'They've Saved Me and I Can't Thank Them Enough'

“True justice is one that makes wider society better and safer in the short and long term” Carl Cattermole // Comment // page 17

“Maybe Liz Truss can explain why I was “I felt there was a good spirit between the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees dumped on the streets of Durham with no staff and inmates, a willingness on both more than £46, no accommodation, no sides to use guitar tuition to change the a voice for prisoners since job, no rehabilitation and no supervision” atmosphere in that part of the prison” April 2017 / Issue No. 214 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profi t’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 Ben Barnes - A long walk to freedom Five minutes with... Billy Bragg An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verifi ed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Mailbag // page 6 Information // page 47 ‘They’ve saved me and I

Focusing on can’t thank them enough’ what works 18 With a single punch a promising young life was brought to an end. Now with “I don’t give advice, the help of the victim’s family the man who killed their son is building a new life but we know what Cricket fan James works and we do it” Hodgkinson, a trainee paramedic, was in Head of the Swedish prison service Nils Nottingham for a Oberg tells Inside Time why the cricket test match. Swedish prison system has such a low One punch ended his reoffending rate. life and devastated his loving family.

and now he is at university studying criminology. “I’ve been trying to prove to James’s parents that I am sorry through my actions. I came to the decision that education was the best way Joan Scourfi eld, mother of James Hodgkinson forward and upon hearing that, they were sup- shakes hands with killer of her son Jacob Dunne portive. They’ve saved me and I can’t thank © ITV them enough.” Princess Royal (right) was an argument, which led to James being hit 10 Inside Time special report Joan Scourfi eld, James’ mother, said contacting congratulates Bernadette Hare by Jacob. Now 23, Jacob admitted manslaugh- Jacob was about fi nding the truth. “I wanted ter and was jailed for 30 months. Jacob Dunne felled James Hodgkinson, 28, from to know why did he hit James? Was it unpro- voked? I can’t say a hundred per cent that I ‘She is the gaffer’ Southampton, with a single punch in a city In trying to explain what happened Jacob said: have forgiven Jacob but I can understand there centre brawl in 2011. James, a cricket fan who “There was a culture that fi ghting on a Friday The Butler Trust’s Annual Award Ceremony was no maliciousness in it, it was just a stupid was in Nottingham for a test match, died nine night was normal [but] my whole life came took place on 9th March 2017. This year the mistake by him. I don’t think we’ve saved days later. James’s mother Joan said she had crashing down in an instant.” He said he felt Princess Royal’s Prize for Outstanding Jacob’s life, we’ve turned it around and that’s Achievement, the Trust’s highest Award, wanted to help her son’s killer and accepted “bitter” and “hard done by” at fi rst by the sen- what we wanted to do.” Both Jacob and James’s went to Bernadette Hare. She was described Dunne’s actions had been a “stupid mistake”. tence, but aft er James’s parents made contact James, a trainee paramedic, was with his parents now campaign about the dangers of a as ‘just amazing’ for her outstanding skill he started taking responsibility for what he and compassion in her work at HMP father, brother and three friends to watch a single punch. had done. Bullingdon as a Prison Officer, where she match between England and India at Trent has earned the respect and affection of the Bridge. Nottingham Crown Court heard there See exclusive interviews on page 20 Jacob and James’s parents have stayed in touch entire jail.

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www.rahmanravelli.co.uk / [email protected] Nationwide Service The strongest legal representation in the fields of serious, complex and business crime 2 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime April 2017 Post Office scam? insidetime Star Letter of the Month Mailbites a voice for prisoners since 1990 Congratulations to this months winner who Details supplied - HMP Nottingham receives our £25 prize Top notch food the national newspaper for prisoners published by Here at Nottingham, a lot of prisoners are I feel I need to praise the kitchen and food Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of receiving cards from the Post Offi ce stating here at Leicester. The food in our prison is The New Bridge Foundation, founded in 1956 to that postage on their mail has not been paid. create links between the offender and the Hostage to fortune totally top notch, and the staff do wonders on We then have to pay the initial postage plus community. a tight budget. Thanks to the kitchen staff for JP McDonagh - HMP Bullingdon a ‘Post Offi ce handling fee’ (surely the job of A not for proﬁ t publication. the Post Offi ce is to ‘handle mail’?). As pris- all your time and efforts. I am an IPP hostage and have been in prison Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial oners, we have NO CHOICE but to pay these Steve Williams - HMP Leicester content. Comments or complaints should be for 12 years - my sentence was 2 years, 10 charges or we do not get our letters. months and 10 days. I was 22-years-old when directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. Stop breaking the rules I completed my fi rst sentence plan. I was told Inevitably, people will occasionally forget to Board of Directors that completing a sentence plan would lower put on a stamp, or pay the wrong postage, In reply to the mailbag by Mr Williams at HMP my risk, but I have since found out that my but since the Post Offi ce has been privatised Inverness about ‘no library’. Inverness is not Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, risk can only be lowered aft er release. it seems to be happening a lot more than the only prison with this problem. The library Journalist, Writer and former Magistrate. usual. I have received 3 of these cards in the at HMP Wayland was ‘closed to prisoners’ in Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge I have now stopped doing anything for parole, Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon past 4-weeks, and I am far from being the October last year, due to ‘the level of violence Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh as I have realised that there is no point. I only one. in the prison’. PSI 02/2015 states that prisoners John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and know I am going to die in prison. I have self- MUST have access to the library for a mini- Managing Director employing former prisoners harmed a lot and twice tried to kill myself So far, I have had to pay an additional £5.50 mum of 30-minutes per week. In 2011, the Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice because of the loss of hope. Even my dreams (weekly prison wage - £9) for the privilege of High Court ruled that the prison system must Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, are no longer normal, I oft en dream about receiving my mail. Asking around and hearing follow the mandatory parts of PSO/PSI’s, and Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation dying in prison. People say the new reforms how many people this is aff ecting, I cannot not to do so would be unlawful. Somebody will help, but I just see them as false hope. help but wonder if the Post Offi ce is pulling a should be taking these prisons to court for The Editorial Team ‘He’s given up...’ Page 28 scam? breaking mandatory PSI’s. N Lamberth - HMP The Mount They take the profit but won’t accept responsibility No desire Darren Kidd - HMP Stoke Heath I read the article by Andrew Sperling (‘Great Expectations’ - February issue) with keen I was working here in the kitchens as a pot-washer when I was electrocuted by a faulty waste- Erwin James John Roberts Rachel interest and felt quite positive for IPP prison- food disposal machine. I was told that I was lucky to survive because of the voltage/ampage Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE ers, until the point where he says - ‘Only Liz Director Associate Editor and the fact that I was soaking wet. This incident was classed as ‘very serious’ and I was told Truss can do anything significant to change the by my personal offi cer to put in a complaint against Liverpool prison as I was in their care IPP, but she has shown no sign that she has any Commercial when this happened. But I was told that HMP Liverpool ‘could not get involved because the desire to do anything at all’. I’m starting to feel Manager kitchens are run by a private company’. I then found out that my signature had been forged on that the longer I stay in prison, the less chance David Roberts paperwork claiming I had taken part in a Health & Safety course before working in the kitch- I have of being successful when I am finally Head of ens, which I did not. As a result of this incident I now suff er with seizures, tinnitus, mental released... If ever... Can anyone tell me if it is Administration health issues and other ailments. Who is responsible? possible to appeal a Parole Board decision? 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I’m not a number Land of confusion Mailbag 2-9 “Do you think it is Peter Leslie Feeley - Richard Beattie - HMP Frankland HMP Littlehey right that 13 months between Prisons are failing. Prisons will always fail and have always Here at Littlehey, the majori- emptying IMB failed. The only thing that prisons succeed in is warehousing Page 4 ty of staff address prisoners boxes is a bit people in appalling conditions and exposing them to hatred negligent?” by their surnames. In my and thoughts of vengeance. Also, it educates them to many view this is quite disrespect- other methods of criminal activity. Prisoners turn to each other Newsround 10-15 ful. It also goes against for survival in a bad system. They pretend to comply with It is about time NOMS own stated policies courses and regimes, what there are of them but, in reality, “ prisoners in the on mutual respect and dis- all they are learning about is crime, from other prisoners. courages good order and United Kingdom had a taste of the discipline. Criminals in prison always exaggerate their criminal abili- Page 11 good life ties, they form allegiances with other criminals and plan ” I spoke with wing staff and future crime. All prisoners are ‘damaged goods’, all have per- Comment 16-29 even wrote informing them sonal problems, so how can prisons do anything to change how I would like to be “True justice is one the life of a criminal? Even supposing that they had any ink- that makes wider addressed and reminding ling or resources to do it in the fi rst place? them of the use of the prefi x society better and ‘Mr’ or ‘Peter’ followed by safer in the short Page 17 the surname. Staff ignored “The only thing that prisons succeed in is warehous- and long term” my request, so I escalated ing people in appalling conditions and exposing Information 30-37 the issue via a COMP1 & 1A, them to hatred and thoughts of vengeance” “Each room will and the complaint was have a laptop as upheld with the added sug- The media regularly interview so-called experts, prison gov- well as a phone, gestion of speaking with ernors, Ministers, ex-prisoners and POA members, which shower and toi- staff direct, which I have makes the public confused as half of them are telling the Page 34 let” “Please can I have more gym sir?” done, to no avail. I even public that prisons are like 4-star hotels, and the other half

© prisonimage.org Legal 38-43 used the Confi dential Access tell them that they are hellholes fl ooded with Spice and vio- procedure, and the governor lence. First these experts tell the media/public that prisoners “If you do have stated - ‘This is a matter that have taken over the jails, and in the next breath talk about sensible grounds Have wheels can’t travel senior management are tak- prisoners being 23-hour-per-day lockdown. The confusion you don’t need to Jason Place - HMP Thameside ing forward under both around our prison system is shocking and getting worse daily. fear a loss of time decency and rehabilitative Page 43 direction” I sit here in my cell in my wheelchair aghast and bewildered. culture agenda’. Break it down; look at the facts - there are 125 prisons in I wonder whether the gymnasium here at Thameside should England & Wales, 86,000 prisoners, 25,000 staff . It costs bil- Jailbreak 44-56 display a sign “No entry for wheelchair users”. I waited 21 The recommendation to lions of pounds to incarcerate people and the justice system Breeding months to be invited to the gym, somewhat half-heartedly by speak to staff directly is a “ is so complex that money is washed down the metaphorical grounds for gym staff - who in no small measure make it abundantly dangerous thing to do, as I pan. Most governors and assistant governors are inexperienced psychopaths clear that wheelchairs are not welcome. have no doubt that when in working with damaged goods. We need a clean slate and staff are reminded of the cor- and bullies” someone put in charge who knows how to do the right thing. Page 46 I suff er a progressive medical condition namely Multiple rect etiquette, they will Sclerosis, which basically hardens your nerve tissue and interpret this as ‘confronta- spasticates your muscles. Gym sessions would slow this tional’, and could result in a process down, and are highly recommended by my string of negative entries/ neurologist. behavioural warnings. PRISONER HOTLINE 0161 833 9253 It seems that the gym here can over-ride a Doctor’s request I would like to remind prison cm via form F35 for light use of weights and an exercise bike! It’s staff , through your pages, that CONVICTED OF JOINT ENTERPRISE? a big ‘NO’. Staff apparently will say anything to obstruct they act as pro-social role models to prisoners, and it is G The supreme court ruling in the case of R v Jogee could mean wheelchair users from attending their precious closed shop. NJ D>DOJMN important that the correct that you now have grounds for appeal. Contact us urgently for our expert lawyers to assess your case. My neurologist wrote to the prison and I managed my fi rst method of address is used CRIMINAL LAW visit to the gym (aft er 21 months of trying) at 7am the accordingly. This will dra- following Monday morning. My voluntary wing carer had to matically improve prisoner/ Director & Head of Criminal Law —Ben Richardson be unlocked because gym staff were arguing about who was staff relationships that can Leading defendant solicitors in: PRISON LAW going to push me over at such an hour. My condition is not aid a prisoner’s rehabilitation. Murder/Manslaughter/Attempted Murder contagious but I was treated like a leper. Then I was placed Head of Prison Law —Jo Davidson on gym restriction for taking an unauthorised prisoner to the I honestly think that if pris- Terrorism Fixed Fees (from £150.00) gym! Two days later the pedals were removed from the oners started addressing Conspiracy Cases: Drugs, murder, grooming, robbery, Guittard Application exercise bike I had been using and I was threatened with prison staff by their surnames firearms, human trafficking & others being placed on report for bringing someone to help me. 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Mailbites Same old Army propaganda First offenders James Piotrowski - HMP Featherstone Anyone with a criminal record will know that getting I am an Irish Guards veteran of two modern employment or even visiting confl icts, I’ve been through the Court Martial other countries can be very system and spent time in military hospitals difficult. I understand that with PTSD. So, the advertisement from HMP sentences of under 4-years Berwyn (February issue) trying to recruit ‘JOIN THE ARMY,’ THEY SAID! are spent after a period of ex-services to transfer to their establishment time, and on a basic DBS to be part of a small veterans’ community ‘SEE THE WORLD,’ THEY SAID! check your conviction will was of great interest to me. attractive pictures of tropical beaches and not show when spent, lads parachuting out of a Hercules. But, as meaning you do not have to I put pen to paper asking the OMU at Berwyn usual, all is not what it seems, as I am forev- declare them to an employer. if I could go. I explained my background and er fi nding out when it comes to the British However, I think the govern- told them why a veterans’ community would Army and the way it treats its veterans. ment should give first-time be good for me. I received a reply from the offenders who have not OMU Hub Manager at the prison, telling me I feel that all Berwyn are worried about is that I do not fi t their criteria because I have reoffended for a reasonable money, as they get more for long-termers 21 months left to serve and the minimum period a second chance and than for people like me. I feel that Berwyn they will accept is 2-years left to serve. permanently wipe the “One day I’ll get a reply,” thought Cuthbert the con will be full of Walter Mitty characters who conviction from the record. It © Deposit Photos have never seen active service but do have I had a little smile to myself as it reminded would be a huge incentive for more than 2-years to serve. first-timers not to reoffend. Your complaints are important to us me of the attractive posters that the Army used in their recruiting campaigns - Join the Scott - HMP Risley Details supplied - HMP/YOI Moorland Army to be the best and see the world, with A force for good? Page 34 Prison - the great I am writing on behalf of 2 prisoners who both put in com- First time leveller plaints to be looked at by the IMB. One put his complaint in Not all doom and gloom the IMB box in January 2016, and the other was in March sharing a cell I was shocked to read the 2016. They received no acknowledgement from the IMB and, Robert Shaw - Details withheld Daniel Hall - ex-prisoner mailbag by Adam Dibble in eventually, their cases were resolved by the PPO. Then, on the February issue. The writer the 6th of February 2017, the 2 men received a letter from the As I begin to get a little ‘gate-happy’ leading up to my release I recently suff ered my fi rst states that those who have IMB, which stated: on license, one of the offi cers asked me if I could write an prison sentence. It was a committed sexual offences article about him and his colleagues in a positive light as ‘It has recently been brought to my attention that the IMB box opposed to my normal doom and gloom. Gosh, this is a tall very worrying time for me ‘show no remorse’. I can and being locked in a cell on Houseblock 3 has not been emptied for some weeks (!) and order but I shall attempt to do so. assure him that this is not the did little to allay my anxiety. case. These cases are we have not been able to address your concerns. The emptying of IMB boxes is not one of our responsibilities, however, on complex and often not so As I recall, I have never stated that all offi cers are un-con- The most uncomfortable behalf of IMB Moorland I would like to apologise for the stress clear-cut as other offences, cerned with inmates’ welfare. Neither have I written that note was the fact that I was this may have caused.’ but I suspect Mr Dibble has offi cers are all bad. On the contrary, there are some very sharing this small space with not thought about this. Surely committed and conscientious offi cers who do care and do go someone else. I felt concerned My question would be - WHO is responsible for emptying the laughing and joking is a above and beyond just being a gaoler. Indeed, some offi cers because I snore quite loudly IMB boxes? And, do you think it is right that 13 months coping mechanism? Like go out of their way to help those prisoners who treat them and I was particularly between emptying IMB boxes is a bit negligent? I would like ‘gallows humour’. As for the respectfully and toe the line. It is inappropriate to name the apprehensive about falling an explanation please - either from NOMS or the IMB them- offi cers in such a piece but I have told each and every one of from the top bunk in my sleep. comment about sex-offend- selves. This is a disgrace, and I would like to know how the them what my feelings about them are. ers serving his food, exactly IMB at Moorland would think it was normal to not receive a what is Mr Dibble scared of I am all for integration into written application or complaint in over a year? prison life and sharing a cell here? Does he think he might I am not alone in these feelings as such are the recently well of course makes this hap- accidentally catch the publicized reports in the media and Inside Time. I do fear John Thornhill - IMB President pen, however I feel that the ‘sex-offender virus’ and turn that things will inevitably get worse before they get better. It Dealing with applications from prisoners is a core part of the prisons should consider if into one himself? What is paramount that other prisoners take up the cudgel to champion IMB role and we endeavour to ensure that applications are individual cells could be an difference does it make who all that is both good and bad within the prisons. The cudgel dealt with confi dentially and in a timely manner. Each Board option in the future, espe- being the pen and paper to write articles to Inside Time. serves the food? We are all has a locally agreed procedure by which applications are cially in terms of vulnerable prisoners and all equal. We collected from IMB boxes on the wing. This may be by members prisoners. should not try to create a of the Board or by the clerk to the Board. Where prison staff Try to be objective and fair in what you write and do look for the hierarchy based on our collect applications on behalf of the Board, envelopes should be good as well as the bad in doing so. As for the offi cer who asked Hopefully I will not end up crimes, it will only end badly. provided to ensure confi dentiality. We regret that the proce- me to write this article, you are a good man and always do what back in prison and will dures in this instance were not followed and we are working you say you will. Yes, you can be bloody moody sometimes attempt to try and turn my N Taylor - HMP Norwich with HMP Moorland to rectify this. but we all know where we stand with Mr. Mackay in Porridge! life around for the better.

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Staff , censors, post-room staff and governors believed they had the right to prevent all correspondence to media agencies and, I am 72-years old, have worked despite my quoting from PSI 37/2010 Access to Media, and informing them they were violating all of my life and paid my my human rights under Articles 8 & 10, they continued to intercept and prevent my mail leav- contributions for 52 years. ing the prison. I complained to the Ombudsman, who upheld my complaint. One of the recom- When I arrived at HMP Chelmsford, I got paid £7 mendations made to the governor of Wakefi eld was - ‘issue a notice to relevant staff members per week pension, as I am reminding them of the policy on prisoners contacting the media’. So, it is concerning that they no longer of working-age. still continue to do it the ‘Wakefi eld way’. (Case number 72441/2016) © Deposit Photos But since I have been here I have been paid £2.50 per week. North-South divide Hanging on the line Where’s the crime? Daniel Ashby - HMP Wayland When I asked if this was cor- JP Platten - HMP Wandsworth Paul Woodcock - HMP Forest Bank rect I was told that it was up Aft er serving 3 years of a 6-year sentence for robbery I lost my to each prison governor to The way prisons are run ‘up North’ is totally Trying to book a visit here is terrible for our mum to cancer, so I was released homeless and with nowhere use their discretion. I would diff erent from prisons in the South of the families. It is usually at least 40-minutes to go. like to know if anyone can country. In southern prisons the mantra seems hanging on the phone on hold, and every tell me what the pension rate Fortunately, my friend decided to put me up whilst I tried to be ‘bang-up, bang-up, bang-up’, with no minute is costing the caller, our friends and should be in prison? I could desperately to piece my life back together. My Probation real help off ered for when we are released. families. I would like to quote PSI 16/2011 understand if we only Offi cer had no problem with this. I started working at a local (2:10) Providing Visits and Services to received 50% of the rate, it is I am serving a fairly short sentence and want community centre for 2-days a week, and the other 5-days I not coming out of the prison Visitors, which states ‘The service to visitors ran a mobile hairdressing service. Then, my Probation Offi cer to get something in place for my release, but must be of high standard throughout the purse as I have WORKED for though the National Careers Services have left to work elsewhere and I was given a new Probation Offi cer. my pension, it is my own booking process.’ been to see me twice, both times the inter- Aft er I had been on license for a year I unfortunately received money. view took place through a locked cell-door. Forest Bank visits process is responsible for a the news that my friend, the one who put me up and who had RAPT also gave me a 2-minute interview supported me, had cervical cancer. I was devastated and, My wife, who is also 72, is catalogue of failures. There seems to be no through a locked door, then by the time they feeling that life really is too short, I asked my friend to marry me. fi nding it very hard without diff erence between a PVO (Privilege Visiting got back to me for a face-to-face meeting A week later we got married at Northampton Central Mosque. my pension. Is there anyone some weeks later, they informed me that I Order) and an SVO (Statutory Visiting Order). who can advise me on this didn’t have long enough left to get any kind My family have been refused entry when they On my next appointment, my Probation Offi cer was not matter? of help. have an SVO, which entitles me to a visit by law. happy. She said that I should have asked her permission fi rst. Apparently, my license says I should inform her of any Editorial note “So, I guess I’ll be out of prison for a The visits booking line is only open for very ‘developing intimate relationships’. She then informed me The mandatory minimum limited hours and does not cater for working that she was recalling me to prison. I reminded her that my rate of pay for prisoners who couple of weeks, and then straight people. The times the booking line is open is index off ence was robbery, which has nothing to do with inti- are long-term sick or of back in for a breach of license” between 8.30 and 4.30 Monday to Friday. mate relationships, but to no avail. retirement age is £3.25 per So, here I am, 7-months later, sitting in prison, having committed week. Retired prisoners still It seems that we are set up to fail. At least the My point is that these cost-cutting exercises no further crime. Probation seem to be recalling people in have to pay £1 per week for prisons up North seem to want to help peo- and clear breaches of the PSI by private- order to lighten their workload and it makes me wonder why their TV. ple, but it seems to me that prisons in the ly-run Sodexo should not be allowed to be Probation Services are not being mentioned or reprimanded South are very badly run and nobody seems Pensioners discrimination casually breached with no recourse available for the overcrowding crisis in our prisons? In my opinion what to care. page 24 to us or our families. has been done to me, and many others, is a terrible injustice.

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Positive improvements Justified panic Mailbites at Styal Nicholas Fleming - HMP Garth Consult the insiders Paula Wainwright - HMP Styal In commerce your ambassa- At Garth, we have been dors are your staff. If you I know prison is not meant to be a nice place, allowed to buy Digi-boxes want to develop your but I think we still need to find the balance and rechargeable shavers business, customers provide between punishment and rehabilitation. We via the facilities list. Some the information required for also need to be more aware of the vulnerabil- successful growth - develop- ities of prisoners and prevent them reoffend- prisoners are now panick- ment being the result of ing through lack of education and rehabilita- ing, thinking they will not tion. 60% of prisoners come back to prison be allowed the items they successful interaction within a year and this is costing millions. have purchased here once between excellent staff, loyal I noticed that Styal is mentioned several they have moved to another customers and high quality leadership. There are times in the Corston report, as many women prison. “Dumped on the streets to doss…” committed suicide here in the past. © Deposit Photos intelligent people in prison, and intelligent staff. So why Hopefully they did not die in vain, I honestly I was told that it states in the not, instead of endlessly feel that many changes here have been made PSI that if a prisoner is A long walk to freedom debating moot points in The for the better. allowed items in-possession Ben Barnes - former prisoner and human rights campaigner House, or on TV - lets consult in a HMP-run prison, but We now have a First Night Centre, so vulner- inside the system with those then moves to another HMP- able women can stay there until they feel At last I can write to you without screws reading and trashing my mail. Over the on the inside who really know safe to reside in the main prison. My friend run prison which does not years, I have heard many tales of how government after government are going what’s actually going on. tried to hang herself, and I witnessed pure allow them to be bought, the to reform prisons. I’m sick to the back teeth of hearing Liz Truss spouting on, T Douglas - HMP Albany care and attention from the PO and the prisoner will still be allowed just like her failed predecessors, about prisons and how she is going to trans- Mental Health Team. The response from staff the items in-possession. form them. What utter nonsense this is, there is no such thing as rehabilitation. was fast and very effective. Worst run prison in Is this true? If so, could you Offender Managers and Supervisors at HMP Frankland are releasing prisoners back into the community with no help whatsoever. I am sick of hearing the UK? 70% of the women here have drug and alco- tell me which PSI covers it? hol issues and have never been offered rehab mealy-mouthed politicians lying to the press and media about how they are This place has more bang-up going to help prisoners get their lives back on track, it is utter rubbish. than a category B prison. It’s in the community, so we need to make Inside Time’s Paul Sullivan an absolute shambles and access to rehabs more easily available. A lot replies of drug services make the pathways into “Maybe Liz Truss can explain why I was dumped on the streets probably the worst run prison This is covered by PSI 2013- rehab complex and inaccessible. It is shock- in the UK. The governors 30 - Incentives and Earned of Durham with no more than £46, no accommodation, no job, ing that people are not getting real therapy no rehabilitation and no supervision should hang their heads in and treatment. But I have to say, Styal’s Privileges. Each prison has its ” shame. If you are going to run DARS Drug Team try their best to provide own rules and there is no a prison, then you should at The gates of Frankland opened up for me to walk through into the road and a care. They also host AA and NA meetings at guarantee that an item least be accountable for your waiting taxi to take me to the station. I was not offered, nor have been given, any the prison. bought at one prison will be failures. We recently lost support, no accommodation, no employment, no rehabilitation, in fact I was allowed at another. dumped on the streets of Durham to make my own way home to Devon. The first another inmate, who hung The prison also has an excellent course few nights I had no option but to doss down in a shop doorway, cold and hungry. himself, and I can honestly called PEARL, which teaches people about For example: if a prisoner say I have never seen a more their destructive behaviours and how to buys a games console and is This is the real state of prisons and Frankland Managers should be thoroughly bleak and downhearted change it. The Education Department offers allowed it in possession at ashamed of themselves. They need to explain why they allow prisoners to prison population. Our excellent courses such as the Bistro course, one prison and, a week later, walk through the gates of a high security prison to a waiting taxi with no heartfelt condolences go out which allows women to work in The Clink is moved to a prison where supervision or aftercare. to all families that have lost a restaurant just outside the prison. It makes they are not allowed it in loved one due to badly-run women confident and employable. The chap- possession, the prison will The elephant in the room prisons and staff incompetence. el offers spiritual development and I find The Lifeline confiscate it and put it into Peace Project very thought-provoking. The Michael McQueenie - HMP Rye Hill Mr Snape - HMP Channings church always seems to have time to offer the prisoner’s stored property kept open Wood and the prisoner has no support, empathy and sympathy. The prison Steve Churchill - What is becoming more and more common also has a house outside the walls that pro- recourse. You could complain HMP Long Lartin are the scare-stories about NPS (New vides halfway support for women. via the complaint system and Psychoactive Substances) coming from the Ombudsman but will still not I would like to thank the establishment. It is my opinion that inmates The staff here are firm, but very fair. They are be allowed it. library orderlies who do are going to use NPS regardless of what the stretched to the maximum yet they still find such a good job under what prison establishment says - it is already too time to help us. They treat people with digni- This is one of the irregulari- have been, for some months, ty and respect and as long as we comply and late to win the ‘war on drugs’/NPS, and there ties within the system and difficult circumstances. behave respectfully they treat us very well. is not a single thing the prisons can do to causes great annoyance to In fact, the staff actually smile and make us slow it down either. those prisoners who may The library here has been feel safe and welcome. spend a considerable amount without a full-time professional librarian for several Prison should rehabilitate and staff should of their money on an item “It is already too late to win the ‘war’ months, which has created be role models to follow and guide us into which then, weeks later at difficulties for those prison- on drugs” healthier living. I would like to thank the another prison, they are not ers wishing to order books staff for helping me to refocus my life. allowed to have. and literature, either for dis- So, why not do the rational thing and offer No bird-brainer tance learning courses or for safe-rooms within the prison system, in personal improvement. order to reduce the numbers of inmates I don’t know what bird- Offensive to be an atheist? sneaking behind their doors, with no help if brained idiot thought up this no smoking malarkey. I say Russell Ireland - HMP Whitemoor CSC Throughout this period, the anything goes wrong. On the outside, there ‘bird-brained’ as the person orderlies have continued to are systems in place to try and help improve must have the brain of your During association one evening I was discussing some of the reasons why I provide what services they safety of drug-taking, such as needle-ex- average pigeon, as what cons do not believe in god by any name when the staff challenged me, saying that I could and doing it in a man- change, green rooms, etc. Though I’d guess are smoking now must be a could not talk about such things as it could ‘potentially cause offence’! ner that I have found help- the system will never go for this because f*** load unhealthier than Naturally, I defended my right to believe or not believe in whatever I wanted. ful, cheerful and supportive. tobacco. It says it all when But the staff felt it was enough of an issue that a report was written about it. The library is a vital part of they’d be shaking in their boots that The Spice is cheaper to smoke However, having found no-one on this small unit who had taken offence at any prison and we should Mail would label them ‘pro-drugs’, but if you than tobacco. the conversation, I defended my position further. This resulted in me being never take for granted the think about it logically, is it really such a bad issued with an IEP warning. So, my question is this - is censorship of person- work the orderlies do behind thing to create measures designed to actually J Cound - HMP Channings al beliefs the cultural norm in prisons now? the scenes. recognise the problem and improve safety? Wood YOU DON’T HAVE TO STOMACH THESE JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE IN PRISON...

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2294_InsideTime_FullAd_Tray.indd 1 17/11/2016 14:26 8 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime April 2017 Crime does pay - Why does our for some It’s hard out here opinion not count? A former prisoner Ross MacPherson - HMP Highdown Sean Patton - HMP Oakwood As a former prisoner just coming to the end of my probation The Government say they want to stop smok- period, I really must say that NOMS, the Probation Service, On the 15-11-16, up to 10,000 ing in UK prisons, do we, as prisoners, have the Visor unit and whoever is supposed to support ex-offend- frontline prison staff went no say or choice in what we want? It seems that ers after release are not doing their jobs properly, if at all. on strike. The MoJ blasted not only are we being punished for our the industrial action as crimes but we are also being controlled on I was released from Littlehey in December 2014 and after ‘unjustified’ and ‘unlawful’, how we choose to live our lives behind bars. having spent over a year with depression and struggling to as it is against the law for readjust to everything that had changed in the 2 and a half prison staff to go on strike. Although the smoking ban may have benefits years I had been absent from home, I am now struggling to Despite this fact, not one for some people in the long run, the downside find work. prison officer or union lead- is immediate and includes an increase in debt, er has been arrested for this violence, stress and more people turning to Obviously, because my offence was of a sexual nature I knew flagrant disregard of the law. self-harm. The MoJ must realise that they it was always going to be difficult to find employment -any can expect trouble over this. where, but I have been getting to the interview stage quite Rosa Parks: Woman of colour refused to As an incentive for staff not Official estimates are that 80% of prisoners regularly when applying for jobs. accept status quo to break the law, they were smoke, so telling that amount of already offered ‘gift cards’. The rule agitated and unruly prisoners that they are “Unfortunately, despite most employers being of law and fear of prosecu- not allowed to smoke due to the whim of a quite understanding at first that I want to move Back of the bus, again tion should have been the Minister (in this case old Grayling) is asking incentive not to break the for trouble on a large scale. on with my life and leave the past behind, this is Ms N Smith - HMP Bronzefield law. In contrast, prisoners as far as it gets” who have protested at Now, if the prison system was to help and support prisoners with the transition then I I am a woman of colour, and this is my first, Lewes, Bedford, Birmingham, The Job Centre expect me to undertake 35 hours of job search think that might help. But all they have done and last, time in prison. This establishment etc., have been feeling the related activity each week, for a measly £317 on the tenth of is put ecigs on the canteen list at a higher price does not represent or cater for women of col- full force of the law, result- every month, despite my repeated attempts to explain that than tobacco. Nicotine patches, mints and our when it comes to hair and skin care. We ing in a number of prisoners the majority of positions advertised are out of my league, or other substitutes should be freely available. seem to take a back seat, and may as well be being prosecuted for prison ones that I am not allowed to apply for because of my criminal Perhaps then you might change people’s atti- forced to the back of the bus again. Even die- mutiny. history and having to sign the Register each year. tary requirements are not met - where is the tudes and minds. All they seem to want to do is rip every single penny out of our pockets. brown sugar and my Kosher meals? Now, Justice Secretary Liz What has really annoyed me above all of this is the complete The system put this ban in place so they Truss has announced that lack of help for ex-offenders to find suitable jobs upon leaving should be helping people transition, not It has taken me 11 days just to get to be able frontline staff, which made Her Majesty’s Prisons. to phone home to speak to my young daugh- up the vast majority of those charging us financially for their silly ban. ‘The more a man invests in a question, the ter and the rest of my family. As of today, I who broke the law by going There needs to be something like a newsletter or website that more powerful he will become’. am still unable to book a first visit from my on strike, will receive a pay only advertises vacancies on behalf of ‘offender friendly’ rise of between £3,000- family as my contacts are ‘still pending’. I So, the question is - do you think that prison- companies; those that are willing to employ newly released 5,000. And they say that fully accept my punishment, but this goes ers should be allowed the choice whether to ex-offenders or those like myself that have been struggling to crime doesn’t pay? beyond and seems to be rooted in prejudice. smoke or not? find work for some time.

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Now I end with no access to showers am told that I must purchase everything from DHL, and hair dye is no longer permitted. for up to 4 or 5 days. There is a shortage of nursing staff, I have been told by staff that NOMS have instructed all prisons that Avon is no longer a recog- which means the morning nised supplier, and nor is Argos for make-up. I have been told that I cannot dye my hair for meds are always late and the ‘security reasons’. Surely this goes against PSI/17/2016? girls are late for work, education or clinics. Girls are not getting their dressings Chemical castration Groundless fears changed on time, or getting Aaron Collins - details supplied to see a doctor. C M - HMP Whatton The food portions are not In 2014 I wrote to you concerning chemical The signal just isn’t getting through! castration, whilst I was serving time for In reply to the mailbag by Adam Dibble (‘It’s enough to fill a child. The © Deposit Photos child sex offences. I was trying to access a joke’) in the February issue. Whilst I can- meal pack we get for breakfast contains a small pack of alternative treatments, other than the SOTP, not comment on whether sex-offenders are generic crisps and a packet Is anybody out there? as I have no faith in such programmes, espe- being given preferential treatment on his of cereal, and you get this Mark Wrightwick - HMP Isle of Wight cially now, since I have completed the pro- wing, I can say that his experience of a uni- gramme and learned nothing from it. I did with your lunchtime meal, versal lack of remorse does not tally with which is a sandwich. Of In the August 2016 issue, you published a letter from me not just tell course facilitators what they mine. wanted to hear, I was honest about my risk course, you eat the crisps explaining that for over a year we had been unable to receive factors and I was also honest about what I with the sandwich, but then National Prison Radio on our TVs here at Parkhurst. As a Listener, I have met many people con- had learned from the programme, which was you become hungry and eat It has now been 2 years and it is still not possible to receive victed of sex-offences who are torn apart by absolutely nothing. the cereal and leave yourself NPR. I recently spoke to a member of staff who told me he what they have done, often to the point of with no breakfast. had been working at the prison for 3-years and never in that As a result of my honesty, I did not fit into any considering or attempting suicide. Of course, time had NPR been working at Parkhurst. of their pigeon-holes as I was not a ‘typical there are also those who are singularly unre- The staff wonder why the girls are so angry and agitated sex offender’. Psychology then refused to work pentant, as well as all of the shades in I get that, in the grand scheme of things, NPR is fairly low on - to the point of self-harm or with me further due to my mental-health between. the list of things to get done by management, but it is such a problems, or so they said. This made me feeling suicidal. It is because small thing to sort out and can deliver so much. So, when even more determined to search for alterna- they are locked in due to ‘staff does the caring and the joined-up thinking start? I would suggest that the same spectrum of shortages’. When girls feel tive treatments for sex offenders. I was una- contrition exists amongst those who have ble to access anti-libidinal medication like self-harming or suicidal Ahmed Hussain - Head of Prison Radio (NOMS) writes... committed offences of all other kinds, from (chemical castration) and I was told I needed and need to talk to a member The prison contractors have recently fixed the main aerial shoplifting to murder. Perhaps Mr Dibble has to do the SOTP. But even when I had complet- of staff, they are told that staff which got the radio station working. It has now come to light allowed his visceral disgust to make a speed this programme they STILL refused to are too busy to talk to them. that since the aerial has been fixed, another fault has now cial case of a particular kind of prisoner. even assess me for anti-libidinal medication. The government need to take arisen that is affecting the reception for National Prison Radio. a closer look at how their This fault has already been logged by prison staff and I have I also enquired about Restorative Justice, but I am also baffled as to what Mr Dibble is taking of 6,000 frontline now personally contacted our engineers to look at why this was told that it was not available for sex expecting someone convicted of a sexual staff and the £1.7 billion in fault has occurred so soon after a fix had been implemented. offenders. It seems that the only thing on offence to do in such a secure and highly cuts to prison budgets is I can assure you that I am working with both the prison and offer for sex offenders is SOTP or the SOTP monitored environment as a visits hall. This external engineers to get this service back up and running as Extended, which is all about box-ticking and affecting prisoners. In reali- prison is exclusively for people with sexual ty, they might as well just be soon as possible. Staff will be able to let you know the latest bums on seats. There is very little access to convictions, and there are frequently chil- update and I will also let Inside Time know the outcome next anything remotely meaningful in prison for killing prisoners, and some- dren present on visits, but, to my knowledge, month. people convicted of sex offences. thing needs to be done now. there have never been any problems. Since leaving prison I have been offered access to many other treatments which are It is worth noting that reconviction rates are DAVIES & JONES RODMAN PEARCE for some reason unavailable in prisons. actually much higher in the general prison SOLICITORS SOLICITORS Chemical castration is now an option for me, population than for those who have commit- and it turns out that Restorative Justice is, in FIGHTING FOR YOU !!! ted sexual offences. 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l According to Sam Gyimah, parole hearing delays the Parliamentary Under- Secretary for Justice, the A National Audit Office (NAO) investigation has shown that government spent £450,000 prisoners have received £1.1m in compensation as a result of in the last year trying to find a delayed parole hearings. An NAO report published last month supplier for the new GPS says that the Parole Board conducted 7,148 oral hearings in 2015-16. A third of listed oral hearings were delayed in the year monitoring tags; and they to September 2016 and at the peak of the Board’s backlog, in haven’t bought one tag yet. January 2015, there was an average of 3,163 outstanding cases. l In a twist of fate a junior Prisoners who experience delays can claim compensation justice minister and one of under the Human Rights Act once their case is concluded. Scotland’s senior law officers They can claim at a rate of around £50 per month of delays if has been fined £1,000 for they are turned down for parole. If they are released following breaches of the Firearms Act a delay, they can claim at a rate of around £650 per month. 1968. Lord Keen of Elie (Richard Keen QC) pleaded In 2015-16, the Parole Board received 463 private law damag- guilty by letter to the charge es claims, up from 89 in 2014-15 and since 2011-12 the Board at Edinburgh Sheriff Court. has paid out £1.1m in compensation for delayed hearings. He was charged after police Bernadette Hare (left) with Princess Anne. Bernie, Prisoners were paid £554,000 in compensation in 2015-16, investigating a break-in at his “genuinely cares” about the lads she works with compared with £87,000 in 2012-13. Edinburgh home found that a © www.paulclarke.com 12-bore shotgun had been Acknowledgements: The Law Society Gazette left outside a secure cabinet while he and his wife were ‘One of the few officers that A picture is Prevention of away on holiday. homelessness l In the last two years makes you feel human’ worth a thou- £580,000 has been paid out when released to 66 prisoners as compensa- sand words Wrexham Glyndwr University tion for being assaulted by How one of ‘the lads’ at Bullingdon described ‘just amazing’ and the University of Salford other prisoners or staff; in the prison officer Bernadette Hare who won this years’ Butler Email a Prisoner are current- are undertaking an Evaluation same two years 36 prison ly running a trial of a photo of Homelessness Services staff have been awarded a Trust’s Prize for Outstanding Achievement attachment service in some Provided to Adults Leaving total of £1.8million compen- prisons. Senders are able to prison. The aim is to under- sation following assaults. Hosted by HRH The Princess Royal at St treated decently is the theme throughout this upload a maximum of 4 pho- stand how new pathways for James’s Palace in London, the Butler Trust’s nomination,’ Gillian observes that ‘she really tos per message, photos cost meeting prison leavers’ needs l If you are leaving prison Annual Award Ceremony took place on 9th doesn’t see she is anything special.’ But she 30p per image. Images are have been implemented by soon and are looking for a March 2017. is… When I asked the lads what they thought printed along the message organisations involved in well paid job you could do of her, I was amazed by the depth of their and may be black/white only supporting adults preparing worse than applying for the The Princess presented 39 Butler Trust win- respect. They said she is ‘one of the few to re-enter civilian life. depending upon the equip- job of Chair of the Judicial ners from across the United Kingdom with a officers that makes you feel human’, has ment available at the receiv- The joint study will take total of 10 Awards and 19 Commendations. ‘always got time for you’ and ‘always tells Appointments Commission ing prison. Images must place over the next 12 There was an impressive width and depth of you how it is’. ‘You know how you stand’ and for which the Ministry of comply with the normal months, and comes after a expertise among the winners, including staff ‘she says it to your face, not behind your Justice are offering a salary of rules relating to photo- report in Scotland on the and volunteers from prison, probation, com- back’. ‘It’s more than a job,’ she has ‘pas- £577 a day for a 2 day week (a graphs sent to prisoners or link between homelessness munity, youth justice and related settings. sion’, ‘treats you like one of her sons’ and rise of 44% on 2016 salary) they will be rejected. and re-offending called for ‘checks in with us every day’. Surprisingly - equal to about £150,000 a housing to be made a priority. year. In her opening remarks, The Princess she ‘livens up the wing’ and the ‘guys all The service is currently acknowledged that the Criminal Justice respect her’ - ‘she is the gaffer.’’ available at: Brixton, Castle Shelter Scotland’s Preventing l Briony Clarke, who started Sector has had a difficult year, but empha- Huntly, Dartmoor, Deerbolt, Homelessness and Reducing her legal career doing work sised the importance of drawing attention to Bernie’s own words give a flavour of how she Dovegate, Downview, Re-Offending study made 14 experience at 15-years-old, the inspirational work of people who rarely sees her work. “I genuinely care about the Dumfries, Exeter, Garth, recommendations to get the appreciation they are due. The men I work with. I feel that the system dehu- Huntercombe, Isle of Man, Parliament, including a call has become the youngest Princess also highlighted the resilience, pro- manises the lads and I attempt in my own Ranby, Swaleside, Swansea, for a proportion of the fund- female judge in the UK at just fessionalism and dedication that character- way to redress the balance.” She calls her Thameside, The Mount and ing received by community 31 after being sworn in as a ise the sector. methods “basic human decency. A cheery Wealstun. justice partners to be ear- deputy district judge at ‘Good morning’ on unlock, calling the lads marked for improving the Chelmsford Crown Court in This year the Princess Royal’s Prize for by their preferred name, taking an active www.emailaprisoner.com housing advice and support Essex. Outstanding Achievement, the Trust’s high- interest in them and their families - I attempt available to prisoners. est Award, went to Bernadette Hare. She was to give them the one most precious commod- described as ‘just amazing’ for her outstand- ity in a place like this - my time… I believe ing skill and compassion in her work at HMP praise and humour are two important things beesleyandcompanysolicitors Bullingdon as a Prison Officer, where she that we miss in a place like this. I try to has earned the respect and affection of the implement both on a daily basis (the humour Personal Injury and Civil Action against entire jail. mainly at my own expense).” the Police and other authorities Bernadette’s work includes remarkable inter- She goes on, “I actively encourage the lads to • Personal Injury (accidents both in and out of custody) ventions during crises. Yet the overarching talk to me especially when they are in trou- • Police Assault theme, among admiring prisoners and col- ble. I will sit with them when they cry, and • False imprisonment or Malicious Prosecution leagues, is that of deep compassion com- am not above putting an arm around them • Negligence bined with a clear set of expectations around and giving them a hug. Many of the lads I • Compensation for Childhood Abuse in Care decent behaviour that has earned ‘Bernie’ deal with have only ever had negative role • Mistreatment or Assault by Inmates or Prison Staff enduring respect. models constantly putting them down and • Claim for delay in Parole hearing and review barking orders at them. I attempt to show Bullingdon’s Head of Performance & Reward them there is another way.” She concludes, Contact: Mark Lees at, 736-740 Wilmslow Road, Didsbury, Manchester, M20 2DW Gillian Kent nominated Bernie, who she “I feel that by treating the lads well whilst in 0800 975 5454 (FREEPHONE) calls ‘the Matriarch of the wing’. Praising custody they will be less angry when they her ‘genuine care and compassion, coupled leave our care.” [email protected] www.beesleysolicitors.co.uk Nationwide service available in certain cases Legal Aid available with a constant desire to ensure the men are Insidetime April 2017 www.insidetime.org Newsround 11

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Back... jailing charts l The Prison Service are no longer publishing through the Inside England and Wales topped the list of Western monthly statistics on overcrowding in prisons. Time archives European countries with the highest impris- They will now publish statistics for overcrowding only annually because they say that April 2012 onment rates, according to the Council of Europe’s annual penal statistics with an statistics for the number of prisoners held over incarceration rate of 148.3 prisoners per a prison’s capacity does not indicate the 100,000 against Spain (137.90), France (98.3), number of prisoners held in crowded conditions. Italy (86.4) and Germany’s (77.4). Statistics also show that England and Wales have the l £10million funding from the Heritage highest percentage of people sentenced to life Lottery Fund will be used to support training in prison, at 10.2 percent, with a total of 7,439 up a new generation of workers in traditional life-sentenced inmates as of September 1, 2015: crafts, such as rigging, repairing traditional this contrasts with just 1,804 lifers in Russia. wooden sailing ships, dry stone walling and Royal Yacht Britannia - luxury accommodation for prisoners? working on heritage railway attractions. The At the same time prison inspectors continue idea is to address the serious shortage of workers in dying heritage trades. Former prisoners as ‘Aghast and ashamed’ to criticise the squalid conditions inside pris- Ship of fools! ons. Frances Crook, chief executive of the well as young people and ex-servicemen will “Britain should be ‘aghast and Howard League for Penal Reform, told Inside be targeted to train to help prevent the old ashamed’ at the way it is treating In a move described as “sheer lunacy” by Conservative MP Time; “I have never seen a public service traditional skills from dying out. some of the most disturbed for Shepley Marsh Rupert Minging-Mainworthy, the royal deteriorate so rapidly and so profoundly as women in its jails where levels yacht Britannia has been earmarked to be sequestered as a the prison system in the last five years. It is l A prison van driver found himself on the of self-mutilation remain possible solution to the overcrowding crisis in UK prisons. A now a national emergency. Each inspection wrong side of the law after his vehicle was shockingly high, the Chief spokesperson from the MoJ confirmed the move and said it report is worse than the last, and this cannot slapped with a parking ticket. The GEOAmey Inspector of Prisons told an was in fact a suggestion that came directly from Beckingham be allowed to continue.” vehicle was given a ticket for parking on audience at the University of Palace. Another leaked email allegedly from David Beckham double yellow lines outside Lewes Crown Court throughout a whole day in March. Sussex.” revealed that the once golden boy of British football is still A GEOAmey spokesman said; “Lewes Crown Inside Time report apparently peeved at his failure to secure a knighthood. Female prisoner “Well what about the state of the prisons? I’m not entitled to Court does not have parking facilities for a f***** sirhood, but Her Maj seems quite happy to have her deaths rising prisoner escort vehicles. In order to make a It’s all our fault name presiding over a prison service full of drugs, violence, safe transfer to the Court, the prisoner escort “We are all in prison because self-harm, suicide and f****** IPPs! And what the f*** is an Prison staff must take action to prevent fur- vehicle had to park in a restricted area.” of choices we made and not IPP anyway? Whatever it is it doesn’t sound good.” Observers ther prison suicides among women, after 12 because we were abused in were impressed by his extensive knowledge of the problems took their own lives in 2016, said Prisons and l The number of mobile phones and SIM the past. We cannot use this in the prison system, although one raised an eyebrow at his Probation Ombudsman (PPO) Nigel Newcomen. cards recovered in prisons has doubled in two as an excuse.” ignorance about prisoners subjected to Imprisonment for years to 20,000 in 2016. That equates to almost Public Protection - but since that also includes the majority one item for every four prisoners. David Mailbag “I find it disheartening that many of the les- of the British public, for that he was forgiven. A spokesper- Hanson, the Labour former justice minister son for the royal family of Karzistan praised the move. “Yes sons we identify to prevent women in custody Psychobabble who uncovered the latest figures says the the yacht has a sauna, yes it has a steam room, yes it has a from taking their own lives repeat those in numbers show ‘an astounding number of “When the courts sent people full size snooker table, yes it has soft beds and plump pillows previous publications from my office, “ he mobile phones are now washing through our to prison in the 70s and 80s and every conceivable luxury including an exquisite menu of said in his latest bulletin. “This suggests it is prison system’. Answering the parliamentary they were offered vocational the finest meats, fruits and vegetables - but this is very good not knowledge that is the issue, but a lack of question, Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah said the training courses like plastering, for rehabilitation - it is about time prisoners in the United concerted and sustained action. While we Government has brought in tough measures bricklaying, scaffolding and Kingdom had a taste of the good life.” Corpulent and baggy often identify examples of excellent and com- to find and confiscate phones. He said; “Under electrical engineering, to faced Minging-Mainworthy, (nicknamed ‘The Minger’ at passionate care by individual staff, and also measures introduced in late 2016, we can now name but a few, all so that Eton) disagreed. “Prisoners and the good life just don’t mix,” recognise that prisons have been under enor- apply for Telecommunications Restriction he said spluttering into his glass of £500 a bottle Crystal prisoners could use their time mous strain in recent years, there can be no Orders at court to block specific mobile champagne while propping up the bar of his private Mayfair constructively and increase excuse for not implementing essential safety phones being used in prisons. Since the club. Almost choking as he shovelled in another giant spoon- their chances of employment legislation was introduced in August, we have ful of Almas caviar (£600 an ounce), he added, “This will arrangements that could ensure vulnerable on release. Then in the 90s had more than 150 mobile phones cut off.” make a beloved part of our heritage look like a ship of fools!” women are better protected.” vocational training courses l Almost 75% of prisoners are facing delays in were phased out and replaced “It is to be hoped that delivering safer out- Mark Twain on April 1st: “This is the day upon which we are being transferred to NHS hospitals to receive by ‘offending behaviour reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty comes for women (and men) in prison will be courses’. So, instead of leaving urgent treatment for serious mental health four.” (1894) at the heart of the Government’s new prison problems. Figures released by the Department prison with some practical reform agenda, and that this bulletin can of Health show that 412 prisoners were skills that might give you a assist with this and help to reverse the unac- transferred to hospital from prisons in England chance of not going back to contact and experience Singing they’ve had to build working ceptable and tragic rise in self-inflicted within 14 days during 2015-16: However, 1,141 crime, you now leave prison relationships with business- deaths” added Mr Newcomen. (73.5%) had to endure delays of longer than that. with a head-full of psycho- to succeed es and other organisations babble, if you’ve managed to that are working with pris- A charity forming choirs in take any of it in.” ons, to help people build Stevens So lic itors prisons have announced MASZ PROBLEM Mailbag business plans and new Incorporating Rose, Williams & Partners they hope to eradicate re-of- lives. They are currently Criminal Litigation & Advocacy Specialists Z PICIEM? fending. Beating Time was New government plan to finding businesses to pro- formed in 2014 with the aim Prison Law Experts get ex-prisoners into work vide the jobs, a start-up fund POTRZEBUJESZ of teaching prisoners skills Please contact and mentors needed with “The government has set up a they need in order to survive Andrew Mandleberg, the hope of reversing the POMOCY? reward scheme worth £5,600 outside jail. The charity uses reoffending epidemic in the Michelle Patterson or Harpreet Jhawar group singing to help pris- for any employer who retains UK: They are launching a for oners fight mental illness, a released prisoner in Beating Time Entrepreneurs • Parole Applications • Lifer Panels 020 7403 85 20 feel socially included and employment for two years. 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Cardiff There are a number of serious concerns, the most prominent of which is the shortage of staff which has resulted in a severely restricted regime in which prisoners are locked in cells for unacceptable periods of time, with limited opportunities for education and purposeful activity. Staff shortages have also had a marked detrimental eff ect on other aspects of the prison’s work, such as sentence planning, rehabilitation and measures to reduce the availability of drugs. Unforeseen events, such as escorts and hospital bed watches, can have a sudden and major impact on the planned regime, resulting in strained relations and potential disorder. Many cells still do not have screening around toilets and there are other issues such as dampness in cells and the non-functioning of showers and toilets on wings. Report: www.tinyurl.com/z2w7rje

Hewell Elmley The Board has observed an The staff worked hard to make Elmley a safer, decent, less alarming increase in violent, and healthier prison, which it has achieved. Like “You can always be free” prisoner on prisoner and other establishments, the levels of violence are increasing for prisoner on offi cer violence. a variety of reasons; but at Elmley not to the same degree as Many of the serious inci- many other establishments. It is well known that a degree of dents have been as a the violence centres round illegal drug use. That can be the Have you entered the consequence of the use of side eff ect of the drug itself, the means of obtaining drugs NPS. The increased use of under duress, failure to meet a debt for drugs supplied, or drones to smuggle in pressure to get drugs in. Security is to be commended for its prohibited objects and Koestler Awards before? successful ongoing drive to reduce violence by targeted substances has also contrib- searches concentrating on key perpetrators of violence and uted to this disturbing If not, then make this the year to those involved in organised crime. These searches recover a development. In the open wide range of contraband, including mobile phones, weap- prison, Hewell Grange, the put pen (or paintbrush!) to paper toilet and shower provisions ons, debt lists, bank details, excess kit and quantities of have been substandard and prescription medication. This pro-active work by the security The annual Koestler Awards judging by the 100+ expert means to share your writing, frankly deplorable. In the B department is vital to everyone’s safety. off er cash awards, written Awards judges, as usual. art, design, music and craft wing of the prison, provision Report: www.tinyurl.com/hyjr7uz feedback, sales opportuni- with the outside world and of material for cell repair or ties, certifi cates, mentoring “I want to celebrate this to get recognition for your maintenance has been Durham and exhibitions to people in great resource: the imagina- creative work. Many will tell lamentably slow, giving rise The prison is viewed as over-crowded; cells built for single custody. This year is a big tions of the 85,000 prisoners you they worried their work to loss of available cells for a occupancy mostly hold two prisoners. Tight staffi ng levels year for the Koestler Awards currently in UK prisons and wasn’t good enough, but considerable period of time. together with a higher rate of sickness absence are impacting - one of Britain’s favourite those in secure establish- they were pleased they got The inadequate transport of on many areas of prisoners’ life and probably job satisfaction artists, Antony Gormley (the ments. Art is a place in which up the courage to enter the prisoners’ property has for staff . Transfer to high and medium secure mental health artist behind Gateshead’s you can do what you like; it Awards: continued to be a source of units (MHUs) is oft en delayed to the detriment of clinical care. iconic winged sculpture need not be for or about concern to the Board. This Angel of the North), will anyone else but the artist. In We have not yet had a satisfactory response from the minister “I never in a month of Sundays applies both to Hewell select the work for the the words of one prisoner, ‘in on this. This problem is concealed by the method of record- expected any of my work to Prison and other ‘sending’ Koestler Trust’s annual exhi- our minds we can always be be selected for exhibition.” prisons. The contractor fails ing. The Governor continues to set an excellent ethos in bition at Southbank Centre. free’. I want your art to say Exhibited artist, 2016 on many occasions to which prisoners are treated humanely and he provides strong Aft er discussions with pris- something to all of us outside transport or deliver a strategic drive. The forthcoming change in function of the oners and prison education about what it feels like to be So don’t be shy, share your prisoner’s belongings prison to that of a reception prison, with all the associated staff , Gormley has chosen to you, inside.” work, and it might just get effi ciently or eff ectively. upheaval, is approached in a very positive spirit. select work for the exhibi- Antony Gormley tion around the theme chosen for exhibition by one www.tinyurl.com/jfrozuz Report: www.tinyurl.com/z85pd8a ‘Inside’. So, if you need a To encourage new entrants of the UK’s best-known art- theme to get you started this in this important year, the ists! You can get the entry Volunteers wanted year, why not use ‘Inside’ as Trust is off ering 100 addi- forms and more information IMBs are made up of volunteers from the local community. Do you know anyone who would a starting point? tional £25 cash prizes for in the centre pull-out or like to help in monitoring prisons? There are currently vacancies at: Bedford, Bristol, Doncaster, fi rst-time entrants, on top of from education, libraries, DrakeHall, Garth, Hollesley Bay, Huntercombe, Lancaster Farms, Lincoln, Staff ord, Stocken, You can of course still enter its regular cash prizes for all chaplains or FREEPOST StokeHeath, Sudbury, Swansea, Wayland, Whatton and Winchester. artwork on other themes entrants. Past entrants can KOESTLER TRUST. The Report: www.tinyurl.com/hbqo5lf into the Koestler Awards for tell you fi rst-hand what it deadline is 14 April.

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Tougher knife crime sentencing: USA Newsbites World prison review A young woman in Detroit A double-edged sword was forced to give birth to l The current Scottish Public her baby on the fl oor of a MPs have raised concerns that tougher knife crime sentenc- Services Ombudsman’s (SPSO) ing guidelines will have a ‘substantial impact’ on the rising prison cell after guards eight-year term ends on 30 prison population. The Sentencing Council, the independent refused to send her to April 2017. Rosemary Agnew, body responsible for issuing the guidelines on sentencing, is hospital. She had been the current Scottish Information expected to issue new draft guidelines on knife crime to arrested for a fi rst time Commissioner, will take up increase the number of custodial sentences for such off ences. driving offence, driving whilst the post on 1 May 2017. She Under the draft guidelines the off ences will carry mandatory her licence was suspended, was nominated by a cross- minimum sentences of six months’ imprisonment for an adult and could not afford the party panel of the Parliament or four months for those aged 16 and 17 for a fi rst off ence. following an open recruitment $10,000 required to release “No rest for the wicked” process, and her appointment Bob Neill, Chair of the Justice Select Committee, told The her. She had been held for 5 was unanimously approved Independent; “There are good reasons for increasing sen- days and on her last day went Philipines by MSPs. The SPSO investi- tences to deter the growth in knife crime. We appreciate how into labour. She was fi nally Hundreds of prisoners at Cebu Provincial Detention and gates complaints about a diffi cult it is for the Sentencing Council to predict the impact taken, with her baby, to of new guidelines, but we are concerned about the prospect Rehabilitation Centre in the Philippines were woken from their number of Scottish public hospital for a check-up, but of a substantial increase in the number of custodial sentenc- sleep, marched to the prison yard, stripped naked and made to services including the Scottish es if the draft guidelines are introduced in their present form sit there whilst guards searched their cells. Photographs have then returned to jail by a Prison Service. Prisoners can without a better understanding of their impact. We think that circulated on social media and caused outrage. Amnesty judge because she had take their complaint to the the Ministry of Justice should be asked to clarify how any International said that, according to international standards previous drug possession SPSO after exhausting the increase in the prison population would be accommodated.” ‘This incident clearly amounts to cruel, inhumane and degrad- charges. She is now planning ing treatment of prisoners.’ Human Rights Watch said, in a internal complaints proce- legal action. The baby’s father dure. If you wish to write to statement; “The conduct of these searches - out in the open said; “How could they let that the SPSO the address is: SPSO, Talking Heads and permitting photographs to be taken - was inhuman and happen? How would they feel 4 Melville Street, Edinburgh, degrading and violated the prisoners’ rights to privacy,” A if it was their mother, sister, Lothian EH3 7NS. Philippines government minister said the process was ‘standard operating procedure’. cousin, aunt?” l Prison psychiatrists have warned that care is ‘at Thailand breaking point’. Research by The International Federation the Royal College of for Human Rights (IFHR) says Psychiatrists (RCP) found that Thailand’s prisons fail to meet staff feel physically intimidat- international standards and ed and unsafe. One anony- prison conditions violate mous prison psychiatrist said: various UN treaties barring “It is important that there is torture and stipulating wider public recognition of minimum prisoner rights that the impossibility of delivering Are you talking to me? Thailand ratifi ed decades ago. adequate health care in many Prisoners are routinely prisons at present and, given Talking Statues Bedford, in fact written by prisoners shackled, beaten, and stuffed that serious mental disorders which launches on 11th at Bedford Prison during a into overcrowded cells. IFHR’s are common among prisoners, April, gives a voice to stat- series of writing workshops new report says that more “Where is everyone?” a failure to meet their needs ues across the town. Pass a which were held with The than 260,000 prisoners are Netherlands may, in turn, exacerbate risks Talking Statue, swipe your Place Bedford, a local thea- kept in 148 prisons with an phone on a nearby plaque tre. This piece has been The Netherlands has a problem many countries can only dream to the safety of the prisons.” originally estimated capacity and presto , your phone voiced by the actor Colin of: A shortage of prisoners. It has such a surplus of unused cells of less than 120,000. Prisoners that it has rented some of its prisons to Belgium and Norway. l The Ministry of Justice has rings and it’s Matt Berry as Salmon, who is himself an John Bunyan or Al Murray advocate of prison reform. live in packed cells with no About a third of Dutch prison cells sit empty, according to the announced that it is to build beds and squat toilets with no Ministry of Justice. Criminologists attribute the situation to a four new prisons at sites in as a 5 metre tall silver head, He said: “John Howard was or Colin Salmon as prison a man of great standing, enclosures for privacy. At spectacular fall in crime over the past two decades and an Full Sutton in Yorkshire; reformer John Howard. Each who cared deeply for those night, they lie pressed against approach to law enforcement that prefers rehabilitation to Hindley in Wigan; Rochester has a story to tell. Together bound to poverty. He did not each other on mats on bare incarceration. René van Swaaningen, professor of criminology in Kent and Port Talbot in at Erasmus School of Law in Rotterdam said; “Prisons are very they tell Bedford’s story. delegate his responsibility linoleum fl oors. The over- South Wales. They say the expensive. Unlike the United States, where people tend to focus This is a pan-Bedford pro- but put in the hard yards of crowded conditions are made new prisons will create ‘5,000 on the moral arguments for imprisonment, the Netherlands is ject, produced with local duty with spirit - redressing worse by high turnover modern prison places and more focused on what works and what is effective.” theatres, libraries, city hall injustices and recognising among guards, forcing replace old and overcrowded and actors. human needs and rights. It prisons to rely on skeleton establishments with new, fi t was an absolute honour to staffs. Prisoners told the IFHR USA for purpose buildings’. The John Howard piece was voice him.” that overworked guards A Miami defence lawyer’s trousers burst into fl ames as he would beat them with clubs, began his closing arguments in front of a jury — in an arson Tremletts throw them in solitary case. Stephen Gutierrez, who was arguing that his client’s car confi nement, or keep them spontaneously combusted and was not intentionally set on fi re,

SolicitorsEst.1983 chained and shackled for had been fi ddling in his pocket as he was about to address weeks, despite Thai govern- jurors when smoke began billowing out his right pocket. He We cover: ment initiatives in 2013 to end rushed out of the Miami courtroom, leaving spectators Nationwide Coverage the practice. Thailand stunned. After jurors were ushered out, Gutierrez returned Criminal Defence amended its regulations on unharmed, with a singed pocket, and insisted it wasn’t a staged Appeals against conviction/ prisons last month but the defence demonstration gone wrong, observers said. Instead, sentence CCRC Referrals laws still allow shackling, Gutierrez blamed a faulty battery in an e-cigarette. Now POCA/ Confiscation work solitary confi nement for more Gutierrez is the one under investigation. Apparently the police than 15 days, and liability are looking into the fi ery episode and have already seized sev- To recieve more information, exemptions for prison eral frayed e-cigarette batteries from Gutierrez as evidence. If please get in contact offi cials in certain situations there is enough evidence that this was a pre-planned stunt, - all breaches of international Gutierrez could be charged with contempt of court and wind Call: 01273 603314 or standards., the report said. up in some seriously hot water. Email: [email protected] www.tremlettssolicitors.com Total UK prison population approximately 94,703 q105 14 Newsround // Local Prison News www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2017

Biking to a fresh start Prisoner dies Newsbites after bungled l Staff and inmates at Isle of Man Prison along assessment by with their family and friends raised more than nurse £1,000 for Manx Cancer Help by them taking part in the charity’s ’Growvember Challenge’. A prisoner at crisis hit HMP The money raised by growing and shaping Northumberland died of a some facial hair over the month of November stroke after a nurse said he has now been totted up and collected and

was just in a deep sleep © E-Burn prison deputy governor Geoff Hathaway and despite him having several senior officer Mike Pacey handed over a cheque chronic health conditions Vaping to get green for £1,021 to the charity Manx Cancer Help. including epilepsy, heart disease and high blood pres- light in Manx prison l The former acting governor of HMP Chelmsford, sure. The Officer who origi- Lindsay Whitehouse, has written to the justice

© Deposit Photos nally found him asked his Isle of Man prisoners are likely to be allowed secretary, Liz Truss, sharing her radical ideas manager to call an ambu- to smoke e-cigarettes subject to final approv- about how to deal with the current prison Bike Back bridging the gap lance, his request was al by the Manx government. It said a crisis. She suggests urgent action to increase denied. Two nurses later did planned six-month pilot is aimed at reducing the number of prison officers, including A Bristol-based charity, Life Cycle UK, has won the Robin a re-evaluation and called “risks and harm” caused by inmates smok- re-hiring retired staff, and letting serving Corbett Award for Prisoner Rehabilitation 2017. Its innovative paramedicas but the prison- ing “illicit materials” like nicotine patches soldiers and police join up. She also suggests Bike Back project at HMP Bristol recreates the environment of er died later that day. and tea bags. More than 800 power cuts have cutting the number of people behind bars by a working bike shop in a prison where an experienced also been caused at the prison by inmates sending fewer people with low-risk convic- mechanic, supported by skilled volunteers, teaches up to A report into his death, car- trying to light homemade cigarettes using tions to prison and the immediate deportation eight prisoners at a time (around 40 per year) the skills to ried out by the Prisons and kettles and plug sockets. of foreign national prisoners. completely refurbish broken bikes donated by the local com- Probation Ombudsman, munity. found the prisoner had missed In March 2008 the prison at Jurby became l A drug dealer tried to smuggle drugs and three hospital appointments Europe’s first smoke-free jail. A Department mobile phones into HMP Edinburgh using a The highly commended prize was awarded to Bounce Back in due to a shortage of staff at of Home Affairs spokesman said switching drone but crashed it on the way to the prison. London for its work at HMP Brixton in bridging the gap the Sodexo-run prison. prisoners to e-cigarettes [supplied by E-Burn Police recovered camera footage from the between prison and employment. The charity provides Ombudsman Nigel Newcomen Ltd] could save taxpayers £15,000 a year drone which included images of the man opportunities for prisoners at the end of their sentences to made four recommendations compared with providing them with nicotine setting it up in his living room. The drone also gain vocational training, mentoring and support in painting including ensuring prisoners replacement therapy. had exact GPS coordinates for his flat. The man and decorating, dry lining and scaffolding, as well as the with chronic diseases have pleaded guilty to attempting to fly drugs and chance to gain employment on release through its associated appropriate management Home Affairs Minister Bill Malarkey said, “I phones into the jail and culpably and reckless- social enterprise. plans, that they do not miss have been persuaded to revisit this issue by ly piloting the drone at night, and with no hospital appointments and the weight of evidence provided by medical lights, to the danger of the public and aircraft, The awards, which are supported by the Worshipful that staff should call an professionals and the availability of an e-cig- and was jailed for over five years. Company of Weavers, were presented to the winners by Lady ambulance immediately if arette that is specially designed for use in Corbett at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Penal they have serious concerns prisons.” l A trial of a device to catch prisoners making Affairs Group in the Houses of Parliament 28 February 2017. about the health of a prisoner. illegal mobile phone calls at a Scottish prison Prisoners who smoke are currently provided failed after staff apparently placed the device with nicotine replacement products - like in sight of prisoners who deployed clever patches - for a specified period to assist with counter measures to frustrate it. The devices, the management of withdrawal symptoms. used extensively in America, are fake mobile Under the new scheme inmates will be network base stations used to fool nearby allowed to purchase a disposable E-Burn mobile phones into connecting to them, thus electronic cigarette for use within the con- revealing their identity. fines of their cell or outside spaces. l A man who tried to smuggle cannabis to his The E-Burn product has been developed by a son in HMP Durham using a walking stick has former prison officer for safe operation in been told he is likely to get a prison sentence facilities such as prisons and mental health and go into prison just as his son is released. secure units and has been trialled in Guernsey Prison and secure facilities in the l Prisoners at Sodexo run HMP Forest Bank UK. Prisons in Wales and a handful in are being given leaflets on how to take the NPS England are currently smoke-free but allow Spice safely. Last October an investigation was e-cigarettes. launched after leaked footage revealed the violence and humiliation sparked by Spice use www.e-burn.com in Forest Bank - including naked prisoners Acknowledgements: BBC pretending to be dogs.

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Prison fires ‘Be Prepared’ Roof protester trial Newsbites hears how staff agree increase ... Scouts visit l A Facebook page where prison staff from privately run HMP Peterborough boasted HMP Thameside got the with his complaints record for the most fi res last Berwyn about attacking prisoners is being probed by year at 101 as offi cial fi gures At the trial of Stuart Horner who staged a police. A whistleblower at the prison contact- Scouts from Wrexham show that prison fi res in rooft op protest about conditions at HMP ed a national newspaper after reading the recently took a tour of the England and Wales have Manchester staff at the prison admitted that page. One message read: “I was on her left new HMP Berwyn, 30 teen- reached record levels. There they shared his concerns over conditions at arm, she was squealing. It was brilliant.” A agers from K2 Explorer Scout were 2,580 fi res last year, the prison. Despite this he was jailed for nine colleague replied: “It was so funny! She was Unit saw the visitors’ centre, equivalent to 50 incidents giving it all lip then crying whilst we slammed the industries complex, one years for causing more than £1m of damage every week - double the pre- her to the fl oor.” The paper says a senior staff of the accommodation area Complaining and disruption in his 60-hour protest. vious year. The Ministry of member described how colleagues should blocks and the inmates Justice said most were ‘rela- prepare to ‘drop’ a new prisoner - a tactic reception area. The young- Bob Elias, prosecuting, said there was no tively minor.’ prisoners are when prisoners are hauled to the ground and sters also took part in a doubt Horner ‘smashed the prison up’. He restrained. mock trial, playing the roles said; “Prison is not meant to be a picnic. HMP Birmingham recorded of defence and prosecution, a ‘nuisance’ Prisoners may bitterly resent changes to their 82 fi res, followed by l A serious outbreak of fl u at the troubled defendant, witnesses and everyday routine, but trashing the prison by Nottingham with 78, A local newspaper reports jury to give them an insight breaking glass windows on the roof, causing HMP Northampton saw four prisoners Doncaster with 75 and that the 1,000 prisoners at into the legal processes damage, doesn’t help - it eats into prison hospitalised and visitors to the prison warned Sheppey and Swaleside with HMP Hull make around 20 which sometimes result in budgets.” of the health risk of visiting the prison. Public 73. The number of prison complaints each week on people being imprisoned. Health England (PHE) have been working with fi res between 2005 and 2013 issues such as facilities, Negotiator and prison offi cer Simon Horner, the NHS and prison staff to stop the disease remained steady at between food, bullying, mail and vis- Now Wrexham Scouts and who is no relation to the defendant, also said spreading. 900 and 1,100 each year but its. Rob Nicholson, chairman HMP Berwyn are looking he agreed with some of the defendant’s com- in 2014 this increased to 1,236 of the Hull branch of the into the possibility of open- plaints about the amount of time prisoners l HMP Castle Huntly temporarily suspended and in 2015 there were 1,935. Prison Offi cer’s Association ing up a scout group in the were spending in their cells and the lack of letting prisoners out for periods of home leave (POA) told the Hull Daily prison for children of the time to use the facilities. Rob Young, acting while it carries out a review of its operations to Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah Mail that the total number men held there and allow ensure they still have the confi dence of the said that fi re incidents cov- would be a mixture of governor of HMP Manchester, admitted that them to take part in typical public following a series of incidents where ered a wide range of circum- justifi ed grievances and prisoners were not being let out of their cells scouting activities while they prisoners have absconded while on leave. stances including accidental ‘nuisance complaints’. regularly due to lack of staff , he said; “At the are visiting their fathers. fi res and deliberate acts of time we had staff issues, which meant time l arson. He said the govern- out of prison had to be reduced.” Dozens of prisoners were evacuated at HMP Acknowledgements: He said; “It depends how ment would never compro- Guys Marsh last month after a prisoner got on www.leaderlive.co.uk the complaints are broken mise on prisoners’ safety. down. Some could be relat- Sentencing, Judge Jinder Singh Boora said he the roof and started a large blaze. At the ed to an issue such as bed- accepted that when Horner started his protest height of the fi re there were 21 fi re engines ding, that needs resolving, “malice wasn’t in your mind”. But he added and two aerial ladders to fi ght the fi re which but sometimes people com- that the vandalism spree was ‘unnecessary’, took several hours to bring under control. A 29 plain for the sake of com- saying; “I take the view the damage itself year old prisoner was arrested on suspicion of plaining. 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with PET’s Nina Champion. pagne (actually fruit juice) The subject of sport and gym surrounded by beautiful fl ow- Month by Month is something about which the er arrangements and served men inside have plenty to say. fabulous hors’ d’oevres by The general consensus is that, elegant (women) waiters quite apart from the obvious dressed in chic black and outcomes of discipline, perse- white. This really was a spe- verance and good health, the cial celebration. gym is the safest place in pris- Director Ian Whiteside: on. So many very fit men in Before diplomas were handed “We want to be a partnership” one place might seem a hazard out, Director Ian Whiteside so I fi nd this statement makes (Bronzefi eld is a Sodexo pris- working for concerned chari- the point very clearly about on) gave us his views about ties and trusts, Parole Board the educational value of sport. what a prison should be. chief, Nick Hardwick, offi cers Admitting that a prison where and others from inside the Listening to a talk can be an over half the population stays prison and representatives easy way of passing an aft er- on average for 2 weeks, is not from outside partners, for noon but Rosie, Serena and easily run and that any diffi - example the London Morwenna’s determination to culties were increased when Community Rehabilitation engage the students plus the HMP Holloway closed last Service, the Kent, Surrey and written exercises provided on year, bringing an influx of Sussex Rehabilitation the spot, make sure that every- prisoners, his aim is to help Company and the Beth Centre. one is busy. I came away yet his charges by fi nding part- The most moving part of the again impressed with the tal- ners outside prison. ‘The solu- evening was testimonies from ent inside prisons. Happily, tion,’ he told us, ‘is in partner- some of the women who had ‘Prison Learning’ seems to be ship working. We want to work been through Bronzefi eld and rolling out in more and more with agencies. We want to be come out with new hope. I prisons. a partnership hub.’ jotted down a few of their comments, most of them relating All smiles learning together Rewarding change Maybe it was a good sign that to problems with drugs or Award ceremonies inside pris- the local Mayor, Alfred Friday, drink: ‘If we hadn’t come here, of the prison,as represented and Koby, are keen to get on are always moving aff airs. was there with his wife who we’d never have got clean.’ by the enthusiastically lacon- going as soon as possible. ‘The The sense that a man or a confided that she’d been so ‘I’ve been a recovering addict ic Henry Smithers who took only thing wrong with prison,’ woman has overcome real impressed at the work going for three years and now I’ve Rachel Billington off on his bicycle at the end of Kyle told me, ‘is the lack of obstacles to achieve some- on to help women in got my family back.’ ‘It’s all the day. My contact was opportunities.’ Timmy, who’s thing he/she probably thought Bronzefield that she has about change.’ ‘From the age Morwenna Bennallick from going to be released fairly of twenty three - twenty four Learning Together PET who was working with Dr soon, has spent the previous I was in and out of prison with How oft en inside prison, par- Serena Wright from the Royal day at Royal Holloway drugs, drinking, smoking - I ticularly a Young Off enders’ Holloway University. University where he’s hoping hated myself.’ prison do you see a group of to be allowed to study on ROTL men fully engaged in a learn- As we waited outside the pris- - which certainly would be an The point was made further ing project for two and a half on, I decided that my fi rst job opportunity. Koby told me that by an elegant film created hours? Not often, I suspect. was to find out what the one of the best things about around a poem about an Last month I was invited into Holloway students made of ‘Learning Together’ is that ex-Bronzefi eld prisoner called YOI Feltham to see the the experience. As fi rst year ‘we’re treated the same as the Nina who was helped inside Learning Together project in students of Criminology their students.’ Several men express prison to get over her addic- action. This was the last of meeting with men who have pleasure to find themselves tions. Nina was herself in the eight aft ernoon sessions and actually experienced our learning on a level with uni- audience and told me that she that’s where I met these young criminal system came high on versity students and a few goes into all kinds of venues men who suddenly realised their learning curve. Becka even believe, like Timmy, it to explain just how much they could take on ideas well “Lookalike champagne but genuine elegant ladies” told me that the course had just might be possible for them women with problems can beyond the usually provided done a lot ‘to break down bar- to study for a university thrive with a little bit of help. level 2 qualifi cations. impossible at the start cannot arranged an auction of a piece riers and get rid of the miscon- degree. As Ian Whiteside says, ‘Our be celebrated enough. On of prison art at a local ladies’ ceptions of the media. It’s not mission is to change lives for Good projects come and go in International Womens Day, I lunch and also encouraged important to me what they’ve With further questioning on the better.’ Without overlook- prison. Only the very best was invited to join a Through the guests to bring babywear done; they become like hold, it’s on to the studies, four ing the huge problems facing stick and have a continuing the Gate achievement award for the babies inside the pris- friends.’ Katy agreed, ‘They’re to a table and a large book of him, particularly with mental life. The Shannon Trust is one ceremony for women inside on. As the Mayor said, ‘We’re all really intelligent - good course reading for reference. health issues among his of those which I wrote about HMP Bronzefi eld. I don’t know going to encourage the com- people in bad situations - and The students have already charges, he is convinced that recently, where prisoners with what I expected but it certain- munity not to walk on by.’ meeting them emphasises the studied seven subjects such change can come with the good reading skills help oth- ly wasn’t to fi nd myself hold- importance of rehabilitation.’ as ‘Psychology in Criminology’, right treatment and the right ers to upgrade. ‘Learning ing a glass of look-alike cham- The audience included those Adam thought that prison ‘Criminal Justice, The Role of prison partners. Together’ is, interestingly, wasn’t really answering their the Inspectorate’ - a session another cooperative form of needs. ‘What they need is that featured Nick Hardwick, learning but this time, stu- more education on off er above the previous Chief Inspector dents from a University out- level 4.’ Rebecca agreed and of Prisons in person, and side the prison walls team up said she hoped the course ‘Crime and the Media’. This with students inside the walls. would run again, ‘It really eighth and last session is I have already written about does make a diff erence’. called ‘Criminal Justice: For expert legal advice, assistance and representation in the same working principle Innovations in Prison’ and on running impressively in HMP Prison Law, Criminal Appeals and Reviews matters. So, a good press from the stu- this occasion Professor Rosie Pentonville. The Feltham pro- Legal Aid available for Fixed fees for dents outside prison. Next Meek is with us to give a lec- ject is different because the • Post Tariff Parole Reviews • Recatagorisation step, advancing to Feltham’s ture. • Recall Reviews • HDC men are aged between eight- library and meeting the men • Independent Adjudications • Pre-tariff Parole Reviews een and twenty one, much the there. Unfortunately, two of The programme’s facilitators, • Sentence Calculations • Release on Temporary Licence same age as the students out- the eight students haven’t Serena and Morwenna listen • Appeal against Convictions & Sentences • Governor’s adjudication side. been able to get there. Sadly, to the Professor who has struc- • Applications to CCRC • Immigration & Deportation that’s oft en the way with pris- tured her talk to cover various • Judicial Reviews • Family It has been set up jointly by ons, too often overcrowded new approaches to education Topstone Solicitors 797 London Road London CR7 6AW The University of Holloway and understaffed. On the with a particular leaning to School of Law, with the [email protected] www.topstonesolicitors.com other hand, the six who are sport-based ideas about which 0203 441 2700 Prisoners’ Education Trust Change of trading name: Please note Topstone Solicitors were formally known as Touchstone Solicitors there, including Kyle, Timmy she has co-authored a book and with the full co-operation The website and email address have changed but all other contact details remain the same. Insidetime April 2017 www.insidetime.org Comment 17 Looking for solutions Can prison ever work? What do you think could work? The experts give their

PETER DAWSON view. Write in and tell us in no more FRANCES CROOK Director of the Prison Reform Trust than 300 words. Director of the Howard League for Penal Reform Invest in trust and carrot There are short term solutions - like increasing Implement the three Rs “The solution is to invest in the people funding, actually making courses available, “The rules around incentives and that we know are at risk of prison” fixing the hole in the fence where drugs get earned privileges must be revised” thrown over every week. There are slightly Most of the answers to the prison crisis longer term solutions - retaining quality mem- The first ‘R’ is Rules. Instead of solving can be found in what happens long bers of staff, changing the law so that we only problems, imposing additional days of before someone gets sent to prison. We send imprison people for really serious crimes. imprisonment for the breaking of prison rules people to prison for too long. Average sentence feeds a vicious cycle. It increases pressure on length for serious crime has grown by over 50% And then there are proper fixes that require us the prison population and worsens overcrowd- in 10 years, and we have more than twice as to question what justice actually means - do ing, which in turn further enforces the condi- many people serving indeterminate sentences CARL CATTERMOLE we want revenge or should we actually talk tions for drug abuse and violence. as France, Germany and Italy combined. More Former prisoner and Guardian contributor about why these issues arise in the first place, than any other factor, that is what has meant we must treat offenders with humanity, how At the same time, prisons have made rules to that our system has stayed at around 25 % we can make prisons healthy places to work incentivise prisoners’ behaviour more punitive, overcrowding for as long as anyone can remember. Offend with the truth and spend time, and save ourselves a lot of which is also contributing to the poisonous “True justice is one that makes wider taxpayers money in the meantime. If we really atmosphere behind bars. The solution is to invest in the people that we society better and safer in the short and rationalise it, we will see that prisons and the know are at risk of prison. We’ve actually done long term” current concept of justice is a true dark age of Solutions could include making the imposition this where children are concerned, and the ignorance. of additional days an indicator of a poorly performing prison, suspending the imposition of number of children in prison is a quarter of What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. additional days conditional on good behaviour, what it was a few years ago. It’s time to take But what happens behind the razor- At all stages, we'll need to offend the main- or removing the option of additional days the same approach across the board. wire topped walls of Britain's 150 prisons is stream media with the truth. entirely. The rules around incentives and released into society every single day of the earned privileges must also be revised. In the short term recruiting more staff is cer- week. 'Justice' has become a childish revenge that tainly part of what’s needed, but prisoner num- the Daily Mail want served frozen cold, at least The second ‘R’ is Release. Prisoners need more bers could be reduced quickly and safely by: so they have a pantomime in order to sell Prison conditions have gone from 'worst ever' opportunities to earn their return to the com- • Broadening eligibility for HDC; papers. In the human world though justice is to 'even worse' to 'how low can you go' and that munity through temporary release and parole. • restricting recall for breaches that don’t is emitted to the outside world - obviously by a dish best served hot and hearty with care involve committing another crime; prisoners who are too often serving very short and compassion. People are currently obsessed • changing the release test for IPP prisoners so Use of temporary release has fallen by a third sentences for minor crimes - but also by friends with a contradictory form of justice that creates since 2013. This means that prisoners cannot that it’s the prison that has to make a case for and family on the outside serving their own more and more crime - true justice is one that why they shouldn’t be released on tariff expi- demonstrate that they are ready to be released, sentence, and staff of the prison estate doing makes wider society better and safer in the and it leads to longer sentences. ry - not prisoners trying to prove that they are a very difficult job. short and long term. no longer a risk. The Parole Board ought to be resourced adequate- The prison crisis is a blip of bad news for the Maybe the Ministry of Justice should be ly, and ministers should adopt a recommenda- Inside prisons, we need: average person while they read the paper or renamed the Ministry of OK You Messed Up tion made by its Chair, Nick Hardwick, that the • Some carrot alongside the stick. There is no scroll through their social media but for us, it's But I Understand Why And Let's Talk About It test for release should change. This would reason why ROTL for employment, education a day-in day-out endurance of overdue release So You Don’t Do It Again? involve the Prison Service having to demon- and resettlement shouldn’t be a major part of dates, depression, longing and frustrations. strate that a person still presents a risk, rather all but the shortest sentences. For the House of Commons though, it's like one All jokes aside - the justice Dark Age must end. than a prisoner demonstrating that they do not. • Prisoners and staff talking together to solve big game of prison policy ping-pong - avoiding We 100% must avoid the American system problems. The Prison Reform Trust has been truths and spinning the issue, with the media where jail is a big money industry that gives The third ‘R’ is Recall. The number of people facilitating these conversations in a variety of as the umpire. people 25 year sentences for stealing a DVD in prison due to recall has increased by 4,300 prisons over the last two years. They always and imprisons more black people than slavery per cent in 20 years. come up with practical ways to improve the The prison crisis has become so complex, so ever did. Let's move towards being more like way of life day to day. Prisoners are the huge knee deep, that it all seems a long way from a a European system where they are closing jails, Sending someone back to prison for a technical wasted resource of ideas and talent in prisons state of criminal justice we can be proud of as treating humans like humans, saving money breach of their licence conditions is unjustified. - there has never been a more impor- a nation. But the truth is that fixing the 'justice and seeing fewer and fewer prison leav- Breaches should be dealt with in the tant time to put that right. system' is incredibly simple. ers reoffend. community.

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How does the Swedish prison towards victims that is a pri- press? Headlines perhaps that service manage long term ority.” the prisons are too soft? “Of prisoners - to keep them mov- course. But I think generally ing forward with a plan and a Punishment there is too much focus on the future? “Everybody is an indi- The way prison and probation media. Too many people get vidual. Every individual has roles and tasks have been upset about the way the media his or her own plan for the defined by the Swedish gov- is portrayed as being populis- duration of their sentence - it’s ernment is to try to reintro- tic, opportunistic, twisting not a collective plan.” duce the individual they are and angling and so on. But working with back into socie- that’s not the problem. The Public perception ty, he explains. “The crimi- media is not the problem. The Does the Swedish public nality has been dealt with by public perception of the crim- accept rehabilitation as the the police, the prosecution inal is the problem. The media main focus for prison and pro- and the courts. The court’s exploits that however the bation services? In the UK decision to deprive an individ- media can be helpful in prisons are too often seen as ual of liberty - that is the pun- changing the stigma that places for punishment rather ishment. Our job is from that comes with criminal justice.” than as punishment, although point on to look forward and with the new reforms, reha- to make use of that time in A challenge for victims bilitation has been made a prison as much as we can in Isn’t it true though that it is a more central focus of the pro- order to prepare the individu- challenge for an individual or cess and Governors are to be al for re-entry back into soci- a community to accept that made more accountable for ety. The strongest argument someone who has caused Nils Oberg: “Every prisoner reducing reoffending by pro- for that is that it works. We harm and distress to others in Sweden is an individual” viding regimes conducive to have the figures to prove it. We deserves to be helped? “You it. “Well, we are certainly not can demonstrate that if we balance this by respecting the trying to make the public like make an effort and have an fact that what that individual criminals,” he says. “But the individualistic approach rath- has done has caused, in some “We know what way to do it is to be very clear er than a collective approach cases, tremendous harm. on where we stand as far as to our methodology we can Crime is one thing, but the the consequences of criminal- produce results. Most people individual with needs and ity. We respect that people are respectful of the profes- problems is another. I don’t works and we do it” who commit crime can create sionalism in what we are try- see this as difficult. If we’re chaos in other people’s lives. ing to do. That is key to build- going to do something about The whole victim’s perspec- ing respect to the service and it in the long term we’re going Head of the Swedish Prison and Probation Service Nils tive is extremely important for the strategies.” to have to put into practice Oberg tells Inside Time why he believes Sweden has one of us to recognise. We are strategies to get these individ- extremely careful to make Tabloid press uals to behave differently. the lowest reoffending rates in Europe sure that any decisions we Does the Swedish prison and There is what works and what make where we have a com- probation services get any doesn’t work. We try to focus Erwin James so long. We have a constitu- Service, whatever initiatives munication obligation pressure from the popular on what we know works.” tional set up, which means are taken to support the rein- that we have powers in the tegration of prison leavers or Progressively lowering recid- public sector to carry out our clients on probation (the ivism rates have led to the work according to best prac- Swedish Probation Service is closing of prisons in Sweden tice and research and knowl- still a national service who and they have no plans to edge and the expertise that deal with ‘clients’ rather than build new ones. In London last we can offer with very little ‘offenders’) there is a follow month, Nils Oberg was speak- political interference. This is up to that. ing at the RSA to share what an area of social reform where the figures relating to the way you will not have results Planning his service works are achiev- immediately. It will take a long Probation is already involved ing. I asked him if he was here time before you see if it works long before the court will to give the UK advice. “I’m or not. Politicians are often make its decision in Sweden, always underlining that I impatient, they want quick he explains, “So we have put don’t give advice,” he says results. So the fact that we Probation in charge of the emphatically. “But what I was have been able to keep work- planning and programming doing was giving an overview ing with the strategies and throughout the full length of of how we carry out our tasks methodologies that we believe the sentence. It means that a in the Swedish prison and in, over time, I think has been Probation Officer will sit down probation service. We have very very important.” with the individual and then discovered new statistics that will be in charge of executing we didn’t really have a grip on Evidence the programming and the before. Recidivism is dropping “The second factor is that our planning, even if the individ- in the country and has been work is evidence based,” he ual goes into custody. They doing so over the past 12 years, says. “We evaluate everything will make the plan together steadily, by about one percent we do. And we apply whatev- with the prison officers and per year. So we are now down er reforms we carry out very the prisoner. So in a confer- from a 40 percent reoffending strictly and we only introduce ence, say the prisoner has a rate over a three year time new methodologies if we four year sentence, the pris- span to under 30 per cent.” know they have an effect. This oner will be asked, ‘so you The average in the UK is means that not only do we not have four years, where do you around 70 percent over two do things that we know is not want to be in four years?’ We years for adults and young working, we seldom do things try to map that out. For exam- people. So how is Sweden if we don’t know if it works. ple, ‘So you want to be a achieving such a big drop? We try to stick to what is estab- plumber? Let’s finish your “There are a number of differ- lished knowledge. One of the schooling, then when you get ent factors. I wouldn’t even advantages is that we have put to the end of your sentence dream to take all the credit for so much effort on strategies we’ll get you into a vocational it. One factor is definitely that that we know have an effect. training programme so that we have been able to pursue “Whatever happens in the you can be a plumber.’” a strategy of rehabilitation for Swedish Prison and Probation No address for Accommodation and Support Services for Bail and Home your bail or HDC Detention Curfew application? Talk to your Wing Officer If you have no address to go to for the period of bail or Home Detention Curfew (HDC/tag), or an address that isn’t suitable - BASS can help. 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thought once he’s had a good sleep out the machine. Then we were called he’d recover. It wasn’t until they did to come to the hospital on the ninth “James was a good boy, he never the scan that morning that the prob- day. I felt at that time we were trying lem was highlighted. I headed up to keep him alive for us and not for there, I didn’t see him before he went him. In the end I just knew that if did anything to hurt anyone…” down for surgery, but you couldn’t they did bring him around this would really communicate with him at that not be the life my son would have point anyway. He just wasn’t with wanted. I felt so selfi sh, when I asked The mother of 28 year-old James Hodgkinson, who was killed by a single us. The next nine days were just hor- what was keeping him alive they said punch, explains why she has become an ambassador for Restorative Justice rendous. I had my own pain, and my the syringes are keeping his heart parents, I had their pain, my dad was going - and I said, ‘just turn them all like pranks, I’m not saying he was 85 at the time and he kept saying ‘it off .’ They said ‘we could keep him Inside Time special report whiter than white - but he never did should have been me, it should have going another 24 hours,’ I said ‘what anything to hurt anyone. He went off been me’.” for?’ That’s when we made the deci- to be a Paramedic. I really admired sion to have it turned off . It was very him - he used to do dangerous sports, hard, and reading the notes after he dropped out of a helicopter on his when it says ‘mother requested it,’ - skis once - he really enjoyed life. And that’s very hard to read. when I look back now I’m just really pleased for him that he did what he wanted to do in his life.” What does she think James would think about her becoming involved with Jacob, helping him and doing the work with Restorative Justice? “I think James would be pleased we are doing it. I think he’d admire Jacob for who he is James: daredevil skier now that he has turned his life around. Jacob is so far from the person he was when he hit James. But what There are few opportunities for peo- got me into looking at restorative jus- ple in prison to actually face up to tice was the sentence Jacob received what they have done in terms of com- James: trainee paramedic - he served 14 months and I just munications to express remorse with thought, my child’s life is worth more the victims. That wouldn’t necessar- than 14 months. The police were ily be a healing or a condoning exer- “I’ve met Jacob fi ve or six time now amazingly supportive, but they were cise, but it might bring some under- and when we talk at conferences and only looking to get the person who standing on both sides. When she he gets to the point where he said did it, they weren’t looking at why he had to give permission for James’ life he’d been arrested for murder, he still did it.” support machine to be switched off , struggles to say it - you can see it in how hard was that? “Because I’m a his face, the disbelief of what he’s Joan Scourfi eld holds a picture of her beloved son James When was she fi rst aware that James health care assistant at the hospital done. It was hard when he got just had been attacked? “James was I’d watched him deteriorate. At fi rst 14 months, I was very bitter about Joan’s story Scourfi eld, James’ mother, is deter- punched and fell to the ground and we were full of hope, they tried to the sentence. But not now, not now, “It helps me by talking about it if we mined that her son’s passing brings hit his head. I was at home, aft er work- bring him around, but aft er a second this has been the right thing for can get the message across to others some meaning and understanding ing a nightshift as healthcare assis- lot of surgery his brain swelled again. Jacob.” about the dangers of just one punch, in order to make people aware of what tant at the same hospital where James Our lives were like a roller coaster, then that’s what we will keep doing. can happen even when just a single was taken. I got a call about eleven hope then no hope and back again. But talking about it to others, well if punch is thrown. What kind of per- o’clock the next morning. The hospi- But the last two or three days he was For more information on RJ: any good can come from it that’s son was James? “We brought James tal thought James had been hit, he’d really fi ghting to live. There was just www.restorativejustice.org.uk what we are trying to achieve.” Joan up to be a good boy. He did things had a few drinks, but the hospital no way he was going to breathe with- www.remediuk.org

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life. “It was like a wake-up call that parents of James wanted to speak to had come too late. It shouldn’t have me to ask me some questions. All of taken this to happen for me to start a sudden it felt like I was being held thinking clearly and to start thinking accountable. That was something I about having respect for my own life.” didn’t want to think about. I didn’t It came as a relief when the charge want to think about the harm I’d was dropped to manslaughter. “I caused. I said I would think about Jacob: Public Speaker pleaded guilty. Joan and James’ father answering questions though. About were in the court when I was sen- a week later I said, you know what? shocked. I knew I’d tried, I always tenced. We’d had no contact at all by The least I can do is try and answer used to give up if I didn’t achieve then. They were looking at me. I some of their questions. I realised anything fi rst time. When things do looked and saw them looking at me, they were questions that would be get hard now I think about David and then for the whole of the time in the on their minds for the rest of their Joan, and I think about my mum, and courtroom I had my head down. I’d lives. I didn’t think it was going to I think about myself. Once I started seen the pain in their eyes when they benefit me in anyway. I thought I to think and care about others, I were looking at me and I didn’t have could do a small good deed, which started to care more about myself. Jacob Dunne: His victim’s family helped him change his life it in me to raise my head.” might be helpful to them.” One of the things I said to Joan and David was, ‘sorry is not good enough. Sorry is not good An organisation called Remedy put I’m going to prove to you I’m sorry “The people I’d the questions to him and recorded his by my actions’. When I got my grades enough. I’m going to answers for David and Joan. “They I sent them over to them.” Now an prove to you I’m sorry wanted questions answered for their established public speaker, with a harmed the most peace of mind, but they also wanted prestigious TED (Technology by my actions. When the opportunity to express them- Entertainment Design) talk under I got my grades I sent selves, to express their loss, to me. his belt, he’s studying for a degree They explained how it felt to have to in Criminology. “I met Joan and judged me the least” them over to them decide to turn off James’ life support David for the fi rst time in a commu- machine. Joan talked to me about the nity centre near Cambridge. I was One punch almost destroyed two families. But He served his time in Glen Parva YOI. funeral, and what little things they there fi rst, which was nerve-racking. He says that despite his new clarity did, that he would have liked. What My heart was pounding and my head Restorative Justice brings hope of thinking he wasn’t a very pro-active made it harder for me was when they was in my hands. Every part of me prisoner. “There was no place in there started to talk about him as a person. was telling me to leave, but some- Jacob’s story Just 19, his life was about to change where I could go and refl ect and try Then when they asked me what I was thing stronger kept me there. When Jacob Dunne was released from pris- forever, and not at fi rst for the better. and evaluate everything that had doing with my life, which was hard we met, David and Joan stood up and on on New Year’s Eve 2012. “I’ve been “When I was put in the police cell I happened. It was just so intense, and too to think that they cared about shook my hand. I couldn’t look at busy since then,” he says, and he was in shock. Everything was going all I could focus on was surviving. It what was happening to me. They said them at fi rst. My hands were shaking certainly has. Initially arrested on through my mind, I thought, ‘this is was just aft er the London riots and ‘we don’t want you to continue being so much. They told me more about suspicion of murder almost a month it now for me’. All of a sudden I had Glen Parva was packed. I was more that person, we don’t want anyone James. By the end of it we were drink- aft er the punching incident which a real sense of character. Up until concerned about me and to be honest else to go through what we’ve had to ing tea and biscuits. It was at that led to the death of James Hodgkinson, then I hadn’t had any character. I was I still felt a bit hard done by at fi rst. I go through.’ I was already thinking meeting that they said they wanted he says he was unaware of the con- a young man with no self-esteem, blamed my friends at fi rst who had about wanting to change. But I didn’t to work with me to raise awareness sequences of what he had done. “I didn’t really believe in myself, didn’t ‘snitched’ on me. My mum lost her job know how to do it. I was of no fi xed of this issue. I was able to realise that just thought I’d had a fi ght and that have any aspirations or ambitions - and her mortgage because of what I abode, but I thought I’m going to do the people who judged me the least was it. Me and my friends used to get but then when I was in that cell, did.” Aft er he was released he says he my GCSE’s again. I started to think were the people who I’d harmed the into quite a few fi ghts at weekends arrested for murder, all of a sudden I was in a worse state of mind than he about personal development, to try most. They’ve saved me and I can’t at that time, so I didn’t really think had this sense of clarity, I thought was when he went in. But then two and make up for what I did. I was thank them enough.” anything more of what had happened ‘this is not how it’s supposed to be’.” months aft er I was released my pro- dyslexic at school, I didn’t think I with James. I didn’t know he’d been bation offi cer asked me if I’d heard of was very bright. But I got my GCSEs For more information on RJ: so seriously injured. I didn’t even He says he suddenly realised that he restorative justice. I said no, ‘what is with an A star in English and an A www.restorativejustice.org.uk think about it, until I was arrested.” wanted something better from his it?’ He explained, and said that the star in psychology and maths. I was www.remediuk.org

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December, Dean had replied Chelmsford, Dean was visibly changes have not been to hand down longer and reasons, and as Mills and “Dad, the only way I can beat self-harming, and had spoken implemented. longer life sentences. The ab- Kendall argued in the most them is to do it myself”. Despite with the prison chaplain about sence of appropriately struc- recent Handbook on Prisons this, he was sent to HMYOI arrangements for his funeral. By the time this edition of IT tured sentence plans to support (ask your prison librarian for Chelmsford rather than a se- has gone to print, the House individuals in managing such one), the focus of such scholars cure hospital. The coroner’s inquest conclud- of Commons Joint Committee unimaginably long chunks of on providing mental health in ed that Dean’s death was both on Human Rights: Mental time within the prison walls. prison has been ‘tokenistic’ at And this fact - that Dean was ‘predictable and preventable’. Health and Deaths in Prison The increasingly common- best. This means we know far charged with an offence and ‘This was a man in a mental will have heard from bereaved place nature of the ‘23 hour more about the problems of sent to prison rather than de- health crisis’, the Justice family members of individuals bang-up’ across the estate, mental health in prison than The Secret tained under the Mental Secretary admitted in the who have committed suicide even in YOIs. Massive reduc- we know about best practice Health Act - was, the subse- House of Commons, ‘who in custody (including the fam- tions in association opportu- in responding to it. Criminologist quent coroner’s inquest found, should never have been sent ily of Dean Saunders), senior nities, including access to the first of many serious fail- to prison’. He was, she added, mental health practitioners, telephones to contact friends Coupled with the gradual ero- Injecting a large measure ings and instances of ‘neglect’ ‘failed by everyone who should and representatives from and family members. Shutting sion of the human rights of of humanity into the in practice on the part of the have been there to protect him’. third-sector services including down of education and other people in prison identified criminological police, mental health teams, and As many of you will know - and INQUEST and User Voice. meaningful activity because above, and as prison condi- perspective the Prison Service. Failings certainly those of you who Launched in December 2016, of chronic short staffing. Lack which unquestionably con- have seen the Harris Report the Joint Committee is current- of nutritional food as standard tions get tougher and increas- tributed to Dean’s death. (which examined nearly 90 ly hearing evidence from par- (unless you can afford the in- ingly cash-strapped, and re- Dying for change deaths of young people aged ties such as those above in an credibly overpriced canteen). gimes and opportunities for Dean was in prison for almost 18-24 years between 2007-2013) attempt to decide whether a time-out-of-cell shrink, the Just four days into 2016, as the three weeks. During that time, - the death of Dean Saunders ‘human rights based approach’ Moreover, in the last 15 years, situation in our prisons is one peals of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ were his health deteriorated rapidly. is far from an anomaly within to prisoners might result in the academic literature on of the proverbial ticking time still echoing around the coun- He had no access to medication England and Wales. The Harris less self-inflicted death in mental health and imprison- bomb. Because, as Deborah try, Dean Saunders was lying and he was provided with Review concluded that each prison. ment has been growing. Much Coles, director of INQUEST dead in his cell at HMYOI scant opportunity to commu- death in custody represented of this has been authored by stated at the hearing into Dean Chelmsford. nicate with his family. Despite ‘a failure by the State to protect Based on what I have seen and healthcare professionals - par- Saunders’ death, “we have his partner ‘begging’ the pris- the young people concerned’; heard in prisons in recent ticularly psychiatrists - and heard too many times the A young father, Dean was on not to take Dean off con- a failure made ‘all the greater’ years, however, it seems to me focused on the prevalence of empty words ‘Lessons will be taken from his home and de- stant watch, they did so re- by the fact that the same crit- that this is only part of the mental health within prison, learned’.” But the desperate tained by police after attempt- gardless. Later, at the inquest icisms had been raised con- picture - that is, while the Joint and appropriate models of reality of the matter is that ing to take his own life in into Dean’s death, the jury sistently across that period, Committee’s work is impor- care. Far less attention has without commitment to invest- December 2015. This had been heard that Care UK, the organ- and yet to no avail. The Report tant, it is only a small corner been given by criminologists ment in mental health provi- his first time in prison. isation contracted to provide drew a wide range of conclu- of the greater problem, and who, despite developing strong sion and an end to criminal- healthcare at Chelmsford YOI, sions regarding more support the bigger questions that sur- research based on the ‘sociol- ising mental health - as was Dean had a clear history of were more concerned with and access to healthcare, par- round our incarceration ob- ogy of prisons’, are less inter- the case in the events that led acute mental health, and this ‘financial considerations’ ticularly for young adults - yet session. Specifically, ques- ested in - or less able to gain to the death of Dean Saunders was evident in the months than Dean’s mental and phys- anyone who has had the mis- tions that relate to the access to study - mental health -such “tragic and needless before he died - for instance, ical wellbeing, despite repeat- fortune to have recently visited disconcerting impact of recent in prisons, perhaps believing deaths will continue”. when asked by his father why ed warnings about his state or spoken with anyone resid- developments in the prison it to be beyond their profes- he had tried to kill himself in of mind. In his short time at ing at a YOI will tell you those estate. The growing tendency sional remit. Whatever the The Secret Criminologist “Have you been injured in Prison..? ...WE CAN HELP!”

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as if they were weighing up victims and then become vic- In her unique journal, HMP Parc the impact of their actions. I timisers and are now in a place prisoner Ruby shares some of her certainly was. The empathetic where they want to apologise part of me, which I have been and live better lives. Hope was days and some of her dilemmas nurturing in Grendon, blos- in the air and it felt as if every- somed. I could feel the impor- one in that room wanted to Ruby tance of not only feeling re- make the world a better place. tity and their biological sex assigned at birth. morseful, but also, if you are Thankfully, Grendon gives us Transsexualism - the desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually able to, doing what you can to the tools to help us do that. I am human help others. Restorative Justice My body is different to my state of mind, accompanied by the wish to have treatment to isn’t for everyone, but I have man or woman; two of a kind. make their physical appearance more consistent seen residents in Grendon with It’s days like This is difficult to express, my body lies to me, with their gender identity. their own ways of helping oth- A woman but a man; confusing you see. this in Grendon Transvestism - where a person occasionally ers and it’s inspiring to see Ask yourself this question: does your reflection wears clothing of the opposite gender people who have taken so which complement lie to you? (cross-dressing) for a variety of reasons. much from society giving therapy and deepen Simple suggestion: before you start judging back— however minute it may think what I’ve been through, Gender queer- an umbrella term used to describe seem. our understanding If that’s too complicated, remember, gender identities other than man or woman; Harold Mose of the impact of for example, those who are both man and A resident shared his own un- I am a human too. woman, or those who are neither man or woman, derstanding of victim empathy. our actions or moving between genders. The Grendon band then played Perception What is interesting is to see other people’s per- Facing a song called “You’re not to When it seemed as if the day ceptions of different situations, e.g. what one Hormones anyone? blame.” It was written espe- couldn’t get any more emo- person finds funny another person can find Hormone therapy for adults means taking hor- cially for the day and was about tional, another brave victim victims offensive or vice-versa. So I’ve started to become mones of your preferred gender. victims not bearing the blame. addressed the audience. His aware of different perceptions on situations Trans man (female to male) will take testosterone brother had been murdered Many events happen each year now and am also trying to broaden my own (masculinising hormone). Even though it was Victim and it was his second visit to at Grendon: family days, chil- perception of situations at the same time. Trans woman (male to female) will take oestro- Awareness Day, Ray and Vi Grendon to share his experi- dren’s days, workshops, social gen (feminising hormone). Donovan described it more ence. He asked the residents days, graduations, concerts, Gender identity is… The aim of hormone therapy is to make you feel powerfully. Ray and Vi’s son whom he had met last time to motivational speakers attend An individual’s self-conception as being male more comfortable with yourself, both in terms was murdered in 2001. They come up onto the stage. He and cultural speakers too. One or female, as distinguished from actual biological of physical appearance and how you feel. give talks in prisons and thanked them for welcoming event which had a profound sex. For most persons gender identity and bio- schools across the country him last time and his eyes Changes impact on me was Victim logical characteristics are the same. There are, about their experience and I shone with a lovely message If you are a Trans woman, changes that you Awareness Day. however, circumstances in which an individual am sure motivate many people which I interpreted as: ‘We all experiences little or no connection between sex may notice from hormone therapy may include: to live more compassionately. must work together and make your penis and testes getting smaller; In the conference centre a and gender; in transsexualism, for example, Their attitude is: “We’re not this world a better place.’ less muscle; group of around a hundred biological sexual characteristics are distinct victims. We’re survivors!” more fat on your hips; visitors and prisoners sat in and unambiguous, but the affected person be- By the time I got back to my your breast increasing in size slightly; rows facing the stage. Two lieves that he or she is - or ought to be - of the Residents were crying in the community I was emotionally less facial and body hair. Restorative Justice profession- opposite sex. Gender identity is not fixed at audience as Ray and Vi’s words drained. I had to lie down to als shared their experiences of birth; both physiologic and social factors con- entered their hearts. We hav- process the experience. I knew Trans woman surgery the benefits that can be had tribute to the early establishment of a core iden- en’t often seen, or wanted to in my heart that if I was able For a Trans woman, surgery may involve: from meeting your victims. tity, which is modified and expanded by social see, the impact our violence to do some restorative justice factors as the child matures. an orchidectomy (removal of testicles); has on victims - few of us have mediation I had to make the a penectomy (removal of the penis); Hope was in ever had it laid bare in front of most of it. It seems I wasn’t the Boy or girl? vulvoplasty (construction of the vulva); the air and it felt us with the details and emo- only one who was inspired. Basic gender identity - the concept “I am a boy” clitoroplasty (construction of the clitoris); tions of what a family feels Two members of my own com- or “I am a girl” - is generally established by the breast implants; as if everyone in when they become victims to munity put themselves forward time the child reaches the age of three and is facial feminisation surgery (surgery to make that room wanted a crime - or “survivors.” to take part the following week. extremely difficult to modify thereafter. In cases your face a more feminine shape). Members of other communities where biological sex was ambiguous at birth to make the world I used to repress feelings of in Grendon probably have too, and errors in sexing were made, it has been Gender Recognition Act 2004 guilt and remorse, but I or are at least thinking about it. almost impossible to re-establish the proper The gender recognition act 2004 gives Trans a better place couldn’t hide in there. I had to identity later in childhood or adolescence. women and men certain legal rights. Under the accept the suffering in front of Furthermore, a secondary gender identity can GRA 2004, Trans women and men can: apply One of the speakers, who had me. My heart thought of the Have you thought of coming to be developed over the core identity, as sex-as- for and obtain a gender recognition certificate been a victim herself, had been people out there now who are Grendon? Is there anything you sociated behaviours may be adopted later in to acknowledge their gender identity; get a new through the Restorative Justice horrifically going through what would like to know about life; heterosexual or homosexual orientations birth certificate, driving licence and passport; process. She explained that Ray and Vi went through. It’s Grendon that you would like me also develop later. marry in their new gender. giving our victims an oppor- days like this in Grendon which to write about in upcoming ar- tunity to have contact with us complement therapy and deep- ticles? If so, please write to me Like an individual’s concept of his or her sex Who am I? could help them the way it en our understanding of the at Inside Time and mark your role, gender identity develops by means of pa- A mirror helped her: “If they want and impact of our actions. envelope Harold Mose - rental example, social reinforcement, and lan- That doesn’t reflect, are ready to do it… I was so Grendon Therapy Column, with guage. Parents teach sex-appropriate behaviour A life Learning to accept. angry before… after seeing him The band played another orig- your queries and I will hope to to their children from an early age, and this A society, that does not understand, it was like a weight had been inal song about the suffering answer anything that may en- behaviour is reinforced as the child grows older A person lifted… I got to say what I need- war causes. It was about a man courage you to see if a Therapeutic and enters a wider social world. As the child I have left cleaning the wing behind. Now I am ed to say to him,” she ex- being a victim then going down Community is for you. acquires language, he also learns very early the back over education, I’m going to focus on my plained. “If you decide to do the wrong path, but finally distinction between “he” and “she” and underwriting more. it in the future just be apologising to all the victims stands which pertains to him- or herself. Harold Mose, a nom de honest.” out there. It touched me and plume, is a resident of HMP It’s nice to have some different scenery as well. I’m sure many others, since Gender terminology Grendon - names in this Peace. Out. Miss W The residents seemed reflective many residents have been Gender dysphoria - discomfort or distress caused article have been changed by a mismatch between a person’s gender iden- X 24 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2017 Inside Voices Pensioners discrimination

nor even British nationals over 65 with pen- Flogging a dead horse sions paid from abroad or privately in the UK. The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, at Article 12, declares that no one shall Brent Healey - stuck with the hopelessly Before com- be ‘subject to arbitrary interference’. At Article HMP Wormwood Scrubs ill-defi ned task of ‘reducing plaining about the risk factors’. It has become an 17 (2) it adds that ‘No one shall be arbitrarily impossible battle to win, ever deprived of his property’. The EU’s Charter of Lock them up and throw the splinter in other more attritional and going Human Rights, at Article 8, states that an arbi- key away! This is, apparently, countries eyes, we nowhere. It’s a depressing trary or unfair removal of possessions consti- Britain’s answer to the grow- business leading the mind tutes an unlawful interference in private life. ing problem of prison violence. might be better down alleyways best left Furthermore, Article 1 of Protocol 1 on the right We are led to believe that ours advised to deal unexplored. There are times to property also protects against the arbitrary is an advanced, humane and when I’ve had the terrible feel- deprivation of possessions. civilised society, and it is only with the beam in ing that on one of these dark the world’s developing coun- and lonely nights, the cell Discrimination tries who treat their off enders our own door will burst open and I will There is no evidence of a sentencing judge in such a barbaric and brutal be dragged away to be dis- taking into account that the state will deprive way. What a joke. in any meaningful way? What posed of, like a Jew in Nazi a convicted person over the age of 65 of their is the point of a Human Rights Germany, a victim of a latter state pension immediately they receive a cus- Act, when it amounts to noth- Before complaining about the day ‘fi nal solution’. todial sentence. The judge is obliged to use ing more than self-serving splinter in other countries sentencing guidelines, tariff s and the law itself political platitudes? eyes, we might be better Of course, nothing so sinister to determine the appropriate sentence for each advised to deal with the beam could happen in the UK in the off ence. To that extent his discretion is limited. In my view, a fl ogging or ston- in our own. The presence of 21st century, as the western Prisoner pensioners denied pension So, the loss of the state pension is an addition-

ing in one of the world’s ‘bar- © prisonimage.org the 4,000 plus inmates who world lurches collectively fur- al punishment infl icted by the State retroac- baric’ countries could easily remain stuck in time and ther and further to the politi- tively, and which selectively discriminates be seen as relatively light, Antony Wright & Ashley Mote - closed conditions with no cal right, you get the impres- which classes of inmates shall suff er. The sole quickly-over-and-done pun- HMP Highpoint South realistic prospect of release sion that nothing is impossi- criterion is simply being over 65. fl ies in the face of successive ishment with an identifi able ble. For now, I remain in stasis. starting and fi nishing point. Prison Ministers’ self-right- Every British Old Aged Pensioner who receives But the State’s discrimination goes even fur- eous vindictive rhetoric. Once the bruises are healed, the Something must be done. a custodial sentence in the UK today immedi- off ender is at least allowed to ther. A disability allowance (known as Personal Something. Anything. As ately has his/her state pension seized by the Independence Payment) is paid to inmates What exactly is this ‘rehabil- go home to family and friends. Shakespeare once wrote - State. Despite being a contributory scheme deemed disabled - and not only physically - itation’ that we hear so much ‘Nothing comes from nothing’. (however spurious the reality) successive gov- during their last year in jail. The purpose is to about, but rarely experience But, here we IPPs remain, I am in a very dark place indeed. ernments have chosen to claim that the State build up a sum for their benefi t when they are Pension is a ‘benefi t’. But not all benefi ts are released. It seems that being over 65 is, of itself, Do you have a short article or advice you would like to share for Inside Voices? withheld from OAPs, Housing Benefit, for not considered a disability. The State Pension Write in and let us know. Please mark your envelope ‘Inside Voices’. example, can and does continue, sometimes is not restored to an inmate over 65 during the indefi nitely. year prior to release. Yet both categories of inmate will have the same basic needs on Justifi cation for the current policy appears to SPECIALISTS IN PRISON LAW, PAROLE DELAYS, release. centre on the notion that State Pension is used EQUALITY CLAIMS, PERSONAL INJURY, by the State as a contribution towards the £100 Kesar & Co The UN’s Declaration of Human Rights, at CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE, MENTAL HEALTH, per day (£36,000 per year) average cost of Article 7, specifically provides protection SOLICITORS IMMIGRATION AND DEFENCE. accommodation and maintenance. against discrimination, while Article 11 provides the right to be free from retroactive pun- A growing area of concern is the increase in direct and indirect discrimination based We reject and dispute the present situation for ishment or penalties. predominantly on age, disability, gender and religion. If you believe that you are a the following reasons; victim of discrimination, we would like to hear from you. Personal Property Furthermore, Magna Carta 1215 and the The Old Age State Pension is the only ‘benefi t’ Declaration of Rights 1688, are both parts of the British Constitution, whereby, ‘cruel and Our team of prison law lawyers would be happy to assist you with parole, recall, fi nanced directly by the benefi ciary. By law it is a right funded by each pensioner throughout unusual’ punishment is specifi cally outlawed. criminal appeals and sentence calculations under Legal Aid; or transfer requests, their working life. All other benefi ts can be, A state pension is an asset built up during a re-categorisation applications and pre-tariff sift applications on a private basis. and are, amended, removed or adapted by working lifetime for the support of a 65-year old and any dependants remaining. Its remov- Contact the team to see if we can help. government, oft en without due legal process. But the Old Age State Pension is uniquely pro- al after sentencing to jail can be held to be tected. Any fundamental change would require ‘cruel and unusual’ in that he/she and others If you believe you are entitled to a Minimum Term Review, contact us to assist with due legal process. The fact that successive suff er fi nancial damage solely because of his/ her age. Retroactive, arbitrary and discrimi- your application to the High Court and possible representation before the Parole governments have chosen not to create a self-fi - nancing pension fund does not remove the natory seizure by the State aft er sentencing of Board under Legal Aid. government’s liabilities and obligations. The over-65-year olds assets is ‘cruel and unusual’ UK’s own Human Rights Act 1988, states in almost by defi nition. Our clients regularly receive compensation for the delayed parole hearings, ranging Article 7 (i), ‘…nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at Two Questions from £300 to £4,500. If you are post-tariff and your parole hearing has been delayed the time the off ence was committed’. a) Where, precisely, is the legal authority (to by more than 3 months, contact us to see if we can obtain compensation for you. say nothing of the moral authority) for the pres- Arbitrary ent situation? It appears to be highly selective Since seizure of the Old Age State Pension is and arbitrary. How is it justified, given the We offer legal aid, subject to assessment in the areas of prison law, immigration, men- not handed down by the judge at the time of Human Rights breached openly by successive tal health, action against the police and public law. In the alternative, we accept in- sentencing, seizure by the State is a second British Governments? arbitrary retroactive punishment. Equality is structions from privately paying clients as well as “no win-no fee” agreements. held to be a cornerstone of modern custodial b) Why, if the State has the powers it apparent- life, yet inmates over the age of 65 are arbitrar- ly claims, are Old Aged Pensioners who fail to ily punished in addition to their sentences pay the council tax, income tax, car tax, fi nes Contact us in writing at: Kesar & Co Solicitors, simply because such a seizure is possible. No for careless driving, speeding, and the like not 2nd Floor, 20-25 Market Square, Bromley, BR1 1NA inmate under the age of 65 is required to pay arbitrarily discriminated in the same way? a penny towards his/her upkeep. Neither are Or by telephone on: 020 8181 3100 Foreign Nationals over 65 and with pensions, And if not, then why not? Insidetime April 2017 www.insidetime.org Comment 25 From over the wall Terry Waite writes his monthly column for Inside Time

questions, later that evening, I replied that I had ‘just been out with a friend.’ He later discovered a ticket stub which had dropped out Terry Waite CBE of my pocket and the game was up. He said nothing.

Well, you might say, not much to worry about Sex education there. However, in those days society was so very different than it is today and, for many, There can be very few people, if any, who don’t sex was still a taboo subject. Sex education have a guilty childhood secret. Mine goes back was unknown in the schools I attended and I over sixty years when I was in my early teens. can’t ever remember my parents talking to me I was brought up in a small village about eight about what was called ‘the facts of life’. It can miles or so from quite a large northern town. reasonably be argued that today things have

Those were the days when if you were fortunate swung far too far in the opposite direction and © Deposit Photos enough to have a TV it only broadcast pro- that reasonable modesty and respect have, in grammes for a few hours each day. For the many instances, gone out of the window. The man thought for a moment colour or indeed sex.’ remainder of the time Test Card C was displayed However, in my opinion, it was not good for and then declared that he had on the screen so that engineers could adjust youngsters to be brought up to feel that anything Tales of an old friend who was by far ‘Ah, has he really come as far sets as and when necessary. to do with sex was dirty and beyond discussion. the greatest expert in horses as that?’ the head of stables I think it is vital that all young people are prop- there was and that he would declared in admiration. ‘So keen is his sight that he no As TV was gradually taking over the entertain- erly educated in sexual matters and are also send at once for his best ani- Wisdom longer even sees the outer ment industry, small theatres up and down the taught what a powerful force the sex drive is. mal. A message soon arrived characteristics of the horse, country were struggling to survive. For many One of the reasons it is so powerful a drive is from the old friend in the only its inner quality.’ The years they provided a living for artists of all obvious. In essence it is to do with the survival Our man on country announcing that he king remained unconvinced, descriptions who would spend several days of the species. Men and women need to have would soon be sending a black until the horse approached lodging in a theatrical boarding house before that powerful urge in order to ensure that the the inside tells stallion as a gift to the king. A him. It stood perfectly still moving on to another equally grim establish- human race continues from generation to gen- few days later a boy arrived whilst he mounted it; indeed ment. It’s entertaining to hear some of the stories eration. Like all powerful forces in life it can, it like it is with the horse for the king - the horse bowed to make it that the old time performers have to tell about and frequently does, get out of hand with tragic but both king and head of Sid Arter easier for the king. Once set- this hidden side of the entertainment industry. consequences. Today the boundaries of what stables were surprised to see a brown mare. tled the horse took off - offer- However, I digress. is acceptable in sexual matters have been ing such a smooth ride the pushed further and further back. Today, to feel king had no need for a saddle guilty about going to see Peaches would be The black ‘You said your friend was an expert - the greatest expert or indeed reigns and as for laughed out of court. However, boundaries speed - the king was thrilled need to be established in society and behaviour stallion there was!’ the king complained, ‘look what he has - he had never ridden such a needs to be controlled for our own protection splendid beast before. and the protection of others. The king decided he needed a sent - you told me the message new horse; so he called the told of a black stallion that How often do we simply make You know as well as I that our prisons are full head of the stables to come was on its way. The fact that judgements of the exterior and before him. The man was told the horse is brown is bad of sex offenders, and a good many of those who somewhat superficial outer to spare no cost and bring to enough - but it’s a mare! Your have offended have been offended against in appearances - failing to see him the best horse in the land. expert seems to know little of childhood. Grendon Underwood has, over the the deeper inner qualities? years done excellent work in enabling many individuals come to terms with their own sexuality and manage it. My own view is that, ASN LAW except in the minority of cases, prison is not See our SOLICITORS the place for sex offenders. What is required page in the Anthony Stokoe • Joel Binns are special establishments where individuals Rasheed Nujeerallee ‘Jailbreak’ section can be properly assisted to sort out their often Independent Prison Law confused sexual lives. One might say the same Expert since 1994 for other types of offenders also. I am not going THE PRISON ‘People Before Profit’ to make any apology for sex offenders. Crimes Continuing the Fight and Challenge Peaches Page sees a mouse have been committed and that is that. What I PHOENIX TRUST do ask for is a much deeper understanding of Despite Legal Aid Cuts the causes of such behaviour and the reasons No Gimmicks just straight A friend of mine heard that there was to be a why some individuals have behaved as they Head doing you in? advice/representation special production at our local theatre which do. Not all blame can, or should, be placed on Stressed out? for Male and Female Prisoners was due to close within a few months. The star the individual offender. Can’t sleep? artist was to be a performer by the improbable • Adjudications • Lifer/IPP Specialist name of Peaches Page! Miss Page would enter- Sixty years ago the sexual urge was as strong tain by removing as many items of clothing as as it ever was and much took place outside the Simple yoga and • Recall • Parole • Judicial Reviews was permitted in those days and thus demon- public eye. Today virtually everything is up meditation practice, • Mental Health Law Expert strate that she did indeed have a complexion front. Advertisers, who are no fools when it • Human Rights - European & International like ‘Peaches and Cream’ ... all over! I think comes to understanding human psychology, working with silence and the that the Peaches I saw was the same Peaches play unmercifully on sexuality in order to pro- breath, might just transform Fixed Fee advice for who was dismissed in 1956 because she moved mote their products. The public are constantly your life in more ways than • Categorisation • Cat A Reviews on stage when she saw a mouse whilst appearing being stimulated and overstimulated, and urged you think ... Interested? • Pre-tariff Sift/Hearings in the nude at the Camberwell Palace in London! to seek new sensations. Is it surprising that Do not Delay Call/Write Now In those days nudes were strictly forbidden to there are problems? Write to The Prison Phoenix Trust Suite 8 Vine House 143 London Road move on stage. P.O. Box 328, Oxford, OX2 7HF. Kingston KT2 6NH My friend duly purchased two tickets and we Terry Waite was a successful hostage negotiator made our way into town. To be perfectly honest We’d love to hear from you anytime and have before he himself was held captive in Beirut for several free books and CDs, which could 020 8549 4282 I can’t remember one thing about the act but I 1763 days between 1987 and 1991; the first help you build and maintain a daily practice. NATIONWIDE SERVICE do remember that in response to my father’s four years were spent in solitary confinement. 26 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2017

And as a result, such maverick It is now totally out of control, Some Judges regard this The Met: Laziness and bad habits? cops were generally regarded as illustrated by the number behaviour as not appropriate as good guys. OK, they broke of complaints in this paper in a civilised society. Many the law, but it was in a worthy and by the thousands of new future victims of a search, and cause. They acted in good faith. prosecutions and innocent even past victims wanting to inmates. get their convictions quashed, Times have changed. In all may get their solicitors to areas, the quantity of bent Some police for apply for the applications cops grew. Many were corrupt made by police to raid their for personal reasons. They ages have felt that homes. Harry Redknapp, the wanted promotion, increased Judges and the Law football manager, won his budgets, fame from standing case by doing this some years on court steps looking like are there to stop ago. heroes. And they needed to criminals being make targets, achieve goals, The Criminal Procedure Rules tick boxes so their bosses convicted. They are mean courts have to provide could wear scrambled eggs on the enemy of good you with copies of the appli- their shoulders. cation as long as the police policing agree (and if they don’t, most This was hugely helped, for courts will force them and the all the right reasons, by then Lies indicate BAD FAITH. That rejection indicates bad faith). Home Secretary Michael is deliberately saying some- Howard who, in the 1990s, thing you know is untrue in I highly recommend obtaining changed the law so that peo- order to fool a Judge into a copy of the Henriques Report Met Police in the dock ple accused of sex offences granting permission to break - it is essential reading. could be jailed without evi- doors down, drag people Hopefully Government will sit dence, on the word of one naked out of bed, stick them up and put his recommenda- Sir Richard Henriques damning report finds string person against another. This in a cell for 36 hours and do tions into law. Thousands of of ‘significant failings’ into the way the force inves- was to grab historical offend- other appalling things, remi- future innocent men and ers. Nasty men who had run niscent of Nazi Germany. women will no longer have to tigated allegations of VIP sex abuse orphanages and destroyed the Unlikely to happen yet in the occupy space in Her Majesty’s lives of helpless children UK to Jews but perfectly pos- Estate, the tax payer will be Jonathan King tigating three of the officers. Essentially this one comment deserved to be punished. Few sible if the victim is gay or, spared millions that can be implies that using loopholes would disagree with that, and dare I say it, a suspected pae- spent on the NHS or schools, “There is an indication that a or bending the rules in order to there was never going to be dophile. And - through lazi- and we can all sleep better in Last year’s report by Sir detective chief inspector (DCI), mislead magistrates or judges any evidence, so he changed ness and bad habits - often (I our beds. Richard Henriques was a a detective inspector (DI) and is not just immoral but illegal. the law. And rapidly false suspect) in many other inves- major breakthrough for justice a detective sergeant (DS) may accusers spotted this loop- tigations. Search warrants are Jonathan King considers in Great Britain. Commissioned, have behaved in a manner that It reflects the deeper malaise hole. Assisted by helpful law- granted every hour. Properties himself a proud former prisoner to his credit, by Sir Bernard would justify disciplinary pro- endemic in our society. Some yers and willing police are searched with increasing Hogan Howe into the behaviour ceedings in that they may have police have for ages felt that officers, the number of histor- quantities of noise and vio- Henriques Report: of his force - the Metropolitan failed to accurately present all Judges and the Law are there ical convictions exploded. lence every day. tinyurl.com/kyxbse5 Police - in various Operations relevant information to a dis- to stop criminals being con- including Midland, Yewtree trict judge when applying for victed. Those policemen are and Vincente, it looked at how search warrants for three prop- the enemy of good policing. various false allegations erties.” Tel: 0161 928 8877 about sex offences had been This may have been true years handled. This hugely significant ago. In the good old days of Email: [email protected] announcement was slightly Dixon of Dock Green, decent, The report revealed certain buried beneath further state- honest coppers (or Peelers as major breaches in discipline ments that other areas of com- they may then have been and even illegal activity. Sir plaint were not upheld (quite called) did indeed bend the Richard urged 43 changes in rightly, in that the law had not rules in order to lock up people police behaviour - Hogan been broken - Henriques sim- like the Kray Twins who they Howe resigned earlier than ply said it should be changed knew were behaving badly but planned and five senior could not get enough evidence officers were suspended. or that officers should stop behaving in the way they had to jail them, in order to protect It doesn’t matter where you are - if you have had an accident you been behaving) and by releas- honest members of society. It could be entitled to claim for compensation. On March 8th, the Independent wasn’t just Great Britain. The Police Complaints ing the statement on Budget Day when media were concen- Mafia, Al Capone, everywhere Let us help you Commission (IPCC) released justice required dodgy cops to trating on other matters. its decision to continue inves- get the bad guys. If you suffer an accident because of someone else then we will help you get justice. We’ve won millions of pounds of compensation for our clients since setting up our law firm back in 1998. M c. IVOR . FARRELL Northern Irish Solicitors We make the entire process as simple as possible. 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John Roberts out just one winner.

We debated the merits of each presentation “So many talented people in prison ... If only and eventually decided who would get the £500 they’d been running a legal business they prize. It was (let’s call him ‘Keith’) who had an would have been a great success.” How many interesting mobile maintenance-come cleaning times has that been said and how true it is. service idea that really could be up and running with the relatively small amount of money On the 14th of March at at HMP Wandsworth, available; plus some of the extra practical sup- Simone Haynes hosted another Cells Pitch port on offer. event we have previously referred to as a ‘Dragons Den’ type of programme. It has now There was no intention of awarding a second been branded as Cells Pitch to avoid any prob- prize but there was much debate about a can- lems with the producers of the TV programme. didate who had come so close that a way was Previously we featured a Cells Pitch event in found to find a (financial) manner in which to HMP Pentonville. help him. ‘Dwayne’ wanted to launch a range of specialist foods based on his Grandmother’s I sat with my fellow judges on the panel in secret recipe. He seemed to have so much family Wandsworth to listen to ideas the eight con- Pitching to the audience in Pentonville support in place that it wouldn’t take very much testants were about to present. Each was hop- the first prison Cells Pitch more to get it off the ground. A sum of money ing to win the £500 prize money and get ongo- © Cells Pitch was pledged and Dwayne became a prize-win- ing support on offer to help them start their ning runner up. businesses on their release. But of course, there would be only one winner. ‘James’, our first candidate, didn’t win but it ‘Pitching for a future’ looks very likely that with the help of one of They were eight ordinary guys; no different to the panel members he would be able to access the 50-60 others sitting amongst staff and other Eight ‘ordinary guys’ make a Cells Pitch to ‘The Dragons’ some funding from a special awards fund from interested spectators. Understandably they a charitable trust. This meant three out of the were nervous, sitting clutching at their scripts prisons - languishing in a cell for up to 23 hours parents. This would be through a network of eight were going to get immediate help on and occasionally glancing down and mouthing a day, with probably not a single positive support available within the centre. It was clear release and there is no doubt in my mind that their opening line. Before they did so, the panel thought in his head about his future post that he understood the impact his mistakes the remaining five were suitably motivated to of judges were asked to introduce themselves release. Now, thanks to Simone’s encourage- had had on his own family and that he’d be able to make a success of their lives, given and describe their various backgrounds. As ment (and perhaps a bit of gentle bullying) he learned a lot from his time in prison. More the chance. usual, it was a fairly diverse group in age and began to open up and explain who he was, how importantly, ‘James’ now had the confidence backgrounds and experience - which of course he’d ended up in prison and what his plans and self-belief to think, “I know what the prob- With self-employment being such a suitable is exactly what’s needed to assess the strength were. His confidence grew and grew. lem in my community is, I know what is needed option for people who have spent time in pris- and viability of the different ideas. to fix it, and perhaps I do have the talent and on, because sadly so many employers still fail James’s opening words about himself prior to skills to do something about it.” to understand the business case for their When the first candidate (let’s call him James) prison were ... “I concentrated more on what I employment, this type of course is invaluable came to the lectern and started speaking it didn’t have than on what I actually do have”. One by one the seven remaining candidates in the battle to reduce reoffending. seemed almost impossible to imagine that just He went on to describe in detail the plans he stood up, all displaying similar levels of con- three or four weeks previously he had been had for a centre in his local community that fidence when presenting their individual ideas. The successful outcomes from the HMP simply one of the thousands of people in our would focus on helping fathers to become good This made it incredibly difficult for us to single Pentonville event will feature in our next issue. Walsh Solicitors Criminal Defence And Prison Law Experts 24 hours a day/7 days a week

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was used far more frequently Was he given any reason for pointment will destroy him Extract from Soozy’s blog than was ever envisaged by the parole knockbacks? eventually. its architects. Around four “Is there a certain point in thousand men and women are It’s incredible some of these a long sentence when a And how does this affect you, ‘stuck’ in prison, having things that people in author- man has rehabilitated? it must be hard? received short tariff s, unable ity come out with. They say He’s reached optimum improvement and has the to access the courses and pro- he’s institutionalised, can you I just think the situation is passion, motivation and grammes they need to prove believe that? This is coming completely desperate. It’s a ambition to change his life them fi t for release. The IPP from the people who have kept around for the better? I’d struggle. I’m constantly writ- him in prison since he was sentence has caused a logjam like to argue that opti- ing to people about his plight, 20-years-old! They say he in the parole system that is mum rehabilitation hap- constantly reading up on the does not have a ‘pro-social’ aff ecting more and more pris- pened for my partner 5 law and any changes in the oners every day, and is partly attitude, and that he is aggres- years ago, since then he law, looking for a loophole or responsible for prison over- sive. Wow, he’s been in an feels all his efforts have anything that will help us. I crowding. anti-social and aggressive been in vain and it write a blog about this stuff , it environment for almost a dec- wouldn’t matter if he helps me to cope, but it can be I spoke to Soozy Thom, who ade, so who’s fault is it that his received a gold-plated very emotional. has a partner serving an IPP environment has shaped him? course certifi cate of excel- sentence and who is trying to lence, it wouldn’t be Has anyone in authority “The situation is completely desperate” raise awareness around the He hasn’t had any adjudica- enough. The Parole Board been of help? problem. tions for violence or anything missed it ... his continued serious, but you cannot spend punishment has got in the My partner has been a big over 8-years in prison without way of rehabilitation and Can you tell me a bit about help. When I have my ‘down’ getting IEP warnings, they they haven’t a clue what He’s given up... your partner’s situation? days it is him who cheers me give them out for petty stuff . to do. He is a tired ham- up. But, as for anyone in He’s had an IEP warning for ster on the MOJ wheel.” He was given an IPP with a authority? No, not really. I’ve wearing fl ip-fl ops on the land- IPP - a partner’s story two-year tariff when he was had to do it all myself. The ing amongst other things, all 20-years-old. He is now have a ‘lay-down’ of between only people who really under- trivial things that would have Noel Smith sentence is open-ended and 32-years-old, and eight-and- 9 and 18-months before they stand all this are people who no bearing on how he would the recipient must satisfy cer- a-half years over his tariff . He will even consider him for a have been through it them- behave in the outside world. For those of you who don’t tain criteria before being con- did okay for the first 5 or home visit. It just seems nev- selves. The blog helps, it lets The trouble is, if you don’t just know (and there can’t be many sidered for release, i.e. that 6-years, done all his educa- er-ending. me get things out there. The sit back and keep your mouth who don’t!), the IPP sentence tion, gym-courses and all the they have ‘reduced their risk shut, if you question the worst thing has been the atti- (Imprisonment for Public offending behaviour pro- How is he coping with this? to the public’. authorities in any way they tude and behaviour of the Protection) was introduced by grammes. Some of the pro- see you as a serial complainer Probation Service. They seem former Home Secretary David He’s given up... Unfortunately, this sentence grammes he did twice, simply and treat you accordingly. He to think that 2 phone inter- Blunkett via the Legal Aid has become a bit of a millstone because they said he should. hasn’t committed another views with my partner are How do you mean? Sentencing and Punishment around the neck of the British But the knockbacks have crime in over 8-years, but the enough to judge him and make of Off enders Act (LASPO), in criminal justice system as it taken it out of him. system seems hesitant to pro- negative reports. Also, within He has decided to live his life April 2005. In eff ect, the IPP gress those with IPP. OMU, the constantly changing and not let it hurt him. It may staff do not help. You cannot Does he have a Parole hear- sound strange, but being in a build up any kind of relation- ing any time soon? position where your hopes are ship when it is someone dif- constantly dashed, where you ferent every time. At the moment his parole have no hope of freedom, and hearing is late by over that’s how he sees it, has kept So, what are your hopes for 8-months, but he will still him alive. He just goes about the future? have to go to a D-cat prison his life in prison because that before release. So, that means is all he knows now. If you do We have no idea what might more delay before he can come not build your hopes up, then be around the corner, but we home. the knockbacks can’t hurt as do know that it will not be much. You just shrug and get easy. I just want him to come How do you feel about that? on with it. The alternative is back to a warm, loving home. frightening, it is a fact that IPP DOES THE TAX MAN OWE YOU MONEY? Well, the theory of D-cat is prisoners make up 50% of Thank you, and good luck (IF YOU ENTERED PRISON AFTER 6 APRIL 2012 AND PAID TAX YOU MAY BE DUE A TAX REFUND) great, but it does not match up prison suicides. The truth is to you and your partner. to the reality. 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story to others. Face to Face with the F-Word Marina told me that that is very often how it works. A lot of victims are scared of meeting the perpetrator but just to meet them, see them, “The people we work with are on a journey” Marina Cantacazino and talk to them and hear their story and take an apology is very very healing; “It’s no sur- Paul Sullivan prise at all that by humanizing crime, restorative justice has this very beneficial impact on The Forgiveness Project is an award-winning, all parties.” non-religious organisation that collects and shares real stories of forgiveness to build under- “Forgiveness can seem like an act of betrayal. standing, encourage reflection and enable But on the contrary I think it’s an act of free- people to move forward from the trauma in dom” Mary Foley their own lives. The Forgiveness Project runs ‘Restore’ pro- The touring exhibition ‘The F Word: Stories of grammes in four prisons, at one point they Forgiveness’ is a thought-provoking collection were in eleven but with pressures on budgets of images accompanied by personal stories and staff shortages this has declined and drawing together voices from South Africa, Marina tells me how they get little support from America, Israel, Palestine, Northern Ireland prisons or the MoJ; “Where it has worked well and England, and examines forgiveness as a in prisons has been where there has been one healing process, a path out of victimhood and, dedicated member of staff who pushed hard ultimately say the project’s leaders, a journey and took care of arrangements to get it under- of hope. It has been seen in more than 550 way.” venues, across 14 countries, to an audience of over 70,000 people, and has recently been to Marina Cantacazino – inviting story I asked if, with the ideas of making prison London again at the OXO building where I went tellers to tell their story governors more accountable in relation to re-of- © Paul Sullivan along to see what it was about and talk to peo- fending rates, she thought it might concentrate their minds more on things like the Restore ple involved with the project. storytellers to share their experiences; these many for some people. It can seem like a good programmes that actually work. She said that included people who had harmed others and idea but to sit in a room with the person whoM iscarriage of Justice? it is really their hope that it will make a differ- “Forgiveness is not about forgiving the act those who had been harmed and they described has profoundly hurt you can be a very difficult enceA andS HtheyL areE tryingY toS haveM discussionsITH & CO but forgiving the imperfections which are sharing their stories as an extraordinary expe- thing. We take storytellers into prisons who withOur the exp ‘reformerience prisons’d and d ebut,dica inte dthe te apresentm are s pecialists in inherent in all of us” Samantha Lawler rience. They described it as a ‘healing place’ have been offenders or victims and who have climate, it is very hard for small charities like and wanted to continue the work. We also got been through restorative justice and their sto- Appeals & CCRC theUn Forgivenessdertaking wProjectork f owithr pr everythingivately fu nbeingded clients only. The project was founded by Marina Cantacuzino a phenomenal response from the public; these ries demonstrate the enormous impact of restor- swept up by the larger charities and companies. in 2004. She explains why: “As a freelance seemed to be stories of hope at a very bleak ative justice.” Parole Board Representation journalist, I wrote stories between 1990-2004 time. One of the first things we did at the For both legally aided and privately funded clients Restore is a pioneering and award-winning about ordinary people’s struggles and tri- Forgiveness Project was to explore how these I spoke to storyteller Peter who said he initial- All Prisonprogramme Law ma runningtters i innc prisonsludin andg I nthed ecompe-ndent Adjudications umphs: the challenges they faced with their ‘restorative stories’ could be used in prisons. ly agreed to go through restorative justice to munityO andn b ise anha intensivelf of pri vgroupately based fund intered -clients. relationships, their health, and their work. As As a journalist I understood the power of these get out of his cell and was not really wanting In all privately funventionded ma tthatters fosterswe will greaterquote y oaccountabilityu a reasonable and fixe d fee - staged where appropriate. a result I became acutely aware that far more real stories because it’s not someone lecturing to engage but then, during the process, he Professional aresponsibility.nd approachab leIt wencouragese offer a Na tprisonersionwide S etorv ice and accept agency work effective than reporting on the views of experts or teaching, it’s literally listening to the story.” suddenly had a moment of enlightenment when explore conceptsfor Pofa rforgiveness,ole Board R revenge,epresen contatio-n. and analysts, was being able to share the he not only realized the harm he had been authentic voices of people who had lived flict,Fo redemptionr a promp andt r ereparation.sponse please write or call I was interested to know if there was resistance doing to other people but also how he hadAs hley Smith & Co, Criminal Defence Specialists through difficult experiences. After I did the from victims of crime to actually meet their screwed up his own life. He vowed never to F-Word exhibition I got a huge response and perpetrator. “The people who we work with,” commit another crime, and in the ensuing 4-6 Lee High Road, London, SE13 5LQ More information is available at: that resulted in the founding of the Forgiveness she says, “are on a journey but to actually meet twenty years he has never re-offended and now Blackfords new ad 24.1.14:Layout 1 24/1/14 12:59 Page 1 www.theforgivenessproject.com0208 463 0099 Project. At the launch of F-Word we invited the person who has harmed you is one step too works with the Forgiveness Project telling his

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There Approved Premises (AP) are premises approved damning report on what they referrals for people on indeterminate sentenc- “The Incentives and Earned were shortages of prison cloth- under Section 13 of the Offender Management found during a recent inspec- es. It argues that release is usually based on Privileges (IEP) scheme fo- ing required for prisoners in Act 2007. They provide intensive supervision tion of HMP/YOI Swinfen Hall, their risk of harm having reduced to a level cused on punishment, with work, which meant they wore for those who present a high or very high risk a Young Off enders Institution few incentives for good behav- of serious harm. They are mostly used for peo- where it can be managed safely in the commu- (YOI) and category C prison for dirty or ill-fi tting clothing, and iour. Complicated systems to ple on licence, but also accommodate small nity, which generally means that they will be young men under 25. in addition wing laundry manage IEP and violence re- equipment needed repair. numbers of people on bail, community sen- below the normal entry threshold for AP residence. It further makes the point that From the moment prisoners duction delayed reviews for tences or suspended sentences. As well as Indeterminate-sentence prisoners who have arrive things look bleak with prisoners on the basic regime.” Staff-prisoner relationships functioning as part of monitoring and risk spent time in open conditions may find AP all new arrivals strip searched The number of adjudications had deteriorated since the pre- management, they provide key workers and a without risk assessments. The had risen by 83% and use of vious inspection; ‘Too many programme of purposeful activity that is residence a backwards step, as the level of report says that vulnerable force by 45% since the previous staff had low expectations of intended to help with reducing re-offending security and control can often be greater than prisoners went unnoticed and inspection. “Governance of use the prisoners in their care, and reintegration into society. in an open prison. They may also already have ‘spent long periods in isolation of force had only recently failed to enforce rules eff ec- experience of life back in the community begun to improve aft er a con- tively, and had become far too during their crucial early days’. Whilst staying in Approved Premises you will through ROTL, which lessens the value AP siderable period of weak over- accepting of the poor condi- “First night cells were dirty and be asked to follow certain rules, including cur- residence. sight with little quality check- tions in which prisoners lived.’ in a poor state of decoration, fews, restrictions on visitors and taking part ing. Most cases recorded no Almost a third of prisoners said with very insanitary toilets and in activities. You will be expected to take a drug Approved Premises can offer some benefits to some graffiti”. New arrivals evidence of debriefs to the they had been prevented from resettlement, such as giving time and support prisoner or health care checks making a complaint. or alcohol test if staff ask you to and to allow oft en faced ‘aggressive behav- staff to search your room and personal prop- to connect with local services to find accom- iour, and some bullying, from aft er use of force. Video record- modation or employment. However, if your ings were available in only a Inspectors found an average erty. There is more about these rules and other other prisoners’. 61% of pris- local connections are to an area far away from few planned uses of force.” of 43% of prisoners were locked information in the ‘Approved Premises manu- oners said they felt unsafe on in their cells during main work al’ which is annex A of Probation Instruction the premises you are referred to, this benefit their fi rst night. periods and very few prisoners 32/2014. will be limited. Moving away from your local had daily association fi ve times area can also disrupt continuity of care for both Levels of violence had risen to physical and mental health. Alternatives double that of comparable a week. ‘The prison did not use PI 32/2014 Approved Premises contains guide- arrangements may be more suitable in cases prisons and 30% of prisoners its already reduced number of lines for probation staff about making referrals, like these. told inspectors they felt unsafe: activity spaces eff ectively. The suggesting they are made sparingly and with the report describes ‘a frag- prisoner pay policy meant that careful consideration. They should consider If your offender manager believes it necessary, mented approach to the reduc- the large number of prisoners the person’s risk of serious harm and how the tion of violent incidents and unemployed against their wish placement would contribute to managing risk they can include residing in Approved Premises addressing perceptions about received very low pay’. Prisoner and reintegration back into the community. as part of the residence conditions of your safety’. Almost a third of the access to the library remained They should also think about which premises licence. Refusing to do so would be considered a problem, despite changes to population are convicted of Cold draughts bring and location would be suitable. a breach of your licence and you could be the provision, and only 22% sex off ences and are located shivers to Swinfen Hall recalled. There is more information in PSI had made visits in the previous with mainstream prisoners; Referrals to AP should always be for clear rea- 12/2015 Licence Conditions, Licences and six months. many were self-isolating to Much of the accommodation sons and not used as a default for people con- Licence and Supervision Notices. avoid victimisation. was run down, and conditions Over half of prisoners (57%) sidered high risk. You should only be referred on A, B and C wings were par- if ‘it is clear that this level of monitoring and If you are aware that you are being referred to A signifi cant number of prison- also said they had problems ticularly squalid. Many cells intensive activity are needed’. Alternatives Approved Premises for your release and are ers said they had felt depressed receiving or sending mail and were dirty, poorly equipped which may also be able to manage risks and not happy about it, it is worth contacting your or suicidal. The report says; inspectors said prisoners faced and contained graffiti, and needs should always be explored, including offender manager to speak to them about it. If “Care for prisoners in crisis on difficulties contacting their many had no glass in the win- family by telephone, and there curfews and electronic monitoring. you are hoping to stay elsewhere, like returning case management was mixed, dows, exposing prisoners to to live with family or friends, you should and too many spent long pe- were not enough visit sessions the elements. Toilets were also to meet demand. As placements are temporary and short term, explain why you think this would be better for riods locked in cells with little dirty. Some communal areas, your rehabilitation - for example if people that to do. We were not assured that your offender manager should consider if the exercise yards and laundries you will be living with or near will be able to prisoners in crisis were always Report: www.tinyurl. expected benefits are realistic in a short time. were also dirty and poorly offer support. 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directly with the Prisons and “Your views really do matter” Health Ministers and present- Keeping Safe ed them in Parliament to the Human Rights Committee. The Justice Secretary has writ- Juliet Lyon night’s sleep, more time out of ten to express her interest in, cell, fresh air, access to and support for, this collabo- When the IAP (Independent Samaritan Listeners and more ration between the IAP and Advisory Panel on Deaths in contact with family. Inside Time. So keep your Custody) and Inside Time letters coming to Freepost IAP joined forces to help keep peo- Many of you wrote about the or phone Prison Radio free on ple in prison safe and called need for fair treatment and 0808 1231234. Together we can on you to write in with your good relationships between reduce suicide and self-harm views on how to prevent sui- prisoners and staff - compas- in prison. cide and self-harm, we expect- sion and respect not neglect ed a good response. No one or ‘back-covering’. One man wants people to die or harm wrote, ‘from what I have seen, themselves in prison. But I am officers rush around, giving The three questions little time to anything or any- not sure we realised just how l What do you think are many thoughtful, detailed one’. By contrast another the best ways to prevent letters we would get - full of wrote about ‘one particular self-harm in prison and information and sensible sug- officer who can tell just by respond to people’s needs? © Deposit Photos gestions about how to help talking to me how my mood l and support people at risk of is. He notices if I’m down, if I What do you think are the best ways to prevent taking their own lives. don’t eat, if I don’t socialise’. These are the messages the suicide in prison and keep Feeling suicidal? people safe? Since February’s Inside Time, IAP is feeding into staff train- the IAP has received over 50 ing. Last week I spoke to l What do you think can letters so far. Your recommen- almost 200 governors, safer be done outside prison in It’s okay to talk dations range from improving custody managers and staff at the community that mental health care in the com- the Prison Service College and would help reduce the risk munity to access to profession- read out extracts from your of self-harm or suicide Paul Holland - Suicide and Self-Harm l It is also important to friends and family who al psychiatric help and coun- letters. - either before imprison- Reduction Project Manager for prisons worry about their loved ones in prison. selling in prison ‘not being ment or on release? fobbed off with leaflets and What you say counts. While What are we doing? It is important the Why I want to help sleeping tablets’. You called the IAP cannot respond to The “It’s okay to talk” campaign has been set envelope is addressed to: I have been affected by many suicides - both individual complaints or up to reduce levels of self-harm and self-inflict- for a drive to stop bullying and Freepost IAP in my work life and my home life. From being intimidation, drugs and debt. change things ourselves, we ed deaths in prisons. IAP must be in capital letters, a personal officer to a prisoner who died by To keep people safe you said are keeping our promise to no stamp and nothing else suicide, to my next door neighbour who ended speak truth to power. Already We want to improve people’s experiences dur- prisoners need work and on the envelope his own life, to breaking the news to a number activities, decent food, a good we have discussed your views of families whose loved ones died in my care. ing their early weeks in custody and after transfer. We want to improve how we work with you I know the impact that self-inflicted deaths and your families, and improve our induction have. I know the devastating impact on the packs and staff training. friends and family of the person who has died, and on staff and people in prison. We want to work with the Samaritans to strengthen the long-standing Listener Scheme. Reducing self-harm and suicide is important to me, personally and professionally. I know it We want to pilot a rapid response intervention will be important to everyone reading this article. for women in crisis, pilot State of Mind (that uses sport to help mental health), and pilot Wrongly convicted In carrying out my role, I realise more and more andysmanclubs - a safe space for men to talk of a crime? how important it is to talk to someone when about how they feel and about what is getting we are in distress or going through troubled times. them down.

It’s okay to talk I welcome the work of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody and expect that l Bottling things up doesn’t do anyone any Lost your appeal? good - it makes things worse. the IAP collaboration with Inside Time will enable us to make more improvements and l It really is okay to talk. In recent months, I help to keep people safe. Your views really do have heard several people saying that talking matter. They will help us make a difference. saved their lives. l It is okay not to be okay. Next month I will write more about #andysmanclub and #itsokaytotalk What next? l If you are going through tough times, I would urge you to find someone you can talk to. l There are plenty of people in prisons who do care. l Thinking men should ‘man-up’ is unhelpful The CCRC can look again - a bigger person will share their concerns and If you think your conviction or sentence is wrong anxieties not bottle them up. apply to the CCRC l It is important that we listen to each other - • It won’t cost anything you or I could be the person someone talks to. • Your sentence can’t be increased if you apply Our care and support could help save a life. • You don't need a lawyer to apply, but a good one can help l Improving safety is critically important to everyone who lives or works in a prison. Rightly so. You can get some more information and a copy of the CCRC's Easy Read application form by writing to us at Her Majesty’s Prison and 5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW. or calling 0121 233 1473 Probation Service (HMPPS) Prisoners in Scotland should contact; The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, 5th Floor, Portland House, 17 Renfi eld Street, Glasgow, G2 5AH. Phone: 0141 270 7030 Email: [email protected] Insidetime April 2017 www.insidetime.org Information // HM Inspectorate of Prisons 33 The Inspector Calls Inside Time highlights areas of good and bad practice from the most recent Reports published by HM Inspectorate of Prisons

HMP Channings Wood HMP Featherstone Category C adult male resettlement prison Male category C training and resettlement prison Announced Full Inspection: 3-14 October 2016 Announced Full Inspection: 24 October - 3 November 2016 Safety W W W W Respect W W W W Safety W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W Respect W W W W Resettlement W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W HMP Wymott HMP/YOI Norwich Resettlement W W W W A category C working prison for adult men A local multi-functional prison for young “A prison in decline” and a small number of young adults adult and adult men “Serious Decline” At its last inspection in 2012, the prison was Announced Full Inspection: 10-21 October 2016 Announced Full Inspection: 12-23 September performing reasonably well but needed to im- Standards have declined at Featherstone, and Safety W W WW 2016 prove work, training and education for prisoners. the decline in safety was particularly concerning, This more recent inspection found that the says Peter Clarke. He says; “This more recent Respect W W W W Safety W W W W prison had regressed markedly and was strug- inspection found that there had been a sharp Purposeful Activity W W W W Respect W W W W gling to cope says Peter Clarke, Chief Inspector decline in three out of four areas. This was par- Resettlement W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W of Prisons. ticularly concerning in the area of safety, which Resettlement W W W W “A reasonably safe prison doing good was assessed as ‘poor’. Of the 68 recommenda- Concerns tions made at the last inspection, only 16 had rehabilitative work” “A well-led prison which continued to • levels of violence had increased noticeably and been achieved.” improve” action to address violence was poorly coordinated; Wymott remained reasonably safe and was • use of force had increased but oversight was Concerns doing good work to rehabilitate prisoners and Introducing the report Mr Clarke says; “This not good enough; • levels of violence had increased considerably, to reduce the risk of reoffending, said Peter more recent inspection found that progress had • two prisoners had taken their own lives since and violence against staff had increased the most; Clarke in this latest report; “This more recent been maintained and, in some areas, built upon. 2012 and there had been a number of serious • 63% of prisoners said it was easy to get drugs inspection concluded that Wymott remained a Despite facing similar challenges to other local incidents of self-harm, yet attention to this was and 22% said they had developed a drug problem reasonably safe prison, although the summer prisons, including lower staffi ng levels, increases limited; while in the prison; months prior to this inspection saw a signifi cant in violence, and the infl uence of new psycho- • over half the population said that it was easy • a number of men chose to self-isolate and stay spike in violent incidents. The likely explanation active substances, prisoners were more likely to get illicit substances, and there was compel- in their cells to escape the violence; for this concerned gang-related issues linked to say they felt safe at Norwich than at other ling evidence that substance abuse, including • the segregation unit had been damaged by to the supply of new psychoactive substances. the abuse of new psychoactive substances, was prisoners over the summer and was still not able The prison had identified the key prisoners similar prisons. Proactive action had been taken widespread; to be used, the temporary segregation unit was involved in the supply and use of these sub- to increase safety and, while more needed to • despite being a training and resettlement prison, in a very poor condition and not properly staff ed; stances and had taken prompt and robust action be done, the approach had resulted in a more a restricted regime had been in place for two years; • it seemed that not all incidents of prisoner to address it. Levels of violence had started to stable prison. Work at the category D resettle- • too little attention was given to ensuring pris- unrest were being reported; reduce towards the previous relatively low levels, ment unit, Britannia House, was notable, with oners attended work, training or education and • the prison was in a poor state of repair, not helped but continued vigilance was needed. excellent use of release on temporary licence (ROTL) and most men had secured employment many of the places available were not used. by a failing facilities management contract; • the senior leadership team did not have suf- “Staff -prisoner relationships were generally when discharged.” Summing up, Mr Clarke said; “Four years ago ficient knowledge or oversight of some key respectful and prisoner consultation was now we found a prison coping reasonably well with areas, including use of force, the unregulated excellent and meaningful. Outside areas were The report says that arrangements for supporting its challenges. This time we found a prison segregation of self-isolators and the lack of particularly good and there was a real focus on newly arrived prisoners had improved, particu- struggling to cope and the impact on prisoners outdoor exercise for prisoners. cleanliness and making the most of what were larly for men who arrived with substance misuse was evident. The senior management team had very mixed wings. Some innovative initiatives issues. Although the prison was overcrowded a number of vacancies, including that of deputy In summing up Mr Clarke said; “If the prison had been developed for ensuring cells were it still provided a basically decent living envi- governor, all of which left substantial strategic is to once again become a safe and decent place properly equipped however the number of men ronment and staff -prisoner relationships were and operational gaps. As a result, our major which can fulfi l its role as a training and reset- with disabilities had increased, and the ageing good. Ofsted rated the provision of learning concern is that the prison just doesn’t have the tlement prison, there needs to be dynamic, population included some with very restricted and skills as ‘good’ and attention had been paid necessary strategies, plans or resources at a visible leadership which gets to grips with the mobility. Adapted living accommodation for these to enhancing the work, training and education senior level to halt the deterioration.” serious issues we have identifi ed.” men was very limited and needed to be improved. places available. Work to help prisoners resettle back into the community at the end of their Full report: www.tinyurl.com/hmva8q5 Full report: www.tinyurl.com/h6k22nh Staffi ng shortages had resulted in a restricted sentence remained reasonably good, but a core day and we found too many men locked shortage of social housing meant too many men in their cells during the working day, rather were released without stable than participating in the good range of pur- accommodation. poseful activities off ered. Concerns In summing up the report Mr Clarke says; ON YOUR SIDE • there had been four self-infl icted deaths since “Wymott was weathering similar pressures and the last inspection in 2013 and although support Being on your side is one thing. Fighting your corner is another. We do both. challenges to other prisons, but was doing so for those at risk of self-harm was generally good, • Miscarriage of Justice experts • Defending false allegations • Crown Court advocacy with a proactive ‘can do’ approach, with an there were some weaknesses in case emphasis on fi nding solutions to problems and • CCRC applications • Prison law specialists • Parole applications • IPP and Lifer reviews management; • Adjudications • Recalls • Sentence progression maintaining reasonably good outcomes for • although the range of work, training and prisoners. This was underpinned by strong education opportunities had improved, and We offer Legal Aid and Fixed Fees along with a nationwide service. leadership that prioritised decency and provided For more information contact us using the details below. most prisoners had something worthwhile to men with opportunities to address their risks do, there were still too many men locked up and work towards a successful rehabilitation. during the working day (30%); and We commend the work being done and support • although offender management work was the leadership team’s eff orts to improve further Changing the way you see lawyers. the outcomes being achieved.” generally up to date, levels of contact between men and their supervisors were insuffi cient. 01302 365374 www.qualitysolicitors.com/jordans 4 Priory Place, Doncaster, DN1 1BP Led by Mark Newby Solicitor Advocate with a relentless record of quashing convictions. 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public - and our staff, many of Laptops and phones Football pitches whom have strong connec- Each room will have a laptop The prison has a full-sized 3G tions to the North Wales area, as well as a phone, shower and football pitch which can be A force for good? then picked the names of the toilet. The laptops will not used by the community, as houses.” have access to the internet but well as several smaller pitches will instead be used to arrange which can be used by the men. HMP Berwyn has laptops and phones in every cell “They are not prisoners, visits, order meals for the Facilities such as the gyms and can be “a truly rehabilitative prison,” says they are men” week and do their weekly and football pitches will only At the moment, only one block shopping, as well as complete be available to the men outside Governor Russ Trent is operational. The blocks are any work related to their stud- their work hours and before broken up into 24 communi- ies. Mr Dann added: “The first the rooms are locked down for ties, which can hold up to 88 1,000 will be all sentenced to the evening. Education at the Bala wing has had to have its people. There are even specif- at least four years with at least prison is provided by Novus Inside Time report name changed after a petition ic communities for armed and protest from residents of forces veterans. The other Bala town some thirty miles blocks are scheduled to open away from the prison. Llinos in May and late July. Jones-Williams, who started the petition, said: “As a former The site also has a small pupil at Ysgol y Berwyn, Y 21-man block which can hold Bala, (Berwyn school, Bala) it those who need to be separat- was heartbreaking to see it ed from the main prison com- called HM Prison Berwyn in munity, called Ogwen. Deputy the first place but to name a project director Nick Dann wing after our town is a dis- said men would be drip-fed grace that’s even more hurt- into the prison in the hopes of ful. And to rub more salt into having a smooth transition “All mod cons” the wound it has a large sign into becoming fully operation- in the reception area with al. “If you get too many in too two years to serve - so when “The men will be kept in decent conditions” ‘Welcome to Bala’ and a love- Cambria, a partnership between quickly, it can get a bit bub- they arrive, we have got time ly photo of the lake.” Novus, a large scale social bly,” he said, “so it’s a slow- to work with them and we can enterprise delivering learning The first prisoners were trans- their homes - that is the pun- identify their educational and and skills in more than 80 ferred to HMP Berwyn on 30th ishment,” he says. “While vocational needs. The hope is sites, and Coleg Cambria. February - with the first pris- they’re here, it’s our job to give when they leave, they are not Louise Gibbons, head of learn- oner being a Wrexham man them every chance to better going out and looking for a ing and skills, said: “It’s a who had been serving in a themselves and become better job, they are going out to a job huge privilege to work in a prison in Dorset. Governor educated, with better work they have already found.” purpose-built facility where Russ Trent reveals his hopes opportunities and being rehabilitation is the most for the category C prison, someone that the community Mr Dann said prison would important part of our work. It which has been built on the can be proud of. The opportu- act as a settlement facility for means we can focus on work- site of the former Firestone nity we have got at Berwyn is people from North Wales and factory on Wrexham Industrial we have got staff that under- men from outside the area would ing to help men get the skills Estate. “I think Berwyn can stand the principles of reha- be sent to facilities nearer their they need not to return to jail be a truly rehabilitative pris- bilitation and the desire to homes to serve the final three once they are out. This facility will allow us to make sure the on,” he says, “where the men give men in custody the hope “It’s so clean!” months of their sentence. He will be kept in decent condi- that they can have a better life added: “If they start off with men’s needs are met. The curriculum is matched to labour tions and given every oppor- in the future. When people paced ramp up. They are not the mindset that this does not The Rev Huw Dylan Jones, of tunity to live law-abiding lives have that, they are less likely prisoners, they are men. If you feel like a prison, we are hop- market information for the Llangwm, added: “There was when they return to their com- to take their own lives and keep calling someone an ing they will act like it is not local area. We take data from no reason to call it Berwyn munity. It’s important that they are less likely to cause offender or ex-offender, that’s a prison as well. When Nelson the area and arrange the cur- prison in the first place when people have committed harm to the staff. When they how they will act. We’ve Mandela was in custody, he riculum around those needs because it has no connection a crime and have been sent to are living in an environment already been out to see the wrote about the importance so what we provide is what is with the Berwyn Mountains.” a custodial setting, when they where they have engagements men - they know what we of normality. The more normal needed in the community. All are released back into the all day, they are less likely to expect of them and they know you make it on the inside, the of this is intended to stop them In response to the petition, community they have a chance get themselves into trouble.” what to expect of us. I can easier it is to transition when returning to prison and the Mark Greenhaf, deputy prison of living a law-abiding life and assure you, it is not cushy. We they get out. We expect them investment will be a benefit to governor, said: “HMP Berwyn can support their family.” Local protest had a family day and staff to be ready to go to work at society as a whole.” is a prison that serves men Berwyn is split into three were going into the rooms and 8.30am when we unlock the from the whole of North Wales Prison not for punishment blocks, with each being able being locked in - they found doors. The older prisons don’t With its capacity for 2,106 and we wanted to reflect the Trent speaks confidently to hold up to 702 men, which it really uncomfortable. We have showers in the rooms so men, HMP Berwyn will be the culture of the area across all about what he believes Berwyn are named after bodies of have to start a change in their the regime is delayed but we largest single new-build pris- of the prison. The name is for. “People are being taken water in North Wales - Alwen, mindset and give them oppor- are getting them straight out on in the United Kingdom Berwyn was chosen by the away from their families and Bala and Ceiriog. Athough the tunities.” and straight to work.” when it is completed.

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What book changed your life for What does reading mean to you? the better? Mark: “I can be locked in my cell and Matthew: “There is one book that I yet at the same time find myself in was recommended by a chance con- Coketown in 1854 listening to Mr versation that has changed my life Bounderby (Hard Times, Charles Dickens) talk about himself. I could for the better. The book is A Brief be at a ball with Mr Darcy and Miss History of Time by Professor Stephen Elizabeth Bennet (Pride & Prejudice, Hawking. Something was in my brain Jane Austen). I can lose hours of pris- when I finished that book. I found on time getting caught up in the lives out that I really enjoy physics, so I of the characters or in the plot of a started to read more books on the good crime fiction.” subject and then decided to apply for a mathematics degree through the Nicholas: “Reading helped me devel- Open University with the view of op a new-found love of the English going into physics upon completion language and the various words and and release.” their meanings. I pick out a new word in the dictionary everyday, mostly John: “I’m currently reading The before I go to sleep. Reading makes Road Less Travelled, a psychological me want to go and visit new places book which is about avoiding the when I get out. It’s made me have so much more respect for different peo- pain of suffering. I’m reading it ple and cultures and the various alongside my partner and we discuss different religions than I would have “I’m constantly reading The Road Less Travelled” it when she visits me. It’s teaching

© Deposit Photos done, from just growing up on my me to examine myself and my past council estate reading red-top news- behaviour, and is leading to deeper papers.” conversations than we might normally have. Most importantly it is Edgar: “Reading has actually saved What reading in teaching me about love - the emo- me from a fight with my cellmate tional side - which is something I many times. We’re supposed to share could learn something about.” the TV, but he doesn’t always agree to let me choose what to watch. But Edgar: “I like non-fiction mostly. You when I have a book I can disappear prison means to me with that and become lost inside hear a lot of gossip in prison but when you read a book you know the another world instead.” facts yourself. I recently enjoyed In our page in last month’s Inside Time PET asked readers to tell us Lisa: “What does reading mean to me? accounts of Apple’s formation and Everything - education, entertain- about their relationships with books and reading. We also took the Michael Jackson’s biography. He was ment and occasionally, when dipping one of the most controversial figures question to a Prison Reading Group at HMP Wandsworth. To mark into a letter or memoir, companion- World Book Day, here’s what they said. in our culture, and the author isn’t ship. This has been a lifelong obses- gentle with him, but I think he’s pret- sion stemming from a long hospital ty fair.” Has your relationship with reading prison library has been a godsend of my reading interest. I’m dipping into stay aged five. Books are essential changed since going to prison? for me as it allows me a bit of peace Jeffrey Archer, George Eliot, exploring for my life and sanity and not being Mark: “One of my favourite charac- in Bedlam.” history and psychology and walking able to buy them in my current pris- Nicholas: “I first fell in love with hand-in-hand with travel writers.” ters is M.R Halls’ Jenny Cooper. She on is tugging at my heartstrings. books when I got my first prison sen- Lisa: “Now I am at a prison where I might have this wonderful job and Hopefully release will come before I tence in the 1990s, a time before TVs can’t buy books, and I’m resorting Steve: “I read outside more than I do expects responsibility (to the living have read the entire library! Ah relief were put in most cells. Reading was to what I thought I would never do inside. In many ways prison offers the and the dead) and respect, but her in the shape of World Book day!” a great form of escapism from the - rereading old favourites and dis- perfect opportunity to read, but I have private life is a mess and her choice bad times. It took me out of my mind, covering nuances I missed the first Asperger’s and have found it very of lovers... dubious. She is often hin- Thanks to Matthew, Lisa, Nicholas out over the wall and into another time. Somewhat ironically the difficult to adjust to this new environ- dered and chased by the authorities and Mark and who wrote to us from world filled full of learning and great restricted access to books in prison ment or focus on doing anything at because of her tenacity to do her job prison, and to the Prison Reading Group at HMP Wandsworth. knowledge and rehabilitation. The has also hugely expanded the range all, even reading.” - at whatever cost.”

PET offers a number of differ- ment, catering and cleaning, a position where I have limit- ent health and safety qualifi- and are particularly sought ed choice, freedom and con- cations. Most are accredited after in the construction trol over myself, but fortunate- by NEBOSH - the main award- industry, allowing site work- ly for me, you (PET) hold the ing body in this field, and ers to progress to site manage- key I need to open the door to popular courses include the ment roles. my future in health and safe- General Certificate in ty.” Occupational Safety & Health Baptiste from HMP Cardiff and the Certificate in wrote requesting funding for Neil, at HMP Stafford, applied Construction Health and a NEBOSH certificate having for a NEBOSH course after Course Safety. Exams can generally already completed a number completing a waste manage- be sat in prison. PET also of related Level 1 and 2 quali- ment qualification in prison, Notes offers courses from the fications in prison. His long- where he is a Bics instructor.

© Deposit Photos Institution of Occupational term aim is to become a health “If I was to get NEBOSH under Safety and Health (IOSH), and safety representative in my belt, one of the tutors has PET provides funding whose Managing Safely the construction field. made me realise that there for over 300 types of Certificate is considered the could be potential for me to be distance-learning Health and Safety industry standard for manag- “This is a job that will provide able to train in health and ers and supervisors. me with the financial stability safety or even do some sort of courses. Every month It’s no accident that in an and Health’ into any recruit- to take care of my family and consultancy work for busi- economy that suffers from ment website and it will come we shine a spotlight Health and safety qualifica- equally myself on release,” he nesses, an opportunity I 640,000 work-based injuries up with hundreds of vacancies on one of them. tions come in useful in fields wrote in his application. hadn’t envisaged before,” he every year, people who are from employers looking for the such as facilities manage- “Unfortunately for me I am in wrote. trained in health and safety are certificate,” says PET’s Advice an increasingly key resource. Manager John Lister. “It’s a “Type ‘National Examination really helpful thing to have on A full PET curriculum and application forms can be found with your prison’s education depart- Board in Occupational Safety your CV.” ment. You can also write to FREEPOST Prisoners’ Education Trust with any queries. Insidetime April 2017 www.insidetime.org Information // Through the Gate 37

• Who do I need to talk to in order to find out more? The Hub The Careers Lady • Are there other prisons that can provide the training you need to be fully skilled when Never ending story The first step through the door you leave prison? KJ Isham - HMP Lincoln to your future This may all be a bit daunting but if you start your plan at the As I am sure everybody released from prison has discovered, beginning and think seriously the rules on disclosure to prospective employers are a serious • Have you got any practical about where you want to be, hindrance. In these ‘enlightened times’ we find ourselves in a Help to help yourself skills that you have gained in and what you need to do to place where employers are not allowed to discriminate the past or even recently in achieve this, your ideas may against you for race, religion, age, gender or sexual orienta- I have been offering careers independently. prison e.g. carpentry, computing, become more realistic. tion (the list goes on), but they are allowed to discriminate advice for a number of years painting and decorating etc? against ex-prisoners. And do. and the process of helping There are three basic questions It may be that your ideas are people recognise what careers that anyone can ask them- 2. What do you want to do too removed from what is “It is hard enough even getting to the interview and jobs are best suited to them selves in order to start this and what are you interested achievable but there may be is always the same process. process. Whether it is an edu- in doing? jobs within the same skills stage, but then to have to watch the shutters go cation or skills based goal re- sector in order to take the first • What job ideas do you have? down when it comes to the criminal convictions During my training I could ally doesn’t matter. It is impor- steps on the ladder to begin recognise the importance of tant to be honest with yourself question is disheartening” • Are there any careers you the process. providing a situation where in order to get to the end result might have always wanted to my clients were enabled to that will realistically be suita- You even have to mention non-motoring convictions now aspire to? Use your library or talk to your come to their own decisions ble for you. when you are applying for insurance. Even if you are lucky Personal Officer to see what and not necessarily where my • Do you have any practical skills help and information is avail- enough to find a DWP scheme to help start your own busi- advice might lead them. 1. Where are you now? that you have enjoyed doing? able. Your education depart- ness, as was the case with myself, you invariably fall foul of Research was important but the ultimate discrimination against ex-offenders - the police • What qualities do you have • Are you keen to pursue train- ment and teachers can also be only if it was needed to clarify service. ‘Once a criminal, always a criminal’ seems to be e.g. are you reliable, conscien- ing or further your education? important sources of the route to take to achieve their mantra, as they harass, intimidate and push, all under tious, have good timekeeping, information. their ultimate career objective the guise of ‘public protection’. and eventual goal. ability to work with others? etc. 3. What do you need to do to This is an opportunity to think get where you want to be? IF YOU REALLY WANT TO I totally understand the need to treat ex-offenders with a bit Academic education is impor- about yourself and what others ACHIEVE - YOU WILL! of caution, but where do we draw the line? Prison IS the pun- tant but more often than not may also think about you. • Will you need any further employers may well be looking training? I’m happy to give general ishment and, according to the rules, ex-offenders should be • Do you have any recent ed- afforded a level playing field once your time has been served. for someone to fit in with an • Will education be your main advice on job searching and ucational achievements that The truth is sadly different. Prison is the easy bit, reintegrat- already formed team, being objective? career planning but please able to contribute to that team you are proud of e.g. literacy feel free to write to me for ing back into society is the hard part. No wonder so many and also being able, in some and numeracy exams, school • What opportunities are there any specific advice or people reoffend when they get out and find that their mem- instances, to work exams etc? outside? guidance you may need bership card to the human race has been cancelled. Was it supposed to end like this?

An elderly lady, speaking of Jesus’ It had to be that way if God was going For just as through the disobedience of the one man the crucifixion, commented: ‘What a tragedy to deal with our greatest problem - our that He died so young: He could have sin. Sin is not just doing wrong; it is an many were made sinners, so also through the obedience done so much good.’ The real tragedy lies attitude of rebellion against God – of not of the one man the many will be made righteous. with that lady’s failure to understand the wanting to obey Him. And we were all Romans 5:19 reason that Jesus died. born with a sinful nature, inherited from the first man, Adam. Today, as Christians celebrate Easter, But, in His mercy and love, God has most people enjoy their hot cross buns provided a way out for us. He sent His and Easter eggs without any thought to ... we deserve God's wrath and Son, Jesus, to be a sacrifice in our place. why Jesus died (and was raised from the For God made judgement. But, in His mercy Jesus took God’s wrath upon Himself so dead). It was the most horrendous and that we might escape the punishment Christ, who never brutal death. But losing His life at age 33 and love, God has provided which we deserve. was no accident. It was all part of God’s a way out for us. sinned, to be the plan; it was the very reason Jesus left Whatever mess we might have made of offering for our sin, heaven and came to earth. And because we are sinful and God is pure our lives, God wants us to get right with so that we could and holy we cannot have the relationship Him. Do you want that? If so, put your be made right with ...losing His life at age 33 with Him which He longs for and for trust in Jesus Christ to receive forgiveness which He created us. And that means we of your sins. God will then recognise you God through Christ. was no accident. deserve God’s wrath and judgement. as righteous. 2 Corinthians 5:21

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These range off ences which a prisoner can time and place the incident being referred to the police or Adjudications which remain passing sentence. from a fight with someone accused of during their time was said to have taken place to the Independent before the Governor are diff er- within the prison, a fight in custody. and which rule has been alleg- Adjudicator. ent. There is no right to legal What punishment can I be involving multiple partici- edly breached. The nicking representation as the Governor given? pants and fi ght which is con- What is an adjudication? sheet will also contain the An Independent Adjudicator does not have the ability to There are a range of sentences sidered to be a serious and If a prisoner is alleged to have name of the offi cer reporting is a District Judge. They attend impose additional days onto available to the Governor and sustained attack. Each has a breached a Prison Rule they the off ence, oft en referred to at the Prison to deal with more your sentence. Prisoners the Judge. Matters dealt with different sentencing range can receive an adjudication, as the reporting offi cer. This serious allegations of ill-dis- appearing before the Judge the Judge generally attract which increases dependant on also known as a ‘nicking’. PSI form must be issued within 48 cipline. If the prisoner has can make a request to the additional days but the Judge the seriousness of that inci- 47/2011 sets out the prison hours of the off ence being dis- been referred to the Governor for Legal does have the power to impose dent. rules and provides guidance covered, unless there are Independent Adjudicator, Representation or what is punishments available to the on the adjudication process. exceptional circumstances. they must appear before them known as a McKenzie friend. Governor. There are guide- Why should I have a solicitor? 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letter to raise the restraining order with in the County Court. Seeking endured, this is normally due to Q Can you off er any advice on issue with them in order that it can the advice and guidance of a civil whether the conditions on a the availability of places within be addressed as part of your release claims solicitor would be worth- restraining order can be dropped Cat-D prisons and the transport plan. while should this happen. It is or changed? One condition is that I needed to be arranged in getting important you are aware though, cannot go within a mile radius of you there. Unfortunately, the only With relation to your second query the other persons postcode that legal aid is no longer available recourse open to you is to make a regarding a claim for compensation however this stops me returning to for helping people retrieve their complaint to the OMU department for your property kept by the police, my own house which is only 0.7 property from police. You may at your prison if you feel that they it may be possible for you to retrieve miles in the radius. Also, can you therefore have to pay for this your property if you still have a copy have not treated you fairly or given advise me if I can claim compensa- assistance should you require legal of the property record. We would you a legitimate reason for the tion for belongings taken by the representation. We wish you the suggest that you send a copy of this lengthy delay. Should you receive police and possibly destroyed? best of luck in pursuing both to the police station where you were an unsatisfactory response, or This was religious clothing costing issues. arrested and the property was none at all, then the only option is Prison Law over £200. My family were told by seized. 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raise. What can I do? unless what was left out was consider applying to the bility of the Court making clearly so critical to your CCRC. A loss of time direction is a loss of time direction. The something that the Court of A We hear from many defence (or appeal) that CCRC cannot usually look at Appeal can use when it thinks people who were unhappy leaving it out was a serious The CCRC cannot usually a case where someone still has someone is wasting their time Appeals error of judgment rather look at cases where there has the right to apply to the appeal with the performance of their by pursuing a pointless appli- than a reasonable tactical been no appeal. But we can court. Telling us you are wor- solicitor or barrister at trial cation for leave (or permis- decision. look at some unusual “no ried about a loss of time The Criminal Cases Review or when they appealed. sion) to appeal - in Court appeal” cases because of direction if you appeal to the Commission (CCRC) is the language it might be said that The fact that someone thinks Similarly, if there were “exceptional circumstances”. Court of Appeal won’t mean publicly funded body the application is ”total- that we will take your case. their lawyer could have been mistakes in the appeal that Not being able to get hold of responsible for investigat- ly without merit ". better is not by itself a was made, they will only the material you need to ing alleged miscarriages The bottom line is this: you realistic ground of appeal. make a difference if they appeal can, in some cases, of justice in England and In such cases the Court can should not appeal to the Court Usually, an appeal point will were really significant errors. be an exceptional Wales. They are the only use a loss of time direction to of Appeal unless you are con- circumstance. body with the power to only come from issues with basically increase the sen- fident that you have sensible, If you genuinely believe send a case back to the legal representation if you tence - usually by a number arguable grounds of appeal. there are still real issues that There is information about courts for a second appeal. can point to some specific of weeks - to reflect the time If you do have sensible thing - something they the appeal court should this in the guidance we it has taken the Court to con- In this regular column grounds you don't need to should have done but didn’t, consider but has not, read supply in the CCRC applica- sider the application for leave. they answer questions fear a loss of time direction. or shouldn’t have done but the guidance provided in the tion pack. If you do apply to about what they do and did - that seems to have had CCRC application pack and the CCRC before appealing Loss of time directions are more widely about Equally, you should not be a really significant impact on carefully consider applying. you will need to explain very only used when the Court miscarriages of justice. applying to the CCRC unless the outcome of your case. You can use contact details carefully what you cannot thinks that the points on you think there may be some- which the appeal is based are The CCRC apologises in the CCRC Inside Time get hold of, what you think it thing new and significant in so weak they are a waste of but is unable to answer A solicitor or barrister should advert (Page 32) to get a pack might contain and specifical- your case that has not been the Court’s time. Loss of time questions relating to follow your instructions, but from us. ly why you think it could considered by the trial court, directions will usually only be individual cases. exactly how they do that is, significantly impact on your or by the appeal court. But, if an issue when someone pur- Q I was convicted of case. (In your case this you have already lost your at least partly, a matter of sues a case without merit even Send your Appeal Queries murder but think it should would be why you think it appeal and think that there is, professional judgment. If after the single judge (the first to: ‘CCRC Q&A’ Inside Time, have been manslaughter. I could support your claim or may be, something new you say you want to appeal stage of the appeal process) Botley Mills, Botley, and important in your case, on points (a), (b) and (c) but want to appeal on that that it was manslaughter and has refused the application Southampton, Hampshire they think that point (c) is a basis. I have asked the not murder.) If we agree we you should consider applying for leave to appeal. to the CCRC. SO30 2GB. bad idea that will work Police and CPS for material can obtain and consider that material.

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LJ Flanders increase as you get used to it. entire body, focusing on relaxing one muscle group at After exercise, it will give the a time, starting at the bottom Relaxation body the chance to regroup and working up. and rest. Relaxation should Prison can be a testing place be performed after you have cooled down and stretched, to try and relax. Whether it’s “The best cure for the body noise on the wing, someone before you go to bed, or when- is a quiet mind” banging on the pipes or wor- ever you feel the need. Make ries on the out, it can be hard sure you are comfortable and Napoleon Bonaparte to focus the mind. wear loose clothing.

Collaborating with The House • Any relaxation starts by Of Yoga in HMP Wandsworth, focusing on your breathing.

the Cell Workout students on • To control your breathing; D Wing did a 40 minute yoga Corpse pose (Savasana) Legs up the wall pose take slow, deep breaths, slow- and relaxation session. ly in through your nose and (Viparita Karani) Afterwards most said they felt This simple pose brings complete relaxation, out through your mouth, in a like they were in a different with an awareness of your breath. It can be steady rhythm, without forc- This pose can help relieve aching feet, legs place, like they weren’t in pris- performed to give your muscles a rest and ing the breath. and lower back. on. before sleep. • Relax your shoulders and Step 1: Lie on your back. Allow your feet to Step 1: Sit with one side against the wall. Being able to spend time prac- upper chest muscles when you fall outwards and place your arms by your Lower your body down and turn so that you tising relaxation will quieten breathe so you are mainly sides, not too close to your body, with palms place your back on the floor and bring your your mind, boost your energy using your diaphragm. facing up. legs up straight onto the wall. levels and promote positive Cell Workout by LJ Flanders thoughts, reduce anxiety, • As you exhale, imagine all A bodyweight training guide Step 2: Relax your whole body, including the stress or anger. Relaxation is the tension and negative ener- Step 2: Shift your weight forwards until your designed for use in a prison cell. face so that your body feels heavy. Breathe also thought to be beneficial gy slowly moving out of your glutes are close to the wall. Place your arms This 234 page book will guide naturally without forcing it. to physical health and improv- body. 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Noel Smith violent gladiator school for young offenders. Though the reconviction rates for Borstal trainees was around 30%, compared to 75% of Having spent my formative years behind the today’s young offender institutions. walls of Her Majesty’s Borstal Institution at Rochester (mainly in the punishment block) I must admit that the history of this establishment has always intrigued me.

“A vicious Gladiator school” “Sinking of the Titanic” Engraving by Willy Stöwer (1912) “Jump to it lads” The prison is built on a former military site just above the Medway river, and convict labour from the prison was used to build nearby Fort Opened in 1874 as Her Majesty’s Prison Borstal, Rochester between 1875 and 1885 (adjacent to Titanic sinks: 1500 dead named for the closest village to the prison, this the prison). The Fort, part of Britain’s defence establishment started out as an experimental system against invasions, was used during the Survivors mostly women and children reformatory for juvenile prisoners. Up until First World War as a stop-off point for troops this time, juvenile offenders were held along and supplies heading for the fighting in the At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, of its hull compartments. Guggenheim fortunes. with adults and treated no differently. In 1895, killing fields of France. the British ocean liner Titanic These compartments filled the Gladstone Committee proposed the concept sank into the North Atlantic with water and pulled down One hour and 20 minutes after of training institutions for juvenile and young During the Second World War, four 4.5” Ocean about 400 miles south the bow of the ship. Because Titanic went down, the Cunard offenders. So in 1908 Borstal Prison became anti-aircraft guns were installed at the fort. of Newfoundland, Canada. the Titanic‘s compartments liner Carpathia arrived. The Her Majesty’s Borstal institution at Rochester. During an air battle with German and British The massive ship, which car- were not capped at the top, survivors in the lifeboats were In the years that followed many other ‘Borstal’s’ fighter planes, on the 15th of September 1940, ried 2,200 passengers and water from the ruptured com- brought aboard, and a handful opened around the UK. a British plane was hit and began to spiral crew, had struck an iceberg partments filled each succeed- of others were pulled out of towards the ground. The aircraft crashed into Rochester Borstal 1906 two and half hours before. ing compartment, causing the the water. It was later discov- the south wall of the Borstal. The pilot was bow to sink and the stern to ered that the Leyland liner thrown from his plane and landed outside the On April 10, the RMS Titanic, be raised up to an almost ver- Californian had been less than wall. 23-year old Sergeant R A Ward later died one of the largest and most tical position above the water. 20 miles away at the time of of his injuries. Witnesses claim that the Fort luxurious ocean liners ever Then the Titanic broke in half, the accident but had failed to guns brought down 6 German planes within built, departed Southampton, and, at about 2:20 a.m. on hear the Titanic‘s distress sig- 20-minutes during the same battle. England, on its maiden voy- April 15, stern and bow sank nals because its radio operator age across the Atlantic Ocean. to the ocean floor. was off duty. The Titanic was designed by the Irish shipbuilder William Announcement of details of Pirrie and built in Belfast, and the tragedy led to outrage on was thought to be the world’s both sides of the Atlantic. In fastest ship. It spanned 883 the disaster’s aftermath, the The aim of the Borstal system was to ‘educate feet from stern to bow, and its first International Convention rather than punish’, but it was a highly regu- hull was divided into 16 com- for Safety of Life at Sea was lated regime, with a focus on routine, discipline partments that were pre- held in 1913. Rules were adopt- and authority. Borstal offered education, reg- Young Ray Winstone sumed to be watertight. ed requiring that every ship ular work and discipline for 15 to 21 year olds, Because four of these com- have lifeboat space for each though one commentator at the time described In 1977, the original Borstal at Rochester was partments could be flooded person on board, and that life- the Borstal system as - ‘breeding grounds for the basis for a BBC drama about the lives of the without causing a critical loss boat drills be held. An psychopaths and bullies’. Some evidence exists trainees in the system. But the resulting film, of buoyancy, the Titanic was International Ice Patrol was of brutality, both by staff on trainees, and ‘Scum’, was deemed too violent for television considered unsinkable. While established to monitor ice- between trainees. In fact, I have often referred audiences, so the film was given an 18-rating leaving port, the ship came bergs in the North Atlantic to my experience of Borstal as being like a and became a hit in cinemas. The film starred within a couple of feet of the shipping lanes. It was also Ray Winstone and Phil Daniels, amongst many steamer New York but passed required that ships maintain other young British actors. safely by, causing a general a 24-hour radio watch. sigh of relief from the passen- Captain Edward J Smith: Went The establishment remained a borstal until gers massed on the Titanic‘s down with his ship On 8 April 1997 Scientists 1983 when borstal was abolished in favour of decks. On its first journey investigating the wreck of the ‘Youth Custody’. From 1983 the prison became across the highly competitive Because of a shortage of life- RMS Titanic revealed that We take pride in providing a officially known as ‘Rochester’, rather than Atlantic ferry route, the ship boats and the lack of satisfac- rather than finding a massive full range of ‘Borstal’. It is now a youth prison, holding sen- carried some 2,200 passen- tory emergency procedures, gash in the hull as they had Criminal and Prison Law tenced inmates serving sentences up to 7-years. gers and crew. more than 1,500 people went expected, the amount of dam- In 2007 the capacity of Rochester was doubled down in the sinking ship or age caused when it struck the Services. to 700, and pre-fabricated buildings were After stopping at Cherbourg, froze to death in the icy North iceberg was astonishingly placed on what used to be the sports field. France, and Queenstown, Atlantic waters. Most of the small. There were 6 small FOR ASSISTANCE PLEASE CONTACT Ireland, to pick up some final 700 or so survivors were openings in the starboard It has recently been announced by the MoJ that passengers, the massive ves- women and children. A num- hull, measuring 12-13 square Hannah Rumgay - Prison Law Solicitor there are plans to redevelop Rochester as part sel set out at full speed for ber of notable American and feet in total. It was the place- of a £1.3billion revamp of the prison estate. New York City. However, just British citizens died in the ment of the openings that led Tates, 2 Park Square East, The jail will be temporarily closed and inmates before midnight on April 14, tragedy, including the noted to the disaster - if the pattern Leeds, West Yorkshire LS1 2NE relocated for the duration of the work. the RMS Titanic failed to British journalist William had been even slightly differ- divert its course from an ice- Thomas Stead and heirs to the ent the tragedy might have 0113 242 2290 Next month, East Sutton Park berg and ruptured at least five Straus, Astor, and been avoided. Insidetime April 2017 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak 47

The Reader There is a season… into umber, wilted into paper.' Ray is fascinating in a way that makes us feel Cheryl Hunter slightly uncomfortable at times, sad for him at times and at other times exasperated with him. Bit by bit we learn how Ray was brought up - or The Human Seasons rather left to bring himself up and how, among John Keats other experiences, the diffi cult relationship with his father formed the rather strange per- Four Seasons fi ll the measure of the year; son he has become. There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear 'My mother is dead. I always knew from the Takes in all beauty with an easy span: twist in my father's face, from his fundamental He has his Summer, when luxuriously coldness, that she had died and bequeathed Spring’s honied cud of youthful thought he loves him a tragedy with which to defi ne himself for To ruminate, and by such dreaming high the rest of his years. And me, of course, I was Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves paramount to his tragedy.' This particular pas- Billy Bragg: Pushing sixty but still shining a light… His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings sage resonated strongly with C as he saw him- He furleth close; contented so to look self as his own father’s tragedy. On mists in idleness-to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. The dog is indeed a vicious little bugger: 'In a fl ash you've forsaken your football and clamped Five minutes with... He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature. the collie's muzzle' - and this proves problem- atic for Ray - but then OneEye, as he is called, His musical beginnings involved Punk Rock and drainpipe In our shared reading group at HMP Hull we was reared and trained to bait badgers. Several have fi nished reading our favourite book so far of the group members shared their own ‘dog trousers. Now pushing sixty, elder statesman of British - Spill, Simmer, Falter, Wither by promising stories’ - K saying in an earlier life he shunned singer/song-writing Billy Bragg tells Inside Time why he young Irish writer, Sara Baume. Our fi rst query all human contact and loved only his dog as - what does the title mean? It soon became clear indeed does Ray. supports prisoner rehabilitation through music that these were euphemisms for the four seasons (each fi rst letter representing spring, sum- There are various signposts throughout the What were your earliest a dozen new acoustic guitars. book that led us to believe there was something musical inﬂ uences? When I went along to the pris- mer, fall and winter). The four seasons fi gure sinister lurking in the novel somewhere and on to see how they were being prominently in the story. When I was 11 years old I the tension was mounting - but no spoilers used, it occurred to me that heard ‘The Boxer’ by Simon & here! there must be other people like This novel, which really gripped members' Garfunkel on the radio and Malcolm doing this kind of work. imaginations, provided lots of talking points was immediately taken by it’s ‘Standing on the cold ties in the middle of the and resonated with many of the readers' expe- narrative - more like a story night, I realise my spate of rats is ended.’ As a musician, I understood riences. Many of the men could readily identi- than the songs I was hearing how playing an instrument fy with the loneliness, loss and the feeling of on the radio in 1969. Around The book is accessible without being simplistic can help you to momentarily being on the edges of mainstream society the same time I became a fan or dumbed down in any way. It spoke to group transcend your surroundings experienced by the main character Ray. There of American soul music, espe- members in many ways and I was oft en greet- so, with Malcolm’s help, I is also an equally socially outcast dog described cially that produced by the Shine a Light - Billy Bragg ed with comments like: "I've been looking began making contacts with as a "vicious little bugger" by the Rescue Centre Tamla Motown label. So you and Joe Henry forward to this all week" or "I can't wait to see people across the prison estate. worker. Nonetheless Ray forms an instant bond could say that Paul Simon and what happens next." or “I've been thinking So far, our Jail Guitar Doors and the novel follows a year in their life togeth- Smokey Robinson were my about this book all week." initiative has donated instru- railroad that inspired them, er divided into four seasons. Dogs in stories tutors when it came to my ments to over 50 prisons in the so we took a 4 day train ride always prove popular in my experience - so early song-writing. The poem above is one of many we read during UK and also begun working from Chicago to Los Angeles, overall it felt like we'd hit on a winner. It is the book but this one seemed to sum up what in the US, led by former MC5 jumping off to record songs on beautifully written and the descriptive passag- When did you fi rst believe happens during the novel and was our fi nal guitarist Wayne Kramer. platforms and in waiting es frequently refl ect the changing seasons. you could make a living as poem choice. It was immediately apparent to rooms whenever the train a musician? 'We're back in the bedroom when the first the group that here was a description of the Your current album, Shine a stopped for 30 minutes to take smidges of dawn illumine the toadfl ax. See beginning, early, middle and end of life, each In 1977, me and my mates had Light, a collaboration with on a new crew and supplies. how its leaves and fl owers have dried up and quarter represented by the seasons - childhood, been playing together in our American singer/songwriter died back, as if overnight. Now it's discoloured youth, mid-life and old age. The men agreed backroom for a few years with Joe Henry celebrates great Last month you took part in that in later life we do tend to ‘chill out’ more: no idea how to get a gig. Then American railroad travel the Penned Up arts festival … contented so to look / On mists in idleness-to punk rock came along and songs - what attracted you in HMP Erlestoke - what did let fair things / Pass by unheeded as a thresh- suddenly everything opened to this musical tradition? you take away from your

old brook. And in our old age - that ‘pale mis- up. All you needed was the session? TurningPages In the hundred years from feature’ is a symbol of the physical changes right attitude. And drainpipe 1860 to 1960, the railroad was Firstly, it was good to be part our faces undergo as we age and the ‘mists’ trousers. the main form of transport for of a festival - I usually just turn perhaps our eyes growing dim. Prisoners who can read working people in the US and, up with some guitars and In 2007 you founded Jail as a result, train songs played speak to the fl edgling guitar teach prisoners who can’t Guitar Doors, the charity that Cheryl Hunter is Reader in Residence at HMP a major part in popular music, group about the aims of Jail brings guitars into prisons - Hull PIPE be it jazz, blues, country or Guitar Doors. The whole arts If you would like more information on what inspired you to do that? how to become involved, as either a pop. Since then, rail travel has program at Erlestoke felt more Mentor or a Learner, contact the Reading The Reader is an award-winning charitable I was contacted by a fellow been superseded, by fi rst the integrated into prison life. Plan Lead in your prison (ask a Shannon social enterprise working to connect people named Malcolm Dudley, who interstate highway system and Trust Mentor who this is) or write to: through great literature. In weekly sessions, a worked on drug and alcohol then cheap air travel, and no Secondly, I felt there was a Shannon Trust, Freepost RTKY-RUXG-KGYH practitioner reads aloud a short story or extract rehabilitation at HMP Guys one writes train songs any good spirit between staff and The Foundry, 17-19 Oval Way, and a poem. Anyone in the group may choose Marsh near where I live in more. Yet the railroad is still inmates, a willingness on both LONDON SE11 5RR. to read too: some do, others don’t. In this way, Dorset. He was using guitar there, still hauling people sides to use guitar tuition to connections are made with thoughts and tuition to help engage inmates across the US, although the change the atmosphere in that feelings; some people reﬂ ect on these privately, in his program. He asked me services are much less frequent. part of the prison. Once you have ShannonTrust others are more vocal. Either is fi ne. The if I had any spare instruments Joe and I wanted to reconnect that, you have the potential emphasis is on enjoying the literature. and I sorted him out with half those great old songs with the for positive things to happen. 48 Jailbreak // Inside Poetry www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2017

Star Poem of the Month Clock Ticking: Doing Time Congratulations to this months winner who David Ecclestone - HMP Oakwood receives our £25 prize Dogs barking in the distance, but not in sight Little Boy You’re Not the Man Light streaming through the window, is it day or night Sinead McCauley - Partner of a Prisoner Fellow inmate snoring, my thoughts full of rhyme Clock ticking; doing time So you walked through the prison gate Head held high, walking straight Key chain, hatch-rattle of a checking guard Little boy you’re not the man Another poor night’s sleep on a bed too hard I knew when you went in the can A train is heard on a high speed line Midnight express; doing time Think you’re really big and bad Making someone clean your pad Scaring youngsters, bullying men Shadows of darkness moving round the room ‘That’s how it goes on in the pen’ Only the dawn now can alter my mood Doing deals, running shop Another day of perdition ahead, for my crime

Taking subby, smoking pot © Deposit Photos Purgatorial; dong time Meals prepared and laundry done Knock someone out just for fun The morning chorus of the industries movement And ‘brethren’ who all ‘have your back’ No Fly Zone Is followed by a shout for the education student Making up for all you lack N Reid - HMP Highpoint North At Her Majesty’s pleasure, ‘walking the line’ Sending scripts to all them lasses Incarceration; doing time Saying you want to f*** their asses Setting down for a good night’s sleep in my cosy welcoming bed And I’m at home and holding your baby I heard a loud buzzing sound in my head When you send your scripts to other ladies They can lock the lock; however, they can’t stop the clock Your heads a mess and you’re depressed I squinted, opened up one eye and looked around the room As I lie awake thinking and taking stock You say you try your very best And with the half-light coming in, I watched a black fly zoom Soon freedom will be mine and the sun will shine I pay the bills, I hold the fort But then it flew away from me Absolution; done my time. You’re just depressed that you got caught So literally half-asleep, I closed my eyes and settled down I visit you, send you money I had no need to peep I make you laugh; you think I’m funny But just as I was dropping off, the fly came round again But it’s no joke when I receive This time settling on my nose, as though wanting to play a game! I’ve Made My Bed A poem that’s not meant for me Then he became daring, so I opened up my eyes Tony Joyce - HMP Parkhurst Well done screws, you let me know As he hovered in defiance above me at 12 o’clock high! That now I should be letting go Now I’m sure it wasn’t vindictive, just happy to be alive Love my prison bed now, wasn’t always the case, somehow My precious time, my precious money But I had to question its strategy when it started to bomb and dive Took years to perfect it, now I want to protect it Now someone else can find me funny You can probably tell from my words now, I had started to lose my cool A mattress, once wafer thin, no room to tuck my sheets in And it soon became obvious there was nothing left but a duel! A hammock dip in the middle, another man’s bedding stink- I can’t be arsed, your voice now bores me ing of piddle Listening to your prison stories Now, I don’t know if anyone has ever taken on a fly One blanket with holes and snags; reeking of sweat and Little boy you’re not the man But to reality and sanity you may as well say goodbye! I knew when you went in the can. Tiredness makes you irritable, well that’s my excuse ancient fags As I hurled a book towards it and shouted out abuse! Sheets stained with all kinds of junk; dripping down from Soon my book and water cup were hurling through the room the top bunk And I’m sure the fly was giggling as it gave an extra zoom! But that was in nicks where they don’t even care He flew around with such a speed, I had to weave and duck If you’re cold at night, that you cuddle up and share And then I broke my mirror, oh no … seven years’ bad luck! Swearing now and cursing and hoping to hear a ‘splat’ So, a single cell has allowed me my way But my cheeky, speedy opponent was having none of that! To construct my bed for my particular lay At last I thought I had him and gave a mighty cheer I’ve padded the dip with many a box But, no, the little monster had flown into my ear! Got brand new sheets that don’t smell of socks The doctor at my A&E was about to get a clout Blankets times five to soften my sleep When he said: “Just open a window next time … and let the fly fly out! Rest like a log while I’m counting sheep

What A Story No weekly exchange of bedding that’s rough Got washing tablets to wash my new stuff Cold Tits Daniel Brice - HMP Woodhill Got nice new branded softener Means I can wash all my gear softer Twelve years young he had his first taste of beer Professor - HMP Parkhurst Boil wash my pillows, they’re soft and nice He seemed so free from fear, sat drinking with his peers No bed bug bites, no more lice It’s a while since I’ve seen a tit on a bottle The reason isn’t clear why so quickly he was gripped And Granny’s old house made of daub “F*** taking sips, I’m gonna glug it ‘til I’m sick’ But now that it’s cold, I don’t want to get out And of wattle His mum was having fits with the school on the phone And stickleback fishing - 18 in a jar Wanting to know were there problems at home? Pretend I don’t hear the last ‘Labour!’ shout And going on trips in a half-tinkered car “You must be joking, this home aint broken” I lie in the middle of a lovely recession Monkey see, monkey do, he just got roped in Spend so much time in it, its bringing on depression Telephone boxes: ‘Press button B’ Then he started smoking, I guess it goes hand in hand Too much bed, too much time to think And cursing at old folks, my sister and me Down the slippery slope he goes, this wasn’t what he’d planned At least before I could concentrate on the stink And Saturday pictures: sweets for a penny He was sinking in the sand, started frequenting free parties And camp in the woods, where adventures were many The only fools and horse like and three for ten on smarties Even though in comfort I lie Hip, hip, hooray, it’s all good fun; a tiny taste will leave you numb Don’t want to get out; could happily die And journeys by train and the dying of steam They never want to hurt no one; how could they know she’d lose a son? The truth would stun, I mean who’d have thought it? Banged up now for too many hours And Mother’s face shining in Nivea cream No access to work no access to showers Falling asleep with the dogs by the fire The view distorted through the puke they snorted Banged up and left to do what I like And watching my Grandpa refilling his briar And the news reported it in all its glory ‘Addict found dead at home’ … what a story Because today the screws are out on strike These times; near forgotten, so nearly passed by Yeah what a story, extra, extra, ‘ junky scum, I f***ing bet ya’ Apparently for months they’ve been on a ‘go slow’ So dim is the light in my memory’s eye They say without his creed the world is better But what’s the difference, how would we know? I needed that Tit on the bottle you see And blame his mum and the things she never done No one to feed us, or answer the bell Thank you so much for reminding me: ME! We all know the truth, and we won’t forget ya son. So I’m staying in bed, I might as well. Insidetime April 2017 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 49 Goodbye to my Mr... Welcome to Winchester John Norwood - HMP Winchester Jason Harwood - HMP Kirkham Welcome to reception Let us start by weighing up some pros and cons Please, have a pleasant day Turn back the clock and look what we’ve done We should soon have you processed When times were hard you were a friend indeed Of course, enjoy your stay We both shared your bong my Mr Weed When I thought my life was one big joke Won’t you come this way Sir? You made me laugh my Mr Coke Feel free to take a seat When I was blind and couldn’t see Try not to get too comfy though You opened my eyes wide Mr ‘E’ Your rear could start to beep When I was lost and the chips were down You showed me the way my Mr Brown This is our first waiting room When I became lazy, you picked up the slack Please try and have some fun You were my pipe of energy my Mr Crack By the time we return to fetch you

When I was called you were there, what can I say Your sentence could be done © Deposit Photos You were my only friend my Mr Class ‘A’ Now it’s because of these pros that I became a con Of course we only jest, good Sir You whistled the tune and I sang the song Our priorities lie with you The Starling Tree So here’s a few things coz of you I lost Now, right this way for a thorough search Quinton Starling - HMP Parkhurst You made me dishonest and not give a toss Would you prefer one finger, or two? Starlings amassing, before its night a murmuration is in flight I’ve lost all of my mates and now I’m alone You’re looking so damn fetching, Sir A cloud of dancing birds in the sky, I have often wondered why Thrown head first into the twilight zone Grey certainly is your shade The cloud moves with nature’s grace into every empty space I’ve lost all of my jobs and all of my cash Your garments fit you rather well One blink and gone in a flash They could be tailor made The starlings swoop around a tree and dance to a silent symphony You took my respect and also my pride The clouds turn to mist as the birds dive and twist Can’t look in the mirror I need somewhere to hide Show no concern about your goods Sir A masterpiece of moving art, the cloud dust begins to part I was no longer a man so I soon became a mouse No need to make a fuss Falling down from the frame; going back to whence they came With no fixed abode coz you’ve taken my house We will keep them under lock and key So last but not least the worse thing I did They’re safe and sound with us The cloud of starlings is no more but will return from where it came You took me away from my wife and my kids Silence is now above the tree the end of the symphony But now I stand before you as proud as I can First you’ll meet the Doctor I do not weep because they are gone, they will return to a different song. You’re no longer part of my future plan The Insiders and SO too I’ve taken the step to stay clean, not even legally high After this you’ll be escorted To waiting room number two Suicide Auf Wiedersehen, ciao, adios, goodbye! Ryan Smith - HMP Glenochil Now it’s time for evening meal Poverty Have a seat here on this bench A dark and lonely cell with nothing but a toilet and a ring bell Louis Robinson - HMP Isis Our menu is quite extensive Sir Nothing to do but lie and sleep And our little chef is French Awakened every 15 minutes by jangling keys I know what it is to live and be broke The screw constantly lifting the hatch shouting … Your room is ready at last Sir To scrub on my skin but the waters gone cold “Are you alright son?” Please won’t you follow me? You know how it is, too much beans on my toast I say “You’re having a laugh” “What wing?” you’re asking, my good man Then go face the kids that made fun of my clothes No one to talk to, no TV to watch You’ll have to wait and see A padded suite and mat - that’s suicide watch I know what it is to live and be broke To muck up a flip coz I smoked and got stoned Welcome to reception Sir Case conferences every few days To tell the truth it wasn’t easy being 12 years old Please, have a pleasant day I have to convince them I’m ok Wondering who my dad was coz my mum is getting old We should soon have you processed Building my hopes up that they will take me off She was solo, so I know what it is to live and be broke Of course, enjoy your stay Because ‘suicide watch’ is no laugh Butter on bread just to fill in a hole Staff want you safe - make sure you will not misbehave Ration the cupboards for others to go Because they care in their own way Then return home from school yet no-one’s at home The Life Left Behind I know what it is to live and be broke Self-harming is not the answer So, when I was a kid I just took to the roads G Lipnicki - HMP Bullingdon Because the consequences are disaster Robbed people for things and just thought it was jokes Constant grilling is not thrilling Then I stepped up my game and went looking for notes This time when she left you Doctors, nurses and various quacks try to find a cure Coz I know what it is to be living but broke She didn’t take the children The only person who can really help is yourself And I’m sick of this feeling, man I need some dough Nor the revealing dresses By communicating more and asking for help So, I watch on the YouTube to learn how to grow Not even the deep purple one with the rose So instead of the knife, think of your life Then I rented a house, coz I’m flipping some snow You had given her last Christmas And those you will leave behind. All coz I don’t want to live and be broke Instead of the usual household appliance But now I’m in prison, I realize the truth Or your disappearance I’m hard at my work and I’m good when I do Not even her lipstick with the stale smell u We will award a £25 prize to the entry selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. So, I’m giving up wrapping and bagging food Nor the clue and grey eye shadow that made her dream To qualify for a prize, poems should not have won a prize in any other competition or been published previously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, And it’s all for my family, it’s time to improve She saw in the faces of her children Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. I’ve made my decision to buck up and choose The moments they were conceived A life without crime doesn’t mean that I lose It is very important that you ensure the following details are on all paperwork sent Especially Julie, whose brown eyes Instead it means that I’m winning and in peace I can snooze to Inside Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUMBER & PRISON. Failure to do so will Always made her feel guilty prevent us responding to you and your submission being withheld from publication. Coz now I’m in prison I realize the truth For staying and for leaving The love from my family, I see what they do She left a message on the stationery By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they can be published The love has been absent but that’s no excuse Your grandfather had given as a wedding gift in any of our ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, website and any forth- To talk with this tone and aggression I use Her words would never let you know coming books. You are also giving permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in Because now I’m in prison I realize the truth She was leaving allowing other organisations to reproduce this work if considered appropriate, unless That life is worth living, I’ve nothing to prove This time for good you have clearly stated that you do not want this to happen. Any work reproduced in To these streets that I knew oh so well as a youth So, she left you little drawings of birds other publications will be on a ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note poems for publication It’s my time to shine and show the world With their beaks so pointed may be edited. When submitting your work please include the following per- I can do a life without prison You thought they were carrying mission: ‘This is my own work and I agree to Inside Time publishing it in all I realize the truth. Knives in their mouths associate sites and other publications as appropriate.’ 50 Jailbreak // Prize Winning Competitions www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2017 Read all about it! Caption Competition Last Months £25 Winner A £25 prize is on offer for the best caption to 1. On what date is Comic Relief this year? Fonesavvy providers of ‘landline type Stephen Charters HMP Edinburgh this month’s picture. 2. Colin Dexter, author of which crime book, numbers’ for mobile phones. has died aged 86 in March? Proud sponsors of Inside Time’s 3. Which soap landlady is currently serving a 3 Prime Minister PRIZE quiz ‘Read all about it!’ month sentence for an unpaid fine? I’ve just built it 4. Who was beaten in the EFL Cup Final this year? If you don’t want callers to be disadvantaged and you want to 5. Which soap has received over 180 complaints or put off by the high cost of calling your Brexit-apart following their recent prison storyline where mobile - just get a landline number for it. character Aaron Dingle was homomorphically Calls to mobiles don’t have to be expensive! abused and taunted? Full details are available on our main 6. Jeremy Kyle swapped roles and was a guest advert in Inside Time and at on his own show for Comic Relief but who www.fonesavvy.co.uk stood in as the guest host? 7. Tributes poured in from the biggest names in Last Months Winners music like Mick Jagger and Bruce Springsteen Keeley Collett HMP New Hall (£25) after “the father of rock and roll” died aged 90. Paul Eames HMP Wakefield (£5) What was his name? Robert Clark HMP Frankland(£5) Australian newborns take a dip at the worlds 8. Who sung this year’s Comic Relief single? See box to the right for details of how to enter Theresa May was visiting a school last month, first spa for babies in Perth. 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Would you believe it? Inside Chess WordsearchSuper Heroes and Villains – Rob // Mcphillips Super HMP HeroesStafford and Villains by Carl Portman C Y C L O P S E S C F C E N P E H T L M A L S A B P T H E T H I N G E P S S M R I focus on openings this month and my answers P I I R O N M A N T N E P W N K L U H F to two excellent questions. Stephen from HMP T K L H G W O W H W H A O M G I E P T R & YOI Doncaster asks if I could recommend a A J P K R O L K O L R A B U L T E E O E readable and comprehensive book on Openings. l A 10-year-old Australian I K E I E F K E K Y C N A A I R H R O E I would say that ‘Chess Openings’ by Michael N E N L E L I Y Q E L N L T N Q F M T Z boy has survived being bitten Basman is a good start. It explains the principles A E I L N S L E R E D O D W R A P A R E by one of the world’s most which underlie correct opening play and shows I am your leader M S L E L M E A M F O E U O E R G N E A venomous spiders after being how they can be developed to produce strong E U B R A C C A L P K C L N F B P I B R l A man from the US has taken out a giant treated with 12 vials of positions for attack and defence in different R P O C N S P S D N I A T D L L S U A O advertisement in The Times stating that he is anti-venom. It is one of the situations. In essence it looks at five classic open- I R G R T P H A N M L F R W R A F Q S E ings. The Queen’s Gambit, Giuoco Piano, Nimzo- the rightful King of England and will claim his largest doses of anti-venom C M N O E I E R L A P O B O N C H E L N historic Royal estate, all lands, assets and titles Indian, Morra Gambit, and Sicilian Dragon - which ever administered in A N E C R D C I R A M W H D N K R L U I within 30 days. In the feature length soliloquy together can be used to form the basis of a for- A A E M N E Y H B I T T M C A W L R L R Australia. Matthew Mitchell Allan V. Evans from Wheat Ridge, Colorado, midable opening repertoire. Published by C R R A I R C B R B N A A H M I Q A T E was bitten on his fi nger by a says he is a descendant of a royal Welsh line Crowood Chess library the ISBN code is: ISBN-13: T E G N P M D E A D N M A B L D U H R V from the 3rd century. Mr Evans also asserts that funnel-web spider while 978-0946284740. H K P H S A L F E H T W B A N O I K O L he is the descendant of Cunedda Wledig, the helping his father clear out a R O S C R N A M O W R E D N O W H T N O founder of the Kingdom of Wales. Despite shed. He suffered multiple David From HMP Long Lartin asks for advice on O J L R I D D L E R B O G E B A R R O W stating he will assume the ‘Royal Title and seizures, dilated eyes and Defences in the Opening. I have to give the answer Crown of Wales’ within a month he assured the as ‘it depends’. Our chess playing style usually NEWArrow, Bane,Can Batman,you spot Blackwidow, the 31 Captain super America, heroes Cyclopse, and Deadpool,villains Green in the began frothing at the mouth. gridLantern, above? Harlequin, Answers Hawkeye, Hulk, next Ironman, month Joker, Killercroc, Loki, Mr Freeze, British public that he will only demand the dictates what kind of openings we play (and Penguin, Riddler, Sabertooth, Sandman, Scarecrow, Spiderman, Superman, The Flash, “It sort of clawed onto me throne after the death of Queen Elizabeth II against what?) so reading a book like the one ThanksThe Thing, to Thor,Rob TwoMcphillips Face, Ultron, HMP Wolverine, Stafford Wonderwoman for compiling this and not oust her from power out of ‘deepest and all the legs and mentioned above will help you to develop your Wordsearch. If you fancy compiling one for us please just send it in maxMind 20Gym x –20 Evan grid Prevett, and HMPcomplete Elmley with answers shown on a grid. If we respect’ for her. Mr Evans closes the advert by everything crawled around preferences. There are many good defences for saying that ‘freedom and egalitarianism shall be use it we will send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your my fi nger and I couldn’t get it Black and White and thousands of books written name, number and prison with your entry. promoted’ and he vowed to make Great Britain off,” Matthew’s family used on this aspect of the game. It is better to get a ‘great once again’. Daily Mail his shirt as a tourniquet to general feel for several openings at first and then curtail the spread of the try them out in your own games. To recommend Quick Crossword one opening to a person whose style I don’t venom as he was rushed to know would be folly. Good luck chess players in hospital. The spider has been your various opening quests! captured and taken to the Australian Reptile Park near This month’s chess puzzle will keep you busy. It Sydney, where it is now being was from the actual game Flohr-Grob in 1932. used in a venom-milking Black just played his queen to b5 threatening not One is having a laugh programme. only the pawn on b2 but checkmate on f1. White could not see a defence to this and resigned. My l An evening class for beginner question is would you have resigned here? If not DJs at a Nottinghamshire what would you have played next as White? school had to be broken up by police at 3:30am March 12 after it turned into a 250- 8 strong rave. Rushcliffe School

headteacher Steve Lewis told 7 the Post: “Sadly staff were not on site, the person was known 6 to them. They were given the When one umbrella just isn’t enough responsibility and that l For most of us, travelling abroad means 5 responsibility was placed in staying under the baggage allowance. One 4 the wrong hands. We are person who clearly doesn’t need to worry absolutely mortifi ed by it. It is about this kind of stuff is Salman bin Abdulaziz 3 nothing that the school would al-Saud - the 81-year-old Saudi king. On a Across Down ever want to be connected nine-day trip to Indonesia in March, he packed 2 with. Minor damage occurred up a whopping 459 tonnes of luggage! So what 1. Stamp collecting (9) 1. Cooking vessel (3) 6. Volcanic dust (3) 2. Golf clubs (5) to parts of the building, but exactly is he taking? As well as a massive 1 Nottinghamshire Police, who entourage of 620 people and 800 delegates 8. Shoe part (6) 3. Medium (7) were called at 2am, said they (including 25 princes) he’s taking two Mercedes- A B C D E F G H 9. Anaesthetic (5) 4. I have found it! (6) were “satisfi ed that no Benz s600 limousines and two elevators. All of 10. Former name of Iran (6) 5. Sailing vessels (6) 11. Spectacles (7) 7. Astrological forecast (9) offences had been this is fl ying in seven planes and taking over A chess magazine (back copy) donated by Chess 13. Supervise (7) 8. Unrehearsed (9) committed.” four hotels. & Bridge of London is the prize if you are first 16. Wall pass in football (3-3) 12. Gymnast’s costume (7) out of the hat. l Boria was a man with a dream. Like Icarus before him 18. Edible seeds (5) 14. Chocolate fi nger cake (6) 19. Attractiveness (6) 15. Large scissors (6). he dreamed of soaring into the sky like a bird. Back in Write to me with your answer care of The English 2015 he fi lled 100 balloons with helium and attached 21. University, in short (3) 17. Girl’s name (5) Chess Federation at The Watch Oak, Chain Lane, 22. Abode or home (9) 20. Regret (3) them to a patio chair. Unfortunately for him a miscalcula- Battle, East Sussex TN33 OYD. Please note that tion meant he continued fl ying upwards much higher and you should always write to me at the ECF not via faster than planned. During the half-hour fl yby, 24 airplanes InsideTime. The joke’s on you! took off and landed in nearby Calgary airport, and he saw a Boeing-747 soaring below him. After continuing upwards, The answer to March’s puzzle was 1…c3-c2! he eventually decided enough was enough and he bailed A woman gets on a bus with her baby. 2.Rc1xc2 (Not 2…a1=queen or black gets mated out of the chair, parachuting to the ground below. As Boria The bus driver says: ‘’Ugh, that’s the did not get permission to perform the stunt, on landing, in two moves) Bg7-b2!! Fantastic move; now ugliest baby I’ve ever seen!’’ The he was arrested by police. Last month, the Canadian was black will queen the pawn and material will be woman walks to the rear of the bus Soaring like an eagle ordered by a judge to pay an eye-watering £16k after exchanged to Black’s advantage. The winner will and sits down, fuming. She says to a pleading guilty in December to dangerous operation of an aircraft. Speaking in be announced. man next to her: ‘’The driver just court, Judge Bruce Frasier said: “There was nothing fantastic, fun or exhilarating insulted me!’’ The man says: ‘’You go about it. Responding to the Judge after leaving the court, Boria said the stunt was The winner of February’s competition was Jamie up there and tell him off. Go on, I’ll worthwhile and he has no regrets. Lad Bible from HMP Bullingdon. hold your monkey for you.’’ 56 Jailbreak // National Prison Radio www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2017 What’s on National Prison Radio // April 2017 National Prison Radio is currently available in prisons across England and Wales. We broadcast 24-hours a day, seven days a week, into your cell. If your prison has National Prison Radio, you can listen through your TV by using the tuning buttons on your remote control.

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