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“I realised my not wanting to Black History be on TV was just insecurity and with issues of freedom Month and liberty at stake that seemed a pretty poor excuse Cops, Slaves not to try and help” and Usain Bolt Louise Shorter Comment // page 19 To celebrate this special I feel uneasy and once again the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees month Inside Time reveals “ the powerlessness of my a voice for prisoners since 1990 some startling facts about situation crushes me.” the West Indies Kelly Wober October 2016 / Issue No. 208 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profit’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Usain Bolt: fastest man in the world Comment // page 32 Comment // page 21 We are ‘Shambolic!’ all human This year the annual Prison reform agenda or no prison reform Koestler Exhibition at London’s South Bank agenda? Shadow Justice Minister Jo Stevens Centre is curated by ‘disappointed’ by Justice Secretary Liz Truss’s multi-award winning poet Benjamin performance in front of the Justice Select Zephaniah. He tells Committee, she tells Inside Time Inside Time why he was initially reluctant Erwin James “Brandi” Bronze and what he thinks of 30 Award for sculpture the 2016 exhibits In her first appearance before the Justice Select Committee last month since taking over the role from Michael Gove in July, Justice Secretary Liz Truss Extreme measures cast a shadow of uncertainty over the government’s much “Those who are intent on trying to convert others to violent heralded prison reform agenda. She appeared to be una- ant-British beliefs in support of terrorism should be ware of many of the key issues facing her department and her separated from the main prison population and offered the performance was later derided time, space and assistance to reflect on their unacceptable as “lacklustre” by parliamentary colleagues. Labour MP behaviour and change their ways” for Cardiff Central and Shadow Justice Minister Jo Stevens was Former prison gover- present as the Justice Secretary nor Ian Acheson who was quizzed and described was tasked with her performance as “absolutely shambolic.” A keen support- heading up a review er of the reform agenda and a into Islamist extrem- champion of rehabilitation ism in prisons writing policies for the prison system Stevens invited Inside Time to exclusively for Inside her office in Portcullis House, Time. “Terrorism has just across the road from the been with us for many Houses of Parliament in Westminster which provides years,” he says, “but the offices for almost a third of the new terrorism inspired country’s MPs. by global jihad is a Jo Stevens: “so disappointed” by Liz Truss 17 “Overwhelming majority of Muslim prisoners reject Islamism” Continues on page 18 much bigger threat.” © prisonimage.org

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Comments or complaints should be vouchers are available, how rehabilitation directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. can these be collected? We Board of Directors Nonsensical rules wish to collect the discount system? vouchers that are generated J Carroll - HMP Lancaster Farms Name supplied - HMP Wandsworth Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, by our orders, and donate Journalist, Writer and serving Magistrate. them to charity rather than I agree with Robbie Bleach’s letter (July 2016 issue) with regards I have recently been imprisoned and, as Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge let the prison get them. Can to the rather perplexing rules surrounding the embargo on such, I was interested to fi nd out what Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon any other prisoner enlighten Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh adult prisoners purchasing 18 certifi cated DVDs. Whilst I was programmes and courses might be available us on how this can be done? John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and allowed to watch Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ on Film Four, I am to assist with my rehabilitation. My various Managing Director employing former prisoners forbidden from purchasing the exact same fi lm on DVD enquiries resulted in me being given Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice because it is certifi cate 18. So why was there a need for the Editorial note information about a variety of courses that Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, prison system to ban all DVDs rated 18 for adult prisoners? This issue was raised some could form part of my sentence plan. You can Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation years ago and we were advised imagine my amazement to fi nd courses “It would appear that the mentally feeble people that when prisoners order off ered by the controversial Church of The Editorial Team items listed in the Argos Scientology were able to be included in who thought up this rule are living in a fantasy catalogue they are actually prisoners’ sentence planning! world far more fi ctitious than those in the TV shows buying from the Prison Service. and fi lms I’m currently forbidden from purchasing” They purchase under a The Church of Scientology is considered by discount agreement between many to be a very dangerous high-demand cult that exploits its adherents through its ‘Stargate SG1’, the box-set is banned to prisoners because the MOJ and Argos and resell pseudo-psychology, based on the idea that the Season One was rated 18. The same ruling applies to the to prisoners at catalogue earth is populated by the tormented souls of box-set of another sci-fi show called ‘Farscape’ for the same prices. As the Ministry of Erwin James John Roberts Rachel dead aliens and other fantasies developed by Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE reason, yet I watched the whole series when I was 12. We Justice is buying using a L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. Director Associate Editor cannot purchase the box-set of ‘Game of Thrones’ either corporate account and because of this nonsensical rule. benefi ting from discounted Scientology does include high-profi le Offi ce Manager prices, vouchers are not members such as actors John Travolta and Lucy Forde It would appear that the mentally feeble people who thought available for prisoners. 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Mailbites ‘Not all those convicted Missing items in ‘bag & tag’ canteen Mailbag 2-9 M Boylan - HMP Addiewell “You would learn more by simply ‘We are not bad of sex offences are guilty’ In most prisons the prisoners’ canteen (shop) is run by getting books out of the library people…’ Name Supplied - HMP Liverpool private outside companies for profi t. As we all know, people Page 9 and teaching sometimes do make mistakes, some of us more than others. It I recently lost a relative. Both yourselves” would be unfair to suggest that every error or shortfall in prisoners and staff have As I fi nish off a 7-month sentence I rejoice in fi nding faith and becoming a changed person. I no longer use drugs or smoke prisoners’ bag & tag canteen is anything but a mistake. I helped me through this Newsround 10-15 cigarettes. I am due for release in 2 weeks so I thought it have spent a lot of time in various prisons throughout difficult time. I so often read “We will not only prudent to tell you a true story that sent an innocent man Scotland and England, and I have noticed a big increase in demand the end and hear that staff don’t care into custody. these ‘genuine errors’ (as the companies call them). The to prison slavery, about the welfare of prison- remarkable coincidence in these errors is, I have never had we will end it our- ers, but this has not been the Many years ago, growing up in the care system, I was not one in my favour! Page 12 selves by ceasing case for me. Also, my fellow only physically abused, but also sexually abused in the to be slaves” prisoners have been so caring various children’s homes I frequented. So, later in life, whilst Oft en there are missing items that I have paid for, but, never, and helpful. Prisoners are often seeking legal recourse I was questioned by solicitors and the not once has there been an extra item in my bag - never three Comment 16-37 portrayed to be the worst of police, or perhaps ‘badgered’ would be a better word. One of bars of chocolate instead of the two I ordered, never two “I had to go the worst, but in reality they my foster-carers was an upstanding member of the communi- packs of tobacco instead of one. Never anything that I did not and live with are nowhere near as bad as ty with a good family and children, but I decided to wrongly order or pay for (which, obviously, I would have reported). my sister, and some people think. So, over-exaggerate his treatment of me whilst I was in his care. Yes, he was strict and, I believe, harsh in his punishment of I cried in my remember, the next time you It is possible to get a refund if you notice items missing before Page 28 my behaviour, but I maliciously made false representations room for days” read/hear about prisoners you open the bag, but oft en that is very diffi cult if you have a of sexual deviance on his behalf. Information 38-43 being bad people, we are not large canteen order and 60 other prisoners are trying to get their canteen at the same time. It is almost impossible to get a bad people, we are just people Amazon NOT At the time I was, I hate to say, uncaring about his well-being member of staff to check a bag with you at the time of opening it. who have made a mistake.. or the fact that I was condemning an innocent man into an approved custody. I am not proud of my actions or their consequences, supplier LMB - HMP Isle of Wight Many prisoners struggle with reading and numeracy, so logic but I now know his shame, pain and suff ering because of my We investigate dictates that many of these omissions go unnoticed and Page 41 actions. Others also played their own roles in ensuring that money does not get refunded to the prisoner. But what ‘Vegans get one an innocent man was condemned to prison. happens to that un-refunded money? Who benefi ts? 90,000 Legal 44-47 choice’ prisoners, sometimes getting 2 canteens a week, is a nice I sent this man to prison, yet now I am in contact with him “Remember little earner for somebody as Del Boy would say. There are a I am a vegan, and proud of it. and his children (now adults) on a daily basis. I have suff ered that credit will lot of bandits in prison, but it would appear that not all of Every prison I have been in myself through self-loathing and guilt because even though be given for an them get locked up in cells at night. has always been pretty fair true paedophiles went, and deserved to go, to prison, this early guilty plea” gentle man did not. He showed me how great a man I could Page 44 with their choice of meals for And whilst I have your attention, I would like to off er my be and taught me about my roots, being a black man in a vegans. That is, until I came congratulations to the suppliers of prisoners’ canteen fruit to Jailbreak 48-60 here to HMP Moorland. I put white man’s world. Now the irony is that I sit in custody still loved by this man and his family, allowing their support of Addiewell prison. They seem to have solved the problem of “The whole a general app in to the Kitchen me to change me for good. waste and the disposal of overripe and damaged fruit simply species pretty Manager, to inform him that by selling it at the normal retail price to prisoners who have much owes its I can’t eat hummus, couscous, My words never used to mean much, but the consequences of no alternative but to purchase it from this one supplier. survival to this butter or kidney beans. I was my actions now hurt. My words touched this gentle man’s Brilliant work! Page 53 sex god” told - ‘they are the choices, heart and he can now prove he never lied, forever tried to like it or lump it’. I asked was prove his innocence and I wince when I envision his and his there any room for compromise family’s suff ering and pain. His family name carries shame all and was told, quite forcefully, because of my childish game and I hang my head in shame. PRISONER HOTLINE 0161 833 9253 NO. I pointed out that other prisoners get 5 choices and People should be aware that not all convicted sex off enders cm vegans get just one choice. are guilty. I know this for a fact. CONVICTED OF JOINT ENTERPRISE? I was told that if I wanted Stepping out of the shadows page 19 NJGD>D OJMN The supreme court ruling in the case of R v Jogee could mean something different then I that you now have grounds for appeal. Contact us urgently Great Britain is doing some should buy it from the canteen. for our expert lawyers to assess your case. Prison works? terrible things to its own Have vegans in other prisons CRIMINAL LAW Mark Wrightwick - people and no one seems to met with similar problems? Director & Head of Criminal Law —Ben Richardson HMP Isle of Wight care. 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Irish update ‘Trans-imposters’ NOMS Writes James Brennan - Ms Sasha Chi Chi Hart - HMP Littlehey HMP Leyhill LGBT magazines We recently received a query from a prisoner Since you printed my piece I see a lot of people writing in to say how asking where he could find an official list of in the July issue, I’ve had great their prison is for transgenders, so I’m LGBT magazines/publications. We sent the lots of letters from inmates, writing to tell you about Littlehey. query to NOMS, and this is their reply: their families and a few There is a big trans’ population here - or is agencies all offering there? This is a predominately sex offender The short answer is, there is no list of support. One of the letters prison, and it is with utter disgust and approved publications. In general, NOMS made me aware that a concern as a non-sex offender trans’ prisoner does not censor reading material except leading firm of UK solicitors that I find anyone can and does say they are where it is necessary for public protection or (who advertise in Inside trans’, just so they can continue in their to restrict illegal materials. The relevant donating them you are Time) are actually in the Appeal for sexual deviant ways, such as cross-dressing policy on public protection is in chapter 11 of raising funds for a very process of taking a Judicial used stamps or avoiding having to do the SOTP pro- the Public Protection Manual. worthwhile cause and Review action on behalf of supporting those children Joseph O’ Riordan - Irish inmates in UK jails, in gramme because they become classed as and young people stricken There are two broad categories of restricted HMP Swaleside an effort to force the Irish females. with this awful disease. materials: types of material not allowed and UK governments to under any circumstances are listed on page 4; I have voluntarily worked for If you would like to be deport Irish nationals. The sickest part of this is that the system can and specific publications are listed in Annex A. a variety of charities, both involved in this worthwhile do sod-all about these trans’ bandwag- local and nationally, for The Manual should be available in prison in pastime, please write to me Proceedings are at an on-jumpers, because the policy states they many years. I have now been at HMP Swaleside, Brabazon advanced stage having hard copy if internet access is not. in prison for two years and must be treated as transgender prisoners ‘if Rd, Kent, ME12 4AX, and overcome many initial have managed to keep that they say they are’. I have had staff and other include my name and hurdles. I was more than Apart from these provisions, nothing is ‘banned’, ethos going by collecting number (A6576DH) and I inmates express their disgust to me (a so any publication is available in principle. used stamps and donating happy to join my Irish will pass you the details on genuine trans’ prisoner) over this behaviour. However, the Manual also allows materials to them to Clic Sargent for brothers and sisters in this how to organise this project You do not have to be transgender here, you be restricted in two other circumstances: Children with Cancer, which legal action. I am sure that in your prison. only have to say you are and you do not even supports children and young many of your Irish readers have to ‘live in role’. But on the flipside, if • An individual prison can add to the national people with cancer. The CLIC Sargent says would also want to know list for the whole population of the prison, if charity provides clinical, By collecting just 1kg of more about this, as without you are trans’ and are a slightly better-look- practical and emotional stamps for us to sell you can Inside Time I would have ing female than others, you get nothing but local circumstances require it; and support, helping people to help pay for a family to stay been unaware of it. Should negativity and bitterness from those not • Materials not otherwise restricted may need cope with their cancer, the in one of our 10 Homes from any Irish prisoners or their quite able to carry off looking female. So if to be withheld from individual prisoners if impact of it, its treatment, Home, located near eight required by their offending behaviour or risk life after treatment and, in relatives want to know more, you want to be able to avoid addressing your principal treatment centres, management needs. please feel free to write to offending behaviour, come to HMP Littlehey some cases, bereavement. so that they can be close to me and I will (subject to their child during treatment. and ‘go trans’’, if you enjoy unwanted sexual governor’s permission) reply If a prisoner wants to know whether his or her I imagine the amount of We sell all stamps we receive attention, or want to be slated by your own mail coming into our prisons to all letters I receive. Again, own prison has a local list, it should be - UK, foreign, old and franked trans’ community, then come here. possible to find out from prison staff. But the each week and the used - on our award-winning eBay thank you Inside Time for stamps on them, in general, shop to avid stamp collectors. your continued support of only way to find out whether something may You are fooling no one but yourself by living are thrown into the bin - by the Irish issue. be restricted for the individual prisoner is to a lie, and it is trans-imposters who give real order it, or ask for it via the library. Prison transgender people a bad name, in and out staff will then decide whether the prisoner can Punished for using the complaints system of prison. To genuine trans’ people - stay strong. be allowed to have it. Michael Miles - HMP Lancaster Farms

We, as prisoners, are told to use the complaints process, but we are not told of the backlash I’m so sorry when we do. I am a recall 2-strike lifer and I am in my parole window, but now I’ve been Mark Humphries - HMP Wayland shipped so far from my family by HMP Stoke Heath. I was misled by the Security Department and threatened with nickings if I didn’t go, so I took it on the chin and came here as I could This letter is an apology to all the LGBT people I have offended in the past. I am truly sorry for not afford a nicking this close to my parole hearing. my actions and words that would have caused you pain.

I have to say that Stoke Heath is no place for black men, or even travellers, as it is a very racist In my previous life as a preacher I have spoken against your position; my sermons were used jail. I was racially abused in front of staff and nobody came to see me about it when I com- to alienate you as a group and as individuals. I publicly wrote against churches that support- plained, it was just brushed under the carpet. HMP Stoke Heath is, in my opinion and experience, ed LGBT people. That was wrong of me and I am truly sorry. Recently, through deeper badly-run and needs to change before they have any more self-harm or suicide attempts. spiritual study and insight I have found a new freedom to express myself.

I have written to an outspoken transgender person. I told her very much the same as I write KWP Solicitors LLP here. That was the start of my repentance. I want to be your brother, and I want to encourage others to step back and look at the world around us. We are one world, made up of many Janine Doolan – LLB (Hons) different people, each one of us has a unique gift and offering to give. If I do not let you do that by being you, I rob the world of that gift. With love. Prison Law Supervisor & Crime Consultant Experienced crime and prison lawyer Corrections and Clarifications Legal Aid: Parole, Adjudications, Recall, Appeals & JR Over 20 years The policy of Inside Time is to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Corrections will experience appear in the mailbag section of each issue and on the relevant web page. If you notice an error Adjudications covered: Garth / Wymott / Altcourse / Kennet in crime please feel free to write to us at the usual address providing the date and page number from the Liverpool / Stoke Heath / Haverigg / Stafford / Oakwood newspaper, alternatively have a friend or family member call or email us (see below). Specialist in Paul Gambaccini interview ENGLAND SWINGS is Roger Miller, Instructions taken from all prisons Parole Hearings In the interview with broadcaster Paul not Roger Millar and the correct lyric is, Your case is personally dealt with by me from visit to hearing, Gambaccini in the August issue of Inside Time “Bobbies on bicycles, two by two”, not agents or clerks. Affordable Private fixed rates if your case does not qualify for funding. we made a couple of errors. The singer of not, “Bobbies on the beat two by two.” 313-315 Smithdown Road, Liverpool, L15 0AB / 0151 321 2231 / 07842 996 400 Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, 01489 795945 Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. [email protected] Insidetime October 2016 ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Mailbag 5

Is this a case of security gone mad? Mailbites Nigel Lamberth - HMP Wayland ‘Can I have a COMP1 Wayland is a category C prison and we have the DHL warehouse here, which also supplies please?’ HMP Norwich, a category B establishment. Due to ‘Security Reasons’ we cannot order cans of cola from the canteen in this prison, though we can order 1.25 litre bottles of cola, and also I have been in Swinfen Hall cans of Fruit Punch and Black Grape. The DHL warehouse stocks cans of cola for those for 5 months and I have yet to prisoners at Norwich to order. So, I can order a bottle of cola and, because I work in the DHL see a single COMP1 form in warehouse, I can hold a can of cola in my hand, in order to pick and send it to Category B this prison. I asked a member prisoners at Norwich, but I cannot order one for myself from a category C prison. If there are of staff if he could print some prisoners sitting in Category A prisons who are allowed to order cans of cola, then please drop off but was told that they can me a line so I can show security here how absurd their ruling is. It is things like this that make only order them in. It is not prisoners wonder what goes on in the heads of security staff . right that Chris Grayling scrapped Legal Aid for Mobile phones in prison prisoners at the same time The police and telling everyone that the Jeff Dix - HMP Highdown internal prison complaints their behaviour system (COMP1) is perfectly I have never had or used a mobile phone adequate. Not if you cannot CP Metcalfe - Mother of an inmate whilst in prison, but even though that is the even access the paperwork in case I can understand why people use them. order to make your com- Jonathan King is right; the police do tell lies. The view of the Prison Service is that the only plaint. Great for the prison reason people would have an illicit mobile is In a recent issue of Inside Time there was a because no COMP1 forms letter from an inmate at HMP Isle of Wight in Aberfan fatal landslide for maintaining criminal activity from equals no complaints. Can we within prison. Whilst it could be true that which he talks of being convicted of a crime please at least have the Aberfan some people do have them for this reason, I that never happened. Can’t the police stick to means of making a complaint, can identify at least 2 other genuine reasons stopping real crimes? Can’t they look for the or is that too much to ask? P Fowkes - HMP Usk that maybe the Prison Service/MoJ should truth and be pleased when they fi nd it? Are Liam Lyburd - HMP Swinfen think about and take some responsibility for. they just so focused on getting convictions at As a young boy, life in Aberfan in 1966 was quite traumatic Hall any cost that integrity goes out of the due to the major disaster that occurred. The landslide that The cost of using prison phones is extremely led to the deaths of 116 children was diffi cult to live with, as I window? Are their targets and promotions so high. What does £10 get you on a prison important to them that if they can’t solve real Let us fight was a young boy at the time of the tragedy. I did not witness phone these days? 100 minutes if you ring a the actual event but it aff ected our whole community and crimes they will make up a few? for our country landline and less than half of that if you call still has lasting and painful eff ects, meaning that I, along a mobile. Yet what does the same £10 get you I am a serving prisoner here, with many others, have found it diffi cult to live a normal life. There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of on a mobile phone contract? doing 17½ years for Section innocent people in prison in this country 18, Section 20 & aggravated The pain will never go away completely, but as time passes I The second problem is that with such tight who know the answer to the above ques- fi nd it easier to come to terms with. I think of many of my burglary. I was recently regimes, due to staff shortages, it is extreme- tions. And there are thousands of members thinking that prisoners like friends that died and hope that one day I will be reunited with of the public, the families and friends of them. I think of the families that suff ered the loss of their ly hard to get the opportunity to call your me should be offered a these prisoners, who know it too. It is a children and the 28 teachers who were tragically taken during loved ones when we get locked up for the chance to join the army the disaster that occurred on the 21st of October 1966 at 9.15am. night at around 5pm, that’s if we have been national disgrace. instead of festering away in let out of our cells at all. A personal example jails. If I were given the choice It has taken many years to be able to even write about this - I had to ring my solicitor this morning to The police time and public money spent in I would 100% choose to go event so I would be grateful if it could be included in your paper. chase up a long-overdue parole decision, my convicting my son of a non-existent crime and fight in the army. I solicitor had asked me to specifi cally call in does not bear thinking about - and so much wonder how many long-term Editorial note the morning when she would be available. I of it was used in fabricating a scenario that a prisoners, both male and The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery asked staff at 10am if I could make a legal jury really should have seen for the charade female, would choose the spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfi l, call, but was told that I would be let out at it was. And then, of course, that fabrication same? Just think of the extra lunchtime like everyone else. When I was let on 21 October 1966, which killed 116 children and 28 adults. It can be given to the press as fact. The likes of troops there would be was caused by a build-up of water in the tip which suddenly out for lunch I wasn’t allowed to use the The Sun love a good fantasy story. available were prisoners started to slide downhill in the form of a slurry. Over 40,000 phone. This is not the fi rst time this has given the choice. So what if cubic metres of debris covered the village in minutes, and the happened and I genuinely wished at this we have convictions, that classrooms at Pantglas Junior School were immediately During a recent visit from the police to return moment that I had access to a mobile. So, doesn’t mean we can’t fight inundated with young children and teachers dying from some property ‘seized’ for their so-called although a small percentage of inmates must for our country. We would impact or suffocation. 90,000 people contributed £1,606,929 investigation, the comment was made that have illegal mobile phones for malicious actually be able to give to the Aberfan Disaster Memorial Fund (ADMF). In 2007 the ‘because we are the police we have to be very reasons, the Prison Service/MoJ need to something back for the Welsh Assembly donated £2m to ADMF as compensation for careful with private property’! It is a pity that consider that many others may have them to damage we have caused. money requisitioned from the original fund by the then maintain family or legal contact, as well as care does not extend to private lives, which Government and National Coal Board. to reduce cost. they do their best to destroy. Name supplied - HMP Garth

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Mailbites Breaking the law A different view of Wakefield Simon Maufe - Name supplied - HMP Wakefield ‘Is there training HMP Holme House for OMU staff?’ I read every issue of Inside Time, but lately there have been a I read with interest the couple of letters from inmates in this prison that have infuriat- I have noticed that many of mailbag, Amber Alert by our wing staff have been, or David Scott. I recently ed me because they are so misleading. I will start with the want to become, OMU staff. I received an answer on a letter from one inmate here asking why he cannot have a dog? wonder what training these COMP1 form that you may be people are given and whether interested in. In his reply to Apparently the rules state that we can buy cage birds from they need any major my query about why the canteen. Well, just to clarify - No we can’t. We have not accreditation? If so, we have a full-time workers do not get been allowed to buy cage birds here for the last 10 years due cause for concern, because it daily exercise in the open to the jail not having a trader’s license. looks as if any officer can be air, the Case Manager OMU and hold considerable, replied, and this is a direct “My own view of this place is to warn people life-changing decisions over Olympic athlete Adam Peaty quote - ‘At Holme House this inmates, based on personal is the accepted practise that to stay clear of this graveyard and give it a very perception, or even personal full time workers do not get wide berth” agendas to punish. I am even Censorship in our ‘homes’ exercise mid-week. You can of course apply to OCA for a more concerned to discover, Carl Linden - HMP Highdown My second frustration is with a recent letter in the August direct from OMU manage- transfer to another establishment’. issue where the inmate in question goes on about how ment, that the OMU collects We were recently ‘treated’ to a notice from our Custodial Wakefield should lose the stigma of being known as ‘Monster newspaper articles printed Manager, here on Houseblock 6, which states - ‘As of Monday Since our minimum 30 Mansion’. He praises this place and goes on to say that others about inmates in order to 8th of August HB6 staff will be carrying out regular checks in minutes exercise in the fresh should apply to come here because it is so great. I can only flesh out their cases. And we your cells and will be looking specifically at where you are air daily is prison law under think that he is walking around with his head up his backside. displaying your pictures/photographs.’ It also went on to say all know how biased the the Prison Act (voted on by - ‘You are reminded that pictures/photographs are not to be press can be! Parliament) and not just a distasteful and should not show any male or female genitalia My own view of this place is to warn people to stay clear of NT Cashmore - HMP Dovegate this also includes bare female breasts. You have until PSI, I am contemplating this graveyard and give it a very wide berth. Monday 8th of August to comply with this instruction.’ contacting the police liaison It was signed by the Custodial Manager. officer here and making a The SOTP courses allow paedophiles to tell others of every No NPR in complaint that the governor little detail of their crimes, and they even have other HMP Full Sutton routinely and knowingly Whilst most of us agree that not to display male or female paedophiles role-playing child victims. Which I personally breaks the law. I would think I noticed in the August issue genitalia on our walls is a reasonable and decent request, as think is rather sick and twisted. there are both male and female staff working on the wing, a solicitor’s firm would love of Inside Time that HMP Isle I would remind staff that whilst we are in custody our cells to take this on a no-win-no- of Wight, which is a prison in are our ‘homes’. The inclusion of ‘bare breasts’ dramatically fee basis, maybe as a class I would advise people not to come here, it is not a nice place the middle of the English impacts on my ‘straight’ fellow inmates, as even national action for all prisoners who and once you are here it is very hard to get shipped out again. Channel, can receive NPR, yet newspapers feature bare-breasted females on a daily basis. are routinely disadvantaged Staff are not policing the wings properly and it seems like here in Full Sutton we don’t Some members of staff are telling us that no nipples should by this illegal act. nobody cares. even get a look in. When I be on show, others say no breasts at all, so a photo of a was in HMP Preston, NPR got prisoner’s partner in a low-cut dress cannot be displayed. me through the week when SPECIALISTS IN PRISON LAW, PAROLE DELAYS, there was nothing on TV, Yet, I have numerous pictures on my wall of Olympic athlete Kesar & Co EQUALITY CLAIMS, PERSONAL INJURY, especially the NRG pro- Adam Peaty, bare-breasted and in brief trunks. But apparently CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE, MENTAL HEALTH, gramme on a Friday. Can that is fine, which to me is discriminatory. So who decides S O L I C I T O R S IMMIGRATION AND DEFENCE. anyone explain why we what is ‘distasteful?’ I know that one officer does not like gay inmates, so to him Mr Peaty’s pictures would be distasteful. cannot receive NPR? Our criminal defence team offers advice and representation to those remanded in custody and prisoners I understand that it is important to have rules and for us to facing additional charges, extradition or confiscation proceedings. Matthew Higham - follow them, but our private space is our own, whether we be HMP Full Sutton gay or straight. It is unfair for my fellow inmates to have their The prison law team is accepting instructions in recall and parole matters but we also specialise in all walls stripped bare whilst mine is left alone. We live in these prison-related matters including adjudications, sentence calculation cases, pre-tariff reviews and other matters. cells and should not have to be under restriction because of ‘Thank you Wymott’ some officers’ moral or religious views. This is discrimination, Our clients regularly receive compensation for the delayed parole hearings, ranging from £300 to £4,500. We I am an elderly prisoner with of that there is no doubt. offer a free, no-commitment assessment of the merits of your case. health problems. In my cell I have pictures of my 10-year- Praise for the Jigsaw Centre at HMP Leeds We recognise that life in prison can be dangerous and injuries frequent. old Blue Roan Cocker Spaniel Mike Craig - Halifax The team of litigation specialists can assist you with claims for damages following assaults or unlawful use of called Spencer. I had not seen force. Spencer for 4 years and I’ve I would like to put on record it going, so I urge people to still got another couple of my appreciation of the support the raffles and other These matters include injuries at work or avoidable accidents resulting in substantial amounts of damages. years before my release. The tireless work put in by all fundraising activities of the the staff at the Jigsaw Centre Centre, to keep the current prison organised a special Another area of concern is the growing number of complaints about direct and indirect discrimination based at Leeds prison. They offer great service. compassionate visit so that predominantly on age, disability, gender and religion. friendship, support and my wife and son could bring assistance all the time, Apparently, in the old days Our specialists assist prisoners who have received delayed or inadequate medical and dental treatment, as Spencer to see me. From 9.30 helping where possible to people sat outside in the well as those who have been refused medication or experienced abrupt, unjustified withdrawal of opiate to 10.30 we had the visits relieve the stress felt by street until visit time, now substitutes. room to ourselves. I so families on the outside. It is they have an airy, modern appreciate the extra trouble probably not widely known, building, in which Susan We can also draft wills, deal with probate and make lasting power of attorney and deputyship applications. that individual members of but it is very hard especially and the team are there staff had to go to for this to for younger families to keep constantly with help and Our firm offers legal aid, subject to assessment, in the areas of prison law, criminal defence, immigration, encouragement. For me happen. Sincere thanks from the bonds between parents mental health, action against the police, and public law. In the alternative, we accept instructions from privately and children. The play visits personally it was only 4 my wife and my son and paying clients as well as “no win-no fee” agreements. especially from Tex and they have set up with the months but without their governor’s support critically help I could not have got Spencer. Thank you. help parents hold it together. through it. So, my thanks to Contact us in writing at: Kesar & Co Solicitors, Gordon ‘Tex’ Wakefield everyone involved, your - HMP Wymott It is worth noting that this is valuable work is welcome. 2nd Floor, 20-25 Market Square, Bromley, BR1 1NA a charity venture, depend- I wish you every success Or by telephone on: 020 8181 3100 Paws in prison page 25 ent on raising funds to keep going forward. 8 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime October 2016 Maintaining family ties is hard enough… How do we reform our prisons? Jael Kayumbi is a prisoner’s wife Name supplied - HMP Send I live in Stoke-on-Trent, so it is a lengthy, 400 “I was absolutely shattered as it was It was very interesting reading Inside Time (August issue) and a lot of stuff relating to the mile round trip for me and my 16 month-old failings of our prisons. Let us all hope that our new Minister of Justice, Elizabeth Truss, will such a hectic journey, just to get also read this paper and understand the real state of our prisons. son to visit his father at HMP Maidstone. there. I made my way to the toilet Being together as a family, with his dad, is so I have noticed over the past 6 months that Send seems to have gone downhill. The IT tutor left essential to us that I am willing to go through and burst into tears. I felt like the in January and some of the Admin staff have left since, so there isn’t much education here. We it every month or so. Furthermore, being offi cers did not understand how had an amazing textiles department for many years, but this has now been closed due to the alone and suff ering from postnatal depression, much it cost me just to be there or fact that it is not a ‘recognised qualifi cation’. We have been told that there are apparently no textile jobs on the outside anymore so there is no point to it. Plus, the textile department was I rely on our family time to give me the fuel I know what it’s like not being able to need to keep going. great for teaching us to repair and alter, which meant we could repair our prison clothing instead see our loved one. ” of the prison going to the expense of buying new ones. The department also had a team of ladies who were making cushions, bags, aprons, wash-bags and other items which staff However, on the last occasion when I arrived would buy, and the items were also for sale to prisoners’ families through the visits centre. at the prison the offi cer at the desk told me against children are not in the hall. By seeing The money went back into buying more fabric, so it was self-sustaining and teaching us great that I did not include my baby’s name on the how many children were inside the hall, it skills. Yes, new skills are being brought in, like DIY, tiling, plumbing, etc., but a lot of the list. He said he would speak to a colleague to was very obvious that there would be prisoners here are elderly so this is not something they can do, due to long-term illness or see if they can allow me in. The offi cer that absolutely no danger for him. She still arthritis. We have to look at the bigger picture here, if there is no education or skills being was called over looked at me and said that insisted that his name must be on the list taught it is going to be so much harder for us to fi nd employment on release. she believed what I was wearing was because... Well, it just has to be. Aft er making inappropriate because of the cuts. I was not this last statement, she told us to leave the Don’t give up hope showing what some consider to be a disturb- premises and so I walked away. The forgotten few ing amount of fl esh or anything and it was Marc Smith - HMP Swaleside James Hockey - HMP Wayland hot. I am not part of this society that has an I was absolutely shattered as it was such a outfi t for every occasion. I design my clothes hectic journey just to get there. I made my I am a ‘2-strike’ lifer who has now been in I am a 2-striker, who was sentenced as a prison for thirteen-and-a-half years, eight according to my taste. Asking me to change way to the toilet and burst into tears. I felt young off ender, and my tariff expired 11 years over tariff , and I have remained a my style, and wear clothes that are “appro- like the offi cers did not understand how years ago. Recently I decided to make a category B prisoner the whole time. priate” is discriminating and insulting. There much it cost me just to be there or know what Freedom of Information request to the was no issue with my outfi ts the fi rst few it’s like not being able to see our loved one. Ministry of Justice asking them how many The European Court of Human Rights said times I came and now it seemed like I was As I came out of the toilet, I said to them, “Do other 2-strike lifers were sentenced to this that the 2-strike Act was inhumane and being targeted as soon as I arrived. you know something, one day, you will draconian and inhumane sentence as young arcane, and this resulted in the British defi nitely be in my shoes.” This somehow off enders. I was horrifi ed to fi nd out I was government fundamentally changing this The offi cer then said that she is going to was interpreted as a threat and was reported one of only 13 other young off enders. I bet law and giving it a makeover and a new name - IPP. Unfortunately, prisoners under contact the visit booking department to see if to the head of security and operations who there are not that many people out there who this law still did not have a release date and I included my son’s name on my visit and has now imposed a three months’ ban, not know that 13 young lads are languishing in very little hope of getting out. would give me a copy of rules on dress code only preventing my innocent son from prison into their 30s or 40s for crimes they for visitors. She came back with two ladies building a relationship with his father, but committed as teenagers. What about the over 3,000 prisoners that are who deal with the online booking system to also tearing our family apart and giving an still in prison and over tariff under the 2-strike tell me that I was not allowed in because of inmate unnecessary stress. The Judge who sentenced me for GBH said he Act? I urge 2-strikers to write to me as I have the way I am dressed and because my son’s would have given me a fi xed term sentence a good legal team and we are trying to put name is not on the visitors list. I said I have I have written to the person who imposed the of 8 years but he had to give me a 2-strike life together a Class Action in the High Court to his birth certifi cate and that it was not my ban and asked for a reinvestigation on this case sentence with a 3 year, 4-month tariff . I have challenge our sentence. Finally, to all the fi rst time but she said that they have to go by checking CCTV footage etc. I ended up now served the equivalent of a 28-year lads stuck in DSPD units, and to my main through security checks to make sure that losing my return ticket and spent a total of £202 prison sentence. Surely we should be man Johnny Wallace stuck in Long Lartin off enders who have committed crimes on a day fi lled withBlackfords anxietynew andad 24.1.14:Layout nothing more. 1 24/1/14fi ghting 12:59 Pagefor the1 release of 2-strikers? block, do not give up hope, your day will come!

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report was great news about having better Mailbites Adult male help and support for addicts. I also read in her report that psychotherapist Elaine Rose ‘Why special treat- was highlighting the effects of childhood survivors abuse into adulthood, and the shame and ment for governors?’ Jonathan Ashton - HMP Risley confusion it causes to adult male survivors. In this jail recently, a governor Something I can finally relate to. was badly assaulted and My name is Jonathan, I am 47 years-old and suddenly the media were all a severe stammerer and survivor of mental, I find there is a big stigma for adult male over it. They never seem physical and sexual abuse from a young age, survivors. I know the full impact of trying to interested when prisoners are up until I was 16, when I escaped my family speak up, I found very little help, neither in killed or maimed, but a home and my abusers. The after-effects and or out of prison. I am a member of Shatter governor gets a few punches Potential plumber’s dilemma © Fotolia.com dysfunction ruined my life up until I was 46 Boys UK, who are based in Manchester. They and its headline news. Why? years old and I was in my first year of are© Fotolia.com a group of other male survivors who meet Do they not have a clue how Are prison-earned NVQs therapy. But, due to another nervous and support each other with coming to terms violent our prisons actually are? breakdown I ended up back in prison. I had with their abuse and trying to raise awareness This prison is very violent and worth anything? tried to disclose numerous times throughout that adult male survivors can find sanctuary. there are frequent assaults on my adult life but I was always treated as a both staff and prisoners. Some Jason Shields - HMP Hull liar and a fantasist. I have been attacked on I am going to ask this prison if I can form staff get assaulted and do not numerous occasions, which has left me with and run a support group for adult male even go off sick, they just The other day my sink was blocked and had been for a couple severe PTSD and other complex trauma and survivors as I have seen nothing to help us in carry on with the job. So why of days. When the Works Department plumber arrived to mental illness, which was my road to prisons in the past. I see many other men does a governor get special unblock it, I got into a conversation with him, and one of the addictions and escapism. escaping this reality with drink, drugs and treatment? Stop ALL violence questions I asked was how long it took him to complete his high risk living. I just hope I can help other and treat everyone the same. NVQ plumbing course? He told me that it took 2 years. I was Reading your August issue, I came across the adult male survivors to feel united and trying shocked, so I asked him how come prisons offer NVQ courses to rebuild our lives while residing in HMP. F Chennell - HMP Wayland column - Inside Drink and Drugs News by Claire in plumbing and other things yet the courses only take Brown. The drugs and decriminalisation Inside Drink & Drugs News page 43 between 6 and 20 weeks to complete? He told me that you A plea to the new cannot complete an NVQ plumbing course in that time, and Justice Minister even just completing the proper NVQ would be unlikely to ‘In denial is a psychological term’ lead to employment on the outside. The reason I am writing Name supplied - HMP Northumberland concerns the plans for prison Which made me wonder if prison courses are really fit for reform which previous Justice On reading the interesting article by Keith Rose of HMP Whitemoor (August issue), I was purpose? How can NOMS offer NVQ courses that take Minister Michael Gove set surprised to see the term ‘In Denial’ used. I myself am one of the soaring prison population of considerably less time to finish than in colleges? Surely that out, before Cameron threw genuinely innocent, but I use the term ‘Maintaining Innocence’. Mr Rose and other readers is impossible? I know that NOMS get payments, or at least a his toys out of the pram and may find the following of interest. specified amount, for every course that a prisoner completes. caused a reshuffle. What I, So, is the reason that prisoners are given shortened, Appellant or Maintaining Innocence: It was deemed by a Court of Law to be unreasonable to and many other prisoners, sub-standard, useless courses and are cheated simply down impose coursework on a person who has maintained innocence throughout their sentence. This want to know is are the plans to getting money for NOMS? has recently been acknowledged by the Parole Board. This also applies to appellants. Having for reform still going ahead? been informed of the relevant case, any Probation Officer intent on breaching the law then With violence, suicide and It seems that if I take my so-called NVQ certificate to a becomes liable to a charge of misfeasance in public office. This can carry a custodial sentence. self-harm levels at an all-time possible employer they will just laugh in my face, because it high, surely something has to is quite literally not worth the paper it is printed on when it The Term ‘In Denial’: Is a psychological term and cannot be used unless you have been be done, and fast. My advice comes to gaining employment. I think it is time that NOMS assessed by a qualified psychologist. If you have not been assessed, it therefore becomes to the new Justice Minister started being honest and told us that the courses they offer slanderous for any officer or official to use this term to describe you. If it is in written form, or would be this - read Inside are no more than introductory ‘taster’ courses and not real, incorporated in a report, it is termed libellous and, as with slander, proceedings can be taken Time, visit a few prisons and proper job-gaining NVQs. against the individual responsible. talk to prisoners, don’t just sit behind a desk, be proactive. Case Law Relating to the Above: Administrative Court (Collins J) 18th Feb 2004. Claimant: That being the case, I would like to know where they think Then, and only then, will we Prisoner known as ‘T’. real rehabilitation comes from and how is it being imple- see real change. Help us to mented, because the best route to employment on release rehabilitate ourselves and was completing an NVQ. But this leads to no job at all. It RODMAN PEARCE become productive members DAVIES & JONES would seem hardly anyone in charge of the prison system is of society. 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More pressure to release IPPs from Newsbites former Justice Secretary Ken Clarke l A Kansas man robbed a More pressure has been put on the government to address the bank, saying he had a gun, problem of IPP prisoners after former Justice Secretary Ken and then sat and waited to be Clarke urged ministers to tackle the issue when it emerged arrested. The man told police that as many as 2,000 remain in London prisons. he did it because he would rather be in jail than with his Indeterminate Public Protection (IPP) sentences were stopped wife. He has been charged by Mr Clarke four years ago but he said his reforms had not with bank robbery and is gone far enough and called for those sentenced before 2012 to likely to get his wish. have their IPPs removed retrospectively. l The latest statistics from “Most lawyers regard IPPs as a stain on the the Ministry of Justice show that the number of young justice system, it is just a question of when some people in custody has fallen minister has the courage to put up with the to its lowest ever level - 861 morning’s bad press” were in custody in July 2016. This is 73% lower than October 2002 when there were 3,200. Speaking on the BBC’s ‘Inside Out’ programme he said; “Most lawyers regard IPPs as a stain on the justice system, it is just a l Scientists have claimed that question of when some minister has the courage to put up they could recreate the faces © prisonimage.org with the morning’s bad press. Getting rid of these IPPs was of alleged offenders from one of my top priorities. I favour tough sentences for people DNA left at the scene. They Prison staff numbers continue to fall who have been extremely violent but filling prisons up with say that many features such an enormous open-ended supply of people, sometimes with as face width and nose size The Howard League has published a report government’s recruitment drive, people excessive sentences for what they have actually done, is are controlled by genes and exposing the ever falling numbers of prison remain unwilling to work in prisons under something I disapproved of.” by analysing genes in DNA officers. They say: “The number of frontline present conditions. While officer numbers fell left at crime scenes they officers working in public-sector prisons has between June 2013 and June 2016, the prison The Inside Out programme reported that a severe lack of could recreate 20 facial fallen over the last year, despite Ministry of population across England and Wales rose hearings, and of spaces on the offender behaviour courses IPP characteristics. However they Justice plans to recruit additional staff to help from 83,796 to 85,130 - putting more pressure prisoners must complete, means 2,000 out of 4,000 prisoners said many of the genes respond to the highest levels of violence, on a failing system. have still not been assessed for release. It is estimated that the influencing facial features are suicide and self-injury since recording backlog will take up to seven years to clear. likely to have small effects, so practices began. Statistics seen by the Andrew Neilson, Director of Campaigns at successfully mapping a large Howard League for Penal Reform show that the Howard League, said; “Reducing A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: “The Chairman of the number of these genes will there were 14,689 frontline officers (full time resources while allowing the prison popula- Parole Board has made a number of recommendations to require much greater sample equivalent) in England and Wales in June tion to grow unchecked has created a toxic improve the parole system and reduce the backlog of IPP sizes and a more comprehen- 2016, down from 15,110 a year earlier. This cocktail of violence, death and human prisoners. We are considering these proposals and will update sive approach to quantifying leaves prisons with barely more frontline staff misery. These figures show how reductions in on our plans in due course.” those of interest. than the lows of 2014, which prompted the staffing and problems in recruiting and Ministry of Justice to embark on a major retaining new staff are feeding the problems recruitment exercise. Almost every region has behind bars. The vast majority of those sent seen frontline officer numbers fall in the last to prison will be released back to the year, with the most significant reductions community and so it matters to all of us what recorded in the East Midlands (8 per cent), happens to people when they are sent to CHILD ABUSE the South West (7 per cent) and the West prison. Throwing someone into a raging Midlands (7 per cent).” torrent of violence, drugs and despair is not going to help that person steer away from Helping victims rebuild their lives since 1994 Belmarsh down from 370 to 278 crime. On the contrary, it will feed more Cardiff down from 200 to 148 crime and create yet more pressure on the High Down down from 200 to 158 failing prisons. The Ministry of Justice can Helping you achieve justice for the abuse you suffered. Holme House down from 270 to 178 look again at its recruitment policies but only We have been helping abuse victims claim their legal rights for over 20 years. Pentonville down from 280 to 211 wide-ranging reforms, which include a The law allows people to make claims for compensation even if the abuse they serious attempt at reducing prison numbers, suffered took place many years ago. will move us away from institutions that We also deal with cases against children’s homes, other institutions and social Previous research by the Howard League has shame the nation.” services for lack of care. shown how prison officer numbers were cut by 30 per cent between 2010 and 2013. 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l Some of Scotland’s most notorious prisoners are said to be claiming to have converted to Judaism in a bid to get better food. The prisoners say they are Jewish to get kosher food which costs twice as much as © Fotolia.com normal prison food in an idea thought to have been lifted New Parliamentary Briefing on from cult US TV show Orange is the New Black. In 2013-14, access to services for rough sleepers there were only thought to be Many prisoners are discharged without accommodation and end nine Jewish prisoners in up sleeping rough. Parliament has just published a Commons Scottish prisons. Now more Library Briefing Paper on access to services and support for than 130 are claiming to have rough sleepers. It says: “Local authorities have a statutory duty adopted the Jewish faith to provide advice and assistance to homeless people who are including 90 at HMP Glenochil not in priority need in order to help them find accommodation.” and 40 at HMP Edinburgh. © Fotolia.com Each kosher meal costs £5.20 It has been estimated that homeless people consume around as opposed to the normal four times more acute hospital services than the general cost of £2.50. Kosher food is Howard League respond to critical report on population. Health services and local authorities have a prepared in special kitchens number of tailored services that are intended to meet the and is thought to be of higher accommodation for homeless children specific needs of rough sleepers, although provision varies quality. Prison officers said across England. In London the NHS has taken steps to address The Howard League for strangers were exposed to. unsuitable. Every day, the they can’t wait to see their the increase in tuberculosis (TB) amongst rough sleepers. Penal Reform has responded They added that too many Howard League’s legal team faces when they are told they to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate children had been given supports young people by can’t have bacon butties. Concerns have been raised about the lack of suitable, of Probation’s report, simply a roof over their heads battling to ensure that local specialist mental health support for rough sleepers. The ‘Accommodation of home- with little other than a few authorities meet their l A drone being used to Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee has less 16- and 17-year-old hours of support from visiting obligations. smuggle a record quantity of called on the Government to develop an action plan to children working with youth professionals each week. It illicit items crashed onto the address the mental health needs of homeless people, offending teams’, published comes several years after “The law is clear. The roof at HMP Risley. It was including rough sleepers. in September. major legal changes, initiated Howard League helped to recovered and found to be by the Howard League’s work, establish it, through judicial carrying a package weighing Rough sleepers may, depending on their circumstances, be The highly critical report clarified the responsibilities reviews and by working with 4lb 6oz and contained drugs able to claim mainstream social security benefits such as states that one in three of children’s services for external lawyers, based on such as spice, mobile phones Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) and Employment and Support homeless 16 and 17-year-old providing accommodation our experience of supporting and SIM cards. The theory is Allowance (ESA). The Government has eased JSA jobseeking children who were working and support to such children. children in trouble. But that the weight of the conditions to take into account the difficulties faced by with youth offending teams while the law is there, too package was too great and homeless claimants. Nevertheless, concerns have been raised had been placed in unsafe or Frances Crook, Chief often the resources are not the drone went out of control about the high rate of benefit sanctions amongst homeless- unsuitable accommodation. Executive of the Howard and that must change. Local and crashed. The police are ness service users, and the impact of sanctions. A rough Inspectors were particularly League, said; “It is simply authorities are stretched, but now investigating. sleeper with no fixed address who is eligible to vote can concerned about the risks unacceptable that children it is high time that they register to vote through a declaration of local connection. that children sharing hostels in children’s services’ care treated children as children l The Ministry of Justice or bed and breakfast are being housed in accom- who need much more than a (MoJ) is planning to allow Download the full briefing: www.tinyurl.com/hhfc99s accommodation with adult modation that is unsafe or roof over their head.” people accused of low level crimes to plead guilty online “Gripping search for the using their mobile phones. Justice Minister Liz Truss truth” makes top five on BBC revealed the new idea in a iPlayer most popular list paper released last month, Not religious? saying that the justice system Conviction: Murder at the Station, the two should start taking advantage part investigative programme broadcast on of new technologies, such as Don’t pray? BBC 2 last month was universally praised by the Internet. In the paper, reviewers. Hailed as, “a gripping search for titled ‘Transforming our God loves each one of us. the truth” and “edge of the seat tv” - the Justice System’, the MoJ set Whatever mess we might cameras followed Louise Shorter, who heads out their vision on how to have made of our lives, up Inside Justice, as she painstakingly move the court system away He really wants us to from the 15th century paper re-examined the case of Roger Kearney, pray to Him and share New plastic fivers based processes. They say the serving life for the murder of Paula Poolten in our worries and aim is to help people who are 2008. The victim was found dead in the boot considered vulnerable to our needs. of her own car having been stabbed seven go into circulation spare them the trauma of times. But Kearney has always protested his PRAYERS from Inside A new plastic £5 note is now in circulation. appearing in court; there innocence and hopes the programme will lead may help you to begin Although 15% smaller than the old note it would also be a shake-up of to his exoneration. Shorter, a producer for a new life with God looks similar. 440,000,000 of the new notes legal jargon which will be many years of the BBC series Rough Justice, at the centre a life are in circulation and are said to be cleaner, replaced by much more says she was delighted by the response to the almost indestructible, and harder to counter- simple language. The MoJ that will bring true programme which made the top five most feit. They are made of a material called said, in a statement, said; “We meaning and popular on BBC iPlayer. “A programme like polymer which, it is claimed, can survive a want a justice system that fulﬁ lment. Conviction shines a public spotlight, not only trip through a washing machine. Prison works for everyone. That on one case, but the system too. I’m thrilled, reformer Elizabeth Fry has been replaced by means creating a system that Ask your chaplain for a copy. amazed and grateful to the public for showing Winston Churchill and the note also features is just, proportionate and they care about all the innocent people in our a see-through window featuring the Queen’s accessible. We have the tools jails today.” Many prisoners who watched the head. The old five pound note will cease to be and the technology to cut programme felt compelled to call Inside Time’s legal tender on May 5 2017 so if you have a unnecessary paperwork, to office with their opinions and comments. mattress somewhere stuffed full of them you deliver swifter justice and to BeaconLight Trust may want to think about getting them make the experience more PO Box 91, Banstead, SM7 9BA Stepping out of the shadows page 19 swapped soon. straightforward.” 12 Newsround www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016

Prisons Inspector suggests pensioner prisons World prison review

Peter Clarke, the new Chief Inspector of Prisons, has suggested the introduction of prisons just for pensioners following a massive increase in the number of men aged over 60 in the prison system. Many older prisoners suff er from multiple medical ailments and disabilities and Mr Clarke thinks that specialist prisons will be required as conventional prisons do not have the facilities to provide residential care for the infi rm.

There are currently more than 4,000 prisoners aged over 60 and more than 100 aged over 80. Mr Clarke said; “A lot of these people are on very long sentences ... and at some point there needs to be some consideration of whether prison is the right environment, whether it’s necessary to hold them in the Slovenia security levels that prisons provide or whether some other People in Slovenia who can’t fi nd a place to sleep for the night can stay in their local prison for form of secure accommodation more suited to managing the just 24 Euros (about £18). It’s actually a disused prison which has been converted into a hostel risk that they present is found.” He said the proposals were with each cell sleeping up to three ‘guests’. It was due to be demolished but local artists have Peter Clarke, the new not about “going soft ”, but about questioning whether renovated it with each cell having its own theme. Chief Inspector of Prisons prisoners were in the ‘right type of custody’.

CPS increase prosecutions for alleged sexual offences The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has their highest ever conviction rate of 75.4%. revealed that prosecutions following allegations of rape, domestic abuse, sexual off ences Alison Saunders, CPS director said; and child abuse cases have risen to an all “Domestic abuse, rape and sexual off ences time high, now accounting for 19% of their now account for nearly 19% of our work.” workload. She said that while the volume of these cases has increased the amount of convictions has Russia “Domestic abuse, rape and sexual risen by 11%; “Today a rape, domestic abuse, A Russian driver has been sexual abuse or child abuse case is more fi ned because the shadow of offences now account for nearly likely to be prosecuted and convicted than his car crossed a white traffi c 19% of our work” ever before.” line. Traffi c cameras show Colombia that his car never crossed the Prison guards in Colombia have captured a pigeon that had a In the year 2015-16 the CPS prosecuted The Metropolitan Police have transferred an line. He has made a com- mobile telephone and a USB stick strapped to its back. The bird 117,568 defendants for ‘crimes against women extra 179 staff to its ‘Sexual Off ences plaint and traffi c police said it was reportedly discovered on its way into Combita prison and and girls’ and 100,000 defendants for Command’ saying that it was prioritising the was the result of a ‘technical is believed to be part of a plan to smuggle the items to a domestic abuse. In March 2016 they reached investigation of sexual off ences. fault’. He is waiting to see if prisoner. Offi cials are working to identify which of the prisoners his fi ne will be cancelled. the pigeon was meant to be meeting.

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As part of its ‘Life in prison’ series of reports the out on a regular basis, or portion sizes being too Prisons Inspectorate have produced one con- small. Many prisoners commented about re- cerning prison food which, they say, ‘plays a ceiving insuffi cient food in our prisoner survey. crucial role in our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Much of human social inter- “There was no variation in portion size between action is centred on food, and we use food young off enders (aged 18 to 21 years old) and choices and eating habits to construct our gen- adult prisoners, despite young adults (men in der, ethnic, cultural and personal identities’. particular) being known to require a greater Having a limited ability to determine what, energy intake. Young adults (aged 18-21) were when, where or how much they eat, they say, signifi cantly less likely to rate the food as ‘good’ means that prisoners lose control over aspects or ‘very good’ in our survey during the period, of their health as well as this important part of than prisoners aged 22 years or older (22% com- their social autonomy. For some, this deeply pared with 30%). At HMYOI Brinsford (2015), aff ects their self-esteem and sense of identity. the main complaint of young men was the small For these reasons, food is a considerable source lunch portions. of frustration and anxiety amongst prisoners. “Food being served early was a problem we © prisonimage.org PSI 44/2010 states that NOMS has a responsi- consistently found in the establishments in- bility to meet, not only nutritional, but also spected. In some establishments lunch could Prisoner contact with families and cultural and diversity needs. This means probe served as early as 11:10am and dinner at viding meals that meet medical as well as reli- 4:15pm. Serving dinner this early, coupled with friends “problems across the board” gious or ethical dietary requirements, such as meagre breakfast provision, sometimes meant Halal, kosher, vegetarian and vegan meals. there was a gap as long as 20 hours before the HM Inspectorate of Prisons has whether prisoners have chil- poor access to telephones. Spending on food in prisons has been decreas- next substantial meal.” published a ‘Findings’ paper dren under the age of 18, half ing. In 2014-15, the total expenditure on food about prisoners’ contact with (52%) of the prisoners we sur- The report details problems in prisons was £54.1 million, down from £55.1 In conclusion the report says: “Food is very their families. They say: veyed in 2015-16 reported that across the board in all areas of million in 2013-14 and £59.6 million in 2012-13. important to prisoners in a number of ways, they did, and it is estimated communications and visiting The basic catering budget allowance per pris- providing not only nutrition and sustenance, l Maintaining family contact, that 200,000 children had a and comments on such things where appropriate, is recog- parent in prison at some point as delays in getting numbers oner per day was previously £2.02 All prisons but also opportunities for interaction with oth- nised as a key source of support in 2009. added to PIN phones, not now have the autonomy to set their own food ers and something to look forward to during for prisoners during their time enough phones and restricted budget dependant on local requirements and what can be a mundane and difficult day. in custody and on their release. l Maintaining contact with access to phones. Regarding in some prisons as little as £1.87 per prisoner Although many establishments are making parents in prison is important letters the report is critical of per day was spent. commendable eff orts with the resources avail- l In 2002, the Social Exclusion for children in terms of their mail delays within prisons. able, too oft en the quantity and quality of the Unit highlighted the impor- development, including edu- The inspectorate expect that at all adult prisons: food provided is insuffi cient, and the conditions tance of prisoners maintaining cational attainment, social in- Issues with visits are also cov- l prisoners have a varied, healthy and balanced in which it is served and eaten undermine re- contact with family members clusion and mental health. ered in some detail with vari- diet which meets their individual needs, includ- spect for prisoners’ dignity. This does little to to reduce reoff ending and since ous problems identifi ed such ing religious, cultural or other special dietary improve what for many prisoners, is a history then family contact has been l In 2014, the Prisons and as diffi culties in booking and requirements; of an unhealthy lifestyle. It also potentially one of the seven priority path- Probation Ombudsman (PPO) late starting of visits. l prisoners’ food and meals are stored, prepared jeopardises prisoner and staff safety. Food ways under which prisons and published a learning lessons YOIs have organised most of bulletin that reiterated how and served in line with religious, cultural and budgets are very low, and we have consistently The report can be their practical resettlement important it was for prisoners other special dietary requirements and prevail- found that this is a major barrier to improving downloaded from: ing safety and hygiene regulations; food in prisons. However, we believe that within work. to maintain family ties and for www.tinyurl.com/zbbkrwk l prisoners can purchase a suitable range of current budget constraints more can still be prisons to facilitate this. l Our 2014 joint thematic on Prisoners who do not have goods at reasonable prices to meet their diverse done to provide variety, improve food hygiene, resettlement provision for l The Ombudsman (PPO) re- internet access can write to needs, and can do so safely; and prevent bullying and contamination.” adult offenders cited family ported a range of complaints the Prisons Inspectorate and l dietary and other lifestyle requirements of and friends as the most impor- received in this area, including they will send a printed copy Food in prison page 40 approved religions represented in the prison tant ‘resettlement agency’ for family days being removed for of either of the reports on this are properly fulfi lled. You can download the full report at: prisoners on release. specifi c groups of prisoners, page. HM Inspectorate of www.tinyurl.com/gnqtw76 delays in families being Prisons, 6th fl oor, Victory The report says; “Recently visited establish- l While the Prison Service brought in for visits, inappro- House, 30-34 Kingsway, ments normally provided at least one hot meal does not regularly record priate mail restrictions, and London WC2B 6EX per day. Breakfast usually consisted of breakfast packs, which contained cereal, milk, whitener, tea/coffee sachets, and in some cases some preserves. These were usually packed centrally and transported to establishments, oft en arriv- Reg no. F201500974 Do you need an Immigration lawyer? ing in unappetising condition. We considered Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers the quality and quantity of these breakfast packs We can help with: to be inadequate on their own. 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HMP Barlinnie l A woman has been caught trying to smuggle tobacco, The Scottish Prisons Inspectorate have cigarette papers and a lighter released their latest report on HMP Barlinnie and criticised conditions in cells for prison- into HMP Swansea, which is ers. Chief Inspector David Strang said; “The now a smokeless zone. SPS should consider reviewing their mattress Magistrates in Swansea were specification as the ones currently provided played a recording of a are thin and when compressed it was telephone conversation she possible to feel the bed structure below. The had with her husband in pillows provided were very hard and not of which it was claimed code the standard that we had found in other Project manager Ken Denton outside New Wortley Community Centre words were used to plan the prisons.” New website for prisoners’ smuggling operation. The report also criticises cold showers and Leeds project helping to stop families charity in the l said hot water should be available and the Staff at HMP Castle Huntly north east situation needed to be resolved. In-cell the cycle of re-offending had red faces after police furniture was also criticised in the report called to tell them that one of Nepacs, a long standing north east charity, which says that much of it is ‘well-worn’ and A community centre in Leeds is giving fresh hope to prisoners their prisoners had been has launched a new website to support in need of replacement. through a project offering support once they are released. involved in a car accident. families and friends of prisoners and The problem was, they didn’t Representatives from the New Wortley Offender Support Team professionals in the north east. In summing up the report says; “We are know he was missing. The are there to support released prisoners every step of the way, disappointed the SPS has not brought man, with another prisoner, Staff and volunteers from Nepacs provide a forward plans for the replacement of HMP from meeting the men at the gates of HMP Leeds to helping them find accommodation. They also offer the chance to learn had walked out of the open number of services to support friends and Barlinnie or delivered the necessary invest- new skills through volunteering opportunities at New Wortley prison earlier in the day. A families of prisoners in the seven prisons in ment to address the issues identified Community Centre, which acts as the project’s base. the north east. These include prison visitors’ previously, yet have invested significant spokesperson for the Scottish centres and tea bars, play sessions for sums in other parts of the establishment.” Prison Service said that Castle prisoners’ children, special family visits, Project manager Ken Denton had been in the same position Huntly did four ‘number when released from prison last summer. He told the Yorkshire youth projects, family support services, and In response to the report the Conservative checks’ each day and a Evening Post; “When I got released, I came down and started support within Middlesbrough and Durham shadow justice minister, Douglas Ross, said: rigorous risk assessment is courts. volunteering here. I was made to feel really welcome. I had an “Nobody would expect prisoners to sleep in idea of how a ‘through the gate’ project should work. People conducted before a prisoner squalor or in discomfort but there is a rising Nepacs also provides family and parenting haven’t given them a cat in hell’s chance. They’ve come out of is moved to open conditions. trend of spurious complaints made by inmates support to prisoners and their families in the prison, no hope, they can’t see a day in front of them. They’re and their legal representatives in an attempt Northumberland, Tyne and Wear area. coming through here, gaining new life skills. It’s a motivation l There were red faces at to cause inconvenience to the prison service.” to other lads when they see people change.” HMP Standford Hill after Robin Corbett ad 2016.qxp_Layout 1 21/09/2016 10:51 Page 1 burglars broke in two nights Download report: www.tinyurl.com/gtc75mg Visit the new website: www.nepacs.co.uk Staff at HMYOI Criticism of the running and stole thousands of pounds of equipment Werrington way Northern including a tractor, pick-up refuse to unlock Ireland prisoners truck, people carrier and PRT is pleased to announce that applications for are held in power tools. On the first night the Robin Corbett Award for Prisoner Rehabilitation Staff at Werrington unoffi- they broke into the recycling cially kept all young people segregation plant and made off with the are now welcome. locked in their cells as a tractor, pick-up and tools. The protest after one of their Northern Ireland’s Prisons second night they went back colleagues was attacked. It followed claims of increasing Ombudsman has expressed and stole an officer’s VW Along with Lord Corbett’s family, the Prison Reform Trust violence at the prison. A concern that a number of Touran which was being recent inspection warned prisoners have spent repaired by prisoners, more established and administers this award for prisoner rehabilitation. about rising violence, gang months, and in some cases tools and a car tuning attacks and arson. Glyn years, in solitary confine- diagnostic machine. This annual award, kindly supported by the Worshipful Company Travis, assistant general ment. According to figures at Standford Hill is a D Cat secretary of the Prison least 10 prisoners were held prison and is part of the of Weavers, is for outstanding rehabilitative work with prisoners Officers’ Association, said; in solitary for more than 100 cluster on the Isle of Sheppey. “The cuts to the prison done by a small charity or community group working in days last year and one spent Police think it may have been service and the rise in an ‘inside job’ and asking partnership with prison staff. Robin Corbett had a developed violence can cause a lack of almost five years in solitary interest in prisoners' education and people in prison 'learning confidence in prison staff. It between 2011 and 2016. anyone for information to call through doing'. So, uniquely, the award champions work that means staff, prisoners and Crimestoppers. their families are scared of Ombudsman Tom McGonigle fosters personal responsibility and encourages people in prison. the risk of serious injury.” said it can be damaging but l The governor of HMYOI added there are complex Glen Parva, where there have We look forward to receiving applications for this exciting award. An MoJ spokesman said: reasons for isolating some been 10 self-inflicted deaths “We do not tolerate any prisoners. He said that some since 2010 and two within To apply go to: www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/robincorbettaward violence against our vulnerable prisoners simply nine months last year, has hardworking and dedicated cannot cope with the general told an inquest jury that lack The deadline for nominations is 11th November 2016 prison staff. Following an assault on an officer at prison regime and it is of staff prevented them from Werrington there was a debatable whether prison is adequately protecting delay of less than an hour in the right environment for prisoners at risk of self-harm unlocking the prisoners.” them at all. and suicide.

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HMP Holloway IMB Newsbites Inquest jury find publish their final report catalogue of failures l A 25 year old man was The decision to close HMP/YOI Holloway was found dead in his cell at HMP announced on 25 November 2015 and the last at Highpoint following Liverpool just weeks after prisoners left the prison on 17 June 2016. The IMB say the closure of the prison meant complaining about the poor prisoner’s death the loss of well-established and effective treatment he was getting for An inquest jury has said a prisoner who took his asthma. He was trans- teams which had a depth of experience his own life was not shown enough compas- engaging with safer custody, mental and ferred to Liverpool a month sion by staff at HMP Highpoint. The jury physical health and substance misuse. There before his death after being heard that the prisoner was transferred from is no longer any prison for women in London taken to a hospital intensive Chelmsford to Highpoint. On arrival, he © Fotolia.com or easily accessible from London on public care unit from HMP Forest asked to speak to a Listener but none were transport. It is now more difficult and Bank. His complaint said that available. He asked to call the Samaritans expensive for families and children to visit the hospital consultant had helpline, but the phone in the induction unit women in prison. was missing. He attempted to hang himself Catalogue of problems with prescribed medication which that evening and died in hospital the follow- prison maintenance For several years prior to the announcement he had not received and his ing day. He had a history of depression and of the closure, IMB monitoring found asthma inhalers had been self-harm. His was the third of four self-in- Staff at HMP Wandsworth refused to accept any more Holloway to be a safe and decent prison, in removed from him. Although flicted deaths at Highpoint in 18 months. prisoners because of the poor state of cells which had been particular: he said he was at the unusable for weeks, closed food serveries and windows left ‘medication hatch’ all the time The jury heard that staff failed to activate the broken because of serious failings by Carillion, the company prison’s emergency code system, which • there was good support for the many the prison nurse denied this with a £200 million contract to carry out repairs on prisons women in custody in Holloway who were would have triggered an automatic call for an and at the inquest into his since maintenance was privatised. vulnerable and had adverse or traumatic life ambulance; the driver of the ambulance that death the prison claimed experiences and complex needs, including eventually responded said it took him 12 Staff said they fear that frustration among prisoners, who also poor physical and mental health and drug inhalers were found in his cell minutes to reach the cell after he arrived. He face shortages of toothbrushes, towels and soap, is helping to and alcohol addiction. after his death. said the prison officer who guided him fuel disruption on the wings. They said there were long delays • staff worked hard to help women to ‘ambled along’ in front of his vehicle. in repairs being carried out to observation panels in cell doors maintain contact with their families and a l Independent Monitoring and they would not accept more prisoners until the work was The jury found Highpoint’s failings included: variety of arrangements were in place to carried out. Within hours of the threat all the windows had Boards are an important part lack of compassion for prisoners, lack of encourage and facilitate visits from children. been repaired. of the oversight and inspection training of officers, insufficient staff on duty, • Holloway had made good progress towards of prisons and are composed failure to check logbooks, failure to earlier becoming a local resettlement prison, greatly According to The Times this was the most serious in a of members of the local open a suicide and self-harm procedure and assisted by its central London location and catalogue of complaints over the Ministry of Justice’s contract community who volunteer to then implement that procedure. good transport links. with Carillion. The contract runs for five years and covers 50 visit their local prison regularly prisons in England and Wales, but has been plagued with Deborah Coles, director of Inquest, said the and report on the treatment problems since it came into force in June last year. The 2015 annual report set out questions to jury’s findings encapsulated the crisis within the Minister in the light of Holloway’s of prisoners and try to resolve the prison system: “HMP Highpoint is not The Times says Carillion was accused of repeatedly failing to closure, relating to provision for women problems brought to them. learning from its own failures, or improving respond on time to maintenance problems at HMP Pentonville prisoners with mental health problems, Currently there are shortages the care and support provided to prisoners. resulting in cells being unusable for days, shortages of family contact, resettlement and housing. No of volunteers at many prisons The failures identified by this inquest must towels, toothbrushes and soap; and a lift for wheelchair responses have yet been received. including; HMPs Bedford, be responded to by the prisons minister.” access to the visits hall being out of order for six months. Dartmoor, Full Sutton, Broken windows at Erlestoke prison in Wiltshire were not The final report focuses on the IMB’s replaced for months, showers were left out of action and a monitoring of the management of the prison Haverigg, Isle of Wight, Leeds, servery was closed on health and safety grounds. An IMB and the experience of prisoners in Holloway Lindholme, Liverpool, Onley, report at HMP Send said: “The extraordinarily poor service from January to June 2016. The first few Swaleside, The Mount, HMP/ has caused great inconvenience and distress … at times it has months were particularly unsettled and YOIs Askham Grange, led to situations which have compromised basic decency.” challenging. Tragically, there was a death in Eastwood Park, Rochester, custody in January 2016 although there is no New Hall, HMYOIs Brinsford, Sam Gyimah, the new prisons minister, said: “I will be suggestion that this was in any way linked to and Stoke Heath. Currently meeting Carillion’s senior team to set out the improvements I the closure process The IMB raised a number former prisoners cannot apply expect to see. We have robust processes in place to closely of concerns with prison management and monitor and manage the performance of all contractors.” but if you know of anybody with the Secretary of State for Prisons. These are set out in the report along with the suitable they can visit the IMB Sentence too long? website for more information: HMP Stocken IMB demand action responses received. Wrongly convicted? www.imb.org.uk/join-now/ Due for parole? to address staff shortages Overall the IMB found that the risks identified were well managed in the closure l The Northern Ireland Being investigated In its latest report the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at process. There was a focus on keeping Parliament, Stormont, has for fresh offences? HMP Stocken says it is disappointing that no action has been women safe and good healthcare provision Got an adjudication? taken by NOMS to review the staff shortages identified in their summoned the Northern continued. The most vulnerable women and last report. They say that despite the closure of K wing; “ … Ireland Ombudsman and Been recalled? those with complex needs were transferred to pressures remain significant and the allocated resource managers from HMP other prisons or to secure hospitals at an provides insufficient contingency for the inevitable escorts, A fresh pair of eyes can early stage in the process. Work and activity Maghaberry to appear before constant watch requirements and hospital bed watches. Staff continued to be available until women left its Justice Committee to make a real difference. sickness is commendably low but again contingency provi- examine the circumstances sion is inadequate. Ministers and NOMS must realise that the prison. Contact Wells Burcombe Solicitors paring resources to the bone, if not beyond, will not in any which led a mentally Specialist in Crime, Criminal Appeals, Police way facilitate achievement of their commendable aims of While the IMB concluded that the last disturbed prisoner gouging Investigations, Adjudications & Parole. providing a safe and secure environment where prisoners are months and the closure were managed well, his eyes out as prison staff encouraged to better themselves in preparation for release. concern remains about whether provision for stood by and watched. The 5 Holywell Hill The IMB considers that in the interests and wellbeing of women prisoners in the future is protected or report produced by the St Albans prisoners and staff this matter requires to be properly and improved by the closure of a prison which Ombudsman after the Herts AL1 1EU urgently addressed by ministers and NOMS. Further, it is was well located, staffed by strong and Tel: 01727 840900 requested that a substantive response is provided and that it committed multidisciplinary teams and incident said that staff did not specifies what action will now be taken, ideally with a which had been continually improving over intervene because of ‘security 24hr Emergency Tel: 07592 034170 timetabled delivery commitment.” recent years. concerns’ and their failure to realise the seriousness of Download the full report: www.tinyurl.com/h2m5jph Download report: tinyurl.com/j5fam22 what he was doing. 16 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016

Eoin McLennan Murray incarceration and give better reoffending outcomes. Taking a sensible approach to length of sentence and There seems to be ubiquitous agree- addressing the awful legacy of the ment within our society that our pris- Indeterminate Sentence for Public ons are in trouble. Increasing num- Protection are things which need bers of prisoners sentenced to longer urgent attention. Certainly the latter terms of imprisonment where they issue is soluble and within the gift of are cared for by a reduced workforce the Secretary of State for Justice. who have seen their standard of living fall year on year. At the same time The size of the female population rates of self-harm and suicide could be dramatically reduced with- amongst prisoners have increased, out increasing the risk to society. 80% serious assaults, both prisoner on of female prisoners are low/medium prisoner and prisoner on staff have risk and could be managed in the hit record highs and a day does not community. This would also reduce go by without command suites being the number of children being taken opened in prisons or at HQ to deal into care and subsequently being over with operational incidents. represented in the CJS later on in life. As if this toxic mix was not bad Young offenders (Children) should enough prison regimes have been not carry the burden of previous con- devastated in many prisons who still victions into adult life where they are struggle to recruit the minimum num- blighted and have a higher probabil- ber of staff needed to run a proper ity of becoming adult offenders. regime. There is much that could be done to It would not be unfair to say that our streamline the prison service but giv- prisons are in trouble and the former ing a couple of governors autonomy Justice Secretary of State, Michael will not address many of the endemic Gove, recognised that and wanted to © prisonimage.org Modernising the estate is essential problems that prisons currently face. initiate a series of reforms to deal with More resources is not the solution. the problem. One of his centre pieces Just as you cannot build your way was to give governors more out of overcrowding, as Jack Straw autonomy. once said, so you cannot solve some Society deserves better of the problems facing the service by Autonomy for governors is a step in giving governors more autonomy. It the right direction but for it to have would be possible to have a more any impact on reforming the service With the prison reform agenda in a state of uncertainty, effective service that incarcerates it has to be done on a much larger fewer people at less cost while pro- scale. An autonomous governor can former prison governor Eoin McLennan Murray analyses viding better reoffending outcomes create a prison regime which matches and ensuring greater safety and less the needs of the population in that the issues causing the main problems in our prison system risk to society. The way forward is to particular prison. At a local level take a fresh look at the drugs trade there will be improvements in decen- these resources and the net effect is never know the prison as well as the Taking a sensible and review sentencing practice. cy but unless the new Secretary of that too little is done to those who governor. Beyond that there are other social State for Justice, Elizabeth Truss ad- approach to length of need it most. Alternative sanctions to measures which other government dresses some of the big drivers that incarceration need to be available for Modernising the estate is essential. sentence and addressing departments need to look at so that send people to prison governors will offenders who do not pose a serious Replacing old stock with new is sen- some of the inequalities which foster always struggle with problems that the awful legacy of the threat to society. sible but creating big prisons for cost a criminal underclass are addressed. are outside of their control. A clear effectiveness reasons is a short sight- Indeterminate Sentence Obviously this is not an overnight example of this is the approach taken Of the six Reform Prisons announced ed policy that will cost more in the process but until a meaningful start with drug/drug related crime. Until for Public Protection only two governors actually have au- long run. Small prisons are more ef- is made, our prisons, even with au- the manufacture, supply and distri- tonomy. Four of the governors have fective and have better outcomes for tonomous governors, will struggle to bution of drugs is taken away from are things which need to report to two senior civil servants prisoners. Woolf recognised that fact deliver a service that society will be criminals and organised crime gov- who have the real autonomy. This is post Strangeways and I have yet to urgent attention content with. ernors will struggle to limit the ad- not autonomy for governors. If gov- see evidence that his assessment was verse effects of this illicit trade on ernment is serious about autonomy flawed. reviewing. The limited resources then keep the model simple and give prisoners and prison regimes. Eoin McLennan Murray was a available to governors should be fo- the autonomy for running the prison The real cost savings can be made by prison governor for almost four cused on those prisoners that are a to the governor who is in charge 24/7 scrapping ineffective short sentences Similarly, the size of the prison pop- decades and is now Chair of the real threat/risk to society. Prisons are and not to a SCS who at absolute best and using Community disposals ulation and the length of prison sen- board of Howard League for Penal too full of prisoners who consume will visit on a weekly basis and will which cost a fraction of the price of tences, both long and short need Reform trustees

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Is this an attack on Islam? Absolutely not. I believe in the power of faith in prison to transform lives for the better - I have seen this happen on Islamism: countless occasions. Islam preaches love, tolerance and forgiveness. It allows prisoners to take responsibility for their actions and instils discipline and purpose. Islamism, by contrast, is its polar opposite - rely- action and ing on grievance and alienation, driven by bigotry, glorifying violence against innocent people. The overwhelming majority of Muslim prisoners, like Muslims on the other side of the prison walls utterly reject the reaction poisonous ideology of Islamism. However, prisons are special places where we know extreme behaviours Islamist extremism in custody can thrive. So we must take special measures to ensure that people in jail are protected from being manip- is a real and growing problem ulated by others to become violent extremists who might take this says former prison governor mindset back onto the streets and turn thought into action. terrorism, that of global jihad inspired Prisons are special by an Islamist mindset makes that My report has triggered strong reac- threat pale into insignificance. places where we know tions and a fair degree of lazy and extreme behaviours inaccurate reporting. For example, In July 2015, I was asked by the then I have never advocated the banning secretary of state, Michael Gove, to can thrive. So we must of Friday prayers, only that those investigate Islamist extremism in take special measures intent on subverting the authority of prisons and make recommendations the Imam should be banned from for dealing with the problem. I worked to ensure that people in taking part in collective worship. I with a small, expert team for 6 months have never called for a 'Guantanamo visiting dozens of prisons here and jail are protected from bay' solution - a completely unethical abroad and taking evidence from staff being manipulated by and unworkable response. This sort and experts, including ex-prisoners. of uninformed reaction is inevitable others to become violent due to the complexity and sensitivity Our conclusion was that Islamist ex- extremists who might of the subject. But when the dust tremism in custody is a real and grow- settles, there remains a serious prob- ing problem. We saw evidence that a take this mindset back lem that needs to be addressed. In small number of highly charismatic onto the streets and turn the end, if prisons are not places of © prisonimage.org Islam preaches love, tolerance and forgiveness prisoners were given far too much hope where the possibility of re- latitude to preach messages of hatred thought into action demption exists, they are simply Ian Acheson extremism. In an age of global ter- to others and mobilise gangs to dom- human warehouses of wasted po- rorism our prisons face a new and inate and control their environment. Why does this matter? Firstly, the tential. We cannot afford as a society sophisticated threat from the power We decided that staff, including pris- possibility of someone being for this to happen. We must tackle You don't need me to tell you that of ideas. on Imams needed much greater sup- groomed and manipulated into ter- all of the problems which prevent prison is a place of extremes. For port and training to identify and rorist activity either in prison or on prisons from being places of reha- much of my professional career in Of course, terrorism has been with challenge extremist behaviour. We release is real and must be confront- bilitation. This includes the fear, prisons in the 1990s, managing the us for many years. Irish republican also concluded, after much debate, ed. Islamist extremists hate this violent hatred and division sown by effects of extreme behaviour was extremism in the 80s and 90s result- that for the safety and wellbeing of country and reject our values. They Islamist extremists. concerned with consequences of in- ed in GB cells occupied by prisoners vulnerable prisoners, those who are seek the violent overthrow of the terpersonal violence caused by men- given long sentences for using vio- intent on trying to convert others to state and they excuse and encourage violent anti-British beliefs in support sadistic and indiscriminate violence tal illness and drug misuse. lence in a futile attempt to change Summary of main findings of the of terrorism should be separated from to that end. British citizens, includ- public policy and force Britain's with- report can be found at www.tinyurl. the main prison population and of- ing those serving prison sentences Those twin challenges are still a de- drawal from Northern Ireland. While com/jcmszbt pressing feature of Britain's jails but we should never underestimate the fered the time, space and assistance and those looking after them must they have been joined by a third more cruelty and indiscriminate violence to reflect on their unacceptable be- be properly protected from this Ian Acheson is Program Director, at recent danger - ideological used to further these aims, the new haviour and change their ways. threat. Sampson Hall www.sampsonhall.co.uk

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ately represented in prison, how women prisoners are treated and the difference between Prison reform the approach in the justice system towards women and men. You have to look at prison policy across the board.”

In fairness I point out, the changes Michael agenda needs to be Gove proposed were huge. The people who work and live in our prisons are completely aware that the system has been a bloated, unwieldy entity for several decades and to clarified urgently effect real change will take time. Gove was the Jo Stevens first senior politician for a long time who was prepared to stand up and say radical change is needed. For many people the prison system in this country has been a source of shame for Time for an honest conversation on prison reform, too long. Was Stevens broadly in agreement with Gove? “I was looking at it as a broader says Jo Stevens. “There are too many people in prison” issue. We would need to see exactly what they were going to do. So they’re building new pris- Erwin James if we’re going to get this prison reform bill. It’s bill by Conservative MP Bob Neil as, “absolute- ons, they were going to sell off some prison completely up in the air.” ly shambolic.” Was it really that bad? “Yes,” land, get rid of some aging prisons, but we still she says without hesitation. “I don’t want to don’t have any information on that. I mean “My brief covers prisons, probation and sen- these new reform prisons that are supposed to tencing,” says Jo Stevens when I ask her what The Queen’s Speech on 18 May 2016 announced be personal. But if you’ve taken on the brief, be being built - well I mean these builders that precisely her role is as Shadow Justice Minister. that a Prison and Courts Reform Bill would be you’re the new Justice Secretary, you’re up are going to get them all built by 2020, I’d quite “I’m also the Shadow Solicitor General, which introduced. At the centre of the bill were the before the Justice Select Committee with a like them to come around my house because I covers law advice for the Shadow Cabinet.” Government’s proposals to give Prison Conservative chair, you certainly should be Governors “unprecedented levels of control” prepared. You should know your brief. She had can’t get builders to work that quickly.” Before being elected Member of Parliament for over all aspects of prison management and to the whole summer to get to grips with it. It was Were the government’s plans too ambitious Cardiff Central in May 2015 she was a trade introduce new performance measures for pris- just excruciating I thought.” does she think? “I just think they are setting union lawyer working as a solicitor for trade ons. There was also a commitment to overhaul expectations that they are not going to be able unions, including probation staff and prison prison education, following the Government’s For me, prison policy to deliver. But the whole reform agenda? Well officers for more than 25 years. She also prac- acceptance “in principle” of the recommenda- is an integral part of our tised criminal law for ten years. “The prisons tions in Dame Sally Coates review, Unlocking regarding prison governor autonomy - if you’ve and probation brief is interesting as it’s almost Potential: A review of education in prison. Since education policy, our health got a really good prison governor in charge prison policy is devolved in Scotland the main with real leadership qualities, who is somebody a party political issue,” she says. “At the policy and all sorts of moment, we think, there is quite a broad con- planned changes were likely just to affect that the whole team, the whole prison respects sensus across the political parties about the England and Wales. socio-economic factors - well that is key to a successful prison. But need for prison reform so it shouldn’t become governors get shunted around from prison to a sort of political yah boo thing like it has been. Stevens described the Justice Secretary Liz So is it more the case then that the problem prison, there is little continuity. It’s no coinci- That’s why I’m so disappointed that we’ve got Truss’s appearance in front of the Justice Select was that Liz Truss just hadn’t quite got her head dence that in the better performing private this situation now where we don’t even know Committee when she was questioned about the around the whole prison reform agenda, includ- prison sector Directors stay in post for a long ing the bill that was initiated by her predeces- time. They are able to establish that continui- sor Michael Gove? Or might it in fact signal a ty and improve standards. Whereas in the change of direction and that the government public sector which they then get compared Tel: 0161 928 8877 is not after all as committed to prison reform to, it’s not a level playing field.” as it appeared to be before Gove’s departure? Email: [email protected] “It’s quite hard to tell,” says Stevens. “When So what would she do if she were to become Bob Neil asked her about the prison reform Justice Secretary? “For me, you can talk all the bill, he was clearly taken aback by her response. reform you want, about the structures and I didn’t know if she had just misheard the ques- governors and what their powers are. But actu- tion, of if she just made a mistake. But we came ally, until you get enough prison staff and out of that hearing and we were no clearer reduce the prisoner population so that you can about what it is that’s going to happen.” create stable regimes where people can access education and training and get a sense of prop- But Liz Truss did tell the Committee that she er rehabilitation we’ll never resolve the prob- It doesn’t matter where you are - if you have had an accident you had “plans.” Although she said she was “not lems that we’ve got.” So if she was in power could be entitled to claim for compensation. committing” to specific legislation as proposed would she actually drive to reduce the prison- by Michael Gove, she said her own plans, which er population? “Yes absolutely,” she says. Let us help you she would be announcing in the autumn, had “We’re responsible for much of the high num- to be, “deliverable.” “I am working on a deliv- bers in our prisons because of the numbers of ery plan at the moment which we do not cur- If you suffer an accident because of someone else then we will help you get justice. criminal laws we’ve passed, which creates rently have,” she told Neil. We’ve won millions of pounds of compensation for our clients since setting up our more offences. And there is sentence creep as law firm back in 1998. well. But if you look at our prisoner population Stevens smiles. “Oh there are plans. There are there are people in there who just shouldn’t be lots of things she’s looking at. But in her evi- We make the entire process as simple as possible. in. There are far too many in there with mental dence to the Committee when she was asked health issues, who need treatment. There are about specific points, thirty nine times she We act for clients who have suffered due to: vulnerable women in for civil matters who have said, ‘I’m looking at that.’ There were no spe- been led into crime when they’ve been victims Road traffic accidents cific answers. And yet in the Queen’s speech No Win of crime. So I think we need to have an honest Accidents from work injuries the prison reform bill was the flagship piece of No Fee legislation for this year. So it’s really disap- conversation and be up front about the fact Accidents in public places pointing. I was very critical of Michael Gove in that there are too many people in our prisons.” Head injuries terms of delivery but I do believe he was a reformist. He talked a good talk. But actually Responding to this interview a Ministry of Brain injuries nothing really happened. I hoped that Liz Truss Justice spokesperson said: “The government remains totally committed to legislating on Motorbike and bicycle injuries would also be a reformist, because I just think that for too long governments of all colours prison reform and will come forward with plans in due course. We also remain committed to Albert Buildings For personal injury, contact Eamonn Dunne have treated prison policy in isolation. For me, prison policy is an integral part of our educa- legislating on reform of our court system to Scott Drive, Altrincham Telephone: 0161 928 8877 tion policy, our health policy and all sorts of provide a better and more efficient service. Cheshire WA15 8AB Fax: 0161 928 7667 socio-economic factors. Equalities - how black Again, we will come forward with plans in due and ethnic minority people are disproportion- course.” Insidetime October 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment // Inside Justice 19

tomfoolery in giving a heads- you’re just a contributor and No system is perfect and the up to a crucial witness that the have no editorial control over criminal justice system is no TV cameras were coming. The what’s in the final pro- different but it adds oil to the whole thing sounded bonkers grammes. flames by appearing perpetu- and Inside Justice declined. ally resistant to the idea some- But we did eventually suc- Conversations with the pro- thing might have gone wrong. cumb to one approach from a duction company went on for It takes years to right a wrong- production company working many months before a camera ful conviction and it shouldn’t. with the BBC who wanted to was ever turned on. Clearly We are facing real danger here. follow our work on a murder we couldn’t do anything with- Attacks on legal aid will lead conviction we’d been investi- out the consent of Roger to more wrongful convictions. gating for some years. The two Kearney and his family but BBC programmes aired last they were tired of not being Phenomenal developments in month about Roger Kearney’s heard and wanted a pro- DNA technologies which can conviction were the result. gramme to help. So then it was put your DNA in a room you’ve just down to whether I’d swal- never even been in is exciting The work we do at Inside low my fears and agree to be stuff till the room is a rape Justice mostly goes on in the filmed and whether I trusted scene and the ladies’ loo and shadows. It’s painstaking, it’s the filmmakers. you’re a man on the DNA reg- dogged and, as anyone who ister. Only this week an expert Louise Shorter (middle) flanked by forensic scientists Jo Millington (left) and Tracy Alexander knows anything about right- Till a year ago I’d declined from our Advisory Panel told ing wrongful convictions will virtually all invitations for me of her fears of scores of new tell you, it’s tortuously slow. public speaking but then I was wrongful convictions around We knew that finding objec- asked to speak about Colin DNA evidence alone and I hav- Stepping out tive new evidence, which Norris’ case which I’ve written en’t even started on historical proved innocence or guilt, about previously in these sex offence cases. So thank within a TV production time- pages. I feel so strongly about goodness the media is inter- frame was going to be a long- what I believe to be Colin’s ested once again. shot but there were so many wrongful convictions I’d had of the shadows new forensic possibilities in to find the courage to speak Our work will continue on the murder Roger Kearney was out to try to help him. And so Roger Kearney’s case. It didn’t Deciding whether to work with television companies when convicted of, we hoped we had I’d overcome my fears a little. start for the cameras and it a good chance. At the end of won’t stop for them either but investigating a possible miscarriage of justice is as big a both Making a Murderer and Then I was asked to lecture at I hope the chance they offered challenge as the search for the truth, explains Louise Serial there was no smoking an Innocence Project at Essex to share even the tip of the gun or exculpatory DNA evi- University and was horrified iceberg of problems with an Shorter who runs Inside Justice dence that led to freedom but that students didn’t remember unsuspecting public will lead the media spotlight exposed programmes like Rough to positive change. And it’s led Louise Shorter victed prisoners protesting The calls went from the sub- catastrophic failings which Justice and Trial and Error to a new project: we need to innocence. Wrongful convic- lime to the ridiculous. The generated global interest in ever existed. This is a tragedy. collect information on wheth- tions have been the single most memorable was a these previously largely They’re what inspired me as er exhibits are being stored Two years ago the Inside most important area of work researcher who, without a hint ignored cases. Hundreds of a teenager and I know I’m not properly post-conviction in Justice phone started ringing for me since 1998 when I of irony, told me about his idea thousands of people signed the only one. I always mention other cases. If you’ve wanted off the hook with calls from began working on the BBC’s for a weekly live TV show to petitions and both cases are Rough Justice when I call an to access crime scene exhibits eager TV researchers looking long-running TV series Rough let viewers decide which trial now positively progressing unsuspecting expert I want to for new tests and have been for their next big thing. Justice, but for the past decade witness should be tracked towards Appeal. The pro- persuade to do a host of work told they’ve been destroyed, American megahits Serial and broadcasters here wouldn’t down and door-stepped ... grammes weren’t responsible without payment. And I’m please write to us outlining Making a Murderer had touch these cases with a next! Alarm bells tolled: the for the latest legal develop- heartened every time an what you know. fuelled a global obsession bargepole. Now everything ethical issues around a baying ments but there’s nothing like expert tells me it was watch- with murder cases and con- has changed. public on a phone-in vote, the a tide of public opinion to ing those programmes that shake things up and get a case inspired them to enter their moving again. And that was chosen speciality and the rea- ASN LAW one of the reasons Inside Justice son they agree to give up their agreed to work on this series. 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Graham, the writer in resi- Masturbation and sperm bank whilst I am an dence, is due to come and see breast-feeding anatomical man, could I use Born into the me tomorrow so we can reflect What a day it’s been, one of my own sperm to fertilize the on my doodling in this note- the best days since being here. eggs? Would this be ethical? book, and I’m feeling a little Had beans on toast this morn- Will I be able to breast feed anxious; I could say scared for ing with Neal aka Scouse, then once I’ve developed breasts? some reason. I can’t quite say mopped the floor which I al- wrong sex To be lost then found is a why though. I’m growing my ways find therapeutic for some feeling I cannot describe. hair so it becomes long, for strange reason. You could say In her unique journal, HMP Parc To be loud and proud obvious reasons; well, not ob- simple things please simple To not have to hide prisoner Ruby shares some of her vious because women can minds but I know myself my To be open not closed it feels have short hair as well. Anyway, mind is not so simple lol. so free days and some of her dilemmas who will cut my hair when it A couple of topics discussed needs cutting? And what is it To have my real identity with Graham: going to feel like with a turbie exposed I am Ruby I should have been a woman to play football with the lads (1) is it okay to write about twist on my head, wandering But was a man at birth today. This will be the second masturbation when I’m receiv- Ruby X around the landing? The flooding of the seas time I’ve gone. The first was ing hormone therapy? Look at you then, As the levels slowly increase really good - a few handbags (2) Do women find male to fe- Miss at last look at you now. I’m a nephew in the family thrown and a lot of shouting male transitions empowering A milestone today - K got my Then you were lost, But will become a niece! but I enjoyed it. I think I sur- or offensive? Ruby is currently a resident Now you are found. prised a few of the lads with door cards with the title at HMP Parc. Her journal To shave or not to shave my skills in goal, lol. What changed from ‘Mr’ to ‘Miss.’ continues next month He is forgotten, I’ve got a question about Shaving! I hate doing it. Well, saying comes to mind? “Don’t Had a big grin on my face all a distant memory. bio-technology, such as: if I Transgender rights and actually, I find my legs, arm- judge a book by its cover” - day! Such a little detail can She will be remembered as a was to have sperm put into a remedies page 45 pits and pelvis area therapeu- until you’ve read it! make such a big difference. woman who came to be free. tic; well, except for when I see He will die in prison, Going to start saving up for a it! But shaving my facial hair she will walk free. D.A.B. radio. My plan is to pur- - it just feels so fucking weird, chase a small one and connect (This was written in the stars; excuse my French. Don’t get it to my CD player with an AUX ‘Prezzie Palace’ is a it’s her destiny!) me wrong, if a woman has a lead. Tel: 01535 810025 trading name of beard, I’ve got no issue, neither Prezzie Palace The Perfect Gesture... Address: 483 Green Lanes, London N13 4BS Maksley Services LLP I’ve found that once you fully should anyone else, but for me Transcending memories accept yourself for who you personally, it’s just weird! of our past lived lives are and become confident with Perception and observation your own sense of self, Later… of our internal world everything just seems to fall Analytical reflexion into place. Phil our diversity Well, considering I was going of our external world £22 £22 £27 £18 on about shaving facial hair manager came over to see me Retro Sweet Hamper Choc Box Selection Ferrero Rocher delight Balloon in a box today. I was blasting music you’ll never guess what I did. Angry learning curve whilst polishing and buffing a Yeah, you’re right, I had a A bit of advice for myself: Old school sweets Assortment of 5 Variety of Ferrero Congratulations 09/01 cell, with a little bit of a jig on shave. I say it like I’m a bloke. whilst using the buffer, be and treats 03/01 choc box favourites Rocher chocolates I love you 09/02 (lol) and he sort of popped out Well, biologically, I am, but careful of wearing a dress, lol! 03/02 03/03 Happy Birthday 09/03 trust me I hate having to do it. of nowhere. He came to inform Had the meeting with my per- I feel like Ruby is the seed to me that on Monday, myself, sonal officer, my offender my true identity and living in him, my Offender Supervisor, manager, the wing manager her body will be the germina- my Personal Officer and K, my and finally Phil about a PACT tion of the seed, once I’ve had wing manager, are going to for my situation regarding Gender Realignment Surgery have a meeting about complet- being a transgender prisoner. £25 £30 £24 (GRS). I just need life experi- ing a PACT for myself, regard- It’s got to be said that all the Just 4 You Sack Just 4 You Basket Little angels gift set ence living as a woman and ing being a transgender individuals above are really the flower will blossom. prisoner. supportive and helpful. Faux rose bouqet, Faux rose bouqet, milk Pink or blue teddy, bubble bath, bath duck, Obviously this is a learning milk tray and teddy tray, sented candle, windwill set, 2 x kinder egg, and lucky dip Stand or sit? Schizophrenia / Gender 05/03 teddy & mug 05/04 bath bomb Boys 05/01 / Girls 05/02 Genderphrenia curve for all of us. I’ve reflect- This morning I woke up at 7am Genderphrenic ed on an emotion I’ve been and went to the toilet. Now, feeling for about a month: out of curiosity, I was thinking Who is your God? anger. And I know why I’ve obviously I can stand or sit We as humans (homo sapiens) been feeling it: when blokes when I use the toilet at the worship a greater cause. It’s speak to women like shit. It £35 £40 £50 £35 moment. When I have gender been this way since our begin- boils my insides. re-assignment surgery, will I Big box of love Miss Bliss Baby boo Dapper chap gift set ning. Some cultures call him/ wake up in the middle of the aromatherapies pamper hamper her God/Goddess, Messiah, Why are we here? night for a toilet and stand or I feel as though the prison is Creator, Enlightened One, Aromatherapy soap Bath rocks, lip balm, lip 3 x bath blasters, body 10pc grooming set, sit? Obviously, I should sit, but Prophet; yet as a race we taking me seriously, which is selection & ladies ‘More treatment, massage bar polish, bubble bath, 2 x Toblerone, travel mug, if I’m half asleep and stand, should stop looking for a god/ a nice feeling. Why are we Amour’ gift set 05/07 2 x bath creams 05/05 bath brulee 05/06 & bath gift set 06/01 I’m going to pee down my legs here? It’s a question that’s goddess because he/she has Participating prisons allow you to pay from your private cash. (lol). I’ve got to start toilet been found. been asked since our existence training! began. I’m going to contem- If this is not available please raise this with your rep. plate this question for a few The morning light awakens. Look to your right, and left… days and get back to you. The day becomes alive. STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 Footie with the lads Epistemology - the theory of Good morning. Woke up at Underwear escape knowledge. Select the gift/s of your Send us the payment We will con rm your 5.20 am, then went back to How Here’s one. Being a biological choice, please complete with your details, delivery order via sleep, then re-awoke at 7.30. The trees stand tall, their roots man, I have male genitalia; a cash disbursment form address, item code and emailaprisoner.com Going to have a coffee, some buried within the ground, to now, wearing women’s knick- for the correct amount, desired delivery date. toast, then get ready for finish- They sway back and forth ers can be a problem unless order ensuring all cheques and Please include as much ing cell cleanse. as the wind starts to sound. you have some skills. You postal orders are made detail as possible and could call me Houdini! Well, after screaming and What the caterpillar calls the payable to order well in advance of shouting first thing this morn- end of the world, the masters ‘prezzie palace’ your delivery date. Let’s get prepared for the cell ing, it’s calmed down a little call it the butterfly. (Chuang- cleanse then… bit, for now anyway. It’s got to Tsu, Chinese philosopher.) A number of establishments allow you to order via a catalogue order form. 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could be home in time for bed. days, and the thought that I too have As I wait to be let back on the wing I seen better days floats around my turn my face to the sky and let the Eventually the door is opened by an head. rain cleanse me. The sound of the older officer who is very nice and gate groaning brings me back. Faces seems like a kind soul. He explains to Finally the moment is upon me. I appear and the questions start, “What me how the video link will work, and state my name for the court. I can see happened?” “Did you get a result?” I am allowed a couple of minutes to myself in the corner of the screen and I recount my sorry tale, of the barris- speak to my barrister before we begin. I realize that I haven’t seen myself for ter and the judge and that I am there I don’t like my barrister. He is pomp- a long time. Truth be told I have at least till August. Back behind my ous and condescending. He laughs looked better. The judge in his cell door I am full of rage. I hate the like a dog coughing when I ask if I will moth-eaten wig looks like something system and I hate myself for being in be going home today. “Who told you from Dickens’ England. He looks it. I thought I would have a cry. Instead that”? he asks. “You’re only here to down at me from his perch above, I feed off my anger and it nourishes set a date for your trial.” He laughs and I am pretty sure he is really look- me, giving me strength. Then I’m fu- again. I am wounded. I feel my eyes ing down on me. I feel uneasy and rious that I even let myself have any start to burn as I strain to hold back once again the powerlessness of my hope. When was I ever going to learn? my tears of disappointment. I want to situation crushes me. I feel like I am © prisonimage.org blame the magpie but I know he is being stepped on, like an underfoot My padmate comes bounding in innocent. I am the guilty party. bug, even though I know this situation wanting to know everything. I take There aren’t many surprises. The rou- is the result of my own bad decisions. one look at her and we burst into tears Video tears tine doesn’t change. I am still on the I feel like I am being together. I feel winded. I breathe wing and I have run out of money. I The court is busy setting aside time deep. “Oh well at least I can apply for Kelly Wober need a job. I wasn’t allowed to sit the stepped on, like an for the trial, checking calendars. My a job now.” I smile weakly as my employment board to get a job be- underfoot bug, even barrister is away the week of my trial anger diminishes. What’s left is a cause I would probably be going so I agree to a later date so he can be gaping abyss of acceptance. I am It’s 3.15pm and time for exercise. I home aft er the video link. This hope- though I know this there for me. Aft erwards I don’t know going nowhere till at least August so have been watching the clock for the ful thought was keeping me going. situation is the result of why I did that. Then the fatal words. I had better get on with the job at last hour. Yesterday I didn’t get let “You will be remanded in custody hand, whatever that job might be. out. I make sure I am ready by the So I went to the video suite at 9am. my own bad decisions until 18th August.” door with my coat on, today I won’t It’s really just a Portacabin behind Sam my trusty padmate and I share be forgotten. As soon as I am outside the visiting hall. I am excited as I walk I swallow the lump in my throat and August seems so far away that I begin a meal and we laugh about prison and I feel the sun on my skin like a kiss. up the avenue. I see a magpie and I try to harden myself, but inside I am to despair. I stop myself from men- the futility of it all. We laugh about the salute him as I go past, he doesn’t broken. I don’t really take in anything tally taking 100 steps backwards and food and everything else that prison I am surprised by how easily I have salute me. My excitement turns to this man I have decided to dislike says. stand tall when the judge gets up to entails. She makes me a brew and we adapted to life inside. I have always trepidation as I knock on the door. I try to look interested but I don’t pull leave. I am told to go back to the wing share a roll up and a smile. And even been a survivor, I am resilient. My It’s started to rain and I still have no it off . I am yanked back to reality when so I do. I fi ght the feeling of losing it though being locked up is awful we initial feelings of dread have some- coat so I try and huddle under the he barks my name. I am told that we all the way back down the rainy av- laugh all the way through lunch. what eased off now that I am back on overhang of the roof. The rain is get- will be before the judge in 10 minutes. enue. The trees are bare and the my medication. ting heavier. I knock again. By now I The offi cer comes to escort me to the branches are ripping at the dark sky, am soaked and freezing. I mentally waiting room. I fl ick through the pages the way that reality feels like it is rip- Kelly Wober is a former resident of Every day is just like the day before. warm myself with the thought that I of a magazine that has seen better ping at my life. HMP Styal

been so strong, but for reasons It all felt very real. Therapy is These feelings that still elude me I stay seated no joke. The harsh reality of A journey through the of doubt wash over and attempt to regain some what my therapeutic journey semblance of control. would entail was just laid bare me like a tidal to me. I knew in that moment wave and the desire After all the welcomes have that this place was going to be therapy looking glass been off ered, attention is then probably the single most dif- to fl ee has never moved from me to Ian who fi cult thing I have ever done been so strong, but says he wishes to use some in my life, but again something attending my fi rst small ther- their preferred chairs in read- group time to explore his index was stopping me from fl eeing. apy group. After being as- iness for the next ninety min- for reasons that off ence. For the next hour or I felt that I needed to confront sessed as suitable for treat- utes. No one can ever be ready still elude me I stay so I sit and listen to this man my demons in order for me to ment and moving on to my for what is about to happen, explain in graphic detail how really be able to live; it just felt wing, I have been informed via because no one can predict or seated and attempt he believed his partner was somehow right. My mind was staff feedback that I have been plan how the group is going about to leave him for another racing with a myriad of allocated to group 1. My fellow to go. to regain some man and how he took her life. thoughts and I kept replaying group members have all made semblance of She was 23 years old. all that was said in my first themselves known to me and This amalgamation or hard- group session. I went to bed explained where the group ened criminal types begin the control In what feels like a few min- that night full of fear, trepida- room is. So this is it. This is the session by welcoming me to

© Fotolia.com utes and at the same time an tion, but most importantly beginning of the journey that the group. It starts off with weak to my own ears and I am eternity my fi rst group is over with a glimmer of hope… Harold Mose I have decided to undertake in Nigel. “Hi, my name is Nigel now really doubting myself and we all make our way to the order to end the cycle of misery and I’m serving life for killing and my reasons for doing this. main community room. We Harold Mose, a nom de and destruction that I lived for my partner, 20 year tariff . I’m These feelings of doubt wash feed back our group’s content plume, is a resident of HMP what seems like my entire life. here at Grendon to look at my over me like a tidal wave and to the rest of the wing and the Grendon - names in this Sharing the behaviour and to get an un- the desire to flee has never other groups feedback theirs. article have been changed Around 8:45 a.m. bodies begin derstanding of why I did what horrors of to congregate outside various I did. Welcome to group 1” EQUITY LAW SOLICITORS Rushton Legal Services LTD rooms around the wing. There HERE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! our crimes is a palpable air of anxiety and And so it goes, one by one I’m • Appeals against conviction & sentence PRISON LAW, APPEALS REVIEWS SPECIALISTS a growing sense of foreboding. welcomed with stories of deg- • Parole board representation At 8:57 a.m heavy footfall on radation and heartache. 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My voice sounds 11 Peckham High Street, London, SE15 5EB 22 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016 Inside Voices The IMB just doesn’t work and training. Listeners themselves have to work alongside both with ‘call outs’ to those in need Incognito IMB via email out on the wings, talking di- re-organising duties to encour- of support. rectly to prisoners and staff, age wider (and MUCH more The IMB is a confused organ- but effectively overseeing core representative) community The Listeners offer support and an ear to those isation beleaguered by bu- processes such as reviews, participation. For a start. who are in need of support for a variety of rea- reaucracy, government inter- and coordinating with the re- sons. The vital role of Listeners assists prisoners ference and a lack of both gime, drastically impact on I agree, we should communi- to talk to other prisoners. Prison environments clear direction and shared how successfully we can do cate - regularly and effectively and prison life in general can be very alien and purpose. However, while the this. - with the governor as a first scary to those who have never been in custody board itself is the form re- step to better addressing the or who suffer from mental, physical or emo- quirements to oversee the The nature of IMB work as the needs of prisoners, but this tional issues. standard of our prisons take, organisation is currently con- demands time and a belief in the people who make it up are figured makes it undoable for the idea that we are useful, The Listeners scheme has guidelines and pro- not “there because they have anyone holding down a con- rather than a tolerated nui- tocols and all that is said between a ‘Caller’ to be”. ventional job or juggling the sance (sometimes barely). Our and a ‘Listener’ is in strict confidence and is normal demands of life. As a private. When a person with a variety of emo- internal structure also makes © prisonimage.org It’s unpaid and requires more consequence, you end up with tional, thinking or behavioural barriers to it hard to communicate effec- hours and greater commit- a group of people who (in my overcome, has a problem it can be hard to see tively with each other let alone ment than any one person can experience) are generally very any solution. anyone else. Faith Spear had dedicated but drawn from reasonably make, certainly in it right, aye, but affecting sig- 25 years the prison I volunteer in. I particular walks of life. White, Emotions like anger, stress, sadness, bereave- nificant change from below is generally manage a full day elderly, frequently with a ment, loss of hope, can lead a person to think- nigh-on impossible. I assure once a week, minimum, but background in public service. ing in a way, and possibly believing, ‘What is you though, I frequently don’t of listening this is nowhere near enough They don’t represent the pris- the point?’ Thoughts start occurring, some manage to my shame, but my to ensure I let people know on population and can strug- SB - HMP Long Lartin bubbly characters go quiet, associating with entire time in the prison is how their queries/issues or gle to understand the signifi- others can stop, and some people isolate them- spent trying my damnedest to concerns (not always com- cance of this social and The Listeners scheme originated with the help selves. This can manifest into a deep depres- do something tangible for plaints) are coming on. It also cultural divide. That’s a fun- of the local Swansea Samaritans and HMP sion, mental illness, and sadly even lead people takes months of dedicated damental fault with the way those I encounter. Prison is a Swansea back in 1991 after the suicide of a to self-harm or suicide. independent investigation to the IMB is currently organised. thundering behemoth that 15-year-old boy in the prison. He was the runs on its own plodding, youngest person to take their own life whilst Can you remember your first night in prison? start to untangle the mysteri- Did you feel alone and anxious and sad? I have ous workings of the prison. I’d like to see a massive re- painful logics. None of us are in prison custody. Now almost every prison immune to its effects, but some has a Listener scheme in place. There are an been a Listener for over 3 years and have sup- Staff and departments shift structuring of the ‘executive’ of us are trying, desperately, estimated 1500 Listeners between the United ported and listened to many prisoners. I re- responsibilities by the day so - or maybe we could get rid of to lessen them a little… one Kingdom and Ireland. Last year over 74,000 member my first night, it wasn’t easy and no- accomplishing the smallest it, I’ve no idea what it does! A requests were made to see a Listener. body spoke to me at all. I adjusted to the prison thing can become a mission new directive on communicat- exchange at a time. The IMB regime, and then heard that a friend of mine of exhausting magnitude. I ing concerns freely and pub- doesn’t work for the MoJ, it just The partnership of the Prison Service working had taken his own life in another prison, which feel we’re most effective when licly where appropriate and doesn’t currently work. with the Samaritans has been invaluable in made me decide I wanted to help other implementing structured Listener schemes prisoners.

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Insidetime October 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 23 Prisoners’ newspaper and the Australian Vote David Chan directed to prisoners and their As everyone in prison knows, l 44,000 people in prisons families, added articles of our having rights and enforcing and locked hospitals. own to complete the newspa- them are very diff erent things. Just Us is the only Australian per, and then dealt with each We are running a campaign to Prisoners’ Newspaper, and it’s l National adult imprison- state separately for permission force electoral authorities to modelled on Inside Time. ment rate is about 196 per for Just Us to enter. In 2004, properly enrol prisoners on However our history and form 100,000 people. 2007 and 2011 we launched reception, as they currently is quite different. Ours is a Supreme Court challenges receive information on all pris- measly four pages but it does l The indigenous Aboriginal when it was refused by par- oners’ entry in order to remove go nationally to the 44,000 imprisonment rate is 2196 ticular states, and slowly them from the roll. Enrolment people in prisons and locked per 100,000 people. gained recognition. Our utter forms and voting notices hospitals in the eight states determination and willingness aren’t exhibited and the legal l The non-indigenous is and territories of Australia. to fi ght using the best barris- requirements aren’t observed. 139 per 100,000 people. ters working pro bono got us The General Manager of Inside Time’s existence is a Some hospitals saw it as an people whom you can’t see or through. Silverwater Correctional l Males accounted for 92% negotiated one based upon the administrative matter while hear but harder to do so once Centre, Australia’s largest pris- of all prisoners. 8% of Strangeways Riot of 1990, for others determined that it was they speak up. They have a The 2016 federal election edi- on, said that only two people prisoners are women. facilitating dialogue to relieve clinical. Most states initially right to be part of the conver- tion was accepted in all juris- had voted. Prisoners are ex- Aboriginal prisoners tension. Ours is based on the tried to escape responsibility, sation rather than rendered as dictions except South cluded in practice although accounted for just over 27%. prisoners’ right to vote, and but eventually accepted the an object to be exploited as a Australia. That state is trying they have equal status as citi- the constitutional right to distribution. scapegoat for social problems. to punish us because we main- zens with consequential rights. l It costs at least A$80,000 communicate with politicians Access to the internet through tain the internet platform iEx- (£47,000) to house each to inform our votes. Earlier Just Us went to the decision a safe server has been long press which provides prison- We know that prisoners in the prisoner for a year. versions of our publications makers too. Every Member of proven just as is mail and ers a Facebook like profi le and UK are not yet able to vote de- had patchy distribution into Parliament and Supreme Court phones, and is especially ef- l The most common email services legally beyond spite the Hirst case in the the 130 prison libraries for judge in all eight jurisdictions fective to counter physical offences/charges for their control. We have an European Court of Human those prisoners who found it was sent Just Us and a letter isolation. prisoners are: Acts Ombudsman complaint look- Rights, which is further com- in folders we supplied. calling for support for comput- intended to cause injury ing good and have also been plicated by the Brexit decision. Inspired by Inside Time and ers in cells and online In Australia it is compulsory (21%), Illicit drug offences offered political support. Our slow but clear progress in former editor Eric McGraw on services. to enrol to vote and vote if you (13%) and Sexual assault Otherwise we are ready for the battle for voting rights in- a visit to Sydney, we became are eligible. If you don’t you and unlawful entry with another court challenge. dicates the value of the strug- a broadsheet, printed enough Upholding the right to vote is are issued a fine. Prisoners intent (both 11%). gle. The right to vote is signif- for one in two prisoners, and important because it protects have the vote too, although it For locked mental hospitals in icant in the democratic system demanded the paper’s right of communication. It is the bed- was under attack and success- l At least half the prisoners each of the states, it was much and retaining a sense of self in entry behind the right to vote. rock of democracy and entitles fully defended in 1997 and in all states and territories harder to get approval for dis- citizens an active role in shap- 2006. Federally if you are serv- relation to the wider were recorded as having tribution due to the uncertain- community. Before each federal election ing society. It facilitates social ing more than three years you had prior adult imprison- ty about whose responsibility we have gathered statements inclusion and community are excluded. In different ment under sentence. were patients’ political rights. from all political parties building. 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Something happens when you take a dog into your care. You suddenly have responsibility where, before, the only responsibility you had was showing skin during Tom with two ‘hairy wee beasties’ the thrice-daily headcount

Tom Richey The impact of having canines in prison is immediately visible. They bring the child out in us, and many an otherwise cold hard-man has I am a British national, having served 30 years © Fotolia.com sunk to his knees, voicing nonsensical babble of a 65-year sentence in the Washington penal while a tail-swishing dog licks the glee from his system. I am far from my loved ones and far face. The dogs are so popular and appreciated, custom. After the fire had died out and had lost from where I want to be. But when I entered I pity the moron who would take some adverse its heat, he collected the ashes and put them the Dog Programme, it gave me more than reaction that would threaten the programme. sponsibility, it gave me a sense of purpose and Tales of in a beautiful little green bag which he kept filled an emptiness I had carried for many years. with him at all times along with a small shell To qualify as a dog handler, candidates must Engaging in play with a dog and receiving love that his son had found when very young and have maintained good conduct for a minimum and adoration when you have gone so long had treasured. of 6 months. They must also pass psychological without it, is an experience I would recommend Wisdom screening and sit for an interview (numerous to any prisoner. As unlikely as it sounds, when Several weeks afterwards, his son escaped you have a dog as constant company, your questions are asked, intended to reveal whether you are a reasonable, responsible person ded- from the bandits; he had not been killed but attention is so focused on it, the bricks and bars taken to be a slave. After walking for 10 days melt away around you. icated to achieving the programme’s goals). Our man on Two handlers are assigned to each dog: a pri- the boy had stumbled upon his old village only to find the whole village raised to the ground. The Dog Programme in Washington’s prisons mary and a secondary. The primary handler is takes dogs from local kennels’ ‘Death Row’ and the dog’s main trainer, he feeds and houses the the inside tells He asked a shepherd where his father might be assigns them to prisoner dog handlers. The dog dog in his cell and the dog is always leashed to found and was directed to the near village and handlers begin obedience training and, usually him. The secondary handler takes the dog when arrived at his father’s new cottage at midnight. after 90 days, the dogs pass obedience tests, the primary handler is at a visit, in the dining it like it is He knocked at the door. The father, his heart and are then ready for adoption by the public. hall, or at the infirmary, or any other call-out still full of grief asked who was there at this To promote adoption, a bio report is written by where a dog is prohibited. Sid Arter hour. The child answered, “it is me papa, open the dog handler that details as much history as the door!” But in his agitated state of mind, is known about the dog, its personality, its likes, In addition to attending yard and association convinced his son was dead, the father thought with other prisoners, designated periods of the and its favourite treats. This report is posted The widower’s son that some young boy was making fun of him along with the dog’s photo onto the Dog day and evenings are allotted for handlers to or trying to take his son’s place, after all it was Programme website. There is an adoption fee attend yard with their dogs so the animals can A young widower, who loved his eleven year not that long ago he had conducted the funeral. of around $200, which is used to help fund the be unleashed and exercised. I became quite the old son very much, was away on business when Dog Programme. The dogs are so well trained and spectacle for a while, sprinting back and forth, He shouted: “Go away, you’re a wicked deceiv- bandits came and burned down the whole vil- ‘people friendly’ that not one canine has ever a human chew-toy for two American Pitbulls. er”. The son banged and pleaded but his father returned to Death Row; they’ve all been adopted. I still carry the scars, but the memories of play- lage and took his son away. When the man would have none of it and the child left. Father ing and seeing the fun side of these so-called returned, he saw the ruins and from the ashes and son never saw each other again. The impact of having brutes, still puts a smile on my face. took the badly burnt corpse of a child and he canines in prison is immedi- cried uncontrollably. He gathered the fragments Sometime, somewhere, we take something to I have nothing negative to say about being part in a bag and arranged with a neighbouring be the truth and cling to it so much that even ately visible. They bring the of a dog programme in prison. Oh, I suppose it village a cremation ceremony to give the boy when the truth comes in person and knocks child out in us, and many an took me a while to get used to wrapping a plas- a good send off to the next world as was their on our door, we refuse to open it! tic-bag over my hand and picking up my dog’s otherwise cold hard-man has every bowel movement. I used to prefer the larger dogs, but now I leave them for the inex- sunk to his knees, voicing perienced handlers. I choose the miniatures ZZMMSS SSOOLLIICCIITTOORRSS nonsensical babble while a whenever possible; minimum clean-up. Prison Law specialists serving prisons throughout the Midlands.

tail-swishing dog licks the glee I should also admit to how bitter-sweet it is • IPP/LIFER ISSUES • from his face when a dog you’ve become attached to over 90 • PAROLE APPLICATIONS • days is adopted. But then, just when you are Initially when a dog enters a prison, trembling feeling despondent over the loss, along comes • CATEGORISATION • and skittish, it is assigned a hands-off red ban- another trembling, ‘hairy wee beastie’ looking • ADJUDICATIONS • danna that is tied around its neck. Only the to be loved, cared for and trained, so it can primary and secondary dog handlers are au- escape death row and prison, to enjoy a life of • JUDICIAL REVIEWS • thorised to touch the dog. After a week or two, freedom. Strangely enough, as each dog is set LICENCE CONDITIONS • once the dog has grown accustomed to its sur- free, a part of me is freed with it. Believe me, roundings, it is assigned a yellow bandanna. there is satisfaction in that. • RECALLS • This notifies prisoners they can pet the dog but only after obtaining permission from the han- Contact Simon Mears - Prison Law Specialist dler. Once the dog is comfortable around ZMS Solicitors 11 Bowling Green St, Leicester LE1 6AS strangers, a green bandanna is assigned, al- Tom Richey is currently serving out his 65 year 0116 247 0790 lowing prisoners to pet the animal without sentence at the Clallam Bay Corrections Free advice & representation under legal aid permission. Centre, but still fighting to come home. 26 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016 A letter to my fi fteen year-old self...

sole reason for existing. Your education is now Andrew Mills - HMP Buckley Hall in ruins but later you aspire to academia, even develop prospects to work in The City as a fi - What are you doing walking the nance executive. But when commitment is re- streets aimlessly and all alone? You quired you shy away and opt for frivolity and should be in class, studying hard, freedom. The career you aspire to will be re- preparing for your bright and promising future. placed with menial and casual employment in I know you can’t stand school - no friends, the hospitality, caring, food production and nothing in common, don’t fit in and mum entertainment industries - all providing short- doesn’t understand. So, you’ve decided to sack term fi nancial benefi t. school and fi nd out what the world is about? Let me save you the trouble. You will look back on those missed opportunities, university, armed forces, NVQ training, and © Fotolia.com You’ve had a happy childhood, brought up in wonder if things could have turned out diff er- a loving, caring environment, productive and ently. You were the major player in your own enjoyable education, loyal pals and a devoted downfall, ultimately a waste of space and eff ort. girlfriend. However, school has become all se- Mind your language rious, requiring you to study and revise for your At fi rst prison will feel like a respite, detox from fi nal exams in the hope of you getting good your dipsomaniac lifestyle, but the day will Rob Drummond mainstream media you are led to believe that grades, leading to good career prospects, fi nan- arrive when there’s nothing left to prove. your average job applicant simply isn’t capable cial security, committed relationship, possibly Meanwhile life will continue - your siblings will of speaking appropriately. According to stories children and a peaceful and happy retirement. progress into meaningful lives, members of I’m a linguist, meaning I spend my time looking in the Daily Mail young people especially are Well, I’ve got news for you…it’s not going to be your family will pass away or go to live in foreign at how language works. More specifi cally, I’m ‘literally talking themselves into unemploy- like that. climes, while you remain lingering in prison. a sociolinguist, which means I’m interested in ment’ because of their inability to speak prop- the ways in which language interacts with so- erly. But they are wrong. I believe that every- You will be a homeless tramp sleeping rough Enjoy your childhood but realise that this is the ciety. I’m especially interested in the relation- body is able to adjust their language to the in a cardboard box - remember those words foundation and one day you will grow old. Do ship between what we say (and how we say it) extent that is needed in such a situation, and from your younger brother? Well it will become yourself a favour and channel your and our identities, or how people see us and suggesting otherwise is doing a lot of people a a reality. Your burgeoning dependency on al- energies into positive and long-term therefore behave towards us. huge disservice. And my belief doesn’t just cohol will soon be in full bloom and be your objectives. come from naïve or idealistic wishful thinking, Our accent and dialect can provide a lot of in- it comes from evidence. LMB - HMP Isle of Wight invulnerable, but you are not. great, isn’t it? No! Once again, formation to others; it can tell people where You do realise that in 6 years you mess it up. Showing up we’re from, our approximate age, and even to In the course of my research I have done a lot you’ll be staring down the bar- stoned out of your face is never a certain extent our social class. When we also Right, young man, of work with young people who have been per- rel of a life sentence for mur- going to go down well, is it? You take into account the words, jargon and slang what the fuck are manently excluded from mainstream education, der? Is that your bum twitch- know what the really messed we use, we can oft en give away our past expe- you playing at? and I have spoken to adults who then interview ing? I thought so, you little up thing is? 11 years aft er being riences, be that certain jobs and trades, hobbies, You’ve been permanently ex- these young people for jobs and college places. dick. Get a grip, you immature kicked off your dream course, or even time in prison. This can be positive - it cluded from school, you’ve I have also spoken to people who off er training boy, you have no idea how you get another chance to means we can identify and relate to people from robbed from shops to feed for young people looking for work, and I have many people you are going to complete it - only this time it similar backgrounds to us, but sometimes it your weed addiction, you spoken to people who routinely employ ex-pris- hurt in the years to come. Your is in a prison. Yeah, you guessed can be negative, especially when people judge think it’s cool to hang out with oners. And in all this research I am yet to see family are very worried about it, you got found guilty of the us unfavourably and limit our opportunities ‘the man-dem’, and drink or hear of someone who has not been able to your erratic behaviour; they murder charge. I’d like to end just because of the way we speak. cheap booze in the local park. adapt their language to suit the context. won’t tell you because they are by sending you this message Plus, this ‘postcode turf war’ not sure how you will react. - give your head a wobble Linguists tend to see all varieties of language bollocks needs to stop before The fact is, however far from Standard English mate, you are not big and clev- as equally valid and important. We recognise you either hurt someone or get an individual’s language might be outside the There is some good news er, sort your shit out before it’s there is such a thing as ‘Standard English’ - the hurt yourself. Believe me, it interview, when they sit in that chair, they are though, you get accepted onto too late. NO type of English used in print, and largely spoken almost always able to respond appropriately. will happen! in the media, education, and judicial system, a college course to study paint- EXCUSES! I can only assume that the people who think ing and decorating. I know, but we don’t see it as being any more ‘correct’ otherwise are basing their prejudices on what You may think you are than the broadest Scouse or the most current they hear on street corners rather than from ‘street slang’. It’s just diff erent. All varieties of actual experience. I’m not saying that everyone If you would like a letter to your 15 year-old self published in Inside Time English have their own rules and subtleties of is a perfect communicator in a job interview, Write to us and mark your envelope ‘Letter to myself’. meaning that are no more or less complex than far from it; we can all benefi t from training and those in any other variety. One is not better than practice. And of course not everyone is naturally another, rather it’s all to do with context - dif- great with words - people can oft en fi nd it hard ferent varieties of language are more or less to say what they mean in what can be a stressful appropriate in diff erent situations. situation. My point is that it is wrong to isolate language as being a problem. Just because ON YOUR SIDE Not everyone agrees with this. Lots of people someone has a particular way of speaking with believe there is a ‘correct’ form of English that their friends, it doesn’t mean they can’t make Being on your side is one thing. Fighting your corner is another. We do both. is better than all other forms (in the past this the (oft en small) adjustments necessary to cre- • Miscarriage of Justice experts • Defending false allegations • Crown Court advocacy was oft en referred to as The Queen’s English), ate an entirely appropriate impression in a job and if only everyone could learn to ‘speak prop- • CCRC applications • Prison law specialists • Parole applications • IPP and Lifer reviews interview. Successful communication is de- • Adjudications • Recalls • Sentence progression erly’ then we’d all be fi ne. But this is simply not pendent on lots of things such as body lan- true. Try speaking like the Queen on a building guage, eye contact, posture, and enthusiasm. We offer Legal Aid and Fixed Fees along with a nationwide service. site, in the pub, out with your friends, or in In my opinion, these are the things we should For more information contact us using the details below. prison, and see where it gets you! Again, it’s all be aware of as we walk into the room, because to do with context. trust me, we all already know how to do the language bit. Of course there are situations in which Standard Changing the way you see lawyers. English is expected and desirable. Society dic- 01302 365374 www.qualitysolicitors.com/jordans tates that when we go for a job interview we are 4 Priory Place, Doncaster, DN1 1BP expected to dress, speak and behave in a certain Rob Drummond is a Senior Lecturer in Led by Mark Newby Solicitor Advocate with a relentless record of quashing convictions. way. Yet if you read some of the stories in the Linguistics at Manchester Met. Insidetime October 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 27

John O’Connor ing to Private Eye magazine.

On the face of it the end The United States Justice appears nigh for privately Dept's surprise decision to operated prisons in England end the use of privately oper- and Wales. For if the Ministry ated Federal prisons brings of Justice follows in the foot- hope for a similar move here steps of its American counter- by the Ministry of Justice. But part, then it's adios to prof- don't hold your breath for any- it-making jails. Or is this just thing happening soon for it's wishful thinking on the part said that what America does of the increasing number of today England and Wales only prisoners located in such plac- does ten years later. So what es? And what do staff in pub- brought about this decision lic sector jails think about the by the home of rampant free prospect of regaining much of market capitalism, where what they lost when jail after everything seems to have a jail was privatised? price, ready to be turned into Unfortunately, for prisoners a quick buck? and staff alike, there's unlikely to be a return to the pre-pri- According to U.S. Deputy vatised era. Attorney General Sally Yates, “...private facilities ‘compare As for the reason, you only poorly’ to those operated by have to remember just how the government: They simply badly jails were run before do not provide the same level private operators moved in. In of correctional services, pro- those bad old days prison gov- grams and resources; they do ernors were held to ransom by not save substantially on the Neanderthal thinking costs; and … they do not main- Prison Officers' Association. tain the same level of safety Similarly, at that time prison and security.” Sound familiar? regimes were beset with For these are the among the “Spanish working customs”, many problems faced daily by Prisoners of profit staff-on-prisoner brutality privately operated prisons in went unchecked, staff absen- England and Wales. teeism rampant, overmanning America is to stop using privately operated prisons after officials legendary and senior manage- This decision follows a critical concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing ment so hamstrung to be vir- report by the U.S. DoJ inspec- tually non-existent. tor-general that found “con- correctional services than those run by the government. Does this sound tract (ie private prisons) Much of this has now ended incurred more safety and the death nail for private prisons in the uk. John O’Connor thinks not for without doubt privatisa- security incidents per capita tion has brought about the than comparable public pris- ments and in the Movement close to 1.6 million Americans They simply Kilmarnock. It also ran greatest change in the way ons.” The inspector found that for Black Lives, particularly are incarcerated in Federal Harmondsworth Detention prisons are run. With the dec- “contract prisons also had for the ways in which the prof- and state prisons, with anoth- do not provide the Centre from 2009-14 in a much ades-old power of the POA higher rates of assaults, both it motive fuels mass incarcer- er 700,000 in local jails. same level of criticised regime. The CCA greatly undermined the by inmates on other inmates ation. Many private prisons, sold its stake in UK jails to Prison Service now has effec- and by inmates on staff” and depending on their contract, The common factor linking correctional services, French firm Sodeco in 2000, tive management control of performed worst on contra- are paid to fill a specific num- privately operated prisons in programs and while Geo Group now runs prisons. And the extent to band, lockdowns and inmate ber of beds in their facilities. the U.S. with those in England only the Dungavel immigra- which the POA accepts this discipline. The Federal Bureau The more people incarcerated, and Wales is ownership of the resources; they do tion detention centre near new reality is found in the way of Prisons keeps about 15 per the more money the operators companies running them. The not save substan- Glasgow. MTC's involvement it now actively competes with cent of its prisoners (approxi- make. Although the U.S. has Corrections Corporation of in the UK includes taking over the private sector to operate mately 30,000 inmates) in less than 5 per cent of the America (CCA) trading as UK tially on costs; the Rainsbrook Youth prisons. Perhaps the best les- privately operated jails. world’s population, it has Detention Services, Geo Group and … they do not Detention Centre in son learnt was when HMP nearly one-fourth of its pris- and the Management & Warwickshire despite the U.S. Birmingham was privatised: In the United States, prison oners - more than 2.2 million Training Corporation helped maintain the same government's criticism and its 200 people immediately lost privatisation has become a hot people, or nearly 1 per cent of build the British private pris- level of safety and history of riots and grim con- their jobs. topic in social justice move- the U.S. population. Presently ons industry under John ditions in its U.S. jails. security For the POA it's now a choice Parole Board Hearing? IPP, Lifer, Standard, Licence Recalls. MTC has also secured sizeable of either accepting cost-cut- Major's government (and then contracts worth over £1 billion ting efficiencies or its mem- Independent Adjudication? Tony Blair's). UK Detention to run privatised probation bers losing their jobs to private Sentence Wrongly Calculated? Services ran HMP Blakenhurst services in London and the operators. Cost cutting is now when, in 1995, a prisoner died Thames Valley, all won with- the name of the game for the Oral Hearing? - Tariff Reduction? in the hands of officers while out competition. This raises Prison Service and the threat Appeal against Sentence or Conviction? being “escorted” to the block. the intriguing question: if no to privatise prisons is the Second Appeal through the CCRC? To this day the video of this other company bid for these weapon used to achieve a prisoner's dying moments contracts what is it about them more compliant public sector The above issues are still covered under Legal Aid! So if you need help get it from dedicated London remain lost despite the best that made them unattractive? prison staff. And this, unfor- based Prison Lawyers, helping prisoners fight for their rights throughout England and Wales. endeavours by West Mercia The word on the street is that tunately, is the main reason Write To: Prison Law Dept, Office 226, 4 Spring Road, Ealing, London W5 2AA Police. The subsequent MTC may struggle to make a why privately operated pris- inquest ruled this prisoner profit. Therefore probation ons are now here to stay in Tel: 020 8123 3404 had been “unlawfully killed”. staff fear sharp job cuts are on England and Wales. Email: [email protected] the way. If MTC is also in trou- www.prisonlawsolicitors.org.uk Geo Group (under its former ble in the U.S. through non-re- Prison Law Consultant at Wells Burcombe Solicitors name of Wackenhut) used to newal of federal prison con- ADJUDICATION & PAROLE SPECIALISTS operate two prisons with grim tracts, things could get even John O’Connor is a former reputations: Doncaster and worse for it in the UK, accord- prisoner 28 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016 From over the wall Terry Waite writes his monthly column for Inside Time

get their self-published books now we have almost thirty into a bookshop. The big pub- dotted across the British Isles. lishing houses have links with One of my best friends in Terry Waite CBE bookshops across the country Cambridge is an ex con who, but the poor author who de- up to the age of about 45, spent cides to self-publish has a most of his life inside. He re- virtually impossible task of alized then that it was useless The past weeks have been spending all his life locked up rather full for me as this year getting his, or her, book in to the shops. Goodness knows and came to Emmaus some it is twenty five years since I time ago. He is doing well but, was bundled into the boot of how many books are published each year. Far too many, some like so many these days, faces a car and driven from Beirut the problem of where to go to Damascus in Syria. After people say, and so you are really up against it unless you when he moves on. We don’t almost five years in captivity put a time limit on how long as a hostage I was now free. are a recognised author or have some claim to fame which people can stay in the com- No ransom was demanded munity but naturally when a and no ransom was paid. puts you in the public eye. man, or woman, have got Political circumstances had Books written by prisoners themselves together they changed and it was that change and former prisoners are nu- would like to have a place of that led to my release, along merous. Jeffrey Archer is, I their own. Most companions with another British hostage, suppose, one of the best in Emmaus don’t stand a chance John McCarthy. I have written Listen carefully known writers who did time of earning enough to pay the in this column before how I inside but he was a best sell- outrageous sums demanded wrote my first book in my ing author long before he was by landlords, let alone save head during those years and The story of Leon McKenzie’s rise and fall and sent down. His prison diaries up for a deposit. I don’t want how, when I was released, I did well at the time but he had to depress you but if you are put it on paper in Trinity Hall, rise again delivers a powerful message to young made millions by writing being discharged in the next Cambridge. The book,Taken thrillers and is one of the few year or so and don’t have any on Trust, was published by Samaritan trained Listeners in HMYOI Feltham who does not have the slight- place to go give it some Hodder and has been in print est worry about selling or dis- thought now. I can’t imagine for the past 25 years. A few Achilles tendon, which took its toll on him tributing his books. Andy anything worse that being Inside Time report months ago I was asked by the psychologically. McNab (not, as far as I know, escorted through the main publisher if I would write a a former prisoner) has written gate with a few quid in your new chapter to bring it up to “Life is all about choices.” Former Premier a whole series of books draw- pocket and a few possessions In a hotel room one night after training a few date so that they now might ing on his experiences in the in a black bin liner and no- League footballer turned boxer Leon McKenzie years later, he took an overdose. “I had had re-issue it in a modern classic SAS. I have attended a book where to go. Not every ex-pris- is talking to four Samaritan trained prison enough, I didn’t want to be here anymore,” he edition. That’s the background signing alongside him which oner can be met by a Harley Listeners in HMYOI Feltham, and you could said. “I woke up in hospital the next day, sur- to one of the reasons the past was interesting. Most writers Davison and whisked off to a weeks have been so full. hear a pin drop. rounded by my family, who were crying, and would want to get their photo posh hotel, as was reputed to

that is the worst feeling in the world, the guilt.” displayed but Andy insisted have happened in the case of I am currently in the process Leon is telling Luke, Ashley, Ali and George that there must be no photo- one high profile prisoner. of travelling the country at- about his depression, his suicide attempt when Life went further off the rails, and Leon ended graphs of him at all. Emmaus can’t help everyone, tending book fairs and other his football career hit the buffers, his time in up in HMP Woodhill, serving six months. He Photographers are barred of course, as we are a compar- engagements where I speak Woodhill prison, and how he stormed back in from the book events he at- atively small organisation and remembered being on television as he went and then spend time signing tends and he still comes along are not exclusively intended 2014 as a Super Middleweight boxer. into the prison to start his sentence. “I felt very copies. The largest event so with a bodyguard. It’s all part for former prisoners. However, little and not very brave,” he says. far was a festival when I spoke of a clever marketing strategy there are always one or two in The four prison Listeners, aged between 18 and to some 5,000 people in a and lends an air of mystery to our communities and in the huge tent and then signed 21, provide peer support for their fellow pris- When he was released, aged 35, he had lost his publishers publicity drive. main they do pretty well. oners in the multi-category young offenders everything. “I had to go and live with my sister, books afterwards for almost prison in West London. The Listener scheme, and I cried in my room for days.” Leon says he two hours. Reading this you Well, as I said, if you want to To finish, the other evening might, understandably, think jointly run by Samaritans and NOMS, aims to would like to see more support for people leav- write and get your book out that stalwart campaigner for that I am making a small for- reduce suicide by providing support for pris- ing prison to help them adjust. “Don’t waste into the wide world it’s not an the dispossessed, Vanessa tune. Well,the truth is that oners who are struggling. Listeners undergo your life in here, I know it’s hard out there, but easy task. However, some peo- Redgrave, invited me to see a unless you sell huge numbers ple, and I am one such, enjoy the same training as Samaritan volunteers on just focus on your own life.” film she has made and to speak of books you do not make a writing regardless of whether at its premiere. It’s about the the outside. lot of money. Initially I have the book they write will have current refugee crisis when The Listener Scheme has been running for 25 experienced a rush, as I just wide sales. Writing can be a thousands of innocent people “It’s what you do after being in prison that is years in England and Wales this month. “I have said, but that will not contin- helpful exercise and if you are fleeing from devastating important, rather than the fact that you were better life skills, and better conversations with ue for too long and things will have a desire to write just get warfare. One scene will stick in here,” Leon tells the Listeners. “My motto my family since becoming a Listener,” says soon revert to a more steady on with it. It’s said that every- in my mind for a long time. It pace. The vast majority of au- is: Fight it. We all have it in us to fail, it’s how Luke, 21. one has a good story in them showed men, women and chil- thors cannot possibly make a we bounce back. Hold on and keep focused.” somewhere and I know for a dren scrabbling to board a living by writing and their “It has helped me a lot,” says Ashley, 20. “It fact that ex-cons have some rescue ship as their own little situation has been made more gripping stories to tell. Leon, a former Norwich, Coventry and Charlton has taught me to be non-judgemental, and the pontoon sank beneath the difficult by Amazon and on- waves. Boy, if any of us think player, now 38 and a father of five and a gran- training helped me to overcome any worries I line publishing. There is no Another anniversary that has that we are badly done by then dad, showed the Listeners some photos of had about dealing with people who are suicid- doubt that Amazon run a kept me busy in the last few look at these poor souls. No highlights from his career, a stellar goal against al. It has helped me along my journey.” highly efficient outfit, but the days concerns Emmaus for the home, no job, no country, no Manchester United in 2003, and the author suffers as he, or she, homeless. I have often men- nothing! The men and women International Masters belt he won as a boxer “As Listeners they are changing others’ lives receives just pennies for each tioned how this organization in Emmaus don’t have a lot in copy sold. As for electronic in 2014. as well as their own,” says Nina, a Samaritans provides a good standard of terms of material goods but books, the same is true. Many volunteer who supports the Listeners in accommodation and work for they have big hearts and they writers have gone in for self Those are the highs, but he is also in Feltham Feltham. Events to celebrate the Listener those who want to get off the have been helping out with publishing which has proved streets and return to main- to talk about the lows. “Things can change,” Scheme anniversary will be taking place emergency help for the refu- to be successful for some. The stream life. It is 25 years since gees in France. A good exam- he says, “I started getting injuries”, and aged around the country from the week beginning real problem there is that it’s I opened the first Emmaus ple of the poor helping the 31, playing for Coventry, he ruptured his 19 September. not at all easy for an author to Community in Cambridge and poor. Insidetime October 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment // Diary 29

made of felt on sacking made huge cartoon, illustrated ‘The elephant friends with trunks by Richard in HMP Parc is very Closure of Holloway’ as indeed entwined; a vibrant portrait of Month by Month charming, even with its under- it was called. Witty scenes in- ‘Rosa’ from HMP Grendon. tones of war. One picture by cluded prisoners off in an over- Ryan called ‘Comfort: A Self- stuffed Serco van, officers I always buy myself something Time and Comfort - Rachel’s stand out pieces portrait’ took a bit of explain- queuing up at the dole, the to take home; this year I ing. The face and comments artist on a bicycle as the only picked a beautiful wooden from this year’s Koestler Exhibition around it are made up of words woman who ever went out to inlaid box made at HMP taken from the feedback when work from Holloway, a group Wakefield. My Koestler collec- Ryan won a previous compe- running off with prison items, tion now includes several tition. Such ingenuity is typi- including an exercise bike, the paintings, a shirt with the em- cal of this year’s entrants, great blocks sprouting up be- broidery on the pocket ‘Made often being one thing at first hind the prison and the money for the outside by those on the glance and telling another men who were going to make inside’, a crocheted handbag, story when you look closer. A the profits from its sale. a painted shoulder bag and giant picture of a rose turned quite a few sculptures. When out to be made from clippings There were 6,733 entries to the I look at them they remind me about the holocaust. This was awards this year in 52 catego- of the talent inside prisons made by a group of men in ries as various as film and an- which is too often sadly wast- HMP Kirkham and called ‘The imation, design, poetry, painted. I’ll finish with a Platinum White Rose.’ ing, needlecraft, Spoken Word, winning poem, ‘Grandfather Hip-hop Rap and Grime, ce- Clock’ from HMP Bure. A delicate piece of craft I ramics and sculpture and, of You kept my heart under a stone brother, almost like it meant something. A thousand tiny fireflies in a jar brother, Southbank Centre in London. but changes to something unquiet spirits There is so much on display sharper when you see the on the tangled path from that a good guide makes glasses perched on the beak. childhood. Rachel Billington things much easier. Besides A lawyer, possibly? Nearby a he had all kind of information highly decorative trio of paint- I’ll fight you for the grandfather I would never have known ings made up of coloured spots clock When I entered this year’s without him. For example, the was painted by an Australian that stood sentry through our Koestler Awards exhibition I magical picture called Badger artist, Charles. He chose that sleepless nights. was faced by a massive grand- in Wonderland and, inciden- form because he was taught Brian pictured with his favourite painting, I matched you tick for tock father clock, then another tally, one of Benjamin’s fa- Aboriginal art in the 1970s on W.T.F. by Peter from HMP Dovegate then brother, clock, smaller it’s true, and vourites is made up of hun- which this style is based and swing for swing another and another finally, a dreds of pieces of paper, all it made him feel connected to Even as the minutes ate the admired was made up of a course matchsticks. Over a cuckoo clock. So when I found torn by hand because Niki, the his homeland. silence. Benjamin Zephaniah, the cu- artist from the then extant group of swans, each one third of all entrants receive an being created of a thousand award and top winners get rator, poet and ex-prisoner I Holloway Prison, was forbid- My guide, Brian, has been out Under cover of covers we pieces of paper. Called ‘Swan cash, up to £100 for Platinum asked him what is was with den the use of scissors. She of prison for a year now, and listened, Lake’ it was made by Andreas Awards. Sadly, I only have him and clocks. It was a stupid might be consoled to think spends more time as a painter to the poltergeist smash the at HMP Standford Hill. Not far space to mention a few more question, of course. Time is that Matisse also tore by hand and decorator than on the fine plates away a very unromantic series here: the touching painting everything in prison - mainly all his famous collage pictures. arts but still has time to do to father slamming the door, of watercolour and gouache called ‘Mother Love’ by Keron too much of it. Benjamin is some work for himself, includ- and to the tearful ghost paintings, ‘Cell Portrait 1 11 at Derbyshire Probation acutely aware of this. In his Some paintings combine pro- ing a fabulous tattoo on his creeping up the stairs to bed. introduction to the show, he fessional skill and a witty view arm celebrating his love for his and 111 depicted the artist, Service, painted from a pho- writes, ‘I was in prison myself of the subject. The watercolour wife. The exhibition pictures Paul, in his cell. Perhaps the tograph of his mother when in the 1970s and there was no ‘Vulture’ from HMP Wayland were generally less cheerful, most entertaining was the first young; ‘Comfort’ by Michael, Next page: Benjamin way you could express your- is arresting enough anyway although ‘Poppies Together’ which shows Paul at his work- a picture of two loving Zephaniah ‘art from the heart’ self. I felt like a creative being out. Two very different but but there was nothing there to equally ambitious pieces of do. I express myself through work were the elaborate words and here I am surround- ‘Dante’s Fireplace’ made ened by people who express tirely out of soap by Tom at themselves in matchsticks, HMP Peterborough and a papier-mache, painting. Every small working lock made out bit of artwork in the exhibition of matchsticks. Apparently, has meaning, everything is Christopher, its creator was relevant to the person who’s bet he couldn’t do it by an of- created it.’ The name Benjamin ficer and proved him wrong, chose for his show is ‘We are borrowing the spring from a all human.’ biro. Another surprise was called ‘My Village’ from HMP That prison-made grandfather Dartmoor and was done en- clock is, almost incredibly, tirely in braille. constructed of matchsticks, thousands of them, and it One of the most moving and keeps perfect time, the same impressive larger entries time as outside prison. Peering shows a man hunched in the into the casing I just made out corner of his cell with a scrum- two faces, matchstick images pled piece of paper on the of Mark, the creator and his floor, probably a ‘Dear John.’ fellow worker. Inside Time, I It’s called W.T.F. - no prizes thought to myself. I had been for guessing what that means encouraged to look closer by - and was painted by Peter at Brian, one of the ex-prisoners HMP Dovegate. It was Brian’s who was escorting guests favourite so I photographed around the Spirit Level at the him against it. Another mag- Royal Festival Hall, the Badger in Wonderland nificent painting, rather like a Comfort by Michael 30 Comment // Inside Art www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016 We are all human Dub poetry superstar Benjamin Zephaniah curates this year’s annual Koestler Exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre. He tells Inside Time why he agreed to do it

and all that there’s plenty of proper qualified people who could do that. If they don’t give me a good answer I usually walk away. But when I was asked to do this a few years ago they said, look, we need a poet, we need somebody with your experience. I said I’m not an expert in art, and they said, “That’s great!” I said I’ll do it in 2016 thinking 2016 was way in the future. Then I got a letter saying, now its your turn Benjamin. Benjamin Zephaniah A couple of

Prison is a concrete jungle so times people pulled I wanted to get as much nature me to one corner into the exhibition as possible. We are all human - it’s a real- and said words to ly simple truth. What has been the effect of, ‘no really amazing is that so many people who have visited the disrespect to previ- exhibition have commented ous curators, but on the fact that there is so Alice in Wonderland Ashworth High Secure Hospital - Gold Award for Digital Art much colour, saying it’s so this one looks like different, there’s so much Sun Rise London CRC Probation Service - Monument Trust Scholarship 2014 and Bronze Award for Painting hope. There were so many it was done by a saying the same sort of things former prisoner’ I was starting to wonder if it was a set-up, had they rehearsed this? A couple of So I did it. And I did it because, times people pulled me to one well people kind of trusted me corner and said words to the and I thought I could maybe effect of, “no disrespect to bring something new. One of previous curators, but this one the things that’s strange for looks like it was done by a me is that it’s usually all about former prisoner.” They said my art - it’s my poetry. I can they could see the empathy in say what goes on the cover of it. And it must be real, but I my books. I can approve or can’t see it. I just wanted to do disapprove of what happens the best exhibition I could. I to my work. With this exhibi- didn’t want to do an exhibition its other peoples’ work. I tion that was obviously from really feel like I’ve been hold- prisoners. I just wanted to do ing their babies, dressing their a good exhibition - full stop. babies and putting them on display. This is art from the I’ve always known about the heart. Koestler Trust. I opened an exhibition once a few years The exhibition entitled We ago and actually bought a are all human is on at the lovely piece. The thing with Southbank’s Spirit Level me is, I just think, I’m an from 15th September - ex-borstal boy street poet, and 13th November 2016 so if anyone comes to me and asks me to get involved in Dr Benjamin Zephaniah is a something that’s not poetry former prisoner. He is or music I go, “well what the Professor of Poetry and hell do you want me for?” Creative Writing at Brunel When you’ve got people who University. His album, have gone to university who Revolution, will be released Brandi Broadmoor Hospital - Bronze Award for Sculpture Evolution HM Prison Shotts Pierce Brunt - Highly Commended Award for Painting have studied curating and art in spring 2017. Insidetime October 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment // Inside Art 31

Red Fish Northgate Hospital - Clara Alman Platinum Award for Watercolour

Sun Rise London CRC Probation Service - Monument Trust Scholarship 2014 and Bronze Award for Painting

Surreal Ginger Tom HM Prison Lewes - Carmina Commended Award for Sculpture

Evolution HM Prison Shotts Pierce Brunt - Highly Commended Award for Painting Fruits of my Labour HM Prison Grendon - Transformation Commended Award for Sculpture 32 Comment // Black History Month www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016 What do the Metropolitan Police, enslaved Scotsmen and Usain Bolt have in common? All have roots in the West Indies

To help celebrate Black History Languages of the Caribbean There are six official languages spoken in the Month, in collaboration with The West Caribbean: English, Spanish, French, Dutch, Haitian Creole and Papiamento, a unique lan- India Committee’s Blondell Cluff, guage derived from African and Portuguese Inside Time highlights ten top facts with elements of Native American, English, Dutch and Spanish. English is the most com- about the West Indies. We also monly used, due to the booming tourist indus- reproduce an 1864 letter from freed try throughout the Caribbean, but the variety of languages is a testament to a complex and slave Jordan Anderson to his former cosmopolitan history. There are at least a fur- master Colonel PH Anderson. Black ther seventeen distinct languages across the West Indies, some of which are spoken by History Month began in America in native inhabitants, but there are concerns that 1928, but today it is a celebration of some of these dialects are now in danger of extinction. Black History in many countries around the world. It was introduced

into the United Kingdom by the 20% of Jamaicans are descended from Scottish clansmen Greater London Council (GLC) in 1987 The first wave of foreign slaves to arrive in Jamaica were Scottish, Irish and Welsh indentured convicts. Many Scots were also sent to Jamaica as prisoners and is celebrated every October. of war during the mid-seventeenth century, and these were later supplemented by a second intensive wave of Scottish immigration during the 1700s. By 1750, a third of the white Jamaican population were reputed to have been Scottish. The names of many Jamaicans are rooted in Scottish ancestry, often meaning that these families are eligible to be recognised by Scotland’s multitude of clans, each of which has its own distinctive tartan. In 2012 Jamaica was granted an © Fotolia.com official tartan by the Scottish government. Highest density of Nobel Prize winners in the world St Lucia has the highest density of Nobel Prize winners per capita in the world. Although the nation has just two Nobel laureates, its small population of less than 200,000 makes this possible. In fact, the Nobel Prize density of plucky St Lucia is over five times greater than the UK, and eleven times that of the USA. St Lucia’s Nobel Prize winners are - Sir William Arthur Lewis, who won the 1979 prize in Economic Sciences, and the Hon. Derek Alton Walcott, who won the 1992 prize for Literature.

West Indians are the forefathers of the Metropolitan Police The oldest continually serving modern police force was established in London by the West India Committee. The magistrate, Patrick Colquhoun, approached West Indian planters and merchant organisations to fund a protection force of several dozen men to guard their precious imports of sugar, rum and The world’s shortest commercial runway tobacco. Officially established in 1798, the Marine Police Force The world’s smallest commercial runway is located in the prevented criminals from looting ships docked on the Thames Netherlands Antilles. The Saba runway measures a length of and opened the world’s first police station in Wapping, London, 1,300 feet, the length of four football pitches, making it almost still in use today. The government later passed the Marine Police 14 times smaller than the world’s largest runway, which is Bill in 1800, which converted the force from a private to a pub- located in China. While it may be alarming to see that there is lic institution. The Marine Police later merged with the new- ocean at either end of the Saba runway, there have been no ly-formed ‘Peelers’ creating the Metropolitan Police Force. accidents recorded at this tiny airstrip, although the approach, Making the West India Committee one of the forefathers of the which involves flying headlong towards a mountain, may have London Bobby. caused many a personal accident.

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‘Carib’-bean The name Caribbean is derived from the indig- “Letter from a freedman to his old master” enous people known as Caribs. The ancestral home of the Caribs is on the north coast of the In 1825, at the age of eight, Jordon Anderson was sold into slavery and would live as South American continent within the Amazon a servant of the Anderson family for 39 years. In 1864, the Union Army camped out basin, though various other indigenous groups on the Anderson plantation and he and his wife, Amanda, were liberated. The cou- also spread throughout the islands of the ple eventually made it safely to Dayton, Ohio when, in July 1865, Jordan received a Caribbean including the Arawaks and letter from his former owner, Colonel PH Anderson. The letter kindly asked Jordan Lucayans. These native people suffered from to return to work on the plantation because it had fallen into disarray during the war. the arrival of Europeans, who brought disease. On August 7, 1865, Jordon dictated his response through his new boss, Valentine Winters, and it was published in the Cincinnati Commercial. The letter entitled “Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master” was not only hilarious, but it showed compassion, defiance and dignity. That year, the the letter would be republished in the New York Daily Tribune and Lydia Marie Child’s The Freedman’s Book.

doing tolerably well here. I the interest for the time our get twenty-five dollars a wages have been kept back, month, with victuals and and deduct what you paid for ‘West Indies’ clothing; have a comfortable our clothing, and three doc- There is considerable confu- home for Mandy - the folks tor’s visits to me, and pulling sion concerning the origin of call her Mrs Anderson - and a tooth for Mandy, and the bal- the name ‘West Indies’. the children - Milly, Jane, ance will show what we are in Christopher Columbus was and Grundy - go to school justice entitled to. Please send searching for a route to India The invention of rum and are learning well. The the money by Adams’s Express, when he struck upon the Rum was first produced in the seventeenth century and it is teacher says Grundy has a in care of V. Winters, Esq., Caribbean, and believed he thought to have been discovered by slaves who found that the head for a preacher. They go Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay had discovered the east- spirit could be made from molasses, the by-product of sugar to Sunday school, and us for faithful labors in the ern-most regions of India. cane production. A massive export trade of the drink soon Mandy and me attend past, we can have little faith in Once the mistake was eventu- developed in the New World, and the first rum distillery in the ally discovered the name Dayton, Ohio, church regularly. We are your promises in the future. American colonies was established in 1664, on what is now ‘West Indies’ was chosen to August 7, 1865 kindly treated. Sometimes We trust the good Maker has Staten Island. Rum was favoured by pirates and the navy, as it differentiate the Caribbean To My Old Master, Colonel we overhear others saying, opened your eyes to the wrongs contained citric acid that counteracted scurvy. from its Asian counterpart. PH Anderson, Big Spring, “Them colored people were which you and your fathers Tennessee slaves” down in Tennessee. have done to me and my The children feel hurt when fathers, in making us toil for Sir: I got your letter, and was they hear such remarks; but you for generations without glad to find that you had not I tell them it was no disgrace recompense. Here I draw my forgotten Jordon, and that in Tennessee to belong to wages every Saturday night; you wanted me to come back Colonel Anderson. Many but in Tennessee there was and live with you again, darkeys would have been never any pay-day for the promising to do better for proud, as I used to be, to call negroes any more than for the The Holy Piby and me than anybody else can. you master. Now if you will horses and cows. Surely there Rastafarianism write and say what wages will be a day of reckoning for Robert Athyli Rogers, author I have often felt uneasy of the Holy Piby, one of the about you. I thought the you will give me, I will be those who defraud the laborer founding texts of the Rastafari Yankees would have hung better able to decide wheth- of his hire. movement, was born in you long before this, for har- er it would be to my advan- The fastest people in the world Anguilla. The Holy Piby was boring Rebs they found at tage to move back again. In answering this letter, please Once every four years, the Olympics again demonstrate the published in 1924, and your house. I suppose they state if there would be any safe- dominance of Jamaican sprinters. The Jamaican superstar espoused a world view that never heard about your As to my freedom, which ty for my Milly and Jane, who Usain Bolt still holds the 100m all-time record at 9.58 seconds, saw Africans as the chosen going to Colonel Martin’s to you say I can have, there is are now grown up, and both and five of the top ten fastest 100m sprinters are Jamaican: kill the Union soldier that nothing to be gained on that good-looking girls. You know Yohan Blake ranks third, ahead of Asafa Powell with respective children of God. Little is was left by his company in score, as I got my free papers how it was with poor Matilda times of 9.69 and 9.72 seconds. Below Powell in the rankings, known of Rogers himself, at fifth fastest, is another Jamaican, Nester Carter, while Steve besides the fact that he wrote their stable. Although you in 1864 from the Provost- and Catherine. I would rather Mullings comes in at eighth. Given the young talent developing the Holy Piby, travelled to the shot at me twice before I left Marshal-General of the stay here and starve - and die, in Jamaica, it seems unlikely this supremacy of the prestige USA to spread his message you, I did not want to hear Department of Nashville. if it come to that - than have athletic event will falter any time soon. and took his own life in 1931. of your being hurt, and am Mandy says she would be my girls brought to shame by glad you are still living. It afraid to go back without the violence and wickedness All facts taken from 100 Things You Didn’t Know About the Caribbean, by The West India Committee. would do me good to go back some proof that you were of their young masters. 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“I have also staffed four weekend trainings Inside Time report with A Band of Brothers and it’s been really satisfying putting older men through their “There are no shortcuts in life,” says Ken Hinds, Banding together paces so that they can become great men- chair of the London borough of Haringey’s Stop tors for more young men like me.” Lucas and Search monitoring group and a leading mentor with A Band of Brothers, the Haringey That there is a need for organisations like A branch of the community support charity. Band of Brothers is beyond dispute. Men “That’s what I tell the young men who join us,” account for eight out of 10 people cautioned by he adds. “I’ve been there. I know what I’m the police, and nearly nine out of 10 people talking about and they listen.” found guilty of indictable offences. Men are responsible for 97% of burglary and 92% of Hinds was born in Trinidad and came to the violence against the person. Two thirds of all UK with his parents when he was five years-old. male offenders are in their 20s: the majority of Brought up and schooled in Tottenham, he says the prisoner population of England and Wales he, “went off the rails” at 15 after his father are men under the age of 30. Despair is also a died. “My father was a strong disciplinarian. big factor for young men - the second most When he died I had no respect for any man in common cause of death among men under 35 authority. I became a rebel. I started off with is suicide. The results achieved by the Band of petty stuff and then progressed to armed rob- Brothers is impressive. Reoffending is down beries and a wages snatch. I got caught aged by 80 per cent; employment up by 80 per cent 18 and was sent to prison for five years. In pris- Ken Hinds - “we help our - and one hundred per cent of those who get on I became what they called ‘a control prob- young men to become the involved say it is worthwhile. lem.’ They kept me in isolation for long periods. men they want to be” Whenever I was let into the main population “I am now nine months into my three year there were riots. I wasn’t a leader, but I spoke apprenticeship and on track to becoming a up whenever there were protests to explain why Co-ordinator mentor with the charity ’A Band of fully fledged technician. I start work at 8.30am the protests were being held. Of course then Brothers’ Ken Hinds tells Inside Time how older and finish at 5.30pm. It’s my dream job the officers would shout, ‘Ah, ringleader!’ In and I feel so lucky to be doing something the end, the good thing about it was that I got men in his community are helping disenfran- that I’m genuinely passionate about”. Bilal the respect of people in the jails, even the serious characters. It cost me a lot of my remission chised youths to build more fulfilling lives Initiation to the Band of Brothers takes place and parole, but the fact is I didn’t care. I came on weekend outings, in forests, on mountains, as Hinds says, “camping.” This is known as out after nearly serving the whole five years men in London. “My purpose then was to try would not have gone. But I went. I’ve been the Quest. During the Quest the young men with a massive attitude problem and new crim- and stop the violence and preserve the lives of doing it for more than two years now, and I still must pledge to keep their word, not to take inal skills that I learned in prison. Twelve the young people involved in gang violence,” don’t like camping. But I still go because of the criticism personally, to make no assumptions months later I was back inside. I thought I was he says. “It was just so tragic seeing young men magic that happens. The first thing that hap- and always to do their honourable best. cool. I wanted to be good at what I did, but I getting sentenced to minimum terms of 30 or pens is that you recognise that we all have Physical and emotional challenges are set and kept getting caught. Criminal activity acts like 40 years - I mean minimum - sometimes they emotional triggers. We all have issues that are new life narratives formed in open and honest a cancer, it just grows.” hadn’t even killed anyone, they’d just been in buried deep within us that drive us, drive our group discussions. Once initiated, the mentors the gang when somebody was shot. If I’m hon- behaviour, stopping us from becoming the man are there whenever needed and run weekly “I also recommended A Band of Brothers to est, I see myself as being part of the problem we want to be. What the Band of Brothers does support sessions known as the Circle. In my younger brother and, 2 years on, he’s back in the day. But now I’m one of those peo- is guide you through the process. All the men- Haringey the Circle takes place every Tuesday just completed his training with them as ple who managed to turn my life around and tors have been through it. It’s about balancing evening. “Today we have more than fifty in our well. It’s great to know there’s a project out I want to help others, a lot younger than me, your life and being the best you can. What I Band of Brothers,” says Hinds. “Some have crim- there for men of all different ages and that to turn their lives around before it’s too late. love about the Band of Brothers is that it is inal pasts, some haven’t. But all are welcome.” me and my brother can stay involved for as I’m still a ‘work in progress’. Most of us are. exactly that - a band of brothers. The young long as we want.” Tony But my involvement with A Band of Brothers men we mentor have been in jail, they’re on helps me as much as it helps the young men probation, they’ve got serious issues. We help For more information see Hinds, now in his fifties, got involved in the we mentor.” them to become the men they want to be.” www.abandofbrothers.org.uk music and film business for a number of years and enjoyed the high-life, travelling the world, Founded in Brighton seven years ago, A Band driving high powered cars and mixing with of Brothers now also has branches in Crawley major players in the business, including well- and Eastbourne. The Haringey group is the simon bethel known rock stars. But criminal activity in that latest cohort and has been going for almost business also brought its own pitfalls and he four years. It was just over two years ago that was lucky to get out relatively unscathed. 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what imprisonment ‘should against their will? Where men be for’, but was closed as a and women have been brutal- public prison in 1910, owing ised, and even had their lives to a declining prison popula- ended, by state-sanctioned I think it is tion. Kilmainham was then officials? handed over to the British this second Army as a military jail. Now, there has been a spark of recent criminological inter- version which In 1916, the Gaol experienced est in this sort of ‘dark tour- represents the its darkest hours: the Easter ism’, where places of pain and The Secret Uprising, where Irish men and punishment are turned into ‘darker’ end of women committed to inde- ‘places of interest’ (often with prison tourism. Criminologist pendence from Great Britain a café and the ubiquitous gift attempted to establish a shop). And I have heard col- That is, it is not Injecting a large measure non-English government in leagues speak about it with a the location of humanity into the Ireland. Following the re-es- snobbish disdain - a sense of criminological tablishment of British control, disgust at people who ‘do that itself but the perspective fourteen men identified as sort of thing’. values which leaders of the Uprising were brought to Kilmainham to be But I think that what they are underpin its Prison tourism, executed by firing squads in blind to, in their rush to judge the Stonebreakers’ Yard. -and what my brother’s com- use that shedding light ments have led me to conclude count into dark places The Gaol received its official - is that there are two types of Closing Order from the ‘prison tourism’. Recently, my brother returned Minister for Justice of the Irish from a short stay in Northern Free State in 1929, and fell into The first is the sort of experi- Ireland and was keen to tell disrepair and abandonment ence Kilmainham Gaol during the execution because former floating Dutch prison. underpin its use that count. me about how he and his part- until the 1960s, when - in an- Museum provides - one that he could not stand for the fir- Like Malmaison in Oxford Where the goals are primarily ner had spent a fascinating ticipation of the 50th anniver- offers knowledge, encourages ing squad - really caused him (another re-purposed prison), financial, and where educa- afternoon visiting Kilmainham sary of the Easter Uprising - a learning, and challenges gen- to question more critically guests at the ‘Good Hotel’ will tion is an after-thought, this Gaol Museum in Dublin. group of individuals (includ- eral perceptions about pun- how those with the power to pay for the pleasure (and I use fails to respect the lives that ing veterans of that conflict) ishment. One that offers an do so punish. Perhaps more this word ironically) of spend- have previously inhabited that Kilmainham, he told me, first intervened. Their aim was to insight into the lived experi- importantly, it caused him to ing the night in a former pris- space. opened in 1796 as the new ‘save Kilmainham Jail from ence of people in prison across question why - to ask to what on cell. The article continued County Gaol for the city. This the ravages of time’, and es- the ages, and is critical about end the British Army made that while “getting sent to jail But where the driving ethos is was a time when ‘imprisonment’ tablish it as a ‘historical mu- the (many) problems of using such a spectacle of executing doesn’t exactly sound like the educative, and the focus is on as a punishment in its own seum’; the prison would be- imprisonment as our default a man who was already clearly most relaxing holiday, that’s helping the general public to right was still an idea in its come a monument to those who method of punishment. As dying. exactly the premise behind better understand the reality infancy. Like most jails of the died for Irish independence. someone who is committed to Good Hotel”. At that point, I of prison life - that it is far from day, Kilmainham at the turn this endeavour to the core, I The second type of ‘prison calmly deposited the maga- the ‘PlayStations and parties’ of the 19th century was a dark No doubt to the individual would challenge the notion tourism’ is captured neatly in zine into my recycling bin (if perception that many errone- and disorderly place. Men, currently in prison, the con- that this is ‘dark’ tourism - cer- a magazine article I read re- the toilet had been closer, it ously hold - and challenge women and children were held cept of willingly visiting a tainly, it shone a light on my cently which celebrated the would have gone down there). common-sense assumptions together. Disease was rife. closed prison as a leisure pur- brother’s attitudes towards arrival of the new ‘Good Hotel’ about how and why we pun- suit might seem bizarre. prison and the people within - a “swanky” property (direct And I think it is this second ish, then that to me seems During the 1800s, the Gaol Macabre, even. I mean, what them. In particular, the story quote, readers) which will version which represents the only a move towards the light. was renovated and rede- sort of person pays to get into of James Connolly - so badly take up its permanent resi- ‘darker’ end of prison tourism. signed, in line with Victorian- a place where thousands of wounded during the fighting dence moored on The Thames That is, it is not the location era views and values about others have been incarcerated that he had to be tied to a chair in London, and which is… a itself but the values which The Secret Criminologist

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Let us be realistic about employment opportunities post-release. It is not going to be easy The Hub and it may take some time, but on a positive The Careers Lady your questions answered note, it can be done. The Prison Service and some other agencies do try to offer help with interviews and disclosure letters, but in reality, The first step through the door they are not fit for purpose and do not reflect Opportunities what actually happens in real life. to your future My advice would be to get as many qualifica- post-release tions as you can while in prison. Yes, it may be the whole process. If more than boring, but in the long-term it offers more Grant Stanley - HMP Whatton one person is interviewing you opportunities for you post-release than not you can still do this as they bothering at all. Good luck. It is great that Inside Time is offering advice may ask you questions in turn. and guidance for post-release offenders, but I Try to smile even if you are The Careers Lady Writes nervous. This shows you are would like to interject with some reality on the matters detailed in the June issue. After friendly and will also show It is encouraging to know that there are people spending many years recruiting, interviewing how you are able to work with like yourself prepared to offer help and advice to COMPENSATION FOR and employing a variety of people I can offer a other people; fellow prisoners. number of helpful and useful tips for those seeking employment post-release. VICTIMS OF CHILD 3.A It isB easyU toS thinkE that em- I do try and think of a range of scenarios that ployers are used to interview- may affect prisoners before and upon release The Careers Lady advises us to update our Helping victims plan for the future and aingch people.ieve jTheyust imayce also be - whether they will need financial help or not. CV’s, but she does not give any advice on how Our specialist team are committed to helping victims of abuslightlyse and nervousare expe aboutrts in meeting I have again spoken with Job Centre Plus to © Fotolia.com and carrying out a fair inter- or what to update it with. My advice would be bringing action against local authorities, such as social services, and residential clarify the situation regarding prisoners with no view. Offering a firm hand- to add an additional line to the ‘Education’ institutions, such as children’s homes. permanent address. The Job Centre Plus adviser shake will help in making sure section, listing all of the qualifications you I spoke to has confirmed that a prisoner can use CreatingOur dedica tead tegoodam of male impressionand female lawyers have a proyourven employertrack reco alsord w feelsith at ease have achieved during your stay at Her their local Job Centre office as a ‘C/O’ address as Almost all employers admit to clothes, your interviewer will and the interview will start on Majesty’s Pleasure. Do not lie, but at the same sexual, physical and emotional abuse claims. a temporary measure. However any post the fact that they form an im- not be impressed if you do not a more relaxed footing; time do not leave any employment gaps in your Child abuse can take a long time to come to terms with and it can be difficult for addressed to that prisoner will obviously go to pression of a candidate within dress as cleanly and smartly as CV. Potential employers will pick up on these victims to speak out about their traumatic experiences. Regardless of how long ago the designated office so applicants must go in the first40 SECONDS. you can. 4. Wait to be asked to sit down. gaps and it may lead to unnecessary ques- on a regular basis to make sure they do not miss the abuse took place, you may still be able to maBeingke a c over-confidentlaim. can be as tions, that may be awkward. appointments. So what Acannyt hyouing do?you say to us wiIfll bfundse han dareled limited with the and utm oyoust l evemuchls of p rofof eanss iissueonalis form, your in- do not have appropriate terviewer as being shy. You The article also makes the assumption that we sensitivity and understanding. Regarding claiming JSA, the prison may be able 1. Consider what you wear to clothes, then consider looking may be asked if you would like were all in receipt of benefits prior to coming Child abuse claims are often eligible for pubic funding and Jordans are recognised by to set up a ‘Simple Payment’ method before the interview in Charity Shops. They often a drink of water/coffee or tea. to prison. A bit presumptuous. It also states My advice would be to refuse. release whereby the claimant will be given a 2. Maket heyee l econtactgal ser vandices smile comm isshaveion a sa o rangene of t hofe fecheapw spe cbutialis t providers of legal aid for that if you are living rough, you can still claim If you are nervous you don’t number by text in the first instance but will need 3. Shake hands nearly-newthis type o clothesf work i nthat the would UK. Income Support. This is absolutely NOT TRUE. want to worry about spilling a to give a permanent address of a family 4. Wait to be asked to sit down. be suitable to wear without You must have an address, whether this is a drink on yourself or knocking member or friend for regular claims. This will costing much money; hostel or with a friend or family. The same 1. No matter what the job is it over during the interview. also apply for a Bank account or a Post office applies for a bank account. You cannot obtain that you are applying for it is 2. Making eye contact with account. However if a prisoner had one of these a bank account without a current address. essential that you think about your interviewer shows you 40 SECONDS may not seem accounts previous to going into prison their what you wear on the day of have confidence and respect very long but it can create, not account may still be open. Call Christine Sands and the team on 01924 868911 When applying for any job, it is important to the interview. 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I spoke to some of the other lads, the find out what motivates them, you more I realised how empathetic I was explore it with them and then follow about the plight of some of them. I it up. What I’m telling you now isn’t had so much energy and thought I anything imaginative - it’s just com- should use it in a positive way, which mon sense. In jail the thing you need is why I decided to apply for the job the most is a prospect of hope. If you of Distance Learning Orderly. That have goals, why would you do drugs? sort of job is normally given to the If you have something to lose, why ‘safe’ people, who haven’t come from would you commit more crime? Just the same social situation as I did - I accessing education gives you a was very lucky to get it considering sense of pride and justice - you feel my past behaviour in prison, and it as though someone has given you a hit at exactly the right time. chance.

I worked at encouraging people to Prison should be a place where peo- learn, giving them reasons to do it ple feel safe, so it can be a place of and telling them they were capable, learning and rehabilitation. At the basically. I designed a poster that moment it’s none of these things. was put up around the wings, produced leaflets showing an overview I came out of prison three months of the courses that were available, ago. When I first left I didn’t have a devised planners to help students job, I was living in a hostel. But I had manage study time, and put togeth- a business plan I’d been working on er end of month reviews for the staff for a while - to buy second-hand to use. I would link people up, mak- HGVs (Heavy Goods Vehicles), recon- ing sure kitchen staff knew they dition and sell the parts. I received could do a qualification in catering, a grant from PET that got me up and for example. I was literally dragging running with a laptop and printer. ‘Education gives you a the blokes out of bed; slapping the Now I’ve received a further loan and drugs out of their hands. I became training from the Princes’ Trust and quite notorious! am applying for a bank loan. I’ve also found paid work, which means I sense of pride and justice’ There’s a serious lack of resources in could move out of the hostel. It’s prison, and I’m not just talking going to be hard but it’s a fresh start access to computers or the internet, and I’m full steam ahead with the Former prisoner Ben highlights the importance of education but access to pens, pencils, enve- business idea. lopes. Vulnerable inmates wouldn’t I’m 30 now, and I’ve been in prison Education Trust (PET). be able to take part in education Making change to your life comes down twice. The first time, I was only 21 because they couldn’t leave their to opportunity. That’s what I enjoyed when I went in and I was still very, I loved the experience of distance cells, but staff wouldn’t give them about working with PET, because I come from a very difficult very angry, I used crime in prison learning. It made me feel like I wasn’t pen or paper to work independently. they give opportunity; they background. My mother was and I saw a lot of violence. Needless in prison anymore. You know how I would try to get on to wings to deliv- don’t ask for anything. depressed and she couldn’t really to say I didn’t take education very sometimes you walk into a library and er materials and staff would try and work, and the police were after me seriously. But my second time in pris- you feel a change of atmosphere? It’s stop me. So I’d have to explain how for nicking food when I was young. on was different. I was older, I had almost like that in your own cell. important education was, how it Since leaving custody Ben has joined I was incredibly angry as a teenager been working, and going in again Suddenly you’re interested, you’re reduces violence and mental health PET’s Alumni network, and has spo- and a young man, I used violence was a shock. Early on I saw someone engaged, you’re using your brain, issues and how fundamental it was ken on behalf of PET, sharing his per- and did a lot of horrible things I’m commit suicide, and that changed you’re talking to a tutor. All of those to our rehabilitation. sonal experiences and helping to raise not happy about. Most of my friends me. I started thinking seriously about things are extremely positive and self understanding of the value of edu- were in similar situations - drug tak- what I was going to do when I got motivating. It transforms you. What encouraged me to continue my cation in prison. If you’re interested ing and selling drugs was normal- out, and started to think about my work was the difference I saw edu- in getting involved with PET after ised, it was just what you did. When business plan. I found out about dis- When I got in to prison, no one was cation make to myself and to other release please write to Katy I think back, we were trying to suc- tance learning, and applied to do AS facilitating the distance learning pro- people around me. If you want some- Oglethorpe at FREEPOST Prisoners’ ceed in the circumstances given. Level Business with Prisoners’ cess and helping students. The more one to make a change you try and Education Trust.

employers at home and only increased after travelling than the one I currently reside abroad, it is a great way to get to Brazil. in; it will give me hope.” immersed in new cultures. Speaking another language “It’s a personal goal to be able Please note: Due to govern- helps to break down barriers, to communicate in the same ment regulations, PET may not and it can give an added ad- dialect as the friends I made be able to fund certain lan- vantage if you want to work there,” he wrote. “In prison I guage courses for prisoners for a company with interna- can engage fully with picking with convictions related to tional customers.” up a language - I’m sure it will trafficking or terrorism. take a lot of focus and spare Course The applications PET receives time thus making a negative Job avenues: Tourism & hos- are broadly split between experience positive.” pitality, government, politics, those who believe grasping a media, publishing, and Notes language will translate into Although it’s easiest to start journalism. job opportunities, and those learning a language as a child, PET provides funding who want to learn simply for one application, from 65-year- for over 300 types of pleasure. One applicant hoped old Tony, shows it’s never too learning Arabic would help late to try. Tony, who wrote to distance-learning Modern Languages A full PET curriculum is him to expand his family’s apply for a German course, courses. Every month Voulez-vous apprendre le and A Level, while languages available from each prison’s Asian wedding planning busi- had served time in the military français? Hoe zit het including Arabic, Chinese, education department. If you we shine a spotlight ness. Another wanted to learn in Germany as a young man Nederlands? Dutch, Russian and Turkish, would like advice or funding on one of them. Spanish so he could join his and had kept many German are available using a CD and to study a distance learning expat mother and step-father friends. “To me German is a Every year PET receives doz- workbook. course or tell us about your after being released from pris- beautiful language,” he wrote. ens of application letters from experiences of prison on. An applicant from Brixton “Allowing me this education people who want to use their “Learning a language can education write to FREEPOST prison wrote that he had al- will mean more to me than just time in prison to discover a have many benefits,” says Prisoners’ Education Trust ways had an interest in learning a language. It will new language. PET funds PET’s Advice Manager John (PET) or call 0203 752 5680. Hispanic languages, which open me up to a larger world French and Spanish at GCSE Lister. “As well as impressing 40 Information www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016

indeed just going hungry. This Regarding contamination of Regarding meal times, which echoes some of the reports we special diets, it states that ‘it people often report as being have had from prisoners in is essential that special diets too early, the manual states which vegan prisoners were are not contaminated, even that they should reflect those given meat and other animal briefly, by other menu items’, within the community and products by mistake on and that ‘the servery layout that there should be a mini- numerous occasions, and oth- must be carefully considered mum of 4.5 hours between the ers were being served using to avoid contamination and beginning of lunch service containers or equipment con- separate identifiable serving and the beginning of evening taminated with non vegetari- utensils must be used for spe- meal service. In addition pris- an or non vegan meals. This cial diets’. These expectations oners should be provided with can result in a real distrust of might seem quite straightfor- the facilities and commodities catering services and a reluc- ward but we are sometimes to enable them to prepare a tance to eat the food provided. disappointed and somewhat minimum of 4 hot drinks a day. We therefore thought it would surprised to hear of catering be useful to point readers services which have struggled It is important to recognise towards the most relevant to do this on a regular basis. that many prisons demon- guidance on this subject. strate good practice when it comes to catering, and HMIP The Catering Operating Another common complaint reported many establishments © prisonimage.org Manual, which is Annex B of is cold food as a result of too are ‘making commendable PSI 44/2010 Catering - Meals long between cooking and efforts with the resources mal specific nutritional values for Prisoners, clearly states the serving. The Catering Operating available’. They also found and the conditions under following: ‘It is a fundamental Manual states that all cooking some prisons providing serv- Food in Prison which food is eaten set out in requirement that prisoners should be carried out ‘as late er training courses to prison- a Prison Service Instruction, and members of staff are pro- as possible so as to ensure that ers and examples of kitchen and meal times that are the minimum amount of time PRISON Ryan Harman lished findings paper entitled vided with meals which meet staff working closely with REFORM Advice and Info Life in prison: Food. arranged to reflect what is an individual’s religious, cul- is given to possible food bac- relevant chaplains to devise TRUST Service Manager HMIP found that ‘too often the considered the norm in the tural and medical dietary terial growth before serving’. diet appropriate serving quantity and quality of the community. needs. It is further necessary The manual recognises that arrangements. This further in some establishments the demonstrates that it can be Complaints about food in pris- food available is insufficient that all prisoners are provided Mentioned briefly in the HMIP complexity of food distribu- done well and should be pos- on are all too common and are and the conditions in which with food commodities that it is served and eaten under- findings is the meeting of reli- are stored, prepared and tion can lead to time delays sible across all prisons. a regular subject of letters to gious, medical or ideological between cooking and serving Inside Time’s mailbag. When mine respect for prisoner’s served in an appropriate way. dietary requirements - a sub- but is clear that it is a legisla- You can contact the Prison issues like this become so dignity’. They pointed to low The menu choices and meal ject which we have had reports tive requirement that the time Reform Trust’s advice team at familiar there is a risk that food budgets as a major bar- provision must reflect the reli- of poor practice in from a few lapse between the completion FREEPOST ND6125 London they get glossed over and lose rier to improving food in pris- gious and cultural needs of people recently. HMIP par- of the cooking process and the EC1B 1PN. Our free informa- the attention they deserve. For ons, with some prisons daily the establishment’. ticularly refer to examples of commencement of service tion line is open Monday, this reason we welcome Her budget per person about a fifth cross contamination of Halal The manual goes on to give must not exceed 45 minutes. Tuesday and Thursday Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons of the average daily spend per food for Muslim prisoners guidelines on common dietary In addition, hot food must be 3.30-5.30. The number is (HMIP) shining the light on in-patient in hospitals. The which resulted in many opting requirements for a number of served ‘hot’ which means at a 0808 802 0060 and does not this subject in a recently pub- resulting recommendations to NOMS include having mini- for vegetarian food only or religious and medical diets. temperature above 63°C. need to be put on your pin.

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PSI 2013-030, Appendix I also says: “Restrictions on the Parole Board Update books which prisoners are allowed to have access to remains unchanged. The we will be piloting from now resulting in a fairer system. A Public Protection Manual sets until the end of March 2017: full review of the listings out the books that no prisoner framework will take place by can have access to and 1. We will work closer with April 2017. Governors can extend this list PPCS to make more eff ective if the nature of the particular use of the option of ‘executive 4. We are looking into the pos- prison’s population requires release’. Eligible cases will be sibility of using Ministry of it. In addition, Governors can considered for executive Justice video link rooms decide whether an individual release at an earlier stage of across the UK to host hearings prisoner should have a par- the parole process, before a for determinate sentence pris- ticular book, taking into case is directed to an oral oners. Currently, we can only Amazon NOT an account the prisoner’s off end- hearing. We hope this will host video link hearings at our ing behaviour.” The Parole Board has experi- reduce the number of cases London based office which enced an increase in the waiting in the queue for an limits our capacity. We hope approved supplier Since September 2015 there demand for oral hearings oral hearing date and allow that by creating regional hubs has no longer been a numeri- since the Osborn, Booth and prisoners to be released more across the UK, more cases can Following problems with suppliers, currently: cal limit on the number of Riley judgment handed down quickly. be heard more swiftly. This deliveries of books to prison- books which prisoners can in 2013. This has resulted in will also hopefully ensure ers from Amazon being reject- • Blackwell’s; have in their cells. The num- ed, we have been asked to • Foyles; ber of books permitted is sub- delays for a considerable num- 2. We are extending the cut prisoners with determinate clarify the situation regarding • Mr B’s Emporium of ject only to volumetric control ber of prisoners waiting for an off point for determinate cases sentences will not be disad- prisoners’ family and friends Reading Delights; oral hearing date. The listing limits on property. with an upcoming Sentence vantaged by the above pilots. sending books to prisoners • Waterstones; prioritisation framework, Expiry Date (SED). We current- following the update to PSI • WH Smith; All books received will be which was developed to help ly conclude cases directed to We are taking a flexible 2013-030 in January 2015 • Wordery searched before being passed us manage the increased vol- oral hearing if the SED is with- approach to these pilots and (Appendix I). to prisoners. ume of cases, currently prior- in 12 weeks’ time of the oral if any prisoners believes that Prisons WILL NOT accept itises recalled determinate hearing directions. This is they have exceptional circum- Books can be sent directly into books sent from Amazon and Prisoners will continue to be sentenced prisoners above because there is insuffi cient stances that warrant prioriti- you by a friend or family mem- these will be returned. If the allowed to order books most other prisoners when time to schedule an oral hear- sation of their case they can ber or can be handed in to staff book you want sent in is on through existing arrange- allocating oral hearing dates ing before a prisoner will be write to the Parole Board. on visits. You can get the book Amazon then you must have ments in place in prisons. from anywhere but it MUST be it delivered to your friend/ each month. Unfortunately, automatically released. This Such circumstances can posted in to you. If you wish family members address and this has resulted in the major- will now be extended to 24 include, but are not limited to, PSI 2013-030 is available to get the book sent directly then sent in to you (or handed ity of other prisoners experi- in all prison libraries or can weeks. medical/mental health issues from a supplier then that must it in to staff on a visit). encing much longer delays be downloaded from: and/or compassionate reasons only be one of the approved before their oral hearing date 3. We will change the listing for example. www.tinyurl.com/hr6j9vu is set. We recognise that we prioritisation framework so need to change our current that prisoners who have 12 If you believe you are aff ected approach in order to ensure months or less before their by one of the above pilots then fairness across the system. SED will no longer be priori- we strongly recommend you tised. 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semi-independent self-catering Joe Alcock - Time 1.30.23 and the 5Km Staff have joined in wholeheartedly Jubilee Project houses on the site. by Mr Chouhaib - Time 22.38. Quite in support, giving both time and Other home-made cakes and pastries a few of the prison civilian adminis- expertise to the organisation. Money were kindly donated by staff. These trative staff took part and their sup- raised from staff and prisoners were sold by the slice on the day with port was proof of how the Trust’s obtaining sponsorship and we are donations coming from prisoners’ ideals have captured the imagination awaiting the total amount as this is spends, ably facilitated by our enthu- of the camp. Most surprising was the written. The creation of the award siastic finance department. The event number of prisoners who took part, was the brainchild of Maria Dreina, was a tremendous success, raising it really was a whole camp event. Our a member of the community engage- over £370 during the morning. team motto was ‘Every Step Counts’ ment team. She has been an inspira- though our unofficial one ‘Prisoners tion to us all on this side of the fence Strangely enough, helping prisoners’ perhaps sums it throughout with her unflagging up just as well. enthusiasm, terrier-like tenacity to less of the ‘gym bunnies’ get things done and uncanny ability chose the marathon, Our final event is planned for to get what we needed out of the ‘sys- November. It is going to be a craft tem’. Some of our bright ideas proved opting instead for the fair, selling prisoners’ work to staff, impractical (barbeque anyone?) but visitors or other prisoners. Donations that is just a life lesson we can take © Fotolia.com 5Km run. Size or so far range from paintings and dec- forwards into the real world. stamina perhaps? orated poetry samplers to some stun- ning match sculptures. It is worthy Finally, we would like to give a big Raising cash, raising hope Our next event was a sponsored ½ of note that Camp residents have won thank you on behalf of the organising marathon/5k run/5k walk. We are 4 platinum awards at the Koestlers team to everyone who took part, lucky to have a working farm in the in the past 3 years. Again, we might helped, donated and enjoyed our Prisoners helping prisoners along the prison which has extensive land hold- be persuaded to put on coffee and years’ worth of events. There’s still ings and so we were able to set out a cakes due to the demand we had last one more to go, don’t forget! The road to success course which was a bit more interest- time. whole process has shown just what Alister Thompson over the past few years, we here at ing than the usual 2 ½ hours on a can be achieved in prison when both North Sea Camp decided to arrange treadmill or 60 laps of the football Throughout all these events, the aim sides work together, combine their pitch. Our problem was filling in the has been to raise as much as possible strengths and resources and get on The Hardman Trust is a charity that a series of events with the aim of mole holes and getting a tractor to for the Hardman Trust and to estab- with creating a better environment supports long-term prisoners. The creating the North Sea Camp award mow the course! The event was ably lish the North Sea Camp Award, for us all to live and work in. That’s Trust funds training and equipment to be administered by the Trust in organised by a team of both staff and something we are positive we will probably the biggest legacy that to help them as they return to the the future. This award would be to prisoners working together to achieve achieve. The other benefits have been working for the Hardman Trust, or outside world and through its award continue the Trust’s work by funding our goal. We obtained sponsorship incalculable though. Staff and pris- any charity, can give; a feeling of scheme the Trust celebrates the a prisoner to gain skills or provide from both inside and outside the prisoners have worked together - albeit inclusion in society outside prison efforts of prisoners who are working equipment to help them find reward- on. The three events made sure that as facilitators and grunt work in some and the warmth of helping others especially hard to get their lives on ing work on release. Studies have everyone could participate, from the cases! - to help others. Management whilst helping ourselves. track. The Trust’s intervention can shown that a stable job is the greatest super fit to the slightly more seden- has allowed us the autonomy to make all the difference to prisoners single aid to avoiding reoffending. tary. Strangely enough, less of the organise large scale events within who are starting out with nothing ‘gym bunnies’ chose the marathon, the camp, showing a high level of Alister Thompson is a proud resident except a desire to succeed and rein- We set ourselves the target of raising opting instead for the 5Km run. Size trust and belief in prisoners’ abilities. of HMP North Sea Camp tegrate with society. £1000 in a year of events. Our first was a coffee and cake morning, held or stamina perhaps? The entrants were a mixture of prisoners and staff With a number of our residents hav- in March, with cakes baked by some Is there a news story at your prison? and the ½ marathon was won by Mr ing benefited from the Trusts’ help of our number who live in the Write in and let us know. Please mark your envelope ‘Newsround’.

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Jane Ryan to gender identity. The use of segregation solely and Stuart Withers • Article 14 prohibits discrimi- on the grounds that a prisoner nation arising out of other rights. is trans is unlawful. Any decision to segregate must be Sarah Baker’s article In relation to healthcare, all justifi ed and proportionate. ‘Transgangsta Bites Back’ prisoners are entitled to the Bourgass v SSJ [2015] UKSC 15 (August issue) highlights se- same quality of care that they confi rmed that a prisoner has rious concerns about trans would expect to receive from a right to reasons and to submit prisoners living in their af- the NHS. For trans prisoners, representations in relation to firmed gender. Ms Baker’s this includes counselling, a decision to continue experiences and insight are pre-operative and post-oper- segregation. extremely important. In ative care and continued ac- © Fotolia.com January 2016 The House of cess to hormone treatment. 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A carefully argued propriate clothing, misin- treatment, allocation, and may also be able to bring legal case can signifi cantly reduce the number of days imposed, or even ensure formed or lied to about their searching rights relating to action and should seek legal the case is dismissed. Wells Burcombe’s specialist advocates understand rights and not given access to living in an affi rmed gender advice. The EA has exceptions adjudications and the adjudication process. Any prisoner can face an appropriate medical treat- identity. New guidance for for the provision of single or adjudication at any time during their sentence. We can help. ment.’ This article intends to searching trans prisoners is separate sex services (such as inform trans prisoners what due to come into force in October prisons) and as such it is im- their rights are and suggest 2016 (PSI 07/2016 ‘Searching portant to be advised. potential remedies. The vast majority of inmates qualify for free representation of the Person’). The MOJ has a duty to comply with these The Future What are your rights? policies although, as Ms Baker Prisoners should be aware that Common charges include: We can assist in getting cases The Equality Act 2010 ‘EA’ highlighted, some people are a review into PSI 7/2011 has dismissed because of: provides protection for people forced to fi ght for their rights. been concluded by the MoJ l Assaults against staff undergoing ‘gender-reassign- and a new policy is due to be l Assaults against inmates l Technicalities such as incorrect ment’ (an outdated term). If l In our view it is important that published. Regrettably neither Possession of mobile phones procedure followed or charges you are living or proposing to l Possession of mobile phone not laid in time trans prisoners are able to the review nor the new policy live as a trans person, you are has been published yet. It is accessories (usb, sim cards, chargers) l Paperwork not in order participate in decision-making l l protected by the EA. You do hoped that the new policy will Possession of other unauthorised Unavailability of witnesses concerning themselves. The l not need a gender recognition address some signifi cant prob- articles Wrong charges laid policy states that trans pris- l l certifi cate in order for your rights lems in the current policy, Failed MDTs Misleading, unreliable or plainly wrong oners should be permitted to l Possession of drugs / illegal highs witness accounts given by prison to be recognised by the Act. such as an over reliance on a attend case conferences on l Damage to property offi cers and/or other witnesses allocation however this does Gender Recognition Certifi cate The EA makes it unlawful for not always happen, and this to determine allocation. you as a trans person to be: All of London Pentonville, Brixton, may be procedurally unfair. We are covering adjudications daily • discriminated against, Wandsworth, Wormwood Scrubs, The policy also provides a list We hope that the new policy in the following prisons: either directly or indirectly, Belmarsh, Thameside, Feltham of items permitted to fulfil will be a signifi cant step for- • harassed or, Hertfordshire The Mount gender identity. Failure to ward in recognising self-dec- • victimised because you comply with the policy, or laration of gender identity and Buckinghamshire Aylesbury, Woodhill, have complained about unjustified decisions may improving access to rights so Onley, Ryehill discrimination. amount to discrimination trans prisoners are treated Kent Rochester, Cookham Wood, Elmey, fairly across the estate. Swaleside, Maidstone There is also a duty under the under the EA or a breach of human rights. Surrey Highdown, Coldingley, Send, EA for a prison to have regard If you need help or advice Bronzefi eld for the need to eliminate har- please contact: Types of discrimination and Bedfordshire Bedford assment, advance equality Bhatt Murphy Solicitors, harassment covered by the EA Essex Chelmsford and foster good relations be- 27 Hoxton Square, © Fotolia.com include comments made by Thames Valley Bullingdon, Grendon tween different groups of London N1 6NN. members of staff and staff refus- prisoners. Telephone: 020 7729 1115 ing to treat you according to [email protected] The Human Rights Act 1998 your affi rmed gender identity Call us or write to us today for representation and assistance ‘HRA’ also provides rights and using the wrong pronoun. which are applicable to trans It is extremely concerning that Jane Ryan is a solicitor at Herts, Beds, London & Thames prisoners: Bhatt Murphy specialising in transphobic abuse is common. Bucks, Essex Valley, Kent, Surrey • Article 3 prohibits inhumane litigating cases involving A prison has a duty both under and degrading treatment. This prisoners’ rights and immi- 5 Holywell Hill 4 Britannia Court the EA and HRA to take rea- includes a duty to prevent real gration detainees. St Albans The Green sonable steps to prevent har- and immediate risks of such Herts AL1 1EU West Drayton UB7 7PN assment and abuse. It cannot treatment. Stuart Withers is an Advice Tel: 01727 840900 Tel: 01895 449288 • Article 8 provides a right to just be ignored. The common and Information Offi cer at privacy and family life. This law also provides that the MOJ the campaigning organisa- includes a trans person’s right has a duty of care to prisoners. tion Liberty. 24hr Emergency Number: 07592 034170 46 Legal // Q&A ‘Legal’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Insidetime October 2016

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are: a) the people who have been selected to rejected. b) The structure of the guidelines is sit on the two bodies that produce the guide- fl awed. c) Off ences that can be charged vary lines. A large number of which have neither greatly and the offences are made to fit the Banks legal training or knowledge of sentencing prac- current guideline structure rather than each tice in the Crown Court. Until this year all ap- offending group having a tailor-made plications from practising barristers have been guideline. on Sentence No Sex offence Offence Harm Culpability Starting point Robert Banks, a barrister, writes Banks on Sentence. It is the second-largest selling 1 Sexual Sexual assault of a Category 2 Culpability A 4 years criminal practitioner’s text book and is used by judges for sentencing more than any Offences child aged under 13 Touching of naked Abuse of trust other. The book is classifi ed by the Ministry of Justice as a core judicial text book. The Act 2003 genitalia or naked book has an app which is for Apple iPads and Windows 8/10 tablets and computers. It s 7 breast area. Child is costs £95 plus VAT. The print copy has virtually sold out. If you have access to a com- particularly vulnera- puter, you can follow Robert on Twitter, @BanksonSentence and you can receive his ble due to extreme weekly sentencing Alert. youth or personal www.banksr.com circumstances

Q I was convicted of touching my 11-year-old starting point of 2 years and 1 year respectively. 2 Sexual Causing or inciting a Category 2 Culpability A 8 years daughter. I am thoroughly ashamed of myself. The only other off ence which usually does not Offences child aged under 13 Child is particularly Abuse of trust It occurred at a very low point in my life. The require the off ender to touch the child is no 2, Act 2003 to engage in sexual vulnerable due to Judge gave me 4 years although I had no pre- which has the highest starting point of all. s 8 activity extreme youth or vious convictions. I was sent to a prison that personal only has sex off enders in it, which gives me The skill in defending these cases is to persuade circumstances a good chance to compare my sentence with the prosecution to substitute charges that carry other prisoners’ sentences. The range of dif- a lower starting point. This introduces another 3 Sexual Sexual activity with a Category 2 Culpability A 3 years ferent sentences is quite shocking. Is it just a chance element, that is, who is prosecuting the Offences child (when the child Touching of naked Abuse of trust lottery and how did this come about? My sen- off ender and whether they are amenable to such Act 2003 is under 13 or the genitalia Signifi cant tence seems far too long. Can I appeal? an approach or not. Also whether they meet s 9 defendant does not disparity in age police resistance or not. However, it could be believe child to be said, “Why should the police or the prosecutor aged 16+) There are always diffi culties when comparing A go along with such tactics when the facts prove sentences with other prisoners. First they may what they have charged?” It could also be said 4 Sexual Causing etc. a child to Category 2 Culpability A 3 years not reveal why their sentence was particularly that the prosecution and police oft en see their Offences engage in sexual activity Touching of naked Abuse of trust high or low. This is especially so with sex of- non-sexual cases under-sentenced because of Act 2003 (when the child is under genitalia Signifi cant fenders. Also it is important to discover which the guideline system. s 10 13 or the defendant disparity in age prisoners pleaded guilty and which did not. For does not believe child those that pleaded the discount may vary from You ask how this all came about. The guideline to be aged 16+) one-third off to virtually nothing off . People system was launched on 1 July 1999, when Crime who regularly work in a particular court soon and Disorder Act 1998 s 80-81 came into force. 5 Sexual Engaging in sexual Category 2 Culpability A 2 years discover which judges pass shorter sentences The chair of the panel which was set up to rec- Offences activity in the Engaging in Abuse of trust than the others at that court house and which ommend the guidelines was an academic who Act 2003 presence of a child masturbation Signifi cant ones pass longer sentences. Some judges are had no known experience of Crown Court prac- s 11 (when the child is disparity in age infl uenced by mitigation. Others try to ensure tice. Seven other members of the panel had no under 13 or the that the sentence is almost entirely based on known experience of the Crown Court. Two defendant does not the off ending. However, perhaps the most sig- others were busy judges and one other was a believe child to be nifi cant factor is that the Court of Appeal is not District Judge who occasionally sat in the Crown aged 16+) concerned with the sentences Crown Court Court The fi nal member was a lay magistrate. judges pass. The Court of Appeal is primarily Later when the structure of the guideline was 6 Sexual Abuse of trust: Sexual Category 2 Culpability A 1 year concerned with applying the guidelines and formulated it was never put out for consultation Offences activity with a child Touching of naked Specifi c targeting oft en says that its own decisions in previous and no-one had a chance to say that the struc- Act 2003 (when the child is genitalia of a particularly cases do not assist because they are fact-spe- ture would lead to gross inconsistencies. s 16 under 13 or the vulnerable child cifi c. This means that you won’t be able to use defendant does not other prisoners’ sentences to show your sen- Judges will tell you that sentencing is an art believe child to be tence is manifestly excessive. Regrettably, and not a mathematical exercise. The key to aged 18+) without even knowing what you are charged good sentencing is balancing all the competing with, I cannot advise you about whether it is factors so that the aims of sentencing are met. 7 Sexual Abuse of trust: Sexual Category 2 Culpability A 1 year manifestly excessive or not. That is the test for Selecting just two or even one factor will not Offences activity in the presence Engaging in Specifi c targeting the Court of Appeal. produce much of an artwork. The offi cial version Act 2003 of a child (when the masturbation of a particularly is that sentencers can move within the guide- s 18 child is under 13 or vulnerable child You ask whether it is a lottery. Well the table line. Yet, many judges and magistrates simply the defendant does (right) shows the various off ences that could start at the guideline fi gure and with or without not believe child to be have been charged in your case. Next to them a discount for the plea allow the starting point aged 18+) are the ‘Harm’ and ‘Culpability’ levels with the to determine the sentence. The majority of the resulting starting points. movement within a guideline is when there are 8 Sexual Sexual activity with a Category 2 Culpability A 4 years aggravating factors. Mitigating factors usually Offences child family member Touching of naked Signifi cant You can immediately see who are the winners do not permit signifi cant movement. Parliament Act 2003 (when the child is genitalia disparity in age and the losers in the decisions made by the CPS has not helped here because it made the ill-con- s 25 under 13 or the as to what to charge. The range of starting points ceived guideline structure compulsory when it defendant does not for near-comparable off ences is 1-8 years. You enacted Coroners and Justice Act 2009 s 121. believe child to be can also see that for each one there is either an Equally unfortunate was section 125 of that Act, aged 18+) abuse of trust with a child under 13 (nos 1-7) or which provided that the courts had a duty to the off ence is committed against a child family follow a guideline replacing the previous remember (no 8). It could be said that for no 2 it quirement of a duty to have regard to the guide- Asking Robert & Jason questions could be the least serious off ence, and it carries line. Ironically no one has been able to be sure the highest starting point. I can see from the Please make sure your question concerns sentence and not conviction and send the letter to Inside Time, what the diff erence means. The vast majority press reports that the prosecution said you were marked for Robert Banks or Jason Elliott. Unless you say you don’t want your question and answer pub- of Crown Court judges I have spoken to dislike masturbating at the time and touching your lished, it will be assumed you have no objection to publication. It is usually not possible to determine the guidelines and magistrates continually daughter inappropriately. That would mean whether a particular defendant has grounds of appeal without seeing all the paperwork. Analysing all voice their opposition to them. They, like prac- you could have been convicted of Sexual the paperwork is not possible. The column is designed for simple questions and answers. No-one will titioners, are just stuck with them. Meanwhile Off ences Act 2003 s 11 or 18 which are nos 5 and have their identity revealed. Letters which a) are without an address, b) cannot be read, or c) are sent the judicial establishment continues to give the 7. I think that would be unlikely as that would direct, cannot be answered. Letters sent by readers to Inside Time are sent on to a solicitor, who forwards guidelines their support. not include the suggestion that you touched them to Robert and Jason. If your solicitor wants to see previous questions and answers, they are at www. your daughter. These two offences have a banksr.com. I see the three main faults with the guidelines YOU WON’T SEE ANY SIGNS LIKE THIS IN PRISON...

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you an example of text that we maniacal face of WILLIAM • Act & Scene numbers appear find all your submissions very out of the blue and she’ll say were given. There is more, HARRIS, mid-forties (New on the same line against the interesting. Colin Farrell for Roarke and Diary of a available on request as al- main character). left margin. The act number off she goes - mind you she ways. However, I will point is specified in Roman numer- Now for something says Colin Farrell fairly often! Creative out the Golden Rule for screen- Harris’s clothes are rotting als and the scene in Arabic: completely different! from constant abuse, his skin play - dialogue and descrip- EG Act III Scene 2. All new acts Reading. I am aware that you I have an electronic reader, tion - is ONE minute per page! has no pores and his burning and/or scenes should start on great for holidays and slipping Writer grin is sulphurous. read, you’re reading this col- a new page. umn now and probably think- in your bag for times of wait- Example One - Screenplay ing I’ve lost the plot! But do ing around and it took many He cocks the gun again and • Scene action appears under you read a book and get com- years to give in and it was the Instruction to director fires. There is a YELP from the heading in capitals with pletely lost to the point where- realisation that I may take my INSERT TEXT: “I AM NOT A down below and he smiles double spacing between par- by the rest of the world is car- luggage allowance in books HEAVY DRINKER. I CAN with glee. A heavy KNOCK agraphs. Scene action should rying on and you are in a to read while travelling to SOMETIMES GO FOR HOURS sounds at the door of his flat. only deal with set description totally different place? It Africa that I bit the bullet and WITHOUT TOUCHING A or what is happening on the HARRIS’S FLAT doesn’t matter if it’s the wild it was invaluable. DROP.” NOEL COWARD stage - don’t wander into un- west as you read a cowboy Harris drops down from the necessary text or backstory. But I love books. The joy of FADE IN: bay window, spilling a pot of story; flying around Hogwarts • Character names appear with Harry and co. Or that you being the first person to pick Two OLD LADIES (capitalise plastic bullets. He yanks the up a book, to feel it, to sniff curtains closed. against left margin in capitals are weeping over the hurt new characters) stand in the and designated by first or last done to your heroine in the the new paper, to be the first bright sunshine. Little birds The BANGING at the door name or role designation; eg latest Aga saga because so to start reading the pages and hop around their feet, one of becomes much louder. maid. This will remain con- good was the writer you are starting that book on its jour- the ladies scatters some stant throughout the script. that heroine or she has be- ney of being read - I can’t Lucy Forde crumbs. The flat is a hellhole, stuffed come your friend and you feel think of a greater pleasure. with broken furniture and old • Dialogue begins next to her pain. Reading is the ulti- CLACK CLACK (BB gun, loud food. Several disjointed Lesson Seven character’s name every time mate escape; there are many The point of this ‘ramble’ is to capitals - sound) television sets play daytime Screen and Theatre Writing they speak unless there is ac- situations past and present encourage you to read a book, A plastic bullet ricochets off shows from different channels. tion during their lines. when, if I hadn’t been able to get lost in it, become part of There are at least twenty cats This was a very unusual les- her head, she goes down. The pick up a book and make that the plot and characters and residing in different places • Instructions eg pause, son. Having acted in my dim second lady is stunned, she escape, I’m not sure how I’d then write a 200-250 word re- around the flat. should appear in brackets. and distant past it did put a moves to help her friend. have coped. I am currently view or description of the book. Ideally we’d like you to new slant on the words I had Harris clambers through the • Number your pages and bind reading a series of books by J CLACK CLACK read some of the classics and held in my script but I have to junk and starts pulling up the each scene/act securely. D Robb, I know everything tell us what you think, but any admit that I found the concept She is downed by a second carpet, dislodging several cats. about all the characters - I book will do - I just want you of writing some of my ‘book’ bullet. One of them MEWS in disgust. As I said, a fairly simplistic have chosen actors to play into both theatre and screen lesson and I feel a very spe- them if the books were ever to read, absorb and escape. We will print as many as we play a little daunting. EXT. WIND - DAY Instruction for theatre script cialist approach - maybe you’d made into a film; my daughter can - enjoy! - CONTINUOUS is different - there is no need like to have a go, as usual we and I do this a lot, I’ll get a call The descriptive writing is to- The long barrel of a toy rifle to explain everything to the tally different and rather than Below are some of the many entries we have so far received in response to ‘What we do when sticks out of the window. At director as it should flow from confuse the issue, which I will we’re unable to sleep’. Do please keep sending them in; every story published will receive £5. the end of the gun is the your writing. The basics to surely do, I am going to give remember are: sunshine. My partner never knew about the Thinking couple whose idea I copied but thinking all the W C Keen - HMP Manchester time about how my dream came true. Now I have two grandchildren and I could not be It was a lovely sunny day and the sun was more happy, even though I’m back in prison. shining through the cell window making the But this time I’m looking for more thoughts bars cast a shadow right across my cell floor. I because you can find them, you just have to was padded up with a lad called ‘Cakehead’; be lucky. The life I’ve had has been rough but I he was reading a book and I was being nosey, would not change it for anything if I could. I looking through my cell window. There was a always think how lucky people are when they lovely canal which runs alongside the prison, can spell and do writing. I’ve never had the The Dana in Shrewsbury. As I was looking, I chance because my head is running all the could see in the distance a couple walking time, thinking of this and that, I hope some- towards the prison. As I watched; they got body can relate to me and just how hard it is closer, I could see they were in love and the when you have been a criminal; but always nice things which it brings. They were pushing smile as it costs nothing at all. one another trying to scare the other, laughing and messing about and I thought what a Unable to Sleep beautiful sight. When they had passed that thought of them remained in my head, all Jamie Upton - HMP Rochester through my sentence. I could not go a week without thinking of them. What keeps me up isn’t the rustling of the guard’s legs outside my cell door, not the light I had about four months left and was moved beneath my cell door and it’s not even the across to Bullingdon but I always thought of snoring from my cell mate that would wake this moment. When I got out I got a job and the dead; it’s all the unanswered questions my through Tony Blair and his ‘New Deal’ scheme mind demands more important than good old I managed to get a job on M/CC on the Urbis. sleep. Such as, what would I be if I didn’t do When I finished the work after four years me the things I did, or even if I didn’t leave her. and my mates went out for a drink. I got really How would my life have turned out? Would I drunk and decided to go home. On the way I have children of my own, would I even be met this girl called Marion. I asked her if she married? was going to the kebab house; she replied no but she did and there I met my wife! I just fell Well I sure as hell wouldn’t be in this place, head over heels after winning her trust. When sitting up at two in the morning writing about she smiled my heart sang and I’ve never what goes through my head when unable to believed in love at first sight but this sleep for Inside Time. Canter Levin & Berg happened. 1 Temple Square, My past keeps me awake at night but what 24 Dale Street, We had a child together and enjoyed each keeps me going is not making the same other like best mates. Now it’s me and my mistakes; if for anything to be able to sleep Liverpool, L2 5RL partner who walk along the river bank in the once more. 50 Jailbreak // Fitness www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016

Burmese 3 A way of sitting with both legs bent 5 and parallel in front of you, both Waking Up to Life ankles on the floor. Chair Absolutely fine to sit on a chair! Sit a simple guide to meditation up straight towards the front of the seat; don’t The Prison Phoenix Trust lean on the back. Have your feet Meditation is something almost everyone has heard of. Most people who meditate firmly planted on say they sleep better, and worry less. Others say that their thinking isn’t such a prob- the floor (prop lem anymore and that they’re not as depressed. Some people experience a radical them up if they shift in how they see themselves, and the world, where everyday events around don’t reach the floor). them are much the same as ever, but they themselves have learned to let go a little How much and when? (or a lot). They say they wake up to life, and it becomes more interesting, because Meditation works when it’s practised every they’ve learned to step out of the way and let it happen. It’s hard to get started if day. Some prisoners tell us that they meditate you’re doing it alone, which is why we put this piece together, and why we offer to for several hours each day. Others might do write to people in prison about their meditation. five minutes in the morning when they wake “For nearly nine months, I have been up, and five before they go to sleep. If you can practising meditation. I still can’t define it manage to work up to 25 minutes, that’s good. Arranging your body Half lotus properly - exciting, torturing, empty, full, 2 Easier than full lotus. Pull your right unbearable, unmissable. Perhaps it is for If you can find the right sitting position - com- Final tip: See if you can let go of trying to get foot in close to your body and then its mysterious simplicity that I can’t help fortable, stable and upright - you are well on anywhere with meditation. Don’t try to do place your left foot on your right but do it every day… It’s not about believ- the way to getting the hang of meditation. anything. Keep returning your attention to thigh. Switch sides each time you sit. ing something or hoping for some kind of Take ten minutes or so to experiment with the your breath when it wanders, and know that positions in the pictures. Once you’ve found a the time and energy you put in will lead some- future happy resolution of my troubles. position, make sure your back is upright and where, but don’t try to be anything other than It’s more about looking for real freedom truly relaxed. Sit on at least four inches of sup- exactly how you are. We’d love to know how through self-discovery.” port; if you try to sit directly on the floor with you’re doing. Antonio, HMP Lewes nothing under you, some of your back muscles will start to ache as they work unnecessarily to Seiza If you want a keep you from falling backwards or slumping. 4 Kneel with two free book and So sit on a couple of thick books, a folded pil- cushions or a thick CD to help you low or anything you can find. That way, the rolled up blanket set up a regular backbones can stack up correctly, allowing the between your bum yoga and back muscles to be relaxed. and your feet. meditation Attention with the breath practice write to The Prison • Keep your neck long, with the chin not Take three deep long breaths then start to Phoenix Trust, PO Box 328, pointing up or down. breathe normally in and out through the nose. Oxford OX2 7HF. Count the breaths silently to yourself: in 1, out • Keep your eyes open, gazing down past your 2, in 3, out 4 and so on, up to 10, and then start nose, to a spot on the floor in front of you. from 1 again. If you lose count, it doesn’t matter. Just come back to 1 and keep going. Full lotus 1 Might be difficult at first, but it’s a Keep going like this for five minutes to begin good, stable position. Put your right with. That’s all there is to the practice. It is as foot on your left thigh, then your left simple as that! As you are counting your foot on your right thigh. Switch sides breaths, some thinking may be going on in each time you sit. your mind, and it is tempting to follow your thoughts. This happens to us all. It is what minds do. They wander and think and worry and plan. That’s fine. It is also possible for the mind to be still and focussed. This is also what minds do. And actually, you’ll find that your mind really enjoys being stiller. So when your attention wanders off from the breath, don’t worry. Just let it return very gently without any thought, back to the breath. You might have to DOES THE TAX MAN OWE YOU MONEY? do a lot of this returning. That too is normal. IF YOU ENTERED PRISON AFTER 6 APRIL 2011 AND PAID TAX YOU MAY BE DUE A REFUND. Keep with it, without judging yourself. ARE YOU RECEIVING TAX DEMANDS OR PENALTIES THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND? ARE YOU SETTING UP A BUSINESS AFTER YOU ARE RELEASED AND NEED TAX ADVICE?

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EMAPed with Parole Hearings • Adjudications • Recalls Step 3: Continue the Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers movement, alternating the opposite arm and leg. 52 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016 National Prison Radio wins BIG! been supporting prisoners in increasingly impressive num- The Reader bers. 99% of prisoners know about NPR and 76% listen regularly with 37% tuning in In HMP Frankland school’s out on The Schoolboy every single day. On average, prisoners listen to NPR for 10.4 J, who is sometimes quite quiet, uses the space hours each week. The Schoolboy offered by the smaller group to begin to open The Third Sector Awards rec- up and really starts to get into the feel of the I love to rise in a summer morn, ognise those who give back to When the birds sing on every tree; poem: “this is the point, isn’t it - school can the community and celebrate The distant huntsman winds his horn, take you away from learning. Going back after organisations and social lead- And the skylark sings with me. summer it was a pain.” ers from across the sector. Oh! what sweet company. Z agrees: “I wasn’t one from school - I did my The Charity of the Year award But to go to school in a summer morn, learning away from it, running wild - I couldn’t is given to the charity that has Oh! it drives all joy away; be tamed by school.” had a truly exceptional year Under a cruel eye outworn, and whose recent achieve- The little ones spend the day J delves into this a little deeper, questioning ments have attracted the In sighing and dismay. in Brixton and Styal. any assumptions we may have here. Surely admiration of the sector.

school, despite some people’s bad experiences, Ah! then at times I drooping sit, National Prison Radio is full The judges said: “What these can be a good thing? Not if you’re bored coun- And spend many an anxious hour, The charity that developed of chat and music designed to guys are achieving on a very ters Z and we look again at Blake’s language: Nor in my book can I take delight, and runs National Prison help prisoners get through small budget is phenomenal /Under a cruel eye outworn/ … /drooping sit/ Nor sit in learning’s bower, Radio has won the biggest prison sentences. It talks and benefiting not just their about subjects that don’t get Worn through with the dreary shower. and spend many an anxious hour. prize in the charitable sector, target population but poten- talked about on any other after it was named Charity of tially society as a whole. They radio station or any TV chan- How can the bird that is born for joy Yet surely learning’s bower, in the next line, the Year at the 2016 Third are strong and effective in an nel. And because the pro- Sit in a cage and sing? suggests some kind of comfort can be found in Sector Awards. area of high concern but often How can a child when fears annoy grammes are made by mem- learning? We ponder what a bower can be, not in the limelight.” But droop his tender wing, bers of the audience, listeners half-remembering folk songs and take a little The judges said the Prison And forget his youthful spring? know that what they hear is Radio Association were Phil Maguire, Chief Executive detour to talk about seats. It feels good though. real, genuine and honest. “hands down winners”. of the Prison Radio O father and mother! if buds are nipped, Association, said: “This has And blossoms blown away, We’ve then reached the heart of the poem: In the last year, National The charity was founded in been the most incredible week And if the tender plants are stripped Prison Radio has covered lots 2006 and first started broad- of our charity’s 10 year histo- Of their joy in the springing day, How can the bird that is born for joy of really important subjects - casting the following year ry. Radio is a medium that By sorrow and care’s dismay, Sit in a cage and sing? new psychoactive substances, when Electric Radio Brixton creates uniquely intimate con- was piped into cells in HMP violence in prisons, yoga, lit- How shall the summer arise in joy, eracy, domestic abuse, bail nections with its audience. It’s Z has strong views here - that individuality Brixton. In 2009, they the perfect way to communi- Or the summer fruits appear? shouldn’t be tamed by systems like school, but launched National Prison accommodation, winter flu, Hepatitis C, safety in custody, cate with prisoners, and we Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy, J is prepared to be more temperate, holding on Radio, the world’s first nation- Or bless the mellowing year, housing, employability … and are incredibly proud that to his belief in the importance of learning. al radio station for prisoners. When the blasts of winter appear? even a senior royal joining National Prison Radio has Its programmes are produced made such a huge impact with William Blake and presented by prisoners prisoners for an on-air book A few days later I read the same poem with club! the tens of thousands of pris- some people from the PIPE (a special unit called working alongside the Prison oners who listen to us, every Radio Association’s team of a Psychologically Informed and Planned week.” professional radio producers National Prison Radio has Charles Derby-Villis Environment), also in Frankland. Here people are perhaps more critical of the poem, or at To celebrate National Prison Radio’s arrival in least less readily accepting what at first sight National Prison Radio Scotland, an NPR Takeover Day is being Eight of us have sat together for an hour read- seems like a total rejection of formal education. planned for later on in October, where staff ing about hillbillies in the Kentucky hills and arrives in Scotland Again we spend some time with the lines about from the Prison Radio Association, the charity a really unusual parents’ meeting, but now it’s the bird in the cage. M is quick to point out the that runs National Prison Radio, will visit the time for a change of pace. Most of the group The groundbreaking radio station for prisoners, contradiction here: of course caged birds sing. prison, record as much material as they can, have had to leave for appointments, so, when National Prison Radio, is now being made He connects this to his own situation: “We available to prisoners in Scotland for the very and create a day’s worth of programming to I bring out this poem by Blake, the group has could be the caged birds here, but we laugh, first time. broadcast around the country. reduced down to just a few of us. we have fun, we have a sense of community.” Staff at HMP & YOI Grampian, supported by Up until now, National Prison Radio has only On first reading we just sit in whatever feeling And this contradiction seems to be, for this Station House Media Unit (shmu) , a community been available in England and Wales, but it is the poem has begun to open up for us, then we group, something to take from the poem, that media charity based in Aberdeen who run a hoped that more and more Scottish prisons read it again, beginning to explore the territo- sometimes we have to submit to the ‘cruel out- media access project in the prison, have ena- will be connected to the radio station in the ry Blake offers to us. To begin with we stick worn eye’ but, as we move towards winter, we bled National Prison Radio to be piped into coming years. cells across the prison. with the nature in the first verse. Z is reminded still know that summer will arise in joy, even of a herd of red deer he once saw at a festival, if we don’t know the how. The Scottish criminal justice system is different The radio station is available on the in-cell TV and, more recently, a wood pigeon that visits to south of the border, and prisoners listening system on channel 21. his window. Frankland is surrounded by some in Grampian will be made aware that some of quite ancient woodland and in Westgate the the information they hear on National Prison Charles Derby-Villis is a Practitioner with The Prisoners in Grampian, which lies 34 miles birds can sometimes be heard. Z continues: Reader Organisation, an award-winning char- north of Aberdeen, will be able to listen to Radio may not reflect services and policies in “Some people don’t like the wood pigeons, but itable social enterprise working to connect peo- National Prison Radio favourites such as the Scotland. not me - I’m an early riser and a like that con- ple through great literature. In weekly Reader Request Show, NPR Talk, Porridge, the Rock nection and that lovely cooing.” sessions, a practitioner reads aloud a short story Show, Books Unlocked and many others, 24 If you’re in Grampian, make sure you get your or extract and a poem. Anyone in the group hours a day. voices heard. Write to National Prison Radio may choose to read too: some do, others don’t. Once we’ve stopped laughing at his pigeon with your stories, requests and shout outs. The In this way, connections are made with thoughts impression, others share their connection or They will also be entertained and informed by address is National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, and feelings; some people reflect on these pri- not with nature, and then we move to the ‘But’ programmes made in Grampian itself - with London SW2 5XF. Alternatively pass them on vately, others are more vocal. Either is fine. The regular programming reflecting what’s going to SPS or shmu staff in Grampian and they will that begins the next verse. emphasis is on enjoying the literature. on in the prison. pass them on for you. Insidetime October 2016 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak 53

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But football was original- PCs came with the addictive games of Solitaire don’t look at his colour, I a tortoise specialist at Galapagos National Park, said. “He’s contributed ly banned by King James I in and Minesweeper? Solitaire was Microsoft’s don’t look at his religion. I enormously to repopulating the island.” Genetic testing shows that Diego has favour of archery, citing the clever way of teaching people how to use a don’t look at anything. Every fathered about 40% of the tortoises released on Espanola. The whole species military advantages archery mouse, by forcing players to learn how to person whether he is Hindu, pretty much owes its survival to this sex god. Buzzfeed possessed. He decreed that drag-and-drop quickly. The reasoning behind Muslim or Buddhist, he is my ‘Na man play the fut ball’ in Minesweeper was similar. 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He was later were large in stature and refused to move lads’ holiday would resemble a longest echo in a man-made accused of being anti-revolu- their family group to accommodate you more romantic getaway.” Phil Wang structure has been set in an “You have to be careful in my tionary following a probe easily in your allotted carriage. Our carriages underground fuel depot country because we have bad cars and a firing squad execution accommodate ten people but the issue of “There’s only one thing I can’t do constructed near Invergordon, and good wine, a dangerous was carried out in July.” obesity in our country is leading to more that white people can do, and that’s Scotland before World War Two. combination.” Francesco De Carlo Daily Mail incidents of this type every year.” The Times play pranks at international air- The time for the reverbera- tion to end was 112 seconds. 54 Jailbreak // Inside Poetry www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016

Star Poem of the Month The Search Letters Congratulations to this months winner who receives John Farmer - HMP Parkhurst our £25 prize Ian Davison - HMP Sudbury Last week they held a cell search, all was going well Until they found this object in the next door cell When home becomes little more than ink on a page This ‘something’ that they found was causing great alarm And the tide gets washed away by time Was it for escaping, or causing someone harm? I’ll be here writing letters, thinking of you Was it a pick or shovel, or maybe a gun? Wishing life away waiting in line Was he thinking of escaping and going on the run? So off they marched our neighbour, looking upset and sad As the hours while away and force voices distorted Whatever they found it must surely be something bad? Somehow and memories fade in the cruel hands of time No! It was something he had made just for a bit of fun I’ll be here writing letters thinking of you He made it in the art class and the teacher said “well done” Wishing life away waiting in line They let him take it back with him no harm could they see And he proudly showed his friends and that included me Now the seasons have changed in my favour What all the fuss was about he just could not understand And the past has caught up with time All the poor lad made was a papier mache arm and hand! I’ll leave empty pages unwritten as you’re are here by my side The Rattle Battle I Am Sorry Mark Rogers - HMP Dovegate Anthony Zambra - HMP Prison Wayland

Bloody rattle, keeping me up all night This is an apology that should never have been needed Sleep deprived, something I can’t fight If the advice, the warnings, the pleadings I had heeded Under the sheets, trying to keep warm An innocent man, with no right to be attacked © Fotolia.com Up all night, waiting for dawn Our paths crossed and in an instant your life was hacked If I could change what I did, it would be done in an instant Wake up and think ‘great’ But I have been stuck on this path since I was an infant Then realise it’s still late The past can’t be changed of course we both know this Wake again, the sheet’s soaking wet Books and Music But I hope my three years inside give you some sense of justice Curtis Wallace - HMP/YOI Feltham Doing the night shift again I bet But please understand, this time hasn’t been wasted Feel sucked off, and so bloody thin I have strived and worked hard to make some positives from the lives I’ve devas- If you always feel stressed and your head feels like it’s bleeding, On my face you won’t find a grin tated There’s no harm in picking up a book and starting reading Roll over, my position adjusted I wish you could know how truly sorry I am A book can take you to a warm place if inside its freezing Why did I have to get busted? And the steps I have taken to change my plan Day by day, page by page, before you know it you’re leaving My body hurts, sick of the aching If only there was a way to show you my remorse, something I could do Books have to be man’s greatest creation Tired of ‘friends’ that are faking But I know this will probably not happen, this wish will never come true The weight falls off your shoulders and you begin relaxation Drugs again I will never touch You must ask yourself ‘Why me?’ and ‘What did I do?’ You’re not just opening pieces of paper, but a doorway to inspiration As this bloody rattle is just too much Nothing is the answer I did not seek out you The ropes restricting your mind are cut loose, an amazing sensation Hot and cold, with the shivers That might make you feel better, that might make you feel worse If you’re in a dark place with no support or kindness Let’s see what tomorrow delivers However it is I know you must feel quite terse If you feel like an ant in a world full of giants Vivid dreams all about smack I am so sorry if my crime made you resentful, scared, angry and distraught If your brain is clogged up with bad emotions and violence All I want is the sleep I lack And I hope you have found some of the acceptance and peace you must have Let music be your friend, let it break the silence What I wish is to get six hours straight sought Pick a song that you like and memorise every single word Then I’ll be out of the starting gate Please don’t follow me or my actions to define who you are Go over it every day until every verse is learnt You should not let my madness, my crime, leave too deep a scar Feel so weak, but my mind’s so strong Let those lyrics run through your spirit, break free of this dreadful curse My hope is that you now feel safe Another day done, so it won’t be long Then close your eyes That you’re happy and content Eating loads and hitting the gym Feel the rise Because when I said ‘I am sorry’, And let your soul feel free and high like a bird. All bad thoughts are in the bin That’s exactly what I meant. Only positive things are on my brain I’m too old now to play this game An Ode to Spice Getting stronger, putting weight on Rattle done, rattle be gone. Joe Gynane - HMP Thameside A brother who I lost but will never ‘forget’ Kordooy - HMP Risley Mind creased, folded in on itself Pandora’s fractured a fragile mental health Silent Questions It seems like only yesterday I held you in my arms And stolen every possession from my shelf M Humphries - HMP Wayland And my mother rocked you on her knee While the slithering movements of the Mamba With dreams about the future and what you were going to be Are fuel for a pacifist’s anger Your reflection was so bright and happy, such a precious brother and little boy Assaults and alarm bells, segregated cells Watching them Watching me You gave your love to everyone and filled all our hearts with joy My mind dwells in the darkest places Strangers would admire you, and stop to say “hello” Tormented by devils with no faces Chains of questions in their mind What do they see? “He’ll break a lot of hearts”, they said, “in twenty years or so” Shouting abuse that borders on the racist But less than twenty years from then, what they said came true Mentally violated by a legal rapist A prisoner in chains Watching and waiting, questions unasked As we were forced against our will to say goodbye to you Vacant eyes, a vortex of lies A life so short and unfulfilled, with so much left to go Stretching beyond the ether Chains of questions in their mind Prison and hospital - just the same “Why oh why?” we asked ourselves, when we all loved you so No longer feeling the effects of the reefer Life shows us many options, but whichever path we take There’s nothing sweet about the leaf we consume What you in for? When you getting out? Chains of questions in their mind The destination’s still the same, whatever choice we make A silent room inhaling fumes unfit for human consumption So many questions flood our minds, “What if and why and how?” Gripped by addiction, unable to function Laid in our beds, nurses come and go Treatments carried out with doctors standing by If we had done things differently, would you still be with us now? Without the merest sprinkling of the serpent I don’t know what the lesson was that you were sent here to learn The psychological cravings are urgent Chains of questions in their mind A smile and a nod that breaks the ice But now your purpose is fulfilled, it’s time for your return A soul sold, left stranded in the cold I know you’re with us every day, within our hearts, our minds, our souls Circling the precipice, a dark abyss of nothingness A newspaper shared; a conversation Chains of questions in their mind Your memory will forever stay, no fear, no pain, no sorrow can touch you Where horizons are bleak Anymore, but the love you’ve left behind will live with us forever more And angry fists are thrown at the faces of the weak Sons, brothers, fathers - joined by gender Canteen days peak. This is who we are Watching me Would you like to be a published poet? Watching them Write in and set your thoughts free. Please mark your envelope ‘Peotry’. 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Rise of the Fallen New Beginnings Keyna Alozie - HMP Send Dan Lawrence - HMP Swansea At the tick of each second, a present becomes a past This fortress, built to hold the fallen in its cold grasp And a future becomes a present Keeping safe the souls beyond So why dwell in the past when your clock is moving forward? In the scrap-yard for humanity’s waste A myriad of tales etched on its slate grey walls As the night engulfs the day, a new day is born So why look back for yesterday Stories of lives blown apart when you can look forward for tomorrow? A hand grenade thrown into a crowd Along darkened corridors, men stare Why let the turbulent waters of history Eyes meet, like hot rivets hammered into steel plate Plague you with internal memory struggle? Inflamed egos clash; not wanting to break the impasse Why beat yourself up over ‘Omnes errant’ in the past? Neck hair stands erect, electrically charged Fetid air reeking of rising tension A downward trend today is an upward thrust in disguise Which requires a bold step forward to realise Outside, the grey army follows the ploughed furrow of their pre- Although we don’t know the future © Fotolia.com decessors We can’t go back to change the past Marching slowly around the field of mismatched tarmac But we can mark this very moment Old lags chew the cud, reliving past victories As our new beginning for a better tomorrow Voices Share the acrid smoke of a re-rolled cigarette New lads hold cards close to bony chests Kamen Brown - HMP/YOI Brinsford Safety found in the company of fellow fools God’s Good Grace Robert Pennington - HMP Garth My heart starts beating, my eyes open, I begin breathing Close by, workshops hum to the sound of machines Eyes drowsy, lines on my body from where I’ve been sleeping Playing a tuneless, metallic symphony Eight hundred inmates but I’m so alone Cereal in my bowl with a plastic spoon I begin eating Rows of men pass away long hours I don’t need more people, I just wanna go home I crunch away and you begin speaking Hands kept busy, helping to speed the clock I eagerly consume all the hours and days Minds work hard at killing time Using my time in a myriad of ways “Death’s easy, eyes cruel, with nothing to gain there’s fuck all to lose” Fu** off and leave me alone, I’m not in the mood Day at last turns into night Until you’ve been there you haven’t a clue But then who am I to cast judgment of you? “How can I leave if I’m not in the room? The daily matinee ends to no applause I’ve never deceived you, we used to be cool” Directors in this theatre lead the motley cast Murderers, smackheads, drug dealers or lags To the temporary mausoleum they call home Forgive the ignorant for their obsession with tags You’re an annoying prick, you’re taking the piss, Another show ends We could have been called many names in our lives why the fuck are you talking if you don’t exist? Days striped in lines upon the wall Fathers of children, lovers of wives “I’ve been here with you through thick and thin, when people have left like piss in the wind, Time recorded like a cricket score For we’ve done many things and that’s what’s so sad, They forget all the good, just remember the bad we used to be alright, you ungrateful shit” The fallen call the moon to rise You’re not lying to me, you’re lying to yourself, Pulling the veil over another monochrome day I knew I’m no saint but I’m more than my crime you wouldn’t know a friend if it fell off a shelf Heads hit pillows like a fist kneading dough And I hope for forgiveness in the fullest of time “Almost 20? Celebrate in your cell? Eyes close I’m no longer alone as regrets crowd my mind If you ‘top’ yourself now we can celebrate in hell! Minds wade through the fog of consciousness in search of rest With the thoughts of the damage that I left behind Stop trying to ignore me and accept that I’m here, Awake to find sleep’s sweet oblivion alas is not eternal So before you cast judgment, put yourself in my place and I’m the only one, am I making myself clear?” Crystal, it doesn’t make any difference, we’ve established you’re The fallen rise again For I could easily be you, but for God’s good grace. not real IPP Sentence Silent Memories “I know what you’ve done, I know what you feel, I know In Too Deep everything about you and what you hold dear Jackie Szulimowski - Dave Hall - HMP Wymott I watch your dreams and I see what you fear, HMP & YOI Low Newton Rob H - HMP Wandsworth don’t try and tell me I’ve never been real” Nightmares, memories that come back round Finally peace, I lie on my bed, stretch over my feet, I stood in the dock, I thrash my ungainly limbs In my bed not making a sound concentrate on the books I’m trying to read the judge said to me Jostle my disengaged mind Hours go by, time to eat, watch the box then it’s time to sleep. You’d treat me nice and hold me tight “Eighteen months, with an IPP” Maintaining neither control nor dignity Filling me with fear almost every night “Wow” I thought, that’s not a lot As buoyancy cruelly turns her back on me But ten years later, still in jail I rot I looked up to you, you were my hero From below the surface After what you did it went to zero Nine years over tariff I disconnect from reality Trusting you, liking you, a member of staff Whistles and shouts Ten months over parole Touching me, trying to make me laugh u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our Are but a muffled blur Still here I rot in this hell-hole My bedroom chair against my door ‘Star Poem of the Month’. In this uncoupled watery cocoon To stop you hurting me some more To qualify for a prize, poems should not have won a prize in any Victim awareness - DBT With stinging eyes I attempt to see What a secret between you and me other competition or been published previously. Send entries to: Inside Women and anger - LNV To orient myself in liquid motion Touching me whilst eating my tea Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 Four long years on the DSPD I battle against an unseen foe 2GB. Now nine months on PIPE That wasn’t your job in the children’s home Unable to turn - my faculties diminished I feel I’m stagnating Separating me so I was all alone ‘In at the deep end’, ‘sink or swim’ It is very important that you ensure the following details are on All courses completed Fighting, stealing, to seek alternative attention all paperwork sent to Inside Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUM- ‘Keep your head above water’ So why am I still waiting? The abuse I wouldn’t face or even mention BER & PRISON. Failure to do so will prevent us responding to you This venture into troubled territory No mother or father to take care of me and your submission being withheld from publication. IPP sentence now abolished Is littered with vapid cliché Brothers or sisters or any other family But what about me Strewn with hackneyed insipidity The years went by and I became older By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they And the four to five thousand I muster blind belief if my arms and legs I met a lovely girl and cried on her shoulder can be published in any of our ‘not for profit links’, these include the Who long to be free? newspaper, website and any forthcoming books. You are also giving Flailing strokes, haphazard kicks She gave me strength to raise the alarm permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in allowing other That somehow gain synchronicity But he was respected, with lots of charm Enough is enough organisations to reproduce this work if considered appropriate, unless I do not succumb to panic or fear How much more can we take? I was a liar, there was no belief you have clearly stated that you do not want this to happen. 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by Carl Portman A D H A R E S D T B R O B D O M P J N M I B G E O E L E C T R I C A L L J X A J I want to say thank you to all at HMP Garth for J C T H B M R P C D L L A Q P O Z E B F facilitating my summer visit. I was invited by the Governor, Susan Kennedy who pro-actively sup- K A F C S P I L L S H S L C H O T P A N ports chess in prisons, including her former W Y E X P L O S I O N J U Q N S D S B C workplace, HMP Leeds. Thanks to inmate Richard O R E S N O W O H B P T U V U E O F J C for pushing this from the start. Y S N X P Y S Y U M T Z O A R W Z L X L T A S R S E H D M T X P H K N I V E S O I held my usual Q&A session followed by a 14 C F H N F E L G A S T O U A V R D P K T board simul. I lost 2 and drew one, winning the W E L B T S S C N O X T F R H E A O L H rest but one of the losses was a beauty. I really must applaud ‘Fitzy’ for finding a lovely move. I L T L Z T B H D S W I T C H E S V X U I will come to that later. The queries in Q&A were P Y H X O X M C O S I K N R Z O P C R N intelligent and thought provoking. They included O S H A R P B L A D E S S R R C N H P G how best to study, what to study, how to build L H T Y W E T J K A O U R Y X K P E O R an opening repertoire and how can chess help X O M O D R E S P E C T S H S E N M T P inmates once they are released. Very good stuff! L E R Q W W R E Q U I P M E N T J I K O I donated some books and equipment and it was time to play! M S O W P C F K N B H W Z P F S W C R C W X O H O T S U R F A C E S T N U A A S Before the simul, I was T P L H P A W A R E N E S S F U X L S P honoured to be pre- G U A R D S O N M A C H I N E R Y S L O sented with a gift from the prisoners. Ryan (on ElectricalELECTRIAL Loosewires Switches/Sockets WATER Equipment behalf of the group) WaterOIL Awareness Spills FAN Gas had made a beautiful OilEMPLOYEES Hot Pan Safety CLOTHING Shoes Sharp Blades LOOSEWIRES AWARENESS chess knight (photo) in FanHOT PAN Cans Chemicals CANS Hot Surfaces the woodworking class EmployeesKNIVES Knives Explosions Guards On Across Down over several weeks as ClothingRESPECT Respect Humans Machinery a thank you for my SWITCHES/SOCKETS ThanksSPILLS to Lisa Thirwell - HMP New Hall for compiling this 1. Business that builds small country 1. Very pleased having dropped visit. I very much cher- Wordsearch.SAFETY SHOES If you fancy compiling one for us please just send it in houses? (7,8) university for academy, getting teased (7) ish this item and it maxCHEMICALS 20 x 20 grid and complete with answers shown on a grid. If we 9. Christian position about beer? No, 2. North dealt - a problem for one’s takes pride of place in useEXPLOSIONS it we will send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number and prison with your entry. the opposite (7) side (5) my chess study. Thank you team Garth! HUMANS 10. Transport is raced to destruction (7) 3. Waiting on, but inclined to go after EQUIPMENT GAS 11. Pigeon lover welcoming popular a time (9) The games were all very hard fought. Clearly the Answers to all puzzles are in the next issue. Only Puzzles on banker (9) 4. Places where people are lashed (7) prison chess club is improving the member’s chess the ‘Prize Winning Puzzles’ page have prizes for completing. 12. Topping characteristic Australian 5. Back on to play a few chords as a strength and they had prepared for me together dish with curry (5) personal remedy (7) and worked hard, using chess literature for the 13. Makes a mess of returning free 6. Subordinate exposed in compound library. A great use of time and resources I might Quick Crossword bonds (7) error (5) add. The final tally for me was +11 -2 =1 which 15. Spoil vote - one’s dream at last of 7. Planner’s diplomacy before ruling pleased me considering the strength of the such political theory(7) on one article (9) opposition. 17. Doctor should show cause of 8. Measure a marine’s support for dehydration (7) canvas (7) Thanks to the prison staff and inmates for making 19. Soldiers given penalty for being 14. Part of plant making radical basis the day so special and to the English Chess civilized (7) for soup? (9) Federation for its continued support of this cru- 21. Hardened against working, for a 16. Match official has a long time to cial work. start (5) take in conclusion from public votes (9) 23. Ways of getting round heart 17. One on the threshold of being bypasses? (4,5) taken advantage of? (7) 8 25. Low storm fee for harbour? (7) 18. Missile depot designed to conceal 26. Base one? Good lord! (7) gold (7) 7 27. Assumes freak trends go at random 19. Putting in order for family, having 6 (5,3,7) called around (7)

20. Swell up, seeing daughter first to 5 finish (7) 22. Send up neat forms of transport (5) 4 24. Religious man giving half of bottle to sailor (5) 3

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Neil Speed is a This month I am giving the position in which 1. Small enclosed space or 1. Incision (3) former prisoner Fitzy beat me. He was white and it is him to play room (9) 2. Exposed and barren (5) who came up after I just played my queen to b2 to offer an 6. Taxi (3) 3. Complains whiningly (7) with the concept exchange. What did he play to make me know 8. Narrow and shallow river (6) 4. Primary source (6) of GEF BAD CHI my game was lost? A chess magazine (back copy) 9. Plural of goose (5) 5. Skin condition (6) whilst in prison. donated by Chess & Bridge of London is the prize 10. Capricious (6) 7. Morning meal (9) GEF BAD CHI by Neil Speed is if you are first out of the hat. 11. Plunder (7) 8. To protect (9) published by Xlibris. RRP: 13. A simple sugar (7) 12. Spray can (7) £12.35 Using the letters The answer to September’s puzzle is: 1. Rd1-d8+ 14. Eye membrane (6) 14. Man's overcoat (6) G,E,F,B,A,D,C,H & I fill in the Ke8-e7 2. Rd8xh8 Qe5xg5 3. Qe2-d2! Winning. 18. Crime of setting fire to 15. Legal possessors (6) blank squares. Each letter A-I Winner to be announced. property (5) 17. The symbol ~ (5) must appear only once in 19. Noiseless (6) 20. Pistachio, say (3) each line column and 3x3 grid. The winner of August’s puzzle was David from 21. Perish (3) HMP Long Lartin. 22. Elastic (9) 58 Jailbreak // Just for Fun www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2016 In this month... Mind Gym

32 ×4 / ÷8 / +17 / ×0 / ×8 = 6 October 1866 __ The second known train robbery in the USA was committed by the Reno Gang near 5 +17 / ×4 / +132 / ÷4 / ×7 = Seymour, Indiana. The masked, gun-toting __ robbers emptied a safe and threw another out of a window, then jumped out and escaped. 41 -7 / ×19 / +34 / ×2 / -975 = (The gang committed at least 2 more train __ robberies but broke up in 1868 when vigilantes Submitted by Steven Sibley - HMP Lewes. Start on lynched 10 of its members. The first known U.S. the left with the first number and work your way train robbery was in Ohio in May 1865.) across following the instructions in each cell. If you would like to submit similar puzzles we will pay £5 9 October 1216 for any that are chosen for print. Please send in a King John of England arrived in Bishops Lynn, minimum of three puzzles together with the answer! Norfolk but was taken ill with dysentery and immediately headed back to Newark Castle. Although he took a safe (but slow) route around Sudoku // Medium the Wash, most of his soldiers and several carts loaded with his possessions took a shorter route through the marshes and many were lost (on 12th October). Among them was said to be the Crown Jewels, although exactly what was lost is unknown. The King died on 19th October.

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16 October 1996 More than 80 football fans were killed and 150 injured in a stampede/crush at the Mateo Flores Stadium in Guatemala City. Authorities had allowed in thousands more people than Summer 2016 Quiz the stadium could handle. 1. Which culturally redundant celebrity was 17 October 1951 removed from the Celebrity Big Brother house Britain’s first nuclear power station, Calder Hall this year? Keith Chegwin / Christopher Biggins in Cumbria, was officially opened. (It closed in / Michael Barrymore March 2003 after operating for nearly 47 years. See also: 27th August 1956.) 2. What is Channel 4’s new nude dating show 22 October 1966 called? Bare Necessities / Naked Attraction / George Blake, one of Britain’s most notorious Love in the Buff double-agents, escaped from Wormwood © MW Released life sentenced prisoner Scrubs prison in London and fled to the Soviet 3. Which bafflingly complicated daytime Union. (He had been sentenced to 42 years in gameshow is about to come to an end? prison in 1961. The escape was masterminded Our Team of over 25 Countdown / Tipping Point / Deal or No Deal by fellow prisoner Sean Bourke who believed specialist advisors the long sentence was inhumane. Their story is have a wealth of 4. What job does the lead character of Fleabag told in the play Cell Mates.) experience to offer have? Dog walker / Cafe owner / Weathergirl you including: 23 October 2001 5. When Michael Phelps won the 200m Apple Computer released the first iPod digital • Parole Board Hearings individual relay, he beat a record that had music player. • IPP Sentence Issues stood for … 108 years / 68 years / 2,168 years • Mandatory Lifers 24 October 1946 • Discretionary Lifers 6. How much more did Manchester United pay The first photo of the Earth from space was • Automatic Lifers to sign £89.3m super signing Paul Pogba than taken by U.S. scientists using a V-2 rocket • Sentence Planning Boards they sold him to Juventus for in 2009? captured from Germany after WWII. • Re-categorisation £10m / £25.464m / £89.3m • Category A Reviews 27 October 1986 • DSPD Assessments 7. How tall is quadruple gold gymnast Simone BBC One launched its new daytime television National means near YOU! • Accessing Courses Biles in inches? 62 / 72 / 60 service, including the popular Australian soap • Parole opera Neighbours. We can help you in ANY • Recall 8. Adele headlined Glastonbury this year and PRISON in England and Wales, • Independent Adjudications 29 October 1986 at ANY TIME. spent much of her set swearing like a trooper. • Governor Adjudications How many rude words did she say in 90 The M25 orbital motorway around Greater You can also write to us FREEPOST at: • Challenge of MDT’s London was officially opened. minutes? 33 / 53 / 153 FREEPOST RTAB-BATB-HGAU • HDC “Tagging” • Transfer 9. How much money did the Emma Watson 31 October 1951 Carringtons Solicitors • Judicial Review movie The Colony take in its first week at the Zebra crossings were introduced in Britain. Nottingham • Tariff Representations (The first one was in Slough, Berkshire.) UK box office? £47m / £47 / 47p NG2 2JR • IPP Sentence Appeals • Police Interviews 31 October 1976 Tel: 01150115 958986 34720983 10. Which of these terms has Trump NOT used The first VHS-format videocassette recorder when referring to Hillary Clinton? (the JVC HR-3300) went on sale in Japan. Crooked Hillary / Shillary / Beelzebub Hillary / © www.ideas4writers.co.uk My friend, Hillary Clinton Insidetime October 2016 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 59

Below you will fi nd 10 Lost Letters well-known six letter words, Did I say that? with only their endings remaining. Can you deter- “If over 40 years you are Below are eight 5 lettered Below are eight 5 lettered mine the words? explaining to your general words, each of which has had words, each of which has had two of its letters removed. two of its letters removed. CIL public that the EU is stupid, Can you determine the Can you determine the ______that it’s worth nothing, original words? original words? that you have to leave, ______HID then you can’t be surprised __ _ UE __ _ N if they vote to leave” ______CLH ______NZE “Hip-hop tradition- Jean-Claude Juncker “If you’re big at O O E ally has always DIR ______ESE school you’re going ______“I have been waiting for been a reflection of to be a target. If you ______AND years to take part in Strictly the environment ______REA ______LUG go to school and you’re and I’m so excited that the artist had to A ER finally I get to show the me, you go, ‘Right, endure before he ______OKR ______SOM nation my moves!” I’m just going to made it. So, if you ID O Tameka Empson make myself a bigger want to change the ______AOR ______UXE target. My confi- content of the “I have really bad trypo- U C Y dence, it will terrify music, change the ______REE ______UUM phobia. Trypophobics are them. Inside, you’re environment of the E I T afraid of tiny little holes terrified. But if you’re artist, and he won’t ______TOE ______ARM that are in weird patterns... a bit funny, if you’re have such negative HEA Things that could set me off quicker than them, things to say” ______EBA ______AMO are pancakes, honeycomb they won’t circle TI (Rapper) defending or lotus heads (the worst!)” back on you again.” hip hop on The Daily Catchphrase Anagram Square Kendall Jenner James Corden Show The object is to try to fi gure out the well-known saying, person, Rearrange the letters in each General Knowledge Quiz place, or thing that each square is meant to represent. row to form a word. Write your answers into the blank grid. The fi rst letter from each word, 1. In which year was the Battle of Hastings fought? 6. What is a Stradivarius? reading down, will spell the ______mystery keyword. POL4ICY partypartypartyparty WAGON 1 OPASS 2. What do England, France, Spain, and Algeria 7. What would a cartographer make? have in common? 2 HURSE Carriages £ Maps £ Drawings £ 3 UNPOD __ __ e e ______h / 8. How many pairs of legs has the crab? O 4 RENET 4 £ 3 £ 5 £ Tomorrow WI FE F M ______d ______2 5 OSORT 9. Are turtles mammals or reptiles? F 3. Name the leather pouch on a Scottish Highlander’s traditional clothing. Mammals £ Reptiles £ 1 10. Which alcohol spirit is made from cacti? Word Morph __ p ______2 4. What is meant by Tempis Fugit? Can you morph one word into another by just changing one 3 11. How many in a Baker’s Dozen? letter at a time? It isn't quite as easy as you think! ______4 11 £ 12 £ 13 £ dive 5 5. What was the name of M’s secretary in the James Bond fi lms? 12. Which activity uses the terms purl and plain? Thanks to Gordon Hazell - HMP Dartmoor. If you fancy compiling ______an Anagram Square for us please name just send it in 5 x 5 squares,

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