Mrs Brown’s cons Weekend fun Thames River Police “With her welcoming smile “After every visit the “Many thieves responsible the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees and generous nature she inmate would release the for unloading and moving a voice for prisoners since  could be put in charge of the air from their partner and cargo” Substance Misuse Services” put her back into the box” May 2017 / Issue No. 215 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profi t’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 Mailbag // page 9 Comment // page 24 Comment // page 26 An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verifi ed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations ‘Prison not for an obligation on prisons to punish prisoners. In a White Paper published last year, minis- ters claimed it was necessary “to go back to Legal aid win punishment’ the beginning and make sure that it is crystal clear what the prison system exists to deliver, Ministers have excluded any both to everyone who works in and with it mention of punishment from and to society beyond”.

the fi rst legal defi nition of However, the resulting statutory purpose of for prisoners the purpose of prisons prisons set out in the Prisons and Courts Bill, currently before Parliament, makes no men- Inside Time report tion of punishment. Instead, it says: “Prisons Cuts to legal aid for people in prison must aim to protect the public, reform and Liz Truss, the Justice Secretary, is putting into rehabilitate off enders, prepare prisoners for ruled unlawful by Court of Appeal law for the fi rst time a prisons mission state- a life outside prison, and maintain an envi- ment to “make sure that it is crystal clear what ronment that is safe and secure.” the prison system exists to deliver”. But the “Common law came to the res- “Evidence about prison staffi ng levels, the legislation does not include any mention of Continued on page 27 cue of a marginalised and often current state of prisons, and the workload of forgotten sector of our society.” the Parole Board suggests that the system is Deborah Russo, Prisoners’ Advice under considerable pressure.” Heart stealers healing hearts Service Lord Justice Beatson delivering judgement Gertie and Tilda help ease the stresses and key problems for the Court of Inside Time report Appeal to consider and, in three strains for prisoners and their families of the fi ve, judges found the Government cuts to legal aid levels and more prisoners cuts to be inherently unfair. for prisoners, instigated by than ever before have called Chris Grayling in 2013 when the Howard League and PAS “This decision will make the he was Justice Secretary, were to seek help. Calls to the two public safer. It vindicates our ruled unlawful because they charities’ advice lines have concerns that cuts imposed by are inherently unfair, the Court increased by almost 50 per the former Lord Chancellor, of Appeal ruled last month. cent since the cuts were Chris Grayling, in 2013 present- The judgement came as a imposed. ed a grave risk that prisoners result of a challenge brought would become stuck in a bro- by the Prisoners’ Advice The legal challenge by the ken system,” said Frances Service (PAS) and the Howard Howard League and PAS Crook, Chief Executive of the League for Penal Reform. began in 2013. At that time, Howard League for Penal prisoners were completely Reform, adding, “This sends a The ruling is an important shut out from any possibility clear message that important step forward in making sure of getting legal aid for a wide decisions about prisoners can- that people in prison move range of problems. In the time not be made effi ciently or fairly through the system more safe- between then and the cases in the face of these cuts. We look ly and more effi ciently. Since coming before the Court of forward to hearing from the cuts to legal aid for prisoners Appeal in January and Lord Chancellor with her plans came into force in December February this year, the gov- to give eff ect to the judgment.” 2013, violence and self-injury ernment conceded on four “Keep calm and stroke me” 15 in prisons have risen to record areas of concern. This left fi ve Continued on pages 28-29

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More devilment insidetime Mailbites a voice for prisoners since 1990 Lee Walton - HMP Liverpool The way I feel the national newspaper for prisoners published by In reply to Cain Levi - HMP My name is Dominic Hewitt and I am trapped Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leyhill: ‘A Devil of a The New Bridge Foundation, founded in 1956 to in a system that has no end to my suffering Problem’ (April Issue) - I am create links between the offender and the because of IPP. Six-years over tariff, where community. not a Satanist, but I have, does it end? I feel broken. No justice here for however, read extracts from A not for profi t publication. me, no help, no one cares enough. I am one of Anton LaVey’s ‘Satanic 8,000 lost souls. I pray to my maker to help me Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial Bible’ and it is something I content. Comments or complaints should be in my suffering and show me that there is light directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. would be interested in fi nd- at the end of this journey. Six-years of my life ing out more about - which ‘lost at sea’, no positivity, a distraught feeling Board of Directors may lead to me converting to has taken over my wellbeing. The sentence Satanism. handed down was three-years and sev- Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, en-months - I have now served ten-years. Journalist, Writer and former Magistrate. “Please fi x our sunbeds!” But whilst I have been at Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge D Hewitt - HMP Chelmsford Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon HMP Liverpool, my faith is Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh noted as being none. I have John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and It’s a hard life… enquired about what reli- Level playing field? Managing Director employing former prisoners gious services are held here, I am British born and bred, serving a 13-year Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice Phil Green - HMP Hull what religious books are sentence on which I will be released at the Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation I wholeheartedly agree with the comments from other read- available and who can I halfway point, to serve the remainder on ers regarding the state of the nation’s prisons. It was only last speak to concerning these license under Probation. I was informed that The Editorial Team Monday that one of the tubes on B-wing’s sunbed blew, and faiths? I want to speak to the time on license is part of my sentence. My it took until Friday before it was replaced. Liberty! This clear- various people from diff er- question is, why do foreign nationals (who ly shows that staffi ng levels are at breaking point. ent belief systems. may have committed the exact same crime as me) get returned to their countries, with no It is canteen day today, and upon opening my olives, I was In reply to my queries, I was license conditions, at the halfway point of their horrifi ed to discover that they had mixed black olives with informed of what services sentence? I have witnessed foreign national the green olives. I have been in prison in Italy and Slovenia IPP’s and lifers sent home once they reach are held here and what days where this sort of behaviour would not be tolerated. I know their tariff, while UK-born prisoners are left to they are on, but there was Erwin James John Roberts Rachel we live in a modern society where equality comes fi rst, but rot in the system. I feel that British prisoners no reply to my query about Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE this is political correctness gone mad. are being discriminated against for having speaking to someone from Director Associate Editor been born here. Where is the equality? You may think that things couldn’t get any worse, however, the each faith. I was told - ‘You Commercial governor has now rescheduled our conjugal visits to coincide can only speak to one per- Adrian Goudie - HMP Leyhill Manager with the pony trekking course. My wife will not be amused if son from one faith’. David Roberts she fi nds out I’ve been riding some old nag instead of her. Inspirational Ruby Head of I will keep you posted on my Since I was 14 I have struggled with identity. Administration If things don’t change around here I’ll be off home! quest. Justine Best Both physical and mental and gender. 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Star Letter of the Month Waffle DHL - Modern-day carpetbaggers? Mailbag 2-9 Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize Michael Lawrenson - HMP Haverigg “To blame this and piffle intentional and Jason Shields - I recently ordered some tobacco from our canteen supplier, cold-blooded act DHL, and was surprised to see that when it arrived they had on PTSD is HMP Humber Page 6 charged me 50p over their own advertised price. Under con- offensive to me” It was not so long ago that sumer law, is it true that suppliers must honour their adver- Newsround 10-15 tised price? What is the legal position on DHL (a monopoly in the Queen was talking about here) pushing through, without any notice, an 8.7% increase “This killing what she wanted her in price before VAT? machine must be Government to concentrate buried six feet on in 2017 - and one of those DHL’s prices are already extortionate and prisoners receive very under the ground” things was rehabilitation of Page 13 low pay (no increase in prison wages since 1987), but DHL are prisoners. So, here we are, earning fortunes by selling goods for higher than the advertised Comment 16-30 four months into 2017 and prices, with no competition and no comeback. We have a choice, “Women in gener- what have we had? Nothing, either buy from DHL or buy nothing. This is profiteering. apart from the MoJ waffling al don’t do bad on about topics that have things and don’t nothing to do with reform, “Take a look at any DHL canteen sheet and you break the law” Page 16 training, education. will find that their prices are abnormally high by anyone’s standards” Information 31-37 All Truss has told us is what “What began as a we already know - that pris- I believe somebody should be regulating the canteen or at £ small charitably ons are overcrowded, under- least allow some sort of competition to drive down prices to funded project, staffed, poorly managed and at least the standard that people outside pay. Or are we just ultimately ended that sentences are too long. targets for private companies to rip the piss out of? Page 32 up as a national campaign”

© Deposit Photos “Is that the best she DHL overcharging Legal 38-43 can come up with? Stephen Rolfe - HMP Swaleside Sentencing Beating diabetes Stating the bleeding “I’m not a lawyer but I could see he Ahmed Hammami - HMP Risley obvious? That’s her job, Well here we go again with DHL charging whatever price they feel like on the day, despite advertising a different price. was making a is it, to point out the This week my tobacco increased by 50p with no warning. Page 43 mess of my case” I was diagnosed with Type2 diabetes over ten-years ago and faults but do nothing to Isn’t it about time DHL were reported to Trading Standards? until I came to prison was unable to keep my blood-sugar lev- Jailbreak 44-56 remedy them?” How are they allowed to get away with false advertising? els under control. “Not sure if these Editorial note Liz Truss oversees a 3-bil- new style home My first month in prison was chaotic and difficult, but after DHL/Booker is a collaboration between two organisations, DHL detention curfew lion-pound budget and the providing logistics and Booker are the wholesalers. On previous settling into a routine, I decided to change my life and try to best her team can do is point tags are a good leave prison a new person in many respects. I started work- occasions when enquiries have been made we have been told Page 50 idea to be honest” at the problem and mutter? that it is HMPS that set the canteen prices. ing on my physical, mental and spiritual health. For physical In my opinion she does not health, I started to order soups, salads and fish from the understand the problem and meals menu. Breakfast comprised of porridge and fruit every nor does she care as long as day. I also started to exercise, gently at first by doing stretch- her own political ambitions ing exercises in my cell and walking in the exercise yard. are on track. This Government is very quick to In the first 7-months of my new regime, I lost 30kg and start- speak but very slow to act. ed feeling great, except for the occasional light-headedness when getting up suddenly. When the doctor did my blood test We all know the areas of he told me that I am no longer diabetic and the diabetic meds most concern in prisons, were the cause of my light-headedness. and investment of resources is the answer. In this prison the food budget has been cut I am currently attending the gym 4 or 5 times a week, and I yet again as apparently they have never felt better. By addressing the physical aspects cannot afford to feed us but first, I have given myself a solid foundation for working on the MoJ has just announced the mental and spiritual aspects of my life. plans to build ten more pris- ons! Who is going to step in Being in prison does not have to be a dominantly negative and put an end to this utter experience. You can use the available time to improve your madness? Politicians clearly life, get back in shape, stop smoking and drinking and learn cannot be trusted to run the new skills. If I can do it then so can you. prison system.

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Mailbites Phantom faces not forgotten Robert Shaw - Former prisoner Outrageous damage On Thursday 16th of February during the midday bang up, a 47-year-old man made his choice I’d like to highlight my own to leave this world behind. It was the 3rd suicide that I had personally known about within plight, and that of the many HMP Channings Wood since February 2016. In fact, it was the 6th suicide spanning 4 prisons prisoners I have met over the since I was fi rst incarcerated in August 2014. I was also working in the kitchen at HMP years. The injustice I have Dartmoor when one of my colleagues was murdered. A total of seven deaths and a myriad of experienced and witnessed has other failed suicide attempts as well as a number of natural deaths during a 2 ½ year period. been done by prison-based psychologists. The damage they I was released from what can only be adequately described as the living hell of HMP cause is outrageous. I have Channings Wood, a prison that has recently been scathed by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons as seen some of my friends take ‘a prison in decline’. On 24th February, I left the prison and now my 2 ½ year license has just their own lives when they started. Yet I fi nd myself sitting on the sofa in my home with my soul mate and wife thinking have lost all hope. Why are we about these deaths in custody. The total futility of it all, the impact on their families and inflicted with these charlatans? friends and indeed, on other inmates. Mr McDonagh - HMP Buckley Hall “My heart goes out to those who have died and who surely must have been in a state of hopelessness and despair” Begging for Atchoo! Atchoo! We all fall down rehabilitation © Deposit Photos Prior to leaving the prison, I asked Father David to say prayers for these lost souls and he very kindly did so. I was personally moved to tears. Mercifully, I am alive and have survived my I have been here for 8-months ordeal and living hell. My wife greeted me outside of the prison gates and I never looked back. and I have yet to see one Bird Flu behind bars person in authority who is Tom - HMP Northumberland How many more human beings will suff er in such deep despair? How many more will suff er here to rehabilitate me or the consequences of what is going on day aft er day, month aft er month behind the walls of even talk to me about why I British prisons? I feel ashamed to be a British citizen living in a country which continues its am here and what they can It is bad enough that we have to reside in the fi lthy ghettos of draconian ways. A so-called ‘modern’ country in which the authorities fail its citizens on so do to help. It has actually got the modern British prison system, but now our health is at many levels both in prison and throughout so many other segments of society. Yet despite to the point where I am risk as well. these deep and dark feelings, love conquers all. Through love and the support of my wife, chasing my OMU worker. I family and friends, I believe that I can survive and live again. have submitted 7 apps and Recently here at HMP Northumberland there has been an never had a single reply. I hear outbreak of Infl uenza A, which is the most infectious disease May all those that have shed their mortal coils and gone to a better place truly rest in peace. Amen. all those toffs in Parliament commonly known as ‘Bird Flu’. Last week I came back to the saying that prison is to punish wing to fi nd all staff wearing masks and ushering us into our and rehabilitate - I’m getting cages and telling us nothing was wrong. Reluctant stereotypes Prison slaves the punishment bit, but where Jason Shields - HMP Humber the hell is my rehabilitation? Next thing, there was a doctor at my door to take my tempera- John Maclean - Portugal Tom Stephenson-Wade ture. There was no sign of anything wrong with me, but A very disturbing issue has arisen in this It is plain to see that slavery has made a big - HMP Northumberland about 10 or 15 lads on my wing of 112 prisoners were not so very racist and anti-Islamic prison. The prob- comeback in the UK, and nowhere more so lucky. They were locked behind their doors and quarantined lem is that there are posters everywhere, than in British prisons. Prisoners are forced for the next 3-days. The staff kept telling us that we were safe Stop fiddling around authorised by the governor, depicting men to work for very little money (slave wages) and there was nothing to worry about - but they were telling with beards, prayer caps, etc., with the and all of the profi ts from their labour is the edges us this from behind their masks! words:“If you see someone with a beard and shared by the prison authorities and the big Recently, The Sun on Sunday who prays a lot, then he has been radicalised private companies who pay their prison published an exclusive “I asked if I could also have a mask, but was told and could radicalise others” slaves pennies. interview with Justice Secretary, Liz Truss, in which she drones I did not need one. I then asked, if that was the I cannot believe that things like this can be on about reoffending, violence, “British prisoners are treated no case, why were the staff wearing them? I was told allowed in 2017. I am a white Muslim, but I lack of staff, etc... and her have become radicalised because I speak the better than sweatshop workers in a plan to combat this? ‘English it was ‘a precaution’” and maths lessons to help truth. I don’t want to go to Syria or America Third World country” offenders find work on I’m so happy to discover that the people responsible for my to kill anybody, least of all other Muslim release…’ I’ve got news for Ms health and safety reassure me by putting on masks and brothers. What ISIS is doing is outright They are under-paid, under-fed, under- Truss, basic English and maths refusing to give me one. It seems that prisoners’ well-being is wrong and will never be a true depiction of threat, under-control and they have no rights do not get you a job, and nor not worth anything, just so long as the staff are safe. Islam. of any signifi cance. If they complain or does learning basic computer refuse to work, they are punished. skills. She should know this, No prisoner was kept informed as to what was going on, not HMP Humber has to socially include every Give us the hourly rate, at least, maybe then as should anybody with a bit even the lads in quarantine. This was handled in a very poor religion, especially Muslims, because exclu- you will encourage a work ethic. And ban of common sense. manner and a little bit of compassion from the staff would sion only opens the doors for any kind of slave labour in British prisons. This country have gone a long way. hatred to manifest. should hang its head in shame. James Lake - HMP Highpoint

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Mailbag 5 Rewriting reality Children in Is this Kosher? genuine need R Geary - HMP Channings Wood John Reuben - HMP Lancaster Farms Jason Edward Adams - We have been awaiting, with great interest, HMP Isle of Wight I am a Jewish inmate, and on arrival at HMP the report by HM Inspectorate on Channings Manchester told them that I am Jewish and Wood to be published. A lot of us were keen It is high time that there was that I would require a kosher diet. Only to be to see what the Inspector would say regard- an honest and radical reap- told - ‘You cannot have kosher food until ing the smoking ban and the effects it is hav- praisal of the long-term and your faith has been confirmed by the Rabbi.’ ing on this prison. After all, this prison was highly detrimental conse- This left me nothing to eat for 5-days. one of the four ‘trial prisons’ to start the ban. quences of removing chil- I managed to get a copy of the report and “Jesus woz ‘ere” dren into care, both in terms Some months later I was transferred to © Deposit Photos after reading it I was very surprised that the of their life chances, their Lancaster Farms, only to be told, once again, ban does not even get a mention. Why is mental well-being and even that I could not have kosher food until my this, we wonder? Irrefutable proof? their life expectancy. faith had been confirmed by a Rabbi. Surely Hugh Barne - Chaplaincy Volunteer at HMP Bullingdon my faith should already have been marked I was in this prison for the last inspection For far too long profit and on my paperwork as it had already been con- back in 2012, and this was a good, safe place In William F’s letter (March issue), he asks ‘can any Christian financial benefits for those firmed at Manchester? But, no. I then had to to be. There was one VP unit and hardly any produce evidence that the Bible is true and that Jesus exist- engaged in the fostering and wait 14-days to see a Rabbi. inmates got into debt, and if they did then ed?’ This is an important question to ask, but few historians adoption of children have they were made to sort it out by themselves. would doubt that Jesus existed. We have much more evidence trumped all considerations This, to me, is pure discrimination as only What a difference in such a short time, four- for his life than for famous people like Julius Caesar! The about what is genuinely in Jews and Mormons have to go through this years on and now we have 2 VP units plus a New Testament is full of the testimony of eye-witnesses, such the best interests of the vul- ‘proving’ their faith before being fed a reli- whole block holding almost 100 prisoners as Jesus’ friend John, who wrote, ‘That which was from the nerable young people. gious diet. who are on protection for being debtors. beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with Removing children from our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have everything that they know “Muslims do not have to see an touched - this we proclaim...’ It’s not just Christian sources... and hold dear should only “Tobacco is now selling for £10 per the Jewish historian Josephus and Roman historian Tacitus Iman, their word is good enough, nor be happening when children both wrote about Jesus. roll-up, around £100 in cash for a are genuinely in real danger. do Hindus, Buddhists or Sikhs” packet of black-market tobacco” William claims that the gospels were fabricated a long time Only then can their removal I only receive one Kosher meal a day. I suc- after the events, but actually they are full of verifiable detail Since the smoking ban came into force there be justified, and more lives cessfully sued HMP in 2000 over the same and we can check them against other early manuscripts. For are daily ‘spice attacks’, mainly due to users discrimination and won £5000 in compensa- instance, their use of names and the way they describe first- would be saved if social ser- tion for breach of Article 8 and racial dis- taking their spice in pipes or bongs. Without century Palestine has been shown to be amazingly accurate. vices departments worked mixing spice with tobacco to dilute it, it alongside families for the crimination, and I shall be taking this one for Judicial Review. HMP are discriminating makes the drug twice as potent. The prison As for Paul, he was dead against Christians at first, even try- most part, and were pre- against Jewish prisoners and their defence is is overhung with the smell of burning plastic ing to kill them, until he had a life-changing encounter with pared to return children and and other things due to some people smok- the risen Jesus. Yes, Paul was eager to win people to faith, reunite families after a peri- that - ‘It is a cost issue’. That is NO defence. ing nicotine patches. but he suffered greatly in doing so, including being beaten od of time in care. And if and put in prison. And finally, all through history and today they focused on children I urge all other Jewish prisoners to pursue a Prisoners are stressed out and it is showing. we see people being changed for the better as they personally who were really at risk. claim against HMP as they do not have a I’d like to know how many kettles, TVs and experience God’s love and forgiveness. legal leg to stand on. My solicitor said of my other cell furniture have been smashed in Young people who have claim in 2000 that in ‘28-years of practising frustration since the smoking ban was imple- I know this doesn’t answer all of William’s questions but I grown up in care are far law he had never had a more clear-cut case of mented? I would ask the government to have would be willing to correspond more, and in much more more likely to die in early racial discrimination.’ a serious think about this ban as it has been detail with those who are honestly asking these questions. adulthood than other young an expensive disaster and will do absolutely To correspond further you can write to: St Ebbe’s Church, people, Freedom of I suggest all governors read the small print nothing to rehabilitate anyone. 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Death of the Pull the other one Mailbites John McKinlay - HMP Edinburgh SOTP? Crazy compo? Lloyd Philips - HMP Isle of We have had the Prison Inspectors in here for the past 2-weeks. They were shown only the pass-men’s cells (the I recently wrote to the Criminal Wight screws favourites). They only spoke to pass-men, who had Injuries Compensation been briefed by officers on what to say. Authority with a Freedom of For your information, there Information request. My was a document produced by In the 2-weeks leading up to the inspection, walls were being question was: ‘How much the MoJ, titled ‘206’, which painted, posters were being taken down, items were confis- compensation has been paid was based on the two-year cated and there was all-round panicking going on. In the out to victims of sexual reconviction rates for those event, the prison made sure that the inspectors saw what offences in the last 7-years?’ who participated in the they wanted them to see and heard what the prison wanted This is the answer I received: ‘Between 2010 and 2016, SOTP (Sex Offenders them to hear. £237,755,300 was paid out in Treatment Programme) and compensation to victims of non-participants. This docu- I tried approaching one of the inspectors to tell him of the Some more PTSD than real issues, but I was swiftly moved along by a member of sexual-abuse crimes’. Is this ment is hard to find, but it the ‘crazy compensation shows that High Risk sex-of- staff. No real prisoners were allowed to tell them the facts, like how prices in the canteen rise almost every month but culture’ or do these pay-outs others fenders who participated in have something to do with the programme actually the £4.50 weekly wage stays the same, how we only get our K G - HMP Pentonville cells opened for four-and-a-half hours per day (including the authorities safeguarding increased their risk of reof- exercise), the fact there is zero rehabilitation and officers go their ‘vested interests’? fending by 2%. So, Sgt Blackman is no longer a convicted murderer, his con- out of their way to provoke people. Jason Edward Adams - viction has been overturned and replaced with manslaugh- HMP Isle of Wight ter. Apparently due to his ‘mental health’. Blackman, in my After numerous letters to the All inspections should be random. Then, when they see the opinion, knew perfectly well what he was doing, he was very Head of the MoJ’s Justice absolute degradation of HMP Edinburgh and hear the truth Give and take aware, even telling his colleagues straight away that he had Statistics Analytical from prisoners, maybe they can force the governor to make The trouble with prisons of broken the Geneva Convention and that they better keep it Services, many MP’s, NOMS, changes and improvements that will actually help make a late, or at least one of the quiet. Though they were all openly discussing their plan to MoJ and Programmes - the difference. Instead of a temporary manicure and pre-pre- problems, is some unconsid- murder over their radio network. SOTP has finally been with- pared puppets hiding the ugly side of this jail. ered political decisions have drawn nationwide. This has been made by all involved. I don’t wish to bash the armed forces, far from it, I am a great resulted in all offenders IEP The ‘new measures’ from supporter of them and am respectful of what they do to pro- status reverting back to Justice Minister Liz Truss do tect the rest of us. But, to blame this intentional and Standard from Basic (due to not seem to be any better. cold-blooded act on PTSD is offensive to me. Maintaining Innocence and Poor ideas, very poorly non-participation in the thought out. The smoking “I suffer with PTSD, having been raped and abused SOTP). This has not hap- ban has caused a lot of stress from the age of 10 till I was 15 in a Catholic care pened a moment too soon and anger. Decisions affecting home. It still affects me to this day. It kills me and should have happened thousands of prisoners years ago. should be very carefully what I have to go through on a daily basis” considered, as should their Eventually there will be new implementation. Perhaps it is Blackman, in my opinion, only decided to use the PTSD programmes brought in; time to start giving a little bit, defence because he saw it as a way of getting off with murder. Horizon, for medium risk, instead of taking, taking, Plain and simple. There is a difference between shooting at and Kaizen for high/very Gone but not forgotten taking for years on end. someone across a battlefield and standing over them and high risk offenders. There coldly executing them with the excuse ‘well, they would Mr Collyer - HMP Bure have done it to one of ours’ which is what happened. seem to be no details on timeframes for these pro- Google hell Victorian values grammes, and very little But, my question is this - if it was his PTSD that caused him Steve Barton - HMP Brixton The mailbag, ‘Give me shelter’ to execute a man so casually, then what about me and all the detail about them (whether (March issue) rang a bell with they are offence-related, other PTSD sufferers in prison? Do we get an appeal or retrial There are things about me on the internet/Google that are me as I too was released to or charges dropped because we had PTSD at the time of our whether they are even ruining my life on a horrible scale. Someone has even made a live on the streets on license. crimes? No, of course not, this is just another case of the sys- accredited). If you could find blog about me and is actually using my picture. Even though part of my license tem looking after its own. out more, that would be great. was for NOMS/Probation to In 1996, I was convicted of a rape (I still protest my inno- know where I sleep every Lack of sounds from New beginnings cence). Now, all you have to do is type my name into Google night. They didn’t care. I lived on the streets for 3 months Ryan Hopkins - HMP Stafford and loads of stuff comes up about me, a lot of stuff about the conviction, some stuff I do not know anything about, they before being recalled to pris- NPR on for apparently ‘not staying I have been in prison for 16 months now and have even put my address up there. at a suitable address’, even Ryan Humpage - HMP/YOI Swinfen Hall I have two months left and coming to the though they knew I was sleep- end. Sitting in my cell and looking back on I have received death-threats and a live shotgun cartridge ing in a shop-doorway a few my time in here and thinking it’s gone so was found outside my front-door on Christmas Day 2014. I I wonder why we cannot receive National doors away from Twickenham fast. But I also feel I have become a new per- have had petrol thrown on me and I cannot live in peace or Prison Radio here at Swinfen Hall? We have police station. For some rea- son. I have had time to think about things, get a job because of what is on Google about me. I have had this problem now for nearly 11-months. son, they allowed me to sleep like the person I was before I came to prison. moved house and area 7-times, but once my name is known it rough for 3 months before Could you tell me why? I wasn’t proud of that person, but since com- starts all over again. When I lived in Worthing I was beaten recalling me. There is even a ing inside and getting help from the drug up so badly that the hospital called my next of kin and told section on the license that team and going to church and doing all the them I only had a 13% chance of living. Editorial note says the released prisoner education I can possibly do I am proud of We have passed on news of the problem at must have ‘a suitable address what I have achieved. And I am going to I was convicted when I was 15 years-old and I am HMP/YOI Swinfen Hall. Action has been taken “ that is approved by Probation’. carry on down this path, because I really like now 37. Surely, I have the right to be able to have a What is the point of that clap- to restore NPR to HMP Parkhurst (see below) it. Also it’s a lot easier. My whole family are trap? When will the system resulting from a previous enquiry. proud and have forgiven me. I lost everyone life and not be in constant fear because of Google?” grasp the nettle, and admit and everything before I came here, but now I that homelessness leads to am slowly building everything back, once When I read your recently published article by Mr John National Prison Radio responds reoffending? This needs to be Probation and OMU tell me what’s going to O’Connor, about him getting all of his info deleted from I am pleased to tell you that National Prison properly addressed by those in happen when I get out. I will be living in a Google, I started thinking that this might help me to be safe power. It is 2017 and we are still Radio is now working at HMP Parkhurst - an new area where no-one knows me. I am real- after all these years and allow me to have a life. This is my operating like the Victorians. engineer visited and replaced a streamer box ly happy with all the big changes I have only hope as I am not allowed to change my name, but that that was faulty. made. It wasn’t easy, but I got there in the wouldn’t work anyway because my picture is all over the Samuel Mayo - internet. Please help. Ahmed Hussain - Head of Prison Radio end. HMP Wandsworth YOU WON’T SEE ANY SIGNS LIKE THIS IN PRISON...

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It’s okay to talk © Deposit Photos staff who gave up their break traumatised, insecure and scarred both men- Shaun Royston - HMP Wealstun times to oversee and sign tally and physically. each and every metre rowed, Global List Numbers It is coming up to a year now since I lost a your time and dedication The objective of this event was to assist chil- good friend, Andrew Roberts, to suicide. has been so appreciated by dren in universal distress and give them a Name supplied - HMP Wakefield There has been a lot of hard work put in by all who took part, and even symbol of hope and the knowledge that For your information. In the March issue, in an article about his family and friends to create awareness to more so by the Derian House somebody does care. the Justice Committee on page 33, it states - ‘The telephone prevent such tragic losses occurring again. Children’s hospice. We raised £348 for CLIC Sargent, £460 for number of the House of Commons is available to anyone on the outside … it would be unwise to request that the tele- I’m very happy to say there is a foundation Also, thank you to the gym IDAS and £110 for the Pat Dogs charity. To PEI’s who helped with the phone number of the House of Commons be placed on a pris- called #itsokaytotalk, set up to help men raise the money, we completed a 3 man/ maintenance of the equipment, oner’s PIN phone list’. both inside and out deal with depression, woman team triathlon, a 4-man bench press and big thanks to Mr Stephen anxiety, etc. I speak very highly of this challenge and a cycling challenge with Woolfall who organised the The fact of the matter is that there is what is officially described because, as a man, I find it hard to tell peo- press-ups attached, and the 47cms step up whole event. May you con- as a Global List of pre-cleared numbers available to all pris- challenge. The activities were 135 minutes of ple my feelings and emotions. Bottling it up tinue on your journey with the oners. It should be in the prison library or on a Prisoner non-stop movement. only makes it worse. gratitude of everyone involved. Information Desk, and it gives the telephone number of the House of Commons and the constituency office of your MP. There is nothing to be ashamed of by admitting It goes to show that there A big thank you to all who sponsored us, The numbers are all pre-cleared (not free) so any prisoner you need help and support. A problem shared comes a point in life where internally and externally. Thank you to staff can pick up the phone and call using their normal PIN. is a problem halved. Seek the help that is we realise that life’s purpose and prisoners from both ends of the estab- available and remember it is okay to talk. is to benefit those around us lishment. Let’s hope we have done something Telephone calls to an MP cannot and should not be monitored. Twitter: #ITSOKAYTOTALK who may not have fortune to increase the healing and peace of mind of The Global List, which is some 500-pages thick, also lists the www.andysmanclub.co.uk on their side. those who are in distress. Full Sutton cares. telephone numbers of all the courts in England and Wales.

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The general public believe that all copy of Inside Time and read the 1992 Security Act, but I have been refused sex-offenders are highly dangerous and as it with shock. All you prison- a look at this due to ‘the national security soon as they are released from prison they will ers crying out for help and framework’? attack the nearest person! The truth is the reform (rehabilitation) are opposite. There are a high proportion of How is it possible to arrest someone under the answer to change. It’s innocent men in prison for sex crimes that good that you accept that they did not commit. Sex-offenders are the this Act and then refuse them access to the information on what the Act means? I also you need help, (don’t we most unlikely category of prisoner to reoffend all?) as you are already half yet are given some of the highest levels of asked for any PSI regarding prison mutiny, way there. We are all in pris- imprisonment. The reason for this is public and I have been informed that ‘there isn’t on because we are labelled hysteria brought about by the tabloid press. any’, though I happen to know that there is. I am also not allowed to see the Adjudication as deviant, however I “I’ll sort out the feckin prisons mess” Mark Wrightwick - HMP Parkhurst Manual, which has sections on prison mutiny. believe the answer lies in Can someone reading this please tell me teaching ourselves psychol- Worst of the worst which PSI’s might be helpful that I am ogy and sociology from allowed to see? books. Mrs Brown’s cons Regarding the mailbag about releasing sex-offenders before anyone else (March Sean Martin - HMP Dartmoor Paul Sullivan replies… These subjects are not as issue), I think that is a disgusting suggestion. This is a very serious charge for which Legal boring as they may sound, To solve the state of total disarray in our prisons, I propose a Sex-offenders are the worst people in prison, Aid will be available. You need to seek proper or half as complicated as change of leadership at the top. This is a serious proposal - even historic offenders, because they have put legal advice, qualifi ed practitioners of prison they may seem. All the and my candidate for head of the newly formed Her Majesty’s vulnerable people and children through an law will be able to guide you to any relevant ordeal in some cases worse than hell. Sex- answers to rehabilitation are Prison and Probation Service is… Agnes Brown, head of the legislation which is likely to be within one of within ourselves and how to offenders destroy innocent people’s lives and the Criminal Justice Acts. family and star of the reality TV programme Mrs Brown’s the crimes committed against them some- programme the mind or the Boys. times haunt them for the rest of their lives. So, body’s behaviour - as can be why are people talking about rewarding them found in books. Prison My reasoning is this. In her own family Mrs Brown has a son and showing them undeserved leniency. In my should not be a place of pun- who is a priest who could run the Chaplaincy department. opinion, they should be looking at making ishment, but more about Her other son Rory is gay - he could be in charge of Diversity. sentences longer and harsher for these people, reform and fi xing what is Another son is in jail, so he could run the Thinking Skills not wrapping them in cotton wool. wrong with us. Some of us Programme. Another son is a joiner - he could run the Works L Holmes - HMP Hewell Grange may have a chemical imbal- department. ance in the body or mind, and others may have a “Then there is Cathy, the daughter. With her Release the recalls © Deposit Photos chemical addiction. We need How dare Bartle Frere suggest that sex-offend- to sort out the wheat from welcoming smile and generous nature she could ers should be released before anyone else. I Racist runes? the chaff and volunteer our- be put in charge of the Substance Misuse Services” would say that sex-offenders pose the most J Whitbread - HMP/YOI Rochester selves to help others as well risk to children, women and vulnerable as ourselves. I cannot In fairness the situation we are in at present could not get members of society. If anyone should get early I am a practising Pagan (Norse ‘ASATRU’) believe all the years wasted any worse. So I would like all Inside Time readers (and the release, perhaps it should be license recall and when I write letters to family and friends in jail and seeing that the decision makers at the Ministry of Justice) to think long and prisoners who are back in prison for petty I always use religious runes at the bottom. answers to all our problems hard about my great proposal - and for those who don’t agree things like missing appointments and have not Now this prison has ordered me to stop using were books all along. with me, well they can all feck off ! committed another criminal offence. runes saying ‘they are racist and causing According to a report in your paper, in the incitement to racial hatred’. 12-months ending September 2016, 7,798 DAVIES & JONES RODMAN PEARCE people were recalled to prison for ‘failing to Runes are ancient symbols used for divina- keep in touch’, and a further 5,228 were sent tion, guidance and spiritual purposes, and I SOLICITORS SOLICITORS back for ‘failing to reside at a particular wonder if any other practising Pagan prison- FIGHTING FOR YOU !!! address’. 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Inquest jury fi nds “unlawful use Newsbites Free to Study of force” led to death of HMP The Open University (OU), in partnership with Prisoners’ Manchester remand prisoner Education Trust (PET), is to offer free level 1 courses to “Tailored evidence” from prison offi cers rejected by inquest Coroner 150 prisoners a year as part of a three-year pilot scheme to The jury found that at almost every stage the help prisoners access Higher offi cers had acted disproportionately and Education. The project, which unlawfully, referring particularly to their will run in England and Wales “Cruel” spitting guard actions in moving John between locations in from September, is supported a bent-over position with his hands behind by a grant of £600,000 from his back, and keeping him handcuff ed in You spitting at me? the Garfi eld Weston prone, face-down restraints on the ground, A survey by Leicestershire Police Federation found that an Foundation and £300,000 in contravention of Prison Service guidance overwhelming majority of offi cers want to be issued with from the Open University and policy. mesh hoods to place over the heads of detainees who spit at Students Educational Trust them. A total of 667 of the force’s 1,700 offi cers took part in charity. During the third period of restraint he began the poll. More than a quarter of them said they had been spat foaming at the mouth and making gurgling at while on duty. A growing number of forces across England Longer life noises before becoming unresponsive. and Wales have made the hoods, described as ‘cruel and In a written Parliamentary However, the offi cers kept John in wrist locks dangerous’ by some human rights organisations, including answer Sam Gyimah, whilst checking on his welfare. The jury con- Amnesty International, available to their offi cers. Parliamentary Under- John Ahmed, 42, a father of four, was on cluded that this was unlawful. An ambu- Secretary of State for Justice, remand in Manchester prison lance was called and CPR was carried out, Spitting at a police offi cer is technically assault and the Police confi rmed that the average however John was pronounced dead on Federation of England and Wales is running a campaign minimum tariff length of men arrival at a nearby hospital. called ‘Protect the Protectors’ calling on courts to impose and women serving manda- An inquest jury in Manchester has found harsher sentences on those convicted of assaulting offi cers tory life sentences, in custody that a remand prisoner died aft er being In addition to their fi ndings on the use of and other emergency services workers. as at 31 December 2016, was restrained by prison staff using unlawful force by prison offi cers, the jury also con- 15.8 years for females and force against him, leading to his death. A cluded that the supervising member of Wiped clean… almost 17.3 years for men. The forensic pathologist said the cause of his healthcare staff failed to carry out any appro- average time served by the death was ‘multifactoral’ but said being priate checks on John’s physical wellbeing Last month Scott from HMP Risley wrote to Mailbag suggest- 156 mandatory lifers released restrained was a contributing factor. The during the various periods of restraint. They ing that fi rst time off enders should keep a clean record to give in 2005 was 14 years: the offi cers repeatedly described the prisoner’s also identifi ed omissions on the part of the them a chance. Devon & Cornwall Police may well have taken average time served by the behaviour as violent and/or aggressive, how- his suggestion to heart as they have announced plans to allow prison drug and alcohol clinicians in failing 212 released in 2015 was 17 ever the jury rejected this narrative and criti- fi rst time off enders to avoid having a criminal record under a to refer John to the prison mental health years. In 2015, 562 IPP cised the offi cers for their failure to employ new three year deferred charging scheme called ‘GPS Pathfi nder’. team. prisoners were released after appropriate de-escalation techniques or take Aft er arrest for a low-level off ence, and if the victim agrees, a serving an average of 8 years. account of John’s risk factors - most notably Deborah Coles, Director of the charity fi rst-time off ender will be assessed for their suitability for the his weight. INQUEST said; “He died as a result of the new deferred charge scheme. They will have to sign a binding Bad call unlawful use of force by prison offi cers. That contract which will require them to commit to: A BBC presenter and his he died at the hands of those who should “On more than one occasion it was • No reoff ending during the course of the contract; producer have been rapped have been protecting him is deplorable. This suggested witnesses had tailored • Undergo restorative justice with any victim; for allowing a man who said inquest has heard disturbing evidence about • Undergo support or help from outside agencies; he was calling from prison to their evidence to suit an account that the failure of prison staff to adhere to their • Do 18-36 hours voluntary work within the community. go on-air during a radio own guidance that restraint should be the was not true” phone in and claim he had last resort and that prone restraint carries Compliance with the contract means there will be no criminal abused children. Rather than Senior coroner Nigel Meadows said that dur- inherent risks. Restraint related deaths are conviction, although the off ence will still appear on an cutting him off, presenter ing the course of the hearing, a number of extremely rare in prison and this inquest enhanced DBS check. Allan Beswick spoke to the witness accounts were said to diff er from points to the need for an urgent review by caller for more than four their original police statements. He said; “On NOMS and NHS England into use of force, to Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League minutes. The BBC said it was; more than one occasion it was suggested wit- ensure that health care and prison staff are for Penal Reform, told Inside Time “We welcome this move. Any ‘a most serious error of nesses had tailored their evidence to suit an fully aware of their roles and the need for scheme that gives police more options to keep people from judgement’ and the BBC’s account that was not true.” The Coroner safety of prisoners to be paramount during becoming entrenched in the criminal justice system is a good Editorial Standards Committee directed that the transcripts of the evidence any restraint. Given the ongoing concern thing. 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Looking “Violence in British prisons under- Newsbites Back... stated” says European Committee for the Prevention of Torture Chew on that through the Inside DNA tests on a piece of old chewing gum have Time archives May Their report into Garth prison, near Leyland, said the levels of been used to convict a man of killing his partner violence at the “very unsafe” prison were linked to a major drug 2007 36 years ago. The woman’s body was found in a problem with £40,000 worth of drugs recently uncovered and communal utility cupboard in 1981. In 2014 350 litres (616 pints) of “hooch” found over the Christmas period. police re-opened the case and tested a piece of The document comes as a European human rights watchdog, chewing gum used to secure the cupboard the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Cooking for success door, which had been ‘forensically preserved’. Torture, reported that none of the prisons it visited in Britain The senior investigating officer said; “With the last spring could be considered safe for prisoners or staff. The continuing advances in DNA we are able to Committee also said it believed that “alarmingly high” official 10k for Clink routinely re-open cases, re-examine evidence, figures on violence inside British jails actually understate the and push for successful prosecutions.” true severity of the situation. The Clink Charity has been presented with the Centre for Social Justice’s (CSJ) ‘Social The deepening crisis inside prisons is accompanied by fresh Enterprise Award’. Celebrating the work of Room 101 Pray for me evidence that the privatisation of the probation service grassroots charities, the award recognises A 101 year old man who was recently given a continues to produce “troubling” consequences. The Chief “The Clink’s effective and innovative prison sentence of 13 years for historic abuse “I am interested in hearing Inspector of Probation reveals that probation supervision for approach to reducing reoffending rates of has failed to get his sentence reduced because from prisoners who are a quarter of low-risk offenders in Gwent now amounts to a ex-offenders through accredited hospitality of his ‘extreme old age’. In announcing the Christians or might recently phone call every six weeks. training and education”, with award judgement Lady Justice Hallett said; “It is have had a spiritual encounter sponsors Deutsche Bank’s enterprise It is expected that further progress on the prisons and courts well-known that the Prison Service is by now with God whilst in prison who programme for social good - Made for Good bill - unveiled by justice secretary Elizabeth Truss last month would be interested in building - donating a prize fund of £10,000 to support experienced in making appropriate provision as the biggest overhaul of prisons for a generation - will be a prison prayer network to the charity’s ongoing commitment to for geriatric prisoners, he is relatively sprightly delayed until after the 8 June general election. pray for other prisoners in prisoner rehabilitation. for his age and had he been a younger man, he need of prayer and support.” Peter Clarke, the chief inspector of prisons, says in his report would have been jailed for 20 years or more.” Mailbag on Garth prison that the Lancashire jail, which holds 800 As a ‘serious sex offender’ the man is due to male inmates mainly convicted of serious violent or sexual Probation blues serve an additional two years on extended Strange occurrences offences, had gone into a steep decline in the last three years. licence after his release, taking him to the age Inspectors found during their inspection in February that “As a lifer with a 30 year tariff of 116. levels of violence had increased substantially, with many Privatised probation companies say I am currently doing research incidents linked to drugs, gangs and debt. Two-thirds of profit too low into haunted prisons and prisoners told inspectors they felt unsafe. Women targeted paranormal experiences. Have Two of the private companies that provide Vulnerable women at risk of committing crime 50% of probation services in England and you encountered any strange About 85 prisoners were - in addition to sex offenders - held in six regions (Devon, Lancashire, Norfolk, Wales told the Justice Select Committee that occurrences in your cell or separately because of fears for their safety. A number of Shropshire, Surrey and Sussex) are to benefit they may quit because they are not making prison environment? Do you prisoners were refusing to leave their cells because of the from tailored, targeted support to break the believe in ghosts? Do you tense, and occasionally menacing, atmosphere on the wings. enough money from the contracts; worth cycle of reoffending and turn their lives around believe in the afterlife? Have “The prison was one of the most unsafe we have been to in more than £150million a year. Interserve for good, says the Government - backed by you or anyone you know had recent times. Violence and drugs dominated the prisoner Justice and MTCnovo say their work is going funding totalling over £800,000. The money a near death experience?” experience. A new governor and deputy governor were up but payments are going down. Mailbag appointed immediately,” said Clarke. will be used to provide a more joined-up and Source: The Guardian The Chief Inspector of Probation, Dame tailored support for local women at risk of It’s magic Glenys Stacey, said CRC staff were “over- crime and in the justice system and will bring whelmed by workloads while attempts to together local agencies and services to “I would like to know if any Who you gonna call? Dronebusters! implement ‘half-baked’ new operating provide wraparound care and support to readers of Inside Time (inside models had stalled”. This contrasted with the The Prison Service and police evidence that there is a real women to turn their backs on crime for good. or outside prison) are acceptable performance of the NPS with interested in magic. I am announced last month that problem with drones,” said they are to pool their John Podmore, former prison high-risk offenders. She said; “This wholesale intrigued by magic and would Letters of the Law intelligence to discover who governor and once head of move to fragment the service and give it a like to share my interest with is flying drones loaded with the Prison Service’s anti-cor- commercial edge has been enormously fellow enthusiasts.” Law students are giving new meaning to the contraband into prisons. ruption unit. “I think the difficult … No one in my position would feel phrase ‘letter of the law’ with efforts to Mailbag number of incidents last year comfortable at the moment with the way the address the decline in prison law advice “We are absolutely determined was 33.There are some 10,000 service is performing.” May your God go with to tackle the illegal flow of mobile phones found every caused by the government’s legal aid you drugs and mobile phones year in prisons. My question Probation Service morale at all time low reforms. Volunteers from the University of into our prisons and turn them to the Prison Service would Sussex have opened a ‘letters clinic’ to help “The chapel at Wormwood into places of safety and be, how many of those were Ian Lawrence, General Secretary of the prisoners with questions regarding their Scrubs is sometimes referred reform,” Prisons Minister Sam found hanging from drones?” probation officers’ union Napo has told the rights. Final-year law students will be to as the Prison Service’s Gyimah said. “The threat Justice Select Committee that morale in the working with the Prisoners’ Advice Service cathedral. It is a beautiful posed by drones is clear, but Mike Rolfe, national chair of service was ‘lower than ever before’. He said (PAS) to provide free support and advice on building, a reminder that for our dedicated staff are the Prison Officers Association, that staff were amongst the lowest pad public prison discipline, licence conditions, visiting the Victorians the chapel was committed to winning the agreed. Though he acknowl- servants with many earning just £20,000 and rights, categorisation of prisoners, and both the physical and fight against those who are edged that prisoners told him felt that they had become ‘deprofessionalised’. applications for parole. metaphorical heart of the attempting to thwart progress they were seeing two or three prison experience. Sadly, by wreaking havoc in drones a night delivering He told the committee; “You cannot keep Lecturer and criminal law expert Dr Lucy tolerance of other people’s establishments all over the packages over the walls, he reducing staff at the level that has been Welsh, who is leading the scheme, said; beliefs has rarely been a country. My message to those agreed with Podmore that carried out and have a service that’s fit for “PAS receives 4,000 letters a year and, as a characteristic of any of the who involve themselves in the initiative was an attempt purpose. Already people are seriously small charity, does not have the resources to world’s religions. But whether this type of criminal activity to distract people from, “the stretched and that’s why funding must be respond to every letter without the assistance you pray in a church or a is clear: We will find you and real issue [of] jails in complete uppermost in the government’s considera- of outreach clinics. The letters clinic is an synagogue, mosque or put you behind bars.” chaos, in a crisis and flooded tions, to stop the rot. We are in trouble.” opportunity to help provide legal advice and Gurdwara (or whatever your with drugs, mobile phones assistance to people unable to afford the But critics of the initiative, and weapons.” Podmore beliefs) the Prison Service Unison national officer Ben Priestley said; services of a solicitor in an area which needs said to cost an estimated said a better solution would owes you the opportunity of “Successive governments have sought to intervention”. following your God, in your £3m, say the initiative is an be to look at the wider issue meddle with the probation service. This unrealistic solution to what of smuggling contraband way, to the fullest extent would never have happened to the police You can write to PAS at: Prisoners’ Advice may not be a big problem, into prisons, including the possible.” service. The police service would never have after all. “I have seen no “main route [of] staff Service, PO Box 46199, London EC1M 4XA Stephen Shaw been split in two, half of it privatised.” corruption.” www.prisonersadvice.org.uk 12 Newsround www.insidetime.org Insidetime May 2017

Ghost in the IMB Round-up machine Askham Grange “HMP/YOI Askham Grange continues to Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah receive the High Performance Status award. has admitted that some When set against the economies that have straps used on electronic been made and the subsequent reduction in monitoring equipment (Tags) staff numbers, together with a concerted are faulty. Although the effort to keep the establishment at or near full electronic tags themselves capacity, this is a remarkable achievement worked OK the faulty straps and one that we as external monitors fully could lead to a tag incorrect- support. As a Board we were concerned that ly registering that it had the reduction in staffing levels and uncertain- “Is anyone listening?” ty about the prisons future coupled with an © prisonimage.org been tampered with and result in enforcement action increase in population could lead to prob- Discrimination complaints dismissed against the wearer. lems, however support for the residents appears to have been maintained.” As prisons struggle to cope with escalating levels of violence Mr Gyimah told Parliament; Remarkable success Download full report: www.tinyurl.com/ and fewer staff, and amid fears of increasing radicalisation, a “There is a small chance that mx953zm joint report by the Zahid Mubarek Trust and the Prison some enforcement action Feltham Eastwood Park Reform Trust has revealed that just one in every hundred may have been taken against “It has been clear to the “The Boards principal concern over this year has been the prisoners making an allegation of discrimination against staff an offender or suspect in has their complaint upheld. Board that the proposed low level of staffing and the impact this had on both prisoners response to a false report of a and staff. Fewer staff on duty meant less meaningful interac- increase in educational tamper. It does not mean an tion with prisoners and in the Boards view a negative impact They analysed 610 complaints from eight London prisons during individual will have been provision to 30 hours per 2014 using the special DIRF incident reporting form which was on the regime and treatment of prisoners. Levels of violence automatically sent to week under the introduced five years ago after a review of how racial discrimi- and self harm continue to be a major concern. The Deaths in custody. A single tamper Transforming Youth Custody Custody during the year were tragic and the Board is con- nation was handled following the death of Zahid Mubarek. alert without any additional (TYC) initiative was not cerned that the planned changes to address these take place evidence of an escalation of The report warns that the threshold of proof that prisons use to promptly. The Board was concerned that resettlement services risk is likely to result in an practicable or sustainable. A test allegations from prisoners is often too high, and evidence for some prisoners were inadequate - prisoners going out alternative outcome, such as more realistic target of 22.5 suggesting discrimination was too often dismissed. In a homeless, without work and without the opportunity to a warning letter. So it is hours per week for Feltham quarter of the claims, the reason for dismissing the complaint maintain or re-establish links with their families.” unlikely that a first tamper has now been proposed and was ‘weak’, often just stating ‘no evidence of discrimination’. Download full report: www.tinyurl.com/kpa7mgb on its own will result in an is awaiting confirmation offender being recalled. In contrast the research found that nearly 75% of staff claims from the YJB and the MoJ. Foston Hall were upheld. One in five complaints made by staff were used There was a delay in the “As noted in our last year’s report the Board is aware of the Liberal Democrat Leader Tim as a way to defend themselves from allegations of bias from increasing challenges posed by the population of HMP Foston Farron described the revela- implementation of prisoners, even though Prison Service Instructions state that Hall, many of whom have extremely serious and complex tion as ‘a colossal blunder’. Minimising and Managing prisoners who allege discrimination must not face recriminations. problems. Frequently these are related to mental ill health, Physical Restraint (MMPR) He said; “People may have learning disability, personality disorder, substance abuse The majority of prisoner complaints were about race (62%) been wrongly sent back to technique across Feltham A and chaotic, fractured and unsupported backgrounds. Staff followed by religion (15%) - with a third of these about Islam prison because of this and it was not finally and management continually have to deal with the manifes- - and disability (10%), with verbal abuse the most common government’s sheer inepti- introduced until the tations of such problems including self harm and abuse, tude. A review is urgently reason for alleging discrimination. The report says; “Black beginning of October 2016. disruptive behaviour, verbal aggression and violence to other needed to ensure this doesn’t prisoners are over-represented in segregation units, more Carillion, the repair and prisoners or staff. The Board has continued to observe skilful, likely to have force used against them, and more likely to be happen again. The govern- professional and caring responses to challenging, highly maintenance contractor, on the basic regime. Muslim prisoners are more likely to say ment can’t seem to even do charged and potentially dangerous situations.” the basic job of keeping an continues to be a source of they have been victimised by staff. And both groups are less Download full report: www.tinyurl.com/mq98haj likely than their white counterparts to believe that officers eye on convicted criminals. frustration around the treat them with respect.” Yet they have given G4S prison. One of the ongoing Haverigg another contract. What are problems throughout the these people doing?” “Of particular concern is the impact of major organisational Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “The reporting period on the A fact that the prison service allowed this study is testament to its change on prisoners, staff and the overall regime occurring as Side has been the inefficient desire to learn from independent scrutiny, but the findings in G4S informed the Ministry of a consequence of unprecedented levels of violence, bullying, this report show widespread failings in the complaints process. Justice (MoJ) on March 14th and limited provision of all sexual assault and drug misuse. In October [2016] the Operational It is simply not credible that virtually every complaint of and has been testing straps. types of clothing and Capacity of the prison was reduced from 654 to 286 and three discrimination made by a prisoner about staff is false, when we They say around 1% of the equipment for YPs and staff out of the seven accommodation units were closed. The combination of reduced staff resources and the loss of know as a matter of fact that many minority groups in prison 11,500 devices are likely to alike.” routinely experience disproportionately negative outcomes.” be faulty. Only straps that experienced officers with the tension of increased illicit use of have entered the system since Download full report: NPS has been a major focus of concern to the Board this year.” More information: http://tinyurl.com/m96hv8z October 2016 are affected. www.tinyurl.com/kqwyoy7 Download full report: www.tinyurl.com/me2vfyq

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Oops… She said… He said… Newsbites World prison review A man being interviewed for a job as a police officer in West Virginia (USA) acciden- We know who you are… tally confessed to raping an According to statistics unconscious woman and released by the Government, videoing the offence on his as at 31st December 2016, the mobile phone. The man said National DNA Database they were both intoxicated (NDNAD) held the DNA when the offence happened. profiles of 5,231,849 individu- After checking the man’s als. The total for England and Sex trial confusion phone, police contacted the Wales was 4,784,954. The woman who confirmed she majority (80%) are of males Last month, Justice Secretary Liz Truss announced the end of had not consented and knew and of these 76% are of white court cross-examination in sex offence trials. The government nothing of the video. Instead men. Over 47,000 profiles are said ‘Victims of sex crimes will soon be able to have their of getting the job as a for people under 18 and over cross-examination pre-recorded before trial’. They said the policeman the man is looking 14,000 are for those aged new system would ‘spare rape victims the trauma and Death on every corner at 25 years in prison. under 16. inconvenience of attending court hearings. Victims of rape and other sex crimes will have their cross examination New super-prison Ewe’s nicked evidence pre-recorded and played during the trial’ - “The law “Forget the laws on human rights…” Plans are underway to build A man has been convicted of already includes protections to ensure that questions In the ten months since Rodrigo Duterte became President the biggest prison in Australia. sheep rustling in Wales after - including previous sexual history - can be deemed inadmis- of the Philippines almost 9000 people have been killed in The prison near Grafton in police used sheep DNA to sible. The rollout of pre-recorded evidence offers further the world’s bloodiest ‘war on drugs’ northern New South Wales protection, as questions can be edited out of the recording if connect sheep sold at a will have space for a total of barristers flout these rules. In criminal courts the Bill paves farming auction to sheep Bodies found lying in the streets, in underpasses or in shopping 1,700 men and women. It will the way for more virtual hearings which means more vulnera- be built and managed by a stolen from a farm in Wales. malls with their hands tied behind their backs have become ble victims can give evidence away from the court room and consortium of private In order to make the a regular occurrence in the Philippines since President Duterte without having to meet their attacker face to face.” came to power. On average ten people a night suspected of companies including Serco. connection police waited being involved in the trafficking of drugs are shot, execution Construction is due to start until the suspected sheep style and left in public spaces as a warning and deterrent to soon and be completed by 2020. gave birth and then took l Rape prosecutions rose to 3,900 in 2015 - up 9% since others. The highest number found in one night was 22. Often blood samples from the 2014, up 36% since 2005, and the highest number prose- cuted in the last decade. they have notes attached: “Sorry I destroyed my life because Giant haul lambs. Scientists at the of drugs, sorry I am a drug dealer.” Kuwaiti security forces have Animal and Plant Health l The number of rape convictions reached 1,300 in 2015 uncovered drugs to the value Agency were then able, using - up 11% since 2014, up 63% since 2005, and the highest The killings have long been suspected of being the work of of $1.6 million (£1,280,000) in DNA, to prove the newborn number convicted in the last decade. the state - led by Duterte, who was elected President after the Central Prison as prison- lambs were related to rams l Average sentences for rape also rose by over three years running on a platform against crime, drugs and corruption. ers had tried to smuggle the belonging to the farmer who since 2005, reaching 117.9 months in 2015. He promised his electorate that within six months he would drugs in after attending their lost the sheep. rid the Philippines of all three blights on their society. He court hearings. Kuwait’s also promised there would be blood. “My campaign against Al-Anbaa newspaper quoted Dying for a cuppa Liz Truss said; “With more victims now finding the confidence drugs will not stop,” he said during one proclamation, “until a security source saying that The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to come forward, I am determined to make their path to justice the last pusher and the last drug lord are...” Then he drew his the security guards uncov- says it will study the finding of swifter and less traumatic. This will not reduce the right to a hand across his throat. “If you want to kill the drug addict, ered 25 sim cards, two bags an inquest which found a 10 fair trial, but will make sure victims of these abhorrent crimes just shoot him in the head,” he said. He won the election with of pure heroin, two rolls minute delay in treating a are protected and able to provide their best possible evidence.” a landslide victory. Justifying his bloody policy he said: “You containing drug substances prisoner at a hospital could are worried about the deaths of 1000, 2000, 3000? Hitler and a white bag containing However the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cymgiedd, have contributed to his death. massacred three million Jews. Now there are three million drug substances. said that Ms Truss and the MoJ had got it all wrong and the The man was at the hospital drug addicts. I’d be happy to slaughter them.” (In fact Adolf law changes were just to allow child witnesses to pre-record Extreme witnesses? following a heart attack and Hitler was responsible for the deaths of 6m Jews.) their pre-trial evidence. He said her pledge to spare alleged The Russian Ministry of was handcuffed to a prison rape victims cross-examination was wrong. Lord Thomas told But last month two senior officers who are critical of President Justice is taking action to officer. The man had another the Lords Constitution Committee: “She was completely and Duterte’s “war on drugs” came forward claiming that the declare Jehovah’s Witnesses heart attack at the hospital absolutely wrong. And I am very disappointed. I can under- Philippines police have received cash payments for executing an extremist organisation, but doctors could not use a stand how the pressures were on in November but she has drug suspects, planted evidence at crime scenes and carried ban it, and seize its assets. defibrillator to restart his taken a position that is constitutionally, absolutely wrong. I out most of the killings they have long blamed on vigilantes. The matter is currently before heart because a second regret to say that we had to correct a serious misapprehension In interviews with the news agency Reuters in the most the Russian Supreme Court. officer, who had the keys to that had arisen as a result of what the Ministry said ... about detailed insider accounts yet of the drug war’s secret The Jehovah’s Witnesses handcuffs, had gone off to the roll-out, and the way we were proceeding with pre-record- mechanics, the two senior officials challenged the govern- Organisation says; “The the hospital canteen to get a ed evidence,” he said. “Judges had fought for the reforms for ment’s explanations of the killings. Witnesses could lose proper- drink and the defibrillator the pre-recording of children’s evidence brought into effect ties dedicated to religious couldn’t be used until the over some six years. Through the very, very hard work of Almost 9,000 people, many small-time users and dealers, have worship, almost 400 legal patient was un-cuffed. three judges.” been killed since Duterte took office on June 30 2016. Police entities could be dissolved, say about a third of the victims were shot by officers in and each of the over 170,000 self-defence during legitimate anti-drug operations. Human Witnesses could be criminally Tremletts rights monitors believe many of the remaining two thirds prosecuted merely for were killed by paid assassins operating with police backing or meeting for worship, reading the Bible together, or talking SolicitorsEst.1983 by police disguised as vigilantes - a charge the police deny. to others about their faith.” We cover: The two senior officers, one a retired police intelligence Nationwide Coverage officer and the other an active-duty commander, claimed the The big dig Criminal Defence killings are in fact orchestrated by the police, including most 29 prisoners managed to Appeals against conviction/ of those carried out by vigilantes. tunnel out of their prison in sentence northern Mexico. The tunnel, CCRC Referrals “It is the Philippines National Police doing it,” said the 5 metres deep and 40 metres POCA/ Confiscation work retired intelligence officer. “This killing machine must be long was dug from under a To recieve more information, buried six feet under the ground.” He said he was angry hut the prisoners had built in about the impact of the killings on police discipline and a part of the prison controlled please get in contact wanted “to put Duterte on the defensive.” by the prisoners. Because of Call: 01273 603314 overcrowding, corruption and or A report authored by the officers claims that police are paid lack of staff, prisoners control Email: [email protected] to kill not just drug suspects, but also - for 10,000 pesos (£156) many areas of Mexican prisons. a head - rapists, pickpockets, swindlers, gang members, 30 guards at the prison are www.tremlettssolicitors.com alcoholics and other “troublemakers.” under investigation. 14 Newsround www.insidetime.org Insidetime May 2017 Child light award Vets unbalanced More than 2,500 former Sarah Burrows, the founder of the charity Children Heard and members of the armed forces Seen launched three years ago to transform the lives of were sent to prison last year, children whose parents are in prison, has been honoured by many convicted of serious the Prime Minister with a Point of Light award for devoting violent or sexual offences. her time to supporting families in need. Research by the Howard League found that 25% of She told Inside Time that she was inspired to set up ‘Children Singing free ex-service personnel were in Heard and Seen’ after learning that 65% of boys who have a prison for sexual offences, parent with a conviction go on to offend themselves. compared with 11% of the Award for ‘choral cure’ Determined to do what she could to break this cycle of civilian prison population. intergenerational offending, Sarah founded the charity which There was dancing to the Jailhouse Rock Concerns have been raised uses mentoring and community activities to support children when a community choir formed in a prison about the impact of serving Anyone for a jump suit? and young people who have a parent in prison. She said; “We in Northern Ireland was named overall in conflicts such as Iraq and are a community based organisation so we work with any winner of annual awards for therapists and Afghanistan. children who live in the Thames Valley area regardless of health scientists. Organisers, supporters and where their parent is in prison: we currently support children Guantanamo UK? past members of the Voice of Release choir Frances Crook, chief whose parents are in 12 different prisons across England. burst into an impromptu chorus of Elvis executive of the Howard New government initiatives to Presley’s hit in celebration of their success at League, said; “Members of the “The charity’s work encourages children and young people to tackle extremism in prisons the 2017 Advancing Healthcare Awards, held armed forces represent about form relationships with their parent before release from prison, at Chelsea Harbour in London. The awards 5% of the prison population, Within the next few months a special ‘prison offering them a safe space to share their feelings. Children are aim to highlight the achievements around the but they represent a within a prison’, the first of its kind in Britain, matched with volunteer mentors who help raise aspirations, UK of allied health professionals and others disproportionate number of will open at HMP Frankland to which some of providing support within their homes and communities.” who work with them outside the medical and serious violent offences and the more dangerous terrorist prisoners will be nursing professions. sexual offences, and that moved. Amid fears of radicalisation the In a personal letter to Ms Burrows, Mrs May said; “Through raises questions that need Government produced a report last year Children Heard and Seen, you have created an important support The Voice of Release was founded in 2014 by answering. These are not which found that Britain’s ‘most subversive network for children facing challenging circumstances. Your occupational therapists at Hydebank Wood victimless crimes. They have and extremist prisoners should be kept programmes are giving a voice to children of prisoners and women’s prison in south Belfast as a way of a terrible effect on the victim.” separately to avoid them trying to radicalise helping families to break the cycle of offending that can develop.” trying to engage prisoners who were vulnerable prisoners in the general population.’ or at risk of suicide or self-harm. Women who The MoJ began identifying Ms Burrows said; “Children of prisoners are an invisible group prisoners who were former stepped forward to take part led develop- The Government have also announced a and I feel passionately that they should be supported to fulfil forces personnel as they ment of the venture, winning a Dragons’ special 100 strong team of counter-terrorism their potential. Breaking the cycle of generational offending is entered prison from January Den-style pitch for initial funding. The choir experts to tackle extremism in prisons. They not only a positive outcome for the child but for the communi- 2015 after concerns about has since gone on to make a CD, put on paid will assess intelligence and act as a ‘nerve- ty as a whole by reducing the anti-social behaviour and crime convictions of ex-service performances. Regular monitoring of those centre’ for all counter-terrorism and counter- in their area. My wish for the future is that all the children in personnel were raised in a taking part has shown a decrease in stress extremist work across prisons and probation England and Wales will be supported by Children Heard and review of the criminal justice levels, improvement of mood and a greater and advise prison staff on specific threats and Seen not only the children of prisoners within Thames Valley.” system. Last year £4.6mil- sense of hope thanks to the “choral cure”. how to protect prisoners from being radical- lion was given to various ised. It will be formed jointly by the Prison Acknowledgements: The Guardian www.childrenheardandseen.co.uk schemes tackling the issue. Service, Probation and the Home Office.

The new task force will cover all forms of extremism including Islamic and far-right groups. Governors have been instructed that, as well as banning extremist literature, they can remove anyone from communal worship who promotes anti-British or other ‘danger- ous’ views.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said that preventing the most dangerous extremists from radicalising other prisoners was fundamental to public protection.

Ian Acheson, who carried out the review into extremism for the government last year, welcomed the new initiatives: ‘I’m pleased to see that a key recommendation in my 2016 extremism review to transform terrorist prisoner management will be implemented by the Ministry of Justice,” he said. “I argued for the creation of a multi-agency ‘counter terrorism command’ to be located within the Prison Service and staffed by prison, police and security service professionals to give it badly needed expertise, resource and credibility to combat the operational threat posed by violent extremism. This strategic unit ought to be responsible for the manage- ment of terrorist offenders and extremists ‘end to end’ from remand through prison sentence to resettlement in the community. Genuinely joined up, intelligent planning and risk management is the best way to protect the community from Islamist and other forms of extremism. It now remains for the new HMPPS to make these plans a reality and I hope that there is continuing close scrutiny and oversight from the MoJ, Parliament and HMI Prisons to ensure that they do so with alacrity.” Insidetime May 2017 www.insidetime.org Newsround // Local Prison News 15

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A project supporting men Mmm roast dinner... serving sentences at HMP The Clink Restaurant located at HMP Brixton Hewell and their families has offers prisoners the chance of rehabilitation been awarded £446,296 from through training them for their NVQ qualifi ca- the Big Lottery Fund. tions in Food Preparation, Food Service and Supported by the grant The Food Hygiene, is opening to offer Sunday Lunch Hewell Rainbow Project, part and Thursday dinner services for the fi rst time. of the YMCA, will be able to Storing the news By extending the opening hours of the continue to off er parenting restaurant, The Clink will be able to offer more courses, family days, baby training for the prisoners by offering evening bonding sessions, and Shelving the Moon and weekend experience. The restaurant uses locally sourced produce for its menu and workshops, which are aimed Prisoners from Guernsey Prison have been at creating a supportive some ingredients are sourced from The Clink building new shelving at Priaulx library to Gardens at HMP Send. There, female prisoners environment for prisoners on hold archived copies of the Guernsey Press are training towards their NVQ in horticulture. their release by strengthening and its forerunners. Acting chief librarian family bonds and improving Sue Laker said the old Dexion frame shelves communication and for the had been in place since about 2004 and it No men for admin fi rst time the project will also was decided to replace them with something Last summer the then Justice Secretary Michael Gove named HMP Wandsworth as one of six give staff in schools and more in keeping with the library’s newspaper ‘reform prisons’. Three months ago Wandsworth nurseries the skills they need room, which has old local papers going back Therapy with Mavis and Gertie governor Ian Bickers told MPs about his plans to identify and support as far as 1781 and includes copies of The Moon, the Guernsey Gossip and The Comet. to allow prisoners to be trained to deal with children aff ected by impris- low-level administration work, leaving offi cers Paws bring peace to Parc onment, helping to improve Liaison for the Priaulx Library Council, free for more important functions. However their well-being. most of the ‘Peer Advisers’ have been left Two of man’s best friend are supporting the rehabilitation of Hunter Adam, said that during his time as a deputy he had become aware of the work locked up and only 15 have been partially prisoners at HMP & YOI Parc. Two trained therapy dogs, Nichola Harris, Children and being done at the prison to give inmates trained. The reason given was that ‘prisoners Belgian griff ons Gertie and Tilda, have been visiting the Families Manager at HMP practical jobs while they served their time could not be brought for training because they prison to interact with prisoners and their families for almost Hewell said; “This is an and came up with the idea of asking Les were mostly located on the fi ve main wings at a year and their owner, Mavis Jenkins, recently received the exciting opportunity to Nicolles Prison to construct the shelves. Wandsworth, which are on virtual lockdown Stella Award at Cruft s in recognition of her work with the improve the quality of life for for most of the day.’ Ian Bickers has now left dogs at Parc and other establishments and schools. off enders and their families.” Acknowledgements: Guernsey Press the prison, ‘moved up to a more senior position within the prison service’ so the future of the Mary Cooke, G4S Business Support Offi cer at Parc, told Inside Wayland Truss visit scheme is in doubt. Time; “While it is still very unusual in a prison environment, Blooming therapy dogs have been used for some time in places like See you Mrs… Justice Secretary Liz Truss recently visited safer custody units and psychiatric wings, because of the marvellous A women’s prison has been named as the HMP Wayland as part of a prisons tour to see calming eff ect they have on people who interact with them. most violent in Scotland. In 2016 in HMP-YOI how her reforms are working aft er the launch Chelsea Flower Show will We have several prisoners who suff er with post traumatic Cornton Vale there were 46 reported attacks of Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service showcase a prison garden on staff, compared to the most violent male stress disorder, and we’ve seen how spending time with the (HMPPS). She has given Wayland an extra initiative from The Clink prison, HMP Grampian, with 29 attacks. The dogs, just holding and stroking them, calms them down if £200,000 to recruit more specialist staff and Gardens at HMP Send. The head prison, built in 1975, holds just 120 prisoners they’re feeling stressed or anxious. install CCTV and mobile phone detectors. gardener and trainer Gary and is due to close next year to make way for a Gates said: “We’re delighted new national women’s facility, which will be “But for every prisoner, having a live animal they can interact Aft er the visit she said; “I am committed to to be joining HighGround built close to the existing prison. with and who responds to them, who they can care for, brings and Miracle Gro at this year’s some normality back into their lives.” She added: “The dogs making prisons safe and decent places to live and work, reducing the risk of reoff ending Chelsea Flower Show. Campus horribilis are probably not what you would automatically associate Welcoming 157,000 visitors Jail cells once used to house some of Britain’s and in turn creating fewer victims of crime. with a male prison population, but from their fi rst visit they through its gates each year, most notorious criminals will soon provide a We must do all we can to give prisoners the stole everybody’s hearts.” the show is the perfect platform home-from-home for university students. best chance to turn their lives around.” and opportunity for us to HMP Canterbury’s 205 years as a prison saw Although Mavis, the dogs’ owner lives some distance away, showcase the work of both The stretches for notable inmates including East The Ministry of Justice said; “Wayland is she freely gives her time to visit Parc and is becoming a Clink Charity and The Clink End gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray before regular attendee at the monthly family days in the visits hall. creating necessary links with local employers Gardens as an individual its closure in 2013. The prison, which held a Mavis said; “I’ve seen fi rst- hand the impact that my dogs to help reduce the risk of reoff ending. This training project that is making maximum 400 prisoners in its pomp, was have had on the men at Parc over the past year. People might will help transform the lives of off enders by a genuine diff erence to the bought by Canterbury Christ Church think it’s strange to bring therapy dogs into a prison, but it’s getting them into employment, with training lives of prisoners every day, University a year later. Now the buildings are good for the prisoners and the dogs love all the extra atten- opportunities which have secured sustained and in turn making society a being adopted as part of the North Holmes tion they get.” job opportunities with local employers.” safer place.” Campus set to host future undergraduates.

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From good to bad Inquest, made an important law. Is it due to their superior Last month I described some point: ‘Behind the statistics nature? Again, I am not qual- Month by Month positive initiatives going on are stories of avoidable trage- ified to answer that question. inside HMP Bronzefield. This dy.’ Avoidable is a challenging But it would seem to be a ‘yes’. month my colleague Noel word but it is also a complicat- Smith reports very favourably ed word. Aren’t all tragedies Recently, a therapist friend of on YOI and Resettlement avoidable if things had gone mine explained her view that Prison East Sutton Park in Kent. differently or been handled modern women had and Noel told me that it doesn’t differently or, well or... would continue to overtake even feel like a prison with men in the modern era. ‘They even the sign painted blue in Of course, mental health are better able to deal with the a friendly way and all kinds should be treated, of course complexities of our fast-mov- of useful, non-gender specific far too many women commit ing life because their brains training going on, including suicide or die behind prison are wired to do more than one butchery. He will write more bars. But there is another sta- thing at a time. ‘In fact’ she about his visit next month. tistic which shouldn’t be over- added, ‘they can act and think looked in the commendable in multiples’. Continuing on So, there are good things urge to help women who are my Prime Minister theme, I going on inside prison but failing: there are nearly felt moved to discover just then there are the bad and eighty-five thousand men in how many female world lead- shaming news stories. The prison and less than four ers there have been in the past failures of prison treatment thousand women. This is even fifty years. The answer is sev- and so-called rehabilitation though the number has dou- enty and growing all the time. are highlighted by the amount bled since 1995, due to heavi- Although most have come of suicides, deaths and self- er sentencing. Why is there from Europe and Scandinavia, harm in women’s prisons. The such a difference? This isn’t countries in Africa, Asia and BBC online magazine last just a statistic that can be South America, several with Dame Millicent Fawcett, Vote winner month told in some detail the tossed away. Why are there so huge populations, have elect- story of two women, Jessica few women in jail compared ed women to run them. No Whitchurch and Charlotte to men? I’m not a psychoana- aggressive tactics, including disposal of Her Majesty’s pris- prizes for pointing out three Nokes both of whom died, lyst but it seems to me that this eventually arson and bomb ons are at or near the bottom notable absentees: America, Jessica a definite suicide and is saying something pretty attacks were in contrast to the of the pile. The litany of things Russia and China. Charlotte’s as yet undeclared. good about women. Rachel Billington Fawcett non-violent approach that have gone wrong in their Both had moved into a down- which included Lobbying MPs lives are rehearsed by anyone All the same these statistics ward spiral from being bright Superior nature and peaceful demonstrations. who looks into the situation: prove that women can have positive young women. Both Women not only give birth to Celebrating women dysfunctional family, prob- the top jobs and still keep A woman is going to be cele- Women finally won the right lems with drugs or drink, vio- should have been treated for children (with a bit of help mental health problems rath- from men), thus keeping the their representation in prisons brated in Parliament Square. to vote in 1918 so the erection lent abuse perhaps from a relatively low. Dame Millicent The first woman to be hon- of Fawcett’s statue next year (male) partner and severe er than being in prison. human race going, become Prime Ministers etc etc. (quite Fawcett, forceful but always oured in this way. It’s true is timed to celebrate the cen- mental issues - perhaps aris- peaceful, who did so much to she’s dead but then so are tenary of this important event. ing from the above or perhaps Avoidable tragedies a lot of these etc etc. success- The number of women who es rather recent) but also keep get women on the road to the Winston Churchill, Nelson already there - are the usual top would have been proud. Mandela and Abraham From top to bottom culprits. died in prison in England and themselves in the main out of Wales reached a record high prison. How ever do they do Lincoln to name a few who Since I visited HMP A small coda: Dame Millicent Bronzefield last month I’ve Other things that most people of twenty-two last year, more it? By concentrating on the have made it to this prime is an ancestor of our present been thinking a lot about the don’t realise about female pris- than half of them suicides as bad news stories about women position opposite the Houses Foreign Secretary, Boris of Parliament. They are stat- place of women in the UK from oners is that only a very low the Prisons and Probation in prison, we are overlooking Johnson, from which I, with ues of course but that means those at the top to those, argu- percentage have committed Ombudsman Nigel Newcomen the immense good news story: the best will in the world, can their position of power is all ably at the bottom. No-one violent crimes (less than 20%), recently reported. Deborah women in general don’t do draw no deductions. the more secure. would argue that our Prime they have frequently been Coles, director of the charity bad things and don’t break the Minister Theresa May is at the taken into care as a child (31% Dame Millicent Fawcett top in the political sphere and as opposed to 2% in the gener- formed the National Union of not many would dispute the al population), and they usu- ASN LAW Women’s Suffrage Societies in Queen as another winner in ally have children who almost See our SOLICITORS 1897. It was founded ahead of the game of life - which does certainly suffer from their page in the Anthony Stokoe • Joel Binns the famous and, in some cir- not mean everybody would absence - unless very lucky Rasheed Nujeerallee ‘Jailbreak’ section cles, notorious Suffragette like to be Queen or even Prime with their grandmothers. Independent Prison Law movement led by Emmeline Minister. Count me out for one. Such women seem a very long Expert since 1994 Pankhurst and her family. way from our Queen or our THE PRISON ‘People Before Profit’ Pankhurst already has a stat- Nor do I think that many Prime Minister, linked indeed ue down the road from would disagree that women only by their gender. But how PHOENIX TRUST Continuing the Fight and Challenge Parliament Square. Her who find themselves at the ever can the gap be closed? Despite Legal Aid Cuts Head doing you in? 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© Christian© Sinibaldi Write in and tell us your solution in no more EOIN McLENNAN-MURRAY than 300 words JAKE FILLEMORE Reduce and substitute Close em’ down and start again “There needs to be a set of measures that outlines a worthwhile, beneficial intention will “I think the whole system is in error” prevent so many people being sent into then describe the many factors holding the custody” prisoner back: lack of library access or of use- I’ve been in prison too many times. I ful books in the library, lack of appropriate first went in when I was 17. I never My approach to halting and then revers- courses available, lack of funding, lack of sup- knew about prison. All I knew was what my ing the appalling state of our prisons port. Avoidable problems are preventing pris- mates who’d been in had told me. They said it consists of 2 strategies: oners around the country from pursuing the was ‘cool’ - they bragged about the scams and aspirations that could help change their lives. swaggered and boasted about how they were 1. The existing prison population has to be reduced This is all the more dispiriting when compared ‘big’ now they’ve been in jail. I was in awe of so that prisons are not overcrowded and staff to what can be achieved when prisoners do them - they were ‘hard’ and had big reps. I prisoner ratios are at a level that facilitate full have what they need - prisoners proudly tell remember my first night in. The cell was stink- purposeful regimes and allow staff the time to us about the qualifications and skills they’ve ing. There was a toilet with no lid and no seat develop proper relationships with prisoners. obtained using the books we’ve sent, and about and it was blocked. The window had a pane of the progress they’re making. We had a letter glass missing and the wind was bringing in all 2. There needs to be a set of measures that pre- in January from a prisoner inviting us to his of the crap that was being shouted out of the vent so many people being sent into custody. LUKE BILLINGHAM degree ceremony; he said he was expecting a windows on either side of me and above me. I was freezing and shitting myself. In the morn- Suggestions that could help deliver the first First and wanted to thank us for our support. ing I asked if I could have another cell please strategy are: Hope and direction We’ve had a few letters from prisoners who’ve - but was told I’d made my choice of cell when • Immediate release for any ISPP prisoners in “If the right resources are in place to help been helped by our books to win Koestler Trust I committed my crime - (GBH. I was in a fight custody who have 2 or less year tariffs; prisoners harness their potential, they awards. We received a letter recently from an with three other boys and one went down with • Convert all other ISPP sentences to determi- prisoner who got his first ever book from us, a can turn their determination and perse- a big gash on his forehead. I took the blame as nate sentences; dictionary, which helped him learn English - verance into brilliant success” I was the biggest.) I thought ‘being hard’ was • Have a presumption for HDC for all low risk and he’s now an education mentor. We’ve had a way of showing who I was. But in that cell on offenders serving 2 years or less who are with- hundreds telling us about courses that have Books can’t solve the biggest problems that first night I was shitting myself. When the in 9 months of their sentence expiry date; been passed. in our prisons - wide-ranging reforms officer told me I had to lump the cell as it was • Abolish recalls on sentences of 2 years and less are needed to address overcrowding, my choice to be here I just felt weak and help- • Only recall where the public are at risk. If the right resources are in place to help pris- drugs, violence, understaffing - but they can less. I had no power. transform prisoners’ time inside. Haven oners harness their potential, they can turn Suggestions that could help deliver the second Distribution has been supplying free books to their determination and perseverance into strategy are: It took me a little while to establish myself on prisoners since 1996, and in this role we receive brilliant success - into change, rehabilitation, • Substitute sentences of 2 years or less with the wing. I did that by pretending to be ‘hard’ countless letters from prisoners who are deter- and progress. Prisoners in this country need properly constructed Community disposals; - hiding my fear and hiding that I was missing mined to engage in productive, purposeful much more support to figure out what they • Only those who pose a medium to high risk my mam and dad. I did eight months that first activity. We see the wide variety of ambitions want to do and who they want to be, and they of harm to members of the public should be time. It was such a relief to get out into the fresh that books can support, from improving liter- need far more help to pursue the goals that eligible for custody; air. It didn’t solve my problems though. It didn’t acy skills, to degree study, to developing men- they set themselves. Books aren’t the only • Abandon the “War on Drugs” and provide a help me to think differently - if anything it made toring abilities, to the pursuit of a specific resource that prisoners need more of, safe and regulated alternative for the supply me more confused. Here I am 18 years later just career on release. Books can be precious but we know how transformative they of drugs to users, thus taking the criminality released from my latest prison sentence and resources, and can help prisoners develop a can be. out of drug use and removing a huge driver of I’m sick to death of ‘screws’, ‘cons’, ‘grasses’ and sense of hope and direction - two elusive things prison custody; ‘nonces’ - wings and landings and blocks and in our prisons. The more that prisoners have If you are studying a course inside, you can write • A fundamental review of Sentencing segs. The whole culture of prison life needs to hope and direction, and the better-equipped to Haven for an application form to request an Practice with the aim of reversing ‘ grow up. I’ve seen the light at last. If the prime they are to pursue their ambitions, the safer educational book. sentencing inflation.’ minister asked me for solutions I’d say close and more productive our prison estate can Whether or not you are on a course, you can your prisons down one by one and reopen them Eoin McLennan-Murray is a former prison become. write for a catalogue of the free books we can as places where more normal social behaviour governor and former President of the provide - please just send us a stamp. and attitudes are promoted. Isn’t prison supposed Prison Governors Association. He is the cur- Communicating with prisoners across the UK to show you the error of your ways? I rent chair of the Howard League for Penal gives us insight into both the range of goals think the whole system is in error. Reform and a Special Witness for the House that prisoners aim for and the array of barriers Luke Billingham is a Volunteer with Haven of Commons Justice Select Committee. that they can face. 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part of our work. Both men try to visit once every week. “It’s the interest you and women can be OPVs, and The crucial thing you are enti- subject to suitable background tled to expect from an OPV is show. I feel now as checks in individual cases to reliability - that when they say though somebody cares. ensure that the inmate poses they are coming they do Maybe if someone had no threat to the safety of the indeed come. Of course, acci- shown this interest a OPV, women OPVs can and do dents do happen, but in such few years ago I wouldn’t visit in male establishments. cases the establishment will be here now. Do you Indeed, at HMP Wormwood normally be able to get a mes- think its too late for me Scrubs, where I visit, we have sage through. to get a life?” a roughly equal number of men and women. For those There are some limits on this An OPV is not there to become inmates who do not have ‘sharing’, though. First and your best buddy, any more English as their fi rst language, most importantly, an OPV is than he or she will expect that it can sometimes be possible not a substitute for your legal you will become their best to arrange an OPV who speaks team; he or she is not there to buddy, but they should a common language, but in help you with your case, or become the sort of person with certain cases the problem can indeed to help with fi nding a whom you feel relaxed, who be overcome. For years, I vis- job or housing upon release. can talk about things that “Nice to see you, to see you nice!” ited a Turkish prisoner. He had © prisonimage.org It is important for those who interest you, and who are con- no English and I spoke no provide such services to know cerned about you as a fellow Turkish, but he played mean that OPVs are not trespassing human being going through game of backgammon, and I into their area. The other vital a diffi cult experience in life. Listening, sharing soon played well enough to rule about the deal is ‘nothing spend an entertaining hour in, nothing out’. You cannot As to caring, even though the with him. That’s about the expect your OPV to be your OPV may be from a completely usual length for a visit, though runner or messenger, or to diff erent background or edu- and caring it can be longer, and I usually bring stuff in for you of any cation, they should have the “I woke up this morning description. That includes gift of being able to ‘get along- making phone calls outside and I thought, ‘what side’ you - not off ering sympa- An Offi cial Prison Visitor can be someone with whom you on your behalf. Don’t even ask! day is it?’ Cos they’re all thy (which can be very irritat- can share your thoughts, concerns, hopes, fears, and smiles ing!) but letting you know that alike in this place .... No, the OPV is there for you to despite the circumstances that and then I thought ‘It’s share your thoughts and con- brought about the prison sen- Simon Wethered of religion when visiting. “It is like having a Thursday - my Prison cerns with, your hopes and fears, tence, you are nevertheless a member of my family Visitor’s coming today’, and ideally a sense of humour. fellow human being and as What does this service amount There is nothing more liberat- such worthy of respect, and ‘Time to listen, time to share, come and see me every and this big smile to? Well, fi rstly listening. And ing, in my experience, than valued for your qualities. time to care’. These nine spread right across my week. It just, you know, importantly, listening on an the capacity to see the funny words make up the motto of face. Nobody saw it, but helps me through” entirely confi dential basis. So, side of things, even when the Simon Wethered is Chairman the rather grandly named it really set my day up, anything you share with an circumstances are in fact pretty of the Wormwood Scrubs ‘National Association of thing about Official Prison that smile!” OPV will, you can be sure, be dire, as they can be in prison. Branch of the NAOPV. Offi cial Prison Visitors’. The Visitors (OPVs) is that they are kept confi dential. There are ‘Offi cial’ in that title is to dif- entirely independent of the only a few crucial exceptions ferentiate members from other judicial or penal system. They to that which will come as no social visits from family or are volunteers, who freely give surprise, namely: if the OPV friends. Members are ‘offi cial’ of their time to off er this ser- learns that there is a risk of in the sense that they must be vice. Of course, there has to death or injury to the inmate, vetted - by the Home Offi ce, be some department in the any other inmate or staff mem- and the establishment at establishment which acts as ber, or if any breach of secu- which they propose to visit - to the liaison between the OPVs rity is threatened. When you ensure that they are suitable at that place and its residents. fi rst start seeing an OPV, he or for this work. In the case of Wormwood she should explain this to you. Scrubs, it is the Chaplaincy. This can be quite a consider- They are also ‘offi cial’ in the Applications for an OPV reach able benefi t to being visited sense that each penal estab- them, and subject to security by an OPV, for there may well lishment is obliged to permit checks, that department then be things which are weighing a system of visiting to operate contacts the Secretary of the heavily on one’s heart which which facilitates such visits branch whose job it is to fi nd you would not want to tell an to inmates. an OPV who has the time to offi cer or share with a member visit another inmate. That of your family. But that is as far as being ‘offi - said, OPVs do not and should cial’ goes. In fact, the crucial not attempt to spread any form That leads us on to the ‘share’

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me. I completed Enhanced Thinking Skills (as it was orig- Born into the inally called) three times on one sentence, and in the lan- guage of the prison landings, I found it to be about as useful wrong sex as a chocolate f*&$!*$ teapot. I did the Anger Management In her unique journal, HMP Parc Course five times over the years, and found the advice prisoner Ruby shares some of her for controlling my temper less days and some of her dilemmas than useless. The thing is, prisoners are not stupid, they know when their Ruby Listen © Deposit Photos They don’t seem to be listening, chains are being yanked and It is now too late, they are pretty good at spot- Learning I’m the one suff ering, Chain yanking ting ways to cheat. The ETS The privileged elite: completely unfair, They think it’s great. course was soon sussed as The suff erings of the poor, no shoes, feet bare. cheatable, just by making sure The privileged elite: complacent thoughts that dwell, I’m acting out, you give more acceptable The suff ering of the poor sees no better side of hell. crying for help, box ticking answers on the questionnaire If you are a person of knowledge you have No one’s listening, at the end of the course com- learned from your own mistakes; This feels like hell. pared to the ones you give at If you are a person of wisdom you have learned waste of time the start of the course. It’s not from other people’s mistakes. So I battle on, Chinese maths, but it is an I will not lie down to defeat, indicator of how dim the peo- Dear 15 year old self I’ll be on top of the world, One man’s verdict on the impact of ple who create these courses K, Oh you! Yeah I’m speaking to you. What are I’ll get there with my own two feet. ‘offending behaviour’ courses think prisoners really are. you doing with your life? F---- all, by the looks of things mate. Can I call you a mate? I guess The past is your lesson, Noel Smith authorities as ‘voluntary’, you But the thing that really jars not actually. Why? Because you had the poten- The present is your gift , soon fi nd out that you will be most of us, is the fact that tial to do extremely good in school but you The future is your motivation. there is no evidence, any- During my decades in the pris- going nowhere fast if you knew best, because life to you was all about where, that these courses do on system I was forced to par- refuse to ‘volunteer’. As a lifer drinking, drugs and doing whatever you want- Brow day any good at all. There is not ticipate in many of the tick- or long-term prisoner, you are ed regardless of the consequences or pain you So what is ‘brow day’, you are most probably one shred of tangible proof box ‘offending behaviour constantly badgered with caused people. Some home truths “mate”: in asking yourself? Well, every Thursday I have that any prisoner who partic- courses’ dreamed up by pris- thinly veiled threats of ‘No three years’ time you’re going be doing bird for a visit off my mum and auntie, so I get Luke to ipated in any of the pris- on-based psychologists and progression’ if you do not do armed robbery. Yeah, armed robbery. But to pluck my eyebrows for me. I hate doing it on-based courses has man- upper management. I say the courses. top it all off , when this reality hits home, (and myself, really f****** hate doing it. If it were aged to change their lives or ‘forced’ because, as we all it will do) your head goes into turmoil and you up to me, I would get them threaded. He has behaviour because of them. know, even though these To be quite honest, not one of get sectioned. Welcome to the world of liquid been plucking them for about two months now And it should all be about courses are touted by the the courses had any impact on cosh “mate”. This won’t put you off though, so and, credit where credit is due, they both look end-results. you hit the self-destruct button and guess what? amazing. Well at least that’s what my mother You end back up in Cardiff nick on a second tells me, lol. charge of armed robbery. Cat got your tongue? So when the judge slams you, your ass is going It’s a sign Walsh Solicitors to fall out. Pick it up when you leave the dock I have pretty much been the full circle with “mate”. All those drugs you’re going to start prison jobs: wing worker, education, equalities taking will smash your head to bits, so listen rep, print shop. To be honest, the best of them Criminal Defence And Prison Law Experts carefully to what I’m about to say, a little advice has to be the print shop. I am not just saying from inside: accept those thoughts and feelings, that because I am sat in here now typing my 24 hours a day/7 days a week there is nothing wrong with them. Be honest monthly blog; you are treated like a human with yourself, don’t worry about being scared being, and it is a proper work environment. of society because it’s not as bad as you think. You are trusted to use tools etc., and there is For Prison, Police and any other I’ll leave you with one last memo: I will always proper coff ee: brain fuel for me. I cannot func- be part of your past, but most of all you will tion if I have not had about 3-4 cups in the Criminal Matters throughout England and Wales always be a part of me. I wish you the entire morning to wake up. best, Ruby x Making up Do you require assistance regarding The visit Do you fi nd getting clothes to fi t you a problem? forthcoming Parole Hearings, Adjudications, A visit from family, I do! I am 6ft 5 and have the problem of being Makes me smile, a woman in a man’s body. Oh, and I am in Sentence Calculation or anything involving Prison A hug, a kiss, prison as well, to top it off . Words that spring Law Regulations? It’s been a while. to mind are: ‘hard work’, ‘complex’ and ‘night- Some food and a chat, mare’! Nevertheless, with patience, time, and This feels so great, a lot of moaning, I am hoping that the jail will Until they leave, come to some sort of agreement with me and Have you received notice concerning through the steel gate. other transgender prisoners who have the same a Police Investigation against you involving a problems as me with clothing. Personally, if I We can see the trees blowing in the wind but was the director of this jail, I would allow trans- voluntary PACE interview or a visit to a Police cannot see the wind actually blow the trees. I gender prisoners to have clothes sent in and Station? read an article in a tabloid newspaper saying out. Once or twice a year does not seem too how the taxpayer is to pay for prisoners who much to ask; what is your opinion? wish to have gender reassignment surgery. If the men or women were not in prison the tax I’ll now start my ranting and raving about the Call Walsh Solicitors 0161 672 2267 payer would still pay for gender reassignment fact that to buy make-up costs us an arm and Appeals and CCRC also covered surgery unless he/she was going to go private- a leg and (yeah, there is also an ‘and’,) how do ly and pay for the surgery themselves. So before we sample it before we buy it? Well, we do not; Dedicated Prison Law Department you start being vindictive, tabloid, get your then when we fi nd out it does not suit our com- facts right and stop trying to make out as though plexion, well, we have pretty much just wasted Email: [email protected] transgender people in prison are having special a load of money on make-up that we cannot 22 Manchester Road, Rossendale, treatment; we are only having what is within wear! Lancashire, BB4 5ST our rights. Ruby x Insidetime May 2017 www.insidetime.org Comment 21

Geir Madland A second Q&A began with further financial frustrations: “Won’t cuts to Legal Aid budgets mean less forensic work and increased risk of The event, in a packed Ivor Crewe hall kindly miscarriage of justice?” - “Yes.” provided by the University of Essex, was attended, mostly by students and teachers but also by a “Won’t cuts to police and CPS resources mean couple of former prisoners and victims of mis- ever-narrower investigations and increased carriage of justice, John Kamara and Kevin Lane. risk of miscarriage of justice?” - “Yes.” Tracy cited the loss of a central store with the Eric McGraw, former editor of Inside Time, demise of the Forensic Science Service as one introduced Louise Shorter, who presented a reason for difficulty accessing exhibits short overview of Inside Justice and its work, post-conviction, whilst Jo emphasised the need reminding us of the impact of media projects for peer-review and independent assessment such as BBC 2’s Conviction: Murder at the Station to avoid bias in forensic interpretation. and BBC Rough Justice: Murder without a Trace. As for careers advice, Tracy sought to dispel Noel Smith then described in palpable detail how popular ideas of a forensic scientist doing he had embarked on a life of crime at an early everything from interviewing suspects to sleep- age, in and out of prison as ‘Razor’ Smith. Noel ing with the SIO as in Prime Suspect: there is candidly explained how, though guilty of his Guilty until proven innocent? a wide range of careers with differing paths to crimes, he would always try to find a loophole the top. Jo described her personal epiphany on in his conviction, as would most, acknowledg- reading Paul Kirk’s ground-breaking work from ing that this may have been detrimental to the 1950s as well as her good fortune in encoun- fellow inmates who were wholly innocent: tering a Florida blood expert who now advises twenty per cent was his personal estimate. Fun with forensics on Dexter. Noel spoke of taking the law into his own hands But the science of proving guilt or innocence is deadly Never underestimate the power of the media. when it came to dealing with those convicted “The whole day was fantastic,” was one audi- of such crimes as sexual assaults on children, serious. Inside Justice hosts its first youth conference, ence member’s review. on one occasion pushing a child molester down on ‘Imprisonment and Forensic Science’ “Absolutely amazing - cannot think of a way the stairs, fracturing his ribs. He had no regrets, to improve it,” another’s. he said, until years later when that individual, He spoke with deep understanding of the iso- ingly interactive forensic investigation, with “Smart, scientific and funny,” a third. one Stefan Kiszko, was proven innocent, his lation of captivity as well as the plight of his an ingenious mock-up of a suitably splattered conviction quashed, only to die a year later young guards, describing his gradual change crime scene. In their white SOCO suits, eminent from a heart condition. Louise hopes to repeat the success of this first from anger to empathy, even reading a recent scientists Tracy Alexander and Jo Millington conference with more across the country, poem he has written about his imprisonment. brought more than a whiff of Blackpool Pier to Noel’s life also changed, but for the better, inspiring the next generation of investigators Yet anger resurfaced in the lively ques- their world of blood and gore, though I’m into miscarriage of justice. teaching himself to read and write and achiev- tion-and-answer session which followed, when ing an honours degree in journalism. He is now reserving judgement as to who’s Wise to whose he lamented the state of our under-resourced Morecambe. There was even a touch of panto: Commissioning Editor of Inside Time and a and misguided prison system. Geir Madland is a researcher for Inside Justice published author. “The husband, it’s always the husband….” Then the response: “Oh no it isn’t!” Noel too displayed his dismay at the continued Twenty-five years on from his ordeal as a hos- incarceration of IPP prisoners long over-tariff Our reconstructed designer domesticity was the tage in Lebanon, Terry Waite is now sil- with no access to educational programmes scripted scene of a young Essex woman’s mur- ver-haired but still an impressive physical towards parole, as well as the Catch-22 dilem- Inside Justice, part of Inside Time, is funded by der but whodunit? The hapless hirsute husband presence. An experienced public speaker, Terry ma of those who deny themselves access to charitable donations from the Esmee Fairbairn or his malevolent mate Mark? Tracy and Jo took had no difficulty in commanding the attention such programmes by refusing to admit their Foundation and Lady Edwina Grosvenor. be-suited volunteers through their paces as of an audience, most of whom weren’t born at guilt, because they aren’t guilty. the time of his eventual release in 1992 after trainee technicians - finding fingerprints, scru- www.insidejusticeuk.com insidejusticeUK @insidejusticeUK nearly five years in mostly solitary captivity. The afternoon session involved an entertain- tinising splatter and distinguishing DNA.

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candidates. I spoke to the offi cer in to ensure I had a job when I returned a job when you already had one so I charge of the outwork scheme and got to my home town. I contacted Lisa decided to start searching. After myself a place on the meet and greet Kennedy and Kay Fellows who was applying online for various jobs and Who I am list. A few weeks later the Foundation the area manager of my home area. registering with diff erent recruitment Ambassador for Timpson, Darren Lisa gave me a good reference and agencies here is where I have found A criminal conviction will not stop Phillips, came into HMP Drake Hall confirmed my work ethic and a problem. On every single registra- to meet and interview a group of about response to training and aft er anoth- tion form and application form, the my journey from a prison cell to a 12 women. There were only a handful er interview Kay Fellows off ered me dreaded box to tick, “Do you have of vacancies so we were all nervous another 16 week trial period to start any unspent criminal convictions?” successful life and feeling fi ercely competitive. Well, the day aft er I was released. As soon as this second period of training I fi nd this extremely worrying, as a Michaela from regular contact with my family I was anyway. Aft er a brief chat about ended I was off ered a permanent full potential employer will already know and the close friends I had made on the company and their quest to fi nd time position in the store closest to I have a conviction before they even the inside and spent a lot of time untapped talent in prisons it was now my home. I was over the moon. meet me. Regardless if the conviction My name is Michaela. When I was reading and writing. Any course the time for the one to one interviews and in no way aff ects my ability to work 21 years old I was convicted of a prison had on offer to further my I was up fi rst. My interview went well Over the next two years I passed my in said position and regardless of how drunken violent off ence, which hap- education and skills, I jumped at. I and I was listed for a second interview driving test and was promoted to long ago my conviction was, with no pened while I was still a teenager. completed various I.T qualifi cations two weeks later with Lisa Kennedy store manager, however due to fam- other off ences in the last 7 years. In a second, a mindless act changed and also gained my Level 2 certifi cate who was the area manager for the ily circumstances I wasn’t able to so many lives. My actions were out in Gym based exercise and physical area I would be working in. take on the role and remained in my This will in no way stop my journey, of character however I knew I had activity, as well as studying for a role as a colleague. I passed all my if anything it has just motivated me caused another person serious harm Stone Bridge distance learning diplo- My interview with Lisa went well and training with fl ying colours and built even more to make something of and for that I was sorry and knew I ma in Personal Development I was offered a job in one of their up fantastic relationships with other myself. I have recently been in touch had to be punished. I was sentenced Coaching. branches. I would be working full to 4 years imprisonment. time, 40 hours a week and I would staff and customers alike. with a recruitment agency that is dedicated to helping reformed off end- A little over a year into my sentence get paid. From my wages I had to pay Family circumstances changed for ers make it back into employment. I Unsure of the prison system I felt I was fi nally given Cat D status and for my own travel to and from work the better and I have now been a store have also contacted a number of char- like my life was in the complete con- this meant I could now start to do and 40% was taken out to contribute manager for just over 6 months. But ities for any help and advice they can trol of other people. I knew I had a unpaid voluntary work outside of the towards the victim support fund. That I am still looking for other great offer me on disclosing my convic- long journey ahead of me and kept prison during the day and return was fi ne by me, I couldn’t wait to get opportunities like the one off ered to tions. my head down, made a few friends back to prison after work. I was started. Things were looking up for me by Timpson, to gain more skills and got on with what was now my thrilled. I couldn’t wait to get out of me. The job was a 16 week training and knowledge in diff erent areas. If My name is Michaela, I am a dream- life. In prison. there for the day. My fi rst voluntary program, luckily for me I only had 20 I can make it this far, why stop now? er, a mother, a provider, a young job role was in a charity shop. weeks left of my sentence when I start- The prison experience for me wasn’t ed working for Timpson. I have a fantastic work ethic and woman with a passion, ambition and ambition is driving me to search for a strong resilience to not let a mistake all bad. Of course, there were times I heard on the grapevine that a com- other roles, open up diff erent doors as a teenager defi ne the rest of my I found myself in tears. Hours, days pany called Timpson were coming My training in store was going great, and a new chapter of my life. My next life. and even weeks were spent thinking in to interview potential employees I passed the relevant skills in the right journey. and wishing things were diff erent to give them the opportunity of paid time frame and I enjoyed the environ- but nothing could ever change the work, training and a chance of ment I was in but it wasn’t long before Michaela is a former resident of HMP I always believed it was easier to fi nd situation I was in. I found strength employment on release, for the right I would be going home and I was keen Drake Hall “Have you been injured in Prison..? ...WE CAN HELP!”

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calised but not perhaps as we consider it today. Johnny believes it, crippled by thoughts of A journey through the society’s rejection… He has nothing; but des- perately wants in. Then cocaine provides…. wealth, holidays for his mum, a house…

therapy looking glass But still no stake; no matter how much he jus- tifies selling ‘A bit of chillax’ to those whose life he actually craves. Foolishly, he takes the work and acknowledging how like I was being sucked into a risk to supply their ‘recreational lifestyle’. Top I was left feeling after a similar vortex and slowly drowning. of the range Nike trainers, designer this and experience or how I had dealt For some reason I immediately that. They're expensive keys, but they still don’t with a particular issue that felt a relief just from saying out let him in. someone had said he was going loud how I was really feeling. through at that moment in time My group said to me that this Then comes prison. Six years. He’s out for a - or maybe just empathising was a common feeling and that few months then back in for an eleven stretch. with a group member on a many of them had gone through Go go Now he’s doing a seven and it’s taken him into subject he related to us. Now similar emotions because ther- his fifties. and again I choose to sit it out apy brings up all sorts of un- and say nothing, not because comfortable and unwanted Years locked away, days banged up, down the © Fotolia.com Johnny go… block, dirty protest - broken; not yet, still the I’m trying to be dismissive or feelings that we just tend to fight is on. disrespectful of what the other ignore or dismiss or worst of Harold Mose Chris Parsons person has to say but because all bury deep inside ourselves. “Fuck the System!” I’m genuinely at a loss of what But though we ignore them to say or how to say it. This they don’t ignore us. It’s April 1963, one crowded room in Hackney How does this all end? I don’t know, we’re not Art for seems to occur mainly when I and Johnny has just been born. Two elder sis- there yet, he’s 54 this month. want to talk about personal One of the lads pointed out that ters, their father (his part time abuser), Johnny’s issues or emotional feelings. there was no land in sight in mother (who he would die for) all squeezed in. I do know the ‘war’ didn’t need to start. We therapy’s the drawing and this moved hear the same stories of exclusion, anti-author- On his eighth birthday they flee the father and This was helped by other mem- on to me admitting that I felt ity, again and again. the abuse, finding sanctuary but still the same bers of the group not holding pretty much alone and that I sake grinding poverty. Johnny, clothed in hand-me But there is often a window of opportunity for back and coming up with some was basically on my own. The change, easily missed and I accept for many It’s now 2 pm on a Thursday downs is taunted and bullied, girl’s trainers really heavy and personal stuff. group suggested that this was it’s a very small window. But it is at that moment afternoon and for me that and jeans… Imagine if you will depicting far from the truth, that I had a we should act - support, encourage and respect means Art therapy. The four your index offence through a girlfriend and family and the It’s scarred him deep, resentment is building, change, not exclude and break people. main wings here all run Art drawing or painting and get- support and understanding of social workers, truant officers, police and sud- therapy sessions for one after- ting to explore it with other the whole community here at denly a spell in a young offender’s, short sharp Go go Johnny go, Johnny B. Goode…. noon a week that last for two people? Picture expressing Grendon and of course they shock, the boot camp - sharpens his juvenile hours. It’s termed a ‘Core your feelings about childhood were right, if I chose to ask for mind, setting him totally against authority. Chris Parsons is manager of Landworks in Creative Therapy’ (along with trauma in art form. Not so easy help that is? Dartington, a supported route back into employ- ‘Psychodrama’,) and it is vol- is it? As difficult as this may “Fuck the System!” ment and the community for those in prison or untary but all residents are sound I have seen some truly Who would have thought that at risk of going to prison. It is ‘war’, unnoticed by most of us, he’s radi- encouraged to sign up for one remarkable things produced so much could come from one www.landworks.org.uk or the other, indeed it is quite in Art therapy. I have seen men little crayon drawing? I have common for residents to do both. really connect with their art done many images and draw- work and in doing so connect ings since and when they get I chose Art therapy because it powerfully with the emotions explored I gain a lot of self-in- seemed at the time to be the this has brought up, because sight and self-understanding, gentler of the two options and you are expected to produce my artistic talents haven’t got I was a bit nervous about doing at least one piece of art every much better but that doesn’t Psychodrama, but having been session and then show it to really matter. It’s not about in therapy a while now and and discuss it with the rest of how good the art is; it’s about listening to other people’s ac- the group. It is difficult to take the imagery and symbolism counts of what they gained a backseat and not talk about that the art conveys and tries from doing Psychodrama I whatever is going on for you. to say. We don’t only work with would definitely give it a try. I pencils and paints, we can have heard and witnessed I have embraced this process work with whatever medium powerful, character and life and use it as a way to introduce we choose, Paper-Mache sculp- changing moments gained my issues and personal con- ture, Collages, 3D art even furry through work done in cerns because I am sometimes pipe-cleaners, bent and mould- Psychodrama. Having said all dismissive of my own feelings ed into whatever representa- of that I am still glad I chose and psychological welfare be- tion you like, the only limit is Art therapy because I have lieving other people’s prob- your own imagination. benefitted so much from my lems are more pressing than time spent doing it. We have my own, also it’s a sly and Art therapy has really helped a great facilitator, and a good convenient way of avoiding me. I will really miss Art group of fellas who all signed talking about personal stuff! Therapy when my year com- up to be there and I’ve grown mitment ends. But other people to trust them all. One of the first pictures I pro- have to be afforded the oppor- duced of any real personal tunity to gain what I have and Art therapy is additional ther- significance depicted a man as it is a rolling programme I apy to be used alongside the being sucked down into a swirl- will get to work with new com- main group therapy process. ing bottomless whirlpool in ers and pass on the things I’ve Work done in art therapy can the middle of a vast and empty learnt. That’s how things work be fed-back to your small group ocean. When I showed it to the here, everybody learning from as a conduit to explore things rest of the group and they asked everybody else, the community you may have found difficult me to explain what it meant it becomes the doctor and it to introduce into your general took on a life of its own and works well. therapy work. Although I have the words just came tumbling always managed to be a vocal out. I told the group that this Harold Mose, a nom de member of my therapy group picture was pretty much how it has mainly been done plume, is a resident of HMP I’d been feeling for some time. Grendon - names in this through hearing other people’s That therapy had left me feeling article have been changed 24 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime May 2017 Inside Voices The spiral of depravity of their loved one and have the company incorporate their Grant Stanley - HMP Whatton salary of £20,500 is far too low and the dangers features into the doll. of violence have made it impossible to recruit Obviously to save on ear-ache and retain officers. Why have conditions in UK prisons from your other half. deteriorated? How bad is it really? According to HM Inspector of Prisons, it is Furthermore, as these doll According to Peter Clarke (Chief Inspector of because large quantities of psychoactive sub- women would have to be man- Prisons) ‘our jails have become unacceptably stances like ‘Spice’ and ‘Black Mamba’ are being ually blown-up, all of the violent and dangerous places’. In the year to smuggled into prisons. The dealers are charg- inmates who have been forced June 2016 there were 17,782 prisoner-on-pris- ing high interest on loans, and delivering beat- oner assaults, 5,954 assaults on prison officers, to pack-in smoking due to the ings to those who do not pay up, exacerbating 107 suicides and 5 alleged murders. There have ban, will automatically exer- debt, bullying and violence. However, the drug been riots at Bedford, Exeter, Birmingham, a cise their lungs, which could problem is only a symptom of the underlying prison escape at Pentonville, and on the Isle help repair the damage that issues; the number of prisoners has soared, while of Wight a prison officer’s throat was cut. smoking has caused. It’s a the number of prison officers has dropped. Enhanced company? win-win situation! How much has the prison population grown? So, what does the Government plan to do? Inmates could spend their bang- In October 2016, there were 85,108 people in Justice Secretary Liz Truss wrote a white paper up time together with their our prisons in England & Wales, compared to in November 2016, entitled ’Prison Safety and Something for rubberised partner. They could 45,000 in 1993. This is largely due to successive Reform’, in which she proposes to hire an addi- enjoy date nights, watch the governments imposing tougher justice policies, tional 2,500 prison officers. She also plans to soaps together, listen to music with courts issuing longer sentences. Another invest in new measures to keep drugs and - everything that you would contributing factor is the high reoffending rates; mobile phones out of prisons, including ‘No Fly the weekend sir? normally do with your partner. with almost half of adult males reconvicted Zones’ for drones. There are plans to build new within a year of release, at an estimated cost prisons to replace the Victorian jails recently Jack Swarez - turn, help to de-stress the The dolls could be added to of up to £15 billion a year. closed by Grayling; providing an additional HMP Lowdham Grange wings of every establishment the current IEP scheme on an 10,000 adult places. Prison Governors will be the length and breadth of our Enhanced basis. Successful How does this affect prisons? given more autonomy and a prison’s perfor- nation. It came about when I candidates could access their More than 50% of prisons visited by Inspectors mance will be ranked in a national league. Thinking about the lack of was watching a documentary rubberised partners over the in 2015-2016 were ‘significantly overcrowded’. Will these paltry efforts work? conjugal visits in the British on Channel 4 that showed weekend period. After every The Prison Service is currently running at 113% Peter Dawson, of the Prison Reform Trust, stated prison system, I believe I may grown men who live with rub- visit the inmate would release of its Certified Normal Accommodation levels, - ‘The complete silence in the White Paper on have come up with an idea ber, blow-up dolls. I noticed the air from their partner and and staff shortages mean it is often impossible the administrative and sentencing changes that will help out in a big way. that all of these men looked put her/him back into the box to operate standard regimes. needed to reduce the prison population to Unlike many of our more very happy and stress-free. to stow her away safely until responsible proportions speaks volumes’. One enlightened European coun- the next weekend. Why are there less staff? terparts, who have access to Chris Grayling, is the simple answer. Between thing is abundantly clear, at present, the prison such visits, the powers-that-be They could system is not working. It cannot even reliably Please do not just dismiss this 2010 and 2016 the number of prison officers fell in this country have con- provide toilet-paper for prisoners. enjoy date nights, idea out of hand. The justice by 28%, from 25,000 to 18,000. 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The king agreed and asked for the secret. The man said he From over the wall could only pass it to someone who had never been dishon- Terry Waite writes his monthly column for Inside Time est; indeed he could no longer plant the apple seed himself A far more serious matter is when a case is as he had taken food to feed badly handled by the defending or prosecuting his hungry family. counsel. Here is a comment made by Maslan Terry Waite CBE Merchant, a member of a legal team based in The king told his chancellor Birmingham: to plant the seed; but the man was clearly uneasy and said “The criminal justice system assumes that crim- he regretted he had once kept inal lawyers who practice are competent. It something that did not belong assumes that it does not matter who represents to him. So the king told his you, or what the charge is - whether it is speeding chief adviser to plant it - but or murder - the end result will be the same. he was also very uneasy and told the king he could not as That assumption is wrong. As is the case with Who among us is honest? © Deposit Photos he had once had a brief affair any other profession, there are good and bad with a serving woman. The lawyers. There are those, perhaps mercifully two ministers turned to the few, who are downright incompetent. Some are king and said that he should

© Deposit Photos well intentioned and hard working but lack Tales of Wisdom plant it as he was the only experience.” person who had not been dis- Speak clearly Our man on the inside tells it honest. The king hesitated and My apologies for a lot of quotes this month but his face went red as he told they do make good points. Here is the last of I can’t resist beginning this month by telling like it is them that even this day he had them made by Justice For All and quoted in the you about an event I attended the other evening. told his wife she looked splen- Guardian newspaper. Sid Arter be tolerated. As the man was Over 100 people had been invited to a reception did in a dress she had vainly about to be taken to be execut- at which the principal guest would make a squeezed herself into and that “The Lord Chancellor’s Department’s statistics short speech. He was an accomplished speaker ed he was asked if he had any actually looked dreadful. on successful appeals against criminal conviction and had many years experience of addressing The apple last words. “Yes, I wish to tell show that in the decade 1989-1999 the Court of distinguished audiences all over the world. your majesty that I have a gift Appeal (Criminal Division) abated over 8,470 “So even the most powerful Toward the end of his interesting talk he spoke seed handed down through many criminal convictions - a yearly average of 770. men in the land cannot plant about an event at which he was present and at generations. I can plant an In addition, there are around 3,500 quashed There was once a man con- the seed through their dishon- which a high ranking political figure was mak- apple seed in such a way that criminal convictions a year at the Crown Court demned to be hung for steal- esty”, the condemned man ing an important announcement. ‘I was listening the tree grows immediately for convictions obtained at the magistrates’ ing a loaf of bread. The king said. “I merely stole enough intently,’ he said, ‘when I noticed in a corner courts. Contrary to popular perceptions, then, had made the decree to make and will be covered in splen- food to ensure my children did of the room our eighteen year old son was peeing wrongful criminal convictions are a normal, an example of the man; it did apples in minutes. It would not starve”. The king realised in a plant pot.’ One or two people in the room everyday feature of the criminal justice system would serve as a lesson to oth- be such a waste if the secret he had been harsh and par- gave a nervous laugh and most thought what - the system doesn’t just sometimes get it wrong, ers that dishonesty would not died with me.” doned the man. an extraordinary thing to be revealed. Quick it gets it wrong every day of every week, of every as a flash the speaker’s wife, who was in the day of the year... with the result that thousands audience, interrupted. ‘Eighteen months,’ she of innocent people experience a whole variety shouted, ‘eighteen months!’ ‘Did I really say SPECIALISTS IN PRISON LAW, PAROLE DELAYS, of harmful consequences that wrongful criminal eighteen years?’ he asked incredulously, before EQUALITY CLAIMS, PERSONAL INJURY, convictions engender.” Kesar & Co joining in the laughter. 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We will make every effort It’s a different matter when speakers fail to other evidence apart from the word of the com- express themselves clearly. One often quoted to achieve a quick settlement for you but will not hesitate to litigate the claim and win plainant against the word of the accused. Such example is from a speech delivered by the former damages for you at the trial. cases, known as ‘His or Hers’ (the word of one American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, against another), are extremely difficult and who said: Our prison law team can assist you with parole and recall matters, tariff reduction the decision often relies on which barrister can make the best case in court in order to convince applications and sentence calculations. “Reports that say something hasn’t happened the Jury. Here, ability to speak clearly and con- are always interesting to me, because as we vincingly counts for everything. Having read Serving prisoners may receive further charges based on the allegations pre-dating know, there are known knowns; there are things through the appeal papers I doubt that the their current conviction or triggered by incidents in prison. If so, we may be able to we know we know. We also know there are known accused in this case will be able to get the unknowns; that is to say we know there are some help with criminal defence, extradition and/or representation in the confiscation conviction quashed but I have to say that his things we do not know. But there are also un- defending barrister did, in my opinion, a very proceedings. known unknowns - the ones we don’t know we inadequate job. don’t know.” Another area of concern is the growing number of complaints about direct and indirect To conclude, I am well aware that many pris- discrimination based predominantly on age, disability, gender and religion. If you What?! Could you please repeat that slowly Mr oners convince themselves eventually that they Rumsfeld? Even when the remark is written believe you are a victim of discrimination, contact us for an assessment of your case. are innocent and, as I have said in this column down it’s still not at all easy to get the meaning before, it’s very difficult indeed to get to the of what he is attempting to say. We offer legal aid, subject to assessment in the areas of criminal defence, immigration, truth of many cases. But, and it’s a big but, innocent people are still being locked up and prison law, action against the police and public law. In the alternative, we accept When it comes to matters that affect most readers that makes me feel very uncomfortable instructions from privately paying clients as well as “no win-no fee” agreements where of this column - presentation of a case by a indeed. barrister in a court of law - the matter is some- appropriate. what more important. 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release rats on vessels so that they (£58,960,227 today). An act passed had an excuse to board them, allow- in 1762 had made buying or receiving The Thames River Police ing them access to all its cargo. There stolen goods from a vessel in the river were even river pirates, who operat- punishable by a fi ne of 40 shillings The story of the oldest continuously serving police force in the world and ed openly in broad daylight; in one (about £236 today) for a fi rst off ence reported instance stealing a vessel’s or by 14 years transportation for sub- the development of modern policing - part one anchor, informing the ship’s captain sequent transgressions. By 1798, that they had done so and wishing however, this was the only act that while, was a confusing mix of local “Avast, me hearties!” him a good morning. It was not just dealt with crime on the river. For over parish constables and night watch- trade goods that were threatened but thirty years the West India Committee men, oft en working on a voluntary also ships’ supplies and equipment. had operated a bounty system relat- basis, with revenue offi cers and small It was not uncommon for an unguard- ing to theft s from their ships, off ering police offi ces. The famous Bow Street ed ship to have all its tackle and run- 40 shillings reward for information Runners had been founded in the ning rigging stolen at once. on criminals, usually payable on middle of the century but had little to conviction. This system had been the do with matters on the river. There standard way of catching individuals was no police force in the modern throughout the 18th Century, and sense, and the theft on Old Father although it led to an increase in pros- Thames faced little challenge. ecutions, it did little to reduce crime rates. The West India Committee Many of the thieves were those frequently found itself paying out responsible for unloading and moving rewards that were greater than the cargo and it was estimated that value of the goods stolen. Another around a third of those involved in system was needed, one that would trade on the river were engaged in prevent crime from occurring in the crime. Many Lumpers, the men who fi rst place and improve abysmally unloaded the ships, and Lightermen, low detection rates. Traditionally the David Wells and Leah Alexander In late 18th Century London, crime those who sailed the small boats car- British were distrustful of such a was rife on the river Thames. The rying goods to shore, viewed taking system of policing, feeling it to be port of London received trade from The West India Committee is the small portions of the goods they han- foreign, tyrannical and at odds with all over the world, with many import- “Forest of masts” oldest body representative of the dled as a tradition, a perk of the job. British liberty. Nevertheless, in early ed goods, such as rum and sugar, Commonwealth, established in the Though prohibited by law, in many 1797 the West India Committee began 1730s to represent merchants and arriving on West India Committee cases this had been practised for gen- A lack of warehouse space meant that to consider what action they could planters involved in the trade with ships from the Caribbean. These erations, but over the course of the many goods were left exposed on the take to solve the issue. the West Indies. It has a long and goods, produced cheaply through Century more and more employers quay while they waited to be stored. varied history from sending Captain slave labour, underpinned a growth attempted to stamp it out. However, Even aft er goods were placed in ware- Part two next month Bligh and HMS Bounty to search for in Britain’s foreign trade and the some river workers would not be houses, they were not necessarily breadfruit, providing disaster relief resulting economic development deterred, and wore creatively modi- safe, and £70,000 worth of sugar was fuelled her industrial revolution. to the Caribbean, attaining a Royal fi ed clothing with extra large, con- stolen from warehouses every year. David Wells is a Research Fellow and Ships carrying these goods anchored Charter in 1904 and supporting the cealed pockets down to their ankles, Sugar was one of the most popular Leah Alexander Project Manager at and unloaded in the Pool of London, Caribbean’s efforts during both world or bags and pouches tied to their legs, items in the Georgian kitchen, and The West India Committee wars. Today it works to improve the with smaller vessels, called lighters, to conceal stolen goods. Oft en they one of the most popular items to steal, lives of the peoples of the Caribbean transferring cargo to the quays. would go ashore several times a day, along with other goods from the West Could you add something? and the societies in which they live. Described as a forest of masts, the which allowed them to dispose of Indies such as ginger, pimento and or Get involved? The Committee is currently under- huge number of vessels, both small goods and make room for more. c o ff e .e Readers are invited to send in any taking a heritage project to reveal and large, meant that the port was Corruption was rife; bribed sailors comments, observations, artwork or the little-known history of the chaotic, providing the perfect cover and revenue offi cers allowed criminal Very few attempts had been made to poetry which can be displayed on the Thames River Police, the forefathers for thieves to pilfer goods. gangs to board ships, while others stamp out this problem, with annual West India Committee’s project website. of modern policing, whose origins used ingenious methods to pilfer; losses from ships on the Thames esti- Please send them to Inside Time ‘West trace back to the British West Indies. Policing in Georgian London, mean- men posing as ratcatchers would mated to be worth £500,000 India Project’ at the usual address.

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“punishment” for offenders is in depriving them of their liberty, not prison itself. A brief- Prison not for ing paper prepared for MPs by the House of Prison should be a last resort Commons library suggested this reflected the Look to Sweden for a prison model that does work view criminals “come to prison as punishment punishment and not for punishment”. Michelle Nicholson enough open prisons are responsibility for their own Deprivation of liberty available and those which are lives is far from a soft option Miss Truss said earlier this year: “The Prisons I’m pleased that at last the often take the brunt of politi- which is a phrase often heard it’s official and Courts Bill is clear that prisons are there to government have agreed offi- cal attacks and debates which in political debates. If prison- deliver the sentences of the court - depriving people cially that people go to prison make it more difficult for those ers were allowed access to Continued from front page of their liberty to punish them for their crimes.” as punishment not for punish- prisoners who need them to resources such as the internet ment. The main focus should get there. The education it would enable them to be on rehabilitation and reset- option in prison is poorly paid resolve their own problems Prisons are no longer places for punishment, A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: tlement - although resettle- compared to other jobs and and help them reach their ministers have said after the phrase was excluded “Legislation is already explicit that the purpose ment from prison can be a few opt for this on that basis. goals rather than leaving from the first legal definition of the purpose of of a prison sentence is punishment by the dep- traumatic experience. If it them in a situation of reliance jails. Critics suggested Ms Truss had “gone soft rivation of liberty. What the bill is about is wasn’t for the fact that I had An alternative model is avail- on a system which is already on crime”, but the Ministry of Justice insisted making sure prisons are places of discipline, spent my last 18 months in able in Sweden based on reha- stretched and failing. that the courts punished offenders by sending self-improvement and hard work. This includes open prison I honestly don’t bilitation rather than punish- them to prison, and that no further punishment getting offenders into training and jobs when know if I’d have made it. In ment. It uses its prisons as a Key Changes - Unlocking was necessary once they were locked up. they leave prison so crime and misery to soci- ety is reduced.” that time, I was able to secure last resort and supports and Women’s Potential supports employment and a temporary guides its residents rather women through the gate to Holiday camps address with having access to than just holding them as a empower them and enable Critics said the new legal definition risked the the resources available on the punishment. Staff ratios are them to get a second chance in adoption of an even softer regime when con- outside of the gate such as the one to one rather than staff our communities who are ditions at Britain's prisons already appeared use of internet. It was my dif- managing high numbers of returning to Sheffield through to be so laid back. Paul Nuttall, the Ukip lead- ficult resettlement process people. Their prisoners are our mentoring scheme. We pro- er, said: “Punishment for wrong-doing and which drove me to set up the treated as human beings and vide an individual specialist deterring other potential offenders are two organisation, Key Changes - building positive relation- package and a safe space to go absolute bedrock purposes of the prison sys- Unlocking Women’s Potential ships with the people in their in our women’s centre. We offer tem. For Liz Truss to come up with a mission Philip Davies MP: “prison is actually a in order to empower and sup- care is central to their success. counselling, training and statement that leaves out punishment both pretty successful place” port women in their return to advice for women to rebuild beggars belief and suggests she has had the the community from prison. Perhaps if the British Justice their lives so women can wool pulled over her eyes by so-called "pro- system was built on the same achieve their true potential. gressive" penal policy pressure groups. By not But Tory MP Philip Davies, said: “The purpose For the 53% of women and principles our prisons would be specifically referencing "punishment" in the of prisons first and foremost should be pun- ishment. The Government should recognise that. 27% of men who experienced more effective. Resettlement statement, it could allow governors further to Michelle Nicholson is founder Leftie liberals think that people having their abuse and trauma as a child, would be something residents soften regimes in prisons so that they become and director of the award win- freedom taken away is a punishment in itself, according to the Prison worked towards throughout more like holiday camps rather than serious ning gender specific charity but to many people it is not. All these prisons Reform Trust, the whole pris- their sentence and not just at corrective institutions.” Key Changes - Unlocking inspectors come from their seven-bedroom on setup can be traumatic and the latter end, which often provides little support to help results in anxiety and uncer- Women’s Potential. The Government last night argued that the mansions and say ‘oh it is pretty dreadful in here’.” you rebuild your life. Not tainty. Enabling people to take www.keychangesuwp.org.uk Prayer: what is it?

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said the ruling was an of the Howard League, said: Continued from front page The threshold was not satis- fied in relation to decisions “unprecedented and ground- “This decision will make the In R (Howard League for Penal about offending behaviour breaking legal victory in public safer. It vindicates our Reform and the Prisoners’ programmes and courses, which the vulnerability of the concerns that cuts imposed by Advice Service) v the Lord and disciplinary proceed- prison population is fully rec- the former Lord Chancellor, Chancellor, the Court of ings where no additional ognised as a key factor in its Chris Grayling, in 2013 pre- Appeal considered five areas days of imprisonment or limited ability to access jus- sented a grave risk that pris- of prison law where the detention can be awarded. tice”. She added: “Common oners would become stuck in Ministry of Justice removed law came to the rescue of a a broken system. This sends a criminal legal aid eligibility Following the judgment, a marginalised and often for- clear message that important in December 2013. spokesperson for the ministry gotten sector of our society.” decisions about prisoners can- said: “We note the Court of not be made efficiently or fair- The court ruled that the high Appeal’s judgment on chang- According to the Howard ly in the face of these cuts.” threshold required for a find- es made to legal aid regula- League for Penal Reform, ing of inherent or systemic tions - introduced in 2013 - and almost 300 people have taken However, the ministry unfairness was satisfied in the will consider whether to their own lives since cuts to stressed that the judgment case of pre-tariff reviews by appeal.” legal aid for prisoners were does not mean the govern- the parole board, Category A introduced. Calls to the ment must immediately rein- reviews (those whose escape Eligibility for criminal legal Howard League for Penal state legal aid in the three would be highly dangerous), aid in certain prison law mat- Reform and the Prisoners’ areas where the threshold for and decisions regarding ters was removed in December Advice Service have increased inherent or systemic unfair- placement in close supervi- 2013. Deborah Russo, joint by nearly 50%. ness was satisfied, noting that sion centres. managing solicitor of the this is one option. Prisoners’ Advice Service, Frances Crook, chief executive “A hallmark of a democratic legal system is that it is fair and robust for all Cuts were political users. Without access to legal aid, prisoners with learning difficulties and The F mental illness would not be able to participate effectively in important Workload increased dramatically after legal aid decisions about their future, placing them at a significant disadvantage. Word cuts Prisoners Advice Service tells Inside Time We welcome the judgment that will ensure our legal system continues to Deborah Russo provide legal help during these hearings.” “Prisoners want and are entitled to fair Rebecca Hilsenrath, Chief Executive of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, which hearings” Since 2013 when Chris Grayling brought in the cuts we saw a intervened in the case. stark increase in the number of prisoners approaching us with telephone calls; increasing almost 50% in the last year alone to 25,000. Our workload increased massively. Because of the Everyone deserves justice fact that legal aid was not available it made telephone calls Cuts that form the focus of the judgment “just the tip of the iceberg” Andrew Sperling longer because, instead of small queries, it was quite compli- cated issues. Because of mental health issues in prison it would lawyers who represented us, Bhatt Murphy, in mean, more often than not, we’d have to intervene by contact- the legal aid community also stepped in. One Four years is a long time. Chris ing governors urgently to ensure prisoners’ well being is looked of the nicest things about the judgment is the Grayling’s Ministry of Justice after and respected. It had a huge impact on our capacity to Dr Laura Janes annex which sets out all the lawyers that pro- announced sweeping cuts to take cases because we deal with so many pro bono cases now. vided statements of support for the case, many legal aid in April 2013 in a of whom represented clients for free due to the document called Transforming It could be that some prisoners are serving longer in prison Many prisoners were affected by the legal aid cuts. Legal Aid. Grayling’s idea of because of the cuts. Mainly in the case of pre-tariff prisoners cuts. The Howard League works for less crime, transformation differed from who might not have assistance which is quite crucial so that safer communities and few people in prison. Large numbers of prisoners are serving longer most. He ignored several thou- they can look forwards to a move to open conditions. Because Individuals being able to achieve justice is in prison because of the cuts. The cuts that sand consultation responses of the cuts and lack of representation it could affect the length central to achieving these objectives. The form the focus of the judgment are just the tip which pointed out the risks of the iceberg. Our lawyer, Simon Creighton, of time they end up serving post-tariff. Howard League decided to bring the case in and unfairness of his propos- has calculated that through the litigation als. Legal aid was removed our own name, along with PAS, because the around 85 per cent of the original cuts have from a raft of areas, leaving “It would cost more to keep them in prison removal of legal aid was wrong. It shifted the been either declared unlawful or conceded. courts overwhelmed by longer so it was not an economical decision, it use of law away from what it is meant to be: The issues, which range from pre-tariff reviews unrepresented prisoners and something that is available to everyone to was a political one” to licence conditions, all touch on liberty in arguably denying many peo- achieve justice. We also run a legal service for one way or another. ple on low or no incomes from The judgement says that in the three areas of pre-tariff reviews, children and young people under 21, many of access to justice. Grayling category ‘A’ reviews and placement if CSC (Close supervision) whom were directly affected by the cuts. The Howard League would like to see the Lord declared himself ideological- units the cuts are inherently unfair particularly if prisoners Chancellor accept the Court of Appeal’s ruling ly opposed to legal aid for have mental health issues Legal Aid will have to be reinstated. We run a free and confidential legal advice line and bring these areas back into the scope of prisoners and promised that Now we are at the stage where we will have to negotiate with for people under the age of 21. Our legal work- legal aid. It is possible the government will the prisons complaints system the Government as to the extent of the Legal Aid which will load increased by around 50 per cent since the appeal the ruling, but I would hope that the would do just as good a job. have to be reinstated. We will do our best to ensure it is as cuts came in. But it was not just that the num- Government takes heed of the careful and comprehensive as possible. ber of calls increased: the amount of addition- thoughtful judgment and does the right thing. The Prisoners Advice Service al work we did for free went up because there and the Howard League began Deborah Russo is joint managing solicitor at the Prisoners was simply nobody else who could afford to Dr Laura Janes is the Legal Director and solic- their challenge to the legal aid Advice Service do it. Many other lawyers such as the brilliant itor at the Howard League for Penal Reform cuts in the autumn of 2013. Insidetime May 2017 www.insidetime.org Comment // Feature 29 Court of Appeal rules Government’s policy of legal aid cuts for prisoners ‘Unlawful’

soon go into purdah - a period meaningful assistance to pris- in which no new policy is oners for pre-tariff, category System could not decided, a kind of political A and CSC reviews is not easy. hibernation. This will end It requires the development of when a new government is expertise. Good advocates ensure fairness appointed. New governments will need to understand the But may be some time before legal aid restored usually mean new ministerial legal and procedural frame- appointments, even if the work for the different types of same government is elected. decision-making. They will The Court of Appeal’s judgment on the availability A department which is tradi- need to have methods of com- of legal aid for prisoners was given on 10 April 2017. tionally slow to implement municating effectively with Simon Creighton of Bhatt Murphy Solicitors acted change is likely to be even prisoners in closed prisons, for the two charities who brought the case and more tortoise-like in these cir- many of whom may have men- Simon explains what the case was about and what this cumstances. Restoring legal tal health or learning difficul- Creighton decision will mean in practice. aid to prisoners is unlikely to ties. Their clients may be chal- be high on the agenda, even lenging and might not agree What was the case about? with a Court of Appeal judg- with them. They may need to In December 2013, the Government limited legal aid for pris- ment declaring a policy to be commission expert reports. oners to a very small category of cases. These were parole unlawful. Psychologists and psychia- reviews when the Parole Board has the power to direct release, trists do not often work for adjudications before the Independent Adjudicator or where a The quickest, fairest and prob- free. governor has allowed representation under the Tarrant criteria ably cheapest option would and sentence calculation cases. The Howard League and PAS be to make a simple change to Restoring legal argued that by removing legal aid for all other areas, prisoners legal aid regulations. One aid to prisoners is would run the risk of unfairness when important decisions alternative to this would be to were made that could affect their liberty or their fundamental shunt these areas into the unlikely to be high rights. The areas they specifically challenged were: (1) Parole world of ‘exceptional fund- on the agenda, even hearings where the Parole Board is advising on open conditions ing’. Legal aid practitioners (or ‘pre-tariff reviews’); (2) Category A reviews; (3) Segregation are familiar with what excep- with a Court of and CSC decisions; (4) Mother and Baby unit cases; (5) Lawyers victory for prisoners: tional funding means. The Appeal judgment Resettlement cases; (6) Licence conditions; (7) All governors’ “Common law came to the rescue” clue is in the name. There is a adjudications; (8) Sentence planning. © Andrew Cowie long-winded, labyrinthine declaring a policy process which puts many peo- What did the Court decide? The wheels of justice can be to be unlawful Grayling’s idea ple off from applying for it. Before the case even reached a hearing, the Government accept- painfully slow. This case has Legal aid practitioners have Organisations who are ed that some form of legal aid should be available for a number taken a huge amount of per- of transformation already had to find ways of approached to fill this unfair- of these areas. They agreed that those areas which have the sistence on the part of the two differed from most. absorbing a nearly 10% cut in ness gap may also want to potential to engage rights under the Human Rights Act, such charities and their lawyers. It the payment rates for their reflect upon whether their as the right to a private and family life, should have legal aid is not an easy task to persuade He ignored several work. It is asking a lot to desire to support prisoners or available. This meant that a form of legal aid called ‘exception- a Court that government pol- al case funding’ was extended to cover cases concerning seg- thousand consulta- expect them to spend valuable to provide learning experience icy is unlawful. The High regation, Mother and Baby units, resettlement and licence time for which they will be for students or budding law- Court refused permission for tion responses conditions. Exceptional case funding is not automatic and an paid nothing in the hope that yers might cloud their judg- the challenge in 2014, the individual application has to be made showing how your rights which pointed out a small amount of funding ment. The Ministry has Court of Appeal overturned have been infringed and why legal representation is necessary will be granted for them to demonstrated an eagerness to this decision in 2015 (allowing the risks and to ensure you are treated fairly. take on a relatively complex take advantage of such the challenge to proceed to a unfairness of his case. The Ministry are likely groups. In the Court of Appeal full hearing) and the case was to be attracted by an option case, they argued that the “Access to legal advice for prisoners makes pris- heard at the start of 2017. proposals which puts the onus on the Prisoners Advice Service - one ons fairer, safer and better at rehabilitating pris- prisoner to show why they are of their opponents in the case What did the case decide? oners. This was first recognised in the Woolf ing this article, the Ministry exceptional - for example that - could cure any unfairness by The Court of Appeal were per- Report a quarter of a century ago and this judg- of Justice has not confirmed they cannot read, understand providing free advice and help suaded that there was ‘inher- ment underlines that it is still true today.” whether or not they will basic concepts or have a com- to prisoners who could not get ent and systemic unfairness’ appeal. If they do decide to munication disability. The legal aid. in the decision to remove legal At the hearing, the judges decided that the decision to remove appeal, it is likely to drag the irony of expecting such pris- aid for all prisoners in 3 cate- legal aid combined with the deterioration in prison conditions case out for at least another oners to complete a lengthy Presenting a case well is a gories of cases - pre-tariff meant that the system could not ensure fairness for prisoners year. I suspect that they will form applying for exceptional skill. You need to know how reviews by the Parole Board, when important decisions are made about them. The Court was not appeal against the deci- funding should be obvious to to analyse evidence, to ques- category A reviews, and deci- particularly concerned that prisoners who are vulnerable, sion but I am afraid this does anyone. tion witnesses, to apply the sions to place prisoners in including children, those with mental health problems or those not mean that they will take law, to appreciate which are Close Supervision Centres. who cannot read or write could not participate properly in prompt steps to restore legal Long grass good arguments to make and The key reason for this finding decision making. They said that removing legal aid for parole aid in these areas. Another alternative would be which are pointless or coun- was that the Court was not cases, CSC cases and category A reviews was unlawful. However, The Long Grass Response. ter-productive. Good prison satisfied that there were alter- they said that the prison system could deal fairly with sentence The Ministry’s response to the This is the process by which lawyers have spent years native means in place to planning cases and governors’ adjudications without legal aid. judgment was not encourag- the Ministry of Justice learning and perfecting these ensure prisoners could partic- ing. They appear to have announces that it is exploring skills. That is why prisoners ipate effectively in these deci- Does this mean that legal aid will now be restored? latched on to comments in the options, consulting stakehold- instruct them. sion-making processes, par- It is still too early to know what the final outcome will be. The Court of Appeal’s judgment ers and piloting alternatives. ticularly for vulnerable pris- Government might try and appeal the decision. If they do not recognising that “there may They might think about trying oners including those with appeal, legal aid will still only be available once they amend be safeguards other than legal to tap into the largesse of learning difficulties or mental the current law. If you need advice on one of the areas where aid”. well-meaning charities or pro Andrew Sperling is a Consultant health problems. the Court has said that removing legal aid was unlawful or bono groups which develop to Solicitor-Advocate with Olliers Solicitors. He is a former Chair where the Government accepted that exceptional case funding Do not expect any announce- fill gaps in need. Such organ- Does this mean that prison- of the Association of Prison should be available, it is worth contacting a solicitor but it might ment any time soon. The polit- isations should give some ers can now get legal aid in Lawyers and was commis- still be some time before it is clear whether legal aid will actu- ical world is obsessed with thought to what they are get- these areas? sioned to work on projects for ally be restored. Brexit and now with another ting into if they are approached At the moment, the answer to the Parole Board between 2014 General Election. Politics will to fill this gap. Providing that is no. At the time of writ- and 2015. Simon Creighton is a partner at Bhatt Murphy Solicitors 30 Comment // Interview www.insidetime.org Insidetime May 2017

be struggling with all kinds of feel- class and say, ‘I’ve got ADHT, there’s Peace Inside is quite a beautiful book ings, like shame and isolation and no way I can concentrate or sit still.’ I tell him. What does he hope it will uncertainty - how this practice could But by the end of the class, by tuning achieve? “It’s a book that we hope really help them.” them into their breath, getting them will encourage people in meditation. focused on their breathing and doing I wanted this to be a new book that Settle never visited any prisons in strong standing postures - it was would do two things - that offered Thailand in relation to these ideas, quite challenging sometimes - but people a slightly plainer, down to but he never forgot the potential that keeping the emphasis on the breath, earth explanation of what meditation he believed meditation had for pris- which cuts through so many beliefs is and how to do it - and at the same oners. After five years he left the -mon about what you can or cannot do. It time I wanted to include and show astery and returned to the US. “I’d just cuts through all of the chatter letters from prisoners over the years read about organisations around the quite quickly. I’d get these guys who to the Prison Phoenix Trust about world that were teaching meditation in the beginning were all jumpy and their meditation practice and the in prisons, and thought, ‘okay, so it by the end of the class we’d be lying replies from our volunteers and staff exists, it’s something that can be down in the relaxation pose, and back to those prisoners. The letters done” he says. Back home he still had they’d all be perfectly still. These talk about how meditation has it in his mind to find a way of taking young men surprised themselves. helped with addictions issues, trau- the meditation practice to prisoners. They had become used to being told mas in early life and a whole lot of He moved to England and married his that they can’t concentrate, or they’re various stresses and struggles. I Tune into the breath and find peace wife Julia in 2000. One day Julia no good at anything. You start to wanted to show these letters to © Deposit Photos returned to their Oxford home and believe that if you’re told it enough inspire others. This is a book for said that she had heard about an times. So the Yoga class was really a everyone - it is a book that you can organisation called the Prison chance for them to see that actually sink your mental teeth into, it will Phoenix Trust. “’It sounds like some- they really could do the things they give you something to chew on, to Peace, hope thing that would be right up your thought they could not do.” reflect on - and to help with finding street. They teach Yoga and medita- answers to why life can be problem- tion in prison. You should get in touch “I feel the actual sitting meditation atic at times, and how we often gen- with them,’ she said to me. And so I needs to be done. It’s been enjoyable erate those problems for ourselves. did.” but also helped me through some and meditation I include myself in that category by difficult memories. I remember that the way. The book is a tool for helping “I’m free for the first time in my life. meditation is not about feeling To mark the publication of their new book, Peace to get a bit freer from that. Everyone This cell door doesn’t mean squat to happy all the time. It’s aboutM ilivingsc arriage of Justice? Inside: A prisoner’s guide to meditation - Director of me, and that is the purpose of this in the moment.” needs support and encouragement ASHto makeLE theY best Sout Mof theirIT lives.H I & CO the Prison Phoenix Trust and the book’s editor Sam letter, because you told me 18 months Baz - Rowanbank Clinic. Our experienced and dedicated team are specialists in Settle shares some of his journey and explains the ago I could become free through hope this book will help people to meditation and Yoga. I thought you In 2010 Settle took over as Director come outA ofp prisonpeals a little& C lessCR damC - value of Yoga and meditation with Inside Time readers were all obviously hippies with too of the Prison Phoenix Trust. “ThereUnde rtaaged.”king w ork for privately funded clients only. much time on your hands. Lucky for me is a hopefulness in what we do in Parole Board Representation Erwin James ter his time in the monastery entailed I was bored enough to give it a shot.” prisons that people will learn theseFor b oth legally aided and privately funded clients shaving his head, eating just one Liam - HMP Wandsworth tools, using our books and CDs, that Yoga for Strength page 45 meal a day and practicing Yoga and All Prison Law matters including Independent Adjudications Born in Virginia in the United States, they will be encouraged to practice meditation for five or six hours every On behalf of privately funded clients. Sam Settle’s life took an interesting Initially told to go away and train as and to start seeing changes in their Peace Inside: A prisoner’s day. “It was a great life,” he says, In all privately funded matters we will quote you a reasonable fixed fee - staged where appropriate. turn when, aged 21, he went to a Yoga teacher, Settle, who had been lives so they are able to live more guide to meditation is “and when I was there one of the Professional and approachable we offer a Nationwide Service and accept agency work Thailand to undertake some interna- practicing Yoga since he was 18, harmoniously with themselves, with available in all prison things I heard about was the idea for Parole Board Representation. tional development work with the US returned to the Trust after almost their fellow prisoners, with the staff libraries and free to that people in prison were being For a prompt response please write or call Peace Corps. During the three years three years of training and began and with the people on the outside, people in prison. he worked with the Corps he did a helped to meditate. And I thought, teaching Yoga in HMYOIs Feltham, relatives and friends.A Wesh wantley Stom ith & Co,For C ar icopymin pleaseal D writeefe nce Specialists couple of meditation retreats before this is a very powerful practice to Aylesbury and Reading and also HMP show there is an easier way of living4-6 L ee High Rtoo Thead Prison, Lo nPhoenixdon, SE13 5LQ ending up becoming ordained as a learn and I can definitely see how Grendon. That was in 2003. that isn’t quite so fraught with 0208Trust 4 PO6 Box3 328,00 99 BuddhistBlackfords newmonk.ad 24.1.14:Layout As a Buddhist 1 24/1/14 mas - 12:59someone Page 1 who is locked up and may “Sometimes guys would come to the self-created problems.” Oxford, OX2 7HF

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movement to take advantage of opportunities. By stream- lining the education process Outside the box: through digitalisation more people can be given the oppor- Designing better prison education tunity to have an education.”

Two students have risen to the challenge of updating prison education design, with When Reece came up with his the help of learners at HMP Cardiff. PET invited Alex Whelan and Reece Elder, who design, he was unaware of study Product Design at Cardiff Metropolitan University, to develop initiatives that plans to introduce tablets into would make it easier for prisoners to study in their cell. As their final show approach- some prisons in England and es, both students have nearly finished their prototypes: Reece has designed a Wales. “It shows my outside- of-the-box approach wasn’t durable tablet device, while Alex has created a box that stores education material Alex’s Box/Writing Desk and also doubles up as a writing desk. Both students visited HMP Cardiff as part of outside-of-the-box at all,” he their research process, where they learned more about the context their designs says. “I imagined the device wouldn’t be in use for the next Its lid can be tilted upwards, “The limitations of designing would fit into, and spoke to learners about the challenges of studying in a prison 10 years, but in fact prisons to use as a surface to write on. for a prison context restricted environment. are developing faster than I This idea, says Alex, stems my ideas for the pack, but I ble interface, a wrist strap to imagined.” from architecture desks and learnt a lot about prison life, make it easier to use from a art table tops that can be which I never would have bed, and a place to store a Coming up with a design that propped up to help people known before embarking on notebook and pen. would work in a restrictive draw at better angles. This this project,” says Alex. “What prison environment was dif- part of the design was influ- I like most about the box is Aesthetically, the tablet may ficult, says Reece. “But doing enced by his visit to HMP that it is personal to whoever look clunky compared to an so could make a huge positive Cardiff, where he met learners possesses it, and can be used iPad, but this is part of the difference to people who who did not have a hard sur- to privately store and organise point, says Reece. “It’s not aren’t given enough recogni- face to work on. things.” designed to be a sleek and tion in society.” aesthetic object but instead as Alex abandoned some of his a bulky and strong functional The Box/Writing Desk more creative ideas during the Reece’s tablet object,” he says. “Some func- design process, including the What do you think? Alex tions that make sense outside Alex has designed a way for concept of a pair of handcuffs, and Reece would love to of prison had to be sacrificed. which would be attached to hear Inside Time readers’ The Tablet The tablet would allow people learners to store and transport Because it was so essential the box and would only views on the designs. What to study from preloaded PDFs, PET’s study pack, which was Reece’s tablet has been built that the object couldn’t be release once the person had could you see working/not use multimedia downloaded given to all distance learners around the restrictions and broken or taken apart, you working for you? What from education providers, and learners in Welsh prisons last answered a certain amount of security concerns of the pris- ended up sacrificing how easy part of the design would access their own preloaded year, and includes a study questions. Instead, he opted on world. It is battery powered it would be to fix.” improve your education media, as well as filling out skills book and a dictionary. for a gentler form of encour- to allow for the lack of charg- experience? Write to Katy prison forms. A closed net- In Alex’s, it resembles a “stur- agement: a recording device ing ports in-cell; has few But the device is also a way of Oglethorpe, FREEPOST, work for Cloud access would dy toolbox”, embossed with attached to the box on which physical points of entry mak- circumventing some of the Prisoners’ Education Trust, enable communication the PET logo. It is blow-mould- could be uploaded messages ing it almost impossible to restrictions in prisons, says to pass on your feedback between the education ed, which makes it cheaper from friends and family; or take apart, and is transparent Reece. “One thing that struck so they can include it in department and the user. The advice from a distance learn- so it cannot be used to store me when I started looking into and more durable, and attrac- their Final Show in Cardiff tablet uses a simple, accessi- ing tutor. things. prisons is the lack of free tive for prison budgets. on 27 May. Graphic Design

PET has recently funded London Art College’s Graphic Design Art Diploma, which covers the fun- damental elements of art and design; including drawing techniques, layout skills, typography and logo design. The course takes about a year to com- plete, and by the end of it students will have created Course a portfolio to later apply for higher education cours- Notes es or work. Graphic designer ‘Alia’, 28, had just completed a PET provides funding degree in Visual Communications when she went to Prisoner Learning Academic Network PLAN logo for over 300 types of prison. Alia kept developing her skills during her designed by Alia distance-learning sentence, designing posters and presentations, and problem to come up with a new solution. You get to courses. Every month redesigning the prison’s education boards and its magazine. experiment with ideas, as well as having fun doing we shine a spotlight it. Everyday is different: you can be working on one on one of them. Since her release last year, she has begun work on thing today and tomorrow working on something a freelance basis, including designing new logos, totally different.” leaflets and banners for PET. PET funds a range of other design-related courses, Alia says: “Graphic design is quite a competitive area including interior design, garden design, fashion where the market is always changing, so being up-to- design and web design. Richard, who wrote to PET date with the latest designs and technology is crucial. applying for a Dressmaking and Fashion Design Having your own style and ‘stamp’ on things is an course last year, said he plans to use his skills to advantage to have as this will make you stand out start up a T-shirt business with his sister. He also from the competition and makes you unique. has a two-year-old daughter who he “would love to be able to make clothes and dresses for throughout Solving problems her life”. and finding solutions “The main role of a designer is trying to solve a

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come into the prison; are eligible, you should be provided you are. Further details about the with details of how you make an form and how it is used by the prison • You won’t be allowed to open an application. can be found in PSI 44/2011. account which offers credit facilities;

• You won’t be allowed to have in your What can you do if your prison Feedback on individual prisons possession any cheque book or debit doesn’t have an arrangement in When we handed the banking pro- card that is associated with the place? ject back to NOMS in 2014, 114 pris- £ account. If your prison doesn’t have a specif- ons had links with a high street bank ic arrangement in place, there is and 5936 basic bank accounts had With the above in mind, you should nothing stopping you from applying been opened for people in prison in look to open a basic bank account. A to other banks, but it can be a lot 2013-14 alone. What began as a small basic account will allow you to have more difficult. It might help if you charitably funded project, ultimate- wages and benefits paid into it, will apply to a bank close to the prison - ly ended up as a national campaign give you a debit card and will enable you can always change branch at a which attracted significant political you to set up direct debits to pay bills. later date if you wish to. Ask your and media interest. It won’t provide you with an overdraft personal officer or resettlement facility. department for a list of local banks. If you believe that the prison you are in does have a banking arrangement, Does your prison have a banking It should be stressed that the attitude but it’s either not being delivered or arrangement in place? of staff can vary between banks and you’re not able to access it, then we’d © Deposit Photos Back in 2005, Unlock identified that also branches and therefore, if you’re like to hear from you as this will help many people coming out of prison refused by one, don’t give up - try us in our work to make sure people didn’t have access to a bank account somewhere else. are able to open a basic bank account and often missed out on securing before release from prison. Moving on… employment as a result of this. Over Proving your identity whilst in prison the next 9 years, we worked with var- For many people in prison and on Unlock’s Debbie Sadler answers questions to assist ious banks and prisons to set up spe- release, the biggest problem they face with life after prison. This month we focus on cific arrangements in 74 prisons to when applying to open a bank opening a bank account whilst you’re in prison make the process of getting an account is providing identification. account much simpler. In 2014, there Even if the bank is happy to open an were 114 prisons with links to a high- Question: I’m currently in account for any money to be paid account for you, you will still need Debbie Sadler is the Advice Manager street bank, and we handed over the at Unlock prison and want to open a into. to meet the individual bank’s ID day-to-day responsibility to the requirements. Most will ask you to bank account ready for National Offender Management Unlock is an independent charity for That’s why it’s a good idea to try and prove your name with another piece people with convictions and our help- when I’m released. Can I do Service (NOMS) to sustain this work. of ID to prove your address. This can open an account before you’re line provides confidential peer advice it while still in prison? released. When you open an account, often be expensive. Speak to your personal officer or the on overcoming the effects of criminal bear in mind that generally: records. You can call 01634 247350 Many people in prison don’t have a resettlement department to find out As part of our banking project, we bank account. It’s a fundamental Monday to Friday, 10-4 (the number whether there is a banking arrange- helped to overcome the problem that necessity of modern life and there- • You will need to give the prison as does not need to be put on your pin) ment in place and whether you would people with no ID face. We created fore resettlement; whether you’ll be your address; or write to Unlock, MCSC, 39-48 be eligible to open an account. Some an ID form which can be signed by Marsham Street, Maidstone, Kent, going into a paid job on release or • Authorised staff from the prison prisons prioritise those that are near- the Governor, which will prove who ME14 1HH. www.unlock.org.uk claiming JSA, you’ll need a bank can inspect financial records that ing the end of their sentence. If you

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It was Jumble Sales - these days this buyers. also has a section for Freestuff . quite a revelation, as it made way of selling has grown into 6. Be prepared with bags. Car boot buyers oft en aren’t prepared A nominal fee of £5 for every me think about the way people something so much bigger. • Build on your success by ad- themselves, so come armed with carrier bags. make money out of almost seller was asked but within the vertising a house and rubbish fi rst hour most of the sellers clearance removal service. ‘throw away’ or re-cycled un- The stallholders at this Car Boot 7. Be prepared to haggle. It’s not just buyers that need to be had made back that money and wanted things. were selling items from cakes determined to haggle. If you think something you’re selling is to plants and from clothes to were already in some profi t. It might sound like a small way worth a lot more than the buyer is willing to pay, stand your I talked to many of the ‘Booters’ toys. In fact, anything was for of making money - but it has ground and don’t budge. with my Careers Adviser hat sale. There was something for From this I looked into what the potential to end up as a on to fi nd out why they got up everybody. But what struck me local papers were advertising. very profi table business to an- 8. Be prepared for rain. Forecasts are rarely accurate when it in the early hours of Sunday most was the enjoyment and There were many advertising yone just willing to get up early morning, loaded up their cars social banter that came from free items to anyone who could on a Sunday morning. comes to Car Boot sites. and stood for several hours both sellers and buyers. take away their unwanted selling to also ‘early risers’. things. These items could eas- 9. Be prepared to sell anything. What may be junk to you may Could this be a good way for ily be sellable at a Car Boot. I’m happy to give general be a gem to someone else. Whatever you don’t sell can then just What I did fi nd out is that there someone leaving prison with advice on job searching and be saved for the next car boot. is money to be made from sell- no job on the horizon to start Talking to one seller who, aft er career planning however ing at ever-popular car boots making money? There wouldn’t 4 hours, was keen to tell me please feel free to write to me 10. Be prepared not to sell anything. You win some, you lose and tabletop sales. Once these need to be much in the way of she had made £70 from baby for any specifi c advice or some. But if you really want to succeed don’t become disheart- events were on only a tenth of money to start - a small clothes that had been hardly guidance you may need ened. Pack up and head for the next sale.

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preside over prisons that prisoners will move out to Glen Parva shame the nation.” nearby prisons. Last year it Prisoners are already being was the scene of protests by moved out of Glen Parva as Despite the announcement the members of the Prison part of the plan to demolish it Ministry of Justice said that Officers’ Association over and rebuild a new establish- final decisions will be based health and safety fears caused ment on the site. Glen Parva on planning approvals, value by staff shortages. It is likely has had good reports from for money and affordability. the whole site will be demol- inspections recently. They added that as well as ished and replaced by a newly creating modern establish- built prison. ments, the proposed pro- Wellingborough gramme is expected to boost Rochester Wellingborough, in regional economies by creat- Rochester, which holds adult Northamptonshire, has been ing up to 2,000 jobs in con- prisoners and young offend- mothballed since 2012; the struction and manufacturing ers, will close temporarily and Prison Service still own the industries and new opportu- prisoners and staff will move site and have made planning nities for local business. to nearby prisons while the applications to redevelop it site is redeveloped and and open a new prison there “Build it and they will come” Full Sutton expanded. It is unclear if it by 2020. The new prison will The Prison Service already will be completely rebuilt. house more prisoners and Paul Sullivan MoJ and Savilles, a large to the same modern standard own land adjacent to the pres- have better facilities. MP for London property company. to do the same job of rehabil- ent HMP Full Sutton and the Port Talbot Wellingborough Peter Bone Experts say that the sale of itation.” plan is to build a new prison A new prison will be built at Last month the Government has been campaigning to get these three sites alone could on that land. Building work Port Talbot in south Wales announced plans to build four raise over £300million and Andrew Neilson, Director of will not affect prisoners at Full which it is rumoured will be HMP Wellingborough new prisons with a capacity see them turned into luxury Campaigns at the Howard Sutton. Prisons Minister Sam a category C establishment for re-opened and said; “I am of around 5,000 places as part apartments. Swansea and League for Penal Reform, said: Gyimah said the Full Sutton up to 1,600 prisoners and built absolutely delighted that the of their pledge to create 10,000 Cardiff are also under scrutiny “The government is pinning development “would help to on land near the former Secretary of State for Justice modern prison places by 2020. as new prisons provide sur- a great deal of hope that its support hundreds of jobs in Panasonic factory at Baglan. has agreed that HMP The building programme will plus places in Wales. capital investment in new construction and manufactur- Stephen Kinnock, MP for Wellingborough should be cost about £1.3billion over the prisons will help to solve the ing, as well as creating oppor- Aberavon, says the construc- re-opened. The new prison next three years and builds Shadow Justice Secretary current crisis behind bars, tunities for local businesses. tion and running of a prison will create hundreds of jobs on the ideas of Michael Gove Richard Burgon commented; with very little evidence to It will also provide prisoners in Port Talbot would bring MP before he was replaced as and pump significant sums of “We need modern prisons fit support that contention. with ‘places of reform’ where ‘much needed’ work to the Justice Secretary by Liz Truss money in to the local econo- for the modern age. But simply Prisons across the country are hard-work and self-improve- local area. “However”, he last year. my.” replacing one prison with afflicted with problems of ment flourish”. said, “we will need to look another prison doesn’t deal deaths, violence and drugs - very closely at the planning As part of the prison replace- Stocken with the overcrowding crisis.” modern and old alike. 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Are the police able to access bank accounts? you will be subject to the notification require- ments. This will continue until the conviction No. This would require separate authorities Will you be on the Sex is quashed. and orders as with any investigation. Can they get their name removed from the How is this information kept secure to prevent ‘Register’? Offenders’ Register? fraud & abuse by police officers? It is kept secure on a system which only those Apart from automatically finishing after 5, 7 or Prisoners often write to Inside Time because they are confused working in the unit have access to. The original 10 years (halved if convicted as a juvenile), if paperwork is kept securely in locked cabinets you are subject to indefinite notification about the ‘Sex Offenders’ Register’. To clarify some of the within a separate locked room in the police requirements, you can currently apply to be points we spoke to a senior police officer who deals with the station - again only those in the department removed from the register/notification require- have access to this. ments after 15 years of completing notification Register and put to him some commonly asked questions requirements (15 years of signing on, does not If they are going to reside in an ‘Approved start from conviction/sentence) or 8 years if Inside Time Facts What information will they be required to provide? Premises’ does this count as their address? convicted as a juvenile . They will be required to provide their name, Yes, the Approved Premises will be their reg- Do all people on the SOR have the same require- If a prisoner is about to be released how will date of birth and address at time of conviction. istered address whilst they reside there. ments and restrictions? they know if they will be required to be on the Also their current name (if changed), main ‘Sex Offenders’ Register’ (SOR)? residence in the UK if different from that at the Do the police divulge any of the information Everyone will have the same standard require- time of conviction. They must have/know their about them to third parties; if so who? ments/restrictions. They should have been told at the time of the National Insurance number. Anyone under notification requirements are conviction/sentence and, prior to being How would the police know if any of the con- also under MAPPA (Multi Agency Public released, be informed and given a notice ditions are breached? What are the penalties? What will they need to take with them? Protection Arrangements). Information will be regarding their requirements to register with shared between agencies that is necessary for police within 3 days (the day of release will Some may have a copy of their licence condi- They will know. It may be as simple as adding safeguarding. There may be a time when other count towards day 1). They may also have a tions - this is helpful and we will often ask to dates together - changing address on 1st 3rd parties may need to know. This will be done visit/video conference with their probation take a copy for our records. Any bank cards/ January but not registering it until 5th January on an individual basis and only when it is nec- officer or police to inform them. account details, credit cards, post office is over 3 days. Any breaches may result in your essary and proportionate for them to know. account, passport will also need to be record- arrest and carries a maximum sentence of 5 On release they have to ‘sign the register’. What ed as part of the requirements. years imprisonment. Are there any travel or residence restrictions? does this mean? How and where do they do this? Will they need identification? Unless you are subject to conditions that restrict What if it was a genuine mistake? This must be completed at a police station, as travel, ie licence conditions or Sexual Harm ID is always good but not essential. Any iden- with all notifications. The ‘register’ is another Prevention Order you can travel - as long as it Each event would be looked at case by case but tification issues can be resolved as fingerprints term used for the notification requirements. is registered (another requirement). Addresses remember - it is your responsibility to know and photograph will be taken at the time of the will always be checked for their suitability but, your requirements. If you are unsure, call your initial registration. Can it be any police station? unless there is a restriction in place, you can manager/local team and ask! Better to make live/register where you choose unless there are sure you get it right than a knock on the door The police station they attend must be a pre- Do they have to agree to photographs and fin- any safeguarding issues. the next morning. scribed police station for these purposes. A list gerprints, or DNA, being taken? can be found on the back of the form that is If a person is on the SOR and returns to prison, Certainly fingerprints and photographs, not If they re-register annually, do they have to completed but it will be a main station for the do they still have to register? relevant area. DNA. If they refuse they can be arrested as it meet with police in-between? would be a breach of notification requirements. Police can carry out visits to the home address They will only need to register when they are Do they need to make an appointment? As that is a recordable offence, fingerprints and throughout the year. released again. This is referred to as a ‘re-no- photograph (and DNA if required) will be taken tification upon release from custody’ - same as if No appointment is required, however it is anyway. DNA can be requested through anoth- What if they are maintaining they were wrong- you were changing from one address to another… always best to ensure your first registration is er act and section if required. Fingerprints/ fully convicted? completed with your relevant Public Protection photograph can also be taken at subsequent Unit Officer so they can go through all the and yearly notifications. 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their intention to marry or form which are laid out fully within a civil partnership. These ar- Section 4 of the PSI The rangements apply where either Voting in prison or both parties are in prison • In the case of sentenced pris- custody. The relevant Acts are: oners, at the time of their ap- • By post - this means postal ballot papers will RULE plication, the prisoner is not PRISON REFORM Ryan Harman be sent to you at the prison and you will have The Marriage Act 1983 amend- expected to be released or TRUST Advice and Info Service Manager to complete and return them. They must arrive Book ed the Marriage Act 1949 and deported, or to have the op- enables prisoners to marry in portunity to marry or enter a by 10pm on the day of the election otherwise In light of the snap general election to take the place of their detention. civil partnership while on your vote won’t be counted. with Paul Sullivan place on 8th June, we think it is an important Both parties to the marriage Temporary Release, within must notify the Superintendent three months of submitting time to remind you of the rules around voting • By proxy - this means someone you choose Registrar in person of their their request. in prison. will be allowed to vote for you. A proxy voter’s intention to marry. The Asylum poll card will be sent to the person you choose & Immigration Act 2004 also • In the case of un-sentenced You can still vote while in prison if you are: to do this. applies and covers the proce- prisoners, the prisoner is likely • Unconvicted (also called ‘on remand’); dures for persons wishing to to remain in custody for three • Convicted but not yet sentenced; You will need to complete an application if you marry where either party is months or longer after their • A civil prisoner -someone who is in prison want to vote by post or by proxy. You should subject to immigration control, application. for not paying fines or not doing what the court ask staff for the correct form and for help with again where they are marrying has told them to do (this is called contempt of completing the form if you need it. The deadline after civil preliminaries. In • In the case of prisoners who court). to get this application to your local Electoral such cases, the parties must have less than three months Registration Office is usually 11 working days give notice of intention to to serve at the time of their Unfortunately, other sentenced prisoners are before the election, which would be Tuesday marry to the Superintendent application, where there are not allowed to vote. 23rd May. Registrar. exceptional compassionate Marriage of reasons for allowing the mar- Before you can vote your name must be on a Please note the above deadlines are likely but The Civil Partnership Act 2004 riage/civil partnership to take list called the electoral register. If your name are yet to be formally confirmed. We suggest Prisoners and came into eff ect on 5 December place inside the prison sooner, is not on the electoral register already you will submitting all applications as soon as possible 2005. The Civil Partnership Act for example, where the mar- need to fill in a form and send it to your local to make sure you are able to make your vote. Civil created a legal relationship of riage/civil partnership is be- Electoral Registration Office. Prison staff Partnership civil partner, giving same-sex tween parents whose child is should be able to provide you with the voter There is more information about how to vote couples in the UK the oppor- expected to be born within registration form and the address to send it to. and eligibility in Prison Service Order 4650. Registration tunity to gain legal recognition three months (medical evi- The deadline to get this to your local Electoral Ask staff to see a copy of this or ask for it in the for their relationships. There dence of the likely date of birth Registration Office is usually 12 working days prison library. You can also contact the Prison PSI 2016-014 is specifi c provision in the Act will be required) or in the case before an election, which would be Monday Reform Trust’s advice team at FREEPOST Issued: 14 October 2016, for “detained persons” who of someone who is terminally 22nd May. ND6125 London EC1B 1PN. Our free information Effective from: 14 October meet the eligibility criteria to ill. line is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 2016, Expiry Date: N/A register a civil partnership If you are eligible to vote and on the electoral 3.30-5.30. The number is 0808 802 0060 and within a prison. Prisoners wishing to marry or register you can apply to vote in one of two does not need to be put on your pin. This PSI replaces PSO 4450 - enter into a civil partnership ways: Marriage of Prisoners, and PSO The Marriage (Same Sex will also need to confi rm that 4445 - Civil Partnership Couples) Act 2013 came into they are: Registration eff ect on 29 March 2014. The • Not already in a marriage/ main provisions of the Act en- civil partnership; This instruction sets out the able same sex couples to marry • 16 years or older (parental/ legal requirements, policy and in civil ceremonies and ensure carer consent is required up to procedures for facilitating pris- that those religious organisa- the age of 18); oners’ requests to marry (in- tions who wish to do so can • Not a close relative of their cluding same sex couples) or opt to conduct religious cere- intended partner; enter into a civil partnership monies for same sex couples. • In the case of a civil partner- in England and Wales. Couples The Act also protects religious ship, of the same sex as their may be regarded as a same sex organisations and their repre- intended partner. couple if one or both parties sentatives from successful have changed their gender and legal challenge if they do not Any prisoner contemplating a acquired a full gender recog- wish to marry same sex cou- marriage or civil partnership DOES THE TAX MAN OWE YOU MONEY? nition certificate under the ples. The provisions in the should obtain a copy of this (IF YOU ENTERED PRISON AFTER 6 APRIL 2012 AND PAID TAX YOU MAY BE DUE A TAX REFUND) Gender Recognition Act 2004. Marriage Act 1949 which ena- PSI and read it carefully. It Prisoners and their partners ble prisoners to marry in their contains mandatory instruc- WORKED IN CONSTRUCTION (CIS) - TAX DEDUCTED? are expected to pay any costs place of detention apply equal- tions which the prison must associated with the marriage/ ly to same sex marriages. comply with. civil partnership. If the cere- NEED TO FILE SELF-ASSESSMENT RETURNS? mony/registration is to take Where a prisoner wants to Copies of all PSIs are available ARE YOU RECEIVING TAX DEMANDS OR PENALTIES THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND? place outside the establish- marry or enter into a civil part- from your prison library. ARE YOU SETTING UP A BUSINESS AFTER YOU ARE RELEASED AND NEED ADVICE? ment the prisoner will be re- nership in a prison, he or she quired to pay for the cost of is required to obtain a state- IF THE ANSWER IS ‘YES’ YOU NEED TO CONTACT THE TAX ACADEMY™ transport and any escort to the ment of authority from the place where the registration prison governor which states Religious festivals THE TAX ACADEMY™ Include as much information as possible: will take place. Governors that there is no objection to May 2017 Unit 4, Ffordd yr Onnen • Prison number should inform prisoners of the the prison being named as the Dates Prisoners must be Lon Parcwr Business Park • Your full name including middle name total cost in advance. place at which the marriage or excused from work Ruthin • Your date of birth civil partnership will take Denbighshire LL15 1NJ • National insurance number There are three main Acts that place. 5 May • Employment history apply to parties who are mar- Victorious return in 1941 01824 704535 • Contact address/number on the outside of HIM Haile Selassie 1 to rying or entering civil partner- Permission for a marriage or [email protected] Please advise if you change Prisons after responding. ships aft er civil preliminaries, Throne, Rastafarian civil partnership to take place 10 May and affect the way in which The Tax Academy™ is a Social Enterprise created by Paul Retout, a Tax Specialist to help Prisoners with their inside a prison should be given Buddha Day, Buddhist each party to a civil marriage/ tax affairs in Prison and on the outside. He was recently profiled in ‘The Times’ – ‘Tax Rebates for Cellmates’ in the following circumstances, 30 May-1 June having run tax seminars for inmates in HMP Wandsworth. partnership formally notifi es unless there are concerns Pentecost (Shavuot), Jewish the registration authority of Insidetime May 2017 www.insidetime.org Information 37 The Inspector Calls Monitoring Inside Time highlights areas of good and bad practice from the most recent Reports published by HM Inspectorate of Prisons Self-inflicted deaths among female prisoners Female prisoner deaths rising and prisons must take action, says Ombudsman

The bulletin has elicited strong comments from those who work in the criminal jus- HMP Durham HMP Eastwood Park tice sector. Category B local establishment for adult A closed women’s resettlement prison Andrew Neilson, Director of and young male prisoners Announced Full Inspection: 7-18 November 2016 Campaigns at the Howard Announced Full Inspection: 3-14 October 2016 League for Penal Reform, told Safety W W WW Inside Time; “The Safety W W WW Respect W W WW Government’s response must Respect W W WW Purposeful Activity W W WW address the intolerable condi- Purposeful Activity W W WW Resettlement W W WW tions for both women and men Resettlement W W WW in prison, for 2016 saw more “A well led women’s prison” people taking their own lives “Progress too slow” behind bars than in any other “Eastwood Park provided some good care to year on record. By taking bold women, but was less stable than previously”, but sensible steps to reduce Half of Durham’s 1,000 population are remand said Peter Clarke in his latest report. Most of the number of people in pris- or short term prisoners held in overcrowded the women spent short periods at the prison on, we can save lives and pre- accommodation and, in his report, the Chief Important lessons to be learned before being released or moved to another prison. © Deposit Photos vent more people being swept Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, says the high The prison served a wide catchment area which away into deeper currents of levels of need among the population were clearly had been extended further following the closure Paul Sullivan Bullying is often related to crime and despair.” evident and a significant challenge. The report of HMP Holloway to encompass nearly all of drug debts, so where drug says; ‘The prison was still not safe enough. The the south-western quarter of England and Wales. activity is suspected, staff Deborah Coles, director of prison’s work to help prisoners resettle back The population is vulnerable and over half of The Prisons and Probation should be on the lookout for INQUEST, said; “We must stop into the community had deteriorated, as had women say they had issues with drugs, while Ombudsman independently signs of bullying; using prison as the default education, skills and training provision for over a third reported having alcohol problems. investigates all deaths in cus- response to women’s poverty tody and following the recent prisoners’. Levels of self-harm had increased and were • prisons should ensure that and multiple disadvantages rise in self-inflicted deaths of relatively high overall. ambulances are despatched and invest in community ser- • The prison was trying to learn lessons from women in prison he has pub- without delay in the event of vices. Ultimately, the respon- lished a ‘Learning Lessons’ self-inflicted deaths and men in crisis said they Inspectors were pleased to find: medical emergency; and sibility for taking action rests bulletin reviewing the cases with central Government. felt well cared for; • the prison remained reasonably safe for most of 19 self-inflicted deaths Their failure to act will con- • levels of violence remained unchanged, most women; • prisons should ensure all between 2013 and 2016. demn yet more women to die incidents were low level, but more prisoners • care and support for the most vulnerable staff, including night shift in prisons ill equipped and ill said they felt unsafe at the prison than during women was generally strong; staff, carry cut-down tools. The bulletin highlights impor- resourced to deal with their • issues with illegal drugs and the diversion of previous inspections; tant lessons to be learned: complex needs”. • just under half the prisoners when surveyed prescribed medications were generally well Ombudsman Nigel Newcomen said; “I find it disheartening said that illicit drugs were readily available in managed and disciplinary processes were used • prisons should ensure vigi- that many of the lessons we Daniel Machover, head of civil the prison; proportionately; lance in risk management, identify to prevent women in litigation for Hickman & Rose • reception arrangements were generally poor, • the high levels of mental health need were proactively identifying suicide solicitors, commented; "It being matched with some very good custody from taking their own which is a major risk in a prison responsible for and self-harm risk based on lives repeat those in previous seems plain from the Prisons treatment; receiving those new to custody; established risk factors and publications from my office. Ombudsman's report that the • staff-prisoner relationships remained strong, • the use of force had increased threefold, and triggers particular to the indi- This suggests it is not knowl- Prison Service has been indo- although staffing shortages had led to some levels were now higher than at similar prisons; vidual, and not just relying on edge that is the issue, but a lent in combating suicide. staff being very stretched; • although communal areas were reasonably how they present themselves lack of concerted and sus- There is a lack of 'concerted • work, training and education were generally clean, cells were often overcrowded, dirty and to staff; tained action. While we often and sustained action', so the well managed; and not properly equipped; identify examples of excellent time has come to start holding • work to resettle women back into the com- • where risk is identified, pris- • 47% of prisoners were locked up or not pur- and compassionate care by governors and senior manag- munity remained reasonably good but more ons should implement the ers at Prison Service HQ and posefully occupied during the core day and not individual staff, and also rec- needed to be done to involve women in sentence care-planning system to sup- ministers to account for what enough was done to ensure prisoners attended ognise that prisons have been planning. port prisoners at risk of suicide is patently a failure of leader- work, training or education; under enormous strain in and self-harm (known as recent years, there can be no ship. A starting point is an • the work of the two community rehabilitation Summing up Mr Clarke said; “We still considered ACCT) effectively, and with urgent overhaul of the process companies (CRCs) and the offender management excuse for not implementing Eastwood Park to be a well-led, generally safe appropriate management essential safety arrangements by which lessons from each unit was not integrated well enough. and decent prison, but it was showing signs of oversight; that could ensure vulnerable new tragedy are shared being under strain. Staffing levels had not kept women are better protected. between prisons." Summing up, Mr Clarke said; “This is a disap- pace with the rise in population, nor with its • prison mental health servic- pointing report. The prison had many strengths, increasing complexity. Efforts to understand es should ensure that all cases “It is to be hoped that deliver- The report can be downloaded not least a strong local identity and generally the recent self-inflicted deaths needed to con- are treated with an appropri- ing safer outcomes for women at: www.tinyurl.com/mtx- friendly staff, but the culture was not as con- tinue, and urgent action should be taken to ate degree of urgency, and (and men) in prison will be at vhmm structive or purposeful as it should have been. address any deficiencies. The increase in vio- avoid delays with assessment the heart of the Government’s Prison librarians should be It was striking how little had changed since our lence needed to be addressed with renewed and care; new prison reform agenda, able to download and print a last inspection, with a passivity, even compla- vigour, and aspects of the prison’s activities and that this bulletin can copy (16 pages) for you. • prisons should ensure cency, about what was needed to take the prison and resettlement provision required further assist with this and help to If you cannot access a copy you officers are vigilant for signs forward.” work.” reverse the unacceptable and can write to The Prisons and of intimidation or drug misuse tragic rise in self-inflicted Probation Ombudsman, PO to protect prisoners’ safety. Full report: www. tinyurl.com/n2e7f2g Full report: www. tinyurl.com/k2ac67m deaths.” Box 70769, London SE1P 4XY YOU DON’T HAVE TO STOMACH THESE JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE IN PRISON...

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kill or conspiracy to kill; the way some prosecutions look Defending ‘loss to link an innocent trip some- Extended confusion where to a killing, often by relying on cell site evidence; PRISON that changes in the law that happened after the way the prosecution use REFORM Ryan Harman you were sentenced will not affect the type of of life’ cases against you some lack of mem- TRUST Advice and Info Service Manager sentence you have or when you will be released. ory because in interview you David Wells manslaughter are the most were being asked about an Some of the questions we get about extended obvious examples of cases in- incident which happened Extended sentences have been covered a num- sentences are about categorisation. PSI 40/2011 volving the loss of life. months or even years ago and ber of times in Inside Time in the last couple Categorisation and Recategorisation Of Adult I have defended in many cases you simply couldn’t remember of years, but there still seems to be some con- Male Prisoners has not been updated since where there has been a loss of The defences are wide and where you were or what you fusion about what they mean for release, cat- introduction of EDS, but does mention EPP. As life and although such cases varied. They can be highly were doing; or the way the egorisation and recall. with other sentences you should have your carry with them the emotion complex and an understanding prosecution can try and estab- security category reviewed at least once every of dealing with the loss of life, of each of them is crucial to lish a motive by linking togeth- Extended sentences are a type of determinate 12 months, unless you are within 24 months of it has to be appreciated that any lawyer defending such a er what a defendant knows is sentence which include two parts. The first is whatever the circumstances of case. It may be that a suspect your earliest release date, at which point you a series of quite innocent a case, a person charged with just wasn’t there at the time of a custodial term. The custodial term is like a should get a review every 6 months. It could events. determinate sentence which means you serve also be reviewed earlier if there is a significant a criminal off ence - however the killing; there may be a serious - is entitled to and challenge to the forensic evi- some of it in prison and the remainder on change in circumstances. Cases that involve multiple should expect professional dence relied upon by the pros- licence in the community, depending upon defendants can oft en result in representation. ecution; the suspect may have when you are released. The second part is an the most injustice. Prosecutions To be considered for open conditions, you will acted in self defence; there may extended period on licence in the community, based on the ‘well, you were normally have to be within two years of your This type of case presents chal- be issues as to a suspect’s state there so you must be guilty as decided by the court. earliest possible release. If your release is sub- lenges which require experi- of mind providing a complete because you must have known ject to Parole this means within two years of ence and intuition. You tend or partial defence. Expert evi- what was going on, or at least Part of the reason for the confusion is that there your ‘Parole Eligibility Date’. If you are released to fi nd more experienced police dence is often so crucial to must have foreseen what was have been several types of extended sentences automatically this means within two years of officers investigating such successfully defending a case going to happen’ should now over the years, and changes made to these your release date. cases, more experienced pros- involving death. be less common, but I’m not sentences over time which impact on how and ecutors prosecuting such cases convinced. when you can be released from prison. The two After you are released from custody you will and oft en involve some of the Last year, I successfully de- most recent types of extended sentence for most learned and competent fended a client charged with be on licence for the rest of the custodial term Far too oft en, simply because lawyers in the fi eld of criminal murdering his cell-mate. He adults are the Extended Sentence for Public plus the extended period decided by the court. there has been a loss of life, law, certainly during trial, de- was acquitted of murder. He Protection (EPP) and the Extended Determinate You should make sure you know what date your the prosecution just let the Jury fending at court. relied upon an expert that was Sentence (EDS). licence ends. decide without considering crucial to his defence. He was whether it is just to allow a The larger and more complex under the infl uence of ‘Spice’ The Extended Sentence for Public Protection defendant to run the risk of Whilst on licence you will have conditions that a criminal investigation, the at the time of the killing. The being wrongly convicted. (EPP) was introduced in April 2005 by the you will need to follow. If you breach the con- more likely it is that the police case centred on the eff ects of Defended correctly, cases of Criminal Justice Act 2003. It is also known as ditions of your licence you could be recalled have made mistakes. Knowing Spice and was the fi rst prose- this type can achieve the right a ‘section 227 or 228’ extended sentence. to prison until the end of your sentence, unless what to look for requires ex- cution of its kind. result. the Parole Board direct your release earlier. perience. Being successful On an EPP, if you were sentenced after 4th April This is called a ‘Standard Recall’. If you are requires a proactive approach There are many fascinating Last year I defended the most 2005 but before 14 July 2008 you will be eligi- serving an extended sentence or extended and not just accepting claims aspects of defending a case tragic case of my career. A lady ble for Parole at the halfway point of your cus- determinate sentence you are not eligible to be made by the prosecution ‘be- involving the loss of life. in her 70’s charged with killing todial sentence. If you are not released by Parole cause they say so’. The infor- Sometimes you can also defend considered for a 28-day recall, known as a her husband. She was looking mation in a prosecution not someone who you feel pretty you will be released automatically at the end ‘Fixed Term Recall’. aft er him at home and he died. relied upon - the ‘unused confi dent is truly innocent. of your custodial term. He had various injuries which, schedule’- needs to be carefully Our team have gathered information on this upon his death, the authorities scrutinised. Doing so can make Up and down the country there If you were sentenced on or after 14 July 2008 subject into an information sheet for people on and the prosecution suggested the diff erence between convic- are hundreds if not thousands and convicted before 3 December 2012, you will extended sentences. If this may be useful to she caused because of her al- tion and acquittal. of fi ghts every weekend. Most be automatically released at the halfway point leged ‘lack of care.’ She was you, please get in contact and we would be will result in a black eye and charged with gross negligence of your custodial sentence. happy to send you a copy. Experience is gained from in- a few wounded egos. It’s rare manslaughter. terest. I have always had an for any such incident to result Extended Determinate Sentences (EDS) were interest in cases where there in death, and in those cases The reality was that she was introduced in December 2012 by the LAPSO You can contact the Prison Reform Trust’s has been a loss of life. I have where death occurs a charge barely able to look aft er herself Act. They replaced the Extended Sentences for advice team at FREEPOST ND6125 London always had an interest in the of murder may well follow. This but no one fl agged this up sat- Public Protection. EC1B 1PN. Our free information line is open psychology of crime and crim- is where experience and com- isfactorily. The right experts Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 3.30-5.30. inology. The public reaction petence really counts. The number is 0808 802 0060 and does not were instructed and together On an EDS, if you were sentenced before 13 when hearing that someone with one of the best jury advo- need to be put on your pin. has lost their life as result of a There will some who read this April 2015 with a custodial term of less than 10 cates I have ever come across, car accident, an argument or article who will doubtless years you will be released automatically at the she was rightly acquitted. It in circumstances as yet unex- shout ... ‘that happened to me!’ two thirds part of the custodial sentence. was a fascinating case. MASZ PROBLEM plained is to assume that death The cases where the prosecu- resulted from a criminal act tion sadly twisted some quite If you were sentenced before 13 April 2015 with Z PICIEM? and that someone is to blame innocent text messages into David Wells is a Partner at a custodial term of more than 10 years you will and must be guilty. 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Hearing is now even more have originally made an appli- important than it was before cation for open conditions on Is the Board making it for those IPP prisoners subject the papers. Expert advice to recall. should be taken before making your application before the Do these rule changes Board, taking into account the easier for IPP prisoners? apply to Lifers? prospects of your application Unfortunately, these changes being successful and the prac- ticalities of securing an Oral Darryl Foster tody the ability to obtain their tion to Open Conditions was As a result, if the Panel con- only apply to IPP prisoners. Hearing. and Kiran Mohammed release without having to limited. Whilst under the sidering your case at the MCA There is no provision for a pro- endure the lengthy delays cur- Board’s previous policy such stage feel that your risk is gressive move on the papers What can we do to help you? We previously wrote about a rently being experienced in prisoners could be recom- manageable in less stringent for Life sentence prisoners; significant change made by obtaining an Oral Hearing. mended for open conditions conditions, they can make a the Parole Board have no We would encourage all IPP the Parole Board. As of 1st Given the number of hearings at Member Case Assessment recommendation for open power to direct release or to prisoners approaching the November 2016, the Parole being conducted by the Parole (MCA), such recommenda- conditions. You must remem- recommend open conditions commencement of their Board Rules 2016 came into Board, prisoners are waiting tions would only take place in ber that the Board can only without oral evidence being reviews to contact us. Once we force. These rules empowered several months for their hear- exceptional circumstances provide a recommendation taken. In addition, such pris- have taken your instructions the Parole Board to release ing to be listed. and would require the approv- which the Secretary of State oners remain entitled to an we can draft and submit rep- prisoners serving a sentence al of the Parole Board Chair. will need to ratify. Should this Oral Hearing unless they spe- resentations on your behalf to of Imprisonment for Public What about Open In the vast majority of cases be done then you will ulti- cifi cally request to not have ensure your application has Protection on the papers. Conditions? any application for Open mately be transferred to open one. As a result, life sentence the best chance of success. We Conditions would be deter- conditions without the need Following the above rule prisoners subject to recall will can consider your options and mined following oral evidence to wait a lengthy period for an As a fi rm, we have secured the change, the Parole Board automatically be granted an ensure you understand the at an Oral Hearing. Oral Hearing. release of an IPP prisoner on Management committee have Oral Hearing for the Board to impacts of these new changes; the papers. Our client had agreed two further policy consider their case. ensuring that any delays in The Parole Board, as they did Will I always get a hearing? spent a signifi cant period in changes to assist IPP prison- obtaining a decision are kept with the ability to grant the community before being ers to progress through the In addition to the above to a minimum. release on the papers, contin- recalled aft er being charged prison system. One of those change, the Parole Board will A prisoner could ue to offer IPP prisoners a with an offence of common changes is the ability to rec- no longer automatically send Any changes for determi- route to progression which wait several assault. He was convicted of ommend a transfer to open IPP recall cases to an Oral nate sentence recalls? aims to limit the possibility the common assault and conditions for those serving Hearing. Previously all IPP months to appear for delay. The ability to pro- There have also been changes recalled to custody. We man- an IPP sentence on the papers prisoners subject to recall gress prisoners to open con- before the Board to the way in which the Parole aged to secure his release without the need for an Oral would automatically be grant- ditions on the papers will Board deal with the recall of without the need for an Oral Hearing. ed an Oral Hearing, no matter to give evidence further reduce the number of determinate sentence prison- Hearing. the circumstances. The only cases being heard by the only to have their ers. The Parole Board recently What does this mean for circumstances in which a Parole Board at Oral Hearings ran a pilot which meant that This rule change has the IPP Prisoners? hearing would not be granted application for speeding up the process for prisoners subject to recall with potential to allow those IPP would be where the prisoner Previously the power availa- everyone subject to Parole. less than 24 weeks remaining prisoners who remain in cus- specifi cally opted out of the release refused ble to the Parole Board in rela- on their sentence would not Parole process. be granted an Oral Hearing. Again, this was an attempt at Panel members will now have Should I seek Open reducing the number of hear- the ability to decide whether Conditions on the Papers? ings faced by the Board. This it is necessary to have an Oral Given the nature of the change has now been put on Hearing or whether a negative change, it is highly likely that hold and as a result the current decision should be made on the Parole Board will only rec- guidance for the Board is that the papers. A negative deci- ommend progressive moves cases where the prisoner has sion at the paper stage will to prisoners who have the less than 12 weeks remaining result in the review conclud- support of their Offender on licence following recall will ing at which point the Manager and Offender not be given an Oral Hearing. Secretary of State will then Supervisor. Prisoners may consider the issues in the case fi nd themselves in a situation This is not a blanket ban and before setting the next review. where they seek release into The length of the next review should a prisoner have less the community but the profes- than 12 weeks remaining on will be dependent on the cir- sionals in the case feel that cumstances of the case and licence, arguments can still be Open Conditions are more made that an Oral Hearing be what needs to be achieved to appropriate. In these circum- reduce risk prior to the next granted. The prisoner will stances, careful consideration review. need to show exceptional cir- should be given to the appli- cumstances when seeking an Our open, friendly solicitors working cation being made to the This change is an important Oral Hearing. Assistance from Board. in Criminal Defence will help you with all one. 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Without a positive the hearing could recommend please contact our Prison Law application by the prisoner open conditions which was department at Hine Solicitors Call us on 01865 518971 there is now the possibility potentially something they on 01865 518971 or FREEPOST that the Board will issue a would have done back at MCA - RTHU - LEKE - HAZR Hine or visit www.hinesolicitors.com negative decision on the stage given the support of the Solicitors, Seymour House, 285 papers. We often deal with professionals. 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Advertorial Receiver, an application can be made to the Court which the Restraint Order is made (s41(4)(a)). under s62(3) for directions as to the exercise of Thus, if there are no free assets the State must Restraint and receivers the Receiver’s powers. The Receiver potentially pay for the defence through Legal Aid. has the power to sell property to satisfy his bill, even before the matter has come to trial - though Application for variation or discharge such a serious step should not be taken without Once a suspect has been served with a Restraint Your money or theirs? seeking a direction from the Court; Re P [2000] Order, and has decided to fight it then the first 1 WLR, 473. The case of Gibson v RCPO [2008] step must be to sit down with his or her legal - in a hurried rushed fashion giving the Judge Times Law Reports, 14/7/08 is instructive. In that advisors and figure out what the challenges are, hardly any time to get on top of the papers and case, a Confiscation Order was made against a how much money is needed for reasonable living thereby not fully understanding the case. Papers convicted drug trafficker. The assets identified expenses, what is said about the charges/ pro- Jonathan Lennon had been the 50% equity in the matrimonial posed charges, how much of the defence case it and Aziz Rahman must be lodged well in advance and there should always be an oral hearing in complex cases. home and joint bank account, held by the offend- is tactically wise to give away at that early stage er’s wife. The Crown Court took the view that the and whether the prosecution can demonstrate it Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 The lowering of the test to mere ‘suspicion’ will wife must have realised that the mortgage was acted properly at the ex parte stage. The purpose of a Restraint Order is to freeze inevitably make an evidential challenge more being paid by the husband’s ill-gotten gains and property that may subsequently be confiscated. difficult. However, the higher Courts have been was thus an asset which could be sold to satisfy The future Confiscation is the power the Crown Court has troubled time and again in recent years in respect the Confiscation Order. But the Court of Appeal Anyone affected by a Restraint or a Management to make orders depriving convicted offenders of of a procedural issue; namely failure by the found that there was no legal principle under Receivership Order, needs to get to grips with their assets if the offender has benefited from his Crown, at the ex parte stage to properly fulfil which a spouse could be deprived of the benefit their own finances as soon as possible, consider criminal conduct. A Restraint Order made under their duty of full and frank disclosure. Lord of illegally obtained property on the grounds of the case against them, the terms of the Order and POCA tells the target that he/she cannot ‘deal’ Hughes LJ (as he was then) said in SFO v A [2007] public policy; that was not how POCA worked. develop a strategy with their lawyers as soon as with the property cited in the Order. If the Order EWCA Crim 1927, para 6: The wife kept her half of the house and bank possible. mentions your car for example, it will mean that account. Applying that principle to start of pro- you cannot sell the car or transfer it or dispose Because the initial application is commonly made ceedings, i.e. the Restraint Order stage, there is of it, or in any way ‘realise’ it - i.e. turn it into cash. without notice, the court will not at that stage solid argument for limiting the scope of any such Jonathan Lennon is a Barrister specialising in serious hear argument on both sides. For this reason…. Order where there are assets which are held in and complex criminal defence cases based at When and how can a restraint order be made? the court insists on full and complete disclosure joint names with a spouse. Carmelite Chambers, London. He has extensive Section 40 of POCA sets out a number of circum- by the Applicant of everything which might affect experience in all aspects of financial and serious stances in which the Crown Court may issue a the decision... There is a high obligation upon Living and legal expenses crime and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He is Restraint Order. Such Orders usually come early such an Applicant to put everything relevant This is another area which often rankles with ranked by both Legal 500 Chambers & Partners: in a case and often before an arrest - as long as before the Judge, whether it may help or hinder those on the wrong end of a Restraint Order - the ‘he is phenomenal and is work rate is astonishing’; an ‘investigation’ has started, s40(2)(a). The his cause. amount allowed by the Order for ordinary living ‘One of the best juniors in financial crime.’ application is made ex parte - i.e. without notice expenses. Variation applications made after the to the suspect so only the prosecution lawyer is Even if this duty has been breached it does not initial ex parte Order will often challenge the Aziz Rahman is a Solicitor- Advocate and Partner at Court presenting the Crown’s case for the Order. necessarily mean the Court will quash the Order. amount allowed to be spent on daily living - i.e. at the leading Criminal Defence firm Rahman Up until May last year it was fairly easy for a It might, it all depends on the facts of the case the weekly sum that will be free from the Restraint Ravelli Solicitors, specialising in Human Rights, prosecutor to secure the Order; all that had to be and how bad the breach has been. Order. What is required is a careful analysis of Financial Crime and Large Scale Conspiracies/ shown was there was a reasonable cause to expenses together with as much proof as possi- Serious crime. Rahman Ravelli are members of the believe that the alleged offender has benefited Receivers ble - these steps need to be considered at the very Specialist Fraud Panel and have been ranked by Legal 500 as an ‘exceptional’ firm with Aziz Rahman from his criminal conduct. However, since 1st If a suspect’s finances are complex the Court may earliest opportunity. being described as ‘top class’’. The firm is also ranked June 2015 the test is now even easier as s40 was appoint a Management Receiver (s48) to receive in Chambers & Partners. Rahman Ravelli are a Top amended by the Serious Crime Act 2015 so that and manage the property. This too was an area A variation cannot be made for legal expenses Tier and Band 1 firm. now all the prosecution has to show is that there where the Court of Appeal set down guidance in in relation to the actual offence in respect of are reasonable grounds to suspect. This is bound the Eastenders case as to how such applications to lead to an increase in the Orders being made. should be made.

All the Crown has to do is persuade the Judge, to The Management Receiver will often be a sizea- the civil standard, i.e. on the balance of proba- ble accountancy firm who could have the legal bilities, that there is reasonable cause to suspect authority to take possession and control of any that the alleged offender has benefited from or all of the suspect’s property and sell any assets. ‘criminal conduct’ - this ‘criminal conduct’ is This is a major step which has significant impli- widely defined as any conduct which would con- cations for those on the receiving end. stitute an offence (s76). It must be remembered - the Judge is not trying to see if the allegations Management Receivers do not come cheap. They The strongest legal are true or not, just that there is some evidence are officially appointed by the Court but they of reasonable grounds for suspicion. charge for their services and the first port of call representation in the for their fees is the restrained or confiscated The first a suspect will know about an Order assets, see s49(2)(d). One area that is of concern fi elds of serious, being made is when he or she is served with the is the Receiver’s costs - which are rarely insig- Order, or even finds that his or her cash-card for nificant. This can lead to a gross injustice where complex and business some reason no longer works at the bank’s ATM. the restrained assets have been used to pay the Management Receiver’s large bills, only for the crime. The most Windsor & Hare v CPS [2011] EWCA 143 is an suspect to then go onto trial and be acquitted - in important case in this area. HMRC were investi- that scenario the innocent suspect may have to informed, expert gating an alleged duty diversion fraud involving bear the cost; see House of Lords ruling in suspects linked to the Eastenders group of com- Capewell v Commissioners of Custom & anor advice for those panies dealing in alcohol imports. In December [2005] 1 ALL ER 900. 2010, they obtained two orders on an ex parte being prosecuted. basis; a Restraint order and a Management That possibility of unfairness should be taken Receivership Order. The Court of Appeal quashed into account at the time the Order is made - or the orders - though allowed time for the Crown challenged. Defenders can ask for the Court to to re-apply to the Crown Court for new orders. satisfy itself that the expense of appointing a That later application was unsuccessful. The Management Receiver is truly a proportionate Appeal Court took advantage of the case to effec- response to a perceived risk, given the damage such tively teach HMRC a lesson - and a lesson to orders can inflict on businesses and lifestyles. Judges - that such orders should not be granted ex parte unless the prosecution can demonstrate Property held jointly that they have done their job properly. Third parties holding an interest in property can be affected by a Restraint Order, or Management The Court noted that the Restraint Order regime Receivership Order. The most obvious example Roma House, 59 Pellon is harsh and as such Judges must take extra care is the spouse of someone who is facing criminal Telephone 1 Fetter Lane with applications where the defence are not pres- charges, for example the wife of someone facing 01422 Lane, Halifax, West London EC4A 1BR ent. The Court must focus on the proper statuto- serious fraud charges where the wife has a joint 346666 Yorkshire HX1 5BE Also in Birmingham ry test - i.e. whether there are reasonable grounds bank account and holds the matrimonial home for suspicion. The Court of Appeal was particu- in joint names. In law where any person has been, www.rahmanravelli.co.uk / [email protected] Nationwide Service larly critical of the way the application was made or may be, affected by the actions of a Management 42 Legal // Q&A ‘Legal’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Insidetime May 2017

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If it is simply a question of aware that there is no guarantee the probation service but have delay in listing then there is a set that you will remain with the same Unfortunately, issues of lost property received no response whatsoever. formula for compensation that will Off ender Manager throughout your within the prison are not covered Do I have any options to have the follow as a matter of course. sentence. It is very important that by legal aid. You may however be errors amended or are probation able to obtain legal advice from a you have a good relationship with However, it is worth noting that the offi cers able to write whatever solicitor specialising in these issues your Off ender Manager as they will Parole Board do not pay costs and they want with impunity? I have on a private paying basis. You may eff ectively manage you upon release so a solicitor taking the case might now been told the same probation also wish to explore the possibility and therefore you should do your want his costs deducted from the Prison Law offi cer will be supervising me on of approaching a solicitor who best to engage with them and build fi gure off ered. Unless the prisoner release. Considering the way she specialises in either medical negligence Answers are kindly provided by: a relationship. If you feel that this is is released the compensation is handled my PSR I would rather or actions against the prison, if you not possible you could always request likely to be in the hundreds of Emmersons Solicitors feel this is necessary in your case. have someone else. Can I request pounds’ region and so it might be Frisby & Co Solicitors a new Off ender Manager although a diff erent probation offi cer? Who Response provided by Hine Solicitors worth asking the lawyer dealing Hine Solicitors there is no guarantee of this. To do should I complain to about the with your parole review if he would Olliers Solicitors so you would need to make a conduct of this probation offi cer? RD - HMP Usk take the compensation case pro bono. Pickup & Scott Solicitors request to the Probation Service. Purcell Parker Solicitors A Unfortunately, there is little we Response provided by Hine Solicitors Q I am an IPP inmate with a tariff The other and more diffi cult set of Reeds Solicitors can do to assist as this needs to be of 2 years 80 days which was up cases relate to delays in accessing programmes. The best answer I can Answers to readers’ legal queries addressed with Probation. I would SD - HMP Winchester in December 2010. I waited almost give is that there are situations where are given on a strictly without advise you to make a formal 5 years to complete a course, which Q I was transferred to another compensation has been awarded liability basis. If you propose acting complaint to the Probation Service I have now done (end of 2016) so I prison following the riots. I was but every case will depend upon its upon any of the opinions that appear, and ask that your case is looked am hoping for open conditions told my property would be own facts. The courts have you must fi rst take legal advice. into to allow any factual errors to later this year. Some time ago I read be amended. Should you receive no transferred, this has not happened. that IPPs could claim compensa- unsurprisingly been slow to I have written to the Ombudsman countenance claims for compensa- Send your Prison Law Query (concise response or an unsatisfactory tion for these kinds of delays. and exhausted every possible route tion. You ask about lawyers who and clearly marked ‘Prison Law response from the Probation Service Firstly, is this still the case? and I am still getting nowhere. I Secondly, can you advise on a might take this sort of case. I would Query’) to: David Wells, Solicitor you can escalate your complaint to the am due to be released and need solicitor that will take this kind of case? suggest that the lawyer who has c/o Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Prisons and Probation Ombudsman. my stuff , what else can I do? been dealing with your IPP reviews Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. A There has been some confusion is best placed to advise as to As you will be aware, your pre-sen- in the media regarding compensa- whether the delay is actionable. For a prompt response, readers are tence report will form part of your A If you have not already received a response from the Prisons and Probation tion that can be paid to prisoners. Going to another lawyer might asked to send their queries on white Dossier which will be considered at Ombudsman and/or the Independent There have been several cases before involve preliminary cost as Legal paper using black ink or typed if each review you have. Any incorrect Monitoring Board then I recommend the courts in recent years and it is Aid may not be readily available. possible. information, particularly where it that you await the outcome of these important to distinguish between relates to your off ence should be Response provided by Stevens Solicitors Specialists in Prison Law

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Q I was convicted of brave there’s always the option sufficient prospect of success to the Court for each count subject to this process is conspiracy to import and of representing yourself. to justify consideration; and on the indictment is the estimated to be around 850 supply Class A drugs and Sometimes people do this (3) sufficient benefit, ie, maximum that would have each year. In R (Howard received 18 years. The when they’ve sought legal whether it is reasonable to been available at the date of League) v Lord Chancellor solicitor advocate who advice and can’t find a lawyer expect to be provided with the commission of the offence. [2017] EWCA Civ 244, the represented me at trial didn’t who believes them to have such advice or representa- The maximum sentences for Court of Appeal recognised seem to know what he was arguable grounds of appeal. tion. This usually turns on some offences, such as (again) the effective impossi- doing, and the Judge had to whether you’ve received indecent assault, have risen bility of a prisoner serving an keep correcting him. If time has passed, or you’re advice on the point before. over the years. You need to indeterminate sentence Frankly, it was embarrass- concerned that the perfor- You can’t expect to receive be sure that the Judge being released direct from ing. I’m not a lawyer but I mance of your trial lawyers repeat advice on the same imposed a sentence on each Category A conditions by the could see he was making a wasn’t adequate, you can seek point at public expense. count that was less than the Parole Board [103]. The Court Sentencing mess of my case. I want to advice from new lawyers. statutory maximum for that concluded that since the appeal, but I’m worried This could be another firm of Although the Court of Appeal offence at the date when it is changes imposed in December Answers this month were about the same thing solicitors or a Barrister led operates on time limits, they said to have happened. 2013, there was “no evidence kindly provided by: happening again. Do I have entity. A Barrister led entity do recognise that sometimes that there is particular Jason Elliott, a barrister to use the same lawyer who functions like a solicitors’ errors in the trial process only Q I’m Cat A. I’ve been Cat A support available in practice at Jason Elliott Associates represented me at trial? firm and is entitled to obtain become apparent at a later for years. I always challenge for prisoners in Category A Ltd, a barrister led entity public funding on your date. They have a discretion the decision to keep me at reviews” [108] and that the removal of Legal Aid had specialising in Prison Law If you want to seek leave behalf and represent you in to consider applications for Cat A but it doesn’t make any A resulted in “an inherently and Criminal Appeals. to appeal, or if you want the same way as a firm of leave to appeal (and appeals) difference. They just keep unfair system” [109]. advice as to whether you have solicitors would. The main after their own time limits saying that just because I’m difference is that your advice have expired where the behaving myself in Cat A Answers to readers’ legal grounds on which to seek At the date of writing, the or grounds are likely to be interests of justice demand it. conditions it doesn’t queries are given on a strictly leave to appeal, there are a Government haven’t drafted by a barrister, provide any indication that without liability basis. number of options open to indicated whether they are whereas some solicitors’ Q I was sentenced for it’s safe for me to progress. you. Sometimes it might be a going to appeal against this firms may prefer to keep historic sex offences. The I’d like legal representation Send your Sentencing good idea to use the lawyers decision. Clearly, the Court such work “in-house”. Judge insisted on being told to challenge these decisions Query (concise and clearly who represented you at trial. has pointed to an unfairness marked ‘Sentencing Query’) They should already have a what the law is now. Surely and I heard that might be If you choose new lawyers, within the Category A to: Inside Time, Botley Mills, feel for your case and you that isn’t relevant? I think possible now. Is that true? whether a solicitors’ firm or a Review system and, in the Botley, Southampton, can expect them to be alive my sentence would have barrister led entity, they will absence of a successful Hampshire SO30 2GB. to what was said by the been less back when the A In December 2013 the have to apply for public appeal on the part of the various parties. This might offences were committed. Government got rid of Legal funding (legal aid) on your Government, something will For a prompt response, be an advantage in some Aid for most areas of law behalf. There are 3 tests that have to be done to correct readers are asked to send cases and if your case was A There’s guidance on this that concern prisoners. This you will have to satisfy before that. Whether Legal Aid is their queries on white paper publicly funded the fee for an point in the Sentencing included drafting representa- you are granted legal aid. reinstated so that you can using black ink or typed if advice on appeal (or grounds Guidelines. You have to be tions to and seeking to review These relate to (1) your means, have the benefit of legal possible. if appropriate) was included sentenced in accordance decisions of the Category A ie, whether your financial representation or whether in the money your lawyers with the sentencing regime Review Team and the Deputy situation dictates that your the Government tries to were paid to represent you. that’s in force at the date of Director of Custody (High case should be paid for; (2) suggest that some lesser form sentence. 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Prisoners in Scotland should contact; The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, 5th Floor, Portland House, 17 Renfi eld Street, Glasgow, G2 5AH. Phone: 0141 270 7030 Email: [email protected] 44 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org Insidetime May 2017 Five minutes with... David Kendall is co director of Penned Up, the largest arts festival in the prison estate, and the only one put together with prisoners. Until recently he managed Reading Ahead/Six Book Challenge across UK prisons, and has done many arts & books projects with substance misusers, rough sleepers, prisons, and Pupil Referral Units. Last month he organized the Penned Up arts festival in HMP Erlestoke.

‘The success of art in prison may not, it is true, be solely attributable to art. Simply to be treated as a human being, and to co-operate on friendly terms with cultured, educated people, could be a transforming experience for prisoners if they were being taught first aid or fly-fishing rather than art.’ What Good Are The Arts? John Carey, 2005

“Lullaby baby…” A while ago I was a mentor to a man recently © Deposit Photos out of prison. I’d turn up once a week for a couple of hours, take him for a coffee and run through the list of things he was supposed to Do you dream in prison? have done. It appealed to us both and we got on well. One day, crossing a rainy windswept car park, he asked me why I was doing this? Every week, National Prison more dreamy and relaxed My answer remains the same: I think the world Radio has over 50 hours of until the early hours of the is pretty shitty, and to my mind it’s mad not to music and talk, through the next morning, when we gently take any opportunity to make things a little night, designed to help lull wake you up. David Kendall: Guardian reader less shitty. you off to sleep. And if you still can’t sleep, When the lights go out at the Why do you do this kind of work? But why prisons? end of the day, many of us are After you’ve listened to Books you’ll also hear information able to settle down for some Unlocked, our daily book- which will help you to stay Possibly because no one else would have me! I could do arts/literacy projects on the outside, good quality sleep. If you’re reading slot at 11pm, you can safe in prison. It’s not easy to give a conclusive answer - it’s so why do I, in my teenage son’s memorable really lucky, you might get 8 enjoy soothing music and something that I get asked a lot. There’s a little phrase, spend my time “getting murderers to hours or more of uninterrupt- messages which contain solid If you’re still finding it hard to hard voice in my head that keeps questioning: read Lord of the Rings?” At this point I want to ed shuteye. tips from people who know, sleep, or your mind is trou- make it absolutely clear that I have never tried about how to clear your mind bled, Listeners are there Do you want people to think you are a good to get anyone to read Lord of the Rings. person? But you might be one of the and catch some Zs. through the night. If you’re many people who really struggle feeling very low, it’s OK to talk. No. I want to get a good arts experience to those One of the great things about working with to get enough sleep in prison. From 11:30, every single night who are less likely to get that chance. That prisoners is the huge range of people I come of the week, we have an hour inevitably leads me to prisons. into contact with. People who have life-stories Jail can be stressful, noisy, and a half of love songs. As we Dream Time is on every night that are nothing like mine, and that huge diver- unsettling. Not a good recipe get further into the night, the on National Prison Radio from Do you want to get a bit of street cred hang- sity of experience makes collaborative projects for a good night’s sleep. music changes, becoming 11:30pm through to 7am. ing around with hard cases? in prison thrive. The process of working with prisoners on arts projects is exhilarating and I’m 50, and read The Guardian, street cred isn’t National Prison Radio has been working with challenging. In truth my projects are better an option. HM Prison and Probation Service and serving because I work in prisons. With much of the We’re all prisoners to develop the programmes. arts having been pushed to the margins in Do you want to change people? prisons I feel passionate about bringing them Probably not. People will change themselves; back into what is offered by the prison. The Whoever you’re talking to on the wing, it’s at best you can be a catalyst, part of an envi- results will always be mixed and dependent human really important to remember that we’re all ronment that supports that change. That’s what on who is taking part. Sometimes it will be human. We’re all under pressure, and that can enough just to “kill” a morning, other times National Prison Radio is launching a brand I’m aiming for. Some of the events and projects affect the way we talk and the way we think. or, even within that same session on another new programme providing practical help and I’ve brought into prisons have had the potential person, it changes a life. I’m not kidding myself advice for people dealing with the stress and to change lives, and sometimes people tell me about the amount of difference I can make but frustration of living in prison. The programme Our programmes will help you to think about that has happened but it is from their own I need to know the possibility is there. will give examples of how to get out of situa- how you communicate with people on the wing. determination. tions that might lead to violence. What does a wing look like when it’s working well and people are getting on - and when there’s Violence in prisons is at a record high. In the conflict, what are the best solutions? twelve months to September 2016, assaults were up 31% with over 25,000 reported in pris- We’ll also help you to understand your warning ons across England and Wales. 3,372 of these signs. How does your body react when you’re were classed as serious assaults. There were annoyed? What are your triggers? 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Plus, our [email protected] 0203 441 2700 www.topstonesolicitors.com brand new monthly show, Know Your Mind, starts Change of trading name: Please note Topstone Solicitors were formally known as Touchstone Solicitors But violence doesn’t have to be the answer. on Monday 8 May in the NPR Specials slot. The website and email address have changed but all other contact details remain the same. Insidetime May 2017 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Fitness 45 Cell Workout Yoga for Strength Get the body you want Inside & Out The Prison Phoenix Trust A lot of people think that yoga is just about relaxing and being more fl exible. But it LJ Flanders to consider… young females Bodyweight can also build strength and stamina, without any need for gym equipment. These can start strength training poses all strengthen the body when practised regularly, particularly in the arms, legs before young males, because Strength for and core. As you do them, keep breathing, slowly and deeply - this strengthens the This girl can... females mature earlier than Beginners mind, too. Even if it’s a challenge, don’t hold your breath! We suggest you hold each males. Also, the drop-off in pose for fi ve breaths, but you might want to start with three, and with practice you strength aft er a period of not I have been asked by Women 1 Squat could build up to ten or more. Listen to your body and work with it, not against it. in Prison (WIP), to write an training is quicker in females 2 sets of 20 reps article for their magazine than men, and women carry 2 Incline Press Up Child Pose Boat Ready Steady Go and thought less muscle mass than men. 6 5 breaths. For an extra challenge, 3 sets of 10 reps This is a strong routine, so rest like this it might be of interest to every- hold your arms out straight beside after every couple of postures, or whenev- one. 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2-4 Bradford Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1DU minutes, gently returning to your breath counting whenever the mind wanders. 46 Jailbreak // Inside History www.insidetime.org Insidetime May 2017 Behind the gate On this day… 11th May 1981 could be that image. When The life and infamous times of Britain’s pris- Bob walked in he really was that image.” The Wailers ons. This month East Sutton Park returned to Jamaica to record at Harry J’s studio in Kingston, Noel Smith establishment. which resulted in the album Catch a Fire. The oldest building on the site, the main house, On an early spring morning, the main house dates to 1547 and was owned by Thomas Argall. That first album was released of HMP East Sutton Park (or ESP, as it is known The main house contains ‘secret panels’ and worldwide in April 1973, pack- locally) looks magnificent, wreathed in a light openings that were known as ‘priest holes’, aged like a rock record with a mist and with a view of the Maidstone valley, used to hide priests and other citizens during unique Zippo lighter lift-top. it has a timeless quality. Which, I suppose, is the anti-Catholic reign of Edward VI. The pan- Initially selling 14,000 units, not surprising as there has been a structure on elled woodwork, carvings and magnificent this site since 1250AD. East Sutton Park is a fireplaces of the original building are still in it didn’t make Marley a star, Grade II listed 15th Century mansion which place today, and add to the overall sense of but received a positive critical holds approximately 100 prisoners. history it exudes. reception. It was followed later that year by the album It is one of only two female open prisons left Burnin’ which included the in the country. The land was sold to the Prison song “I Shot the Sheriff”. Eric Commissioners for £13,500 just after the war, Clapton was given the album and the site was established as the first ever by his guitarist George Terry open Borstal for girls in 1946. For the duration in the hope that he would of the Second World War, the site was requisi- Bob Marley: “Money can’t buy life” enjoy it. Clapton was suitably tioned by the British Army and particularly the impressed and chose to record Royal Artillery, and was used to train tank-re- a cover version of “I Shot the trieval troops for the D-Day landings. With 84 acres of land, including a lake, it was an ideal Sheriff” which became his first US hit since “Layla” two place to train for beach landings. In fact, “Secret panels” Reggae King records note that when the place was first years earlier and reached opened as a Borstal, there was a ‘derelict tank There has always been plenty of work oppor- number 1 on the Billboard Hot embedded in the grounds’. It was removed in tunities for the ladies of East Sutton Park, 100 on 14 September 1974. 1948. including farm and gardens. The farm has its dies of cancer own Saddleback pigs, sheep and horses, and On 3 December 1976, two days Bob Marley, who grew up as a in February 1964 selling an when I visited there were plenty of new-born before “Smile Jamaica”, a free lambs and piglets in evidence. The sheep and “rude boy” in the Jamaican estimated 70,000 copies. The concert organised by the pigs eventually go off to be sold at market or slums before achieving world Wailers, now regularly record- Jamaican Prime Minister humanely killed. The carcasses are brought acclaim as a singer/song writ- ing for Studio One, found Michael Manley in an attempt back to the prison where they are butchered er, died of cancer today aged themselves working with to ease tension between two by the women, who can gain qualifications in 36. His family said he passed established Jamaican musi- warring political groups, butchering. The meat is then sold in the Farm away peacefully at the Cedars cians such as Ernest Ranglin, Marley, his wife, and manag- Shop. The prison produces its own honey, also of Lebanon Hospital in Miami. the keyboardist Jackie Mittoo er Don Taylor were wounded sold in the Farm Shop (which is open to the Marley, who was diagnosed and saxophonist Roland in an assault by unknown public for 3 days a week). The Farm shop has with acral lentiginous mela- Alphonso. By 1966, gunmen inside Marley’s proved very popular with the public, some of noma in 1977, is credited with Braithwaite, Kelso, and Smith home. Taylor and Marley’s “Timeless quality” whom travel great distances in order to shop popularising reggae music had left the Wailers, leaving wife sustained serious inju- there. The women can also gain qualifications around the world and served the core trio of Bob Marley, The first Governor was Miss Elsie Hooker, and in animal husbandry and agriculture. ries, but later made full recov- she had a team of 6 officers. The first intake of as a symbol of Jamaican cul- Bunny Wailer, and Peter Tosh. eries. Bob Marley received ture and identity. His final Borstal girls numbered just 7, between the ages Education has always played a big part at East minor wounds in the chest words to his son Ziggy were, In 1972, Bob Marley signed of 16 to 23. The girls arrived from HMP Holloway Sutton Park, even in Elsie Hooker’s day there and arm. Nonetheless, the in the winter of 1947, which was a particularly was a wide variety of classes held after work “Money can’t buy life.” with CBS Records in London concert proceeded, and an cold winter, and were cut off from the outside between 5.30 and 8 in the evening. And there and embarked on a UK tour injured Marley performed as world by heavy snowstorms for the first couple is still a good emphasis placed on education Bob Marley was born 6 with American soul singer scheduled, two days after the of months. The girls and staff set to work mak- in the modern prison. In 2010-11, the quality February 1945 in Jamaica, his Johnny Nash. While in London attempt. When asked why, ing the house habitable after it had been gutted of creative writing coming from the prison full name is Robert Nesta the Wailers asked their road Marley responded, “The peo- and left in a terrible state of disrepair by the resulted in a Koestler Platinum Award win. Marley, though some sources manager Brent Clarke to intro- ple who are trying to make army. And by June of the following year there give his birth name as Nesta duce them to Chris Blackwell, this world worse aren’t taking were twenty residents, all working hard to Today this former Borstal is an open prison for Robert Marley, with a story who had licensed some of a day off. How can I?” make a more comfortable and self-sufficient women, but also holds up to 6 ‘young offend- that when Marley was still a their Coxsone releases for his ers.’ It is mainly for women serving life sen- boy a Jamaican passport offi- Island Records. The Wailers When asked by an interview- tences or long-term sentences, who are cial reversed his first and mid- intended to discuss the royal- er: “Can you tell the people approaching the end of their terms and are in dle names because Nesta ties associated with these what it means being a need of resettlement back into the community. sounded like a girl’s name. releases; instead the meeting The average time spent in East Sutton Park is Rastafarian?” Marley respond- resulted in the offer of an between 18-months and 2-years. Many women ed, “I would say to the people, In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny advance of £4,000 to record We take pride in providing a work outside the prison in paid employment, ‘Be still, and know that His Wailer, Peter Tosh, Junior an album. Since Jimmy Cliff, full range of and others do voluntary work, as well as those Imperial Majesty, Emperor working on various vocational and education- Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Island’s top reggae star, had Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is Criminal and Prison Law al courses within the prison. and Cherry Smith were called recently left the label, the Almighty.’ Now, the Bible Services. the Teenagers. They later Blackwell was primed for a seh so, Babylon newspaper seh HMP East Sutton Parks is one of the prisons changed the name to the replacement. In Marley, so, and I and I the children FOR ASSISTANCE PLEASE CONTACT that is doing exactly what it says on the tin, in Wailing Rudeboys, then to the Blackwell recognised the ele- seh so. Yunno? So I don’t see exceptional times and circumstances. In the Wailing Wailers, at which ments needed to snare the how much more reveal our Hannah Rumgay - Prison Law Solicitor most recent report the Prison Inspectorate said: point they were discovered by rock audience: “I was dealing people want. Wha’ dem want? ‘Many aspects of ESP epitomise what a good record producer Coxsone with rock music, which was a white god, well God come Tates, 2 Park Square East, woman’s prison should be.’ Dodd, and finally to the really rebel music. I felt that black. True true.” Leeds, West Yorkshire LS1 2NE Wailers. Their single “Simmer would really be the way to Down” for the Coxsone label break Jamaican music. But Robert Nesta Marley 1945-1981 0113 242 2290 Next month HMP Durham became a Jamaican number 1 you needed someone who Insidetime May 2017 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Reading 47 Reading Group Book Review SHORT SENTENCE Round-up Three-years in Dartmoor Prison Promoting reading and reading by Jessica Berens groups in prisons Review by Noel Smith Grosvenor House Publishing Limited / £9.99 / ISBN: 978-1786230379

The report this month comes from “HMP Dartmoor is a cross a kind of forlorn prison out- absorbing book. Oxford University lecturers Sophie between Gormenghast and an post at the edge of time. A Escher drawing; rusty metal place where the oppression The late JP Bean (Julian Ratcliffe and Eleanor Lybeck who exterior staircases wind up was almost palpable. Broadhead), founder of Prison have been visiting PRG reading granite walls and stop; enter a Writing and senior Sheffield groups as part of their new project door that several people have “I think Jessica Berens Probation Officer, once claimed leads to warned me against Writers- ‘Unsilencing the Library’. ‘Administration’ and end up in captures the atmosphere in-Residence, stating - ‘All ‘Offender Management; don’t of Dartmoor prison they are there for is to appro- ‘Books find us sometimes.’ This comment - so bother with C Wing, it was con- priate prisoners’ stories to use simple and so true - was made during a meet- very well, from the demned for ‘sanitation’ rea- in their own books’. But for ing of the reading group at HMP Bullingdon endless weird corridors sons and is derelict. Aim for the incarcerated, who have no that we had the pleasure of visiting this March. the ‘Resettlement Unit’ and to the loud, brash writing skills and no voice in Our visit formed part of our new project about tant to me at that age but I think that hearing end up in the freezing twilight the outside world, this is the how reading has mattered to different people about Danny’s bond with his dad filled my head boasts of the younger zone that is the passage to D only way their stories will ever at different times. with ideas of grandeur about my own. It wasn’t prisoners” Wing where everything is, for see the light of day. So, I the fact that his dad was there for him but that reasons best known to itself, applaud Jessica Berens for this It all began with some books that we found in he put Danny first and let him come up with She manages to document the painted orange and the cold book. a neglected Victorian library in a Warwickshire ideas of his own. more interesting prisoners she wasteland is dominated by museum. The room’s shelves were empty, but has come across whilst teach- curving wooden structures and Those who have spent time in one thing remained - a doorway framed with As a father, I have a daughter who is a very ing creative writing/art in the pointless glass cubicles…” the unhallowed halls of imitation books. Looking closely, you could enthusiastic reader … My son, however, would prison. What they look like, Dartmoor prison will recog- see these ‘books’ were all written by women. rather be playing video games. But when I sat how they interact with her, Above is the blurb from the nise it straight away, and It’s a rare thing to showcase women’s writing him down and started reading Danny to him, what they are in for and their back of the book, which will those who haven’t will be glad like this - even rarer in the nineteenth century I could see the same glint in his eyes that I must attitudes, and this, along with give you a flavour of Dartmoor they never passed through the - an age when women’s rights were barely spo- have had.” her sharp and sometimes prison. I spent time in gates. ken about. This old room was trying to tell us funny observations on the a story about reading and equality that has Setting out on this project, we couldn’t have Dartmoor, back in the 90s, state and fabric of the prison A great little book and highly found its way into the twenty-first century. imagined receiving such generous responses. and I can well remember the is what makes for such an recommended. We are hugely grateful to PRG Director Sarah unique ambience of the place, The empty shelves still needed filling, and the Turvey, to the librarians who have passed on museum asked us to help. So we set out to ask details of our work and collected numerous people to suggest what to put on them. Actress responses, and - most of all - to those members and campaigner Emma Watson, broadcaster of PRG who have taken part so far. We are so and gardener Alys Fowler, and writer Margo glad that your books have found us. Jefferson all sent us lists of their favourite books. So have teenagers from a Warwickshire comprehensive. And so have dozens of mem- National Prison Law Solicitors bers of Prison Reading Groups. Unsilencing the Library will be on display at www.instalaw.co.uk Compton Verney Art Gallery and Museum in PRG readers nationwide have shared some Warwickshire between June and December Instalaw Solicitors have over 40 years combined experience extraordinary choices, from tales of shipwrecks this year. representing prisoners rights and we can represent you no matter where you and smuggling to transformational self-help are in the country! books and comic novels. Many of their choices If your prison doesn’t have a reading group, will feature in our exhibition, which will open encourage your librarian to have a look at Specialists in Parole Board paper reviews, oral hearings & independent adjudications to the public in June. the Prison Reading Group website www.prison-reading-groups.org.uk Our Prison Law Experts can help you with: We’re privileged that PRG readers have shared PRG is generously supported by charities the reason why their books matter. One reader including Give A Book and the Booker Prize • Parole Board oral hearings • Mandatory Lifer Reviews describes how Henri Charrière’s autobiography Foundation. Papillon helped him at a time when he was in • Paper Parole Reviews • IPP Paper & Oral Parole Reviews ‘a very dark and lonely place void of hope’. The • Recalls • Independent Adjudications book, he writes, ‘took me out of the prison • Discretionary Lifer Reviews • Private cases (Transfer/HDC) system.’ Another tells of the importance of shared reading: Call us today for free advice on: 01782 560 155 “If I had to choose a book that I deemed more important in my life than any other then I’d Nottingham office: Instalaw, 4th Floor Parliament House, pick Danny the Champion of the World by Roald 42 - 46 Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham, NG1 2AG Dahl.

As a child of the ‘80s, after school and weekend Staffordshire office: Instalaw, 2nd Floor Copthall House, King Street, time were for playing in the streets, the field Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 1UE behind our house or swimming in the river - not for reading. Books were for school and I remem- Robert Welsh - Partner (Staffordshire) Simon Howland - Partner (Staffordshire) ber to this day sitting with my legs crossed and arms folded as Miss Hindle began reading Stephen Luke - Partner (Nottingham) Craig Sinclair - LLB HONS (Staffordshire) about Danny and his dad’s adventures. I was hooked … Reise Wright - Prison Law Advocate BA HONS (Nottingham) Plus Nationwide Consultant Prison Law Advisors Not knowing my own father didn’t seem impor- 48 Jailbreak // Inside Poetry www.insidetime.org Insidetime May 2017

Star Poem of the Month Drone Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize Jonathan Covington-Cross - HMP Norwich

I hear a whirring and look to the sky- here comes my parcel a drone for I Watch that barbed wire - it’ll get stuck in that tree - does he know what he’s doing? Is it coming to me? The alarm bells ring, it’s a race against time They can’t f**king have it, that parcel is mine Now everyone wants it, he knows who I am F*ck use the camera, use ya head man

Here come the screws and in the mad dash he got it together and controlled it all flash © Deposit Photos Swooping and diving I guess just to tease, don’t f**king crash it, come on man please! The power lasts five it’s been flying for three, two minutes left, now bring it to me The Mamba Number Five Now there must be fifty running about, a mixture of screws, gobos and louts Adam Jacobson - HMP Ranby All of a sudden, it shoots towards me, over more wire and around a big tree A jolly good smoke is now within sight as a hundred or more charge at me with all might, A little bit of mamz with the guy who cares At last I’ve got hold but there’s nowhere to go, I can see this all ending like a Benny Hill Show A little bit of Spice with the man upstairs Oh, why didn’t he practice with those omni directional sticks A little bit of clockwork all night long As I’m now down the block cos I’ve been dealing with pricks A little bit of coconut on that bong, Ayeee! No f**king parcel and two broken ribs, I won’t do it again mate, I ain’t telling fibs A little bit of fish is all I need So, if your mate on the out says, ‘I’ll send you a drone’, tell him don’t f**king bother A little bit of this when there is no weed, Ayeee! I’ll smoke it at home! I feel it when I smoke it I feel it when I roll it The gov lets it in cos’ there’s so much about Prison Food I even look high on my jail pic so I gave a little pout, Craig Topping - HMP Dartmoor Ayeee!

Dartmoors grey stone walls The screws are outnumbered 120/4 The smoke puffs out when they unlock my door © Deposit Photos Wing-in-wing with blackbird calls I gave a guy a joint then he hit the floor On the hills are mists that cling 999 we need a mambulance for this amateur, Ayeee! As nearby treetops sway and swing Joe A little bit of mamz with the guy who cares Stephen Mitchell - HMP Wakefield Down below the sodden ground A little bit of spice with the man upstairs With worms that wriggle A little bit of clockwork all night long Hello Joe… Joe has hardly anything to say Upon which moles do munch - never a sound A little bit of coconut on that bong, Ayeee! Mostly Joe’s awake at night and sleeps through the day A little bit of fish is all I need © Deposit Photos Joe doesn’t know me, but I know Joe well In the twilight - and in the distance A little bit of this when there is no weed, Ayeee! Who knows what Joe’s thinking he just doesn’t tell I stand at a window and glance askance And I Need I don’t trust the mamba she’s a bad ass cheat You see Joe spends buttons what he thinks is money For I have noted a shroud approaching thick Most people take this to be serious and don’t think it’s funny She’s in all the man’s cells dropping them to their feet Ghostly tendrils like fingers slick My Dad She makes people disappear who can’t pay their bills Every day Joe feeds the fish inside of his telly Moves towards me and write quick He will sometimes buy hair gel which Joe thinks is Jelly Penfold of Cil y Coed - Keep your mindset right cos the mamba kills I blink once, twice, no time for thrice Even the light in the fridge is a man with a torch HMP Wayland She’s not the type of bitch for a one night stand The foggy hands and foggy fingers Snow becomes sand when Joe sits on his porch She makes you want more so she’s in your hand Envelop the scene and I shudder Joe wears his pyjamas when he goes for a walk You are not here So, newcomers be cautious don’t risk the blind date He tends to his garden with a knife and fork Mice in my spice, it ain’t nice Like my friend’s dad Or all you’ll hear is mamba screaming checkmate Joe has outbursts of loud shouting and swearing Coldness that lingers, it makes you judder To build rocket-ships Ayeee! And kick a football And that can be a tad overbearing A little bit of mamz with the guy who cares Nearby, the grass sways You are not here But I ignore all the shouting and ignore all the swearing A little bit of spice with the man upstairs As mother nature makes her ways To give me a hug And slowly sit Joe down and show him the family are caring A little bit of clockwork all night long And put me to bed You see Joe doesn’t know me, but I know Joe well Then from out of the mists, way up yonder A little bit of coconut on that bong, Ayeee! Like you used to For I am Joe’s brother, but Joe can’t tell I hear a croak, feeble, pain which to ponder A little bit of fish is all I need You are not here The memories must be cloudy that swirl in Joe’s head A little bit of this when there is no weed, Ayeee! Because his family are all strangers Is it a frog! There in the sky? To walk me to school But that’s enough said I peer up and behold with my beady eye And cheer for me Joe will say to me are we off on an adventure? The shadow of a Harris hawk flitting by At sports day You are not here The System I suppose every day is one to Joe when you have dementia Yes! There! In its beak! To dry my tears Dangling, bloody, limp torn and weak Jordean Thomas - HMP Long Lartin And make me safe The frog When I’m afraid Long birds, short tempers (Let me be your) Poem The frog that croaked, what croaked You are not here Southsiders and Eastenders He’s croaked his last Kamesa Nzundu - HMP Highdown When Mum needs help Sex offenders and gang members Or when she wants Collide in HMP When winter knocks and the windows frost Alive, now croaked, I’m choked, eyes soaked A shoulder to cry on Let me be your warmth and duvet at night Wipe away, mate, I’m blocked not choked You are not here Surrounded by snakes and chancers When the hills and rocks spring forth with flocks With an eerie cry the Hawk flies by Because you are there My candle of hope dims darker Let me be your wind, sun and light Then I determine with my eye Inside, doing time Attending the chapel for answers My mistake, a toad not a frog And I need my Dad Was this Allah’s plan for me? When your eyes begin to leak, and swell with tears Lunch is cold, my dinner is greasy Let me be your comforting shoulder and tissue Bing bong! “Fours” comes the cry Black Pride The blankets itch and the bedframes squeaky When your heart and mind is overwhelmed with fears Turn my head and back to prison Let me be the solace that alleviates your issue Fire - HMP Highpoint Chris Grayling thinks we have it easy! Well, there you are I wish he’d come and see That’s how it is When the heavens open with drops of silver I woke up this morning feeling Dog eats dog The hard nights, slow days Let me be your precious towel and umbrella good and black Grinding in workshops for low pay When the golden eye becomes a hot reflecting mirror Hawk eats frog... well toad I got out of my black bed Lying to loved ones that I’m okay Let me be your cooling roof of shelter Pick up bowl and plate I put on my black robe When I just wanna be free Time to eat, mustn’t be late I played all my best black records When sickness strikes and the body is frail And what’s worse- it could put me off my And drank some black coffee But whatever they sling I’ll take it Let me be your strength and medication dinner- would you consider it Then I put on black shoes Cause one day I gotta make it When old age sets in, hair and skin turns pale Toad in the hole! And I walked out my black door… So, if I can’t smile I’ll fake it Let me be your youthful cordial immunisation With potato croquettes! And oh lord, white snow! The system will never break me Insidetime May 2017 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 49 21st Century Wrong IPP Is Now All The News Matt Hall - HMP Littlehey M McCullough - HMP Garth Showing reality in sentence abuse Fifteen, with a pram, Jeremy Kyle famalam, derailed trams This has been talked about for years Egotistical Instagram, no one seems to give a damn But the government still has hidden fears Cheap thrills, popping pills, gas, water, electric bills Release IPP, will they reoffend? Primark tills, Prada heels, run of the mill ready meals Is this a sentence that will never end? Meals on wheels, Tesco deals, cop-a-feel of Chinese steel Each MP only takes note 3 for 2 and 2 for 1, tokens in the Sun, another propaganda pun If I make a mistake, do I lose a vote Where’s the fun? On the run, the damage is done Sod the prisoners, my futures at stake Just awoke, a line of coke, take a toke of stale smoke So a big decision I’m not gonna make Facebook pokes, dagger and cloak, cherry coke Why should I blot my career Pepsi coke and Pepsi Max, council tax, bikini wax Tell someone else, one with no fear Ciggie packs in censored stacks Anyway what’s the problem, they still get fed Watch your backs, none of the facts, mind the gaps And though not a lot, are still being paid Pointless baseball caps and iPhone Apps And what if they do a little bit longer? What on Earth? Google Earth and Google maps When they get out, they’ll only be stronger Christmas wrap, awful grime and rap, take the rap and consumer crap Absence makes the heart grow fonder Cool for cats, hipster beardy twats But family and friends just wait and wonder High rise flats with ghetto gangster prats with guns and gats So time drags by, ever so slow The robbing rats, all tit for tat MP’s just don’t wanna know She’s too fat, he’s too thin, where do we begin? They hope news stories will just go away Leftover food in the bin, the next of kin is back on the gin No more talk, another quiet day © Deposit Photos Another sin, you’ll never win But this won’t happen, it won’t be allowed You never think, sink your drink Families unite, stand together, stand proud In Your Shoes Total wankers, city bankers, shitty banks and food banks Don’t let the stories fade with the night Darren Fenn - HMP Norwich Think tanks and who to thank for army tanks? For your loved ones inside, keep up the fight Go on Facebook, look for the note Have another wank... Have another war I wish I could walk in your shoes so I could feel the strain Pass another law, one for the rich and one for the poor Sign in here, we all need your vote Understand what you’re going through and share with you, your pain Red light whores, dirty pores and more in store Please all you people, walking round free Lives ruin, lives in bits in coal pits and snake pits, fake tits with faces bitters Give some thought to the IPP To see with my own eyes, the struggle you have to bear All dropping litter, take a shit-roll it in glitter It was abolished, abandoned, well out of date Of everyday life and its woes now that I’m not there Then post on Twitter for your baby sitter But for those who were sentenced, now its too late Twit or tweet the sleeper on the streets, buy one get one free Because the government made a big cock up The daily battle with the kids and work, so they can eat Duty free, hands free, nothings free That’s no reason for a permanent lock up. Saving every penny just to keep shoes on their feet Out of touch, out of sight, bar fights and far rights and far left and dark nights So to all the families that read Inside Time Vote this, vote for that, he’s white, she’s black, we’re right, you’re wrong Peruse the pages, read all the rhymes Walking miles, doing the school run twice every day Can’t we all get along? There’s a serious side, not seen in the pages Inside each person a battle still rages Then after school to the park so that they can play Motivation Needed At the end of the tunnel, they can’t see the light Family No one to help, no one to fight Cooking tea and bath times and all the inbetween Alan Robertson - Rye Hill Go on line, find the petition And all the little extra work that seems to go unseen Nick Pool - HMP Durham Sign today make it our mission Challenge yourself to get ahead This is the way that you’ll make it known The worry on your face with Christmas once again on its way Don’t just sit there or lye in your bed On IPP? You’re not alone Worrying how you’re going to afford the little one’s special day Get up and write or even read Once upon a time Or go help somebody, do a good deed Our life was you and me The price of living is on the rise and every day become harder Then you made me lucky Hi I’m a Listener To keep food in their bellies and in the kitchen larder Don’t just sit there and waste away You gave us our Cody Get out and do something with your day David Harper - HMP Stafford Oh, you put on a brave face when I talk to you on the phone Get on the C.M.S and apply for a job But I feel the pain in your words of being there alone You need to do something and not be a slob Together we’re a family I can feel it inside, growing rising You tell me not to worry and that everything is fine One, two, three I can feel it controlling my pride Doing nothing will affect your brain A deep dark monster consuming my pride But I know how hard it is for you, oh lovely woman of mine Then I went and ruined it You’ll get depressed, your soul will drain Feeling alone and empty there’s no one to confide I know you are here for a few years Now its only me Don’t think that I am blind to the work that’s done by you But don’t get upset and cry all those tears Hi I’m a Listener and I’m on your side Keeping our family together like you do I want you more than ever You need to go and do something now So much you’ll never know A ‘Dear John’ letter filled with infection And though for now, we walk miles apart Only you know what and how That cold hard feeling, the feeling of rejection Know that I love you, with all of my heart Don’t give in to the stress and strife I’ll do what I need to help you Get on with your sentence, get on with your life Even if that means letting go Of the one thing in my life as near as perfection Time to concede, falling in to a deep depression Keep strong my baby, cos’ its not all doom and gloom The clock is ticking and I’ll be home very soon u We will award a £25 prize to the entry selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. To qualify for a prize, poems should not have won a prize in any other competition or Hi I’m a Listener, here at your discretion been published previously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. Steel bars and thick concrete walls Accumulated Visit It seems like no one can hear my calls It is very important that you ensure the following details are on all paperwork sent HMP Swaleside - Mark Patten to Inside Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUMBER & PRISON. Failure to do so will Dwelling on my mistakes and deep set flaws Sat here wondering what the future befalls prevent us responding to you and your submission being withheld from publication. It’s been a year since we’ve touched By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they can be published Anxiously waiting like a child on Christmas eve night Hi I’m a Listener, waiting for your call in any of our ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, website and any forth- In my mind, unwrapping my present coming books. You are also giving permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in Hairs stand on end in anticipation of your visit allowing other organisations to reproduce this work if considered appropriate, unless We are here for you day and night Dirty thoughts and naughty convo’s shared for months you have clearly stated that you do not want this to happen. Any work reproduced in To ease your burden and your fright Reminiscent of past passionate moments other publications will be on a ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note poems for publication If you need an ear, then press your bell Late nights, early mornings, empty glasses and burnt out candles may be edited. When submitting your work please include the following per- Then two of us will come straight to your cell Thursday 2pm couldn’t come sooner mission: ‘This is my own work and I agree to Inside Time publishing it in all So if you think your minds gone bust It’s been a year since we last touched associate sites and other publications as appropriate.’ Give us a shout and in us you can trust It’s been a year since we last kissed 50 Jailbreak // Prize Winning Competitions www.insidetime.org Insidetime May 2017 Read all about it! Caption Competition Last Months £25 Winner A £25 prize is on offer for the best caption to 1. Which golfer in April finally managed to Fonesavvy providers of ‘landline type Robbie Ellis HMP Chelmsford this month’s picture. secure his first major golf championship victory numbers’ for mobile phones. at his 74th attempt? Proud sponsors of Inside Time’s 2. How many sides does the new pound coin have? PRIZE quiz ‘Read all about it!’ 3. What date in June has been set for the snap general election? If you don’t want callers to be disadvantaged 4. Which member of the pop band Blue has or put off by the high cost of calling your mobile - just get a landline number for it. turned up at the Queen Vic playing Woody Carter? Calls to mobiles don’t have to be expensive! 5. Which yearly Saturday night entertainment Full details are available on our main show returned to our screens this Easter advert in Inside Time and at Not sure if these new style weekend in its eleventh series? www.fonesavvy.co.uk home detention cur- 6. Which former Spice Girl recently received an few tags are a good Last Months Winners OBE from Prince William? idea to be honest 7. Which famous tennis player has recently George Fry HMP North Sea Camp (£25) Emma Antcliffe HMP Newhall (£5) shared her pregnancy? Anthony Chattell HMP North Sea Camp (£5) Australian newborns take a dip at the worlds 8. What are the names of the two new See box to the right for details of how to enter first spa for babies in Perth. It is said to investors to join the panel on Dragons Den? improve sleep quality and ease colic. The spa 9. What team is currently top of the Premier Answers to last months News Quiz: offers 45 minute sessions for $85USD, which 1. 24th March, 2. Inspector Morse books, 3. Shirley League? include hydrotherapy and an infant massage. Carter, 4. Southampton, 5. Emmerdale, 6. David 10. Who is the new manager at Birmingham Walliams, 7. Chuck Berry, 8. Ed Sheeran, 9. 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How to enter Inside Knowledge // All the answers are within this issue of Inside Time - all you have to do is find them! Please do not cut out any The first three names to be drawn with all-correct answers (or nearest) will 11. Who took over as Director of the Prison Phoenix Trust in 2010? of these panels. Just send receive a £25 cash prize. There will also be two £5 runner up prizes. The 12. Who is Joe’s brother? your entry on a separate winners’ names will appear in next month’s issue. 13. Which remand prisoner died after being ‘restrained’ by prison staff using sheet of paper. unlawful force against him? 1. Who is now silver-haired but still an impressive physical presence? Make sure your NAME, 14. Which actor voted Brexit because it was about freedom, not immigrants? NUMBER AND PRISON 2. Which prison continues to receive the High Performance Status award? 15. Who is 50, reads The Guardian, and to whom ‘street cred’ isn’t an option? 3. Who would like to see ‘doll women’ introduced into the UK prison system? is on all sheets. Failure to 4. Where will a special ‘prison within a prison’ open soon to house the more do so will invalidate your dangerous terrorist inmates? Answers to Last Month’s Inside Knowledge Prize Quiz entry. 5. Which Tory MP thinks that all prisons inspectors live in seven-bedroom 1. 20,000, 2. Michael Howard, 3. HMP Grendon, 4. Dean Saunders, 5. Swinfen Hall, Post to: Inside Time, Botley mansions? 6. Bernadette Hare, 7. Paul Holland, 8. Daniel Ashby, 9. HMP Berwyn, 10. £1 per week, Mills, Botley, Southampton, 11. Lisa Burton, 12. Dusty Hill & Billy Gibbons, 13. Carl Cattermole, 14. Allan V Evans, 6. Whose prices are ‘abnormally high by anyone’s standards’? 15. HMP Durham Hampshire SO30 2GB. You 7. Who began their challenge to Grayling’s legal aid cuts in the autumn of 2013? can use one envelope to 8. Who viewed taking small portions of the goods they handled as a perk of the job? The three £25 Prize winners are: The £5 runner up prizes go to: enter more than one 9. Prisoners eligible to vote can apply to vote either by post or which other method? Layla Williams HMP Downview Kirsty Gaskell, Lee Johnson Bryan Mearns HMP Addiwell HMP Frankland competition just mark it 10. Who ‘captures the atmosphere of Dartmoor prison very well’? Nicola Ginty HMP Drake Hall ‘jailbreak’. Answers to last months quizzes GEOGRAPHY QUIZ CRYPTIC CROSSWORD Parole Board Hearing? 1. Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, the Democratic IPP, Lifer, Standard, Licence Recalls. Republic of the Congo, & the Dominican Republic. 2. Portugal, Israel, Senegal, Brazil, & Nepal. 3. Russia, Greece, Andorra, & Bosnia & Herzegovina. Independent Adjudication? 4. Iowa, Ohio, & Utah. 5. East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Madagascar, Myanmar Niger, & Qatar. Sentence Wrongly Calculated? 6. Fiji, Cuba, Chad, Togo, Mali, & Peru. 7. Jamaica & Jordan. 8. Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, & Ohio. Oral Hearing? - Tariff Reduction? 9. Mozambique, Iraq, & Equatorial Guinea. 10. Bosnia & Herzegovina, Switzerland, & Czech Republic. 11. Kuwait, Egypt, & the Ivory Coast. Appeal against Sentence or Conviction? 12. Fiji, Togo, & Djibouti. QUICK CROSSWORD CATCHPHRASE Across: 1 Philately. 6 Ash. Second Appeal through the CCRC? 1. Keeping you out of trouble, 2. Foreign movie, 8 Insole. 9 Ether. 10 Persia. 3. A little rough around the edges, 4. Too little, too late, 11 Glasses. 13 Oversee. 5. Double your money back, 6. Start of something big 16 One-two. 18 Pulse. 19 Allure. The above issues are still covered under Legal Aid! So if you 21 Uni. 22 Residence. need help get it from dedicated London based Prison Lawyers, SUDOKU WORD MORPH helping prisoners fight for their rights throughout England and Down: 1 Pan. 2 Irons. 3 Average. Wales. wood 4 Eureka. 5 Yachts. 7 Horoscope. word 8 Impromptu. 12 Leotard. 14 Eclair. ward 15 Shears. 17 Ellen. 20 Rue. Write To: Prison Law Dept, Office 226, 4 Spring wand sand Road, Ealing, London W5 2AA WORDSEARCH

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Power up We touch, hold, long-press or 1 NAKET tap this symbol every day 2 TIRGH Earning money in your sleep - even several times a day The Institute for Space Medicine and - but the power icon has 3 DRNEU Physiology (Medes) in Toulouse, France, is become so ubiquitous that its looking for 24 individuals to stay in bed for 60 meaning doesn’t get a second 4 MLIES days straight. When you complete the task, you thought. Where did it come will be handed £14,000 for your hard work. from? YouTuber ‘Lazy Game 5 PRTAS The institute is looking for physically active, Reviews’ explains: The line healthy, non-smoking men between the ages symbolizes the number one. of 20 and 45 who have a body mass index The half-circle is a zero, a (BMI) between 22 and 27. Half of the group 1 reference to the binary “on/ will be fed a specific cocktail of drugs each day, off” states. The line intersects which is supposed to help counter the effects 2 the circle to communicate of weightlessness on the body. Scientists want to know what effect prolonged periods of that this button won’t cut 3 weightlessness will have on humans, and simply power fully, but is a standby lying down for a lengthy time will hopefully mode - a line inside a circle, 4 mimic some of the effects on the body. or an empty circle, would turn Additionally, they get to test how feasible it is on or shut down power 5 to eat, go to the toilet, wash, and exercise while completely. You don’t have to laying on a bed. After this is done, the individu- know anything about binary Thanks to Adam Longden HMP als will have two weeks of rehabilitation, during to understand the button’s Nottingham. If you fancy Across 24. Performance with story that must which they will be studied to see what effect purpose, and that’s the whole compiling an Anagram Square for us please just send it in 5 x 5 be listened to? Run away (4,4) this horizontal-living had on their bodies. point. Vice 1. Scowl when sailor enters that party (6) 25. Female author speaks about squares, complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it we 5. Fair cut taken by graduate (8) Buckingham Palace hostess (6) Hitting the high notes The wee hours will send you £5 as a thank you! 9. Supremo who may have words for Remember to include your name, Down Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Frequently needing the toilet in the middle of his PA? (8) musical The Phantom of the the night is a condition that affects more than number and prison with your entry. 10. Swallow seen in SW county mostly Opera has taken more at the half of 50s, leading to fatigue, irritability and a and old city (6) 2. Friendly Lib Dem’s question of box office than any other play groggy feeling in the morning. But scientists 11. Abort use possibly? One might well self-doubt? (8) or film in history. In the past believe they have found a solution, and it could Just for laughs do that (8) 3. 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Sort of composer, a m-man working 60s who scored highly in at least four of the The debate of which side of Nomad’” Anna Morris brilliant (6) in the countryside? (8) five attributes were generally wealthier, less 23. Money coming in from grannies 19. Draw a short time, having got the biscuit is coated with depressed, healthy and connected to a large “One thing you’ll never hear a working (8) paper (7) social circle. In contrast those who achieved chocolate has raged on for years, presumably over a Hindu say... ‘Ah well, you only two or fewer of the skills were often lonely, live once.’” Hardeep Singh Kohli depressed and were far more likely to suffer steaming hot mug of tea. But Fathers Day // 18th June from chronic diseases. The Telegraph now McVities have tried to put an end to the arguments, “I had an argument with one of the seven dwarfs. He wasn’t by telling us which way up Send your message (20 words max) to Inside Time and we will publish as many happy.” Rebecca Humphries as possible in a special Father’s Day section in the June issue. All messages their biscuits should be held. The company sparked outrage received will appear on the website and fathers on the outside will be sent a “I always thought Trojan was a on social media this week after copy of the newspaper if you include their address details. Entries must be sent bad name for a condom brand announcing that chocolate to Inside Time ‘Father’s Day’ Botley Mills, Botley, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Closing because of course the Trojans date 25th May and don’t forget to include your full details too! covers the bottom of their were a people who’s lives were biscuits, not the top. Kerry Salvador Dalí’s real masterpiece ruined when a vessel contain- enough strength to reach the first Owens, McVitie’s Marketing The Joke’s on You Chupa Chups are the original lollipop. In the ing little warriors unexpectedly branch of the tree. Director, said: When we make late 50s, brand founder Eric Bernat got the idea exploded inside their city our McVitie’s chocolate biscuits The next day, after eating some more for a sweet on a stick from a mother scolding walls.” Jonny Lennard A turkey is chatting with a bull. - whether that be Chocolate dung, he reaches the second branch. her child for getting sticky with candy. The Hobnobs, Chocolate Digestives, “I would love to be able to get to the name comes from the Spanish verb ‘chupar’ “The only legitimate reason for Finally after a week, there he is proudly top of that tree,” sighs the turkey, “but which means ‘to suck.’ But it’s not all just or even Jaffa Cakes - they go smoking an electronic cigarette perched at the top of the tree. I just haven’t got the energy.” juvenile - in fact, Chupa Chups have a surpris- through a reservoir of chocolate is if you are a robot that has just “Well, why don’t you nibble on some Unfortunately he is spotted by a farmer, ing fine art pedigree. In 1969, legendary on the production line. This had sex with another robot.” of my droppings?” replies the bull. who shoots him out of the tree. surrealist artist Salvador Dalí designed a new essentially “enrobes” the Lloyd Langford bottom in chocolate - so we “They’re packed with nutrients.” Moral of the story: Bullshit might get Chupa Chups logo, the one we know today. Set on a bright yellow daisy background, it’s just can confirm that the choco- “The early bird catches the The turkey pecks at a lump of dung you to the top, but it won’t keep you about as recognizable as Dalí’s signature floppy late is officially on the bottom worm but the late worm gets to and finds that it actually gives him there. clocks. Gizmondo of the biscuits.’ live... ” Jonny Lennard Insidetime May 2017 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 53

That’s prison life... Did I say that? 10 top facts... “Even Jesus did not Pirates please everyone...” Emanuel Santos, the 1. There is no historical Cristiano Ronaldo bust evidence for any pirate having sculptor defends his bizarre ever owned a pet parrot. design “You’re Beautiful is “I believe there is a 2. François le Clerc is the only not this soft roman- special place in hell known pirate to have had a peg-leg. “The mirror is a tic song. It’s about a for women who shocking thing to find guy who’s high as a don’t support other 3. In Icelandic, a viking was a yourself standing in f**king kite on women. I can’t bear drugs in the subway women not being pirate and ‘to go viking’ was front of, thinking, to go on an expedition. ‘Wait a minute, I’m still stalking someone good sisters to one in my 20s… aren’t I?” else’s girlfriend” another.” 4. Captain Pugwash was a Griff Rhys-Jones (63) James Blunt explains Author Joanna Trollope the real meaning fi ctional pirate in a series of HMP policy to ‘Respond to individual needs’ behind his 2004 hit children’s comic strips and a equals One Size Fits All! ‘You’re Beautiful’. TV series. There is an urban “I voted Brexit. It legend, which ascribes “I actually don’t like The Joke’s on You was about freedom, suggestive names - such as not immigrants” thinking. I think people Master Bates, Seaman Staines, Sir Michael Caine think I like to think a lot. and Roger the Cabin Boy to There are these two beautiful into a bush to fulfi l their And I don’t. I don’t like to Captain Pugwash’s characters. marble statues on either side greatest desires. think.” Kanye West This is in fact false, Captain of a big open piazza. For cen- Horatio Pugwash sails the turies they have stood frozen, After about half an hour of high seas in his ship the Black staring longingly into each rustling around in the bushes Amazing Maze Almost as hard to get out of as an IPP sentence! Pig, ably assisted by cabin boy other's eyes. they emerge, panting and Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, sweaty. and Master Mate. One day the gods look down upon them with pity and “Wow” says the one statue, 5. During the golden age of decide to grant them one “that was amazing” “A dream piracy, pirates numbered no hour of mortal life. come true” says the other more than 7,000 men; the “but we've got half an hour Royal Navy numbered 13,000. The statues, overwhelmed left, what should we do now?” with joy, rush across the “I know” the fi rst responds 6. There are no documented square and into each others “this time I'll hold the pigeon cases of a real pirate ever arms and immediately run off down while you shit on it.” drawing up a treasure map, let alone putting an X on it to mark where the treasure is GEF BAD CHI buried. In fact only one pirate, William Kidd (c.1645- Using the letters G,E,F,B,A,D,C,H & I fi ll in the 1701), is ever attested to even blank squares. Each letter A-I must appear have buried any treasure. only once in each line column and 3x3 grid. 7. In the USA the Spanish dollar or peso was common currency well into the 19th century. The coin, originally the bullion coin of Spain’s New World empire was often Neil Speed is a physically cut into eight former prisoner pieces for small change who came up

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6 May 1937 25 x8 / +88 / ÷2 / Square root / -2 = __ The Hindenburg disaster. The German airship Hindenburg burst into flames as it docked at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, USA. 130 ÷2 / +176 / x3 / -73 / ÷5 = __ 36 people were killed. 7 May 1867 10 Squared / x2.5 / ÷4 / x2 / ÷12 .5 = __ Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel Submitted by Matthew Newell - HMP Leeds. Start was granted a British patent for his invention of on the left with the first number and work your way dynamite - a safer and more manageable across following the instructions. If you would like to alternative to black powder and nitroglycerin. submit similar puzzles we will pay £5 for any that are Trivia: After his brother died in 1888, a French chosen for print. Please send in a minimum of three newspaper accidentally published Alfred’s obituary puzzles together with the answer! instead, printing the headline “The merchant of death is dead” and went on to say, “Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill Sudoku // Very hard more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.” Alfred (who never had a wife or children) was so 5 6 upset with what he read that he signed his last will and testament and set aside the bulk of his 2 8 4 1 estate to establish the Nobel Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality. 9 3 2 5

9 May 1937 8 4 1 American ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy launched their own 6 9 radio series as part of The Chase and Sanborn 4 3 5 Hour on NBC. They became hugely popular - though how a ventriloquist act could become 6 1 2 4 so successful on the radio baffled many critics. 4 2 1 9 10 May 1967

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling 5 2 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2017. All rights reserved. Stones were arrested for drug offences. On 29 Daily Sudoku: Wed 29-Mar-2017 June, the judge sentenced Jagger to three Word Morph months for possession of amphetamines and Richards to one year in jail for allowing Can you morph one word into another by just cannabis to be smoked in his home. But in changing one letter at a time? It isn't quite as August the sentences - considered very harsh easy3 as5 you think!4 1 8 7 6 9 2 for first offences - were quashed on appeal. 2 7 8 6 fire5 9 3 4 1 16 May 1997 U.S. President Bill Clinton apologised to victims 1 6 9 3 2 4 8 7 5 of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a 40-year clinical study that monitored the 9 3 2 8 4 6 5 1 7 progress of untreated syphilis. Impoverished 5 8 6 2 7 1 9 3 4 African-Americans who signed up for the study in 1932 were told they were receiving free © MW Released life sentenced prisoner 7 4 1 9 3 5 2 6 8 health care from the government. Those suffering park from syphilis (399 people) were left untreated 6 9 7 5 1 2 4 8 3 so the progress and spread of the disease could be observed. Penicillin to treat syphilis was VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE Dear4 2 Editor...3 7 6 8 1 5 9 readily available from 1947, but was not given.

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Mc Busted WordsearchJailbreak – May2017 // Spring Would you believe it? An 8 year-old boy drove his 4 Inside Chess Wordsearch – Nicholas Taylor HMP Norwich 1 year-old sister 1 /2 miles to by Carl Portman V A L E N T I N E Z I P F T I D Y P O S and from McDonald’s, having M P Y C D I B L U E B E L L S L S Y H N taken informal lessons on I received an interesting letter from Brent at HMP B L T H A M O U S S P B V F E A G Q J O YouTube. Wanting a cheese- Wormwood Scrubs. In it he suggested a new I G R E F R F V N A R V I F M M R R L W burger, the children decided game for readers. He calls it ‘The Four Knights R T W A F E R K S N L B Q L N L E G I D not to disturb their sleeping Game’ and he believes that it will improve a D A O L O N O N L J I M W A B P E B H R parents. Instead they grabbed player’s co-ordination of their knights. It is hoped A E I R D O S P I K K E E C V O N U S O the car keys and made their Crossdressing that inmates will have great fun in playing it. In P F E E I T T L G R A S S F C I P T A P own way to the fast food short parlance, the starting position involves L A A P L S R E N I H S N U S L Q T E S outlet in Ohio. He completed That’s one small step for a woman... placing a knight on each corner of the board. I A L N O S P R I N G K U R R X K R E F F the journey without mishap, Crossing light symbols depicting women know that you will have two white and two black N O H C F N W K P F J O E A S T E R Y D observing all the traffi c lights instead of men have been introduced in knights but just assume they are all of the same T R B O A N H Y W R R W Y H Z U Y F L A and road signs, witnesses said. Melbourne, Australia with campaigners calling colour. I S N C G K P H E I O I A G Q J A L P Y Staff at the drive-through it progress for equality. Australian lobby group N E L Z H A E I T H D E O R A T S Y O L window could not believe Committee for Melbourne is behind the move. Then put on king in the centre of the board. It G W M A K Y A Y S E E D H T M U W U D I their eyes and believed they Martine Letts, CEO of the group said: “If we see can be square d4, d5, e5 or e5, it does not matter. N R V D M R R G J I D A C Y W H D E E G were the victim of a practical more female fi gures on traffi c lights that might The knights have to evade capture and all four D A B U L B S E U B W F W U E Y F I E H joke. How his feet reached the also have a positive impact on changing the knights must land on the squares named above. pedals is not explained. N E V G F E S S B L O S S O M T C W T T way we view the world.” The King’s objective is simply to evade checkmate The Telegraph C L E A N E K Z F C Y P H P I R V K H Z and to capture a single knight which would end I K U I G R O W I N G Y O O S E A S O N the game and the king would win. Wait half hour NEWBIRD, BLOSSOM, Can you BLUEBELLS, spot the BULBS, 29 signs BUNNIES, of BUTTERFLY, spring in CALF, the CLEAN, grid above? after eating before DAFFODILS, DAYLIGHT, DEW, EASTER, FROST, GRASS, GREEN, GROWING, LAMBS, I confess I have not worked this out - in any AnswersPANCAKE, PLANTING, next month SEASON, SEED, SHOWERS, SHOWDROPS, SPRING, SUNSHINE, going for a swim TIDY, TWEET, VALENTINE, WARM definitive kind of way - but it is possible to do. Thanks to Nicholas Taylor - HMP Norwich for compiling this Anagram – Adam Longden HMP Nottingham Escape squares will need to be taken away from Wordsearch. If you fancy compiling one for us please just send it in maxN 20E x K20 gridE andT complete with answers shown on a grid. If we the king. Now I do have to say that chess variants T I R G H useD it Rwe willN sendE Uyou £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your (as this is) comes in many forms including many M L I E S name,P R numberT A and S prison with your entry. kinds of knight games so I cannot say myself that Brent is the first person to think of it, but good The real Mowgli? luck if he has. It most certainly does develop an Quick Crossword appreciation of the ways the knight moves and Stop monkeying around Barrier thief about the importance of key squares - especially Police in India have found a An Aussie rapper named 2pec tried to fl ee a using a king in an endgame to deprive enemy girl who can neither speak or seafood restaurant without paying his £360 bill pieces of squares. Have a go and good luck in behave like a normal human - by leaping into the sea, a court heard. The your endeavours. being. The 8-10 year-old girl urban poet had scoffed down two lobsters, a was rescued by the police in baby octopus and 21 vodka oyster shots during This is just the sort of thing I like to receive from the Katarniaghat Wildlife a seafood-fuelled feast. But after receiving the readers and shows that chess playing in many Sanctuary from a troop of hefty bill 2pec - the brains behind hip-hop forms is alive and well in our prisons. monkeys. When they tried to tune ‘Ozi Ozi Ozi Oy Oy Oy’ - leapt into the sea rescue the girl, who seemed and tried to swim away. And when jet ski-rid- This month’s chess puzzle looks a little crazy. to be comfortable with the ing cops caught up with him, he claimed he Both queens are attacked as are Black’s rooks apes, they screeched at him had dashed off to help a friend give birth on a and White’s knight. Further black would love to and so did the girl. She can nearby beach. The 33-year-old later suggested play 1…Bxf2+ next. It is white to play and break neither speak or understand the real reason behind his dine and dash bid Black’s heart. What would you play? any language, and gets scared was the overcooked lobsters he had been at the sight of human beings. served. 2pec - real name Terry Peck - has been charged with theft and assault. “Oh god! He ate The doctors treating her said 8 that she often gets violent. all that food by himself?” magistrate Joan White While she has been trained to reportedly exclaimed. 7 walk on her legs, at times she walks like an animal using her We’re watching you! 6 hands and legs together. The In order to combat users of 5 Times of India public toilets stealing toilet paper, offi cials in Beijing have 4 Across Down installed smart tissue dispens- ing machines with high 3 1. Trend (7) 1. Liking (8) defi nition cameras to scan the 5. Young sheep (4) 2. Magnifi cent (8) faces of users, each of whom 2 7. Nothing (3) 3. Ask along (6) is issued with one sheet of 8. Calling (8) 4. ______Kidman, actress (6) 1 paper 24 inches square. If they 9. Group of nine (5) 5. Missive (6) need more they have to wait 10. Fibs (4) 6. Earth’s satellite (4) nine minutes before returning A B C D E F G H 13. Form of precipitation (4) 11. One committing sabotage to the machine. A chess magazine (back copy) donated by Chess 14. Rotisserie (4) (8) 18 Hoodwink (4) 12. Curiosity (8) “Mind the gap” Killjoy airways & Bridge of London is the prize if you are first out of the hat. 19. Make an identical copy of (5) 15. Arrive or appear (4,2) For many people, a tipple before 21. Jet of water (8) 16. Ten years (6) Sound of the underground take-off is an essential part of 22. Viewing organ (3) 17. Picturesque (6) Write to me with your answer care of The English Police were called to break-up a rave on board their travel plans. If you happen 23. Halt (4) 20. 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At present, The bird of time Traveller Iain said: “Everyone was enjoying it bars and pubs in airports don’t resigning, White could have played the move and only took up part of one carriage so I have to abide by alcohol 1.Kh1! and now a check from the queen on f1 is has but a little didn’t see any real disruption.” A spokesman restrictions law in the Licensing countered by 2…Bg1. The winner will be way to fl y - and lo! for British Transport Police said: “Whilst offi cers Act 2003. The desire to tighten announced. 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