“The tide is beginning to turn” James Timpson - new Chair of the Prison Reform Trust Through the Gate // page 28

“Cast-iron window frames “There was something oozed rusty water down surreal about watching men the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees paint-fl aked walls and a watching a fi lm about their ‘Hit The fi lm of slime lined the work from inside prison when a voice for prisoners since 1990 treacherous concrete fl oor” I’d already seen it outside” Road Smack’ March 2016 / Issue No. 201 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profi t’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 Name withheld Rachel Billington Alison Henderson An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verifi ed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Mailbag // page 4 Diary // page 16 Comment // page 24 law misinterpreted for 30 years Joint enterprise murder: foresight doesn’t prove guilt John McAvoy Ironman competitor

Geir Madland jury’s role in establishing a Ameen Jogee was convicted From Prison Van to Ironman: “It’s sad how co-accused’s intention to ac- of the murder of former police tively encourage the murder. officer Paul Fyfe even though many talented people there are in our prisons, A landmark ruling, handed “The correct position is that… Jogee was outside the allowing their talent to go to waste. I’ve trained down by the Supreme Court foresight of what the principal Leicester house in which of and Wales last might do is evidence from Mohammed Hirsi killed Fyfe with Olympic Gold Medallists since I’ve been out, month, is being seen by cam- which the jury may infer that with a kitchen knife. paigners as an important he intended to assist or en- breakthrough in the contro- but I knew a lot of people in prison who are on courage to do so,” President The Supreme Court ruling sets versial law of Joint Enterprise. of the Court Lord Neuberger out the need for the law on Noel Smith interviews John McAvoy former prisoner page 40 In a much anticipated judg- par with them” said, “but it is for the jury to joint enterprise to be brought ment, the Supreme Court has decide on the whole evidence back to the threshold required ruled that, for thirty years, before 1984, namely to show of whether he had the neces- joint enterprise law has been the intention of murder by any There but for the grace of God… sary intent.” wrongly interpreted. This secondary parties. It aims to Before becoming Conservative Member of Parliament for judgment does not relate to bring “the mental element The judgment comes in rela- Somerton and Frome David Warburton worked as a shop the principal participant in required of a secondary party assistant, a cleaner and a van driver while singing and playing the crime but to secondary tion to two joint enterprise back into line with that which lead guitar and keyboards in a succession of rock bands. He persons on the periphery of murder cases, one in is required of the principal also worked as a teacher and later went on to found a suc- the incident. For decades, ju- Nottingham, one in Jamaica, and to bring the law back to cessful global music business. Last month he wrote in his ries have been directed that a for which convictions have the principles which had been local paper about the need for a renewed focus on education secondary co-accused’s fore- now been overturned. The established before the law and work for people in prison, a piece which was generally sight of the principal attack- error was traced back to a took a wrong turn”. er’s intention to kill is suffi- 1984 judgment by the judicial received favourably by his constituents. Writing for Inside cient proof of murderous guilt. committee of the Privy Time he explains why he welcomes the Prime Minister’s This judgment emphasises the Council. Continues on page 25 planned prison reforms ... Read full article page 14

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Once again it has been £20 to £30 when buying in don’t speak to their clientele can use ‘intel’ (intelligence) received and act Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial reported in a red-top rag bulk wholesale. Televisions in the way these overpaid, on it. content. Comments or complaints should be about how ‘cushy’ life is in can, and oft en are, removed glorifi ed security guards in directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. prison. I am sick and tired of from prisoners as punish- prisons speak - with utter My next door neighbour on the wing was reading the disillusioned ment for a breach of the disregard, rudeness or subject to a cell spin (cell search) and when Board of Directors perceptions many members rules. And why is it never complacency. Not only to the inmate returned to his cell a scuffl e broke of the public and reprobate mentioned that the introduc- prisoners but to prisoners’ out between him and Security staff . I do not Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, Tory politicians have about tion of in-cell television has families too. Journalist, Writer and serving Magistrate. know who started it but it ended up outside Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge the ‘luxurious’ lives that reduced violent behaviour my cell door and I witnessed at least 8 Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon prisoners supposedly lead. dramatically? I’m forever reading about members of staff laying in to this inmate. Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh Tory politicians and tabloids how sumptuous the food is Bear in mind that this inmate was brought John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and constantly drone on about “ I am genuinely sorry in prisons and I look here with a broken foot and leg from a Managing Director employing ex-offenders how prisoners are a drain on forward to top notch meals, previous cell extraction and he had only Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice for the crimes I’ve the public purse, so it may but all I get is cold, con- been off crutches 2 weeks. Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, surprise them to know that committed and want to gealed child-portion size Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation many prisoners will have use my time in prison slop served to me aft er it has been tax-paying citizens at lain in a so-called hot trolley “ Since I agreed to give evidence I The Editorial Team some point in their lives. to better myself and for a couple of hours. Prison have had my job with The Shannon become a useful menus may look good on Trust taken off me, lost my job on I, for one, think it is time to member of society paper, but the reality is very challenge public perception diff erent. 5-star it certainly the servery and have been dropped about prison. Prisons do not upon release ” is not. from Enhanced to Standard all with- just hand out PlayStations to out even receiving an IEP warning ” prisoners at the tax-payers Prisons provide the most The media has a big part to expense. 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‘Totally committed to helping prisoners’ Mailbag 2-9 “For God’s sake can Andrew Gregson - HMP Wymott nobody stop this Many prisoners end up in jail due to negativity and Offending Behaviour Courses for company’s greed in some form or another in their lives. Change prisoners to choose and engage with here and cruelty?” can be very hard to some people but help is and all the staff are actively helping to Page 8 Mr Newey there if you want it. During my time here at accomplish the objective of giving prisoners Wymott I have to say that this jail is totally the chance to live a different life on release. Newsround 10-13 committed to helping prisoners make positive And, no, I’m not after parole or ‘brownie Dental Services changes to their lives and to stop reoffending. points’ as I’m released soon. But a big thank criticised by you to staff, governors, education and Maidstone IMB © Fotolia.com There are many education courses, NVQs everyone at Wymott. Page 12 Thank you More bells going unanswered Comment 14-26 ‘What kind of nation for the music Adam Russell - HMP/YOI Doncaster Tales of Wisdom Jay Whitehouse - Our man on do we want to live in?’ I am writing in regards to the letters in the January issue HMP the inside tells concerning staff not answering emergency cell bells. it like it is Craig Burrows MBE - HMP Northumberland I arrived here about 6 months Page 17 Sid Arter ago and joined the prison We live in times where if a person does something illegal, I am being treated for suspected Crones Disease and last night I collapsed on the floor of my cell as the disease was choir. This is part of ‘Choirs Information 27-33 often the easy solution is a prison sentence; yet the immoral Beating Time’. A civilian committed on a large scale - such as big businesses avoiding having a flare up. I was lying in a puddle of vomit and crying The Careers Lady out in agony. I had pressed my cell bell and it was on for over named Pete gives up his own tax - is considered acceptable. Is personal theft more wrong time every Tuesday afternoon The first step than major companies deliberately avoiding paying taxes half an hour, and then it was answered by a fellow inmate through the who happened to be on the landing. He came to my door and to come in to the prison and that contribute to the roads they use, the healthcare system work with about 20 of us. We door to your they depend on etc? spotted I was laying on the floor and he then called for help Page 30 future for me. When the door was finally opened it was another learn new songs and put on performances for staff, other Legal 34-39 It seems the legal system has - in some cases - become slanted inmate who placed a pillow under my head so that I did not choke on my vomit. prisoners, our families and away from morality and it is acceptable to do something a even a performance for British prisoners normal person would think of as immoral. It would be Minister of Justice Michael repatriated from beneficial for us to think about what our morality is based “ I was lying in a puddle of vomit and crying out Gove. Those 2 hours every Thailand on. None of us is perfect and all of us can gain from thinking in agony ” week makes us feel like we Carla Riozzi Page 34 about where our sense of right or wrong comes from. Is it a are not in prison. A huge sense of fair play, the legal code, philosophy or a religious The staff said they did not answer my bell because another thank you to Pete for giving Jailbreak 40-52 upbringing? Does it matter? Turn on the TV, radio or open a inmate had earlier rung his bell claiming he was sick but up his own time to bring us newspaper and all of them love to get us ‘tut-tutting’ and when they came to his door he just wanted to use the ATM. some pleasure for a short time. National Prison shaking our heads upset about the state of the nation but Even if that was the case, if someone rings the bell for false I would like to advise any Radio have we stopped to think why? What kind of nation do we reasons or not, they should still answer and check. After all, other prisoner to join a choir, Big names and want to live in? it is part of their job. How long can this go on before someone you’ll be surprised at the inspirational Page 42 dies waiting for staff to come? good feelings it engenders. stories All of us in prison have a lot of time to reflect about what is right or wrong. Google, Facebook, Starbucks, Apple etc. may not have broken the letter of the law but should we not care ‘Remand that morally they are bankrupt, choosing to avoid contribut- ing to the infrastructure that allows them to make large privileges profits. Also, as prisons are financed through taxes, next time we want to attack the system for cost cutting, we can a myth’ remember companies who have chosen not to contribute to the nation’s welfare. M Dent - HMP Lincoln

What is more important, the letter of the law or our natural On remand we are told that sense of right or wrong? Politicians’ expenses and many we are innocent, yet to be other things seem to be less important to asking a basic tried or convicted so question - is this morally right or wrong and if everyone did innocent in the eyes of the this what would the end result be? law, and that we are entitled to special privileges, but this is all a myth. Contributing to Mailbag Remand prisoners are If you would like to contribute to Mailbag, treated worse or on par with please send your letters (concise and clearly convicted prisoners. We are marked) to ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley banged up 23 hours per day, Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 yes we get extra visits and ‘Mailbag’, 2GB. Please note letters for publication may are allowed to wear our own Inside Time, be edited. clothes, but that is the sum Botley Mills, total of our ‘special Botley, To avoid any possible misunderstanding, if privileges’. Southampton, you have a query and for whatever reason do Hampshire not wish your letter to be published in Inside Here at Lincoln we get no SO30 2GB. Time or appear on the website, or yourself to gym, no exercise, no tobacco be identified, please make this clear. allowed to be handed in, and no extra phone calls to We advise that wherever possible, when arrange bail or keep contact sending original documents such as legal with family or friends. The papers, you send photocopies as we are unable authorities are riding to accept liability if they are lost. roughshod over our rights as stated in PSO 4600. They We may need to forward your letter and/or even make us mix with documents to Prison Service HQ or another convicted prisoners. Is there appropriate body for comment or advice, anyone who can help us to therefore only send information you are be given our rights as willing to have forwarded on your behalf. remand prisoners? ›› Registered with EMAP ‹‹ 4 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime March 2016 Banned books Student Legionnaire’s Disease Zeeshan Ahmed - HMP Oakwood loans at Parkhurst Can someone please tell me if NOMS has a Name withheld - HMP Parkhurst list of books that prisoners are barred from having? Apart from the obvious, i.e. The revisited Arriving at HMP Albany in 2006 I was Anarchist’s Cookbook, etc. horrified at the state of the showers. They Andy Morris - would not have looked out of place at I have enrolled and paid for 3 courses here at HMP Springhill Auschwitz! Lime scale stalactites dripped a Oakwood, they are Prison Law, Diploma in saline solution onto showering inmates from Criminology and A-Level Law. As I do not Further to ‘Student loan a cracked and mouldy ceiling. It was then have access to the internet, most of my request rejected’, (Feb Issue) that the thought of catching Legionnaire’s research has to be done by buying books that I am afraid that the student Disease came into my head. Cast-iron are very expensive but also offer a depth and loans situation for prisoners window frames oozed rusty water down width of knowledge on many topics of law and is as convoluted as prison paint-flaked walls and a film of slime lined criminology and will ensure that I have the the treacherous concrete floor. best possible chance of attaining flawless marks life itself. While resident at on exams and essays as a part of my courses. one open establishment I was told that in order to go I submitted 18 months of applications The following books have been confiscated to university (not an OU through the COMP1 system until the by Security here at Oakwood: A ‘despot in the White House’? course), I needed to be ignorance of the Prisons Ombudsman. Next I hit the ignorance of the Head of Prison • Criminology by Tim Newburn£35 B L Barnes - HMP Frankland self-funding by way of Works Department and figured I had reached • Firearms and Ballistics by Tim Newburn £55 finance application. My • Covert Policing £95 the end of the line with no satisfactory Having endured the ranting and raving of Donald Trump for application was successful, • Corruption: A Short Introduction £8 result, until someone falling in the showers far too long now, I was horrified to hear him state that all although when I was later • Police Station Handbook £45 brought attention back to the subject. Then Muslims should be barred from entering the United States, recalled I ended up at • 33 Strategies of War £10 another prisoner slipped and fell and which amounts to serious Islamophobia and racism. Can this Springhill, where I was claimed compensation, the prison HAD to They have cited ‘unsuitability’ of the books bigot really be in the running for the most powerful office on accused of fraud (later the planet, President of the United States of America? act. It was estimated that the work needed to even though I have proved my case via the cleared of any wrongdoing) put the showers right was £5,000 per shower Distance Learning Co-ordinator that I am as it seems that I should not room - the Governor refused to sanction this studying the courses mentioned above and The modern world does not need people like him who use have received finance whilst expenditure. the books are suitable for the courses. their wealth to promote hatred and anti-Muslim scaremon- gering. Nor do we need him in our country. I see him as a in custody, even though I’d made it plain that my As an aside, why are prisoners not allowed to danger to our national security and he should not be allowed “ Cast-iron window frames oozed to enter the UK, billionaire or not. address was Her Majesty’s have a book that lets them know the rules and rusty water down paint-flaked walls regulations of the police station? Surely for Prison, which is plainly remand prisoners that should be a given right? The day (if it comes) when this despot sits in the White House disappointing. Not least and a film of slime lined the treach- is the day we take a step back to those dark days of the because having got through erous concrete floor” The non-issue of the book 33 Strategies of holocaust, only this time it won’t be the Jews but Muslims at most of my first year of study the forefront of oppression. I wish to stress that some of my War is interesting as the prison has cited that my student debt is approxi- After a year we had a new Governor who got closest friends are Muslims, who I respect unconditionally, it contains acts of terror and guerrilla warfare mately £15,000, but as a cheaper estimate and the work was started. so when politicians or world figures spout on about radicali- in it therefore it is not for issue. When I Springhill will not support We got non-slip floors, better shower cubicles questioned this they then told me that it was sation I think it is a very dangerous path to take. You cannot my return to my study I now and a new coat of paint on everything and not for issue because it did not come from an tar every Muslim with the same brush. History tells us that it have a debt for a course I vents were put in to cut down on condensa- approved supplier, citing that WH Smiths is only takes one person to poison the minds of many others by cannot complete and my tion. At least it looked a lot better. But from not an approved supplier! When I showed the same hatred Donald Trump promotes. Racism is hope of enhancing employa- the start of my complaints to the finished them that according to PSI-2013-30 WH abhorrent. Smiths is an approved supplier and provided bility that would lead to work took almost 5 years. a receipt to prove it came from them, they Bible or Koran, it matters not, we all belong to the brother- repaying the loan is now refused to issue the book. hood of man and so we need to work together to eradicate thwarted. So much for A year later I entered Parkhurst and found racism, persecution and oppression. Donald Trump keep out. Michael Gove’s reform? that showers here had also been neglected, I have complained that I am being discrimi- as was most of the infrastructure of this nated against due to my race, my religion Victorian rust-bucket of a prison. Wing and the region of the world I come from and I ‘Denied the choice to lead healthy lives’ heating systems are not fit for purpose, the am being associated with the recent attacks Works Department here are also not fit for Stephen Pratt - HMP Hull in Paris. I have argued the infringement of purpose, in my opinion. There has been the Human Rights Act 1998 Part 2, first Once again prisoners are Considering prisons were Please could you let me years of neglect to all aspects of the infra- protocol, article 2 ‘the right to education’ and denied the right to lead declared public spaces by know what the Statutory structure and we have a heating system that that I could definitely be at a pecuniary loss the Works ‘do not understand’ (their words, healthy lives. I recently the Courts in 2015 and even Requirements are for prisons under article 6 (1) Barbera v Spain (1988) 11 not mine) and their sparse workforce cannot requested from the kitchens McDonalds and other regarding the supply of EHRR 360, due to not being able to complete cope. As a result, many cells are freezing education to better my career prospects. here at Hull a list of ingredi- eateries provide this nutritional information and cold and they are literally dripping wet from ents and nutritional information to their if any other prisons provide mouldy spore-releasing ceilings. Having argued this consistently with staff via information of all the meal customers I am surprised this information? Consequently bedding and clothing is COMP1 and COMP2, nothing has come of it. I choices they offer. and disappointed that the always damp. Prisoners have to wear their wrote to NOMS on the 2nd of December 2015 prison estate is allowed to PS If you eat this letter it will coats and clothes to bed and several of us are making my case but have received no reply quite unwell at the moment. to date. Can someone please clarify this issue? With this information I keep this information secret probably be more nutritional would have been able to and claim to be exempt. It than last night’s offering It now turns out that fluctuations in tempera- Editorial note make an informed choice as makes you wonder what here. ture in the showers have produced Books do not need to come from an approved to what I eat to enable me to they are trying to hide? Legionnaire’s Disease on several wings here supplier. Any friend or family member can eat a balanced diet. Editorial note send them in (see revision to PSI2013-032). and people have caught it. Priority in You would think that Perhaps there is a way that There is a list of banned books which is in the Parkhurst is not given to prisoners health, as Public Protection Manual, Chapter 11 The response to my request helping prisoners to make portions and ingredients of buying in psychology courses seems to be ‘Inappropriate Materials Guidance’ but Prison was a disappointing one as I informed healthy choices prison food could be regulated more important to the regime than putting Rules allow for governors to refuse any books was told - ‘Legally, the only would be standard for a enabling people in prison to right the rotten infrastructure. Prisoners’ which they might consider inappropriate or information we have to system that claims to make better dietary choices. lives do not count. We are starved, neglected might harm Good Order or Discipline. It provide is allergen rehabilitate, but so much for Inside Time has asked NOMS and alienated and our lives are put at risk. might be a good idea to follow a formal information’. my New Year’s resolution to to comment regarding the Legionnaire’s Disease could be the final nail complaint about this issue all the way to the in the coffin. ‘Holiday camp jails’, don’t make eat more healthily. practicality of this. Prisons Ombudsman and see what he says. me laugh. Insidetime March 2016 ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Mailbag 5 Do we ‘Nothing changes if nothing changes’ not count? Name Withheld - HMP Springhill Mick Bramley - Despite my antecedents and day I see with my own eyes which, by the way, has yet to misdemeanours I have to tell the irrational and illogical materialise, and simply HMP Swansea you that I consider myself to mentality of decision makers. show common sense. If be a reasonable person with It is worrying because, as somebody shows a desire to I am a disabled prisoner at a reasonable intellect. the saying goes, ‘nothing go straight, as it were, then Swansea. I can’t knock the However, I am confused and changes if nothing changes’. the intelligent thing to do in guards here, they are very perplexed by what appears my view would be to helpful, but my concerns are to be an organised agenda “ If somebody shows a empower them to do so about the doctors, or lack of that wilfully and actively wherever possible. them. seeks to prevent prisoners, desire to go straight, as ex-cons, offenders or whatever it were, then the intelli- It is sad to know that I saw a doctor when I arrived we are being called these gent thing to do in my Springhill and the wider days, from actually turning open prison estate could Goodbye to Holloway and explained that I had view would be to been ‘mishandled’ by the away from criminality and really change lives for the getting on with life. empower them to do so better, but fail spectacularly Nicky Tyler - HMP Holloway police and they have left my due to a lack of vision at right arm damaged and it is wherever possible ” Some months ago someone best, and agenda driven I am writing about the sad news we were recently told about giving me major pain and wrote a snapshot of life at narrow-mindedness at Holloway closing down. discomfort. I have continu- I really wish politicians Springhill for your pages would stop using stupid worst. The system must ous pins and needles and Holloway has been here for as long as I can remember and I and it was grim reading, soundbites like ‘The change in order for us to do numbness in the arm. Since personally think it is a right liberty that they are selling the even though each and every Rehabilitation Revolution’, the same land off to be replaced by luxury apartments. It wouldn’t be then I have had four appointments with doctors so bad if they were building housing for the poorer people of Student appeal for London, people in low-paid jobs who struggle with life on a which have all been ‘Enjoy your visit’ daily basis. People exactly like the majority of women who cancelled with no reasons information on prison life come into Holloway. This government really are doing their given as to why. Name withheld - HMP Rye Hill best to purge the poor from prime building land in London Abigail Watts and it stinks. But what can we do? Do prison doctors have a I write in response to the letter by Mr I am a student writing my dissertation on duty of care to their patients, Redhead and his concerns about sex Holloway, for me, was a life-saver. If I had not come here what prison life is really like. I would just or do we not count as we are offenders in visiting halls (Sex offenders and when I did I would surely be dead now. When I first came like either someone currently in prison or an prisoners? Is it just here or is here I was in a really low place and felt like I had no worth or visits - Mailbag February issue). License ex offender to tell me what prison is like on a this a problem in all self-esteem. I have been here nearly 30 months and I am conditions for sex offenders outside of prison normal day, from when you get up, to when most definitely a completely different person to the one who prisons? Is it to do with are strict, but nothing compared to condi- you go to sleep. Any thoughts or feelings you came through the gates back in 2013. It has not been a walk budget cuts, or do they just tions in the visiting halls. With CCTV and had while in prison would also be much in the park, I’ve struggled with so much stuff, my emotions, believe that prisoners’ patrolling and static officers keeping close appreciated. Anything you can tell me about building relationships with my children again and asking for health and wellbeing can be supervision and sex offenders usually sat in your time in prison I would like to hear. I help. But when I did ask for help there were so many people fobbed off as we do not a corner, far away from the children’s play want to write this article as it isn’t something here willing to help me. count? area, all to provide a high level of safety for that is widely spoken about and I would like both visitors and inmates. This, along with to write something that comes straight from We have a good community here and I have truly been Answers on a postcard the fact that a sex offender will be far more someone who actually knows what it’s like. touched by how much a lot of the staff really care. They go please! Thank you very much for your help. out of their way to help you, or to have a chat, or just listen, interested in his own visitors than anyone else’s, means children are safer in a prison doing small things that mean so much. I am proud to be one Editorial note Editorial note visiting hall than playing on the street. of the last inmate’s here, to be part of history, the end of an Mark your envelopes with Abigail’s name It is unlikely a prison doctor era. For a lot of women this was a safe place. and Inside Time will pass your letters on. cancelled the appointments; Having spent time at HMP’s Nottingham and It is such a shame that somewhere where lost souls and it is more likely there were Lincoln, the only time I ever witnessed a broken women have had the chance to benefit and become not the staff to take you. To child at risk was when he/she was allowed to RODMAN PEARCE worthy of a place in society, has been sold out from under us ensure the cancellations are wander around the visiting hall, unsuper- SOLICITORS by Cameron and his money-grabbing gang. It is all about not recorded as the prisoner vised by parents, often causing disruption to money to those people. not attending or refusing it is other visitors. So, Mr Redhead, I can FIGHTING FOR YOU !!! important to place a formal understand your concerns, but enjoy your Experienced representation in Goodbye Holloway and thank you for helping me to start a new complaint detailing Criminal Defence, Prison Law life. Good luck to all the ladies and staff. Tomorrow is another day. visit, focus on spending time with your wife and dates of cancelled and children and stop worrying about other and Immigration Matters Editorial note appointments and request- inmates in the visiting hall, because they 4 All Criminal Courts Proceedings & Appeals You can read our article ‘Goodbye Holloway’ in the February issue. ing reasons for the won’t be worried about or interested in your 4 Parole Hearings 4 Contested Recall It can also be read at: insidetime.org/goodbye-holloway/ cancellations. visitors. 4 Judicial Reviews 4 Sentence Calculation 4Lifer Panel and Adjudication Representation 4 Appeals Against Deportation 4Variations and Certificates of Inadequacy 4 Revising Prosecution benefit calculations Forensic Accountants 4 Unlawful Detention/Bail Applications CONFISCATION PROCEEDINGS

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Probation should be billed for recalls Some things Mark Humphries - HMP Wayland never change I write with a thought I had after reading a Neil Barnett - HMP Oakwood newspaper article in the Eastern Daily Press when the headline ‘Call to charge towns for The mental health department in Oakwood jailing of petty criminals’ caught my attention. is a joke. In fact, it’s pretty much non-existent. I have been here for 5 months and on arrival Jonathan Clifton of the Institute for Public I spoke to a nurse and told her that I need to Policy Research (IPPR) said that local see someone about my mental health. She authorities should be billed to help cut the said she would speak to somebody and get growing prison population. He believes that back to me. So far that hasn’t happened. this will free up cash held in Whitehall and spent on social welfare projects. “ I feel like a dog that is getting backed into a corner and the estab- I’m not sure this would work. Firstly, there ‘If you do smoke it you could end up dead’ lishment are not giving me a way out ” would be an administration cost in handling RT Smith - HMP/YOI Moorland this; that will have to come out of the funds I have put in many applications for help but released by Whitehall. This might take place I have been involved with that you should keep no matter how many times I ask all I ever get at the source, or it might take place at the think I’m a ‘lightweight’ and drugs for most of my adult walking and try to take your can’t handle my drugs. No, I back is a generic answer - Thank you for council offices. It could also happen at both your application, your request will be dealt life, crack cocaine, heroin mind off it (impossible!). can’t handle Spice, that’s for ends, then the funds would be seriously with. I have asked my Offending Supervisor and injecting amphetamine. After walking for 20 or 30 sure, and I don’t intend to reduced. twice to try and sort out the mental health I came into prison last year yards I started panicking ever try it again. and heard about Spice again and the next thing I counselling that is written into my Sentence I do, however, have half a plan coming from through friends. I thought knew I was on the floor Plan, but nothing has come of that either. this, so Clifton plus Humphries might just I know people will keep I’d be okay to try it as I am a surrounded by nurses. I was Every person I have asked, every avenue I have a full idea between us. Probation smoking Spice but if I could drug veteran. I paid my taken to the hospital and the have gone down seems to lead nowhere. I am Services should be billed for every prisoner dish out any advice I would half-ounce of tobacco for a doctors told me that I had completely at a loss as to what to do next. I they recall to prison. If those former prison- couple of joints of Spice and had a heart attack. say this - if you do smoke it feel like a dog that is getting backed into a ers have not been charged with new offences then smoked it. After 4 pulls you could end up dead. corner and the establishment are not giving then the Senior Probation Officer signing the on the Spice joint - wham! I am only 40 years-old and Don’t end up like me, in a me a way out. I am guessing that I’m not the recall papers should be billed, to be paid by My heart began to beat so take regular exercise and hospital bed with your only one who feels this way. their area. fast it felt as if it was going nurses have told me that I mother crying at your side. Sadly, an inmate here ended his own life not to burst from my chest. I had a good heart rate Don’t leave your kids I believe that this will end the pointless so long ago. You would have thought that the started to panic and serious- previously. I was foolish to without a dad down to this recalls we all know are happening every day, people at the top would have learned from ly thought I was going to die. think I could handle Spice, it shit. Nobody knows the and I hope it will force the Probation their mistakes and rectified the problem very nearly killed me. I try Services to deal properly with their charges ingredients and because it immediately so that it could not happen I did not know how to cope and tell people about what instead of using recall as a convenient way changes all the time nobody again. But this is not the case, things are with this, but I had heard happened to me but they to pass the buck. can advise you on it. exactly the same as they were before.

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I would like to pick up on fire alarms are faulty and work, though we want to. the autistic something I came across in when they go off the system Drugs and gang culture are Ben Moynihan - your November 2015 issue, automatically cuts the gas commonplace here. HMP/YOI Swinfen Hall written by Mark Fosh on the supply and water cannot be It would cost way too much subject of Winchester heated. It’s worse if it I write as a frustrated prisoner to fix everything that is even prison. I have been housed happens at the weekend who suffers from a very physically wrong with this at Winchester for a year now because the Works Dept. is severe ASD (Autistic Spectrum prison, and a makeover and feel that I am able to not on site. Disorder). I am writing this would be like polishing a confidently agree with what to try and stick up for myself turd. This prison should be Mark was saying. My own “ We are reduced to and other prisoners who condemned, torn down and evaluation of overall have similar conditions. hand-washing our rebuilt from its foundations conditions here is that the Anyone who suffers with Bullied off Methadone prison is being allowed to be clothes in buckets and up, along with a whole new attitude to prison reform. ASD will have problems run down and standards are then drying them on with their social skills and Sean Buckland - HMP Full Sutton beyond poor. Simple lines made from ripped I am in no way anti prison or find it very difficult to talk to maintenance is obviously others. This can often lead to If, like me, you have been totally dependent on Methadone to not a priority or has gone strips of bedsheet ” the justice system but there is no point lying about the misunderstanding, such as keep you illicit-drug-free and mentally, emotionally and completely unnoticed. thinking I am anti-social. physically stable, and you now find yourself in a jail that Most cells are missing state of this place. HMP In prison, having ASD really doesn’t seem to care that your medication works for you and furniture or what they have Winchester is going under, The wing that I am housed becomes an issue, not being is broken. Some windows fast! they are trying to force you off it, then be advised, they can’t. on has never been plumbed able to talk means you find have panes of glass missing in for a washing machine, yourself out of place and you and in the cold weather the Editorial note All health services in any prison, whether private or not, even though we are living in then become a target for place is freezing. The toilets In their latest report the have to follow NHS guidelines. Guidelines for opiate depend- the 21st century. I have bullies. In my time I have in cells are out in the open Independent Monitoring ency and detoxification for the over 16s for CG52 para 1.1.1.1 brought this up with the been insulted and assaulted so we have to use bedsheets Board made no mention of states it must be the service user’s (your) informed choice, an authorities here many times countless times, and even as privacy covers. Some cells these problems except to expressed decision to be abstinent from the opiate you’re but get nowhere. I have been threatened, which I could no have lost the plaster from highlight a shortage of dependent on. No jail or health service can ever be in breach told by the area manager longer take and I cried myself the walls, revealing bare clothing for servery staff. It of these guidelines. The jail might try and say you’re not that there is no money in the to sleep afterwards. I still brickwork, and the floor tiles might be helpful to bring doing a detox but a slow reduction which is also a clever ploy. budget for a washing have 19 years of this hell left are missing or filthy from these problems directly to the There is no difference from a detox and a reduction apart machine. So we are reduced to serve. It is hard if you’re years of old polish. attention of the IMB who are from the end result if they’re trying to get you to 0ml that’s a to hand-washing our clothes autistic but that doesn’t make obviously missing these detox. If they’re trying to get you from say 60ml to 40ml in buckets and then drying important points. A copy of you any less human. Just Phones are invariably that’s a reduction. A detox means OFF it, abstinent, no longer them on lines made from the latest IMB report June walk away from bullies and broken, which is frustrating getting it. If this is what they say is the goal then that is a ripped strips of bedsheet. 2014 - May 2015 should be keep safe. for prisoners as we have one detox. And if you have not chosen to do this it is an unlawful All workers are expected to available from the prison hour association per day wash their greens or servery library or can be download- Editorial note act in breach of CG52 para 1.1.1.1. and the wait to use the few uniforms the same way as ed from - http://tinyurl.com/ This prisoner could arrange working phones is always we only get one set. gt39xxs The latest prison to contact the National Autistic If, after saying all the above, they still continue the bullying long. inspection was in February Society Helpline 0808 800 then contact NHS England and after that the Parliamentary Our showers flood the floors 2014 and will be available in 4104 or write to them at The and Health Service Ombudsman. Make sure you complete the which makes drying off The waiting list for jobs is the prison library or can be National Autistic Society, 393 complaint stages in your jail first. 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exceptional circumstances, different location in Leeds ‘G4S staff Living proof which was the first of its and it was helping people kind in the country. As a with multiple and complex assault adult Kenneth Denton, Team result, I was transferred to needs. I was still doing work prisoners too’ Leader - New Wortley Cat D and told I wouldn’t for Leeds Community Community Centre have to do a lay down period Healthcare and this is Ty Jones - HMP Cardiff and could go straight out to something that I will never When I started volunteering my placement, however the give up. I did this to the best I am writing to support what I was in prison serving an prison that I was transferred of my ability and in July I was written by Steve Kidd in IPP sentence. My first role to wouldn’t have anything to had my parole hearing, the January issue about violent was as a listener for the do with the decision. They where I was commended by security staff. I watched the Samaritans. I then took on were adamant that I would the judge on how I presented BBC Panorama programme the role of Shelter Housing have to do my lay down and myself and my commitment about prison staff at G4S Peer Advisor and then no matter what anyone said to my voluntary work. The assaulting children and then Healthcare Rep Coordinator. they just kept replying with outcome was that I was a deaf ear, but I stayed calm Hunger strike against G4S making up stories that the released, however I still kids had assaulted them, I did these roles whilst and let the powers that be carried on my voluntary Mr Newey - HMP Oakwood having to endure the chaos argue among themselves. and I would like to point out work. that G4S staff assault adult of serving the IPP sentence. I am writing to inform you that I am currently on hunger As many of you who are still prisoners too. The prison tried everything In September I started strike to protest at the mistreatment of prisoners under the serving an IPP are aware, if to put barriers in the way volunteering at New Wortley care of G4S. I have now gone 4 days without food and will you are like me, you will including refusing to pay Myself and other prisoners, Community Centre and in continue until G4S is investigated and inspected by the probably be over tariff. I any travel costs, which I had on separate occasions have November I was given an authorities. We are being routinely neglected and forced into only got a 2-year tariff, but I actually got covered by the been beaten up by G4S staff employment opportunity, poverty inside prison. I feel that G4S is failing greatly in our ended up serving over 6 charity, which amounted to at Parc. I got beaten pretty which I grabbed with both care and that they are only interested in making a quick years. Whilst doing my role nearly £300 a month. Every badly in front of a governor hands and have continued buck, profiteering in any way they can and ripping us off left, as the Healthcare Rep time they would find at the prison (unfortunately to do to this day. right and centre. Coordinator I had done something else. It was only I do not know his name) some training and was after the threat of legal during an adjudication. No matter where you are in I saw this official poster on the wall of my wing - ‘Don’t count offered a prison work action that they relented and There are no cameras in the your sentence, don’t give in your days, make your days count’. Although this is great placement and in December I was allowed out again on adjudication room and the and if someone tells you that advice, I thought to myself, ‘What a laughable comment’ 2013, I eventually had a ROTL. injuries I received were a volunteering is slave labour, considering the current climate we are being subjected to in parole hearing via video chipped bone in my hand then don’t listen to them. this prison. The truth is that prisoners do not count their link and the outcome was The charity that I worked for and damage to the ligaments The benefits are huge, not days because G4S, the so-called provider of prisoners care that I got my Cat D. It was was amazing in all of this in my hand and wrist. The only to your confidence and and rehabilitation, certainly have no options available to agreed that I could stop at and the support they gave governor watched but did your self-esteem but also help prisoners make their days count, and we have not had the prison I was at and serve me was fantastic. I did this not seem to care a jot. my Cat D whilst there even for over 12 months whilst looks good on your CV. It for a number of years. G4S only count their profit margins also helps with your and are not interested in investing in prisoners’ rehabilita- though it was a Cat C prison. waiting for a parole hearing Prisons like Parc, Lowdham and always stuck to my rehabilitation and gets you tion or anything else that would benefit the prisoners for that the experience that can help matter. Grange and others need to After doing 2 days on my licence times. Because of be investigated in depth placement I was returned to this I had my licence hours when looking for work and most of all opens doors that They are, in my view, simply a corrupt private company about bullying and violence the prison as the Ministry of extended twice and I was by staff. Justice had changed the out of the prison from 6am you never knew existed. whose only achievement is to evolve the Prison Service into a rules on ROTL, meaning no to 9pm, 5 days a week. business in order to make a quick buck and it’s about time Unfortunately, no Panorama IPP prisoners could work out Look at me, I’m the living their contract was dissolved to make way for real profession- reporter will be able to get of Cat C prisons. My Solicitor In January 2014 I changed proof, so get out there, als to come in. into adult privatised jails appealed the decision. She my placement. Although at volunteer and find your with a secret camera. I can won the case based on the same charity, it was at a purpose in life! G4S should stick to filling cash machines and stay well away from being responsible for the care and safety of human supply you with the details week. The comment about torture and beings. Who needs capital punishment when they have of at least 2 other prisoners It is a prison, mistreatment we have never heard of. We do created a system that makes us kill ourselves? They teach us who have been assaulted by know there are people in there who are nothing but hate. Deprivation of liberty does not rehabilitate G4S, but that will just be the guilty and some who are innocent. But us and nor do the dozens of other indignities and humilia- tip of the iceberg. not a hotel! everywhere has rules and regulations. tions we suffer each day. We are living in squalid conditions Editorial note A Visitor so that G4S shareholders can continue to enjoy their profits at The officers and NEPACS staff are friendly our expense. For God’s sake can nobody stop this company’s These serious accusations and help make our visit more comfortable. greed and cruelty? have been drawn to the We are writing about the mailbag in the The person we come to visit, if they have any attention of the IMB, February issue concerning Frankland prison problems there is someone to help out. It is a Editorial note although Inside Time is (Tortured by the Government). prison, not a hotel! This letter was received early in February. Inside Time is unaware of when precisely concerned for Mr Newey’s well-being and we would be the alleged assaults took It isn’t the Frankland prison we visit every Sent via email grateful if anyone could update us on his current situation. place.

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I understand that the left to it. He was anxious and My partner is currently serving an IPP abrupt, without-warning worried that his family sentence. He received his sentence in March transfer of inmates between wouldn’t be able to visit him 2006 when he was aged 18 for GBH with prisons is known as at Brixton as Chelmsford is intent. He was 17 when he committed his ‘ghosting’, and was intro- his local. crime. duced as a punishment for violent, problem prisoners? As if this treatment was not I know what he did was very wrong and he Yet, lately, this procedure bad enough it was repeated deserved a fair punishment but an IPP is not appears to have become a 4 more times during the next © Fotolia.com a fair punishment. It is inhuman to never standard way to treat any know if or when he will ever be released. month, each time he was faith which has changed their life prisoner. This sentence has left us with no hope and returned to his cell as Serco ‘The happy people’ and outlook for the better. cancelled his transport. He no light at the end of the tunnel, we are Susan Cuthbert - Prisons Pastor (ACT!) unable to dream of a future together because A friend of mine at this was unable to sleep and Last week someone told a team we do not know if there will ever be one. But prison was told to pack his absolutely stressed out on member, ‘When you preached, I felt I I would like to reply to Mark H from I will not give up on this fight for IPP gear and vacate his cell for a each occasion. Other was no longer in prison.’ Another Wormwood Scrubs who thinks there prisoners to have a release date. transfer to Brixton - an event prisoners, who have been is too much religious content in man remarked on how much his he’d had no reason to mood lifted after we sang together. chosen seemingly at random Inside Time. So many prisoners are We are asking IPP prisoners to persuade foresee as he’s approaching distressed, discouraged, anxious One young guy said to me, ‘You are for transfer, have self- their family and friends to come along to our his last few months and about family, suffering loneliness, from the happy people.’ I reckon we harmed, because this way of protest alongside other families and friends awaiting early release on bereavements or ill-health. Often can do with a few more of those in treating people is nothing of IPP prisoners. IPP Protest will take place HDC (Home Detention chaplains are the ones showing our jails! less than mental torture. We outside the House of Lords -Parliament on Curfew). My friend has an kindness, trying to meet practical are talking about Category C May 23rd from 11am-2pm and from 2pm we exemplary prison record needs and helping individuals find As for advertisements, remember that prisoners here, not danger- unlike solicitors looking for custom- march a short distance to the Ministry of with no entries, but as a hope and purpose in their lives. ous Cat A’s. ers, those Christian organisations Justice ending at 3pm. Times reflect peak refusal to transfer is are not standing to gain financially travel and those who have to travel a long punishable with an IEP he I know many volunteers who come I think all this proves that into prisons to lead Alpha courses (a - they are giving sacrificially to distance. had no choice but to accept the inmates of HMP are way of finding out more about Jesus), benefit prisoners. the sudden transfer. regarded as cash-cows by run chapel services and visit on the Family members can also contact us on Serco and Group 4 who profit wings. Most do so at considerable Mark H, I’m sorry if your experience Facebook ‘IPP Demonstration/March’ page After strip search and hours of religious people has put you off. to let us know if they will be attending. by moving them around the trouble and expense to themselves. waiting in the holding cell But please don’t insult those prison- We also have a petition on Facebook that country for no reason other Frankly, we would not bother if we he was told that his move to ers who are seeking something needs signatures. Thank you. than to pass the bill on to didn’t see really positive things Brixton had been temporari- happening as a result. beyond themselves in trying times. the taxpayers. They seem to ly cancelled. He was taken Editorial note forget we are human beings back to his cell, which had We have often heard prisoners say ACT!, St Aldates Church, 40 Pembroke Inside Time will be attending this march and and not cargo. by then been stripped, and how grateful they are to have found Street, Oxford, OX1 1BP. reporting on proceedings.

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harm the birds’ talons. You Most serious Prison staff Newsbites can read ‘Droning On: HMPs and unmanned aerial offenders to l Police have vehicles’ in our February issue getting high begun sending postcards to and at: tinyurl.com/grbt25r serve more of former prisoners urging them to switch to an honest life. l A prisoner at HMP their sentence on Spice The postcards offer guidance Manchester allegedly hid four and advice for those who mobile phones, four SIM in custody Prison officers have become want to make a fresh start. cards and four phone hysterical and had their chargers up his backside. He New laws ending the current emotions out of control after l Amidst the consternation allegedly set all lights flashing system of automatic early entering prisoners’ cells and in the corridors of the when he sat on a BOSS Chair release for prisoners inhaling ‘legal highs’ claims Ministry of Justice regarding - a type of metal detector set convicted of the most © prisonimage.org Mother and baby unit at HMP Styal Andy Baxter, chairman of the use of drones to smuggle into a seat. After being serious offences came in to the POA at HMP Holme contraband into prisons, we challenged by staff he is said effect in Scotland from 1st hear of a novel idea from to have produced two House on BBC Tees Radio. February. Over 100 babies in prison Holland where a private phones and two chargers from his bottom and, after a Latest figures show that over 173 applications by women Dutch security firm ‘Guards He said staff became night in a cell, produced two The change means no 100 babies spent time in for accommodation in MBUs. from Above’ have trained disorientated after breathing more phones, two more long-term prisoner in prison with their mothers 65% were approved (down eagles to take out drones by in the new psychoactive making them think the drones chargers plus four SIM cards Scotland will be eligible for last year. Prime Minister from 72% the previous year). are prey. The firm says the the next day. A week before automatic release after two David Cameron said it was When a baby reaches 18 drug ‘Spice’ which prisoners technique is not harmful to this incident a woman thirds of their sentence, and ‘absolutely terrible’ that months it is separated from had been smoking. Mr the birds although research is allegedly tried to smuggle babies should spend time its mother. Baxter told how some there will now be a manda- being done to check that the four phones complete with ‘behind bars’. prisoners who had taken tory period of supervision drone’s propellers cannot chargers in her Bra. The Prime Minister has these substances gained for those convicted of the Prison Rule 12 and PSI promised a review to see super-human strength. most serious offences. 2014-049 allows women to whether women who are New powers of increased have babies under the age of pregnant or who have young Staff exposed to ‘Spice’ flexibility on release dates 18 months with them in children could be treated by reported a sweet smell like also came into force, prison. They are housed in special courts and possibly disinfectant and then meaning release can be Mother and Baby Units be tagged instead of sent to brought forward by one or (MBUs). There are six MBUs prison. feeling dizzy, getting two days, to ensure people in England and Wales with blinding headaches and room for 64 mothers, the becoming hysterical. One leaving custody can access unit at Holloway was closed MoJ Report: officer claimed that he spent support services tinyurl.com/zu8ad24 in 2013. In 2015 there were a whole night tearing at the immediately. Prison officer numbers - urgent need top of his head because he thought he had nits. Scottish Justice Secretary for action Michael Matheson said; In his Annual Report for “Recorded crime is at its Ministry of Justice figures show that despite prisoner 2014-2015, Chief Inspector of © Fotolia.com lowest level in 41 years, but numbers continuing to rise, along with assaults, self-harm Prisons, Nick Harwick, public safety is still our key and suicides, the number of staff is still actually falling. In priority. This law is proof of warned that rising use of the December 2015 there were just 16,720 prison officer grades, MoJ lifts threat to families our commitment to keep ‘legal highs’ was fuelling a 180 less than in June 2015 despite repeated reassurances that communities safe and the MoJ were recruiting 1,700 more staff. Many prisons now rapid increase in the levels over social media reduce the likelihood of have continuously ongoing restricted regimes. of violence in prisons. In December 2015, the MoJ laws stopping families doing prisoners reoffending … added a threat to prisoners’ this. After a campaign by This law is part of our aim to families on its ‘Keeping in Alex Cavendish @PrisonUK achieve a more balanced See touch’ webpage stating that the Ministry backed down justice system in Scotland, families must not contribute and removed the warning. protecting our communities page 45 to or update social media The government can close from serious offenders while • Criminal Defence and Appeals sites, such as Twitter or down sites up-dated by those at the lower of the Specialising in all areas of criminal law, from minor Facebook, on a prisoner’s prisoners with illicit phones scale receive communi- offences to serious crimes - Murder, Fraud, behalf. This was problemat- but not sites managed by THE PRISON Conspiracy to Defraud, Confiscation Proceedings ic for the MoJ as there are no prisoners’ families and friends. ty-based alternatives with Appeals, Variation and Discharge of Restraint Order targeted support to address PHOENIX TRUST and Money Laundering Keeping in touch: www.tinyurl.com/zcnz8lh the underlying causes of • Immigration and Nationality Law Alex Cavendish: www.prisonuk.blogspot.co.uk their offending behaviour.” Head doing you in? Comprehensive solutions to immigration and British Stressed out? nationality issues. 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New Chair of Parole New prisons for women will look like flats and children Newsbites will be able to stay over, prison chief reveals l The Howard League have Board announced The Scottish Prison Service has decided not all prisoners from Cornton Vale will be published a new research to keep the name ‘Cornton Vale’ for the new moved to Polmont. briefing ‘The Cost of Prison State for Justice does not women’s prison it is building on the site. It is Suicide’ that shows the deliver sentencing reform.” an attempt to escape from the bad image the As part of their plans there will also be at old prison had; which, in 2009, the then least five new custodial units which will look financial cost of suicides in Nick Hardwick has had a Scottish Chief Inspector of Prisons Hugh more like flats; without high walls and prison is up to £300million number of senior positions Monro called ‘a prison in crisis’, with cold barbed wire and house about 20 women each year. In January the MoJ including being a member of meals, little activity and two hour waits to each. Rhona Hotchkiss, governor of HMP published statistics that the Parole Board Serious use a toilet. Cornton Vale said female prisoners housed showed deaths by suicide had Case Review Committee in the new custodial units would do their risen 46% in the last 3 years. (2010-15), Chair of the The new prison will hold 80 women serving own cooking and laundry and could be free Housing Ombudsman sentences of over four years; although it is to come and go to local leisure facilities such Download Report: Service (2010-2013), expected that other women including as gyms, or to attend work placements. They tinyurl.com/gvofxuy Executive Chair of the remand prisoners will still be held there. would be designed around the needs of Independent Police The Scottish Prison Service said; ‘The idea women who have suffered trauma and to © prisonimage.org l A bomb blew a hole in a Complaints Commission behind the new prison is that it will, as much promote good family contact with each unit Brazilian prison wall allowing (2003-10) and Chief as possible, mimic domestic living condi- having a mother and child area where Former Chief Inspector of Executive of the British tions.’ It is due to open in 2020. This summer children could visit and stay overnight. over 50 prisoners to escape. Prisons, Nick Hardwick, is to Refugee Council (1995 to A man was seen leaving a take over as the new chair of 2003). He also has a part package by the wall before the Parole Board when the time role as Professor of More than 10.35 million people imprisoned the explosion. The Prison current chair, Sir David Criminal Justice, School of Calvert-Smith leaves at the Guards Union had warned of Law, Royal Holloway around the world a possible escape; they say end of March. His three year University of London. contract was awarded after a A new report published by the Institute for national population is Seychelles (799 per that, due to cutbacks, the state of Pernambuco has only rigorous ‘recruitment Whilst Chief Inspector of Criminal Policy Research shows that more 100,000), closely followed by USA with 698. 1,500 prison guards instead exercise’. Prisons he produced some than 10.35 million people are held in prisons England imprisons around 148 per 100,000 damning reports on the state across the world. If people held in detention and ranks joint 120/220 with Serbia. of 5,000 and prisons are run Andrew Neilson, Director of of prisons in England and centres in China and in prison camps in North Scotland ranks 111/220 with 139 prisoners by electing prisoners to act as Campaigns at the Howard Wales whilst allegedly Korea are included the figure tops eleven million. per 100,000 population. guards. The Frei Damiao League for Penal Reform, fending off pressure from Bozanno Prison is severely told Inside Time; “We former Justice Secretary The USA holds the most prisoners at overcrowded holding four welcome the appointment of 2,217,000 of which over 20% are untried Chris Grayling to modify times more prisoners than it Nick Hardwick, who has (remand) and nearly 10% are female. The reports and from civil was built for. “It’s a little less been an impressive and servants who wanted to USA has 4,575 prisons at a cost of around effective Chief Inspector of $80billion. The US prison system is 103% overcrowded now,” mused an control his budgets. Chris onlooker. Prisons - but he will have his Grayling declined to renew overcrowded. Second is China (1.65 million) work cut out at the Parole Hardwick’s contract as Chief and then Russia (640 million). The country l The Sentencing Council Board if the Secretary of Inspector from January 2016. with the highest prison population per have announced consulta- Have they found Tess of the d’Urbavilles at HMP Dorchester? Prisoners tions to encourage defend- ants to plead guilty by USA Archaeologists working at the closed down inspiring the fate of Tess in his book ‘Tess of offering massive reductions 2.22 million HMP Dorchester preparing the site for a the d’Urbavilles’. He later wrote of his shame Female prisoners and their children await food to sentences: donations at Prey Sar Prison in Cambodia housing development have found human at attending, putting it down to his youthful- China One-third for a defendant bones including a skull. ness. He described the hanging; “I remember 1.68 million who offers a guilty plea the what a fine figure she showed against the sky There are considerable differences in prison Russia population trends between the continents, first time he or she is asked in The developer commissioned an archaeolog- as she hung in the misty rain, and how the 646,085 and variation within continents. In the a court; ical survey which found the remains outside tight black silk gown set off her shape as she Americas, the prison population has increased One-fifth to someone who of consecrated ground – where convicted wheeled half-round and back.” England by 14% in the USA, by over 80% in central pleads guilty at a later murderers might be buried. There is specula- & Wales American countries and by 145% in south opportunity but before the tion that the bones could belong to a 16 A spokesperson for Cotswold Archaeology, 85,461 American countries. In Europe, by contrast, first day of the trial; year-old girl called Martha Brown who was which carried out the survey, said; “At this Norway the total prison population has decreased by publicly hanged there in August 1856 for stage, it is not possible to determine whether One-tenth for anyone who 3,710 21%. The total female prison population total murdering her husband. the remains are male or female, as the changes to a guilty plea on has increased by 50% since about 2000. remains have not been removed for record- Finland day one of their trial; The novelist Thomas Hardy witnessed the ing or analysis.” After recording and 3,105 Zero for any defendant who hanging, along with a crowd of about 4,000, assessing any remains found at the site they Iceland The full report can be downloaded from: pleads guilty part-way and it made a lasting impact on him will be reinterred elsewhere. 147 prisonstudies.org/world-prison-brief through a trial.

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l Wrexham’s new prison will be named HMP BERWYN. The other contenders were Bridgeway, Marcher, Cerrig Tan, Dee Vale and Whittlesham. In a close run decision Berwyn, named after a local mountain range, beat Inside Time’s prediction of Cerrig Tan by a nose. The man charged with governing the © Fotolia.com new prison, Russ Trent welcomed the chosen name. Dental services criticised “I’m personally delighted with the name because I feel it by Maidstone IMB reflects an important part of Welsh culture and we will be HMP Maidstone’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) has able to incorporate the name recently published its 2014-15 report on the prison and found well into the physical serious problems with healthcare. Although things are environment inside the prison.” improving the IMB say that the governor had to meet with The Duchess of Cornwall, Patron of the National Literacy Trust, visited HMP Brixton in the head of Oxleas Trust (healthcare provider) because of l Two spent bullet casings February to learn more about its rehabilitation programmes. She joined a ‘Books Unlocked’ on-going problems. There had been no dental service offered were found at HMP Littlehey reading group, an initiative funded by the Booker Prize Foundation to help prisoners increase with some prisoners waiting over a year for treatment. When last month in the pocket of a their enjoyment and frequency of reading, and toured the prison visiting the Bounce Back the report was prepared there were 180 prisoners on the jacket sent to their recycling charity workshop that trains prisoners in construction skills. Whilst she was there she also waiting list; one third of the prison population. sorting workshop. A prisoner stopped off for a cup of tea at The Clink restaurant. found the cases and handed Prison Inspectors were at Maidstone in August 2015 and noted them to a supervisor. The that the healthcare centre needed refurbishment and some areas Prison Service says they were New mother takes her failed with infection control; they commented that the waiting quickly removed and there list was now down to 58 with seven week’s waiting. When asked was not a threat to security. own life in Low Newton 71% of prisoners responding to the Inspector’s questionnaire Last July an imitation gun was said it was difficult or very difficult to see the dentist. The Ministry of Justice are investigating the found at the recycling death of a lady in HMP Low Newton who HMP Maidstone is a category C prison which holds up to 600 workshop at HMP Highpoint hanged herself just six days after giving foreign national prisoners and is run by the Prison Service. and in September last year a birth to a baby girl and shortly after being Healthcare is run by NHS Oxleas Foundation Trust and the BB gun and a live bullet were taken off suicide watch. Her partner says that prison has no in-patient accommodation. found in the same workshop. officers told her that her baby would be taken away and she was told she would never see l 6th March is National Dentist Day HMP Bronzefield is using her again. He said that she became increas- shire horses as a type of ingly distressed in the hours before her The IMB report can be downloaded at: tinyurl.com/ Dovegate prisoners’ art alternative therapy for death and told staff she was planning to jnpmzph The Inspection report can be downloaded at: women with drink and drugs expertise showcased harm herself but was not put back on watch. tinyurl.com/zxe7soq problems. The £300,000 scheme is being funded by Twelve paintings created by prisoners at Dovegate ‘overcrowded Pride of Onley Awards the Royal Parks Foundation. Dovegate were recently handed over to Bronzefield is managed by Staffordshire’s High Sheriff Johnny Leavesley and violent’ say IMB On the 15th December 2015, HMP Onley held an award Sodexo and was the first at a ceremony at Burton’s Brewhouse Gallery. ceremony to celebrate the exemplary achievements of some prison purpose built for They were personally commissioned by Mr In their latest report Dovegate IMB reported of its prisoners. The Pride of Onley Awards was an initiative women. It can hold just over Leavesley and will be donated to justice that the Therapeutic Community section of promoted by the Prisoners’ Council to recognise the achieve- 527 women in a range of establishments across the county. the prison is underused but elsewhere the ments and good work of prisoners. Nominations were by staff categories from remand to prison is overcrowded with cells designed for from all departments and the general prisoner population. life sentenced. “The quality of the work prisoners have one prisoner doubled up. Violence has There was a lot of enthusiasm about the event around the produced is nothing short of fantastic,” said increased and in March 2015 a ‘Tornado’ prison and demonstrated the good working relationship that l HMP Dumfries prisoners Mr Leavesley, “and I’m delighted their team was called in to deal with an ‘incident’. exists between the prison’s staff and prisoners. have been employed to chop talents are about to be recognised more Other concerns mentioned by the IMB include up old wooden pallets for widely across the county. Dovegate’s art the ‘deplorable’ state of healthcare waiting The categories for nominations were; elderly people to burn to project has demonstrated the inspiring effect rooms and problems with Segregation • Motivation to Change Award: An offender who has made keep warm. The Scottish painting can have on these prisoners and I Reviews. There are severe staff shortages important steps to improve their prospects, made the most of Prison Service says; “This type am pleased to be able to draw attention to which impact across the prison; however the the opportunities during their time at Onley and has been an of work is ideal for HMP their efforts by showcasing their work.” Board continue to be ‘impressed by the asset to others. Dumfries to provide learning dedication of the prison staff in looking after, • Change of Behaviour Award: An offender who has made and employment skills to and caring for, a large prison population.’ progressive strides forward in addressing their behaviour prisoners within custody.” over a sustained period. Is there something • Changing Lives Award: Someone who has positively l South Derbyshire MP Delayed medication engaged with services, addressed substance misuse issues Heather Wheeler has praised and has had a period of abstinence. work done by Citizens Advice newsworthy sparks jam fire • Act of Kindness Award: An offender who has helped South Derbyshire in HMPs A prisoner at HMP Perth started a fire in his someone to overcome the challenges of disability, illness and Foston Hall and Sudbury. going on at cell using miniature pots of jam because he has been a source of support. Speaking in Parliament she was angry at delays in sorting his medication. • Peer Supporter of the Year Award: A member of the team said; “ There is advice for your prison? He had recently been moved to the prison who has made valuable contributions to their team’s work those who are leaving; they and was told he could not have his medica- and those that they support. have been given tools to help tion until he had been freshly assessed by them not only with numeracy, the doctor at the prison. In two hours the The winners were; (Change of Behaviour), Mr Richard Barry but so they are better equipped prisoner damaged two cells. The fire was not (Peer Supporter of the Year), Mr Mukeras Sanduku Mr Dean for reading and writing and to serious but the Fire Brigade had to be called. Springett (Motivation to Change), Mr Omar Suleman (Act of Then write to: cope with financial pressures ‘Newsround’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Last month Inside Time reported on a new Random Kindness). when they come out of prison.” Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB computerised system of medical records which should prevent such problems when Total UK prison population approximately 95,340 and let us know! transfers between prisons cause serious interruptions to vital medication. Insidetime March 2016 www.insidetime.org Newsround // Do you know? 13

l One of Britain’s most celebrated play- l David Bowie has become Do you know? wrights he may be, but there are gaping holes the first artist to knock in the life story of William Shakespeare. For themselves off the top of the UK chart in nearly 6 example, there is no record of what he was years, as his Best Of Bowie doing between 1585 and 1592. Historians have compilation - originally speculated he was teaching or maybe part of released in 2002 - has replaced a touring acting troupe making its way his final studio through Europe. The Times Blackstar at number one. Sky

l EasyJet founder Sir Stelios l A man in Florida is facing charges of Haji-Ioannou’s budget food aggravated assault after throwing an store, which charges just 25p alligator into a fast-food restaurant. Joshua each for everyday groceries, James, 23, has been accused of tossing the has been forced to close live animal through a drive-thru window at a temporarily after less than Wendy’s restaurant. His mother reportedly two days as it has run out of said he wanted to play a practical joke on his © Fotolia.com l David Bellis of Prestatyn, Wales, took a photo of himself stock. The store appears to friend, who worked at the place. The animal and his three year-old son Jacob - along with a ‘photobomb- have captured the imagina- was captured and released back into the l ing’ horse - while walking along a public path near their tion of shoppers as a step on wild. BBC Britons spend more time using technology home in January. He later submitted it to a ‘selfie competition’ from the fast-growing devices than they do sleeping. UK adults being run by Thomson Holidays, and won a £2,000 holiday. German discounters Aldi and l In studies of over a thousand rulings from spend an average of eight hours and 41 However, he’s now been told that the horse’s owner, Nicola Lidl, which have forced different judges, they found that prisoners minutes a day on media devices. Three Mitchell, is contacting Thomson Holidays to complain that major supermarket chains were three times more likely to be granted quarters of eighteen to twenty-four year-olds she hadn’t granted permission for her animal to be photo- such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s parole just after lunch, when board members say that they reach for their phones immedi- graphed. He’s also received messages from Mitchell’s friends and Morrisons to close stores were well fed, than just before lunch when ately upon waking up in the morning. Once describing his actions as ‘shameful & stupid’ and demanding and cut prices. they were hungry. If brains are low on energy out of bed, we check our phones 221 times a he hand over a share of the winnings. A spokesman for EasyFoodstore sells a range it directly affects the prefrontal cortex, the day - an average of every 4.3 minutes. Our Thomson Holidays said: “Our Blue Monday competition was of just 76 grocery items core of decision making. Humans can be transformation into device people has meant to make people smile on what's been deemed the most including pasta, biscuits and rational decision makers, but only when happened with unprecedented suddenness. depressing day of the year and we're sorry to hear if it's beans, all at 25p. It does not they’re well fed. Even the court system can be The first touchscreen operated iPhones went caused any upset with the horse's reported owners.” sell fresh meat or fruit and hijacked by the basic chemistry of our bodies. on sale in June 2007, followed by the first The Telegraph vegetables. The Brain with David Eagleman BBC4 Android-powered phones the following year. Smartphones went from 10 percent to 40 l More than half of the top 30 highest-earning football clubs l Lord Lucan is said to have percent market penetration faster than any in the world play in the Premier League - but Spanish sides gambled away the £7m other consumer technology in history. Yet Real Madrid and Barcelona lead the way. Real Madrid family fortune at various today, not carrying a smartphone indicates retained their place at the summit of the Deloitte Football West End clubs before eccentricity, social marginalization, or old Money League for the 11th year in a row, having generated carrying out murder and age. The Loop £439million. There were nine premier league clubs in the top disappearing. Although he 20 and another eight among the next ten teams just outside would be in his 80s now, l Bristol has been named as the best city in the top 20. BBC some people still maintain the UK to live in, thanks to its “great he did escape the country shopping, great scenery and great social l Findus Crispy Pancakes are to become the l The number of violent l 15 of the world’s 16 alive and has been living in scene”. The accolade was awarded in the latest victim of the horsemeat scandal amid crimes committed in warmest years on record Africa, or India or South second instalment of the Sunday Times’ Best company plans to ditch the brand after 50 England and Wales has risen have occurred since 2001. In America. Places to Live in Britain. BBC years. The iconic Findus name will disappear by 37%, according to figures 2015, global temperatures from supermarket aisles under a rebranding from the Office for National rose to hit a new peak. Metro l A G4S security guard was fired from his job l Lotto loser Susanne Hinte exercise. It comes after its frozen lasagne was Statistics. Homicides at a Job Centre after he was caught branding could be heading for the Big found to contain up to 100 per cent horse- increased by 14% in the year job seekers all sorts of terrible things on Brother house. The mum-of- meat instead of beef during the scandal three to September 2015, fuelled Facebook. Paul Wheeler likened people two, who shot to the nation’s years ago. Young’s Seafood, which has owned by a 9% hike in knife crime coming through the doors to ‘Jabba The Hut’ attention after making a the Findus brand in the UK to date, will cease and a 4% rise in gun crime, and described them as smelling of ‘stale piss’ false claim for the £33 using the label from the spring. The Grocer largely attributed to gang also calling the unemployed ‘ shambling, million jackpot, could be violence in London and uncommunicative, braindead zombies’. The starring on the popular TV l The first book Amazon sold was in July 1995. Manchester. Police said the Lad Bible reality show. The German It had the catchy title Fluid Concepts & Creative rise was partly down to grandmother, who claimed l Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental improved recording of crime. A cannabis grower has been spared from she’d put her ‘winning’ Mechanisms of Thought. Business Insider Daily Express prison because he was so bad at it. The judge ticket through the wash in a and prosecutor and even his lawyer all pair of jeans, has denied agreed that Joshua Hughes’s 40 cannabis trying to cheat. Her mangled plants were too puny to ever be worth stub showed the winning l Broadcaster Sir David harvesting. The 20-year-old from Stockton numbers but was missing Attenborough was initially paid £200 for the growing kit and he tended the crucial barcode and date. kept behind the camera them every day. But police photographs of Camelot then announced the because his teeth were them at his rented flat failed to impress the real second winner of half considered too large, he tells Recorder of Middlesbrough, Judge Simon the £66 million jackpot had the Sunday Telegraph. He Bourne-Arton QC, who said: “Well, I’m not finally been in contact. reveals a memo which read: going to say that it was a commercial grow”. Meanwhile she faces two “Attenborough is an Duncan McReddie, defending, said ‘one lot of trials next month for theft intelligent young man and plants died, and he tried to get some and motoring offences. She I’m delighted to have him as chemicals to feed the rest. He had neither the has also been accused of a trainee producer but he wit, expertise or dedication to maintain the stealing a purse and an Xbox should not be used as an growth. It was an inept attempt to cultivate controller. The Mirror interviewer again because for his own use.’ Judge Simon Bourne-Arton his teeth are too big.” Sunday l Spider-Man could not do whatever a spider can, latest research indicates. In QC, said: “This was an incompetent grow l Ever wondered what the Telegraph a blow to fans of the web-slinging superhero, scientists have found the sticky from start to finish.. You may have had high theme tune is to Top Gear? footpads that make spiders, tree frogs and geckos such adept climbers are expectations and high ideas, but anyone who It’s Jessica by The Allman restricted by body size. Far from arriving at the scene of a crime just in time, l In the 87 years the Oscars seeks to produce cannabis will risk a Brothers. The seven-minute the friendly-neighbourhood crusader would struggle to scale a bungalow let has given out awards, there sentence of imprisonment. I am suspending instrumental, from their alone a skyscraper. Researchers calculate a person would need sticky pads have been only 32 African- it because of your early guilty plea, lack of album Brothers and Sisters, covering 40% of their body to climb buildings like the comic book character. American winners out of previous convictions and incompetence.” was a hit for the group in Daily Mail 2,900 candidates. Esquire Gazette Live 1973. Dave 14 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime March 2016

route towards going back inside. So it’s up to us to provide that route to work for them, encouraging employ- There but for the grace of God… ers to select without reference to all past offences. We must be bravely Shepton Mallet Prison. In prepara- treats those who have fallen foul of progressive if we are to truly both tion, I talked to former prisoners. I its laws. help ex prisoners and lift up the so- listened to their stories of the cir- ciety we all inhabit. cumstances which led to them being Certainly at no time and in no other incarcerated, in one case for 32 area will the state have such a direct Thank goodness, last august the years. But though I stayed in the infl uence over the lives of its citizens Government brought in mandatory prison overnight just to raise money as with those who are in its care, and assessment of maths and English for for charity, they had to stay for many it’s at that moment that the redemp- all newly arrived prisoners. This, years because - in many cases - their tive power of education and work can combined with giving prison gover- backgrounds rather dictated it to be the real arteries of rehabilitation, nors more control over their own them. taking root and lift ing people free. prisons, with full autonomy over how they use their budgets, offers Some years ago, I taught in a failing It’s through work hope to those of us who see educa- comprehensive school in central tion as a transformational force London, marked down at the time by and education that within our prisons. Ofsted for closure. A large propor- they can begin to see tion of the children came from So I hope that the plans for a new © prisonimage.org homes where one - or both - of their beyond the confi nes of social enterprise which will develop parents were either locked away or the prison schemes to transform prisons into David Warburton MP committed unpardonable crimes spent time repeatedly in and out of places of rehabilitation, where pris- which, to the rest of us, remain hap- prison. For us, as teachers, helping oners can indeed be assets rather David Cameron’s recent speech on pily unimaginable. But the great ma- them up and out of their situation Shockingly, almost half of those in than liabilities, is music to your ears prisons was the first dedicated jority have not done so. Most have was immensely hard - no matter how prison were expelled or otherwise as much as mine. I also hope that the speech on that subject by a British bumbled along, leading largely able or talented, no matter how excluded from education. But, £1.3 billion investment in modernis- Prime Minster in more than 20 years. blameless lives. bright and intelligent they were. So though prisoners are removed from ing the prison estate can really shift And in it, I’m delighted to say, he how do we break the chain of prison society, they do not stop being a part it away from its Dickensian infra- backed up the views of the Lord It’s true that most people face life’s dependency? of it. And it’s through work and edu- structure and towards a transforma- Chancellor, calling for wholesale frustrations without acting too reck- cation that they can begin to see be- tive future. prison reform and naming it one of lessly. They’re a picture of modera- A little while ago I spoke in the yond the confines of the prison. the “great progressive causes” of tion and care. A model of clear think- House of Commons about how edu- Having met employers who hire And, above all, I hope that the re- British politics. ing, sober, rationality. And that may cation and work must form the back- ex-off enders, I can tell you that they newed focus on those crucial tools - be true, but it’s also not fair. Because bone of the prison system. Yes, I regularly talk about a higher than education and work - as tools of re- Yes, there will be those amongst us the likelihood is that they, like me, said, of course prison must be about average level of commitment and demption and rehabilitation, really who have done dreadful things. I have had a relatively easy ride. punishment and the protection of loyalty. And, on the other hand, can break the cycle, open the doors would go so far as to say that, in all the public, but we must also remem- ex-offenders who lie idle because to the future and smash the prison probability, a handful of people I spent a haunting 24 hours recently ber that there is perhaps no greater their record means they have no bars. Because there, but by the grace reading these words will have in the dark of a Victorian cell in test of a civilisation than how it clear route to work are on a clear of God, go we all.

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ceased to be fit for purpose sentence for public given custodial sentences to decades ago when failing to protection). serve part of it in the commu- recognise its limitations and nity. A contradiction? Hardly, when not accepting the eff ec- Although finally rescinded not when confi nement takes tiveness of non-custodial the devastating consequences the form of house arrest. This alternatives. of this ill-thought legislation form of personal loss of liber- remain. For there’s over 4,000 ty is alien to this country but It was the avuncular cigar prisoners still being held in- commonplace in many others. smoking, jazz loving Kenneth definitely, with many way For it eff ectively turns a con- Clarke who as Justice Minister past their tariff date. victed person’s home into a sought to face the realities of prison. To some people this prison overcrowding, describ- Amongst these IPPs are many lacks the degree of punish- ing it as “astonishing...unsus- “historic sex crimes” commit- ment which is the basis of tainable...a waste of money”. ted by people for whom the imprisonment - that you go to In 2012 Cameron sacked ravages of time have now prison as punishment, not for Clarke and banned any taken their toil. Most could be punishment. changes in that direction and safely released without fear of instead toughened knife them reoff ending, resulting in House arrest would be a 24- crimes penalties. He also dou- a signifi cant easing of prison hour, seven day a week entity. bled the number of jailed pen- overcrowding. Admittedly, medical emer- sioners, with almost half in- gencies would permit a return side for “historic sex crimes” to normal interaction with © Fotolia.com that they are most unlikely to it effectively repeat. Overall the rise in the society, just as happens pres- prison population has been turns a convicted ently whenever a prisoner uniform staff . Cramming more driven mainly by the length needs hospital treatment. and more people into cells person’s home into of sentences that have been Being confi ned to house arrest Planned prison designed for single occupancy wouldn’t be possible for increased on average by a a prison. To some exacerbated the already high- third. everyone: there’s questions as ly volatile levels of tension people this lacks to who shares the house most prisoners experience There’s a belief they could be the degree of (spouse, child(ren), partner, reforms come when losing their freedom safety reduced to the level relatives). House arrest is usu- and placed in an alien punishment which they were when Margaret ally associated with totalitar- environment. Thatcher was Prime Minister. is the basis of ian regimes, but the form used up with wrong Yet is was under her that her in Canada could act as a And with fewer front line of- oxymoronic “care in the com- imprisonment model when ironing out prac- fi cers available prison man- munity” policy was intro- tical obstacles. House arrest agers have had little choice duced, leading to the closure So what’s to stop this happen- would be a logical extension but to keep inmates locked in answers of many low and medium se- ing? Is it fear of the new or of curfews powers already their cells for even longer pe- cure mental institutions. simply inertia - a lack of will regularly imposed by the riods, sometimes up to 23 These were places which ef- to go down a radical route courts, with breaches result- hours a day. In these circum- Today’s immediate problem fectively looked aft er the men- which would at the same time ing in imprisonment. stances how can there be any tally ill, drug addicts and al- ensure tangible immediate realistic chance of providing of prison overcrowding could coholics. Instead they now results? Cameron says it’s for Prison is the most expensive the majority of prisoners with end-up where adequate treat- the courts to impose sentenc- possible way to respond to education, training or reha- be solved by house arrest ment is least available - in es. But he knows it’s solely for criminality, and should be bilitation (such as off ending prison. parliament to determine absolutely the last resort es- behaviour courses)? John O’Connor overcrowding impacts disas- them. So now’s the time to pecially when protecting the trously on all aspects of pris- Undoubtedly the overall replace rhetoric with action community from violence in It was the oleaginous former on life cannot be lengthening of sentences con- when introducing legislation all its form - physical or psy- Home Secretary Michael Despite the Prime Minister’s underestimated. tributed signifi cantly to pris- allowing for new ways of en- chological. It is reported that Howard who famously much welcome plans for pris- on overcrowding. Yet when suring public safety while Mr Cameron wants his pro- claimed “prison works”. But on reform, with the emphasis Over the past 20 years the announcing his new prison ensuring the necessary ele- posed prison reforms to be only a politician could make on education and rehabilita- prison population has dou- reforms last month Mr ment of punishment and among his political legacies. such a claim when facts defy tion, missing from them is any bled yet there has been no Cameron laid the blame for such an assertion. In truth an deterrence. Let him introduce house ar- immediate answer to the commensurate increase in sentence inflation on the increasing number of short- rest to ease prison overcrowd- major cause of today’s prob- resources. Instead of match- courts. But the courts will term prisoners now emerge It’s now generally agreed that ing and history will be his lems - prison overcrowding. ing these growing numbers of only impose sentences which only to reoffend within 12 this can also be achieved judge. For without doubt this is the prisoners, staffi ng levels re- have been determined by par- months. But there’s nothing oft en more eff ectively without elephant in the room which mained the same but over the liament whose lawmaking a custodial sentence. But to past few years cost-cutting magic in this merry rounda- needs to be acknowledged for MPs are responsible for one of ensure the necessary degree measures resulted in dramatic bout. It simply confi rms the the devastating harm it cre- the major causes of over- of radicalism, thought must John O’Connor is a former reductions in the number of futility of a penal policy which ates. And the extent to which crowding - IPP (indeterminate be given to allowing those prisoner

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HMP Wandsworth and join the men Meet-our-readers mission watching a film made of the event. A week or two later I was back in Month by Month (The film will be shown in all five Wandsworth with Erwin James, prisons participating in the Inside Time’s new editor. We were on programme.) a meet-our-readers mission and, yes, By Rachel Billington our destination was the library as Once again I found myself in the li- well as Radio Wanno’s office. We brary (What would prisons do with- were welcomed by Governor Ian out libraries? But that’s another Bicker and by Dom Ceglowski who story…) There was something surreal was our escort round the prison. about watching men watching a film about their work from inside prison Although I sometimes joke about our when I’d already seen it outside. I readers being a ‘captive audience’, suppose it made the division between the truth is that no-one has to pick inside and outside seem both huge up the paper, so we’re always keen and also very narrow. But I’d need to to find out what we’re doing right and be a philosopher to work that one out. how we can improve. The letters pages seem to be the first port of call for most of you, with a particular in- terest in answers given by NOMS or Probation or elsewhere to sticky pris- on questions. So that’s one note: more answers needed.

Others liked legal question and an- swer and games and competitions. The enthusiastic audience at the Wandsworth has a high proportion Full Circle poetry event ‘My Search of foreign nationals so there was a for Meaning’ call for articles about issues that par- ticularly relate to their situation. Others like to hear about individual I can say it was a happy occasion with stories of prison experiences. The one comment from the audience to difficulties of getting hold of the Femi which summed up the general paper was raised, with a plea to get attitude: ‘Why aren’t there more like the paper out of the library and onto you!’ Many of the men who were on the wings where it is easier to access. the course which led to the outside Like so much else in prisons this event were present, including Joseph problem will be hard to solve while and Jean-Marie whose poems were University of Westminster students fresh out of Pentonville staffing levels remain low and over- read out. Also watching was Jasmine, crowding high. who had been a reader during the Prisoners studying with students ex-prisoner from Pentonville - which It certainly seemed that the strongest outside event and now became part makes a point in itself. The discus- benefit of this project is to the univer- of the audience. The enthusiasm of Inside Time was Halfway through February I was in- sion turned on different sorts of pun- sity students who are confronted with the outside audience obviously vited along to HMP Pentonville for founded to be the voice ishment and how prison inflicts a the realities of prison life. On the other amazed and touched Joseph and the third session of a six week course heavy psychological punishment hand, the men inside are expected to Jean-Marie who said he felt ‘humbled’ of the prisoner and in to bring together students studying which, according to some in the au- study the issues objectively and are by the reaction. Joseph said it felt very criminology. Nothing odd in that, I order to fulfil that aim, dience, they’d swap for fifty lashes. given the textbook ‘Prisons and ‘strange’ and he felt proud too. What suppose. You could say all prisoners One insider, Mus, pointed out that Punishment’ by David Scott and Nick he really wanted to know was why are students of criminology. But in we need regular contri- ‘prison extends much further than Flynn. At the end of the course they will people should be interested? It was this case ten of the students were the prisoner’. The punishment inflict- get a certificate of attendance from a good question which Femi strug- butions from serving or from the University of Westminster ed on prisoners’ families was agreed Westminster University and a joint gled to answer, suggesting that it was and twelve from inside the prison. ex-prisoners. So get out by all, along with a feeling that pris- graduation ceremony will take place perhaps ‘the mystery of prisons’ that ons are considered ‘humane’ by those in March. The organiser of all this, made some people want to know more. your pens and send us The plan goes like this: ‘The students outside, who know little about them Jose Aguiar (pictured above back row, have to read articles, listen to lec- your thoughts. because they are protecting their be- second right), who is no slouch when tures, participate in small group dis- lief in their own good behaviour. The it comes to symbolism, is trying to get cussions and eventually write an unreal perception of ‘holiday camps’ hats and gowns from the university A man after my own heart said that essay that integrates new theoretical enables ignorant citizens to feel both to make it a more solemn occasion. he liked hearing ‘good points about knowledge with personal experience justice and humanity is being served. what’s happening in prison.’ There on the course.’ For those of you who may be interest- is never going to be a shortage of bad Andy hopes that this project will help ed in this kind of learning, similar news stories but there are some good I came off the street with the ‘outside carry the truth about prisons into courses are running in quite a number things too. Several men wanted more learners’ (see photo) and listened to academia and the wider world. He of prisons, including HMP Grendon football news which was interesting their initial impressions which added ‘We want to challenge existing with Cambridge University, HMP Styal as we’ve always thought our monthly ranged from ‘a kick in the face’ to ideology’ which is based on a ‘para- with Manchester University and HMP publication meant that football re- ‘unnerving at best’ and a heartfelt digm about risk not about education.’ Full Sutton with Leeds Beckett porting would be too out of date. But ‘prisons are not holiday camps.’ Certainly there was a very strong University. In April, Inside Time will clearly we must think of a way round Charlie was trying to match up the sense of engagement in the room so be running a piece by Helen Nichols that. I felt moved to share the news prison culture they’ve heard about that when we split into groups, there from HMP Full Sutton giving more that I’m a season ticket holder at over the years with the place in front were no silences. My group included information. Queens Park Rangers football club of their eyes and Olivia summed it up Danny, an inside learner who had which was met with a polite air of with ‘the men inside are learning told me earlier that both staff and Poetry comes Full Circle disbelief. about criminology and we’re learning prisoners were very interested and about prisons.’ In Inside Time’s February issue I wrote supportive of the project. He gave Erwin and I were also keen to encour- about an extraordinary event organ- outside learners Charlie and Coral a Femi Martin speaking at ‘My age men to write for us, whether let- The session took place in ised by the Full Circle charity together couple of prison facts: firstly, in two Search for Meaning’ ters, poetry or articles. Inside Time Pentonville’s large library and soon with English PEN when poetry written years, despite all his efforts, he’d had was founded to be the voice of the became animated with the inside by prisoners was read to a huge en- no contact from his probation officer Full Circle should be running another prisoner and in order to fulfil that learners quicker to make their points thusiastic audience. Most unusually, and secondly, that very morning he’d course in the autumn with an invita- aim, we need regular contributions than their visitors. The lecturer from the voices of the poets were heard had to wheel a sick prisoner, now in tion to showcase during the Koestler from serving or ex-prisoners. So get Westminster University, Dr. Andy during the performance. A few weeks hospital, on an office chair to the sick exhibition at the Southbank Centre. out your pens and send us your Aresti, is not only a Senior Lecturer later I was invited by Full Circle’s di- bay because there was no wheelchair As one of the audience said, ‘What’s thoughts. You’ll find the address on in Criminology but also an rector, Femi Martin, to go with her into available. wrong with Wembley?’ the inside of the first page of the paper. Insidetime March 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 17 I’m new here... Is this your fi rst time in prison? If it is then you are going to have to learn a few things...

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In last month’s issue I set out to explain a few There are many schemes in prison that teach Our man on the inside tells it like it is issues you are likely to encounter on entering you or encourage you to write, but don’t be Sid Arter debts and the once friendly Are we that second frog, fail- prison for the fi rst time. So now let me tell you fooled into thinking you can write about any- inmates keen to lend started ing to notice that we are being more… thing you like. I am training to be a freelance journalist but even though they allow it, the putting the squeeze on him. boiled alive? For example, do He found himself having to do we realise the damage to our As a new prisoner let me just tell you that your prison service do not like it. They particularly Cooking don’t like it when you write about prison and favours for these ‘friends’; fa- lungs by smoking until they fellow prisoners will not be the cause of most are seriously damaged, or the prison life. They really do not want the public vours that put him at risk and of the problems and frustrations you will face, long term eff ect stress is hav- to know what goes on behind the walls and frogs he became frightened of leav- this will be down to a minority of staff in every ing on us when we first feel gates. ing his cell because he was in prison who believe it is their duty to make your Jake arrived on the wing with debt to so many people. If only under pressure, or the mess life diffi cult. My advice is get to know the rules, his ‘welcome pack’ of tobacco life gets into from using illegal There have been a few documentaries about he hadn’t started borrowing both national prison rules and local rules. If and within 24 hours had in the fi rst place. So what has narcotics or ‘spice’ at the out- prison life, but what they are allowed to show smoked it all! Desperate for you try getting an actual copy of the rules from this to do with cooking frogs; set, or the impact of debt upon is the sanitised version of it. Real prison life is more tobacco before he got his most staff you will be fi ghting a losing battle as we all know the food in prison us the first time we borrow rarely shown to the public, real prison is the canteen almost 2 weeks later they do not want you to know them. There was is not always the best there some ‘burn’? It is oft en only misery you will witness every day on this side he set about borrowing from a time when a copy of the prison rules could be can be despite the efforts of when our life habits and be- of the walls. other inmates and was sur- found in every cell, that is no longer the case, the staff working with small haviours have begun to ‘boil’ prised and delighted that a though staff and governors will still expect you budgets - but frogs on the us alive that we realise we Do not expect logic from the prison service. number were keen to lend. to know them as ignorance is no defence. menu! need to act and maybe by then Ever. I was asked by a magazine publisher to However, when his canteen it is too late. We rarely get write an article about PIPE (Psychologically did arrive he found he had to Best place to get a copy of the rules is from li- If you take a saucepan of water dropped straight into boiling pay back most of his newly brary staff as they are civilians. Library staff Informed Planned Environment) activity group. water and if we did we would acquired tobacco and was and bring it to the boil and usually work for the County Council and the This was cleared by our PIPE management; and soon jump out! It is never too soon back borrowing and such throw in a live frog - surprise, library is not just a book-lending service, they agreed by the outside organisation who oversee late to seek help if we feel we was his debt he was soon un- surprise it would jump straight will oft en off er to fi nd relevant information for this particular group. The article, once written, are being boiled alive - but able to buy teabags, biscuits out. However, if you put a frog was read by my Wing Managers and Off ender maybe we should think about you on Prison Service Orders (PSO’s) and and even phone credit as he in pan of cold water and place Supervisor. But then the prison press offi cer the consequences of our ac- Instructions (PSI’s). Sometimes they will also owed so much for tobacco. it on the heat - the frog will and security department sent it back to me tions in the long term in order off er activity sessions if you are lucky. Within a few months he was stay put as the water temper- requesting changes. I made the changes, that ature rises - until eventually it that we avoid being boiled was back in the summer last year and to date in so much debt that all his As far as the Prison Service is concerned you new canteen went on paying will be boiled alive! alive. are an ‘off ender’, no matter when it was that they have yet to send it to the publisher. The you last off ended. 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It is better that some in- nocent men remain in jail than that the integrity of the English judicial system be impugned.” The six - Hugh Callaghan, Patrick (Paddy) Joe In 1991 their second full appeal was allowed Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, with new evidence proving police fabrication William Power and John Walker were convicted and suppression of evidence, and that forensic in 1975 of the bombing of two Birmingham pubs ‘evidence’ was ‘demonstrably wrong’. The a year earlier. On 14th March 1991 their convic- Crown did not defend the appeals and the men tions were declared ‘unsafe and unsatisfactory’. were released after 16 and a half years. It was They were released and later awarded compen- stated at the appeal that 14 police officers lied sation ranging from £840,000 to £1.2million. or their evidence was unreliable. By this time The bombings at the Mulberry Bush and the one of the police officers involved was a super- Tavern in the Town killed 21 people and injured intendent in the complaints department of West 182. There was massive public outrage and Midlands Police. pressure on the police to ‘solve’ the crime quick- ly. Five of the Birmingham Six had left the city’s As a consequence of this case and other mis- New Street Station to attend a funeral in Belfast carriage of justice appeals a Royal Commission but were stopped en route by a Special Branch on Criminal Justice was set up in 1991; their Stop and Search team. As they were being investigations lasted two years and led to the searched the police heard about the bombings Criminal Appeals Act of 1995 which established in Birmingham and took the men to Morecambe the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) Police Station for forensic testing and then The Birmingham Six upon their release in 1991. Left to right: William Power, Richard McIlkenny, in 1997. transferred them into the custody of West John Walker, Chris Mullin MP, Gerry Hunter, Patrick Hill and Hugh Callaghan Midlands Serious Crime Squad. After his conviction was overturned and he was released, Paddy Hill set out to assist people forced statements were deemed admissible as was prevented from re-enacting parts who maintain they have been wrongfully con- While in the custody of the West Midlands evidence. There were conflicts between forensic of the original court case because it was ‘likely victed. His Organisation Police they were deprived of food & sleep and scientists as to whether any of the men had to undermine public confidence in the admin- (MOJO) is now a voluntary sector non-profit interrogated for up to 12 hours without a break; handled explosives with the prosecution sci- istration of justice’. making organisation and a registered charity. they were threatened and then police started entist 99% sure that Paddy Hill and Billy Power beating them. They were also subjected to a had, whereas an expert from the Royal Institute Lord Denning, who said that sentencing people mock execution. Four men eventually agreed of Chemistry and former HM Inspector of to death didn’t worry him a bit, argued that the to sign confessions but Paddy Hill and Gerry Explosives completely opposed that view. The six men should be stopped from challenging Hunter refused to sign. 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Fourteen prison officers were charged Over the next ten years or so there were a num- were guilty of perjury; that they were guilty of Error of Judgement: Truth about the with assaulting them but all were acquitted. ber of investigations by journalists and Chris violence and threats; that the confessions were Birmingham Bombings Later in 1977 the men made a civil claim against Mullin, (later a government minister) made the involuntary and improperly admitted in evi- by Chris Mullin (ISBN: 978-1853713651) but this was struck out first of several ‘World in Action’ documentaries dence; and that the convictions were erroneous. by Lord Denning. casting doubt on the convictions. He later wrote ... That was such an appalling vista that every Miscarriage of Justice Organisation (MOJO) a book ‘Error of Judgement: The Truth about sensible person would say, “It cannot be right 121-127 Saltmarket, G1 5LF Their trial started in June 1975 at which the the Birmingham Pub Bombings’. 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told him they were going to drop him; and you have to ‘Never ever give up’ understand, in respect to the six of us, Hughie Callaghan was only ever arrested once Paddy Joe Hill runs MOJO (Miscarriage of Justice in his life, that was in 1953 for being drunk and disor- Organisation). Speaking to Inside Time’s Paul Sullivan he derly celebrating the Queen’s recalls the events which led to his wrongful conviction, coronation and he was fined five shillings old money. his life sentence and his exoneration in March 1991 Johnny Walker was in a police station only once in Paul Sullivan: What did you He said, “Birmingham Police walked up those steps that his life when he came over think when you were first have put out an appeal for those were the last steps of from Ireland to England and stopped by the police? anyone who was around freedom I would have - until he went to a police station to about New Street Station to 16 ½ years later. get his army papers because Nothing. I was on the ferry and come forward.” he was on licence service. No I had already gone through Four of you signed false one had ever been in the security and was having a I got in the car and went down confessions. People might hands of the police, only me. pint when a policeman came to Morecombe Police Station be sceptical as to why men I’m the only one. I had been to me and told me the head and I got out of the car and might sign a false confes- in jail before, so I knew the of Maritime police, the head walked up into the police sion. How did the police score, but the others, the of ferry security, wanted to station on my own. And little achieve that with you? police turned round and told speak to me. When I went to did I realise, there’s two little us from the beginning see him he told me about the flights of steps there, and They hung Billy Powers out © Brian O’Neill - quote; “We know you Birmingham pub bombings. little did I realise when I of the third floor window and didn’t do the bombing, we Insidetime March 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment // Focus 19 don’t give a fuck who done respect of the Birmingham know if any disciplinary the Bridgewater Four. I’d most hated people in the the bombing, we’ve got you, Six ever arriving at Winson action was ever taken? been in a cell alongside prison system. And I can’t it keeps the public off our Green prison on Monday Jimmy Robinson for a forget that I was laying in gaffer’s back and our gaffer’s 25th November 1974. In respect of Richard number of years, and I that prison cell hoping off ours. We have to get McIlkenny’s notes there was promised him and others in somebody would get off their confessions and convictions For the next 16 years Paddy five police officers involved our position that when I got arse and help me, and I got and we are to use any means and the others fought in that. Three of them were out I would give them the the help in the end. So I that we have to get them. tirelessly to prove their there all the time but there first year of my life on their decided I would do what I Don’t worry we are covered innocence. Books were were two other officers who cases. The other thing was could for others in the all the way to the top. Whatever written about the case, most came and went. They were when I got out I was in touch position that I was in - and of happens in the future notably Error of Judgment by charged and went to court with the families and Anne course, it’s just carried on nothing will happen to us.” Chris Mullin. The men finally and remanded on bail and Wheelhan the mother of from there. Instead of doing walked free on 16th March 1991. they made about five or six Michael Hickey also from the it for a year I am still doing it He said, “now you can do it appearances in court over Bridgewater Four. twenty five years later. the easy way, the easy way is I asked Paddy: How did it the next 18 months or so. Paddy with Robert King from to sign the confession, we’ll feel when at last you Then the magistrate struck Last month the Minister of the Angola Three fill it in, don’t worry about walked down the steps of out their case on the State told Parliament that that, you can help us to fill it the Appeal Court? It must technicality that there was the Ministry of Justice for in if you want, but if you the vestibule at the have felt a little unreal? no way these officers could England and Wales doesn’t don’t, don’t worry, we’ll fill Reception, put us all against get a fair trial because of all know how many people it in. Just sign on the right the wall with our faces to the Exactly. Even though I have the adverse publicity. A few have been released from hand corner and initial the wall and when they had the seen it on television, I have days later Dame Barbara custody following miscar- bottom pages and sign the six of us together they called watched it many times, I’ve Mills, the DPP, went into the riages of justice and it would next page. That’s all we for the prison officers and seen it thousands of times Home Office and told them cost too much to find out. need.” And that was it. started telling them the since then, it still seems surreal. there would be no more prison officers that they, the enquiries into the It doesn’t surprise me at all. He tells us we were innocent police, were in the pubs and Lord Denning said, about Birmingham police because It’s not that they don’t know, and then they started fucking they were picking up bodies your appeals, that it would of lack of evidence - and that it’s because they don’t want torturing us. From nine o’clock and they had no legs and no have been better if you’d was it. They have now put a to know - that’s the problem. on the Friday morning right heads and the rest of it, and been hung because 75 year public immunity on Paddy with Eddie Gilfoyle There have been over 200 through to the early hours of they told them the rest of the everybody would have our case papers - our case high profile cases alone. Sunday morning. They held squad were at our houses forgotten about you. papers are not allowed to be I went on the campaign with mock executions. They and we had enough explo- opened until 2068. Anne, campaigning for the What is your message to knocked all my teeth out with sives to blow up half of Very angry, the old bastard. M25 3, the Tottenham Three people who have been a gun. They falsified all the Birmingham. Then the cops Him and Lord Lane; I’d hit What spurred you to found etc, and getting involved wrongfully convicted and evidence, even the forensics. started battering us and once both of them if I could. MOJUK? with the families which sitting in their prison cells they started the screws made me realise what our reading our paper? What happened when you joined in and after the Up to 14 police officers in Two things, before I got out I families went through. Our were remanded to prison? screws joined in that was it your case were shown to met Winston Silcott, one of families got a hell of a lot Tell them not to give up the cops ran and jumped in have lied and done various the Tottenham Three, and worse because at the time we hope, keep fighting, and They took us to Winson their cars and left and there other things to pervert the James Robinson, sadly now were the most hated people keep chipping away. Just Green, they brought us in to was no documentation in course of justice. Do you deceased, who was one of in the country, we were the never ever give up. 20 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime March 2016

- was the oldest of Georgia’s ‘Death state have to inflict death - by any idea of the desire for retribution as Before his execution Brandon Row’ prisoners, is now the oldest means - as a punishment for crime? justifying (in this case) capital pun- Astor Jones wrote a letter to person ever executed by the state of (And this is even without a discus- ishment. Most commonly for the his supporters finishing with: Georgia. He had been convicted in sion of what happens when the state offence of murder, proponents will 1979 for the fatal shooting of Roger gets it wrong - the UK’s murky past argue that the most common ‘pro’ “Peace and Love, without end, to Tackett, the manager of a conveni- with miscarriages of justice resulting position is that any individual con- each one of you and yours. Thank ence store, in Cobb County. His co-d, from executing the innocent, and victed of killing another has, in you for giving me the privilege of Van Roosevelt Solomon, also con- Steven Avery’s current experience in doing so, forfeited his or her own having so many wonderful people victed of ‘malice murder’, was exe- the US, as documented in the excel- ‘right to life’. In the study of prisons to say Goodbye to. I love you. cuted by electric chair in 1985. Yet lent but terrifying ‘Making a and punishment (known as penolo- Brandon had spent much of his 37 Murderer’, both attesting to the hor- gy), this represents state-sanctioned Gratefully and respectfully yours, years in prison fighting his own sen- rors of this. Or the recent exposure punishment underpinned by a the- tence of death, which had even been of the reality of what happens when ory of retribution; an eye for an eye, The Secret Brandon Astor Jones ‘vacated’ (American court terminol- death is induced by lethal injection). and all that. And in jurisdictions ogy for ‘annulled’, or ‘voided’) in the What does the concept of capital where a strong fundamental religi- UNO Number 400574, Georgia Criminologist late 1980s, only for a subsequent punishment, and of LWOP/the whole osity pervades - such as the Deep Diagnostic and Classification judge to reinstate this same sentence life tariff say about our criminal jus- Southern states of the US - this posi- Prison, Post Office Box 3877, following a sentencing retrial in 1997. tice system, and the point of prisons? tion is a particularly strong one. But Injecting a large measure Jackson, Georgia 30233” of humanity into the To me, this seems to offer absolutely the truth of the matter is - as ob- The ‘ethics’ of capital punishment no incentive - the exact opposite, in served by Archbishop Emeritus of criminological remains a central issue within crim- fact - for individuals to change dur- Cape Town, Desmond Tutu - that to perspective inology. When I first heard about ing their time in prison. take a life when a life has been taken Brandon’s execution, I was over- is not ‘justice’; it is revenge. whelmed by a rush of emotions - Perhaps Brandon Jones was executed “Back so long ago, when they built anger and sadness being chief to send a message from the US penal And there is nothing enchanted this enchanted place, they killed among them. But at the forefront of system to the population - that his about that. men in three ways: They waited my mind, jostling for position, was age, and length of time on Death Row a state of confusion. And I realised are irrelevant, and that the point is for them to die, they worked them that what was not clear to me, no ‘justice’ must be seen to be done in to death, and they hanged them. matter how much coverage of order for it to cause others to eschew Inside Time ran a poll on Twitter Not much has changed. Instead Brandon’s case I read the one ques- lethal violence. And yet criminology asking the question: of working men to death, there is tion I could not find an answer for teaches us that this argument is Inside Time a slow starvation of the body and was - why? That is to say, why now? deeply flawed. In fact, only last year @insidetimeUK 03/02/15 soul. And instead of rope, they use What could possibly be achieved by a recent piece by John J. Donohue a machine.” executing a man 37 years after the (2015), Professor of Law at Stanford Do you think it was OK to execute events for which he was sentenced? University, raised this very issue, Brandon Astor Jones, aged 72, Rene Denfield’s The Enchanted What was the purpose of putting to arguing that there is ‘no evidence after 37 years on Death Row? death a man who - by all accounts - that the death penalty is a deterrent was a model prisoner, and (forgive against crime’ of any sort. In fact, if 14% Yes In the early hours of Wednesday 3rd the terminology) a ‘reformed’ char- it wasn’t so awful it would somehow February, Brandon Astor Jones was 80% No acter? It seems to me distressingly be laughable that proponents of cap- executed by means of lethal injection ironic that someone who should have ital punishment continue to suggest 6% Don’t care at the Georgia Diagnostic and been a poster guy for the American that killing people is an appropriate Classification prison in Jackson, ‘correctional’ system - a man who and effective means of deterring in- Georgia. This was the first state-sanc- USA executions scheduled for March 2016 seemed to embody all of the values dividuals from perpetrating that tioned killing in Georgia this year, that underpin the criminal justice same ultimate act of violence. 9 Coy Wesbrook (Texas) 17 Mark James Asay (Florida) and the fifth nationwide so far in ideal of ‘rehabilitation’ - was still put 14 Daniel Blank (Louisiana) 18 Christopher Johnson (Pennsylvania) 2016 in the United States. to death. Or perhaps Brandon’s execution re- 15 Thomas Meadows (Pennsylvania) 22 Adam Ward (Texas) veals the darker side of criminal 16 Ricky Javon Gray (Virginia) 23 Alva Campbell (Ohio) Brandon, who - at 72 years of age So what, and what ‘right’ does the ‘justice’ punishment systems - the 16 Jeffrey Martin (Pennsylvania) 30 John Battaglia (Texas)

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children feel betrayed and don’t feel and are committed by people regard- good enough to keep the errant par- ed as law-abiding as well as those ent interested in them. These victims who are not. These perpetrators gen- generally again become dysfunction- erally have double standards and a al, have trouble committing to rela- twisted, dishonest understanding of tionships because they have devel- reality, which can’t or doesn’t want oped trust issues from the abuse to see beyond their own needs (al- they’ve suff ered and usually go on to ways pointing the fi nger at people commit legal or illegal abuse them- who’ve committed illegal abuse such selves. Hurt people want to hurt. It’s as criminals, prisoners and ex-of- the rules of engagement. fenders) when they’re own behav- iour, which is symptomatic of a nar- cissistic personality disorder, is the yelling and largely what causes crime in the fi rst screaming of emotional place. They are typically power hun- gry people, who are attracted by po- abuse can be just as sitions of authority such as those found in the police force, the proba- damaging, particularly tion service, the prison service etc., to a sensitive young which are precisely the positions they shouldn’t have because they go child who has nowhere on to create more victims. else to go but has to That’s why people entering these endure the short fused professions need to be interviewed adult or older sibling by a psychiatrist and their lives thor- oughly investigated (their friends, families and enemies interviewed as © Fotolia.com Young, sensitive children with ego- well), not just cursorily glanced at by maniacs for older siblings typically seeing if they’ve got a criminal re- develop low self-esteem. The older cord. If too many boxes on a person- sibling was around receiving all the ality disorder test get ticked, they attention before the younger sibling shouldn’t be employed. And then The creating of victims came along and they still want all the during their working lives they need attention. The newcomer is treated to be constantly monitored by an in- with contempt by the egomaniac; the dependent body that has the power Owen Davies hasn’t broken the law (not where a express themselves properly in rela- inference is always that he is inferior to sack them if they behave inappro- conviction would be the result any- tionships because they’ve been hurt and irrelevant and doesn’t deserve priately/illegally. CCTV and micro- way); illegal abuse is generally only and don’t want to be hurt again by the attention that should be given phones need to be on them constant- In the 21st century knowledge of confined to sexual and physical expressing ideas that might generate the older sibling, who was there fi rst ly and the independent body needs mental illness is rather common abuse. anger that gets inside to where and therefore has rights the younger to have access to the footage. CCTV place. The majority of people know they’ve already been deeply wound- sibling can never earn. Egomania is footage is frequently produced to its terms and recognise its symptoms But the yelling and screaming of ed in family life. When someone a symptom of course of narcissistic arraign criminals and prisoners, yet in people they know. The World emotional abuse can be just as dam- can’t express themselves healthily, personality disorders, which in- such evidence is rarely used when Health Organisation recently pub- aging, particularly to a sensitive they generally become dysfunctional volves the belittling and looking police or prison offi cers are accused lished a report entitled, ‘Mental young child who has nowhere else to and it’s likely they’ll go on to commit down upon people perceived as in- of crimes. And the reports of proba- Disorders Aff ect One in Four People,’ go but has to endure the short fused either legal or illegal abuse ferior or whose needs and feelings tion offi cers need to be monitored. which not surprisingly produces the adult or older sibling. A person suf- themselves. are regarded as irrelevant compared CCTV footage of their interviews with fi gures that 25% of the world’s pop- fering from a narcissistic personality to the egomaniac’s. The egomaniac prisoners need to be viewed by an ulation suff er from mental illness. disorder has an inability or unwill- Other destructive legal activity such has a sense of unjustifi ed entitlement independent body with a copy of ingness to recognise the needs and as aff airs with married parents are and gets angry or impatient when their report before them. I guarantee But what about the millions with per- feelings of others. They are selfi sh also related to narcissistic personal- they don’t receive special treatment. every prisoner will say that proba- sonality disorders, who are undiag- and ego driven to such an extent that ity disorders. A symptom of narcis- The younger sibling of an egomaniac, tion reports contain lies. From per- nosed and have never alerted the they must express unwarranted sistic personality disorders is a defi - if he is sensitive, generally grows into sonal experience I know it is not al- mental health or police services, anger, irrespective of the negative ant lack of remorse and an attempt a teenager with serious interrelation- ways the prisoner who is lying. The because they can hold down jobs and impact on the people around them, to justify their behaviour as they ship issues. They don’t feel good percentage of mentally ill people in don’t break the law? We’ve all met no matter how obvious the impact is. devote themselves to their own enough to love or be loved because the world, the World Health them; the short fuse artist who vents In fact it gives them a sense of em- needs and feelings at the expense of that’s how they were treated as chil- Organisation warns, is on the unwarranted anger onto family powerment and significance, be- the needs and feelings of others. dren and they usually go on to com- increase. members, the pathological control cause they are getting attention. The Having an aff air with a married par- mit legal or illegal abuse as an adult. freak who can’t get on with anyone, consequences are immense. The ent is legal of course, but it creates the emotional sibling you argue with sensitive young child generally de- victims out of the abused family; the The problem with all these destruc- Owen Davies is a released life every time you see them. 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I thought about it that night. I astonished to find that the rest devastated. was in a situation where I was of the jury all agreed with the involved in either letting a first person, including my During the following weeks it paedophile walk free, or jail- travelling companion who the was on my mind a lot. How can ing an innocent man - with no previous night had said she this happen? What if someone evidence either way. didn’t think he did it. accused me or my husband for Ultimately, I was being asked something I hadn’t done or, to believe one person over an- The feeling that “I think he even worse, my son? How other without any knowledge probably did it” based on no would we prove we were inno- of the people, their personal- evidence, seemed to be good cent if the allegations related ities or anything at all. I was enough to send a man to jail. to events that were supposed being asked to be a lie So I was the only jury member to have occurred years ago? detector. to vote against the decision. I I’ve thought about this from have no idea whether he was time to time over the years and The next day, the first person guilty, but to convict him pushed it to the back of my to speak in the jury room said under this uncertainty was mind. However, since the “I think he probably did it”. wrong in my mind. Perhaps it Savile revelations and the was easy for me to vote against knee-jerk reaction which has It was Friday, the end of two the majority decision. If it had resulted in high-profile cases, quite tedious weeks and I, just been the other way round, I’d I have thought about it once as much as the rest of them be wondering if we’d released again. a paedophile and added to the © DepositPhotos.com wanted it over with. But I couldn’t in all conscience send suffering of a victim. One thing I do know is that if someone to prison because I ever I am called to carry out wanted to go home. Actually, When the verdict was an- jury service again, I will opt I still couldn’t believe that we nounced in court the family of out of any sex abuse case. being asked to make this de- the accused, who were sitting cision at all with nothing to across the courtroom about 10 Something is VERY WRONG in A juror’s tale base it on other than which metres away, were in uproar. a justice system which will person was lying or which one When we left the court we allow people to be jailed by a When I was called for jury on the trial, wondering what front of the court. was the most believable. How were told we could leave by a jury which can only guess who duty over 8 years ago, I really was in store. It would have could it be? Where did the law different door to avoid con- is lying. Is this really the law did not know what to expect. been a release to be able to The accused when he was stand in this? Surely it can’t frontation with the family. in the United Kingdom? Why My knowledge of a trial was talk to my partner about it, questioned came across as be right to send someone to This was quite disturbing, but do we accept it? really limited to what I had rather than having to keep quite believable with his an- prison without any I suppose understandable. If seen on television dramas and everything inside. However, swers. However, I told myself evidence? my family member who I be- From the website Falsely when I gave evidence for the looking back it would not have that this meant nothing, per- lieved was innocent was found Accused: defence in a trial seventeen been good, as it may have haps he’s very good at lying. After more debating into the guilty, I can’t imagine how I www.falselyaccusedhsa. years ago. ended up being the only topic early afternoon, I was would respond. I would be co.uk/#!a-juror/mbwxc of discussion for some time. I told myself to wait for the On the first day of jury service, To this day my (now) husband evidence, because that would we (the jury) were taken into does not know the details. help. I waited in anticipation a courtroom and told that our every day, watching and lis- Former jurors can speak! case would be one of child The trial when it eventually tening to the barristers per- abuse, and that it should take started was rather an forming. They (in particular Sandra Lean researchers are forbidden to approach jurors, approximately two weeks. We eye-opener for me. The accus- the prosecution) were the only and also when police officers, people working in were told that if this was not er was no longer a child, but part of the proceedings that the CPS, etc, are unable to discuss their concerns It is illegal in this country to approach anyone suitable due to personal com- a young adult in her mid-twen- reminded me of a television for fear of losing their jobs, or breaking rules of who has served on a jury and ask them questions mitments we could withdraw. ties. The allegations of abuse drama. Although the prosecu- “confidentiality.” We were also told that if we for went back to her young child- tor was quite entertaining and about how they came to their verdict. It is not, however, illegal for people who have served on any reason felt we were un- hood and I think into her obviously enjoying every min- Any researcher, myself included, can accept in- a jury to talk about their experiences after the suitable or felt unable to cope teens. The accused was her ute of his performance, look- formation which is voluntarily offered, and can, event. with such a traumatic case, we older brother. ing back I find it rather irritat- and will, assure anonymity for those who are could be replaced and could ing that a criminal case was willing to offer such information. Without it, we Given that so many jury decisions seem to fly in be put on another jury. To be honest, as the trial was treated in this way. can never truly understand how our criminal the face of the evidence before them, the only quite a while ago now, I don’t justice system gets it so wrong, so often. As a mother I must admit my remember many of the details. My wait for evidence was in way these decisions can be studied, and the un- heart sank, and I imagined What I do remember is that vain. derlying reasons for such strange decisions iden- having to listen to details and there wasn’t any evidence and tified, is if people voluntarily discuss their see evidence of the abuse of a not too much detail. I kept The barristers’ questioning fell experiences. Sandra Lean runs miscarriage of justice website small child in great detail. waiting for something which short of my expectation that it www.wronglyaccusedperson.org.uk and is the However, I decided that as a I could make sense of. would provide anything to go Any study of the causes of wrongful convictions author of No Smoke: the shocking truth about level-headed but compassion- on. 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Insidetime March 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 23 Keeping an open mind Joint Enterprise: the impact on one family before last month’s ruling by the Supreme Jonathan King most appalling realisation I leaving a drawing lying open experienced, 16 years ago in on the table in front of the wit- Court. Open letter to the chair of the CCRC 2000, was the dawning that ness and their pencil and At long last Sir Bernard our police were not looking for blank sheet of paper. Hogan-Howe, Chief Constable the truth but had one, far su- You may not be aware of this, but my brother’s conviction for murder on the basis of Joint of the and perior, motive - to get a I’ve always been shocked by case is now being reviewed by the Commission Enterprise - there is zero evidence of senior officer in Britain, has conviction. how many appeals are grant- for the third time. Having already had two participation (and credible evidence of decided that police should ed by the courts but even more failed applications we are not holding out non-participation), zero evidence of ‘keep an open mind’ when Old lags will rock with laugh- amazed that traditional media too much hope for this one. My brother, foresight, zero evidence of encouragement investigating possible crimes. ter that I could have been so chooses to ignore the figures. Jordan Towers, was just 16 years-old when or incitement of another, zero evidence of naive. The expression If the public knew how many he was convicted under the Joint Enterprise a common purpose (and credible evidence Many people would regard ‘stitched up’ is common par- innocent men and women are doctrine and sentenced to that this was an entirely spontaneous this as not needing saying. lance amongst those involved freed on appeal, often after for a crime he did not commit. Jordan is now situation), yet my brothers case goes Surely it is obvious that, in a in the judicial system. Police years in prison, having served 25 years-old, he is still protesting his innocence further still. fair society and reasonable have, for long before any of us time for crimes they did not and because of this stands very little chance democracy, every officer were born, twisted the evi- commit (and, these days, that of securing parole. He has, in fact, just been 9. The following is perhaps the most should keep an open mind dence to get convictions, usu- never actually took place), refused a reduction in sentence on the basis important point of which I can make you and look for evidence that a ally with the finest motives - they would be horrified. The that he does not show enough remorse for aware: the principal eye-witness for the crime has taken place as well locking up someone they truly frightening fact is that the crime of which he stands convicted. But prosecution, who is also the victim’s as who, if anyone, committed knew had committed a crime the media don’t publish these how can Jordan show remorse for murder? It fiancé, recently left the message below on it. but couldn’t quite find the figures. They would claim it’s is agreed by all, and very recently by a a public networking site: proof legitimately. ‘not a good story’. In reality, prosecution witness, that Jordan was not This has emerged because one their agenda is controlled by part of the criminal act which caused the “Jade I’m Kevin’s fiancé and I can honestly police officer, some time ago, What has slowly but surely the shadowy establishment death of the victim; putting it simply Jordan say Jordan didn’t know Kev had been stabbed, described certain claims as grown over past decades is the dominating all aspects of did not harm anyone nor did he know it I don’t think the other lad did either. It ‘credible and true’ before changing of the word ‘evi- society. would happen, this has always been his case. wasn’t till they were walking away they starting the investigation. dence’. Years ago it would heard Kev shouting “I better not have been Which shocked the public, have been ridiculous that the Our democracy is not as dem- I, along with many others, have campaigned stabbed” when Jordan confronted hawks who assumed it happened word of someone could be re- ocratic as most people think. for many years to have Jordan’s conviction about what Kev said tony just brushed it off automatically - that examina- garded as ‘evidence’ without Which is just one reason why overturned. Despite numerous applications and said Kev will just be saying it to claim tion of evidence was vital be- corroboration. But the law has so many members of the pub- to the Commission, and the Courts, Jordan compo. I’m not defending Jordan but I can fore a conclusion was reached. been adapted over time. And lic are now answering Hogan- has never had a full appeal against his see his family’s argument when ppl are For a cop to describe a witness police these days feel quite Howe’s statement with aston- conviction. We are left wondering why this is calling him murderer etc. wen Jordan is not statement as ‘credible’ was entitled to assist witnesses by ishment. Could police really so, considering the facts of the case and the guilty of murder, I’m not saying he’s fair enough, but ‘true’? offering, either intentionally ever have gone into investiga- evidence which has come to light since he innocent but he did not murder Kev” (sic) or accidentally, some slight tions without intending to was tried back in 2007. These facts and For those who have been the help. We’ve all seen movies discover the truth? evidence are as follows; This is the fiancé of the victim, she would subject of police investiga- where a witness is asked for a not lie for Jordan. She was an eye-witness tion, which, I assume, in- rough map of a house when Join the club. They did and 1. This was not a gang-related incident. to the tragic event which unfolded. The cludes many of our readers, the investigating officer ‘pops here’s the bad news. They will evidence from all sides is that Jordan did this was actually no surprise. out’ to get a couple of undrink- continue to do so, no matter 2. It was accepted the incident was the result not commit, participate in or encourage I can personally attest that the able styrofoam cups of tea, what Hogan-Howe says. of a spontaneous situation. the murder, and that when he left the scene he was not aware a stabbing had 3. The trial Judge himself, The Recorder of taken place - this creates the situation such Newcastle, David Hodson, stated “it is that, according to the Crown, Jordan common ground you Towers took no part in participated in a common purpose which, the stabbing.” after the event, he had no idea had occurred. 4. The Commission itself has previously stated that “there was no direct evidence to So why is Jordan still serving a life suggest Jordan knew others were carrying sentence for murder? Why won’t the knives or that he knew they would use the Commission refer his case to the Court of knives to kill or cause serious harm.” Appeal? What more can he offer to prove he is innocent? What legal argument 5. Both eye-witnesses for the Crown, one being remains to support that Jordan was a the victims fiancé, said Jordan was not directly participant in a Joint Enterprise murder, involved, with one of them claiming Jordan when the very tenets of that doctrine are was some 20-25 feet away from the fight. not met by the evidence? 6. Both co-accused confirmed during trial I cannot even begin to tell you how Jordan did not harm the victim nor encour- DOES THE TAX MAN OWE YOU MONEY? frustrating it is that all of these undisputed age anyone to do so. IF YOU ENTERED PRISON AFTER 6 APRIL 2011 AND PAID TAX YOU MAY BE DUE A REFUND. facts are available and yet we, Jordan’s family, are supposed to just sit back and 7. The Crown’s case was that the rock Jordan ARE YOU RECEIVING TAX DEMANDS OR PENALTIES THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND? accept he is guilty of murder when the admitted throwing into the street, established ARE YOU SETTING UP A BUSINESS AFTER YOU ARE RELEASED AND NEED TAX ADVICE? evidence clearly screams otherwise. We during trial to having been thrown after the simply cannot do that. You are the only fatal blow had been inflicted, was the only IF THE ANSWER IS ‘YES’ YOU NEED TO CONTACT THE TA X ACADEMY™ people who can refer Jordan’s conviction alleged act of participation. The Crown to the Court of Appeal - The evidence referred to this as, “the final escalation” even THE TAX ACADEMY™ Include as much information as possible: though it could not possibly be linked to the speaks for itself. Jordan Towers is not act which caused the death of the victim. guilty of murder, even when that crime is Unit 4, Ffordd yr Onnen • Prison number couched in the language of the Joint Lon Parcwr Business Park • Your full name including middle name Enterprise doctrine. I openly beg you to Ruthin 8. The perpetrator himself has now admitted • Your date of birth his crime and has, once again, stated that do what is right, and refer his case, not Denbighshire LL15 1NJ • National insurance number Jordan had no involvement. only for Jordan and his family, but for true justice for all. 01824 704535 • Employment history • Contact address/number on the outside It is clear from the above that, in law, this [email protected] case falls at every requirement for a Ashleigh Towers www.thetaxacademy.co.uk Please advise if you change Prisons after responding.

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their dignity even in death. To say I A research team from the University I’ve lived with an addict, but only met despise the substance would be an of studied the autopsied the soul whilst they were serving time understatement because you see; I brains of 34 drug users with a history in prison. Heroin suppresses feelings have witnessed families crumble and of opiate abuse - mainly heroin and and emotions. Without those senses, fall apart because of it. methadone. Most had died of a drug you are an empty shell who people overdose, but all were HIV negative just look at. Over the years I have spoken to many and had no history of head injuries. families who have lived around ad- My time as an enabler is done. I had diction. This may surprise some of to figure it out for myself and the jour- you. But the majority of families pray Smack is a lonely ney was enlightening. I met some that their addicted loved ones end up road to drive down good people along the way who had in prison. Far from ideal I know, but talent and the potential to be some- for many families prison is a miracu- and the only known one. They had wonderful families and lous place. They resurrect thousands service station on it is professionals who supported them, of Lazarus’s from the dead and finally but it wasn’t enough. Nothing ever is present back to us our loved ones. the undertakers - because this is heroin we are talking about here. You cook it on a spoon During visits the deep meaningful and it returns the favour by putting conversations spring back and gone The study found that young drug a light to you in the crematorium. are the one-word junkie mumbles. Our abusers were up to three times more loved ones look good and incredibly likely to suffer brain damage, than It is a painful experience to watch healthy. Smiles reappear and the soul those who did not use drugs. The people selfishly destroying their lives is back bursting with feelings and drug abusers meanwhile sustained a and then sitting and holding the hand emotions. The sunken ‘walking dead’ level of brain damage normally only of someone fighting for theirs. cheekbones have nicely filled out seen in much older people and simi- again and it is overwhelming to see lar to the early stages of Alzheimer’s. I sent heroin and the empty vehicle them back to how they once were be- it infested on its way. I’d put my fair fore heroin took a tight grip. It’s a crazy substance isn’t it? share of petrol in it over the years and kept it ticking over. But the engine Sad isn’t it when prison seems to be the let me down time and time again and I cared for a young lady who at 38 was only place that revives your loved one? eventually it became an embarrass- cruelly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. ment. It was often grubby and in need She hadn’t injected the disease in to I didn’t mind travelling hundreds of of a good scrub. her veins and certainly didn’t opt for miles to visit my loved one sat there it by choice. © iStock.com smiling wearing his red tabard - it was Smack is a lonely road to drive down better than seeing him covered up in and the only known service station I also support people with Down’s a white sheet on a slab. on it is the undertakers. Syndrome who have been diagnosed Alison Henderson training. There’s no extra pay for with early onset Alzheimer’s. I am closing your eyes and seeing that Take your pick: Screws or a funeral There are many junctions but people inspired by their aspirations and vision of a purple mottled rigor-mor- director? It’s a no brainer isn’t it? choose to go straight ahead. I veered After a long, hard, mind-numbing tis corpse with a syringe resting near- bravery. off and chose to support people who battle with tough love, I recently by. The disturbing scene is embroi- I used to snigger when people said want to live. handed in my notice as an enabler. dered in your mind forever. that heroin addiction is a disease. I The biggest wake-up call for me was The hours were long, the money was often argued that drug addiction was meeting a 6 year-old girl with termi- I’m through with being heroin’s pas- poor and the job was mentally and You may be wondering what an en- by choice and initially, yes, it is. I am nal cancer (neuroblastoma). Her senger and the ride has finished. physically exhausting. The night shift abler is? Let me explain. Enablers are a manager in the healthcare field and mother said to me, “she’s in excruci- was the worse. You couldn’t clock off kind hearted human beings who work with people, young and old, with ating pain every day but just gets on Hit the road smack - and don’t you until you heard the key in the door somehow think that they can Alzheimer’s disease and brain injuries. with it.” Her daughter passed away come back no more….. and that could be 72 hours later - if mind-wrestle a poppy and win. You 6 weeks later. She fought bravely you’re lucky. simply can’t. Some heroin addicts display symp- right up until the end. A few days toms of memory loss so I decided to later, my ex-partner told me he was Alison Henderson is an expert by The role of an enabler comes with no Heroin enjoys stripping people of do some research. ‘scared’ of doing his ‘5 day rattle’? experience ARE YOU A PRISONER IN A SCOTTISH JAIL? At Tates we never BRUCE use unqualified caseworkers. SHORT All prison law work SOLICITORS is undertaken by a BRUCE SHORT CAN HELP YOU! 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with those less fortunate many examples of prisoners idealistic vision? Yes it is and than themselves. wanting to make some I believe in maintaining high From over the wall positive contribution to ideals. They won’t always be My thoughts went back a few others but one has to admit achieved but one needs them years when I visited one of that our prison system does to keep us all moving forward, Terry Waite writes his monthly column for Inside Time our prisons in the UK on a not always make that and hopefully upwards. fairly regular basis. Here, possible or easy. That is one week by week, badly reason why I am three Opportunity handicapped children came hundred per cent behind With good health in mind, into the jail and spent an some of the ideas being both physical and mental, Terry Waite CBE hour or so in the gym cared floated by government to there is no doubt that as a for by prisoners. totally reform the system. prisoner there are many obstacles preventing the best Exercise Childhood development for an individ- As I write this month I am Many prisoners, Any prisoner reading this ual. However, like the kids in making a determined effort given a chance, will column will know that a very the pool we all have to make to lose weight. My height do what they can for high number of prisoners the best of our circumstanc- was 6ft 7ins but due to have had a pretty tough es. My guess is that things advancing years I think I kids and the deprived childhood. Of course, that are going to improve have come down an inch, of this world does not excuse criminal eventually but it will take perhaps a bit more. However, behaviour in later life but it time. Don’t let that fact stop having climbed in weight to does help explain it. When I you making the most of this about 23 stone I felt that There were some really badly hear some of the stories from opportunity in your life. What urgent action was required. friendly guard would release youngsters. As I swam at my handicapped youngsters but prisoners about their opportunity you might ask? How on earth did you get to me from the chains for half leisurely pace I watched as they loved coming to the childhood, frankly I wonder Being locked up for a while be so heavy? I can hear some an hour or so and I walked they were pushed down the gym each week and their how they have survived as gives you an opportunity to asking. Well, I don’t want to round and round my cell like ramp in a special wheel- carers, the prisoners, did well as they have done. Some, evaluate your life and, if you excuse the fact that I enjoy a caged animal. On one chair. There were a few cries everything possible to make as a result, are equally as are really serious, to advance food but a full programme of occasion I was kept in an of alarm, and excitement, as the afternoon as enjoyable as mentally handicapped as the it. I know the obstacles and travel when one has to underground cell in which I they entered the water but possible. I guess the kids in the pool are physically. the frustrations. I have depend on a hurried sand- could not stand upright. There soon they were doing their prisoners got as much out of experienced them. Don’t wich, or a buffet meal, is no I managed to walk a bit best to enjoy the experience this experience as did the Rehabilitation dwell on them. Your life is good at all. Sitting in a car although it was far from despite their severe physical kids. Of course, such visits Well, as I repeatedly say, precious and as far as we know for long periods or at a desk comfortable. Well, that was a handicap. These kids had have now stopped due to the prison needs to be a place for the only one you will have. at home is equally ruinous. long time ago and now I have been born into this world fear of child abuse or what rehabilitation not just my freedom I can walk at will. with a handicap that was have you. Never once did I punishment. It’s crazy to Although I am not an exercise certainly due to no fault of hear of anything untoward Terry Waite was a successful have staff simply as lock-up fanatic (in fact I lean the Disability their own and yet were doing taking place during these hostage negotiator before he merchants. They need to be other way), when I was in To help with the weight-loss their best to live life as fully visits. It showed me that himself was held captive in highly trained to help captivity and chained to the regime I have taken to as possible despite their many prisoners, given a Beirut for 1763 days between individuals back onto their wall for 23 hours each day I swimming and this morning limitations. All credit to their chance, will do what they 1987 and 1991; the first four feet and fit to play their role longed to be able to simply in the pool there were several helpers who often go unsung can for kids and the deprived years were spent in solitary in mainstream life. Is that an walk a little. Occasionally a badly handicapped but day in and day out work of this world. I could quote confinement. DAVIES & JONES ‘The law of joint enterprise as we SOLICITORS

Specialising in know it is dead’ Continued from front page the three jailed in 2008 for the murder of Garry resulted in widespread miscarriages of justice Criminal Defence and Newlove. for decades.” “This does not mean,” Neuberger cautioned, Prison Law Those convicted under the old foresight rules Jogee will remain in prison while submissions “that a person who took part in unlawful ven- are now expected to appeal. are made for a retrial. O f f e r i n g ture which any reasonable person would real- ise carried the risk of causing physical harm, Tracy Fyfe continues to hold Jogee responsible N a t i o n w i d e S e r v i c e and which in fact resulted in death, would go “Inside Justice has always struggled to deal with for her husband’s murder. “If Ameen Jogee scot-free unless he could be proved to have joint enterprise cases because of the difficulties hadn’t have been there that night, neither intended to assist or encourage the principal around being able to show what a co-accused would Hirsi,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today. • All Criminal Court Proceedings to inflict death or serious harm. thought might happen before the offence took “Ameen Jogee was using Hirsi as a weapon. He place. Anyone now wanting to challenge any • Parole Applications was there, he knew what was going on and he “Anybody who took part in a venture of that joint enterprise conviction should seek legal is just as guilty as Hirsi.” • Licence Recall kind would be guilty of manslaughter, a very advice to see if this judgment could assist them, serious crime, at least, unless the death result- as it remains a complicated area of law. If any Jogee’s mother, Rachel Whitehead, was ed from something which he could not possibly prisoner has always maintained their inno- • Appeals pleased. “I am just looking forward to seeing have foreseen. But to be guilty of murder, rather cence of a joint enterprise conviction and can- him return. I have great sympathy for Mr Fyfe’s than manslaughter, the secondary party had not access legal advice they can write to Inside • Adjudications family, of course I do, I always have. But justice to have had the intent which I have Justice at the usual mailbox address.” should be done.” Contact described.” Gloria Morrison, campaign coordinator for A Commons Justice Select Committee last year Geir Madland is an Inside Justice caseworker David Rees or Simon Palmer JENGbA (Joint Enterprise: Not Guilty by suggested many joint enterprise convictions Association) has campaigned for five years for for murder should rather have been for the Davies & Jones change and knows of 650 such cases. lesser offence of manslaughter. Its report stated 32 The Parade, Roath, that, between 2005 and 2013, as many as 500 The organisation told Inside Time: “Legal his- people may have been convicted of murder as tory has been made today - the law of joint Cardiff, CF24 3AD secondary parties in joint enterprise cases, enterprise as we know it is dead. This was a many recorded as gang-related attacks. Inside Justice, part of Inside Time, is funded by law which allowed someone to be sent to prison charitable donations from the Esmee Fairbairn Tel: 029 2046 5296 for life merely because he or she foresaw what High profile examples of Joint Enterprise con- Foundation, Inside Time & the Roddick Foundation. someone else might do. We said that it was a or 24 Hour Emergency Number: victions include the two men convicted in 2012 ‘lazy’ law, a short-cut to conviction which con- www.insidejusticeuk.com 079 7096 9357 for the 1993 murder of Stephen Lawrence, and fused juries and judges alike and which has insidejusticeUK @insidejusticeUK 26 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime March 2016

Japan has had an appalling stopped at his cell door each record of prisoner treatment morning. More than half of engendered during the Japan’s current 128 Death Row Second World War with such inmates are seeking a infamous events as the Bataan retrial. Death march where 10,000 allied prisoners died from Criminal justice reform starvation and ill treatment in seemed possible in 2009 when 1942. the Democratic Party took power with the Justice Japanese prisons are striking- Ministry suggested filming of ly clean, quiet and orderly. suspects’ interviews. However, prison reformers However, few interviews are surveying the worst of the recorded from start to finish world’s prisons state that so there is little to stop police Japanese prisons rate among using ‘traditional’ interroga- the worlds cruellest due to the tion methods. psychological toll they take on prisoners. In 2012 judicial reform was halted when the conservative Former prisoners describe Liberal Democratic Party re- draconian rules where eye turned to power standing contact with warders is forbid- firmly behind police and pros- den, or when permitted has to ecutors. Despite crime rates be accompanied by a smiling falling, regimes for juvenile demeanour. Talking is banned offenders are proposed to be for much of the day, reading toughened and executions is only sometimes allowed. have increased despite the notable miscarriages of jus- Compulsory prison work can tice. Prosecutors are still not be soul destroying, folding required to disclose all evi- paper into eights then unfold- dence to the defence and most ing them to begin again. Even prosecutors have NEVER lost The grass is greener standing up can require a a case. guard’s permission with some prisoners being forced to sit On reflection, given the pro- Penal emphasis in Japan is on rehabilitation rather than cross-legged for much of the pensity of British politicians time. Solitary confinement to copy the worst of the world’s punishment. However... requires sitting facing the criminal justice and penal door all day long. systems, it is probably not ad- Keith Rose based on false confessions confessions as paramount With such high profile miscar- visable to disclose the content extracted under duress. Many and put pressure on police to riages of justice you may ex- Death Row prisoners have it of this article to the Ministry of those admitting guilt are extract confessions, police pect the Japanese government worst. They wait in solitary of Justice. There are very few charities plainly innocent and there is methods are often brutal. to review criminal justice pro- confinement, often for many for prisoners that I would take an extraordinary lack of pro- Growing numbers of forced cedures with the abolition of years. They are not told when (Principal source: The issue with, but one I’ve always tection for suspects held in and false confessions have the death penalty but prose- they will be executed so wake Economist) found to be pretentiously Japanese interrogation cells. now come to light. cutors are powerful and many each day not knowing if it will named is ‘Fair Trials Abroad’. regard a not guilty verdict as be their last. Exonerated pris- oners like Sakae Menda tell of Keith Rose is currently The very name presupposes At first glance Japan’s crimi- An ordinary suspect may be harmful to their careers. Even p2p.pdf 1 15/12/2015 13:03 that English Justice is some- nal justice system is an exam- held for up to 23 days without an investigation into the con- the dread fear when guards resident at HMP Whitemoor how fairer than that of coun- ple to the rest of the world. charge and access to a lawyer viction of Iwao Hakamada is tries overseas, whereas the Crime rates are lower in Japan in this period is limited. regarded by reformers as reality is with loss of the right than most other countries Interrogation sessions can unlikely. to silence, majority verdicts, with a murder rate less than last 8 hours or more and police trial judges ‘summing up’ and that in the United States. Less methods are often brutal; If reform is to come to other factors court verdicts than one in twenty commit- stamping on a suspect’s feet, Japanese criminal justice are weighted against the ac- ting an offence are jailed com- screaming in his ears, sleep methods it may come from cused. The Birmingham 6, pared with one in three in the deprivation, or enforced pain- judges. Japan does not have a Guildford 4 et al are mute tes- States. Penal emphasis in ful physical positions are not jury system, verdicts are de- timony to prejudice in English Japan is on rehabilitation uncommon. livered by a panel of judges. courts. rather than punishment with However, judges only develop remarkably low recidivism Iwao Hakamada spent 46 consciences as they near re- Conviction rates throughout rates, in part due to reforma- years on Death Row before his tirement with no prospect ofC England are recorded as per- tion methods involving of- release in March 2014. It was further promotion. The judgeM centages of cases tried and fender’s families in found that police and prose- who freed Iwao Hakamada return average scores in the rehabilitation. cutors had fabricated evi- after his 46 year ordeal unuY - high eighties or into the nine- dence in his murder trial and sually accused the authoritiesCM ties in hotspots. A few Crown Young Offender Institutions it was stated that he was in- of fabricating evidence. Courts have a notorious repu- resemble strict boarding terrogated for eleven hours a MY tation for unusually high con- schools rather than prisons day for 23 days, beaten with Campaigners for reform hopeCY viction rates, Winchester, and courts are reluctant to jail night sticks and pricked with that he might overturn other Truro, , Guildford, first time offenders. pins when he fell asleep. He wrongful convictions.CMY

Carlisle etc. are examples Incarceration rates are far confessed. Another judge who later critK - where the scales of justice lower in Japan with 48 per icised police interrogation may be out of balance. 100,000 jailed compared with Keiko Aoki spent 20 years in techniques was one of the 148 per 100,000 in Britain and prison after confessing to panel which originally sen- However, recently reported in 698 per 100,000 in the United burning her eleven year old tenced Iwao Hakamada to The Economist is a country States. daughter to death. Her police death. where the conviction rate av- interrogation was so harsh erages 99.8%, of which 89% However, the Japanese system she confessed after one day. Notwithstanding Japan’s in 2014 were confession places huge emphasis on con- She was released in October laudable approach to impris- based. Disturbingly, one law- fessions which is regarded as 2015 after it was found that the onment of first time and yer estimates that at least 1 in the first step towards rehabil- fatal fire was a tragic young offenders, Japanese 10 of those convictions are itation. Prosecutors regard accident. prisons are not a soft touch. Insidetime March 2016 www.insidetime.org Information // Property 27 IMB investigate prisoners’ property

Paul Sullivan necessary - arrange recom- strict procedures. The fact that pense. Prisoners and detain- their property fails to follow ees have few possessions with with similar degrees of seam- Independent Monitoring Boards them. Some of what they have lessness suggests that well-es- check on many prison issues is of immense sentimental tablished property procedures based upon complaints from value; some property has reli- are not taken as seriously.’ prisoners. One of the issues gious and cultural signifi- © prisonimage.org they identified was high levels cance; other items are critical In their observations the IMB of loss or damage to prisoners’ in occupying their time during report suggests that contrac- property which accounted for record made of any disagreement about the long periods of isolation.’ tors who transport prisoners 15% of complaints. The Prisons property due to be returned. On arrival, all should be required to carry the and Probation Ombudsman property bag seals must be checked against the The group identified not only prisoners’ volumetric limits (2 (PPO) also noted that between Property Person Escort Record. If the bags or seals are problems when transferring boxes) which at present they April 2012 and March 2013 one- opened or damaged, those bags must be but also within prisons and often decline to do; they say it fifth of the 3,000 eligible com- searched and resealed ideally in your presence. found a great variation across should work like airline bag- plaints made to him by prison- the prison estate. During their gage with a right to carry the Ryan Harman You should be asked to confirm in writing that PRISON ers concerned property. 57% investigation they found that set volume of property. REFORM Advice and Information Service a new seal has been applied. of those property-related com- NOMS were unable to say how TRUST Manager PSI 12/2011 says that, other than some brief plaints were found in favour much money they paid out in The Prisons Ombudsman pub- temporary absences, all prisoners’ in posses- of complainants. The IMB or- compensation: the IMB report lished a ‘Learning Lessons’ ganised a special ‘Investigating says; ‘As well as compensa- Investigation in 2014 but not Our Advice and Information service often re- sion property, valuables and locally stored Group’ to check it out. Their tion claims there are also other all of his proposals have been ceives enquiries about loss or damage of pris- property should accompany them subject to report was published last year. related expenses, for example implemented. oners’ property. Problems seem to occur par- volumetric control levels when they are dis- for staff time and additional ticularly around cell clearances and transfers. charged if they are not expected to return, in- They say; ‘Despite clear pro- carriage costs. More signifi- Prisoners writing to Inside This is echoed by a useful ‘Learning Lessons cluding court appearances. In practice we are cedures, especially for pris- cantly from the IMB’s view- Time suggest that when they Bulletin’ produced by the Prisons and Probation aware this does not always happen. ons, across the custodial es- point, the impact of delays are moved without warning the Ombudsman in 2014 regarding property com- If you have been moved to another establish- tate there are unjustifiably and damage on prison welfare rule that two staff must clear plaints which reports that three-fifths of the ment arrangements should be made to transfer high levels of loss or damage and morale, and in some cases their cell and keep a proper upheld investigations in response to property property that did not accompany you as soon to personal property. When on discipline, is immeasurable record of the property is often complaints came as a result of prisoner as possible, including in possession property things go wrong there is too … Prisoners and detainees are ignored and other prisoners, movement. from a cell clearance and locally stored property. often unwillingness for some- safely and successfully moved often cleaners, are allowed to one to take responsibility, co- between and within establish- do this, resulting in damage We sometimes hear of ‘in possession’ property Some prisoners have difficulty resolving and ordinate action and - when ments in accordance with and theft. going missing following an unexpected or un- complaining about property transfer problems planned relocation within the establishment, at the receiving prison. However, PSI 02/2012 such as being moved to segregation. Although Prisoner Complaints indicates that the estab- the Prison Service does not normally accept lishment where you are located at the time you responsibility for property held ‘in possession’, submit a complaint is responsible for ensuring there are exceptions. Regarding in possession you get a response. You should not be asked to Your Rights Our Responsibility property, the Ombudsman states that ‘respon- contact the sending prison directly. The re- sibility passes to the Prison Service when the sponse may be provided by the sending prison prisoner is placed in a position where they can- but it is up to the receiving prison to request not exercise effective control over their proper- and chase this for you. Neither should you be ty - including when moved to the segregation told to pursue complaints with the escort con- unit.’ We have heard of cell mates clearing cells tractor or courier company. It is the unsupervised and property being left vulnera- Ombudsman’s view that ‘the establishment the ble to theft. PSI 12/2011 ‘Prisoners Property’ prisoner has left is responsible for the safe tran- contains a section on cell clearance which gives sit of the prisoner’s possessions - including the The specialist Prison Law & Criminal Appeals Firm. clear guidelines as to what should happen in period of escort.’ these circumstances. We pride ourselves on delivering a client centric service, It is worth noting that the time limit for re- straight talking legal experts who put your needs first. Property left in a vacated cell should be secured sponses to stage 1 or stage 2 complaints involv- and checked as soon as possible. The guide- ing another establishment is 10 working days lines state that two members of staff should be rather than the usual 5. present at a cell clearance. They should make We provide legal aid services in : We offer competitive Fixed Fees: sure all in-possession property left is recorded If you believe that the guidelines have not been on a Cell Clearance Certificate and that this followed properly and has resulted in loss or • Parole Hearings • Re-categorisation matters certificate is kept with the property record damage of your property you should make a • Adjudications • Pre-Tariff Reviews cards. Any discrepancies between the records complaint using the prison complaints system. • Sentence calculations • Sentence planning should be recorded. In the case of shared cells, Give as much detail as possible as to what items the remaining prisoner should also be present have been lost or damaged, where and when • Licence recalls • Governor adjudications to identify their own property. the items were purchased and the value of each • Tariff reviews • independent risk assessments item. If you are not satisfied by the responses • Challenges to Parole Board decisions • HDC /ROTLS The cleared property should be placed in prop- after both stages of this process you can write • Segregation erty bags and sealed. When this property is to the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman. You returned to you, the property bags should be could also start a claim in a County Court, We also specialise in Immigration • Transfers unsealed in your presence so that you can though be aware that legal aid is generally not and Mental Health Matters. check the contents. available for this.

Transfers are another time when some people You can contact the Prison Reform Trust’s experience difficulty with property. On trans- advice team at FREEPOST ND6125 London For more information, please contact T: 0203 841 8580 Kathryn Reece-Thomas or Sara Watson fer, property should be sealed with a unique EC1B 1PN. Our free information line is open security seal which should be recorded on your Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 3.30-5.30. ReeceThomasWatson, St Marks Studios, 14 Chillingworth Road, London N7 8QJ property card. You should be asked to sign the The number is 0808 802 0060 and does not card to confirm that the record is correct and a need to be put on your pin. 28 Information // Through the Gate www.insidetime.org Insidetime March 2016 I’m not looking for trouble… James Timpson, CEO of Timpson, the family retail shoe repair and key cutting business, has just been appointed the new chair of the Prison Reform Trust. This year he appeared in the Sunday Times 500 most influential list, acknowledging his recruitment of ex-offenders and in 2011 was presented with the OBE for ‘Services to Training and Employment for Disadvantaged People.’ Here he discusses Prime Minister David Cameron’s prison reform announcement made last month and explains why he accepted the invitation to chair PRT

Erwin James when our paths have crossed As the new chair of PRT he during prison related events. will be even more involved in I was always intrigued as to the great prisons debate. He As a regular customer of why someone in such a suc- smiles when I ask him how Timpson, (I’ve had a number cessful and privileged posi- come the big interest in pris- of pairs of shoes re-heeled, tion would ever want to be ons? “My parents used to fos- one watch repaired and re- interested in what goes on in ter children from troubled cently purchased a ‘watch our prisons. His business backgrounds,” he says. “I battery for life’ for £24.99) it trades from more than 1500 was brought up with foster seems slightly odd now to be shops across the country and children all my life and so in Timpson House the compa- turns over in excess of £200m. many of them ended up in ny’s headquarters in He employs over three and a prison. Eighty four per cent of Manchester sitting opposite half thousand “amazing col- kids who were excluded from the man in charge. school are guaranteed to go leagues” - around 10 percent to prison. So we’re dealing of whom are former James Timpson I’ve met James Timpson a with people who need help. I couple of times over the years prisoners. rmnj solicitors Recalled? ... let us fight for your freedom Give our experienced Prison Law Team a call on 0151 200 4071 - we can help you.

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I asked the director of Halden Working for National Prison how he managed Radio - both sides of the gate public perception. Tara Levy-White talent for at Styal. When released on tag I con- How is it that the tinued to stay in touch with Prison Radio and Norwegian public Suzi because this had become something I was I never thought I’d receive a custodial sentence passionate about and wanted to continue are able to accept for my crime, but I did and found myself at doing. My curfew was adjusted so I could attend such comfortable HMP Styal. This would initially be the worst the annual Prison Radio conference in London. time of my life as you don’t see past being sen- This was only 2 weeks after my release and I and progressive tenced, or how you will actually serve time. loved being back in that environment. conditions for But at the end of the day we make these deci- sions and now we have to get through it. I defi- In the new year Suzi phoned to say she had nitely couldn’t see that for a while. I started prisoners? Exercise yard by the cell block Halden prison, Norway gotten me a paid position as presenter with getting into a routine and doing various jobs National Prison Radio working on a three remember my mum looking is he that the Government can change their behaviour. There and courses to basically pass the time. But I month project. This is what I am currently after children whose mothers achieve what David Cameron are so many ways to help peo- realised I needed to not just pass time but also doing and loving every moment of it. The pro- were in prison and I some- proposes? “I think they can ple in prison not to re-offend, make the most of it. ject is called Past Present and Future where I times had to sit outside Styal get to the point where they so they can go on and lead a interview people with interesting jobs who prison for hours while my can prove that the direction of normal happier life and soci- One of the main things I missed, apart from have also overcome many challenges, or who mum had taken the baby to go travel is working. That to me ety is safer for it.” family and friends was music. So when I saw help people to turn their lives around. I have and see their mum. I was al- is all we need at this stage, the opportunity to do a media radio course ways intrigued by it.” because if it becomes obvious On his policy of training and made some terrible decisions with my life and with National Prison Radio I decided to give it been punished. But I have turned it into some- its working and they have a employing former prisoners a go. This was not something I had ever done He acknowledges that there is plan - then it can be rolled he says as far as his customers thing positive as well. I actually went back to before but I figured I had nothing to lose. They no excuse for crime, for caus- out. For example the Academy are concerned he is complete- Styal to record some shows and give a pres- needed a new key worker as well, so I decided ing harm and distress to oth- schools, the pace of Academy ly open about it. “If a custom- entation to ministers for European funding. I to just jump in with both feet and do the media ers but is adamant that unless schools has rolled out faster er didn’t want to come into got to see some of the girls I’d spent time with we start using the prison ex- under this government than it one of my shops because of course and key worker job simultaneously. during my sentence at Styal. This was a bizarre perience in a positive, crea- was under the New Labour this policy that’s fine. But the situation made possible because I wanted a tive and intelligent way the government who started it off majority of the customers I You want to be busy in prison after all because second chance and there were people willing cycle of crime and prison will in the first place. So it will speak to think it’s fantastic. it makes the time pass quicker. I met Suzi, a to give that to me. never be broken for so many. have a snowball effect, but of And I know the colleagues producer with National Prison Radio and she “The way I see it is we have a course first of all they need to who work in our shops - we explained the work they do at Stylistic Radio. One of the girls hugged me when I was leaving Health Service which is gen- reduce prison numbers.” don’t call anyone an ex-of- Suzi asked if this was something I would be again and said “So there is life after Styal then.” erally fantastic at making fender or an ex-prisoners - we interested in doing. I said “I love music and I people better; we have Armed There has been so much an- call them Timpson foundation love talking, so absolutely!” Suzi said “Great, I said “Most definitely.” forces that do a wonderful job ti-prisoner rhetoric from poli- colleagues. let’s do this then.” of keeping us safe; we have ticians and the press over the an education system that is past fifteen or twenty years, a And his decision to join the Now this is going to sound pretty cheesy but I again generally very good at sustained campaign of nega- Prison Reform Trust as chair? actually started to enjoy getting up in the morn- Tara Levy-White is a presenter with National educating our young people tivity towards prisoners, how “Well one reason is that I ings. I was eager to complete the course so I Prison Radio - but we have a Prison Service does he think it’s going to be think they do fantastic work. could give all my attention to writing scripts that fails us on so many levels possible to get the voting pub- My first thought when I got and thinking of new ideas for shows. Radio For details of when Past Present and and is not very good at stop- lic to support prison reform the call was ‘wow’. I’ve Future is broadcast see page 42 ping people going back. For and to appreciate that this learned in my business career was something I loved and discovered I had a me our Prison Service should may actually be a good thing only to do things, to take sit on the same level as all for all of us? He tells me about things on that I know I can other public services. If you a visit he made to a prison in make a really good positive just lock someone up and Norway called Halden - a impact with. I’m not there to COMPENSATION FOR don’t give them any opportu- state of the art institution with make up the numbers. I’m not nities to better themselves every modern convenience looking for trouble. But I feel then you are bound to have imaginable. If ever there was I have an opportunity to make VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE more victims when they are such a thing as a luxurious a real difference to lots of peo- Helping victims plan for the future and achieve justice released.” prison, Halden is surely it. ple and the PRT have got a bloody good group of sup- Our specialist team are committed to helping victims of abuse and are experts in He says the Prime Minister’s “Well I asked the director of porters. I also love the fact bringing action against local authorities, such as social services, and residential prison reform announcement Halden how he managed pub- that it was set up 31 years ago institutions, such as children’s homes. is really good news. “The fact lic perception. How is it that and it was only meant to be Our dedicated team of male and female lawyers have a proven track record with is there has been no good the Norwegian public are able around for five years. I want prison news for nearly twenty to accept such comfortable to try and support everybody sexual, physical and emotional abuse claims. years really. The tide is begin- and progressive conditions there.” Child abuse can take a long time to come to terms with and it can be difficult for ning to turn. I feel genuinely for prisoners? He said than in victims to speak out about their traumatic experiences. Regardless of how long ago optimistic. But my worry is its his country politicians recog- Does he have a vision for the abuse took place, you may still be able to make a claim. going to take time. My worry nise that it may not be the PRT? “I want to understand it is: a prisoner, sitting in his most popular way of spending all first. I want to get a feel for Anything you say to us will be handled with the utmost levels of professionalism, cell today is going to think tax-payers money, but actual- the culture. I think there are sensitivity and understanding. ‘Oh great, everything is going ly this is the most effective some fantastic people there Child abuse claims are often eligible for pubic funding and Jordans are recognised by to change for the better.’ Not way of reducing the number and I want to get to know straight away it’s not. It’s of potential victims of prison everybody. My view on how the legal services commission as one of the few specialist providers of legal aid for going to take time. My experi- leavers. It’s a combination of you lead organisations is this type of work in the UK. ence is that to change any needing leadership from the about doing a few things very culture, whether it’s family, top - we need politicians to be very well. I’ve been leading relationships or whatever it honest about our prisons as my company here for 15 years. can take years.” David Cameron and Michael To me leadership is about get- ›› Registered with EMAP ‹‹ Gove have been - and to say ting a great team together and But the Government have this is not right, we’re going listening. I want to make sure Call Christine Sands and the team on 01924 868911 only got three or four years to fix it and protect the safety the PRT team has a clear di- Email [email protected] left. Will that be long enough of our citizens. We need to rection and that we challenge Write to Neil Jordan House, Wellington Road, , WF13 1HL does he think? How confident help and manage people to and we give hope.” COMPENSATION FOR VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE Helping victims plan for the future and achieve justice Our specialist team have already helped victims at the following places; In Foster Care Leeds Care Homes Wales Care Homes North East Care Homes Manchester Care Homes St Williams, East Yorkshire Medomsley Detention Centre, County Durham If you have suffered sexual abuse in any institution or whilst in the care of your local authority we may be able to help.

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Employment for people who have been in You may already be attending education prison can often be limited and so this classes and have become more focussed on monthly section is for me to help you look furthering this and your prison education The Careers Lady at your skills and personal qualities to give staff will have contact with local colleges to you the best opportunity to ensure employ- help you with this. ers will want to look seriously at off ering The fi rst step through the you a job. The skills you have identifi ed and devel- oped whilst in prison may provide you with Over the coming months I will be providing a means of being self-employed and this is door to your future information and advice on career choices a section I will be covering in the coming which will help you to fully prepare yourself months. In the meantime you can be think- in readiness for leaving prison. ing about how you can improve on these skills through training programmes outside such as This month we are looking at how you pres- prison, discussing these opportunities with ent your CV - so you include things you have the prison trainer. CURRICULUM VITAE should be here plus any contact details achieved, not only before prison but also and address skills you have achieved whilst in prison. Lastly, don’t rush into making decisions. Your name . It is crucial that Give yourself time to regularly look at your mobile number and home telephone number. CV, ensuring it is a profi le of yourself that will ensure employers will seriously con- Personal Profile sider inviting you for an interview. This is an opportunity to tell the employer a bit about you LETTER OF APPLICATION you aim it at the job you are applying for e.g. if you are applying for a job in a shop you should tell the employer about previous shop experience or This is also known as a covering letter and is sent with your experience about working with people. This shows that you have communi- Curriculum Vitae (CV) to provide additional information cation skills. regarding your skills and experience for the job. It also shows were whilst you did your commitment to the job on offer and why the employer Work Experience should select you for an interview. It should therefore be tailored This section can give you the opportunity to tell the employer what work to the job. It should include: skills you have and what your main responsibilities that job e.g. pricing stock, till work. You can offer your prison skills that you l The job/position you are applying for so that the employer is have acquired that would be relevant. You may have worked in the kitchen clear what position you are interested in. This is important in - that would show you are a good team worker. You may be a prison red case there are several jobs being offered in the same company. band - or have been a Listener or held any other positions that require trust - this would show that prison staff consider you to be trustworthy. Think l Greeting about your qualities that would also fit in this section e.g. good timekeeper, make it personal - If you- such have as theDear employers Mr/Mrs/Ms name and always commitment etc. . For example anything you their last name. If you don’t have a name you but not too old can always start your letter with Dear Education and Qualifications Sir/Madam. These should be in bullet point gained in school but not more than 10 years ago. Any prison education you l Why you are writing - where are doing at the moment can also be included here. Literacy and numeracy you saw the job advertised. classes are very important and if you are working through those, they should be included. l What you have to offer and why you would be a good fit for the job. Training This section is perfect in prison. for you to include any training classes you l Lastly end your letter with either Yours Sincerely have obtained have started your letter with Dear Mr or Mrs or Ms Last name or Interests Yours Faithfully Do you have any interests or hobbies? Include reading if you started your letter with Dear Sir/Madam. if you l End your letter with your signature followed by your name in books, crosswords, chess etc block capitals .

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an immense achievement. It on prison education shows to others that your time inside has not been wasted, that you have Nina Champion and more use of prisoner mentors, he could have got better marks. Half a tick! striven to move forward Head of Policy. Prisoners’ despite whatever wrongs or Education Trust ROTL madness got you in prison. When asked what else would improve prison It’s not just something you can add to your CV, but a On Monday 8th February the Prime Minister education, one reader made a plea for: declaration of dedication. It gave a major speech about the reform of pris- can take you in an entirely ons. It was great to see the Government sup- ‘ROTL policy with tighter restrictions should be new direction, as much for porting prison education from the very top. changed as it prevents offenders putting in place But how positive and constructive are the employment arrangements before release’. In the insights your studies Prime Minister’s words? If we were marking his speech the Prime Minister said: ‘satellite bring as well as the recogni- his work, what would he get? tracking tags could be used so that more pris- tion from others. oners can go out to work in the day and return In the December issue we published an article in the evening. They could help some offenders © Rebecca Radmore Following my release, I am a summarising Inside Time readers’ responses with a full-time job to keep it, and just spend trustee of Justice in Prisons to the review of prison education being led by weekends in custody instead.’ Tick! Stephen Jackley administrative ‘headache’ and director of Arkbound. ‘super head teacher’ Dame Sally Coates. Were for establishments, I was Completing my degree has any of those recommendations mentioned by ‘Ban the Box’ transferred many times. This helped my work with both the Prime Minister? Another Inside Time reader suggested ‘They Being in prison was disruptive to my studies, organisations. For JIP, which should take off the box on job applications that inevitably cuts but also gave me insight into aims to enhance access to Role of the Governor ask if you have a criminal record’. you off from how different prisons regard justice in prisons as well as When asked who should be responsible and society and impedes future OU studies. Perhaps the improve the successful accountable for the effectiveness of prison David Cameron said: ‘There’s a simple problem: prospects. Time incarcerated most common difficulty I reintegration of offenders education one Inside Time reader suggested: today, ex-offenders are often rejected for jobs can easily equate to time encountered was a lack of back into society, I have outright because of their past. I want us to build wasted, with many leaving access to IT, since many developed a proposal ‘The Governor of each prison should be assessed a country where the shame of prior convictions prison worse than they modules require you to use document that was written on his/her ability to deliver education and train- doesn’t necessarily hold them back from working entered. interactive CDs and even the through the skills acquired ing to all prisoners’. In his speech David Cameron and providing for their families.’ His solution is internet. However, the OU via my studies. In the case of said he intends to give ‘much greater control of exactly what the Inside Time reader suggested: I entered prison in the generally recognises the Arkbound, a publishing education to prison governors’. Tick! ‘They’ve done it in America - it’s called ‘ban the middle of 2009 and left in problems prisoners can face social enterprise with box’.. And because I believe in leading by ex- 2015. It was my first time. I in accessing these things so international ambitions, the ample, I can announce today that every part of Measures of success came from a fragmented alternative provisions can techniques and research the civil service will be ‘banning the box’ in these When asked how to better assess and measure family, but nonetheless had often be put in place. conducted through the OU initial recruitment stages’. Tick! the performance and effectiveness of prisoner access to educational and has been essential. learning, one Inside Time reader replied: employment pathways that I There were times when study What was missing? stupidly did not take. was hard and boring. Times I look back on the decision The Prime Minister cannot cover everything ‘Percentage of prisoners in education and get- Instead I opted for crime. when even getting a quiet to study with the OU as a in a speech of a few hundred words, but it ting stats from probation on employment and The result could have marked space to read and write was major turning point. It was offending outside prison’. The Prime Minister marks a significant step in re-framing the pur- the bottom of a downward impossible. Even occasional- something made possible by said ‘We will measure the things that really pose of our prisons, putting rehabilitation and spiral. But I decided to study ly the approach from the OU the Prisoners’ Education count: reoffending levels compared to a predict- learning at the heart. However at a practical with the Open University, at itself was frustrating. After Trust, which helps fund ed rate; employment outcomes for prisoners; level, there are many barriers to be overcome first doing a social science getting some poor module prisoners’ higher education. whether or not the offender went into permanent to achieve this, not least huge overcrowding module then moving on to results, the best I could hope I can only say an immense accommodation; and what progress was made - and insufficient staff to unlock learners to other areas that interested me. for at the end was to get a on basic literacy and key skills.’ Tick! take them to classrooms and workshops. thank you to the PET, straight ‘pass’… or just give together with all those tutors Education is available in all Quality teachers We look forward to hearing more details of up on the whole thing. Yet I and staff who helped me prisons, but its quality persisted, utilising one of the When asked how to improve teaching stand- Dame Sally Coates’ Review and hope she rec- along the way - yes, even the varies. There is a plethora of ards in prisons, one Inside Time reader said: ommends other measures to tackle barriers only (possibly the only) real odd establishment! And, for highlighted by Inside Time readers such as the entry-level qualifications opportunities I was given for all those thinking about available, up to ‘GCSE’ and ‘While some teachers are excellent, some seem narrowness of education on offer and the lack improving my life outside doing a degree in prison, or perhaps even ‘A’ level barely qualified especially when they cover of progression to higher level learning; low prison. Perhaps no one was in the midst of doing one: equivalent, but beyond that classes. Prison education must be a poor rela- education pay compared to work; minimal use more surprised than me take the plunge, tion’. In his speech the PM set out a plan to of ICT; more opportunities for peer mentors there is a practical void. For when, upon release, I see it through. develop a new scheme that will recruit ‘the and former prisoners who have transformed those who already have discovered that I got a ‘First best and brightest graduates who will trans- their lives through education to inspire A-levels, or who aspire to go Class’ BSc. form prisons into places of rehabilitation and others. beyond, there is really only learning’. Sounds good in theory, but as one the Open University. Why study with the OU? The Stephen Jackley is a former Inside Time reader pointed out: Of course limited resources and prisons under answer can vary. For some, it Prisoners Education Trust pressure with a lack of staff could undermine Doing an OU course requires provides relief from boredom funded learner ‘The teacher has to be able to look at learners all these excellent ambitions. But as a state- commitment and persever- - a crucial outlet for intellec- as people not prisoners! It usually takes some- ment of purpose and direction, the Prime ance. Fortunately, it is tual energies that may The Open University work hard Minister’s speech is heading to the top of the one who has the experience of many years teach- possible to start off at a ‘low’ otherwise be wasted. For to provide learners with re- class. ing to be able to handle the strangeness of a level and work your way up. others it is to prove them- sources that don’t require in- prison classroom’. I also found the visits from selves; to show that they are ternet access and in addition tutors immensely helpful, not some dumb criminal they have made Access Module Will new graduates have the experience to and in some prisons the whose place is to rot inside. I materials available on the If you would like advice or funding to study a Virtual Campus. If you are in- handle a prison classroom? If the Prime support provided was guess, for me, it was a distance learning course or tell us about your terested in OU study and have Minister’s plan was to also include professional commendable. But, due to combination of both. development for all staff, incentives for high experiences of prison education - write to confiscation (court) proceed- any questions, or comments quality experienced teachers to work in prisons FREEPOST Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) or please write to us at FREEPOST: ings, as well as becoming an Gaining a degree in prison is call 0203 752 5680. 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defendants who present a high or very ‘… off enders should be placed in APs to the constraints of their licence Approved high risk of serious harm. Most will only where it is clear that this level conditions. In particular, conditions The have been released from prison on of monitoring and intensive activity such as programme requirements licence. Some will be serving commu- is needed. APs should not be treated that oblige off enders to be in a spe- Premises nity sentences or be subject to a sus- as the default option for all high-risk cific place (including the AP) can pended sentence, while others be on off enders; given the limited spaces PI 2014-032 legitimately restrict their freedom of RULE bail pending trial. In all these cases available, the need for a placement Issued: 19 May 2014, Effective movement without counting as cus- they will be subject to a condition of should be determined, and the place- from: 1 June 2014, Expiry Date: 30 tody, provided their primary purpose residence that is similar to the resi- ment designed, as an integral part of April 2015 is not to replicate custody but to man- Book dence condition in a licence. The the off ender management process. age risk’. great majority of AP residents are li- Probation Instructions are similar to Equally, alternatives should be ex- with Paul Sullivan Prison Service Instructions and fol- censees and this advice is focused plored to the same extent in all cases, ‘Like all off enders, AP residents can- low the same format. Many PSIs are mainly on them, although the fi nal in case the off ender’s risk manage- not be subject to curfew arrange- section deals with bail’. also published as PIs. ment and other needs can be met ments that are so restrictive as to through some means other than an amount to custody. The overnight ‘APs do not just conduct monitoring AP’. Whilst this PI nominally ceased to curfew counts towards overall curfew and surveillance. They are also have eff ect in April 2015 and, as we hours and so must be taken account obliged to provide key workers who write, hasn’t been replaced, it is in- in considering the cumulative eff ect form an integral part of the off ender The main purpose of teresting in that it refers to arrange- of other restrictions’. ments by the new CRCs, which are management process, and each resi- Approved Premises (APs) is to dent will have a programme of pur- provide intensive supervision replacing a lot of Probation functions Probation Instructions are oft en not to place released prisoners in poseful activity that is intended to for offenders or defendants easily available through prison li- Approved Premises. It also provides help with reducing re-off ending and who present a high or very braries. If you wish to study a copy interesting guidance on when to reintegration into society. Purposeful high risk of serious harm of this PI you should make an appli- place released prisoners in such activity ranges from programmes and cation to your prison probation staff . premises. off ending behaviour work to life skills and seeking employment’. ‘ … the average length of stay is It states; ‘The Approved Premises around three months, there is no typ- The Approved Premises Manual con- Manual and Specification were is- ‘APs are a scarce resource. There are ical length of stay, and no set expec- tains important information such as sued under PI 04/2011. While only 101 in the whole of England and tation. The assumption should be searching residents’ rooms and it’s Approved Premises (APs) operations Wales (four in Wales), and while all that an off ender will stay as long as useful to read or have a copy if going are remaining within the NPS (in- NPS Divisions have them, only the needed, unless there is a pressing to an AP. cluding the independent APs, which larger metropolitan areas have signif- reason to move him on. A common are under contract to NOMS), CRCs icant numbers. Total capacity is reason is that the space is needed for will be able to place off enders in APs around 2200 beds (of which 112 are a more urgent case’. where necessary and where it is for women). APs are also expensive, PI 2014-032 can be download- agreed by the NPS’. because of the staffi ng requirements. ‘ … it is essential to bear in mind that ed at: tinyurl.com/gvsj3um Usage is generally high and in many AP residents are in the community. PI 2014-032 Annex A ‘The main purpose of Approved parts of the country there is great This means they are free to leave and - Approved Premises Manual © Gstudio Group - Fotolia.com Premises (APs) is to provide intensive pressure on beds, and in some cases to move around the surrounding can be downloaded at: supervision for offenders or a waiting list’. area, although this is always subject tinyurl.com/zxadvgt THANKS TO A SAFETY RAIL AND A DODGY SCREW WE WERE ABLE TO CLAIM £30,000 FOR INMATE 3670

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• use of force was very high but arrange- ments to ensure accountability were weak; The Inspector Calls • the conditions in the segregation unit were terrible; • prisoners struggled to access basic necessities Inside Time highlights areas of good and bad practice, such as toiletries, clean clothes and bedding; • the time prisoners spent out of their cell along with a summary of prisoner survey responses at was poor.

HMPs Warren Hill and Leicester. These extracts are In summing up Martin Lomas, HM Deputy Chief taken from the most recent Reports published by HM HMP Leicester Inspector of Prisons, said; “Overall this is a Adult male local prison with a resettlement poor report. We found pockets, such as the gym, Inspectorate of Prisons. function substance misuse services and the work of the Managed by HMPS CRC, where the prison was operating more ef- Warren Hill was closed as a boy’s prison in CNA: 214 fectively, but much of what we inspected had January 2014 and re-roled to a Category C adult Population: 325 (October 2015) deteriorated. Managers were aware of the prob- lems and data was being collected, but it wasn’t closed prison with a Therapeutic Community Unannounced Full Inspection: 28 September - 9 October 2015 Published: 17 February 2016 being used and problems were not being ana- to replace the one closing at Blundeston. In Last inspection: November 2013 lysed. There were few meaningful plans to effect September 2014 it was further re-roled to pilot progress and we could discern no determina- a ‘Progression Regime’ for those who had ab- HMP Leicester is the 7th most overcrowded tion of priorities. Managers should start by sconded or failed RoTL or community prison at 158% making the prison safer and gaining control of licences. basic operational routines.” Safety Poor Inspectors were impressed at how the prison Respect Not sufficiently good Commenting on the report Andrew Neilson, had coped and found a safe prison providing Purposeful Activity Not sufficiently good Director of Campaigns at the Howard League good care for new arrivals and vulnerable pris- Resettlement Not sufficiently good for Penal Reform, said: “This report sets out in oners. Levels of violence and self-harm were stark detail the catastrophic impact of over- low and this report says that the excellent re- Conditions have crowding in prisons. Violence is rife. Prisoners lationship between prisoners and staff was at can get alcohol and legal highs easily, but they HMP Warren Hill deteriorated cannot get the basics, such as toiletries, clean Category C adult male closed prisons the heart of what is good at Warren Hill. clothes and bedding.” Managed by HMPS Responses to 144 returned There is an informal and friendly reception area CNA: 244 prisoner questionnaires: NEXT MONTH: We review the final prison Population:184 (October 2015) echoing an ethos of a professional and caring inspection report of Holloway. An inspec- Unannounced Full Inspection: 12-23 October 2015 staff approach. All prisoners have a Personal 7.4% IPP/Life Prisoners 17.8% Recall tion that was underway as the decision to Published: 09 February 2016 Officer and Key Worker and, Inspectors said; 19.7% Remand 84% Treated well in Reception close it was being made. Last inspection: March 2013 (held boys 15-18 “unlike many other prisons we visit this was a 43% Had legal letters opened 31% Food is years) meaningful relationship, founded on decency, bad or very bad 25% Don’t know who IMB which aimed to encourage prisoners to take are 80% Treated with respect by staff 55% Recently published HMCIP reports Safety Good personal responsibility for their actions, and Number who have felt unsafe 40% Victimised Respect Good Ashfield - December 2015 reduce their risk of reoffending.” by staff 70% Difficult to see dentist57% Purposeful Activity Reasonably good ‘A well run prison’ Easy to get drugs 41% Not engaged in any Resettlement Good The weakest area of the prison was formal learn- Hatfield - January 2016 purposeful activities 63% Less than 4 hours ing and skills provision which Ofsted rated as ‘A safe, decent and purposeful resettlement prison’ out of cell 21% Don’t get visits Well led and making inadequate. In summing up Martin Lomas, HM Leicester - February 2016 Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons, said; “Overall ‘Conditions have deteriorated’ impressive progress This is a poor report especially in relation to we felt that some impressive progress had been Maidstone - December 2015 the safety of prisoners. In their report Inspectors made at Warren Hill despite the amount and ‘Unsure of its role in preparing prisoners for Responses to 138 returned highlight: speed of change over the last couple of years. release and managing their risk’ • levels of violence were high, including a prisoner questionnaires: The progression regime had been developed very high assault rate against staff; Rye Hill - December 2015 97% IPP/Life Prisoners 6.3% Recall 22% from scratch to meet the needs of the group of • there was no strategy and no plan to reduce ‘Performing well in most areas’ prisoners who could no longer progress to the Aged over 50 95% Treated well in Reception violence and intimidation; Rochester - January 2016 38% Had legal letters opened 36% Food is open estate, and it was showing real promise. • reception was grim and the management of ‘Some deterioration’ bad or very bad The level of innovation was impressive, and we 8% Don’t know who IMB are risk and vulnerability were poor; Warren Hill - February 2016 felt that many aspects of the regime and ap- 91% Treated with respect by staff 21% • levels of self-harm had increased by 50% since ‘Well led and making impressive progress’ Number who have felt unsafe 16% Victimised proach adopted could provide lessons to other the previous inspection in 2013 and were now Wealstun - December 2015 prisons about how resettlement and risk reduc- five times the number in other local prisons; by staff 34% Difficult to see dentist32% ‘A well run prison but new psychoactive Easy to get drugs 8% Not engaged in any tion can be placed at the heart of a prison. The • the quality of support for prisoners at risk prison was very well led and was supported by substances causing problems’ purposeful activities 3% Less than 4 hours of suicide and self-harm was inconsistent; an excellent staff group; this delivered some • new psychoactive substances and alcohol Copies of the most recent report for your out of cell 19% Don’t get visits outstanding outcomes for prisoners.” were readily available; prison are available in the library.

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Advertorial taken as a whole. It might be that there is evi- High Court continues to block legal dence from which the relevant intention can Can I appeal be inferred. challenges submitted by British More worryingly, the Supreme Court also re- my murder ferred to the fact that appeals have to be prisoners repatriated from Thailand brought within strict time limits. The fact that the law may have been wrongly interpreted at conviction? the date when you were convicted doesn’t transferred, the enforcement necessarily overcome this. of his sentence in the United David Wells and Jason Elliott Kingdom would be in Who is affected? accordance with the law as it The legal error that Jogee corrects occurred in stood at the time of transfer. On 18th February, the Supreme Court an- 1984. It may be of relevance to you if: That is precisely what nounced their decision in the case of R v Jogee • You have been convicted of murder or pleaded happened. There has been [2016] UKSC 8. The decision has important guilty to murder; no unfairness or inconsist- consequences for those convicted as secondary • You have been convicted of manslaughter or ency of any kind.” parties to a murder. It gives rise to the real pleaded guilty to Manslaughter and ... prospect for appeal, even where there has • Your case involved a group attack (in other Similarly, in the case of W previously been an unsuccessful appeal or words more than 1 person was involved); which was heard by Justice unfavourable review by the Criminal Cases • Your case came to Court in 1984 or later and... Moses at the High Court in Review Commission. • It could be argued that you didn’t directly 2009, reliance was placed on cause death. Carla Riozzi year sentence in Thailand the fact that the prisoner What’s the issue? for narcotic offences. In 2007 had consented to the transfer. S enquired as to his repatria- The law governing secondary parties has often This could be of importance to you even if you Given the conditions of Thai tion to serve his sentence in been referred to as ‘Joint Enterprise’. In cases have previously tried to appeal and failed or Since 2007, I have worked prisons, it is difficult to see a British prison. He was other than homicide it is straightforward. To you have previously asked the CCRC to look at with five British nationals why anyone would refuse to advised that upon his be convicted as a secondary party you have to your case. who were convicted and consent to being repatriated repatriation, he would have participate in the offence. Encouragement can sentenced in Thailand. back to England. If a British to serve half of his custodial amount to participation but presence alone What will the outcome be? Fortunately, all of them have prisoner does not consent to now been released from sentence i.e.13 years less the transfer, there is no legal isn’t enough. A decision of the Privy Council Not everyone who is affected by the decision prison but continue to remain anytime he had served in support from British in 1984 changed this position in murder cases will be able to seek leave to appeal. In some on licence in England. Thailand. S did not apply to authorities, no legal aid or and the division between how Judges have cases evidence of intention will be clear. In repatriate to England that legal remedy available to interpreted the guilt of secondary parties in other cases it will be able to be inferred from Similarly since 2007, I and year. When S applied to challenge the repatriation homicide cases and how they have interpreted the facts. Not all applications for leave to ap- others have lobbied the repatriate to England, he from Thailand. the law in other cases has continued ever since. peal will succeed. In some cases the Court of Government for amendment was advised that due to In brief, the law was wrongly interpreted as Appeal or CCRC will determine that although of the Prisoner Transfer recent changes in the Following the conclusions requiring mere foreseeability in homicide the trial Judge gave a wrong direction to the Agreement. Whilst I was English law in 2009 he issued by Justice Moses in cases. This error was later adopted by the House Jury, this doesn’t alter the safety of the convic- fortunate enough to be party would have to serve over 2 the case of S and W, it seems of Lords in R v Powell, R v English [1999] 1 AC1. tion. In other cases, the Court may take the at the meeting between the years longer in prison upon that any prisoner repatriated view that the application should have been British authorities and the his repatriation. Whilst S back from Thailand will What’s the law now? made earlier. Where the Court determines that Ministry of Foreign Affairs was unhappy he had no have an uphill struggle a conviction should be quashed, this is likely The decision of the Supreme Court in Jogee held in Bangkok during option than to accept the persuading the High Court to result in either a retrial or the substitution brings the law governing the guilt of secondary 2012, very little since then situation. their rights under the of a verdict of not guilty of murder but guilty parties in homicide cases back into line with has been done by the British European Convention of of manslaughter. all other cases. In other words, there has to be authorities to progress this. It was submitted to the Human Rights were an intention to encourage or assist. It isn’t Despite the existing Justices at the High Court breached. What should you do now? necessary for the secondary party to know the agreement leaving determi- that S’ Article 5 (right to precise form that the offence will take. There’s If you feel that there may be doubt over your nate sentenced prisoners liberty and security) and Whilst there still remains a no need for an agreement to commit an offence. conviction as a result of this change in law then serving longer in prison Article 14 (right of non-dis- considerable number of Seeing an offence being committed (or being you should immediately write to David Wells than those with life sentenc- crimination) rights were British nationals detained in aware that it’s going to be committed) and at Wells Burcombe who specialises in criminal es, the amendments are not breached. The Court rejected Thai prisons, over recent deliberately assisting will be enough to estab- appeals and who works with specialist deemed a priority. both claims. years the number of British lish guilt. This focus on what is intended Criminal Appeal Counsel and Queens Counsel. prisoners detained in doesn’t make the issue of foreseeability irrel- Public funding (Legal Aid) will be available in Judgement was handed In relation to Article 5, Thailand has declined. evant. Foreseeability is still relevant as an appropriate cases if you don’t have the means down at the High Court on Justice Moses stated S “could evidential issue. to pay privately. 3rd November 2015 follow- have had no greater ing the latest challenge foresight or justifiable Carla Riozzi is a consult Where does this leave your murder conviction? 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says it would save time if she could see her very good reputation and good reports. Horror client rather than having to ask the Judge for stories I have been told in writing this article, an adjournment. After waiting two hours, an- from other Lawyers of their experience of ad- other Solicitor asks for a cup of tea, which again judications in Private prisons, could fill anoth- Hold on Tight is rudely refused. Extra days seem to be handed er 2 issues of INSIDE TIME. But, they can say out as a matter of course by the Judge. From the staff are not properly trained, they are what I could see, the whole thing was clearly poorly paid etc. etc.: The disturbing thing about 1970s Rockers ELO have recently launched their first album in an exercise in attempting to enforce discipline my recent view of the cuts and adjudications over 30 years. The title for this piece was inspired by one of their by giving inmates the fear of extra days due to is this was a professional, well run prison with the fact there is not enough staff. It needs good officers; the cuts to staff have directly biggest hits and seems pretty good advice for anyone involved strong District Judges (independent adjudica- had an effect on their performance; they are within the Prison/Justice system looking into 2016 tors) not only to maintain discipline in prison still good officers, but the pressure placed on but perhaps more importantly to not bend to them is making them perform badly and it is Simon Rollason massive problems with its administration. I do the pressure of prison officers down the block showing. not have an axe to grind, if something is good and Governors to impose extra days for rela- and works, I will tell it as it is. tively trivial offences. If they do not apply the The current administration has continued to This article touches on issues I raised about 18 Law and PSIs consistently, and dismiss matters follow a United States model regarding the months ago in Inside Time. These issues were On that basis, work conducted by the Howard where necessary, by being fair and robust and prison estate of pushing it more into the private regarding the challenges and inadequacies in League prompted me to look at my recent not a mere conduit for assisting the prison sector. Prisoners are not looked at as people the present prison system, in particular regard- knowledge of Adjudications. My recent expe- service and private contractors in maintaining serving a sentence but as revenue streams that ing under-staffing and the consequences on rience, either side of the Christmas Holidays, some ill-conceived semblance of discipline, can be milked and used to maximise profits. prison regimes in the public and private prison illustrates my point, witness Adjudication at a then these regimes will continue and fester The public sector is being cut and cut to the sector. Victorian Local prison in a rural county town. with the associated consequences. Prisons effect that good professional staff are failing. At 9.00am, 16 inmates are down the block. One need more staff, not more ‘nickings’. If prison Local prisons are being sold off in towns and Before everyone glazes over, hopefully I can other Solicitor and I are waiting. 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Emma Davies • The index off ence for which an off ender always runs the of concern that there is not a with their supervising offi cer • Release on the papers at a and Nicola Blackburn the licence relates was com- risk of being recalled to cus- single definition of what is as possible. future date; mitted against a partner or tody if it is said that they have meant by a developing intimate • Direct the case to an oral ex-partner; breached any of their licence relationship and this may The condition should not be hearing; • The index off ence for which condition. In some cases su- make it diffi cult for off enders in place to prevent an off ender • Refuse release; Off enders will oft en fi nd them- the licence relates was com- pervising offi cers will issue a to fully understand what their from ever entering another • They may also decide to selves subject to a condition mitted in the context of a warning for a suggested breach obligation is when needing to relationship, but rather should adjourn/defer the review pend- to notify their Supervising relationship; of licence conditions in the report a developing intimate be there to assist an off ender ing further Information. Offi cer of any developing in- • The off ender has previous fi rst instance. However, this relationship. However, off end- in seeking support about that timate relationships with convictions for off ences com- will be very much dependent ers may be reassured that the new relationship and ensure The Parole Board will need to women. 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Whether this is event that they enter a rela- ing to relationships. tionships but has failed to do timate relationship will be portive as opposed to preventa- done through written rep- tionship. This article looks at so, it is highly likely that recall determined by all factors rel- tive will oft en be dependent resentations to the Parole the pitfalls of this condition This list is not in any way will be instigated on the basis evant to the off ender and the on the off ender’s relationship Board or via live evidence at and what offenders should exhaustive and each licence that the supervising officer off ender’s case. with their supervising offi cer. an oral hearing, the Parole look to do if they are subject is decided on a case by case may assess that the off ender In practice it is advisable for Board will take all information to it. basis depending on the type is not being co-operative or In practice it appears that the an offender to discuss any into account and decide each and level of risk an individual truthful and will therefore meaning of what constitutes relationship that they think case on its merits. The Parole Why might I be subject to presents. The idea behind a conclude that their risk will a developing intimate relation- may be a developing intimate Board will need to decide this licence condition? notifi cation requirement is to no longer be manageable in ship can be interpreted very relationship with their super- whether the breach of this li- allow the Probation Service to the community. diff erently when it comes to vising officer. In any such cence condition has increased The latest Prison Service monitor an off ender’s devel- the Probation Service consid- discussion an off ender should risk to the extent that it is Instruction setting out the oping intimate relationships. What is a ‘developing ering recall and the Parole ask what is expected of them necessary for the off ender to guidance in relation to licence The supervising officer will intimate relationship’? Board when considering re-re- in terms of further disclosure remain in custody in order for conditions is PSI 12/2015. It want to assess that there has lease. If in any doubt, it best so they are clear where they the public to be protected. advises that the Probation Off enders are oft en unclear as been no increase in an off end- for an off ender to attempt to stand. It would be advisable Service should consider im- to what is meant by the term er’s level of risk and look at discuss any confusion with to make a note of the date and Off enders should be advised posing a condition for an of- “developing intimate relation- whether any new relationship their supervising offi ce so they content of the discussions for that it is not always simply the fender to notify their ship”. The guidance provided is healthy, pro social and of- are perfectly clear what is future reference if necessary. case of telling the Parole Board Supervising Officer of any in PSI 12/2015 suggests that fence free. expected of them. that the breach was as a result

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I off your default sentence I regret that if this is the case to his family, the prison MK HMP Northumberland questioned the OMU and term, any solicitor would they have been imposed service have a location policy their response was that need more information to correctly and there is Q I was recalled back to stating that contact between they were imposing the help you further, such as unfortunately nothing you prison after spending 3 a prisoner and his family are Forum interest that had accrued. when the Confiscation Order are able to do about it. encouraged. As you have months in an approved Can you tell me if it is up to was made and when the premises. Soon after my Response supplied by Reeds been moved a significant way Answers are kindly them to do that? Time to Pay expired. Therefore, recall I received a letter Solicitors away from home, I would provided by: if you would like further help from the HM Courts and suggest that you follow the A The OMU are entitled to with this matter, it would be Hine Solicitors Tribunals Service, after internal complaints proce- work out how many days wise to instruct a solicitor to GM HMP Channings Wood Reeds Solicitors pleading guilty to two dure and ask them to provide should be taken off your help you with your problem. Frisby & Co Solicitors breaches of my conditions. Q I was transferred from you with the reasons for your default sentence when you Pickup & Scott Solicitors Response supplied by Frisby The letter stated that I had HMP Winchester to here transfer or make a transfer have made a payment & Co Solicitors to pay a ‘Victim Surcharge’ without my consent. I have application to the OCA towards your Confiscation of £100. I was recalled for received all the available department. Further to these Answers to readers’ legal Order. This is done on an breaching my conditions educational opportunities issues you have asked what queries are given on a apportionment basis. For AH HMP Gartree and therefore had no and I’m over qualified to the consequences are for not strictly without liability basis. example, if you had £1,000.00 Q Could you please clarify if ‘victim’ involved, so I wrote benefit. I was an education working and if you can be If you propose acting upon left to pay on your Order and gifting property to another to them to ask why. Their mentor at Winchester but forced to work. Whilst you any of the opinions that you were then given a prisoner without permis- response was that it was a cannot do this here as my cannot be forced to work by appear, you must first take sentence of 100 days, then sion from prison authorities government imposed Enhanced status did not the prison you may remain legal advice. each day would represent a is unlawful? Are prison staff statutory surcharge which transfer with me. My on the basic level as a result £10.00 portion of your Order. permitted to prohibit this is dependent on sentence options are now limited of insufficient commitment to Send your Legal Queries If you then paid over £100.00 from taking place? but not discretionary. Does and none of which I desire rehabilitation and purposeful (concise and clearly marked towards your Confiscation this mean that my victim is to do. When I was inter- activity. The guidelines for ‘legal’) to: David Wells, Order, then 10 days would be There are no direct the government? viewed by prison staff I was IEP Levels and Requirements Solicitor c/o Inside Time, taken off your default A instructions in PSI-12-2011 told the prison would can be found in PSI 30/2013 Botley Mills, Botley, sentence term. about prisoners gifting other choose an option for me section 4. 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Before the trial the solicitor commented that very different. The facts are there to be deter- the QC was “far from up to speed and was not mined by the Judge. The appeal issue is simply concerned, that was obvious”. During the whether the sentence was manifestly excessive. Banks cross-examination of the defendant the QC was If material factors were not put before the Judge sending e-mails regarding other cases. After all they can be raised but there is no opportunity the prosecution evidence was called, the de- for the witness to be cross-examined again fence contended that there was insufficient because the first cross-examination was so un- on Sentence evidence for the case to continue. The prose- successful. The Court of Appeal seeks to look Robert Banks, a barrister, writes Banks on Sentence. It is the second-largest selling cution document for this issue was 17 pages at the primary factors. I consider a successful criminal practitioner’s text book and is used by judges for sentencing more than any long, whereas the QC’s document was a page appeal to be most unlikely on the information and a half. It was suggested that the QC’s clos- you have given me. other book. The book is classified by the Ministry of Justice as a core judicial text book. ing speech failed to rebut the prosecution The book has an app which is for Apple iPads and Windows 8/10 tablets and computers. points. The 2015 app with updates and the 2016 app (available when it is published) costs £138 (incl. VAT) as a joint purchase. The 2015 print copy and the 2016 print copy The Court of Appeal found that the QC had not Update (when published) costs £128 as a joint purchase. If you have access to a computer, you read the material before he used his junior At the moment there is no judgment in the ad- can follow Robert on Twitter, @BanksonSentence and you can receive his weekly counsel’s work to apply to exclude the evidence journed IPP case which I mentioned last year. It is sentencing Alert. of a psychologist who was to be called by the expected soon. www.banksr.com prosecution. The QC’s page and a half docu- ment was lamentable and wholly inadequate. Q I was charged with section 18 and accused time to see you before the case. He might also They accepted most of the defence suggestions Asking Robert and Jason of pushing my partner on a concrete path and say that he tried to see you in prison before the (most of which I have not listed). However, the questions she fell. It was an accident. When the police trial but the prison did not have any slots left. failures during the application about the psy- took a statement from her she lied, as she I just don’t know and will answer your question chiatrist were not material as the evidence was Please make sure your question concerns sentence wanted me out of her life. She invented an on the basis of your version. There was a time excluded by the Judge. The failure to draft more and not conviction and send the letter to Inside account of what I said at the time. I saw my when, if your barrister was incompetent, you than a page and a half was not relevant as there Time, marked for Robert Banks or Jason Elliott. barrister before trial and he seemed capable had a ground of appeal. That has changed. To was a case to answer. The other failures did not Unless you say you don’t want your question and enough. On the day of trial he didn’t turn up quash a conviction, it is necessary to show that make the trial unfair or the conviction unsafe. answer published, it will be assumed you have no but another barrister did. This barrister was the advocate’s performance led to identifiable They looked at all the evidence and were sat- objection to publication. It is usually not possible only interested in making me plead guilty, errors or irregularities in the trial, which them- isfied the conviction was safe. to determine whether a particular defendant has which I wasn’t interested in doing. So he start- selves made the trial process unfair or unsafe, grounds of appeal without seeing all the paperwork. ed the trial without fully coming to grips with R v Day 2003 EWCA Crim 1060. The distinction you have. Another difficulty is that if you ac- Analysing all the paperwork is not possible. The my case and when it came to cross-examina- between the two tests is subtle but it is now far cuse your counsel of incompetence, the Court column is designed for simple questions and tion he tried to read out my account and the more difficult to quash a conviction. A recent of Appeal will require you to ‘waive privilege’, answers. Judge kept interrupting him. He seemed out example of the law in action is R v Ekaireb 2015 which means the court will be given all your of his depth and when the so-called victim EWCA Crim 1936. The defendant was convicted counsel’s and solicitor’s papers and will ask for No-one will have their identity revealed. Letters was cross-examined she emerged unscathed of murder and the victim’s body was never a statement from your former advocate. This which a) are without an address, b) cannot be read, when there were so many things that should found. The evidence was entirely circumstantial material will then be served on the or c) are sent direct, cannot be answered. Letters have been put to her. The Judge then took her and relied on a complex factual background. prosecution. sent by readers to Inside Time are sent on to a case as the facts of the case and hammered The defendant dismissed his QC after his de- solicitor, who forwards them to Robert and Jason. me on sentence. My barrister was simply so fence speech. The defendant appealed, saying The situation as far as sentence is concerned is If your solicitor wants to see previous questions and incompetent he could not handle the case. the QC’s incompetence rendered the conviction answers, they are at www.banksr.com. He said there were no grounds of appeal. Well unsafe. At the appeal hearing the QC, the junior he would, wouldn’t he? My solicitor washed barrister and the solicitor gave evidence. There her hands of the case and I am stuck here. To were two sections to the grounds of appeal. The me it’s obvious, I am the victim, not her. Can first section was ‘a severe criticism of style’ I appeal? which amounted to incompetence. This referred to a) a failure to present the defence in an ap- A A Poor representation is becoming a signif- propriate or focused manner, b) being patron- icant problem. As the authorities cut the rates ising to the jury and making personal attacks of pay, good barristers stop doing criminal on the prosecution counsel, and c) making work. On occasions, people who lack experi- inappropriate attempts at humour which were ence fill the gap and without sufficient people bound to alienate the jury. The second section wanting the work, there is sometimes no real was that there was a failure to confront the competition. The rich pay for a competent bar- contentions advanced by the prosecution which rister and they are much more likely to be ac- was in stark contrast to the detailed way the quitted than the rest, who on occasions have prosecution had advanced their case. This re- to sit there while their case is not properly pre- ferred to the QC’s suggested failure both before sented. The other problem is, unless advocates and during the trial to prepare the case prop- take on more work than they can properly do, erly, his lack of engagement during the trial they can’t pay their rent or mortgage. You also and the QC doing other work during the trial. faced the difficulty that when couples fall out, both sides invariably start improving their ac- count of what happened. This is especially so PRISON LAW VACANCY when there are children involved. 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He might say that the Judge did give him enough Quote Ref DRP 40 Jailbreak // Inside Sport www.insidetime.org Insidetime March 2016 From Prison Van to Ironman Noel Smith interviews John McAvoy, a former prisoner who turned his life around to break world records in rowing and is aiming to become a World Champion in the Ironman Championship.

this time that you were going fitness. That gave me a clue - performance rowing club - these thoughts to keep myself to be a real physical talent? that I might have something, London Rowing - one of the going. I love taking a negative some gift or talent that I was top rowing clubs in the coun- and using it as a positive. Not at all. I mean, I’d never unaware of before this. try. Unfortunately, I was soon really been a ‘gym head’, I was to fi nd that rowing is a very Would you encourage oth- into the normal things that technical sport and unless ers, maybe still in prison, to young men inevitably get into you get into it at a very young try and change their lives, - mainly partying. I spent a age you can’t really go any- like you have? while in Spain where some- where. But I’d always had the Noel Smith and this year he will take part times I would drop into a gym Ironman competition on my Of course! I’m no diff erent to in the World Ironman twice a week. But I was never radar, so I decided to try it. anyone in jail. Anyone who I met up with John McAvoy in Competition - a swim of 2.4 serious about it. With Ironman you don’t need has two legs, two arms, a a coffee shop at Waterloo miles, then a 112 mile bicycle so much technical ability as heart and lungs, can do exact- Station on a very cold Tuesday race, followed by a 26 mile But you’re very serious about strength and endurance. ly what I’ve done. It’s sad how aft ernoon. As befi ts his ‘Iron marathon! I asked him how he it now. How did that come many talented people there John with prison offi cer Darren Man’ status, John was the only went from prison van to about? Where are you at the mo- are in our prisons, allowing Davis who helped him win person in the chilly station Ironman. ment in the competition? their talent to go to waste. I’ve the rowing records in prison wearing shorts and a tee-shirt. I spent 2 years in the unit and trained with Olympic Gold As a double Category A pris- John drift ed into crime at an then I was shipped to Full There are Ironman competi- Medallists since I’ve been out, oner, John was determined to early age and at the age of 25 Sutton. At Full Sutton they You broke some records tions being run all around the but I knew a lot of people in progress through his prison found himself in Belmarsh have the Superstars competi- then? world, except in China, and prison who are on par with sentence and get out of the unit facing a long prison sen- tions at Christmas, where all this year, in July, I’m compet- them. Just because you are in High Security Unit at tence. He says one of the worst the fi ttest lads compete to be Well, I eventually ended up at ing in the European prison does not make you Belmarsh as quickly as possi- things about being held in the best in the prison and win Lowdham Grange and I really Championships in Frankfurt, worthless. If I can do it with no ble. He says he wanted to get such a unit is the lack of ac- a box of chocolates. I sur- loved the gym. I did a lot of Germany. The whole thing is experience, then anyone can. on with his sentence and had cess to gym, so he was forever prised myself by blitzing the working out on the rowing really a global race and if I no intention of coming back trying to get onto normal lo- competition. There were fellas machine. One of the gym of- fi nish in the top 4 in Germany to prison, and I believe him. cation in order to get some who could lift more weights fi cers, Darren Davis, took an I’ll qualify for the world com- John is nothing if not deter- exercise. And this was before than me, but they were also interest in what I was doing. petition. The fi nals are held in Facts on the mined; I could see it in his he discovered his talent. bigger than me. I was up He printed out the World Hawaii. I’m also doing the Ironman eyes as we spoke. He has now against 17 stone men and no Rowing records and showed British Iron Man in Weymouth competitions been out of prison for 3 years So, did you have any idea at one could match me for them to me. I was already in September. The World Ironman smashing the records in my Championship has been held training, though I didn’t know You seem very driven and in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, since it before then. I mean, in pris- focused, how, if at all, does 1978. Started after American on you don’t really know your prison experience play Navy personnel argued over where you’re at in the context into your determination? who was the toughest, swim- of the real world, so the fact mers or runners. Whoever that I was smashing world I’ve always had the drive and wins the competition is enti- records really gave me a focus, but just knowing that tled to be called Ironman. boost, made me feel as though it’s possible you could be the Gordon Haller, a US Navy I might be able to achieve best in the world at something communications specialist, something good. I decided to is very empowering. As for my was the fi rst to earn the title see if I could become a world prison experience, I do draw Iron Man - he did it in 11 class rower. on it, especially when I’m gen- hours, 46 minutes and 58 sec- uinely suffering, usually in onds and there were 12 con- You’re doing Ironman the second half of the mara- testants. The current World instead, so what happened? thon, when I’ve been on my record holder is Belgian feet for 8½ hours, I bring to Marino Vanhoenacker he fi n- I got out of Sudbury on the mind the time I spent in seg- ished in 7 hours, 45 minutes Friday and on Saturday I went regation and how it felt to and 58 seconds in the Austrian and joined a high have no freedom and I use Ironman.

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Jackley however de- Just Sky votes all his energies into by Stephen G D Jackley tackling the entire world sys- Round-up tem instead. His desire to Review by Vera Woodhall (Prison Supplied) “make a diff erence” is almost Promoting reading and reading akin to a religious or philo- groups in prisons sophical goal, except that he has no solution to the paradox Victoria Barnett that he is himself part of the time and place.” I’m very pleased I wasn’t a problem. At one point he does grain of truth in his account, “I really enjoyed this book, even more than when member of the jury for this at least insofar as that he realise that through his own HMP East Sutton Park is an Open Prison for women, with I read it the fi rst time when I was younger, be- author’s trial. What would you started out with good inten- attempts to improve the world, residents ranging from young cause I felt I understood it better with age and do with an armed bank robber tions. His philosophy on life “more harm had been caused offenders to retirees, and a experience. I loved the way the characters de- who claimed that the motiva- is so naïve and idealistic that than good”, but even by the capacity of just under 100. veloped over time and changed. It must have tion for his crime was “to you simply can’t imagine him end of the book he seems more been really shocking at the time, portraying a eradicate world poverty and inventing it in order to justify focused on solving humani- The reading group has been sexual relationship between 2 women and deal- stand against all oppression”? his crime. He fully believed ty’s problems than on tackling running since March 2015 and ing with incest, domestic violence, poverty and Jackley proclaims himself a that he could use the proceeds his own. usually has around 10 attend- life in a post-slavery world for black Americans. Robin Hood fi gure with a mis- of his bank robberies to found ees (10% of the prison’s population!). The ladies Celie developed into a stronger character sion “to steal from the rich “The Organisation” which This is an enjoyable read, es- are a mixture of reading abilities and interests, through her relationship with Shug Avery, and and give to the poor” yet free- would serve as an antidote to pecially in relation to some of and from a very wide age range. Many fi nd that her husband came round to a much more bal- anced way of seeing life so that they could even- ly admits that he can only consumerism and global cap- Jackley’s amateurish attempts prison allows time to get back into reading, tually even become friends in later life. Celie did manage the fi rst part of this italism and become “the last at crime: breaking into a char- and the reading group has stretched them with eventually get some justice for all her suff ering, ity’s offi ce believing it to be a a variety of diff erent genres and styles. We have goal: stealing from the rich hope for mankind.” You just but not through seeking redress. I found the way turns out to be much more couldn’t make it up! bank, trying to cut through a read some Fantasy fi ction, some non-fi ction and some modern classics, all of which have the story developed really uplift ing and I actu- satisfying than giving to the barred window with a bat- generated interesting discussion. The members ally felt proud of her.” poor! Jackley’s attempts to buy a tery-powered angle grinder choose the books during the monthly session, when the battery runs out, Glock pistol in America land with ladies oft en suggesting books they have The ladies who hadn’t liked the book enjoyed faking documents to show he Jackley devotes him in various US jails, where always wanted to read but never got around listening to the discussion of it, and some said he experiences the mental is an American citizen but to. they would go back to it and give it another try all his energies into torments of segregation, tear forgetting to disguise his having heard such positive reviews. This oft en tackling the entire gas, ankle chains, ineffi ciency British accent, wrapping a Our recent discussion of The Color Purple happens - another reader’s enthusiasm for a world system. His desire and corruption from the au- gun in tinfoil in the belief this showed how varied reading tastes are, and book can be infectious and some ladies have thorities, and grief from dys- would defl ect the x-rays from everyone really got a sense of how a book that seen the book with a fresh eye aft er hearing to ‘make a difference’ somebody’s glowing description of how much functional fellow inmates. Not an airport scanner … you get one person loves might not be another’s cup they loved it and why. I enjoy sharing my love is almost akin to a so diff erent to British prisons the picture. But on a more im- of tea at all, and vice versa. of literature with such an engaged group and religious or philosoph- portant level, ‘Just Sky’ gives then! The account may be dis- it is defi nitely one of the highlights of my job! ical goal, except that turbing to those who are un- an insight into how idealism Some found the language very diffi cult to make sense of and it didn’t capture their attention. he has no solution to familiar with the jail system, can blind its owner. Jackley admits that he viewed himself However, others loved it: the paradox that he is but will no doubt reassure prisoners here in the UK that at this time as “the hero: a “I liked that the scene was set right from the himself part of the “things could be worse”. fighter, a revolutionary, a Victoria Barnett is a librarian at East Sutton start. Because of the diary format, written ‘Dear Park problem. rebel - anything but a crimi- God’ it felt like she was whispering or talking to Like most of us who end up in nal”. I’m guessing the judge herself. It showed how Celie lacked the confi - The East Sutton Park group is part of the prison, Jackley has had his saw it somewhat diff erently, dence, at the start, to speak out.” Prison Reading Groups (PRG) network, Of course anyone who has fair share of personal trials - a as Jackley was sentenced to a sponsored by the University of Roehampton spent time on a prison landing schizophrenic mother, an un- further 13 years in a UK prison “The character develops really well and you fi nd and generously supported by charities will have heard many similar- settled childhood, bullying when he was fi nally returned yourself rooting for Celie. She suff ers so many including Give A Book www.giveabook.org.uk ly unbelievable explanations and isolation, the death of his to our shores. But that’s the hardships and you fi nd yourself wanting her to If your prison doesn’t have a reading group, of what drove a person to com- father, rejection by the one subject of his next book … stand up for herself.” encourage your librarian to have a look at mit their crime, and we soon girl he loved. Most of us grad- the PRG website www.roehampton.ac.uk/ learn to take them all with a ually face up to our own indi- “There were moments of great humour, espe- prison-reading-groups cially around the character of Sophia who you large pinch of salt. But in vidual challenges, and work Just Sky by Stephen G D can’t help but like for her indomitable spirit.” PRG also worked with National Prison Radio Jackley’s case I have a sneak- through them to fi nd a meas- Jackley £8.99 (Amazon) to set up their book club. If you have access to ing suspicion that there is a ure of happiness in spite of ISBN-13: 978-1519158376 “It was an interesting snapshot of an historical NPR, listen out for details and ways to take part.

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Bet you couldn’t believe how you felt had a focus and a purpose. exercise that trains all leg muscle growth and will muscles (quadriceps, the lower back instead of the after 4 minutes of intense training! improve muscle mass in men But you have to be determined and prepared hamstrings, glutes, calves) legs, which can lead to Injury. and help tone for women. Last month I was invited back to HMP Brixton to study - out of the 30 prisoners who started and also promotes muscle by National Prison Radio to feature on their on my course, only 4 finished. There were ex- building and toning. If you suffer from limited Ultimately you will improve show ‘Past, Present, Future’. ceptions, with prisoners getting shipped out, mobility* this can cause a in strength in both your but generally either couldn’t be bothered, Squatting is one of the reduction in how low you upper and lower body. I was asked to pick 6 songs that related to my didn’t make free flow to class or didn’t do the life before, during and after prison. Listening course work. It wasn’t like I was brighter than Prisoner Squat Workout We want to focus on speed with this squat to those songs again really got me thinking anyone else in the class, but I was determined The aim of this workout is to perform as many workout with the aim of having a greater about how I felt during my sentence - from the and I applied myself. I had a passion for my bodyweight prisoner squats (well titled) as you cardiovascular demand with the muscles initial shock of going to prison, being inside subject and wanted to learn which obviously can in 60 seconds. You can reach anything up becoming oxygen depleted. when life wasn’t looking very bright and to helped. to 60 squats in that time if you work fast. This how I now look towards the future with is going to improve your muscular endurance, If the full prisoner squat is too hard, or you optimism. The best advice I could but be prepared for the lactic acid* build up can’t lower that far into the squat you can give anyone is to spend your that follows. During your rest break be sure to perform a standard bodyweight squat, or I know that in prison it’s difficult to imagine stay loose. squat onto a chair. what the future holds. There can be a lot of time working on whatever you stresses to cope with, but the one thing that are passionate about in life Warm Up definitely helped lessen the load is exercise. Richard Branson 5 minute jog on the spot 5 minute mobilisation Even performing a simple 15 minute cardio Think about what really interests you and see exercises workout, just take note how you feel in yourself what opportunities there are and make the most afterwards, compared with how you felt before, of them. It might be hard to look beyond your Workout then throughout the day and before you go to sentence right now and feel that your convic- 60 seconds: Prisoner Squats bed. I’m pretty sure you will feel that bit more tion will hold you back with job opportunities. 60 seconds: Rest uplifted and energised. The manager at Virgin Active, who I told about 60 seconds: Prisoner Squats my conviction, said “who am I not to give some- 60 seconds: Rest For the radio show it was a pleasure to be in- one a second chance” and I was offered the job 60 seconds: Prisoner Squats terviewed by one of the inmates in Brixton, two weeks after release. 60 seconds: Rest with some big ambitions. He is looking to finish 60 seconds: Prisoner Squats his PT course inside, so he can specialise in I wanted to say a big thanks to everyone who 60 seconds: Rest Primary target muscle groups: Quadriceps, Gluteals, Hamstrings boxing with his clients as well as taking his works at National Prison Radio. They do a great 60 seconds: Prisoner Squats Secondary target muscle groups: Adductors boxing career to at least semi pro level. As a job bringing you a wide variety of shows and 60 seconds: Rest trainer it helps to have this sort of USP* as a help train inmates in radio production, a skill Step 1: Stand with your feet wider than shoulder-width apart, PT, as it differentiates you from the rest. I was they can take on the out. I’m not sure when Cool Down point your toes slightly outward and keep them aligned with very pleased to be asked if I would sponsor his ‘Past, Present, Future’ is scheduled for broad- 5 minute jog on the spot your knees. Place your hands behind your head. Pull your shorts for his first fight. cast, but hope you catch it and enjoy the tunes. 5 minute static stretches elbows and shoulders back.

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Star Poem of the Month Three Little Words Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize Russell Potts, HMP Hewell

Oh my gosh, three words from The Crown Suspended expected not “Take him down!” Realistic Dreams Legs unsteady, blood drains from my face Alex Carr, HMP Highpoint The guards invading my personal space

When I grow up I want to be a child My head is scrambled, I’m shackled downstairs So I can laugh in the faces of angry adults “You’ve made a mistake!” but nobody cares And never believe in an authority that isn’t my Possessions are stripped and I’m thrown in a cell own This is just the beginning of my journey to hell And believe I’m indestructible Climbing roofs and jumping off cliffs My friends? My family? My life on the skids So I can see every chase as a game And when I fall over and feel pain I’ll cry My eyes well up as I think of the kids © Fotolia.com Because I haven’t been taught to be ashamed First time in jail, not sure what to expect Of my emotions or anything that I am My head in my hands given time to reflect And so I can fear monsters Relaxation Instead of understand them Clare Humble, HMP Low Newton Limbs bandy and numb, eyes glazed with fear And relate to them What happens now? The future’s unclear And realise that they live inside of me I closed my eyes and drifted away, I was on the beach on a hot summer day As I try to imagine the impending doom When I grow up I want to be a child ’s warm rays washed over me and I could smell the salt air blown from the sea Nothing can prepare you for life in a tomb So I never have to take anything seriously As I walked barefoot, along the golden sand, picking up seashells and I felt them in my hand And I feel loved My footprints followed me right along the bay, then in a quick moment, they were washed away My overpaid brief won’t look in my eyes Even though it’s not real The sea had come to meet me, waves rushing in and out; the miles of blue water the sea without a doubt I no longer trust him, his eyes full of lies And be narcissistic as children are I heard its sweeping sounds and it seemed to be calling me, so I put my foot forward and felt it cold and free HMP Hewell, he says, “You’ll be fine” And have no secrets Free as the gulls that were flying in the sky, swooping and diving, they really caught my eye Then goes back to his wife and his bottle of wine And nightmares are still nightmares I walked into the water so deep that I could swim, I felt it all around me, it touched my every limb Instead of just realistic dreams I then began to float and was carried away, my mind and body drifting on this very peaceful day A beautiful evening with fading light The city is buzzing as day turns to night My Son, My Son, My Son I arrive at the prison, hungry and scared My clothes are removed, no indignity speared James Citro, HMP Frankland We are given some ‘food’ and instructed to wait My son I can’t see you anymore In a holding cell, contemplating our fate Daddy’s behind the door, you can hear my voice The courts have been busy, or so it appears Don’t cry my son, I am just behind a door Some prisoners hardened, some close to tears I am just behind the door, don’t cry The handle is on your side, my son Transfers, recalls, first timers, remanded Daddy’s voice, you hear me Show no weakness the situation demanded Gangsters and hood-rats and crackheads alike The door window, is too high for you to see me, my son You are only two, my son From driving offences to robbing a bike

As I lay on my bed, all I hear is a little boy calling Zombie like bag heads, eyes sunken and drawn Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, every day, every week, every month An asylum of hate full of violence and brawn and every year As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death My son, I wonder how tall my son is now, after five years behind I’m marched to my cell and take a deep breath the door My son, I might just see the top of his head, looking out of the Rizla thin mattress and pillow to match window on the door I can only imagine the diseases I’ll catch The door, I hear a key turn and the door is open Cold, grim and smelly with a razor wire view For a brief moment or two I pace up and down like I’m caged in a zoo © Fotolia.com Oh where is my son, he was on the outside of the door This is my story, my life is on pause The door with the handle on the outside Incarcerated ‘cos I’ve broken laws To Alcohol, My Oldest Friend! I opened my eyes, I was dreaming As I catch my reflection, I see a broken man C Talbot, HMP Garth Goodbye, my son And so it begins, twelve months in the can

You have always been there for me, through the good and through the bad You gave me strength when I was weak, you made me laugh when I felt sad You carried me through all the bad times and kept me warm on them cold nights Fried With you I always felt so invincible, you helped me win all them fights You introduced me to new people and experiences, you comforted me when I was on my own Chicken With you always by my side, I never felt alone You were there for me no matter what, you made me feel better when I felt sick Peter Crute, HMP Rye Hill As far as all my friends went, I’d always consider you my first pick Don’t take my fried chicken away But looking back at our ‘so-called’ friendship, you were really no friend at all! On my plate, let it forever stay You got me in so much trouble, with you I always took the fall! You encouraged me to be violent, with you I was such a prick It’s my one and only treat I was arrested a lot because of you, now the thought of it makes me sick A succulent meat so sweet You always made me feel like I needed you, when in fact it was you who needed me It means the whole world to me So I’m saying goodbye once and for all, so please just let me be Eaten breakfast through ‘till my tea You have been nothing but trouble and kicked me when I’m down You have pushed me into so many fights and made me look like a clown I’d rather not turn to lamb or beef So I’m saying goodbye forever and I think it’s about time Chicken’s so close to my heart © Fotolia.com I want you out of my life for good, you’re no friend of mine! Please don’t let our paths part Insidetime March 2016 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 47 Thank You Inside Time Bad Boy The Sharp Isaac D, HMP Belmarsh Lisa Moody, HMP Styal J Snape, HMP Eastwood Park

Inside Time I’d like to thank you A bad boy’s doing time There’s a sharp in my room For all the hard work your research team do For doing crime That only I can see But I know it very well A voice for prisoners up and down the land That one did pay And it knows me When we need advice you give us a hand To support his way Of feeling drunk Old friend, faithful friend Stories of inmates about their plight But taking junk My fiendish foe Asking questions on what’s wrong or right That fucks you up and brings you down I will never share you The latest legislation and the latest prison rule No longer to be seen around town Selfish I know You tell us the truth, you tell us all Avoiding pubs and clubs and faces Sitting in dirty run down places Because when the pain inside Sixty thousand copies distributed for all Chasing dragons, inhaling brown Gets too much to bear You keep us informed of the inspector’s call Feeling good when acting the clown I know that you will always be I’m here at Belmarsh as you can see Losing friends and owing money there And I enjoy your free paper with a nice cup of Anything to get that honey To cut, and to slash tea Making loads by selling smack Let out the pain Now in too deep and can’t turn back You spread the news to the prison population That festers inside Scoring less to feel your high © Fotolia.com So thank you again for your great publication Like maggots on a rotten hide Your heads way up above the sky Slowly starting to question why Hidden from society NPS In The System You’ve got no tears inside to cry You are my dark side You feel no pain, your heads a shed My humanity, humble and Allen Warburton, Author Thinking you’d be better dead maimed The only brown you’ll see is bread Long since unable to protect myself Today I die a little, thinking of this job Lie down, go on you’ve made your bed From the worlds hurt and lame Trying to teach a skill to “Bob” Debts keep growing when foil is used And one day when I am gone The skill he says, is shit and a farce Brown is known for being abused To that place of earth and He’d sooner sit on his big fat Arse Congratulations, feeling proud? Well go on fucking shout out loud tranquillity That the almighty promised me I try to teach till my face goes blue As if the world was unaware To these “Bobs who just don’t have a clue About the dirty works you share You will rust and be done They say they enjoy what we teach and do Out this arm then in your other And be nothing to anyone Then turn on you, and call a screw There’s nothing wrong, he’s like a brother And I will sleep forever more One of many tempted fates Alone as I was before I wonder if this job I do, will make a change But what’s a needle shared with mates No need to think about the worst Or will they use NPS and go insane Why should you when the buzz comes first I try my hardest to keep them safe and bold Opinions of you stoop as low as the floor Every Man But NPS just takes control And your only concern is that you want CM, HMP Hull some more I see them squirm on the floor like a fish Hands in your pockets result as before Every man faces demons Like an ugly goldfish in a dish Not caring your habit has made you this poor In constant battle with his rage The siren and blue lights I hear coming up Cheeks sunken in aged ten years in ten days The same old worn out stories the hill When will you realise the error of your ways? On a torn up shabby page I sometime wish, that I could just chill Sex is a turn off, no longer a must Every man fears something © Fotolia.com When scoring your medicine is number one lust He wrestles with his pride I go home at night and cry in vain Can’t you see that your downfall is making Vulnerability attracts danger And hope that one day, I could make them you mean? So it’s best to hide change State Sponsored Doping When waking to heroin becomes routine Every man is missing someone The mistake they make may kill them one day The niceness inside you, a thing of the past Lost love, just another story told David Rosen, HMP Leicester But I wish I could hear them say “NPS”. No Way! And the self-centred creature is moving in fast The bravest man gets lonely It tells you to burgle, rob houses and shops Without a hand to hold Chloride, Fluoride, Fluorine, Chlorine, Nicotine, Strictine, Aspartame Carelessly leaving your prints for the cops Every man can be complex Sodium Diacetate, NO BRAND NAME Cars on the drive as you’re trashing a dwelling In the system fighting fate Prison, The Truth Lecithin, Emulsifier, E632, Chlorpromazine, Thorazine, hey what’s to do? Grabbing stereo and telly and anything Every day can be consuming E237, E544, smokin’ weed is against ‘the law’ worth selling When you’re living your mistake Behind The Myth Sodium Benzoate, Farm Alls on your mind is there’s money to earn Every man’s lost a dream WARNING! State sponsored doping, means you harm G Moore, HMP Aylesbury Not caring to see if the owners return Each man loses hope A face at the window, a look of surprise It’s hard to have some faith though Eastenders, Aspirin, the News at Ten Neighbourhood watch, lightening up in their eyes When you feel you’re just a joke Stinking ripped blankets in a dingy damp cell The answer to cancer, gypped again! Your only hope now is the door that’s ajar Every day has to have an ending For some it’s cushy, first timers, its hell Clopixl, Dopixl, Thalidomide, Benzhexol Race down the drive and jump in the car Morning comes along to prove Cell door opens, not knowing where to begin Saccharin, Bromide, the list goes on, Wetherspoons and Radio 1 Eventually soon you’ll be living your fears These days pass by quickly Every single mindless song, a take-a-pill-a-sing-a-long Out stretched hand, with the criminals grin A world behind bars for a number of years Like the fading of a bruise 24/7 marathon, and don’t know left from right from wrong All right mate, how long ya doing u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Prozac, Kojak, Hydrogen Peroxide, there’s unleaded fuel Fancy a tea, I’ve got one brewing Month’. To qualify for a prize, poems should not have won a prize in any other com- But don’t get fooled petition or been published previously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, There you go son, here’s your brew Bare Carbon Monoxide, and still CFC’s Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. Please put your name, number and Don’t worry lad, I’ll look after you Just no more trees, and the omnibus of Brookside prison on the same sheet of paper as your poem. If you win we can’t send your money if we don’t know who or where you are! Don’t get involved, and just toe the line Haloperidol, Droperidol, Coronation Street Do as I say, and we will get along fine ‘A finger of Fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat’ By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they can be published in any of our ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, website and any forth- Here’s some toiletries, help you get by All the mindless drudge is just enough To make sure kids don’t eat coming books. You are also giving permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in There you go, take um, don’t be shy allowing other organisations to reproduce this work if considered appropriate, unless E723, E724, children STILL in need! you have clearly stated that you do not want this to happen. Any work reproduced in Such a small fish, confined in a big pond 1980-2015 seems very long indeed other publications will be on a ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note poems for publication As the criminal weaves his magic wand 36 years! And they’re still in need, I wonder how the adults are coping may be edited. 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Feel free to write and let me know and if ______it is not already in there (I don’t own all the good ______ideas) then I will do my best to put something 3. What belongs to you but in. Now is also the last chance to send me any others use it more than you 10. The more of them you chess related poems or art or stories about what do? take, the more you leave chess has done for you in prison. ______behind. What are they? Your anonymity is guaranteed so come on, don’t ______be shy. The book is meant to be a chess resource 4. The more you take away, for inmates so I feel it is only right that inmates should 11. What is it you will break the larger it becomes? What is have some influence on the content of it. Pick everytime you name it? it? up your pens, pencils and brushes and amaze me! ______One prisoner wrote to me to ask if I might be ______able to give instructions on how to make chess 12. What has four fingers and 5. What is full of holes, but sets in prison, perhaps from matchsticks and one thumb, but is not alive? can still hold a lot of water? other materials. Well I am not expert on this one ______but if anyone wishes to write and tell me how ______best this is done I will do my best to get it pub- 13. What flies without wings? lished as a separate article in the newspaper. I 6. Where do fish keep their know that people can be incredibly imaginative money? ______in this respect using coffee as a stain for the dark 14. What turns everything Across Down pieces. Really wonderful. ______around, but does not move? What I can already tell you is the book will in- 7. The first part of the small intestine 1. Result of the division of one number 7. What do you get when you clude the rules of the game, real testimony from ______immediately beyond the stomach (8) by another (8) cross an automobile with a inmates, chess history, my own story, puzzles, 9. A metrical foot consisting of an 2. — O’Brien, Irish novelist and short household animal? 15. What is half of 2 plus 2? resources and compositions, hints and tips, an- unstressed syllable followed by a story writer (4) notated games and much more. It is taking time ______stressed syllable (6) 3. Highly tense or nervous (2,4) ______to write, but someone once said that ‘what is 10. A covered walk in ancient Greece 4. A person who is not a member of written without effort is generally read without Answers to all puzzles are in the next issue. Only Puzzles on with a colonnade on one or both sides (4) the armed services (8) pleasure’ so I will take as much time as it takes the ‘Prize Winning Puzzles’ page have prizes for completing. 11. A substance, such as a paste or 5. Decorative needlework (10) to get it how I want it. powder, for cleaning the teeth (10) 6. An open flan or tart with a savoury 12. — Charteris, author of many crime filling (6) stories featuring Simon Templar (The 8. — Vitti, star of the film “Modesty 8 Wordsearch // Game of Thrones Saint) (6) Blaise”(6) Nathan Morgan HMP Bure (A2081DG) 14. American R&B group whose name 13. American golfer nicknamed 7 alludes to the city of Chicago in which Super-Mex (3,7) they originated (3-5) 16. A baker’s dozen (8) 6 B N M F H S T A N N I S S O V A A R B N 15. A formal agreement between two 18. Brazilian city that is the largest city A B D E F T H D H J K D Y Y H N J U F O 5 or more states (6) in South America (3,5) Q W E R K I N G S G U A R D B G T H L E

17. “City of —”, a film starring Nicolas 19. A large tropical arboreal lizard with 4 F G S R G B M H D G H N E N C F J L T H Cage and Meg Ryan (6) a spiny crest along its back (6) U J K I N G S L A N D I N G F N E X G T 20. Dying of hunger (8) 21. Brawny jungle hero created by 3 22. “— Place”, a novel by Grace novelist Edgar Rice Burroughs (6) S U T H E T Q H T E N G E C V T N G B A Metalious (6) 22. A hat of strawlike material made 2 E H R T N H M T A E H H A Y R N H T W R 23. An occupation that requires little from the leaves of a pine tree (6) N F G S O P A F I R Y T D A E F Y D E A effort while yielding considerable 24. A room in a hospital accommodat- 1 O L D T R I E S R E C S M Y J R F J S B profit (5,5) ing a number of patients (4) R O A C H O S O Y E T W R N M H F G T Y 24. A blue vegetable dye used by A B C D E F G H ancient Britons (4) For this month’s puzzle I have taken the liberty H W T N T I T E L M G A Y N H N D N E H 25. A Native American people formerly Please note; only Puzzles on the of including a position from one of my own T E G T N U E M A M G T H S N O G A R D inhabiting parts of Nebraska and ‘Prize Winning Puzzles’ page games, played in Germany many moons ago. I F R D G O I R A V R N C T J N H Y B O J Kansas (6) have prizes for completing. was black but in the position below it was white O I X B R M S G A N H H H T O D H C S A to play. He decided rather too quickly to play 26. Naval officers (8) E D T G I B G T A S D G N H I T N X K W 1.Re1xe7 and snap off my rook. Why was this a mistake? A chess magazine (Donated by Chess M M V B N D G Y E T H Y D H R G C R E A & Bridge of London) as your prize if you are first A J L O F S R R G R E Y J O Y B A C D A GEF BAD CHI out of the hat. G L M F A A O E H A H F H F T T B Y I N L A N D I N S L H T H L O L S I H H A H Write to me with your answer care of The English Neil Speed is a Chess Federation at The Watch Oak, Chain Lane, K I N G S F T L L E F R E T N I W N H D former prisoner Battle, East Sussex TN33 OYD or you can email Arya Frey Lannister Targaryen who came up me at [email protected] and they will Baratheon Game of Maester Tyrell with the concept forward it to me. Please note that you should Braavos Thrones Martell Tyrion of GEF BAD CHI GAME OF THRONES always write to me at the ECF not via InsideTime. Cersei Greyjoy Meereen Valyria whilst in prison. Daenerys Iron Throne Nights Watch Westeros GEF BAD CHI by Neil Speed is Arya Lannister The solution to February’s puzzle was Direwolf Kings Landing Stannis Winterfell published by Xlibris. RRP: 1.Qf7-g8+!! Kh8xg8 if 1...Re8xg8 2.Ne5-f7# DragonsBaratheon Kingsguard StarkMaester £12.35 Using the letters 2.Nd5-e7+ that's double check. 2...Kg8-f8 Braavos Martell G,E,F,B,A,D,C,H & I fill in the 3.Ne7-g6+! h7xg6 4.Ne5xg6# Absolutely ThanksCersei to Nathan Morgan - HMP BureMeereen for compiling this word search. blank squares. Each letter A-I gorgeous. The winner will be announced. IfDaenerys you fancy compiling one for us pleaseNights just send Watch it in max 20 x 20 grid must appear only once in and complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it we will send each line column and 3x3 grid. Congratulations to Maciej from HMP Hewell who youDirewolf £5 as a thank you! Remember to includeStannis your name, number and was the winner of January’s problem. prisonDragons with your entry. Stark Frey Targaryen Game of Thrones Tyrell Greyjoy Tyrion Iron Throne Valyria Kings Landing Westeros Kingsguard Winterfell

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3 March 1991 500 +765 / -485 / ÷5 / ×3 / +532 = __ American construction worker Rodney King was beaten by officers from the Los Angeles +3620 / Half It / ÷3 / -480 / ×4 = Police Department following a car chase. The 910 __ beating was captured on amateur video. When the four officers involved were acquitted at the ×13 / Triple It / ÷6 / +790 / ×5 = end of a trial in April 1992, it triggered the Los 36 __ Angeles riots in which 53 people were killed and around $1 billion worth of damage was Submitted by Michael Brookes - HMP Hewell. caused. (In a federal trial held in 1993, two of Start on the left with the first number and work your the officers were convicted and sentenced to way across following the instructions in each cell. If 32 months in prison.) you would like to submit similar puzzles we will pay £5 for any that are chosen for print. Please send in a minimum of three puzzles together with the answer! 4 March 1976 The Maguire Seven were convicted of possessing explosives which they allegedly passed to the IRA to make the bombs used in the Guildford Sudoku pub bombings of October 1974. They received prison sentences totalling 73 years. (Their convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991.)

14 March 1991 The convictions of the Birmingham Six were quashed by Britain’s Court of Appeal and they were released from prison after 16 years. They had been convicted of carrying out pub bombings in Birmingham in 1974, but the court ruled their convictions were unsafe and unsatisfactory. They were each awarded compensation of up to £1.2 million.

16 March 1996 British world heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno lost his title to American boxer Mike Tyson. (Bruno retired soon afterwards after being warned by doctors that he risked © MW Released life sentenced prisoner permanent blindness if he boxed again.) Anagrams // Actresses

23 March 1891 1. LENGTHY PART WOW (7,7) Football goal nets, invented by British civil engineer John Alexander Brodie, were used for ______the first time. 2. RAINY WONDER (6,5) 26 March 2006 Scotland banned smoking in all indoor public Wrongly convicted ______places and workplaces. (A similar ban came into effect in England and Wales in July 2007.) of a crime? 3. WARY UNIVERSE EGO (9,6)

29 March 1996 ______Beef from cattle over 30 months old was 4. IN FINE TORN JEANS (8,7) banned from human consumption in the UK because of BSC (mad cow disease). The ban was aimed at preventing the spread of vCJD in Lost your appeal? ______humans. It was lifted in November 2005. 5. NO ALIENS DARLING (7,8) 30 March 2006 ______The Terrorism Act 2006 came into effect in the UK. It was introduced following the London 6. REALLY HERB (5,5) bombings on 7th July 2005. What next? ______7. IDOL NICKNAME (6,6) ______SCOTTISH CRIMINAL DEFENCE LAWYERS The CCRC can look again 8. NO EAGLE IN JAIL (8,5) If you think your conviction or sentence is wrong Contact us for advice & representation: apply to the CCRC ______ PAROLE HEARINGS • It won’t cost anything 9. SEEN AT A RICH JET-ZONE (9,4-5) • Your sentence can’t be increased if you apply  CRIMINAL DEFENCE • You don't need a lawyer to apply, but a good one ______ CRIMINAL APPEALS can help 10. TWEAK TINSEL (5,6)

28a Albany Street, Edinburgh EH1 3QH You can get some more information and a copy of the CCRC's Easy Read application form by writing to us at ______The Lodge, 53 Market Street, Galashiels TD1 3AF 5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW. or calling 0121 233 1473 24 hour line: 0131 557 8020 or 01896 668 669 Answers to all puzzles are in the next issue. Only Puzzles on the ‘Prize Winning www.wsalawyers.com |  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] Puzzles’ page have prizes for completing. Insidetime March 2016 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 51 Pathfinder ‘Work towards’ Celebrity Quotes PathfinderStephen Kovacs HMP Rye // Hill ‘Work towards’

Attainment Respectability “Let us grieve at what Twitter has become. F T E G R A T S E V O L Brothers Sisters A stalking ground for the sanctimoniously Daughters Sons R E O U T S T U P I L Y self- righteous who love to second-guess, to Family Support leap to conclusions and be offended - worse, D E S R D I R O P M A F Freedom Target to be offended on behalf of others they do Friends Together not even know” O O A E E W O R K T O W Goal Wife Stephen Fry on quitting Twitter Love Work towards “It’s not my job to M G L T T H F R I E R A Outside “Once I have a kid, be your role model; Partner O R B H E E R S D N D S I’m not going to be on my job is to be Rehabilitation Instagram. You know, your inspiration. T A U G G YT I L I T A H I’ll probably delete my I’m the general Instagram and just... statistic of the H D S N O T C T A B T A Thanks to Stephen Kovacs HMP I don’t know, live life” young black male: Rye Hill for compiling this Pathfinder. If you fancy Kylie Jenner a father out of E E S O S P E N T R N I “Prayers for Prof compiling one for us please just wedlock, tattoos, “I have never Dawkins and his R F I W E R R E P A M E send it in either 15 x 15 or sags my pants, 12 x 12 squares, complete with been to the family” hangs with people answers. If we use it we will send Oscars. Because Church of England S S T S A T I O N H E N that would be you £5 as a thank you! as you know, they Tweet after hearing Remember to include your name, called outcasts, S I E R T I L I B A R T are racists” famous atheist Richard number and prison with your entry. been to jail, has a Rebel Wilson Dawkins had suffered a criminal record” stroke. CatchphraseAttainment Together Anagram Square Chris Brown Brothers Wife Daughters Work towards The object is to try to figure out the well-known saying, person, Rearrange the letters in each row General Knowledge Quiz place,Family or thing that each square is meant to represent. to form a word. Write your Freedom answers into the blank grid. The Friends first letter from each word, In which country would one find 8 of the There are only four words in the English 1. 7. Goal reading down, will spell the world’s 10 highest mountains? language which end in 'dous'. Two are Love mystery keyword. tremendous and stupendous. Name the other Outside __ e ______two. Partner Rehabilitation 1 OVSEL 2. Which is the world’s second-largest country h______dous Respectability in land area? Sisters 2 ZAPIZ __ __ z __ __ dous Sons ______a __ __ Support 3 TROET 8. Which soup has calf’s head as its main ingredient? Target 3. What is the most common blood type in 4 NHICA humans? m __c__ / t __ __t__ __ / Soup 5 BKEBA __ 9. When there are two full moons in the same month, what is the second called? 4. The first television set was sold in which 1 year: 1928, 1938, 1948? __ l __ __ / __ o __ __ Word Morph 2 ______10. Which word does the ‘e’ in ‘email’ stand for? Can you morph one word into another by just changing one 3 5. The name of which area in the Pacific means ______t ______letter at a time? It isn't quite as easy as you think! 'many islands'? 4 11. Which country beginning with a ‘T’ has a cork __ __ l ______i __ shoreline on the Andaman Sea? 5 6. What is the only word in English ending in T ______a __ __ the letters ‘mt’? If you fancy compiling an 12. Which is the largest planet in the solar system? Anagram Square for us please just send it in 5 x 5 squares, ______mt mare complete with answers shown on ______t __ __ a grid. If we use it we will send Answers to all puzzles are in the next issue. Only Puzzles on you £5 as a thank you! the ‘Prize Winning Puzzles’ page have prizes for completing. Remember to include your name, number and prison with your entry. 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