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“This offi cer helped me to learn to read, and without the prison experience I’d never have got anywhere in life” Big issue founder John Bird // Comment // page 26

“I had tried to distance “There was no considera- “It’s part escape, myself from these issues tion of the gender she had part therapy, and part the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees because I didn’t possess the openly identifi ed with for simple child-like joy of skills to deal with them or be half her life” running when you could a voice for prisoners since honest even if I wanted to” Transgender prisoner’s be walking” June 2017 / Issue No. 216 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profi t’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 Andrew Allder death ‘waiting to happen’ Vassos Alexander An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verifi ed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Mailbag // page 4 Newsround // page 12 Jailbreak // page 44

thought fewer than 500 samples were in question. Forensics Initial retesting of samples still held has shown broadly the same results as was presented in court cases. However, 10% of samples are no longer held, cannot be shadow looms retested and thus can no longer be relied on. Much Thousands of convictions may be in doubt due could depend on how crucial the toxicology test results to “potential criminal acts” by lab workers were in the prosecution’s case.

It is believed that a small num- Inside Time report investigation for allegedly cases as well as more minor perverting the course of jus- cases such as drug-driving, he ber of serious cases may end tice after issues with test added. Some results of tests up being referred to the Court Police say they fear that scores results emerged in January. relating to levels of drugs in of Appeal because of concerns of convictions may be chal- “We believe there are poten- blood could be wrong. Police about the safety of convictions lenged because of suspected tial criminal acts that took and prosecutors do not know where the testing done by manipulation of forensic test place,” said Vaughan. which can be relied on and are Randox was a part of the pros- results at a private laboratory trying to establish which ecution case. These would be in Manchester. The national Vaughan said the investigation results have been compro- cases where the original sam- police lead for forensic out- had grown, with the results mised. Investigators are look- ples tests cannot be found and sourcing, James Vaughan, of 6,000 samples under ques- ing into alleged manipulation thus cannot be retested. said that two employees of the tion. Scores of cases could be of data from toxicology testing testing services company referred to the Court of Appeal, carried out by Randox as far Randox were under criminal including rape and murder back as 2014. At first it was Continued page 11 Student Johnny with his prize-winning ewe Iona Man of Hope Image courtesy Michael Cooper Irish singer songwriter Foy Well done Ewe! Vance tells Inside Time about A Northern Ireland prisoner has won the power of music to heal a top prize for rearing farm animals at Northern Ireland’s Balmoral Show and change lives Johnny is part of a rehabilitation programme at Hydebank Wood “To a lot people music is a commodity, College in Belfast where sheep rearing was introduced in but in actual fact it’s transformative. September 2016. The two ewes and their three off -spring are part of an agri-initiative at the facility which houses young off enders It’s genuinely transformative. It’s like a and female prisoners who are taught livestock and husbandry religion in that sense. I believe it’s skills in a rehabilitation project which also aims to create working everything, it’s healing, its heartbreaking opportunities when they return to the community. Foy Vance “I could have been a prisoner” 22 and everything in between.” Continued page 13

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The main problem notice about how they are for this prison is that although it is a B-cat, it is A not for proﬁ t publication. I have read the much-criticised White Paper that is Liz Truss’s cutting the visiting time by only classed as a ‘holding prison’. This means 15 mins, not a lot you may Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial plan for reform and rehabilitation, and most of it seems to be we will undoubtedly be moved elsewhere to content. Comments or complaints should be think but when you only see about the recruitment of new prison offi cers. There is a con- do rehab courses when, in my opinion, this directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. your relative once a fortnight siderable amount of cash being used as an incentive to prison could do it better. I would love to do then it seems like a lot. The become a prison offi cer. It seems that the POA have got their my sentence here as the regime is fair to Board of Directors reason stated on the notice everyone. My question is: why can’t such a own way yet again, with a planned 3-5 thousand pound pay was due to insuffi cient staff . Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, well-run prison like this be turned into a rise and approximately £30,000 for new starters and a prison While we were waiting to go Journalist, Writer and former Magistrate. proper rehabilitation centre? Invest the money offi cer apprenticeship scheme. This is for people who need no over for our visit we over- Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge if you want rehabilitation. And well done to all recognised qualifi cations to do the job. heard two guards talking Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon at Lincoln. Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh about the cut in visiting John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and But prisoners are, as we all know (the suicides and self-harming times, they were saying that Name withheld - HMP Lincoln Managing Director employing former prisoners is not being done by prison staff ), going through far worse they are changing the prison Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice routine as the prisoners than what prison offi cers are going through (at least they go Smoke Spice and die Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, would be locked up earlier Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation home to their families at night), so where is our pay rise? on the weekends and the Warning to all Spice smokers. I smoked Spice only way to save the time on the 31st of March 2017, and ended up fitting, The Editorial Team Prisoners are not appreciated or rewarded for the work we was to take it off the visitors. I stopped breathing and went on to a life-sup- are forced to do for private companies in prison workshops Ok they need to save time port machine for 2-days. Please do not smoke all over the country. Our minimum pay is around £4, but and they have routines to this awful stuff because you think it won’t happen to you, I thought I would be okay but I most of us are earning £8 to £10 per week, with a deduction follow but why are the visi- nearly died and I am very lucky to be alive of £1 for TV rental. tors being punished? What have we done wrong? As a today. My 8-year-old son and my mum came visitor, it does feel like we to say goodbye as the hospital staff said I had a “Where are our incentives and production bonuses are on a punishment, that we very small chance of surviving. Please be aware Erwin James John Roberts Rachel of the dangers of this drug. My life almost Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE are paying for the crimes of when the prison service is earning a profi t due to ended after taking just 5 drags. Director Associate Editor the prisoners as well. What the hard work that prisoners are forced to do?” about those people who have Hayley Smith - HMP Downview Commercial travelled miles and hours? I Manager It is time that real investments were made in prisons, across know the saying if you can’t Life wrecker David Roberts all departments. Only then can reformation in rehabilitation do the time then don’t do the Head of actually take place. How does throwing money at prison staff crime but shouldn’t that Hi, its Steven here. Just thought I’d write and Administration help prisoners? apply to prisoners? tell you about Spice. Spice use is totally out of Justine Best control here. 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Booked out, National Prisoners Council Mailbag 2-9 “It must be nice booked in Wayne M Sowerby - HMP Hull to talk to some Carl Morgan - normal people” HMP Littlehey It was approximately one year ago when, inspired by the speeches of Michael Gove, David Cameron and Her Majesty Page 6 the Queen on prison reform, that I decided to form the While I was in HMP Norwich Newsround 10-13 I was sent a book by my pro-establishment organisation the National Prisoners mum. I was then sent a pink Council (NPC). This has the sole intention of providing central “This has no doubt slip saying it was an ‘unau- government and the powers-that-be with credible information been to enable thorised parcel.’ I told my and intelligence in order to assist in those reforms. inappropriate mum who said she had fondling to take checked with the prison first In its first year, the NPC has grown into an organisation that Page 10 place” and was told to send the has members in all prison establishments in the UK and we Comment 14-27 book in as it was not a prob- have just received funding to take us into our second year. lem. I put in an app to ask We are currently working with organisations in order to get a “Day turns into why the book had been website up and running. night, Sun into stopped. The reply was “You moon, yin into Big swagger, small intent We are in negotiations with a number of private data companies, yang” © Deposit Photos may not have books sent in. Page 27 They must be handed in on a some of whom are at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence visit.” I went to the library, Development, with a view to replacing OASys with a modern, Information 28-33 accurate risk assessment system fit for the 21st century. Gym bunnies get real! (library staff are incredibly “We will end Ian Scott - HMP Rye Hill helpful here - thank you imprisonment for Lisa), who gave me the PSI “We are developing a framework for the very first possession of ille- I feel the need to express my concerns about the ever-increas- in relation to this issue and Prisons and Probation Service league tables. If gal drugs for personal use” ing number of lads, full of tattoos, who go to the gym every it clearly states, “Family and anyone has any ideas regards what information Page 28 day and take it upon themselves to swagger about the wing friends may send in or hand Legal 34-39 as though they are some kind of gangster. in books.” So I put in anoth- they would like to see appear in the league tables er app quoting this and an then please write to me and let me know as it will “Whilst the case article in Inside Time con- One can certainly appreciate the lads who go to the gym for was successful firming the same - but I was be a prisoner-led system.” genuine reasons and who have worked hard to get them- there is still a told that the prison gets to selves fit and lose weight. Thank you to Inside Time for giving everyone a voice, to all long way to go” decide which PSIs they use the reformist organisations, too numerous to name, who Page 36 and which bits of them they have given me help and advice over the past 12-months, you “But the cardboard gangsters need to get a grip adopt. In the end I relented Jailbreak 40-56 know who you are. and wind their necks in” and handed the book out to “Sport is the play- my mum on a visit, who Finally, thank you to all the prisoners who have supported ground and the Here at Rye Hill we are all sex offenders. Next door is HMP handed it straight back in. the NPC in its infancy, without your support and encourage- practice time for Onley. So, if these muppets think they are big and hard, then The officer on visits said, “I ment all of this would not have been possible. You have my real life” go next door and let’s see how long it would take to lose their know, isn’t it stupid! Don’t commitment to continue to work hard towards our common Page 45 swagger and slink behind their doors, when people find out worry just sign and I’ll bring goal of wholesale prison reform. why they are in prison. it to you tomorrow.” Ombudsman prefers the easy life Evan Prevett - HMP Elmley

In the 18-months I have been in prison I have sent 11 complaints to the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO). Of these, 3 were upheld, 5 were not and 3 continue to be investigated. My general experience is that the PPO love an easy case. The 3 complaints that they upheld were all property complaints with relatively low-value items, and with the evidence overwhelming- ly in my favour. The other complaints required work from the PPO, work that it is clear from the Record of Investigation documents, was not carried out.

The PPO generally seem to take the word of a prison officer as gospel truth. It seems very rare- ly do they take action to verify what officers are telling them, even in cases where CCTV and property cards or computer records would bear out the truth of what the inmate has told them.

Whilst I would stop short of saying the PPO are useless, I would say this - unless you have access to indisputable evidence to back up your case then do not waste your time. The PPO will not make any real effort to find evidence supporting your case. You must do this yourself. And in all but the most straightforward cases, you will get more help and a better result by going to the Courts. They have the power to make the prison system listen. The PPO does not.

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Mailbites There is always hope Amnesty for adult child sex offenders Do I not count? J Ashton - HMP Risley DW - HMP Chelmsford Give us segregation Andrew Allder - HMP Wymott I feel that if we had an amnesty for potential adult child sex At least a third of the appli- I think as mothers it is unfair For the last 10-years I have felt like I’ve been stuck in a off enders we could dramatically reduce the impact on vic- cations I have submitted that we should be forced to revolving door that just won’t stop turning. Aft er receiving an tims, saving many children’s lives. We should give the preda- here go without reply and a live side-by-side with child 18-month knockback on my oral hearing in September, I had majority of those that receive sex-offenders. Male prisoners tors a chance to seek the help and support they desperately reached my 30-year mark (10-year tariff ) and it felt like some- replies are dismissive, would not accept this, so why need and stop them hiding from society. one had built an invisible wall that just stops me from going unhelpful or simply lip-ser- should we? Because of my vice to fob me off . It is a simi- forward or progressing. I slowly sank into deep depression It would not mean they are above the law as there would be legitimately held views on lar pattern with complaints - these people I am being treated and to mask how I was feeling I took a lot of drugs. I was strict conditions whereby, if they admit that they are attract- self-harming and could not get off this path of self-destruction. oft en the reply does not unfairly and being told - ‘You ed to children, they would receive therapy and counselling to address the issue. are all in here for committing help reduce or stop their vile addictions. In November, I transferred to Wymott and I was still using a crime’ - but sexually abusing For 8-weeks I have been children is not on a par with substances and creating problems for myself until fi nally I “We have amnesties for guns and knives, and applying to attend a clinic at theft. These people get the had a mental breakdown. It all came to a head when I got on these are weapons used to kill and injure people” the Resettlement Offi ce, best jobs and we are constantly the wing netting in my boxers and covered in warm butter so which takes place once a told how well-behaved they that prison staff couldn’t twist me up. Spice had played a week but is always can- are - well, that’s a given because large part in my breakdown and became the catalyst for all They say there are 750,000 potential child sex off enders in celled. For 6-weeks I have there ain’t no kids around the underlying issues that was my life. Britain, but I feel this is the tip of the iceberg. Why use your been applying for work in here for them to abuse. It is a hands to fi nd a needle in a haystack, when you can use a the laundry. It is about time disgrace that these people magnet to draw out the predators. By using an amnesty, we will I had tried to distance myself from these issues we had access to services are not segregated. “ better know who and where they are, what level of addiction within the prison’s purview, Jodie Finn - HMP Send because I didn’t possess the skills to deal with they have and we can then monitor and control them better. let alone any decent rehab them or be honest even if I wanted to” that we should be receiving. Goodbye and thank I would advise chemical castration in extreme cases, and to Sometimes I think this pris- punish severely those who do not seek help. on is not taking us seriously. you Pastor Rog Aft er spending 8-weeks in the CSU I was wanting to go back One of the chaplains here is to a B-cat because I had no interest in wanting to reduce the moving on and I am not alone numerous risk-factors that the Parole Board had identifi ed Poverty grant in wishing him all of the best and going back to a long-termer’s prison would allow me to Trucked off for the future. Pastor Rog is live in a haze of drug-taking, and if I died, who would care? Mark Griffiths - HMP Liverpool Darren Hunter - HMP Manchester an inspirational figure and a The staff at Wymott who worked in the CSU, discipline and How is anyone expected to live on or survive genuinely compassionate man. mental-health, were able to identify the emotional turmoil I Is there a PSI or the equivalent regarding His leaving will be a huge loss the early days of release on a measly £46 was going through and should be commended for the sup- magazines being sent in via post or subscrip- here, but our loss is North Sea discharge grant? Whose idea was it to give us port given to me, even when I did not make it easy for them. I tion? I buy my magazines on the unilink sys- Camp’s gain. You will be missed. this meagre amount to last usually a was off ered a place on K-wing, which is a therapy-based unit minimum of 4-weeks before we can get tem here, however, due to ‘supplier errors’ NJ - HMP Littlehey but also works on recovery using a TC ethos and TC concepts. anything sorted? And why do HMP tell us all truck magazines have now been taken off This isn’t on my sentence plan but I really wanted to do this that this is a week’s unemployment benefit, the system. Survivors for me because I had given up on myself and the process of when £73 is a week’s unemployment benefit I was abused whilst in local rehabilitation. to everyone else? I have put in many general apps and COMP1s, authority foster care in the etc. about this but with no answer and no solution to the problem. Surely I should be 1980s, but I do not class myself I have been on the TC for 6-weeks now and, although it’s still When are the government going to ask, and able to source my magazines via WH Smith as a ‘victim’ of childhood early days, I feel as though I have learned so much already. then answer the right questions about why or any of the NOMS approved suppliers sexual abuse, but as a ‘survivor’. My peers on the TC support me and role-model in a pro-social so many released prisoners are forced into through the post? Don’t get me wrong, I am by manner, pointing out my unacceptable behaviour in a pro-so- reoffending through the poverty of the no means ‘healed’, I still have cial and constructive manner. But they also give me affi rma- discharge grant? long, emotional, physical and Editorial note tion when I do well, helping me to pull down the barriers of psychological battles ahead, Under Chris Grayling’s new Incentives Scheme many years of institutionalised and anti-social behaviour. but I know I must go through Please answer me (PSI2013-030) prisoners could no longer have There are a wide range of concepts that the TC uses to benefi t newspapers and magazines ordered (from the those challenges if I ever want JP Darcy - HMP Wandsworth to get out of the revolving us in our view of recovery and views of right living. It may agreed local newsagent to the prison) by not be for everybody, but so far it is working for me and I no friends or relatives and instead have to order door of repeat offending. I What I find very disturbing about Wandsworth longer think of self-harming or feel so emotionally negative them through the prison using their prisons commend anyone who has is the lack of basic procedures, i.e. complaint the willpower to speak out in my daily life. Spends Account. The system for ordering var- forms not being returned, medical complaint ies between prisons and often the Library about their experiences and I forms being ‘lost’ all the time. It really upsets urge those who won’t to try I know things can seem hopeless when you are up against handle the orders. You are entitled to order me when I put a lot of effort into writing an these items so you should follow through with not to feel isolated as you overwhelming odds and your life seems to have been put on app or complaint, only to have it go missing internal complaints and then, if necessary, to really are not alone. hold for so many years that you feel you are going nowhere. or unacknowledged. We need things to change the Ombudsman. D - HMP Barlinnie But I have found that there is always hope. and for our complaints to be taken seriously.

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More than We have no rights Mailbites just an ex-con D K - HMP Wandsworth Taxed off Mark Northam - former prisoner We have no rights whatsoever whilst in prison. If the I understand that whilst I am in prison I do not pay tax or National Insurance, and I am also not I was recently discharged from HMP staff say, ‘no exercise’, then entitled to benefits. So, why do I have to pay VAT Highdown, and I am now part of a peer sup- we get no exercise and they on every purchase from the privatised prison port group in Portsmouth called ‘The Voice’ don’t give a toss what is canteen? On the bottom of our canteen sheets it is run by the CRC. I found it near on impos- written in the rules. They it states ‘All prices include VAT, but may be sible to cope when I was released to return to just shrug, all unconcerned, subject to change, including statutory tax and Portsmouth with no home, very limited and dare us to sue, knowing duty changes’. So, why am I paying VAT and money and no help until I joined The Voice, that we have no access to legal aid. Hundreds of staff statutory tax? I cannot claim benefits or pay whose mentors helped me to start rebuilding council tax. my life. So much so that two months later I all around the country are am in the process of training to be a volun- still casually opening Rule Michael James - HMP Nottingham teer mentor for the group myself. 39 legal mail, despite being told in no uncertain terms Probation disappearing act I would like to give something back for all by every offi cial body not to. I have been in custody for 10 months and in the help they gave me and what better way to that time, I have had NO contact from my do that than by helping others in the same “They don’t give a toss Probation Officer. My Offender Supervisor has situation. because they know been brilliant, but there are things only my PO can help with. All these people in power bang The Voice is a peer support group run by nothing will happen to on about resettlement and reforming ex-off enders for the support of off enders. them” offenders, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s all Many of us face a wall of silence when we are lies. My release is in four months and I need to released from custody. Our aim is to give They do not answer cell- see Probation. Since Probation got privatised people support and advice to help them bells in any sort of ‘timely they seem to have disappeared. rebuild their lives when released back into manner’. You could be dying the community. We are not paid for this ser- but they won’t come near Joanna Bradshaw - HMP/YOI Parc vice but are willing to help through our own your door until they are experiences and show you there can be a ready. Sometimes 2 hours Education - pay as you go light at the end of the tunnel. later. We all know this is I have discovered that if I go on voluntary true. The only time they are “Never seen anything like it” education courses, then I actually have to pay!

© Deposit Photos We have all been there and struggled but in a rush is when it is time to I am a pensioner and receive £10 per week. I have come through the other side of adverse lock you up. asked to go on an English revision course and conditions. If this is something you think was given a date to start. It was one afternoon Yet, when the government Beast eating that we can help you with then please con- a week, and because I am retired the prison Joe King - HMP Parkhurst tact us through your local CRC offi ce and we decides to do something took £3.60 from my weekly allowance. will gladly help in any way that we can. In about the crisis in our pris- Obviously, I cancelled my app for this course When I came here I was told about the beast of Parkhurst! many cases people we have helped have ons in order to stop suicides, and am now trying to get my money back. This, I thought, was some kind of joke. But, one night, I gone on to lead productive lives no matter violence and self-harming What kind of a system charges us when we try looked out of my window and saw a strange creature on the what they have done in the past. by prisoners, how do you to prepare for release? roof. The creature looked to be half-man and half-bat, sort of think they do it? I’ll tell you - Mr McCullough - HMP Garth like a gargoyle. It was eating pigeons. I have never seen any- Everyone deserves to be treated as a human by throwing bundles of thing like it before. I would like to know if any of your readers being and not just an ex-con. Please feel free money at the POA. So now Editorial note have seen anything like this, either in Parkhurst or any other to contact us and we will do whatever it they’ll get paid even more Inside Time have asked HMPPS to look into this prison. I am still in shock and have since seen this creature takes to show you the way because we for doing nothing. What a and ensure the rules have been correctly applied. twice more. What is it? believe that everyone deserves a little help. f*****g joke. vhs At Universe Solicitors, we act for fletchers 0115 9599550 / 01332 546818 Prisoners in all areas of Criminal SOLICITORS [email protected] Defence and Prison Law. PRISON LAW ADJUDICATIONS We offer specialist prison law advice as part of our overall service to our clients, we will not abandon you once sentence is passed. CCRC LEGAL AID IS AVAILABLE FOR... INDEPENDENT ADJUDICATIONS (Governors if Tarrant Principles apply) CRIMINAL APPEAL MATTERS RECALL/PAROLE BOARD REVIEWS. TARIFF EXPIRED LIFERS/IPP PAROLE BOARD REVIEWS JUDICAL REVIEW APPEALS - SENTENCE AND CONVICTION NIVERSE SENTENCE CALCULATION JUDICIAL REVIEW LICENCEO RECALLLICITORS WE PRACTICE LAW WITH PASSION FIXED FEES We are happy to accept instructions on a private fee basis PAROLE HEARING to provide advice and representation in other prison law and release related matters such as: POCA Challenging Licence Conditions Sentence Progression Sentence Calculation ROTL Prison Transfer Pre-tariff Reviews Category A Reviews WE PRACTICE LAW WITH PASSION WRITE TO US: [email protected] Nottingham Office Derby Office 0208 692 8008 Irene Tolley Rosamunde Benn 111 Carrington Street 8 St Marys Gate 83 Blackheath Road, Nottingham NIVERSE Derby OLICITORS NG1 7FE DE1 3JF London SE10 8PD WE PRACTICE LAW WITH PASSION 6 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime June 2017

Salt in the wound A happier and Mailbites Andrew Sheehy - HMP Manchester healthier prison? Grant Stanley BSc (Hons) Light? Not even a Before I was released from prison I had arranged job inter- MA - HMP Whatton tunnel views, made plans with local housing, got support from drug services, and was genuinely optimistic for my future. When I I am an IPP who is 9-years HMP Whatton has been got to reception on the day of release I found that my address into a 6-year tariff and still in ‘smoke free’ for four months in Greater Manchester, which had been approved once, had, in prison. I have no idea when I now and what a diff erence it fact, been vetoed 2-days previous by a diff erent Probation Offi ce. might be going home to my has made! The air on the family and kids, and I’m not wings no longer smells of I was then told that I was expected in Carlisle at a hostel, the only one. This sentence tobacco, prisoners no longer over 120 miles from my family and friends and support. I was was abolished in April 2012, spend their £9.60 weekly still expected to attend all appointments that had previously so why are we all still stuck in earnings on smoking prod- been arranged. My last appointment in Manchester was at prison? When is it going to ucts and the taste-buds and 3.45pm, I was then expected in Carlisle at 4.30pm. At 4.35pm end? an emergency recall warrant was issued and I decided to smell receptors of those that hand myself in to the police. smoked have heightened K Robinson - greatly. HMP/YOI Hatfield “I had only just got out of prison, I had not seen “We can now actually any of my family or my children, and I was Time to care taste how bad the food already on my way back to prison” Waiting a considerable length really is, and discern of time for treatment for Why? How have Probation got this amount of power? I really the fragrant aroma of mental/physical illness should believe they are using recall to lighten heavy workloads. I did peppermint teabags be recognised as a contribu- nothing wrong in the few hours I was out, I’ve committed no tor towards self-harm or further off ences, and I am now back in prison on full recall. being smoked and our suicide in the prison system. I’ve since been told that my address situation was a mix-up weekly earnings are Speaking to nurses in regard and my address had, in fact, been approved. I think the offi - now spent on 2 over- to mental health, in particu- cial who told me this expected it to make me feel better, but it lar, can be difficult but you was just salt in an open wound. priced roll-ups or 2 can be waiting over a month nicotine patches on the Who are the normal people? to see a properly qualified Probation are playing god with people’s liberty, they should black market instead of © Deposit Photos mental health specialist. never have been given the power of instant recall. Until There are no excuses, the something is done about the number of people being sent an ounce of tobacco Who wants to be normal? prison authorities have a duty back to prison for non-criminal breaches, then our plans, from the canteen!” of care and should address prospects and hopes are just smoke in the wind. ‘Amazing’ Richard Barrett - HMP Littlehey this problem. The level of debt has seriously David Dowson - increased, prisoners are In my Collins English dictionary the defi nition of ‘normal’ is Why no HMP Addiewell Sing signing up for smoking ces- ‘ordinary’. I’ve worked in our education department for over Cat D for me? sation courses so that they a year now. One prisoner was given an orderly job working Guilty until proven Waqaas Malik - and shine can either smoke or sell the close to the education staff . On his fi rst day he was told by a HMP The Mount nicotine patches that are senior member of staff , “It must be nice to talk to some nor- innocent? W McDonagh - issued. Bullying and the illic- mal people.” So who are these ‘normal people’? And who are it trade in other medications If we really are ‘innocent until I have recently learned that HMP Stoke Heath the people who are not normal? Who should be off ended by has increased massively. proven guilty’ then how come as an Extended Determinate this comment - the prisoner? the prosecution can stand up Sentence (EDS) prisoner, I I read with interest the story of the charity Beating Time When smoking plastic and read out all our previous am not aff orded an opportu- “If he wasn’t already normal it must feel nice that convictions whilst we are nity to achieve Category D which develops and supports patches or accruing massive applying for bail? This, in my status. This allowance is choirs in prison. I totally debts by buying illicit tobac- he is now able to talk to normal people. Or opinion, leads to the Judge/ even extended to lifers that agree with its concept. co products increases expo- perhaps he has become normal because he now Sheriff remanding us in have 3-years till their parole nentially; when the cost of custody. I have already served hearing (Pre-Tariff Review). I am a regular choir enthusi- Spice, Mamba or hooch is gets to speak to normal people. The mind boggles.” ast, and active in the choir cheaper than tobacco and my time for my previous So, based on the trajectory in this prison. When the levels of violent inci- We have some amazing staff in our education department. convictions and they should my progression is at, I could attending a choir practice it dents increases greatly, it is Teachers who inspire others in the classroom. But I wonder if bear no relation to my be released at the direction gives me the opportunity to time to review the situation this senior member of staff could give us a list of all the other present position. meet other people and to more carefully. of the Parole Board aft er ‘normal people’ so we know who to avoid. P Dillon - HMP Edinburgh serving 6-years and 8-months. sing together in harmony. This would be without hav- The choir practice is always Corrections and Clarifi cations ing the opportunity to make held in the chapel which Smoke-free is great use of the facilities that are adds a spiritual element to The policy of Inside Time is to correct signifi cant errors as soon as possible. Corrections will After suffering my 4th provided to help long-term the singing. appear in the mailbag section of each issue and on the relevant web page. If you notice an error heart-attack through please feel free to write to us at the usual address providing the date and page number from the prisoners decompress and second-hand smoking, I I am sure that with time and newspaper, alternatively have a friend or family member call or email us (see below). successfully reintegrate wholly agree with the patience and proper organi- back into society. Government’s intention to sation choirs in prison could Correction - Re Pensioners Discrimination Independence Team today and they have stop smoking in prisons. It have a profound eff ect on (Inside Time April 2017) confi rmed that this article is incorrect. Personal It seems that the pressure worked in pubs and clubs, re-off ending rates so they In April’s edition of Inside Time an article by Independence is currently not paid to any that caused IPP to be Anthony Wright and Ashley Mote (page 24) prisoners.” saving thousands of lives. rescinded only precipitated spiral downwards. The launching of Beating Time incorrectly stated that “A disability allowance There are a thousand this Extended Sentence. As I (known as Personal Independence Payment) is Apology different poisons in tobacco consider my legal options, I interests me greatly and I paid to inmates deemed disabled - and not Inside Time prides itself in its endeavours to and thousands of people die would welcome any assis- wish to get involved. only physically - during their last year in jail.” In check the veracity of all information we each year from the effects. tance and/or input from any response to an enquiry by a prisoner to the publish. Clearly this is very important informa- But, smoking is an addiction quarter to bring this matter I like to sing and I think I Department of Work and Pensions asking if the tion that could have affected many of our and you cannot just be before the courts to test have a nice voice and choirs information in the article is correct an readers and we apologise unreservedly for expected to stop suddenly, whether this sentence was in prison is a great way to practice. Who knows, there Employment and Benefi ts advisor replied: allowing this factual error into the paper. the Government and prison intended to operate in this “I have been in touch with the Personal manner. The lack of oppor- could be stars among the system must do all they tunity for a long-term prisoner prison singers waiting to shine possibly can to help inmates to progress to Category D and sparkle. Remember, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, 01489 795945 beat the habit. 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Parole hold up solution Inspect and act! So. What? Mailbites Mr O’Toole - HMP Erlestoke B Walker - HMP Littlehey Give me hope My parole hearing of March 2016 was deferred Could someone please explain what is the I am an IPP and over tariff. on the day as the panel did not have access I have completed all courses point of prison inspectors? Every month to an up to date HCR 20 risk assessment. yet been refused parole. Inside Time publishes the Inspectorate’s Since then I have noted that in the case of at I do not belong in jail and reports about various prisons, but nothing least seven lifers on my unit their hearing I can’t handle this anymore. ever seems to change. Whose job is it to read has been deferred on the day in order that up I am on a downward trajecto- the reports and then put things right? to date HCR 20 may be prepared. Because if we are not doing that then the ry and I want to be dead. It has got to be better than this. reports by the Inspectorate are nothing but

“Given that the Parole Board, the © Deposit Photos I could have saved myself a lot window-dressing. Can someone tell me of stress if I had killed myself whose job it is to put things right? ICH and previously the panel chair So, well, so... at the start. Where will this end? have sight of dossiers well in advance Editorial note of a hearing being convened would Mark Wrightwick - HMP Parkhurst Name supplied - HMP Durham The Chief Inspector of Prisons, currently Peter it not be prudent to issue a direction I understand the English language is changing, evolving as Clarke, sends his report and recommenda- time passes, but some things appear wrong to me. Is it just Acting out tions to the Justice Minister and prison gover- to issue an HCR 20 in good time?” me? We, that is the collective noun for us as English speak- I would like to say an enormous nor. If previous recommendations about a ers, have started using the word ‘so’ where we once used the ‘Thank You’ to the Geese particular prison have not been resolved he This would not only save time and expense word ‘well’. Theatre Company, with whom will list them. The head of the Prison Service as well as helping to reduce the backlog of cases waiting to be heard, but better serves If you asked a question, sometimes the person would start I recently completed a (now HMPPS), currently Michael Spurr, justice more generally. the answer with the word ‘Well’, but now this seems to have three-day project at HMP responds to the report but there is no statuto- been replaced with the word ‘So’. What the person using ‘So’ Parkhurst. We had a really fun ry requirement for any action to be taken on Here at Erlestoke, psychological services will is trying to say is ‘I heard and understood you and here is my time exploring settlement, anything found in the reports. Inside Time answer’, but instead they say ‘So’. This seems wrong, does only agree to undertake an HCR 20 assess- developing new skills, asking has commented often on this lack of action - anyone else agree? ment if directed to do so by the Parole Board. for help and goal-setting and indeed Peter Clarke in his interview with This is not belligerence, but a necessary through acting and role-play. Inside Time (page 1, February 2017) said he result of being under-resourced. If other Individual It was a brilliant experience. was not happy that many of his recommen- Hospital establishments operate in the same vein, the Jason Edward Adams - dations were being ignored. The most recent punishment result must be a large volume of deferred secures IPP HMP Isle of Wight White Paper published by Liz Truss sought to cases - a need for costly panel logistics and Tom Clark - HMP Frankland put both the Inspectorate and the ultimately unnecessary delays for the prisoner. There seems to be a lot of release? Ombudsman on a more secure footing with Not in my name debate around whether Shawn Thomas - statutory powers but once the general elec- I urge the Parole Board to take a look at this As a proud and devoted imprisonment should be a Rampton Hospital tion was called the White Paper and possible issue because the solution appears to be quite punishment by virtue of loss Muslim, and also proud of this legislation was effectively put on hold until simple, which would have positive conse- of liberty only (and, therefore, In reply to the Mailbag by JP country for the way it stands after the election. quences for all concerned. once inside it is ‘rehabilita- McDonagh (Star Letter up to terrorism, I would like to tion’ that takes priority), or - April issue), I am also an send my sincere condolences whether prison regimes IPP and have been locked up to all the victims and families should punish criminals for for 12-years on a 2-year, who lost or had loved ones their actions. Why do we 11-month tariff. My contin- injured in the attack on the assume that a 10-year ued incarceration is due to Houses of Parliament. Also to sentence (for example) has mental health issues and all those who tried to help, the same ‘punishing’ effect disability (sensory) I have including the hospital staff only completed one course on each individual? A man/ who dealt with the injured. The Personal Injury Specialists and, after several knock- woman with a happy family This shameful and disrespect- backs by the Parole Board, I life, kids, good job, etc., will ful act brought out the best in also gave up hope of release. undoubtedly face a very people. And to the terrorists different level of turmoil to of the world I would like to someone who has been in I have had to go to the point out that you will NEVER and out of prison many extremes of coming to the win and you do NOT repre- times, has no home, no highest security hospital in family, no job and lives a the country just to access sent what it means to be a chaotic lifestyle on the out. courses. I now have hope of true Muslim. A true Muslim Until the basics are under- release. Perhaps a secure respects everyone, no matter hospital may be your best what their background. Work Accident Medical Negligence Dental Negligence Slip and Trip stood, how can we even chance of release? have a rational debate? G Marshall - HMP Bure Contact us today, you may be entitled to compensation! Let us help you Why use

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Mailbag 9 Fake news? You have the power, use it! Not so sweet On the Wire S Tyler - HMP Hull Name and details withheld dreams We hear a lot about false news Can you please ask Mr Nick Hardwick, Chairman of the these days, yet there is nothing Peter Leslie Feeley - Parole Board, to start implementing the changes made on the new about this. Here are some HMP Littlehey Dough grabbers 22nd of November 2016, which allowed IPP prisoners to be long-standing examples of released on the papers. One thing that really gets a lot of prisoners going, including me, falsification and propaganda One night I fell asleep in is the way we get ripped off by the privatised canteen services that, after some decades, are In the 6-months to date, how many IPPs have actually been front of my television clutch- in prison. I remember the old days when prison staff ran our still popularly believed by released? Can you also ask him to please make sure that ing my remote-control. The canteens and we seemed to have few problems with over-pric- the masses. those IPPs who meet the release test on the papers are now night staff interpreted this as ing because they weren’t there to rip a profit out of us. Now it’s ‘seen talking on a mobile- all about grabbing enough dough out of us to not only enjoy a • Britain is a free country; doing so, otherwise there was no point in asking for this policy if nobody at the Parole Board will actually implement it. phone’. nice profit, but also to pay their shareholders. Why are the • You are innocent until prices so high when we see adverts in our papers and on our proven guilty; televisions for the same goods but at much cheaper prices? It’s • You will receive a fair trial; It is time for the Parole Board to actually inform the MoJ that Prior to unlock the following a disgrace. When is the Monopolies Commission going to take • You do not need to prove they will, as a matter of policy, be releasing IPPs who are 1) in day, wing-staff turned up at a long hard look at the privatised prison canteen system? you are innocent, it has to be open conditions, 2) are ROTL cleared, 3) are staying at Approved my cell and asked me to Premises once a month, 4) have exemplary reports, 5) have proved that you are guilty; hand over the mobile-phone, Name supplied - HMP Manchester • Actual proof of guilt is completed their sentence plans. It is pointless to make them which I certainly did not required to obtain a conviction; wait for oral hearings if the release test is obviously met. have! I was subjected to a Disgraceful pricing • You will never be convicted strip-search, made to squat The Parole Board have asked for this policy for years, now if you are innocent; and escorted to the BOSS I was recently in HMP Thameside, where a pouch of tobacco is • The British justice system they have it. Please do not off er us another betrayal. chair (Body Orifi ce Security £9.89, compared to £12 for the same tobacco here at HMP Isis. is fair and unbiased; Scanner), but nothing was A pint of milk in Thameside is 45p, at Isis it’s 65p. This is just two • Jesus wants me for a The Parole Board responds found. examples of the price disparity between the two jails. The fact is sunbeam. Nick Hardwick has addressed these points in his update, which you that DHL even have prisoners doing their work for them, bag and can fi nd on page 32. In summary, the Parole Board has released tag, etc. and do not have to pay minimum wage to get their work I was then told that my cell I guess I am an avid over 900 IPP prisoners in the year 2016/17, which represented 46% done, yet they still rip prisoners off with their disgraceful prices. decapitator of sacred cows. of all IPP cases considered, and recommended a further 468 for was going to be searched. I open conditions. Where an IPP meets the test for release, due con- have a lot of legal paperwork R P Ring RVM - HMP/YOI Isis Some more equal sideration will be given to a release on the papers, but a signifi cant and persuaded staff to let me number of cases will still require an oral hearing. be present whilst my legal Editorial note than others documents were searched. Thameside is a private prison operated by Serco and runs its own canteen service. Isis is run by the Prison Service and uses The Parole Board understands and appreciates This is covered by PSI Name Supplied - “ the Prison Service DHL/Booker system. HMP Springhill the frustrations experienced by prisoners waiting 09/2016 Cells. In order for the rest of my cell to be Surely equality is not to have their case heard but could not implement searched I was instructed to Inflated prices something to fear? It should a blanket policy of releasing on the papers an IPP leave. I asked them if I could be embraced. Not so here at Most things about our prison system are diabolical, but Springhill. who meets all the criteria mentioned above” take my legal documents especially the canteen/shop system. 10-years ago the spending with me, covered under the limit for a Standard prisoner was £12.50, whereas now it’s at There are those of us who Whilst meeting all these conditions is a very good indicator of same PSI. They refused. This £15.50, even though, due to recession and inflation, most items would relish the opportunity to positive work, and such prisoners are to be commended for this, is unlawful. have doubled in price - some even more than doubled. Surely bring solutions to the problems the test for release requires a thorough risk assessment in each our allowance should be raised. The minimum tobacco that beset minority groups and every case, and therefore it is not a simple tick box exercise. Needless to say, no mobile- purchase is now 30g, costing around £12. So, while greedy (black, Asian, Travellers, etc.), There are other factors that must be considered, for example phone was found. But, can I private firms like DHL are getting richer and fatter, the canteen although our efforts are opinions of professionals such as psychologists or psychiatrists, appeal to all prison staff to bags are becoming a lot lighter for more money. hearing evidence from witnesses often provides more detail of often rejected or neutralised, follow Prison Rules and PSI’s. Anthony Guy - HMP Leeds leaving us to wonder if equality how a prisoner will be supervised in the community, the necessity in places like Springhill and proportionality of any licence conditions and whether other occurs by default or design? factors such as social care needs or community programmes are in place. 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No need to pee Newsbites The drug treatment agency Change, Grow, 60 years of support Live (CGL) has announced that it is piloting The Irish Chaplaincy was established in 1957, an innovative new approach to drug screen- when the Irish bishops sent 9 Catholic priests ing. The non-invasive drug screening system to England in order to minister the many Irish from Intelligent Fingerprinting is easy to use, people who were coming to this country to and will enable CGL to determine in minutes live and work. The Irish Chaplaincy continues if a client has recently used any of the four to this day to provide high quality and culturally drugs in the test - amphetamines, cannabis, sensitive services to Irish people, particularly cocaine and opiates. The Intelligent those most on the margins of British society. Fingerprinting solution detects drug use by They offer free support to prisoners, travellers, analysing chemicals, known as metabolites, Raising money for charity Seniors and a general outreach. contained in the minute traces of sweat found in a fi ngerprint sample. Arrested drones Driving a Deere for In comparison with traditional testing Nine people have appeared in court for procedures involving saliva or urine, attempting to fl y contraband into four dementia fi ngerprint sample collection takes only a few midland’s prisons by using drones and seconds and is dignifi ed and hygienic, throwing packages over walls. The affected UK-length tractor ride aims to break making it particularly convenient for prisons were Birmingham, Hewell, Stoke organisations such as CGL as there is no need Heath and Featherstone. The charges of World Record for specialist collection facilities or biohaz- conspiring to supply prohibited items into prisons are so serious they must be heard at Prison offi cer Andy Maxfi eld from Lancashire is aiming to break ardous waste disposal. The initial Intelligent Fingerprinting system trial is taking place at a Crown Court trial and carry substantial a six year old Guinness World Record by driving from John sentences if convicted. They will enter pleas CGL clinic in East Anglia where early user © Deposit Photos O’Groats to Land’s End on a John Deere lawn tractor, while on June 23rd. raising money for Alzheimer’s Society. Andy, who works at engagement has been very positive and the volume of tests has been high. Indecent HMP Kirkham, and his daughter are planning to drive non- Too intelligent for prison stop to break the record which stands at four days and 23 Credit: www.russellwebster.com A young woman who stabbed her boyfriend hours. The ‘Driving the Distance for Dementia’ Challenge is order in the leg has been spared prison because the due to set off from John O’Groats on Tuesday 25th July 2017. judge said she had ‘an extraordinary talent for Women prisoner According to Mail Online medicine’. After admitting a charge of “I started thinking about fundraising ideas towards the end many prisons are now unlawful wounding the judge told her that of last year, when my dad was going downhill quite quickly,” discrimination employing tactics to monitor normally she would have got a custodial says Andy Maxfi eld. “It was my birthday in January, so I the dress of female visitors sentence. He said: “It seems to me that if this asked people to make donations to charity instead of giving The Supreme Court has ruled that the dubbed ‘The Cleavage Police’. was a one-off, a complete one-off, to prevent me presents, and it’s gone on from there. Alongside that, distribution of approved premises (APs) Staff monitor the amount of this extraordinarily able young lady from not because friends and neighbours in the village oft en take the discriminates against women. Living in an AP fl esh on show and order following her long-held desire to enter the mickey out of me for being into lawnmowers - I’ve got eight may be made a licence condition for certain women to do up buttons or profession she wishes to, would be a sentence altogether - I just thought it would be appropriate to choose a prisoners. They are all single-sex establish- ban them if they think their which would be too severe.” Victim’s groups lawn tractor for the record breaking attempt. I asked John ments and although there are 94 male APs skirts are too short. Some have criticised the judge saying it will put off Deere, although I don’t have one of their mowers at home, as there are only six for women - Bedford, even ban ‘ripped’ jeans. victims of domestic violence, especially men, I know they make quality products and I wanted something Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Preston and from coming forward. to get me from A to B without breaking down!” Reading, and none in London or in Wales. One prison website said: “In recent months there have Cyber attack on prisons? Chris Meacock from John Deere adds: “Our UK and Ireland In the ruling, Lady Hale found the question been a high number of A massive cyber attack took place last month employees select a specifi c charity each year to support with of direct discrimination in this case a simple visitors that are dressed in which impacted on over 150 countries. In the a variety of fundraising activities. By coincidence we had one, stating that ‘being required to live in an what could be described as UK the hardest hit was the NHS but no chosen Alzheimer’s Society when we were approached by “indecent” clothing and, in AP a long way away from home is a detriment. comment has been made as to whether any Andy Maxfi eld to help with the Guinness World Record some cases, this has no A woman is much more likely to suff er this prisons or probation were affected. The attack attempt, so it was very good timing on his part!” doubt been to enable detriment than is a man, because of the targeted computers using the, now outdated, inappropriate fondling to Windows XP system which is widely used by Sue Swire, regional community fundraising offi cer for geographical distribution of the small number take place or to retrieve public authorities who want to avoid the cost Alzheimer’s Society in Lancashire, says: “We are so grateful of APs available for women. This is treating her packages easier by a prisoner. of updating computers and systems. They to Andrew and his daughter, who are taking on such a great less favourably than a man because of her sex.’ attack encrypted fi les and demanded ransoms challenge to raise money for Alzheimer’s Society to unite “Ladies tops must be suffi cient to unlock them. In the NHS urgent operations against dementia. Dementia devastates lives, but dementia The Supreme Court noted that the Ministry of enough to cover both the were suspended, accident and emergency won’t win. Funds raised from the challenge will help us Justice has never properly addressed the breasts and midriff area and services disrupted and possible problems with move a step closer to a world without dementia.” problem of providing suffi cient and suitable must not be see-through. emergency services. 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Looking Forensics Newsbites Back... through the Inside shadow looms Time archives June Continued from front page 2012 Appeal court judges would then have to decide whether the results of the forensic tests could have affected the guilty verdict reached by a jury. Vaughan said: “This is a Drone force serious breach of the very rigorous profes- Guernsey prison is becoming the first in the British Isles to trial pioneering new technology “Please help me” sional standards set by the forensic science © Deposit Photos regulator for staff and organisations working designed to stop drones being used to smuggle drugs, weapons and other illegal items. A new in this critical field. We now have a clearer system at the prison at Les Nicolles detects picture of the scale of this data manipulation.” Sent to jail incoming drones, and can force them away. UK can decide which The alleged manipulation relates to data Anyone trying to fly a drone into the prison prisoners vote, says describing the findings of the tests of samples hits an ‘invisible wall’ at the perimeter fence. European Court for begging 50p submitted by police forces to the lab. The Since installing the ‘Sky Fence’ technology samples themselves were not interfered with, “The European Court of Human “Fragile and vulnerable” woman sentenced Guernsey Prison Service say they are not police said. Some cases have been adjourned Rights has said individual to six months for asking strangers for money aware of any drones getting through. governments can decide how while samples are re-examined, and priority to implement a ban on is being given to cases that are about to come The woman, said to barely be able to read or write appeared Free calls to reduce suicide convicted prisoners voting. in court without a lawyer and had to represent herself. to court. “We are prioritising the most serious The Judgement means the UK The Joint Committee on Human Rights has Subject to a civil injunction to stop her from begging from and pressing cases,” said Vaughan, “but all will be able to decide for itself called for a limit on the length of time prisoners anyone after previous similar incidents her case was heard in cases where there could have been an impact how to resolve the long-standing can be kept in cells and for a minimum ratio of at Worcester county court. The judge who sentenced her, on prosecution will be assessed, retested and row over votes for prisoners.” officers to prisoners. They also say that young District Judge Mackenzie said he was “disturbed and con- appropriate action taken. Inside Time report offenders and mentally ill prisoners should be cerned” that she had no public funding or solicitor. He allowed free telephone calls to a designated Incensed! acknowledged that her appearance without a lawyer “came close” to breaching her human rights. “I am particularly con- “While there has been limited friend or family member in an attempt to “Well, where do I start with cerned about that,” he said, “because on any view (the retesting to date, the evidence has reduce rates of self-harm and suicide. last month’s issue of Inside woman) is a fragile individual; has difficulty reading and Time? I’ll just comment on shown that in the vast majority of writing; difficulty in understanding, though I have no evi- Bum deal two of the most outrageous cases, the original reporting was A Ukrainian man who got on the stage at the contributions in your recent dence or indication to indicate to me that she lacks capacity Eurovision Song contest and flashed his bum history. Firstly, May’s Star to deal with matters. She is, however, a fragile and vulnera- accurate” Letter ‘Undesirables.’ What is ble individual and that makes it all the more regrettable that to 200million viewers was held in jail for 72 this nutcase on about? Does she has not got legal assistance.” A spokesperson for the CPS said: “We continue hours following his stunt and may be charged anyone who has a conscience, to work with the Home Office, police and the with ‘hooliganism’ which carries a five year or a pulse for that matter, “The judge acknowledged that the woman’s office of the forensic science regulator to prison sentence. Ukrainian authorities say he honestly think that you can begging was not aggressive but still insisted on a assess the impact of issues relating to Randox has brought shame on his country. put joy-riders and nonces in Testing Services. Our priority is to establish the same sentence? No!” six-month sentence because she had repeatedly Scottish social care for elderly prisoners Mailbag the impact of these issues on both completed breached the civil injunction” and ongoing cases, in order to ensure that Former Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny Let’s have some action! appropriate action is taken.” MacAskill has said the Scottish Prison Service “I am conscious that on both these two occasions, (the woman) (SPS) should consider establishing a separate “I have recently made a simply asked for 50p,” he said. “It has not been in an aggres- facility for older people. “Prison officers aren’t complaint about the Prison A Home Office spokesperson said: “This sive way. She has been told ‘no’ and she has not persisted. trained to deal with the needs of elderly Service constantly opening matter is currently being urgently investigated There is no aggravating feature in the way she has done this.” prisoners, particularly those with dementia. my legal mail. They claim it is by the forensic science regulator and the UK There is also a practical problem of accommo- ‘human error’ - which seems The woman’s main defence was that she had an alibi and Accreditation Service (Ukas) and a criminal dating elderly and disabled prisoners. They to be their bog-standard that CCTV would corroborate her accounts - but said she inquiry has been launched by Greater can’t be doubled up in a cell as they may have excuse for illegally opening struggled to provide this evidence. She also claimed mistak- Manchester police. The Home Office is working vast amounts of legal mail arthritis or other mobility problems prevent- en identity and that a police officer had it in for her. closely with the NPCC, forensic services every single day in prisons up ing them from accessing a top bunk. And regulator and Crown Prosecution Service and down this country.” Andrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League there’s the need to keep older prisoners Mailbag (CPS) to prioritise samples for retesting.” for Penal Reform, said, “This is an utterly depressing case separate from the younger, more unruly Appeals Q&A page 39 elements of the prison population.” Read all about it! which highlights how all too often our courts are dealing with failings in social welfare and punishing poverty and vulner- “In the first week in May, I took ability. It is quite simply a damning indictment of our crimi- time out of campaigning in the nal justice system that a woman recognised by the courts as London mayoral elections to being 'fragile and vulnerable', with no legal representation, attend a Reading Group. It was can be imprisoned for 26 weeks for begging for 50p.” a diary commitment I was Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers determined to keep. But this wasn’t just any old reading Penelope Gibbs, director of Transform Justice, said, "No one Award winning firm offering specialist advice on prisoners’ rights group - this was a special should be imprisoned if they are entitled to legal advice but reading group. It was behind cannot get it. When antisocial behaviour cases were trans- • Lifer panels • Inquest bars. Those sat around in a ferred from the criminal to the civil courts in 2015 it was bound • Adjudications • Judicial review circle discussing their latest to leave vulnerable people unrepresented. This is the result." • Parole review and early • Human rights choice of book weren’t able release • Compassionate release to go home at the end of the Justifying the prison sentence, Judge Mackenzie said: "The session - they had to go back breaches themselves, if not trivial, are at a very low end of Contact solicitor Andrew Arthur to their cells. Call it the four the scale and something which the court would be very Fisher Meredith LLP, 7th Floor, 322 High Holborn, Rs; reading, writing, arithmetic loathe to send (the woman) to prison for, if anything else London, WC1V 7PB and rehabilitation. That’s the could possibly work but this court cannot simply give repeat Telephone: 020 7091 2700 vision I have.” injunctions and allow people to go continuing begging, con- Shadow Secretary for Justice tinuing to persist in a nuisance to the population, without Fax: 020 7091 2800 Or visit our website www.fishermeredith.co.uk Sadiq Khan some real teeth being given to the injunction." 12 Newsround www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017

Prison Officer Dragged back in Transgender prisoner’s World prison review It was the way ‘she’ walked numbers set to awkwardly in high heels that death ‘waiting to happen’ gave ‘him’ away - and ‘her’ continue falling suspiciously deep voice. In ‘Scant regard’ given to Vikki Thompson’s the end, the cross-dressing The number of prison escape attempt from a mental health and her transgender issues by officers leaving and being Honduran prison by prisoner appointed have risen to their healthcare staff before she took her own life Francisco Roman Herrera highest level for many years. failed miserably. Herrera, a An inquest jury has unani- The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) gaunt, 55-year-old man, had mously concluded that say that in the year 2016/17 donned a luxuriant blond transgender prisoner Vikki there were 2,314 officers wig, dark sunglasses, black appointed, an increase of Thompson, 21, intended to skirt, a black-and-white 338 on the previous year. take her own life whilst on blouse and stockings to try to This would, of course, include remand at HMP Leeds in walk out of the prison, in San the massive recruitment 2015 but that her treatment Multiple confinement Pedro Sula, as a visitor. drive for the new super-pris- at the prison was inadequate But, although he flashed a on HMP Berwyn. and lacked professionalism. woman’s ID card while Vikki was the first of three leaving, the guards at the gate At the end of March 2017 Prisoner Massacre transgender prisoners to die Seventeen prisoners shot dead after a mass breakout at a jail quickly noticed his unfemi- there were 18,403 ‘full time Vikki Thompson in men’s prisons in the nine voice and the way he equivalent’ staff in ‘frontline’ in Papua New Guinea. More than fifty still on run. space of 18 months. teetered in high-heeled employment a rise of 75 on shoes. He has now been the previous year. The number The prisoners from the Buimo jail in the Pacific nation’s second The jury concluded: transferred from that prison of similar staff leaving was largest city Lae made their move after breaking out of their • Throughout her life Vikki was let down by various depart- to a maximum-security 1,834 up 19% from the compound as guards opened fire. Local police confirmed that ments including the NHS, Leeds Community Healthcare NHS facility known as ‘The Hole’, previous year. This was the 17 of the escapees were killed, three were caught and fifty where he will live with more trust and the prison; highest number of staff seven were still at large. than 1,000 members of • The co-ordination and management of Vikki’s risk of self- leaving at any time, excluding Honduras’s feared gangs. harm in prison and the community by the NHS made more the period when senior staff “These are undesirable people and will be a threat to the than minimal contribution to her death; were paid to leave - known community,” Lae police metropolitan commander chief Great Escape foiled • The management of ACCT procedures for Vikki was inade- as ‘Voluntary Exit Schemes’. superintendent Anthony Wagambie Jr said of the escaped quate and observations of Vikki’s cell paid only ‘lip service’ A tunnel stashed with drugs, prisoners and warned the public to be vigilant. “The majority of alcohol and sharp tools has to the standard and frequency required; Before the election Liz Truss, those who escaped were arrested for serious crimes and were been discovered in a Mexican • The mandatory actions required by the (now replaced) PSI the Justice Minister, continu- in custody awaiting trial,” he said, “A good number were prison according to local on “the care and management of transsexual offenders” were ally announced that she would arrested by police last year for mainly armed robberies, car authorities. Police in not complied with. recruit 2,500 extra staff by thefts, breaking and entering and stealing.” Tamaulipas state said the the end of 2018 but with over hole, which had been hidden Dr. Mitchell, the Clinical Reviewer for the Prison and 1,800 leaving last year it looks by bricks, was up to five Probation Ombudsman told the inquest that Vikki’s health like numbers of staff are set “Prisons in Papua New Guinea often suffer from metres (16ft) deep and was and mental health care was not sufficient and “scant regard to fall even lower even given overcrowding, poor conditions and long waiting found after authorities used the steps previously was given to her mental health and her transgender issues by geothermal technology to announced to boost recruit- periods for prisoners awaiting trial” healthcare staff.” detect activities underground. ment and retention such as The prison in Lae, Papua New Guinea’s second largest city, has The jury heard that in reception at Leeds, Vikki told the first pay increases and mentor seen repeated similar escapes over the past years. Last year at Major jailbreak healthcare assistant she spoke to that she didn’t want to be in schemes for new staff. the same prison police shot dead twelve prisoners during a More than 3,000 prisoners are a men’s prison, yet this comment was neither recorded or jailbreak in which seventy prisoners made their escape and the believed to have escaped from raised with other prison or healthcare staff. As part of the Ambulance year before fifty prisoners managed to escape. Mr Wagambie the main jail in Democratic Case Management plan, Vikki agreed with the prison that Republic of Congo after call-outs rocket urged family members and associates of the most recent she would not add excessive padding to her bra and only gunmen attacked the prison escapees not to harbour them. “I am warning them that they wear make-up in moderation. Multiple times both in prison and freed their leader, Ne The widespread misuse of will be caught. They must do what is good for them and and before she was transferred from police custody, Vikki Muanda Nsemi. He is a self- so-called ‘legal highs’ across surrender,” he said. had told staff she would “be carried out in a box”. Whilst in prisons in England and Wales, styled prophet and the leader Leeds prison she was subject to multiple incidents of sexual has led to a huge rise in of an outlawed group seeking International human rights groups have repeatedly called for an harassment, transphobic abuse and bullying. emergencies with an ambu- to revive the ancient Kongo inquiry into PNG jails, citing concerns about overcrowding, limited lance called every 42 minutes, kingdom. Dozens were killed. access to medical treatment and delays in court proceedings. Deborah Coles, Director of the charity INQUEST said: “This with each call costing around Rights groups say prisons in was a death waiting to happen. A vulnerable, young trans- £300. The Ministry of Justice the country are over-crowd- “Unfortunately these incidents, tragic as they are, happen all gender woman was sent to a men’s prison despite the risks of said that the ambulance bill ed and badly guarded. In too frequently in Papua New Guinea as there is poor accounta- abuse and mistreatment. There was no consideration of the for 2015-2016 was £3.7million January 2016, every prisoner bility with police and security officers,” Kate Schuetze, Amnesty gender she had openly identified with for half her life. Leeds and last year ambulances were except one escaped from a International’s Pacific Researcher, told Reuters. jail in eastern DR Congo. prison has the second highest rate of self-inflicted deaths in called on 12,576 occasions. the country. It was also a prison in which Vikki said she had previously been sexually assaulted, and where she was a vic- Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, SOCIAL SERVICES tim of transphobic abuse and harassment.” who got the statistics said: “Our prisons are facing a scale PROBLEMS ? of violence never seen before Daniel Machover from Hickman Rose said: “In the wake of an and every time an ambulance CARE PROCEEDINGS? unprecedented rise in self-inflicted deaths in prisons, the is called, it is a 999 crew that is findings by the jury in Vikki Thompson’s case are a damning WE SPECIALISE IN unavailable to someone else. indictment of the hopelessly strained prison estate, where The Ministry of Justice is a ACTING FOR PARENTS budget cuts leave reduced staff under immense pressure in shambles and needs to get a extremely difficult circumstances. The Conservative Party grip quickly. They don’t seem Ring us to arrange a visit promised ‘£1 billion to modernise the prison estate’, but this to have a plan or even a clue is not a new pledge. Building more prisons and improving about how to deal with this.” GLP Solicitors existing ones will not address the questions raised by the spi- 20a Lakeland Court ralling death rate. Prisoners, their families and the general According to Mail Online; ‘In Middleton Registered with public deserve better from any future government. Until sen- one incident involving emailaprisoner Manchester M24 5QJ tencing diverts more offenders away from prison, real now-banned new psychoactive reforms are introduced to prison rules and procedures, and substances at HMP Wealstun 0161 investment is targeted at increasing the quality and number all of the available 999 crews of prison staff, tragedies like that of Vikki Thompson are nearby had to be deployed to a 653 6295 more likely to occur.” jail at the same time.’ Insidetime June 2017 www.insidetime.org Newsround // Local Prison News 13

Full Sutton Prison of death Newsbites super-prison The prison service is facing calls for a A bite not a sniff corporate manslaughter investigation after 18 According to press reports A small child has been injured at HMP prisoners have taken their own lives within the new prison planned to be Belmarsh after a prison drug sniffer dog four years at HMP Woodhill. In the latest built near HMP Full Sutton allegedly ‘went crazy’ and attacked her. After inquest into a prisoner death at the jail the will be a huge ‘C’ category investigating the incident the dog has been jury concluded that the man took his own life prison holding over 1,000 withdrawn and the family are said to be taking prisoners. The prison, costing with neglect contributing to his death. Nicola legal advice. The Prison Service have over 500 nearly £100,000,000 will Marfleet, acting Governor of Woodhill, drug sniffer dogs. The Ministry of Justice said it need a staff of around 500. admitted that if the prison had implemented could not comment on the incident because recommendations for changes following of the up-coming General Election. The prison, which is at the previous deaths, this man would probably Fly me... planning stage is described not have died. © Deposit Photos Go ahead for Glen Parva rebuild in the local planning The local planning department have recom- application: “The prison, Deborah Coles, director of the charity Inquest That’s another fine mesh you mended that plans to demolish Glen Parva which will consist of 11 said: “The unbroken pattern of Woodhill and build a new super-prison be accepted buildings, is planned to deaths reveals a systemic failure at a local and got me into! despite a large number of local objections. accommodate Category C national level to act in response to critical The MoJ has started moving prisoners out in prisoners. Its perimeter, inquest findings and recommendations for A special £200,000 ‘catch-net’ erected at HMP Leeds to stop anticipation of work starting on the site. The accommodation blocks and action. This raises serious questions about drugs and other illicit items being thrown into the prison has new prison which will house over 1,600 entry building will be built to the accountability at senior management had to be removed because the fine mesh was a hazard to prisoners and employ over 800 staff will be the appropriate standards.” level of those responsible for prison health wildlife. Although a net with bigger holes could have been built within the boundaries of the old prison. The prison will hold approxi- and safety. HMP Woodhill and the prison used the prison said it would not work to stop small packag- mately 1,017 prisoners. The service have repeatedly failed to implement es. Staff are said to be unhappy about the net’s removal. More tagging please size of the prison is deter- recommendations in the face of a litany of Guernsey prison governor Dave Matthews is mined by the need to provide failures. They have clearly ignored warnings Causing a buzz calling for low risk ‘offenders’ to be subject to sufficient long-term capacity about the risks to the health and safety of Well done ewe! electronic tagging rather than prison. He said in modern Category C prisoners, and the necessary sanctions should Prisoners at HM Prison Hull that tagging should be an option available to facilities in the region. be enacted against those responsible.” are helping a manufacturer Continued from front page all courts. He said; “If they’re low risk offenders raise awareness of a crisis why can’t they continue going to work every day? They could ensure that they are home by effecting the humble bumble- Ricky Graham, Vocational a set curfew time, and this would do away with bee. The men learning Training Officer at Hydebank, the need for a police officer to check up on joinery skills as part of their said: “The sheep were them. It would also mean the prison would rehabilitation are creating introduced into Hydebank in not have to pay to feed and clothe them and 100 handcrafted wooden bee September last year. When provide medical facilities, saving costs.” He has houses for Willerby Holiday the students learn basic also given his backing to changing parole Homes as part of a year-long livestock and husbandry legislation so that it would only become an campaign. skills, they are tasked to look option after half a sentence had been served after the sheep. On a daily rather than one-third which is currently the case. The UK’s native bumblebee basis they would feed them, population is rapidly declining ensure they had water, Second Berwyn wing opens as a result of changing check their welfare and Alwen wing, at HMP Berwyn, became the agricultural practices and a move them to new paddocks second of the new prison’s wings to open last lack of wildflowers to feed if they needed to be. They’ve month. The Ministry of Justice say the third, on - something that has even been involved in and final wing, Ceirlog is set to open in July worrying implications for the Prison pedal power building pens for the sheep. taking the total prison population to around nation’s wider countryside 2,100. The prison, which cost £212million and The breeding was a natural ecosystem. The WillerBee opened in February has been criticised for progression. The ewes were Campaign will see the ‘being too soft on offenders’ but governor, Tour de prisons covered by two rams in wooden hives distributed to Ross Trent, said the prison’s unique environment October and in March this Prison staff at HMP Rochester organised an 86 mile cycle ride around Kent local schools and hospitals would give prisoners every opportunity to year they produced three prisons to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association after one of later this year. Bernard turn their lives around and reduce crime. lambs - much to the delight their colleagues was diagnosed with the condition. The team started off at Murphy, managing director of the students and staff 7.30am HMP Rochester and rode to Sheppey where they stopped at Standford at Willerby, said: “The Wings re-opened at Birmingham Hill Prison for breakfast before passing by the other two prisons on the island, bumblebee has always held a alike. Showing them at Prisoners have now returned to the four wings Elmley and Swaleside. From there they headed to East Sutton Park in Sutton special place in our hearts Balmoral has been just a at HMP Birmingham damaged in the December Valence and to the former prison at Blantyre House in Goudhurst where they here at Willerby as one of our fantastic experience and 2016 riot. 460 prisoners were transferred and had lunch. They then headed to Maidstone prison where one of the staff had founders, Walter Allen, was probably the highlight of the G4S spent £2million refurbishing the wings. baked them a cake, then over Blue Bell Hill and back to Rochester. originally a beehive maker.” whole project.” Returning to the scene of the crime page 17

said: “This is a disappointing judgment, not Court rules on least the silence of the Court on the lack of Tremletts oversight and accountability and the systemic

failure to act on repeated recommendations SolicitorsEst.1983 Woodhill deaths arising from investigations and inquests. The current system is not fit for purpose, does not We cover: A Judicial Review at the High Court has found result in lesson learning and puts prisoners Nationwide Coverage there were no systemic failures by HMP lives at risk by failing to make meaningful Criminal Defence Woodhill or the Prison Service in the changes to dangerous practices and systems. Appeals against conviction/ self-inflicted deaths of 18 men there since sentence 2013, including seven last year. While the The deplorable situation at HMP Woodhill is CCRC Referrals Court noted that the highest rate, and the just one stark example of a much wider POCA/ Confiscation work highest number, of self-inflicted deaths in national problem. The number of self-inflicted any prison in the entire prison estate had deaths occurring in prisons in England and To recieve more information, occurred at HMP Woodhill, the Court rejected Wales is currently at record levels. The new please get in contact the claim that there was systemic failure on Justice Secretary and Ministerial colleagues the basis that the evidence demonstrated a : must act to put a flawed and dangerous system Call 01273 603314 series of distinct but separate operational or right and ensure that changes are imple- mistakes in suicide prevention at the prison. Email: [email protected] mented, and sustained improvements www.tremlettssolicitors.com Deborah Coles, director of the charity Inquest enforced to prevent future deaths” 14 Comment // Diary www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017

the Trust. He points out, as I daughter, he told me, and it must say I oft en feel myself, represented hopefulness for Month by Month that the Koestler exhibitions, the future. I also met men like wonderful though they are, Pete, new editor of the excel- miss one important element, lent Grendon newsletter who the artists themselves. introduced me to Tom, a poet, who has already won a The other strand of Ed’s project Platinum Koestler award and concerns his own work and at Rosca and Moses who, head- the end of his three year term phones in place, were making in Grendon, his sponsoring music or rapping in the back- gallery, the Ikon in Birmingham, ground. will hold an exhibition of his photographs from inside the Grendon is not an easy place prison. He hopes that this will to be. The honesty and engage- infl uence people outside pris- ment necessary would be a Enmeshed - HMP Dovegate on towards a greater sympa- challenge for anyone and most thy and understanding. But, of the men are trying to emerge fun. It’s great being able to I ask him, surely he can’t pho- from a long diffi cult history. enter work once a year but it tograph the men he’s working Ed’s next project is to put on a is even better if at other times with? The answer is surprising ‘psycho drama’ of the Oresteia, our work can be used to keep a Greek trilogy of plays written and not yet fully developed. Koestler going.’ 2500 Essentially, as well as taking years ago. They are now architectural photos as illus- considered high culture, as Ed The evening was opened by points out, but he feels the trated on this page, he is also Director Sally Taylor and subject matter of violence and making ‘pin-hole’ photo- dynamically hosted by John catharsis are just as relevant “These are our values” graphic portraits of the men Bird who founded The Big today. He is also making a in which they are unrecognis- Issue. He mourned the death series of pressed fl ower imag- able as individuals, although of positive prison values es. It seems that, like Ronnie’s there and agree to the code of graphic books about ageing obviously male and human. which existed during his time daughter, he believes that conduct. Some principles of prisoners in long-term custo- He then gives copies to the men hopefulness is a part of the story. inside, recommended the behaviour are painted on the dy, called Still Life Killing and asks for their reaction. Koestler and consoled any of Rachel Billington pillars of the building deco- Time, and three books includ- Picture postcards us who ran foul of the law with rating a wall in the room where ing one on Guantanamo which This is the cue for us to go on So, fast forward to an exciting the promise, ‘You can always the men meet for daily group explore the hidden experienc- the wing and meet some of his evening organised by the have a really good pitch sell- Honesty in art therapy: Democratic, Tolerance, es and spaces of control and artists. The atmosphere is Koestler Awards at The ing The Big Issue!’ We were Some people don’t see the Facing Reality, Community. incarceration in the so-called relaxed. Clearly Ed does not Tabernacle centre in Notting also entertained by three point of Art with a capital ‘A’ War on Terror. like to play a dominating role. Hill. The aim was to raise ex-prisoners who had all ben- or even with a small ‘a’ . How Ed Clarke who, as Artist in He has suggested men bring money with a dinner and sale efi tted from the Koestler Trust. unlucky for them! This month Residence, invited me to visit So what can a professional their work for me to look at and of postcards the majority of There was Benji rapping with I’m reporting on two art pro- the prison is an unusual man. which were painted by artists his guitar, Shaun who is now jects, one very well known From early on in his very suc- inside prison but some by well an author and publisher and throughout the prisons, the cessful career as a photogra- known artists such as Grayson Erika who told her story great Koestler Trust, and the pher, he showed an interest in Perry. They cost £50 each and through fi lmed cartoons of her other less well known and criminality and how it aff ects were allocated through a lot- day to day life in prison. In all, taking place in that surviving and is aff ected by society. He tery at a dinner in London an exhilarating evening. centre of sanity in the prison believes that prisons are a which punters put in another estate, HMP Grendon. I’ll Against all odds page 26 microcosm of society. Following £50 to attend. The result was begin with Grendon. a postgrad working with youth over £10,000 to put into the car criminals in East London, Trust’s coff ers - not bad for an Grendon is a therapeutic prison, he became interested in the inaugural event. the therapeutic prison in the reasons we lock people up and UK since there is only one, and how we look after them. To I went along and was happy prisoners must volunteer to go date, he has published photo- to see all the postcards on display and that it was not easy I am immediately astonished to tell the diff erence between photographer of Ed’s stature by the range and quality, not the professional artist and the bring to Grendon? Clearly he surprisingly as many, like man or woman who’d first cannot teach them to use cam- picked up a paintbrush in pris- Darren who makes sculptures eras. First of all he brings his on. These artists were drawn from bread, are Koestler admiration of the atmosphere from the Koestler’s new mem- award-dinners. Chris, the wing of the place which is created bership scheme. One of them rep who had never tried draw- by the men themselves as they from HMP Wymott wrote, ‘The ing before, told me ho Re: The Guests looking at postcards push themselves into uncom- challenge of doing a small fortable areas of self-recogni- last word w exciting it was to drawing in a limited time was tion. He makes a point of sit- see his work hanging in the ting in therapy sessions and prison exhibition and be able management meetings when to discuss what he was up to possible and told me, ‘Grendon with visitors. is one of the most Utopian places I’ve ever worked in.’ He Then Ronnie appeared with is not an art teacher. His aim, Ed’s pinhole image of himself a more profound one, is to and his response to it. With a encourage the men to under- good mixture of wit and seri- stand and react to their own ousness, he explained that work. With this in mind he has he’d left it on his fl oor so that instituted exhibitions of art in people could walk on it just as the prison to which visitors he had walked on others out- from outside are invited. This side prison. This explained year he hopes to involve the dirt, ash, old tea-bag but Koestler judges in the scheme what about the tissue shaped Dame Anne Owers and John Bird, with Benji, Shaun and ‘Architectural foresight’ since many of the men have like a a fl ower? This was made Koestler host, Dave. © Ed Clarke entered and won prizes from and painted by his young Insidetime June 2017 www.insidetime.org Comment 15

should be devolved to local communities and RYAN GUILFORD - HMP RANBY robust local governance arrangements put in Looking for solutions place. Address the fundamental flaws 4. Police and Crime Commissioners should “Prisoners are fed up with the carrot Can prison ever work? What do you think could maximise the potential for the police to divert approach” troubled women away from prosecution when- work? The experts give their view. Write in and ever possible. The police should be the only point For prison to work the whole ethos and of contact within the CJS for women with multiple fundamental framework which is tell us your solution in no more than 300 words complex needs who commit low-level offences. flawed needs to change for prisons ever to work. What could work and what doesn’t work could Commons Justice Committee stated that only 5. The network of woman-centred projects be debated all day long. Peter Dawson said, 3.2 per cent of females in prison ‘were assessed should be rebuilt, expanded and nurtured so “invest in trust and carrot”. Whilst I agree with as posing “a high or very high risk of harm to that they are embedded in local communities. other people”.’ Taken as a basis for imprison- Their engagement as equal partners, along the trust part I don’t agree with the carrot. ment this would equate ‘to around 125 women’ with others in the women’s sector, in shaping Prisoners are fed up with the “carrot approach” in prison. Much of the report details the devel- the local strategy for women with multiple, and have been for some years. Hence why you opment of policy on women in the criminal complex needs and in the design, development have individuals committing minor crimes to justice system since the publication, in 2007, and delivery of gender-sensitive health and come to jail to make money from selling drugs. of the landmark Corston Report on women in social care provision is essential. The fact that people would rather sit in prison the criminal justice system. Despite some early selling drugs to make money says so much progress, Liz Hogarth argues, implementation 6. The £50 million earmarked for building five about our social system. of the ambitious agenda mapped out by Corston new ‘community prisons’ for women, supplement- quickly ran into the sand. ed if necessary by some of the proceeds from the sale of HMP Holloway, should be re-direct- What is going on in our prisons is not just a System change ed by the Treasury from the Ministry of Justice prison issue, it’s a social and economic issue The Corston Report emphasis on system change to the Department for Communities and Local as well - on a scale that Justice Secretary Liz and services to prevent women being crimi- Government-led cross-departmental govern- Truss cannot and will not ever be able to deal nalised in the first place was supplanted by a ance group for local devolvement, initially to with alone. narrow focus on changes to criminal justice resource the work on prevention ahead of more processes. As a result, policy-making became wholesale local ownership of justice issues. stuck: in the justice loop of courts, probation A framework needs to be implemented that is RUSSELL WEBSTER and prison… making short repeat prison sen- 7. Urgent attention must be given to the need fundamentally rehabilitative. To do that you tences almost inevitable. to curtail the inappropriate use of imprison- don’t need to invest in “trust and carrot” - but We should end out-dated prison ment for low risk women offenders and to trust and self-awareness. What are the three for women The report recommends that the £50 million improve the response to the relatively few seri- principles of trust and self-awareness? earmarked for building five new ‘community ous high risk women judged as requiring secure prisons’ for women should be re-directed to “Time to develop a sustainable model confinement. A rethink on penal policy is 1) Security. for woman-centred services” the Department for Communities and Local required to ensure containment for such women 2) Autonomy. Government (DCLG) to invest in prevention is proportionate, makes best use of new tech- The out-dated concept of prison for 3) Attention. work. It also calls for the DCLG to be given lead nology and provides an environment that meets women should be replaced by a twen- responsibility for prevention. their specific needs. ty-first century environment designed for So, to enable the purpose/function of a prison women in need of some kind of containment. Recommendations Launching the report, the Director of the Centre to be truly rehabilitative, the regime needs to That’s the recommendation of a new report The report’s seven recommendations to shift for Crime and Justice Studies, Richard Garside, be built on concrete foundations with principles published last month by the Centre for Crime policy-making out of the justice loop are: said: Prisons across England and Wales are in of all three of the above. But attention is par- and Justice Studies. The call comes in the crisis. The probation service is in disarray. Centre’s latest report, Trapped in the Justice amount, attention to detail of nurture, care, 1. A shift of focus away from sentencing and Community-based services for women at risk Loop?, by the former Ministry of Justice lead protection, guidance, discipline and compassion. the CJS to ‘whole system’ thinking: the holistic, of criminalisation are closing through lack of on women in the criminal justice system, Liz woman-centred, integrated approach identified funding. Hogarth. in the Corston Report, along with the delivery Some practical solutions - all IPPs should be structures needed, that will help avoid need- This excellent and timely review by Liz Hogarth sent back to court to be re-sentenced with a With advances in technology and in the under- less and damaging contact with the CJS. explains how we got here. It also offers some fixed term. This would help solve overcrowding standing of why women end up being crimi- important and practical proposals for how we and bring an end to the misery of so many nalised, Liz Hogarth argues, ‘locks, bolts and 2. The Department for Communities and Local might get out of the mess we currently are in unjust sentences without end. There should be bars’ approaches are largely redundant. Government should have departmental own- and develop a sustainable model for no custodial sentences of less than 18 months. Indeed, future approaches to the confinement ership of the prevention agenda and the lead woman-centred services in the future. This would deter those who commit low level of women could ‘bear little resemblance to a role, alongside the Department of Health, on prison in its internal and exterior design’. the cross-departmental governance group. crime in order to deal drugs in prison. And Russell Webster is a researcher, evaluator, there should be body scanners at every prison The report also questions the rationale for the 3. Responsibility for expediting the ‘whole writer, trainer in drugs, alcohol and crime. entrance and everyone entering, staff and vis- current female prisoner population of some system’ approach needed to better support Blogger. Expert in payment by results, strate- itors should be body scanned every 4,000 women and girls. In 2013, the House of troubled women without criminalising them gic use of social media. time they enter.

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She now There is no doubt that the addiction through various runs an award-winning gour- warm applause he received media. Diving into the Wreck met sausage company. Tracy was in no small part down to is not intended to mean look- looked totally at ease as she his down-to-earth attitude. ing into the depths of our old kept the room entertained with selves, rather that the weight a quick rundown of her life. It “Do it!” of that wreck could still drag is her belief that prisoners Kit de Waal was another hit. us under. seeing a positive story coming Kit has worked for Social out of prison, like hers, might Services and it was her own After the applause, Billy Bragg inspire them to make a suc- experience of adopting chil- took to the stage and he did cess of themselves too. dren that inspired her to write not disappoint! He paid his her debut novel My Name Is own tribute to the acting Hope for the future Leon. The book reads from the troupe before embarking on a While that same message was Left: Mark Hewitt co-director of Penned Up, Noel Smith, Kit de Waal, Sarah Crown, director of viewpoint of a 9-year-old flawless and flowing perfor- shared by the majority of the Literature Arts Council England and David Kendle co-director of Penned Up. mixed-race boy, forced into mance of his own, which visitors and speakers, we the foster care system with his included a song with our pris- wanted to highlight those Steve and Moose opened on Monday 6th March any of the dozens of conspir- white baby brother. Kit on band, The Discarded. He speakers who have been pris- by Erwin James, the editor of acy theories. He merely tried explained she wanted her spoke with passion about his oners. They have been inside. Inside Time. Over the two to present a fair argument for book to be realistic and want- ongoing charity work with Jail They have shared our experi- “Yes we can!” weeks Penned Up hosted both sides of the story. He ed readers to find it authentic. Guitar Doors now operating ences, our highs and lows. In July 2016, a small group of twenty events at the prison. plays both the defence and the There is no guarantee any in some 60 establishments. They were inspired and made staff and prisoners were dis- As well as Erwin James and prosecution. He leaves it up to book will be a success, but when Billy explained that he tries a decision to change. Every cussing literacy initiatives Noel ‘Razor’ Smith from Inside the audience to decide wheth- asked for one bit of advice for to highlight real issues, to day we hear stories of failure when that question was asked. Time, we had Conspiracy er or not the story has any anyone wishing to write, Kit shine a light where others fear and gloom and disappoint- There were more than a couple Theories with Andy Thomas, truth or merit. One member of to look; “somebody else can ments. If nothing else, the of quizzical glances shot answered simply, “Do it!” Robert Richards from that the audience commented “it Penned-Up festival has shown across the room. Who could worry about the polar bears other festival down the road, was the best talk I have ever many of us that there is still or indeed would come to the “It is not a gift! It’s a challenge” and the ice caps.” When Billy Glastonbury. Plus, Kit de Waal, been to!” prison? Who would interest The arrival of Billy Bragg was supplies a guitar to a prisoner great hope for the future. Charlie Mortimer, Mr Gee, the population? The critical for many the most anticipated he feels that, “It is not a gift! Billy Bragg, Maggie Sawkins, “You can write yourself out component in that first meet- event of the entire festival. It’s a challenge to unlock the Adam Roberts, Ilya, a brilliant of here!” ing was an air of optimism. Audience members were first door with a gift that you didn’t Steve and Moose (The Manor performance of Duck If you only took these words Rather than focus on the to witness a clever and pro- have.” magazine, HMP Erlestoke) Variations, Tracy Mackness, alone from Noel ‘Razor’ imagined obstacles ahead Geese Theatre, Dreda Say Smith’s talk you would still be there was a collaborative will Mitchell, and Tom Gash. glad you attended. But Noel to succeed, to prove the gain- Smith’s audience got so much sayers wrong. Working with Monday came to a close with more. Razor will be the first to David Kendall and Mark a short set by prison band The admit that he was not always Hewitt, who had organized a Discarded, whose perfor- the nicest of guys, nor did he similar festival in HMP Lewes, mance included songs from have any ambition for doing committees were formed, let- Take That and Oasis. good. His repeated violent ters and invitations were writ- offending saw him spending ten and funding was secured “The best talk I have ever long stretches behind bars, through the Arts Council. been to!” which again made him more Guests started to express an Author Andy Thomas started relevant, more real. It was interest... As Erlestoke’s Arts Day 2 with his Conspiracy learning to read that broke the & Literature Festival (Penned History of the World. He exam- cycle. He studied, and while Up) took shape it started to ined conspiracy theories dat- in Grendon, wrote his life become obvious that “Yes, we ing all the way back to 64 AD story. Razor reckons the rea- can host a festival in Prison!” and to then Roman Emperor son for its success was that it Nero’s alleged, “fiddling while was a true story, not glamor- Lighting up the landings Rome burned”. Andy himself izing events, perhaps a refer- The two-week celebration was did not try to prove or debunk ence to how many genuine

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Alan Lord led the Strangeways Riot Noel Smith Returning to the scene of the crime Groundbreaking exhibition of photographs in HMPs Manchester and Birmingham Inside Time report

It was an audacious plan - to find people with criminal convictions who would be prepared to return to the scene of their crimes and be photographed. But the Who are the criminals? plan was not just to take pictures, but discover who the people were behind the crimes. What was their story? That’s what photographer David Goldblatt wanted to know.

Internationally acclaimed Goldblatt, famed particu- David Goldblatt larly for his portrayal of South Africa during the apart- heid era, decided after he became a victim of violent Emma Chetcuti, director of Multistory said she and her crime that he wanted to know, “Who were the people team were thrilled and proud to work with David and that do this? I want to see people who have committed the prisons on the project. “All of our work is about crimes not as sudden forces and threats that many of telling the story,” she says. “We are honoured to have us have experienced, not as names in news reports, been welcomed so warmly into the prisons. Everyone but as individuals” he explains. Initially Goldblatt’s has a life story, including people in prison, and we plan was to focus on people who had been involved in believe it is important their story is told.” crime in South Africa. The project was broadened when he was invited by the West Bromwich community arts Andrew Benain, currently in HMP Birmingham, says, initiative Multistory to include subjects from the Black “We are truly privileged to have David exhibit his work Country, which expanded into the whole of the UK. here. As human beings we need to talk to each other more, and understand each other. As individuals most “For many the visit to the scene of the crime has been of us are only concerned with our own issues. We cathartic, for all it’s been an opportunity to tell their should understand each other so we can build bridges.” story without being judged. But I wanted to know, could I be you? With loving and generous parents, a middle The governor of HMP Manchester was upbeat about class home and good education, it has not been difficult the exhibition in his prison. “This exhibition shows to be law abiding. But without these, I have learnt, I could that there are real people behind crime – but if a man Reading a life story very, very easily have slipped through the cracks.” wants to change, we will help him,” he says. 18 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017

The cost of the Marine Police Offi ce, although partially provided by the The Thames River Police Government, proved a heavy burden on the West India Committee and The story of the oldest continuously serving police force in the world and they had to raise more money to pay the development of modern policing - part two for it. Colquhoun and Harriott also resorted on occasion to paying David Wells and Leah Alexander Colquhoun came back to the West Police Officers, were employed to officers out of their own pockets. India Committee with his thoughts unload ships. Lumpers were not Eventually, given the clear benefi ts and over the next few months these allowed to wear any apparel that to all aspects of trade and commerce Coal heavers ideas developed into a plan for a could conceal plunder, including on the river, it was decided that the Marine Police institution. In April of frocks and wide-trousers, limiting Government would adopt the insti- hand. More shots were fi red from the that year, Colquhoun was introduced them to stockings and breeches. tution. Colquhoun and his friend Police Offi ce and a rioter was killed; to John Harriott, who had at various Offi cers would also accompany goods Jeremy Bentham, the famous philos- times been a member of the Royal his body was taken away by other on the Lighters to the quay to ensure opher, draft ed a bill that was passed Navy and a Lieutenant in the East rioters and never identifi ed. Someone that they were safe, with a receipt of in 1800. The Marine Police Office India Company’s Army. Harriott exactly what the Lighter was carrying. in the crowd shot Gabriel Franks, a became the Thames River Police became a Magistrate for the new The Marine Police were an instant Master Lumper attached to the Police Offi ce, and would now police all trade institution alongside Colquhoun and success, having a noticeable eff ect on Offi ce, who died of his wounds sev- on the river. Colquhoun went back in the summer of 1798 the Marine the crime rate and were favourably eral days later - the first Thames Police began operating out of received by many. They were not just Police Offi cer killed in action. No one to his old job at Queen’s Square. Wapping New Stairs. benefi cial to West India trade, as orig- was arrested in the aft ermath of the However, Harriott would remain in inally intended, and the police patrols riot but James Eyres turned himself charge of the institution for the rest of his career, dedicating his life to Patrick Colquhoun intercepted those stealing goods from in. He was tried for the murder of other trades, such as those who stole Gabriel Franks, as he was the one the prevention of crime on the river. tea from the East India Company. who had instigated the riot and thus The continuing success of the In late 1797 the West India Committee Nevertheless, those who had profi ted ultimately responsible, convicted Thames Police would change policing contacted Patrick Colquhoun, a mag- under the old system tried to convince and hanged. The Wapping Coal Riot, forever. istrate at Queen’s Square Police people not to use the services of the as it became known, was the fi rst real Station in London, and an authority new institution, and were angry with test for the new police. Part three next month on policing, for his help with dealing the interference of the Marine Police with the theft of West Indian goods in what they had practised for years. from the ships on the Thames. Their relationship with the new force David Wells is a Research Fellow and Leah Alexander Project Manager at Colquhoun was born in Scotland and was tense, and eventually frustra- The West India Committee spent some years in Virginia before tions surfaced on 16th October 1798. moving to Glasgow. Here he had The West India Committee is the oldest body representative of the Commonwealth, established himself as a merchant Charles Eyres had been convicted of established in the 1730s to represent merchants and planters involved in the trade and set up the Glasgow Chamber of stealing coal and fi ned 40 shillings, with the West Indies. It has a long and varied history from sending Captain Bligh Commerce, the fi rst of its kind in the His brother, James, met him outside and HMS Bounty to search for breadfruit, providing disaster relief to the Caribbean, country. He had held several impor- Wapping New Stairs the court and upon learning what had attaining a Royal Charter in 1904 and supporting the Caribbean’s efforts during tant public roles in Glasgow, includ- happened, instigated a riot in the both world wars. Today it works to improve the lives of the peoples of the Caribbean ing Chief Magistrate. Eventually he At the start of the new institution hope of getting the money back. and the societies in which they live. The Committee is currently undertaking a moved to London and wrote his there were around 50 offi cers, who Paving stones were hurled through heritage project to reveal the little-known history of the Thames River Police, the ground-breaking work, A Treatise on patrolled the river day and night, the windows of the Police Offi ce. In forefathers of modern policing, whose origins trace back to the British West Indies. Police of the Metropolis, which out- intercepting those they suspected of response, the Police fired warning lined a method of preventative polic- carrying stolen goods. They inspect- shots outside in an attempt to dispel Could you add something? or Get involved? ing. This work was well received ed the vessels on the river, looking the rioters. Mr Colquhoun, with con- Readers are invited to send in any comments, observations, globally and was undoubtedly what for signs of trouble. Quay guards were stables, went outside to read the Riot artwork or poetry which can be displayed on the West inspired the West India Committee employed on shore and Lumpers, Act. However, someone in the crowd India Committee’s project website. Please send them to to approach him. In January 1798 supervised by Master Lumpers and had a gun and shot an Offi cer in the Inside Time ‘West India Project’ at the usual address.

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him. Why not? Might there not have been malfeasance in public office? Hasn’t the time come for individual accountability? There have been The true cost of justice too many of these appalling miscarriages of justice and the consequences are so far reaching.

Time for accountability long overdue when allegations proved to be false Lynn Bryant, who bravely fought to prove her husband David’s innocence, died in February. Jonathan King the decision to prosecute represented an improper reveal this to the court, is not his or her Her bereaved spouse considers the stress to act or omission which would not have occurred Nonfeasance actually Malfeasance? Surely the have been a factor in her demise at 54. As he had the CPS conducted the case properly. omission implies intent to deceive the jury? says in the Telegraph: “I think the stress killed I wrote last about the Henriques Report to the her. You couldn’t prove it but it stands to reason Metropolitan Police; a ground breaking con- The jury in the Kato Harris case took exactly And if the CPS decides to prosecute, for exam- that all that stress cannot have done her any demnation by a retired senior judge making 15 minutes to acquit him and several jurors ple, Ched Evans, and fails to ask officers if they good. If Dorset police had given us a timely no less than 43 strong recommendations that waited outside the court to congratulate him have thoroughly checked the complainant’s apology that would have helped Lynn. That is police behaviour, when examining allegations in person and sympathise with his ordeal. background, is not that misfeasance actually all we really wanted. What really upset her was of sex assault, should be changed and malfeasance, implying that they did not want that we asked for the paperwork on the police improved. In the same Law Gazette article Martyn (Harris’ to know about evidence which might mean the case and they said; “you cannot have it because lawyer) writes: “Poor charging decisions cause prosecution would fail, therefore giving them it would go against Danny Day’s human rights”. These were recommendations, not legal harm (and not only to those such as Harris who reason to decide NOT to take the man to court That really upset her.” requirements, although some of the very grave are the subject of false allegations). They also (and sparing huge amounts of money, time and errors Sir Richard Henriques unearthed, par- damage the interests of genuine victims by effort - stopping a gross miscarriage of justice I cried when I read about Lynn’s death. I never ticularly in the areas of lying to judges or mag- increasing public scepticism about allegations where an innocent person spent years in pris- met her or him but, as a human being, I felt istrates, have provoked legal consequences of historic sexual abuse and by squandering the on and had a promising career wrecked)? bereaved. The time has come for Blind Justice and official examination. finite resources of the CPS. The refusal of the to wake up and see the reality. Rip off that CPS to shed any light on their decision to pros- Surely it is the sworn duty of the police to inves- blindfold. We need individual accountability. But it has become very clear that both police ecute Harris leaves the distasteful impression tigate all sides of a claim? A police officer pub- Public officials don’t care when the cost is born and Crown Prosecution behaviour has, for that, just as one may bypass the NHS and pay licly describing complainant “Nick” as “cred- not by them but by us, the tax payer who funds some time, been troubling the judiciary. for medical treatment, it may also be possible ible and true”, before any investigation - could their departments. But they will start to care for the wealthy to ‘go private’ when attempting have been assisting in the perversion of the if they might end up in prison. And remember In May the innocent teacher Kato Harris, just to secure a prosecution.” course of justice. It might be considered not - for every person eventually proven innocent the latest victim of the False Allegations just a foolish statement to make but a poten- in the courts (after massive expenditure) there Industry, was awarded, by a judge, record The time has come for tially criminal one. Just read Simon Warr’s book are hundreds of innocent men and women in amounts to cover the costs of having to defend prison who simply could not afford the huge himself, successfully, against false claims. Blind Justice to wake up and Presumed Guilty if you don’t believe this happens on a daily basis. price of justice today. In the Law Gazette of 1st May 2017 John Martyn see the reality. Rip off that of Law Firm Howard Kennedy writes… blindfold. We need individual It appears that the Judge awarding Kato Harris the massive amounts was not prepared to press Jonathan King is a music and entertainment “As a result of the enactment of LASPO he accountability the CPS further on their decision to prosecute writer and justice campaigner (Harris) was not entitled to repayment of his defence costs on acquittal and his only means There have been many other cases recently of recovering a proportion of his costs was to highlighting bad policing or absurd CPS charg- make an application under section19 of the ing decisions. It should not have been down to Prosecution of Offences Act 1985. A defendant David Bryant’s wife to have to find evidence is only entitled to costs under s19 if there has that Danny Day’s allegations were false. When been an unnecessary or improper act or omis- Geoff Long’s wife discovered police had found sion. Hickinbottom J in Evans and others v SFO strong, serious evidence of his innocence, the stated that successful applications would be proof was not given to his defence and Geoff, ‘very rare, and restricted to those exceptional like Bryant, Ched Evans and others, spent years cases where the prosecution has made a clear in prison when they were totally innocent men. and stark error as a result of which a defendant Like in Geoff Long’s case, police did not reveal has incurred costs’.” the damning evidence to the CPS and the CPS didn’t ask for it. Just Google for national media In order to claim costs it therefore became nec- coverage on all these cases. essary to demonstrate that the CPS decision to charge was one that no reasonable prosecutor As Martyn says about the Harris prosecution could have made. If that application had failed, and police knowledge: “The unused material Harris would have been left to bear the entire recorded their view that the offences could not costs of his defence including, gallingly, VAT have taken place undetected and the detective at the standard rate of 20%. inspector leading the investigation concluded, after seven months’ of enquiries and over 40 Material disclosed to Kato's legal team revealed witness interviews, that ‘other than a poor and that the complainant’s wealthy parents had heavily prompted account provided by the victim instructed a former senior Crown prosecutor we have nothing in the way of corroborating and a former Metropolitan Police deputy assis- evidence’.” tant commissioner, who had subjected the CPS to enormous pressure to prosecute, perhaps There are three categories of misbehaviour in providing an explanation for an otherwise public office - Malfeasance, Misfeasance and inexplicable decision to charge. HHJ Edmunds Non-feasance. QC recognised that this third-party pressure might have resulted in unnecessary or improp- Only the first is actually a crime, punishable er decisions by the CPS and, after considering by imprisonment. But very often the other two the costs application submitted by William (unintentional or accidental) cross over into Clegg QC on behalf of Harris, invited the CPS the area of criminal behaviour. If an officer, for to provide a detailed account of the prosecution example in the Geoff Long case, discovers that decision-making process. The CPS declined to the crucial stated evidence, of a “pink sink” in provide any such explanation. the claimants bedroom, was false - and that there had never even existed plumbing for any Costs were awarded to Harris on the basis that kind or colour of sink in the room - and fails to 20 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017

I get up, turn on the light and clasped behind my neck. I The darkest hour of night open the shoebox full of old listen to the silence of my comes just before dawn and I photos. A previous life cap- heart and think about the fi ght away thoughts of ending tured in faded colour. The years I’ve accumulated. About it all. Yesterday has gone, infant I dearly remember how the majority of men, regrets are unhelpful. I let go smiles out at me still; a beach inside or out, are disappointed of the things I cannot change on some forgotten holiday; the with their lot and languish in and don’t understand. The front room of a long ago home. quiet desperation, bound by Universe needs no explana- I grope in search of the detail chains of their own making. tion as it races through end- in the pictures, fragments This disaster has brought into less time. The only goodness from the rubble of my past. As vivid focus the cheapness and remaining is the love I hold those precious moments of fraudulence of my former for my own loved ones. The your childhood dripped away, world; there is power in that weaker my memories become time has stolen your father revelation. of them, the stronger I must and that image haunts every hold on to it. Whenever we breath I take. I remember the Long-term imprisonment eats love, we always try hard to fathomless depth in those away men’s hearts and minds become better than we are. I’ll innocent eyes; the smell of until one day they fi nd them- strive to evolve into something your talcum smooth skin; a selves chained forever to bitter better tomorrow than I am fat little hand grasping my insanity. I think of fellow pris- today. Whenever something finger; a toddler trailing oners who have already lost evolves, everything around it around the house on unsteady their minds; the man who evolves too. How we view the legs; cries of “Daddy” when murdered a junkie prostitute world changes how the world you were ill. I ache for the day for a gram of crack. Aft er twen- responds to us. Cat A castaway you began school; for times ty years he takes other peo- you were bullied and needed ple’s tales into his own fever- The enduring power of my Memories adrift on a sea of time a friend; to be there for your ish memories. In warped distant love will carry my

© Deposit Photos fi rst broken heart. My parched imaginations and with straight, loved ones through their own eyes no longer feel the sting crazy eyes he passionately crucibles. Love is my reason JD Magwitch singing muffl ed snatches of a life before I came to jail but of tears of regret, or of self pity, recounts outrageous lies to for survival, my inspiration, melody; music, muted by thick my memories have lost their but something lost still swells pitying listeners; I think about my sanity and it satisfi es my I lie awake in my darkened walls, fl oating on the hollow air reality and now have only the and thickens in my throat; prisoners pumping huge lonely soul completely. tomb and imagine the force of and stirring misty memories. weight of half remembered remnants of forgotten sobs. amounts of iron with manic my longings seeping through dreams. I vaguely recall the determination, year aft er year, I thank whatever Gods there concrete, through bars, fl ying The screw’s pitiless, sly and man I was when I fi rst arrived Now it’s become a struggle to until chests and arms bulge may be for my precious, with clouds and floating silent eye spies through the here, bewildered and hol- keep in touch. Over time, with and stretch their clothes. Only though calamitous existence. across the hidden moon. spy-hole. Regular as clock- lowed by the court’s cold and a polite indiff erence, a strange then, grown three times in Many millions will miss work they come; hour after practised corruptions. I imagine adult, grown beyond me and size, do they scowl dangerous- tomorrow’s dawn and grieve I listen to sounds punctuating hour, day aft er day, night aft er what I’ll become aft er a sec- my opinions, has slipped into ly, confusing fear and dislike savagely for it. the stagnant stillness sur- night. The hard hourly glare ond or third decade here and your little shoes. Long-distance for respect; I recall the old rounding me; TV noises strain of the fl ashing night-light vio- my soul squirms in the grasp calls, unanswered mail and man who repeatedly stabbed The screw fl icks on the cell- across the darkened halls and lates my dreams and twists of my predicament. The steep infrequent, ill-at-ease visits a cheating trophy wife to light and marks the passage under steel doors; whooshing my sanity. I lie still as sound slope of a desolate future are all that remain between death as she partied, ignorant- of another late hour. A harsh washbasin and toilet water, resettles in the wake of his stretches into the distance. Like us. I am society’s outcast, ly, in celebration of a lucrative orange-neon glares outside; clunking and hissing through slippered shuffl e and the jail a child whose game has led slowly becoming alien to my divorce. He weeps openly, on concrete, on razor wire and concrete encased pipes; con- turns over to sleep again. them far into the forest only loved ones. dragged wailing to a terrible into men’s restless dreams. fused birds - fooled to think to find darkness has fallen, understanding of man’s bes- floodlit night is neon day - Fury hangs heavy in my heart the cell’s previous occupants I put away the photographs, tial cunning, and terrifi ed to JD Magwitch, a nom de chirping and twittering out- as I suff er humanity’s indif- watch silently from the shad- turn out the light and lay back corrosive death by the mur- plume, is a former Category side; a neighbouring prisoner ferent silence. I try to recall ows like phantom spectators. on the thin mattress, hands derous company he now keeps. A prisoner

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think that being given a life sentence for a route to verdict; if not these people would not murder that you wouldn't have necessarily have been convicted. But the juries in those cases been convicted of (had the jury not been mis- only "got past" the participation and foresight directed) would be substantial enough, but questions because they were misdirected with that is yet to be seen. (Let’s not forget that a regard to foresight - this is the circle into which huge percentage of those claiming to be wrong- those convicted, pre Jogee, are locked. ly convicted under joint enterprise have been given life sentences, and that a large percent- For ten years, I have fought for my brother, who age of those were just children at the time of at the age of 16 was convicted of murder as a conviction). secondary party. He did not harm anyone on the evening of the offence and, as it was deemed It is hardly balanced or wholly spontaneous, he could not have known what was going to happen. He was undoubt- just, but it is the Courts way edly convicted on the basis of foresight, yet of keeping the floodgates after the recent judgments our hope is all but gone. It looks like the Court is not going to deal firmly closed with any historic joint enterprise case in the way it should be dealt with - impartially and “Please let him out...” What is even more important is why the law fairly. We feel like we were given justice with © Deposit Photos was corrected in the first place - As I stated one hand and it was snatched away with the previously, I have no doubt this correction other - that in itself is an injustice, not only for stemmed from those campaigning for it; they the families and campaigners, but also for the were campaigning because the evidential people wrongly imprisoned who have been Appeasement threshold against alleged secondary parties given nothing but a fickle appeasement dis- was too low and it was resulting in miscarriag- guised as hope. Despite all of this we will still es of justice. The Court more or less agreed with fight on for our loved ones who are still waiting this when it corrected the law on the 18/02/2016. for true justice to be served, we have no other However, the Court has shunned any respon- option. However, it is my opinion that such a disguised as hope sibility at all by refusing to overturn a single widely-used law cannot be misinterpreted for conviction. It is evident from the most recent over thirty years and yet not one miscarriage appeals that the Court is using the fact that the of justice resulted from it, it is too far-fetched The R v Jogee Judgement on Joint Enterprise jury got past the participation and foresight to even consider. questions in the route to verdict, to satisfy itself I finish this article with the one question which Ashleigh Towers edged that we were right to argue that foresight that these convictions are safe - It is hardly begs to be answered. If the law as it then stood was a low standard of proof on which to base balanced or just, but it is the Courts way of did not cause injustice, and no-one was wrong- such serious convictions. I have absolutely no keeping the floodgates firmly closed. If this is I cried tears of joy on the 18th of February 2016, ly convicted through it being misapplied, then doubt that the relentless campaigning by fam- the route the Court is taking then it is going to the day the judgment was handed down in R why was there a need to “correct” it? ily and friends of those wrongly convicted be nigh-on impossible for any individual to v Jogee, a very important case regarding the under joint enterprise brought this day about prove they were wrongly convicted because in controversial joint enterprise doctrine. I know (not forgetting the amazing work done by 99% of cases, regarding those convicted prior I wasn't the only one crying. Hundreds of fam- Felicity Gerry QC). to Jogee, the jury would have gotten past the ilies up and down the country sobbed sighs of participation and foresight questions in the Ashleigh Towers is a campaigner for IPPs relief as it was acknowledged that the law sur- Fast forward to today, more than a year on from rounding joint enterprise “had taken a wrong Jogee and it seems our joy was premature, for not turn” more than thirty years earlier. It had been one joint enterprise appeal has been successful admitted that “the error was to equate foresight on the basis that the law had been misinter- with intent to assist, as a matter of law; the preted, which is hardly surprising having read correct approach is to treat it as evidence of the judgement myself. Firstly, when I read that intent.” Which, in its most basic form, means the law had been misinterpreted “faithfully” that although foresight is still a relevant factor, alarm bells started to ring; the Court seemed it was wrong to use it as a direct route to verdict. to be admitting they had made a mistake without accepting responsibility for that mistake. To secure a conviction now, it has to be proven A mistake which could have imprisoned hun- that the alleged secondary party intended to dreds of people for crimes they did not commit. assist or encourage the perpetrator in carrying out the act, not that he merely foresaw it may Then comes the most alarming part of all... For happen. 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lifted the guitar up and said been busy. But he reached out everything he does, his sec- ‘this will help you escape’. I to me and was asking me ond album, The Joy of Nothing loved that.” about writing with him and was described as “a gorgeous then asked me if I’d go on tour collection of open, uplifting Vance has played big venues, with him. At that stage it seemed songs, which showcase (his) including Madison Square a bit crazy to me, getting asked magnificent song-writing Gardens and the Wembley to go on a pop gig. When was skills.” The Wild Swan is a Arena as a support for Sir Elton I ever going to get asked to go masterpiece that deserves the John and Ed Sheeran, (whose on a pop gig ever again? So I accolades from the people who record label, Gingerbread Man thought, I’m going to go on really count, the people who records Vance is now with). this. That was my mentality have bought it: “Powerfully What was it like supporting at the time. I thought it would celebratory” - “Foy Vance Sir Elton? “That was amaz- be great fun. And just before amazing. Just gets better” - ing,” he says. “Elton is one of I went on that tour something “Gorgeous songs. Gorgeous those guys that everyone is a fan of. Everyone could cite an Elton song that brings back a moment in their life because he’s been present in just about every decade since he began. He’s just been there. I remember going out to see him the first night in Australia and I was transfixed, he just came out with song after song and every one had a meaning.” Was he intimidated going out in front of Sir Elton’s audience Foy Vance on stage: “music is genuinely transformative” The Wild Swan: a masterpiece in front of tens of thousands of people? “It’s the same as any life-changing happened in my voice.” - “awesome awesome, gig really,” he says, “you’re life, so I went and spent four awesome, that’s all that needs just making music. As long as years on and off with him. The to be said” - With famous your head is there it doesn’t thing about Ed is, he’s a gen- friends, (he’s partied with Hope on the wing really matter how many peo- uine, genuine dude. He said Jay-Z and Beyonce) and uni- ple are watching you. I get to me, look, I’ve got a label, versal acclaim for his craft, asked to go and play and as why don’t you release your how does he manage to stay “Music gave me another life” Foy Vance long as I do a good job that’s next album with me? Make the just being the likeable, down what counts.” record that you want to make. to earth Irishman that he is? I’ll work with you - not every- “You know what? Doing what Erwin James playing and singing we loved is a high probability I would body would do that.” you enjoy. I think we’re here him. Vance’s voice exploded be inside. Many of the friends Ed Sheeran’s father was such for such a short amount of time, like the rush of a steam loco- I grew up with have been a fan of Vance he would bring The Wild Swan is his third full why would you fuck about The first time I encountered motive. But he could sing with through prison. Music allowed his son to gig after gig and length album. It’s a beautiful doing stuff that you don’t like Foy Vance was at the Brighton honeyed gentleness too. The me to have another life. To this eventually Sheeran and Vance combination of rock, folk, doing? I’ve been lucky enough Dome in April 2006. I’d gone skill of his guitar playing cou- day I learn about my relation- became good friends. Once blues and ballad. How is it to carve out a career that lets to see the headline act, blues pled with his beautiful self- ships with my friends, with Sheeran made it and formed doing? “Well it must be doing me make music.” and slide guitar legend Bonnie penned lyrics turned those of my wife, with my daughter, his own record label he was okay, because we’re here, Raitt and was initially a little us who had never heard him through music. I think what quick to bring in Vance. How we’re doing the good gigs. I frustrated that first we had to before into instant fans. Soon people need in those places, often does he see him these just think about where I am sit and listen to a relatively we were cheering, clapping and if they need anything, is a bit days? “As often as I can,” he The Wild Swan is out now on now.” Critics praise Vance in unknown performer from whistling and when he sang of grace. That’s the only way says. “He’s a busy lad, and I’ve Gingerbread Man records Ireland called Foy. 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asked him to pull out a slight- ly bigger plant. The youth A journey through the pulled hard and the plant came out, roots and all. Next she asked him to dislodge a bush from the ground. The youth therapy looking glass used all his strength and eventually he proudly pulled the whole plant free from the soil. “What’s this all about?” he I walked back to my community for lunch with asked the woman. an autograph in my hand feeling rejuvenated with a heavyweight dose of determination. I She replied with, “Now take this knew I had to continue studying towards my one out,” pointing to a small degree and engaging with the sometimes stress- tree. The youth grasped the ful therapeutic regime. trunk and tried to pull it out; but it would not move. “That’s Then Erwin James, Guardian writer and Inside impossible,” said the boy, wip- Time’s editor-in-chief, walked into our commu- ing his brow and breathing nity room. Fift een residents were sat in a circle deeply with the eff ort. along with the head therapist of our community. I had the surreal moment where a writer meets Be careful what you think... “So it is with bad habits,” said who he’s been sending his writing to. © Deposit Photos the woman. “When they are young they are quite easy to We discussed Erwin’s journey from a lifer to a stop but once they take hold writer. Even though many of the residents aren’t and have become established © Fotolia.com Tales of Wisdom planning to become writers, all seemed trans- they can be very stubborn. fi xed by the opportunities he created for himself. Our man on the inside tells it like it is Better of course not to take up “I had a quote by Calvin Coolidge on my cell Harold Mose bad habits - or try and stop wall for eighteen years about determination taken up smoking - next it will Sid Arter early - once well established which always helped me when I was fl agging,” be drugs and alcohol!” the the challenge will be greater. he explained. (John Calvin Coolidge Jr was the man wailed. Determination Day 30th President of the United States 1923-29.) Bad Habits “Pay attention to your thoughts, The original quote reads: ‘Nothing in the world The wise woman invited the for they become words. I have seen some interesting people visiting can take the place of persistence. Talent will young man to walk with her prisons: a mayor, Levi Roots and Princess Anne, A man was so concerned Pay attention to your words, not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful through her garden. After a for they become your acts. but I wouldn’t have guessed I’d meet a world men with talent… Education will not; the world about his son he requested few metres she stopped and heavyweight champion boxer and a famous that a wise woman help him Pay attention to your acts, for is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and asked the son to pull out a they become your habits. author in one day. And that they would un- determination are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press wean the young man away small seedling from the ground. knowingly give the residents similar advice. from his bad habits. “The boy Pay attention to your habits, on’ has solved and always will solve the prob- The youth held the plant for they become your character. lems of the human race.” bites his nails, spends hours between his thumb and fore- I had been looking forward to therapy break on a trivial computer game, Pay attention to your character, fi nger and pulled it out. They for it becomes your fate.” like I eagerly waited for a school holiday as a eats nothing healthy and has walked on a bit and the woman child. I woke up on the fi rst Monday of the two I’m a ducker and diver. The Talmud week break thinking ‘yes, no more therapy!’ It I wasn’t the brightest, but I was the day of the Frank Bruno event, so I walked to the sport’s hall. Around 100 residents were was determined. I found the SPECIALISTS IN PRISON LAW, PAROLE DELAYS, there keen to greet the champ. Kesar & Co EQUALITY CLAIMS, PERSONAL INJURY, people who knew and learned CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE, IMMIGRATION, Big Frank swaggered in wearing a sharp dark from them... I wanted money S O L I C I T O R S CRIMINAL APPEALS AND DEFENCE. suit, loafers and a face that said good morning. I had the cliché thought “wow this guy fought and I wanted to be a boxer… We specialise in parole delay claims with damages between £300 to £4,500. We Tyson”. I’m an avid autobiography reader, so I was determined… offer a free, no-commitment assessment of the merits of your case. We can also deal visions of his book came fl ashing back to me. with all types of personal injury including accidents, assaults by prisoners and However, it began to dawn on me that the day It appeared Erwin and Frank had similar recipes wouldn’t be fun like his book. I braced myself to success. I looked at the other lads, but it officers and injuries suffered in transport between prisons. We will make every effort for a solemn tale as one chapter of his life would wasn’t an appropriate time to discuss the co- to achieve a quick settlement for you but will not hesitate to litigate the claim and win be focused on: his experience suff ering from incidence. Erwin continued, “I ducked and damages for you at the trial. mental health issues. dived and tried to do the best I could to get where I wanted to be.” This is exactly what Our prison law team can assist you with parole and recall matters, tariff reduction One sentence struck me when he explained Bruno was just saying I thought. how he achieved his goals. “I’m a ducker and applications and sentence calculations. diver. I wasn’t the brightest, but I was deter- The fi rst day of therapy break wasn’t the fi rst mined. I found the people who knew and learned day of therapy break, because the therapy never Serving prisoners may receive further charges based on the allegations pre-dating from them... I wanted money and I wanted to really stops. The environment, residents and their current conviction or triggered by incidents in prison. If so, we may be able to be a boxer… I was determined…” visitors are a constant reminder to self-refl ect. help with criminal defence, extradition and/or representation in the confiscation One of the most beautiful aspects of Grendon Ducking and diving resonated with me. As he is the encouragement given to change and the proceedings. spoke it was if he was mentally dodging the support given to stick it through when the going obstacles that tried to stop him from achieving gets tough. Another area of concern is the growing number of complaints about direct and indirect his aspirations, and showing us by talking with discrimination based predominantly on age, disability, gender and religion. If you his shadow boxing body language that we could When the sun began to set and I sat down in believe you are a victim of discrimination, contact us for an assessment of your case. achieve our dreams too, but only if we were my room I knew more than ever that I had to resilient. fi ght through my internal struggles like Bruno We offer legal aid, subject to assessment in the areas of criminal defence, immigration, did to become world champ. And I would con- I asked him, “What advice would you give to tinue writing my ‘A Journey through the therapy prison law, action against the police and public law. In the alternative, we accept people in Grendon to help them achieve their looking glass’ column like Erwin continued instructions from privately paying clients as well as “no win-no fee” agreements where aims?” He looked directly into my eyes and writing for the Guardian newspaper to achieve appropriate. said, ‘Harold… If I was in here I would be edu- his goals. Persistence and determination are cating myself. If I came to prison when I was omnipotent indeed. younger I would have studied to be a lawyer or Contact us in writing at: Kesar & Co Solicitors, a barrister…. I’d be doing what you guys are doing in here: using the opportunities available Harold Mose, a nom de plume, is a resident of 2nd Floor, 20-25 Market Square, Bromley, BR1 1NA Registered with to make sure I was successful.” HMP Grendon - names in this article have Or by telephone on: 020 8181 3100 emailaprisoner been changed 24 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017 Inside Voices Avoidable deaths in prison Families of ‘at risk’ prisoners need to be consulted Come back Michael, when their imprisoned loved ones demonstrate signs of heightened distress we forgive you Nicky Hargrave me as he knew he was in crisis, yet the prison did not help him do this. None of Daryl’s med- Urgent action needed to fix ‘broken’ prison system My son Daryl’s last six days began and ended ical history was read by the prison, none of the in Winchester prison. At 3.11pm on the 19 July 300 pages that were available to them. For three Hugo - HMP Hewell After all, she would - “Increase health needs of people in cus- 2015 he was found hanging in his cell. His days, no medication was given to him for his the number of prison officers tody, the role that substance inquest found that a catalogue of serious fail- anxiety and depression. by 2,500 by the end of 2018.” dependence plays in reoffend- ings contributed to his death. I pinch myself as I write this Daryl had cut his wrist and spoke openly about ing rates, and the importance - being a bleeding-heart-wool- hearing voices and having suicidal thoughts But the tide may be turning of accommodation and fami- Growing up, Daryl had many mental illnesses: ly-liberal - but I hark back to prior to his death. Prison officers and nurses for Liz. The Tory press has lies in helping prison leavers ADHD, depression, anxiety, PTSD, personality the glory days of Michael took the decision to move Daryl to healthcare. turned on their formerly fault- remain crime-free. It makes a disorder and finally a diagnosis of schizophre- Gove, erstwhile darling of the VICTIMS OF CWhilstHI inL anD unsafe A cellB withU no cellS mateE on less Justice Secretary, report- commitment to support ser- nia. Life for Daryl was an everyday battle, Conservative right. We knew 30 min observations, Daryl continued to cut ing her not to be up to the job. vices that assist prison-leavers complicated by him self-medicating with ben- where we stood with Gove. He Helping victims plan for the hisfu twristure and an armd aunnoticed.chieve justice may have been a back-stab- She faces calls to be sacked in all of these areas. zodiazepines and alcohol. With these cruel bing, two-faced Machiavellian from her position of Lord and heart-breaking health conditions, our lives Chancellor, for failing in her wereO uar roller spec coasterialist te ofam emotions are com andmit tevents.ed to h elpiTheng v governorictims o fadmitted abuse a atnd Daryl’s are ex inquestperts in that turn-coat when it came to his But, as it stands, all of the only 41% of prison staff at HMP Winchester Bullingdon Club Tory pals, but duty to defend the independ- above remain no more than bringing action against local authorities, such as social services, and residential ence of the Judiciary. She has Daryl and I were very close, we spoke every were adequately trained in suicide and self- he was bang on the money proposals. The document is institutions, such as charmhildr epreventionn’s home sprocedures. at that time. The when it came to prison reform. been challenged by the legal littered with strategies and day. I know the last year of Daryl’s life was his establishment on her lack of best.O uHer d hadedi cbeenated baptized team of andma lwase an learningd female lajurywye concludedrs have a thatpro vneglecten tra catk HMP reco Winchesterrd with He was brave, he was progres- policies that the Rt Hon Liz contributed to Daryl’s death, which was one of sive, he was open to new legal acumen, and even Tory Truss promises to “Bring for- to manage his mentals healthexual, pah littleysica better.l and e motional abuse claims. backbenchers seem to be fed However a few days before his arrest Daryl was four self-inflicted deaths in the prison that year. ideas; and he put his plans ward in 2017”, or powers Child abuse can take a long time to come to terms with and it can be difficult for into action. up of the lack of ideas flowing which she will devolve to struggling. I could see the signs, having seen from her department. themvicti mmanys to timesspeak before. out ab Whenout th eI igotr tra au briefmatic exHadper iIe beennces contacted,. Regardle givenss of thathow I lhaveong aexpego - Governors “from April 2017”. rienced this kind of crisis with Daryl previous- There was a point last year - Anyone involved within the call from Darylth ine aprisonbuse tIo feltok worried,place, yo butu m Ia y still be able to make a claim. reassured myself that my son was safe and that ly, I know my son may still be alive. The level when Gove delivered his rous- Unfortunately, however, it is prison system, staff and pris- the prison must be more than a little experi- of care at the prison was unacceptable and ing and progressive speech to not as simple as calling in oners alike, will tell of the Anything you say to us will be handled with the utmost levels of professionalism, Michael Gove from the subs enced in dealing with vulnerable prisoners. negligent. Family involvement with prisoners the Governing Governors’ frustrations caused by delay, sensitivity and understanding. bench (unresolved trust issues with serious health concerns is vital. I am angry Forum: when Dame Sally and delay again, of the pro- we hear). And, even if it was, What troubled me was that Daryl had a pattern with the system that let down my son and Coates published her report posed OMU policy, to name but the best thing at the moment to his episodes. He would be odd, paranoid and excluded me from his last days. on education in prison: and one much anticipated reform. when reform jails started pop- - I’m loathe to admit - is some behave erratically, then would start self-harm- consistency. There is a Prison ing, which usually led to a suicide attempt. It Since Daryl’s death I have seen the rising sta- ping up around the country - The prison system in this Safety and Reform White would all happen quite quickly as he has always tistics on suicide and self-harm in prison and that it looked like we might country is broken. Two suc- Paper making its way through been impulsive. I knew this all too well. It is am shocked at the government’s inability to see an end to the revolving cessive Secretaries of State Parliament, and changing unacceptable that the first time I heard Daryl accept that our failing prisons need more door of reoffending and incar- have told us so. We have Secretary of State, again, was behavingCall likeCh rthisist wasine when San theds prison and thresourcese team to oaddressn 01 9these24 8issues.689 1We,1 Daryl’s ceration. It looked like reha- record numbers of self-harm; family are broken. Our lives will never be fixed. bilitation might become more would no doubt leave it dead governor called to alertEm meail to a bmyus son’setea death.m@jo rdanssolicitors.co.uk in the water. an endemic drug problem; We only cling to a hope that changes following than a soundbite, that courtesy ineffective security; and the Write to Neil Jordan House, Wellingourton son’s Ro deathad, D couldews savebur yfuture, WF lives.13 1 HL might replace degradation, I later learnt from the PPO investigation and The White Paper may fall service continues to haemor- inquest that Daryl had requested to speak to Keeping safe page 33 and Governors might introduce rhage experienced staff. It is a culture of accountability. short of the expectations of many a true prison reformer, a surprise to all that this year’s wave of riots didn’t spread Then along came Liz. but it does lay out some positive proposals. Aside from the further afield. Recidivism VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE rates continue to be sky-high. There were many of us that rhetoric, of which there is plenty, the document contin- Helping victims plan for the future and achieve justice wept from the moment Liz The Government’s own liter- Truss was appointed Justice ues with Michael Gove’s vision ature tells us that the ‘revolv- Secretary. We heard her of empowering Governors, Our specialist team have already helped victims at the following places; ing-door of crime costs us words: “We will increase the and more importantly, hold- £15bn a year’ - this in a time In Foster Care number of prison officers by ing them accountable for their of austerity, when patients are 2,500 by the end of 2018” outcomes. It is committed to Leeds Care Homes left to die on trolleys in hospi- repeated on nightly news bul- implementing key recommen- tal corridors. Never before has letins, as if delivered by a dations of the Coates Report, Wales Care Homes prison reform been more of a blinking automaton, and we allowing prisons to tailor their priority. North East Care Homes knew that reform was slipping educational offer to the real from our grasp. She somehow needs of their residents. Manchester Care Homes emerged as a champion of It is time to leave the rhetoric conservative criminal justice It recognises that the respon- aside. Action is needed now. St Williams, East Yorkshire values, and managed to place sibility of the prison does not We are over a third of the way Medomsley Detention Centre, County Durham herself right at the heart of end with a prisoner’s release, through 2017, yet the Justice Theresa May’s post Brexit cab- and that provision should be Secretary’s reform schedule If you have suffered sexual abuse in any institution or whilst in inet. She promised to be tough made to prepare prison leav- seems likely to slip by unac- on crime, tough on criminals, ers for life through the gate. tioned and unnoticed. It is the care of your local authority we may be able to help. and the Daily Mail lapped it This includes positive steps to time to deliver on your own up - calling, as always, for extend Release on Temporary commitments, Liz Truss, or retribution not reform. There License (ROTL), and to provide else stand aside. Our patience training towards real employ- would be no more cell-block wears thin. I’m sure Michael Registered with parties, nor drones delivering ment opportunities. Gove would be just delighted emailaprisoner sirloin steaks to leering villains. to pick up where he left off. Not with Liz Truss about. It acknowledges the complex Call Christine Sands and the team on 01924 868911 Email [email protected] Do you have a short article or advice you would like to share for Inside Voices? Write to Neil Jordan House, Wellington Road, Dewsbury, WF13 1HL Write in and let us know. Please mark your envelope ‘Inside Voices’. Insidetime June 2017 www.insidetime.org Comment 25

many people in our country not be bound by it. Alas, the credit of the state that the have no real idea of what ter- human beings have still to individuals who find them- From over the wall rible situations were lived appreciate the utter futility of selves in such a place do re- through by those who fell victim warfare and I wonder if we ever ceive proper care and atten- to warfare in World War Two. will. As far as you and I are tion. I think I’m right in saying Terry Waite writes his monthly column for Inside Time concerned, we can’t undo our that the average length of stay Today, at the small Norfolk own past but we don’t have to is about six years after which returning home I did a quick Church, all was cozy and com- be bound by it. Someone once the individual returns to prison check of the historical records fortable. The military repre- said to me, ‘Remember, tomor- to ‘complete’ their sentence. and read about the Hong Kong sentatives were dressed in row is a clean slate waiting for massacre. It certainly took their best uniforms. The bugler you to write on it.’ Good advice. There will be those in the coun- place and the brutalities per- played the last post perfectly. try who will say that it’s a total petrated on soldiers and civil- The celebrant said prayers and All human beings deserve waste of money to care for ians alike were horrible in the we sang a couple of well known dignity individuals who have, in many extreme. Hymns. The awful events we instances, committed the most I never met Ian Brady but I did were remembering happened dreadful crimes and caused I have attended this memorial meet Myra Hindley on several many years ago and soon there untold distress to many. I dis- service annually for many occasions and over the years will be no one left on earth agree. Society may be judged years and this year was the got to know her. There is little who experienced them, direct- by the way it treats those who first time I had attended with- doubt in my mind that as a ly or indirectly. are mentally ill. Brady, despite out the company of a veteran young impressionable woman all the agony he caused to his “We all deserve dignity” of the Japanese camps, Harold she fell under the influence of Why, some may ask, why per- victims and their families and Lock. Harold, a young naval Brady and in later life deeply petuate these memories? Why difficulties to those who were hospital. Two doctors, Dr. seaman, was captured when regretted the crimes that she gather each year around the responsible for his care was, George Black and Captain his ship went down and he was committed with him. Unlike cenotaph? Well, apart from I am sure, treated fairly and Whitney of the Royal Army captured and spent almost four Brady she was not mentally ill giving respect to those who humanely. Few will lament Medical Corps approached years as a POW. He died earlier but Brady clearly was. He spent Terry Waite CBE gave their lives, it is vital that his passing but we can look them, both carrying a white this year and was amongst the the last years of his life in we remember just what human back on his life with sorrow flag and the flag of the Red last survivors of those terrible Ashworth Secure Hospital beings are capable of. I am not that his illness caused so much Remembering the Cross. They were immediately days. Today I spoke with an- where, without a doubt his pointing fingers at the distress to others and I suspect shot and bayoneted. The in- other veteran, aged 96, who mental state would be ad- victims of war Japanese or any other Nation to himself. I have to say that I vading army then proceeded turns up every year. ‘I feel I dressed. Although secure hos- for that matter. I AM pointing prefer to live in a society where to enter the wards ripping off must come to this Service,’ he pitals are not prisons they are An elderly lady approached a finger at human nature. We the vulnerable, mentally ill or bandages and field dressings told me, ‘as I always remember indeed as secure as any prison me as I was eating my sand- all have a dark side. Yes, each not are treated with dignity. before bayoneting the helpless my comrades who suffered so in the land if not more so. On wich lunch in a hall next to a and every one of us. When we patients. One young Chinese terribly.’ my visits to them over the years small Church in Norfolk. We allow that dark side to take nurse was killed alongside her I have been impressed by the had just attended the annual over then truly all hell breaks Terry Waite was a successful patient when she tried to pro- Today the congregation is way in which the dedicated service of remembrance for all loose and in fact we are in hell. hostage negotiator before he staff of these institutions care those, military and civilian, tect him. Later, four female largely composed of one or two himself was held captive in Chinese nurses and seven former prisoners but the bulk for their patients. It costs a who suffered terribly in the The past cannot be undone. Beirut for 1763 days between British nurses were put in one of the congregation is made fortune to keep an individual Far East during World War Two. What happened happened. 1987 and 1991; the fi rst four room and one hundred male up of the children of the once in Broadmoor, Rampton or ‘Why is it,’ she asked, ‘that However, despite the horror years were spent in solitary doctors, orderlies and stretcher Far Eastern Prisoners of War Ashworth and I think it’s to there is never any mention of and agony of the past we need confi nement. the terrible events that took bearers were herded into an- and other family members and place when Hong Kong fell to other. I will spare you the hor- friends. the Japanese in 1941?’ I had to rible details of how they died. admit that I had no knowledge Suffice to say many were dis- World War Two is rapidly slip- Tel: 0161 928 8877 of what happened on Christmas membered alive and the ping from living memory. Due Day 1941 and so she handed women were gang raped. One to massive propaganda efforts, Email: [email protected] me a document in which there or two were allowed to escape many thousands of people was an extract from a letter in order to tell the Fort Stanley remember the holocaust and written by George H Calvert defenders what was the inhuman suffering en- who was a former member of happening. dured by Jewish people. The the Hong Kong Regiment. same lady who had handed ‘You know,’ said the lady, ‘to me the letter about the Hong It made terrible reading. 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spitting, choking us - they put Eventually he started to build ther the homeless and to sup- me in ‘solitary’ for three upon his limited prison edu- port The Big Issue sellers. The weeks, as a fourteen year-old cation and basic printing Big Issue magazine started as that was not a good idea. But experience in a prison work- a local London venture, but if I hadn’t got into the prison shop and got a job in the print- expanded with specific edi- system, I’d never have been ing industry before setting up tions and services to other able to read and write. I’d his own small-scale printing British cities, and then to never have had cultural ambi- and publishing business in other countries. In 2001, with tions. When I was in Ashford London. Then he met Gordon The Big Issue Group chair- boys’ prison I met a prison Roddick, co-founder of the man, Nigel Kershaw OBE, Bird officer and he was the one who Body Shop, long before the helped found The Big Issue said to me, ‘do you want a Body Shop existed. “I met Invest, a financer for business- book’? And when I hesitated Gordon in a pub and he and I es, charities and NGOs with he said, ‘you can’t read can became mates. We talked the aim of creating social you’? I said ‘no’. But admitting about revolution. He was a change. In 2009, The Big Issue it was almost like admitting I real right-winger, Tory type Invest launched a social was a bed-wetter. This officer and I was a Marxist, so I was investment fund, and has helped me to learn to read, going to train him and change since invested more than £30 Bail jumping and without the prison expe- him. We hung around for a million in hundreds of social Lord to be: John Bird rience I’d never have got any- year or so then went our sep- enterprises - making a positive © Paul Sullivan where in life. During those arate way. Years later I saw impact across the UK. Bird two years inside I built an him on the telly and he’d mor- was appointed a Member of enormous portfolio of paint- phed into a multi-millionaire. the Order of the British Empire ing and drawing. When I got It was then that, what you (MBE) for “services to home- Against all odds out I got a place at Chelsea might call the background for less people” in the 1995 School of Art and did brilliant- the Big Issue began. We got Birthday Honours and in ly, but then I got a girl preg- back in touch and when he 2006, he received the Beacon Homeless and begging aged five, arrested aged nant and fell into the mire for said to me I want you to start Fellowship Prize for his ener- the next ten years, with drugs, a street paper. By then I knew gy and originality in raising ten, imprisoned aged 14, Big Issue founder John alcohol, fighting and home- how to run a business, I was awareness of homelessness lessness.” printing for homeless chari- and his support of homeless Bird’s unlikely journey to the House of Lords ties. And that’s how it all communities worldwide. In Body Shop began. I like to think I’ve been 2015, he became a Senior lots of greengrocery business- He slept rough around the useful to homeless people,” Ashoka Fellow. (Ashoka iden- Inside Time report es. So we’d get their wooden country including in he says. “And brought the tifies leading social entrepre- boxes and drag a kind of car- Edinburgh where he was issue out into the open.” neurs with solutions to social avan of these boxes up streets sought by the police for petty problems who seek to make Life turnarounds don’t come because they didn’t pay the and knock on doors to sell it offences. Bail-jumping and The Big Issue large-scale changes to society, much more spectacular than rent again. Then I was in a as kindling. I remember two non-payment of fines during In September 1991 John Bird who have vision, creativity that of Lord John Anthony Catholic orphanage for three big brown pennies were given his twenties and thirties made launched The Big Issue and in and determination and are Joseph Bird MBE. As a home- years and when I came out of to me by an old lady - I sold settling down to an honest 1995 he launched The Big motivated by public gain rath- less man in the 1970s, Bird there, there was no money her three boxes and I was five. living almost impossible. Issue Foundation to assist fur- er than personal gain.) worked for a short while as a around, so I went stealing. But I had incredible delusions of washer-upper in the House of we had a very strong belief grandeur as a boy. I dreamt Lords kitchen. Any suggestion that shops were from a differ- big dreams. Perhaps that then that one day he might ent class; we never stole from comes from being destitute as have a seat among the people individuals. When I was 10, I a five-year-old. I was one of whose dinner plates he was combined stealing with being six brothers living in the scrubbing would have been a butcher’s boy. I got 10 shil- slums, but it was very self-de- quite ludicrous. But in October lings for the Saturday, feating, with wife-beating, 2015, sure enough he was cre- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday child beating - we once shared ated Baron Bird of Notting Hill and Friday, delivering meat to digs and one toilet with eight in the Royal Borough of houses. It felt like a lot of other families, if you wanted Kensington and Chelsea, sit- money but eight shillings a crap you had to book it a ting in the Lords as a cross- went to my mother, which week ahead… I never felt infe- bencher. He’d become a ‘peo- made me feel very good rior. When I eventually ended ple’s peer.” In his maiden because I love the idea of con- up in police cells the message speech to the peers he thanked tributing. I got from the police was: ‘Learn his old probation officer and now or the kicks are going to stated, “Someone said to me You got a slap get harder, son.’ You got a slap how did you get into the House round the face when you were of Lords and I said by lying, round the face when 10, a kick up the arse when cheating and stealing.” you were 10, a kick you were 12. At 16, they’d take you down the station and beat Orphanage up the arse when the shit out of you.” By any measure of a man’s you were 12. At 16, early beginnings Bird’s were Cultural ambitions challenging. “I was born into they’d take you His first stint in prison was on a London Irish slum where down the station a “short, sharp, shock” spell there was no money,” he says, in one of HM’s infamous “and if there was, it disap- and beat the shit Detention Centres in Oxford. peared into the pub and on out of you “It was there that I first cigarettes - on palliatives, thought there was something coping mechanisms. I was wrong with the world. They made homeless at five because And I was a great beggar, I was took in these damaged, we didn’t pay the rent; the begging from five and six screwed-up problematic boys, whole family was - five chil- along the Portobello Road. many alongside me were dren, two adults. Then we You could make a sixpence in London/Irish, but I realised lived in a void in the roof of a morning, which might be the that it wasn’t the boys that my grandmother’s house, a equivalent of a quarter of a were the problem, it was the flat in a wood-yard. Then we man’s wages for an hour, and staff. All that existed was vio- got a council flat and we were I combined it with a bit of lence from the people suppos- out of there in six months trade because there used to be edly in charge of us. Stamping, Insidetime June 2017 www.insidetime.org Comment 27

Dempsey Hawkins The 24 hour intervals seemingly become an unbroken A cold and biting January wind was blowing continuum of nothingness. through Washington DC as I sat in Dulles International Airport awaiting my flight to Day turns into night, Sun into Britain. Earlier that morning I had been lying moon, yin into yang on my bed in a New York State maximum security prison cell, fully clothed and waiting for of my lengthy incarceration. In many ways one my cell to open one last time. After serving 38 sort of dies to life in prison. Falls asleep at the years and 7 months of a 22-year-to-life sentence wheel you might say. for committing a so-called crime of passion murder in 1976 when I was 16 and completely In one respect imprisonment is akin to being blind to many things, including the tenacious in the crow’s nest of a whale ship. Although nature of regret, the substitute existence that your job is to stay alert and remain vigilant, is imprisonment was nearing an end. TS Eliot these imperatives fail as you begin to daydream wrote that to make an end is to actually make and time flows on and on like the miles upon a beginning. The end is where we start from. miles of blue, undulating sea beneath you. In prison as in the crow’s nest time advances with A little after 6 and still dark outside I heard the its ceaseless march forward. So much so that guard say, “Hawkins, when I open your cell “How did I get here?” you easily forget what time of what day it is. bring out your linen and towels and put ‘em in The 24 hour intervals seemingly become an the cart at the front of the gallery.” Soon as unbroken continuum of nothingness. Day turns that cell opened and I stepped out, several of into night, Sun into moon, yin into yang. And my fellow inmates whispered, “Yo, Hawk, take Shawshank time there you are, in the prison of your crow’s nest. care of yourself...keep your head up...” I felt On the lookout for whales, yet unable to see lightheaded. Felt the way you feel when you anything save your own flights of fancy because rise from the dentist’s chair after having been you’ve become hypnotised by the glaring in a drug induced state. The sense of surrealism and then deported brightness of the Sun, the endless sweep of was visceral. I had come to prison in May 1978 ocean, and your innumerable memories of and after nearly 40 years spent dreaming of another day. The whale ship and the prison freedom, after decades spent opening my eyes After 38 years in a US prison, a British born man rocks you to a deep sleep like a baby in a cradle. to the ringing of a bell and thinking each dawn I die, I was, incredibly, about to walk out of serving life is sent back to a country he barely knew And such was the feeling I had awaiting my prison. flight across the Atlantic. Fighting to regain $200, several items of clothing, and vague departure announcements, I was alert, attuned, wakefulness while desperately trying to visual- Given that I was born in London yet grew up expectations of what life would hold for me in and fully attentive. Yet strangely, I also felt ise freedom in a new and unknown world. in the US, I had been ordered deported follow- England after spending most of my life jailed groggy, semi-conscious, and somewhat ing a 1996 law stipulating that any foreign born in America. detached from the people pulling suitcases person convicted of a violent offence was sub- behind them, talking on cellphones, and hur- ject to removal. So it was I found myself walk- Sitting in the airport amidst the sounds of high rying along with cups of coffee in hand. I under- Next month Dempsey shares more of his ing through Dulles Airport in late January with heels on hard flooring, children’s laughter, and stood that the feeling of sleepiness was a result journey into the unknown

“ You gave me a career and my loved ones will benefit from it” A Hardman Award can transform someone’s life by providing that extra piece of financial help which makes a plan possible, that extra piece of encouragement which makes someone go for it.

Every year, The Hardman Awards recognise over 100 exceptional men and women lifers, IPPs and long-term prisoners.

If you’ve got less than two years left (and you’ve got your Cat D if you are a man) apply for up to £750. The money can be used to help you with education, training or work before or after you get out.

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PRISON transferred closer to home to use them. REFORM Ryan Harman TRUST Advice and Info Service Manager PSI 16/2011 Providing Visits and Services to Visitors explains that you are eligible to apply When visiting a category B local prison recent- for accumulated visits six months after trans- ly, someone described to me the value of a visit fer from the local prison you were sent on con- from a family member whilst he is in prison. viction. After this, you are eligible to apply for “Every day in prison things happen which build further accumulated visits every 6 months as up stress and frustration,” he said, “and then long as you have minimum of 6 months left to you see your family and it is like that tension serve. You may be able to accumulate up to 26 has been released and you can carry on again”. statutory visits during any twelve-month period. There is more information about accumu- Sadly, for some people arranging a visit from lated visits in Annex A of PSI 16/2011.

© Deposit Photos family or friends is not always easy. Many people are held in establishments far from their loved You should also have been made aware of the ones. Expensive and time consuming journeys Assisted Prison Visits Scheme (APVS) which are not always possible, particularly when provides financial assistance to prisoners’ close those journeys involve multiple and unreliable relatives, partners or sole visitors. To be eligi- Strees Manifesto guide transportation or if a family member has health ble they must be on a low income or in receipt Alcohomedia.’ problems or mobility difficulties. Juggling work of certain benefits such as income support or The three main parties summarise their vision on prisons, and childcare commitments with available visit income based job seekers allowance. The APVS slots can also be a major challenge. covers the cheapest method of public transport probation and justice for the journey and can sometimes include There are no quick solutions to this problem but support for light refreshments, and even accom- CONSERVATIVES criminal justice system. We LIBERAL DEMOCRATS there are a few things worth trying. Most simply, modation and childcare costs in some cases. “Prisons to be places of safety” will ensure that child victims “Legalise drugs” you can request a transfer to another prison For more information on criteria and how to and victims of sexual violence closer to home. You can do this by putting in apply, ask a member of staff at the prison, or Prisons and Probation are able to be cross-examined Prisons and Probation an application to the OCA at the prison, letting contact us on the details below. Prisons should be places of before a trial and extend the We will introduce a presump- them know what prison or area you would pre- scope of the Unduly Lenient You can contact the Prison Reform Trust’s advice reform and rehabilitation, but tion against short prison sen- fer to be in. Explain why this move would ben- Sentence Scheme so a wider efit you and any difficulties you are having at team at FREEPOST ND6125 London EC1B 1PN. we should always remember tences and increase the use of that incarceration is punish- range of sentences can be the current prison. If you can provide evidence Our free information line is open Monday, non-custodial punishments Tuesday and Thursday 3.30-5.30. The number ment for people who commit challenged. We will create a of these, such as proof of medical difficulties including weekend and is 0808 802 0060 and does not need to be put serious crimes. We will turn domestic violence and abuse faced by a family member, this may increase evening custody, curfews, on your pin. Please note, the above article cov- prisons into places of safety, commissioner and bring for- your chances of success. Any prison you request ers prisons in England and Wales and may not discipline and hard work, ward a Domestic Violence and community service and GPS to be transferred to will need to be for the same apply elsewhere. where people are helped to Abuse Bill. We commit not to tagging. We will extend the security categorisation as you are at the time. repeal the Human Rights Act responsibility of the Youth turn their lives around. We Urgent correction: Further to our article last while the process of Brexit is Justice Board to all off enders You should be aware that you have no legal will invest over £1bn to mod- month about extended sentences, we would like ernise the prison estate, underway. under 21 and establish a right to be transferred to a prison of your choice, so it is down to the discretion of the involved to add an important detail which we unintention- replacing the most dilapidated Women’s Justice Board. We prisons and availability of space. However, ally left out about release arrangements for prisons and creating 10,000 LABOUR will transform prisons into Prison Rules 1999 do say that ‘Special attention Extended Determinate Sentences. modern prison places. We will “Personal rehabilitation plan places of rehabilitation, recov- shall be paid to the maintenance of such rela- reduce the disproportionate for all prisoners” ery, learning and work, with tionships between a prisoner and his family If you were sentenced to an Extended Determinate use of force against black, suitable treatment, education as are desirable in the best interests of both’ Sentence before 13 April 2015 for a specified Prisons and Probation Asian and ethnic minority or work available to all pris- so consideration should at least be given to this. offence listed in Schedule 15B of the Criminal We will publish annual people in custody and legis- oners. We will reduce the over- Justice Act 2003 you will be required to apply for reports on prisoner-staff ratios late if progress is not made. representation of individuals Another option may be to apply for accumulat- parole at the two thirds stage of the custodial term We will reform the entry for all prisons and recruit of your sentence rather than being released auto- from a black, Asian and ed visits. This means saving up your visits requirements, training, man- 3,000 more prison offi cers. We matically, regardless of your sentence length. minority ethnic background allowance and using them in a shorter space agement and career paths of will review the training and at every stage of the criminal of time. You could use these at your current prison officers and create a professional development prison so that your family do not have to make We would like to sincerely apologise to anyone justice system. new legal framework for pris- available. We will insist on multiple journeys or ask to be temporarily who was misled by the omission of this detail. If ons, strengthening the inspec- personal rehabilitation plans in doubt, please contact us. torate and ombudsman to for all prisoners. We will Justice provide sharper external scru- review the provision of mental We will roll out the Liaison MASZ PROBLEM tiny. We will establish a health services in prisons and and Diversion programme national community sentenc- privatise no new or existing nationally and oppose any Forensic Accountants Z PICIEM? ing framework and introduce public prisons. We will embed attempt to withdraw from the CONFISCATION PROCEEDINGS dedicated provision for restorative justice practices ECHR or abolish or water UNDER POCA! POTRZEBUJESZ women off enders. across all youth offending down the Human Rights Act. Bartfields have considerable UK wide experience of institutions and review the analysing and revising prosecution benefit calculations POMOCY? We will conduct a review of within tight deadlines. (Legal aid available) Justice role of Community the effects of the Legal Aid, Free prison visit for all pre-confiscation hearing cases Rehabilitation Companies. Recent Cases: We will continue to modernise Sentencing and Punishment our courts, improving court Prosecution Benefit Bartfields Benefit 020 7403 85 20 of Off enders Act on access to Mr M £69,000 £8,000 buildings and facilities mak- Justice justice. We will introduce a Mr C £3,684,000 £47,000 ing it easier for people to We will retain the Human Mrs D £271,000 £45,000 Anonimowi Alkoholicy - Punkt legal, regulated market for resolve disputes and secure Rights Act and hold public Mr O £378,000 £16,000 Informcyjno Kontaktowy cannabis and end imprison- Mr L £1,015,000 £111,000 justice. We will enshrine vic- inquiries into historic injus- Mrs N £785,000 £103,000 Sroda 19.00 – 21.00 ment for possession of illegal tims’ entitlements in law, tices. We will review the legal Contact Raymond Davidson on 0113 2449051 Sobota i Niedziela 17.00 – 21.00 making clear what level of aid means tests and consider drugs for personal use. We Bartfields, 4th Floor Stockdale House, service they should expect the reinstatement of other will repeal the Psychoactive Headingley Office Park, 8 Victoria Road, Leeds LS6 1PF www.aa-pik-wielkabrytania.org.pl from the police, courts and legal aid entitlements. Substances Act. [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.bartfield.co.uk/services/forensic Insidetime June 2017 www.insidetime.org Information // Education 29

about education provision. Ideas included IEP incentives to increase motivation and more courses including personal training, humanities and languages. They also suggested how to improve the course itself as part of an external evaluation, including more support with critical Winners all

reading. The Governor agreed © prisonimage.org to take forward their recommendations and enable the students to carry out more PLA Awards 2017 research to help improve the prison: ‘We need to be more Co-operate to learn Nominations now open scientific about changes we © prisonimage.org make, not just do things “I feel he has really helped build my self-confi dence and really out every six months. When because I think they are a lift ed my mood as he consistently praises you, always encour- I’m out I’m not going to be good idea’. ages you and believes in you no matter what. Thanks to him I chasing those things any now know I can do things and that I am not worthless. Being heard more’ he refl ected. Suggestions made by students at HMP Lowdham Grange “I now have plans for the future when I leave prison. I never ‘Learning Together’ students set out Another event in March cele- included vocational training thought I would look at setting up my own business but I'm brated students from HMP delivered by employers, more really looking forward to it.” ideas for reforming prison education Lowdham Grange and academic courses and reduc- Nottingham Trent University, tions in sentence time for com- These were the words of a prisoner learner last year who nom- students from HMP/YOI Isis. who had completed a nine- mitment to education. A stu- inated her teacher Ian Rampton at HMP Eastwood Park for a One admitted he had thought week Learning Together dent from HMP Lowdham Prisoner Learning Alliance (PLA) award. The nomination was social science was studying course on social justice. ‘I’d Grange said ‘it’s not oft en we successful, and Ian was named an “Outstanding Teacher” for pubs and clubs, so was sur- never read any social science get heard in prison. It’s good how he inspired his students during his lessons, including prised when he received the before. It’s a big subject. I real- to have a forum to hear our running a soap-making course. ‘It’s about social change, about reading materials. However, ised that your identity is part- opinion. We have something class, about whose voices mat- he found an extract from the ly born and partly made by to off er the prison system.’ A Other awards recognised outstanding peer supporters, prison ter and what that means’. book ‘The Sociological society, [and] the criminal Nottingham Trent University offi cers and individuals in more diverse roles. One such winner was Trevor Latham, Family Interventions Co-ordinator at HMP Imagination’ particularly justice system actually refl ects student said ‘I owe it to the Parc. The prisoner nominating him had written passionately So said one student at the end- inspirational and realised that our social justice system’ said inside students to use the about how Trevor had “invested so much time and humanity of-course celebration event for social phenomena could one student. voice I have to help others see into the course, showing us all by his own example qualities the first Learning Together explain some of the reasons beyond the wall and help you which we all wish to adopt for ourselves.” prison-university partnership people go to prison. ‘It has The HMP/YOI Isis students be seen and heard’. at HMP/YOI Isis. For ten weeks made me understand why had been practicing their new The PLA is proud to be running the awards scheme again this students from Goldsmiths people chase the lifestyle por- social research skills, speak- They summarised that educa- trayed in music […] things they year. The fi ve categories are: UniversityPRT studied Time Mag_Ad_2017_125x140.pdf social 1 16/05/2017 13:45 ing to their peers about what tion should be seen a prism of research methods alongside can’t aff ord, like new phones the Governor should change knowledge, skills, values and 1. Outstanding teacher or education staff (Adult Estate). beliefs because, as one stu- 2. Outstanding teacher or education staff (Young People’s Estate). dent refl ected, ‘if I have mul- 3. Outstanding offi cer or instructor. tiple problems, then there 4. Outstanding peer mentor, supporter, learning champion or Special prize: needs to be multiple solu- student council rep. for people of tions’. They would like to see 5. Outstanding individual e.g. Governor, librarian, volunteer, 21 years or under more support and opportuni- charity worker, careers advisor. £100 ties aft er release and “to hear L what is possible” from those The award winners will be celebrated at the Annual PLA who have been successful. Joe Conference on 14th September at De Montfort University, Baden OBE, Director of Leicester. The awards will be presented by X-Factor winner and Goldsmiths’ Open Book pro- former prison officer Sam Bailey. Everyone nominated will ject and a former prisoner, receive a certifi cate and winners in the peer mentor category described the HMP/Isis stu- will also receive a book of their choice. dents as “very brave, going against what you’ve been told How to nominate: Please write to Nina Champion at FREEPOST: in the past.” He refl ected: “I PRISONERS EDUCATION TRUST. In your letter (maximum 1 A4 love what I do now, my family side per nomination), please give: Prizes in each love me again. This is not liv- category of: ing, here in prison. Come and • Your name, establishment and prison number. • 1st Prize £200 see us aft er release. This expe- • The name of the person you are nominating. • 2nd Prize £100 rience could change your life.’ • Their job title. 2017 • The category you are nominating them for. • 3rd Prize £75 The Warden of Goldsmiths • Why you are nominating them. L congratulated the students on Comment/Article “how able and bright” they You might want to think about specifi c examples of how they have had demonstrated themselves helped or inspired you, how they have promoted learning in to be, and how they can use your prison and how they have ‘gone the extra mile’ to help you Short Story their experiences to change and others achieve. These awards are an opportunity to thank their lives and society. One those who support and promote learning in your establishment, student has already applied whatever their role and wherever they are based in the prison. Lyric/Rap through UCAS to attend Thank you and we look forward to receiving your nominations. Goldsmiths in September. The closing date for the competition is Monday 7 August 2017 Another said: ‘I thought university students were going to A full PET prospectus can be found in your prison library. You be stuck up, but I now know can also write to FREEPOST Prisoners’ Education Trust for The competition is open For information on how to enter please contact your education/learning tailored advice. to all prisoners, prisoners’ and skills department, library, or contact: university has a broad variety ‘Course Notes’, which shines a spotlight on some of the distance families and friends, Michele Byam, Prison Reform Trust, FREEPOST ND6125, London EC1B 1PN. of diff erent people. Uni could learning courses funded by Prisoners’ Education Trust, will return and to former prisoners. Email: [email protected] be a place for me’. to its regular slot next month. 30 Information www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017

Trump steps up drug war The US administration under Inside Drink & Drugs News President Donald Trump has signalled that it intends to Drink and Drugs News (DDN) is the monthly magazine for those working intensify the ‘war on drugs’, with with drug and alcohol clients, including in prisons. In a regular bi-monthly a return to 1980s-style preven- column, editor Claire Brown looks at what’s been happening lately in the tion campaigns and the use of marijuana possession as a means substance misuse field. www.drinkanddrugsnews.com to deport immigrants who don’t crack cocaine, and stimulants Incendiary issues have proper documentation. such as MDMA; whichever way Smoking causes one in ten Plain packaging The direction is in contrast to that of the Obama administra- Claire Brown they’re taken, their potency deaths globally, according to a It is ‘likely’ that plain tobacco packaging reduces smoking rates tion, which steered prosecutors DDN Editor can make an overdose very study published in The Lancet. ‘despite limited available research and only one country with the away from pursuing low-level rapid. While the scale-up of tobacco policy fully in place’, according to a Cochrane review of international drugs offenders - one of control is a ‘public health success evidence. Full UK implementation of standardised packaging Each week we’re getting alerts President Obama’s final acts in The other dangerous ‘craze’ story’, smoking remains ‘a major legislation will be complete later this month, following a 12-month about new and dangerous office was to commute the to hit the headlines is for al- risk’ for early death and disability period that allowed retailers to sell their existing stock. ‘Standard drugs. The national crime sentences of 330 prisoners. prazolam - ‘stress pills’ worldwide and requires packs are a landmark public health policy the tobacco industry agency recently issued a branded as Xanax - which has sustained political commitment, fought tooth and nail to prevent,’ said ASH chief executive Deborah warning about the synthetic reached schoolchildren in the says the article. Arnott. ‘As evidence grows it is easy to see why. Smokers are already opioid fentanyl and its deriv- UK. The drug’s profile has shot saying they feel differently about their pack of cigarettes and in Alcohol admissions atives, following a spate of up after being linked to several years to come we expect to see fewer young people smoking as There were an estimated deaths in the north of England. high-profile celebrity deaths, they are no longer seduced by glitzy, brightly coloured packs.’ 339,000 alcohol-related hospital as well as being glamorised admissions in England in The big problem with these in music and film. This drug 2015-16, a 3 per cent increase drugs is that potency varies Scottish target is also highly potent - about on the previous year but 22 per so massively that people just The Scottish Government should establish a target to reduce overall 20 times the strength of cent higher than a decade ago, don’t know what they’re alcohol consumption by 10 per cent over the next decade, says a according to the latest figures taking. Fentanyl is a licensed diazepam (Valium) - so when report from Alcohol Focus Scotland. ‘Scotland is awash with alcohol,’ kids get hold of it via the dark from ONS and NHS Digital. medicine used to treat severe Chemist cannabis said chief executive Alison Douglas. ‘Widespread availability, low Using a ‘broad measure’ of and terminal pain, and is 100 web, it’s very different to Pharmacies in Uruguay will be prices and heavy marketing are having a devastating effect, not somebody who has become admissions related to alcohol times more potent than able to sell cannabis for recre- only on drinkers but on their children and families too.’ consumption, however, the morphine. Carfentanil is far used to high-strength pills ational use from July onwards, through years of taking ben- number rises to 1.1m - up 4 per more potent still - about 10,000 the country’s National Drug Global burden cent on the previous year. In times stronger than morphine, zodiazepines, prescribed by Board has announced. Uruguay Around 1.75m people worldwide were newly infected with HCV their doctor. both measures, Blackpool had and used to tranquilise large legalised the cultivation, distri- in 2015, says the World Health Organization’s Global hepatitis the highest rate of admissions, mammals. bution and consumption of the report 2017, bringing the total number of people living with hepatitis says Statistics on alcohol Just last week, 20 young people drug in 2013 and so far 16 phar- C to 71m. Injecting drug use and unsafe injections in healthcare in Wiltshire were given England, 2017, which draws At street level, the drug would macies have registered to sell settings remain the most common transmission routes, states the together new and previously medical treatment after taking not be sold as fentanyl, but five-gram containers of cannabis document, which calls for a ‘scaling up of harm reduction services released data. Just over 25m Xanax, prompting police to would most likely turn up as grown by state-licensed - particularly access to sterile injecting equipment and opioid adults reported drinking in the issue a warning to parents a component of another drug, producers. Anyone wishing to substitution treatment (methadone or buprenorphine). previous week, which equates about the dangers of the drug. usually heroin, and sold as buy the drug will need to sign to 57 per cent of the population The drug prescribed for ‘white heroin’ or ‘china white’. up to a national registry, with - down from 64 per cent the anxiety disorders is now a new Fentanyls are also turning up maximum limits imposed on To order copies of Drink and Drugs News Tel: 020 7463 2085 previous year. in benzodiazepines, cocaine, source of stress. monthly purchases. Email: [email protected] www.drinkanddrugsnews.com

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look good but more importantly you will have gained some in- sight to where and what you The Hub The Careers Lady want to achieve. In the beginning it may look like the largest Oak tree but over time you can Give us a job, guv The fi rst step through the door look behind you and see how Name supplied - HMP Bullingdon eff ective you have been in tak- to your future ing advantage of the education Since coming to prison I have sorted my life out and talked to and training opportunities you many members of staff about becoming a Prison Offi cer when have been given during your I get out. It is all about being a better person and helping others, time in prison. and about breaking the mould and showing other prisoners that The Tree of Opportunities it is possible to turn your life around. I didn’t see that Careers Adviser “Why don’t you do my Job?” In fact I don’t think I even had recognising self worth or being again who many years ago So far, I have written to Liz Truss, Michael Spurr and Peter a long-term plan. Now I envy in self denial can hinder any made that passing remark. I Clarke, but have heard nothing back from them. I had the National I thought it was a joke. But the young people with career ideas long term plans. However want to thank him as without Careers Service at HMP Coldingley print me out the paperwork man sat opposite me was per- that they can pursue through being able to have the time to him I might not have found a from NOMS Careers and HM Prison Service recruitment, but I fectly serious. He was a Careers education and training. Mine look at yourself through edu- second chance at a career I love. need more help on what further steps I can take whilst I am still Adviser who I went to see many was merely to fi t in with the cation and skills building and Watch and listen out for people in prison. years ago. Following a serious family. exploring what can be pursued in your life who can recognise accident I could no longer do within the prison system can the skills and qualities that you I realise that I will have to start at the bottom as an Operational the physical teaching job I had However I left the Careers offi ce help you focus on what you have. They will help you realise Support Grade (OSG), but I don’t mind. Any help or advice I can loved for many years and I that day with lots of personal are good at and, with a bit of your potential and give you a get will be helpful. Also, could you ask prisoners if they would knew I had to face the fact that information as well as infor- eff ort, determine what you can head start in climbing the Tree work better with an ex-off ender as a Prison Offi cer? this was the time for a complete mation on what I had to do to achieve. of Opportunities. career change. Until that mo- achieve this new exciting pos- To become a prison offi cer: ment I had no idea what I was sibility. The Careers Adviser I liken this to climbing the ‘Tree It’s never too late. 10-week training course at the Prison Service College, Newbold going to do, let alone what I had talked to me about the of Life’. It does not matter how Revel, Rugby, or one of the local POEL (Prison Offi cer Entry Level) wanted to do. Life had given skills and qualities I had accu- high the tree or how long it training centres. Applicants must: me a blow and it had shocked mulated over the years in takes, each branch can give • have the right to work in the UK; me into reality. teaching and how they would you the chance to go along and I’m happy to give general • have been a UK resident for at least 3 years; make the perfect package to see what opportunities there advice on job searching and • be the minimum age of 18; Life can be like that. This had move towards my new goal. are and to gain skills to help career planning, however • pass security and identity checks prior to taking up the post happened before. I had taken Prison can often do that. go further up the tree. Trying please feel free to write to me • pass a health screening and a fi tness test; up teaching to fi t in with the Especially long term prison jobs that you had not consid- for any specifi c advice or • pass a 12-month probationary period; children’s school holidays. A where opportunities through ered in the past, trying training guidance you may need. • declare if they are a member of a group or organisation that very weak decision but one education and training can programmes you thought you does not fi t with the prison service values of diversity and inclusion. that had been the best decision help a person grow and realise would not have the skills for. Next month the Careers Lady I ever made. The idea of teach- their potential, which may Look at a variety of education will discuss the pros and cons Editorial note ing was never a ‘light bulb’ have been hidden. Ideas don’t programmes that can give you regarding applying for jobs in If your conviction was for a serious offence and included a period moment upon leaving school. always come naturally. Not qualifications. Your CV will the public sector. of imprisonment then it is unlikely you would be employed. “Have you been injured in Prison..? ...WE CAN HELP!”

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determinate recall cases in the Alongside this pilot we con- In the 6 months to date queue had short periods of time tinued to explore different how many IPPs have remaining before they would listing approaches to ensure Parole Board Update actually been released? be released at their sentence that wherever possible we are expiry date (SED), with around providing fair access to all the power to release prisoners l At the point of its aboli- As at 31 March 2017 45% reaching automatic re- groups. The success of max- sentenced to an Imprisonment tion in December 2012 lease within 24 weeks. Many imised listings (adding cases l The backlog of outstand- there were 6,080 IPPs in or Detention for Public if others get deferred), using ing cases was down to 2033 prison. Since that date, the of these were getting released Protection sentence (IPP/DPP) our video-link and regional from a high of 3163 in number of IPP prisoners still before the date of the oral hear- on the papers (the MCA stage), court facilities, and of course January 2015. in prison has fallen by about ing, resulting in a wasted slot without the need for an oral listing at higher levels, has led 40% to 3,528 (as at 31/03/17). which could have been used l The number of cases de- hearing. These changes came for another prisoner. to us stopping the 24 week layed by more than 90 days into eff ect immediately, how- l The IPP release rate in “cut-off ” point pilot. We still waiting for an oral hearing ever, the numbers aff ected are 2010/11 was 6% which in- I am commit- have our standard practice of date was down to 301 from likely to be relatively small as creased to 46% for 2016/17. the 12 week “cut-off” point, 547 in January 2015. ted to ensuring we most IPP cases will still need l The number of actual IPP which has been in place for a number of years. We are con- l 48% of all oral hearing an oral hearing to be properly prisoners released on an work towards a tinuing to review our listing decisions were for release and considered. Between 22 annual basis has increased system that gets priority framework and will be 17% were for a progressive November 2016 and 30 April from 140 in 2010/11 to Nick Hardwick publishing our future ap- move to open conditions. 2017 we have released 15 IPPs around 900 in 2016/17 (ﬁ g- all prisoners who Parole Board proach later this year. “on the papers”. ures include recalled IPPs). Chairman need an oral hear- l Over the last twelve Parole system In addition to these Rule changing a confi rmed Progress months, the Parole Board I know that the parole system IPP Prisoners es, the Parole Board’s I aim to provide a regular up- has also recommended the date as quickly as can seem frustrating and pain- We aim to answer all letters Management Committee has date from the Parole Board to transfer to open conditions of fully slow for many prisoners from you promptly and we will agreed that members should possible readers of Inside Time as I know a further 468 IPP prisoners. and their families and these respond to some of the ques- also be able to recommend IPPs concern about the parole pro- delays and uncertainties also tions and comments that we for a transfer to open condi- cess is a major source of anxiety create anxieties for victims too. think would be of most interest tions on the papers, if eligible for many of you. In the last Determinate sentence recalls I am committed to ensuring to other prisoners here. You under the terms of the referral. We felt that this was not being couple of years, backlogs and Many of you will be aware there we work towards a system that can write to us directly at the as fair as possible and so we delays have built up as the Previously members could not has been a steady increase in gets all prisoners who need an Parole Board or via Inside Time. looked at diff erent ways of list- number of cases requiring a recommend open conditions the number of determinate oral hearing a confi rmed date We will keep your identity pri- ing cases to make the most parole hearing grew, while the for any prisoners at the MCA recall cases progressing to oral as quickly as possible. vate in any response we make. effective use of all the oral number of Parole Board mem- stage unless the case was con- hearing, putting huge pressure hearing slots we had. We ran In my last update for Inside bers and our budget fell. I am sidered exceptional and it was on our capacity to hear all cases a pilot to implement a “cut-off ” Time, I said a little about how pleased to say that we have Two very good questions have agreed by me as Parole Board needing an oral hearing in point for any determinate recall to prepare for your parole re- now been able to reverse this been sent to Inside Time about Chair. These limitations will time. Each month we have case with an SED within 24 view and some of the myths but there is still a long way to IPP prisoners: no longer apply. These changes more cases than we can list weeks. These cases were re- about this. We are working go. We have recruited over 100 came into eff ect for MCA cases and so we have a system in viewed “on the papers” but with the National Probation When will the changes made with a panel date of 8 March place which prioritises cases new members, taking the total were not put forward for an Service to follow this up with on the 22 November 2016, 2017 onwards, and 2 of these - the listing prioritisation membership to just over 250, oral hearing unless there were a series of items on Prison which allows IPP prisoners to framework. Under this system, and we are now training them recommendations have been exceptional circumstances, in Radio in the autumn with fur- be released on the papers be determinate recall cases are so they are ready to conduct made. I will mention here that which case they were still pro- ther tips about preparing for implemented? hearings. We have won the we can only make a recommen- given high priority, meaning vided with one of the approx- your review and working with argument for a bigger budget dation about a move to open many indeterminate sentence imate 200 oral hearing slots your Off ender Manager. I will and as long as this remains we The new Parole Board Rules conditions and it is the prisoners have had to wait allocated each month to deter- provide more information will continue to be able to make came into eff ect on 22 November Secretary of State who will longer for their oral hearing. minate prisoners during the about this in my next Inside progress. 2016. These new Rules gave us make the fi nal decision. We noticed that many of the pilot. Time update.

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Juliet Lyon improved IEP and ROTL and opportunities to with Keeping Safe initiative keep in touch with family and friends. You recommend mental healthcare and counselling, Kathy Baker custody have so much to offer peer supporters have made. People in prison know how to prevent suicide mental health awareness training for staff and in caring for each other. and self-harm. Since the Independent Advisory sorting out delays in medication. Thank you. I was stopped in my tracks Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) began work “I hope you find my experienc- and reduced to tears a few with Inside Time to keep prisoners safe we have Trust es of some help in your efforts Here are some quotes from times by your descriptions of received almost 70 letters across 50 prisons in And yes it’s really important to talk to someone to improve the safety in our your letters: the impact of lack of family England and Wales. The first letter to Freepost you trust if you feel isolated or down. As one prisons” one letter writer said contact, the atmosphere in IAP arrived at the end of February. By July we person wrote: ‘We get conditioned to be a per- in response to our appeal to “I hope this letter shows the prisons, the need for mental expect to have heard from over 100 people, all son who doesn’t show weakness and emotion people in prison to tell us how frustration I feel, the prison health support, the scourge experts by experience, as we draw together in prison but on release it’s shown to be a good to reduce self-inflicted deaths officers need help too” of drugs, debt and bullying your insights and recommendations for thing to talk.’ Since February the IAP has been and self-harm. We most cer- has had on you all. Ministers and officials after the election. talking to Parliamentarians, Health and Justice tainly have, thank you all so “The swamp of toxic stress” Preventing suicide and self-harm has to be a Ministers, officials, governors and staff about very much. Those of you who Many of you also mentioned priority for everyone. what you are telling us. People are listening have written to Inside Time in “The general mood is very the need for more ‘awareness and responding positively. The working paper response to Juliet Lyon’s poor amongst both staff and training’ for staff and prison- We get conditioned to be we produced in March informed by 60 women request for your help with the prisoners. (We need) more ers, the impact of fewer staff a person who doesn’t show in prison has already led to a prison service Independent Advisory Panel schemes to lift the spirits of - and lowered IEP levels can wide action to prevent suicide and self-harm on Deaths in Custody (IAP) everyone” have on people who are weakness and emotion in prison in women’s prisons. Inside Time and Samaritan’s depressed and the importance but on release it’s shown to be Keeping Safe project will “In prison what may seem triv- of post incident support fol- Hope know that I have been helping ial to others is very important lowing a death. Amongst your a good thing to talk We took your advice and joined forces with with her replies to your letters. in a prisoners eyes” responses were some very National Prison Radio so that we could hear moving descriptions of the Loud and clear from people who don’t find writing easy or Keeping people safe, prevent- “I long for proper conversation, emotional impact that IPP Your messages are coming across loud and would prefer to leave a short phone message - ing suicide, self harm and I go to bed at 8pm and I cry. I sentences have had on you, clear: you want to see staff who take a compas- and, as you suggested, we asked the prison violence in prison has been a cry for myself, I cry for wasted your families and friends and sionate, humane approach and who have time service for confidential access for IAP letters huge part of the forty years lives, I cry for relief” I have to say that on a person- to listen and talk. You want safe prisons where which has just been confirmed. What you say plus I have worked in Criminal al level my heart goes out to people are not in fear of threats, violence, drugs counts and, even in difficult times, there are Justice, (Prisons, Probation “Make the first night in custo- you all. and debt. You want fair treatment and decent some good reasons to be hopeful. and Safer Custody) volun- dy a less daunting experience” regimes whether it’s a proper response to peo- teered as a Samaritan, started, You also shared some inter- ple stranded on indeterminate sentences, guided and supported “LISTEN to our medical and esting and helpful insights to recalled to custody or maintaining their inno- Juliet Lyon is Chair of the Independent Listeners as well as encourag- psychological needs” what needs to be there for cence or it’s an active day with time out of cell, Advisory Panel ing peer support in many people on release, a topic for aspects of prison life. So I was Juliet and I have responded to another article in Inside Time delighted to be asked to sup- over a hundred interesting, I think. port this very special ‘Keeping thoughtful and often very per- Need Inside Advice? Safe’ initiative. I have really sonal responses to the three Finally I hope you have all David Phillips and Partners can help out. looked forward to your letters questions you were asked to received Juliet Lyon’s person- arriving. Reading and consider. Sharing the hope- al letter of thanks for your We are pleased to announce that Prison responding to them has been lessness and despair that so interest and support, to which Law expert Jeremy Pinson has joined the a huge privilege. It hasn’t been many of you have experienced I add my sincere thanks for easy for me to read and reflect has been very humbling. 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John Griffi th tions to assist them in making Parole Board panel members David Wells put in writing that they feel Perhaps one of the most com- their decision. have received guidance which there can be no appeal without plex for Judges and lawyers indicates that any SARN explaining exactly why (unless advising on sentencing ap- As many prisoners are now Will there be many such deci- report or DARNA report (com- Sentencing in the Crown Court the letter is supported by a full peals is the principle of totality. aware, the new Chairman of sions for release made on the pleted after sex offender and is extremely complex. written advice by the barrister To explain what that is, take the Parole Board is the former papers? It seems highly domestic violence pro- Sentencing laws change very which is becoming increasing- this brief example: Imagine a Chief Inspector of Prisons, unlikely that a significant grammes respectively) will frequently and the sentence ly rare). My view is that this is defendant appearing before Professor Nick Hardwick. Mr number of IPP prisoners will take at least six months to that is ultimately passed will down to a real lack of under- the court having pleaded guilty Hardwick, on taking on his be released this way. One complete. This has led to a be dependent on many factors. standing of sentencing law. for a single off ence. Sentencing new role, advocated putting experienced Panel Chair number of prisoners being It is because of these many for this single off ence is likely the following sensible propos- recently told me that he would refused oral hearings, even factors that sentences that are For any Crown Court Judge, to be quite straightforward. als to Ministers to attempt to be far from confident about where they have completed or passed in the Crown Court are the sentencing exercise must Compare that example to a reduce the numbers of the directing the release of some- are about to complete the last oft en simply wrong, whether oft en be a daunting one, par- defendant who appears in 4000 people who are impris- one who had previously been offending behaviour pro- it’s because they are plainly ticularly where there are mul- court having been found guilty oned for public protection: considered ‘dangerous’ by a gramme on their sentence excessive in the circumstances tiple off ences, diff erent off enc- to 5 offences, each different court, without having met the plan. We have received advice or because they are, less fre- es, where a defendant has and carrying diff erent maxi- • Revising the risk test so that person and conducted a thor- that we should challenge this quently, wrong in law. numerous previous convic- mum terms. In this example, prisoners only continue to be ough risk assessment. Parole policy and have done so. This Unfortunately, although ap- tions, or where there are mul- the judge has a very diffi cult detained if there is evidence they Board Panel Chairs can face is a particularly odd policy, peals against sentence are tiple defendants. exercise, and ultimately, he or remain a danger to the public. disciplinary action if an unac- given that we know of several common, they are not always she has to be very careful not • Introducing that measure ceptable number of prisoners prisoners who have had the draft ed correctly. Common problems faced by to pass a sentence when added just for ’short tariff’ IPPs - those whom they have released above reports completed with- judges would also include what together becomes just too long who received a tariff of two years commit further serious offenc- in two or three months of com- You very often find that the degree of credit should be given in the circumstances. This or less but remain in prison long es, so it is perhaps under- pleting the course and getting original solicitor and barrister following a guilty plea, sen- brings in to play whether sen- after their tariff has expired standable that they would be an eighteen month ‘knock- all too frequently and quickly tencing for historic off ences, tences should be concurrent because they are unable to cautious about doing so. back’ to sit in custody doing advise defendants who have what degree of discount to give or consecutive which itself is prove their risk has reduced. nothing constructive cannot just been sentenced that they for apparent assistance to the a point taken on appeal. • Taking executive action to Also, imposed in the interests assist in reducing the number have to accept that the sen- police, how to take in to ac- release IPP prisoners who of ‘reducing delays’, some- of prisoners in custody. tencing judge passed a sen- count TIC’s, taking in to ac- It is not surprising that mis- have now served longer than thing to watch out for is a new tence that cannot be appealed count law changes, how and takes are oft en made by Judges the maximum current sen- rule that one can only have a The drive to reduce delays and without really looking in to the when to apply the guidelines, when sentencing for multiple tence for their offence. seven-day extension to the present the Parole Board as a law and the guidelines that whether to impose concurrent off ences. Wells Burcombe re- deadline to submit written court in its own right is not apply. Viewing a sentence is a or consecutive sentences for view quite a number of sen- The new Parole Board Rules representations to the Parole proving to be as beneficial as subjective exercise. What may multiple o ending, and refl ect- tences and, together with came into force on 22nd Board. This applies even where had been hoped when the be perceived as an excessive ing issues concerning mental competent fresh Counsel, very November 2016. The above a prisoner did not receive their highly-respected Professor sentence for one barrister or and physical health. Another oft en identify appeal grounds proposals did not appear in dossier and has therefore been Hardwick became its Chairman. solicitor advising may not be area creeping in to the equation that other lawyers have not them. Instead we now have a unable to comment on the We hope that our forthcoming perceived in the same way by is the issue of delay. It is cer- identified or have been pre- rule where IPP prisoners can unseen reports within it. Again, court proceedings will prompt another barrister when a sec- tainly my experience that in- pared to argue. be released without the need we believe that this cannot be a move towards getting people ond opinion is requested. The mates who are interviewed for an oral hearing. This is lawful, for obvious reasons. A out of prison rather than sad reality is that a barrister regarding further allegations Any of the issues in this brief more likely to happen where judicial review beckons and rushed half measures which who has just lost a trial or whose during their sentences are oft en article are capable of amount- all parties recommend release it is to be hoped that we will are simply pushed through to client has just been sentenced not told for months of a deci- ing to an appeal against sen- and the case is clearly suitable return to being able to submit cut costs at the expense of following a plea of guilty just sion to charge. I am outraged tence. Appeals against sen- for such a direction. It will be representations within a prisoners’ freedom. doesn’t want to spend the un- by such delays and it is not tence can be successful. considered by a single mem- month of receipt of the dossier. paid time of going through the uncommon for such delay to Choosing the right team is key. ber of the Parole Board who John Griffi th is Prison Law case law and guidelines to see amount to an abuse of process Legal aid is oft en available to simply examines the reports A measure that also causes us Supervisor at Emmersons if a sentence can be appealed. argument. instruct new lawyers to review and any written representa- concern is the fact that the Solicitors It’s just an easy option to say, a case. For those who are not ‘sorry, the sentence cannot be Judges also need to be careful eligible for legal aid, fi xed fees appealed, it’s within the guide- not to be infl uenced by their are oft en available. Be in the know about ‘Nickings’ lines.’ It has always amazed own emotion. Some cases are me that when helping a client particularly disturbing or emo- Nichole Warren In 2015 the number of days that could be added on the prospect of an appeal tionally draining and there is to a prisoner’s sentence by the Independent following conviction and sen- no place for personal feelings David Wells is a Partner at Most prisoners are familiar with the adjudica- Adjudicator increased, and they currently have tence, that solicitors simply when it comes to sentencing. Wells Burcombe tion process from either having been through the power to award up to 42 additional days on it themselves, or knowing someone that has. top of a prisoner’s sentence for each finding of Approximately 110,000 adjudications take place guilt. The effect of extra days can be detrimen- every year in UK prisons, yet so many prisoners tal to a prisoner no matter how much of their Specialists in: Appeals against Conviction choose not to seek legal representation if their sentence has been served. Guilty findings will & Sentence, CCRC, IPP Appeals & Parole, case is referred to the Independent Adjudicator be taken into consideration when making appli- (District Judge). The main reasons for this that cations for Parole, ROTL and Re-categorisation. Prison Adjudications & Discipline, Criminal I hear from prisoners is that they did not see a Therefore, it is important to ensure that any Investigations, Conﬁ scation and POCA pro- point in seeking legal advice, or they did not records the prison holds about you are correct. ceedings. Nationwide Service know that they were entitled to legal aid. If Records of adjudication hearings are held by the your case has been referred to the Independent prison. If information goes missing or is inaccu- Adjudicator, it is important that you request rate, there will be no way of you proving oth- Herts, Beds, London & Thames legal representation before your hearing as erwise (unless you were legally represented). Bucks, Essex Valley, Kent, Surrey doing so can protect your legal rights. Ideally you should do this as soon as you have been As most prisoners are aware, their entitlement 5 Holywell Hill 4 Britannia Court placed on report. A legal expert can advise you to legal aid has significantly decreased over St Albans The Green before a charge is brought, inform you of the recent years, and continues to do so. Therefore, Herts AL1 1EU West Drayton UB7 7PN procedure that should be followed and prepare it is imperative that you seek the help while it Tel: 01727 840900 Tel: 01895 449288 your case if it is later referred. They can also advise is available to you. you on how to appeal a punishment you have 24hr Emergency Number: 07592 034170 received from an independent adjudication. Nichole Warren - Landmark Law Solicitors 36 Legal www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017

Advertorial A U-turn in Legal Aid, will this affect you? Darryl Foster The essence of this paper was the criminal proceedings (if The Lord Chancellor states Close Supervision Centres ness has been met. In general and Rachel Hutton that changes should be made legal aid was used). that the internal complaints Close Supervision Centres terms they believe that there to save £220 million a year by system as well as the Prisons were introduced to take care was an inherent and system- As you may be aware prior to 2018-2019. They believed that In relation to adjudications and Probation Ombudsman of prisoners who show disrup- atic unfairness in the decision the 2nd December 2013 Legal targeting public resources at Legal Aid is available for adju- and Independent Monitoring tive and dangerous behaviour to remove legal aid for these Aid was more readily available cases which were in need of dications before the Board provides prisoners with putting other prisoners at risk. types of cases. for a broader range of Prison Law Legal Aid would improve pub- Independent Adjudicator or an effective system to safe- It is felt that such prisoners issues. The Criminal Legal Aid lic confi dence in the Criminal where the Governor has guard against unfairness. are not manageable in stand- In terms of off ending behav- (Amendment) Regulations Justice system. The justifi ca- allowed representation under ard prison conditions and an iour programmes and discipli- 2013 removed funding from a tion for these cuts was that the the Tarrant criteria. Finally, The 5 areas of Law increased level of restriction nary procedures the Court felt significant number of areas internal complaints procedure with regards to Parole Board The Howard League for Penal is necessary. that the threshold had not leaving funding available, in can adequality address issues cases, Legal Aid is available Reform and the Prisoners been met. They believe that which were aff orded the ben- Advice Service are challeng- certain circumstances, for for those cases where the Access to Offending the prison system can ade- efi t of legal aid and that the ing the removal of Legal Aid sentence calculation, reviews Parole Board have the power Behaviour Programmes quately deal with these issues complaints procedure would in the following types of cases; by the Parole Board and adju- to direct the prisoners release. Prisoners are oft en required without the need for legal aid. ultimately provide satisfactory dications. to complete these courses in outcomes for any issues raised. Pre-Tariff Parole Board Review What was being challenged? order to demonstrate a reduc- What will this mean for you? At such a review the Parole Pre-Tariff Parole Board The Howard League for Penal tion in risk. This plays an Whilst the case was successful reviews, categorisation, What can I get Legal Aid for? Reform and the Prisoners Board do not have the power Currently Legal Aid is only to direct release but instead important role in the Parole there is still a long way to go. access to behaviour programs Advice Service challenged the Boards decision making pro- It is possible that the Lord and courses and placement in available in a small number advise the Secretary of State removal of Legal Aid for a cess, a prisoner will generally Chancellor will appeal the closed supervision centres of areas of Prison Law and it upon the suitability of a move number of areas as referred to need to complete some work decision or consider alterna- were all removed from the remains subject to a means below. It was felt that without to open conditions. Such a test. The fi rst area covered by recommendation is not bind- around their off ending before tive ways to address the con- scope of legal aid. The Howard a broader remit of Legal Aid Legal Aid is Sentence calcu- ing on the Secretary of State they are considered suitable cerns raised by the Court with- League for Penal Reform and prisoners would continue to lation where there is an issue who have to approve the trans- for release. Determinate sen- out the reinstatement of legal the Prisoners Advice Service experience diffi culties within over the date of release. In fer to open conditions. This is tence prisons will fi nd that the aid. It is of course a positive have challenged these chang- the prison system, particular- order to obtain Legal Aid for an important stage in a sen- completion of such work will outcome and will hopefully es at the Court of Appeal. ly those vulnerable prisoners such matters the prisoner is tence and the absence of legal assist in their progression result in prisoners again being with learning difficulties or required to demonstrate that aid will no doubt have left a through the prison system and able to access Legal Aid in Why was Legal Aid cut? mental health issues. It was they have exhausted the inter- number of prisoners experi- the restrictions ultimately these areas. The Coalition Government felt that such individuals nal complaints procedure. In encing delays in their progress placed upon them in the com- reviewed Criminal Legal Aid should be entitled to Legal Aid addition, Legal aid is not through the prison system. munity. Until such a time that the issue and wrote a consultation paper and that the complaints pro- available within the first 6 Delays in progressing to open over legal aid for these areas titled “Transforming legal aid: cedure does not provide a fair months aft er sentence as this conditions will ultimately lead Disciplinary proceedings is resolved, we continue to delivering a more credible and route to challenge decisions will be covered by the rep- to longer and unnecessary This relates to adjudications efficient system made by the prison service. off er Legal Aid for those issues (“Transforming legal aid”). resentation order granted in periods in custody. before the governor. Currently for which it can be granted and funding is only available competitive fixed fees for Category A reviews where the Tarrant Criteria is issues not currently covered The defi nition of a category A met and the Governor grants by Legal Aid. Our expert team prisoner is one “whose escape permission for legal rep- have experience in a signifi - would be highly dangerous to resentation. This is something cant number of issues and can the public, or the police, or the which is granted only in spe- off er comprehensive advice. security of the State, and for cifi c circumstances and many whom the aim must be to make prisoners will no doubt have Should you require any assistance escape impossible”. Prisoners with a Prison Law issue please who are categorised B, C or D felt that their adjudication will be subject to re-categori- before the Governor was dealt contact our Prison Law depart- sation decisions by the Prison. with unfairly. ment at Hine Solicitors on 01865 Category A prisoners have 518971 or FREEPOST - RTHU - their reviews conducted by the The outcome LEKE - HAZR Hine Solicitors, Deputy Director of Custody The Court made the decision Seymour House, 285Banbury (DDC) High Security. 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a protected characteristic under s158 you have been subjected to detriment EA. Contraventions of the HRA 1998 as a consequence of process that is Challenging the Commission are enforceable in an EA action, and incompatible with the public body’s this could include being denied the obligations under the EA, and if so, right to a fair trial (which includes can award damages. Neil Robertson Unions v Minister for the Civil Service are subject to the sI49EA Public Sector the right to a fair sentence) under [1985] 1 AC 374 at p410 as being a Equality Duty (PSED) and must, in Article 6(1) together with arbitrary Where such incompatibility is iden- decision that is: exercising their functions, have due detention under articles 5(1) and (4): tified, its failure to ensure all its pro- Challenging a decision of the …so outrageous in its defiance of logic regard to the needs to: Criminal Cases Review Commission or of accepted moral standards that read together with the right not to be cesses are compliant with and have subjected to discrimination under due regard to its s149 EA PSED per (CCRC) or, in Scotland, the Scottish no sensible person who had applied a) Eliminate discrimination, harass- Article 14 ECHR. the Brown and Bracking principles Criminal Cases Review Commission his mind to the question to be decided ment, victimisation and any other can also be judicially reviewed under (SCCRC) not to refer your case to the could have been arrived at it at all. prohibited conduct; Mr justice Blake set out a six-step s113(3)(a) EA per Calvert-Smith J at Appeal Court is extremely difficult. b) Advance equality of opportunity approach in R (Lunt) v Liverpool City para 66 in R (Hajrula) v London Unfortunately, challenging the between persons who share a relevant Council [2009] EWHC 2356 (Admin) Councils [2011] EWHC 448 (Admin). It is important to appreciate that the Commission at judicial review is protected characteristic and persons that courts and public authorities Commission does not exist to con- almost impossible due to the very who do not share it; and can use in making decisions regard- Because you are not challenging the sider whether someone is innocent wide discretion and powers granted c) Foster good relations between per- ing the EA - in this example, for Commission’s decision but rather its or guilty: but whether or not there is in its establishing legislation com- sons who do not share it. new evidence or argument that can bined with Lord Bingham CJ dictum someone with a disability: processes, Lord Bingham’s ‘get out of jail free’ card has been trumped. cast doubt on the original conviction. in R v Criminal Injuries Cases Public bodies are required to prove 1) Did the Commission have a provi- Commission ex parte Pearson [1999] that they have had ‘due regard’ to sion, criterion or practise? The purpose of the EA is to ensure Where the Commission rejects your 3 ALL ER 498: what is known as the Brown and 2) Did that provision, criterion or that people are treated as individuals application, you may want to take The exercise of the power to refer… Bracking principles. This is evidenced practise make it impossible or unrea- with due regard to their specific the matter to judicial review. This depends on the judgement of the through and Equality and Human sonably difficult for disabled persons needs, rather than by way of a ‘one examines decisions taken by public Commission, and it cannot be too Rights Impact Assessment (EHRIA) to receive any benefit that is, or may size fits all’ approach. In particular, bodies in the context of their ena- strongly emphasised that this is a or similar document which must be be, conferred by the Commission? I anticipate there are grounds for such bling legislation, the Criminal judgement entrusted to the carried out in respect of (a) each pol- actions to be taken in respect of fail- Appeal Act 1995 (CCRC) or Part XA Commission and to no one else. icy and (b) each decision that affects 3) If so, is it under a duty to take such ures to progress IPP prisoners in of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) a person or persons with protected steps as is reasonable in all the cir- particular and more generally to Act 1995 (SCCRC). However, all is not lost. If your offence characteristics under the EA, per cumstances of the case for it to change provide appropriately modified reha- or your application was directly relat- Wilson LJ in Pieretti v Enfield Borough that provision, criterion or practise Miscabilitativerria offenderge programmesof J foru stice? However, there are a number of ed to a ‘protected characteristic’ Council [2010] EWCA 1104 at para 26. so that it no longer has that effect? particular groups of individuals important matters to bear in mind. under the Equality Act 2010 (EA) - 4) Has the Commission failed to comAS- HLEY SMITH & CO Our expeincludingrienced a innd particular dedicated those team withare s pecialists in The Court will only interfere if they which includes disability, gender Contraventions of the PSED become ply with its duty to take such steps? erred in recognised public law reassignment, race, religion or belief autism, including Asperger’s Syndrome. actionable at private law where the 5) If so, is the effect of that failure such Appeals & CCRC respects including: and sexual orientation - then you conduct is unreasonable and/or can- Undertaking work for privately funded clients only. as to make it unreasonably difficult At present, there seems to be little should be able to bring proceedings not be objectively justified, with ‘perfor the Pursuer to access such benefit? 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It is quite rare that an entire Randox test result in their case, someone has been convicted body with the power to Appeal looks into cases where case turns on a single strand they should be thinking of ap- of a crime, and has lost their send a case back to the the person has already ap- “…even if the allegations of of evidence. In most cases peo- pealing or applying to the appeal, but still says they were courts for a second appeal. pealed and lost, they will even- data tampering are proved this ple are convicted on a mixture CCRC. Other cases will be more wrongly convicted or incor- tually need to send that case will not provide an automatic of evidence and argument put complex. In this regular column rectly sentenced. We are based they answer questions to us at the CCRC and we will ground of appeal against con- forward by the prosecution. in Birmingham. 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Review by Noel Smith not to give up hope behind bars Gill Publishing / £16.99 / ISBN-10: 0717172473 Paul Green freed aft er suddenly being transferred from Gartree to Brixton and overhearing two other journey through Paddy’s rate ways. Their love was just Guildford 4 traves- prisoners there discussing his imminent nightmare-made-real. A another thing that ended up ty still shames depressing account of one trampled and destroyed by Paddy Armstrong, along with his co-accused release. Two days later he was out and admits it took a good while to get used to everyday life British justice man’s fall into the path of that those who deliberately set out Carole Richardson, Paul Hill and Gerry Conlon, slow-moving juggernaut some to ‘poison the wells of British was wrongly convicted of the 1974 Guildford in a world he hardly recognised. “The first people call ‘British Justice’. justice’. and Woolwich pub bombings before finally couple of nights out I was staying at my solici- Imagine, if you can, being You can almost feel the weight being freed in 1989. Now aged 66 and happily tor’s house in Guildford and he had to open the dragged into a police station of it dragging him under and The sad thing about the case married with two children in Dublin, Paddy bedroom door for me in the morning because and being accused of some- trying to suff ocate him, crush- of Paddy Armstrong and the has written a book with journalist Mary-Elaine I was so used to not doing it myself. One min- thing that you did not do. ing his spirit and scarring his Guildford Four, is that the Tynan about his experiences as a victim of one ute I was in prison and the next I am on the Something you know nothing soul. But it is also a love story. police, and many others in of Britain’s most notorious miscarriages of street with no help. I haven’t a clue about the about. Imagine that you are power, knew that the four justice. And the Belfast man knows better than outside world which I haven’t seen since 1974.” held at the police station for 7 were innocent when they were most what those currently serving sentences days without access to anyone The shame of jailing them for the rest of for crimes they haven’t committed are going Despite the hardships of such a prolonged spell except your accusers. You are this country is their lives in a blaze of public- deprived of sleep, food and through, advising prisoners to keep the faith in prison, Paddy reveals there are actually ity. Many items of evidence, water. You are tortured, both further compound- even when the odds seem stacked against them. things he misses about his former life even including statements relating physically and mentally. “I would say to them hold on and fi ght for what today almost three decades since his release. ed by the fact that to alibis, were later found to Threatened with death, not you believe in because you are innocent,” he “Believe it or not it is the comradeship,” he be marked ‘Not to Be Shown only for you but for your whole not one single told Inside Time. “I know it is hard and exact- explains. “You have friendships outside but it to The Defence’. And that, for family. How would you react? ly what it is like to be in that situation but you isn’t the same. In there you have friends who person has ever me, is the most terrifying thing How long before you signed a have to hold on” he says. have your back every minute making sure you about this appalling travesty ‘confession’? been brought to are calm and ok. It is a bit like family and you of justice - that the State can Paddy spent the entire length of his 15 years have to have that sort of family in prison. I knowingly and deliberately I can well remember the book for this of wrongful imprisonment as a top security don’t know if the prisons would be the same fabricate a case from start to almost casual beatings and Category A prisoner and admits there were as they were in my days or not.” Arrested, convicted and sen- fi nish in order to destroy the fi tting-up by the police back occasions when he even thought about ending tenced with Paddy was his lives of innocent people. in the day, and it would it all, something his fellow prisoners thank- Paddy got to know Mary-Elaine Tynan aft er girlfriend, Carole Richardson, appear, from the records, that fully talked him out of. “I thought about suicide she made a documentary about his case for a 17-year old ‘hippy’ girl with The shame of this country is this kind of behaviour was the and sometimes you get very, very low,” he Irish radio, the fi rst time he had publicly spoken a penchant for going barefoot. further compounded by the norm in the 1970s - The recalls. “If you have good friends around you, A less likely ‘IRA bomber’ it fact that not one single person about his experiences in over 20 years. They Guildford Four, Birmingham like I did with Ronnie McCartney and a few would be very hard to imagine, has ever been brought to book then decided to write ‘A Guildford Four mem- Six, Bridgewater three, Judith others, then that really helps get you through but an Old Bailey jury decided for this. The people who beat oir - Life aft er Life’ in which Paddy spills the Ward, Stephan Kizsco, Harry the bad times. If you can get good people that she was part of a terrorist and tortured these young peo- beans about his unwanted transformation from McKenny, et al. around you aft er a few months you start feeling Active Service Unit responsi- ple, who went out of their way a London hippy living in a Kilburn squat to better and better. You have to hold on because ble for the cold-blooded mur- to fabricate evidence against supposedly one of England’s most dangerous Paddy Armstrong was one of you can’t do yourself in and then you are found der of civilians and sent her them and were handsomely prisoners as a convicted IRA bomber. Mary- ‘The Guildford Four’, a quartet not guilty how would your family feel? My to prison for life. Paddy and rewarded for it with promo- Elaine points out that despite the subject matter, of young, innocents who were daughter could hardly believe it when she Carole were separated physi- tions and commendations, all Paddy’s upbeat personality and outlook some- accused, convicted and heav- found out I wanted to commit suicide in there. cally, but lived on in each got away with it. They kept times meant it was diffi cult to get him to open ily sentenced for the IRA I didn’t because I had people like Paddy Hill other’s heads. Sometimes the their positions of power and up about everything which had happened. bombings on pubs in (Birmingham Six) and Ronnie McCartney there only thing that kept Paddy never saw one hour of prison Guildford and Woolwich in to help. I owed money for drugs and gambling going against such great odds time for what they had done. “The thing about Paddy”, she says, “is he 1974. Paddy received a life debts in Gartree so they said go down to the was the weekly letter from The British criminal justice sentence at the Old Bailey, doesn’t dwell on the bad things, he would have Carole. They lived for the brief system should hang its head punishment block for a bit while we sort it out including a minimum recom- been happy just to write about the good times. moments that they could see in shame. for you. mendation of 35-years, and he He has a forward trajectory where he wants to each other in court or on the was stuck in the system for move forward in his life and that is why he has rare inter-prison visit. “Gripping as a work of Then when I came back up they put me on the wing over 15-years before being a happy life. You have to include everything fi c t i o n ”The Guardian with Paddy and Ronnie to make sure I wasn’t proved innocent. getting any more drugs or putting any bets on.” good and bad because I wouldn’t want the Alas, their love did not survive judicial system to think Paddy had come out captivity and, once released, “For lovers of freedom This book is an emotional unscathed or that this wasn’t a terrible thing everywhere” Jim Sheridan Paddy only discovered he was fi nally being they all but went their sepa- because even though today he has a wonderful wife and family, the coping skills you are left TurningPages with aft er prison are fairly limited.” SERVING SCOTLAND FOR OVER 30 YEARS Asked if his ordeal had made him bitter, Paddy says not. “I’ve no bitterness at all, I’m not that • Criminal Defence Experts • Parole Hearings Prisoners who can read type of guy. I’m angry with the police. I always get asked ‘you must hate so many people’ but Children’s Panels Hearings Family Law teach prisoners who can’t • • what’s the point? I didn’t just want the book to be about my time in prison, but also about WRITE to If you would like more information on how to become involved, as either a my life since I got out, and how diffi cult it was FREEPOST J C HUGHES GLASGOW Mentor or a Learner, contact the Reading in those early days. I needed to do it for my (no stamp required) Plan Lead in your prison (ask a Shannon children and the people of their generation, or call us FREE on Trust Mentor who this is) or write to: people who don’t know our story. Gerry Conlon Shannon Trust, Freepost RTKY-RUXG-KGYH and Carole Richardson are gone now, but I’m 0800 279 3090 The Foundry, 17-19 Oval Way, still here. And so is Paul Hill. 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ing potential speakers and a The Reader Competition chair for the day in order to For the essay competition explore the theme. One area Heidi Hollis considering the loss that the parents in the the committee are looking that will be addressed is the story are experiencing. We all of us quietly for entries of no more than recent Prison Reform Trust retrace our steps through the story to see if it’s 1000 words, ideally typed “I’ve been in here for - it’ll be 28 years report on segregation “Deep possible. None of us seem quite sure but our and double spaced using Custody”. in 3 days. And to be honest, this is the willingness to explore that suggestion makes the following question as best part of my week. This makes you me think that perhaps we all of us know enough a heading: feel human.” of loss to find ourselves unable to dismiss the Segregation units are complex places managing some of the Shared Reading group member, cat. A prison, possibility that the whole story could be a cre- “What is the impact of most difficult and vulnerable reading Silas Marner by George Eliot ation of the grief-stricken parents. “Perhaps segregation and solitary prisoners. The segregation their son just died” Andrew continues, “per- confinement on prisoners? unit is often regarded as a It’s a Friday afternoon at HMP Warren Hill. The haps they just can’t cope”. What alternatives are The Perrie Lectures, named barometer for how prisons are weather outside suggests winter is on its way there to making use of after Bill Perrie, who was a operating more generally: and seems a fitting backdrop for the ghost story There is a part in the story where the parents think these methods?” we are going to read in this week’s Shared they hear a knock at the door and the mother prominent Prison Governor Who ends up there? What are well aware of the need to the triggers for prisoners end- Reading group. The opening paragraph of The screams out, convinced it’s her son. Derek sug- There will be prizes of £30, reflect the concept of human- ing up on the seg? How they Monkey’s Paw by W W Jacobs takes us into the gests there is no one knocking but the mother’s £20 and £10 for the best ity in his dealings with his are treated? Can the experi- warmth of a family scene by the fire... desire for her son to return home is so strong three entries and the win- staff and those in his care, are ence ever be considered reha- that she hears it. “That’s happened to me,” he ning entry will be pub- running an essay competition bilitative? Research has sug- Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the goes on. “When my mum died I kept thinking lished in ‘Inside Time’. small parlour of Laburnum Villa the blinds I heard her or if there was a knock at the door for serving prisoners. gested that segregation can negatively impact on mental were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father that it was going to be her.” “Yes,” responds Entries should be marked Each year since 1986 the lec- health and increase the risk and son were at chess; the former, who pos- Andrew, “my friend lost his mum and used to Perrie Competition and tures have examined a par- of self-harm. The Perrie sessed ideas about the game involving radical tell me that he had seen her in a crowd of people.” sent to: Perrie lectures C/o ticular theme with the aim of Lectures 2017 will consider changes, putting his king into such sharp and After a quiet time he continues, as if thinking New Bridge, 1a Elm Park, stimulating dialogue that can how prisons can best meet unnecessary perils that it even provoked com- out loud, “it’s almost like a hallucination to ease LONDON SW2 2TX ment from the white-haired old lady knitting the pain.” In the story the knocking gets louder aid the improvement of care these significant challenges, for offenders and assist in the what outcomes can be expect- placidly by the fire. until ‘a perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated The closing date for the advancement of penal policy. ed from segregating prisoners throughout the house.’ “This line makes me competition is 15 August and whether better outcomes We soon settle in to this fire-lit room with the think of how grief doesn’t let you go,” says Andrew 2017 and the winners will The theme for 2017 is may be achieved using differ- characters, and are intrigued alongside them - “It just keeps on knocking in your head.” be notified following the “Segregation” and the lec- ent approaches, which may when a visitor produces a monkey’s paw with lectures in September 2017. special powers... ‘It had a spell put on it by an As we finish and Derek is leaving he comments tures committee are contact- not include segregation. old fakir,’ said the sergeant-major, ‘a very holy “well that’s really got me thinking, that’s what man. He wanted to show that fate ruled people’s I like about this group. Stuff happens that you lives, and that those who interfered with it did don’t expect,” and I like to think he is talking so to their sorrow. He put a spell on it so that about something more than the twists and three separate men could each have three wish- turns of a ghost story. I wonder if today we have es from it.’ moved in a different direction to the intended meaning of the story or not. I leave feeling no We are soon caught up in the drama of the story. need to know for sure, knowing that the mean- Despite the warnings the family can’t resist the ing we build by exploring our reading together temptation to interfere with fate and use the paw. each week is all we need. Wrongly convicted The first wish they use leads unintentionally to the death of their son. Consumed by grief, of a crime? the mum uses the second wish to bring him The Reader has been running Shared Reading back. Consumed by fear of his appearance the groups in Prisons, Secure Units and Approved father uses the third wish to make him go. We Premises for nearly a decade. Each week a Reader enjoy the suspense of the ghost story and our Leader brings a short story or extract and a shared intakes of breath mark the events that poem which they read aloud and invite the surprise us. But then something happens that group to discuss. Anyone in the group is welcome Lost your appeal? we really weren’t expecting. Loui speculates to read too, some do, some don’t. Everyone is out loud - “what if the Monkey’s Paw had no welcome to share their thoughts and feelings powers at all?” “What do you mean?” I ask, about what has been read although some people never having considered that possibility. “Just choose to reflect on these privately. Either way wondering,” says Loui. “Well grief is a very is fine, the point of Shared Reading is to come powerful thing” comments Andrew, obviously together and enjoy great literature together. What next?

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Day Owen. Love Rob (Cyril) Happy Father’s Day to a special grandad, lots of love (Frank) To my dad, Happy always Laura Lou xxx Father’s Day! Have a great day. See you soon, love from Chris X (Vincent ) To the greatest Dad in the world, love you Dad and (Michael) Happy Father’s Day thank you for your support Dad - Pikey Mikey, you are Your son Bobby B (Darren) To my step dad, amazing to us both Love you Happy Father’s Day! Have a always Cathy and Sarah xx (Tom) Dad! Happy Father’s great day. See you soon, love Day. Head and heart strong. from Chris X (Michael) Hi Dad! 13 weeks to Keep trucking old man. with go, please go & get Venison! love Connor xxx (Russell Snr) Thank you for Tweed here I come. Happy being there for me, it means Father’s Day, Hugs Gregg (Geoff) Happy Father’s Day. the world. Happy Father’s Day Have a good day and thanks and see you soon. Love Russell (Ian) I hear you’ll be donning for being there for me even your lycra cycling shorts and though I don’t deserve it some- Bounced back to success (Tony) To Pops, Happy Father’s going for a bike ride on times. See you soon All my Day. You are an inspiration to Father’s Day. Thank Goodness love Mike xxx my life, you’re an amazing I’m in here! Lol Love ya Dad, man. Love S.A.S X Stephen x Bear x (Jonathon) Thanks for all your ‘Enders star in The Ville support and everything (Paul) Happy Father’s Day (Dan) Happy Father’s Day you’ve helped me with. Have Derek Martin, one of our television national treasures, Pops, thank you for always Dan, you are an amazing dad a Happy Father’s Day. All the being by my side and for all to my 2 gorgeous nephews best Thomas makes an inspirational visit to HMP Pentonville you’ve done. I love you and Sammy and James. Love you, appreciate you. Aiden. Cathy (Shaun) Happy Father’s Day Jonathan Robinson That means what the right role-models to look to my husband, you’re the best up to. His gentle and highly (Mike) To Our amazing gran- (Kevin) Happy Father’s Day to dad in the world. I would be we are doing with amusing steers on decision dad Mike, we all love you to the best dad anyone could lost without you. Lots of love We know Derek from a pleth- individuals whilst making leaked around the the moon and back. Maisy, wish for. Love you all the Riley, Bailey and Mummy ora of television roles, room like spilt ink. No punch- Sammy, Emily and James x world. Love Laura-Lou xxx Eastenders, The Sweeney, we have them - es were withheld during a (Stephen) Dad, you mean the Only Fools and Horses to needs looking at frank and honest discussion. (Owen) Remembering you (Colin) You are amazing, fan- world to us all. You’re one in name just a few. But less well Taking questions from the dad. Won’t ever forget the life tastic and my best mate and a million. Love from Stephen, known is that as a younger fl oor, one prisoner asked how we shared together, as a com- you’re also a wonderful Dad. Kevin, Emma and Rebekah The public’s perception of Derek managed to bounce- Happy Father’s Day Love Mark man Derek had a brush with prisons and prisoners was plete family. Happy Father’s the law that so nearly added back from his negative life discussed. Derek agreed that experiences, in particular the him to the prison population. people in prison “are not all He ended up in court - on breakdown of his marriage? bad - they have just done bad “Life can throw bad things at charges for theft - but was things”, and that “more need- found not guilty by a jury. His you”, he said, “like ending up ed to be done with prisoners in prison. But it’s not the end acquittal in his pocket, Derek whilst they were in jail” in decided to give the world of of the world. 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If you’ve had a long day, everything’s annoying you or you’re struggling to get your head together, yoga can help you calm down. By focussing on your breathing and the feelings in your body, you can shake off anger, worry and frustration. Give it a go and see for yourself.

Seated Twists Even Breathing 5 Five breaths each side Before you start these poses, sit upright Think peace and focus on your breathing. Count

© Deposit Photos how long each in-breath and out- breath takes you - perhaps they will take a count of four, or maybe six. Soothe the spirit Now, using the longer count if the in and out breaths are different lengths, Mindfulness is the practice of purposely focussing your make each in-breath exactly the same attention on the present moment and accepting it without length as the out-breath. Do this for a good ten breaths. When you fi nish ten 6 Cobbler judgment. Mindfulness is now being examined scientifi cally breaths, begin to do the poses below. Five breaths and has been found to be a key element in happiness. Continue counting each in-breath and out-breath, keeping this even breath- Ancient roots, modern able to form deep connections perspective on irrational, mal- ing going as you do this routine. applications with others. adaptive, and self-defeating The cultivation of mindful- thoughts. ness has roots in Buddhism, Mindfulness improves Cat 1 Breathe in but most religions include physical health Mindfulness techniques some type of prayer or medi- If greater well-being isn’t There is more than one way to tation technique that helps enough of an incentive, scien- practice mindfulness, but the shift your thoughts away from tists have discovered the ben- goal of any mindfulness tech- Reclined Cobbler your usual preoccupations efits of mindfulness technique is to achieve a state of 7 Ten breaths toward an appreciation of the niques help improve physical alert, focused relaxation by moment and a larger perspec- health in a number of ways. deliberately paying attention tive on life. Mindfulness can: to thoughts and sensations • help relieve stress; without judgment. This allows Cat • treat heart disease; the mind to refocus on the Professor emeritus Jon Kabat- 2 Breathe out • lower blood pressure; present moment. All mindful- Zinn, founder and former Flow between these two postures • reduce chronic pain; ness techniques are a form of director of the Stress Reduction while breathing deeply, ten times Clinic at the University of • improve sleep; meditation. Legs Up Wall Massachusetts Medical • alleviate gastrointestinal 8 Ten breaths Centre, helped to bring the diffi culties. Basic mindfulness meditation practice of mindfulness med- Sit quietly and focus on your itation into mainstream med- Mindfulness improves natural breathing or on a word icine and demonstrated that mental health or “mantra” that you repeat practicing mindfulness can In recent years, psychothera- silently. Allow thoughts to bring improvements in both pists have turned to mindful- come and go without judg- physical and psychological ness meditation as an impor- ment and return to your focus symptoms as well as positive tant element in the treatment on breath or mantra. changes in health attitudes of a number of problems, Child including: Body sensations and behaviours. 3 Ten breaths • depression; Notice subtle body sensations Mindfulness improves well • substance abuse; such as an itch or tingling being • eating disorders; without judgment and let • Increasing your capacity for • couples’ confl icts; them pass. Notice each part mindfulness supports many • anxiety disorders; of your body in succession attitudes that contribute to a • obsessive-compulsive disorder. from head to toe. satisfi ed life. Some experts believe that Sensory • Being mindful makes it eas- mindfulness works, in part, Notice sights, sounds, smells, Sitting ier to savour the pleasures in by helping people to accept tastes, and touches. Name them Cow Face 9 Sit like this and let the air fl ow in and life as they occur, helps you their experiences - including sight, sound, smell, taste, or 4 Five breaths each side. out through your nose. Count the become fully engaged in activ- painful emotions - rather than touch without judgment and Use a sock if you can’t reach breaths silently to yourself: in 1, out 2, ities, and creates a greater react to them with aversion let them go. in 3, out 4 and so on, up to 10, and capacity to deal with adverse and avoidance. then start from 1 again. If you lose events. Emotions It’s become increasingly com- Allow emotions to be present count, it doesn’t matter. Just come back to 1 and keep going. Do this for ten • By focusing on the here and mon for mindfulness medita- without judgment. Practice a minutes, setting an alarm on your now, many people who prac- tion to be combined with psy- steady and relaxed naming of watch or clock if you have one. tice mindfulness find that chotherapy, especially cogni- emotions: joy,anger,frustration. they are less likely to get tive behavioural therapy. This If you want a free book and CD to caught up in worries about the development makes good Accept the presence of the help you set up a regular yoga future or regrets over the past, sense, since both meditation emotions without judgment and meditation practice write to are less preoccupied with con- and cognitive behavioural and let them go. The Prison Phoenix Trust, PO Box cerns about success and therapy share the common 328, Oxford OX2 7HF. self-esteem, and are better goal of helping people gain www.helpguide.org 44 Jailbreak // Fitness www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017 Cell Workout Five minutes with... Vassos Alexander is the sports reporter on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show and the author of the best-selling celebration of running Don’t Stop Me Now, 26.2 Get the body you want Inside & Out Tales of a Runner’s Obsession. He has presented on BBC Radio 5 Live and com- mentated on BBC tv, BT Sport and Eurosport. Vassos has reported on six LJ Flanders wear it around my neck”. promising career. But as a Olympic Games for the BBC and still commentates on tennis, golf, diving and young man he decided to seize darts events. He has completed several ultra-marathons and Ironman triath- Turning professional a year his second chance with both later, Joshua continued to hands to become the world lons. His marathon personal best is sub-three hours. work hard and over the next heavyweight champion and You have reported on numerous Olympic 4 years won all of his 18 pro- global star. What an achieve- Games - which one was your favourite fessional fights. ment. and why? Last month, aged 27, he faced The Olympics are special because they matter. his toughest opponent, They are the culmination of four years’ dedi- Wladimir Klitschko. A record cation and grind. I’ve reported on six Olympics crowd at Wembley saw Joshua and they’ve all been brilliant in their own way. win by TKO in the 11th round But London was easily my favourite. To have the to retain his IBF title and gain Games in my home city while the whole coun- the WBA and IBO titles. The try seemed to embrace Team GB - that was epic. Anthony Joshua, a winner fight received critical acclaim, described as a classic that will What does running do for you? go down in history as one of Basically, running sorts me out. For instance if In 2011, boxer Anthony Joshua the greats. was in court pleading guilty I’m ever stuck on something, I go for a run and when I get back, that’s it, problem solved. It’s to a drugs charge. He was “As long as you have discipline, also the best way to stop feeling tired, the best spared a custodial sentence you can be a success. Discipline way to give myself a bit of va-va-voom. It’s part but the shock and shame he is what makes you do escape, part therapy, and part simple child-like felt towards family, friends everything you need to do” and himself, and being sus- joy of running when you could be walking. pended from Britain’s boxing Anthony Joshua Vassos Alexander “The joy of running” squad, forced him to take a Cell Workout by LJ Flanders Why Ultra? Evidence supports the benefits long hard look at himself and A bodyweight training guide Running ridiculous distances provides aston- of sport and exercise. But it think about what he wanted designed for use in a prison cell. What advice would you give to your young- ishing highs. Why else would you put your can be more than that, engag- from life. He decided to change This 234 page book will guide er broadcasting/running self? body through such a battering? Why else would ing those who might be hard- and ‘chose the ring’. you with step-by-step instruc- you reach a point where the mind is a mess, er to reach in other ways. The I only stopped smoking and started exercising tions performing 204 exercises, limbs are lead weights and internal organs are healthy lifestyle, improved when I reached my thirties and got fat. So I’d A talented athlete, he realised with photographs and sample literally failing - and decide to press on? To fitness and psychological love to find a way to persuade my younger self that if he wanted to achieve his workouts. The exercises are keep on running. And running. 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“Sport is the playground and practice time for real life: Skills honed and Try a triathlon inside lessons learned in an environment defi ned by made-up rules set to pro- “Sport is the playground and practice time for real life” vide challenge, entertainment and bring us all closer together. You see it a damn and I’m here by choice. PE and PE staff • Persevere through setbacks; are under-utilized - I heard that at the confer- • Manage your mood; in school playgrounds all the time. ence too - which is another insanity at a time • Enjoy the process and achieve the outcomes; Take that away and… Except in pris- when the reoff ending rate remains stubbornly, • Pace your eff ort and look aft er yourself in a Andy running mountains shockingly high. remote location for extended periods of time; on the only certainty is that the lid Andy Mouncey is Director of Run For Your Life • Play by the rules without direct supervision. Community Interest Company www.runfory- comes off as well.” While there are sport-based programs across All qualities and skills that can be learned and ourlife.org.uk He is a record setting ultra-dis- the estate, it appears endurance sport is anoth- practiced - all of which will be needed for a tance triathlete and award-winning inspira- I’m not a PEI and I don’t work for the Prison er thing that is under-utilized and possibly smooth transition back to life on the outside. Service. But I’ve seen some transformative stuff tional speaker who works with a range of clients perfectly positioned. Think about it - endurance across sport, business, education and everyday in 30 years working in health-fi tness and ‘being So at HMPs Bristol and Kirkham we are work- sport requires you to be able to: life. [email protected] well’ which means I’m one of those who give ing with the education and PEI teams to devel- Specialists in Prison Law

• Parole • Recall • Adjudications • Pre-tariff Review • Sentence Calculation • Re-categorisation • HDC • Compensation for parole delay 0151 200 4071 63 Ham ilton Squ are Birkenh e ad W irral C H41 5JF solici tors 46 Jailbreak // Inside History www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017 Behind the gate On this day… 25th June 1876 The life and infamous times of Britain’s prisons. This month HMP Durham

Noel Smith executions at the prison. The last execution took place on the 17th of December 1958, when Private Brian Chandler, aged 20, was hanged for the murder of Martha Dodd during the course of theft . Chandler, a soldier based at Catterick, had beaten 83-year old Dodd to death with a hammer.

The deaths continued at the prison long aft er the last judicial execution. In 2003, it was revealed that HMP Durham had the highest suicide rate for all prisons in England. A battle to the end When the gallows beckoned Aft er the Mountbatten Report into prison secu- HMP Durham is a male Category B prison sit- rity in 1966, Durham’s H-wing was designated uated in the Old Elvet section of the city of as a Special Secure Unit, where High Risk Custer’s last stand! Durham. The prison has a long and varied Category A male prisoners could be held. It was history, at various times holding Category A judged to be ‘escape-proof’. In 1968, London Little Bighorn defeat for legendary Colonel male prisoners, high security female prisoners, robbers John ‘Mr Muscles’ McVicar, Walter and young off enders. The prison also had a ‘Angel Face’ Probyn, and convicted murderer Today Native American forces In mid-June, three columns of meet the attackers head on. working gallows on which 95 executions took Joey Martin tunnelled their way from a show- led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and U.S. soldiers lined up against Despite Custer’s desperate place. In January 2017, the Ministry of Justice er-room and managed to get to the roof of the Sitting Bull defeated the U.S. the camp and prepared to attempts to regroup his men, (MoJ) revealed that Durham was one of the adjacent Crown Court. McVicar got away and Army troops of Lieutenant march. A force of 1,200 Native they were quickly over- most over-populated prisons in the country, was on the run for nearly two-years, becoming Colonel George Armstrong Americans turned back the whelmed. Custer and some holding 319 more inmates than its Certifi ed Britain’s fi rst Public Enemy No1. Probyn and Custer in a bloody battle near fi rst column on June 17. Five 200 men in his battalion were National Average (CNA), meaning it was 54% Martin never made it over the wall. southern Montana’s Little days later, General Alfred attacked by as many as 3,000 overcrowded. Bighorn River. Terry ordered Custer’s 7th Native Americans; within an In the 1970’s, H-wing became the high securi- Cavalry to scout ahead for hour, Custer and every last Before the building of HMP Durham in 1810, ty female unit, holding up to 120 female pris- Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, enemy troops. On the morning one of his soldiers were dead. there were two prisons in the city. One was the oners, including notorious child-killer Myra leaders of the Sioux tribe on of June 25, Custer drew near County Gaol in Saddler street, and the other Hindley. The female wing was closed down in the Great Plains, strongly the camp and decided to press Post script: The Battle of Little was the Old Bridewell, or House of Correction, 2005, aft er the Chief Inspector of Prisons said resisted the mid-19th-century on ahead rather than wait for Bighorn-also called Custer’s which was built under Elvet Bridge. The County it was ‘unsuitable for housing female prisoners. eff orts of the U.S. government reinforcements. Last Stand-marks the most Gaol was owned by the Bishop of Durham, and This aft er several suicides on the wing. to confi ne their people to res- decisive Native American vic- was open for business in the 15th century, ervations. In 1875, aft er gold tory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian though it was said to be ‘very cramped’. It was HMP Durham features in two British fi lms - was discovered in South War. The gruesome fate of enlarged in 1773, but space was still at a pre- McVicar, starring Roger Daltrey and Adam Dakota’s Black Hills, the U.S. Custer and his men outraged mium and it was visited by a number of con- Faith, and the 2006 fi lm Longford, about Lord Army ignored previous treaty many white Americans and cerned individuals, including John Howard, a Longford. Many infamous prisoners have agreements and invaded the confi rmed their image of the leading prison reform campaigner. Another passed through the gates of Durham prison, region. This betrayal led many Indians as wild and blood- reformer, James Neild, published his fi ndings including Ronnie Kray, The Richardson broth- Sioux and Cheyenne tribes- thirsty. Meanwhile, the U.S. in The Gentleman’s Magazine in 1805. Neild ers, John Straff en, Ian Brady, Rose West, Carol men to leave their reserva- government increased its was not impressed by Durham Gaol claiming Richardson, Judith Ward and Raoul Moat. Custer failed tions and join Sitting Bull and eff orts to subdue the tribes and it was ‘Awful!’. Crazy Horse in Montana. By Durham is currently a Category B local for con- At mid-day, Custer’s 600 men drove home the war with a the late spring of 1876, more entered the Little Bighorn vengeful fury. Within fi ve years, The prison that stands on the site today was victed and remand adult males serving the than 10,000 Native Americans Valley. Among the Native almost all of the Sioux and eventually opened for its fi rst prisoner intake Courts of Durham, Tyne & Wear and Teesside. had gathered in a camp along Americans, word quickly Cheyenne would be confi ned The prison off ers full and part-time education in 1819, and consisted of 600 cells. But, before the Little Bighorn River-which spread of the impending to reservations. Crazy Horse to all inmates, including courses on data input, the 1823 Gaol Act, the Warder had to pay for they called the Greasy Grass- attack. The older Sitting Bull was killed in 1877 aft er leaving bricklaying, woodwork, painting & decorating, the right to run the prison and would make his in defiance of a U.S. War rallied the warriors and saw the reservation without per- waste-management and gardening. The prison money back by charging prisoners for their Department order to return to to the safety of the women and mission. Sitting Bull was shot was praised in 2014 by the Prison Inspectorate food and drink and the ‘other services’ he pro- their reservations or risk children, while Crazy Horse and killed three years later in for the quality of work activity and learning. vided. These ‘other services’ included releasing being attacked. set off with a large force to 1890 by a Lakota policeman. prisoners, providing straw for bedding and even for providing drinking water. Durham also had a license that allowed the Warder to sell alcohol, and a section of the prison was used as a pub.

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Why do we have to go into hostels if we have approved How to deal with Probation premises? National Prison Radio wants to make sure you don’t come back to The decision about whether prison after you’ve been released and a big part of that is working you live in an approved prem- with Probation. We spoke to Sonia Crozier, Head of Probation in ises or not is often a decision that’s made by the Parole England, who answered some of your questions Board, not probation. It can Are you worried be quite short, maybe two Some prisoners have told us they probably more probation staff about money?

months, so - as a first step - © Deposit Photos have been sent back to prison for can do. One of my big initia- they can see that an individ- something as small as missing tives at the moment is to see ual is able to comply with their Lots of people in prison have money worries. You might be an appointment. How can the whether we could do things license. I think you should concerned that your family are struggling to support themselves system help prisoners get back better before we make the without your income, or you might owe money and not know on track in the community? look at the AP as a kind of decision to recall. stepping stone. If you make a how you’re going to pay back your debts. This can be a danger- I thought the issue of recall success of the time there and ous situation, but National Prison Radio is here to give you How does probation decide would come up. It’s always a show the probation staff in the good advice about looking after your money and dealing with which people get that chance very hot topic. When someone hostel that you’re actually get- debt safely. to move forward and start comes out on license our abso- ting on with your life, then fresh in a different area? lute goal is not to recall peo- you’d be moved on very quick- One big risk is borrowing money from someone you think you ple. We don’t want to trip You’ve got to work with your ly. We don’t like to keep people can trust, only for things to go very wrong. It’s surprisingly people up. But it’s about pos- probation officer to think in APs when we don’t think easy to end up borrowing money from a loan shark, but it can itive relationships. Recall only about the steps you need to they need that level of over- get you into huge amounts of debt - not to mention worry for take to move. If you’re going happens when the probation sight. When you’re coming up you and your family. We have been hearing stories of interest to be moving into rented Please don’t take me back... officer or the probation work- to parole, start having those rates from loan sharks reaching incredible levels - up to 4.2 accommodation you’re prob- er is either concerned about conversations with your pro- MILLION percent. This means a small debt of fifty or a hundred the individual or they’ve lost ably going to need some bation officer about what kind How do you want to make the quid can end up costing tens of thousands of pounds. And if contact with them. If things money behind you to support of options for release there probation service work better? that’s not enough, loan sharks use threats, intimidation and are going wrong, if you’re wor- that move. You need to find could be. violence to get you to pay them back. It’s all about the relationship. ried, if you’ve lost the accom- work or get your benefits to If there’s a good relationship modation you’re living at, if actually make that move happen. Start planning for it as Throughout June in our Breakfast show Porridge we’ll be hear- between the probation officer you know that things aren’t early as you can, so the ing more info on how loan sharks operate, including some and the man or woman they’re going so well with the people arrangements can be made to shocking stories. And we’ll be finding out how you can deal in contact with and supervis- you’re living with, then tell Sonia will be answering your ing, then probation works support that. It’s not that we with it if you get into trouble. your probation officer. If you questions regularly on well. It’s about openness. It’s would ever want to block that put your head in the sand and National Prison Radio. about understanding. But to as an option, far from it. Plan Remember - keep talking to Tune into Porridge every morning at 7am and 11am to find out disappear, that’s when recall have a good relationship like early, be real about the chal- Probation! You can ask your more. If you or your family are worried about loan sharks, you becomes more likely, because that we need enough proba- lenges in terms of what you offender supervisor to put you can get advice from the Illegal Money Lending Team. Call them we don’t know where you are. tion officers, so they’ve got the need to put around you to make in touch with your probation on 0300 555 2222. It’s confidential, charged at local rate, and time to spend with people. That being said I think there’s a move like that successful. officer before you are released. you don’t have to add it to your pin. 48 Jailbreak // Inside Poetry www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017

Star Poem of the Month Amber Leaf Shall I put the kettle on Steve? Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize Tony Joyce - HMP Parkhurst Daniel Brice - HMP Woodhill

Oh, what an atmosphere Shall I put the kettle on Steve and make us both a brew Nothing but cleanish air in here I’ll put one lump of sugar in yours, in mine I’m gonna put two A smokeless zone for all us lags You’re sweet enough already aint ya Steve, so one’s enough for you Save for the stench of smoking teabags They say it keeps the world turning and I don’t doubt that’s true What’s the whisper on everyone’s lips ‘Got any Typhoo or PG tips?’ Erm shall I put the kettle on Steve and knock us up a cuppa DHL rubbing their hands in glee It really isn’t that difficult a question, you indecisive f***er Profits up because of the price of ‘E’ I’ll just fill the kettle and you let me know Steve, one way or another They’re ridding the prison of drugs and such Don’t change your mind once I’ve sat down though, it’s now or never brother What can we use for our next crutch? Sugar and crisps and all kinds of sweeties Shall I put the kettle on Steve, and mix up some Rosie Lee In a year or two we’ll all have diabetes It’s just what you need in the morning Steve, a roll-up and some wholesome tea The suicide rate won’t have to increase I don’t really see any benefit in drinking less caffeine Steve, rather you than me Natural selection will be the new disease It seems to fender my problems into significance - I wish that you could see Healthcare visits will be over used © Deposit Photos Depression tablets will be abused Shall I put the kettle on Steve and make us both a drink No need for sugar, no need for Spice Don’t worry I’ll sort the cups out later, just dump them in the sink A smile from everyone - wouldn’t that be nice Now really to me it’s neither here nor there Steve, but I’ll tell you what I think Rain on Lampedusa No more nicotine running down the walls There’s better ways for us to be spending our time, instead of stuck here in the clink Simeon Hope - HMP Barlinnie No more yellow paintwork in the halls No more dog-ends littering stair rungs Oh, Steve put the kettle on mate, as it’s surely now your turn No more slime running down my lungs Or better still I’ll make the c**t and you roll up a burn! We cleave wide, summer air expensively expanding our small lives But where will all the bullying go? in search of sun When asked for a tab can you now say no? Corralled as lowing cattle, rowed in threes No matter how little you used to earn In flight we fight for space to make our own You couldn’t say no when asked for a burn If Only Will you share a dog-end that’s made for tea? Matthew Murrell - HMP Leeds Our dinghy - costly, shoddy, stinking - is loaded with squalling infants Will you continue to pass on Hep C? Young men radiating bravado, stoical women,’ us’ Will ‘no smoking’ make you any stronger? If only I had a chance to talk to you one last time as we walk to the pub Night seas are black masses, heaving, hateful Now tobacco’s not available any longer The things I would tell you, I didn’t think the past week was my last Terrifying my brave little Ahmed, also me And where have all the protests gone The riots proposed by everyone If only we could drink a Bud and listen to words from the wiser Just past Milan the child behind explodes It’s been meek and mild, as quiet as a thief Even though it always went in one ear and out of the other In buzz-saw screams for something, sugar, toys Withdrawing the crutch that was an amber leaf I never knew how blue I would be now you’re gone Relax, it was commanded, I am owed But this isn’t a eulogy for tobacco departed It’s so wrong My recessing from caring, live in joy Has it been replaced by a teabag or has someone farted? If only I never took you for granted, we had ups and downs Six hours out of Algeria, eight frantic hands are wildly trying to But now my frowns upside down restart our motor How I miss your encouragement Its tank is the only dry thing here I can’t pretend that my heart is not broken Velvet darkness presses over me, I clutch my sodden son, he does not cry Anyone can relate to the ‘ill feeling’ when you lose someone close Wind-whipped salt spray encrusts our lips - vast waves envelop I was thinking it was not too late to say I love you our pin-tiny ship All my eyes want to do is cry, so I dry my tears from my chin Some fall to the infinite water, the middle of earth Because where I am at the minute it’s seen as sin Few notice. We are holding so tight If only is all that goes around my mind We touch down. Oh. A drumming glooms our plane My heart is sinking, I can’t stop thinking © Deposit Photos Who could delight in Lampedusan rain? Of all the things I still never got to say, in my own little way The Thai Coral Reef Grey dawn guides our last paddling towards a distant beach I will never forget you and I will always miss you my best friend As our filthy craft threatens abandonment Abu Abdullah - HMP Manchester Roger Greenwood RIP But no, we drag up to brown sand I look at nature and can’t help but smile We tumble, whoop, cheer, we bless the clean new rain of Lampedusa I am amazed at how balanced it is The Thai Coral Reef provides the base Think Twice Whilst the titan fish patrols Andrew Gillen - HMP Portland War There’s never too much of this Wayne Picken - Northumberland And never too little of that The other day I got into some drama Every creature plays a part And when I say ‘drama’, I mean proper drama Too many children dying The life of one is food for the other It all started with having a beer with my mates Too many mothers crying And the death of one is life saving for another Chilling in my pad with tunes, chatting, it was great Mesmerised by nature’s way Too many fathers digging But then that demon inside awoke and burst its bubble Enthralled by the way it survives And I suggested to my pals “Let’s go and cause some trouble” Round after round Through the concrete and stone with their cut I ran into the centre office and threw out a screw Against the odds And swollen hands and broken hearts He flew out backwards like Pepé Le Pew! Then, I look at the human world Saving loved ones buried in the rubble of destruction I’d lost my nut, crazed, adrenalin flowing plenty All the corruption Left by the khaki green/grey vehicles of devastation The alarm went, shouting, now I know they’re coming to get me All the destruction All of a sudden, there’s a huge screw at the door All the filth Teddies with sad eyes and dolls that cry The pin came out, the handle went down And all the pain The fire extinguisher shot him square in the jaw I cry helplessly where once children used to play Its alarming how far removed from nature we are I charged into the rest with all my might Mothers used to bake and fathers used to watch their loved Every living creature conforms without free will These screws know I’m gonna give them a fight Ones with proud happy faces Except man, for he has the choice Next thing I know I’m awake on my bed Yet at every problem, he chooses to blame With cuts, bumps and lumps, it seems I’m now in the seg Let us stop the children crying How wonderful, when man conforms People say they can lock the locks but they can’t stop the clocks Let us stop the mothers crying Not to the laws of nature Well let me tell you, that clock slows down when on 4 man unlock Let us stop the fathers digging But to the laws nature are governed by I honestly thought it were gonna be fun For we agree that together we are a great creation But facing three outside charges looks like I’m done Let us build hospitals and schools and homes instead, Then why do we differ about And now I’m facing another few years Let us show that peace is alive and war is dead. The Great Creator Allah? So lads, please, think before having a few beers Insidetime June 2017 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 49 There’s a Place The Yard Breaking Point Where You Can Go Paul Berry - HMP Lowdham Grange Tre Bundy - HMP Wormwood Scrubs Stephen Potter - HMP Wymott What’s all the fuss, says the woman named Truss Twenty paces turn, twenty paces turn Lock them up, lock them up and keep filling the bus! My world’s a little easier today Each and every one of us, doing time we earned I’ve finally got that monkey off my back She ignores the deaths, the riots and no staff And though my problems haven’t gone away Shorter sentences? You’re having a laugh! Twenty paces turn, twenty paces turn I feel my life is firmly back on track The hurdles to our freedom, with every step are burned Lizzie, Lizzie can’t you see? Remember, there’s a place where you can go, It’s not about letting us out to run free Back and forth I pace to mark the passage of my time Where you can talk and no one else will know Jails are at breaking point and you don’t give a toss But even such a mundane thing I cannot claim as mine Time you stepped down to a new prisons boss Last week, God knows my head was in a mess I couldn’t see an answer to it all For my loved one’s back overseas, a tear each night I shed Lads needing programs for their mental health My stomach churned with pain and fear and stress As lunchtime comes all I hear is ‘where’s the loaves of bread?’ And all your party is interested in is power and wealth Then I saw the poster on the wall I came in here a Royal Marine and that I’ll always stay Brexit exit is all that we hear Remember, there’s a place where you can go, The system here tries to break me down, but a commando I remain You don’t have a clue or any idea Where you can talk and no one else will know Twenty paces turn, twenty paces turn Oh Lizzie, oh Lizzie the time is near It said there was a place where I could go As I go to sleep tonight there’s only one thing on my mind Your words to the country will be replaced by a tear Where I could speak in confidence My baby boy and baby girl, you’re never left behind And though it’s hard to talk (as we all know) Your media moles show the lads all on drugs What do you expect Lizzie? What had I got to lose, it all made sense To leave this concrete jungle soon, there’s one thing you must own … pride Everybody giving hugs? And always know YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE! Remember, there’s a place where you can go, Where you can talk and no one else will know An Ode to Prisons Ecstasies It wasn’t easy, I aint gonna lie Modern Life Trusting someone is a long, hard walk Dave Eccleston - HMP Oakwood Robert Lightband - HMP Perth But talking through things with another guy I know saved my life, it helps to talk Living on a spinning rock, circling around the sun Oh to be in Perth’s fair city A cosmonaut in a world of madness, devoid of fun Remember, there’s a place where you can go, Where troubled prisoners wear the blues On the mission of misery, home and afar Where you can talk and no one else will know No, it’s not for lack of titty Distant solar storm, not bright shooting star ‘tis the heartaches spawned by screws So, if you’re going through what I went through TV advertisement and materialism’s rife You’re not alone, I’ve walked where you have been Carving a fake wound with a plastic surgical knife Ladies fiercely prim and knowing Give yourself a break, here’s what to do PPI, Insurance, takeout’s or needy charitable cause Stubbled whizz kids who’ve seen it all Don’t store it up, talk to a lad in green An attack for our cash from every media source Bearded wonders, would be sages Remember, there’s a place where you can go, Answer Perth’s most sacred call Stresses washed away with every empty glass Speak to a Listener - no one else will know! Smoking and pill popping, angst gone in a flash XFactor, The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent asses So, what’s a bugging all ye cons? Making disposable art to feed the delusional masses Why such buzzing in the hive?

The Neighbour © Deposit Photos Why wear ye such haunted faces? Steve Churchill - HMP Long Lartin Computers over-used, dulling senses Oh celebrate - you’re still alive! Commuter super highway with rose-coloured lenses A Life of Drugs How did we manage in the golden days of old? He starts the morning moaning Those grotesque jailers, all so diff’rent Throughout the day he’s groaning William Jones - HMP Parc Without the Smart Apps upon a Smart phone So uncertain day to day Life’s against him it seems Deliberately wrecking all his schemes He don’t wear Adidas and Crime statistics reaching epidemic reporting How can a poor inmate do his sentence Misery comforts him like a cloud He don’t wear Nikes Health service and school systems imploding With his keeper’s disarray? Doom and gloom make him proud Coz all his money goes straight on whites Equality and diversity claim big business sales Women’s lib and gay rights, emasculates all males Bitterness and resentment worm away Then his whites they go in tins What awesome, temperamental show Burrowing deeper day by day And now his kid is searching bins Will each turnscrew wear today You should feed your son Fossil fuel depletion and global warming What hidden sore spot will be trod on And not your habit Kyoto forgotten, no one heeding the warning Buy him a dog or maybe a rabbit Pseudo friends message on anti-social media And what riposte be on display Fake image crafted lives like popularity hysteria Small wonder then each captive felon Politicians wage war from their comfortable chairs Love is Brave soldiers fight in lands where no one cares Treads thin ice each hairy hour Kelly Hudson - HMP & YOI Newhall A journey of life with somewhat predictable doom He knows not what just which volcano Shattered dreams a reality in our dark, lonely tomb Could erupt to show screw power I don’t know what love is But I know it isn’t money u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. It’s not chocolates and flowers To qualify for a prize, poems should not have won a prize in any other competition or been published It’s not cards with slushy verses previously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. It’s handwritten poems and letters © Deposit Photos It is very important that you ensure the following details are on all paperwork sent to Inside A Drinker’s Poem Being nice and considerate Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUMBER & PRISON. Failure to do so will prevent us responding to It’s not my thing you and your submission being withheld from publication. Daniel Boote - HMP Frankland I only do it when I want something Like holding hands By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they can be published in any of our I drank for happiness - and became unhappy And showing affection ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, website and any forthcoming books. You are also I drank to be outgoing - and became self-centred And giving loads of kisses giving permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in allowing other organisations to reproduce I drank for sociability - and became argumentative this work if considered appropriate, unless you have clearly stated that you do not want this to I drank for friendship - and made enemies I don’t know what love is happen. Any work reproduced in other publications will be on a ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note I drank for confidence - and became weak and uncertain But I would like to find out poems for publication June be edited. When submitting your work please include the following I drank for relaxation - and got the shakes permission: ‘This is my own work and I agree to Inside Time publishing it in all associate I drank for warmth - and lost my cool With you …. sites and other publications as appropriate.’ 50 Jailbreak // Prize Winning Competitions www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017 Read all about it! Caption Competition Last Months £25 Winner A £25 prize is on offer for the best caption to 1. Which member of the Middleton family Fonesavvy providers of ‘landline type W.Stevenson HMP Frankland this month’s picture. recently married James Matthews? numbers’ for mobile phones. Chris Grayling 2. Who won this year’s Eurovision? is the new Proud sponsors of Inside Time’s zookeeper, just 3. Which famous James Bond star died in May PRIZE quiz ‘Read all about it!’ shoot me now aged 89? If you don’t want callers to be disadvantaged or put off by the high cost of calling your 4. 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Cryptic Crossword Do you know? Anagram Square 100 years progress Rearrange the letters in each row to form a word. Write your The world isn’t perfect, but a recent list shows answers into the blank grid. how much progress has been made in the USA The first letter from each word, in the past 100 years. The list, originally compiled reading down, will spell the by a theatre troupe in Del Tura, a community mystery keyword. in Florida, has been going viral on Facebook and Twitter. Incredible ways the world has Not to be sniffed at 1 BRTUS changed in the past 100 years. The Independent Whether it’s sniffing out bones, bombs or even cancer, 2 ESRND • The average life expectancy for men was 47. dogs have long been believed • Fuel for cars was only sold in drug stores. to possess a far more 3 TUPER • Only 14 percent of homes had a bathtub. powerful sense of smell than • The speed limit in most cities was 10mph. humans. But new research 4 OIVAD • The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel reveals this is nothing more Tower. than a “big myth”. The culprit 5 NKKCA • The average US wage in 1910 was 22 cents for the 150-year-old miscon- per hour. ception has been named as • The average US worker made between $200 the 19th century brain 1 and $400 per year. surgeon and anthropologist • More than 95 percent of all births took place Paul Broca. The Frenchman 2 at home. insisted that a powerful sense • Ninety percent of all doctors had no college of smell was an inherently 3 education. animalistic trait and that, as • Most women only washed their hair once a month. rational beings, the capacity 4 They used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo. must be far less potent in • Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people humans. “For so long people 5 from entering into their country for any reason. failed to stop and question • The five leading causes of death were: this claim, even people who Pneumonia and influenza, Tuberculosis, study sense of smell for a Thanks to Darren Cuddy - HMP Leeds . If you fancy compiling an Across Down Diarrhoea, Heart Disease, and Stroke living,” said Professor John Anagram Square for us please • The American flag had 45 stars. McGann, who led the new just send it in 5 x 5 squares, 3. Protection to put first (6) 1. Laid up face down (4) • The population of Las Vegas was only 30. research at Rutgers University complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it we will send 6. Firm pay without a duplicate (4) 2. Notice what has to be kicked in • Crossword puzzles, canned beer and iced tea in New Jersey. But the new hadn’t been invented yet. paper, published in the you £5 as a thank you! 8. Force coming from member that is competition (4,3,4) Remember to include your name, left outside (5) 3. One out on his feet (11) • There was neither a Mother’s Day nor a journal Science, found that number and prison with your entry. 9. Earl had question with tranquilliser I 4. A few snowflakes - blast!(6) Father’s Day. human sense of smell is included for balance (11) 5. Narrate story given by blabbermouth • Only 6 percent of all Americans finished school. “excellent”, only in different 10. Drunk on about one and (8) • Marijuana, heroin and morphine were all ways to animals. 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One might say this in an apprecia- 13. Not having been in a union for last. Devastated.” Alfie Brown tive way (5,3) long (4,7) What would happen if the Earth stopped 20. Hinder unknown number during 14. Flame red jacket? (6) “If I’m ever feeling down I just spinning? difficult times (6) 15. Unkempt garment that has been type: ‘Yo are the best’ into If the planet stopped suddenly from it’s current 22. Yellow book held in central bank (4,7) discarded has label on (6) Google. Then it responds: ‘I speed of 1000mph, everything on the surface 25. Southern sailors’ pay (5) 18. Potential spoils be distributed (8) think you mean: “You are the would be destroyed, as the atmosphere, oceans 27. I blame Mario correcting notewor- 21. Heard cook grating (6) best”’ and I feel much better.” and anything not nailed down would keep thy points (11) 23. Last order before time’s up (5) Jack Barry 28. Frenchman repeatedly using the old 24. Duke not well coming up for flag (5) spinning. If it slowed down over several years, expression of mild disagreement (2,3) 26. Bird coming from city in Brittany, it would still be a disaster. Without centrifugal “People say I’ve got no 29. Penny after fighting found buckle (4) we hear (4) force, the oceans would move towards the poles, willpower. But I’ve quit smoking 30. Remove agent, not Georgia (6) Exterminate! dropping ocean depth by 8km around the loads of times.” Kai Humphries equator. Since this is less than the depth of the ocean there, Earth’s water would be divided “I think the most tragic thing The Joke’s on You ond wish. Bear responds: “All right, I Pint size protector into two huge polar oceans separated by a about Jesus’ life is that he want all the other bears in the England fans at next year’s belt of land in the middle. Everything north of probably never got to go A bear is chasing a squirrel in the woods. COUNTRY to be females.” Genie World Cup in Russia will be Spain would be underwater, as well as all of swimming” Alan Power grants the wish. protected by a four feet tall Antarctica. Once Earth doesn’t spin on its own They cross a river when, all of a sudden, axis, a day lasts as long as a year. Everywhere Genie turns to squirrel: “How about robot capable of spotting “I was very proud of my dad the river genie appears. receives six months of daylight, gradually it?” Squirrel responds: “Gimme a aggression and dealing with it. when I was at primary school If the robot, called AlanTim, heating up the planet to well over 100°C. The and told everyone I went to Genie: “Well, what do we have here? motorcycle helmet.” senses aggression among fans, huge central continent would get the hottest school with that my dad was Two customers. I don’t know who trig- Bear shakes his head again. “What’s it will first try to defuse the and any remaining lakes and rivers would boil a soldier, a fireman and a gered this whole thing, so lemme give wrong with you?” Genie then turns situation with “diplomatic away and be blown to the poles by fierce policeman. Turns out, he was you 3 wishes. Bear, you start, since once more to bear and asked for final conversation”. If that fails the winds. Even primitive life would only be just a stripper.” Matt Brown you’re bigger.” wish. “You know what? I want all the robot will contact the police possible along a narrow strip at the coast. BBC Bear thinks for a moment. He smiles: other bears in the WORLD to be who will adopt more “My friend asked me, ‘If you “Ok, I want all the other bears in this female.” Genie grants the wish, then conventional methods of Sorry, you can’t plant enough trees to offset could have any superpower in forest to be females.” Genie grants the turns to squirrel. dealing with the problem. fossil fuels the world, what would it be? I wish, turns to squirrel. Growing plants and then storing the CO2 they said Cold War Russia.” Chris Squirrel grabs his helmet, puts it on. AlanTim said: “I read on the have taken up from the atmosphere is no Turner Squirrel thinks. He looks up to the He then walks to the motorcycle, gets internet that many English viable option to counteract emissions from genie: “I want a motorcycle.” on it. He starts it, runs the engine a lit- fans have doubts regarding fossil fuel burning, a new study shows. The “My wife said: ‘Did you know tle. As he rides away, not looking back, the safety of visiting Russia. 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4 June 1917 108 +129 / ÷3 / x12 / -167 = __ The Order of the British Empire was established by King George V. It is an order of chivalry awarded to people who make a significant achievement 34 x27 / +237 / ÷33 / -33 = __ for (or contribution to) the United Kingdom. Submitted by Jamie Upton - HMP Rochester. Start There are 5 classes: Knight/Dame Grand Cross on the left with the first number and work your way (GBE), Knight/Dame Commander (KBE/DBE), across following the instructions. If you would like to Commander (CBE), Officer (OBE), Member (MBE). submit similar puzzles we will pay £5 for any that are chosen for print. Please send in a minimum of three 12 June 1942 puzzles together with the answer! Anne Frank received her famous diary for her 13th birthday. She used it to document her life over Sudoku // Medium the next 2 years as her family hid from the Nazis.

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Inside Chess WordsearchJailbreak June 2017 // Animals Would you believe it? Word search: Animals – Katherine Prigmore, HMP Downview by Carl Portman C A X Y Z S M O R S P O L A R B E A R S A A Z Y X H C U O I A R K A C E B D L E Chess is an odd game in many ways, not least B C T F G A H O I L N Y X S N M D N Y A for the rule that one can offer a draw at any D E U X U R R Q W P D O N M A R B E Z H moment and if accepted the game simply stops. F X R Y Z K Q U Q O A O Z Y U A Y I O O Imagine this in a football match. Fifty thousand T S K D M X O X I M P G L R P T E Q U R people have paid to watch the big game, then I S E I M N O P C O D H I P N O Q P S S ten minutes into the second half the teams agree Q W Y T U Y H F G N S K I S H T W X H E a draw and walk off. There would be a riot. Chess Q X Q Z A I E S M K R Q V R Y I Z A H I is a form of ‘mental boxing’ so imagine if Ali and R U N B N S N A K E U L T L A L N O X J Frazier had suddenly stopped mid-round to S B U T T E R F L Y X Y I Z A B C E D Q shake hands and agree on a draw. It’s just one Z L Q T Z O X M N Q I O G O K L B Z P O of those weird rules, along with en-passant and G M E E R K A T P L E F E C N Q B I D A castling that belongs to chess. Did you know O Y U U R E G I T G H N E W Z Y P S T F though that there are several ways to draw in Z V K S E P H H O U F Z M T N E E C R A chess? Stalemate, threefold repetition of a po- Q O P E Y K R S W C R Q S O T Z N O S U sition, when there has been no capture or a pawn S H E E P I N I S H E T S L D E G U T S being moved in the last fifty moves, if checkmate P Y G I R A F F E L A E L A R H U P Z H is impossible, or if the players agree to a draw. S O A Z A Z L J C E C L W E S I I O I Z

D W X Q T H M C H I C K E N O I N E X G Just as in other sports, there can be fighting draws which are interesting or dull, boring draws. I used NEWButterfly, Can Cat, Chicken,you spot Cow, Degu,the Dog,28 animalsDolphin, Fish, in Frog, the Giraffe, grid Lion, above? Meerkat, Monkey, to offer draws quite a bit when I was a young Panda, Penguin, Pig, Polar Bear, Rabbit, Rat, Seahorse, Shark, Sheep, Snake, Tiger, Turkey, AnswersTurtle, Whale, next Zebra month player because I did not want to lose. Now, as I ThanksAnagram to Square Katherine - Prigmore - HMP Downview for compiling this have aged I just play the game to win and it is Wordsearch. If you fancy compiling one for us please just send it in Up above the streets and houses... rare for me to offer a draw. Sometimes I might maxAnswer 20 x 20 grid and complete with answers shown on a grid. If we Everyone needs a new look from time to time - and apparently villages are no take a draw if it is the last round of a competition use it we will send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number and prison with your entry. exception. In May, Kampung Pelangi in Indonesia, unveiled an extreme makeover and I am going to win a prize, sometimes I may Hidden word: Break that has seen it dubbed “Rainbow Village”. The formerly unassuming village in take a draw if I feel unwell and of course I may Indonesia was given £17,000 for the facelift by the local council committee, who take a draw if I believe there is really nothing in Quick Crossword hoped to attract more tourists to the area with a bold new colour scheme. A true the position. In the old days (the cold war for community venture, even the Mayor of nearby Semarang, Hendrar Prihadi, got example) there were many pre-arranged draws involved, painting some of the 232 houses himself. From afar the buildings simply in chess. Bobby Fischer said at the time - and he appear covered in coloured stripes, but take a closer look and there are pieces of was proved right - that Soviet players would fix art around every corner. Every inch of the village looks colourful and vibrant - a results so that he (Fischer) did not win a tourna- stark contrast to before, when the buildings were grey and rundown-looking. The ment. In any event, I encourage everyone to pay Independent chess for the game’s sake and the result will take care of itself.

We smell a rat Let me take this opportunity to thank all those Police in the Indian state of Bihar have been who write in with answers to the puzzles. The confi scating alcohol in the region since it was column is written expressly for you, so it is won- made illegal in April 2016. In that time, police derful that you support it. There is no drawn have gathered roughly 900,000 litres of the position this month. The position begs just one good stuff. A slight issue emerged, however, in question. How would you, as white continue in that all of it has gone missing. Senior order to win the game? Superintendent of Bihar’s capital city, Patna, Manu Maharaj was informed of the disappear- ance of the alcohol, and he was also given a 8 pretty spectacular reason for the alcohol’s Give us a kiss absence. The excuse? Rats drank it. All 900,000 A Florida man is recovering in 7 litres. Unsurprisingly, police have ordered an hospital, after his attempts to investigation into those claims - an investiga- kiss a rattlesnake went 6 tion that will include breathalyser tests for the horribly wrong. Ron Reinold offi cers in the region. Speaking to The Hindu 5 was playing with a rattlesnake Across Down newspaper, Maharaj said: “If they fail the test that had been captured by his they could even lose their jobs, apart from 4 neighbour, Mr Goff the 1. Large prawns (6) 1. Record player needle (6) being prosecuted under the new stringent previous day. At some point, 3 4. Rounded line (5) 2. Humble (4) excise and prohibition laws.” Joe.co.uk Mr Reinold attempted to kiss 7. Fair or average (10) 3. Examine closely (7) the snake. “Ron said, ‘I’m 2 8. Outward appearance (4) 4. Light boat (5) going to kiss it in the mouth,’ 9. Admission (5) 5. Steal from (3) and the snake bit him in the 1 11. Tummy (7) 6. Foe (5) face,” Mr Goff told Action 13. Fit of bad temper (7) 7. Automata (6) News Jax. “Ron was just acting A B C D E F G H 15. Herb (5) 10. Monarch’s chair (6) silly, you know? I guess he 17. Simple card game (4) 12. Reap (7) A chess magazine (back copy) donated by Chess Theunis Botha said he could kiss the devil 18. Participate in or undergo (10) 14. Light motorcycles (6) and get away with it, but & Bridge of London is the prize if you are first 20. Pool of money (5) 15. A short holiday (5) Not a game evidently he didn’t.” It is not out of the hat. 21. Conservatives (6) 16. Hagman, actor (5) A South African professional hunter has died known what type of kiss the 17. Wound mark (4) after Zimbabwe after an elephant shot by a Write to me with your answer, care of The English man went for, or frankly why 19. Mine (3) member of his group fell on top of him. Chess Federation at The Watch Oak, Chain Lane, anyone would think attempt- 51-year-old Theunis Botha was walking with a Battle, East Sussex TN33 OYD. Please note that ing such a thing was a good The last word... group of hunters in May when they were you should always write to me at the ECF not via idea, but the snake proceeded stormed by three female elephants, reports InsideTime. to bite him fi ercely on the News24. Botha fi red on them, but then a fourth “Appear weak when you are strong, elephant approached from the side and was tongue. Mr Reinolds was The answer to May’s puzzle was 1.Qg8+!! Rxg8 shot and killed by another member of the fl own by helicopter to 2.Nf7# This is a classic smothered mate. The and strong when you are weak” group. The animal then collapsed and fell on hospital where he was put winner will be announced. Sun Tzu, The Art of War top of Botha, killing him. He is survived by his into a coma, but thankfully he wife and fi ve children. Botha was also friends has since woken up and is The winner of Aprils’ puzzle was Thomas from with fellow South African hunter Scott van Zyl, now recovering in hospital. HMP Cardiff. who was killed by crocodiles last month. IFL Science 56 Jailbreak // National Prison Radio www.insidetime.org Insidetime June 2017 National Prison Radio is currently available in prisons June 2017 across England and Wales. What’s on National Prison Radio // June 2017 We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, into your National Prison Radio is currently available in prisons across England and Wales. We broadcast 24-hours a day, seven days a week,cell. into If youryour prisoncell. has National Prison Radio, you can listen through your TV by using the tuning buttons on If your prison has National PrisonWhat’s Radio, you can listen on through National your TV by using the tuningPrison buttons on your Radio? remote control. your remote control.

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