“Art for communicating “Free or imprisoned, “When I was in prison...” and rebuilding relation- emotional, informative Benjamin Zephaniah the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees ships is prevalent in this stories have the same tells Rachel Billington exhibition” Clare Barstow effect” Steve Newark how poetry ‘made’ his life a voice for prisoners since  Inside Art // page 27 Comment // page 17 Inside Poetry October 2018 / Issue No. 232 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profit’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 INSIDE POETRY and CHANGING LIVES TOGETHER supplements inside 68 PAGE ISSUE An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations PRISONS CHIEF ‘Enough is enough’ Prisons Inspector issues Urgent Notification for HMP Bedford

Inside Time report through suicide. We have seen consistent warnings about overcrowding and violence, STEPS DOWN a shocking riot, the creation of a performance As the fourth Urgent Notification Protocol in improvement plan and the imposition of spe- After nine years in charge of Prisons and 12 months was issued by the Chief Inspector cial measures - and none of these drastic of Prisons prison reform group the Howard events has prompted decisive action to turn Probation, Michael Spurr CB ‘has been asked to League calls for bold action to be taken. An- the prison around. Particularly concerning drew Neilson, the Howard League’s Director is what this sustained failure says about the stand down’ by Justice Secretary David Gauke of Campaigns said: “This damning verdict prison system as a whole. Enough is enough. on Bedford prison has not come out of no- More jails will fail and many more people Inside Time report North and East Anglia and where; as the Chief Inspector says, this is a will be hurt unless we see bold action to re- then, following a restructur- story of inexorable and unchecked decline. duce the prison population.” ing of areas, the manager for Since the beginning of 2016, at least six men The CEO of HMPPS, Michael the Eastern region. In 2006, in Bedford prison have lost their lives Inside Time Report page 10 Spurr, will leave his post at he was announced as Deputy the end of March 2019 and Director General of the Prison will spend the following six Service, taking on the role of NEWS FLASH! New Parole Board Chair announced 10 months reviewing the top CEO of NOMS in 2008. In the management structure of 2014 Queen’s Birthday Hon- HMPPS along with Richard ours he was made a Compan- “Top of the world Ma!” Heaton, the Permanent Secre- ion of the Order of the Bath tary. Responding to the an- Michael Spurr for ‘services to offender nouncement by the Ministry management.’ of Justice, Peter Dawson, Di- a change of leader is deluding rector of the Prison Reform Justice Secretary David themselves.” Trust said, “Michael Spurr Gauke said: “I am extremely will be an extraordinarily grateful to Michael Spurr for Michael Spurr joined the ser- hard act to follow. He is an his leadership of HMPPS. His vice as a prison officer in HMP exceptionally principled and focus has been unwavering Leeds in 1983. He then moved knowledgeable leader who on doing the best for his staff to HMP Standford Hill to has selflessly served an end- and for victims of crime, on begin training as an Assistant less succession of short term discipline in the prison estate Governor. After his training ministers. Whoever takes and on caring for and rehabil- he transferred to HMP Swale- over will face the same funda- itating offenders. He is an side, before becoming Deputy mental problems of over- example of the very best of Governor of HMYOI Aylesbury crowded and under resourced public service and civil ser- and then governing Governor prisons. Those are problems vice leadership. I look for- of the same establishment in 16 which only ministers can ad- ward to continuing to work 1993. In 1996 he became gov- dress and none of those whom closely with Michael into the erning Governor of HMP Way- Michael has served so faith- New Year.” fully have delivered. Anyone land, and later governed HMP When the going gets tough... who thinks the problems in Norwich. In 2000, he became our prisons can be solved by Area Manager for London Continued on page 11 Airborne Initiative building hope for Dartmoor boys

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Possession is 9 £10million not enough Mailbites insidetime points of the law a voice for prisoners since 1990 Mark Wrightwick - HMP The Verne Alistair Goldie - No messing the national newspaper for prisoners published by Stuart Longford - HMP Stafford Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of HMP Brixton I see that the government has pledged £10 million to stop The New Bridge Foundation, founded in 1956 to drugs and violence in prison. The Minister for Prisons, who As a first-timer, I have noticed that HMP Stafford create links between the offender and the Whilst on a transfer out of pledged the money, has promised to quit if in a year he has must be the safest prison in the country. After community. HMP Bure, the reception of- not tackled the problem. In my mind he has already lost the spending time at HMP Birmingham (say no A not for profit publication. ficer took and destroyed 10 battle. Surely, he should be saying ‘I will reduce violence and more) I came here in March 2017. This prison prison-issue milks and 10 drug use in prison’. Semantics to one side, I hope he keeps does not tolerate any form of violence Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial packs of prison-issue cereal. his promise. whatsoever. On occasions where there has content. Comments or complaints should be I told her that she could not directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. been a hint of anything regarding arranged do that as it was mine and Prisons need more money, I know every part of society is fights or bullying, the staff/management deal Board of Directors was my legal entitlement. The calling out for more funding. The difference with the Prison with it very quickly. Residents get transferred officer told me that the food Service is it has not been properly funded for years, it has straight away, no messing about at all. This Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, was ‘prison property’ and been underfunded for decades. Prison deaths and high reof- prison has some very experienced staff who Journalist, Writer and former Magistrate. that I am not allowed to have fending rates are indicators. Britain has the highest rates of are very understanding. I would like to thank Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge it. This, despite the fact that the governor and staff for all the hard work Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon prisoner suicides in the world. More needs to be done for the it was issued to me for meals. Prison Service not just a slight re-jigging, real help like the they’ve put in. Keep it up, your work is not Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh Surely this is an act of theft? going unnoticed. John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and millions of pounds already taken from the budgets that could Managing Director employing former prisoners be put into training and education. Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice Could you please tell me Terry’s success who prison food is for, and Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, Prison is a part of everyone’s lives even if you are not con- Mark Trowbridge - HMP Highpoint South Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation do staff have a right to take nected directly with the justice system, thousands of prison- food from a prisoner after it The recent Terry Waite event here at Highpoint ers leave prison every year to re-join society. I am sure that has been issued? Once the South, hosted by the Equality & Diversity Team The Editorial Team the general public want ex-prisoners to be mentally and food is given to a prisoner and attended by over 50 residents, was a who decides when it should physically as healthy as possible. So, keep Britain healthy, resounding success. Everyone who attended be eaten? not just those who have never been to prison. this event was impressed by Mr Waite’s talk and the amount of time he spent before and I had a gastric bypass and I Editorial note after talking to the lads on a one-to-one basis. am limited to what and when I There are only a few countries where suicide rates for prisoners He has a wonderful calming nature that can eat. I have never seen a have been studied. In the UK over a 25-year period, suicide everyone found inspiring. On behalf of the Erwin James John Roberts Rachel prison rule, PSI or PSO stat- rates for prisoners were reported to be approximately five times governor, residents, staff and Equalities Team Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE ing that prisoners must eat higher in men than the general population rates, and in at HMP Highpoint South, I would like to Director Associate Editor and drink only when told to. women, the difference was twenty times. In one US state, rates express a special thanks to Mr Waite and I have always believed that of suicide in jails were eight times higher than general popula- recommend him as a great speaker for any Commercial the food in prison belongs to tion rates and in Austria, Australia and New Zealand the rate other UK prison event. Manager the prisoners, not the staff or has been calculated to be 5-10 times higher than in the general From over the wall page 22 David Roberts prison, once it has been population. Beyond these countries, little is known about in- Head of handed out as part of our mate suicide rates compared with population rates. Out of the frying pan into the fire Administration legal entitlement. Acknowledgement: Utvecklingsenheten Justine Best Prisoner’s partner Noel Smith Paul Sullivan Layout & Design My partner was moved from HMP Hewell, Commissioning Reporter Colin Matthews Editor having been there for just 2 weeks. 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Star Letter of the Month Fruit from a poisoned tree Time to legalise Mailbag 2-9 Congratulations to this months winner Lee Morgan - HMP Oakwood “There are 37 Charles Ferndale - HMP Long Lartin who receives our £25 prize countries in the You can imagine my surprise when after Commonwealth being in prison for over a year I only heard of In 2015, the Economist Magazine predicted that within five where it’s Page 4 OASys when I put in an application for open years all aspects of cannabis would be legal in all states of currently illegal to conditions and had it rejected. Even then it the USA. It is already legal for medicinal purposes in twen- be who I am.” was only thanks to my cellmate, who was ex- ty-one states, for ‘all purposes’ in five more states and its Newsround 10-15 possession has been decriminalised in four more states. I do periencing similar issues and had paid for “It is deplorable photocopies of the relevant PSO (2205), that I not know whether people often imprisoned for over thir- that it has taken a was able to do some research on it. ty-years for cannabis offences have been released. That they legal challenge to might be compensated for what they and their families have secure these String me an old It clearly states within the PSO that OASys is been through is too much to hope for. But at least the Ameri- Page 11 changes.” fashioned song an ‘open process’, and that the offender cans have at last shown signs of moral enlightenment and

© Deposit Photos Comment 16-33 should be ‘invited for an interview’. I was rationality. also unaware that OASys is done to underpin “We are able to Sing but don’t strum a pre-sentence report. It is only recently that What I have not seen is a credible estimate of the financial use music, to map I received what is termed my PSR OASys, Geoff L - HMP Norwich and other benefits that have accrued to Americans from this what that better even though it has been in existence since intelligent policy. The financial saving alone may run into life can look like.” May 2017. Page 26 Sometimes you have to wonder where the billions of dollars depending upon the time-span over which system’s brain is at when they implement the they are calculated. And the non-financial benefits would de- Information 34-39 I know that a prison OASys was done last pend what alternative uses to which the saved money was put. most outrageous and nonsensical rules. We June, yet I did not know anything about this “For my sake, my now call these rules the ‘Guitar String Para- peer’s sake, for report either, which seems rather odd given The medical benefits have been many and striking. Mrs dox’ or GSP, and here’s why… your sake and for that the OASys is used to inform every im- May’s government seems to be either woefully ignorant of the portant decision taken in prison - such as my the sake of socie- science now flourishing around cannabis or else morally per- ty as a whole” A prisoner who thought he might like to recent application for open. Page 34 practise the guitar applied to do so. Wing verse, or both. They may, however, respond to financial in- centives at a time during which their unpopularity is growing Legal 40-45 staff said that it was OK to have instruments, The OASys Guidance Document, PSO 2205, because they are cutting funding to what makes a nation so the prisoner’s dad arranged delivery. He clearly states that the OASys report needs to “A Power of strong. A trustworthy panel ought to be tasked with the job of phoned the prison and was asked what was be accurate, and that the offender should be Attorney is a estimating the financial saving to the nation that would re- the instrument he was sending? given the chance to question what is con- powerful legal sult from a complete legalisation of all aspects of the canna- tained within its pages - but how can this document and is bis trade. Better uses of the money are already obvious. This happen when the offender doesn’t even Page 40 made by deed.” “‘It’s a fretless bass’, said the father. would be to say nothing of the terrible harms anti-cannabis know of its existence? ‘That’s ok’, said the officer. ‘But does laws have caused in Britain for decades. Jailbreak 46-56 it have strings?’ When the father I am challenging both OASys reports in my “We are truly In addition, an adult, well-informed discussion of what are said, ‘of course it does!’ He was told case, along with the PSR and the re-cat deci- blessed to be living sion because I am arguing that every deci- called the recreational uses of cannabis should begin. My in such interesting - ‘You can send the guitar but not sion taken which relied upon information prediction is that the liberalisation of cannabis laws would and innovative Page 49 the strings, because guitar strings are taken from these reports is, in my opinion, result in a fall in its recreational use. times.” not allowed’!” fruit of the poison tree. It appears that Of- fender Managers can write what they like without fear of any comeback. I kid you not! In my case, I believe that both reports should But GSP also applies to other nonsense in be scrapped, and all decisions should be set the prison system, such as USB plugs - aside and reviewed. I cannot argue for every banned from the prison because ‘Prisoners prisoner but the ones I have spoken to have a use them to charge mobile-phones’. Though, similar story to tell - very few are aware of you can buy them from the canteen as pris- how powerful a document OASys really is. oners ‘use them to charge vape sticks’! Very few people are aware of the PSO which governs the document’s commission and Our third GSP in a week is a cunning ploy to even fewer know how to go about challeng- thwart artists. You can buy a drawing block/ ing what’s written about them. paper from the canteen, but any attempt to send in pencils, art erasers or (God forbid) a I would advise any reader to get hold of their pencil sharpener is fiercely rebutted. OASys reports because there is always more than one floating about. They need to be You could make it up, but the true stuff is read forensically and then challenge what is bad enough. We’re wondering if any readers written. This is our lives, let’s take back have a favourite ‘GSP’ to add to the list? some control.

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What is Lies, damned lies and statistics Mailbites Grant Stanley BSc (Hons) MA - HMP Whatton prison for? Zen garden James Taylor - HMP Leeds When we engage with our Offender Supervisor or Offender Julie Dixon - HMP Styal Manager, we expect a reciprocal level of support. Our expec- Here at Styal we are extremely lucky to be able With the rise in recorded tations are way off the mark. We forget that to them, we are to have a place which is tranquil and pictur- crime this year putting yet simply a statistic or a number, whilst they are significantly esque. Out of a piece of grassland a sense of further strain on an already more important to our release and post-release lives. We normality has been created into a beautiful fractured judicial system, I jump through their hoops, strive for pointless IEP levels, en- Zen garden. We are grateful to all those who have decided to attempt to gage in ineffectual Offending Behaviour Programmes and have contributed to the creation of the Zen answer a much-debated try to maintain decent behavioural levels in this stressful en- garden and the dedication given to the question. What is prison for? vironment, but for what? planting and maintenance of it. Special thanks Love is, Tom Daley and his to Carole Rowley, Buddhist Minister, a selfless Assault, theft, racism, crimi- The OASys is about as accurate as tossing a coin, and our Of- partner Dustin Lance Black and inspirational lady. Also, thanks to the nal damage, bullying, intim- fender Managers (who are not qualified psychologists) stipu-

Credit: Dustin Lance Governor for allowing the inspiration to idation and using threatening late on our Sentence Plans that we must do this course or become reality. It is a place we can go for quiet and abusive words and be- achieve this IEP level in order to reduce our risk of reoffend- time, inspiration and meditation. Thank you. Great gay gold haviour - you would be justi- ing. On achievement of these goals do our statistical risks of fied in associating these reoffending reduce? Do our OGRS, OGP or OVP decrease? A No fee M Price - HMP Birmingham crimes with prison, they may resounding NO and our OASys continues to maintain our J McDonnell - HMP Berwyn even have led to some of the original risk levels. In April 2018 my heart soared when, along inmates being sent to prison. I write regarding Paul Sullivan’s article on the with one billion television viewers all across But, what would you think if So, what exactly do our Offender Supervisors or Offender Data Protection Act (September issue). It was the globe, I watched the Commonwealth I told you that prisoners are Managers actually do, other than put obstacles in our paths incorrect to say that there is a £10 charge per Games handover event live from Victoria regularly met with such to freedom? Do they not realise that most of us have license expiry request for a (SARS) Subject Access Request. Square (Birmingham), complete with danc- treatment by prison officers? dates; after which point they have absolutely no influence on Under previous Data Protection Act legislation ers, musicians and drag-queens. us? They appear to be more interested in covering their own there was a service charge of £10, but under Behaviour antagonistic to backs and ticking boxes than they are in helping prisoners. the new revised version of the General Data Australia and the Gold Coast did the Games the rules which staff are or- Protection Regulation Act of May 2018, the dered to adhere to is ex- service charge was removed. You may also note proud, with records smashed and a real “The only solution is to help ourselves. No courses sense of celebration and community. tremely high. It can cause PSI 03/2018 Section 2, para 2.16, the 3-month adverse effects to the good are going to stop us reoffending, only our person- period for requests has been reduced to 1-month. order of prisons as well as After winning a gold medal in the 10m syn- al choices will determine our futures.” creating problems for both chronised dive, our own Tom Daley made a Emergency services staff and inmates. plea for Commonwealth countries to dissem- I’ve spent nearly 11-years of my 43 in prison for everything A Journet - HMP Berwyn inate homosexuality. from petty fraud to armed robbery and it is only on this latest Perhaps in the future the MoJ should consider, I know from personal expe- sentence that I’ve realised that no one is going to help me, rience that falling victim to when building another Titan jail like this here His brave intervention pointed out that 37 of except me. I’ve taken the piss most of my life; having a suc- at Berwyn, placing a police and fire station and degrading treatment on a cessful career in the army, achieving my degree, whilst at the 53 countries currently in the Common- regular basis, and feeling an accident & emergency trauma unit within the same time pushing the boundaries and bucking the sys- wealth have anti-gay legislation, which is that my rights are not held in the grounds of the prison. I’m sure it would tem by partaking in crime. I have wasted opportunities that often a relic of the British empire, when the same regard as the rest save the taxpayer a small fortune due to the most people don’t get and for what? I’ve missed 6-years of my blighty imposed discriminatory laws in the of society’s, tarnish any les- numerous daily callouts to all the incidents daughter’s life, I have spent over a decade behind bars and territories it ruled. son which society might here. Indeed, perhaps all prisons should? I’ve ruined two great relationships and one marriage. No hope to teach. A simple solu- courses or IEP levels are going to bring that back or make up tion would be for all staff to Catch 22 for the losses. “There are 37 countries in the wear body-worn cameras K Burkett - HMP Belmarsh that record constantly. I feel Commonwealth where it’s So, you know what? My Offender Supervisor and my Of- I am a YOI prisoner serving 2-years for ABH. I this would benefit both pris- fender Manager can say what they want and tick all of their was sentenced in March and I am still being currently illegal to be who I am.” oners and staff. little boxes, because I’m going to do what I want and what I held at Belmarsh. I am currently on the Tom Daley think is right for me. healthcare unit and on a 6-officer unlock. Ultimately, what prison is I have not had any exercise for 12 days and I for has been decided by our have only been unlocked for a shower once. This is an important message, Tom is in a mi- The Parole Board have become the neutered lapdog of the government’s statutes. They My toilet is blocked, and my bin is overflow- nority of Commonwealth citizens who are al- government, so are no longer the independent body of hope are extremely detailed and ing. My court appearance has been cancelled lowed to be themselves as openly gay, must be adhered to, if pre- they once were. The only light at the end of the tunnel is license expiry and I intend to do the bare minimum until that day. due to ‘lack of staff’ and they keep telling me lesbian, bi or trans. Not so in the majority of venting reoffending is a goal that for my unlock status to be lowered I have countries in the Commonwealth, which cur- that society wishes to achieve to be seen to comply. But, how can I do this rently have laws against same-sex acts, pun- by putting people in prison. The system is stymied by bureaucrats that are more inter- ested in lies, damned lies and statistics. Reoffending rates when I am not being unlocked? I have currently ishable in some cases with imprisonment Because if the system they been locked in the same cell for 144 hours, 6 and the death penalty. have cannot lead by example have increased dramatically, so what does that tell us about prison? It doesn’t work! straight days. I just don’t understand how a then what is the point of it? 20-year-old prisoner can be treated like this. The situation for gay people in the Common- wealth is changing. In April 2018, an LGBT activist from Trinidad & Tobago won a court HOWARD ruling which overturned the so-called ‘bug- BERNSTEINS o l i c i t o r s gery laws’ which made same-sex relations il- Why go it alone? legal and punishable. RECALL - DCR/IPP PAROLE BOARD HEARINGS Daley said that homophobia was a ‘massive Free legal representation IPP/LIFERS/EDS/DCR thing in sport’ and urged other gay athletes PRE-TARIFF REVIEWS to share their stories in order to ‘change for Independent hearts’ on LGBT issues. CAT A REVIEWS Adjudications NORTH WEST ADJUDICATIONS The 2022 Commonwealth Games will no POCA/CONFISCATION doubt be great for Birmingham and the Mid- lands, but wouldn’t it be amazing if, by the Bingley Office CONTACT JEREMY PINSON OR time the games land in the region, the situa- 2 Wellington Street, Bingley BD16 2NB BRENT PATTERSON AT: tion for LGBT people across the Common- T. 01274 561 666 Telephone: 0161 343 4136 wealth has changed for the better? That Tameside Office: Number 3, Henry Square Chambers, www.chiverssolicitors.co.uk Portland Street South, Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 7UE really would prove that the Commonwealth Glossop Office: 12a High Street East, Glossop Games is something bigger than sport. 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On the Wire Eligible for Hazardous Mailbites programmes cleaning Chris Knight - I’m a prisoner Hokey pokey Name withheld - HMP Wakefield Ajay Corteen - HMP Stafford Sailor Jerry - HMP Wandsworth HMP Lowdham Grange Here the prisoners are referred to as ‘residents. I personally find Here at Wanno’ we have a serious infestation problem. We have In response to Lee Turner’s It has come to the attention this term not only incorrect but somewhat sarcastic and plenty of cockroaches, rats and pigeons running and flying request (August issue) for in- of us professional bio-haz- offensive. I am being kept here against my own free will. I have around the place. But I think the pigeons are the worst. Flying formation about where he ard cleaners that there are been forcibly taken out of my partner’s life and my son’s life. Not vermin which carry untold diseases. I’ve heard that there is a can access the Horizon or various wing inmates who only have I been taken away from them, but I now have few ‘prison cat’ that is supposed to be scaring the rats and pigeons, Kaizen programmes, his Of- are being asked to carry out opportunities to see them. I have been taken away from all of but I would suggest that this cat has probably joined the POA fender Supervisor should be bio-hazard cleaning. my family and friends and every familiar thing in my life, and all and is sitting on his arse in an office somewhere drinking tea able to give him this infor- of this has been taken without my consent. I do not want to be instead of doing his job. Some guys, out of boredom I’d guess, These ‘plastic’ cleaners have here, and I certainly did not choose to live here. I am imprisoned trap the pigeons in their windows and then paint them in bright mation; however I hope the no protective gear, no over- here and cannot leave. I am not a ‘resident’, I am a prisoner. colours, or tie tuna-tin lids to their feet before letting them go. following helps. shoes, masks, suit or gloves, If you think noiseless little ants are bad you should try sleeping yet they march into blood Let me call too with a bunch of tin-clad pigeons doing the hokey-cokey on You first need to find out and faeces spattered cells your roof! your RM2000 score. If you’re Evan Prevett - HMP Lewes with just a mop and bucket. high or very high risk, you’ll And, after use, they put the There is a provision in the Prison Rules, specifically under PSI be assessed for Kaizen, me- Ant problem remedy same mop and bucket back Prisoner Communications, that allows for a free 5-minute Steve Shill - HMP Dovegate dium-risk for Horizon, and if into the cleaning store with phone call for foreign national prisoners who haven’t had a you are low-risk you may be no disinfectant so that other social visit in the preceding month. Why is it that British In response to Chantelle Rudge of HMP Peterborough’s assessed for Horizon, but inmates use them to clean prisoners aren’t entitled to this same provision? Is this not mailbite regarding an ant problem (August issue). I had a similar you won’t be eligible to do it. their cells and the landings. direct discrimination? I have written to HMPPS about this but problem and found that putting talcum powder along the gaps The only exception to this is These untrained cleaners have received no response. under the door worked quite well. Or the same for windows. when you are a lifer or IPP. are encouraged by wing staff. Ants don’t seem to like the smell or feel of talcum powder and Spiced down they get confused when they walk on it. They soon give up and These fake bio-hazard clean- Steven Rice - HMP Durham go away. “Once you know what ers get paid for a job that we Durham prison is out of control with paper Spice. Do people programme you are should be doing. By bio-haz- realise what they are smoking? Aside from the obvious carbon ‘Smackus Rattus’ infestation eligible for, you need to ard rules there should be two dioxide, people are spraying letters with alloy wheel cleaner, The Whinging Welshman - HMP Parc find somewhere that men, at least, to carry out acetone, cockroach killer, etc. Prisoners are dropping like flies In the August issue I saw an article by Chantelle Rudge of HMP bio-hazard cleaning. All kit daily. Two people have died this week alone. It’s crazy and Peterborough, titled ‘Ant fever’. Ms Rudge, I am very sad to inform runs it.” used must be disposed of in scary. I do not understand why people are willing to risk their you that most prisons have an infestation of a variety of matter proper bio-hazard bags, all lives in this way. Now they are photocopying our mail, photos that makes the skin crawl. Having been in several privately run Your options in the South mop-handles and buckets are copied in black & white, legal mail is opened and copied, prisons, I can say that HMP Peterborough is not unusual. are very limited. If you are a should be fully cleaned and Spice has totally turned this jail upside down. Everybody looks B cat you can access Horizon be kept only on the bio-haz- like a zombie. Well done HMPPS on the smoking ban. This is The worst of these pests is normally: Smackus Rattus, Debtus at either Parkhurst or Al- ard cart and should never be what we have been reduced to. Rattus, Grassus Rattus, Smackus Debtus Grassus Rattus and the bany, on the Isle of Wight. re-used for cells and landings. Smoky Joe page 25 worst of all… Dirtyus Bastardus Screwus Rattus! Other B cat options for these programmes are Rye Hill These are their Latin names, but I’m sure most will understand the and Wakefield. If you are a C modern translation and figure it out. 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Insidetime October 2018 Water flavoured Photocopying A duty of care? vapes our support KJ Isham - HMP Whatton T Hopcraft - HMP Doncaster Name withheld - HMP Durham It is the responsibility of the Prison Service …’To keep in custody those committed by the I write with regard to this prison photocopying The rules of getting your courts and treat them with humanity and all of our mail, supposedly due to one or two canteen from DHL say that help them lead productive and law-abiding people smuggling Spice in this way. They are no goods can be returned if lives in custody and upon release’. now photocopying photos of our children they are opened. and families, and if you are lucky enough to That’s straight from HMP’s mission state- be sent a birthday card all you receive is a I received my canteen and ment, and something that this supposedly piece of A4 paper with a picture of the card Force of prison giving had to open my bag to get to ‘civilised’ country is good at is coming up on it. This is like some sort of bad joke - so the box of 4 vapes I had or- with a catchy mission statement. But in the can someone tell me the legality of this? dered. I could not inhale the real world they are just words, aren’t they?

Raising funds for vape and when I checked it HMPPS responds had been filled with water. I Thank you for raising a valid point in regard “They don’t mean a damn thing to a took the packet I had opened, to the photocopying of mail for prisoners. We prisoner lying on the floor of his cell local Veteran’s charity along with the other 3 sealed did consider a number of options to stop mail after a fall or collapse as he knows it Fundraisers - HMP Wymott vape boxes to one of the wing soaked in illicit substances via the mail enter- staff and asked him if he ing the prison but unfortunately, they found could be hours before staff answer On Saturday 30th June 2018 (Forces Day) a group of 14 men could take them back to the ways around that. In order to fully prevent his cell-bell and find him.” from J wing participated in a charity rowing event organised stores and exchange them. mail being sent in contaminated we had to by resident Mark with assistance from staff (PEI Grimshaw take drastic actions which did affect all pris- What do these fancy-arsed words actually and Officers Robinson and Doyle). “The member of staff oners but unfortunately it was not just one or mean to the literally thousands of retired two people doing this. We had to balance up guys who, instead of enjoying their twilight The men raised almost £350 for a local charity, Veterans HQ then opened the other the instances where drugs had been taken and years at home with their families, or being based in Liverpool who cover the North West region. 3 vape boxes and prisoners became violent and disruptive as a looked after in a care home, are rotting in jail found all the vapes result leading to assaults on other prisoners because of something they did in their Our Veterans in Custody group have formed a close, good re- and staff. youth, in another time before the world got lationship with the charity in the last 18 months. They have were filled with water.” ‘enlightened’ and ‘civilised’? These words provided assistance to some of our men and spoken about This also caused disruption to the regime of I was not the only one who are absolutely meaningless - just buzz-words their services at our meetings. the prison as Healthcare staff spent an inordi- had this problem. He took that look good on a sign. nate amount of time treating those under the them back to the stores and Mark, who organised the event, became aware of them influence of these substances as a result. This they refused to change them They also mean nothing whatsoever to over- through some of the men on his wing and wanted to help has also led to debt and bullying for those because they were opened. worked/underpaid prison staff, working them help others, even though he’s not a veteran himself. who end up with an addiction due to it. How- So now they’ve had plenty of their butts off trying to maintain a broken ever, the saddest part of it all is that some complaints and they are ‘in- system that hasn’t got a hope in hell of cop- They are a ‘one-stop shop’ providing information, advice and prisoners have died as a result of drug taking vestigating’ how this ing with the complex health conditions that assistance on all matters to anyone who has served in any which has a significant impact on the prison happened. come with an ever-aging prison population. branch of the military, reservists and their families. They as a community. Having to tell the families of How many officers have any training to deal even have a ‘Custody co-ordinator’ who works with people in a prisoner that he has passed away is not a I’ve got half an idea. The with cancer sufferers? Or guys with Parkin- or about to leave the criminal justice system and require ad- pleasant experience. son’s? Or dementia? Deal with people that ditional support. mains prisoners are doing urgently need help - maybe at two in the the canteen packing and we I fully understand the point raised in regard to morning? What use are fancy words then? The funds were gratefully received in a presentation by the all know the previous of the cards and photographs and provision has Governor, Graham Beck, on Monday 13th August to Andy and mains when dealing with VPs. been made for these to go into each prisoners The totally unjust justice system that this Kenny from the charity who said the funds would be used to- One solution to this is to let stored prop and will be given back on release. neo-fascist country relies on, backed up by a wards essentials packs (containing items such as pots, pans, the mains pack their canteen We have purchased coloured photocopiers to duvets etc.) given to people they had assisted being moved in and VPs pack their own. try and ensure that we get the image to you as police force that’s crying out for the word ‘se- to accommodation sourced by the charity. clearly as possible and we will continue to try cret’ at the front of their name, insists on fill- In the end it took me 2 days and improve that provision. ing jails with guys who should be playing Men who participated in the arduous event, covering over 97 to get an emergency canteen bowls or watching Countdown with their miles (the equivalent distance from Dover to Dunkirk and order and I had to pay an- In regard to the legality it has been checked families - well that’s just fine and dandy, the back) were also presented with a certificate of achievement other £15.96 until its sorted. with the Investigatory Powers Commissioners world turns and things will get better and, in by the Governor. Who knows how long this office and (IPCO) and they are satisfied we the fullness of time, the guilty will face jus- will take. If the vapes are have taken the necessary actions. This was not tice for what they have done. The men all thoroughly enjoyed the event and were sup- getting tampered with by considered lightly, and we always look to en- ported by staff and prisoners on the day. It was a great occa- the people who pack them, sure family ties are maintained - however we In the meantime, if you insist on jailing all sion - bringing together staff and prisoners in a challenging then these people need to be saw it as a necessity in order to prevent a sig- these old guys, you have to accept the obliga- but fun event. Best of all the weather was great and they were supervised a bit better. Sort nificant drug route being stopped. I hope this tion to care for them with humanity. 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In your August issue you published a letter from Mr LR Wooden treatment right I want to thank all the ladies In the 8-years I have been imprisoned I have about his experience of the ACCT process for supporting pris- Grant Samed - Ashworth Hospital at HMP Bullingdon’s visitors never seen a prison deteriorate as quickly as oners at risk of self-harm or suicide. Mr Wooden gave a valua- centre. My husband and I this one. The jail wonders why there have ble insight into a time when he was very vulnerable. It would I was recently convicted for my part in the were still in shock at our been 4 deaths here within a 6-month period not be appropriate for us to comment on his case, but he asked HMP Birmingham riot. I am not ashamed to only son going to prison. We when they keep us locked up. It is playing a direct question about the constant supervision process, and admit that I was a ringleader and received a never had a clue about visit- with girls’ mental health. The staff don’t we welcome the chance to explain the policy. “When you are on 6-year sentence for my part. ing someone in prison. even know what they are doing on a daily an ACCT document and on constant watch do they not have Walking up to the front desk basis and there is never enough staff to facil- to have an interview review with the Governor every day?” itate association or sort our incoming mail. “The reason I am not ashamed is in the visitors centre I could feel my heart was pounding Most readers will be aware that Assessment, Care in Custody because ‘they’ should be ashamed Staff do not have an ounce of humanity at against my chest, I quietly and Teamwork (ACCT) is our case management system for the fact that we have been locked up for days for how we were treated.” told one of the ladies that it prisoners at risk of self-harm or suicide. We use it to support at a time. Last week I stopped to talk to my over 2,500 people every day. Constant supervision is not needed was mine and my husband’s sister, as I had not spoken to her for days, but for most people being supported through ACCT, and it is used I am now in Ashworth Hospital and being first ever visit and we were treated fairly and humanely. The distur- a staff member moved me on and became ag- only in times of crisis and then only for the shortest time pos- unsure of what we needed to gressive and rude, so I walked away not sible. This is not for financial reasons, but because being bance arose at Birmingham because I was do. All the anxiousness, wanting a confrontation. The staff member continuously observed by a member of staff can be dehuman- not being given my antipsychotic medication worrying whilst driving up insisted on me coming back, then followed ising and can increase a person’s risk of suicide or self-harm. on a regular basis. I don’t know the exact to Bullingdon to see our son, me to work and thrust his badge-number in events of the day because I was extremely was all made better from the my face in an aggressive manner. When I ob- The constant supervision process includes a daily multi-dis- mentally unwell. I am a diagnosed paranoid moment the kindest lady jected he told me to ‘put in a complaint form ciplinary case management review for the first 72 hours. This schizophrenic with a personality disorder. smiled and said, ‘don’t look then’. is chaired by a case manager, who must be a custodial man- too worried we are here to ager or a Governor. After the initial period, the review team I know that when it began I was really para- help.’ I have never been violent in prison so there is will decide the frequency of future reviews and record it in noid. I asked the mental health team for help no need for this over-the-top aggressiveness the ACCT document. As well as identifying and putting in but was denied help over and over again. We have only a couple more and bully boy tactics. They seem to forget place actions to support the person and reduce their risk, one The current system is a disaster of all propor- that we are as human as them, and that we of the goals of case reviews is gradually to reduce the level of tions. There are no progressive routines in visits to go and our son will supervision required, but only when it is safe and in the per- be home. To say we will miss have already had our day of judgement in the prison system. There are barely any jobs, court and they are not here to judge us. They son’s interests . The prisoner concerned is invited to attend the wings are filthy, the staff are either cor- the ladies that we have seen the ACCT review and encouraged to take a full part in the dis- and joked with weekly are supposed to be our ‘role models’, but how rupt or don’t seem to care about the prison- are we to deal with ‘issues with authority’ cussion, unless that is inappropriate for any reason (for ex- ers. Violence is everywhere. You put all this would not be right, we do ample where taking part will cause them further distress). not want to see a prison ever when they continue to speak to us as if we together and you get riots. were naughty children? Many women have a again. But these ladies Mr Wooden and other readers can be assured that HMPPS is fear of men due to issues in their pasts, but Since I came to Ashworth I’ve been medi- helped us more than they absolutely committed to providing appropriate support to all male staff never take this into consideration. cated correctly and regularly, and treated will ever know. They made those in our care. As well as continuing to operate established our visits just that little bit systems such as ACCT, we have a prison safety programme that like a person, and because of this I’ve had no Even when fellow prisoners pass away staff easier, especially when our will be introducing a range of new measures designed to reduce incidents whatsoever in the 8-months since show little compassion or respect. They visit was over, and we had to the number of self-inflicted deaths and self-harm incidents. I’ve been here. I accept that prison staff have never have time to speak to us or get to know been cut by a greedy government, but the leave our son. They do not us, it’s all just showing how tough they are. We appreciate that it may not have been easy for Mr Wooden staff that have remained seem to have aban- get the recognition that they Safer Custody, supposedly a place for women to share his personal experiences at a time of distress, and we doned a positive work ethic. I believe they so rightfully deserve. Thank who need to talk or need support, is con- are grateful to him for doing so. We are committed to learn- take out their hardships and unhappiness on you to each one of you ladies stantly locked so no one can use it. Prison ing from the experiences of those in our care, and we will use prisoners. To put it simply - treat us like ani- at the Bullingdon prison vis- cannot run on a trial and error basis, it has to this to improve our practices and to make prisons safer. mals and we will respond like animals. itors centre. have structure, and yet, this prison hasn’t.

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TERS discrimination K Morrissey - HMP Buckley Hall Give it a rest AJS - HMP Risley With reference to ‘Imagined risk’ in the August issue about the Tariff Expiry Removal Scheme I would like to respond to Ian Scott’s idiotic letter, ‘Such (TERS). A few years ago, I complained about Snobbery’ (August issue). Sometimes, in my day to day prison the unfairness of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and life I’m genuinely astounded by the things I see or hear, Ian Punishment of Offenders Act (LASPO), which Scott’s letter topped them all. brought in TERS allowing for the deportation of foreign nationals without them having to do The reason that ex armed forces members have ‘Veterans in any courses, parole or license, this being © Deposit Photos Custody’ helping them is because for the most part they are discrimination whichever way you look at it. Dennis Nilsen: In memory of a Scrabble cheat also ex or serving members of the armed forces. A high number Therefore, it is a breach of the Race Relations of veterans have seen things that you or I couldn’t imagine, so Act, the Discrimation Act, the ECHR, and a Sarah Jane Baker - HMP Lewes they tend to suffer from things such as PTSD, and because a lot major slur on the British legal system. of them are discharged from the military they are failed by the I did read somewhere that when we die our sins die with us. In the past, and government and end up on the scrapheap. Prime Minister material? before the days of the internet and social media, our worst failings would have soon been forgotten and we may have been lionised, with even our ene- Veterans in Custody are set up by their own to help their own, Evan Prevett - HMP Lewes mies calling us wonderful human beings and saying how our death was a and rightly so. Are you really so stupid that you can’t grasp this? It is easy to sometimes feel that with a criminal lamentable loss to society. The reason you don’t see ‘carpet-fitters in custody’ or ‘chefs in record, and having spent time in prison, your custody’ groups is because these people don’t risk their lives in opportunities in the future may have become However, when serial killer Dennis Nilsen died recently, I struggled to think order to create a free world. Seriously kid, give your head a limited. If you feel this way then I suggest you of one good or positive thing that could be said about a man whose personal- good shake. think about how Donald Trump, a man who ity disorder allowed him to kill people because he felt rejected by them. Den- admits to sexually assaulting women, paying nis was aware that people were often afraid of him, but to me he was a I know this letter may seem a bit condescending, but his letter off porn stars, insulting Muslims, sundry gentleman, writer, musician and fellow Londoner. made me so mad. My brother is a veteran and was let down big foreigners, LGBT people, the disabled and the time when he was discharged. It was V.I.C that helped him get media, a bare-faced liar and childish buffoon Those of us who had spent years in prison with Dennis shared his jury’s opinion his life back on track. who makes shit up on the spot and swears by that he was not insane and should not be allowed to escape responsibility. There it, can be the leader of the free world. Based was no doubt that he was a narcissistic and psychopathic person who be- Veteran joker on this clown I truly believe that one day I lieved that his needs were more important than those of anyone else. Whether Richie - HMP Parc could be Prime Minister! we were playing Scrabble or chess, Dennis hated to lose, and I often spied him I write in response to the letter ‘Such Snobbery’, from Ian Scott trying to find the blank Scrabble tiles. Yet, I never felt unsafe in his company, of Rye Hill (August Issue). As an armed forces veteran myself, I although I was aware of the horrific crimes that he had committed. Often, in Whose money is it? found his letter both funny and offensive. I agree that some of Full Sutton, I played the violin whilst Dennis accompanied me on piano. Daniel Dodsworth - HMP Gartree the whining by a small minority of veterans can be a headache, but my forces brothers who have seen active service should be A few months back I opened a savings account I hope that his death will bring some peace to his victims’ families. I think entitled to a level of support whilst in prison. For instance, my within the prison, taking money out of my that Dennis was aware that he was not wired up right, even though he be- brothers who are suffering from PTSD have witnessed horren- spends account each week, to help when I am lieved he was unique. He often quoted Carl Jung to me, especially how ‘To be dous events and should be given adequate assists in overcom- released one day. This money cannot be taken normal is an aspiration of the unsuccessful’. When I told Dennis that the ing their demons. out until release. So, this week I made a request most memorable thing about him was how normal he was, he immediately to put a bit of money out of my private cash had a tantrum. I don’t know if Dennis was evil. I think, like many of us who Being housed on a unit with orifices like yourself, that more into my savings account. To my surprise, I was have lived most of our lives chaotically, he may have been a product of his ge- than likely kick their doors like sulking children as it has gone refused and told that ‘Only money from spends netics, his environment, emotional neglect and childhood trauma. can be put into a savings account’. Prisoners 10-seconds past the official opening time, will not help their should be able to save whatever money is state of mind. I’m guessing, Mr Scott, that you are not a veteran Dennis was as complex a human being as any other, with a personality that yourself? Or, if you are then you are one of the excrement theirs, spends or private, to help on our release. had as many facets as a princess-cut diamond. Like many of us, he was afraid Please can HMPPS tell us why this is not the case? dwellings that has been there, done that and never left the of being alone, being ignored, being shunned and being hurt. That he would NAAFI. Maybe you have seen action; fighting in the Job Centre go on to be one of the world’s most prolific serial killers was an indication of over who should be issued the first Giro. On release, why not Slave wages how damaged he was as a child. In many ways, Dennis was to remain an im- join up and fight for this country? Mr Batchelor - HMP Rochester mature and selfish child until his death. Unable to see another person’s point of view or consider the consequences of his actions. I am currently residing at HMP Rochester and I am appalled at the way workers are treated. We Corrections and Clarifications Many people that I know told me not to write this - but it is not a eulogy in are made to work for 4½ hours a day packing praise of a notorious murderer and suspected cannibal; it is not an attempt to If you notice an error please feel free to write to us at the usual products for the small wage of around £2 per whitewash the reputation of a serial killer, nor is it an attempt to say that Dennis address providing the date and page number from the day. I think this is a barefaced cheek as we was not to blame for his actions. This is no more than a memoir, an historical newspaper, alternatively have a friend or family member call pack hundreds a day which are then sold for account of how bland, unassuming and boring Dennis Nilsen was. He did not look or email us (see below). around £10 each, which earns the prison a nice tidy sum. When is this going to stop? We are or sound like a monster. His jokes were rubbish and often inappropriate - but Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire prisoners, not slaves. unlike many other prisoners, he did me no more harm than to cheat at Scrabble. SO30 2GB. Tel: 01489 795945 Email: [email protected]

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Mailbites Heavy Make believe heavy carbs Cell bells Safer Custody Learning - Prison Improvement Directorate AJ - HMP Risley Stop trying to hide Brian Smith - Andrew Taylor - HMP Moorland HMP Holme House In your August edition you published a letter from Mr J Feath- In reply to the letters from J Pearce (July issue) and A Amos (August issue). You do erstone about his experience of using his cell bell. He said he I would like to let every reader know that here have valid points about prisoners living in Over the last few issues wanted to ask for support from prison staff at a time when he at Moorland sex offenders and rapists are make-believe worlds. Sometimes this can be there have been letters about was feeling particularly vulnerable, and staff told him he writing to their solicitors to get them to go to a self-defence mechanism and other times it the state of prisoner’s diets. should not press his cell bell unless it was an emergency. It court to change their identities. These can be just plain old prison bilge. We’ve all Here in Holme House it is would not be appropriate for us to comment on Mr Feather- prisoners, who are a danger to women and met the Prison G, who, as well as running the same carb-heavy diet, stone’s case, but we welcome the chance to comment broadly children, are getting close to release and don’t his own business, driving a Lambo and dat- especially at weekends. But on the use of cell call bells. want their real names discovered in the ing Rita Ora, also runs a thriving criminal community in case of retaliation. But, what this is not the only issue It is correct that cell call bells are for emergency use. An enterprise. Despite the fact that he’s really about our children’s safety? I’m a father and with the food here. emergency is defined as “a serious, unexpected, and often just an unwashed toerag in a pair of Gola this is a serious situation. If you allow serious dangerous situation requiring immediate action.” So, it is im- Classics. sex offenders to hide in plain sight, then Since the introduction of the portant that staff can answer cell bells without delay. Using a children and other vulnerable people will be kiosk ordering scheme the cell bell for any other reason puts at risk those in urgent need Sometimes though, living a lie is easier than in serious danger. There needs to be a new law food has gone seriously downhill. A lot of the food of attention. the reality. The reality of having spent most saying these dangerous people cannot change of the last 20-years in jail, of losing your chil- their names and come back as though they’ve here wouldn’t pass as pig- swill. On a daily basis you dren because of the idiotic choices you’ve done nothing wrong. We need to get together “Prisons have been asked to ensure that cell bells made, or the prospect of having nothing to and somehow stop this happening. hear prisoners asking what you had the previous day are answered promptly, but to be able to do this it offer anyone in life. Believe me, sometimes and whether you are feeling is important that prisoners use them only in an the lie is easier to live with. Ultimately, if you No takers want to move on to a better life then you ok. Those who can afford it emergency.” AH - HMP Bedford don’t bother with the have to face the truth. As a member of the Equalities Team here, I kitchen meals and just sub- However, we have encouraged our staff to take a broad view of Like A Amos, it wont take much to make me was both shocked and saddened that our sidise their diet from the “emergency” when it comes to supporting vulnerable prison- happy. A home, a few possessions, my chil- LGBT forum was not held as the generated canteen. ers. In the situation described, the member of staff could have dren able to visit me because I have some- report indicated that we had zero residents taken a more sensitive approach towards Mr Featherstone and where of my own. Sadly, from experience, identifying as LGBT. As we have a population To add insult to injury, for suggested that he access support services such as Samaritans this is the make-believe world. On my re- of 496 prisoners, this clearly shows we have a the last few months we have or speak to a prison listener. Mr Featherstone could also have lease I already know that I’ll get out to noth- problem with residents suffering in silence and been receiving a flyer giving asked for access to these services when he used his cell bell. ing. No help, no roof over my head, nothing. not having a voice to raise issues, not receiving us advice on Healthy Eating Just £46, enough to jump-start my addiction the relevant help and support from the prison with our canteen orders. If Prisoners will have naturally had queries that need attention and then the revolving door starts up again or from each other. I hope we can change this the prison gave us the or concerns that they wish to raise with staff. They are en- and whether it is reoffending or recall the situation but it will require action from money they spend on the couraged to organise themselves, with any items they need, end result is the same. residents to change. Please come and speak to crap food suppliers, we when they are unlocked during the day. We are grateful to Mr an Equalities rep or Equalities staff to change could live like kings with Featherstone for sharing his personal experiences. We are When reality looks so bleak, no wonder most your sexual orientation or gender identity canteen orders. Surely these committed to learning from the experiences of those in our care, inmates live in a make-believe world. And status and help improve LGBT issues here for people have a duty of care to and we will use this to improve our practices and to make those who deny this are lying to themselves. yourself and others. give us a healthy diet? prisons safer.

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clear that the prison lacked the necessary funding and IEP rethink Newsbites modern technology to stem the flow [of drugs].” A consultation is being launched by the Government on a new New Parole Board Chair Incentives and Earned Privileges scheme(IEP) which would announced Suicide and self-harm give prison governors the power to design their own pro- Caroline Corby has been There had been five self-in- gramme of incentives tailored to the specific challenges in appointed as Chair of the flicted deaths since the last their prison. They say, under the scheme, those who behave Parole Board. She has served inspection. “Most prisoners well and engage in meaningful activities such as education as interim Chair since 23 April in crisis said they did not feel and employment programmes could receive privileges such and will formally take up post well cared for. They faced as more time in the gym or additional visits. The linking of from 1 November 2018 for a living in grimy conditions visits to an incentive scheme has been criticised by many period of 3 years. Ms Corby has prison reform groups who say it punishes the families and with little time unlocked and been a Non-Executive Director children of prisoners and often prisoners on the lower levels hardly anything to do.” of the Board since 2015. She would benefit from better family contact. As well as providing also holds Non-Executive incentives, governors would be able to tackle ‘poor behav- Respectful detention and Director roles at One Housing, Bedford prison down down deeper and down… iour’ by taking away privileges - returning people to a more living conditions Cafcass and the Criminal Cases basic regime, they would also have greater freedom to decide Review Commission and is a Living conditions were poor. how prisoners move up or down privilege levels. “There was a huge backlog SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSEPanel Chair of the Nursing of general repairs (over 600 and Midwifery Council and a HMP Bedford The Ministry of Justice say that research on behaviour change Panel Member at the General repairs outstanding with shows that positive reinforcement is much more effective at Optical Council. Prisons Inspector issues Urgent Notification over 400 going back to 2017) shaping behaviour than punishment and, while sometimes and maintenance tasks, with necessary, punishment alone does not effectively change Staff exodus staff at all levels, there was a no prospect of them being Inside Time report behaviour. They say: “Many consider that the incentives Research by The Independent dangerous lack of control in completed or the backlog system is not currently as effective as it could be, with and the Labour Party show many parts of the prison. diminished. We found a FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE governors having too little flexibility to establish incentives that one in every sixteen prisoner located overnight in Following an unannounced 77% of available officers had thatOu rtheir spec particularialist legal tcohorteam have of prisoners an outsta nvalue.ding t rWeack arerec ord in represeprisonnting victim officerss o fresigned sexual, last a cell that had supposedly inspection of HMP Bedford, less than one year’s service. thereforephysical providingand emotio governorsnal abuse. with more freedom to design year, double the number of Peter Clarke, HM Chief There was a corresponding been taken out of commis- their incentive scheme to take account of the local needs of the previous year. A third of Inspector of Prisons has lack of experience at all sion. It had a bed, but no theirDisc prisonlosing d populationetails of pas andt abu these c facilitiesan be diffi availablecult and o infte theirn tra umatic. Ythoseour d quittingedicated has law ybeener w illin the once again sent an Urgent levels, and it was “clear that other furniture, and a broken prison.advise This on th meanse meri tas prisonof your withclaim a an goodd will gym, supp oror at ywingou th withroug ha the cjoblaim fors p lessrocess than to ae nyear.sure The kitchen area, could better use these in its IEP system in Notification Protocol letter to this was having a significant window. The toilet did not your voice is finally heard. government set about hiring Justice Secretary David impact on many areas of flush and there was builder’s future. Governors could also choose to increase the amount of 2,500 new staff but these Gauke about conditions for prison life”. rubble on the floor from timeCan out you of m cellake ana c lindividualaim? prisoner receives to engage in have been haemorrhaging which he fears “there could repairs that had not been recreational activities or exercise alongside education and very quickly and critics of the all too easily be a complete completed.” workWe rprogrammes.ecover compe Andnsati oton betterfor ab uassistse in sthemchoo lins, cpreparinghildren’s h oform e, detrapidentio nemployment centres with sayfos tthater life back in the community, governors could choose to breakdown in order and l carers, religious organisations and sports clubs and many more…. the new officers are not being 116 assaults on staff in incentivise prisoners by offering additional visits from family discipline.” In his letter the last six months Summing up, in his letter, adequately trained and are about the inspection, which Mr Clarke says: “It is of great andEve friends,n if your with abus moree occu flexiblerred ma ntimings.”y years ago you may still be able to beingmake aforced success intoful challengingclaim. took place between 28 l 163 self-harm incidents concern that for nine years and sometimes dangerous PrisonsAt Jord Ministerans Solic iRorytors w Stewarte pride osaid:urse l“Prisonsves on ha mustndling be ea placesch case of w ith professionalism, sensitivity August and 6 September, in the previous six months the prison has been on a situations before they are safety,and u nddecencyerstand anding apurposefulnd adhere t activityo strict p toro turnfessio aroundnal rules the of confidentiality Mr Clarke says he identified path of seemingly inexorable prepared or equipped to do l 77% of officers had less lives of those in custody. This new framework will give many significant concerns than one year’s service decline. Repeated inspection What to do now:- so; when the reality of the job about the treatment and governors the tools to set clear behavioural standards for dawns on them, they leave. findings clearly show that Speak to one of our team in complete confidence: conditions of prisoners. l 27% positive MDT offenders under their watch, and the consequences should They describe chaos in prison this has been the case … The theseCall: not0800 be 9555 met.” 094 results present governor has now wings, lack of respect from Email us at: [email protected] management and lack of Following the last inspection l Over 600 repairs been in post for over a year, HaveWrit youre to us say, at Jletord usan knows Solic ihowtors, youAbu sewould depar maketmen ant, N incen-eil Jordan Housupport.se, Wellington Road, in 2016, Bedford was made outstanding and that is welcome. The tivesDew schemesbury, W workF13 1 better.HL subject to a Performance question for me is whether Credit: The Independent l Improvement Plan in 40% of prisoners locked she and her team, clearly up during the working day September 2016, initially for determined as they are to a period of 12 months, later improve the prison, have the SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE extended to 18 months. In capability and capacity to do May 2018 it was decided that Drugs so … The clear view of the there had been insufficient In common with many other Inspectorate is that immedi- progress against the prisons Bedford suffered ate and decisive intervention Performance Improvement from high volumes of illicit is needed at HMP Bedford to Plan and the prison was drugs. One prisoner in five avert further decline and an placed in ‘special measures’. FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE told inspectors they had even more dangerous lack of In his letter, Mr Clarke refers acquired a drug habit since control than is currently the We have an outstanding track record in representing victims of sexual, physical and emotional abuse. to the continued failure to arriving at Bedford. “It was case.” address most of the recom- Our specialist team have already helped survivors who suffered abuse at many different places mendations made in his including: previous report. Mr Clarke Our team of specialists can o er details problems he found: free advice and assistance in • Children’s Homes in ; relation to Legally Aided issues, Leeds, Nottingham, Wales Violence including: The rate of assaults had • Prison Detention Centres including ; risen significantly since the Lifer/IPP Parole Board Reviews (Pre/Post Tari ) Medomsley, Whatton, Kirklevington last inspection, when Recalls Independent Adjudications • In Foster Car e measured over a 12-month Category A Reviews period, and stood at a higher Disclosing details of past abuse can be difficult, we pride ourselves on our professionalism, sensitivity and level than any other local We can also o er competitive xed fees for matters understanding and adhere to strict professional rules of confidentiality. prison, except HMP which are not currently covered by Legal Aid such as: Birmingham. 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‘Une’ “Nick 963.” An s Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Newsround 11 Looking Howard League wins chal- Prisons chief steps down lenge to children’s restraint Back... Formal process to appoint Michael through the Inside The Howard League for Penal Reform has Spurr successor starts this month won its legal challenge to stop adult restraint Time archives techniques being used routinely on children right time to ask a new chief October 2010 at HMYOI Feltham. The case was brought on Continued from front page executive to take on this behalf of a boy who had a background of important role.” In a statement, Permanent abuse, mental health problems and complex Secretary Richard Heaton needs. He was 16 years old when he was said: “Michael is an excep- Justice Secretaries have been restrained on several occasions in the tional public servant. His handed four urgent notices segregation unit in the adult part of Feltham commitment to the organisa- by the prison inspectorate in by staff without appropriate training on tion he leads and to a humane the last year - for jails in Exeter, restraint of children. and effective offender Nottingham, Birmingham management system has and Bedford. It is the most The High Court has approved an order setting been unflinching, through a serious level of action the out what must be done to prevent children in © prisonimage.org period when the system has inspectorate can take over Feltham from being restrained by officers faced extraordinary pressures, conditions in a prison it only trained in adult restraint techniques. challenges and constraints. inspects. In the case of HMP Female prisoner The measures set out in the order includes No compassion for Willy Michael’s leadership has Birmingham, the prison was ceasing to hold children alongside young “It seems to me that if your been exemplary. But we now taken off the hands of its adults in the segregation unit, a practice deaths rising? need to look ahead, building private operator, G4S, and case is high profile and you which has been repeatedly criticised by Her on Michael’s work and returned to state control for become seriously ill, let’s say Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons (HMCIP) Following three deaths of women prisoners developing a strategy for the at least six months as officials with cancer, then you seem to who, in their latest report, stated that the in ten days at the end of August/beginning of next decade. I have therefore battle to reduce violence, have more chance of getting segregation unit “remained a grim environ- September prison reform campaigners have decided that April 2019 is the drug use and disorder. released on compassionate said it is a very worrying sign and that ten ment for young people and unsuitable for grounds. As in the cases of Al years on from the Corston Report, which said this age group”. Megrahi and Ronnie Biggs. A there needed to be urgent changes in the Newsbites mate of mine, who arrived treatment of female prisoners, nothing has here two weeks before me in really changed. One of the deaths has been confirmed as self-inflicted, the other two are Scotland’s falling reoffending 1989, with a 7-year tariff as a under investigation. New statistics released by Scotland’s Chief Statistician show that discretional lifer, did the reoffending rate in Scotland has fallen by 22%, in the last everything he was asked to Since 2007, 98 women have died in prisons of decade, to a 19-year low of just 32.9%. The figures also showed do. In 2008 he contracted which 35 were self-inflicted. 2016 was the that those sentenced to short prison terms were reconvicted cancer. In 2009 his solicitor worst year - accounting for nearly a quarter of almost twice as often, in 12 months, than those given fought to get him released to all deaths. Richard Burgon, shadow secretary Community Punishment Orders (CPOs), which in most cases a hospice near his sister in the of state for justice says the government need centred on unpaid work in the community. People sentenced south-east of England, but he to take urgent action. for lower level crimes were the ones most likely to reoffend. Frances Crook (above), Chief Executive was told that no compassion- Rebecca Roberts, Head of Policy at INQUEST, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, ate release would be consid- Staff caught smuggling increase the charity which gives help and support said: “This case is illustrative of endemic Following a request from The Observer, the Prison Service has ered until he had ‘3 months following deaths in custody told Inside Time: problems at Feltham. As the Chief left to live’, and this applies all “These figures are incredibly worrying and Inspector pointed out earlier this year, admitted that hundreds of prison staff have been caught across the prison estate. suggest that deaths in women’s prisons are the segregation unit at Feltham is grim smuggling drugs, weapons and mobile phones into prisons. 341 Anyway, my mate was looked rising once again despite promises of action and unsuitable for children. It is wholly staff in England and Wales have been sacked in the past six after very well by the hospital from the Government. We are also concerned unacceptable that children detained years with 71 cases alone last year. The Prison Service say the staff here. In August 2009 he to learn that so many women are being found there, and elsewhere in Feltham, are at figures reflect the actions of a minority of staff; which includes risk of being physically restrained by was moved to Norwich to the unresponsive in their cells and dying officers, health workers, educators and other support staff. unexpectedly from unknown or unidentified officers using techniques designed to unit there so it would make it Commenting on the large amounts of drugs found, the Prisons causes. Prison is a disproportionate and manhandle grown men. It is therefore easier for his sister and family Inspectorate said that staff shortages at Wandsworth meant inappropriate response for women, many of absolutely right that the Secretary of that visitors were not searched properly. to visit him and to search for a whom have experienced abuse, violence, State has agreed to bring these practices hospice to look after him. poverty, drug misuse and mental ill-health. to an end instead of defending this case In-cell telephones Unfortunately nobody at The Government must work across health, in court, although it is deplorable that it A new scheme to install telephones in all prison cells has been Norwich bothered to look for social care and justice departments to has taken a legal challenge to secure announced by Justice Secretary David Gauke. He says that prisoners a hospice so the Parole Board dismantle failing women’s prisons and invest these changes.” queueing for limited numbers of wing phones can be a source refused him release. On 25th in specialist services, to prevent more of violence and having in-cell phones would help prisoners stay of November 2009 at needless deaths.” The system of restraint for children in in contact with families, which helps with rehabilitation. He also approximately 7.40 am, Willy Juliet Lyon, chair of the Independent custody is known as Minimisation and hoped that having in-cell phones would stem the tide of illegal passed away.” Advisory Panel (IAP) on Deaths in Custody, Management of Physical Restraint (MMPR). It mobile phones. His idea is to start with 20 prisons, but that Mailbag HMP Wakefield and lead on our Keeping Safe campaign to emphasises the importance of using de-esca- would still leave over 100 without in-cell telephones. reduce deaths in custody told us: “Following lation strategies and only permits restraint using specifically approved ‘holds’. It was Respect! the tragic deaths of women in prison in 2016, Graduate staff take up their posts the IAP consulted over 60 women prisoners introduced following an extensive review of “I don’t suppose this prison Around 100 new prison officers started work last month. But and more than 40 health and justice profes- the use of force against children, which came gets too much good press, but these are different, they all have degrees from leading universi- sionals about how best to prevent suicide and after two boys, aged 14 and 15, died in I would like to give the self-harm. Everyone agreed that vulnerable custody in 2004. An independent review in ties. They are part of the Unlock Graduates Scheme, a two-year healthcare team my utmost women should receive treatment and care in 2008 raised serious concerns about the use of programme which was launched in 2016 and sees people respect. I work in the kitchen the community. Too often a prison sentence adult restraint techniques - known as control complete a masters degree while working in prisons alongside and last week I had an is imposed where there is a need for a place and restraint - on children, concluding that existing staff and getting the same starting salaries - up to accident with a hosepipe filled of safety. Government promises have been “with its emphasis on coercion and pain £30,000 depending on where they are working. Unlocked, the compliance, [it] reinforces the very culture of with pressure, which snaked made about reforming women’s justice, these charity which runs the scheme, said it had seen a “dramatic danger and violence in YOIs in which it up suddenly and almost took must be taken forward without further delay growth” in applications for the 2018 intake with more than in order to keep vulnerable women safe.” operates”. A three-year implementation period 4,500 graduates registering their interest and over 900 applica- my eye out. At healthcare I for introducing MMPR in prisons began in was treated with respect by tions for the 100 places available. A Prison Service spokesperson said: “Every 2012. Training in MMPR began at Feltham in the team, and also by the death in custody is a tragedy and as usual July 2015 and it was supposed to ‘go live’ in officers who escorted me to there will be an independent investigation by February 2016. More than two years later, not NEW POSTAL ADDRESS FOR INSIDE JUSTICE outside hospital.” the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman into all staff who may be called upon to restrain One Business Village, West Dock Street, Kingston upon Hull East Yorkshire, HU3 4HH Mailbag HMP Acklington each of them.” children are trained in MMPR.

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outside exercise and referred to their ‘right’ to at least half an hour or more of fresh air Smoked salmon and second chances Pentonville each day. The Governor replied to prisoner Overcrowded, crumbling, complaints saying it is not technically a right Ground-breaking charity The Clink, which teaches catering skills to people in prison, now has if there is a staff shortage. The IMB say: a presence in Manchester. On the new café’s opening night, where smoked salmon and inhumane, rife with vermin “Confining men for weeks without exercise in avocado on toast are on the menu, waitress and former Styal prisoner Val said, “I didn’t think the fresh air is inhumane.” I’d be able to get a job again. I thought I had ruined my life. A lot of people think prison is the Inside Time report end of the world - but it doesn’t have to be the end of your life.” Reoffending rates of those who Access to both healthcare (clinic) and have gone through the Clink kitchens stands at just 10.7 per cent compared with a national day-care (mental health activities) were also average of 47 per cent. Chris Moore, chief executive of The Clink Charity, said: “We are delighted.” curtailed due to shutdowns. The waiting list to see a doctor is about one month. There are frequent lock-downs whilst staff carried out searches for contraband (which now includes tobacco) but the IMB say: “… the jail remains porous to the trafficking of drugs, mobile phones and weapons in large part due to Pentonville prison: shutdown abounds dilapidated windows. Only a quarter have been replaced since the 2016 homicide when The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at the Prison Service recommended that all HMP Pentonville have published one of the windows should be sealed so that contra- most critical reports about a prison by an IMB band can’t get in. Not a single external for a very long time. They describe the prison window grille was replaced either, despite a as: “Overcrowded, inhumane conditions; Prison Service recommendation to that effect crumbling surroundings where vermin (fleas, A hub of good food Fine sausage dining following the 2016 double escape, leading to cockroaches, mice) are rife”. A servery trolley a dozen cells being declared out of action due was returned to the kitchen with a dead to the risk. mouse beneath the drawers. Bright lights, big futures “There are too few telephones for prisoners, Pentonville is 175 years old and, although which disrupts vital links to family and deigned to hold a maximum of 900 prisoners, friends [and legal consultations for those on currently holds around 1,200. Because of conditions at the prison the government remand]. Phones are regularly out of action originally said it would close it this year. That - more than a third were found to be broken plan has been shelved. The prison is a main by a prison survey. So, it’s not hard to see remand centre (50%) and also holds “the why mobile phones are in such high de- highest number of seriously disturbed mand.” Delays in the receipt of information prisoners of any local prison”. from the courts and the volume of work in the Offender Management Unit to update Violence is a problem throughout the prison, prisoners’ records meant that some prisoners as is the number of gang related incidents. were deprived of visits for several weeks. The IMB say: “… during gatherings for prayer A long table of goodies Credit: The Clink [in the chapel], on one occasion, a gang fight The impact of the failed company Carillion is erupted and ministers had to run for cover. still having an effect. The IMB say: “Carillion On another occasion, a prisoner was knifed failed at maintenance - slow, expensive, as he entered.” In one month 17 staff were sometimes clueless. The impact on prisoners attacked and the IMB reports more than 100 was real - stinking showers, backed up toilets violent incidents in the year. and cold dinners. Then Carillion failed as a company. This after repeated warnings for at The report catalogues failures from a lack of least 2 years from the IMB (and others) that staff to a failure to keep the buildings up to the contract was not working for Pentonville. scratch. Activities and association time were There is no evidence yet of improved routinely restricted, with some prisoners efficiency in maintenance by the Crown- going weeks without exercise in the fresh air, operated Government Facilities Service.” At even though Prison Rules stipulate daily one point in the year, 150 men were reliant exercise. Prisoners complained about no on three sub-standard showers. Charity opposes Friday releases The charity Nacro has called for prisoners not to be released on Fridays because they say it makes it very difficult for them to access benefits, medication or assistance. Nacro say that many prisoners will end up sleeping rough and might reoffend.

“They say that while support may be put in place during the 12 weeks prior to release. The day itself is often crucial for putting in place the basic build- ing blocks for life outside of prison.”

Over 25,000 prisoners were released on a Friday last year. Prisoners who would otherwise be released on Saturdays or Sundays are released on Friday because prisons cannot keep them past their release date. Because releases are usually done after other prison movements, such as to court, many prisoners may not be released until midday. Nacro say that some agencies close early on Fridays.

The charity said prisoners sometimes find they are without vital medication and must survive on a £46 discharge grant until support services reopen on Monday: “We know that there is often a window of opportunity for people on release when they are keen to make change and move on. However, this can be quickly lost when the barriers are too high, and things are not in place to help them move forward and away from crime.”

Nacro chief executive Jacob Tas said ending Friday releases would be a “simple and cost-effec- tive step” to take as the government consults on reforms to probation services; but releasing prisoners a day early would not please the red top press. Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Newsround 13

Shocking Taser figures Child arrest World prison review numbers fall Questions have again been raised about the increasing use of Free sperm Tasers by the police after a 17-year-old boy suffered a cardiac Research by the Howard A baby has been born to a Palestinian father who is imprisoned arrest after being Tasered. The police said they Tasered him in League shows that arrests of in Israel using sperm smuggled out of the prison. Prisoner order to detain him after a disturbance. children (under 17’s) have sperm smuggling is an ongoing process used to combat the dropped by 68% since 2010. issue of Palestinian families with men serving long prison Figures for 2015 showed that Tasers were aimed or fired 11,294 Police still made 79,012 child sentences. Without it, family lineages are threatened. According to the Razan Fertility Centre in Nablus, which has times in England and Wales. Whilst the government insist the arrests in 2017. The total © Deposit Photos pioneered the practice, the first procedure was undertaken in devices, which deliver a 50,000 volt shock, are safe there number of arrests has been “Things going on” 2012. However, the practice has been going on in the Gaza have been concerns about an increasing number of deaths reduced every year since the Morning after birth control Strip since at 2003. Sperm smuggling peaked around 2015 but and serious injuries connected with their use. Howard League began a pills were given to female since then Israeli authorities have tightened their security. campaign in 2010. They have inmates after male prisoners Between 2012 and 2015 alone, roughly 32 Palestinian babies produced a briefing ‘Child broke into the women’s • In 2006 police Tasered a man after he had shot himself in have been born from IVF treatment and smuggled sperm. arrests in England and Wales section of the prison during a the head. If a prisoner is caught smuggling sperm, both him and his 12-hour jail riot at a prison in 2017’ which explores some of family are collectively punished. If a child is born through IVF • In 2011 a bodybuilder died after being pepper sprayed and Perth, Australia. The the changes that police conception, Israeli authorities do not recognize its legal status then shot four times with a Taser. Australian Justice Department forces have made to reduce and do not allow the child to visit its father. Women initially said that the pill - which • In 2012 a 61-year-old blind man was Tasered after police arrest numbers, while also rejected the idea but after the procedure gained support from prevents pregnancy after looking at areas where the Palestinian Authority’s religious council and it officially said they mistook his white stick for a Samurai sword. unprotected sex - was offered further progress can be permitted Palestinian wives to conceive through IVF treatment, to dozens of female prisoners • In 2017 a former footballer died after being Tasered three times. achieved. Palestinian women got onboard. following the riot. Women • Avon and Somerset Police shot their own race adviser with a Acknowledgement: www.palestinemonitor.org Frances Crook, Chief denied they had been Taser at close range as he was walking away. molested or raped but the Executive of the Howard Gang war Australian prison officers’ League for Penal Reform, Gangs have caused chaos at a Earlier this year the Armed Policing lead for the Association of South African prison as two union said: “If you have got a said: “This is the seventh of the so called ‘numbers’ situation, riotous behaviour, Chief Police Officers (ACPO) said he wanted all front-line year in a row that we have gangs fought each other. that goes for 10 to 12 hours in police to be issued with Tasers. There have been 17 UK deaths seen a significant reduction Prisoners set mattresses on a prison under the cover of linked to Taser use. The police are trained to think about ‘risk in the number of child fire to block prison staff darkness where males and

factors’. These include head injuries if someone falls, © Deposit Photos arrests. It is a phenomenal females are concerned, I think avoiding “sensitive areas”, and vulnerable people & children. gaining access to cells and achievement by the police attacked them with boiling anyone’s imagination might They are warned of “an increased risk of cardiac arrhythmia Goodbye tattoo and the Howard League, and water. A special ‘Reaction lead them to think that there and barb penetration in children and thin adults”. Prisoners at a New Zealand it means that tens of Team’ was sent into the were things going on.” prison have been getting thousands of children will prison looking for knives and Each police force comes up with its own rules and training for have a brighter future other contraband. 58 ‘in-house’ tattoo removals to ‘Relationships’ wrong Tasers. The College of Police Training says that “if possible an without their life chances prisoners were transferred to boost their chances of getting Following a number of cases officer should give an oral and visual warning”. They say being blighted by unneces- another section of the prison a job when they are released. where prison staff had Tasers are bright yellow and can ‘crackle’ so potential victims sary police contact and and 13 staff ended up in The initiative at Spring Hill inappropriate relationships should be fully aware of them. criminal records.” hospital. 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Good Prison News Recycling enterprise Newsbites The waste management company Amey and social enterprise Recycling Lives have formed Of mice and prisoners a partnership with HMP Dovegate which will Building work at HMP Edinburgh has apparently disturbed the see 40 prisoners helping to recycle up to incumbent mice who have now swamped the prison with 130,000 televisions each year. The prisoners prisoners trying to block gaps under their doors with blankets will be trained in separating electronic waste to stop the pests getting in during the night. A source at the components such as circuit boards, glass and prison said they are not scared of people and will run around wiring for recycling. The prison will receive their feet. A pest control company is trying to resolve the more than 133,000 end-of-life television sets problem. from 39 of Amey’s Household Waste Recycling Centres each year; equivalent to Ghostly Shepton around 1,700 tonnes. Shepton Mallet is said to be the most haunted prison in the UK. Once prisoners have deconstructed the There are countless unnamed bodies buried at the prison and it televisions, the separated parts will be sent to is said that cell doors are regularly heard opening and slamming Recycling Lives in Preston for final sorting, shut for no reason, footsteps are heard on the walkways and before being sold for processing into new along the corridors and ghostly figures are also seen moving products. The partnership marks the launch around the prison in the dead of night. The prison closed in 2013 HRH The Princess Royal lays a wreath of Recycling Lives’ tenth recycling academy and now people are being given the opportunity to investigate Credit: NIPS Press Office/ Michael Cooper for HMP prisons. Of the 75 men and women the strange goings on with the opportunity to stay overnight in released after working in academies during a the creepy surroundings. www.bitnparanormal.co.uk Memorial Garden opens in NI jail two-year period, just two reoffended. Use of force Princess Anne has opened a memorial garden at HMP Hydebank Wood in Prisons Minister Rory Stewart, welcoming the Northern Ireland. The Northern Ireland Prison Service Memorial Garden is launch of the new enterprise, said: The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) at HMP Peterborough designed to be a tribute to the work of the Northern Ireland Prison Service and “Initiatives like this create a platform for say, in their latest report, that violence continues to escalate in prison staff who lost their lives during the sectarian violence in the country. In offenders to go on and make a meaningful both the male and female sections. Use of force increased by opening the garden, the Princess laid a wreath in memory of the 32 prison staff contribution to society - turning their backs 25% but the IMB say they believe it was applied fairly. They say: who lost their lives. on crime for good.” “The Board welcomes the work which has been done to identify and address the causes of violence. Additional staff were allocated to the men’s wings, PCOs [Prison Custody Officers] were appointed to take charge of wings and pay increases have helped retain experienced staff. Body-worn cameras were used in both prisons which helped gather evidence of violent incidents. PCO recruitment continued and 125 PCOs started during the year. This, however, led to an increase in officers who lack experience and skills to de-escalate violent situations.”

Court undies A shocking report from the Scottish Prisons Inspectorate about conditions in court cells found that prisoners were being sent to Edinburgh Sheriff Court dressed only in their underwear or Actor’s Irish triumph: Michael Balogan (right) night clothes or without shoes. Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, the new Credit: HMP Maghaberry chief inspector of prisons, called on Police Scotland to ensure Prisoner turned actor those arriving from custody are “appropriately dressed” for the visits Maghaberry prison journey and their court appearance.

Former prisoner, and now Royal Academy of Healthcare improvements at Holme House Following a series of bad reports about the Healthcare Dramatic Art (RADA) actor, Michael Balogun Time to fl ourish has visited Maghaberry Prison to talk to Credit: HMYOI Thorn Cross provision at HMP Holme House the Care Quality Commission prisoners about his life experiences. London- (CQC) did their own inspection and found that, this year, things born Michael served nine years in prison Thorn Cross garden awards were improving with waits to see a doctor down from 5 weeks where he turned to acting and gained a place to 2-3 weeks. Trading of high-risk painkillers had been reduced at RADA and, after gaining his degree, was A garden themed on ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and created by staff and prisoners and there was better sharing of prisoner information in medical cast in Macbeth at the National Theatre in at HMYOI Thorn Cross picked up three trophies at the Southport Flower show. records. The CQC said there were significantly fewer complaints London, alongside Rory Kinnear, Anne-Marie It won the Flower Show Committee trophy for best public garden, the Lady about Healthcare and medications. An inspection last year Duff and Belfast actor Patrick O’Kane. Pilkington Trophy for the garden which best depicts the theme of the show noted that “fundamental services not being met” and waiting and the Large Gold Medal for the creativity on display. times for routine GP appointments were “very long” with As part of Lyric Theatre’s creative learning treatment for patients with complex needs being “undermined scheme, Michael has been visiting Northern by frequent lock-downs and an impoverished regime”. Ireland and taking part in workshops and discussions with student actors as well as Barnardo’s open cafe prisoners at Maghaberry and in Hydebank A new Visitor Centre café has been opened by Barnardo’s Wood College. Cymru at G4S managed HMP-YOI Parc and run by volunteers from the local Soroptimists. The 400 visitors a day who pass Philip Crawford, Head of Creative Learning at through the Susan Ellis Visitor Centre at the prison will now be the Lyric said: “When Michael heard about this innovative work he was very keen to get able to get hot and cold drinks and snacks. The volunteers will involved and tell his story to others who’ve work alongside prison staff to ensure visitors have the right been through a similar experience.” documents for their visit. The Bridgend Soroptimists have long HMP Springhill parkrun became the third prison been supporters of the Visitors’ Centre and recently donated David Kennedy, Governor of Maghaberry parkrun in the world when it launched in June 2018 £1,200 for extra furnishings and toys for younger visitors. Credit: HMP Springhill Prison, said: “Michael has a very powerful Barnardo’s Cymru team manager Ceri Hill said: “Running the story to tell and is an example of how people Visitors’ Centre is all about supporting families. Having a smiling can change their lives if they are determined Hindley joins Parkrun face and helping hand to greet them is important for the visitors.” to do so. He is a huge inspiration and we are delighted that he has taken time to support Another prison has signed up for a Saturday morning Parkrun. Hindley The Parole Board has moved offices prisoners. He can relate to their experiences. prisoners will be donning their trainers to walk or run 5km in the prison The Parole Board, Floor 3, 10 South Colonnade, Canary Ultimately it is our role to support people to grounds. Hindley is the latest prison to sign up for the activity. Hundreds of Wharf, London E14 4PU Email: [email protected] change; this has been a good step towards Parkruns are held around the world and more and more UK prisons are Telephone: 020 3880 0885 that.” joining up to the idea. Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Newsround // Local Prison News 15

More help for Forest Bank woes Newsbites children at HMP Forest Bank has had more Northumberland drug and phone seizures Addiewell managers leave desks than any other UK prison for According to The Sun, the shortage of staff at Sodexo managed A project that supports the third year in a row. The HMP Addiewell is so bad that managers have had to leave their Sodexo managed prison has children in the north-east desks to help out on the wings. The paper says that the prison is had a bad year with increas- with a parent or relative in 30 custody officers short. Sodexo said that summer holidays ing violence, a custody were to blame for the shortage and they were recruiting to fill prison has received a officer jailed for smuggling vacancies. funding boost to help mobile phones into the expand the service into HMP Pie me a river of hope Credit: HMP Berwyn prison, and one prisoner Transgender controversy Northumberland. spent a long time in hospital The controversy around where transgender prisoners should after setting fire to his cell. Berwyn pie men be housed has been re-ignited after the Prison Service was The initiative by Nepacs, forced to apologise after a transgender prisoner convicted of which enables young people A range of pies made by prisoners at HMP Berwyn were Staff criticise conditions at rape was placed in a female prison and assaulted four women to find a safe place to relax in launched at a top food festival. The Custodial Pie Corporation the prison saying they are prisoners within days. The prisoner is undergoing gender whilst waiting for their visit, was set up by Berwyn and Dylan’s restaurants with the aim of “overworked, underpaid and reassignment but has not yet undergone the ‘full surgery’. is currently funded by BBC giving prisoners new skills for the future and employment. A not supported by managers”. One told the Manchester Children in Need and Comic dedicated team of men, supported by prison staff, currently Evening News: “Terrible pay, Scottish gender confusion Relief. Children are joined by make the savoury pies which have been a big hit at food festivals throughout the country and brought them many awards. Now, terrible sick pay, poor health A man born with no penis has thrown the Scottish Prison youth workers and volun- a few months since the enterprise began, it is expanding and benefits, and employing Service into disarray because although he identifies as a man teers to play games, engage its new range of five dessert pies - including vanilla custard, young people to work in a they say he was born with a female body, although he lived as a in arts and crafts activities lemon and ginger, and salted caramel and milk chocolate prison who have little life man since childhood, and is therefore transgender; so, they and share their worries or - were launched at September’s Mold Food and Drink Festival. experience is all part of the can’t decide if he should go to a male or female prison. concerns. problem. I feel like I was not properly supported, and that Berwyn Prison’s catering manager, Lee Jaszczuk, spearhead- Nine years for drug smuggling prison officer prisoners seem to have more Thanks to additional funding ed the initiative. He said: “The Custodial Pie Corporation isn’t A prison custody officer with 14 years’ service has been jailed some pie in the sky idea we’ve dreamt up. It is one of the privileges than staff. The from the Wellesley Trust and for nine years for smuggling drugs and mobile phones, worth the High Sheriff of ways we are providing Berwyn’s men with new skills to help people at the bottom get constant abuse and there’s a over £200,000, into G4S managed HMP Altcourse in fruit juice Northumberland, Nepacs has them integrate back into society upon release - employment really high turnover of staff. cartons. He was searched entering the prison and crack set-up a youth zone in the is a key factor in successful rehabilitation. By making and Staff are physically assaulted cocaine, heroin, cannabis and more than 2,000 steroid tablets visitors centre at HMP baking the pies, our men are learning new processes, developing an understanding of business and equipping and have even had excre- as well as a mobile phone, charger and two sim cards were Northumberland and themselves with skills which can be transferred into the ment thrown at them.” found in his rucksack. The judge said he had “cast a shadow” purchased age-appropriate catering industry when they leave prison. Getting a job will over his colleagues: “You had in effect changed sides. You had games and furniture. They increase the men’s chances of rehabilitation and help prevent Salford MP Rebecca Long changed to the other, the dark side, having become involved in have also recruited a youth reoffending. This also has a direct impact on communities, Bailey described problems at that evil trade of the supply of drugs within and to a prison, worker to support young lessening the risk of future offending and reducing the the prison as an example of your prison. You were thereby corrupting and corroding the people visiting the prison. number of people who become victims of crime.” how ‘justice on the cheap very environment and system that you were supposed to be Credit: Morpeth Herald Credit: www.leaderlive.co.uk has failed’. safeguarding. Your offending was a grave breach of trust.”

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grounds were on a mission to prove that they could achieve something worthwhile and Keith and Michele were going to make sure they succeeded. This was not a ‘boot camp’, as Michele explained, and indeed it seemed to be as much or more about self-discipline than discipline, in the way the army understand the word.

However the wearing of mili- tary-style uniforms, includ- ing serious boots, gave a Cross-country exercises cohesion to a group which otherwise could have seemed ways of linking the men to sentences. They are looking disparate. There were also each other - such as pairing forward to life outside the two Paras from the Parachute off two unlikely candidates wings and this colours their Recruitment Team, Jamie and and getting them to discover approach. Luke, who were there to watch and report fi ve things they’ve over and encourage the men learnt about their partner. Cordai told me, ‘It’s a new and presumably point to a experience in life and good possible future. Doubtless Keith also commented on for your CV.’ Charlie, who is they set an excellent example, Always room at the top in his last couple of months at © All photos Airborne Initiative Feltham, commented how good it was to talk to ‘normal people’. Ted from Guys Marsh in Dorset, had only eighteen Climbing mountains days left aft er serving eight- een months and didn’t expect any surprises on the course as Young men on a mission to prove worth he was ‘used to camping ...’ not something much enjoyed Month by Month by the Feltham boys, who are mostly from London. Dan from Brinsford was very excit- We met in a simple building ed by the project and hoped in the middle of the moor to fi nd ‘new life skills’ as well where the men eat (cooking Rachel Billington as learning ‘how to communi- their own meals), sleep, cate in groups.’ Everybody socialise and listen to the was looking forward to Dartmoor on a summer morn- talks. Sadly for me, I just Rachel in the middle of forces for good Thursday, billed as ‘fun day’, ing is not quite like other missed a lesson on map-read- when they learn how to nego- National Parks. Even as the ing which might have solved tiate themselves in and out of sun shines on the yellow the problem of how to avoid although there was much their fitness, pointing out caves. gorse, the grey boulders and holding the map upside bantering from Michele as the that, however keen they are the dark pines, there is some- down. The men from prison Paras made an early start on to get to the prison gym, the thing threatening about its had already been on a 6.30am their lunch-time Twix bars... best they can hope is to build mysterious cairns, its sudden hill sprint and were now pre- muscles which makes them cliffs and valleys, even its paring for a seven mile hike It seemed prison-fi t but lacking in stam- weather, which is liable to across the moor. The atmos- ina. Cross-country exercises sudden mists and whose tem- phere was friendly and really possible that are both enjoyable and also perature is always several if a prisoner, all responsibili- relaxed as picnic bags were show them what they are degrees below the rest of ty is taken away, to take a grip handed out to put in their these five days out capable of doing if they keep South West England. on their own lives, make sen- packs for later. in the wild might be at it. It is an important part of sible decisions and put in the the project that all the partic- All this and I haven’t even work necessary to go forward The man who keeps the show the starting point, ipants have to get themselves mentioned the prison whose - literally in the case of their on the road is Project Manager not just of a long up and manage their own day gaunt black towers and walls time on Dartmoor. During a Keith Potter who works out of as responsible adults. Some dominate the central areas. In course men are taught Feltham, with his assistant walk, but of a find this quite a shock and fact I was not heading for the map-reading, orienteering, the charismatic and sympa- change in their need a bit of pushing but most prison, but for the moor itself, caving, river crossing and thetic Michele Glassup. It was thrive and all get there in the where I was interested in a adventure training - which immediately obvious that lives. end. As the group climbed into the project for Young Offenders means boots on very many friendly and relaxed did not two mini vans for the starting from prisons round the UK. miles of ground; certainly a equate with slouching or It is Zac’s second time with point of their trek, and I big change from twenty-three unenthusiastic. These young After talking to some of the Airborne and he is now a watched them follow a steep The ‘Airborne Initiative’ oper- hours in a cell. men from difficult back- men on the course, I was mentor - in May this year he track even deeper into the ates a five-day residential impressed that on only the was interviewed for a BBCTV moor, I found I was feeling course that takes young men second day of the course they programme. He said he found surprisingly emotional. It from prison; the day I visited already seemed to be think- the course difficult the first seemed really possible that there were six men from ing and working together as a time but is keen to repeat the these fi ve days out in the wild Feltham, two from Brinsford team, although only a couple process, hoping it will lead to might be the starting point, and one from Guys Marsh. from Feltham knew each a better future once he leaves not just of a long walk, but of The course also accepts other before. Keith, who is prison. Many of the men I a change in their lives. young unemployed, home- leading the project for the talked to echoed this hope. Nothing’s ever as simple as less men who are being sixth year explained, ‘They Practically, the course can that of course but at least helped by the Amber charity. tend to be apprehensive on allow them to achieve accred- someone cared enough to There were eight of these men the fi rst day and a bit stand- itation towards NVQ and show them a way out of their on Dartmoor. offi sh but by the end we see obviously look good on their past. massive changes.’ CVs. The course is only avail- The aim is to challenge men able for those that fulfi l ROTL The Airborne Initiative gets who are mainly leading a sed- Since team-building is one of Marching to a better future requirements, so the men are my vote. entary, restricted life where, the aims, they have various mostly near the end of their Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Comment 17

continue to grow. It was good to still feel part of something I had a hand in cultivating, albe- it from a distance. But then I received an email which proved just how far I’ve come.

Penned Up was being held in HMP Downview and I was invited by the organisers to attend. So last month, almost a year to the day that I was released from prison, I was again walking through the huge gates and beyond the high, heavily barbed walls. This time however, it was in very diff erent circumstances.

Despite a few moments of apprehension, and feeling tight knots in my stomach, the experi- ence was amazing. The women at Downview were fantastic, not only in their successful arranging of an event I hold dear, but also in their attitude towards me. They accepted me as a success. Hunting for Vodka: Nell Heysham, Jane Cartwright and Gail Cecil Credit: HMP Downview Just twelve short months ago I had been stand- Charley Boorman respecting Steve Newark ing in the same place as them, clipboard under Credit: HMP Downview arm. Despite my fears that I wouldn’t be I listened to them because of their powerful Penned Up and free accepted as anything other than a former pris- stories and messages. Free or imprisoned, oner, I found I was being treated just as a nor- emotional, informative stories have the same Festival triumph for prisoners and former prisoner organiser mal member of society. They asked me ques- eff ect. tions and listened carefully as I explained how being part of Penned Up had helped to get me In 2017 I believed Penned Up was an amazing Steve Newark some people assumed that I was working my where I am today. The women of Downview idea, I enjoyed being involved and I was proud ticket, that I was just doing it for my own gain. even presented me with a souvenir mug. Just of what we achieved. In 2018, I’m even more In fact I was trying to help create something as I had done for Penned Up guests a year proud. I’m proud that others have taken the lasting that people could enjoy long aft er I had Sitting in a classroom in HMP Erlestoke, along before in Erlestoke. That was a very emotional event onto the next level and I’m convinced it made it to the other side of the wall - some- with a small group of fellow prisoners in moment. will eventually reach legacy status. October 2016, I listened intently as a question thing that could be used for others to demon- strate their potential. Very happily, not all staff was posed. Could we organise a festival from Something else I noticed was just how power- Well done to everyone involved in HMP and fellow prisoners were opposed; many within the prison walls? Little did I know this ful the other invited guests’ talks were. I went Downview. Thank you for continuing to make realised the amazing opportunity that we had would snowball into something that would in to see the session with Nell Leyshon/The Penned Up such a success and thank you for been given. have a huge impact on my life. Vodka Hunters (above left ). Whilst in custody making me feel like a somebody. the previous year, I’d listened intently to the Working with David Kendall and Mark Hewitt, The festival came and I noticed myself grow, speakers, I assumed that listening to them Steve Newark is a festival organiser and who had organised a similar festival in HMP both in confi dence and as a person. I inter- helped me to forget where I was. I was wrong, former resident of HMPPS. Lewes, we drew up a list of desired guests. viewed a couple of celebrities and realised I Invitations were sent out to people whose sto- was able to function easily alongside the pub- ries had resonated with the prison population lic. My communication skills were sharpened, and slowly but surely, a festival started to take and I gained belief in myself. This self-belief, shape. The festival that we created was along with the many positive reports written ‘Penned Up’. about me that came as a direct result of helping to organise Penned Up, helped me to show the Running for two weeks, it was a huge success Parole Board that I didn’t need to be incarcer- with events receiving rave reviews. We soon ated any longer. In September 2017, after began to realise that this was something that almost 9 years in prison, I was fi nally released. could continue and grow and spread through- out the prison system. Being involved in Penned Up had a huge impact on my life. I feel proud of it, but in a My personal experience of Penned Up is strange way I also feel very protective of it and unique. I took charge of the committee that despite my release, I wasn’t prepared to put it was formed that day in Erlestoke, acting as a behind me entirely. I kept in touch with the self-appointed co-ordinator. It’s not for every- organisers and some of the guests that one and I was met with a degree of apathy. appeared. Penned Up returned to Erlestoke Staff didn’t understand what we were trying this year and I was kept up to date with it. I to achieve, and some other prisoners looked was pleased to see it had evolved into some- at me like a ‘screwboy.’ As an IPP prisoner, thing bigger - and all the signs suggest it will Let us help you Why use

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as ‘churn’, with up to 125 At the 2017 inspection, 80% Prisons, and actually im- movements a week, the of prisoners said that staff proved somewhat after G4S equivalent of the whole treated them with respect, took over the management. prison population turning but, as overstretched staff around in less than three failed to respond to prisoners’ The sudden decline, to the months and with the average questions and applications, state where the prison was length of stay at just six or the previously good relation- deemed unsafe, appears to seven weeks. Proper induc- ship between prisoners and have happened in the space tion was very difficult, and staff started to break down. of a year as drugs and associ- half of prisoners say they had ated violence gradually got no induction. With a remand The third problem is the in- out of hand and overwhelmed population of over one third, flux of new drugs such as the limited staff. The Urgent and 40% of prisoners under ‘Spice’, and this may have Notification Protocol letter the age of 30, this was putting been exacerbated by the ban- singles out a lack of proper an increasing strain on re- ning of smoking as men ad- governance but management sources. At the 2017 inspec- dicted to nicotine sought can only do what it has the tion, 40% of prisoners had other means to get their ‘fix’ resources to do, and the shock been at Birmingham for 3 and ease the burden of long and horror expressed at the months or less - less than 5% lock-up in poor conditions. conditions in Birmingham Birmingham prison cracking up had been there for a year or Black market Spice was might act as a wake-up call to more. 40% of prisoners were cheaper than tobacco. With ministers - that if they want to charged or convicted of vio- the high number of move- imprison over 80,000 people lent or drugs offences, 32% ments, and ingenious ways to they must provide the re- said they had mental health conceal contraband, any level sources to properly staff pris- What went wrong at ons and house and treat issues. Part of Birmingham’s of security and efforts to con- contract was to accommodate trol drug importing is doomed prisoners in a respectful man- ‘very disruptive and mentally to failure. ner. A normal person might disturbed individuals’ - this question how nobody, includ- HMP Birmingham? ing the MoJ representative at is anything but a ‘stable pop- Over 35% of prisoners said it ulation’. The severe over- was easy to get drugs and al- the prison, seemed to be crowding fed the lack of though 30% admitted to hav- aware of what has been de- A descent into anarchy stability, with prisoners ing a drug problem before scribed as ‘squalid condi- locked in overcrowded cells they entered Birmingham, a tions’. Top of the list must be stopping drugs entering the prisoners to overcrowded Bir- Inspectorate decided to do an prison and Rory Stewart, the mingham? Why was Birming- unannounced inspection Year Safety Respect Purposeful Rehabilitation Activity Prisons Minister, has prom- Paul Sullivan ham’s catchment increased to (February 2017). Following ised proper searching and include Wolverhampton that inspection Peter Clarke, 2007 3 2 2 2 screening, and this should courts? And why was a ful- HM Chief Inspector of Pris- 2009 3 2 3 2 include all staff and visitors In the Annual Performance ly-stretched Birmingham ons, said: 2012 3 3 2 2 as well as prisoners. Figures for 2017-18, published forced to accept them? 2014 3 3 2 3 by the Ministry of Justice “We cannot comment on 2017 2 3 1 3 Most prisoners do not want to (MoJ) in July, HMP Birming- HMP Birmingham’s Inde- whether the outbreak of rioting 2018 1 1 1 1 reside in conditions such as ham scored the lowest possi- pendent Monitoring Board in December 2016 had been those at HMP Birmingham (IMB) said, in their 2017 re- foreseen, or whether it was re- and it is easy to blame prison- ble: 1 out of 4, which means 23 hours a day with an un- further 11% said they had de- port, which followed the flective of staffing levels or the ers for getting stressed with ‘of serious concern’. There screened toilet. veloped an addiction since major disturbance in Decem- state of relationships between the poor environment, long were 14 other prisons which being in the prison. The out- ber 2016, and new manage- staff and prisoners. What we lockdowns and problems achieved the lowest score The second problem appears come of taking drugs such as ment team: “Immediately can say is that during the pe- caused by lack of staff and alongside them. to be lack of adequate staff. Spice is well documented, prior to the disturbance there riod of the inspection - when overcrowding. When Inside Following the culling of staff and this increased the level of had been concerning indica- staffing levels appeared ade- Time collaborated with a The latest ‘cost per prisoner’ in public prisons it would ap- violence within the prison. tors of potential disruption, quate - we saw many positive number of organisations to figure there was £28,402, pear that G4S reflected those The limited staff numbers, noted and communicated to interactions between staff and ask prisoners how to cut which was the lowest cost per cuts at Birmingham, which and their relative inexperi- the senior management team prisoners and, in general, re- self-harming and suicides we prisoner of all the male local resulted in restricted regimes ence, meant that a lot of drug by Board members. However, lationships were respectful. got an amazing thoughtful prisons, except Doncaster, and, to quote the IMB, “pris- taking and violence ended up there was no clear indication This is reflected in our assess- response, with excellent sug- run by Serco. However, the oners being warehoused”. going unchecked. of the likelihood of a distur- ment of ‘reasonably good’ in gestions that did not cost a performance cannot be meas- Prisoners were being locked bance of such impact. the area of respect. However, fortune; therefore maybe the ured by cost per prisoner up for longer and activities Reading back through a dec- we also saw too much incon- government should seek help alone, as other scorers of ‘1’ were abandoned. In the ear- ade of inspection reports “Many of the positive out- sistency in the way in which from prisoners to sort out the include Bedford (public) lier reports there is constant shows that the prison fared comes [highlighted in the 2016 poor behaviour was dealt with current crisis in prisons? which has been strongly crit- reference to the good relation- no better in the 2007 and report] continue to reassure by staff. Prisoners need to icised and costs £41,347 per ship between prisoners and 2009 inspections, when Anne Acknowledgments and data the Board about the day-to- know where the boundaries of prisoner. It cannot be be- staff, and a ‘balanced regime’. Owers was Chief Inspector of from: HMCIP, MoJ, G4S cause they are privately run day running of the establish- acceptable behaviour lie, and because only two of the 14 ment. Inevitably other issues it is unsettling and frustrating private prisons scored ‘1’ - frustrate prisoners, the man- for them if those boundaries Birmingham and Sodexo’s agement, staff, and the Board. vary in an unpredictable way.” Why go it alone? CANTERS CRIME We are a friendly rm, with solicitors and legally Peterborough (Male). It can- The new leadership is commit- ted to establishing a regime So, what caused the apparent “Locked in here all day; you don’t turn criminals quali ed sta who are experts in their particular not be just that G4S is failing, with sufficient staff to ensure meltdown in the 18 months up into citizens by treating them this way” areas of law because three of its prisons, - with kind permission from Billy Bragg Altcourse, Oakwood and Rye the prison is a safe environ- to the latest inspection which Hill, all scored ‘3’, its other ment for all and is recruiting resulted in the government We can attend prisons in Northern England AREAS OF WORK but also offer a nationwide service. 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New Bridge still beside me for however long it takes. We don’t have to struggle The pen is mightier… through, we don’t have to do The Phantom Gobshite - HMP Parc to’; meaning mandatory actions should hap- this by ourselves, so my ad- pen, implying that some legal liability, disci- vice would be, reach out and plinary punishment or managerial disapproval take that step, a step that may The pen is mightier than the sword and knowl- may follow if that order is not carried out. well lead you to a better place. edge is power. Allow my pen to exercise my knowledge to snap the Prison Service sword Much is gone and lost forever, What I gather from the above is that the Prison and neutralise their power. but I am still here, with hope. Rules, PSIs and PSOs are not worth the paper they are written on! So, Prison Service policy For those of you reading this The Prison Act 1952 is an Act of Parliament that “Going to write a letter…” specifies the ‘legal’ rules applying to prisons. on prison wages, stating, in so many words …’ © prisonimage.org with no experience or first- we can take the piss working you scum like hand knowledge of prison, I Under Section 47 (1) of the Act, it states that: ‘The Secretary of State may make rules for the donkeys and pay you 30p per day’ is utter fully understand the reti- shite, at best. cence you may feel in giving regulation and management of prisons … and Our future hope for classification, treatment, employment, dis- your time, or possibly fund- As none of the rules are legally enforceable, ing, towards a cause such as cipline and control of persons required to be detained therein.’ then legally enforceable laws and Acts do take Steve Martin - other supportive structures is New Bridge. But please, do precedence over the Mickey Mouse Prison former resident of HMPPS the key to just how special. To not believe everything encap- From this Prison Act 1952 we get Prison Rules, Rules. Meaning, in reality, prisoners must be New Bridge, like the Samari- sulated in print, or within the and from these we get Prison Service Orders paid in accordance with the law - the national tans, confidentiality is key if pixels arranged on our (PSOs), and from PSOs we get Prison Service minimum wage laws. not absolute for safeguarding screens. Like many of you, I When the inclination comes Instructions (PSIs). upon me to put pen to paper, purposes. Like the Quakers, perhaps believed the stereo- Staff that use obscene language in prison or manipulate a keyboard, non-judgement is a ‘given’, typical image of a prison in- PSOs are permanent directions and take prec- (which is the majority of them) should be ar- sharing experiences of prison and empathy is a blessing mate. I was simply a edence over other mandatory items such as rested by the police in accordance with Section time done, and a future real- shared by all New Bridge be- hardworking husband and PSIs and should be the first point of reference. 5 of the Public Order Act, and not just be dis- ised, then much of it is about frienders - an essential qual- father, following the moral Prison Rules are statutory instruments, which ciplined in accordance with PSI 06-2010, as it others rather than myself. ity to possess for anyone and legal letter of the law, means they are required and authorised by law is legally unenforceable. This is no accidental trait, but wishing to support those until I slipped and fell, dam- and take precedence over PSIs and PSOs. purely a natural confirmation within the walls and fences of aging so many around me. Can I please now thank the Prison Service for of fact. I could not have come our prisons; walls and fences But throughout my prison Prison Rules were not designed to be legally insisting, no, forcing me to do literacy and nu- through such a life changing, that not only penetrate our existence, I encountered enforceable and the Courts have not allowed meracy levels 10-years ago, as since then I have albeit sometimes life affirm- vision but penetrate our many similar people who had prisoners to sue for breach of a statutory duty. gained two Bachelor’s degrees (one with Hon- ing, experience if my daily minds. Beyond all this is the also taken a wrong turn in Likewise, PSIs and PSOs have no legal status ours) three Higher National Diplomas, three existence had been one of personal touch, for despite life; the stereotypical image whatsoever, despite the fact that they contain A-levels and three GCSEs. Without your tyran- isolation and loneliness. I there having to be lines in the dissolving within days of my massive amounts of detail relevant to the con- nical type regime, I would still be sat in a corner needed others to be able to sand you feel you are not only incarceration. I witnessed duct of daily life in prison. They also contain sticking marbles up my nose and eating cray- survive, and the support ex- talking to a mentor and guide care and kindness from peo- words such as ‘must’, ‘will’ and ‘are required ons. Now I can educate the nation! Thank you! isted within the fence line but to a friend. Such qualities ple society would never ex- and without. I had a perfect abound throughout the whole pect such things of, but also trinity of support working for New Bridge organisation hope. This hope delivered by me during my time inside, whose sole remit, whose sole such charitable entities as beyond the invaluable pris- ambition, is to bring us New Bridge. Whoever you are, oner friendships that were through the darkness and a factory or office worker, a accrued. The Quakers laid the back into the light. manager or leader, a wealthy foundations, the Samaritans company owner or philan- helped me through the darker For those teetering on the thropist, it is a gift worth giv- times, and then New Bridge edge, for those that have long ing, and never forget a joined the fray, nurturing me since lost hope of seeing a neglected truth, rejected by towards the gate and brighter dawn, a dawn less many - the more we isolate, Prison Law Experts / Legal 500 Recommendation beyond. isolated and alone, take it the harder it is to reform. The from one who has been there more we integrate, with man- New Bridge, a charity that - an IPP - wife, children, fam- agement structures in place, Nationwide Coverage - in-house video link facilities available supports volunteers to be- ily and friends lost, work and the safer we all are. 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Successive governments have talked formal risk assessment and a plan to of scrapping DYOI on and off for the promote their safety on the unit. last ten years, but consultations have come and gone without any clear Young women may fare a bit better decision either way. In the mean- but in a rare oversight, the recent time, the number of dedicated YOIs largely positive inspection report on is down to three - Aylesbury, Deer- Styal women’s prison made no refer- bolt and Feltham B, with the over- ence at all to the small number of whelming majority of 18-20 year-old young adults there. men (and all women) housed along- side adults in mixed establishments. The government response to the Jus- Recent inspections of dedicated YOIs tice Committee mentions a range of have been poor, with successive initiatives which might benefit Chief Inspectors reporting both on young adults, but without great en- inadequate safety and dire levels of thusiasm. HMPPS has for example purposeful activity; even question- ‘no plans to introduce a routine in- ing the viability of institutions such depth assessment of maturity’. With as Feltham being set aside for young so many competing priorities in the adult prisoners. prison estate, it is hard to see out- comes improving for young adults in But as an alternative, can integrated the way that they need to. prisons for those aged 18 plus pro- vide a sufficient focus on the distinc- Five years ago, I argued in a report tive needs of young adults? Recent for the T2A alliance that we need to inspections suggest not. invest properly in age appropriate Young adults in prison, there is more to life institutions which provide construc-

© prisonimage.org At HMP Hull, while the prison had at tive and purposeful regimes, thera- least ended the unlawful practice of peutic help and personal inspiration young adults sharing cells with pris- to enable young adults to put crime oners over 21, ‘staff had little under- behind them. I suggested a Secure Young adults in custody standing of the impact of maturity College model, shortly before the levels on young adult behaviour, and name was taken up for an ill-judged the prison had no specific strategy proposal for under 18’s. Such an ap- ‘Bold initiative required’ for managing the significant popu- proach would need more funds; but lation of young adult prisoners’. At resources currently spent directly on HMP Wandsworth, almost young adults in custody are less Rob Allen sentencing decision, even if an of- Minister Rory Stewart has informed three-quarters of young adults said than half what’s spent on under 18’s. fender has achieved legal majority. the Justice Committee that instead of they had felt unsafe in the prison at With the number of 18-20’s in cus- But what about the implementation expanding these establishments to some point and fewer than half said tody down to fewer than 5,000, there Recent years have seen a growing of those sentencing decisions - par- accommodate young people up to the that most staff treated them with re- is a case for a bold initiative to de- and welcome recognition of the need ticularly where they involve depri- age of 25, as the Committee has pro- spect. At high security Woodhill, the velop something a lot better than the for a distinctive approach to young vation of liberty? posed, the government will instead, fifty prisoners under the age of 21 choices now on offer. adults in conflict with the law. In ‘consider the continued utility of the January, the Lord Chief Justice, not- Paradoxically, the government looks DYOI sentence, given the changing were dispersed across the prison. ing that ‘full maturity and all the set to get rid of the specific sentence landscape of the prison estate… and ‘Not enough was being done’ to meet attributes of adulthood are not mag- their needs and worryingly, inspec- of Detention in a Young Offender In- explore whether a coordinated ap- Rob Allen is an independent re- ically conferred on young people on tors had to repeat a recommendation stitution (DYOI) for 18-20-year olds proach to young adults within the searcher and consultant on criminal their 18th birthdays’, ruled that the and the dedicated establishments adult estate might supplement or re- that young adults located on the Vul- and youth justice and prisons - co- youth and maturity of an offender where the order is served. Prisons place this sentence’. nerable Prisoner unit should have a founder of Justice and Prisons will be factors that inform any

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psychologists and a few prison often tension between resi- officers playing dodge ball. dents who may have unre- Competitiveness ensued - and solved conflict or struggle to Boy from the bad stuff laughter. After dodge ball get on. There are many ways there was a game of rounders. to improve these relation- Owen Davies - thought to have committed internalisation of bad stuff. There were lots of smiles on ships: ‘bringing a minute to former resident of HMPPS over 100 murders, yet appar- The violence we give out is in the walk back to the wing for the wing,’ ‘doing work in ently had a relatively normal direct proportion to the vio- group,’ or residents might be a quiz. Staff occasionally have upbringing) has to be ex- lence that we have received. voted into a rep job or do a dinner in the dining room yet Any prisoner who has done a plained through this model as charity event where they will on this day they made even large amount of ‘Offending much as a child molester who Embracing such a theory is more of an effort to have lunch learn to work better with one Behaviour Work’ (OBW) will was sexually abused as a not a slap in the face for the with the community. Of another. During the sports have heard the term ‘internal- child. Ted Bundy’s actions, CJS and victims of crime. On games though I found it was a © Fotolia.com course, a prison baguette looks isation’ to describe the pro- his more than 100 murders, the contrary, realizing that no crap compared to some home great way for past issues to be cess by which OBW were wholly determined by one is to blame for anything Reece Johnson cooked meals, yet it is nice to put aside and to work in teams. rehabilitates. The prisoner the make-up of his being. It is healing and forgiveness for have the time to chill and talk hears over and over again the can’t be any other way. everyone. Blaming no one is Community about our likes and dislikes: Has the community spirit re- information of how to func- Everything he experienced in far from saying that no one to sit and eat like a mained for the long term? I’d tion successfully in the world his life (plus his genes) causes problems and crime, it of Humans community. say so. When a resident recent- and he eventually internal- caused him to be one of the is far from saying that we ly held a fete charity event ises it; it becomes his behav- most prolific serial killers should not take responsibility I walked downstairs on a Beneath the ‘fun and games’ during therapy break, a lot of ioural pattern. known to man. for our actions. Blame and Wednesday morning. It was though I felt how important my community got involved cause is not the same thing. almost 9am so it felt odd that the day was. Staff are the au- by helping to organise it - set- However, in my experience of Healing and In hindsight, we should un- the community were gathering thority and it’s easy to remem- ting up stalls or donating OBWs, I have never heard the derstand how we have caused obvious flipside to the pro- in sportswear on the ground ber that when they process items. It was great to see most forgiveness allows pain and suffering, we should cess. If we internalise good floor rather than disappearing apps, lock you up or talk of the community working to- take responsibility for our ac- stuff to reform, then we must us to change so into group rooms. Staff and through your therapy targets gether. And staff were very tions, to understand where have internalised bad stuff in resident relationships needed that many residents have had involved, more than I’ve seen that we do not err we have gone wrong, in order order to offend. That seems improving and a special negative experiences with au- before. This is down to not only to prevent it from happening obvious, but I’ve never heard again. If we do not team-building day had been thority figures in the past and days like the bonding day but again. Healing and forgive- a psychologist say it or read of ness allows us to change so arranged. It wasn’t a compul- it can be easy to judge them also because of the work every- choose, we are not it in a report. that we do not err again. If we sory therapy session, so a few all under the one umbrella. Of one is doing to become more to blame, but we do not choose, we are not to residents took the opportunity course, some staff might al- open and friendly people. The The bad stuff and the good blame, but we can still be the to have a day off, but most were ways seem annoying, yet I governor, as he often does, can still be the willing to go to the gym to play stuff that makes up our being cause. wouldn’t want that to prevent popped down for a visit. comes from either everything some games. As I walked down cause. anyone from doing their work Residents’ stomachs from all we’ve experienced or from off the wing I felt relieved that Punishment doesn’t work. It and talking about their feel- the wings were filled with char- our genes. There is nothing that morning we wouldn’t be We need to accept that people never will. But we need time ings. Days like this are a re- ity cake. As we stood in the else. Even our thoughts and talking through painful expe- are different. Some people to change, to be able to inter- minder that we are human garden, next to a small pond the way we think are deter- riences and then asked myself: internalise more easily than nalise the good stuff, which beings who can work and some flowers, I realised mined entirely by what we’ve “will this morning lessen the others. People with active im- is where prison comes in. together. that some of the greatest ther- experienced or from our ‘us against them’ attitude?” aginations internalise, logi- Only healing and forgiveness apy happens outside of groups. genes. In that sense we do not cal people less so. Some can end the cycle of offending Did it solve all our issues? Not choose, we cannot choose. It was funny to see 20 or so people have been emotionally and put an end to re-offending, really. Did it improve the at- We think we do, but we don’t. prisoners, half a dozen Reece Johnson, a nom de plume, abused - an abuse which which is what the CJS and vic- mosphere? Yeah. There is is a resident of HMP Grendon The only direction our actions often gets overlooked along- tims of crime should want if can take us in is that which is side the more obvious physi- they are genuine in their com- determined by our experience cal abuses - all their lives and mitment to bettering the world. DAVIES & JONES and our genes. Our actions they may not even be aware See our are created wholly by the of the impact it has had on Theodore Robert Bundy (Ted page in the SOLICITORS make-up of our being. their behaviour. 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very short term and frequently leads to total Sid Arter before the cub could get any- animals had returned, the old disaster for the individual concerned. where near them and he lion explained several things - first you need to get much clos- Terry Waite CBE caught nothing but a face full Here, on the outside, in the last two weeks I of dust and dirt. The old lion er and to launch your attack have heard of two young people who live but roared to the cub to come back from a few metres away and not a short distance from where I live in the coun- and after an excited scamper plunge off the rocks. Second Not an easy road tryside who have died as a result of an overdose. on the plain the cub returned you need to approach in si- Far too many people succumb to the temptation empty handed with its tail lence and third we will attack Exercise for the mind and the results are tragic to say the least. I am between its legs. a chosen animal in formation. I have got to the point in life where I don’t mind pretty convinced myself that habitual drug use talking about my age. I suppose that by doing does harm both physically and mentally. Most The old lion told the cubs they After carefully explaining the so, one is hoping that the person to whom you people reading this will know at first-hand how should lay low and wait for the strategy the four lions slowly are speaking will say, ‘Goodness, you don’t hard it is to resist temptation. Alcohol, like animals to return and this and silently crept down from look it!’ We all like a bit of flattery! narcotics, seems to lift the spirits, but in reality time to do as he had said. The the rocks until they surround- it’s a depressive and who in prison wants to be cubs settled down and watched ed the herd and were in place If you can keep in reasonable health, then further depressed? I would be the last one to The old lion and waited and slowly, the to attack the elderly wilde- getting old is not too bad. No matter how hard say that it’s easy to resist the temptations and © Deposit Photos grazing animals returned to beest the old lion had chosen. In a swirl of dust the four lions one tries, one is bound to have some complaints. try to escape the reality of life inside by drug After many years of hunting the plain. At the front of the herd rushed in from four directions Gone are the days when I could run up the taking. To keep optimistic on the outside is for food and providing for his was a large and impressive and soon had their prey on the stairs two at a time. Now, I always look to see hard enough, let alone inside. There are, how- family, the old lion decided he male antelope who soon set- ground and subdued. That day if there is an elevator. Physical exercise has ever, so many people who have been down on should teach his offspring how tled to eat the scrubby grass. the lions all ate well and had never been at the top of my agenda, although their luck and by sheer determination have to hunt for themselves. He took Unable to contain his excite- leant important lessons; les- I do recognize that it is important and one ought made it. the three cubs to the edge of ment, another of the cubs sons we might all learn: to take it seriously. It’s a good thing that many the rocky outcrop where they launched himself off the rocks prisoners have access to a gym and use it reg- ‘No Homeless Problem’ lived to a vantage point over towards this mighty beast • Work together with others ularly. In the years that I was kept captive there As many of you know, I have been closely as- the plains where the antelopes roaring and slashing his paws. on challenging tasks; was no chance of any exercise worth speaking sociated with ‘Emmaus’, the organization for and wildebeests fed. The animal quickly turned about. Once in a blue moon I would be unloosed the homeless. At our last conference one of the and accelerated away, leaving • Carefully and deliberately approach challenges and from my chains and allowed to walk about the homeless, Seamus Fox, spoke. This is part of As they approached the spot the cub alone and without the don’t just rush at things with- cell for about 15 minutes. Never once in those what he said: from where they got the best precious kill that he desired. out thinking; years did I see the world outside, let alone view he explained the impor- Once again the old lion roared • Listen to the wisdom of your breathe in fresh air. Although I was chained “There was trouble inside of me but alcohol and tance of progressing slowly at his cub and the youngster elders; by the hands and feet to the wall I did what drugs were the only things that made feelings. and containing your urge to retreated to the rocks, where, • Choose your target and choose exercise I could - having read years ago the I didn’t get along with my mother’s new boyfriend dash at the first animal you like his sibling, he was dressed the battles you fight to improve little book entitled ‘The Canadian Book of so she sent me, with no return ticket, to my father saw. Before he had finished down by the old lion. your chance of success. Aircraft Exercises’, at least I think that it what away in the cold North. He didn’t want me either, his words, the first cub rushed it was called. This book gave examples of phys- so he sent me back, one way. I didn’t know where out onto the plains as soon as The old lion told the three cubs ical exercise one could do whilst trapped in to go and I ended up in a town between the two, he saw a grazing prey animal. to stay right where they were Sid Arter is a teacher the cockpit seat of an aircraft for hours. I was alone, having been rejected by the people who The whole herd of animals fled and wait. Once the grazing and entertainer young enough then not to suffer too many con- made me”. sequences as a result of such enforced restricted movement, although I don’t think it did my I guess there are many reading this who can blood pressure much good. relate exactly to that experience. Seamus wasn’t Lambeth Children’s Homes whining. He was just telling things as they One thing about exercise is that it takes your were. Well, after many trials he found a home mind away from some of the things that trouble in Emmaus and has just published his first Redress Scheme you and, although it may be exhausting, you book of poetry entitled ‘No Homeless Problem’. often come away from it tired but feeling better Ask your library to get a few copies. Seamus Applications for compensation are now in your mind. writes clearly and directly, and I’ll guarantee there are many readers of Inside Time who will open until 1 January 2020. Escaping reality relate to what he writes about. It’s not an easy In recent months there has been an increase road, as Seamus testifies, but it is a road that Lambeth Council has set up a Redress Scheme for of substance abuse in prisons up and down the leads to a more fulfilled and contented life. land. 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experts were called to give their opin- Civil society, or the are pushing ex-offenders into the Outside Voices ions; and strong pieces appeared in margins of society upon release. It’s newspapers. They spoke of the terri- average person, thinks increasingly difficult for ex-offend- ble prison conditions that those read- prisoners deserve the ers to throw off the stigma of their ing this will know all too well. Again, criminal past to find housing, jobs I thought, surely now the government horrors found in prison. and a place in society. A firm that would make real efforts to tackle this hires an ex-offender runs the risk of growing crisis. However, now that I If the criminal hadn’t being stigmatised for helping ‘those am released, I have access to differ- done awful things, they people’ released from prison. ent ways of looking at the news on- line, including ‘Most Viewed’ or wouldn’t have gone to ‘Lock ‘em up and throw away the ‘Popular Stories’ sections of news prison. It’s the prisoners key’ is much easier to understand websites. In August, despite wall-to- than looking at the deep societal wall coverage of the latest prison fault their lives are bad. problems that contribute to crime. crisis, these stories failed to register Prison reform is a misnomer. What is in the ‘Most Viewed’ stories of the required is a reform of civil society day. Readers appeared to be more are to be shunned and excluded, attitudes towards others. Where are interested in entertainment news, according to populist movements. the thought leaders challenging pop- Brexit issues and politics in the US ulist intolerance? Who can reach into than in prisons in the UK. Political parties understand this the minds of those who settle for sim- Rehabilitation, “a three act story” populist intolerance and therefore plistic answers to complicated © Deposit Photos Don’t be fooled by prison reform make no real progress on prison re- questions? charities citing experts about the form; a speech here, a few extra quid need to fix the prison system for the there, but not the truly ground-break- It takes three actors to deal with Where is the truth? benefit of society as a whole. Populist ing changes that are actually re- crime. The first is the offender them- thinking counters expert opinion quired. Politicians who dare to say selves. They need to take responsi- A former prisoner or the average person, thinks pris- with gut emotions of demonising ‘we need to stop locking up prison- bility for their actions and their oners deserve the horrors found in ‘others’ in society. A social policy ers for short sentences’ render them- reform. The second is the govern- prison. If the criminal hadn’t done think-tank putting forward a well-re- selves wide open for criticism of ment in their ability to help the pris- During my seven years in prison, I awful things, they wouldn’t have searched paper linking prison trou- being ‘soft on crime’. Politicians who oner reform through education and would be encouraged by TV and gone to prison. It’s the prisoners ble with societal intolerance is no pander to the social media mob by rehabilitation programmes. The newspaper reports exposing the fault their lives are bad. Why should match for mob-like tweets and Face- calling for tougher sentences for evil third is society at large. The average many problems in the prison sys- the average person care about those book posts filled with emotive sound- wrong-doers gain popular support. person needs to accept the idea that tem. ‘Finally,’ I thought, ‘the truth awful people? With the rise of pop- bites of ‘soft’ prisons populated with While reasoned thought states that people have difficulties in their lives is being told. Now we’ll see some ulism, these attitudes will only get drug-fuelled, violent offenders. Soci- prison sentences need to be reduced, that result in crimes and when these real change’. However, despite worse. ety is filling with hate and intoler- politicians are instead increasing difficulties are resolved, that person damning news stories of riots, drugs ance of those who are different. Look sentences and building more prisons can contribute to society. The aver- and violence, prison conditions It hit me during the spate of new sto- at the changing attitudes towards in order to secure the votes of the age person needs to accept the re- worsened as the years rolled on. It’s ries about prison failings in August. migrants as an example. 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could see the play really coming together, hop- Big dreams ing it would be alright on the night.” Maintaining Innocence Well, it was certainly far more than alright as A dramatic interpretation the power of the story, based on a tower block N Gully - HMP Parkhurst and don’t give your power reject the term and ask them catching fi re and resulting in many deaths, away by allowing them to to be more specific. If you do of reality had strong echoes of Grenfell but also main- force you into submission by any offence-related courses tained its own identity. The writing was clever Here are my top tips for pris- prodding and poking you then get a letter from your so- and thought provoking and Simon (the writer) oners who are genuinely in- with their baseless assump- licitor stating that this should added plenty of snap and pazzazz in the emo- nocent and have the tions, empty analysis and the not in any way be construed Clare Barstow tional dialogue. Holly’s direction was also unfortunate privilege of ‘threat’ of the Parole Board. as an admission of guilt. Hold fresh and vibrant as part of the action took knowing that the British jus- the line and remember you place amongst the audience. None of us watch- tice system is broken and You cannot be prevented from are telling the truth and I was really looking forward to the Kestrel ing could believe the professionalism of the does not work. progression and release on shouldn’t be here; so you are Theatre Company production of Broken production - given the strict time factor. parole simply because you are standing firmly on the moral Dreams at the Royal Court and I certainly Have an overall goal maintaining innocence. Look high ground. wasn’t disappointed. The play was devised Gail said: “I had tears in my eyes and my mouth So you can focus your atten- at the risk factors in your and performed by men at HMP Springhill with went dry with emotion. I was so moved and tion and time in prison on OASys report and take the Be organised and clear the support of professional actors but was of privileged to be able to see such an incredible winning an appeal, being re- necessary steps towards ad- By making sure you have a such a high standard that you wouldn’t have play.” John responded: “It was my fi rst time at leased on license as soon as dressing them. When dealing structured plan to achieve guessed it had been put together in just a few the theatre but I will defi nitely come back. The possible, to be released in due with officials, write everything your goal and the right legal weeks. guys from Springhill were sensational.” course with the minimum of down using the S.O.A.P note arguments and evidence in stress, or to reassure your format, detailing what was your mind - laid out system- The team at Kestrel Theatre Company operate I myself have written, acted and directed many family of your innocence. ‘Said’, what you ‘Observed’, atically and clearly on paper in a collaborative way with prisoners to facil- plays inside and outside prison, but this is one Once you have your goal, you what was ‘Agreed’ and what too. Write up a clear ‘position itate original pieces of work, mostly drama and of the best I have witnessed. It also holds its can use it to create a plan and was ‘Planned’. statement’ outlining what you fi lm. A member of the cast said, “In the fi rst own against both fringe and West End produc- work toward achieving this. accept and don’t accept about week we got to know each other as a group of tions. The packed audience all stood up and Be very careful your conviction and the cor- actors. We also familiarised ourselves with the applauded for several minutes at the end, Stay calm and focussed responding evidence to sup- which was the true testimony it deserved. I what you say, be script and the characters in it. When handed So that you don’t waste time port this, as well as an action hope this may encourage other theatres to give and energy on unnecessary plan detailing how you intend our parts we grew anxious about whether we pro-active and those incarcerated a chance. If a theatre group distractions. Keep your nose to lawfully pursue other new could cope with the size of our role. However comes into your prison, why not give it a go? clean and don’t let your anger assertive in how sources of evidence. Make we pressed on as a group and started to learn You might enjoy yourself and who knows what lead you into doing harmful sure your solicitor is involved our lines and rehearse scenes. This was really you engage and it might lead to... things that you might later in this, so you do not inad- hard and frustrating as many of us had never regret - use it instead as a tool don’t give your vertently break the law. acted before. The fi nal week we had to think to help you achieve your goal, power away by about what emotions we wanted our charac- Clare Barstow is a journalist rather than as a weapon for Build your circle of support ters to convey through their dialect. Then we and former resident of HMPPS further harm. 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very diff erent prospect. So, where did nabinoid agonists have been identi- Spice power it come from? fi ed - indicating that there are poten- tially hundreds of these substances ‘Spice’ (or K2, as it is offi cially known) circulating via the internet and was accidently created in 2006 by across international borders. organic chemist John Huffman of Clemson University when he was Some people who imbibe Spice can looking for a new way of developing experience difficulty breathing, anti-inflammatory medication. Dr rapid heart-rate, shakes and sweats Huff man has since declared it unfi t for and it can bring on severe panic human consumption; and he should attacks. High doses can lead to loss know. One of the little-known facts of balance and coordination. Users about this drug is that it does contain also experience a loss of feeling and 79. The records date to June 2018. a few actual spices in its ingredients numbness in limbs, nausea, collapse - dried oregano and basil, amongst and unconsciousness. Using this It would seem that the prison author- other plant material - though they substance on a regular basis can ities are powerless to stop this NPS have been coated with chemicals that lead to psychotic episodes which can epidemic in our prisons. Traditional Spicing out in the crowd mimic, when smoked, THC, the active drug-testing does not work as the ingredient in cannabis. ingredients of these substances change so quickly, meaning the only way to Spice is not really just a single drug slow them down is to tighten physi- The spice of no life - it is a range of laboratory-made cal security, and this would mean chemicals that have similar eff ects to more staff devoted to stopping the tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which drug getting into our prisons. But we Smoky Joe been drug-free for over 10-years. is the main psychoactive component all know there is neither the fi nance Sure enough, aft er smoking a Spice of cannabis. These substances are nor the political will to implement joint, I felt fairly stoned. But what I produced on a large scale by chemi- The latest new drug scourge to hit the this kind of a solution at the moment. didn’t like was the fact that I still felt cal companies based in China, and Low spice landings of HMP is in fact not new at just as stoned 24-hours later. Aft er then shipped to Europe in powder all. My own limited experience of it I guess that my small experience that, I decided that Spice was not real- form. The synthetic cannabinoids are was around 10 years ago. I had last for weeks and lead to a break- with Spice was back in the ‘golden ly for me. But I didn’t see it as any then sprayed onto plant material reached a semi-open prison after down in mental health. Most reports age’, before the authorities made kind of ‘monster’ drug that might be using solvents such as acetone or years in the high security estate and of severe mental health, addiction matters a lot worse in their mistaken dangerous. Little did I know that methanol to dissolve the powder. was surprised to see guys smoking and acts of violence as a result of belief that any problem can be leg- what I had smoked was Spice MK1, This is then dried and packaged to be what looked and smelt like cannabis regular use tend to be among prison- islated against. How wrong they which was yet to be made dangerous sold as incense. joints. I was told it was called ‘Spice’ ers and the homeless. All NPS pack- were. But here’s something else to by the legal interference of the crim- and that it was legal to buy and did aging is labelled ‘Not Fit For Human think about - all reports on the inal justice system; the Spice in pris- K2 is now a controlled substance not show up on any drug tests. This Consumption’. effects of NPS agree that the two ons now, almost a decade aft er I had under drug legislation but continues herbal mixture was openly sold on main at-risk groups are prisoners my first and only Spice joint, is a to be the largest group of New nearly every high street in the UK Deaths due to the consumption of and the homeless. So, only the dis- Psychoactive Substances (NPS) in and was a lot cheaper than canna- NPS are increasing and have tripled enfranchised and poorest of our common use. The trouble is that as bis. And aft er watching several of my between 2014 and 2015, but psycho- society are turning to these cheap governments legislate against each friends, red-eyed and talking bol- sis due to the drug is one of the main and dangerous drugs. Perhaps if we group of new substances, the manu- locks, being escorted for drug tests dangers. Some of these NPS com- had a more caring and inclusive facturers tweak the ingredients thus and then walking from the drug- pounds are up to 500 times more potent society, and a government willing to making them legal to produce again. suite completely free of any positive than herbal cannabis. According to invest in prison reform and housing, But this has the eff ect of making NPS result, I decided I would give it a try. Nigel Newcomen, the Prisons and things might be diff erent. ever more dangerous, as only the I was curious. Probation Ombudsman, who inves- makers know what is going into each tigates all deaths in custody, the more mutated batch. As of December number of prisoners whose deaths Smoky Joe is a former resident I had smoked cannabis fairly fre- Spice crawling 2015, 14 diff erent sub-families of can- quently in my teenage years, but I had have been linked to NPS has risen to of HMPPS

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first performance on the out- side should be with them. Since that inaugural show- case, we have played at Fender® Fest, the global gui- tar company’s legendary music festival and have a few more dates coming up in the diary. Of particular interest is a series of dates to perform at The Other Palace, a 400 seater West End theatre in late Octo- ber and early November. Performing at Southwark Cathedral These dates on the outside represent a step change in and we are able to use music, have never met more like- terms of what our guys are our stories, our skills and our minded people than all who used to, but also serve as aspirations in order to map are involved with InHouse helpful reminders as to why what that better life can look Records, prison staff, prison- we are doing what we are like. At the heart of InHouse ers, graduates, InHouse Staff doing. When we take the Records is a personal desire and partners. stage it’s not because we are for me to become the best ver- InHouse graduate Vincent Stickings “Stickz” performing at the Fender® Fest the best guitarists in the

All photos: InHouse Records sion of myself. Selfishly, I Indeed InHouse’s premise for world, or the best singers, or want to pursue this desire existing could be taken from even the best lyricists. It’s be- with like-minded people. I a quote by the amazing Lilla A new life through music cause we want a better life Watson - an Indigenous Aus- tralian who said: “If you have come here to help me, you are Pioneering managers make big gains happen wasting your time. But if you have come because your lib- heads left and right, as if in a work we are delivering out of Judah Armani eration is bound up with mine, tennis match, watching the prison with our graduates then let’s work together.” performance on stage, and who we work with upon re- It’s now been a year since In- the rest of the cohort off stage lease. We are very excited to My liberation is bound up House Records was first in complete synchronicity. be scaling our out of prison with the people of InHouse launched. A year that has That spirit of unity is not an support towards a resettle- and one year on, we are look- seen the label expand to mul- instant product, but the result ment programme that in- ing to build on that both in- tiple prisons, with more on of hard work and sustained cludes skills training, routes side and outside of these the horizon, and a year where relationships - it requires the on to employment, internal prison walls. our prevention and resettle- support of pioneering number employability, continuing ones and deputy governors personal development with ment work on the outside has Skills, training and Employment manager Rebecca Hawes Judah Armani is a producer like Sara Pennington, Andy InHouse and of course being expanded too. (left) and InHouse Staff Grace (centre) and Charlotte (right) at Inhouse Records Davy, Emily Thomas and part of the process that re- We were recently able to cele- Dawn Mauldon. That unity is leases music for public brate with an incredible first demonstrated in the innova- consumption. birthday showcase, held at tive trust we gain from the Legal aid may be HMP Elmley, back where it all Heads of Reducing Re-Of- To lay down a marker of our available on your case. started. The showcase was a fending, from people like intent for our preventive work celebration of musical pro- Abbie Krovina, Richard Sil- we undertook a series of per- gress, personal achievement, vester and Julian Denton. In- formances on the outside to development and also grati- deed that unity is dependent showcase the talents of our tude. A gratitude widely on the hard graft of the activ- recent InHouse graduates and Our specialist POCA team headed by Solicitor- Advocate demonstrated by every stake- ities and learning, skills and also use the opportunity to Katie McCreath has saved over holder present, from the fam- employment mangers like tell the wider story of In- ilies and friends to the Daisy Wilson, Helen Dessent, House. Fittingly, we were able prisoners, InHouse, to the Dominique Clarke, Rebecca to perform our first showcase £1/2 billion Contact Hawes and Joe Silk. for Ernst and Young at South- prison and the collective from confiscation for individuals 01922 666 567 music industry present. wark Cathedral. Ernst and and defended enforcement proceedings to ensure Hosted by our InHouse team With a spirit of unity and a Young are an integral part of default sentences are not activated for non-payment and organised by InHouse desire to see a wider and InHouse Records, both Please write to: staff - the incredible duo deeper impact within the through their forward think- of financial orders. FREEPOST CROWN SOLICITORS Charlotte and Grace. prison system, we are hopeful ing business consultancy and for a successful second year. in their genuine passion for We are a specialist bespoke team of dedicated However our focus is not just social transformation. They Our first year is a placeholder experts, who successfully challenge draconian Email: on the intervention work we have been involved with In- toward wanting to achieve cases of all values. [email protected] wider and deeper impact are undertaking in prison, House from day one, and it within the prison system. We but also the preventative felt absolutely right that our want to see safer prisons, more employment and brighter futures for those in prison, and we believe that InHouse has a part to play in that process.

The birthday showcase high- Defending our clients nationwide from exaggerated lighted the extraordinary to- & inflated figures sought in POCA matters. getherness that the cohort demonstrated. Every InHouse Don’t give in to sums that you will regret member knew the lyrics to everybody else’s tracks. Not – Let us help protect your legitimate income & assets! just the lyrics but the intona- Lance Harris (left) from tion, the feeling and the ex- the MoJ and Neil Sartorio pression. Many in the partner at Ernst & Young www.crowndefence.com audience were turning their Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Comment // Inside Art 27

every day using the ‘email a prisoner’ service. She signed off all her emails with a quote from the book of inspirational quotes. She would mark the ones she had used with a dot, so she never used the same one twice.

Becky is the wife of someone inside and she chose greetings cards as her object. She said: “To be offered the opportunity of being in- volved with this exhibition feels like a real privilege and perhaps a chance to give back a small something of what we have gained from the Koestler Trust.”

The last family member is the sister of someone inside. She chose a paintbrush as her object, and with the help of her niece and friend, cu- rated artworks she felt illustrated her experiences.

Each family has selected artworks which relate to them. The idea of art for communicating and rebuilding relationships is prevalent in this Back Together, HM Prison & Young Offender exhibition, echoing the very concept behind Institution Low Newton, Anne Peaker Highly the Koestler Trust’s work. Interestingly, each Commended Award of the curators is female. This wasn’t a con- scious choice by the Koestler Trust; the major- keeps me being creative and I have a mentor ity of support for prisoners inside comes from who can help me progress with my work. Now women. Recent data from the Ministry of Jus- I am selling paintings to different clients.” tice states that 95% of the prison population is male, and only 5% female. © All photos Koestler

Lucy, HM Young Offenders Institution Cookham Wood, acrylic on canvas The Koestler Trust is the UK’s best-known prison ‘I’m Still Here’ features the diverse range of arts charity. Each year the Trust encourages over art, writing and music being created by pris- 3,500 people within the criminal justice system to oners, ex-prisoners on licence, secure patients express themselves creatively and learn new skills, and detainees, as well as people on commu- by entering work to the annual Koestler Awards. nity sentences across the UK. A former pris- The Awards celebrate great fine art, music, writing Shining Light oner walking around the exhibition who had and design created in prisons, secure hospitals and won a bronze award for painting said, “It is by those on probation. The annual public exhibi- What is it like for the families and loved ones of those really fantastic that I can still attend the tion at the Southbank Centre is a chance to show- awards even though I am out on licence. It case the talents of the entrants. in prison? This year’s Koestler exhibition explores this often unacknowledged aspect of imprisonment SPECIALISTS IN PRISON LAW, PAROLE DELAYS, one in prison. Their responses were over- EQUALITY CLAIMS, PERSONAL INJURY, whelmingly positive and focussed on the idea Kesar & Co CLINICAL NEGLIGENCE, IMMIGRATION, of communication, rather than a lack of. Ob- Clare Barstow CRIMINAL APPEALS AND DEFENCE. jects chosen were: a paintbrush, a telephone, S O L I C I T O R S a handwritten letter, a book of inspirational CRIMINAL DEFENCE SPECIALISTS: ‘I’m Still Here’ is the 11th exhibition produced quotes and greetings cards. by the Koestler Trust in partnership with 1. Offences committed in prison Southbank Centre, and has been running from The idea of art for com- 2. Historic offences 19th September until 4th November 2018. It municating and rebuilding 3. Extradition follows the success of last year’s exhibition PAROLE ‘Inside’, which was curated by Antony Gorm- relationships is prevalent in ley. This year, the artworks have been selected We are the Parole Hearing specialists with experience totalling more than 25 years! by five different families of prisoners, giving this exhibition, echoing the We will get you an oral hearing and work with you to ensure that you can either a unique and very personal edge to the show; very concept behind Koestler which explores what it is like to have a loved progress or get released. In special cases we take active steps to have you re- one in prison. Trust’s work. leased into rehab as an alternative to open conditions. We specialise in difficult cases for lifers and IPP prisoners and, when possible, The families curating this year’s event are from A telephone was chosen by Barbara, a mother Leeds, Huntingdon, Brighton, Birmingham whose son is in prison. She describes the im- we do not hesitate to challenge refusals by applications for judicial review. and Bradford. As part of the curation process, portance of the house phone as a lifeline be- APPEALS they were asked to choose an object which best tween the two of them. Though there are If you feel that your defence team did not do enough or that your sentence is represented their experience of having a loved difficulties with communicating - you have to plan the time of the call; you are limited to unduly harsh, maybe our team can review your case? We have an experienced fifteen minutes and the cost of the call is pro- and dedicated team who have successfully appealed a number of cases at the hibitive - Barbara is always reassured by hear- Court of Appeal. ing her son’s voice. COMPENSATION CLAIMS Cynthia is another mother whose son is in We can assist with claims for parole delay, personal injury, clinical and dental prison. The object she chose was a handwrit- negligence as well as claims based on age, disability, religion, race, sexual ten letter written by her son and sent to his nephew to read out at Cynthia’s wedding, orientation etc. No win-no fee and legal aid available. which he was unable to attend due to being inside. Significantly, she has now framed the Contact us in writing at: Kesar & Co Solicitors, letter, turning it into a piece of visual art. 2nd Floor, 20-25 Market Square, Bromley, BR1 1NA Registered with Weekly Letter, Camden and Islington Proba- A book of inspirational quotes was chosen by Or by telephone on: 020 8181 3100 emailaprisoner tion Service, Painting another family member, who emailed her son 28 Comment // Inside Art www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2018

Nebu Eye, HM Prison Nottingham, Ed King Silver Award for Painting © All photos Koestler Family Tree, HM Prison Shotts, Patrick Holmes Platinum Award for Painting

Blue Sky Thinking, HM Prison Altcourse, Felix Kelly Silver The Last Word, HM Prison Wealstun, Commended Award for Painting Award for Pastel.jpg

Q-Pid, Prisoners Abroad, First-Time Entrant Award for Woodcraft AAAARGH!!, Bolton Probation Office, mixed media on board Weekly Letter, Camden and Islington Probation Service, Painting Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Comment // Inside Art 29

Coming Clean, HM Prison Littlehey, Wall Hanging - ‘Linked’, Colnbrook soap carving Immigration Removal Centre, Highly Commended Award for Mural and Wall Hanging

Josephine Brain Cell , HM Prison Standford Hill (Sheppey Cluster), Si Pickard Commended Award for Sculpture

That Sink-ing Feeling, HM Prison Leeds, Silver Award for Drawing

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poverty that people are born voice for those that are your mind. into and then become trapped trapped. My book, I hope, will within a cycle that only the give those who are trapped a Once he has been recognised very few break free from. I way out. - then comes enlightenment, started to feel disillusioned by which is within you. You will austerity and felt that what I The book is a modern-day recognise the ‘Singing Night- was delivering was a token adaption of Charles Dickens ingales’ and it is these that will gesture. ‘Christmas Carol’. The main support you in creating a life character within that book that will fill you with happi- I am someone that does not was Ebenezer Scrooge, whose ness, peace and the feeling of stay in a problem. I will seek behaviour trapped him belonging and being a part of. the solution and it was at this point that I started to come up with the idea of ‘Gethin Jones Unlocking Potential’. It was time for me to unpack my story and present this to the world.

The speaking comes natu- rally, as I speak with authen- ticity, passion and emotion Gethin Jones, “I don’t stay in a problem – I seek the solution” and I can connect across the Credit: Gethin Jones spectrum (prisoners to Lords). My words connect and open up the mind and conscious and it is this that led to the creation of my book “Uncon- Opening eyes to injustice The Scrooge within Credit: Gethin Jones scious Incarceration”. within a life of greed and The other great part of this A way out of personal captivity What I know today is I am not loneliness. In ‘Unconscious book is it translates to any- unique - there are many peo- Incarceration’ I highlight one, as we all have ‘Scrooge’ Gethin Jones want to continue down a path There are many ple like me that have made what I call the ‘Scrooge’ be- behaviours that affect us per- that would, ultimately, lead to huge changes within their haviour that gets in the way sonally and professionally further time behind bars or people like me that lives. They work in Children’s/ of success. You will be intro- and stops us as people being I was born into the system. an early death through drug have made huge Adult Social Care, Substance duced to four characters (Mar- the very best version of What I mean by this is that overdose. When I made this Misuse Services, the Criminal ley moments, The Cabbie, The ourselves. social care was there the day decision I started to recognise changes within their Justice System - some become Tour Guide and The Time I was born. This was because what I call ‘Scrooge’ behav- lives. They work in authors or journalists or have Traveller) all of whom will my Mum was a care leaver iours that were affecting my set up their own businesses. I help you to throw the light on Gethin Jones is an author, herself and was unable to life. I then started to see what Children’s/Adult have just found a way to artic- your Scrooge behaviour that motivational speaker and manage her life without their I call ‘Singing Nightingales’ Social Care, ulate the journey and be the hides within the shadows of former resident of HMPPS involvement. that supported my change. At the age of 36 I put my story to Substance Misuse Looking back I was a very bed and concentrated on un- Services, the sensitive child and felt lost derstanding who the real from a young age. I was una- Gethin was and creating a Criminal Justice ble to deal with my emotions professional career. and this expressed itself System - some through negative behaviour. It was not long before people become authors or National Prison Law Solicitors Before long I was described could see the qualities within www.instalaw.co.uk as being beyond parental me that had been hidden for journalists or have control and I was taken away so long and opportunities set up their own Instalaw Solicitors have over 40 years combined experience from my family and placed in came my way. My profes- representing prisoners rights and we can represent you no matter where you the care system. sional career started within businesses. are in the country! and within two years I got my first position within PCC Specialists in Parole Board paper reviews, oral hearings & independent adjudications (Portsmouth City Council). This was a special moment, Our Prison Law Experts can help you with: as PCC had once been my cor- porate parent. It was at this • Parole Board oral hearings • Mandatory Lifer Reviews point that I started to realise • Paper Parole Reviews • IPP Paper & Oral Parole Reviews my purpose and this was to be the voice for those trapped • Recalls • Independent Adjudications within the system and local • Discretionary Lifer Reviews • Private cases (Transfer/HDC) services.

My career then progressed Call us today for free advice on: 01782 560 155 even further - even through- Speaking from experience out the years of austerity I Instalaw, 4th Floor Parliament House, Credit: Gethin Jones went from promotion to pro- 42 - 46 Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham, NG1 2AG motion. In 2016 I was pro- This experience catapulted the young people’s services. moted again and became the my life into a pattern of My managers knew about my Instalaw, 2nd Floor Copthall House, King Street, Service Manager of the Well- self-destruction and led to a past but I chose not to share being Service that was cre- 20-year relationship with the this with my peers or those I ated to reduce health Criminal Justice System. This was supporting. This decision inequalities within the poor- included spending 8 years of meant they got to know me for est areas of the City of my life in HM Prison and a me and not the labels that so- Portsmouth. Stephen Luke - Partner (Nottingham) dependency on drugs. ciety placed on me (care leaver, ex offender, addict etc etc). Reise Wright - Prison Law Advocate BA HONS (Nottingham) This role opened my eyes to At the age of 34, I made the the true injustice that sits Plus Nationwide Consultant Prison Law Advisors decision to change. I did not My career developed quickly within society and the abject Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Comment 31 Outside Voices Garden Chronicles

In this country the latest ‘witch-hunt’ is to target men What passes for revenge; through jeal- ousy; for attention; or for monetary gain. This sadly trivialises the genuine suffer- for ‘justice’ ing of those victims who have been hurt and humiliated by predators which have im- A prisoner’s mother relies on integrity and self-po- pacted dramatically on their licing, sadly absent in many wellbeing, mental health and individuals (look at other in- My son is currently incarcer- quality of life. The kind of in- stances where oaths are re- ated in HMP Edinburgh, con- vestigations recently carried quired, such as marriage and victed for an historic out into flawed practices of the high levels of divorce). allegation, and we are cur- the Met Police need to be rently preparing to forward rolled out across the border. Using a pseudonym, my son evidence for application for With convictions for sex of- is writing a book of his expe- appeal. We as a family have fences, mainly historic, of riences in prison and the up- become steadily more disillu- 83% and Scotland having the Toms toms everywhere, and all ready to eat! ward trend in convictions for © Deposit Photos sioned with what passes for highest number of prisoners historical sex offences. In Jenny Greengrass As usual I always grow Black Russian, which ‘justice’, particularly through per capita than any other Eu- HMP Edinburgh the growth an outdated jury system which gives us a browny red tomato the size of a tea- in numbers convicted are of ropean country, there are plate, but I also have small plum tomatoes both does not provide any kind of individuals over the age of many innocent men in prison red and yellow. I am making oodles of soup induction, training or vetting sixty on no hard evidence of for historic sex offences Tomatoes, tomatoes and freezing it as well as eating tomatoes on of jurors despite the incredi- any kind. Here in Scotland, which is entirely at odds with toast, pizza base, throwing them into casse- bly important task in front of and even more using the elasticity of some- the foundation of ‘Innocent roles and roasting them. Even the chickens are them. More importantly, thing called the ‘Morozov Until Proven Guilty’ and more enjoying a constant supply, as they love eating courts have failed to keep up tomatoes! Doctrine’, 75% of cases going in keeping with the superb the seeds. My neighbours are now even refus- with the new information age ing my offerings so I have to find new ways of to the High Courts in Scotland book written by Jon Robins of We love tomatoes but there is a limit as to how in which we live, and the eating and storing them. are for ‘so called’ sex offences, The Justice Gap; ‘Guilty Until many we can eat. As I do every year, I plant manner in which the media many of them historic; a man Proven Innocent’. tomato seeds in the hope that there are enough and ‘instant information’ Just to update you on our lovely chickens. One of 73 for something which al- plants to keep us going over the summer. How- available can influence those poor thing has hurt her leg and we have tried legedly happened when he It seems for most juries a trial ever I had not anticipated every seed growing of a more suggestive nature. to see if it is a long term injury. She is managing was 13 years-old; a young for historic allegations is a to be a plant. I have given them to neighbours and offered them to the local allotment society, to get about though and is eating well. We call man whose ‘date’ changed formality. The accused has The current ‘safeguarding’ but even then I have been left with enough her ‘Limpy’, a bit cruel I know but she doesn’t her mind after a one night been tried in the forum of pub- measures are no longer suffi- plants to provide a supermarket with their seem to mind. The cockerel has become very stand; an ex-wife of 20 years cient to ensure impartiality, lic opinion and the mantra, summer supply. attentive and is turning out to be enjoying his whose husband was remar- lack of bias, or curb a natural ‘why would they lie?’ seems harem! No eggs yet, but possibly next month ried for a further 10 years to we will be on the lookout for some. They spend inclination to share informa- evidence enough for many. another woman; a man whose a lot of time in my shrub garden so I have to tion relating to trials or People lie all the time; that is accuser had made similar al- keep inspecting the plants in case they decide ‘Google’ so-called ‘victims’ or why we have courts and juries, to lay eggs there rather than in the coop. They legations against other men yet neither is working those accused. The juror’s are still very shy and not venturing any further - the list is endless. properly. oath, much like many oaths, into the garden, so at least my vegetables are safe for the moment. However I might encour- age them into the greenhouse as they are most Offi cially welcome to consume some of my abundance the LARGEST of tomatoes. Mind you, I think they may also prison law provider in Every type of delicious Tomato… be a bit fed up with their restricted diet so I the Country won’t hold much hope for that happening. 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to encourage employers to take an Next, it was up to the office of Steve interest and offer jobs to prisoners. Robson - an experienced Governor Then he had always brought potential who had come up through the ranks employers into the prison and and was apparently running a very proudly showed them the great work tight ship. Drugs, violence and staff being done by prisoners in Val’s shortages were all issues that he was prison print-shop. “We both started happy to discuss. “Yes, these prob- to realise the difference we could lems exist,” he said, “but we are make if we set up an employment where we are and can only continue project and we could even take what to do everything possible to deal we had seen to yet another level.” with these things. We are making some significant progress now and Walking on the wings on our way to in recent months have made reduc- meet the Governor, Steve Robson, was tions in all drug related incidents. reminiscent of 20 years ago when I We have been successful in closing first got involved with projects for off routes for drugs coming in and people in prison. The wings were buzzing with activity and Val couldn’t there have been far fewer violent get very far before prisoners he was incidents - prisoner on staff and pris- working with were asking him ques- oner on prisoner, but there is still tions about what they were doing much more to do.” together. Others were coming forward asking for details about the project, Asked about the issue of letters etc as they wanted to know more. coming into prison and the decision © Tempus Novo of prisons to photocopy them to stop The Tempus Novo team (Left to Right): Mick Mills, Steve Freer, Sara Shepherd, Alvena, Richard Bates and Val Wawrosz When Val asked one prisoner if we Spice impregnated items getting in, could take a look in his cell he im- he told us, “Unfortunately there mediately invited us in. The condi- were a number of methods being tions and lack of in-cell comforts used to make it difficult to get drugs Journey of Hope was just what I expected, but since into prison and until they had suit- the prison was built 170 years ago it able detection facilities available Former prison officers bringing employers and prisoners together and wasn’t surprising. Even so, there there were no options left but to take was a degree of pride - given the tiny these types of action.” He told us despite challenges, a Governor who’s proud of local success space - and it was about as clean and that this was not the only route in

their own. They had had to reassess from stop any trouble kicking off. We the way they had worked for many never really got to know many of years and the attitudes and opinions them very well at all.” John Roberts they had held. They had had to ef- fectively retrain themselves if they Tempus Novo, meaning New Time, With the well-publicised tensions were to achieve what they had set was founded in May 2014 and Steve and difficulties throughout the prison out to do. Both admitted that they and Val started to really apply their estate, and HMP Leeds being one of would never have imagined that one skills and past experience to begin a the older establishments, making day they would be doing the work new chapter in their lives. They ad- any improvements or initiatives they now do with the type of rela- mitted that whilst they were confi- hard to introduce, my expectations tionships they now have with people dent at the outset, they were also during my recent visit were not high. they once had very little time for. hesitant about getting it all working as they had hoped and planned, how- We started with a meeting in the Tempus Novo ever both appeared to have taken to modest offices of Tempus Novo, the it like the proverbial ducks to water. charity that introduces employers to has placed 200 former They were without doubt enjoying High security chicks potential prisoner employees, just prisoners into sustainable what they were doing and excited to © Inside Time along from the main prison gate. The see the successes - real jobs for peo- building looked as grey as the jobs since 2014 ple on release and hope for so many tidy as it could be; bearing in mind and staff were aware of examples of prison, standing in the shadow of of those approaching release. the fact there were two adults living prisoners even smoking material the prison walls. But the enthusiasm Steve told us in his gruff Yorkshire in it. These guys had made as much from items of clothing that had and positivity inside provided plenty voice, “We all used to say that, ‘for “It was only during the few years be- of it as they possibly could and man- drugs impregnated, “So we have to of warmth and light. prisoners; happiness is door shaped’ fore we started Tempus Novo, when I aged to create at least a tiny hint of take whatever action is necessary and we didn’t really have much time was working as part of the mul- homeliness. and new techniques and equipment, Tempus Novo’s co-founders, Steve for them at all. In those days we just ti-agency team outside, that I saw the capable of easily detecting drugs Freer and Val Wawrosz, two ‘old did what we were trained to do. We difference in the way the police and We passed the small café area aptly and concealed items being brought school’ former senior prison officers, didn’t treat people badly, but I am probation officers communicated named the ‘Lock Inn’ which is for in, are being introduced. The oppor- now CEO and Deputy CEO, with be- ashamed to say we had very little with former prisoners and how much staff and visitors. Run by prisoners tunities and likelihood of them get- tween them 60 years’ experience in interest in their futures. I guess they easier it was to get them interested and for the charity Jigsaw and super- ting though security now is already numerous prisons were in their ele- had little time for us either. Our job engaged.” And then Steve explained vised by staff. This was situated far less than it was previously. then was to just keep them locked that in his next role at the prison, the ment. They are no fools when it comes close to the very well-equipped staff Whilst we are already having suc- up and not do much more, apart Business Development Manager was to dealing with people in prison and gym. Again, there was a buzz here cesses; as we introduce more tech- now their experience and new-found and healthy banter with none of the niques we will make even more enlightenment is helping them en- tension we expected. Jigsaw also run headway. It is going to take time.” gage positively with any prisoner the visits centre (pictured left). close to release who really wants to Asked about Tempus Novo he said change their life. As they spoke of Outside we passed through the he was proud of the impact that they their achievements and success sto- usual fenced off and gated areas and had had and the number of people ries it was clear that they were pre- came face to face with ‘The Chicken pared to give the necessary support Wing.’ Chickens, the very last thing they had been able to help find jobs. and guidance to get the results - as we expected to see. They were on an The support from employers was in- long as those they were helping were area of grass between the 15ft fence creasing since they have been able as committed as they were. and the inner wall, clucking away, to prove the value to their businesses all happily pecking and rooting by offering employment to former As we chatted, they both openly ad- around oblivious to their surround- prisoners. “Successes locally are mitted that it was not just the pris- ings. Seeing the 15ft fence, I won- bringing more employers in and pro- oners they now help who were dered if they were particularly ducing even more successes.” embarking on ‘a journey’ but they dangerous chickens or likely to at- The visits centre run by Jigsaw Behind the gate page 49 too had also been on a journey of © Jigsaw tempt a daring escape? Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Comment 33

together to finish the job and tear gas, and standard strik- put a stop to this sinister trade ing weapons like truncheons for good.” and batons.

Amnesty International has Amnesty International has been a key voice advising on repeatedly documented how regional and international common law enforcement regulations to combat the trade equipment can be used to tor- in tools of torture. Together ture or otherwise ill-treat peo- with the Omega Research ple. For example, countries Foundation, the organization including Israel, Bahrain, released a briefing, setting Turkey and Colombia have out recommendations. used tear gas against peace- ful protestors in an excessive Amnesty International and its and abusive manner, often partner Omega Research causing serious injury. Foundation believe that in Credit: Amnesty International order to be fully effective, any Amnesty is calling on states legislation aiming to tackle to assess the risks before this trade should have a two- granting authorisations of Torture is outlawed internationally pronged approach. It should these types of equipment, in ban inherently abusive equip- line with other trade control ment, while regulating equip- regimes of dangerous goods, - so why is it such big business? ment which may have a like conventional arms. legitimate purpose but which Human rights organisation Amnesty calls on ministers at the UN to clamp is commonly abused for tor- “Law enforcement weapons ture or other ill-treatment. and devices should never be down on the torture trade supplied to recipients who are Amnesty is calling for an ab- likely to use them for torture, Inside comment The Global Alliance’s torture and other ill-treat- Advocate for Arms Control solute ban on inherently abu- other ill-treatment or other 58-member states have com- ment was outlawed interna- and Human Rights at Am- sive law enforcement serious human rights viola- mitted to controlling and re- tionally - so why is equipment nesty International. equipment, which covers tions,” said Ara Marcen Navel. Companies all over the world stricting exports of goods that is designed solely to in- items such as neck restraints, are still profiting from the which can be used for torture flict pain and fear still being “Creating the Global Alliance weighted or spiked batons, “We are urging the Global Al- sale of gruesome torture or other ill-treatment. Am- traded around the world? was a major achievement for stun gloves and body-worn liance and its member states equipment like spiked batons, nesty International’s Secre- Loose regulations mean that anti-torture campaigners, electric shock devices. How- to commit to regulating stun belts and leg irons, Am- tary General Kumi Naidoo companies are still profiting and we are calling on more ever there also needs to be equipment that could be used nesty International said last addressed the first ministe- from the sale of horrible tools states to join this week. Ban- much more stringent controls to torture or ill-treat people. month as it called on world rial meeting of the Global Al- like spiked batons and stun ning torture and other on equipment that may have This includes immediately leaders to join the Global Al- liance at the UN headquarters cuffs. It’s simple - as long as ill-treatment but turning a a legitimate use, but which establishing international liance for Torture-Free Trade, in New York. this equipment is on the mar- blind eye to the tools used to can easily be misused. This standards to make it harder a landmark agreement ket, it will be used by tortur- carry them out is not good includes restraint devices, for companies to export such launched in 2017. “It’s been decades since ers,” said Ara Marcen Naval, enough. States must come riot control agents such as tools.”

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David Breakspear to tell. The sentence is the punish- Cumbria to watch her client pick up ment, everything else should be an Enterprise Award gave me hope geared to change; not continued that the good ones do still exist. I Tuesday 4th September 2018 will be judgement. I also have to say that I was also fortunate enough to inter- a day that I will never forget. I find the saw more degrees than there would view, on camera, the Media, evening difficult to describe /explain be at a Three Degrees tribute act Communications and Alumni man- without overusing superlatives. competition! I am honoured to be an ager, Katy Oglethorpe. Katy’s pas- alumnus of the Prisoners’ Education sion and dedication to PET is unwa- The following is from a post that I Trust and an associate member of vering, which benefits the prisoner wrote on Facebook the next day: “I the Prisoner Learning Alliance.” who uses the education system in was fortunate last night to have spent prison immensely. I cannot thank the evening with a group of incredi- I came away from the evening feel- her and the team at PET enough for ble people whom, I may add, are not ing like a somebody - and that my that. only ex-prisoners but most, like me, years of experience will now not be still on licence from prison. The wasted as I and my fellow alumni To me, however, the main highlight inspiration, desire and passion to not will be able to have a direct influence of the evening was to be able to inter- just change ourselves but to use our over education policy in prisons. It view the President of PET, His experiences while standing up to be makes total sense that the best peo- Honour John Samuels QC. In his pre- counted in a concerted effort to influ- ple to assist in improving areas of vious life, Mr. Samuels was a London ence change - for my sake, my peer’s life are those who have seen and judge: to be able to sit and discuss sake, for your sake and for the sake lived the harsher and darker side of prison issues with someone at the of society as a whole - was amazing that life. total opposite end of the criminal to witness. justice system was an incredible There were many highlights of the experience. To listen to Mr. Samuels’ “Surely no one can argue against evening for me: the poetry that was vision for the future of sentencing, wanting a prison system fit for pur- read live by its author Jamal Khan prison and PET fills me with hope pose. People make mistakes and we was spine-tingling, his words spoke that there are better times ahead for Jamal Khan: ‘Spine-tingling’ poetry will always have crime, but please to your very soul. To see a probation real change and for real prison © PET remember that everyone has a story officer travel all the way from reform. Start an OU degree with PET Prisoners’ Education Trust, in partnership with the Open Nails, Rails and HGVs University and the Garfield Weston Foundation are offering people in prison an opportunity to start a degree without need- ing to take out a student loan. Announcing the Enterprise Award winners The funding covers the first 60 credits of OU study, roughly During our Alumni party, we Stephen from Cumbria aims equivalent to half a year at undergraduate level. Subjects also announced the winners to work in the rail industry, include: of this year’s Enterprise beginning as a Personal Track

Awards. Kindly supported by Safety (PTS) operative. PET • The Arts; The Topinambour Trust, the gave him a £1,000 grant to • Business and Management; awards offer one-off grants to attend a Personal Track Safety • Science and Health; help people start a business training course. Stephen said • Social Sciences; or find work after release from he was ‘over the moon’ about • Youth Justice; prison. From manicures to the grant: “I’m doing this • Languages; track safety, web develop- because it’s permanent - • Sport and Fitness; ment to barbering, this year’s there’s demand at the minute • Mathematics and Statistics. winners have exciting plans with the building of HS2. I see to enter a range of industries. this as a long-term career.” The OU modules start in February and October 2019. To be Here, we introduce them and eligible, you should have already successfully completed an find out about their hopes for Alisha from Nottinghamshire OU Access course or be able to show you’re ready to study at the future. is working towards starting that level. You must have between six months and seven years her own mobile creative nails remaining on your sentence at the time you start your module. All I need to do service. PET awarded her You should also have finished your current distance learning £1,000 to buy the start-up is to remain resil- course before starting your OU studies. equipment she needs, includ-

ient and use my ing manicure and pedicure To apply for the funding, all you need to do is contact your kits, hand towels and an grit and determi- Hair of the future education department and reserve a place with the OU on your appointment diary. Alisha © PET first level 1 module, indicating that you wish to fund your nation to make told us the award has studies through a Garfield Weston Scholarship. The Students “changed my life. I’m excited this successful. right techniques to improve. “The Enterprise Award ena- in Secure Environments registration team will then send your to get out and get started.” All I need to do is to remain bles me to hit the floor run- registration form to your education department. Julia from County Durham resilient and use my grit and ning and start working on my plans to start a mobile hair- Now he is out of prison, Nick determination to make this company website immediately.” Please note that grants will be made on a first come, first served dressing business on release. from Cheshire has taken up successful.” basis so it is important to apply as soon as possible to avoid PET gave her nearly £850 to barbering. PET has given him The Enterprise judging panel disappointment. If you have any questions about the modules purchase start-up equipment just over £650 to buy start-up After prison, Brett from also chose to fund Ian from available for study, or the application process, please ask your including scissors, rollers, equipment including combs, Oxfordshire plans to start his London to take a CPC driving education department to contact the OU SR-SISE team on: 0300 curling irons and hair prod- clippers, scissors and gowns. own web development com- course for driving lorries, 303 6789 or PET on: 020 3752 5680. ucts. Julia told us, “I feel Nick is already feeling excited pany. PET awarded him just buses or coaches, and Marlon absolutely fantastic about about the future: “It may be over £550 to buy his start-up from Manchester to go on a winning an Enterprise Award. early days, but the knowledge equipment, including a com- DCCR railway training course. Hairdressing is about making I learnt from prison and the puter, desk and chair. Brett We look forward to hearing a difference; making someone tools I get from the Enterprise wants to set up his company how they all get on over the feel better.” Awards will help me learn the as soon as he leaves prison: next few months! Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Information 35

in the UK - and that’s out of the 9m adults who gamble DDN News Round-up Inside Drink & Drugs News over any four-week period. His agency is among those to see Record drug deaths Drink and Drugs News (DDN) is the monthly magazine for those working people whose relationships, England and Wales have once again recorded their highest ever with drug and alcohol clients, including in prisons. In a regular homes, employment and number of drug-related deaths, according to the latest figures from bi-monthly column, editor Claire Brown looks at what’s been happening health have been devastated the Office for National Statistics (ONS). There were 3,756 deaths by a recreation that became related to drug poisoning in 2017, a slight increase on 2016’s figure lately in the substance misuse field obsessive. of 3,744 and the highest number since records began. Win’, and ill-equipped to deal with the crash of losing You may have heard of the Hidden messages Lucrative drinkers government’s recent move to everything. He coped with his Drinks manufacturers are Drinkers consuming more than cut the maximum stake on suicidal feelings by quitting putting health messages on fixed-odds betting terminals the government’s low-risk his home and his job to go on their products in places ‘where from £100 to £2. But as Owen’s guideline of 14 units a week a working holiday in Europe. drinkers are least likely to see story shows, there’s much them,’ says a report from the make up a quarter of the pop- more we need to be doing to Boarding the ferry, full of ex- University of South Wales ulation but provide 68 per cent support the person who finds citement, he came across a (USW). While people rarely look of industry revenue, according themselves well and truly roulette table… and you can beyond the front label, unit addicted. a study by Institute of Alcohol guess the rest. Later, seeking information and warnings are Studies (IAS) and the University help from a homeless shelter, routinely placed on the sides We’ve had warm response to he realised there was little and backs of bottles and cans, of Sheffield. If all drinkers stuck Owen’s story from DDN’s help available for a serious and in small, hard-to-read fonts, to the guidelines the industry readers, because personal gambling problem. It was only it says. would lose around £13bn. when he became dependent insights are invaluable. I’d like to take this opportunity Relax on e-cigs

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Keeping Safe - in tough times PRISON Ryan Harman Full searches are more in depth groups of people. REFORM Advice and Info searches which require you to TRUST Service Manager remove your clothing. They Annex D gives guidance on Everything you tell us counts must be carried out by two searching arrangements for officers of the same sex as the religious or cultural reasons. There are various circumstanc- person being searched and Male prisoners who have a The Ministry of Justice has just published its es in which a person might be should be out of sight of any- religious or cultural reason for Female Offender Strategy which makes the searched whilst in prison and one else- including other staff not being searched by a female Juliet Lyon CBE following commitment: ‘Every death in custo- different types of search that and prisoners. You should member of staff can request dy is a tragedy, and we will do our utmost to may be justified by different never be completely naked that this is carried out by male Living or working in prison, or visiting some- prevent them and keep prisoners safe...The circumstances. Common times during a full search - staff staff only. It also sets out the one in your family, you will know that many IAP has undertaken a rapid information gath- to be searched are on initial should let you replace clothing procedure for searching of prisons, especially local jails, are struggling ering exercise on how best to prevent suicide reception to prison, after trans- on the top half of your body religious or cultural headwear to reduce violence and self-harm. With fewer and self-harm and keep women safe in custo- fer from another prison, re- before removing items on the and provisions for Muslim experienced officers and limited resources, dy. This review has submitted evidence and turning to prison after ROTL lower half. prisoners if they are to be they are up against a tide of threats and drugs. recommendations to Ministers, which we are or escort, following visits and searched by dogs. Lock-downs and last minute regime changes implementing alongside this strategy.’ We will when conducting a cell search. Full searches of women differ are the norm in some places. People on the monitor progress and report back through The type of search you might from that of male prisoners and Annex E says that search pro- outside know through the media, published Inside Time and Prison Radio. get depends on things like consist of Level 1 and Level 2 cedures will need to be varied Chief Inspectors’ and IMB reports etc that whether you are in the high searches. Level 1 searches in- according to injuries or disa- Meanwhile the Keeping Safe report, which many prisons are far from being the decent, security estate, or whether you volve the removal of clothing bilities a person has and with drew together the views of 150 men across 60 safe places they should be. are in a prison for men, women except underwear. Level 2 advice from healthcare if prisons, has been presented to Ministers and or young people. PSI 07/2016 searches involve removal of needed. discussed in Parliament. The IAP is auditing So does that mean all the work so many of you ‘Searching of the Person’ con- all clothing including under- progress made on your 33 recommendations. put into our Keeping Safe partnership with tains details of this, and we wear. Level 2 searches should Annex H includes searching We know that mental health awareness and Inside Time was a waste of time? That the let- thought it would be useful to only take place if there is in- arrangements for transgender emergency response training for staff is in pro- ters you wrote to the Independent Advisory summarise some of the key telligence or suspicion that an people in prison and states gress and a review of ACCT is underway. The Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) and the mes- points below. item has been hidden. that a voluntary agreement IEP scheme is being revised, and support for sages you left on Prison Radio were ignored by should be put in place as to the Samaritans has increased. Key workers are the powers-that-be? That nothing can and will Hand-held metal detectors how this should be done. If being introduced to work closely with individ- There are two main types of change? Far from it! Even in such difficult times may be used during a full you have applied for or have ual prisoners to form and follow sentence search - ‘rub down searches’ for prisons and prisoners, progress is being search for men and must be obtained legal recognition of plans. On 16 October at the safer custody con- and ‘full searches’. made. Slower than we would all like … but used as part of a full search for the gender with which you ference, I will present your recommendations progress nonetheless. women. identify you must be searched to prison governors and safer custody leads Rub down searches can be and discuss the impact you are making. carried out by a single officer in accordance with this unless We need to feel like we and must be done using open Prison officers are not allowed alternative arrangements are One prisoner wrote to the IAP: ‘It would be hands with fingers spread out. to conduct intimate searches. agreed. It is important to note have some power to determine really nice for me to know that I have helped There are two levels of rub Searching staff may look into that searches must not be con- our futures, power to effect and contributed to the solutions, as opposed down search - level A and level your mouth during a rub down ducted to determine gender. to complaining about things and getting B. Level A rub down searches or full search. If there are some change in our lives that down.’ Well you have and you are! Even in include extra checks such as grounds to suspect that a male If you would like a copy of the would give us hope that there tough times, together we can keep people safe. asking you to remove shoes, prisoner has an item hidden full Prison Service Instruction checking in your hair and look- in an intimate area, then a on this subject, please contact is a future there for us.’ ing inside your ears nose and closer visual inspection can be us on the details below. Juliet Lyon is chair of the Independent mouth, whereas level B rub undertaken as part of a full Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) down searches do not. search. Male prisoners may be You can contact the Prison Thinking about the things you said, and the asked to squat during a full Reform Trust’s advice team at views and solutions you offered, it felt impor- search, and records must be FREEPOST ND6125 London tant to let you know about improvements tak- The IAP is gathering information about Rub down searches are not kept of when this request is EC1B 1PN. Our free informa- ing place following your recommendations. the health and wellbeing of people intrusive searches and should made. Women must not be tion line is open 3.30pm-5.30pm You wrote about hope and hopelessness. One serving an IPP sentence in order to raise not normally require you to asked to squat under any cir- on Mon and Thur, and 10.30am man said: ‘As a prisoner I need to see progress. any concerns with Justice and Public raise or remove outer clothing. cumstances and should not be -12.30pm on Wed. The number I need to see light at the end of the tunnel. All Health Ministers. Please write in to However, if prison staff think subject to visual inspections is 0808 802 0060 and does not I see now is darkness. And that is why I am still ‘FREEPOST IAP’. IAP must be in capital that something may be hidden need to be put on your pin. a potential suicide risk.’ And another said: ‘The letters, no stamp and you can mark the you may be asked to raise or of intimate areas. biggest way I think suicide can be reduced in envelope ‘confidential access’ . remove outer clothing. 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HMP Oakwood HMP Dovegate Category C training and designated A category B custodial therapeutic prison resettlement prison managed by G4S managed by Serco

Unannounced Inspection: 26 February-9 Unannounced Inspection: 12-22 March 2018 March 2018 Published: 10 July 2018 Published: 17 July 2018

Safety W W W W Safety W W W W Respect W W W W Respect W W W W Purposeful Activity HMP Woodhill HMYOI Wetherby W W W W Purposeful Activity W W W W Resettlement W W W W Core local prison, with high security Resettlement W W W W function and Close Supervision Centre and Keppel Unit Holds convicted boys aged between 15 and “An impressive prison dealing with drugs Unannounced Inspection: 5-16 February 2018 18 years “Impressive institution working with and violence in a largely high-risk Published: 19 June 2018 high-risk, violent men” Unannounced Inspection: 5-15 March 2018 population” Safety W W W W Published: 26 July 2018 Respect W W W W Dovegate is a national resource where men After being called ‘Jokewood’ by many prison- Purposeful Activity W W W W Safety W W W W serving long sentences can take part in a ther- Respect W W W W ers, inspectors say the prison has seen steady Resettlement W W W W apeutic community which is run on democratic Purposeful Activity W W W W and sustained improvement after what was a lines. Despite a high-risk population, very little Resettlement W W W W “testing start” six years ago. One of the biggest “Prison with ‘staggering’ total of self-in- violence took place and most problems were prisons in the country, Oakwood is now described flicted deaths struggling to sustain resolved through discussion. Staff and prisoners “Real progress but violence needs to be by inspectors as an “impressive institution”. improvements in care” trusted each other, which led to open and honest addressed” It was undeniable, Mr Clarke said, that violence communication. Most men felt they had made The last inspection in 2015 made 76 recommen- progress during their time in therapy. In an dations, 47 of which had not been achieved. Inspectors say Wetherby has made real progress had increased, though it was now at a level inspection survey, 83% of respondents said Since that inspection outcomes for prisoners in the year since its last inspection. Wetherby commensurate with similar prisons. Prisoners their experience in the TP had made them less in both Safety and Purposeful activity had de- and the self-contained Keppel unit had im- reported raised levels of victimisation but, bal- clined. Since the previous inspection, there had proved in terms of respectful treatment of de- anced against this, relatively few prisoners likely to offend in the future and most prisoners been eight self-inflicted deaths. In total, 19 tainees, purposeful activity (including educa- reported feeling unsafe and the prison’s re- were extremely positively about their experi- prisoners had taken their lives at Woodhill since tion), and resettlement work - three of the four sponse to violence “was robust and multi-lay- ence in the communities. 83% of prisoners in 2011. A further self-inflicted death was reported HMI Prisons ‘healthy prison’ tests. Safety, the ered.” The use of prisoners as ‘peer workers’ to the survey said they had a custody plan and a few months after the latest inspection. other key test, had improved to ‘good’ in the support violence reduction was creative and 95% said they knew what they needed to do to Keppel unit but remained ‘not sufficiently good’ extensive although, Mr Clarke said, “we em- meet their targets. Out of a total of 320 officer posts 55 were vacant in the main prison. phasised, and the prison understood, that the and 20% of officers had less than twelve month’s need to ensure the most thorough governance Inspectors found Dovegate TP to be a safe pris- experience. Due to the ‘chronic staff shortages’, Mr Clarke reports: “By any standards this was of such schemes was vital.” on. Despite the histories of violent offending a restricted regime has been in place for three a good inspection. The positive change in many by many prisoners, there was very little violence years. The report says: “Underpinning nearly areas was clear to see. A far more positive atti- The main threat to the stability of the prison in the TP. Men received good support on arrival, all the concerns raised in this report, including tude permeated the establishment, relation- was drugs. The use of new psychoactive sub- including the small number who felt vulnerable issues of safety and well-being, were chronic ships between staff and boys were generally stances (NPS) had peaked in 2017 and well over and were at risk of self-harm. There had been staff shortages and inexperience. This led to positive, with many staff showing what seemed half of prisoners surveyed suggested drugs were no self-inflicted deaths since the last inspection poor time out of cell, unpredictable daily rou- to be genuine commitment and indeed, in some easily available in the prison. The report noted in 2013. Dovegate TP was also a respectful pris- tines and limited access to activity … A restricted cases, a passion for their work. Security was daily routine had been in place for three years that the rise in violence reflected a surge in the on, with good staff-prisoner relationships at now broadly proportionate without the unnec- use of NPS; but Mr Clarke commented that there … During the working day we found half the essary restrictions that we had seen in the past.” the core of the therapeutic approach. Physical population locked in their cells. Our colleagues were early signs that actions to reduce drug conditions were excellent, as was the external in Ofsted judged the overall effectiveness of availability were beginning to be effective. The report says that managers had ‘continued environment, and men felt well cared for, both learning and skills provision to be ‘inadequate’, to underestimate the full scope and range of by staff and their peers. Consultation arrange- their lowest assessment, caused mainly by the Inspectors found that almost 1,000 prisoners bullying behaviour’ however, they were en- ments were very strong, and the food provided underuse of available training and education lived in overcrowded conditions, in cells designed couraged to carry out more analysis of the caus- was good. Time out of cell was also good, though resources owing to staff shortages. The need to for one. Mr Clarke said: “The implications and es of violence and to compare the Wetherby site teaching and learning was not consistent. bring stability, consistency and accessibility to potential risks of this level of overcrowding are to Keppel, where the boys felt, and were, safer. daily routines was, in our view, an absolute clear, but our findings with respect to the gen- Summing up, Mr Clarke said: “Dovegate TP was prerequisite to improving the well-being of eral living conditions experienced by individuals Inspectors raised concerns about the govern- impressive. A national resource, it worked with those detained.” and their access to basic amenities were very ance of the use of force by staff, which had men intensively over a period of years to better good, in some cases excellent, and contributed increased significantly. During the six months understand their problematic behaviour, atti- In summing up, Peter Clarke, HM Chief Inspector greatly to a positive sense of community.” of Prisons said: “It was clear to us that some up to the inspection 576 incidents of force had tudes and thinking patterns and to help them improvements had been made at Woodhill and been recorded. Pain-inducing techniques had Summing up, Mr Clarke said: “This inspection change. Most men who reached the end of the the governor and her team had expended con- been used on 32 occasions and 16 boys had been of Oakwood was tremendously encouraging. process made progress, and over 80% of re- siderable effort, enthusiasm and commitment strip-searched under restraint. Some of the initiatives we have seen, notably spondents in our survey said they felt they had to promote a positive culture in the establish- done something at the prison to make it less ment. That said, a disappointingly small num- Summing up, Mr Clarke said: “In recent times the extensive use of peer support, can go badly likely they would reoffend in the future. ber of recommendations from our previous young offender institutions have received con- wrong if they are not constantly attended to. Learning, skills and work activities needed to inspection had been achieved. The priorities siderable public criticism, not least from this That said, the empowerment of prisoners rep- for the prison were clear: to stabilise the regime Inspectorate. However, this inspection shows resented by such schemes had contributed better complement the prison’s therapeutic through adequate staffing; to devise and im- what can be achieved when a combination of greatly to a culture of decency and respect that aims, and the clinical model underpinning plement a clear, evidenced-based strategy to committed staff and focused leadership work was enabling prisoners to contribute and invest therapy work needed to be implemented in full. improve safety; and to sustain and embed the together with what in this case was a clear com- in the well-being of others as well as However, in nearly all other respects the work work being done to reduce self-harm.” mon purpose.” themselves.” the prison was carrying out was excellent.” Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Information // Monitoring 39

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Most inspections cover the such persons are particularly whole prison and are ‘unan- vulnerable to ill-treatment, Expectations for adult male nounced’ but in exceptional and believing that eff orts to and female prisons and young circumstances, and based on end ill-treatment should off ender institutions are list- risk, some inspections will be focus on prevention, OPCAT ed under the four tests of a announced, and the prison provides for a system of inter- healthy establishment: will be informed in advance national and national visits to • Safety: Prisoners, particu- of the visit. This is used where all places of detention. The larly the most vulnerable, are a prison is known to have Prisons Inspectorate is one of held safely. serious problems and gives the bodies that reports under them a chance to address OPCAT. • Respect: Prisoners are treat- issues before the inspection. ed with respect for their Inspectors have the right to The human dignity. carry out inspections and • Purposeful activity: Prisoners cannot be refused entry by Inspectorate col- are able, and expected, to I’m looking at you the establishment. © Deposit Photos lects information engage in activity that is like- ly to benefi t them. During an inspection the from many sourc- team can go wherever they es, including the • Resettlement: Prisoners are Checking Conditions wish within the prison and prepared for their release inspect any records or paper- people who work back into the community and work. They may, for example, effectively helped to reduce What does a prison inspection entail? check the recording of use of there, those who the likelihood of reoff ending. force or check through prison- are imprisoned or on the assumption that they Prisons are inspected at least ers’ complaint forms. Each inspection report car- will ‘side with the prison’. The once every fi ve years, although Inspectors undertake in-depth detained there, ried a full explanation of what row Nick Hardwick had with they inspect many establish- analysis of the four ‘healthy and visitors or was found under these head- Paul Sullivan Chris Grayling, refusing to ments every two to three prison’ areas: safety, respect, ings, and outcomes for pris- alter inspection reports to years. Some high-risk estab- purposeful activity and reset- others with an oners are graded as: Good, make them less damning, and lishments may be inspected tlement, as well as following Reasonably good, Not suffi- There is some confusion as to interest in the the recent hard-hitting more frequently, such as up recommendations from ciently good, or Poor. who Her Majesty’s Inspectorate reports from the new Chief those holding children and previous inspections. Prison establishment. of Prisons are and what they Inspector, Peter Clarke, young people. The Inspectorate inspections normally span Each report carries recom- do during an inspection. should dispel many doubts - also collect intelligence, two weeks, with two days of When an inspection is mendations from inspectors There is an underlying mis- but what do the inspectors including letters from prison- preparation and research dur- planned, a team of inspectors on how to improve outcomes trust, by many prisoners, of actually do when they visit a ers, which help to inform ing the first week. The with expertise in different and the current Chief people who inspect prisons prison? them if an inspection should Inspectorate collects informa- areas visit the prison. 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This list is not legal requirement that the edge of criminal matters both in Criminal Defence will help you with all exhaustive and it is not limit- prisoner attend and answer in and out of custody. aspects of Prison Law including: ed to the offences below. the questions of the police. Aggravated features and spe- However, should a prisoner Should you require any assis- Licence recall • Adjudications cific circumstances of each not attend an interview, in tance, please contact our Prison Law department at Parole hearings • IPP queries case can enable an offence to certain circumstances, there become serious: can be consequences. Hine Solicitors on: 01865 Judicial review • Sentence planning issues 518971 or FREEPOST - RTHU • Robbery; A voluntary interview in cus- - LEKE - HAZR Hine Solicitors, • Involving the use or threat tody is just like an interview Seymour House, 285 Banbury Call us on 01865 518971 of serious violence or a weapon; at a police station. 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Advertorial Immunity applications in the case R v H & C Early warnings should be made to the prosecu- [2004] 2 AC 134 (the authors represented ‘H’). tion that failure to properly deal with the digital material will mean a fair trial is impossible as no Abuse of Process However, it is a sad fact that today prosecutors one can be sure that the disclosure process has are still not getting disclosure right. With the been full and complete. When will a Judge throw a case out of Court because of pressure on the prosecution not to give the defence the ‘warehouse keys’ there has been an Conclusion the behaviour of the Prosecution? over analysis of Defence Statements and a will- Abuse of process applications should not be ingness to conclude that no further disclosure is made lightly. However, they can arise in any Cambridgeshire Justices [2014] EWHC 321 necessary, or, as in some recent rape cases, a number of situations. What is required in any (Admin). simple failure by the police to recognise certain abuse application is material upon which such Jonathan Lennon telecoms material as very clearly and obviously an application can be properly supported. This and Aziz Rahman Two categories of abuse undermining the complainant’s account yet still usually means early and focussed pressure by In considering the development of the case law not being disclosed even to the prosecutor; much the defence on the prosecution to get disclosure it is clear that the higher Courts will sometimes less the defendant. right. The lawyers have to think long-term and There are many reasons why a Judge might con- use the abuse of process jurisdiction to effective- lay the ground for possible later battles. In other clude that it would not be proper for the Courts ly ‘punish’ the police or prosecution for errors or Digital material words, if there is any hint of an abuse of process to be used to prosecute a defendant. For example, faults. This ‘serious fault’ limb of the abuse of Today, where virtually every case involves the application then it must be kept at the forefront delay in bringing proceedings, manipulation of process jurisdiction highlights the way abuse seizure of some kind of digital material, we find of the defenders’ minds from the very outset. Of the Court’s procedures, entrapment by police applications fall into two broad categories; that in some cases the prosecution struggle to course, the Courts are very much alive to tactics officers, loss of evidence and so on. These are all Category 1 cases, where the defendant cannot undertake their disclosure duties properly; espe- and manoeuvrings, by both sides, and will not aspects of defence applications to ‘stay’ indict- receive a fair trial, and Category 2 cases, where cially in the reviewing of what may be dozens of be slow in reminding the parties that criminal ments based on the doctrine of ‘abuse of process.’ it would be unfair for the defendant to be tried: computers and tens of thousands of emails. If the litigation is not a game. That is right, lives are at The prosecution, facing an abuse of process see R v Beckford (1996) 1 Cr App R 94, 101. Thus, prosecution’s disclosure obligations are not dis- stake and the Courts have demonstrated a will- application, will always argue that the Judge can if evidence that should have been seized by the charged properly then the trial process will not ingness in appropriate cases to press the nuclear ensure fairness by, for example, excluding any police but now cannot be obtained, but would be fair. For that reason, much scrutiny over the button and stop a prosecution in its tracks. evidence which is causing dispute, or by warning have been helpful to the defence, then that is a years has gone into how best to deal with the the jury that the defendant has been unable to ‘Category 1’ situation and the Judge could, excep- process of examining and disclosing masses of Jonathan Lennon is a Barrister specialising in serious call certain evidence because it has been tionally, stay the trial on the basis that the digital material overwhelmed with thousands of and complex criminal defence cases at Carmelite destroyed; in other words anything except throw defendant could not get a fair trial. man hours of reviewing work. This short article Chambers, London. He has extensive experience in all the case out before it even starts. cannot do justice to the detail of how the prose- aspects of financial and serious crime and the If, however, the police had the material but mali- cution should properly review seized digital Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He is ranked by Chambers & Ptnrs and is recognised in both the spe- ciously destroyed it, then that would be a material but the starting point is the Practice Leading case cialist POCA and Financial Crime sections; ‘he is phe- ‘Category 2’ case and even though the defendant Direction 15A to the Criminal Justice Rules 2015; One of the leading cases in this area is R nomenal and his work rate is astonishing’; ‘one of the could get a fair trial it would be unfair to try him; (Ebrahim) v Feltham Magistrates’ Court; Mouat which makes it clear that the Attorney General’s best juniors in financial crime’. v DPP [2001] 2 Cr. App. R, 23, DC. The High Court inasmuch as it would offend our sense of justice Guidelines on Disclosure must be adhered to. considered the situation where the two defend- and bring the administration of the criminal jus- This sets out a process of ‘search terms’ being Aziz Rahman is a Solicitor-Advocate and Partner at ants, in two separate cases, had both asserted tice system into disrepute to do so, see e.g. R v applied so that key words may be used for a dig- the leading Criminal Defence firm Rahman Ravelli that video evidence would have assisted their Mullen [1999] 1 AC 42, HL. ital sifting of seized digital material; the defence Solicitors, specialising in Human Rights, Financial defences but the video material was no longer then can, and should, take part in this process Crime and Large Scale Conspiracies/Serious crime. available. In Mr. Mouat’s case he was videoed by R v Grant [2005] 2 Cr. App. R 28 is a Category 2 with their own suggested search terms. That Rahman Ravelli has been ranked by Legal 500 as an an unmarked police car exceeding the speed case. The police eavesdropped on the communi- often does not happen. It is the authors’ experi- ‘exceptional’ firm with Aziz Rahman being described limit. His defence was that he was trying to get cations of a suspect and his solicitor. The Court ence that very often the processes set down by as ‘top class’’. The firm is also ranked in Chambers & away from a driver who was driving dangerous- held that unlawful acts of such a kind, amount- the Attorney General are simply not followed. Partners. Rahman Ravelli is a Top Tier and Band 1 firm. ly close behind him and he had no idea it was a ing to a deliberate violation of a suspect’s right police car; i.e. duress of circumstances. Once he to legal privilege, were such an affront to the stopped, he was shown the video by the officers integrity of the justice system that the prosecu- and had the choice to accept a penalty or go to tion was rendered abusive. However, though trial; he elected trial. By the time of the trial the eavesdropping on privileged conversations will A leading firm tapes in the police car had been re-used. The clearly put any prosecution in jeopardy, the Privy High Court quashed Mr. Mouat’s conviction. Council were faced with a case where they felt offering the However Mr Ebrahim was not so fortunate. forced to move away from the Grant case; Curtis Ebrahim’s case concerned un-seized CCTV mate- Warren v Att. General for Jersey [2011] 2 ALL ER strongest legal rial. On the facts of that case the Court found that 513, PC. In that case the police had placed an representation the defendant had had a fair trial even though audio probe in the defendant’s hire car which the CCTV material was missing. The Court of would be driven through a number of overseas to those being Appeal said that when considering an abuse European countries. The police knew that per- application on this basis, a Judge must consider mission from those countries had been refused investigated what the duty was to preserve any video materi- for the use of such devices but went ahead any- al. If the Court finds that there is no such duty for way. The consequent abuse of process applica- or prosecuted the material in question to be seized or preserved tion failed, a decision upheld on appeal. Much then there can be no stay of the prosecution. If, turned on the facts of the case but the Council in serious and alternatively, there is such a duty, and it has been found that the Court of Appeal was wrong to say breached, then the Court can only consider stay- that deliberate invasion of a suspect’s right to complex crime cases. ing the indictment as an exceptional measure as legal professional privilege should generally lead the trial process itself can remedy the problem; to a stay; it may do - but Category 2 cases were e.g. by the Judge warning the jury about missing always a balancing exercise. evidence, or by him/her excluding certain other evidence etc. If, however, the police or the pros- The use of undercover officers in covert opera- ecution appear to have acted with ‘bad faith or tions often leads to accusations of abuse of pro- cess on the basis that the officers have entrapped at the very least some serious fault’, then a stay • Specialists in defending cases • Expertise in arguing admissibility of may be more readily granted. or encouraged an offence to take place. This aspect of abuse deserves a whole article to itself involving large-scale police operations. evidence, abuse of process, disclosure and public interest immunity. The Ebrahim & Mouat case was followed in R v but, in very short order, the Judge has to look to • Experienced defenders in Regulation Boyd [2004] RTR 2, CA. That was a causing death see if the undercover officers have ‘overstepped of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) • Our reputation ensures the very best the mark’; R v Loosely; Att. General’s Ref (No 3 of by careless driving whilst unfit through drugs cases involving informants, undercover experts represent our clients. case. Blood was taken from the suspect for test- 2000) [2001] 1 WLR 2060, HL; see now R v Jones police, surveillance and interception of ing but was not properly refrigerated and it was [2010] 2 Cr.App. R 10 in the context of selling communications. • We have helped shape the law. thereafter impossible for the defence to carry out equipment that could be used to cultivate canna- their own expert analysis. The Court of Appeal bis to an undercover officer. found that the concern could not merely be Roma House, 59 Pellon 36 Whitefriars 3 Brindley Place, addressed by excluding the evidence but had to Disclosure Lane, Halifax, West Street, London, Birmingham, West be met by a stay of the indictment. 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You don’t need to worry if you “Appealing a conviction or sent a Form NG to the Crown sentence to the Court of Appeal Disclosure and the CCRC Court where you were convict- – help for applicants”. Appeals ed before 1st October; if you about Magistrates’ Court con- A reader wrote to us via Inside on disclosure failings, particu- application, make sure you put did it will be dealt with in the victions have not changed and Time to ask whether the CCRC larly in rape cases, the CCRC it in your application form. old way. in those cases you still need to (Criminal Cases Review announced in July that we start your appeal through the Commission) has the power to would be doing a disclosure If you have a current applica- Another important change in Magistrate’s Court where you obtain ‘any information that review in rape cases we have tion with the CCRC, send the the appeals process is that were convicted. the prosecution withheld already considered during information to us in a letter. there are now three different “warts and all” (i.e. in the 2016, 2017 and 2018. We will forms for appealing – one for What about the CCRC? MG6D). The MG6D is the po- be looking again at some 306 Important changes at the appeals against conviction, If you are wondering whether lice’s schedule of undisclosed rape convictions where we Appeals Court of Appeal another for appeals against to appeal to the Court of sensitive material. The answer looked at the case and decided Anyone thinking of appealing sentence and another for ap- Appeal, or to apply to the is “yes”, the CCRC’s legal not to refer it for appeal. We to the Court of Appeal needs peals against confiscation CCRC, you must remember that The Criminal Cases Review power to obtain information are in the middle of doing that to be aware that there have orders. The Criminal Appeal you need to have tried to ap- Commission (CCRC) is the for our case reviews means work now. been some important changes Office has produced some peal and been turned down by publicly funded body that we can get any material to the way you lodge appeals straightforward new guidance the Court of Appeal before you responsible for investigat- in the hands of the police, the For current CCRC applicants, against convictions and sen- in a leaflet which is all about apply to the CCRC about your ing alleged miscarriages CPS and any other public- and for any future potential tences from the Crown Court. the new rules on appeals in case. This is because we were of justice in England and ly-funded organisation. This applicants, our advice on dis- It used to be that you started relation to Crown Court cases. created back in 1997 to look Wales. They are the only includes any information that closure is this: The CCRC rou- the appeal process by you or You may be able to get the new again at cases where someone body with the power to the police or CPS chose, for tinely considers the question your brief sending a form, types of Form NG and the guid- has already tried to appeal and send a case back to the whatever reason(s), not to dis- of disclosure in the cases it courts for a second appeal. called the Form NG, to the ance you need from a prison close at the time of trial or reviews. But if you think that failed, but still say they were Court where you were appeal or since. in your case there is good rea- officer or from your legal rep- wrongly convicted or incor- In this regular column convicted. resentatives. The forms and rectly sentenced. they answer questions son to think that something guidance are also available about what they do and Disclosure issues have been in which could have helped your The rules have changed and online from 1st October 2018 If you have not appealed in the more widely about the news a lot in recent months. case, or undermined the pros- now, from 1st October 2018, on the GOV.UK website or usual way through the courts miscarriages of justice. The CCRC has always been ecution, was not disclosed to you, or whoever is helping you alert to the potential impact you or your lawyer at the time Criminal Procedure Rules web- we will usually write to you to with your appeal, need to send The CCRC apologises that non-disclosure can have of the trial, or the appeal, you page: www.justice.gov.uk/ explain that you need to go your signed Form NG direct to but is unable to answer on the safety of a conviction. should bring it to our courts/procedure-rules/crim- back and try to appeal in the questions relating to In fact, we estimate that in the attention. the Criminal Appeal Office at inal/forms by clicking on the normal way. We do accept a individual cases. last ten years, around one in the Royal Courts of Justice in bullet point “Appeal”. very few cases where people five CCRC referrals where con- Tell us why you think there is London (this is the office that apply to us before they have Send your Appeal victions were quashed were something that should have deals with applications to ap- Web links are not much use to tried to appeal, however we Queries to: ‘CCRC Q&A’ based on grounds of been disclosed, and wasn’t, peal at the Court of Appeal.) people in prison, so you can can only do this in rare cases Inside Time, Botley Mills, non-disclosure. and if possible tell us what you The change to the rules is de- also get a paper copy of the where there are very special Botley, Southampton, signed to make it quicker to leaflet by calling 020 7947 reasons (called “exceptional Hampshire SO30 2GB. think it may have been. In light of all the recent news If you are making a new appeal. 6011. 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K HMP Whatton to your Offender Manager, quoting JG HMP Risley A You require a copy of the audio the relevant PSI and ask that the sit- recording from your Court hearing as I got a nicking and was then moved Q I would like to transfer to another uation be re-considered. you feel it will assist with regards to Q to another prison. I wanted the re- probation area whilst still serving your appeal. my custodial sentence. I have been Response by Hine Solicitors porting officer to attend but this hasn’t happened yet. It has been six weeks told that this cannot be done until Recordings and transcripts of pro- since this started, how long has an I have 3 months left on my sentence Q I was involved in an accident be- ceedings before the Crown Court is officer got to attend an adjudication therefore wish to know whether this fore I came to prison. Can I still pur- dealt with in paragraph 5.5 of the and how long can this go on for? is true? sue a claim and how do I go about it? Criminal Procedure Rules. A PSI 47/2011 provides guidance on A The issue of transfers is dealt with A Yes, provided your accident oc- Paragraph 5.5(3) confirms that where the adjudication process. It confirms within PSI 07/2014. Paragraph 2.1 curred within the last three years you a party wishes to hear a recording of at paragraph 2.16 that it is for the deals with pre-release transfers. may still be able to make a claim. You proceedings they must do the adjudicator to decide how long a case There are three situations in which should contact a solicitor who spe- following: should be adjourned for. It confirms you can request a pre-release transfer: Prison Law & cialises in Personal Injury and they • Apply in writing to the Registrar, if that there is no fixed limit but that if will take all the relevant information an appeal notice has been served to • The area to which you wish to trans- a case remains unresolved after six Compensation from you and provide you with advice the Court of Appeal or fer is one where you have close family, weeks, consideration should be given regarding pursuing a claim. It is im- • Orally or in writing to the Crown Answers are kindly provided by: an established partner, a positive as to whether natural justice is being portant that you contact a solicitor as Court officer. Hine Solicitors social network, residential ties or compromised. soon as possible, do not leave it until Stevens Solicitors verified offers of employment; the last minute as the longer you leave When doing so, the reasons for the As such, this means the adjudicator Jordans Solicitors request must be explained and a pre- can adjourn the hearing but must MKS Law Solicitors • The transfer to the new area would it, the more difficult it becomes to make a claim as records and important scribed fee must be paid. Should the consider whether it is fair to do so. Pickup & Scott Solicitors increase the effectiveness of the man- In this instance I would advise that evidence may go missing and it may Crown Court or the Registrar direct, Michael Jefferies Injury Lawyers agement of risk; when you attend the adjudication, if not be possible to obtain all of the the Crown Court officer must allow the party to hear a recording of that it is before the Governor, you make Answers to readers’ legal queries • The Offender Manager, taking into relevant evidence before the three year hearing if it was made in public. If representations quoting the above are given on a strictly without account information from MAPPA, time limit expires. If your accident the hearing was in private, the appli- PSI that it has now been several weeks liability basis. If you propose acting feels that the new location will sup- occurred more than three years ago, cant must be allowed to hear the re- since the offence and it is not fair to upon any of the opinions that appear, port the Risk Management plan and it is unlikely that a solicitor would be cording if they were present at that continue to adjourn for the reporting you must first take legal advice. agrees with the proposal. able to help. hearing. officer to attend. If it is before the Independent Adjudicator you are Send your Prison Law Query (concise Such transfers are dependent on the Response by Michael Jefferies Injury I would suggest that you contact the entitled to have legal representation and clearly marked ‘Prison Law receiving National Probation Service Lawyers Crown Court directly, in writing, mak- and as such it would be advisable to Query’) to: David Wells, Solicitor division verifying the proposals for ing a request to listen to the recording instruct a solicitor who can attend c/o Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, management in the new area. SL HMP Woodhill of the hearing. With regards to pay- and put forward representations on Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. ment for this, I do not believe that your behalf. The PSI goes as far as to say that such Q I want to get an audio copy of my funding is available. 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46 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2018 Book Review Yoga for Worrying Strangeways: The Prison Phoenix Trust A Prison Officer’s Story It is easy to let worrying take up your time and make you unhappy. There are so many things to worry about in life; from small things like not having the money by Neil Samworth to buy things you want or worrying about upsetting someone, to much bigger Review by: Noel Smith problems like a sentencing decision. What a lot of worrying situations have in common is that they’re very difficult (or perhaps impossible) to change. However, we can always change our attitude to what happens to us and Yoga helps to do that. There was a time when you the forefront of punishing and rehabilitating couldn’t find a book about prison lawbreakers behave like thugs and hooligans? Through this routine, keep your breathing calm, deep and slow. If you can, written by a prison officer. How I calm your breathing too, your mind will soon follow after. Pay attention to long for those days. Neil Samworth’s book is pretty standard for every breath. Enjoy the time you spend in these positions. the genre. Not badly written and quite inter- In the past decade there have been several esting in parts, it nevertheless sticks to the Child Rest like this for ten breaths. books written by ex-prison officers and they tried and tested formula for such books. Sam- are all much of a muchness. The only positive worth worked as a prison officer for 11-years at Sunburst 1 thing that I see about these books is that they both HMP Forest Bank and then at HMP Man- Breathe in reinforce what prisoners have been trying to chester (Strangeways). If I tell you that he was tell the public at large for decades about the a big, tough rugby player who liked a punch-up behaviour of some prison staff. They casually and that his first nickname on entering the detail the absolutely disgraceful attitudes and, Prison Service was ‘Bully’ (given to him by in some cases, actual lawbreaking of the fellow staff) you might get a flavour of what Bridge 1 prison authorities. From punching prisoners this guy is all about. Breathe in. up in the air; ‘accidentally’ having their boots make contact with prisoners’ heads or other His description of beatings (given to prison- vulnerable parts; ignoring cell-bells; stealing ers), Control & Restraint, assaults and kick-offs prisoners’ rations from the hot-plate; defraud- on the job become almost mundane as they ing the service by pretending to be off sick; happen on nearly every page. He gets pretty Sunburst 2 drinking on the job; deliberately winding up reflective when talking about prisoner sui- Breathe out. Flow Bridge 2 prisoners for their own amusement etc, etc. cides, and you start to think that he may be with the breath Breathe out. Flow up and down 3 times. The just a big softy after all, but then you remember 10 times. third time you go up, stay up and hold for 5 His description of beatings that he had his own personal method of judg- slow breaths. ing the suicidal and self-harmers and treated (given to prisoners), Control & them accordingly. Restraint, assaults and kick- This would be a good book for the public to offs on the job become almost read; to see where their millions of pounds in mundane as they happen on tax money is being wasted on creating bitter nearly every page. and twisted recidivists instead of trying to actually rehabilitate anyone. If you’ve been in Legs up the wall prison you don’t need to read it - you’ve already Warrior 2 20 breaths - or as According to these books this is the accepted suffered it. 5 breaths each side. long as you like. ‘culture’ amongst those who work in prisons and who are supposed to, at the very least, be held up as examples of what prisoners should Strangeways: A Prison Officer’s Story aspire to. Is it any wonder that reconviction by Neil Samworth Published by Sidgewick & Jackson ISBN: 978-1509883547 RRP £8.99 rates are so high in this country when those at THE BIG GEMA RECORDS CHRISTMAS SALE! SALE! CHRISTMAS RECORDS GEMA BIG THE

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THE BIG GEMA RECORDSCHRISTMAS SALE! wanders away. Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Fitness 47 My Golden Handshake... Last month we asked which well-known person is your inspiration? Who would receive your ‘Golden Handshake’? Congratulations to the winners below who will all receive a copy of ‘The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela’ or ‘Grandad Mandela’. Kemal Ataturk was sifting through at the end of the first world war. After repelling the Music revolution Athletic prowess British and the French at the battle of Gallipoli, Ataturk was Matt Price - HMP Birmingham Mohammed Ali - HMP Full Sutton given mandate as a war hero to rebuild the much-reduced My well-known person died 41 years ago. He My inspirational hero is Sir Mo Farah. He is Turkish landmass and did so; revolutionized Rock ‘n’ Roll music as we know arguably one of the greatest athletes in the looking firmly westward in it and was nicknamed ‘The King’ Yes, I’m talking history books, along with the likes of the leg- cultural terms. He made the about Elvis Presley. endary Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt. Mo Farah new constitution resolutely won gold wherever he went. The double in the secular, rejecting the funda- Elvis is my inspiration because not only is or London 2012 games; and again he did the double mentalist Islam of the in the Rio 2016 games. Mo Farah’s vast medal was he a fantastic singer, he was very charitable Ottomans, westernized the collection also includes wins in Barcelona 2010, Political fire alphabet and peoples’ dress; and approachable. He had shown a lot of love Helsinki 2012 and Zurich 2014. including making the Fez ille- for not only his family but his friends too: Sean BW Parker a short holiday in Istanbul in gal; and it was the first country In recognition of his achievements and status Autumn 2004 but it turned out after New Zealand to introduce • In 1961 he raised money for a memorial to the as a great British personality, he was knighted to be a 10 year stay. voting for women. An era of USS Arizona which had been bombed some in the UK’s 2017 new year honours list. As a ‘master’ of fine art, there the dictator, with Stalin, twenty years before; are many wonderful figures Not being much of a ‘straight Franco, Mussolini and Hitler • He donated money to charities; Thanks to Mo Farah’s energy and drive, I’m a from the world of creativity I holidaymaker’, I did my re- radicalizing their respective • He’d buy strangers presents for Christmas; keen runner, and I run every week on the tread- considered writing about as search into the city and be- countries, Ataturk indeed • He’d buy his friends houses and cars. mills. I love everything about Mo Farah, includ- my personal inspiration; and came fascinated by the genesis ruled with an iron fist, but with ing the fact he is of Somalian descent … just then remembered that politi- of modern Turkey, not yet even a love for the people of his like me! Mo Farah is a great role model for me I’ve been an avid fan of Elvis ever since I can cal thought and deed can hold 100 years old. 2023 will be its homeland paramount, juxta- - and many British people are proud of his amaz- remember. He was a simple man who grew up its own creative beauty too. centenary, current ‘strong- posed with a grim-faced deter- ing achievements. man’ president Recep Tayyip mination for independence. in a dirt poor area of depression in America and After meeting some good Erdogan holding on for that; Even the photos of him of the made something of himself. He was humble Sir Mo Farah is just such a nice guy and I’m Turkish friends at the end of though the country he presides time present more Hollywood and modest and was loved by all. If I could sure he will make many great contributions to that masters (at the University over so controversially is very than Rhineland. From a time aspire to be anyone, it would be him. I love society. I would love nothing more than to give of Creative Arts in Surrey), I different from the ashes of the when cultural influence meant Elvis and all he stood and still stands for. LOVE Sir Mo Farah a handshake, and get his auto- took what I thought was to be Ottoman Empire that Mustafa a lot more than pure greed. TO ELVIS! graph and share a photo.

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A former prisoner 3am then try to kip, and I prison I had never once shed couldn’t break the habit. So a tear, not even in some scary I’m listening to my regular diet situations in Dartmoor. In fact The person I’d most like to of Soul, Pink Floyd etc … in although I got emotional at What next? shake hands with is the com- fact I enjoyed most kinds of times, eventually I realised poser Sergei Rachmaninoff. music. I had just started scroll- that I couldn’t cry even if I’d Why? Well, I was released ing through the various radio wanted to. Suddenly, through from prison many years ago stations when a presenter’s this amazing piece of music I to hostel-type accommodation voice said something along the was weeping like I’d never where for 8 months I lived in lines of … “In my view, the believed possible ... sobbing The CCRC can look again a shabby little room with a most beautiful piece of music away as if something had been If you think your conviction or sentence is wrong small TV I hardly ever watched ever written”. I paused and trapped inside for years and apply to the CCRC and a radio that had accom- decided to give it a try, and as was now being released from • It won’t cost anything panied me throughout my the music played I had to agree within. • Your sentence can’t be increased if you apply previous 7 year sentence. In with the guy - it really was so • You don't need a lawyer to apply, but a good one total I’d served 15 years and at beautiful; a classical piece, The music was Rachmaninoff’s can help the time was struggling to get which wasn’t my normal taste Piano Concerto no. 2 and the on my feet; as most prisoners in music but a powerful piece reason I’d so like to shake his You can get some more information and a copy of the do with no real skills and in that because of it’s incredible hand is because that night, CCRC's Easy Read application form by writing to us at 5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW. or calling 0121 233 1473 my case no family support. intensity actually reduced me through that wonderful piece to tears. Nothing new there you of music, he gave me back My routine ‘inside’ was to lis- Prisoners in Scotland should contact; The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, 5th Floor, might say? Not so … because what I thought I’d lost … my Portland House, 17 Renfi eld Street, Glasgow, G2 5AH. Phone: 0141 270 7030 Email: [email protected] ten to the radio until around throughout my 15 years in humanity. 48 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2018 Supervision works! New National Prison A review, authored by Andrew Smith, Chris Fox and col- Radio schedule explained leagues from Manchester Metropolitan University, sought lyrics so you can practice Friday are still at the heart of to address the question: What is the effect of probation your own bars in your cell. the schedule. supervision on recidivism? NPR Urban was found to be National Prison Radio is the off enders and off ender man- If you saw the August issue of one of our most popular world’s first national radio agers were less signifi cant in Inside Time you’ll know we shows, so we’ve extended station for people in prison. It reducing off ending compared ran our annual National that to two hours, while a started broadcasting in 2009, with other aspects of case Prison Radio listener survey brand new two-hour dance and has been providing cru- management such as eff ective in which we asked you, our music show for Friday nights, cial information, inspiration absence monitoring. As well valued listeners, what you Decibel, comes at you every and entertainment for people as closely monitoring missed think of the radio station. week. behind bars 24 hours a day, 7 appointments, particularly in days a week since then. the early stages of an order We’ve taken the results of A key addition to our sched- when the propensity to off end your feedback and we’re ule is We Are Straightline, Programmes are presented is increased, the authors sug- proud to present to you the all- presented by Hilary Ineo- and produced by people in gest that “fewer, longer meet- new National Prison Radio mo-Marcus and Brenda prison, working alongside Birungi. This is a show all professional radio producers ings between offenders and schedule. It’s featured on the about getting out of prison from charity the Prison Radio Offender Managers, moni- back page of this newspaper. and staying out of prison. Association, who run the ser- tored for quality” could We’re bringing you more new Each week we’ll have fea- vice. It’s available on in-cell Changing lives champions improve practice outcomes.

© HMPPS music, with our brand new tures, guests and advice on TV in establishments across strand called NPR Fresh. On everything from opening a the country. So-called ‘intensive commu- Wednesday evenings there’s a bank account to cooking. Peo- nity supervision’ programmes Inside Time Report Practitioner two-hour show packed full of ple who listen every week will National Prison Radio’s new were developed as alterna- features, including Fresh off then be fully prepared for life schedule goes live on Monday characteristics tives to custody and typically the Press and Record of the after jail. 1st October. Let us know what The REA (Rapid Evidence including warmth, focus on off ender monitoring Week. Another new show is you think: write to National Assessment) analysed 13 and surveillance. A 2006 entitled Free Flow, where we’ll Favourite shows like Ear Hus- Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, studies, all of which employed empathy, likeabili- meta-analysis concluded that be playing beats without tle, Hot 20, Porridge and NPR London SW2 5XF robust research designs, orig- ty and respect are this approach to offender inating in the USA, UK, management has not pro- Canada and Australia, pub- fundamental in the duced statistically signifi cant lished between 2006 and formation of reductions in recidivism George the Poet to start regular 2016. relationships. rates, except where the focus was on treatment provision, show on National Prison Radio The REA starts with the tricky suggesting that the treat- task of defi ning what proba- They discuss a range of com- ment, not the surveillance, In the first episode, George will be talking tion supervision is and notes ponents in probation supervi- was the eff ective element. about Ross Kemp, who has said he wants to that even approaches within sion found to be related to make a series of shows in prisons. He’ll also the UK vary. In the UK, super- reducing reoffending: rela- Conclusions be discussing his Word of the Week, in which vision varies across jurisdic- tionship factors; skill factors; The authors are careful to this episode will be Expectations. The show tions. In Scotland the eff ective reinforcement; eff ec- note the limitations of their will also be full of poetry. This edition will devolved administration has tive disapproval; problem study; noting in particular feature words written by Sally, currently serv- maintained a stronger focus solving; structured learning; the wide range of studies cov- ing a sentence in HMP New Hall, and he’ll also on the social work dimension and eff ective modelling. The ered by the REA which exam- be sharing one of his own poems with us each of community measures and skills of probation officers ined very diff erent models of George the Poet, whose words and music have week. The first is entitled ‘Baby Father’. sanctions with policy initia- and their willingness to fol- probation supervision. They made him one of the most respected artists in tives focused on reparation low an evidence-based also note that there is surpris- the UK, is to start a regular show on National If you want to make contact with George the and rehabilitation and, to a approach also seem key. ingly little good quality evi- Prison Radio. Starting on Wednesday 10th Poet write to National Prison Radio, HMP Brix- lesser extent, reintegration. dence in this fi eld. October at 6pm, in our brand new NPR Talk ton, London SW2 5XF. In Northern Ireland, commu- Practitioner characteristics slot, George the Poet will begin his fortnightly nity measures and sanctions including warmth, empathy, Tune in to George the Poet on NPR at 6pm on However, their main (albeit residency on NPR with a special programme have been shaped by the likeability and respect are Wednesday 10th October, repeated at midday somewhat tentative) conclu- co-presented by Peter, one of the NPR present- political context although in fundamental in the formation on Sundays. The show will be on every two sions are: ing team. Each show will be co-presented by recent years a period of ‘nor- of relationships, as are those a different NPR presenter. weeks. malization’ of the criminal common to social work prac- justice system has seen the tice which encourage a more • The likelihood of reoff end- role of supervision changing. in-depth connection. ing is lower for off enders who In England and Wales the have been exposed to some TurningPages URCELL PARKE probation system has just Interesting fi ndings type of supervision; P R undergone its biggest upheav- Anyone interested in proba- Solicitors al since its foundation in 1907 tion will fi nd plenty of food • Cognitive and behavioural Prisoners who can read BIRMINGHAM’S TOP and now operates in two for thought in the REA, skills work is likely to be PRISON LAWYERS e ff e c t i v e; teach prisoners who can’t parts; the National Probation including some points of Licence Recalls Service supervising high risk interest below. 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Inside Knowledge // All the answers are within this issue of Inside Time - all you have to do is find them! How to enter: Send your entry on a separate sheet The first three names to be drawn with all-correct answers (or nearest) will 10. Who said to her father, ‘I’m going to write to the Queen’? of paper. Make sure your receive a £25 cash prize. There will also be two £5 runner up prizes. The 11. Who in 2006 accidentally created ‘Spice’ when he was looking for a new way winners’ names will appear in next month’s issue. of developing anti-inflammatory medication? NAME, NUMBER & 12. At which theatre venue did the packed audience all stand up and applaud for PRISON is on all sheets. 1. Who had a row with Chris Grayling after refusing to alter his prison inspection several minutes at the end of the production? Failure to do so will reports to make them less damning? 13. Who operates a five-day residential course that takes young men from prison? 2. Which prison ‘does not tolerate any form of violence whatsoever’? 14. In what year did Cecil Chubb donate Stonehenge to the nation; having invalidate your entry. We 3. A general Power of Attorney is ended at any point that you lose what? purchased it 3 years earlier for £6,600? will be using the new 4. Everyone who attended a recent prison event was impressed by whose talk? 15. Who thanks the Prison Service for forcing him to do literacy and numeracy 5. Who went from ‘Borstal black boy in Birmingham’ to become a respected levels 10 years ago? ‘Money Transfer Service’ world-wide performer and political activist? for prize money so include 6. Which organisation’s sole ambition is to bring prisoners ‘through the darkness Answers to Last Month’s Inside Knowledge Prize Quiz 1. Reece Johnson, 2. 62, 3. Noel your DOB on your entries. and back into the light’? Smith, 4. Jenny Greengrass, 5. National Prison Radio, 6. Additional Days, 7. Lee Wakeman, 7. Which prison was an ‘execution’ jail between 1847 and 1961, with a total of 93 8. John Patrick Hannan, 9. Billy Moore, 10. HMP Wakefield, 11. Rachel Billington, 12. Russ Post to: ‘jailbreak’. Inside Trent, 13. Dr John Davies, 14. The Tax Academy, 15. Erwin James people executed? Time, Botley Mills, Botley, 8. Who wondered if the chickens were particularly dangerous or likely to attempt The three £25 Prize winners are: The £5 runner up prizes go to: Southampton, Hampshire a daring escape? Courtney Briant HMP Newhall Gary Boyd HMP Preston 9. At which prison did almost three-quarters of young adults say they had felt Mark Ellson HMP Lowdham Grange Jonathan Wolfe HMP Whatton SO30 2GB. unsafe there at some point? Leigh Cook HMP Bronzefield

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Was maths invented or Anagram Square Cryptic Crossword Do you know? discovered? The fact that 1 plus 1 equals 2, or that there’s an infinite Rearrange the letters in each row to form a word. Write your number of primes, are truths answers into the blank grid. about reality that held even The first letter from each word, before mathematicians knew reading down, will spell the about them. As such, they’re mystery keyword. discoveries - but they were made using techniques 1 HMAOC invented by mathematicians. For example, according to 2 ZAUER Pythagoras’ theorem, the © Deposit Photos square of the hypotenuse of a 3 VGLEA Why are there so many daddy long legs right-angled triangle is equal around and are they actually poisonous? to the sum of the squares of 4 YVIRO This is simply the time of year that daddy long the other two sides. This is legs emerge in the adult phase of their lives, true for all right-angled 5 HCNCI having previously been larvae, known colloqui- triangles on a level surface, so ally as ‘leather jackets.’ Adult daddy long legs it’s a discovery. Showing it is only live for between five to 15 days, during true, however, requires the 1 which time they need to find a mate and the invention of a proof. And over the centuries, mathematicians females lay eggs. They are attracted to light, 2 which is why you will often see them in your have devised hundreds of different techniques capable home, after their eggs are laid in moist or wet 3 soil and grass. There is a myth that daddy long of proving the theorem. In short, maths is both invented legs are venomous but are incapable of biting 4 anything - this is not true. The part of the myth and discovered. BBC Focus about being unable to bite anything is true 5 though. Daddy long legs actually go their Why don’t flies fly whole adult lives without eating anything. in a straight line? To escape from predators, Thanks to Daniel Nicholas, HMP Across Down Peter Boardman, from the Cranefly Reporting Lincoln. If you fancy compiling Scheme, told WalesOnline: ‘The adult Tipula flies have evolved a highly an Anagram Square for us please aerobatic flying style. Instead 1. Switch, or ultimately several switches (8) 1. Rubbish match official getting us paludosa do not feed at all as their mouthparts just send it in 5 x 5 squares, of turning by flapping harder complete with answers shown on 5. Musical pieces - old piano exercises (6) embittered at first (6) are very simple and incapable to eating, they with one wing than the other, a grid. If we use it we will send 10. Gossip - it’s linked with big fibber; 2. Mum has no opinion? (9) can merely dab at fluids. ‘They have enough they roll their body to one you £5 as a thank you! belt up! (15) 3. Girl’s book (7) energy contained within their bodies to see Remember to include your name, side and pull up, like a fighter 11. Incomplete drawing - last in gallery (7) 4. Display a river fish (5) them through for about a week in which time number, prison. We will be using pilot in a high-G turn. 12. Wardrobes possibly cost less when 6. Put two and two together? (4,3) they must mate and the females lay eggs.’ the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ Random zig-zags like this for prize money so include your unfinished (7) 7. Son touches wild bear - it could Cranefly larvae, or leather jackets, are eaten by make it much harder for birds DOB on your entries. 13. I lose blasted newspaper inside easily hurt you (5) a wide range of birds and so it is important not to get a ‘missile lock’ on them. women’s quarters (8) 8. Reserve placed on a team (3,5) to kill daddy longs legs when you find them, as BBC Focus 15. Am fed up being renowned (5) 9. Breeze on a tree (8) their numbers are declining. Metro Fun facts... 18. Dining-room extremely, extremely 14. Least significant part of grid badly untidy (5) set (8) Why are lame horses shot • The first London 20. Hide from foolish person’s family (8) 16. Doctors in Milan with newspaper- rather than treated? Underground trains were Around 150 horses are 23. Cheese on toast - especially good man injected drug (9) nicknamed ‘sewer trams’. portion (7) 17. I’m professional with person 50% ‘destroyed’, as the racing 25. Twin bed held up by ends of wool unsuitable (8) community calls it, mostly by • The human body grows and tape (7) 19 .Lad turns up with his behaviour lethal injection, at racecourses fastest during its first few 26. One gives points to writers (6,9) initially bad and loutish (7) each year, usually after weeks in the womb. If it were 27. Recurrent stress (6) 21. Scotch in one’s cup, perhaps (7) sustaining badly broken legs. to keep growing at the same 28. Envy novel, e.g. B. Rudge (8) 22. Look around very fast (6) The reason is that horses rate for 50 years, it would be 24. Before new year, manage to be sustaining serious fractures bigger than Mount Everest. can’t be treated effectively by

thin (5) © Deposit Photos 25. Long for Conservative party (5) techniques used on humans, • The Inca measurement of such as pinning and splinting. Tears of a clown time was based on how long That’s because horses can’t They were once the staple of a good children’s it took to boil a potato. Amazing Maze endure long weeks of party but it seems clowns are going extinct convalescence, and must be because kids prefer Disney characters instead. • The names Honda and According to representative body Clowns If you fancy compiling a maze for us please just send it in. If we use it we will send you able to stand on all four legs Toyota derive from Japanese £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number, prison. We will be using the within a day of treatment. International, clowns are a dying breed - with words for different kinds of new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. Unless the repair is relatively only 100 left in the whole of the UK. The rice field. minor, it would be weeks organisation believes their sad demise has • In 2012, five babies in the before it could support the been influenced by an increasing appetite for UK were named Sherlock. horse’s weight, which averages Disney characters at birthday parties. Mattie Faint, from Clowns International, told The Daily around 500kg. “They don’t • There are as many bacteria Telegraph: ‘There aren’t so many clowns tolerate slings well, and they in two servings of yoghurt as around these days. I think most clowns are can’t go round on three legs there are people on Earth. like a dog,” says Henry children’s party clowns, rather than, say, being Tremaine of the British Equine part of a circus, but now children want Disney • The soil in your back gar- Veterinary Association, who is characters or pirates so the times have den is 2 million years old. an expert in equine surgery at changed. ‘At one point the only person you There are enough empty the University of Bristol. BBC ever saw at a child’s party was a clown - now it • Science can really be whatever they like.’ Metro homes in China for everyone in the UK to have one each. Why does laundry smell better if it’s been hung up outside? • Cheese is the most shoplift- Unless you wash clothes on a 90°C cycle, they will still have bacteria trapped in ed food in the UK. their fibres. The warm, damp conditions after the clothes come out of the machine will encourage growth of the bacteria, and the waste compounds they • Nachos were invented by a excrete will create a stale, funky smell. Hung outside, clothes generally dry much man named Nacho. quicker, and the ultraviolet light from the Sun kills bacteria quite effectively. In spring and summer, clothes might also trap pleasant-smelling volatile organic • Guinness isn’t black, it’s compounds released by plants. BBC Focus very dark red. Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 53

Riddle me this The path to success Did I say that? Top facts... 1. I have many keys but few locks. I have space but 7 3 1 8 8 HALLOWEEN no room. You can enter, 1. The word Halloween is an but you cannot come in. 1 2 9 2 2 abbreviated version of the What am I? phrases All Hallows’ Eve or All 3 7 9 7 4 Hallows’ Evening. 2. What occurs once in 2. Halloween comes from an every minute, twice in 1 3 1 2 7 every moment, yet never “You lugubrious leech, you “Have you guys had much ancient pagan festival “Our starting team had an in a thousand years? dopey doppelgänger of Chinese food?” celebrated by Celtic people 9 5 9 9 8 deceit and deviance, you average age of 25. If we Prince William speaking to over 2,000 years ago called lethal liar, you dim-witted take them any younger pupils at a Japanese cultural 3. What sport begins with Samhain (prono: SOW ehn). Start at the bottom left square dictator, you foolish fascist” we’ll be waiting outside centre a ‘T’ and has 4 letters? Mothercare” and move up, down, left or right Professor Michael Eric Dyson 3. Samhain means “summer’s Gareth Southgate jokes until you reach the finish. Add the speaking about President end” and marks the beginning 4. How many calendar about his England football numbers as you go. Can you Trump at Aretha Franklin’s of winter. Samhain is also months have 28 days? side make exactly 55? homegoing service thought to celebrate the beginning of the Celtic year. The GEF BAD CHI “Have you bumped into the Celts believed that Samhain Queen yet? If you suddenly was a time when the dead Using the letters G,E,F,B,A,D,C,H & I fill in the bump into her in the could walk among the living. blank squares. Each letter A-I must appear corridor, don’t panic. only once in each line column and 3x3 grid. I know you will. We all do!” “It seemed vulgar to join the 4. Trick-or-treating began in Prince Harry has revealed he 326 colleagues already areas of the United Kingdom still “panics” when he bumps taking part” and Ireland. People went house “Top QC ditches curvy blond” into the Queen walking Newsreader Huw Edwards -to-house “souling” - asking Headline on news that along the corridors of explaining why he isn’t for small breads called “soul lawyer Marina Wheeler is Buckingham Palace, despite appearing in BBC drama The cakes” in exchange for prayer. divorcing Boris Johnson being her grandson Bodyguard Neil Speed is a former prisoner 5. Jack O’Lanterns are the who came up symbol of Halloween. People Inside Chess 8 with the concept in Ireland and Scotland of GEF BAD CHI by Carl Portman originally used beets or turnips 7 whilst in prison. as lanterns on Halloween.

GEF BAD CHI by It is hard to imagine that this is my 50th col- 6 Neil Speed is umn. This is a landmark that I am fiercely proud 6. According to Irish legend, Jack O’Lanterns are named published by of. My intention at the beginning was to reach 5 Xlibris. £12.35 out to as many prisoners as I could via Inside after a stingy man named Jack who, because he tricked Time and I have done that. The letters I have 4 Catchphrase received over time from the UK and beyond have the devil several times, was always been gratefully received and are often 3 forbidden entrance into both heaven and hell. He was The object is to try to figure out the well-known saying, person, quite astonishing; explaining how chess has af- 2 condemned to wander the place, or thing that each square is meant to represent. fected lives on the inside in a positive way. I have met many of you through my prison visits and Earth, waving his lantern to lead engaged in battle on the chess board with literally 1 people away from their paths. hundreds of people and it has always been fun, happiness PPPPPP productive and a worthwhile pursuit. A B C D E F G H 7. Immigrants from Ireland Y and Scotland brought A EARTH I want to thank the Inside Time Team for sup- This month’s puzzle is rather clever and should Halloween to the United P porting the column and all of the inmates who encourage you to ‘think outside of the box’ as States in the 1800s. Haitian have ever written in support of my column. My the saying goes. I may have used this in the early and African immigrants MORE MORE O book ‘Chess Behind Bars’ was written as a result days but there is a fresh crop of prisoners who brought voodoo beliefs about MORE MORE N of my interaction with you and for some has play chess who might like a go. This is a famous black cats, fire, and witchcraft. Never Old Learn MORE MORE become the chess bible in their cell. I must ex- game from New York 1963 between Larry Evans Never Old Learn MORE A pressly thank the English Chess Federation who and the great Sammy Reshevsky. It was Evans as 8. The owl is a popular MORE MORE I support chess in prisons and have donated equip- White (to play) and he was in a desperate situation. Halloween image. In MORE MORE P ment which I bring into prisons on my visits. The Black threatens checkmate on the next move. Medieval Europe, owls were MORE MORE London Chess Centre has donated magazines You are standing at the jaws of death, how are thought to be witches, and to as prizes, which are always well received (when you going to snatch something from this? hear an owl’s call meant they actually get through!) and I know that pris- someone was about to die. Dear Editor... oners share them with fellow chess lovers on the A Magnetic Pocket Chess Set, donated by the inside, which is great. London Chess Centre is the prize for the first 9. Black and orange are • Why do laboratories test • Cinema builders. Don’t correct entry drawn. typically associated with shampoo in rabbit’s eye’s? We bother installing a front row Many of you are regular writers and I wish I could Halloween. Orange is a all know it stings like hell. Kirk of seats, nobody ever uses give you all a prize for your efforts but of course Write to me with your answer, care of The English symbol of strength and - Dumfries them. Simply start with the I do not have the resources - you just have to Chess Federation at The Watch Oak, Chain Lane, endurance and, along with second row. Sam - Swansea keep hoping you are first out of the hat. Despite Battle, East Sussex TN33 OYD. Please note that brown and gold, stands for • Husbands. Cheer yourself sometimes not winning, people still support the you should always write to me at the ECF not via the harvest and autumn. up by watching your wedding • A friend of mine has just column. It is after all your column, so thank you. InsideTime. Also please include your prison num- Black is typically a symbol of video in reverse. You’ll love informed me that Ken Dodd’s I cannot meet you all, write to you all or give ber and if you can, the date and what month’s death and darkness and acts the bit where you give back dad’s dog’s dead, a fact he chess equipment to you all but I do what I can puzzle you are entering. as a reminder that Halloween the ring, walk back up the seems to find funny. So funny, with what I have. My visits are a really nice way once was a festival that aisle, get into a nice car and in fact that he has been of saying hello in person. The answer to September’s puzzle was: 1…Ng3+! marked the boundaries drive off! George - Preston encouraging me to repeat the 2.fxg3 Nxe2+ just wins. If white blocks on f3 with between life and death. sad news after him. I know he I have been asked how long I will continue my a knight or bishop he loses his queen on d4. He • Vacuum cleaner manufac- has a dog of his own and I voluntary prisons work for. The answer is I do must block with the queen and that is taken with 10. Comedian John Evans turers. Install headphone ports don’t think he would find it so not know. It could be a week, a month or a year the knight. The rest of the game is an easy win. once quipped: “What do you into your products, then only the funny if his own dog passed but I know that together, using a 1500-year-old get if you divide the circum- user will have to put up with away. RIP Ken Dodd’s dad’s game we have all made life better through chess. The winner of August’s puzzle was Tony from ference of a Jack O’Lanterns the noise. Ben - Nottingham dead dog. Bob - Brighton Here’s to the next 50 columns! HMP Stafford. by its diameter? Pumpkin π.” Msytery word: Magic

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In this month... Numbersearch Search Rebecca Deniro HMP Bronzefield 5 October 1918 Death of Roland Garros, pioneering French 0 5 1 1 1 5 5 5 aviator and WWI fighter pilot. He made the 1 6 2 1 3 1 7 2 first non-stop flight across the Mediterranean. He took part in what is considered the first-ever 8 2 9 1 5 3 0 3 air battle in 1914, when he flew his plane into a German Zeppelin airship, destroying it. He was 1 8 5 6 2 4 3 4 captured during WWI, but escaped from a prisoner of war camp in Germany and rejoined 1 3 7 0 9 0 2 5 the French army. His plane was shot down over 8 2 4 4 9 6 9 0 France during WWI. Aged 29. 1 4 3 2 9 0 2 7 5 October 1948 Ashgabat earthquake, Turkmen Soviet Socialist 1 0 7 6 9 0 2 7

Republic (now Turkmenistan). 110,000 people were killed (some sources say 176,000). It was 111555111555, 1276 12766969 45077 6969, 91530 45077, 45077 902791530, 9999 45077,51340 118118 143290 one of the deadliest earthquakes in human 9027, 9999, 51340, 118118, 143290 history. Some have speculated that it was Thanks to Rebecca Deniro HMP Bronzefield for caused by Soviet atomic bomb tests. compiling this Number Search. If you fancy compiling one please send in max 10 x 10 grid complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it 7 October 1928 we will send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to

Ras Tafari was crowned King of Ethiopia. He include your name, number and prison. We will be ruled jointly with Empress Zewditu until her using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. death in April 1930, when he succeeded her as Emperor, taking the name Haile Selassie. Sudoku // Medium - give it a go! 15 October 1918 Adolf Hitler was temporarily blinded by a British mustard gas attack in the Ypres Salient, 7 5 8 9 4 Belgium. He was evacuated to a German military hospital in Pasewalk. He was still being 2 9 8 3 treated there when the war ended on 11th 3 2 7 November and he learned of Germany’s defeat. 7 2 19 October 1818 The Chicasaw Indians signed a treaty ceding all 9 claims to lands north of the southern border of Tennessee to the USA. The Chicasaw were 4 2 allowed to retain a 4-square-mile reservation. 6 7 8 20 October 1968 1 5 6 8 American high-jumper Dick Fosbury won the

Olympic gold medal and set an Olympic record 2 8 1 7 6 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2018. All rights reserved. using his unique ‘Fosbury Flop’ jumping style. Daily Sudoku: Sun 2-Sep-2018 It was quickly adopted by other athletes and Word Morph became the dominant jumping style in the sport.

© MW Released life sentenced prisoner Can you morph one word into another by just 21 October 2008 changing one letter at a time? It isn’t quite as A court in Leeuwarden, Netherlands convicted easy7 as5 you think!3 6 2 8 9 1 4 two boys of stealing virtual goods from another ASN LAW player in the online fantasy role-playing game SOLICITORS 1 2 6 9 hoots4 7 8 3 5 RuneScape. The boys had followed the player Anthony Stokoe • Joel Binns home, hit him, and forced him to log into the Rasheed Nujeerallee 9 8 4 5 1 3 2 6 7 game. They had then transferred virtual goods (an amulet and a mask) to their own account. Independent Prison Law 3 6 9 7 8 5 4 2 1 Expert since 1994 They were sentenced to 160 hours of unpaid 8 7 2 4 9 1 6 5 3 work. The conviction was upheld by the ‘People Before Profit’ Supreme Court of the Netherlands in 2012. Continuing the Fight and Challenge 5 4 1 3 6 2 7 9 8 This was the first time that theft of virtual Despite Legal Aid Cuts south property had been ruled illegal in a court. 6 3 7 8 5 9 1 4 2 No Gimmicks just straight 26 October 1918 advice/representation Just4 1 for5 laughs2 7 6 3 8 9 Cecil Chubb donated Stonehenge to the for Male and Female Prisoners

2 9 8 1 3 4 5 7 6 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2018. All rights reserved. nation, having purchased it on a whim for • Job interviewer: “And where would you see • Adjudications • Lifer/IPP Specialist Daily Sudoku: Sun 2-Sep-2018 medium £6,600 three years earlier. (There is speculation yourself in five years’ time Mr. Jeffries?” Me: that he bought it as a gift for his wife, who • Recall • Parole • Judicial Reviews “Personally I believe my biggest weakness is in didn’t want it. The more likely reason is that he • Mental Health Law Expert listening.” bought it to prevent it from being purchased • Human Rights - European & International http://www.dailysudoku.com/ by someone from overseas.) • Last night I had a dream that I weighed less Fixed Fee advice for than a thousandth of a gram. I was like, 0mg. 28 October 1943 • Categorisation • Cat A Reviews • I was showing my friends the ground floor of The Philadelphia Experiment. A U.S. Navy • Pre-tariff Sift/Hearings my house when one of them said “What’s escort ship, the USS Eldridge, was apparently upstairs?”. I told him that the stairs don’t talk. rendered invisible while work was being Do not Delay Call/Write Now • Why does a duck have feathers? To cover its carried out to hide it from enemy radar. Some Suite 8 Vine House 143 London Road butt quack. claim the ship travelled through time and was Kingston KT2 6NH seen briefly over 200 miles away. The story is • My friend says to me: “What rhymes with widely regarded as a hoax, but has been the 020 8549 4282 silver?” I said “No it doesn’t.” subject of numerous conspiracy theories and a • I swear, when I find the bloke who swallowed Hollywood movie. NATIONWIDE SERVICE © www.ideas4writers.co.uk my phone, I’m going to ring his neck! Insidetime October 2018 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 55 Word search The joke’s on you WordsearchPaul warren HMP Aylesbury // Teaching Would you believe it? P E N C I L J E Y Q I T V W D B O J E R • A monkey is sitting in a tree, smoking a joint, T O D W Z H V M Y E D G H U T E G Z X U when a lizard walks past. The lizard looks up F H L H K G B U S B P C E K H S R O A C and says to the monkey “Hey! what are you U G C I I E W A C B I S R T P K Z G M K doing?” The monkey says “Smoking a joint, come up and join me, my cold-blooded A D R T G S P F H U D R M I A U T R R S friend.” So the lizard climbs up and sits next to L L S E I C T W B R W U O S L A N M D A the monkey and they have another joint. After J Q R B X K Z O F N V J E P T K O Q V C a while the lizard says his mouth is ‘dry’, and G J F O W P E I R X Y B V D E O S W N K that he’s going to get a drink from the river. J U T A D M R J D Y S Z B U R N C Y S E At the riverbank, the lizard is so stoned that he U N C R B Q K A Y P A R C S Y X U L A M ‘When did eyebrows become so important?’ leans too far over and falls in. A Crocodile sees T B S D J C P H Z Q K J S C I E N C E A A comedian’s video rant about his daughter’s this and swims over to the stoned lizard, help- N E G S T X E Y F D B A G H I E F D F T eyebrows has gone viral. When Gary Meikle ing him to the side. He then asks the lizard, E W R V K Y F Z F F L K F D G V H G O H complained about 23-year-old Ainsley’s “What’s the matter with you?!” The lizard D J B F G O T R D C A L C U L A T O R G obsession with having “bangin” brows, he had explains to the crocodile that he was sitting in U H E A G Y O G Y B J D H F G E E G G A no idea so many people would share his pain. Honest thief the tree, smoking a joint with his new monkey T P V S E R T B G D F G O B R O A J D F More than fifteen million views and thousands Everyone steals from friend. He then explained how his mouth got S K E T C H P A D R F D H I E U C F R Y of comments and shares later, he has become supermarkets. Maybe you do dry, and that he was so wasted that, when he T R U L E R G R N D H K B J T G H R A U an unofficial anti-brow ambassador. In the film, it the old fashioned way - an went to get a drink from the river, he fell in! I S P D N Y H X B E N G L I S H E R T H he complains: Gary moans in the clip: “What’s avocado in a pocket. Or the The inquisitive crocodile says he has to check A R T S A N D C R A F T E I D Z R S R D happening ladies? When did eyebrows become new world order way this out. He walks into the jungle and fi nds the tree where the monkey is sitting, fi nishing a the most important part of a woman’s body? - everything put through ArtsArts and and craft, craft, Bag, Biro Bag, pen, BBiroooks, pen,Calculator, Books, Class room, Calculator, Desk, English, Classroom, Exam, History, What women don’t realise is that men don’t joint. He looks up and says “Hey, MONKEY!” Math, Pencil, Rubber, Ruck sack, Ruler, Science, Sketchpad, Student, Teacher, Whiteboard self-checkout as brown Desk, English, Exam, History, Math, Pencil, Rubber, Rucksack, notice them. The only ones we acknowledge The Monkey looks down and says “CHRIST, onions. And we always Ruler, Science, Sketchpad, Student, Teacher, Whiteboard are the very small percentage that look bad. DUDE... how much water did you drink?” assumed people felt pretty About 99% of time we don’t notice them Thanks to Paul warren HMP Aylesbury for compiling this [eyebrows]. Never in the history of man has one okay about it; told themselves • A husband and wife who work for the circus Wordsearch. If you fancy compiling one for us please send in max 20 x man said to another man, ‘mate, check out the it was a way to stick it to big go to an adoption agency looking to adopt a 20 grid complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it we will eyebrows on her’. My daughter drives me mad. child, but the social workers there raise doubts send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number, business, not a sign of general prison. We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize It’s constant. I just agree with her but I am not moral decay. But we were about their suitability. So the couple produce money so include your DOB on your entries. seeing anything different. She’ll post them on wrong, because one individu- photos of their 50-foot motor home, which is Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat. They al who stole two chocolate clean and well maintained and equipped with look the exact same! They look the exact same a beautiful nursery. The social workers are sat- Quick Crossword bars in 1975 has been feeling as they did before you had them done!” BBC isfi ed by this but then raise concerns about really bad about it for 43 the kind of education a child would receive years. The thief was a kid while in the couple’s care. The husband puts when he pocketed the treats their mind at ease, saying, “We’ve arranged for from the Woolworths at Belle a full-time tutor who will teach the child all the Vale Shopping Centre in usual subjects along with French, Mandarin, Liverpool. Decades on he set and computer skills.” Next though, the social out to make things right, workers express concern about a child being sending the centre a £5 note raised in a circus environment. This time the wife explains, “Our nanny is a certifi ed expert and a letter that read, “I stole in pediatric care, welfare, and diet.” The social Tattoo regret two bars of chocolate from Domino’s Pizza have done a U-turn on a workers are fi nally satisfi ed and ask the cou- Woolworths in your shopping promotion that promised free pizzas for life to ple, “What age child are you hoping to adopt?” centre in 1975, when I was a anyone who got a tattoo of their logo. The The husband says, “It doesn’t really matter, as Russian branch of the fast food company little boy. I apologise, I didn’t long as the kid fi ts in the cannon.” promised those that got the inkings 100 free know any better here’s the pizzas for the next 100 years. But it would money I owe you for them.” Fun facts... appear the brand were not expecting so many His guilt lasted longer than people to take part, as they quickly had to the store, which has since • In spite of ‘women and children fi rst’, men change their promotion to the ‘first 350 people’ gone out of business. The have been twice as likely as women to survive within days of it going live. And with many centre is donating the £5 to shipwrecks since 1852. Russians desperate for their chance to have Zoe’s Place baby hospice • In 1986, Norwegian scientist O Halvorsen 10,000 free pizzas, the quota filled up at a rapid instead. They shared the letter hypothesised that Rudolf’s red nose results ‘from speed. ‘Friends, we already have 350 partici- a parasitic infection of his respiratory system’. pants!’ Domino’s Russia urgently wrote on on their Facebook page with Across Down Facebook on September 10. ‘We are not the comment “Restoring our • Some parts of Antarctica have had no rain or receiving any new tattoos! Metro faith in humanity”. Vice snow for 2 million years. 1. Karate, say (7-3) 1. A low (3) 6. Scribble or draw aimlessly (6) 2. Regain (6) • By 2025, there will be more English speakers in Stuff of nightmares 7. Prison rooms (5) 3. Spain and Portugal (6) China, than in the rest of the world put together. 9. Starts (6) 4. Destructive insect (6) A sinister recording of a children’s nursery rhyme being played repetitively late at 10. Golf standard (3) 5. Plump or rotund (4-4) night tormented a woman for over a year before investigators solved the mystery. • In 1992, the rules governing what the French 11. Academic test (4) 6. Film maker (8) Alice Randle was one of several residents who heard the creepy rendition of “It’s may legally christen their children were 14. Conspiracy (4) 8. Close or careful examination (8) raining, it’s pouring” coming from somewhere outside their homes on the outskirts relaxed. The following year, the most popular name for baby boys was ‘Kevin’. 15. Gratuity (3) 9. Musical instrument (8) of Ipswich. Sometimes the tune played just once at 2am or 4am, but other times 16. Very small or meagre (6) 12. Snooker rest (6) it repeated over and over again for hours. The rhyme, which relates the story of an • Kuku kaki kakak kakak ku kayak kuku kaki 17. Quick (5) 13. Former British coin (6) old man who bumped his head and couldn’t wake up, left Ms Randle frightened kakek kakek ku is an Indonesian tongue-twist- 18. Airstrip (6) 14. To cavort (6) and questioning whether she was imagining things. “It’s sung by what sounds like er meaning ‘My sisters’ toenails looked like my 20. Severe (10) 19. Appropriate (3) a very young child,” she told The Independent. “It’s very haunting, people have grandfathers’. said it’s like something out of Freddie Krueger.” Investigators finally tracked the • It is most likely to be raining at 7 a.m. and The last word... child’s voice to a loudspeaker in a warehouse a few hundred meters away on an least likely at 3 a.m. industrial estate. A spokesperson for the site told the Ipswich Star newspaper: • 70% of all train journeys in England start or “The sound is only supposed to act as a deterrent for opportunistic thieves that “The greatest prison people fi nish in London. come onto our property, and it is designed only to be heard by people on our live in is the fear of what private land. We are now aware of the problem - the motion sensors were being • In 1915, Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie other people think.” triggered by spiders crawling across the lenses of our cameras and it looks like Chaplin lookalike contest in San Francisco. Not David Icke we’ve had it turned up too loudly. “It’s a massive relief and I’m looking forward to only did he not win, he failed even to make getting some actual sleep from now on,” Ms Randle said. The Independent the fi nal. 56 Jailbreak // National Prison Radio www.insidetime.org Insidetime October 2018 National Prison Radio is available in prisons across October 2018 England and Wales, and HMP Grampian in Scotland. What’s on National Prison Radio // October 2018 We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, into your cell. If your prison has National Prison Radio, you can National Prison Radio is currently available in prisons across England and Wales. 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