris- on on several occasions so that he had the additional concern of how the youngest children were doing without her. He writes constantly to them all, giving advice and worrying when he realises they are not following it or sad when he suspects cards or letters have not arrived. ‘I sometimes wish science could The young warrior invent miracles and make my daughter get her missing birthday cards and have the ing for new spectacles or a Honour be- pleasure of knowing her Pa visit from a doctor overseeing loves her.’ his youngest daughter, he longs to those who uses the measured tone of a never forsake the Worst of all is the death of his lawyer; giving all the infor- eldest son, Thembi, recently mation necessary and assum- truth even when married and with a baby son. ing the reader, usually the things seem dark Mandela had already suff ered head of the prison, will the death of his beloved respond in the same way, and grim, who try mother when he was not ‘This year our youngest Nelson Mandela: given permission to attend daughter, Zindzi, plans to over and over universal respect the funeral. Now the same study at the University of again, who are fate waits for him with his Cape Town and will be living son. ‘Not only was I deprived with Dr. Ahmed. Her health never discouraged of the opportunity of seeing has been aff ected by the diffi - by insults, humilia- for the last time my eldest son culties under which she grew A giant among us and friend, and the pride of up, the imprisonment of her tion and even my heart; I am kept in the father, numerous police raids defeat. dark on everything relating to in our home at odd hours, Letters from a true hero him and his aff airs.’ assaults on my wife from var- ious quarters, her arrest and stantly fi ghting for the privi- He second son, Kgatho, is also imprisonment, the insecurity leges that are there for the Month by Month a cause of anxiety and he that is caused by the impris- common prisoner but not for writes, as he does to all his onment of both parents, acute the political. Long, detailed letters are addressed to the seen in Victorian prisons here same as those aired every Commission of Prisons in England. Eighteen years is month in Inside Time, on the which, since they must pass a long time to spend in a place letters pages, in the series Rachel Billington through the offi ce of the head like that, but there will be ‘Inside Voices’ and in the of the prison are unlikely to readers of Inside Time who poetry that comes pouring arrive. Many such letters only Who is the most famous pris- will have had the same expe- into the offi ce. merit a dismissive scribble. oner in the world? In England, rience, even if they avoided But Mandela remains unde- we might say Oscar Wilde, hard labour. Here is a giant among human terred. nineteenth century author of beings, a man with a brain ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’. Recently, I have been reading like a computer, moral cour- Prison visits, that most But once we expand the ques- a newly published book, ‘The age of the highest order, important of prisoner needs, tion to the world, there’s only Prison Letters of Nelson strength to survive the worst is a frequent subject. Oft en he one candidate: Nelson Mandela. Mandela’ edited by Sahm that could happen to him and reports of longed-for visits Crushing rocks on Robben Island Venter. It is over six hundred a deep understanding of love terminated without warning Nelson Mandela began his pages long because Mandela that could not be crushed by or suddenly cancelled with- adult life as a lawyer and wrote letters about everything, the weakness of others. And children, blaming his absence longing for parental love and out reason. In 1982 he is ended life as the fi rst demo- every day. Knowing that many yet over and over again I for many of their problems. ‘I fear of the unknown.’ moved to Pollsmoor cratically elected president of would be censored or not arrive found myself thinking, ‘How am however convinced that Maximum Security Prison. , winning a at all, he kept copies in an this reminds me of this point the basic cause of your pres- No children’s charity could The fi rst note collected here is Nobel Prize on the way. But exercise book which, perhaps raised last month or this ent troubles is my absence put more eloquently the trials addressed to the Kitchen he spent the middle twen- remarkably, has survived. poem I’ve just chosen for the from home ... Perhaps if we of a child born to parents in Department. ‘Kindly note that ty-seven years of his life in star award.’ were together, my advice and prison. Nothing evades for health reasons I am on a prison. Eighteen years of guidance would probably Mandela’s attention. Like salt-free diet. I am also not on these were spent on the infa- As I read through the pages, Family was his principle con- have saved the 2 valuable many prisoners, he is shocked eggs.’ He fi ghts to be allowed mous Robben Island where sometimes skipping, some- cern, even rivalling politics. years of your life that you by the food provided and ‘a woollen head-cover’ the daily work was hewing times re-reading, what struck He was forty-four when he have already wasted .... A lot gives the Commanding Offi cer rocks in a stone quarry. Many me most was that his princi- was incarcerated, with five of talent and promise bur- a lecture on what is good for rather than a prison issue of the prisoners, oft en politi- ple concerns were exactly the young children by two mar- ied in you, dear Kgatho, and the body and mind. He is con- alternative owing to a head cal prisoners like Mandela, there is certainly a bright suff ered irreversible damage future for you if you would to their eyes as the only give yourself a chance ... sun bounced off the rocks. Look out: take stock of the That was just the start of their position before it is too late!’ problems. The frustrations of being una- I visited Robben Island about ble to witness or to help would ten years ago - a pilgrimage have embittered a lesser man, carried out by tourists the but Mandela is unfailingly world over who want to pay courteous and understand- homage to a great freedom ing, even when writing to his fighter and extraordinary gaolers with requests which are routinely ignored or man. His small cell (pictured) Hero’s cell Rachel standing in his space pushed aside. Whether ask- recalled all the cells I have © Inside Time Insidetime September 2018 www.insidetime.org Comment 17 wound. He objects to the four questions about their armed officers who escort any great-grandfather to his leaving the youngest daughter, their San Quentin prisoners prison. He rejects conditional grandmother, Zindzi. Ele- freedom. Very often the bat- gantly illustrated by Sean tles he fights are not just for Qualis, Mandela’s extraordi- studying Gregorian chant himself but for his fellow pris- nary story is told in this way, oners. from his upbringing in a tra- Infamous California jail where Johnny Cash once ditional mud hut, to his edu- This is a book that should be cation as a lawyer, his fight performed will listen to ancient chants during liturgy bought for all UK prisons. It is against , his impris- at an important level the pris- onment and his eventual on story of a heroic man who emergence to become Presi- Inside Arts report celebrated the first Extraordinary Form Mass fought and won against the dent of South Africa. The on August 25, accompanied the visiting choir. injustices of the South African Grandad Mandela book is published by Mandela Gallagher said she was impressed by the en- apartheid system. But is also Just after finishing writing Legacy and is obviously one Almost 50 years ago, Johnny Cash took to the thusiastic reaction on the part of the prison- a very human story which about Mandela’s letters, I was of the ways of ensuring that stage at San Quentin prison. Among the many ers, calling it a ‘totally unexpected from will resonate with those who sent a beautiful children’s his courage and determina- tunes he sang for prisoners was the old Gospel God’. She said that the visitors met many men find themselves behind bars book, called ‘Grandad Man- tion to ensure freedom for the song, ‘Peace in the Valley.’ who ‘work hard in the prison to make the com- for whatever reason. It is a dela’. In it Mandela’s two people of South Africa and munity better.’ lesson in courage and opti- great-grandchildren, Zazi (8) the wider inspiration of his “And the beasts from the wild mism: ‘Honour belongs to and Ziwelene (6), ask life are never forgotten. Shall be led by a child those who never forsake the And I’ll be changed, changed from this crea- truth; even when things seem ture that I am.” dark and grim, who try over and over again; who are never Last month, some prisoners in San Quentin discouraged by insults, heard music with a similar message about humiliation and even defeat.’ God’s power to change even the hardest of hearts. But the melodies were a little The Prison Letters of Nelson different. Mandela Edited by Sahm Venter “Prisoners hungry for beauty” Published by WWNorton & Co Feast ISBN: 978 1631491177 RRP £14 For the first time in many years, on Saturday, August 25, the Roman Catholic Mass in the Singing Latin Mass Nelson Mandela was clearly Extraordinary Form (what’s familiarly called “Dwight, the sound guy, introduced himself an inspirational character the ‘old Latin Mass’) was offered at San Quen- and started asking about how we wanted to but who would be yours? For tin. If that’s not surprising enough, some of the be miced for the Latin Mass,” Gallagher said. a chance to win either of prisoners themselves sang the Gregorian chant “Bobby, an old hand, told me he used to sing these fantastic books please to accompany the Mass. the Latin Mass at St. Peter’s in the Mission turn to page 54 in Jailbreak district with the ‘Christian brothers.’ Sam, and enter our Golden Hand- An initiative of Catholic Archbishop of San who sat behind me, was a Protestant, curious shake Competition! Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, who has been about this new music. He’s only been in San working with several prisoners to train them Quentin for a few weeks, ‘but the church scene in singing this ancient music; on August 6, the is popping!’ he told me.” Feast of the Transfiguration, a small choir in- troduced chant and renaissance-style poly- The concert was a mix of traditional works and Lambeth Children’s Homes phonic hymns to a group of prisoners. At the newer compositions, with samples from end of the concert, 25 incarcerated men volun- throughout the liturgical year. At one point, Redress Scheme teered to form a prison ‘schola’ in support of Jesuit Fr. George Williams, the Catholic chap- the upcoming Latin Mass. lain at San Quentin, took the opportunity to offer a reflection on a painting in the chapel. Applications for compensation are now The visiting choir, headed by Rebekah Wu, is “That is St. Dismas, the good thief who re- open until 1 January 2020. under the auspices of the archdiocese’s Bene- pented and whom Jesus saved,” he told the dict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine gathering. “That painting was gifted to us by Worship, which aims to provide practical re- a inmate who died last year, Fer- Lambeth Council has set up a Redress Scheme for sources for more beautiful and reverent liturgy nando Caro.” and by energizing a Catholic culture of the people who, as children, were abused or feared arts. He said later that the large turnout made it clear to him that “the men at San Quentin have abuse at a Lambeth Children’s Home and/or Maggie Gallagher, Executive Director of Ben- a hunger for beauty and prayer.” edict XVI Institute, and Archbishop Cordile- Shirley Oaks Primary School. one, along with Father Cassian, a “The concert by the Benedict XVI Institute was Contemplative of St. Joseph monk who clearly enjoyed by those who attended,” Fr. There are two types of compensation Williams said. “They also appreciated the sup- port and presence of Archbishop Cordileone payment available: MASZ PROBLEM who has made it a point to visit the prison Harm’s Way Payment and Z PICIEM? often.” Archbishop Cordileone, in a statement, com- Individual Redress Payment POTRZEBUJESZ mented, “I saw these men, who humanly POMOCY? speaking are in a dire situation that may seem To nd out more about the Scheme, eligibility and hopeless, be lifted up to God by sacred beauty and given new hope. They love to sing, and to make a claim, visit lambeth.gov.uk/redress 020 7403 85 20 they worship well. So, the response of the men to the invitation to form a Latin Mass ‘schola’ or email [email protected] Anonimowi Alkoholicy - Punkt was overwhelming but not surprising.” Informcyjno Kontaktowy The Benedict XVI Institute offers free chant Strictly Private and Con dential Sroda 19.00 – 21.00 workshops for teachers and choir directors, Lambeth Redress Team, Sobota i Niedziela 17.00 – 21.00 and a children’s chant camp. It also publishes www.aa-pik-wielkabrytania.org.pl the online Catholic Arts Today, which focuses on the life and work of living Catholic Email: [email protected] PO Box 747, Winchester SO23 5DP artists. 18 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime September 2018

then it was like, ‘don’t bother us again’. If I back into crime? Or do we help them rehabili- hadn’t had my family, I probably wouldn’t be tate, get a job and accommodation so they are here now. I wouldn’t have survived. And it’s no longer desperate and no longer a problem the continuation of having the right people to society. Ultimately, what we have to do is coming into my life at the right time that made find a way to resolve their problems and make all the difference to me.” sure they’re not reoffending. Its logic. We can’t just sit back and criticise and tut. If we can’t Finding purpose contribute a constructive conversation we But it must have taken a while to find purpose might as well stay quiet. A lot of the people in in life after what had happened? “What helped prison are keen to take responsibility for their me was doing stuff for other people, because families as parent to their sons and daughters other people had given so much to me. The and we have to help them to do that. We have reality is, these guys who have ended up in to give them the opportunity to redeem them- prison, they come out and end up quite vul- selves, so they can change the future path of nerable people. Society has restricted them so their lives.” much with the stigma - but there is a way back to employment. We at ‘Care after Combat’ (the charity he founded with comedian Jim David- son to help veterans in prison) have had a plan for a long time to help veterans get back on their feet. When they get out of prison, it’s going to be hard for them to regain their self-re- spect. They’ll be coming back to a world that is going to judge them harshly rather than with the respect they had when they were serving Simon Weston CBE their country. But there are ways - we have Credit: Guy Harrop discovered - and careers they can take up that will help change their circumstances for the better. The jobs we have found are non-judge- mental; they have to be able to drive. We’ve A soldier’s story been working with the Road Haulage Associ- ation. As long as they don’t drink and stay out Shaun Stocker, (right) of trouble they won’t be judged and will have with imprisoned comrade Ahead of HMP Berwyn’s Shaun Stocker Combat a job earning thirty or forty thousand a year.” Fitness Test this month, in which serving soldiers As for the Stocker Challenge, named after Af- Coming out ghanistan veteran Shaun Stocker, who lost his “There’s something people need to appreciate train with serving military veteran prisoners to legs and eyesight when he stepped on explo- about prison,” he says, “most of the prisoners, sives aged just 19, Weston says, “I think it’s veterans or otherwise, are coming out at some raise money for the Blind Veterans Association, absolutely fantastic, I’m sure it will be a great time. They are coming back into our commu- day for some great people and all for a great Falklands veteran Simon Weston speaks to Inside nities at some point. So do we cast them onto cause.” Time about the issue of veterans in prison the street where they are literally forced to go www.careaftercombat.org Inside Time report to be more and more veterans ending up on the streets and in prison. Weston suffered almost half his body burned when in June 1982, his One of the reasons that many ex-service per- ship the RFA Sir Galahad was bombed just off sonnel get into trouble with the law after being the Falkland Islands. The ship was carrying discharged is that there is little support readily ammunition as well as phosphorus bombs and available if things start to get too much. Alco- thousands of gallons of diesel and petrol. Out National Prison Law Solicitors hol is all too often the means by which trou- of his platoon of 30 men, 22 were killed. 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© Inside Time increasing the use of commu- keep up with the people for around. They do not want to nity-based sentences. whom they are oft en the only be in prison, they want to suc- link with normality. ceed when they are released Recent privatisation of part of Increasing use of community and they certainly don’t want Landworks works! the probation service was sentencing makes a lot of to go back. Look at other pris- designed to improve effi cien- sense but will only succeed if on models around the world, Innovative charity that uses land cultivation, environment cy and save money. It may these best intentions are look at Landworks, look at the development and art to provide prisoners with essential have saved money but it has backed up with the right whole area of prisoner reha- not worked, with those brave structures and resources. bilitation to see what works life skills sends powerful message to the government and provide the resources to give these people the invest- Thanks to our commercial son is narrowed down to our ment they deserve. ventures, we have not only ROTLs, the men who come to provided our trainees with us on daily release from HMP So there it is: long-term Ted Tuppen meaningful experience of Channings Wood, our repre- investment versus short term work and its challenges, sentatives of the prison pop- savings. Whatever your polit- ical colour, this is the mes- The latest Home Offi ce statis- rewards and responsibilities ulation, we can report a 0% but we have also produced an re-off ending rate and a 100% sage that we must deliver to tics suggest that it costs just Government. over £100 per person per day income stream which effec- employment record. Yes, it to keep someone in prison. tively reduces our cost of a costs more than prison in the Employment rates after training day to a net £133, still short term but these guys will Ted Tuppen is chair of the 30% more than the cost of not only cease to be a drain on board of Landworks trustees release are running at 27% Eating food together prison. police and prison resources www.landworks.org.uk and the reoffending rate is © Landworks but have also become fully contributing, taxpaying and economically active members of society.

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© Inside Time crimes; the costs of develop- ing social skills and confi- Lost your appeal? 46% in the first 12 months; Our reoff ending rate is steady dence, cooking and eating rising to almost two-thirds at 6% (prison 46%) and 92% lunch together, chatting, within two years. This means of our trainees are in employ- debating, even disagreeing that three-quarters of people ment (prison 27%). This cov- without resorting to violence, released from prison don’t get ers not only those who come building confidence and a job and almost half will to us on daily release from mutual respect; the costs of reoff end in the fi rst year aft er prison but also those referred helping trainees to prepare What next? release. by the probation service. for life outside prison, com- pleting the countless forms Over one thousand training Zero reoffending that are required before they days However, when the compari- can begin to apply for a job, Admittedly, Landworks train- The CCRC can look again ees are not a perfect statisti- cal sample of the whole pris- If you think your conviction or sentence is wrong apply to the CCRC on population, but let’s look at our statistics and consider • It won’t cost anything the very big message that they • Your sentence can’t be increased if you apply send. We have delivered one • You don't need a lawyer to apply, but a good one thousand four hundred train- can help ing days over the past twelve months. The cost to us per You can get some more information and a copy of the CCRC's Easy Read application form by writing to us at training day is £166 - some 5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW. or calling 0121 233 1473 60% more than is currently spent keeping someone Prisoners in Scotland should contact; The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, 5th Floor, locked up in prison. Growing fl owers Portland House, 17 Renfi eld Street, Glasgow, G2 5AH. Phone: 0141 270 7030 Email: [email protected] © Inside Time 20 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime September 2018

Old Bailey for the ordination have also supported a number release, I had a little picker in Tariff, right up until my release of another old Belmarshian, of charities in the same field. my hand - clearing litter from (11 years served) I was deemed Jonathan Aitken (see August In my role as a Public Speaker the side of a road. I lost count by the prison authorities to issue), so it was good to meet I have made an effort to high- of the amount of times some- still be a danger to society. I again for this interview. light the struggle for those I’ve one threw litter from their car think my progress in the 9 left behind, because I believe and I had to count to 10. Did I years I’ve been released has How long have you served in everyone deserves a second have flashes of putting my more than proved them wrong. prison? chance. I have also worked as hands around their necks? Of an ‘Alumni’ which involved course I did, but I deal with Does prison work? I have served a total of 12 years me going back into prisons my thoughts in a more positive in prison. Although as a result and giving motivational talks way now. I always look at the Prison for some might do, but of being in care from aged 10, to prisoners. I found that very bigger picture. So, it’s not been it has to be about rehabilita- I have spent 30 years of my life rewarding. easy. But because I’m now tion. The obsession with pun- in and out of one institution focused on the big stuff, I don’t ishment has gone too far I or another. I made sure sweat the small stuff. think. Society always has to that rather than me remember that most prisoners Did you learn anything of use What advice would you give to will be back out in society. An to you in there? serve time, I made the people still in prison who individual that is released want to change? with a positive mental attitude Fortunately, on my last sen- Noel and Leroy - bad boys made good time serve me. has to be far better than some-

© Inside Time tence I reflected on my situa- My advice would be to read as one who is released from pris- tion and looked at my prison My time has also been spent much as possible. The most on bitter and twisted. sentence in this way. There’s giving interviews via Radio rewarding subject for me was, not a lot I can do about it, but and TV regarding issues relat- Personal Development. It al- What are your plans for the ‘A positive there’s a lot I can do with it. ed to prisons and offenders. lows you to understand your- future? So, I educated myself by read- The most surreal moment was self. If we don’t control our ing subjects that not only em- giving a talk at Oxford minds, our minds will control My plans for the future are still powered me but would also University. So, this journey mental attitude’ to continue sharing my jour- give me some advantage back has had some rewards. I have us. And anytime we’ve done ney in order to promote the out in society. A been to places and mixed with something stupid, mad or bad, need for a better rehabilitation Former prisoner now focused can open up the wonders of people that have allowed me a thought has come right be- strategy. And also, to try and the world. I made sure that to not only broaden my social fore it. The book that opened change the lock ‘em and throw on the ‘big stuff’ rather than me serve time, I circle, but also raise my my eyes to the power of the made time serve me. self-esteem. And coming from mind is, Unlimited Power by away the key attitude amongst criminal justice system, trying a background of children’s Tony Robbins. Once we learn society. I have been document- to highlight the changes need- How long have you been out homes, neglect, homelessness to be the master of our mind, ing my journey for some years we can then become the mas- now, which I will eventually Noel Smith ed in both, Leroy is not a bitter and what have you been doing? and drug addiction, having man. He smiles easily and is self-esteem is a blessing. But ter of our destiny. publish. The main reason for able to talk calmly and cogent- I have been out 9 years. Since as nice as things are now, don’t this is in the hope I can inspire Leroy Skeete is an ex-prisoner ly about his subject. I first met that time, I have worked with ever make the mistake of Did anyone help you in prison? others. We all need that boost, on a mission. After spending Leroy back in the 1990s in HMP a number of organisations thinking it was easy. My jour- and no-one can give it to us most of his life kicking against Belmarsh, and recently we related to ex-offenders and ney to this point started at the I wasn’t that fortunate. As a better than someone who both the care-system and attended the celebration at the rehabilitation of offenders. I bottom. Not long after my section two lifer with a 6-year comes from the same place.

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break-ups and make-ups and A journey through the therapy looking glass shake-ups. I’d lost a lot and still couldn’t find myself in it all.” However, as all men embark themselves an opportunity for on their therapeutic journey growth. Truthfully, it is hard to Why then did he end up com- they will continue to make mis- watch people struggle to vali- mitting another crime? “I don’t takes to different degrees. date their own opinions during know, I think I just lost my Therefore in a process where a meeting, teetering on the edge mind. I’ve got an allergy to men are encouraged to chal- of their seat, at odds with them- drugs. I don’t break out in lenge the behaviour of others selves whether to address the lumps and bumps; I break out as they themselves attempt to wrongs which occur here on a in handcuffs, misery, pain and commit to change, naturally daily basis, the wrongs which loss. That’s the truth. You put more importantly feature as mistakes will give way to cries a substance in me today, a part of the behavioural patterns Billy Moore: prisoner and best-selling author of hypocrisy. This begs the drug in me today and I’d be which have led many of us question, what bearing does the prison’s worst nightmare. hypocrisy have on therapy? down the wrong path. © Fotolia.com I just would. So I’ve got to maintain abstinence on a daily Reece Johnson Of course there are a multitude Daily, residents display a re- basis, because if I don’t I’m a of reasons as to why people On a Wing sistance to the challenges of nightmare”. other residents who them- choose not to make their voice The threat count. However, it may be that selves break the constitutional Was he worried about drugs the risk of being known as a boundaries of the therapy in prison before receiving his of hypocrisy hypocrite presents a different wings. Understandably, at and a Prayer latest sentence? “I was scared type of compromise which is In certain respects the men who times this type of resistance to be honest,” he says. “I’d generally associated with the are in therapy here at Grendon prevents residents from high- Prisoner talks to tv news about been five years in recovery and therapeutic process here at are no different to many other lighting the illicit behaviour of I knew this new drug Spice is Grendon. During wing meet- men that I have met in the pris- their counterpart’s altogether. his best-selling memoir being an epidemic in prisons; it’s ings there will be those who on system over the years. For For example, there are those causing a lot of problems in openly state that at times they turned into a movie instance, at some point in our who may not take the step to prisons around the country. I may feel like hypocrites and lives those of us who make up challenge inappropriate dress just thought, ‘how am I going therefore do not feel as though Inside Time report Thailand in 2005 and taught the prison population may around the wing because they to get through this?’ they should be telling people English there. While he was have been told to ‘fix up’ or that themselves are party to such what is right. Nevertheless, my clean, he even worked as a ‘things can be different’ if we behaviour. Trivial as this may How can he justify the amount experience in therapy has stunt double for Sylvester ‘really’ want them to be. On seem, it is crucial when trying With a back story that many of violence in the film? “If you taught me that there are times Stallone on Rambo IV. It was such occasions, these words to understand how hypocrisy people in prison will recog- watch the movie it’s not just when you may have to compro- when he got back into fighting are typically spoken by those nise, Billy Moore suffered an about violence,” he says, “it’s impacts the process of mise your own image by con- there that he got wrapped back who feature as figures of au- abusive childhood at the not just a violent story, it’s a therapy. ceding that although in any up in drugs and crime. He had thority, often described as out hands of his alcoholic father, drama, a love story - it’s got a instance your behaviour may started to train in Muay Thai of touch by those they are trying as he describes in his book ‘A lot more than just violence. It’s The thought of hypocrisy has mean that you may bear the boxing, the country’s national to influence. Prayer Before Dawn’, now a about someone fighting with paralysed many residents over accent of a hypocrite, at the sport. “I got involved with un- major Hollywood movie. “I himself more than anything. the years. The intricacies of same time it may also mean that derground [Muay Thai] fight- Time in therapy highlights the compromise have so often left was brought up being told I I’ve never had any violent you bear the voice of reason. was worthless and thinking ing and found bad company importance of being able to men unable to challenge the again.” He became addicted crimes on my record. I’m not relate to others when they are there was no value in life,” he a violent person. The violence behaviour of others. Putting There is serious merit behind to crystal meth and ya ba (a indeed trying to ‘fix up’ and says. He grew up in poverty in in my life was on myself really. compromise as it is typically the idea that as offenders, and highly addictive make a difference in their own one of Liverpool’s council es- When I grew up that was all I known in Grendon aside, dur- people who have all been in the methamphetamine). lives. The premise of group tates, Walton, where he began ever saw; ‘monkey see, mon- ing my time here I have fre- wrong at some point and time, therapy is that as prisoners, we his slow slide into a life of key do’. I remember getting quently observed those who we are well placed to find ways have a particular life experi- crime and drug addiction. “I my first boxing fight. I ran remain silent during meetings. of connecting and overall I’ve got an ence that if shared can help felt alone and got mixed up home dead excited, hoping my After speaking to these resi- self-improvement. Altogether, challenge the behaviour and with kids on the corner; then father would be proud of me. dents it is clear that in some I believe that hypocrisy is part allergy to drugs. thinking patterns of our fellow drugs and crime were on the When I told him I had a fight cases people will not speak out of the fabric of group therapy prisoners. scene.” He began committing I don’t break out in coming up in a couple of days because they are well aware of in Grendon and it remains a crimes at the age of 16. he was sitting there watching their own shortcomings, alas force which if harnessed cor- lumps and bumps, There is no doubt that the suc- the TV, flicking a cigarette. We they appear to be paralysed by rectly can be a motivation for cess of therapy somewhat relies Liverpool-born Moore has I break out in never had a remote and he the threat of hypocrisy. They positive change rather than a on the ability of residents to spent a total of 15 years behind used to turn the telly over with are all too aware that one day stumbling block. handcuffs, misery, make connections in regard to the spotlight may be on them bars in 22 different prisons. He his feet. I said, ‘Dad dad, I’ve the things that have gone and therefore at risk of looking had been in and out of UK pris- pain and loss. got this fight coming up.’ He wrong in our own lives and, like a hypocrite at a later date. ons long before his incarcera- didn’t even look at me, he just tion in Thailand, where most importantly, the things we They not only censor them- Reece Johnson, a nom de plume, went, ‘if you don’t knock him of the story in his book is He told Channel 4 news, “I have done wrong. selves but also deny is a resident of HMP Grendon didn’t just wake up and decide out in the first round, I’ll knock based, doing his first prison you out.’ And that was that - stint at age 17. to have a career in criminality and drug addiction; I wanted that was how he kind of dealt to be a boxer; I wanted to fight with things.” Free books! for England; I wanted to join So why did he write the book? The book, Life beyond Crime ners of the justice system. the army. The film is about someone who’s lost. It starts “I decided to write it when I is edited by Paul Crane and was in the prison in Bangkok,” published with the support Inside Time is delighted to in a prison in Thailand. I’m no Mother Teresa,” he says, he says. “I couldn’t believe of the Monument Trust and provide a conduit for this ter- what I was witnessing; mur- in association with the Mon- rific book between publisher “there you go. I made a mis- take, I broke the law. It wasn’t der, rape, and the ument Fellowship. De- and prisoner. If you want your inhumane degradation. You scribed as “A rare and hopeful article published there are Moore and Stallone my greatest idea. Now I’m here and making amends. I’m sorry. couldn’t even invent or con- book on prisons” by Profes- three categories; a Comment jure up the things I saw, and I sor Nicola Padfield and “A piece, an Information piece or After getting clean from drugs I truly am. I don’t think people realise, they see me apparently just felt it was important to precious gift to those expe- a short story and send it to the with the help of a rehab pro- write my experiences down on riencing the justice system” usual address and DON’T gram, Moore took the trip to doing well; he’s got a book, he’s got a film, he’s got a job, notes that soon developed into by Roger Graef OBE, the FORGET TO MARK YOUR Thailand as a means to turn a book.” book is a collection of es- ENVELOPE LEMOS AND his life around, hoping to give a car a house; he’s doing really says, poems and pictures CRANE - and mark the same up drugs, alcohol and crime, well …but is he? I was isolat- providing insights and wis- at the head of your contribu- ing, separating myself from and start fresh as a boxer and Billy Moore is a resident of dom from people in all cor- tion. Good luck! my family. I had relationship stunt man. 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commonly held values and objectives. opened the till, placed the Doctrines play an important role in this respect; money inside and quickly shut the drawer. Terry Waite CBE however the danger is that the doctrines can, in the minds of some, become identified with the essential essence of belief. “Oh, where’s my change?” the man asked. The essential If you have read this far you might well ask, ‘What is that essential element?’ The pizza chef turned to him and asked, “You wanted the element It’s a pretty big question, so let me start by Buddhist pizza didn’t you?” saying that all life is a mystery. You only have Although I have worked from a Church base “Yeah”, said the customer, for many years of my life, and spent twelve to have the very briefest understanding of time and space to realize that. Here we all are on a “but I still expected to get my years working on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s change.” staff, I rarely write about religion and, contrary fairly small planet travelling through space to what many people believe, I am not ordained. about which we have such a limited under- An enlightened slice standing. Scientists can and do help us under- “Ah,” said the chef, “but you Throughout life it has been suggested to me © Deposit Photos asked for the Buddhist pizza that I ought to get ordained but I never believed stand how the universe is constructed and how Sid Arter “Do you mean make you one and you should therefore it was my vocation and looking back, I am life develops on earth but even so, many mem- with everything?” asked the know that change comes from convinced I made the right decision not to turn bers of the scientific community will tell you chef, who had obviously heard within!” my collar around. To be strictly honest, so much that they have thousands of questions which remain a mystery to them. As soon as they have this quip before. about religion puts me off! I can’t stand it when The Pizza I cannot imagine you get a lot people attempt to push their beliefs at me, nor an answer to questions a new set of questions The man nodded and pulled of pizza or for that matter get can I possibly take the bible literally. To fly in emerge. In no way wish to offend - but a £10 note from his pocket. to spend cash; but you do seek the face of well researched scientific evidence and need to change, as do we Not only are we set in a mysterious world but would like to share with you a Soon the dough was spinning seems to me to be totally crazy - having said all. But we all need to realize that mystery also deep within all of us. joke that is based on religious and the ingredients were that, I know many people who do hold to such that the most important Who are we? What is the purpose of it all? Why thinking and trust it will be placed carefully onto the base literal interpretations and they are truly good changes come from within us; should we even think that there might be a read in the spirit it is offered; and large amounts of grated people. However, as I am put off by much that to educate and entertain. cheese were sprinkled on top. as we change our values, goes under the name of religion, I am also at- God? That concept, God, is indeed a great mys- ideas, plans, expectations and tery. Most of the great religions of this world The chef slid it onto a flat tracted to it. Many readers of this column will A chap approached a stall sell- desires; these changes can attempt to understand who and what is God wooden plate and placed it understand that when you are locked up for a ing wood-fired pizza at a fes- only happen if within us there and many claim that they know. Some create into the oven. Minutes later time, and especially when you are alone, your tival; the smell of the cooking is the motivation and will to God in their own image, the image of human- the bubbling pizza was slid mind often turns to spiritual matters. You can food drew him like a magnet. out and cut into slices and onto be different; indeed to be kind, in an attempt to understand, for most begin to wonder about the purpose of life and After looking at the menu a plate. better! people are incapable of thinking in the reflect on your own experience and how you board carefully, he turned to abstract. have lived it. the pizza maker and said jok- “That will be £7.50”, said the ingly, “Can you make a chef. The man passed his Sid Arter is a teacher One of the purposes of organized religion is to All religions have their dogmas and rules that Buddhist pizza?” money over and the chef and entertainer have built up across the years and in some provide us with symbols, guidelines if you like, instances are regarded as being absolutely which lead us step by step to a greater under- essential to belief. For example, it made good standing of the mystery that is within each one sense before refrigeration to be careful about of us and the mystery which lies beyond us all. eating shellfish. That caution has been extend- Reverence, which most religions hold to, is ed so that now it may be regarded by some as taught so that we are able to develop a true being an essential part of religious practice. respect for ourselves, this world and that which There are plenty of examples like that I could lies beyond our limited understanding - some- give and frankly have just plucked that one out thing we all fail to have time and time again. of the air. To eat fish on a Friday was at one I may not believe that the bible or the great time considered to be part and parcel of living religious traditions are to be taken literally but a good catholic life and was introduced years I do believe that within them there is a great ago by one of the Popes. In 1960, Pope Paul V1 deal of wisdom. The simple saying attributed relaxed the rule, although it still applies in the to Jesus: ‘Love God and your Neighbour as 40 days of Lent. yourself’ captures, in a few words, something of the essence of true religion. Even though, There is a good reason for doctrines and that like me, you may have many questions about is they help build and maintain a framework religion buzzing around in your head, don’t which holds a group together. Any organized dismiss it too lightly. group needs to have boundaries as well as Until next month …..

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This culture begins with an institutional compete to impose their particular agenda Inside Voices power group within the prison’s management upon the prisoners. Staff range across a wide and is imitated by others who observe its ef- spectrum but at one extreme there are an in- fectiveness and the permissive environment fluential senior staff group who use the re- that rewards the aggression of some while re- gime’s lack of accountability to harass and An open letter to the governor serving its own use of overwhelming force for punish prisoners by subjecting them to a Kaf- the confused, conflicted and sad. kaesque insanity intended to add an extra Dr John Davies - HMP Swaleside Your focus on prisoner violence as being the layer of punishment upon them. main problem is very problematic. Prisoners are the weakest stakeholders in the prison and Prisoners are the weakest ‘Rules’ intended to encourage prisoners to en- Recently, the governor of Swaleside their use of violence should be considered as stakeholders in the prison and gage in further education are actually used to sent around an ‘Open letter to men a predictable outcome of prison policy and create obstacles and prevent prisoners from practise. I believe it would be more useful to their use of violence should be residing at HMP Swaleside’ - in accessing educational opportunities. We have unpack and examine the institutional frame- considered as a predictable had no provision for self-study or accessible which he expressed disappointment work that helps perpetuate and sustain such post-graduate study for more than a year since with the amount of violence perpet- violence. outcome of prison policy and the closure of the highly-acclaimed Open acad- uated in his prison by inmates. practise. I believe it would be emy unit. ‘Rules’ intended to ensure prisoners Here is my reply. The irrational institutional projection of power can adequately access the library for legal or to compel outcomes is a device used by those more useful to unpack and other research are actually used to restrict li- who believe that use of such power demon- examine the institutional brary access. Other ‘rules’ that do not fit with strates their control over bodies, geographies the regime as punishment are unlawfully ig- Dear Governor, and systems. It is an illusion of control that framework that helps perpetuate nored so as to demonstrate that local prison feeds the deceit that pretends the problem of management can inflict their own ‘rules’ with In reply to your letter regarding prisoner vio- violence here is best represented by the pitiful and sustain such violence. impunity. lence. I arrived here in February 2017 and since outbursts of prisoners subjected to irrational that time I have been repeatedly attacked by a controls. Swaleside has, for 3-years, refused to comply The powerful within the prison administration convicted murderer who stalked me for with a High Court decision and subsequent have the privilege to control how violence in 3-months and constantly threatened violence. Swaleside contains an exceptional population, HMPPS policy that allows prisoners to have the prison is presented and understood be- I eventually escaped his attentions by trans- many of whom can be expected to resort to more than 12 books in possession and to re- cause they usually dominate the narrative on ferring to another wing and this has made a physical violence when conflicted. However, ceive books from others as . They also . This dominant position allows difference to my safety, for which I am grateful. many of these objectified men describe their operate an interfering with privileged legal the prison institution to stigmatise the prison- use of violence as their response to the frustra- correspondence and even deny some prisoners ers as the cause of violence while sanitising its However, this is not the most disturbing and tion of arbitrary and irrational demands to privileged access to their legal advisors. Disa- own failings and obscuring its own repeated distressing form of violence I have experienced comply with obscure and/or inequitable insti- bled prisoners are refused reasonable adapta- in this prison. I have always understood vio- tutional ‘rules’. Any attempt to question the violence towards its captive population of so- tions and other necessary support, regardless lence to be a projection of power intended to demand to comply, is met by threats of or ac- cial inadequates and misfits, which provokes of repeated requests supported by medical and compel an outcome desired by the more pow- tual overwhelming force by the prison regime. so much of the frustration and subsequent other reports. erful protagonist regardless of whether such Here, you are taught that the violent rule by violence. an outcome is reasonable and/or equitable. reason of their power to force their will upon I would love Swaleside to be free of violence, Such forced outcomes do not resolve the un- others. So, it would be a mistake to represent Staff within the prison are not a homogenous and , and once the prison derlying conflict that provoked the violent prisoner violence as being the primary location group with shared values and objectives. Staff regime stops using such methods hopefully incident, such outcomes are not solutions. of violence in Swaleside. are actually divided groups of contestants who prisoners will follow their lead.

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Aft er volunteering as a Peer Mentor tive as a result. They also wear named brands HMP Lewes effective support in the com- ficer’s uniform and the whilst at HMP Send, and having gained the when going into schools to show it is possible munity for ex-prisoners with qualifi cation in Level 3 Advice and Guidance to be able to aff ord to buy these legally without mental health issues. truncheon that he carries are through St Giles, I was aware of the high stand- resorting to criminal activity. Since the Macpherson Report in themselves symbols of op- ard of training involved. CJ, who was the in 1999 highlighted the exist- Given the high number of pression and are silently Project Coordinator, had been part of their With the recent headlines on knife crime, they ence of institutionalised rac- mentally ill prisoners being threatening. team as a mentor and volunteer and worked highlight the dangers of carrying one for pro- ism within the Metropolitan released into the community there on day release whilst at Send. tection and how a knife can change the nature Police, many people within each year, a cynic may con- In 2017, 419 prison officers of what a fi ght is. They are also taking the pro- our Government, our public clude that Probation Officers were sacked for corruption or having “inappropriate rela- I was then introduced to one of the workers, gramme into primary schools, as it is vital that institutions and indeed, our are actively seeking ways to tionships” with prisoners in Dimitri, who had fi rst worked with prisoners they talk to pupils early - the dangers of prisons, have been on a jour- recall vulnerable people and both male and female pris- whilst at HMP Thameside as a caseworker; becoming ‘at risk’ at a younger age is increas- ney to explore how we can return them to prison, whereas ons. Far from being the excep- helping them to exit gangs. He had previous ing. Youth Offending Teams, Pupil Referral create a more equal society in the past they would have tion, these prisoner/staff experience of this growing up in South London Units and Youth Clubs are also engaging with and provide a level playing been placed in mental health relationships have been com- where he had been involved in low level crim- SOS. There are also 6 volunteers who work as field that allows all peoples units which now no longer part of the programme. The Home Offi ce have mon for as long as I have been inal behaviour. He had lost friends to prison the opportunities to be all exist. an agenda of encouraging early intervention a prisoner. However, these due to their gang activities. This suddenly gave they can be! and are funding these programmes well. statistics do not take into ac- him a light-bulb moment and he decided to In these days of austerity, it find something fulfilling to do. He became count the hundreds of prison Some social commentators appears that neither mentally involved in youth work before being ‘head- They visit two schools a day and are able to staff who resigned before they may argue that, especially stable nor mentally ill prison- hunted’ to work in a live-in unit for ex-gang measure the eff ectiveness of the programme were sacked. since 2007, there has been a ers are having their needs members. In his position as caseworker at through questionnaires and evaluating feed- concerted attempt by consec- met. This is equality in action Thameside he was able to transfer prisoners back. Professionalism and holistic approaches When these relationships are utive governments to create within British prisons, where away from greater threats by ensuring they are the key for change. They are always called discovered, the prisoner will environments where every- most inmates can expect to be were distanced from hazardous situations. back to talk to the same schools, as staff notice often be blamed for “groom- one is struggling to have their treated equally badly. Prisons the positive eff ects of the programme on their ing” the staff member, and needs met, such as the bene- now seem to be replacements They are always called pupils. Early intervention is vital and building our prison system continues fits system, the NHS and our for asylums and workhouses, up trust is paramount. They are training the to refuse to acknowledge that back to talk to the same prisons, as a result, it could with prison officers unable to police using various parts of their pro- there is a percentage of prison be said that people are be- cope with a large population schools, as staff notice the grammes; particularly concerning gangs and staff who are sexual predators of mentally ill and aged county lines as they are able to speak on a coming resentful of others who will target vulnerable positive effects of the pro- prisoners. street level. As the government banned chil- who have a greater need of prisoners, offering them gramme on their pupils. dren from going into prison to experience its resources at a time when they drugs, phones or a shoulder eff ects, this programme is even more vital to are least available. Of course, to cry on as part of the of- The second facilitator, Arnold, had been show the dangers involved. ficer’s grooming process. involved in criminal activity and gang mem- It does not matter who is at I understand that bership since he was 12 - growing up in If you are able to take the NVQ qualifi cation in fault, but I feel that, for the in the prisons, As a bystander in a dysfunc- Newham. He was particularly involved with Advice and Guidance then you can volunteer survival of us all, we need to tional prison system, rising lone parent families, as many gang members them on ROTL and upon release. This can lead share, which is a lesson equality means numbers of incidents of self- had no positive male role models growing up. to paid work. I myself am going to be volun- taught by most responsible harm and suicides have had teering for their ‘Footsteps’ programme, which little, where one There was tremendous deprivation and many parents. Rather than reduc- a profound impact on my own helps women out in the community by off ering of his friends were involved in violent crime ing people to the lowest com- group of people mental health and sense of specialist support. So why not sign up for the and murder, and again a lot of his friends died mon denominator, we need to wellbeing. I do understand course and make a diff erence, while also help- are paid to control or ended up inside. elevate the neediest in soci- that victims of crime deserve ing to improve your self-confi dence. ety as the norm, rather than and punish another justice. 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mentoring support to former prison- contracts with the likes of FC United. ers. They recognised the potential of His own direct in markets has Lee’s business idea “to put good helped build a reputation. Increas- quality pasties on the streets of Man- ing production to scale the business chester” and provided the support he up was the current task but for now needed. HM Pasties operates under it was refreshing to see a former pris- the umbrella of Groundwork and it oner with such a colourful back- may stay that way but there is also ground looking very much ‘the the possibility that it will one day be young entrepreneur’. He has a vision a standalone company. Lee was re- of exactly what he wants to achieve laxed about this and just happy with and the drive and ambition that will the way things were going. hopefully enable him, with the sup- port of Groundwork, to succeed and The traditional Cornish Pasty recipe help even more former prisoners. was at the heart of his range but I can Dave Roberts and Lee Wakeman

confirm the taste was very different Although he is committed to helping © Inside Time from the mass-produced pasties others released from prison, one re- person with the conviction of sex available from the usual high street cent news article highlighted the fact offence more than anything else.” bakers. Lee described with passion that whilst he employed former pris- how important it was to have good oners HM Pasties would not employ Lee did add that perhaps one day quality ingredients, good pastry plus sex offenders and because so many when HM Pasties had their fran- Pasties freedom a few changes to the recipe that made

© HM Pasties charities adopt this policy we ques- chises up and running where people HM Pasties distinct from all others, tioned him about this decision. sold from their own HM Pasties vans even those from Cornwall. at events there could be an opportu- nity to consider all former prisoners. Pasties with a range of different fill- It was refreshing to That’s providing there were not any HM Pasties ings will stay as the main product but restrictions or conditions that would there will eventually be other pas- see a former prisoner prevent them from applying. Traditional Cornish Pasties being made in North tries and sandwiches etc to cater for with such a colourful lunches and buffets. This would all Editorial note: There are many char- West England by a former prisoner employing be possible as soon as he had his own background looking ities who exclude anyone with previous former prisoners. Inside Time just had to take premises to work from and this very much ‘the young dream was not too far away. The dan- conviction of a sex offence even though a closer look and meet the man behind this ger of being surrounded by pasties entrepreneur’. there are so many types of sex offences. venture, and of course sample the produce! all day must be the potential for pil- The attitude of the public is of course ing on the pounds but Lee’s busy life He was fully aware that this can be as much to for these policies as seen as quite controversial but ex- several scrapes with the law and in style working in the kitchens and the level of risk and having one ‘pigeon plained his concerns about doing so. 1996 decided to start afresh and then out selling his wares at events hole’ for all sex offences in the eyes of moved to Salford. Probably not the and various local markets certainly “We don’t disclose anyone’s offence, the criminal justice system prevents Dave Roberts best place in the UK to avoid trouble keeps him fit and healthy. He is but people just ‘Google’ others and many who pose very little real risk in and it wasn’t long before he ended clearly totally committed to the suc- find out whatever they want to know. obtaining many types of work. Unem- Lee Wakeman, ‘Mr HM Pasties’ up back in prison - just this time in cess of the business and rarely stops I’ve seen the problems and tension ployment or self-employment become showed us around and told us his Manchester. He had however be- working. in prison when sex offenders are the only two available options, both of intriguing story. come determined to turn his life around other prisoners - there would which create other risks. around and it was then that he heard Sharing kitchen space and equip- be a danger and in a busy kitchen Having spent the first 20 or so years about Groundwork MSSTT. This di- ment has enabled him to launch the where there are sharp knives and hot Inside Time would like to hear from any of his life living in Cornwall eating vision of the charity Groundwork UK business and train other former pris- water we just couldn’t provide the charities or organisations who employ pasties on a regular basis, he now runs community projects in the oners. It has also enabled him to de- level of supervision that would be prisoners regardless of their offence as makes them for a living. He got into Greater Manchester area and offers velop the range and win some useful needed. It’s about the safety of the it is a question we are often asked.

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Mike Trace The sector has for decades some coherence to the man- Details withheld Third, because I kept my mouth shut and never debated how ambitious we agement of off ender’s needs told anyone else I had been abroad. Posting can be in turning offenders and interventions in custody, photos and crowing about the latest trip on Now the MoJ has, quite right- lives around, but our experi- and their smooth transition I was interested to read John O’Connor’s article social media, as well as giving too much infor- ly, taken the decision to ence at Forward Trust (for- into contact with relevant about travelling abroad while still on licence. mation to friends and work colleagues, is how reshape the CRC contracts, it merly RAPt and Blue Sky) is support agencies on release. His description of the criteria Offender Man- many people get caught. There is always some- is important to focus on what that large numbers of prolifi c The failure to get anywhere agers (OMs) use when deciding whether to one lurking within earshot who is ready to will deliver on the govern- off enders, even with histories near that objective has been authorise a journey outside the UK is accurate. make a phone call! ment objectives, rather than of drug/alcohol dependency blamed on inadequate However, in practice, most OMs are so over- simply tinker around the and mental health issues, can resources - the MoJ’s emer- stretched that it is almost always easier to say Fourth, because (as I discovered) not everyone edges of a model that most of be helped to turn away from gency allocation of an extra ‘No’ - especially as the request has to be au- on licence has their details passed to the bor- us have seen as systemically off ending behaviour, and we thorised by an OM’s line manager. This can der agency. At first, (and because I hold joint fl awed from the start. have proved it through inde- £22 million for the existing take several weeks, which is useless in the citizenship with another EU country), I trav- pendent outcome research. model indicates that this is Some of these objectives are their view. But the original event of a family member being dangerously elled on my non-British passport. There was procedural - how to ensure Too little at- model is itself fl awed, and I ill.The lack of an appeal, unless the material never any problem, either at airports or Ferry that community orders and would urge the MoJ to do circumstances change, is also a strong incen- terminals. After several months of travelling, tive to opt for the easier solution of saying ‘No.’ I presented my British passport by mistake one post-release licences are tention has been some careful consultation Those who have challenged OMs decisions will day. It was only afterwards that I realised my properly supervised; how to and planning on how best to focussed on the know only too well how exhausting it is to keep (potentially costly and disastrous) lack of at- improve reporting to court in integrate the multiple prison challenging rushed or lazy decisions. tention. After this, I used my British passport a way that maximises oppor- ambition to work based interventions into a frequently without any hitches or unwelcome tunities for, and confidence coherent offender manage- with offenders to I was on a year’s license a couple of years ago scrutiny. Obviously, I have no idea what the in, community based inter- ment pathway. Please don’t ventions as alternatives to after serving a prison sentence of the same criteria is for informing the border authorities; turn them away pour more money into creating custody; and how to improve length. My family lived outside the UK, but I or whether, in my case, it was just another more competing processes. the continuity of manage- from criminal was still denied permission to travel, despite example of MoJ incompetence. ment of off enders as they pass lifestyles. the fact that their support was key to my reha- through custody suites, pris- A second chance bilitation. However I did travel, and my OM Why did I do it? Firstly because my OMs refusal The review of TR is necessary was completely unaware of my frequent visits ons and their home areas. The dilemma is that the evi- to my request to travel was both unreasonable for largely negative reasons, outside the UK. This is the positive side of a dence base shows that these and fundamentally at odds with my rehabili- but presents the latest oppor- probation system that is stretched and cannot The current process of consul- reductions in reoff ending are tative needs. With a huge caseload, and so give sustained support to its users. How did I tation and review needs to achieved through properly tunity to realise the potential many other pressures, it was easier for him to get away with it? lead to a procurement speci- structured interventions, not to make a step change in the say ‘No’ than to take the time to make a con- fi cation that clearly sets out case management alone. number of offenders lives vincing case in support of my application. First, because I posed a minimal risk to others, minimum standards, while High quality offender man- turned around, and the num- Secondly, because the support I received from and I managed to get a job fairly quickly after allowing bidders to fi nd crea- agement can affect many ber of victims of repeat my family during that crucial period after re- release, my appointments were soon reduced tive ways to serve the courts aspects of an off ender’s life, off ending. Please can we keep lease from prison has proved invaluable in my from fortnightly to monthly. This meant that better. and can serve the courts well, this one simple, and direct continuing to stay out of trouble. Their visits travel at weekends was never likely to prevent but there is no evidence that the available resources at to me in prison were, understandably, not fre- me attending probation appointments. More ambition in reducing it alone can achieve big reduc- activities that actually quent. Being denied close contact while on reoffending tions in reoffending - any licence would have only made my isolation achieve the objective. Second, because the appointments at my local But the objective that really design of the system that does worse. Potentially, it could have meant seeking CRC were always so short and superficial. Es- matters is the outcome - not facilitate much greater support and company from people I met in sentially, it consisted of me being asked how I reducing reoffending. Chris use of structured interven- prison, and that would have been the slippery Mike Trace is Chief Executive was, and whether I had any concerns, before Grayling’s TR reforms claimed tions (drug/alcohol recovery; slope. of the Forward Trust, an inde- the next appointment was fixed a month later. to have this objective at its mental health treatment; pendent charity that aims to It was all over in under 10 minutes. I was never centre, but as the bidding pro- employment, housing or fam- Now that the ineffectiveness of CRCs has been empower people to break the asked if I had been outside the UK and, obvi- cess became more complex and ily programmes) cannot claim often interlinked cycles of ously, I did not volunteer the fact that I had. accepted, and reform is on the way, I hope my bureaucratic, and the deliv- to be ambitious in terms of addiction or crime to move My OM had absolutely no idea what I was really experience will prompt the probation author- ery phase mired in legal and reducing reoff ending. ities to take a fairer and more rigorous ap- fi nancial diffi culties, too little forward with their lives: www. doing between meetings (which was never forwardtrust.org.uk. Blog anything very exciting - or illegal - as it hap- proach to applications for travel outside the attention has been focussed Through the Gate reproduced by kind permis- pened). I was lucky. I had a job and a support- UK - and one that allows the lazy decisions of on the ambition to work with And a word on the Through sion of Criminal Justice com- ive family. But I can see how this is system is OMs to be challenged. I cannot believe I am off enders to turn them away the Gate aspects of TR - the mentator Russell Webster failing so many people, and why the rate of the only one to have broken my licence condi- from criminal lifestyles. objective here was to bring www.russellwebster.com re-offending is so high. tions in this way.

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I was astounded at the attention he wrong, saying that in his view he the banjo and still does. He talked of commanded in a room full of in- was a political prisoner. Ricky said his inspirations, such as, Lonnie mates. He talked of the time he spent this was the first time anyone had Donegan, and also his love of classi- behind the very walls he now filled acknowledged this, as it was what cal music - especially Pavarotti. I with laughter, about the injustice of he had thought all along and this found Ricky Tomlinson to be a really his criminal conviction (after 30 was the reason for his protest. He warm friendly open man, who was years of protest he was in fact offi- gave Ricky a book, The Ragged Trou- obliviously still firmly rooted to his cially recognised by Amnesty Inter- sered Philanthropists and urged him working-class background. I got a national as being a Prisoner of to read it. This book was the catalyst sense that although Ricky was obvi- Conscience). He reminisced about for Ricky’s future political views and ously proud of his achievements, and his childhood and the struggles he his fight for socialism. It changed his grateful for the breaks he’d received, and his family had faced, but his life. he was slightly embarrassed by the overall message was one of hope. He wealth this had brought him. It Ricky Tomlinson talking optimism was living testament that we all have He was a living seemed that it did not sit well with the power and strength to succeed if his opinions and fights for his social we work hard and persevere. testament that we all ideology. He justified this by saying have the power and he knew only too well what it was Love of writing like to have no money, have debt col- Acting legend’s strength to succeed if lectors banging at the door and how Ricky told us he had never had an acting lesson in his life and this is we work hard and having money gave him the oppor- where his work ethic, with a sprinkle tunity and platform to offer support of luck, had paid off. He had, he said, persevere. to others, including the Labour message of hope a love of writing. He talked of poetry Party. and the stories he wrote whilst in through books Last month Inside Time published Dave prison and as a child, admitting that I have had the pleasure of reading He firmly believes that Jeremy Cor- an exclusive interview with he would write things down then tear this book which was recommended byn would make a great Prime Min- legendary actor Ricky Tomlinson. An unusual event took place re- them up afterwards for fear of ridi- to me by the organiser of Ricky’s ister, and did not believe all the The interview was sparked by the cently at HMP Leicester. A former cule from his brothers, because of his visit and HMP Leicester’s writ- tabloid press stories. He was only too actor’s visit to HMP Leicester at inmate came back to jail. But this working-class roots. It made me think er-in-residence, Alistair Fruish. I happy to share a little of his luck and the invitation of writer in was a little bit of a different visit, for of Billy Elliot. Most of the audience would like to congratulate him and fortune to help others, talking about residence Alistair Fruish. After the in came award-winning actor, au- empathised with him. He was keen the Prison Library for all the hard the help and support that he was able to give to charitable causes. visit a prisoner, Dave, wrote thor and well known political activ- to tell all the lads about the power of work they do empowering the lads the written word and how it could with events like this, and forever about it and had his article ist the great Ricky Tomlinson. As an help them if they just wrote down urging the lads to read. Overall it was a fantastic, enlighten- published in the social enterprise inmate myself, I was given the hon- our of introducing the great man to their thoughts and words as a form ing day. It is testament to the Prison magazine The Big Issue. This was a packed Chapel of both prisoners of release. Debt collectors Service for allowing such events that the first time the prisoner ever and staff alike. Later in the day I sat down with really do have the power to change had anything published - we are He also spoke of an old Governor, Ricky and he gave me the time to do lives. thrilled to reproduce his piece Laughter Norman Hill, who, he said, “changed a short interview. We talked music, here with the kind permission of The afternoon began with Ricky tell- my life.” Hill told Ricky that he about his early ventures into per- Big Issue editor Paul McNamee. ing tales of his life’s ups and downs. thought his imprisonment was forming with his band. He played Dave is a resident at HMP Leicester

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Prisoners of Honour. a metal cot with a stinking prison, I wrote an article for wafer-thin mattress and laid the Independent newspaper Truth my head on half a sponge pil- and it was published. They Before prison I had never con- low. I had scarcely a spoon of asked for another and that sidered that truth might be hope, just a table and a chair was published too. Still the revered. From an early age I and my six pathetic books a vagaries of prison life per- had lived a life outside of the week. But I took some vicari- sisted and still I wrote. An community, on the edge of ous moral lessons from Drey- article for the Guardian news- society. Truth, justice, integ- fus’s torment. The mire I had paper, sent ‘on spec’ (specu- rity and courage were ideals buried myself in was a little latively) was published in to which I never paid any less engulfing when I thought 1998 - and then in 1999 an heed. Corrupted as a boy, about him. extraordinary stroke of for- without roots or direction I tune occurred. The Guardian drifted through the years Possibilities newspaper was looking for a doing as much as I needed to I spent the first year of my serving prisoner to write a survive, regardless of the cost sentence locked in that cell column about prison life. A to others. But the courage of for twenty-three hours a day writer friend put my name Alfred Dreyfus made me think in a way I had never Realisation of an outrageous fantasy thought before. He survived

© Martin Argles more than four years of iso- lated desolation, suffering fevers, rheumatic spasms, malnutrition and almost ‘Where a good deathly depression - so severe at one point that he com- mented in his diary, ‘How happy are the dead’. His treat- book can take you’ ment at the hands of the au- thorities worsened. For months he was shackled to From a to an island of dreams his bed from sunset to sun- rise, ‘like a mounted insect’ Alfred Dreyfus - man of courage and integrity to spend the rest of his life on one of the finest in the French and his guards were ordered a tiny island ten miles off the officer class - and he was also to harass him by talking coast of Guyane Française. a loving and devoted husband loudly around him and to until I was shipped out to my forward and I got the job - al- Erwin James Devil’s Island was the small- and father to his two young march noisily about his little first high security prison, though the governor respon- est of the three Salvation Is- children. The strain of his pre- prison at night. which proved to be a place of sible for lifers was In prison you exist on dreams, lands, so called because early dicament is palpable in his possibilities. unimpressed when I asked for nightmares and fantasies. I French settlers, suffering letters to Lucie, his wife. ‘Horrible crime’ his approval to write the col- found this out after I was sen- from tropical diseases and ‘When I promised you to go on Yet his diary records that he Years and years and prisons umn. ‘I’ll give you fifty small tenced to life imprisonment in malnutrition, found refuge living, when I promised to never gave up on his country. passed. The prisoner hierar- no’s or one big no but the an- 1984 and taken from the Old there and managed to survive. bear up until my name has ‘I hope that this horrible tor- chy I learned is a realm with swer will be the same,’ he Bailey to Wandsworth prison been vindicated, I made the ture ends soon - if not, I leave no rules. A riot, a siege, a food said, ‘I suggest you get an- in south London. A Cat ‘A’ But there was no salvation for greatest sacrifice possible for my children to , the revolt, a sit-down protest in other hobby.’ prisoner, locked in my cell for Dreyfus - only a specially a man of feeling and integrity.’ motherland that I have al- the exercise yard - suicides, 23 hours a day with few ap- built prison measuring just a ways served with devotion murders, helplessness and We argued. He stonewalled. I parent skills or abilities, and few metres square. Through Anti-Semitism and loyalty’. cruelty - the worst of human picked up the evidence of my almost insurmountable fail- the bars of the single window This good man’s only ‘crime’ nature bubbling along from modest writing achievements ings to overcome - my pros- he often looked out over the was to have been a Jew. For Thanks to the campaigning of year to year, with only mo- that I had spread on his desk pects were bleak. But at least courageous men, in particu- ments of kindness, compas- and began slipping them I could read … lar the French writer Émile sion, generosity and sacrifice. back into my folder. I was Zola, the conviction of Alfred People being good and people about to slope out of his office Every Saturday morning we Dreyfus was eventually set being bad on both sides of the when I remembered the dis- were taken six at a time to the aside and after four years, divide. Through it all I be- tance learning journalism prison library where we could two months and five days on came known as ‘the man who course I had done a few years choose six books. Even Devil’s Island he was brought can write a good letter’. It was earlier on the back of my first though the choice was lim- back to France and eventually a title I liked. It helped me to article in the Independent - ited, my desperation for read- awarded the Legion d’ Hon- survive. Writing letters for with the support and encour- ing material was great. I neur, the equivalent of the others who were less literate agement of the Prison Service. needed escape and so mostly British . than I enabled me to provide ‘Hang on a minute,’ I said. I I read Western paperbacks: a service for my community - pulled out the course diploma Edge: The Loner was my fa- Fantasy of courage something I had never done and showed it to him. ‘You vourite. When I grew tired of It was the courage of Dreyfus before. I involved myself in encouraged me to do this.’ He Westerns I tried novels by that ignited my wildest fan- writing groups, helped to looked a little shame- faced, Stephen King, history books, Devil’s Island tasy. In my Wandsworth cell publish prison magazines, lowered his eyes and said, © Martin Argles ghost stories. All these books I imagined that one day, if I wrote letters to newspapers. ‘We didn’t expect you to do fed my imagination, but none Atlantic Ocean. I imagined this, his colleagues were pre- lived long enough and ever While my role as camp scribe any real journalism.’ made me think like the book him holding those bars, pared to join against him in a again tasted freedom, I would flourished, I indulged in an- I was sent by a friend: Prison- squeezing them tighter and conspiracy of falsehoods and visit Devil’s Island and walk other fantasy. If my life had Columnist ers of Honour by David Lever- tighter in agonising frustra- deceit, even though the evi- in his steps. I would hold onto been different, perhaps I Persistent and determined, I ing Lewis. tion at the wrong that had dence against him was tissue the bars of his cell window could have been a writer, wrote to the Home Office and been done to him. Dreyfus thin. Even when it became and look out over the Atlantic maybe a journalist. Unlike my eventually the then prisons Alfred was a loyal soldier and serv- clear he was innocent, power- just as he had done. I would Dreyfus fantasy, this one had minister Paul Boateng agreed The book was about a French- ant to France. He was a man ful men - from ministers of try to feel his presence and some merit - it became a I should be allowed to write man called Alfred Dreyfus, a of the highest integrity with a state to generals and briga- breathe in his imprisoned air. dream. the column, entitled ‘A Life Captain in the French army, a methodological attitude to his diers - held against him; their I’d squeeze the bars and try to Inside’. The inaugural column Jew, who had been subjected work and his ambition. ‘Until justification was to preserve find some truth of my own. Words appeared in February 2000, to the most incredible injus- now,’ he wrote in his prison the honour of the French army Despite my naïve ability to entitled: ‘How Beggsy fell out tice imaginable. Wrongly ac- diary, ‘I made a cult of reason. and ultimately the legitimacy It was an outrageous fantasy. string words together the with Bob’ - a little vignette cused and convicted of spying I used to believe in the logic of the government itself. If My prison cell had three sets chances, in fairness, of such about a fall-out over a news- for Germany, Dreyfus was of things and events. Finally Dreyfus were to die a wretched of bars on the small window a dream becoming a reality paper between two prisoners sentenced to life imprison- I used to believe in human death on Devil’s Island then set high up on the back wall. were slim. And then in 1994, in neighbouring cells. It was ment in 1894 and shipped out justice!’ He was a fine soldier, so be it. These men were the I shat in a bucket and slept on ten years after I was sent to the first column of its kind in Panic began to rise in my chest as hand- There was no time to hesitate and no turn- sized spiders appeared from nowhere and ing back. I jumped and Martin followed. dashed blindly over me.

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island, inspecting the site of sailed all the way from Para- huge sticky cobwebs that tell of his ordeal, a plaque the guillotine and the old maribo, agreed to put Martin hung all around. Panic began perhaps to mark his courage. prison barracks. The prison and myself onto Devil’s Island to rise in my chest as hand- But there was nothing. buildings are entangled with and would collect us 30 min- sized spiders appeared from jungle overgrowth, but sur- utes later for €100 - about £70. nowhere and dashed blindly As I paced his stone floor and prisingly well preserved. ‘It’s a deal,’ I said. over me. I felt bites on my legs looked out through his win- Picking my way through the and arms, but kept running, dow bars, I was exhilarated narrow corridors, avoiding I was grateful the skipper was faster, slipping and sliding on but at the same time troubled the tribes of fire ants and a master navigator. As he massive cobwebs, the vines edged his vessel through the and the rampaging tree roots, violent swells of the crys- I was struck by the quantity tal-green sea towards the of rusting iron. Scattered rocks, the dangerousness of everywhere are pieces of chain, our venture hit home. When Cellular confi nement steel bars, bolts and fetters. we were less than six feet

© Martin Argles from Devil’s Island preparing the history of British journal- for tourists to the Salvation Native fishermen to disembark I understood ism. The money the paper Islands. I asked around at the I asked the captain again if he why it had been so difficult to paid for the column went to harbour - a patch of waste- would take me across the persuade anyone local to charity. I wrote the column land with access to a couple shark-infested channel to bring us here. ‘Allez!’ shouted from my prison cell for four of river pontoons - to see if I Devil’s Island. ‘Non,’ he said, the second mate, pointing at and a half years and then in could get a boat ride to Devil’s but agreed to ask his friend the one flat-faced rock among August 2004, exactly twenty Island. Though trips were who knew some fishermen the jagged mass. There was from neighbouring Suriname no time to hesitate and no The Crimson Barracks

years to the day since I had been available to Royale Island and © Martin Argles taken into custody, the Parole from there to St Joseph’s Is- who fished the waters. An turning back. I jumped and Board ordered my release. land it was made clear to me hour or so later I heard a voice Martin followed. that going anywhere near call out from the harbour. ground knee-deep in rotting by the pervading sense of Now a writer Devil’s Island was ‘stricte- ‘Monsieur!’ The captain’s Within a few adrenaline- coconuts while Martin raced deprivation. I grasped his In 2006, I pitched an idea to ment interdit’. So the next day friend had spoken to the skip- pumped minutes we had after me. At last we broke into window bars and stared out the Guardian Features editor, we headed for Royale on a per of a passing pirogue, a scrambled over the rocks and a clearing and there, 20 paces across the Atlantic Ocean … then Katherine Viner who tourist catamaran. When the kind of motorised dug-out entered the thick jungle un- ahead of us, stood the one-man today is Editor in Chief. islands appeared in the dis- canoe. The skipper and his dergrowth, almost immedi- prison of Alfred Dreyfus. two-man crew, who had ately getting tangled up in the ‘Kath,’ I said, ‘this year is the tance, I asked the skipper’s Prisoners of I stopped running and walked centenary of the exoneration mate what the chances were Honour, the nervously towards the tiny of Alfred Dreyfus. Would you of us getting on Devil’s Island. Dreyfus Affair stone building. The iron-barred consider me visiting his ‘Pas bon,’ (not good) he said. by David gate, rusting and bent, hung prison on Devil’s Island and Levering open. I walked inside and writing about it for Guardian Drawing closer, the lush Lewis ISBN: breathed in the cool air. I looked readers?’ Her response was greenness of the three islands 030429487X positive and within a month I seemed to glow under the around for a sign that might was high in the sky on my way dazzling blue sky. To me they to Guyane Française, accompa- looked magical. Once our Postscript: After my visit I wrote to David Levering Lewis and ex- nied by Guardian photogra- boat was anchored in the tiny plained about my journey. To my amazement I received a reply. pher Martin Argles. harbour we disembarked and ‘Dear Mr. James, Yours is the first verifiable evidence I think I’ve re- made our way up to what had ceived that one of my books ever did anybody much good. Be assured Fantasy come true once been the guards’ mess that your special appreciation of Prisoners of Honour will stay with We landed at Cayenne, the hall, which would be our ac- me forever.’ After reading his email I cried for the first time in a long capital of French Guyana, and commodation for the night. time. It marked the end of a journey that began in that miserable made our way by hire car to Royal Island Wandsworth prison cell when my friend sent me a book. He had

Kourou, the departure point The next day we toured the © Martin Argles written inside, ‘You never know where a good book might take you…’

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evidence or research any- crime and offending behav- pointless funding it. So, they where that proves there is any iour. It did not make sense to allowed armed-robbers, bur- tangible effect from these me. And the real punch in the glars and others to now take Par for the course? courses, let alone rehabilita- the course; ignoring the ear- eye with this course is that it tion or a change in the pro- had a prisoner questionnaire lier warnings about creating A personal take on Offending Behaviour Courses cess of thinking. Which at the start and end of the better criminals. Money is brings me to the next course I course. Prisoners, being nat- money, after all. generally unhappy. We found absolutely nothing from was marshalled onto; ‘En- ural rule-breakers and short- it hard to relate to the advice being cajoled onto this course hanced Thinking Skills’. cut merchants, soon sussed I did most of these courses of the course which, at its es- on three separate occasions that the best way to success- more than once, and they Noel Smith sence, was just an overlong over the years. The ‘pressure’ Approaching the mid-1990s, fully complete this course didn’t change my mind about warning to ‘stay calm and used to convince prisoners to courses were popping up was by answering in the neg- anything. The trouble was everywhere in the prison sys- that they were too short and Since the late 1980s all sorts count to 10’. After all, we were do these courses was subtle, ative to the pre-course ques- tem, you couldn’t walk down not very well thought out. I of ‘courses’ have been on offer housed in a prison that had or about as subtle as the sys- tionnaire, and then showing a landing without seeing a eventually did find my reha- in the British prison system, the unenviable title of ‘the tem can manage. We were an ‘improvement’ by answer- bilitation through coursework many of them flying under most violent Dispersal jail in told that the courses were vol- flier for some sort of new ing in the positive for the post- the flag of OBC (Offending the system’ at that time; an untary, but we were also in- course - Anger Management, course questionnaire. and therapy, but not once a Behaviour Courses) but can a average of two seriously vio- formed that if we did not Enhanced Thinking Skills, week for an hour. I volun- part-time psychology-based lent incidents a week were ‘volunteer’ then we would Relationships, Drugs & Alco- After a few years of ETS, teered for HMP Grendon and course of treatment really re- occurring in this prison and probably not be looked at fa- hol, courses aimed at specific somebody with a bit of nous lived the coursework and habilitate anyone? My own it seemed packed to the raft- vourably when it came to crimes, such as the Sex Of- had a look at the course and therapy for 5 years. It worked extensive involvement in ers with angry and violent things like re-categorisation, fenders Treatment Pro- suddenly realised that if the because I wasn’t just paying these courses goes back to young men serving long transfer, parole and home- gramme (SOTP) or a course participants were serving lip-service for an hour before 1990, when I was basically prison sentences. leave. The stark and basic aimed at enlightening bur- time for burglary or being sent back onto the land- ordered to take what they message was; volunteer for glars or people who commit- armed-robbery then partak- ings. And, to my mind, you then called the ‘Anger Man- Trying to ‘keep calm and the course or get nothing. ted domestic violence. ing in this course would serve cannot find the change you agement’ course whilst serv- counting to 10’ might be an to make them better crimi- want on a part-time basis; you ing time in a Dispersal prison option in the outside world This type of approach also The big one in those days was nals. ETS would teach us to have to fully commit to it. on the Isle of Wight. but following that advice on tended to doom any positive Enhanced Thinking Skills plan our crimes in a more me- the landings could find things effects that may have accrued (ETS) and there was a con- ticulous way and to ‘out- I hear the prison system has The Anger Management escalating in pretty short from the course because most certed effort to get bums on think’ the authorities. For a recently had an overhaul of course had been newly-intro- order. We quickly realised prisoners ‘volunteered’ under seats. I couldn’t really get my couple of years, it was de- the OBCs they offer - getting duced to our prison system that the Anger Management duress and went into it with head around the concept that creed that certain types of rid of the totally useless SOTP and all of the course materi- course was about as useful as no interest and no hope, feel- putting a bunch of violent and criminals were no longer wel- amongst others. I just hope als, including the ‘anger’ vid- a foghorn on a skateboard. ing only resentment that they disinterested long-term pris- come on the ETS course. they start making decent eos, had been imported from But, it was early days and had been pushed into doing oners in a room together for OBCs that are more than just New Zealand. It seemed a bit within a couple of years they something they had no faith an hour a week, and then get- This did not last long as they an hour a week, but real time surreal sitting in the chapel had ‘tweaked’ the course to in. And this ‘pressured’ ap- ting them to play games in an soon discovered that the efforts that allow those who watching grainy footage of make it more relevant to a proach has been used ever attempt to get them to bond number of people doing the wish it a chance to change native New Zealanders shout- prison setting; or so they since. It is no wonder that and open up to each other, ETS was falling. If no one did their lives. It will be worth the ing at each other and being claimed. Personally, I gained there is not a single jot of would turn them away from the course then it was effort.

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social and economic consequences of overuse of custody. They reveal the © prisonimage.org people. Of 45% of men in prison aged state of our overcrowded prisons and the state of people in them, the With prison sentences getting longer, more these, 3,278 over 50 have been convicted impact of deep budget cuts, the pace and scale of change in the justice people are growing old behind bars. People are in their of sex offences. The next system and the scope for community solutions to crime. Below we have aged 60 and over are the fastest growing age 60s and a highest offence category is group in the prison estate. There are now further 1,665 violence against the person picked a selection from the latest published briefing - Summer 2018 more than triple the number there were 15 people are (23%) followed by drug years ago. 70 or older. offences (9%). People remanded to custody to await trial are 459 people Lifers continue to serve their There are innocent until proven guilty. 34,017 people The rate of release for IPP are still in currently were sent to prison before their trial in 2017 prisoners has increased sentence on release from prison 62 people - down by 16% in two years. sharply in the last three prison for the rest of their years. In 2017, for every 1,000 despite lives. They are subject to serving a people serving an IPP being given whole life The number One in 10 people remanded monitoring and restrictions sentence 184 were released. a tariff of sentence of people in into custody by magistrates’ less than and can be returned to - they are courts in 2017 were subse- custody at any point if they prison on But the number of people in two years unlikely to quently acquitted. A further break the terms of their remand has prison who have been - nearly half ever be 14% of people received a of these (278 licence. released. dropped by

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2596_InsideTimeHalfPageAdSuite.indd 3 19/06/2018 09:37 32 Information // Through the Gate www.insidetime.org Insidetime September 2018 The Careers Lady MoJ operating to get released prisoners working The first step through the door Getting out soon? Be hopeful for work opportunities to your future responsible for 35% of vacan- Inside Time report Businesses already cies in construction, 20% of vacancies in wholesale and working with prisoners With so much apparent chaos retail, and 19% of vacancies and released prisoners Making the right decision and failure across the prison in hospitality. system, it’s easy to think that Do people with convictions ‘Life is a matter of choices and every choice you make makes you’ the Ministry of Justice is mak- Thinking outside the box have any qualifications or John C. Maxwell ing no effort to help released about recruitment and explor- the skills needed to work? prisoners get back on track In its simplest sense, decision making is the act of choosing between two or more courses of action ing new talent pools can help “The guys on-site, they are and working for a living. in the wider process of problem solving. Decision making involves choosing between possible just like everybody else that However the MoJ website has overcome such skills shortag- solutions to a problem or action. There are ways to help you in your decisions about which career we come across as an employ- a section dedicated to inform- es. Current prisoners and path to choose. Taking the overwhelming factor out of decision making with the following logical er. We find they come with a ing potential employers of the ex-offenders have a wide step-by-step process will help you challenge any threats that may be in the way. variety of skills and we ensure benefits of employing people breadth of skills to suit your they are then given the cor- with convictions. The follow- sector, making them ideal The ‘SWOT’ analysis is a useful technique for understanding your strengths and weaknesses, and rect training so they can go ing is a summary of what the job-ready candidates. for identifying both the opportunities to you and the threats you may face. to work and join in with the MoJ proposes. team.” l Reducing recruitment costs Using a simple table-like process; start by completing the four sections. Good business The CIPD has calculated that Claire Coombs, Development Manager, Keltbray Strengths Weaknesses Over half of employers struggle filling the average non-man- to fill vacancies due to skills agerial vacancy costs around l What skills do you have? l Are you limited in some academic shortages, according to the £2,000. Work inclusion initi- Can I really rely on peo- l What training have you completed? qualifications? Chartered Institute of Personnel atives, such as opening ple with convictions to be l Are you good at timekeeping, being l Have you a physical disability that limits and Development (CIPD). recruitment up to ex-offend- part of my workforce? organised etc? some jobs? ers, can help reduce those “Pret has been working with l Are you good with people? l What tasks do you avoid because you Working with prisons to offer overheads, saving organisa- both Working Chance and l don’t feel confident doing them? Have you the patience to complete a task? training and employment tions substantial sums. Novus for several years to take l What are your negative work habits i.e. l What of your personal achievements are opportunities makes good ex-offenders on to our Rising you most proud? being disorganised, bad timekeeping etc? business sense, as well as l Increasing staff retention Stars Programme. We see this l What do you consider you do better than helping prisoners and ex-of- Opportunities Evidence from employers such as an excellent talent pool with anyone else? fenders get their lives back on as Marks & Spencer shows many Rising Stars enjoying l Are you able to access computer technology track. It allows your business that employees recruited from a great career within Pret.” Threats and develop your keyboard skills? to unlock opportunity and tap disadvantaged groups demon- Nicki Fisher, Head of the l into a new pool of talented, Are you limited in accessing l Do you have friends or family that can strate lower turnover rates Pret Foundation Trust, Pret or training? highly motivated people who help and advise you on your career ideas? than the wider workforce. The A Manger l Are you kept back by negative thoughts you might not have consid- l higher value placed on having What are your realistic job or career ideas? ered before. about jobs after release? Will they turn up for work l Are there any workshops in the prison a job, with the desire to stay out l What obstacles do you face at the moment? of prison, often means ex-of- if I take a chance on them? l Will you have a problem re-locating after you can access? There is a range of ways to get fenders have higher levels of “We have found that the level being released or any money issues that l Have you a careers adviser linked to your involved with prisoners and ex-offenders, which have dif- loyalty and retention, which of retention of our graduates will be in the way? prison you can talk to? ferent business benefits. This keeps institutional knowl- from the [prison] academy is guide will help you to identify edge within your business. higher than the level of reten- The above are just some useful bullet points. You may have much more to put in the individual the best option for your organ- tion of our normal employed boxes. Don’t try and complete it all at once. Keep looking at it over a few days as you think carefully isation and find out more from l Reducing staff absence sales floor workers.” about each of the questions. You may be able to talk to your personal officer who can help you other businesses, already Unreliability is the biggest Andy McBride, Head of or take it into the library or education department where staff will be more than willing to help. reaping the rewards of work- concern of employers, with Resourcing and People ing with prisons or employing 49% of business surveyed cit- Shared Services, Halfords Finally, once you have completed the boxes you should look to see how you can turn your weak- ex-offenders. ing it as the reason they nesses into strengths and you threats into opportunities. You should then have more in the would not consider hiring an Why should I hire people positive boxes than in the negative boxes. Employment on release ex-offender. However, many with convictions? What’s Upon release, prisoners are businesses have found ex-of- The SWOT analysis can help in solving many problems - not just for jobs and careers but even in it for my business? available to work and have fenders go the extra mile to personal and life-changing problems. “Through the ex-offenders full employee rights. Prisons secure results and take a programme, Balfour Beatty can help you arrange inter- below-average number of is making a positive impact views with ex-offenders days off work because they on local communities. The before they are released, so Why go it alone? CANTERS CRIME see their jobs as providing programme also plays a key We are a friendly rm, with solicitors and legally you know who you are getting them with a second chance. role in inspiring change in our “Locked in here all day; you don’t turn criminals quali ed sta who are experts in their particular before they start. into citizens by treating them this way” areas of law industry and helping us to - with kind permission from Billy Bragg l Making a difference build an inclusive workforce.” Over 300 businesses around Employment is key to break- We can attend prisons in Northern England AREAS OF WORK the UK are already employing Rachel Byrne, Human ing the cycle of reoffending but also offer a nationwide service. LICENSE RECALL PAROLE REVIEWS ex-offenders, watch the video Resource Director, Balfour for individuals and their fam- • Parole / Recall (below) and hear about their Beatty IPP REVIEWS ADJUDICATIONS ilies, providing children with • Independent Adjudications Other Prison Law issues considered experiences. • Cat A Reviews role models they can follow but payment may be on a private fee basis What is it like working with • Appeals / CCRC into employment, instead of the prison? • Judicial Review All areas of Criminal work including Police Reasons to work with crime. Actively hiring former • Oral Hearings Interviews/ Court Appearances prisoners and ex-offenders “It’s been really easy working prisoners is proven to reduce Working with ex-offenders with the prison; they’ve been reoffending. Most offenders CONTACT US has a whole range of benefits, really helpful, very supportive.” 0151 239 1020 including: want the opportunity to turn their backs on crime and hav- Andrew Sherwood, Human T. 01274 561666 [email protected] Resources Director, Bernard l Resolving skills shortages ing a job helps them get their www.chiverssolicitors.co.uk Matthews 24 DALE STREET , LIVERPOOL L2 5RL By sector, skills shortages are lives back on track. Insidetime September 2018 www.insidetime.org Information // Through the Gate 33 ‘I went to university after a life sentence’

heads of departments I was applying qualifi cations and background. He’d ple? That’s the social hurdle that I work in a Criminology and Criminal to, and then I put a sample of my overturned the rejection and accept- people with criminal records have Justice team, where many of the staff Open University work and a letter in, ed me. I can’t even begin to envisage when they’re coming into an institu- has professional backgrounds. But Jason targeted at each head of department. my life if that hadn’t happened. tion such as a university - that fear that only gives us one perspective - of rejection, that stigma that’s so what we need is the other side, stu- When I entered into prison I read I checked my UCAS updates online: I think there are a number of hurdles attached to your history and your dents with experience. The more voraciously, right from remand rejection, rejection, rejection. that can arise for people who have background you wear it like stigma- students we have coming through who through conviction and then contin- Eventually all six of my options were been through the criminal justice ta. You wear it as an ingrained part can off er that, the more we can have uously from conviction onwards; I rejected. Not getting in felt like a system when they go to university. of yourself. a dialogue between practice and was reading five to seven books a blow to the stomach. And then I got For instance, when I started experience and academia and research. week. I would exhaust libraries and a letter from the London School of everything was online but I didn’t Universities are always going to ben- The moment you have that dialogue, then go back around and read again Economics (LSE) saying: ‘Thank you have a computer. I wandered around efi t from having a wide range of stu- you’ve got what universities should - any new book that came in - I was for your application but we’re not the building looking for notices that dent backgrounds. The university be doing - progressing knowledge just consuming. off ering you a position at this time’. told me what classroom I needed to I’m at now has this idea of instilling and progressing the conversation. However three days later I got an be in. I had no mechanism of access- and embedding international cul- For students that is essential. When I decided to apply to universi- acceptance letter from them. ing these systems of information that tures within their students: ‘We ty I flipped over the Times Higher Confused, I phoned the LSE but at everyone else just took for granted. want our students to learn from as The wider the range of experiences and looked at philosophy courses that time of year trying to get broad a range of perspectives as pos- we have - especially in an applied and which universities were the top through to undergraduate admis- I was asked when I started my under- sible’. But part of that department like mine six outside of Cambridge and sions was a nightmare - no one knew. graduate degree not to talk about my awareness is including people who - the better the conversation is going Oxford, and I applied to those. I put I later found out that the convener of background, which meant that I are on the margins of society; people to be, the better the student and teach- a letter in with my UCAS form, the department of Philosophy of couldn’t be fully open or honest. How that get pushed to those outer ing experience, the better the future explaining my circumstances, but Social Sciences at LSE had got my do you develop friendships if you’re regions. We need their voices and we researchers we develop, and the better what I also did was to look up all the package and was intrigued by my constantly keeping things from peo- need their experiences here as well. the future knowledge we produce.

less left to serve of a prison sentence, so it’s still up-to- date on release. You’ll also need to take a practical qual- ification to prepare you for work in this fi eld.

With strong growth predicted in this sector, many appli- Course Notes cants see the course as an opportunity to strengthen © prisonimage.org PET provides funding their case for employment. 43 year-old Keith successfully Are you an armed forces for over 300 types of applied for the course last distance-learning year: “Obtaining this qualifi - veteran in prison? courses. Every month cation will provide me with a This year, PET has funds to provide more distance learning we shine a spotlight on solid platform to progress to courses and arts materials to veterans in prison, so if you’ve one of them. future studies and exams, served in the armed forces now is a great time to apply. Electrical Technologies and obtain suitable practical To look at a full curriculum, experience to allow me to or for more information Bill served as an offi cer in the Parachute Regiment. He is now Are you a bright spark? Do grounding in electrical instal- become a fully qualifi ed and about how to apply for a embarking on the first module of an Open University Arts you want to keep current with lation and design, which accredited electrician.” distance-learning course degree thanks to funding from PET: “The ability to paint and the latest in electronics? PET could be used in fi elds like the with PET, please speak to to study will not only give me a basis and platform for a career can help you fi nd out ‘watt’s construction industry. 20 year-old Mehmet told us your prison’s Education on release, it will also enable me to positively focus on achiev- watt’ in the world of Electrical why he was keen to apply: “I Department. If you need ing something that will benefi t not only myself but friends, Technologies. The theory-based course hope by doing this course I further help, you can write family and others.” takes 9-12 months to com- can become self-employed, to FREEPOST, Prisoners’ Last year, PET funded over 20 plete, with units covering top- be my own boss and start my Education Trust. Thanks to support from the Royal British Legion, we are able people to study the Level 3 ics such as health and safety, own business. I would enjoy to help veterans like Bill access arts and education in prison. Certificate in Electrical building services engineering the challenge of working If you’ve served in the armed forces and want to take the next Technologies Theory course, and wiring techniques. The through the course by myself step on your learning journey, ask your library or education run by Study House. The course should be taken by as it shows independence and department for a PET curriculum, or write to us at FREEPOST course gives learners a strong people who have two years or dedication.” Prisoners’ Education Trust to fi nd out more.

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Your data Paul Sullivan able for criminal law enforce- must be provided within 30 ment purposes. All data must days. hope not hopelessness be held securely and only made available to those with If writing a letter, you will Keeping safe is about treating everyone with respect Prisoners have as much right a lawful and legitimate need need to provide your full to access personal data held to access it. All prisoners and name, prison number, prison, on them as members of the all visitors must be provided date of birth and, if possible, Many prisoners came up with sensible solu- public and the Prison Service with a privacy notice explain- date of sentence. Describe the tions to prevent suicide and self-harm. One has specific instructions ing how the prison deals with data you require and any rel- wrote: “… you get the odd offi cer who really detailing how the process Juliet Lyon CBE their personal data. If the pris- evant dates. You could speci- works for prisoners. It was takes care and really wants to do something on is asked to provide your fy ‘All Data’ but you are likely updated in March 2018 but but there should be an offi cer on every landing data to a third party, they are to get a large box of papers. remains substantially When you wrote to the Independent Advisory who spends at least ten to twenty minutes with not allowed to do so without Be aware that it may be diffi - unchanged. Data that is avail- Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) to say how one prisoner at a time through the time he is your consent - this would not cult to keep your data paper- able for prisoners is all per- best to prevent suicide and self-harm in prison, there and understands him and gets to know include probation or the work secure, so only ask for sonal data including prison more than anything else you talked about the police. what you need and ask the him rather than him being just a number and records; education and work- importance of relationships between prisoners prison to shred any papers just opening cells and unlocking them. Then shop records; prison proba- Accessing your personal data you do not need to keep. and staff . One man said simply: “The only rea- it might be easier for the prisoner to approach tion records; sentence plan- son I am still alive is due to some staff and him and the offi cer can see if the prisoner’s ning and OASys reports. is called a ‘Subject Access tutors who go above and beyond the call of down or not by getting to know him.” Request’ (SAR) and you The address to write to, or duty.” As part of the Data Protection should be provided with all send the SAR form to, at the relevant data. If you wish Branston is: Ministry of It’s clear: if someone is deprived of their liber- Act, all personal data should to make a SAR you can ask for Justice, Data Protection Team, Out of the 150 letters from Inside Time readers ty then the state has a duty to protect their life. be processed lawfully and ‘in the relevant form or do it as a Branston Registry, Building and messages from Prison Radio listeners We promised to get your messages to people a transparent manner’. It must be held for legitimate normal letter, in which case 16, Supply and Transport across 60 prisons, the message to Ministers, in authority with the power to change things. reasons and must be relevant you must make it clear that it Store, Burton Road, Branston, offi cials and prison managers was clear: We are keeping that promise and will continue and not excessive. Importantly, is a Subject Access Request. It Burton Upon Trent, to report back to you through the pages of all data must be accurate and may be that, should you only Staff ordshire DE14 3EG. • Make sure you have a safe number of staff for Inside Time. We know there is a long way to go up-to-date. Data that is based want a limited amount of the number of prisoners you hold; to keep prisoners and prison staff safe - with on facts must be distinguish- data, the prison will deal with For more information, you • Recruit and keep ‘decent people who treat levels of violence and self-harm appalling in able from data based on per- you directly, otherwise the can read the relevant Prison prisoners with humanity and respect and show some prisons. sonal assessments. All rea- request is sent to the Data Service Instruction PSI common sense’; sonable steps must be taken Protection Team at Branston. 03/2018 in the prison library. • Support, train and supervise staff to meet Things are shifting. The IAP welcomes the to ensure that personal data There is a £10 charge for a It can be downloaded at: national and international human rights hard work being done by safer custody staff , which is inaccurate, incom- request which can be paid https://tinyurl.com/y7npqcqk standards. the good new training developed by the Samaritans and the appointment of more staff From your letters, there was a general feeling in some places. We welcome a ministerial team that there was simply not enough staff for them prepared to be called to account for safety in to do their job properly. One prisoner wrote: prisons. And, most of all, we welcome a reduc- “From what I have seen; staff rush around giv- tion in deaths in custody. ing little time to anything or anyone.” Ex-Offenders Another noted: “There are good staff but not Juliet Lyon is Chair of the Independent enough of them.” Limited staff time is spent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) to Entrepreneurs! dealing with those who are most visible - par- ticularly vulnerable or challenging prisoners. The IAP is gathering information about So ... you want to be One prisoner argued that those who do not the health and wellbeing of people cause trouble get forgotten: “I continue to feel serving an IPP sentence in order to raise the next Bill Gates? unheard and out of sight out of mind.” any concerns and solutions with Justice Deborah Meaden? Jay Z? and Public Health Ministers. Please

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HMP & YOI Low Newton HMP Leicester Female resettlement prison Local prison with a resettlement function Unannounced Inspection: 12-22 February Unannounced Inspection: 8-19 January 2018 2018 Published: 6 June 2018 Published: 31 May 2018 Safety W W W W Safety W W W W Respect W W W W Respect W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W HMP Long Lartin HMP Belmarsh Resettlement W W W W Resettlement W W W W Dispersal prison, long term and high A local prison, holding men and young adults security, holding A and B category prisoners some of whom require a high level of security “An excellent women’s prison dealing “Violence still a problem but clear with the challenges and needs of a very evidence of improved conditions” Unannounced Inspection: 15-16, 22-26 Unannounced Inspection: 29 January-9 January 2018 Published: 22 May 2018 February 2018 Published: 12 June 2018 complex population” Introducing the report Mr Clarke says: “We last Safety W W W W Safety W W W W Low Newton was found by inspectors to have inspected the prison in 2015 when we were Respect W W W W Respect W W W W an “immensely complex” female population, highly critical of what was then a deteriorating Purposeful Activity W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W ranging from those remanded by courts across establishment failing to ensure outcomes were Resettlement W W W W Resettlement W W W W a wide geographical area to prisoners serving sufficiently good in any of our tests of a healthy prison. It is therefore pleasing to report that our “A fundamentally capable high-security very long, often indeterminate sentences. “Encouraging trial of body scanner to prevent findings at this inspection evidenced significant prison” smuggling of drugs and contraband” Nearly all the women had arrived at the prison with problems and many had ‘significant his- improvement across many areas, despite on- going challenges both operationally and Since the previous inspection in 2014 the prison tories of substance misuse, self-harm and men- Inspectors say an X-ray body scanner being environmentally.” has suffered several ‘extremely serious incidents piloted at Belmarsh resulted in the discovery tal health problems’. Many women at the prison including two murders; however, Peter Clarke, of weapons, mobile phones and drugs on pris- had a long history of self-harm, and 77% said Recorded violence had fluctuated considerably HM Chief Inspector of Prisons said inspectors oners which would not have been identified they had mental health problems. Care for vul- since 2015 but remained high and had risen found a “well-controlled environment where during a strip-search and contributed toward nerable women was excellent and staff knew further in 2017. About a fifth of violent incidents most prisoners reported to us that they felt safe.” a reduction in drug-fuelled violence. Mr Clarke about the detailed circumstances of those in were judged to be serious and assaults on staff Assaults by prisoners on prisoners had fallen says: “Early results were encouraging, and I their care who had complex needs. but there had been a rise in assaults on staff. was told that staff welcomed the initiative, as had increased. Use of force by staff and use of segregation and special accommodation simi- did many prisoners who wanted to see the trou- Mr Clarke said that this inspection found an Since 2014 at least three prisoners had taken larly remained high. Despite this violence, in- blesome and dangerous trade in contraband excellent prison run by “skilled and motivated” their own lives but there had been good progress disrupted.” spectors found the prison’s wings were much staff who dealt with the range of challenges. in implementing recommendations following calmer, with staff showing much greater con- He said: “At our last inspection, in October investigations into those deaths by the Prisons Despite an increase in violence it was not as fidence and control in their supervision of pris- 2014, we commented on the complexity of the and Probation Ombudsman (PPO). Support for significant as in many other local prisons. The oners than previously. Prisoners’ perceptions population and were impressed with what we those at risk of self-harm was generally good. report says: “Inspectors, in 2018, found the of their own safety were now more in line with considered to be a humane and caring approach The report says: “The management of security prison faced several new challenges compared our findings at similar prisons, an improvement to managing the women. At this inspection, we was the prison’s main priority and stringent with 2015, some of which were outside the gov- on 2015. Drugs and psychoactive substances perimeter security undoubtedly contributed to were again struck by the skilled and motivated ernor’s direct control. For instance, there was remained a threat to the stability of the prison a less significant problem with illicit drugs than management and staff and by how they carried a significant shortage of frontline staff. This although again, Mr Clarke said, the prison inspectors usually see. There was good work was being addressed, but had resulted in a out their duties in a decent, caring and, when showed initiative in trying to address this. to tackle staff corruption. Inspectors also com- severely depleted daily regime and regular re- necessary, firm way to keep women safe, and mended the way the prison dealt with the risk deployment of specialist staff to ensure that the prison purposeful.” There had been three self-inflicted deaths since of extremism among prisoners.” even a basic period of daily unlocking time the last inspection in 2015. The report com- could be given.” This was detrimental to the The report says that the increase in the popu- Once again, the Inspectorate raise the issues of area of purposeful activity, one of the ments: “Although self-harm had reduced, it lation meant that more women than previously the NightSan toilet arrangements. Mr Clarke Inspectorate’s key ‘healthy prison’ tests cover- remained higher than at other similar prisons. were now living in overcrowded cells. Some says: “Although the quality of accommodation ing training and education. Time out of cells Again, however, it seemed to us that the prison prison buildings were ‘shabby and rather claus- varied greatly, about half the population was for prisoners had “declined significantly” since was doing a lot of work to improve the held in ageing house blocks that used the night 2015. The funding for education and training trophobic’, but nevertheless clean and decent. situation.” sanitation system. Our report details the indig- was also found to be insufficient and meant the Staff-prisoner relationships were very strong nities imposed on prisoners by this arrange- prison could not meet all prisoners’ needs. and “formed the basis of what was good about The cleanliness of the prison had improved. ment, a system we have criticised repeatedly the prison.” “Overcrowding was prevalent but some refur- in the past.” Inspectors found some good work- to identify bishment had been undertaken and more was men who were vulnerable, including those at In summary Mr Clarke said: “Low Newton re- planned. Access to amenities was reasonable, In summary Mr Clarke says: “Long Lartin, despite risk of self-harm. Some men at Belmarsh had a mained an excellent women’s prison where mitigating some of the negative aspects of the the challenges, remains a fundamentally capa- combination of mental health issues, person- leaders and staff understood and managed the environment.” ble prison. Its response to some of the very serious ality disorders and very challenging behaviour complex mix of risks and needs well. Some operational challenges it has had to deal with and it was encouraging to be told that the high robust action was being taken to address the Commenting on his findings Mr Clarke says: has been robust and measured and, in that sense, security and long-term directorate was review- use of illicit drugs and associated violence and “The theme of this inspection, and the word we the establishment had not been knocked off ing how these men were being managed and bullying, and staff were skilled in challenging repeatedly return to, is improvement. Leicester course. Key challenges it had still to deal with considering what improvements could be made. poor behaviour when it occurred. They also concerned the legacy of some very poor accom- Inspectors, however, were concerned by some is one of the country’s oldest operational prisons modation and the need to routinely provide of the accommodation, with cases of “claustro- provided excellent care when needed, which and its limitations are not easily overcome. That sufficient supervisory staff to sustain the daily phobic and extremely uncomfortable” cells many women told us they appreciated. The said, the prison was now well led by a capable routine. Key strengths remained a good staff designed for two but holding three men. Mr regime was purposeful, and the generally good governor. Work had been undertaken on a broad culture which supported respectful engagement Clarke said: “We thought that this practice resettlement provision supported efforts to re- front to resolve issues or put in place practical with prisoners and a competent management should stop, and that the prison’s operational habilitate the women. We commend the work plans and initiatives which should be the basis team with a good grip on the issues.” capacity should be reduced to achieve this.” of the governor and her team at Low Newton.” for further progress.”

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additional days. Children in Scotland had found no evi- should do as a result. young offender institutions dence that the abolition of can, but not if they are serv- additional days north of the Officers and prisoners draw A thousand extra up behavioural compacts and ing detention and training border had had a negative im- orders. This results in a two- pact on behaviour. prisoners keep copies so they tier system where children in have their own record and gain the same institution can be- In a video recorded for the agency over the process. years to serve have in the same way but be event, which can be viewed treated differently. Last year, on the Howard League web- The programme at Durham Scrap additional imprisonment in prisons in England and more than 3,400 additional site, the Chief Executive of the has been so successful that days were imposed on chil- Scottish Prison Service, Colin the regional custody team has Wales, says Howard League dren aged 15 to 17. McConnell, said: “In my view picked it up, with courses to there is no evidence whatso- be rolled out elsewhere in the England and Wales should non-violent infractions of Howard League found that Howard League analysis re- ever - certainly in our 16 years region - between 70 and 80 follow Scotland’s lead and rules, contribute to the dete- the differences between pris- veals that the Ministry of Jus- of experience since added officers have been trained so scrap the imposition of addi- rioration of the prison system ons could not be explained in tice’s official statistics about days were removed from our far. tional imprisonment for by exacerbating overcrowd- terms of their size, popula- additional days have repeat- administrative capacity - that rule-breaking in prisons, a ing and producing a sense of tions or locations. Instead, it edly been stated incorrectly. could in any way justify the Case study 2: Guys Marsh report by the Howard League unfairness among prisoners. appears to come down to A Ministry of Justice data re- introduction of added days, prison for Penal Reform recom- Abolishing them, as was done prison leadership and institu- lease from April inaccurately or for that matter justify their Following a very poor inspec- mends as figures show that in Scottish prisons more than tional culture. stated that “a total of 21,081 perpetuation.” tion report in December 2016, totalling almost 16 years ago, would help to additional days were added to Guys Marsh commenced the 1,000 years were handed address these problems. The report finds that running prisoner’s (sic) sentences”. Additional days of impris- Growth Project. This whole- down in 2017. a prison that imposes sub- This figure in fact represents onment imposed in England prison, research-informed Frances Crook, Chief Execu- stantial numbers of addi- the number of instances of and Wales programme involved training The rising tide: Additional tive of the Howard League for tional days is a choice. It is an additional days being im- officers on relationships and days for rule-breaking in Penal Reform, said: “The ex- enactment of a punitive and posed. At any such instance, 2014: 159,497 how to deal with conflict. prison reveals how the disci- plosion in the use of addi- unjust culture and is neither up to 42 days can be added to 2015: 215,348 plinary system in prisons has tional days of imprisonment inevitable nor necessary. a prisoner’s sentence. This 2016: 289,605 Wellbeing days were organ- become unsustainable, with has been a catastrophe for the means that official figures 2017: 359,081 ised on the wing for prisoners the total number of additional prison system. Rather than Based on its research, the vastly understate the scale of to provide an incentive for days of imprisonment handed solving problems, it has cre- Howard League is calling for the problem. Case study 1: Durham prison good behaviour. The prison down nationwide more than ated new ones - piling more prison inspection guidelines Durham prison has imple- has introduced ‘rehabilitative doubling in three years. pressure on the prison popu- to be augmented so that the In December 2017 the Howard mented a adjudications’ aimed at un- lation and worsening over- overuse of punishment is League hosted a ‘solutions programme. In the event of derstanding the reasons for The use of additional days crowding, which in turn leads seen as a warning sign of an summit’ to explore the rea- fights or disputes, officers people’s behaviour and refer- has increased as prisons have to more drug abuse and unhealthy prison. sons behind the rising num- have been trained to facilitate ring them to support services. been brought to breaking violence. ber of additional days. The conferences in which prison- The number of additional point by overcrowding and Prisons should operate in a meeting, which was attended ers can discuss what hap- staff shortages - soaring from “These figures illustrate the way that reflects the highest by prison staff, officials and pened, what they were days handed down to men in fewer than 160,000 in 2014 to urgent need for reform. We standards of justice, but the other criminal justice ex- thinking and feeling, who has the prison fell by 23 per cent almost 360,000 last year. This need to see a culture change Howard League’s research perts, heard that governors in been affected and what they in one year. has coincided with rising lev- in jails, from top to bottom. A has found that the system for els of self-injury behind bars. prison that resorts again and awarding additional days is again to further punishment inherently capricious, incon- The Howard League’s report is an unhealthy prison. Scrap- sistent and disadvantageous breaks down the figures for ping the imposition of addi- for vulnerable people. each prison in England and tional days would make Wales, revealing the hotspots prisons safer, fairer and less Under the current system, where adjudicators are resort- likely to churn out people two people breaking the same ing to draconian measures who go on to reoffend in the rule can receive different most often. community. It has worked in punishments. People held on Scotland and with the right remand or serving indetermi- It also highlights good prac- approach it would work here nate sentences cannot receive tice at prisons that have man- too.” additional days. This arbi- aged to buck the trend - either trariness leads to a sense of by using restorative ap- The report reveals vast dis- unfairness. proaches or by training and parities in how frequently empowering staff to respond additional days are imposed The unfairness is particularly to conflict in other ways. at different prisons. Between acute for children. Children © Deposit Photos 2016 and 2017, the number of held in secure training cen- Additional days, which are additional days rose in 85 tres and secure children’s Get the flu jab before the flu gets you overwhelmingly imposed for prisons and fell in 30. The homes cannot be given FLU MYTH BUSTER Q. The flu jab gives you flu? A. 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Any transition to so there will not be a formal risation will have a signifi- to a Category D prison prior to PSI 40/2011 confirms that all open conditions is generally hearing like there is at a cant impact upon their time Prisoners are categorised as their release date in order to convicted and sentenced male considered by the Parole Parole Board oral hearing. On in custody. It will also deter- either Category A, B, C or D. reintegrate back into the com- prisoners, other than those Board who make a recom- occasion, inmates are asked minate the nature of the pris- Category ‘A’ prisoners are munity. reported as potential Category mendation to the Secretary of to provide their opinions on on to which they are allocat- those most likely to abscond, A prisoners, for which the pro- State as to the suitability for their categorisation but a ed. It is important that those endanger the public or cause cess is very different, must be Category D status. review is usually conducted in custody fully understand Category D control issues within the pris- categorised within 4 working based on a prisoner’s conduct their categorisation and what on. The priority of such pris- prisons place a days of receipt of what is Prisoners already in open reports, probation reports it means during their sen- ons is to ensure that escape known as essential docu- conditions and any representations that tence. greater level of from custody is impossible; ments. Such documents Prisoners already given a the prisoner may choose to resulting in a higher level of trust on prisoners include previous convictions, Category D security categori- make. What is the purpose security and a stricter regime prisoner’s security files, sation will only be subject to of categorisation? and the security within those establishments. 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As a result of compliance with the prison it is encouraged that this is abscond; level of security; however, as tence prisoners as the Parole this assessment a decision is regime. first taken up with the prison- • The risk of harm to the pub- you progress through the Board would generally like to made as to the most appropri- er’s personal officer. lic in the event of an escape or prison estate the level of secu- see compliance in conditions ate conditions for that prison- abscond and rity decreases. Category D of lesser security before er. This can include a decrease Prisoners will How can solicitors help me? or increase in security catego- generally seek to Solicitors can help prisoners risation. by drafting representations progress to a prior to a prisoner’s review, The starting point for any Category D prison ensuring that the prison focus recategorisation is to look at on the issues relevant to the the reasons for the previous prior to their re- review and to ensure that the decision. Upon looking at the lease date in order prisoner’s voice is considered. reasons for the previous cate- We can also offer assistance gorisation, an assessment is to reintegrate back in appealing any decision then made as to whether there into the issued by the prison regard- has been a change in the ing categorisation. Prisons risk/s posed. community. often rely upon false or irrel- evant information when Determinate sentence Foreign national prisoners assessing a prisoner’s suita- prisoners Prisoners liable to enforce- bility for lower security con- Following the initial review, ment proceedings under the ditions and representations upon a prisoner’s arrival in Immigration Act are consid- can help in challenging this. custody, a subsequent review ered for categorisation for Whilst legal aid is not availa- should take place on a regular open conditions in the same ble for issues surrounding basis. The timing of these way as other prisoners. A categorisation we are able to Our open, friendly solicitors working reviews depends on the sen- request is submitted to the assist on a private paying in Criminal Defence will help you with all tence being served. 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4. Investigations of deaths and torture in custody The updated provisions introduce the obliga- tions of the prison in cases of any death, dis- appearance or serious injury. These include obligations on reporting, investigations and notifying family or friends. Prisoner file man- agement requirements were also amended in recognition of their role in recording incidents and complaints.

5. Protection of vulnerable groups POLICE INVESTIGATIONS COURT PROCEEDINGS Revisions to provisions for prisoners with particular vulnerabilities were limited, but l Are you about to be interviewed l Have you received a postal overall the Rules now clarify that prisons need by the Police? requisition? to identify the individual needs of prisoners and that measures taking account of such l Facing the prospect of fresh l Have you been charged with needs must not be regarded as discriminatory. charges? new offences? Some provisions were incorporated on chil- dren imprisoned with their parent and out- l Want to avoid an additional l Do you have a hearing coming dated terminology regarding prisoners with sentence? up and need representation? was changed. l Waiting for the Police to make l Are your current lawyers doing 6. Access to legal representation a decision on potential fresh enough to help? Provisions were updated and expanded to charges? The Nelson Mandela Rules are a cover not only pre-trial detention and criminal l Do you face POCA proceedings? proceedings, but requirements of legal coun- l Concerned over Police delays in set of minimum rules for the sel more comprehensively based on the 2012 making a decision? treatment of prisoners. First UN Legal Aid Principles and Guidelines. The Rules also clarify that prisoners are allowed l Had no update from your Solicitor? adopted in 1957 they have been to keep in their possession documents relating subject to constant updating to their legal proceedings. l Been recalled and worried about and are seen globally as the key being charged with new offences? standard in the treatment of prisoners.

Eight major areas of the rules have now been revised: APPEALS 1. Respect for prisoners’ inherent dignity The principle of treatment with respect for the dignity and value as human beings and the l Do you feel your sentence is too prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman 7. Complaints and independent inspection long? or degrading treatment or punishment have Provisions dealing with information for pris- been incorporated throughout the Rules, in- oners and access to complaints mechanisms l Do you disagree with your Lawyers cluding as a basic principle in Rule 6 and by has been updated, as well as protection against about not lodging an appeal? providing guidance on searches of prisoners retaliation, intimidation or other negative PRISON LAW for example. consequences as a result of a complaint. The l Wrongly convicted? impact of external monitoring was acknowl- l Due for parole? l 2. Medical and health services edged by introducing the requirement of a Concerned about disclosure The Rules clarify that healthcare of prisoners twofold system of regular inspections, internal l Been recalled? failures? is a state responsibility and should be of an as well as external by an independent body. l equal standard to that available in the commu- The revised Rules specify the powers of in- l Due for a category A review Let down at trial by your legal nity and organised in close relationship to the spectors and require written inspection reports team? l Suffered parole delays that general public health administration. There is and encourage their publication. l detailed guidance on healthcare in prison and you feel you should be Do you feel you have grounds on the role of healthcare staff. 8. Training of staff compensated for? to appeal? Provisions on training were updated to clarify 3. Disciplinary measures and sanctions the necessity of training for staff prior to entry Comprehensive changes in this area include into service as well as ongoing in-service train- LEGAL AID / PRIVATE REPRESENTATION / NATIONWIDE SERVICE updated guidance on the use of instruments of ing, both of which should reflect contempo- restraint, procedural safeguards in disciplinary rary evidence-based best practice. A list of Herts, Beds, Bucks, Essex London & Thames Valley, Appointment only procedures and clarification of prohibited dis- training requirements includes security and Kent, Surrey ciplinary sanctions (eg restriction of drinking safety, the concept of dynamic security, and water). As an overarching principle, prison staff the use of force and instruments of restraint, 5 Holywell Hill, St Albans, 4 Britannia Court, The Green 13 Halstead Road, are encouraged to use conflict prevention mech- as well as management of violent offenders, Hertfordshire AL1 1EU. West Drayton, Middlesex Wanstead, anisms to prevent disciplinary offences and with due consideration to preventive and de- Tel: 01727 840900 UB7 7PN. Tel: 01895 449288 London E11 2AY. resolve conflicts. Limitations on the use of sol- fusing techniques. itary confinement (which is also defined) are included for the first time in an international The full Nelson Mandela Rules can be downloaded www.wellsburcombe.co.uk standard. at: https://tinyurl.com/y9dx3bd2 Insidetime September 2018 www.insidetime.org Legal 41

Advertorial R v Flynn & St. John [2008] 2 Cr. App. R (20) CA material, found that it would have made no dif- - followed in Karsten v Wood Green Crown Court ference had the defence had sight of that mate- [2014] EWHC 2900 (Admin). rial and therefore it would not have assisted in Foreign Intercepts any s17 arguments. However, the Court found RIPA s17 - the prohibition and asking questions that the defence were not in possession of cer- Section 17 prevents any questions being asked tain facts and materials which may have assist- about the lawfulness of an intercept operation. ed them in an application to exclude the mate- Challenging Admissibility It is possible however to challenge whether the rial, i.e. even though it was admissible, to conditions are in place for a non-RIPA intercept exclude it anyway on grounds of fairness. This This requires E.U. States to co-operate with each to become evidence i.e. an overseas intercept - is is often the basis for any exclusion applications other and provide assistance in respect of crim- it really non-RIPA, if it is, then is the interception - first submission: the material cannot be admit- Jonathan Lennon inal investigations. Section 1(4) of RIPA applies lawful in human rights terms; was the foreign ted, second; if it can, it shouldn’t, applying s78 and Aziz Rahman to ‘international agreements’ e.g. the EU con- interception properly authorised, are their sys- of the Police & Criminal Evidence Act 1984. That vention. It provides that where such an agree- tems human rights compliant etc etc? This was second limb persuaded the appeal Court that ment is in place, the Home Secretary must not established in Att.-Gen.’s Reference (No. 5 of had the proper PII and disclosure provisions It is well known that material gathered from issue any request for assistance to another coun- 2002), 4 ALL ER 901. been applied as set out in R v H & C [2004] 2 AC intercepted phone calls cannot become evi- try without ‘lawful authority’. Lawful authority 134 (the authors acted for H in this leading case) dence in a criminal trial in this country. In fact here means the Home Secretary must issue an R v Herbert Austin & Ors [2009] EWCA Crim 1527, things may have been different. Therefore the s17 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act interception warrant under s5(1), prior to any 23/7/09 is a case which is of interest. It was an Court decided that the material ought to be eval- 2000 (“RIPA”) provides that it is unlawful even request for mutual assistance. So if you are now appeal from Winchester Crown Court of defend- uated with that question in mind and that eval- to ask questions in Court about the existence of awaiting trial in this country and the evidence ants charged with drug trafficking offences. The uation would have to be carried out by a Special intercept material. The reason is to avoid the is based upon material intercepted overseas in British authorities had been conducting surveil- Counsel instructed to review the material and general public learning of the authorities’ capa- an E.U. country (and you were in that country lance on a suspect and were aware that he was decide how much could be disclosed to the bilities when it comes to interception. This pro- at the time) the first question must be ‘who flying to Colombia. They informed the Colombian defence so that they could ably put forward their hibition must surely end one of these days - ordered the interception?’ The British or the authorities, who also placed him under surveil- exclusion argument. many prosecutors feel frustrated that they can- other State? lance. This surveillance included phone inter- not use such material; equally many defendants cepts. That material was provided to the British Jonathan Lennon is a Barrister specialising in serious Interceptions abroad - initiated by the feel that the Crown have in their possession authorities. The Crown then applied to adduce and complex criminal defence cases at Carmelite material that may assist their defence. British authorities the material before the jury at the subsequent Chambers, London. He has extensive experience in all Say, for example, that the UK police are investi- trial. The defence resisted and relied on expert aspects of financial and serious crime and the The starting point - RIPA gating a suspect who is a British national but evidence to suggest that the calls were actually Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He is ranked by In fact RIPA does not prohibit all intercept mate- based overseas in an E.U. country. The police intercepted in this country and not in Colombia Chambers & Partners and is recognised in both the rial from disclosure and use. In 2006 a Turkish want to listen to his phone calls but need the (in which case s17 would apply). The Judge heard specialist POCA and sections; ‘he is national was convicted as ringleader in a huge assistance of that country’s authorities. Then, evidence on this topic and also heard from the phenomenal and his work rate is astonishing’; ‘one of ‘people smuggling’ operation. The police had in that case s1(4) applies and the first step is for Crown in a Public Interest Immunity applica- the best juniors in financial crime.’ intercept material from Belgium and the CPS the police to get the Home Secretary to issue a tion, i.e. where the defence are excluded from warrant and then ask the Member State for assis- Aziz Rahman is a Solicitor- Advocate and Partner at made it known that the material could only have Court. This procedure formed part of the chal- the leading Criminal Defence firm Rahman Ravelli tance, as RIPA now specifically recognises the been admissible because it was obtained by lenge in the Court of Appeal. The trial Judge Solicitors, specialising in Human Rights, Financial E.U. wide Convention on Mutual Assistance. overseas law enforcement agencies. What then found that the recordings were made in Crime and Large Scale Conspiracies/Serious crime. is the law in this situation? Colombia not the UK and ruled the material Rahman Ravelli have been ranked by Legal 500 as an Assuming though that RIPA is properly engaged, admissible, ‘exceptional’ firm with Aziz Rahman being described Interception warrants because the British police had asked the over- as ‘top class’’. The firm is also ranked in Chambers & The starting point is that under s1(1) of RIPA it seas E.U. State for help and did use the s5 war- The Appeal Court, having considered the PII Partners. Rahman Ravelli is a Top Tier and Band 1 firm. is an offence to intercept any telecommunica- rant procedure, then s17 is firmly engaged as tions or postal communications in the UK unless well - in fact s17(2)(b) specifically relates to inter- it is done with ‘lawful authority’. Lawful author- national mutual assistance requests. Thus, it ity requires (in most cases) that an interception would be unlawful for that intercepted material warrant is issued by the Home Secretary under to go before the jury. It would be for intelligence A leading firm s5 of the Act. Warrants however are not granted purposes only. easily; the suspect’s right to privacy under offering the Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Interceptions abroad - initiated by an E.U. strongest legal Rights has to be considered and the interference authority must be ‘proportionate’ and ‘necessary’. This is If, on the other hand, the British police have not representation recognition of how serious the breach of privacy instigated the interception then RIPA might not is; listening to phone calls is clearly extremely be relevant and s17 would not bite. This though to those being intrusive and should never become a matter of does not mean that the material is automatical- routine. ly admissible as evidence; as some may think. investigated There should at that stage be consideration In R v P [2001] 2 WLR 463, the House of Lords given to legal argument for the exclusion of that or prosecuted considered the predecessor to s17 of RIPA, s9 of material. This would be an enhanced version of the Interception of Communications Act 1985 the Aujila arguments mentioned above. For in serious and (IOCA). It found that the 1985 Act applied only example, just because RIPA does not apply, that complex crime cases. to intercepts in the UK. The Court followed the does not mean the Human Rights Act does not earlier case of R v Aujla, Times Law Reps, apply - questions would arise such as why was 24/11/97. In that case, the Dutch authorities the intercept authorised; is the procedure in the intercepted calls between a person in this coun- authorising country compliant with the try and a person in Holland, without the knowl- Convention on Human Rights, and so on. edge of the British police. The Court found that However, just because material is gained unlaw- the interception of calls by tapping a line in fully does not mean it is inadmissible. Holland was not a breach of IOCA. The issue for Unlawfully obtained material may be kept from • Specialists in defending cases • Expertise in arguing admissibility of the Court then was should the evidence be the jury depending on the type of breach of the involving large-scale police operations. evidence, abuse of process, disclosure rules and the unfairness caused - only where s17 and public interest immunity. admitted, not can the evidence be admitted. The • Experienced defenders in Regulation is involved is there a definitive stay on the use Court held that the trial Judge had to take into of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) account the circumstances in which the mate- of intercept material. • Our reputation ensures the very best cases involving informants, undercover rial was obtained. That discretion included con- experts represent our clients. police, surveillance and interception of siderable weight to be attached to the suspect’s Furthermore, there are additional arguments communications. • We have helped shape the law. right to privacy as guaranteed by Article 8. All about voice attribution; voices are not like fin- these cases of course are pre-RIPA. Today the gerprints or DNA - it is an inexact science. In R European Convention has fuller effect since v O’Doherty [2003] 1 Cr. App. R 5 it was held that, Roma House, 59 Pellon 36 Whitefriars 3 Brindley Place, implementation, in October 2000, of the Human in the present state of scientific knowledge, no Lane, Halifax, West Street, London, Birmingham, West prosecution should be brought where the iden- Rights Act 1998. Yorkshire HX1 5BE EC4Y 8BQ Midlands, B1 2JB tification evidence relied solely on what is called Tel: 01422 346666 Tel: 0203 947 1539 Tel: 0121 206 2287 Mutual assistance the ‘auditory method’ (dialect/accent) of voice The UK has been, since May 2000, a party to the attribution, there should also be ‘acoustic anal- www.rahmanravelli.co.uk / [email protected] Nationwide Service Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal ysis’, unless the voices concerned all related to Matters between the Member States of the EU. a closed group of known individuals; see also 42 Legal // Q&A ‘Legal’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Insidetime September 2018

KM HMP Liverpool are to take place and should be able conviction is only available when a You must always be able to prove A to provide representations on the not guilty plea is entered. This is be- the chain of events that led to an in- Q I have been placed in the same. cause a guilty plea is admitting to the jury. In this case, you already had Segregation Unit for a period of 6 judge, in open court and under oath, the injury. However, it is not uncom- months and would like to know if Response by Hine Solicitors that the Defendant committed the mon for an injury to be made worse this is legal? offence and it is seen as final. You by a lack of appropriate treatment. If DS HMP Armley have confirmed that you have already this happens, and you can prove it, A The issue of segregation is dealt successfully appealed your you can claim for the injury being with within PSO1700. This confirms Q My original legal team went bust sentence. made worse. The only way you can that prisoners can be segregated in and were no longer able to represent me. I was ‘issued’ another solicitor do this in prison is by keeping copies the interests of good order and disci- The only avenue to appeal a convic- that I didn’t like or trust and they of your attempts to show you have pline. This is where there are reason- tion when a guilty plea has been en- didn’t seem interested at all. They tried to obtain medical help, yet have able grounds for believing that a tered is to seek to withdraw your advised me to plead guilty, but I am been ignored. Putting in complaints prisoner’s behaviour is likely to be so guilty plea. This avenue is very diffi- still unsure as to the legitimacy of (COMP1s) to healthcare is not enough; Prison Law & disruptive that keeping them on or- cult to pursue and, from the informa- the legal rep; does this constitute you must also keep copies of these dinary location is unsafe. tion you have provided, it does not grounds for appeal? I also have a complaints. If the healthcare depart- Compensation sound like it will be available to you considerable amount of mental ment does not respond to your appli- Any time spent in segregation must because you can only apply to with- health issues that were not taken cation for an appointment within the Answers are kindly provided by: be for the shortest period consistent draw your plea before you are into consideration. I am bewildered usual protocol time period, put in a Hine Solicitors with the reasons for segregation. An sentenced. complaint. Keep copies of them both. If Stevens Solicitors initial decision to segregate you must by the lack of defence given and leaving me to go to court; without you can, speak with healthcare at the Jordans Solicitors have been made by a Governor and Unfortunately, it is unlikely that your me they wouldn’t be there. I won my hatch, or their offices, and write down MKS Law Solicitors this decision is valid for 72 hours. longstanding mental health issues appeal on sentence - however does the names of the staff who you speak Pickup & Scott Solicitors Beyond a period of 72 hours further will have an influence on your ability this entitle me to query my to and what they say. If you still get Michael Jefferies Injury Lawyers segregation must be authorised by a to withdraw your guilty plea and we conviction? nowhere, write to the NHS Trust that Segregation Review Board. This can therefore consider that, seeing as you Answers to readers’ legal queries the healthcare belongs to - send a be for periods of up to 14 days at a have successfully appealed your sen- are given on a strictly without copy of your applications, complaints time, with a review at least every 14 A If the original solicitor ceased acting tence, there is no further action you liability basis. If you propose acting and conversations and ask them to days. Beyond 42 days, segregation for you, as their company was no can take. upon any of the opinions that appear, get involved so that you can get the must be authorised by the Deputy longer operating, then there is regret- treatment you need. you must first take legal advice. Response by Jordans Solicitors Director of Custody. This continues tably nothing that can be done about at intervals of 42 days. Continuous this. We appreciate this was distress- Ultimately, you want treatment as Send your Prison Law Query (concise ing and that you believe your subse- Name supplied and clearly marked ‘Prison Law segregation of 6 months must be re- soon as possible and hopefully the quent representation was not to the delay in treatment will not make your Query’) to: David Wells, Solicitor viewed by the Operations Director. Q I hurt my ankle when playing same standard, but unfortunately injury worse. However, if you later c/o Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, There is no limit on the period of time football. I’ve put in an app to see there is no action that can be brought discover that it has been made worse Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. that a person can properly be segre- the doctor. I’ve waited for 2 weeks against the original solicitor or their (by walking around on a fractured gated, as long as the reasons for it are and have still heard nothing, despite firm. ankle for example), then you will be For a prompt response, readers are properly authorised. me following it up at the hatch. I entitled to claim and will have the asked to send their queries on white Generally, when a Defendant enters can hardly walk and am worried You are able to engage in the reviews evidence needed to support your claim. paper using black ink or typed if a guilty plea then they will only be that walking around on it is making which consider your continued seg- possible. entitled to claim against their sen- it even worse. Can I claim for the Response by Michael Jefferies Injury regation. You should be told that they tence; the option to appeal a delay in treatment? Lawyers Specialists in Prison Law

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Q When I was sentenced, the ability to understand what was science and that adoption of In the Crown Court, the judge to me that on this occasion it judge told me that I was en- alleged or otherwise made it strict mathematical formulae had imposed sentences total- was not your ADHD or titled to ‘in the region of 20%’ unreasonable to expect the is undesirable. Their decision ling 9 years 4 months in rela- post-traumatic stress disorder credit for my guilty plea. I defendant to enter a guilty plea in Devine seems to echo that. tion to the main offender who that led to your involvement in didn’t think any more of it earlier than was done then The fact that your judge ex- had pleaded to his involve- these matters, it was your but since I’ve been in prison judges retain the power to give pressed credit as being “in the ment in both robberies and drunkenness and nothing more a few people have been tell- full (1/3) credit. region of 20%” would not, by having a bladed article. When than that which caused these ing me that he can’t do that itself, give rise to a ground of the case came before the Court offences to be carried out.” and he’s got to be more pre- The Guideline indicates that appeal, but you may benefit of Appeal the Court said that cise. Is there any mileage in the level of credit that would from seeking advice as to how the element of in- When the case came before the appealing? usually have been given your judge reached that figure volved in the threats was suf- Court of Appeal, that Court should be halved where there and whether there is scope to ficient to reduce the case from appeared to agree, describing Sentencing A As with most elements of has been an unsuccessful argue that you should have Category 2A to 2B for sentenc- the remark as: “…Terse com- sentencing, the Sentencing Newton Hearing. been afforded more credit in ing purposes. The Court re- ments, but substantially justi- Answers this month were Council has published a the circumstances of your duced his sentences so that fied by the evidence as we have kindly provided by: Guideline dealing with credit In murder cases, the Guideline case. they totalled 8 years. His co-de- rehearsed it…” [22] Jason Elliott, a barrister for guilty pleas. The current says that credit for a guilty plea fendant’s sentence of 4 years at Jason Elliott Associates version relates to cases where should never be more than 1/6 Q I pleaded guilty to a rob- 8 months in relation to 1 rob- Nonetheless, they reduced the Ltd, a barrister led entity the first hearing was on or after or 5 years (whichever is less). bery of commercial premises. bery was reduced to 4 years. sentence that had been im- specialising in Prison Law 1st June 2017, but there are also I only took part because I was Both men had a history of posed following guilty pleas and Criminal Appeals. earlier Guidelines in place if In R v Devine [2018] EWCA threatened. What sentence previous offending. to 2 counts of unlawful wound- your case came to Court before Crim 1880, the Court of Appeal am I looking at? ing on the basis that: said: “When indicating the level Q I’m going back to Court to Answers to readers’ legal that date. The current of credit for plea, a judge must A The Court of Appeal consid- be sentenced next week. I “In addition, we have regard queries are given on a strictly Guideline indicates a reduc- give a proper indication of the ered a similar situation recent- suffer from ADHD and I told to the fact that this appellant without liability basis. tion of 1/3 for a guilty plea at extent of the credit he is afford- ly. R v Lichfield [2018] EWCA the probation officer about is a young man, aged 21 at the the first stage of proceedings ing. It need not be an absolute Crim 1916 concerned 2 robber- that when I met her about my time, with limited previous Send your Sentencing – that will normally be the first precise calculation. In this case ies, 1 of a massage parlour and pre-sentence report. Will the convictions and no previous Query (concise and clearly hearing at which a plea or in- the appellant pleaded not guilty 1 of a convenience store. Judge hear about that and will experience of custody. He un- marked ‘Sentencing Query’) dication of plea is sought. at the plea and trial prepara- Knives were brought to both it make a difference to my doubtedly has mental health to: Inside Time, Botley Mills, Where a guilty plea is entered tion hearing, at which point 25 offences. Threats were made sentence? issues, as a result of inherent Botley, Southampton, after that date, the maximum per cent would have been the on both occasions. Both of- causes, which has some, albeit Hampshire SO30 2GB. credit that can be obtained will appropriate credit for the guilty fences were successful. Both A The Courts recognise that limited, significance to sen- be 1/4. After that, it’s on a slid- plea. It was some weeks before offenders had pleaded guilty ADHD can make a difference tence.” [26] For a prompt response, ing scale. Where a plea has he indicated his plea. A trial at an early stage and had sub- to how you behave, but that readers are asked to send been entered on the first day date had been set. A figure of mitted a written basis of plea doesn’t mean it’s automatical- The moral of the story is that their queries on white paper of trial, the most credit that between fifteen and twenty per in which they said that they ly relevant. To give an exam- if you suffer from ADHD it’s using black ink or typed if can be given is 1/10. Where a cent, in our judgment, was only took part because they ple, in R v Lea [2018] EWCA certainly worth seeking expert possible. plea is entered after the first stage of proceedings but it can wholly appropriate.” [15] had been threatened. Both Crim 1878, the sentencing advice as to whether this has be argued that there were par- named the same individual as Judge had said: “… I have also been sufficiently considered ticular circumstances which The Court has often said that having planned the offending got reports from two psychia- at the time when your sentence reduced the defendant’s sentencing is not a precise and threatened them. trists about you, but it seems was passed.

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Dublin and London, includ- ing writers such as Anna Seward, Robert Southey, Wil- liam Wordsworth, Percy Shel- ley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader the Duke of Wellington and the industrialist Josiah Wedgwood; aristocratic nov- elist Caroline Lamb, came to visit too. Anne Lister from Yorkshire visited the couple, and was possibly inspired by their relationship to infor- Lady Eleanor Butler, left, and Sarah Ponsonby mally ‘marry’ her own close female friend. Even travellers from continental Europe had heard of the couple and came Two fine ladies to visit them, for instance Prince Hermann von Pück- The ‘Ladies of Llangollen’, Eleanor Butler and ler-Muskau, the German no- The joy of livestock Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish bleman and landscape women whose relationship during the late designer, who wrote admir- Jenny Greengrass is disappointing as we had hoped to be able to 18th and early 19th century scandalized and ingly about them. feed them by hand. Our other additions to the fascinated their contemporaries feathered family are 6 lovely Booted Lemon The ladies were known Mille fleur chicks - there are 5 hens and a cock- throughout Britain. Queen Feathered friends erel. They are only 3 months old and not ma- Eleanor Charlotte Butler (1739 moved in 1780 to a small cot- Charlotte wanted to see their ture yet. We will have to wait until around - 1829) was a member of the tage just outside the village cottage and persuaded King and courgette soup October for them to start producing eggs. The Butlers, the Earls (and later they called Plas Newydd or George III to grant them a poor cockerel is only just managing a squeaky Dukes) of Ormond. Butler was ‘new mansion’. They pro- pension. Eventually their This has been a very odd year for my garden. crow and sounds like he is in pain but given considered an over-educated ceeded to live according to their families came to tolerate them. Lack of rain and intense heat has had an un- time I am sure he will manage to annoy the bookworm by her family, who self-devised system, though happy effect on not only my flowering shrubs, neighbours. resided at the Butler family they could rely on only a mod- Relationship but more importantly on my fruit and vegeta- seat Kilkenny Castle. She est income from intolerant Butler and Ponsonby lived bles. Whereas in previous years I have man- spoke French and was edu- relatives, and eventually a together for the rest of their aged to fill my freezer with lots of vegetables So although the garden has suffered, the joy cated in a convent in France. civil list pension. They ‘im- lives, over 50 years. They and fruit to last us over the next 12 months, of having livestock around the place has made Her mother tried to make her proved’ Plas Newydd in the both dressed strangely, in this year I have not managed to accumulate up for the disappointment of the fruit and veg- join a convent because she was Gothic style with Welsh oak black riding habits and men’s anything like enough to last us the rest of the etable patch. I think I am going to have to give remaining a spinster. Sarah panelling, pointed arches, top hats. Rumours that they season. up on that area of the garden for this year. Ponsonby (1755-1831) lived with stained glass windows, and were in a sexual relationship However the tomatoes are coming on beauti- relatives in Woodstock, County an extensive library, in which floated around during their My poor raspberries have been eaten by an fully. I have been able to keep them watered Kilkenny, Ireland. She was a they received their many lives, and in 1791, a magazine insect that guzzles away just half of a berry with washing-up water and we are eating them second cousin of Frederick guests. They hired a gardener, described them and implied then moves on to the next. I wouldn’t mind if on a daily basis. I grew a few varieties this year Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessbor- a footman and two maids. that they were in a sexual they would eat the whole thing but I can do - the usual large Black Russian and some new ough, and thus a second This led to significant debt, relationship. nothing with a half-eaten mouldy raspberry! varieties of yellow plum tomatoes. cousin once removed of his and they had to rely on the In complete contrast I have tried this year to daughter Lady Caroline Lamb. generosity of friends. Some consider Butler and grow a different type of courgette - ball shaped. Autumn will be upon us soon enough and I Not only is it ball shaped but it is the size of a have sprouts and swedes coming along nicely. Their families lived two miles football; so heavy it takes two hands to carry Perhaps they will make up for the lack of sum- from each other. They met in it. My freezer is now full of a very tasty cour- mer vegetables and I can fill my freezer with 1768, and quickly became close. gette soup - but we can’t live off courgette soup autumn stock and not have to consume cour- Over the years they formulated for the next 12 months, no matter how tasty it gette soup till it’s coming out of our ears! a plan for a private rural re- is. treat. It was their dream to live an unconventional life together. But there is some good news; our livestock has increased. We now have Runner ducks which Forced marriage we purchased at 12 days old and are now al- Jenny Greengrass is a keen amateur Rather than face the possibil- most fully grown. They are a bit skittish so that horticulturist ity of being forced into un- wanted marriages, they left County Kilkenny together in Plas Newydd – new way of living April 1778. Their families Jason Elliott Associates hunted them down and force- Friends and visitors Ponsonby’s relationship to be fully tried to make them give They devoted their time to a Boston marriage, or a roman- Specialists in Prison Law, Parole and Criminal Appeals up their plans - but in vain. hosting a range of friends and tic relationship between two They moved to Wales with a curious visitors, extensive women who chose to live to- Expert in release from custody servant, Mary Caryll, who lived correspondence, private stud- gether and have ‘mar- and worked for them without ies of literature and languages, riage-like relationships’. Legal Aid available in suitable cases pay for the rest of her life, and and improving their estate. Others conclude that the two - Please contact - who was buried in the same Over the years they added a had a non-sexual romantic plot and memorialised on the circular stone dairy and created friendship. Jason Elliott Associates Limited same gravestone. a sumptuous garden. Llangol- len people simply referred to Deaths 18 Albion Hourse North Shields Tyne & Wear NE29 0DW Putting their plan into mo- them as ‘the ladies’. Mary died in 1809. Eleanor tion, they undertook a pictur- died in 1829 at the age of 90. 0191 447 4389 esque tour of the Welsh After a couple of years, their Sarah died two years later, countryside, eventually set- life attracted the interest of age 76. They are all buried 07931 263 969 tling in North Wales. Living the outside world. Their together at St Collen’s Church [email protected] first in a rented home in the house became a haven for vis- in Llangollen. village of Llangollen, they itors travelling between Insidetime September 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Fitness 45 Neck, shoulder and back relax Runners Corner Ten weeks to change your life

If you’re feeling tense or stressed, your neck and shoulders may start to hurt, peat x 3. because they’re tense too. Use these simple stretches any time you feel • Wednesday: jog for 7 min- tight and uncomfortable, or like you could do with an unwind. Breathe slowly utes then walk for 3 minutes. Repeat x 3. and deeply as you practise these movements. Focus on your breathing and • Saturday: jog for 8 minutes the sensations in your body rather than the things that have been bother- then walk for 3 minutes. Re- ing you. You may find your worries have quietened down afterwards. peat x 2. Jog for 6 minutes then walk for 2 minutes. Head tilts Stay in each position for three slow, deep breaths, mindful of how your neck feels. Week 6 • Monday: jog for 8 minutes then walk for 3 minutes. Re- peat x 2. Jog for 6 minutes then walk for 2 minutes. • Wednesday: jog for 8 min- utes then walk for 2 minutes. Repeat x 3. • Saturday: jog for 8 minutes Eagle Child then walk for 2 minutes. Re- Press your elbows together in front of you Relax like this for five slow breaths. Put peat x 3. and work on lifting them to shoulder your head on a pillow or rest it on your Fancy running, but aren’t sure how to progress? This height. Do this for five slow breaths then hands (one fist on top of another) if it ten-week plan combines intervals of walking and jog- Week 7 Monday, Wednesday, Saturday change sides. Your arms might look like doesn’t reach the floor. ging to build you up to 30 minutes of continuous run- either of the pictures below - both are good • Jog for 10 minutes then walk ning. Running is a fantastic workout for the heart and for 3 minutes. if you can feel the stretch across the upper lungs, and is one of the best activities for losing back. • Jog for 8 minutes then walk weight. You may think it’s only for athletes, but you for 2 minutes. can run at different speeds and over any distance; so • Jog for 7 minutes. it’s suitable for all abilities and levels of fitness. Week 8 Goal: to increase the length Floor twist take a step back with your left of time spent continuously Ten-week leg, keeping it straight. Press Open up slowly into this twist. You may not jogging. the left heel down until you have room to stretch your arms out - just do running plan feel a stretch in the calf. Monday your best. Stay like this for five slow breaths • Jog for 10 minutes then walk and then twist out again on the other side. Warm up Week 1 for 2 minutes. Warming-up will prepare you • Monday, Wednesday, Satur- • Jog for 8 minutes then walk physically for your run and day: jog for 2 minutes then for 2 minutes. reduce the risk of injury. A walk for 2 minutes. Repeat x 5. • Jog for 8 minutes. Cow face good warm-up before each Five breaths each side. If your hands can Wednesday run should last between 5 and Week 2 • Jog for 12 minutes then walk reach each other, that’s great. If not, use a 10 minutes. • Monday: jog for 3 minutes sock to connect them. for 3 minutes. then walk for 2 minutes. Re- • Jog for 8 minutes then walk • March on the spot for two peat x 4. for 2 minutes. minutes. • Wednesday: jog for 3 min- • Jog for 5 minutes. • Continue to march, bringing utes then walk for 2 minutes. knees up to waist height for Repeat x 4. Saturday 20 steps. • Saturday: jog for 2 minutes • Jog for 12 minutes then walk Rest • Now walk, kicking back then walk for 1 minute. Re- for 3 minutes. Lie like this and focus on your breathing, with your foot so it touches peat x 8. • Jog for 8 minutes then walk and the feeling the breath makes as it flows your bottom before each step. for 2 minutes. in and out of you. You can count your Repeat for 20 steps. Week 3 • Jog for 5 minutes. breaths if you want - up to ten and then • Jog on the spot for 10 sec- • Monday: jog for 4 minutes start again - or just enjoy the quiet. If your onds - then march for 10 sec- then walk for 2 minutes. Re- Week 9 attention wanders away from the breath, onds. Repeat x 5. peat x 4. Monday just guide it gently back. Stay like this for Hold each of the following • Wednesday: jog for 5 min- • Jog for 12 minutes then walk five minutes, or longer if you want. Let the stretches for 20 seconds - then utes then walk for 2 minutes. for 3 minutes. Repeat x 2. work you’ve done help yourself sink in. repeat on the other leg. Repeat x 3. • Quad stretch: stand straight, • Saturday: jog for 4 minutes Wednesday holding onto something • Jog for 15 minutes then walk Back stretch then walk for 2 minutes. Re- sturdy for support. Bend your for 3 minutes. Find a ledge to rest your hands peat x 4. knee back, take hold of your • Jog for 10 minutes then walk on and fold over. Keep your foot and bring your heel to for 2 minutes. neck in line with the rest of your Week 4 touch your bottom. Keep your spine. Take five deep breaths. • Monday: jog for 5 minutes Saturday inner thighs touching. then walk for 2 minutes. Re- • Jog for 15 minutes then walk Shoulder stretch • Hamstring stretch: place peat x 4. for 3 minutes. your right heel on the ground Clasp your hands behind • Wednesday: jog for 6 min- • Jog for 12 minutes. and point your toes back to- your back, let your head utes then walk for 3 minutes. wards your shin. Lean for- hang loose and pull your Repeat x 3. Week 10 wards from your hips until hands far away from your • Saturday: jog for 6 minutes • Monday: jog for 20 minutes. you feel a stretch in the back bum. Stay for five slow then walk for 3 minutes. Re- • Wednesday: jog for 25 If you want a free book and CD of your right thigh. breaths. peat x 3. minutes. to help you set up a regular yoga • Calf stretch: press your • Saturday: jog for 25 min- and meditation practice write to hands against the wall at Week 5 utes. If you can, keep going The Prison Phoenix Trust, PO Box shoulder height. Bend your • Monday: jog for 7 minutes for an extra 5 minutes. 328, Oxford OX2 7HF. right knee forward as you then walk for 3 minutes. Re- 46 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org Insidetime September 2018 Reading Group Round-up Promoting reading and reading groups in prisons

Stephen P summer we ran a World Cup 2018 poetry com- petition. The Governor gave it his enthusiastic seal of approval and organisers ran a prize The report this month draw for each entrant to encourage participa- comes from HMP Wy- tion. Various departments within the prison mott, where a member showed their generosity with donations of of the reading group chocolates, cakes and other goodies and cash spearheaded a project to prizes were sanctioned. All kinds of organisa- get more prisoners tions and prison partners were contacted for switched on to poetry. books etc. as prizes. Prison Reading Groups The result was the bril- (PRG) were especially generous, donating a liant ‘Poems in the number of copies of the excellent ‘Forward Garden’. Prize’ poetry anthology and funding for fur- ther prize poetry books to be chosen by the About two years ago a prisoner at Wymott had Hilary, left, and Claire: answering questions library staff at Wymott. The competition © NPR an idea. ‘Wouldn’t it be nice’, he thought as he spawned a wide variety of football related poems, walked around on exercise, ‘to have poems many of which are now displayed throughout scattered amongst the plants and flowers?’ It the prison. Here is just one example: was one of those daft, inconsequential National Prison Radio thoughts that come and go, like the thousands World Cup Fever by Jonathan A. we have every day… just an idea. Another chapter to be writ of England’s World Cup story, But it wouldn’t leave him alone. The more he has the best Brief I hear the roar of English fans and dreams of thought about it, the less daft it seemed. Wy- goals and glory, mott has beautiful grounds which are tended Once more I think of sixty-six, once more I’m a and young people in custody community is brought back to by a hard-working team of prisoners and staff. believer, on a range of prison and pub- jail. People are often recalled Each year they enter a national garden com- Once more the English lion roars, they call it lic law issues as well as crim- not for committing a new petition, the Windlesham Trophy, where com- World Cup fever. inal appeals. Together they crime, but for failing to com- petition is fierce. Any unique feature would be discuss a wide variety of legal ply with a condition of their When you spend time in bound to give them an extra edge wouldn’t it? Much like England’s valiant attempt to bring questions and help people in licence such as turning up to prison, one thing is for certain football home, Wymott did not actually win prison to understand their probation appointments on - you’ll be tied up in extremely So our prisoner put his idea to the ‘pow- the Windlesham Trophy in 2017. However, what situation a bit more clearly. time. complex legal processes that ers-that-be’. And guess what? They didn’t it did gain was a unique feature in its grounds can be incredibly stressful Claire will be answering your think it was stupid. In fact, they thought it was that can be enjoyed by everyone: staff, prison- If you’ve got any questions and never seem to end. That’s questions on Home Detention a great idea and ‘Poems in the Garden’ was ers and visitors alike. It also reaped the bene- about how the law works, or why National Prison Radio is Curfew (aka HDC or ‘tag’), born. So lads were put to work designing and fits of genuine collaboration between prisoners you’re simply confused by making wooden plinths to hold poems that bringing you a regular legal how prison sentences are cal- and the prison. And this prisoner who had that what’s going on in your case, would be scattered like seeds throughout the slot that aims to demystify the culated, closed and banned daft idea on an ordinary day over two years get in touch with The Brief, grounds. A competition was organised amongst law. The Brief is presented by visits and parole. ago realises that sometimes, with hard work, National Prison Radio, HMP prisoners to write poems on a gardening Hilary Ineomo-Marcus, commitment and patience, an idle thought can Brixton, London SW2 5XF. theme. The response was fantastic. All of a alongside solicitor and pris- In one episode, Claire and Hi- blossom into something rather beautiful. And tune in to The Brief in sudden, various departments throughout the ons expert Claire Salama. lary answer a question from With special thanks to PRG and the Forward ‘Prime Time’, midday and prison were working together to bring the pro- HMP Rochester about recall, Arts Foundation. 6pm every other ject to life. A few short months later, anybody Claire has over ten years’ ex- where a person serving their Wednesday. walking round the prison might encounter a perience representing adults sentence on licence in the random poem planted in the ground, as like as The group at HMP Wymott is supported by not actually written by a resident of the prison. Prison Reading Groups (PRG), part of Give a Book. If your prison doesn’t already have a Autumn on National Prison Radio The beauty of the project is that the poems can reading group, encourage your librarian to be changed with the seasons and even reflect look at the Prison Reading Groups website On Books Unlocked this month we’re reading speaking to her. events happening in the wider world. This www.prison-reading-groups.org.uk. ‘Autumn’ by the award-winning Scottish au- thor Ali Smith. It tells the story of a relation- “She explained a bit more about the book - how ship between a woman and her 101 year-old it came about. 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In 1998, Dorset Police appealed directly to Mr Hannan to give himself and centrally organised police force for the greater London area Noel Smith up. In a force newsletter, offi cers said: “If you read this Mr Hannan please write in, we’d love Street Horse Patrol, the first to hear from you.” He never did. form of uniformed policing Her Majesty’s Prison The Verne is an adult, seen in the capital was estab- male category C prison built on the highest The previous record for a successful prison lished alongside the Runners. point of the Isle of Portland in Dorset at 500ft . escape had been held by double-killer Leonard Of course, there are also the Located within the historic 19th century Verne Fristoe, who was on the run for 45 years and unofficial ‘thief-takers’ who Citadel it occupies the southern part of the 11 months. operate independently from Citadel. Designed primarily as a siege fortress, the Runners, and they are em- the Citadel overlooks Portland Harbour, which New living blocks were proposed for the prison ployed by fee-paying mem- it was designed to defend at a time when a in 1969, with the fi rst two blocks being opened bers of the public. Their job is harbour of refuge and base were in 1972. In total, 3 new blocks (A, B and C to catch criminals and then being established there. Wings) were built, with each wing having 80 present them before a rooms on the second and third floors. The magistrate. HMP The Verne was established in 1949 when ground fl oor contained communal and dining the Citadel’s defensive role had largely come areas, along with offi ce space for staff . Nine Due to public fears concern- to an end. From 1937 it was used as an infantry dormitories, known as D Wing, were later ing the deployment of the training centre and aft er WWII, its fi nal mili- established, providing accommodation for a “One day we’ll have tasers” military in domestic matters, tary use was by the Royal Engineers. Aft er the further 72 prisoners. Sir Robert Peel has organised Criminal Justice Act 1948, the government the new force along civilian From the early 1980s, the population in HMP News reporter though this may change in approved plans to transform the southern lines rather than paramili- The Verne remained constant at 521 prisoners. the future. region of the Citadel into a prison. In January tary. The officers are armed 1949, the then Home Secretary, James Chunter In 2009 it was reported that 60% of the pris- only with a wooden trun- oners were foreign nationals, with over 50 The new Metropolitan Police In the early years of this cen- Ede, announced in the House of Commons cheon and a rattle in order to different nationalities represented. In May will be responsible for an area tury (1800s), London had a that: “The Verne has been acquired to assist in signal for assistance. Also, 2013, it was announced that the prison was that is 7 miles in radius from population of nearly a million relieving the general overcrowding of prisons police ranks do not include turning into an immigration removal centre; the centre of the city (exclud- and a half people but was po- and providing the additional accommodation military titles, with the excep- housing 600 detainees awaiting deportation ing the City of London) and liced by only 450 constables which will be required to meet the require- tion of Sergeant. from the UK. The fi rst detainees arrived on the will later be extended to 15 and 4,500 night-watchmen. ments of the new Act.” 24th of March 2014. It was also announced that miles. The government have The idea of professional polic- The new force will not rou- there were plans to convert the site back into intentionally avoided creat- ing was taken up by Sir Rob- The Verne: a siege fortress an adult/male prison by 2018, which has now ing any likeness between the ert Peel when he became tinely carry firearms, though happened. new police and a military Home Secretary in 1822. Peel’s Sir Robert has authorised the force, in particular the of- Metropolitan Police Act 1829 Commissioner to purchase 50 The prison off ers a variety of courses, includ- ficers of the police force will has now established a full- flintlock pocket pistols for ing bricklaying, plastering, painting & deco- not be armed and they will time, professional and cen- use in ‘exceptional circum- rating, as well as accredited qualifications wear a blue uniform, dissim- trally-organised police force stances’. Housebreakers, who off ered in contract services, carpenters assem- ilar to that of the army. The for the London area. have become a modern prob- bly, gymnasium, kitchen and industrial clean- Metropolitan Police will be lem in the metropolis, are ing. Sports facilities include a gymnasium, a held directly accountable to usually armed and not afraid In the past, law enforcement grass sports fi eld and two tennis courts. the Home Secretary whereas was carried out by unpaid to shoot. before, the watchmen were parish constables who were In November 2011, the Jailhouse Café was accountable to the Lord Mayor The standard wage for these elected, and later appointed opened within the former prison-staff mess of London and the Metropoli- new constables will be one The prison was established as a medium secu- by a local Justice of the Peace. building, operated by Expia, a charitable tan Police Authority. guinea per week, and the re- rity training centre with room for 300 prison- In certain circumstances, organisation. The café was open to the public such as serious public disor- cruitment criteria requires ers, all of whom were selected prisoners relo- applicants to be under the age cated from other prisons in the South West. The and staff ed by prisoners on day-release until In the early years der, the army would intervene its closure in June this year. The purpose of the to support the local authori- of 35, in good health, and to first arrivals, an advance party of 20 men, of this century be at least 5 feet 7 inches tall. arrived on the 1st of February 1949. The fi rst café was to off er prisoners work experience (1800s), London had ties; yeomanry was exten- and reduce reoff ending. sively used for this purpose Work-shifts last for 12-hours, governor appointed was Mr John Richards. It a population of nearly before police forces devel- 6-days a week, with Sunday was not long before the prison had its first a million and a half oped. Because this system of as a rest-day. escape - a prisoner named David Conner went policing was largely unorgan- missing on the 22nd of April, but was recap- people but was tured later the same day at nearby Wareham. ised, and lacking a criminal There have been murmurings TurningPages By the end of 1954, a further 22 men had policed by only 450 investigation capability, the from the public, some of escaped the prison. constables and 4,500 novelist Henry Fielding (who whom see this new force as a had been appointed as a mag- threat to civil liberties. The Prisoners who can read night-watchmen. In December 1955, John Patrick Hannan istrate in 1748) introduced the force consists of two Commis- escaped from the prison with another prisoner teach prisoners who can’t first detective force, known as sioners, eight Superinten- named Gwynant Thomas. Hannan was only The City of London has not the Bow Street Runners, dents, twenty Inspectors, been included in the remit of eighty-eight Sergeants and one month into his 21-month prison sentence If you would like more information on based at Fielding’s house at how to become involved, as either a the new police force because 895 Constables. awarded for car theft and the assault of two number 4 Bow Street. Mentor or a Learner, contact the Reading the Mayor and Corporation of police offi cers. The pair used knotted sheets to Plan Lead in your prison (ask a Shannon the City of London refused to This correspondent hopes scale the prison wall and then made their way Fielding’s force was made up Trust Mentor who this is) or write to: be part of a London-wide that the new organisation along the railway line and broke into a pet- of 8 constables and were iden- Shannon Trust, Freepost RTKY-RUXG-KGYH force because the City of Lon- rol-station and stole beer, cigarettes and over- tified by a tipstaff with the turns out to be a force for good The Foundry, 17-19 Oval Way, don has certain liberties dat- coats. Hannan’s companion was recaptured Royal Crown on it, which had in the capital. Crime is way LONDON SE11 5RR. ing back to Magna Carta. At the following day at Kingston Russell, but a compartment inside to store too prevalent on our streets the moment there are no Hannan himself evaded capture. In 2001 he official identification and and it is hoped that the Met- plans for the City of London was entered in the world record books as hav- ShannonTrust documents. In 1805, the Bow ropolitan Police may do much to have its own police force, to curb this lawlessness. ing been on the run longer than any other pris- 48 Jailbreak // Inside Poetry www.insidetime.org Insidetime September 2018

Star Poem of the Month Athrawes Ode to Butch Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize Name supplied - HMP Erlestoke Sean Cottrell - HMP Oakwood

I saw her first and had to look away As I sit back with my wrists slit and my thoughts whack He can’t help it From this jigsaw piece the perfect fit Once again the screws are at my door, the time is almost four With whom to spend a ‘Lou Reed’ day I just need to withdraw Sean Parker - HMP Dartmoor ‘Get me out’ is what my brain shouts Azure, flaxen, trim and I’d say Louder! Louder! Louder! When the breathing is heavy through sputtering tubes Smart too, she matches my mind’s eye photo-fit These thoughts are screaming so loud And the endless movement reflects troubled dreams And legs? Mine are like jelly - I had to look away My head is in the clouds, my radio is booming… Remember the reasons why your own nerves are so frayed But all I can hear is my demon Remind yourself in the cell dark lit Another time, another place, a different day My screaming demon has a hold of my soul and won’t let go That he can’t help it She’d be ‘the one,’ the ‘this is it!’ He’s relentless, so relentless he’s with me so much But love at first sight? In here? No way! I’ve even called him Butch A marriage of necessity under control of the king I wish, oh how I wish and wish he would show me mercy Tea and noodles slurped with a satisfied noise So every tongue-tied day I must say Can’t he see I’m done? Your reasons to be parted many years before Nothing, there’s nothing else for it I’m waving my little white flag high in the sky Be grateful in the warm place you sit I change direction - or look away But Butch has crossed a fine line this time And remember that he can’t help it My black as Welsh-coal-face on cold display Look at my arms, look at the harm More pirate than bear, more smuggler than man As inside butterflies flit, I feel like sh*t I’m sorry officer I didn’t mean to cause alarm You can never really hide those South Coast genes At this cruel game But it was Butch, he made me do it Another grunted reply and suspicious glance I’m forced to play You see he’s got a hold on me and he won’t let go The elephant spectrum of the ant artistic Now I’m in a room with soft white walls Without a word he can’t help it Has she seen through this charade each day? My parents are appalled In her widow black, sensible slim fits “How could this be?” Your own sleep as calm as innocence will let be ‘Cos now when she sees me she always looks away “Our sons a nut, rocking back ‘n’ forth” Waiting two months for a letter In case I blurt out “I love you” one inappropriate day? “He said he was fine on the phone this time” An uncle finally came through and made you cry “He said they were helping him” But sympathy in this place is extrinsic He said a man called Butch had made him see the light It’s understandable he can’t help it Midnight Expresso And that he would be alright this time Because he had a friend in Butch Could you sleep for eighteen hours a day Denny Boy - HMP Nottingham Then waking time being sedentary sounds Neglected as a child, rejected as a man My oh my, that’s another day done My own plea is there, implicit Riding the head games, taking them for fun But he can’t help it Breeze blocks, walls and a solid steel door A telly for company because me cellmates a bore The curly red beard is growing Flicking through the TV guide to clock what’s on So is his hair, beyond his desire The reality shows are all scripted He orders his world to a short term frame They’re really no fun But he never asked to take these hits Time is getting on, now it’s nearly 12 o’clock And now he can’t help it. No negative thoughts for me I’ve made them all stop A north-east kid in an east-midlands jail I know myself brothers In Defence of Ford It aint one to bail Chris Walters - HMP Ford The pad-mates asleep, thank f*** for that! A proper pad pacer; he never likes to chat Its midnight at last, kettles on the go They opened my door “you’ve got 3 minutes to pack!” I’m feeling sweet, but concentration is getting low “May I ask where I’m going?” I replied back Coffee is my friend tonight I’ll tell you so

It’s that time at last people “Why to HMP Ford my man, aren’t you pleased?” My Midnight Expresso… “No. I’ve just read Inside Time, Ford’s bankrupt and covered © Deposit Photos in fleas” My childhood I’m fresh out of tuna So how will I wash my clothes? Prison Days Najeeb Aslam - HMP Lowdham Grange My friend Charlie went there but probably froze! Ash L - HMP Swinfen Hall The earth and sky was a new environment for me But alas! Goodbye Wandsworth! Prisons a hard life to get thru Mother’s lap was mother earth, world of amusement for me My 3 bags in hand, I saw cows, clouds and a castle So imma sitt’en on my jones with some pretty mad sh*t in my Symbolic source of pleasure was every movement for me En route to the ‘promised land’ head My incomprehensible muttering was such wonderment for me Imma in a freezin cell lyin on a blue bed My diamonds were those precious drops of the rain When I got settled in I was shocked and surprised I turn ova look at the pics on my wall instead Catching and feeling them were the joy of every vein Could it really be that …‘name withheld’ had told me lies? Some days I want to get high With broken words when I whispered into mum’s ear Sure the billets are small But I try n ask for the advice from my dad in them high skies She laughed and said “you’re so cute and funny my dear” Two in a room can be cramped Too young to be rottin in these violent HMPs For my childish behaviour if anyone caused me torment But when you walk for hours who minds a couple of ants? Coz this place don’t give out tranquility In the rattle of door chain, I loved a music dormant 23hr’s a day bang-up makin people’s lives a misery From where those flying bird were coming, where they were going Men sit sunbathing with smiles on their faces This was the question in my mind as I was growing And come to think of it, I can’t name one who’s on basic Night-times a mad one Fear of the world nor I had knowledge of the law Lyin in bed, mind keeps goin on repeat In flowing river whenever I wished, stones I would throw The chapel is gorgeous Tryin not to think of the times as a kid on them mad streets Gazing at lunar object endless hours round Servery might serve you seconds Tryin to keep warm usin a thin cotton sheet In the midst of broken clouds, its travel without a sound What do I think of the food? Keep wakin up by the radios speech n the keys rattling screech To ask about the lunarscape, its desert and its mound Delicious, I reckon! Stressin out, not eatin for weeks And to look askance at reply, expediently unsound Puttin nasty food on my plate with a sh*t cake Playing in the summer by counting the stars at night So don’t believe all you hear Every day the menu gets more peak I would get so excited by the glow-worms light Some of it its true, some of it ‘aint Half 7 wake up - open my eyes I always found the big waves so, so scary But if you ask me Put my garms on n walk on exercise I was told if I don’t sleep I’ll be taken by the fairy No bang up is just great! Look thru the fence to witness the run rise Eyes was given to searching, tongue to verbosity, It was my tiny heart full of curiosity Insidetime September 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 49 Prayer Person Moth Magic Sylvan Cox - HMP The Mount George Worraker - HMP Whitemoor Paul Lumsden - HMP Castle Huntly

Everything is written Locked up in my box again In an egg carton Nothing is said Like an object The dingy footman I chose to pray Put away Shoved aside The white the lesser Cuz it came from within F*cking reject Scars heal, wounds kill Spotted pinion Discarded God saves, Jesus reveals The lime-specked pug Trash in a bin No one’s a believer Gave the old brimstone Till we are old and wither Total depravity A hug Instrumental of sin © Deposit Photos Then the very word Less intent God save me, for I am a sinner Rattling like a pill Upon the maple prominent Or am I left in slumber In a box Clouded silver Your summer We all pray in the end With an ID card With lesser cream wave Carl Mason - HMP Hull One word is all it takes And dirty socks Avoided the male drinker ….God! I am a person But the large Yellow underwing Their summer goes on outside my window (With a twist) Moved carefully among Dare not look and just ignore I am a f*cking person September thorn Tend to pretend, I do not explore Speak out about the machine I exist A straw underwing Yes, I know it’s going on, I know it’s bright Tim - HMP Isle of Wight I am my scars While the green But in my mind I see another sight I am the prayer for pain And scorched carpet I don’t do poetry, right? Cared not Their summer goes on outside my window It’s a battle of words, just a fight Just f*cking look at me when For common wainscot When will it end, another season wasted But there’s a deficit of kindness You lock the box again What a tissue-lot With not a single friend to share In this godforsaken place With a dark spinach Blind to its beauty and never tasted So many plastic gangsters I may be a rancid piece of sh*t Willow beauty Living in total , I just don’t see your sum- Whose wing it really ‘aint Unwanted on your shoe A dew moth too mer day not a dream But I am me All a flutter flyer into It’s time to speak out and let the world know As much as you are you The mouth of versifier! Their summer goes on outside my window That prison’s a joke, bent up and broken Attention seeker If your brain fails, it might suit you well I simply wish away my days Piece of work Better than the street but your eyes should be open With precious few to waste Keep me down where I belong New lines upon my face So much jealousy In the f*cking dirt My first taste at twenty-one So much bitterness Freedom is not a must Now I’m thirty-eight So much … “I’m all that matters” Still so many summers to live Nothing is So much … “Are you listening mate” My life is not important I’ve learned it all but just too late So much despised But it is And so much hate Their summer goes on outside my window Look at me and see So I am told but not quite sure We’re all here for a reason A terrorist, misanthropist Because looking back it’s just a blur Yeah, whatever, you’re not an S.O. A lonely child And all the great ones I spent with her But until you walk from here A sulking fantasist After all, I’m just a man Cos they got it wrong you are I will do the best I can And we all bloody know © Deposit Photos One day there will be a plan The Lonely Dove I’m sure it’s all in hand It’s my wing mate, so what’s your problem? ‘H’ Sell me your watch, give me your cake Stephen Reynolds - HMP Wayland Gibney - HMP Perth Their summer goes on outside my window Gonna shout at you, you get me? I know for sure what I have to do You listenin’ innit? Honestly? No mate! I feel hot, I feel calm, I feel comfortable I found a lost bird I feel cold, I feel anxious, I feel uncomfortable With a broken wing I’ve got to face you but don’t want to Kindness and generosity are seen I want you, I love you, I need you It was sad and confused I love your warmth so much As weakness or even grooming I don’t want you, I don’t love you, I still need you! Afraid to sing And it hurts me lots, I swear But why not be pleasant, just for a bit It needed my help Me living in the shade while you’re out there You might like it more than just chatting shit? And me simply pretending I just don’t care A horrible life-changing self-destructing drug Just a friendly smile Your summer goes on, outside my window So your neighbour’s a queer; you might catch bent Risk on entry still I proceed; what am I, a mug? Somewhere to stop Sod it, get some canteen he’ll pay the rent I started from the bottom … and I’m still here And rest for a while Then call him a batty boy and go there on the sly A 2nd, 3rd and 4th time, can I really care? Route’s on Keep up your hard rep, the tranny can die I asked the bird John Wright - HMP Stafford For once I’m admitting it’s all been my fault “Please sing me a song Spice up your life so those on your wing Rabbit in headlights, it’s only as I got caught I’ll fix your wing and Can also be screwed by your imported ting Knock knock - it’s time to get up The cards I’ve been dealt I picked from the pack Make you strong” Take a day off your wing job but don’t tell the staff Fear is an issue but its confidence I lack He tried and tried Get the kettle on, fill up my cup One more in hospital, that’s the right plan Open the window let out the stench But could not sing As the door flies open its officer Fletch No one’s ever been nice to you, right? I feel hot, I feel calm, I feel comfortable For his heart was broken Route’s on, slave labour awaits So speak out but stay out of sight I feel cold, I feel anxious, I feel uncomfortable Along with his wing Mornin bruv, as I catch up with my mates What you should really know I wanted you, I loved you, I thought I needed you? He had lost his partner Screws in bags, nuts and bolts However clever you’ve been I DON’T WANT YOU! His one true love Get the brew on, as they shout Is that if they want, and they will I DIDN’T LOVE YOU! Now he’s nothing more ‘Do’s’ and ‘don’ts’ The machine will always win I NEVER NEEDED YOU! Than a lonely dove Time’s up, route to go back A butty, a biscuit, all wrapped in a bag u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. To qualify for a prize, poems should not have won a prize in Click, slam, its bang up again any other competition or been published previously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. This isn’t Cat C, no staff No money they claim It is very important that you ensure the following details are on all paperwork sent to Inside Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUMBER & PRISON. Yap yap as you quickly catch up Failure to do so will prevent us responding to you and your submission being withheld from publication. Who’s been nicked and who’s a mug We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. Route on, back to the grind By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they can be published in any of our ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, Key rings to pack, I’m losing my mind website and any forthcoming books. You are also giving permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in allowing other organisations to reproduce this 10,000 to do, in two hours or three work if considered appropriate, unless you have clearly stated that you do not want this to happen. Any work reproduced in other publications will be on a Route’s on one more time ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note poems for publication September be edited. When submitting your work please include the following permission: Then the door locks on me ‘This is my own work and I agree to Inside Time publishing it in all associate sites and other publications as appropriate.’ 50 Jailbreak // Prize Winning Competitions www.insidetime.org Insidetime September 2018 Read all about it! Caption Competition Last Months £25 Winner A £25 prize is on offer for the best caption to 1. After his win last month against Francesco Fonesavvy providers of ‘landline type Kevin Kennedy-Telford HMP Grendon this month’s picture. 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Cryptic Crossword Do you know? Anagram Square Rearrange the letters in each A ‘hole’ other problem row to form a word. Write your Have you ever wondered why you can safely put answers into the blank grid. away a t shirt after wearing it just once, only to The first letter from each word, reading down, will spell the find the next time you want to wear it, it’s got a mystery keyword. little annoying hole in? It turns out that the most likely reason for tiny holes around your torso is actually down to your jeans or belt not moths. 1 NBRWO The fabric there is rubbing against the hardware: your belt, the tops of your jeans, all points of wear. 2 OLMNE The friction, repeated over time, has caused the fabric to deteriorate. But what can you do to 3 RMBEA combat these pesky little holes and keep your t

© Deposit Photos LACRO shirts looking good as new? Look for brands 4 that call out what type of cotton they are using Conker tree in danger HKKAI - a longer fibre length is a good sign - and how 5 Horse chestnut trees were the garment is constructed. Having said all that, widely planted after being the teeny holes could well be down to moths, introduced to Britain from the pesky little buggers do enjoy dining on 1 clothing after all. Apparently, the easy way to Turkey in the late 16th tell if its your jeans wrecking your clothes or a Century, rapidly becoming 2 bunch of moths is to check for the number of naturalised in the UK. small holes. If there’s a cluster of holes, it’s likely 3 due to moths making a snack out of your clobber, Conkers as they are otherwise however, if it’s just one small hole, then you known are the hard mahogany 4 can probably blame your jeans. Lad Bible brown seeds that sit inside a spiky protective casing, which 5 Form over function? drop to the ground in autumn and as many a child will tell Across Down Journalists Jan Diehm and Amber Thomas have Thanks to Bradley Thorpe, HMP taken pocket measurements from 80 pairs of you, this time of year is all Rye Hill. If you fancy compiling 1. A site’s developed for rest (6) 1. Wild horse lacking love? Whip’s first jeans - 40 men’s and 40 women’s - made by 20 about waging war with these an Anagram Square for us please 4. A sign of faith among the French in shown for one needing taming (5) of the most popular brands. Their analysis ‘big guns’ on the schoolyard just send it in 5 x 5 squares, battlefield in a game of conkers. complete with answers shown on sport (8) 2. Enjoyment in sentimentality waned revealed that women’s front pockets are 48 a grid. If we use it we will send 8. Trial disrupted around university finally - dubious source of money? (5,4) percent shorter and 6.5 percent narrower than It’s a much older tradition than you £5 as a thank you! ceremony (6) 3. Free time after a lager is drunk (2,5) men’s. To illuminate how these size discrepan- this, with the first recorded Remember to include your name, 9. Small measure in section of hospital 4. Elizabeth’s favourite traditional cies translate to a real-life frustration, the duo game of conkers believed to number, prison. We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ liable to happen soon (8) capital site (9,6) tested whether or not standard pocket items have taken place on the Isle of Wight in 1848. Originally it was for prize money so include your 10. Veteran hears row breaking out (8) 5. Fellow theatre worker, maybe, full of could fit into the pockets. Only 40 percent of DOB on your entries. 11. In verdict umpire’s given authorita- humour? (7) the women’s front pockets measured could fit played with snail shells and tive statement (6) 6. Some suspect recurrent apparition (7) an iPhone, whereas 100 percent of the men’s then cobnuts, eventually being 12. French writer gets to live in old city 7. Unprepared casual sort with soldiers pockets could. The rates were the same when replaced with horse chestnut Just for laughs in apartment (8) in river (9) assessing for a standard-size wallet. But seeds by the 20th century. 13. Eric trained in firm to be eloquent 12. Form a rift sadly? On the contrary perhaps the most absurd finding was that only speaker? (6) (3,4,2) 10 percent of the women’s jean pockets tested Despite all the fun to be had • I told my wife she was 15. Hot plate initially off? That’s puzzling (6) 14. Leo cried terribly absorbing good were large enough to fit an average-sized with the seeds of a horse drawing her eyebrows too 18. Determined couple of notes by old poet (9) woman’s hand. Of course, 100 percent of men’s chestnut tree, they do have a high. She looked surprised. instrument (8) 16. Backs excuse given in court (7) pockets, could contain a hand. IFL Science more serious side. Conkers 20. Colonial administrator cut short 17. Retired professors showing worth can be mildly poisonous to • I took the shell off my lottery (6) in European institute (7) many animals, causing racing snail, thinking it would 21. A doctor probing fashion designer, 19. Guy by boat not new to remain in Fun facts... sickness if eaten. What makes make him run faster. If part of a circle (8) place (4,3) conkers toxic to many animals anything, it made him more • The busiest polling station in Australian elec- 23. Oils a man deployed in famous 22. Very small - like a secondary are chemicals called glyco- sluggish. painting (4,4) school student? (5) tions is in London. sides and saponins. Deer and 24. Become confused after parking row (6) • At least 99% of all the species that ever Boar, however, are able to • A senior citizen called her 25. Doctor is beginning to expand existed have left no trace in the fossil record. break these down. husband during his drive home, formal work (8) • Each of us is surrounded by bacteria that are “Herman, I just heard on the 26. Article by Conservative lacking Horse chestnut trees, are released from our bodies; everyone’s personal news that there’s a car going foremost abstract reasoning (6) under threat by a lot of microbial cloud is unique. the wrong way on Interstate diseases at the moment. By 90, Please be careful!” Herman The first T-shirt was aimed at bachelors who The joke’s on you • far the biggest threat is the said, “It’s not just one car. couldn’t sew on buttons. leaf mining moth, whose There’s hundreds of them!” larvae feed on the trees’ • So a moth goes into a podiatrists see that same harried look of gutless • Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ slogan was inspired by the leaves. It starts off in spring office. “Come in,” says the podiatrist, cowardice that I see when I stare at last words of a murderer. • And the Lord said unto John, with loads of leaves and “What’s the problem?” The moth my own face in the mirror. I have “Come forth and you will • Michael Phelps has won more Olympic golds lovely conical flower bracts drops down into the nearest chair and nothing to look forward to but a con- receive eternal life”. But John than India, Nigeria, North Korea, Portugal, and very quickly starts to fall says “What’s the problem? I don’t even tinuation of this spiraling black hole came fifth, and won a toaster Taiwan and Thailand combined. prey to the leaf miner and the know where to start. First of all, my that is my life, this existential cesspool Baby koalas are weaned on their mother’s leaves turn brown, crumble boss is a vicious tyrant who gets off on that is the perpetuation of my linger- • • I bought a pair of shoes off excrement. It is consumed directly from their and fall off. But that’s not the the petty torments he puts me ing skid-mark on society. I despise a drug dealer. I don’t know mother’s bottom in the form of ‘soup’. only thing these trees have through day in and day out, and I’m people yet I crave their approval. I’m what they were laced with too spineless to stand up to him, so I going against them at the judgemental yet I care about nothing. • In 2005, a Romanian murderer sued God for but I was tripping all day! just take it and I’ve gradually come to moment. The bacterial I’m bitter, hateful and afraid. I’m alive not doing enough to protect him from Satan. infection bleeding canker hate myself for it. Also, every morning yet I feel like the walking dead. This is • Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson grew up occurs when a tree is • Boy walks into room; says I wake up to the same prune-face old it, Doc: I am a living, breathing, dis- crone to whom I pledged my vows so believing their grandmothers were their weakened by the leaf miner “Dad, have you seen my sun ease.” The doctor stares at him for a many years ago. I used to love her, but mothers and their mothers were their sisters. and then becomes infected glasses?” “No, son. Have you while then finally says “Jeez, Moth, that love has become like some with these bacteria, which can seen my dad glasses?” you definitely have some problems. • Italy’s biggest business is the Mafia. It turns over sun-festering beached whale trying to be fatal. There is also leaf But I’m a podiatrist. You need a psy- $178 billion a year and accounts for 7% of GDP. die. Oh and then there’s my son. Doc, I blotch and wood rotting • I wish people would stop don’t love him anymore. I don’t know chiatrist. Why’d you come in here?” • The King James Bible has inspired the lyrics fungi, as well as the horse calling me a lousy bum. I’ve what it is but I look in his eyes and I The moth says,”Your light was on.” of more pop songs than any other book. chestnut scale insect. been lice free for at least a year. 1. Choices 2. Failed Parachute 3. Talk 4. Pant

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In this month... NumberNumbersearch: Search Ashleigh Ballard, HMP Edinburgh 16 September 1968 1 8 0 4 3 5 2 5 1 6 The Post Office in the UK introduced a two-tier postal service. First Class letters cost 5d 7 3 2 0 8 4 6 7 9 8 (equivalent to 2p) for next-day delivery, while 9 8 4 6 1 2 9 3 9 2 Second Class letters cost 4d (equivalent to 1.5p) for delivery in two to three days. 5 1 2 9 7 8 4 1 8 7 5 9 0 0 6 5 3 4 5 9 18 September 1893 6 3 8 7 3 7 1 6 1 2 New Zealand became the first country to grant women the right to vote, with the passing of 2 2 7 6 3 4 3 3 4 6 the Electoral Act 1893. 9 1 4 3 9 1 7 2 6 7 3 6 8 4 5 6 7 7 6 5 20 September 1958 American civil rights activist Martin Luther 9 4 1 1 8 9 2 3 8 9 King, Jr. was stabbed in the chest while signing 001836, 199851, 227634, 567765, 391726, copies of his book Stride Toward Freedom in 001836, 199851, 227634, 567765, 391726, 148792, 480237, 891373, 556293, 983298 148792, 480237, 891373, 556293, 983298 Harlem, New York City. He was hospitalised for several weeks. The woman who stabbed him Thanks to Ashleigh Ballard, HMP Edinburgh for was mentally ill and found unfit to stand trial. compiling this Number Search. If you fancy compiling one please send in max 10 x 10 grid complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it 21 September - 4 October1993 we will send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspended include your name, number and prison. We will be parliament, attempted to disband the Congress using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. of People’s Deputies and the Supreme Soviet, and called for new elections. He was impeached and replaced by vice president Aleksandr Sudoku // Hard Rutskoy. On 4th October he ordered the Russian Army to storm the Supreme Soviet building with tanks and arrest the leaders of 7 5 3 1 4 the resistance. Up to 2,000 people were killed. 2 5 22 September 2003 7 3 British adventurer David Hempleman-Adams 4 5 1 became the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open wicker basket hot air balloon. 1 5 8 4 6 9 6 4 1 24 September 1988 Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson ‘won’ the men’s 3 2 100 metres at the 1988 Olympics in a record 6 9 time of 9.79 seconds. On 26th September it

was announced that he had failed a drugs test, 4 1 9 6 2 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2018. All rights reserved. sparking a media sensation. He was stripped of Daily Sudoku: Mon 6-Aug-2018 hard his medal and his time was deleted from the Word Morph record books. Can you morph one word into another by just 24 September 1988 © MW Released life sentenced prisoner sentenced life Released MW © changing one letter at a time? It isn’t quite as Legendary American singer James Brown was 9 7 5 8 2 3 1 4 6 easy as you think! arrested on drug and weapons charges after a 3 1 2 4 5 6 8 9 7 high-speed car chase near the Georgia-South rough Carolina state border. He was convicted of 4 8 6 7 9 1 2 3 5 carrying an unlicensed pistol, assaulting a 7 9 3 6 4 8 5 1 2 police officer, and other drug-related and driving offences. He was sentenced to six years 1 5 8 2 3 7 4 6 9 in prison. (Released February 1991.) 2 6 4 5 1 9 3 7 8 THE BIG XBOX 360 GAMES SUMMER SALE: GAMES FROM ONLY £3.50! ENDS 29/09/18 THEXBOX BIG 360 GAMES SUMMER SALE 25 September 1988 6 3 9 1 8 2 7 5 4 British Monty Python star Michael Palin set out 5 2 7 3 poach6 4 9 8 1 from London in an attempt to travel ‘Around

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WordsearchJailbreak September 2018 // Car makes and models Would you believe it? Inside Chess CAR MAKES AND MODELS OF ALL AGES - Luke Beardshaw HMP Doncaster by Carl Portman F I A T P U N T O T C I T R O E N P O L More than a mouthful In Australia, a group of thieves O A V S U Z U K I J I M N Y Q U N M E F I visited HMP Bedford in the summer, donating decided to try to siphon R X O F O R D E S C O R T S G A E X E P some chess equipment (on behalf of the English petrol out of a coach so that D H L S O J G V I D L J T E D S U F H O Chess Federation), holding chess Q&A sessions and G C K N Q R G L Y N R V T Z H S H J E R they could put it into their car delivering a couple of simultaneous exhibitions in and get away. The plan was to the morning and afternoon. As is usually the case, R A S I M S D L E Q I T A Z S A L O P C go up to the touring coach in some of the inmates attended initially because they A R W S A A F T Y I S M L U P D A A G H the middle of the night, stick a just wanted to get out of their cell after being locked N T A S Z L A R R H A G K K X T R F K E hosepipe into the gas tank of up for so long. This is totally understandable.

Pic: Paul Wood A C G A F X D T O A L J D F B H B I C B the other vehicle, start sucking However, I am delighted to say that not one inmate D E E N A D B G M V N M X E H Y A L L O Foul beaked bird for long enough for some walked away ‘bored of chess’ during the day and A V N S Y H U G F X E S M E T P D L D X A foul-beaked parrot who got stuck on a roof petrol to get to the other end, by the end of it some were even threatening to has told firefighters trying to rescue it to ‘f**k spit, then place the hosepipe learn the game! This is great news indeed and part G L G U F N L R P A W R O F R V C M L S off’.The macaw parrot - affectionately known into a jerry can to take the of the reason I visit – to foster and encourage chess N L O N K H F W A G L E M I Z Q H D J T as Jessie - escaped her home in north London petrol back to their car. Well, in prisons. Thanks to the people who stayed. M A L N P L F G T R J S D E S K V C B E and spent three days on a neighbour’s roof. that was the plan, at least. In The regular chess players engaged in their games K H F Y B Y K L S R J E E P T W H J C R Her owner and the RSPCA were unable to lure reality, they got an awful lot with a wonderful spirit, happy to take (and some- U X S U B A R U I M P R E Z A R F A A H the animal down, so firefighters were called to more than they’d bargained times give!) advice on chess matters as we went along. I U F O R D T R A N S I T O P I O I L J Cuckoo Hall Lane in Edmonton. “Jessie had for - they’d hooked the All of the usual points were covered, from the 50- T A A O F L A N D R O V E R G E F O S I hosepipe up to the coach’s been on the same roof for three days and there move rule to castling, en-passant, how to draw and E V U L G H W V A U X H A L L A S T R A were concerns that she may be injured which sewage tank, which carries a when to attack or defend. There were plenty of completely different type of questions about strategy and tactics, and how a A X B J F I A T P A N D A M J R T U S F is why she hadn’t come down,” said watch cargo to the fuel tank. The game might end up should a very aggressive player manager Chris Swallow. “Our crew manager CITROEN, FIAT PANDA, FIAT PUNTO, FORD ESCORT, FORD police arrived on the scene meet a very defensive player. That’s a bit like the CITROEN, FIAT PANDA, FIAT PUNTO, FORD ESCORT, FORD GRANADA, FORD TRANSIT, JEEP, KIA was the willing volunteer who went up the GRANADA,PRIDE, LAND ROVER, FORD LDV, LEXUS, TRANSIT, MAZDA, MINI,JEEP, NISSAN KIA PRIDE,SUNNY, PORCHE LAND BOXSTER, ROVER, ROVER LDV, afterwards to investigate, and irresistible force meeting the immovable object but METRO, SHOGUN, SUBARU IMPREZA, SUZUKI JIMNY, VAUXHALL, VAUXHALL ASTRA, VAUXHALL ladder to try and bring Jessie down. We were LEXUS, MAZDA, MINI, NISSAN SUNNY, PORCHE BOXSTER, ROVER one of them said: “We can somehow a result has to come about as chess com- VECTRA told that to bond with the parrot, you have to METRO, SHOGUN, SUBARU IMPREZA, SUZUKI JIMNY, VAUXHALL, infer they [made] a very hasty pels us to each make a move one after the other. VOLKSWAGEN GOLF tell her ‘I love you’, which is exactly what the VAUXHALL ASTRA, VAUXHALL VECTRA, VOLKSWAGEN GOLF crew manager did. “While Jessie responded ‘I retreat, with a somewhat I want to thank the management, staff and inmates Thanks to Luke Beardshaw HMP Doncaster for compiling this bitter taste in their mouth.” Anagram – Bradley Thorpe, HMP Rye Hill love you’ back, we then discovered that she at Bedford for making it such a memorable day. Wordsearch. If you fancy compiling one for us please send in max 20 x had a bit of a foul beak and kept swearing, The police said at the time Sometimes inmates berate prison staff for one 20 grid complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it we will much to our amusement.” Jessie is reported to that they were trying to reason and another; but I should point out in this send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number, have told the firefighters to “f*** off”. After she ascertain the culprits and column that there are a good many people out prison. We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize was finished hurling expletives it became clear track them down, but they are there that work very hard to bring chess to (your) money so include your DOB on your entries. Jessie wasn’t injured after all - she simply flew probably not going to catch prisons and without their input it simply wouldn’t off onto another roof, a tree and then towards them. They were also at pains happen, so credit must be given when it’s deserved. Quick Crossword her owner. Sky News to say that they have “abso- Finally this month, Anthony from HMP Stafford lutely zero interest” in wrote to me and asked for my early thoughts on who recovering the stolen goods. would win the World Championship, being held in Even if they did, has any crime London this November. It is either the current champ, been committed? Surely they’re Norwegian Magnus Carlsen or the pretender to welcome to help themselves the throne, American Fabio Caruana. My answer to whatever they want from is simple and can me given in one word - Carlsen! the sewage tank of a bus? Only a very cruel judge would 8 say that they’ve not been 7 punished enough. Lad Bible

Son of pastor killed by snake during sermon 6 gets bitten by snake during sermon An American pastor, whose father died seven 5 minutes after being bitten by a snake, has had to receive treatment after being bitten himself. 4 Once bitten, the pastor, Cody Coots, had asked his congregation to take him to the mountain- 3 top where God would judge whether he is to pull through or succumb to the same fate as his 2 father. Instead of following the words of the 1 pastor, one follower took him to hospital Coming or going? where doctors told the pastor he was lucky to Meet ‘Mr Elastic’ - the man be alive. Cody’s father died when he was only who can turn his feet 180 A B C D E F G H 42 - he was bitten by a rattlesnake at the same degrees backward and then This month’s puzzle is a classic Carlsen finish. Taken Across Down church in 2014. The church, Full Gospel walk. Moses Lanham, 57, from his game against Pantsulaia, Carlsen was black, Tabernacle in Jesus’ Name church, is inspired owes his super powers to the coming down the board. He had played a pawn to 1. Burst suddenly into fire (5,2) 1. Fussy person, informally (7) by the biblical verse Mark 16:18: ‘They will pick strange make up of his body. attacking the knight on f3. White now placed 7. Slumbering (6) 2. Main artery (5) up serpents, and if they drink any deadly He has double cartilage and his knight on h2. Your task is to get inside Carlsen’s 8. Prime cut of beef (7) 3. Cupid (4) poison, it will not hurt them’. Pastor Cody’s extra tissue in his knee joints, head (black to play) and tell me the most brutal 9. Insect (4) 4. Leopard (7) way to finish this game off. church is one of many snake-handling hips and ankles, which allows 10. Perambulator (4) 5. Slender in design or build (8) churches that started making appearances, him to bend in extraordinary There is a different (and very useful) prize this month. 12. Lesser deity (7) 6. Beside (4,2) over a hundred years ago. Following the death ways. He developed his A pocket magnetic chess set donated by the London 14. Pig’s foot (7) 11. Motherly (8) of his father Cody was thrust into the danger- strange abilities after being Chess Centre is the prize for the first correct entry drawn. 16. Nobleman (4) 12. To thaw (7) ous position of a snake-handling pastor at age injured when he fell 18ft from 18. Treating people equally (4) 13. Please greatly (7) Write to me with your answer, care of The English on 23 - he’s the fourth generation to take up a rope in gym class when he Chess Federation at The Watch Oak, Chain Lane, 20. Aperture or gap (7) 15. Motive (6) was 14 years old. Mr Lanham, the profession. His grandad also died from a Battle, East Sussex TN33 OYD. Please note that you 21. Teeth used for grinding (6) 17. In existence (5) from Michigan, claims snake bite. Even with the high-risk factor of should always write to me at the ECF not via 22. Three-pronged spear (7) 19. House type (4) snake-handling, congregations like Pastor twisting his feet completely InsideTime. Also please include your prison number Cody’s continue to endanger their lives, at their behind him along with his and if you can, the date and what months puzzle The last word... Sunday services, for their faith. During the knees is more comfortable you are entering. services followers of the faith lay hands on the than walking normally. He sick, pray, sing, and listen to sermons. The said: ‘I think as far as I know The answer to August’s puzzle was: 1…Qxh2+! 2.Kxh2 Pastor then often picks up snakes from a box I’m the only one in the world Bxf4+ 3.Rxf4 Rh6+ 4.Qh5 Rxh5+ 5.Rh4 Rxh4# “Outcome is not in your control. What’s in your control is your effort and your intentions.” Amit Sood and carries one or two of them up in the air that’s able to turn their feet The winner of July’s puzzle was Steven from HMP while preaching to his congregation. Lad Bible backwards and walk. Metro Whatton. 56 Jailbreak // National Prison Radio www.insidetime.org Insidetime September 2018 National Prison Radio is available in prisons across September 2018 England and Wales, and HMP Grampian in Scotland. What’s on National Prison Radio // September 2018 We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, into your cell. If your prison has National Prison Radio, you can National Prison Radio is currently available in prisons across England and Wales. We broadcast 24-hours a day, seven days a week,listen into through your cell. your TV by using the tuning buttons on If your prison has National PrisonWhat’s Radio, you can listen on through National your TV by using the tuningPrison buttons on yourRadio? remote control. your remote control.

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