“...the last two visits we have Time to been told to stand on the line with our hands behind our take backs and to let the dogs jump up on us” politics out Kerry - a prisoner’s wife Mailbag // page 7 of prisons “the planning and carrying Erwin James talks to Lord out of the job were the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees Premiership, the afters and Woolf as he steps down getaway plan were strictly a voice for prisoners since  as chair of the Prison Sunday pub league” April 2016 / Issue No. 202 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profi t’ publication / ISSN 1743-7342 Reform Trust Noel Smith An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verifi ed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations Comment // page 15 Comment // page 24 Prisons: A New Direction Slash and burn policy will place education and work l More time out of cell l Increased use of ROTL skills at the heart of the Justice Secretary’s vision for l Governor’s discretion to design IEP scheme l IPP prisoners to have ‘clear paths to exit’ a more effective and humane prison system l Fewer Recalls

In this exclusive and historic interview Michael Gove MP reveals how he was ‘shocked’ by everything he saw during one prison visit and explains that among the fundamental changes he intends to introduce are autonomy for Governors and prison league tables.

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Rachel Billington

It was while visiting library was, shocked also by Wormwood Scrubs prison in the fact that the group of pris- that Justice Secretary oners I was talking to had Michael Gove learned first- some very articulate young hand about the needs of many men who clearly had a poten- of the people in our prisons. tial who no-one had ever es- At that time he was still pecially cared about before- Education Secretary. ‘I was hand and their biggest shocked by everything about frustration now was that they it. I was shocked by the dirt didn’t have the chance to © prisonimage.org and the squalor. I was shocked learn.’ at how poor the facilities were, Justice Secretary Michael Gove MP speaking at the Howard League AGM in November 2015 shocked how empty the Continues on page 14

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Anonymous - HMP Isis Peter South - years Extended Determinate Sentence (EDS), A not for profi t publication. for offences of Section 18 wounding, affray I was reading an article regarding the recently released HMP Stafford and possession of an offensive weapon, at Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial Guantanamo Bay detainee Shaker Aamer and his allegations content. Comments or complaints should be of torture in the presence of a British MI5 agent. I was Having spent time in 3 Leeds Crown Court. I was sentenced to 6 directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. intrigued to read the official British response, which was that Category B prisons, man- years custodial with 4 years extended license, in all a sentence of 10 years. Board of Directors they do not agree with or condone, and I quote ‘cruel, aged by 3 different provid- inhumane or degrading’ treatment or behaviour. ers, I was recently given my In September 2015, I had my first Cat D Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, Category C and subsequent- Journalist, Writer and serving Magistrate. Since 2010 my brother has been held as a CSC prisoner, ly moved here to HMP review, which was unsuccessful. On my Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge excluding 14 months at Broadmoor Hospital, to date it has Stafford. I was under the appeal OMU upheld the original decision of Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon been 54 months in complete isolation. In this time he has impression, or should that the board, stating ‘You are currently just Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh been unable to integrate with a single person and for the vast be under the illusion, that under 4 years off your release date. PSI John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and majority of this time he has been escorted for his daily 30 life in a Category C prison 40/2011 states that the maximum period you Managing Director employing ex-offenders minutes exercise, 10 minute shower and 10 minute phone call might be a little more should be in open prison is 2 years.’ Louise Shorter Former producer, BBC Rough Justice Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, surrounded by 8-10 officers dressed in full riot gear including comfortable than in Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation shields. All this while handcuffed. Category B. How wrong I In October 2015 I instructed a solicitor to assist was. me with my Cat D refusal. I was instructed to The Editorial Team My brother has had no access to any meaningful activities appeal against my earliest possible release whatsoever. He has had his legal paperwork tampered with, Whilst I fully understand date which was September 2017. much of his personal property deliberately broken or ‘go that many of the privileges missing’ and been assaulted by officers many, many times. we have are just that, and Having spent 2 years at HMP Wealstun can be taken away at any adhering to the prison regime and using my Whilst at Broadmoor Hospital he was diagnosed with severe time, should we not have time in a purposeful manner, I remained mental health issues such as paranoid psychosis, paranoid more privileges in Category adjudication free and as an enhanced delusional disorder and Asperger’s syndrome. Nobody C than in Category B? Here prisoner. Furthermore, I have a proven track Erwin James John Roberts Rachel should have to spend 4 years 6 months in segregation, let at Stafford I have not found record of trustworthiness. However, I was Editor in Chief Publisher and Billington OBE alone someone with extreme mental health issues. Is this not one single aspect of the regime still unsuccessful. Director Associate Editor ‘cruel, inhumane and degrading’? that is not actually worse than a Category B prison. We I was entitled to re-categorisation according Offi ce Manager ‘Staff using physical violence’ have less association, less to PSI 11.2, 11.21-226A or 226B, so why was Lucy Forde days in the week available there no progression? I had taken my Administration Ryan Humpage - HMP Preston for visits, shorter visit times, application to OMU, personal officer, legal Sonia Miah less visits available. We have system, Probation and the prison system. So Layout & Design I would like to know if it’s acceptable for prison staff to punch to wear jeans on a visit, we who could help me? As it turns out I found Colin Matthews can’t use the courtesy locks Noel Smith Paul Sullivan us in the face and kick us in the stomach several times when all my luck in one day. Website Design on cell doors, we don’t have Commissioning Reporter they restrain us. When I got restrained I was punched in the and Advertising face and kicked while on the floor and I think this is wrong. a key, the showers are the Editor Gary Bultitude I was fortunate enough to meet a prisoner Why do they think they can violently assault us and beat us up communal type, no cubicles who works for St Giles Trust who agreed that so no privacy, less access to Correspondence in the segregation unit? I was told by a member of staff - ‘We I should be re-categorised. 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Mailbag 2-9 Writes Discrimination against the disabled “Whatever Craig Halliday - HMP Wymott happened to catch Reply to open letter of character it, bin it, kill it?” I have been in prison for 4 years and in that time have been Darryl Cookhorn Justin Hawkins - Head of in 5 different prisons and received numerous visits from my Web Comment - Anonymous Page 4 - HMP Wakefield Communication, CCRC wife. She is a permanent wheelchair-user and we have had no major issues until I came to this prison. I came here in I visited HMP Oakwood with my grandson Newsround 10-13 Last month’s issue of Inside Time contained September and on my second visit we were told that my wife on 9th January 2016. The ‘drug dog’ sniffed Four year old boy an open letter to the Chair of the Criminal would have to leave the visit 20 minutes earlier than every- my clothes, my shoes and up my skirt jailed for life for Cases Review Commission from Ashleigh one else due to her being a wheelchair-user (and that the lift (embarrassing). The male officer told me I ‘murder, destruc- was slow). We disagreed and eventually my wife had to leave Towers whose brother Jordan is serving a life was only allowed a closed visit with my son. tion of property 5 minutes before everyone else. My wife was very upset as Page 12 sentence for murder. Because there is a limit Myself and my grandson could only see him and inciting riots’ she had travelled for 4 hours to get to the visit, only to be told to the amount of detail that the Commission through a glass window. I asked why this that because of her disability the visit would be cut short. Comment 14-26 can and should put in a public letter about was so, the male officer told me the dog had an individual case, we have responded in picked up a strong indication that I was Here’s another private to Ms Towers. It is up to her whether “We were told that my wife would have to leave carrying something in to my son. I protested box I want banned… she wishes to make public our letter which the visit 20 minutes earlier than everyone else due my innocence and suggested my partner should go in with my grandson while I The Secret contains details about her brother’s case. to her being a wheelchair-user” stayed outside. This was refused and I was Page 20 Criminologist What the Commission can say here in Inside not further searched. We left the prison Time about Jordan Towers’ murder convic- Information 27-37 I complained about this using the DIRF process and my having travelled all the way from tion is that we have conducted detailed and complaint was not upheld. The prison stated that she had Manchester with an excited little boy “We don’t want determined reviews of the case so it is not for been asked to leave early but this was not discrimination, but wanting to see his dad. anyone to be suf- want of trying that we have been unable to more for health & safety reasons. They refused to see the fering in silence” find suitable grounds on which to refer it issue, even though the able-bodied visitors were allowed a The following day, I learned that the officer Rachael Doeg - back to the Court of Appeal. stress-free final 20 minutes of their visits. This is clearly had contacted social services and reported Page 32 Alzheimer’s Society discrimination. the matter to them. This resulted in me not Legal 38-43 “The fact is that belief alone will being able to see my grandson, I still cannot not persuade the Court of Appeal I appealed against the decision and in the reply I received until the relevant checks have been carried Supreme Court from one of the governors, he referred to wheelchair-users as out about my character. allows 2 appeals to overturn a conviction” ‘items’ - ‘As you can imagine, this lift will not transport items against joint such as wheelchair-users at a fast pace due to safety regula- My current job requires me to have an enterprise Ms Towers’ frustration on her brother’s tions.’ For someone who is meant to be a professional and the enhanced CRB on a regular basis (every 2 Page 39 Julian Purdon behalf is entirely understandable. She governor of a prison I feel his wording is incredibly crass and years) I have never been convicted of any Jailbreak 44-56 clearly believes strongly that he has been the insulting. Is my wife an ‘item’, or a thing? No, she is a human offence ever, and my medical records are victim of a miscarriage of justice. However, being just like me or you. clear also. I’m disgusted at this miscarriage “From then on the fact is that belief alone will not persuade of justice and defamation to my character. I I decided to make the Court of Appeal to overturn a conviction. This is the most unsafe and insecure environment I have ever will now be taking this much further as no earwigging a For us to be able to refer a case for appeal we been in and the governors think it is ok to discriminate. This response to any letter I have sent has been hobby” Page 44 Prison Widow have to be able to identify some new place should be renamed HMP Shambles. given. evidence or new legal argument that is capable of raising a real possibility that the ‘Hunger striker not Court will quash the conviction. In this case, receiving help or concern’ so far at least, and in spite of our best efforts, we have not been able to do that. Mr Ault - HMP Oakwood

Ms Towers disagreed with our most recent I am writing to you regarding Mr Newey who decision not to refer the case and sought a had a letter in your March issue, headlined judicial review. The Admin Court said that ‘Hunger strike against G4s’. Inside Time asked attempt at judicial review was “totally for an update on Mr Newey’s situation and I without merit” and found that “the can confirm that he is still on hunger strike. I Commission properly examined the claim- am his next door neighbour and I can tell ants contention and reached a fully reasoned you that he has lost a lot of weight and we are all concerned for his health. For weeks I decision.” have not witnessed him receiving any help or

concern from staff. I don’t think he is doing As Ms Towers says in her letter, we are now too well, he looks so thin and he sleeps a lot, considering the case for a third time looking although he does go to work and education again for valid grounds on which a fresh every day. I must commend him as I don’t appeal could be based. This time that think I would have lasted this long. Anyway, process will include consideration of just thought I’d update you on his situation. whether or not Mr Towers’ case may be one of those affected by the very specific issues Editorial note raised in the recent and well-known joint The IMB have been alerted to the situation and enterprise case of Ameen Jogee. are looking into the matter.

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‘Lies and false promises’ Mailbites Ben Barnes - HMP Frankland Rats I was aghast upon hearing Prime Minister David Cameron spout on about the Clive Henderson’s letter in ‘rehabilitation revolution’ yet again. How can someone in such a position of the February issue described power appear on national television and feed the media and public such how he was bitten by a rat. claptrap and be believed? Come on, wake up and smell the coffee. He asked if other prisons have the same rat problem. Anyone who is, or has been, in prison will know all too well what absolute nonsense David Cameron is talking. If he thinks for one minute that educa- My answer is YES, I’ve been in tional courses of basic level, that are not fit for purpose, are going to make prison for over 20 years and model citizens of prisoners, then he is in for a shock and disappointment. been to over a dozen jails and Futile offender programmes have, time and again, been proven not to work rats are everywhere. Rats and will never make any prisoner rehabilitated, regardless of what the thrive in prison, just like dangerous psychology despots claim. pigeons, and I’m not sure that prisons can get rid of them The one thing that I noticed in Cameron’s rhetoric is that he avoided the issue © Creative Commons completely. The prison of prison numbers and how to reduce them, this tells me that he doesn’t have system has an obligation to a clue how to do this. protect people from these ‘Thanks for the bugs, guv’ hazards. If I was him I would Any fool can stand up and waffle on about prisoners and prison, but having seek legal representation. the balls to do something about it is what Cameron needs. Darryl Cookhorn - HMP Wakefield Gary Chester-Nash - Instead of telling the media what they want to hear, Cameron should tell Has anyone else been in a situation where a member of staff comes to work HMP Whitemoor them what they NEED to hear, and that would be about reducing the prison when they have colds, flu or viruses, and just spread it throughout the prison? Whatever happened to catch it, bin it, kill it? And furthermore, why population, providing decent accommodation, employment and supporting Prison left me prisoners and their families. This is REAL rehabilitation. aren’t prisoners with low immune systems allowed to wear masks? There is a real problem with staff spreading their bugs throughout prisons. If you are ill traumatised If Cameron is serious about sorting the prison system out then the best place then stay at home and don’t be coming in here affecting everybody. It’s not rocket science. Thanks for the bugs, guv. I was jailed for 7 years in to start is with the thousands of prisoners who are stuck in limbo from the 1976. The prison staff were now defunct IPP fiasco. A vile piece of uniquely British ‘justice’. Not playing the game among the worst human Finally he should look at the recall rates. Thousands of prisoners are recalled Peeing beings I ever met. One to prison, sometimes for the most absurd reasons. I know of one prisoner who in the sink Del Patterson - HMP Frankland assistant governor recom- was recalled for smoking in his hostel! And another for ‘smelling of alcohol’! mended I not be paroled Not for committing more crimes but because the Probation Service has this Name withheld - I am a prisoner who has maintained because I didn’t take up power and will always abuse it. These recalls and the reasons given are usually HMP Greenock innocence for nearly 12 years now. I received education classes. One vindictive and spiteful. Probation staff who through their callous behaviour a 6 year 56 day tariff for attempted murder. I probation officer was so idle make a mockery of British justice which it seems is a policy of vengeance. I am a life sentenced have never previously been convicted of any and uncaring he made up prisoner in the ‘top end’ in violent crime, and my stance on innocence excuse after excuse why I will never change, because if you are really Many people will leave prison angry, bitter and resentful. Usually homeless, Greenock. In Scotland, lifers couldn’t see my dying innocent then you shouldn’t change your unemployed and with no money - bar the pittance of less than £50 given on at the end of their sentences mother. Another probation mind, and I never will. release to last for the first 6 weeks or so of freedom. In short, I can see that have to do two years in the officer (a female over 70 years David Cameron’s speech on rehabilitation is lies and false promises, he’s ‘top end’, then two years in old) recommended no parole I have told my Probation Officer, OMU talking absolute nonsense. ‘open’. But instead of letting Department and the Parole Board that I will as I had not addressed my us do the two years top end not be signing documents which require me crime, even now 40 years Editorial note in the modern prisons where to admit guilt, i.e. license papers. As I did later I don’t understand what Currently over 20,000 prisoners are either remand, IPP or on recall. we have served our life, the not commit any crime in the first place I do she meant. If I had not met a SPS send us here or not need any kind of license. very understanding woman Barlinnie. Lack of staff Smoking ban time shortly after release I would have spent the last 35 years in In here there are no toilets in “I have done all education courses, George Seeby - bomb at HMP Parc a nursing home or psychiatric the cells, just sinks. Most of plus a lot of vocational courses, but I HMP Manchester institution. YES, prison left A prisoner’s mother the prisoners are older and will not do any offending behaviour they don’t like walking to me THAT traumatised. Here at HMP Manchester we courses as I am not an ‘offender’” It has just been on the news that smoking in the toilets all through the John C - ex prisoner are rarely going to work or public areas does not apply to prisons but at night, so they piss in the While I have been in prison I have gone above getting any social activity/ HMP Parc the governor has stopped smoking sinks. This makes the whole and beyond to prove I am no risk to anyone, in exercise due to ‘lack of staff’. on the sex offenders unit and is stopping it in wing smell of piss. This has Big thanks or out of prison, and never will be. I have done This has been going on for the main block in April. There are prisoners been a problem at Greenock all education courses, plus a lot of vocational I would like to thank Prisons months now, but since the cutting themselves up because they can’t for many years, but it is 2016 courses, but I will not do any offending Pastor Susan Cuthbert for her new year it has become a smoke, the biggest commodity in there is not so why are the SPS moving behaviour courses as I am not an ‘offender’. piece in the March issue of real problem. I have been drugs but tobacco which is going for £100 an us out of modern prisons Inside Time. I don’t normally told that it is due to govern- ounce! and locking us in a human As for offending behaviour courses, in my time trust anyone who works in ment cuts, however I believe zoo? Barlinnie top end is in prison I have seen hundreds of prisoners the prison system as I realise it may be poor organisation. “There are prisoners cutting themselves up another wing with no toilets coming back to prison after completing these that I am only a commodity Are any other prisons because they can’t smoke, the biggest in the cells, so why are the courses and being released, so that proves to most of them. But when I suffering from ‘lack of staff’ commodity in there is not drugs but tobacco SPS doing it? these courses do not work, in fact, they could see someone from any or is it just us at Manchester? which is going for £100 an ounce!” be making people worse. A lot of us work on outside church or religion I drop my placements and it becomes guard and trust them. That 2 Editorial note My son is on the sex offenders unit, he’s 45 I will not go to any more dispersal or embarrassing when your minute break is like a breath Prison Officer numbers have year’s old and has been smoking since he Category B training prisons, as I have was 12, so it is already taking a toll on him clothes smell of piss from of fresh air to me. Susan been cut by over 40% which is already done the rounds of the closed estate. not being able to smoke. This doesn’t help the wing. All of us have had I will not be accepting any more reports any Cuthbert’s contribution made affecting all prisons with many his mental issues as he has Asperger’s and years to rehabilitate and official writes on me as most of the things in me smile. I’m not religious now on limited regime. MoJ paranoia and a . The have done all the courses. them are just made up. On the whole, official but I have seen the chaplain- figures showed that in governor seems to think its ok to do this to Many of us have no disci- reports are false and negative in order to cy help a lot of people in December last year there were the prisoners as well as staff. It’s inhumane pline reports for 10 years, so justify keeping me in. I have done almost prison. just 16,720 officer grades; four and she is putting her staff at risk. She why are the SPS treating us double my tariff and the system has done years ago there were nearly cleared the punishment block in case of like this at the end of our nothing for me just because I maintain my D Barraclough - 25,000 officers. trouble. It’s a time bomb waiting to go off. sentences? innocence. What a disgrace. HMP The Mount Insidetime April 2016 ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Mailbag 5

Repatriation had spent 8 years of being Women-hating, Hostels - a balanced view forced to associate with of Pakistani prisoners other inmates in prison so I brain-dead Terry Hatcher - HMP Bure was quite happy to go along Babar Shah - HMP Whitemoor with this rule. As for residents I have recently read with whole morning of appoint- layabouts? being ‘dragged from their interest the negative experi- ments every Monday to I would like to clarify to all Pakistani beds and thrown into a Colin Campbell - HMP Woodhill ences of people released into enable hostel residents to prisoners and the British public that the UK police van’, I never saw this Approved Premises. get regular appointments. and Pakistan did indeed have a contract in happen. What I did see was However, in order to provide I write regarding a piece in the January issue which Pakistani nationals who were serving several residents recalled a balanced view I would like There were no chores to be under the heading ‘The things people say’. a sentence here in the UK could be trans- because they were too stupid to share my experiences. done, as there were 2 cleaners. The misogynist responsible for this is ferred to Pakistan. However, this contract is to follow a few simple rules I chose to work in the garden conservative MP, Philip Davies; how this now in deadlock. The reason for this for a couple of months. Upon arrival I was shown to and was encouraged to do man managed to get enough people to vote deadlock is very interesting indeed. It seems my room. Once I’d filled out the Better Lives group for an for him is beyond understanding. I can only the Pakistani and British governments are in Anyone with a genuine some paperwork I was told I hour every Saturday, but dispute, and the nature of this dispute raises reason for missing an imagine that his constituency is full of could go out until 10pm this was voluntary and there some disconcerting questions. appointment or for being a women-hating, brain-dead layabouts whose should I wish to. The room were no threats made if I little late for their curfew idea of a relationship with a woman is to was comfortable, with didn’t attend. I had to sign The Pakistani government are demanding a would not be recalled as keep her barefoot, pregnant and in the Freeview TV, a sink, on every week and the Job number of political leaders who are them- long as they could explain kitchen. wardrobe and bed. I paid Club were quite strict about selves suspects in terrorist activities within what happened. Pakistan, and are now living freely in the UK, £52 per fortnight which me applying for jobs, despite included meals cooked by me explaining my circum- “ More women should be sent to to be extradited back to Pakistan in order to In my opinion, a hostel is a an outside chef. This left me stances. But this was not too face charges for their criminal activities. good place to make the prison in order to make them equal around £90 out of my much of an issue. transition from prison to to men...Somehow the fact that fortnightly benefits. There One of these leaders was, in fact, arrested in freedom. Yes, there are a few was no signing in or out Between the hours of 11pm hardly any women are in prison in London as there was information linking rules, but that’s life. There is and, provided I kept to my and 8am we were expected the first place seems to be a prob- him to the murder of Imran Farooq, and also a lot of support. As for curfew, I was free to go to be in our rooms and during the investigation he was found to people’s comments about lem. If there is to be true equality ” shopping, to the gym or checks were carried out, and have £150,000 in cash stored at his office. hostels being 100 times Philip Davies MP (Inside Time Jan 2016) meet up with family and for smokers there was access Charges of money-laundering were also worse than prison - can friends. I was not forced to to the rear garden. As for brought against this political leader and anything really be 100 times despite all of the evidence being supplied by sign on with a doctor, in fact associating with others The last paragraph in the piece written by Mr worse than prison? the Pakistani government, the UK govern- the local surgery put aside a outside the hostel, well, I Davies makes complete sense. The House of ment are handling this case within the UK. I Commons Justice Select Committee appear to don’t know why. have got it absolutely right - the vast majority Corrections and Clarifications of female offenders could be dealt with by It is apparent that the British government are The policy of Inside Time is to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Corrections will the simple expedient of sifting out the operating with double standards. If there appear in the mailbag section of each issue and on the relevant web page. If you notice an error women who do not represent a significant were any suspects wanted in connection with please feel free to write to us at the usual address providing the date and page number from the risk to public safety, and that appears to be terrorist activities in the USA, the British newspaper, alternatively have a friend or family member call or email us (see below). over 80% of the women in prison. government would not hesitate to extradite In the March issue of Inside Time we attributed the names below them, regardless of their human rights or if the photograph of the in the wrong order. they were destined for the notorious torture Everything possible should be done to get Don’t forget the innocent page 18. We apologise to the men and chamber of Guantanamo Bay. Yet when the these women back to their families and out to our readers for this error. The order should have been, from Pakistani government request the return of of prison. Most of these women will probably left to right: Johnny Walker, Paddy Hill, Hugh Callaghan, Chris terrorist suspects from the UK, the UK need some kind of intervention and support Mullin MP, Richard McIlkenny, Gerry Hunter and Billy Power. to help them change their lives and that is government is a little less forthcoming. Is the British government supporting suspects in where a comprehensive network of women’s Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, 01489 795945 terrorist activity and protecting them from centres would be the perfect solution. Not a Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. [email protected] prosecution in Pakistan? This is a question I prison cell. would like answered.

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These are: prison. If you are booking by Information phone, and are lucky 1. You must arrive at the enough to get through, then for those who prison 30 minutes before do ask them if you can be your booked visiting time; given a later time slot if that do not know helps you. Details Withheld 2. Crucially, if you are 45 or more minutes late after your My visit was scheduled for I visited HMP Dovegate, booked visit they will not 13:00, but since I got there at having booked by email, but allow you in, even though it 14:00 and visits finish at 16:00 got turned away on the basis could still be possible to I was still expecting my 2 of policies not mentioned in have a 2 hour visit (this is hour visit to go ahead, given the confirmation email. because they have a 3 hour the fact that I had NEVER visiting window); been made aware of any As part of the visiting ‘turn up late for a visit’ policy. regime, there are three 3. Visits are routinely © prisonimage.org policies that everyone booked for 13:00, but, if you The intention of this letter is should know about, but will have booked by email, you to share rather than shame, can see has not been superseded. This PSI states not be told despite everyone are able to change this by so other readers don’t have a Rules on exercise? that, in replacing PSO 4275 a minimum period needing to know them. emailing / phoning the similar vexation. Mr Hirst - HMP Haverigg in the open air is specified for all prisoners and prisoners must be afforded time in the open air Not public protection but job protection Can someone clarify the current rules about in accordance with this PSI. The mandatory open-air exercise in the prison system? I minimum is 30 minutes subject to weather Jon Waldron - HMP Kirklevington Grange understood that exercise round the yard has conditions; any cancellations must be recorded to be provided once a day, yet, as an inmate by an authorised manager. However, it says: When prisoners are deemed ‘high risk’ due to offences committed and sentenced to a period at Haverigg on full-time education I am told in custody, you would expect a period of rehabilitation and Offending Behaviour Courses to that my 5 minute daily walk to and from • ‘Time in the open air’ means time spent in a reduce their risk to medium. But it is impossible as the National Probation Service has stated education counts as my daily open-air situation where the prisoner is able to benefit to me that ‘no matter how many OBCs I do, how many RoRs or home leaves I will still have to exercise. How can this be right? from fresh air and natural light; be released as high risk and will have to go to a hostel. • Time spent outdoors as part of a formal The education block is a no-smoking activity, for example outdoor work or watching This high risk scam is deliberate discrimination, telling prisoners that these courses reduce building and officially we are not allowed to or participating in sport, counts as meeting this your risk of harm when they know full well that these courses have no effect. Not being able smoke whilst walking to classes, so where is requirement; to address your risk and leaving you labelled as ‘high risk’ affects ROTLs, RoRs, home leave, my chance for some fresh air and a smoke • The time in the open air does not have to be job training opportunities in the open estate. High risk prisoners should be told the truth, break during the day? What obligations does spent in a single period, but must be in no more because if none of these courses, like Resolve, TSP, etc. do not go towards lowering your risk the jail have to provide breaks and exercise? than two periods, which can include time in the then they are not worth the time and money they take up. open air moving between activities. Editorial note So we will continue to be released as ‘high risk’ or potential risk due to being starved of The last Prison Service Instruction (PSI) which If prisoners are on a restricted regime the PSI access to any resettlement. NPS is maintaining thousands of prisoners as high risk, not for mentioned time in the open air was PSI 2011-10 says governors must provide a minimum of 60 public protection but for job protection. This practise needs reviewing as it is having a which expired in March 2014 and as far as we minutes of activities of which 30 minutes must detrimental effect on prisoners and their families. be in the open air.

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Mailbites National Prisoners Council Free certificates anyone? Wayne M Sowerby - HMP North Sea Camp Name Withheld - HMP Moorland HMP Thamesmead? I am trying to get back to a I would like to announce the forming of a new organisation aimed at giving all prisoners a In October of last year me and a group of others were signed prison in London as this place voice in the Rehabilitation Revolution currently being promoted so passionately by Central up to an Industrial Cleaning Course run by Manchester is too far for my family to visit, Government. This organisation is to be called the National Prisoners Council. College (Novus). Over a 9 day period our tutor turned up and I have heard good things daily and then without warning she stopped. Four weeks about HMP Thamesmead. I It is my belief, based on many years of experience, that without the support and validation of passed and we heard nothing, so I put in an app to ask what have looked through the prisoners any reforms will not work, just as they have not worked before. The National was going on. The tutor came and told us that she had been pages of recent issues of Prisoners Council is committed to lobbying and petitioning Central Government directly and put elsewhere and would not be able to complete our training Inside Time and cannot see is firmly of the belief that prisoners should not only take ownership of their crimes but course. I complained. any information or mailbags ownership of rehabilitation. from there. Can any Over the next few months the tutor came and brought our Thamesmead inmates let me I invite all prisoners to support the NPC by writing letters of support to me here at North Sea folders, which contained our course records. We were asked know what the prison is like Camp. I look forward to hearing from you all and working hard on your behalf. to sign several forms and when I enquired as to what I was and whether it is worth putting actually signing for it turned out that I was signing to say in for a transfer to the jail? that I had completed various aspects of the course that I had “...the last two visits we have not done! Including, handling chemicals and bio-hazard M Smith - HMP Manchester been told to stand on the line materials. Also the reports were saying that I had been Editorial note Send your with our hands behind our ‘witnessed’ doing the work and was given a pass on every letters to Inside Time and we inspection. This is pure fiction, the truth is that I was never will pass them on to Mr Smith. backs and to let the dogs jump witnessed doing this work, or as they call it ‘evidenced’. up on us” At this point I decided to put in a request for a copy of my Drones learner plan, which is recorded on the HM Government Dear readers, this is a quick I fully understand the need for sniffer dogs database and shows all courses and qualifications completed rant at the big deal being and have no objection to it walking around whilst in custody. When it arrived I saw that there were made over ‘drones’ and using my legs and doing its job. There are people courses on there, which it said I had completed, that I knew them to transport drugs and on the visits that have phobias of dogs and nothing about. I then put in a request for the certificates that other contraband. There are they are told if the dog can’t jump up on Novus said I achieved. To my surprise the certificates rolled always going to be new ways © Fotolia.com them the visit will be cancelled. Both times I in - Level 1 Customer Service, Level 2 Customer Service, these articles will find their have let the dog jump up as it takes me three Industrial Cleaning, Bio-Hazard, Level 1 and 2 in English - all way into prisons but at the hours to get to Birmingham. without me doing any work! end of the day drugs are Is this legal? thrown over walls and My mother in law will be coming on the next These certificates come from Edexcel, City & Guilds, RSA, Pearson Education Ltd, etc., and these people have all been brought in on visits but the Kerry - a prisoner’s wife visit and she is elderly with a heart problem. biggest corrupt greedy duped by what I can only describe as a scam. These companies I WILL NOT let the dog jump up on her. Am I criminals are in-house. There claim vast amounts of taxpayer’s money off our backs and I have been visiting my husband for 6 years within my rights to refuse? are more and more officers on and off and have got used to various they are cheats, liars and fraudsters. They should be in prison! being caught smuggling stuff prison regimes and search procedures. Editorial note in but there’s never a big fuss However, HMP Birmingham have recently I have written to the HMCIP to report this and I have also like there is over drones. Stop Our understanding is that dogs should not jump written to every awarding body to reject these certificates in changed the way they operate the prison up at visitors but are trained to walk quietly blaming ways of getting these dogs. I have been visiting my husband in my name and explaining why. Under PSI 06/2010 Conduct & past and, if they think they can smell some- things into prisons and start Birmingham for the past 18 months and Discipline, this amounts to misconduct/ misfeasance in thing, just sit down by the visitor. Jumping dogs thinking of better ways to always had a sniffer dog. On the last two public office - a criminal offence. Both NOMS and Novus might knock over the elderly, terrify children stop your own supplying us. visits we have been told to stand on the line need to be asked the question ‘Is it common practise to and would be objectionable to some religious operate in this way?’ What if I go and get a job working with Dean Worthington - with our hands behind our backs and to let faiths. bio-hazards and end up hurting someone because, even HMP the dogs jump up on us. Blackfords new ad 24.1.14:Layout 1 24/1/14 12:59 Page 1 though I have a certificate, I am not trained? This is a disgrace.

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Like Ashleigh Towers writes, her with the governor’s ap- brother has been to the Criminally Corrupt Reluctance Committee (CCRC) three times already! proach and principles. As I have also been to them three times and they are fully aware that I am not the murderer as he prisoners we now see more has written a full confession. Both he and the police have stated that I tried to help. A DC in of our governor around the the case states that I am not the one who struck the fatal blow and a DCI admits that I only prison than we do of our fled the scene, police forensics prove that I wasn’t even in the room when the crime was own wing managers. He has committed. The CCRC know all of this, yet have still refused me a hearing. They recently also appointed a Deputy stated ‘We’re not saying that we don’t believe you’ - so what are they saying? Governor from a nearby establishment to clean up The ‘Very Real Possibility’ test meted out by the CCRC is now redundant in cases like ours. We the stigma that surrounds can prove beyond doubt that we have not participated in murder, yet hundreds of us are Frankland and to help make serving life sentences. So many of us have served several years away from our children and this prison a good example loved ones. I have lost my family and child contact via my bullshit charge. I suffered a stroke for others to follow. and heart failure a year ago this week and I am wheelchair-bound but remain strong. governor that every HMP Thumbs up for The Governor is very visible establishment needs. He has I’ve now issued a Judicial Review case v CCRC @ Birmingham Civil Justice Centre. I am in his role, unlike previous the Governor been at this prison for just awaiting the single judge’s decision and I am unrepresented due to Legal Aid cuts. As Paul recluses who came before over 12 months but the Hill says, never ever give up because that’s what the system wants. To all on JE make your him. Hopefully the majority T Phillips - change he has generated has voices heard. JENGBA can’t do it all for us, so keep going. Much love to Gloria Morrison and all of staff are now getting the HMP Frankland been excellent. at JENGBA, you are the pride of Britain. I am not a risk, I am innocent. message that prisoners are not here to be punished, loss Let me begin this letter by In the short time that the of liberty is our punishment, congratulating the govern- governor has been here Forced into unemployment but to be rehabilitated. The Where is ing Governor of HMP more than 15 prisoners have governor still has a moun- Richard Geary - HMP Channings Wood Frankland, on behalf of the been re-categorised from A tain to climb in order to get the justice? majority of inmates here. I to B, and High Risk prison- his staff to see sense and to I would like to bring my situation to your readers’ attention. I have been at Frankland for ers have also been down- Mark Wightwick - drag them away from the am a prolific offender, having done 17 prison sentences in the some time now and have graded to Category A or B, HMP Parkhurst bullying mentality they last 26 years - all for burglary and theft. I have now been in seen several governing something I have never seem to share. We prisoners Channings Wood since April 2015 and due for release in governors come and go, but witnessed before during my I have been in touch with a will do all we can to support March 2016. Since I have been here I have done 3 NVQ Level 2 not until now has the prison years in the Dispersal local solicitor to help me him. received a number one regime. It is my, and many start an appeal against courses, plus I have gained my forklift driver’s certificate. I conviction. The solicitor has am currently finishing off my NVQ Level 2 in recycling and put in for legal aid, to get working closely with N.ergy, the employment agency that Good for me Fair and decent funding so they could carry works with the prison to get prisoners into work once out work on my appeal. The released. A total of £6,700 has been spent getting me through John Burns - HMP Frankland Name Withheld - HMP Frankland Legal Aid Agency have these courses. refused funding and the I write in response to the ‘anything positive I have been in Frankland for many years and, reason given for rejecting It has recently come to light that my outside Offender about Frankland’ comment in your last although it is not the perfect environment for Manager is going to make it a condition of my license that I me is that my wife, who gets issue. So, here is a personal perspective on a us to lead our lives, what prison is? We all go into a hostel/halfway house. Whilst held at this hostel I paid the minimum wage has few examples. know that the British prison system is of late ‘too much disposable will not be able to work for a minimum period of 6 months. a victim of austerity, funding cutbacks, This is because the government pay the hostel £360 per week benchmarking and significant overcrowding, income’. We do not have any The basics per person so that they can put on courses that most of us all of which we have no control over. I savings, no property we can Having a toilet and sink in the cell is have already done in prison. Once we’ve entered the hostel personally thank my lucky stars to have been sell, or even a car! Where is absolute bliss after years without either. the justice in this country? we must then go to the Job Centre and claim Job Seekers fortunate enough to have served a period of Allowance. Even though we are not allowed to seek a job. Wages earned here are significantly higher my sentence in Frankland. At least we are Because I do not have any than any other nick I’ve been in. We have all money and no legal aid not overcrowded, I get served daily meals been issued with brand new TVs in the last pending I am not allowed a My bosses on the recycling course have gone out of their way that are varied, healthy and sufficient. I am year and have more channel availability chance of appeal. How can to help me into work on release as they see I am a dedicated able to cook my own meals on the wing. I get than other nicks. this be right? Is that what we worker. ample opportunities for gym sessions with do in this country now? good facilities, I have access to good visiting Only give justice to those Hostels do not cater for people who want to work because it is Staff facilities and periodical family day events. who can afford to pay? Be not cost effective for them. So it looks like, once again, the Staff here are no different to any others in aware - there is no justice in Probation and Prolific Offender team are setting me up for jails I’ve served time in. Contrary to popular I also have access to varied and beneficial this country unless you are failure. I would like to know whether I legally have to sign consensus a few are educated to graduate educational and vocational training, whilst rich enough to buy it. my license and what happens if I refuse? level and beyond. Then there is the usual having a multitude of prison employment mix who’ve been to the University of Life, opportunities that are purposeful and financial- which means their bullshit detectors are ly remunerated above that of many prisons. Parole Board Hearing? IPP, Lifer, Standard, Licence Recalls. finely tuned. Personally I’m grateful to Adjudication? staff as I want to feel safe and secure. I find Frankland a safe, civilised and decent environment in which to serve my sentence. Sentence Wrongly Calculated? The governors strike me as usually fair and Fellow Prisoners wing-staff that are, on the whole, profession- Oral Hearing? - Tariff Reduction? For the few mad enough to share mutual al and helpful. Appeal against Sentence or Conviction? humanity I appreciate you. A select minority Second Appeal through the CCRC? helped me more than you realise. Editorial note May we thank the author of this letter for The above issues are still covered under Legal Aid! So if you need help get it from dedicated London Library extolling the virtues of HMP Frankland with based Prison Lawyers, helping prisoners fight for their rights throughout England and Wales. An oasis of calm that meets my needs and is such unbridled enthusiasm, erudition and Write to Manoj Sharda, Office 226, 4 Spring Road, Ealing, London W5 2AA close to utopia. Orderlies and staff are eloquence? We applaud his courage in writing exemplary in finding a request. and sharing the benefits gained from such a Tel: 020 8123 3404 deeply satisfying prison experience, although we Email: [email protected] It is my view that the biggest enemy to my note his failure to provide us with a name or a www.prisonlawsolicitors.org.uk sentence is not the prison I’m in, the staff, prison number. NB Inside Time will always Prison Law Consultant at Duncan Lewis Solicitors my fellow prisoners or even the ailing withhold names and numbers when requested. ADJUDICATION & PAROLE SPECIALISTS system, but the idiot I look at in the mirror But all letters to mailbag must include a real most mornings. Boy is he ugly! name and prison address. Insidetime April 2016 ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Mailbag 9

Alleged abuse at Kirklevington Detention Centre Mailbites Name withheld - HMP Durham No help for gamblers Finally, after years of torment, Cleveland police are investigating the abuse at Kirklevington Detention Centre run by HM Prison Service. Most of the abusers are probably dead by now but I am currently serving an 11 there should not be any peace for the sadists who are still alive and living off their cushy month license recall and have prison pensions. I hope they are shaking in their shiny boots because the police will be asked for help with my bringing them all to justice for what they done to us as young boys. gambling addiction repeated- ly from governors to senior Over 75 ex inmates have made complaints to Cleveland police for abuse dating from 1963 to 1991. That place wasn’t a juvenile prison it was a concentration camp for so-called prison officers to my case manager, officers to take liberties with young boys. Good on the lads who have unlocked the door and but I am met with the same allowed the police to get these monsters arrested and put before the courts. reply - go away, there is © Fotolia.com nothing for you. There is Power corrupts… absolute power corrupts absolutely’. absolutely no help offered to Europe - we have no vote prisoners who have this Dave E Ferguson - HMP Wakefield Sir David Ramsbottom, probably the most addiction, but yet drug and James Poplett - HMP Whatton honest and effective Chief Inspector of alcohol courses are readily I am currently serving a sentence in prison and have lost my David Cameron has announced yet another Prisons ever to sit in office, has voiced his available. This goes against right to vote in any local or general elections. As I am serving ‘rehabilitation revolution’, namely giving prison concerns of Cameron’s latest poorly-planned everything prison is meant to this sentence far from where I live this has not been much of governors more autonomy over budgets and ‘revolution’ in a similar vein. Quite simply, stand for, how is it possible to an issue, but the upcoming referendum on Europe is a huge how to deliver ‘services’ - though how this is prison management cannot be trusted to act change or rehabilitate if there issue and many prisoners are outraged that they have no say related to ‘rehabilitation’ I do not know. autonomously. They need guidance and limitations to prevent abuse of power. are no services to guide you? in it. Whilst this action should allow prisons to What does need to occur is a separation of Do gamblers have the same The European Court of Human Rights passed legislation opt out of procurement contracts that are prison policies from vote-hungry govern- trouble accessing help in making David Cameron fall in line with the rest of Europe in fleecing the system whilst delivering very mental intimidation. Independent studies English prisons or do they relation to prisoners’ basic human rights. They also ordered little, such a move is fraught with pitfalls. All must be conducted as to the true effective- have help offered to them? that a percentage of prisoners should be allowed to vote in of which are likely to create more problems ness of Offending Behaviour Programmes in any and all elections. The Conservative Government have than are solved. reducing reoffending and the value for Michael Smyth - money that they provide the public. HMP Magilligan ignored this ruling and due to this, prisoners are not having any say in the future of the UK. This referendum is the most Most Court actions pursued against the MoJ important piece of political action this country has seen and NOMS are the result of prison governors Education and training needs to be delivered More visit since the end of the Second World War and it is shocking that and ‘managers’ making autonomous decisions to provide qualifications and workplace we have absolutely no say in the direction our country is that ride roughshod over cold hard rules, skills valued and recognised by employers. information needed heading. In light of this, I ask the question - are all prisoners regulations and laws set in place to protect Most of all, prisoners need to know that just As an 87 year-old I am in the UK no longer members of Europe? basic rights and needs. If these governors because they’ve been locked up they are not and managers are left to their own devices going to be vilified and written-off for the wondering how many people I would also like to ask that as David Cameron has failed to with the belief that they have absolute rest of their lives by the general public and a might not have computers to comply with the European Court of Human Rights in relation freedom of choice, only disaster can ensue. vindictive, spiteful, British red banner press book a visit? What should/ to prisoners having the vote, would this make the referen- As the saying goes: ‘Power corrupts, group. Mr Cameron still has much to grasp could they do? After a three dum null and void? As it stands, no prisoner in the UK will about the ‘rehabilitation revolution’. hour car journey my first visit have the power to vote and this is not only unfair but illegal was unfortunately rather as well. There is the matter of IPP prisoners still in prison spoilt due to not having any long after serving more than double their tariffs, who should Tel: 0161 928 8877 idea of the procedure. A be out of the prison system. These people should be home printed form with instruc- and able to vote but because they are political prisoners Email: [email protected] tions would have been very serving an illegal sentence they have no voice and no say in useful for newcomers. Just to the future of our country. be handed a piece of paper with a number on it without I believe very strongly that prisoners should have a say in the future of the UK, it is our country too. Although we have being told what it was for and committed crimes we are still citizens of the UK and have not when it would be needed was stopped caring about the futures of our families and ultimately not helpful. Frustrating of our country. 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Newsbites Television presenter l Lord Thomas the Lord Chief Justice has agreed with Dan Snow joins The Clink suggestions that trials could much we have progressed as be held in pubs and hotels to a society. Focusing on save money. With 20% of rehabilitation rather than courts being closed, town punishment has real halls and university buildings potential to reduce the have also been suggested. constant spiral of crime for The 86 court closures will the benefit of society as a save £700million. Lord whole and The Clink Thomas said the issues of IT demonstrates this every day.” access and security would Historian and television have to be addressed, but presenter Dan Snow has Clink in Numbers recently retired police officers joined The Clink Charity as Group Communications 2009 The year the first Clink could be given part time Restaurant opened. contracts to help with security. Ambassador, having been COMPENSATION FOR an avid supporter since the 4,000 Number of diners l A Littlehey prison chapel first restaurant opened in served each month. 2009. VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE minister has lost an unfair 28 Number of industry awards dismissal claim for telling won by The Clink Restaurants. Mr Snow commented; “The Helping victims plan for the future and achieve justice prisoners; “neither fornica- © Fotolia.com history of crime and 10 Number of new projects tors, nor idolaters, nor Our specialist team are committed to helping victims of abuse and are experts in punishment is sometimes a planned by the end of 2017. adulterers, nor homosexuals, bringing action against local authorities, such as social services, and residential murky one. To bear witness 500 Number of prisoners Devastatingi nreportstitutions, such aons child rpassiveen’s homes. nor sodomites, nor thieves, to how far we have come nor coveters, nor drunkards, trained since launching. Our dedicated team of male and female lawyers have a proven track record with with training initiatives smoking in prisons kept secret by MoJ nor revilers, nor extortioners such as The Clink Charity 73% Reoffending rate sexual, physical and emotional abuse claims. will inherit the Kingdom and Restaurants shows how reduced by since launching. The MinistryChild of a bJusticeuse ca isn trefusingake a lon tog tpublishime to c omestart to te rofm sApril with theyand imayt can be be in di fcontemptficult for of of God.” He was dismissed for a reportv iwhichctims t odetails speak the out dangersabout th eofir passivetraumat ic excourt.perien Whences. R askedegardl ewhyss o theyf how have long notago making homophobic remarks despite telling a tribunal; “I Call to ban paid McKenzie Friends smoking in prisons.th eOne abu inse five took prisonersplace, yo udo m ay spublishedtill be able the to m reportake a ancla MoJim. spokesperson not smoke and have often been forced to said; “We have long been committed to a felt inspired by God to quote share tinyAn cellsythin gwith you smokers. say to us will be handled withsmoke-free the utmos tprison levels estate.of profe Implementationssionalism, from the Bible or to say The Bar Council has backed proposals from the Courts and sensitivity and unwillders betan phasedding. over a long period in order to something else that God had Tribunals Judiciary to ban payment to McKenzie Friends in courts. The report,Child asaidbus eto c havelaims come are o ftote n‘devastat eligible f-or pubimakec fund itheseng an dchanges Jordan ssafely.” are recognised by put on my heart.” ing’ conclusions over the health risks, is Chairman of the Bar, Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC said; “One the legal services commission as one of the few specialist providers of legal aid for being kept secret by the MoJ despite threats The MoJ fears a large number of compensation l In the past 5 years G4S has of the impacts of LASPO is that hundreds of thousands of of high court action to get it published.this ty Itp eis o f worclaimsk in the fromUK. prisoners for damage caused been fined a total of people who previously qualified for legal aid are no longer not only prisoners forced to share cells with through passive smoking, to which they £3,772,291 for 224 separate eligible, and for many people this means they must represent themselves in court. Appearing as a litigant in person is often smokers who may have been affected as the said; “We will continue to robustly defend incidents and failure to daunting and challenging, and having support from a friend report shows air particle levels way above claims made against the Prison Service, and comply with procedures or or colleague acting voluntarily as a McKenzie Friend can be World Health organisation levels for half the have successfully defended two thirds of regimes at Altcourse, an important source of support. time they were monitored. prisoner claims over the last three years.” Birmingham, Oakwood, Parc Call Christine Sands and the team on 01924 868911 & Rye Hill. The worst was Rye “An unfortunate consequence of legal aid cuts is that paid The Information CommissionerEmail ab saysuse tthateam the@ jordanssolicitors.co.uk Hill with 38 penalties. MoJ isW breakingrite to Ntheei llaw Jo inrd notan publishingHouse, W theell ington‘A R prisonoad, problemDewsb thatury ,we W allF1 have3 1H toL McKenzie Friends, who are not regulated or insured and are solve’ page 23 rarely legally qualified, have been charging up to £90 an report in full and if this is not done by the l Prison Service staff are to hour to represent people in court. We have already seen one get a pay rise of 1.36% this McKenzie Friend banned from court for intimidating year (compared to NHS 1%), witnesses and legal representatives, and another jailed for which, the Treasury say “is defrauding his clients.” COMPENSATION FOR intended to recognise the particular circumstances this McKenzie Friend noun VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE year of introducing highly A person who attends a trial as a non-professional helper or adviser ambitious prison reform.” to a litigant who does not have legal representation in court. Helping victims plan for the future and achieve justice MPs will say that the rise is the same as they are getting Our specialist team have already helped victims at the following places; Origin: from the names of Leveine McKenzie and Maizie but in July last year they McKenzie, litigants in the case of McKenzie v. McKenzie (1970), In Foster Care awarded themselves a 10% in which the Court of Appeal ruled that any party in a trial is Leeds Care Homes pay rise. entitled to non-professional assistance in court. Wales Care Homes North East Care Homes Manchester Care Homes Members of the Association of Prison Lawyers St Williams, East Yorkshire Award winning firm offering specialist advice on prisoners’ rights Medomsley Detention Centre, County Durham • Lifer panels • Inquest If you have suffered sexual abuse in any institution or whilst in • Adjudications • Judicial review the care of your local authority we may be able to help. • Parole review and early • Human rights release • Compassionate release Contact solicitor Andrew Arthur ›› Registered with EMAP ‹‹ Fisher Meredith LLP, 7th Floor, 322 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7PB Call Christine Sands and the team on 01924 868911 Telephone: 020 7091 2700 Email [email protected] Fax: 020 7091 2800 Write to Neil Jordan House, Wellington Road, Dewsbury, WF13 1HL Or visit our website www.fishermeredith.co.uk Insidetime April 2016 www.insidetime.org Newsround 11 Faint Hope: Inspection Round-Up What to do about long sentences Doncaster ‘a very poor prison’ The latest Inspection of Serco run HMP Doncaster has Research by The Howard League shows more Inspectors describing it as “A very poor prison”. They say people are serving indeterminate prison environmental conditions throughout the prison were very sentences in England and Wales than in the poor, with filth, vermin, graffiti, missing windows and other 46 countries in the Council of Europe inadequate furniture in many cells. Too few staff meant wing combined. As the number of people serving Priti Patel staff were ‘overwhelmed’. There is a high level of self-harm open-ended sentences has increased, so too with three self-inflicted deaths in 18 months. Maghaberry: has the length of time they spend in prison. Tariffs are getting longer and longer (average Report says tariffs for mandatory and non-mandatory life Take on former filth, vermin, graffiti, missing windows sentences have increased by 32 per cent and and inadequate furniture in many cells prison improves 75 per cent respectively in under a decade). prisoners Most people spend many years in prison beyond The Howard League’s Frances Crook told Inside Time: but ‘still only the minimum tariff length set by the court. Employment minister Priti Patel has told “Doncaster is a big, new, private prison, opened in 1994, but companies to employ former prisoners to it is already infested with vermin and has fallen into disre- 4 out of 10’ They have published a briefing paper ‘Faint help the Government achieve its rehabilitation pair. Prisons with too many prisoners and too few staff will Hope: What to do about long sentences’ which programme. She said it was vital for former A special announced fail, no matter how old they are.” shows lessons to be learned from the way other prisoners to “leave their past behind bars” inspection of HMP countries approach long-term imprisonment. and told employers that they had a responsi- Maghaberry was carried out Download report: justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmiprisons In particular, it examines prison systems in bility to help. Her ‘See Potential’ initiative is in January following an Canada, Portugal and the Netherlands. backed by people such as Richard Branson inspection report published and Simon Cowell and is intended to build They say; “The number of in November last year that The paper calls for an overhaul of recall on David Cameron’s pledge that former staff available on the was heavily critical of the policy and the reversal of sentence inflation. prisoners should not have to disclose their Segregation Unit is in our prison, describing it as It also recommends the introduction of a criminal convictions on job applications. opinion far from sufficient to unsafe for prisoners and ‘faint hope’ law that would enable people ensure a safe and stable staff. After that inspection sentenced to an indeterminate term, who Some companies such as James Timpson’s environment. We have the rare decision was made had made an exceptional effort, to apply for high street chain of cobblers and key cutting witnessed staff being unable to tell the prison that earlier parole eligibility. shops make a point of training and employ- to unlock high risk prisoners inspectors would return this ing former prisoners. Timpson describes the due to the lack of available January. Following the latest people he recruits from prison ‘Superstars’ Staffing levels: staff, we contend that in a inspection the prison is The briefing paper can be downloaded at: - once in the company they become ‘valued ‘highly dangerous state of emergency this described as ‘stabilised’. tinyurl.com/gu5f7s8 Timpson foundation colleagues.’ situation could be highly and possibly dangerous and possibly Brendan McGuigan, the l A new survey has shown check out the facilities for life-threatening’ life-threatening. Chief Inspector of Criminal Newsbites that prisoners’ self-reported women held at the courts. Justice in Northern Ireland “Reductions in staffing said; “While some progress drug use has risen for the first In their latest report the l l Young people in prison levels on Residential Wings had been made in address- Despite private prisons time since 2007. Statistics Independent Monitoring are increasingly placing have created a number of ing our concerns and the housing only 18 per cent of from the latest Scottish Board (IMB) at HMP themselves in danger by tensions and unease, not nine recommendations British prisoners, they Prisoner Survey showed that Manchester express concerns climbing onto railings and least of which is the lack of made in the November 2015 accounted for more than illegal drug use in Scottish at the shortage of staff which, ‘suicide netting’ to protest. confidence in being “safe” report, this progress was one-third of all self-harm prisons rose 5% to 43% they say, is limiting the Figures given to Parliament expressed by members of fragile. In my view, a incidents, drug seizures and between 2013 and 2015. amount of exercise high risk show that there were 250 ‘at the Independent Monitoring significant amount of work hunger strikes last year. They prisoners in the healthcare unit l height’ incidents involving Board. Prisoner’s access to remains outstanding to also took up nearly a quarter A new group in Scotland, can get; limiting prisoners’ children aged 15 to 18 in association time has also make Maghaberry safer for of the prisons budget. Justice for Women, cam- access to the library which, 2014/15, and 314 incidents been affected by the prisoners and staff and for paigning for reform in the they say is often completely l in YOIs holding 18 to 24 reductions in staffing levels. this to reflect more positively According to the Essex way the justice system treats ‘devoid of customers’. Chronical, a judge at Chelmsford women is to send teams into year olds. These represent a in the outcomes for prisoners Crown Court allowed a 72 courts to monitor the way five-fold increase over the and their experience. Urgent The report can be downloaded from: tinyurl.com/zwy8d5x year old defendant to have women are treated. They will previous year. Prisons action had been taken to his cat, Taylor, with him in the visit courts across Scotland Minister, Andrew Selous, strengthen leadership dock for emotional support. and following last month’s responding to a question within the prison with a new There is no general rule about report that branded female from Labour MP Andrew governor and transformed animals in courts but cells at Glasgow Sheriff’s Slaughter described the senior management team in normally only assistance dogs Court ‘degrading and incidents as ‘minor in nature place who were focused on are allowed. inhumane’ they will also and quickly resolved’. stabilising the prison. In May 2015 standing outside the gates of Maghaberry, we had a real sense of despair,” Deton Solicitors he explained. In January of this year we were given a DEFENDING YOUR CAUSE!!! Concerns over violence and sense of hope.” Experienced Representation in Prison Law, Criminal Defence and Appeal & Reviews suicides at HMP Woodhill Maghaberry is a modern • Independent Adjudications • Appeals against conviction high security prison housing • Appeals against sentence • Challenges to sentence calculations In their latest inspection report on Woodhill prison, pub- around 850 adult male long • Re-categorisation and appeals against knock backs (Private) lished March 2016, inspectors expressed concern at the high term sentenced and remand • ROTL applications and appeals (Private) levels of violence and self-harm at the prison. Martin Lomas, prisoners, in both separated and integrated conditions. • Judicial Review • Parole review for IPP and lifers (Post Tariff) Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons said; “Recommendations by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman following • Parole reviews for recall • Crown/Magistrate Court Representations previous deaths in custody had not been implemented with • Confiscation of Assets and Forfeiture Cases sufficient rigour, there were not enough Listeners, and November 2015 report: mental health services had been hit by staff shortages and tinyurl.com/z547ht5 For prompt representation call William or Mo on 0208 617 0120 or 0757 240 1468 only 18% of residential staff had received mental health January 2016 report: Alternatively please write to: awareness training in the past three years.’ tinyurl.com/hq8hk5o

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Prison chaplains’ pay Prisoners to be offered World prison review test for hepatitis C under court scrutiny All prisoners in England and Wales are to be A Muslim prison chaplain had his claim of offered a BBV (Blood Borne Virus) test. It is discrimination over pay thrown out by part of a programme to eliminate Hepatitis C courts. He claimed that the fact average pay from the UK by 2030. Nearly a third of people for a Muslim chaplain was just £31,847 in prison have injected drugs and almost compared to £33,811 for Christian chaplains half of people who inject drugs in England amounted to discrimination. However, the have hepatitis C. Yet historically very few Prison Service won on the basis that pay is people entering prison or serving sentences Egypt paid according to length of service and HMP have been offered tests and hardly any have According to the ‘Middle East has only been employing full time Muslim received treatment. Public Health England, Monitor’ an Egyptian military chaplains since 2002 because there weren’t NHS England and the National Offender court has jailed a four year enough Muslim prisoners before that. Between Management Service have committed to old boy for life after he was 2004 and 2014 the number of Muslim ensuring that everyone in prison is offered a convicted of ‘murder, prisoners doubled to around 12,000 (around BBV test. Greece destruction of property and 14% of prisoners) but in some prisons such The Council of Europe, Europe’s leading human rights body has inciting riots and demonstra- as Whitemoor the ratio has been 50% or slammed conditions in Greek prisons and criticized the tions’. The boy, Ahmed higher. Mizanur Rahman, a spokesman for More information from the Hepatitis handling of police abuse allegations. In a report published in Mansour Qarni was appar- the organisation Muslim Prisoners, speaking Trust tinyurl.com/jae8ot5 February they say conditions in the country’s prisons have ently born in 2012 and would in 2014, blamed the increase on Islamophobia or write to: The Hepatitis C Trust, 27 deteriorated further citing: severe overcrowding, with some have been 18 months old in and racism among police officers. Crosby Row, London SE1 3YD. prisons at double their capacity; a lack of health care and major January 2014, the date of the staff shortages as well as often appalling hygienic conditions. alleged offence. According to The report says; “Currently, many prisons in Greece are merely his defence lawyers the court acting as warehouses in which to hold people until they are refused to accept documents eligible to be released back into the community,” proving his age.

Canada Prisoners at the high security Regina Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan have been on hunger strike in protest at being locked in their cells for 21 hours a day. Many of the prisoners are on remand and one commented; “You know it’s like we’re in a super-max correctional facility, and it’s like we’re guilty until proven innocent. You know a © Fotolia.com lot of us never had our day in court.” Among their other complaints is only having 12 TV channels, canteen price increases and the Droning on the up quality of meals. Drew Wilby, director of Falkland Islands corporate affairs with the Ministry of Justice, Statistics released by the Ministry of Justice show that the number of drones detected around The Falkland Islands have a prison with a has refused to discuss the problems until the prisons in England and Wales has gone from none in 2013, two in 2014 to thirty three in 2015. capacity of ten. Currently there are four prisoners start eating again. They have been used to smuggle drugs and mobile phones; the biggest find was at HMP prisoners; alcohol being the main cause of Oakwood in December 2015 when a drone with drugs, mobile phone, charger and SIM cards problems and the most serious crimes the 25 Belgium was recovered. Nineteen drones have been recovered. The POA maintain that additional staff island police have to deal with from the law All 11,000 prisoners across Belgium will soon are needed to tackle the issue of drones. The MoJ say they have introduced new legislation to abiding 3,000 population are speeding, and be able to make calls, watch digital TV, rent make it illegal to land a drone in a prison. driving without seat belts although Police movies and play video games from their cells. Chief Barry Marsden says that historical sexual All prisons will eventually be connected to a considered for progression. told Inside Time; “We are abuse is now rearing its ugly head on the secure digital platform known as the Prison Newsbites Out of 12,423 tests 1,912 were delighted to receive this award island. In 2015 there were 124 reported crimes, Cloud. The technology will also allow prison- positive in 2015. for our policy. Its person-cen- a 17% drop on 2014, with an 82.7% clear-up ers the opportunity to take online courses and l In order to cover low tred approach reflects our rate. check their judicial records. staffing levels the Northern l A £23,000,000 contract desire to ensure that we take Ireland Prison Service has paid awarded by ex-Justice the necessary steps to out £9.4million in overtime Secretary Chris Grayling two understand and meet the needs payments. There are around years ago, bypassing normal of all transgender prisoners, 1,100 officers between competition rules, to develop and that at all times whilst in Magilligan (276), Maghaberry a GPS prisoner tracking custody trans people are (623) and Hydebank Wood scheme, has been dumped treated with dignity and respect.” (175). Hundreds of experi- after long delays and a enced staff have left through possible increase in cost to l Former prisoners have paid voluntary redundancy and £76,000,000. The MoJ will tribute to Liz Hopkinson, who there is a large turnover now buy cheaper off-the- founded the Restore and amongst new recruits. shelf devices. Labour Shadow Resettle drop in centres, who Justice Minister Jo Stevens has died in February, aged 59, l Professor Neil McKeganey, demanded to know the full after battling throat cancer. America director of the Centre for amount of money wasted. It Along with her husband Albert Woodfox, America’s Guyana Drug Misuse Research in is a further humiliation for Mr Gerry they helped 500 former longest serving solitary 16 prisoners at Camp Street Prison in Guyana were killed when Glasgow has argued that Grayling after his successor, prisoners one of who said; confinement prisoner, has prisoners set fire to their mattresses in a protest against condi- Scottish prisoners who can Michael Gove, has reversed “Liz helped me with getting been released after 43 years tions at the prison including overcrowding and long delays for prove they are drug free his book ban, criminal court somewhere to live and lots of in a six by nine foot cell. He prisoners awaiting trial. Public Security Minister Khemraj should be offered a reward charges, legal aid cuts and his other things. She will be has been kept in solitary since Ramjattan said a new facility would soon be completed giving scheme including a reduction prison deal with Saudi Arabia. greatly missed by all the lads a prison riot in 1972 in which prisoners more room. Camp Street was built to accommodate in their sentence. In 2015 15% here. We all feel a bit lost a prison guard was killed. He 775 prisoners, currently the population is over 1,000. of drug tests on Scottish l The Scottish Prison Service without her.” Gerry said; “Liz always denied the killing and prisoners were positive for has been given a Special really listened to people and two trials overturned his India illegal drugs. The Scottish Recognition Award by talked to them to help them convictions. Prison medical officers from five Indian states have taken part Prison Service does not carry Stonewall Scotland for their through their problems … For background to this case in a three-day orientation course to help them understand the out random testing so tests progressive policy on the Even if the ex-offenders slip see: http://www.theguardian. medical needs of prisoners better. The course aims to inform are done as part of treatment treatment of transgender up, they know they can com/society/2010/mar/10/ them about the significance of healthcare in prison settings and programmes or to test inmates people in custody. The SPS always come back here.” erwin-james-angola-three inform them of prison specific medical and health challenges. Insidetime April 2016 www.insidetime.org Newsround // Local Prison News 13

Newsbites Isle of Man prisoners read l HMP Drake Hall’s focus on extending Employer Based the news for Training was praised by the the blind IMB in their latest report. Several ‘Academies’ now Prisoners at Jurby Prison on operate within the prison the Isle of Man have been including the Greggs bakery volunteering to record news chain and Halfords have updates for the blind and chosen Drake Hall to be the partially sighted on the island. location for its second A group of ten prisoners ‘Halford’s Academy.’ The aim have successfully completed © Fotolia.com training and select news items is to facilitate a seamless which are recorded and move to employment upon Rosie Kane and Jenni Gunn at the protest outside Cornton Vale prison distributed free. The project Magilligan go Skype release. The latest IMB report is a joint effort by the prison should be available in the Many prisoners at HMP Magilligan can now use Skype to Protests at Cornton Vale and the Manx Blind Welfare prison library or can be Society. Debbie Thomson, keep in contact with their families. The scheme was intro- downloaded from duced following an earlier trial. It is hoped that it will allow There was a demonstration outside Cornton Vale last month volunteer co-ordinator at the tinyurl.com/jctjhsp for increased contact between imprisoned parents and their protesting at the ‘humiliating conditions’ suffered by women society, said; “The prisoners children with a greater degree of interaction between in the prison which included women being told to use their have done a commendable l Prison staff at HMP Elmley children and parents than is provided by traditional tele- sinks as lavatories. One of the organisers, Jenni Gunn said job and we’ve had no hesita- phone calls. The Skype calls are conducted in soundproof recovered 130 mobile phones that conditions at the prison were ‘an affront to an inmate’s tion in asking them to work booths and are monitored. and 40 SIM cards last year. sense of human dignity.’ with us again in the future.” The admission comes as there Magilligan Governor David Eagleson told the BBC: “The are more and more stories in Rosie Kane, former Scottish Socialist Party MSP who was Manx Home Affairs Minister uptake among the prison population was slow to start but it the press of prisoners filming sentenced to two weeks in 2006 for taking part in an Juan Watterson said; “It is is being used by more and more prisoners, including foreign themselves inside prisons and anti-Trident protest at Faslane, said: “I had to pee in the sink always encouraging to see nationals, who are husbands and fathers and those who wish posting to social media. The in my cell twice at night time. It was very humiliating.” prisoners making a positive to maintain a good relationship with their families. We are Prison Service plans to work contribution to the local now also planning to roll it out to more prisoners in the future.” with mobile network Women are about to be moved from the prison to Polmont community. The individuals whilst the site is redeveloped. A Scottish Prison Service involved have taken great operators to try to block spokesman said that because the women would be moved pride in the planning and signals. Isis prisoners cook the night sanitation system was no longer a problem; “the delivery of this project and women who remain at Cornton Vale will be held in the best have acquired some useful l up a new future A man who tried to conditions available on the site.” skills.” smuggle two mobile phones A new project at HMP Isis is and chargers plus five SIM teaching young men kitchen cards into HMP Onley has New prison for short term sentences skills to help them into a been sentenced to 20 months After expert evidence that prison sentences shorter than a year are counter-productive and career. The prisoners are prison. Staff saw the man Scotland moves to cut short sentences, moves are afoot to build a new prison in Manchester to supported by trained mentors Austerity - swap his shoes with a house just prisoners serving 12 months or less. Inside Time understands that the MoJ has asked for two months before release prisoner whilst visiting at the what austerity? local authorities to identify a site where the new prison could be built. It is part of a move to hand and then keep the same mentor prison and carried out a over the running of local prisons, probation and youth services to large metropolitan authorities after release. It is part of a The Government has spent search. The sentencing judge such as Greater Manchester. scheme called ‘Switchback’ £595,092 revamping Torquay said; “Putting mobile phones and shows a reoffending rate Magistrates’ Court in the last into prisons can disrupt the Total UK prison population approximately 95,673 s 333 of only 12% compared with five years, including good order as it allows around 50% nationally and £121,204 on a new roof and prisoners to communicate some of the prisoners have £111,746 for new windows with their criminal associates.” gone on to work in Michelin last year. They are now ANTHONY STOKOE starred restaurants including closing it to save money. This l An inquest has just opened simon bethel SOLICITOR Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s follows news that the into the 10th prisoner to die River Cottage and top Healthcare centre at HMP at Woodhill since 2013. The Independent Prison Law Northallerton was completely solicitors London tapas restaurant prisoner was found hanging Expert since 1994 Dehesa, Roast in Borough revamped with new equip- in his cell on 11th March . Criminal Defence & Prison Law Specialists ‘People Before Profit’ Market. Switchback mentors ment including a new dental Recently prisoners were Criminal Defence suite which was all aban- Licence & Parole Hearings 40 trainees a year at £10,000 found hanged at the prison doned there when it closed a H&D PrisonC & Reca Lawlls Specialists Continuing the Fight and Challenge a head against prison which on 31 January and 29 short while afterwards. Adjudications costs upwards of £30,000. 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are some things I do bang on about IPP fault of his own, was unable to take really right for them.’ His dream is and this is one of them.’ He added It isn’t easy to set up an interview with his GCSEs as she’d arranged and came of prisons with single cells where that the more time people are stuck a senior minister in today’s media out with no qualifications at all. prisoners can find ‘decency and in cells the more likely they are to obsessed and sound-bite world, but rehabilitation.’ Rachel Billington turn to drugs or other ways of killing Michael Gove encouraged me to rattle There tends to with Michael Gove MP time whereas those out of their cells through some questions that preoc- The future are more likely to get work cupy Inside Time’s readers. What be a diet in prison of There is a refreshing tendency in his qualifications. about IPP prisoners, for example? I thinking to slash and burn. Continued from front page point out that of the 4,289 serving IPP relatively low level Underlying everything seems to be New prisons sentences, 3,391 are over tariff. qualifications and no a belief that without real alteration When Prime Minister David Cameron Recently, Mr. Gove has been im- to both the physical prison and the asked him to become Minister for pressed by a newly designed prison What can he do about that? His an- easy way to progress way it is run, nothing much can be Justice, it was his encounter in the in Germany which allows men to swer was interesting. ‘I’ve asked Nick improved. But will he stay in post ‘Scrubs’ that convinced him there spend twelve hours a day outside Hardwick, the new chair of the Parole Representatives from the Prison long enough to see his programme was a real job for him to do. ‘I could their cells which is made possible by Board (until recently Prisons Reform Trust and Longford Trust are through? He replies without hesita- see that the children we were failing ‘sophisticated design’ and ‘good in- Inspector) and he’s agreed to make included in her review. Gove told me, tion. ‘I want to stay’ ... before slightly most badly in schools were most like- dustrial relations.’ He admits you one of his priorities that we deal with somewhat despairingly, that there qualifying his answer with, ‘You can ly to end up in the criminal justice can’t do this sort of thing overnight these cases more quickly.’ Gove be- tends to be a diet in prison of rela- never be certain of anything in pol- system,’ he says. ‘In the back of my but states firmly ‘That’s the direction lieves there are those who still pose tively low level qualifications and no itics. I’d like to be able to spend as mind there were two things: one was we want to go.’ a safety risk but that there are ‘far too easy way to progress. He also sug- much time of this parliament as pos- related to justice overall and the many IPPs’ and the principle should gested that colleges don’t put their sible doing this job. Then I’d be a other was prisons and youth justice. It is clear he is an ideas man, but he be that an IPP sentenced prisoner best teachers into prisons and to very happy person.’ I thought if there is some way in is also practical. Aside from the nine ‘should have expectation of a clear make the system work at all as a pris- which we can apply some of the les- new prisons, there will be six pris- path to exit.’ He acknowledges the oner you have to be ‘amazingly per- You can never be sons elsewhere, not just from this ons, announced soon, that will be problems of offending behaviour sistent.’ He obviously hopes that the country but abroad, to turn the lives run autonomously by their governors courses often not being available but Coates report will be a big step to- certain of anything in of prisoners around, then it would - ‘enlightened and capable gover- hopes, he says, that under the charge wards improving matters. politics. I’d like to be be an amazing thing to accomplish.’ nors’, as he describes them - based of Nick Hardwick, the system will on the Academy schools model. ‘operate more rationally.’ Probation able to spend as much Blighted lives ‘Governors will be given far more I ask him about the probation ser- Chatting with Michael Gove is a bit freedom, freedom to design their Work and Families vice. Did he think it is operating as time of this parliament like listening to a contestant in the own IEP scheme, freedom to negoti- We tackle two gritty subjects next: it should? After impressing on me as possible doing this radio show, ‘Just a minute’. He talks ate different ways of working with opportunities for work and keeping that he thinks there are many excel- without hesitation, deviation or rep- staff, freedom to keep the money contact with families. On both he is lent people in the service, he admits job. Then I’d be a very etition. In well under an hour as we they might make from prison enter- resolute. ‘I want more people in work. that there are problems. The biggest, happy person sat in his office in the House of prises and invest that money in ed- My ideal is that people in prison work he believes, is the lack of continuity Commons we covered a dozen topics. ucation. Each department will be for a company that could employ in the people who, for example, pre- But it’s clear that he believes in what free to forge relationships with peo- them on the outside and also that pare the initial report, the sentence Your letters he is saying and wears the robes of ple outside prison.’ people in prison earn money which plan, the probation worker inside It is also cheering to report that he a missionary to prison reform with is kept for them in an account so that prison and the probation worker out- (and his assistants) is an avid reader great conviction. He says he is deter- This is in fact the first it can be handed over when they leave side. ‘Lack of continuity,’ he says of Inside Time. He says he finds the mined to do something about im- or three months afterwards.’ On fam- ‘and lack of deep knowledge, works letters’ pages most compelling be- proving the situation of the almost time that a serving ilies, I point out that new build pris- against success.’ He also thinks the cause they present ‘the unvarnished eighty-six thousand men, women Minister of Justice ons are more likely to be outside system of recall needs looking at. ‘We truth’. He adds that he’ll sometimes and children behind bars. ‘The ma- towns making visiting harder. He need to make sure that it is not simply pick out a letter and pass it on to his jority of people in prison are those has spoken to Inside counters by saying it was the only way there for administrative breach of the PA or to Michael Spurr (Head of whose lives have been blighted by Time in the 25 years to provide ‘humane accommodation, terms of the licence.’ He is counting NOMS) asking ‘Is this really true? things that have gone wrong, wheth- less crowding and more facilities.’ On on the new Chief Inspector of Can this be happening? Is there er in their family life, through edu- of its existence the other hand, he says, ‘You must Probation Glenys Stacey, who he someone with a genuine complaint cation, in the mental health area or make sure you have appropriate sub- worked with before and admires, to we can address now?’ So when you with other problems. So now we have If the rumours are to be believed, the sidised transport and that you have help make the system work more write your letters to Inside Time, bear a group of people who are some of governor of Wandsworth prison in new prisons facilities that allow positively. in mind they may well reach the eyes the biggest challenges in our society might be one of the ‘enlightened and families to spend time in a construc- of the Minister of State for Justice. but the differences we can make if capable’ but the minister wouldn’t tive way.’ He also believes that tem- Shorter sentences we turn their lives round are great.’ be drawn beyond saying he was in- porary licence for visits to the family I try to draw him out on the subject By now I’m far past my allotted in- deed the right sort and an announce- can make a positive contribution. He’s of shorter sentences. The Howard terview slot and he has to rush off Time out of cell ment would be made soon, probably been impressed by a military prison League have proposed that for another appointment. As I make He may have high ambitions but he in the next couple of months. where the commander may allow a Magistrates should be banned from my way out of the Palace of is also a realist whose ideas don’t prisoner out to spend Saturday after- prison sentencing for six months but Westminster, it strikes me that it has always coincide with prison reform His office is rather like a small sit- noon with family and friends, if he his answer is circumspect. Although been a very long time, if ever, that a thinking. When I asked him about ting-room. Also present was his PA has earned that right. agreeing that short sentences do little forceful, clever minister has serious- the issue of time out of cells, which and a representative from the good, he plans to study this area ly turned his attention to the prison is usually attributed to overcrowd- Ministry of Justice press office who Education more carefully before intervening in estate. The climate has probably ing, he admitted that staffing plays asked me just before I went in how Unsurprisingly, given his back- any way. He is more at home with his never been worse but perhaps an important part in whether a pris- many Justice Ministers we had inter- ground, education is an area in which plans for new build prisons. Michael Gove is the man to turn the oner is unlocked but suggested that viewed. ‘Didn’t you talk to Tony Mr. Gove shows particular interest. prison ship from the rocks and head the quality of leadership within the Blair?’ she asked. ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘for He instigated the Dame Sally Coates Categorisation it towards brighter waters. prison is also important. ‘We’re pre- our first issue in 1990 but he was review of prison education and her This takes us into the subject of cat- paring prison league tables and one Shadow Home Secretary.’ This is in report which will be published this egorisation in prisons. He talks wor- of the things we want to put at the fact the first time that a serving month. Sally Coates, as a teacher, had ryingly of local prisons that have to heart of it is a measure of the amount Minister of Justice has spoken to seen for herself the problems when deal with ‘a jumble of different types Inside Time will be analysing of time spent out of cells and time Inside Time in the 25 years of its one of her brightest students landed of people’ and feels that far too many and explaining Dame Sally’s spent on purposeful activity. There existence. up in YOI Feltham and, through no people are in prisons that are ‘not Report in our May issue. Insidetime April 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment // Interview 15 It’s time to take politics out of prisons As Lord Woolf steps down as chair of the Prison Reform Trust he calls for change in the way the prison system in the UK is administered

Erwin James public means letting people out of prison in better shape than they were when they went in.” The first time I encountered Lord Woolf was in the library of Long Lartin high security prison It’s always said that there are no votes in pris- in South Littleton, near Evesham in ons. My view is that I think if the public knew Worcestershire. Woolf was undertaking his the truth about prisons, there would indeed be inquiry into prison conditions following the votes in prisons that work well and make society riot in Strangeways prison in Manchester and safer. Prison reform is not just to give prisoners I was seven years into a life sentence. an easier time, but to make the prison experi- ence more meaningful so that we all benefit in In the weeks and months following that seminal the long term surely? “I entirely endorse that,” riot in April 1990 there were numerous other he says. “I strongly endorse that. What we have riots and disturbances in prisons up and down to do is start getting improvement and then the country. In the course of his inquiry Woolf show the public the benefits of those improve- was charged with visiting prisons and speaking ments. That is the way to ensure politicians are to prisoners about their experience of prison life. able to sustain a reform agenda.”

The riot I was in on Long Lartin’s B Wing was What does he think of James Timpson’s ap- a scary fifteen hours. Barricades, fires, sparks pointment as his replacement chair at PRT? “I from ripped electric cables, floods from think the Prison Reform Trust has done great smashed water pipes and prisoners serving long things and I’m sure under James’ chairmanship long sentences running around wearing masks it will continue to do so. And I think he will be and wielding spears created a seriously dan- a huge stimulus to the board. He is the ideal gerous situation. “Let’s burn the nonces!” © Prison Reform Trust person to carry it on, not least because he has chanted one of my neighbours, a troubled man practical insights. He knows a great deal about in for killing five people. IRA prisoners on the Lord Woolf speaking at the Inner Temple in London on the 25th Anniversary of the Strangeways Riot. it. It’s something in his blood, inherited from wing helped to calm him down. In the end no- his parents and I wish him every success.” body was killed. Nobody was seriously injured. Timpson, of the Timpson shoe repair empire, downside of prison and the upside of alterna- he shared his thoughts with me again. A giant tives and what is needed was explained prop- We were lucky that night. My troubled neigh- So post Prison Reform Trust, what are his plans? in legal circles and bigger still in the criminal erly to the public they would take a different bour hanged himself in Full Sutton prison six Is it time to go fishing? “I’ve only caught one justice arena Woolf is yet a modest man, and view to that which is often reported as their months later. fish in my life,” he says, “and that was my wife.” perhaps the archetypal model of a fine view. It’s not about tougher and tough sentenc- He laughs and I shake his hand and thank him gentleman. es. I think they want a justice system and a In the prison library Woolf, sharply dressed in warmly for our conversation. pin stripes and white cuffs, wanted to know prison system that works. They want a system that has fewer people going back once they what it was like to live in these places. Hands Again and again we’ve When I was asked to sign a card to mark Lord have served their sentences.” went up and confident sounding prisoners ex- seen the dawn of prison Woolf’s stepping down as chair for PRT I wrote, pressed their grievances. I sat at the back, des- “Dear Harry, you and I becoming colleagues is How confident is he that the government’s new perate to say something, but lacking the con- reform approaching only one of my life’s greatest achievements.” I hope prison reform agenda will be sustained? Prime fidence to think that Lord Woolf would take he understood how much I meant it. seriously anything I might have to say. So I kept to disappear in the fog of Minister David Cameron has said he wants peo- quiet. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine confusion ple in prison to be looked upon as ‘potential that one day, twenty one years later to be exact, assets’ rather than ‘liabilities.’ “That it should Harry Kenneth Woolf, Baron Woolf CH PC FBA Lord Woolf and I would become colleagues. be sustained is critical,” he says. “Again and Fmed Sci (born 2 May 1933), was Master of the Given the new prison reform agenda of the again we’ve seen the dawn of prison reform Rolls from 1996 until 2000 and Lord Chief Justice I was released from prison in 2004 after serving government I asked him why he thought the approaching only to disappear in the fog of of England and Wales from 2000 until 2005. The 20 years and became a trustee of the Prison had such a preoccupation with confusion. We need to have consistency and Constitutional Reform Act 2005 made him the Reform Trust a year or so later. Lord Woolf was putting people in prison? We have the biggest most importantly we have to have politics taken first Lord Chief Justice to be President of the appointed chairman of the PRT in 2011. Since prisoner population in Europe and more life out of prisons. Then if there is a change of gov- Courts of England and Wales. He has been a then I have met with him regularly at trustee and indeterminate sentenced prisoners than ernment, as there will be sooner or later, that non-permanent judge of the Court of Final meetings and interviewed him twice for the all the other western European countries put doesn’t affect the prison situation. Whatever Appeal of Hong Kong since 2003. He was ap- Guardian. Shortly after he handed over his together. “As someone who has sentenced your views politically, the result you want is pointed Chairman of the Prison Reform Trust in chairmanship of the PRT last month to James many people to prison, I think that if the always going to be the same. Protection of the April 2011.

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© Paul Clarke © Paul Clarke © Paul Clarke Lynda Elliott Gary Pearson Phil Forder

Lynda Elliott, Learning and Manager, agreed, describing Gary Pearson, an Officer innovative, offering prisoners Phil Forder is the Community moment in history’. Phil re- Skills Activity Manager at HMP how Lynda “also engaged staff Instructor who has worked at “rewarding, paid work bene- Inclusion Manager (and Arts cently published a book of Durham, was Commended for through providing an oppor- HMP since 1988, was fitting them upon release & Community Lead) at HMP/ LGBT writing from prisoners her outstanding work in, tunity to name the coffee shop Commended for developing a whilst providing a positive YOI Parc and was Commended and staff. In his foreword, gay among other achievements, through a voting system”, and remarkable - and commercial- contribution to the Reducing for his remarkable contribu- rights champion Peter Tatchell creating the charmingly adding that the, “initial feed- ly successful - fly-tying unit. Re-offending function as a tion to promoting a more in- commended the pioneering named ‘Judge & Barista’ coffee back from staff and partners clusive LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, initiative and said that ‘where shop at the prison, in addition has been overwhelming.” Lead nominator, Alexander whole.” Bisexual, and Transgender) Parc goes may others follow’. to her normal role in the pris- Squire of Workshop Industries, environment at Parc and Phil has championed LGBT on. The shop, in the gate area, One worker at the coffee shop, says Gary exercises “his full The workshop has generated across the sector - including rights by being a positive role is open to staff and the general David said, “Lynda has really dedication to HMPS, his un- many benefits, which, as creating the world’s first LGBT model with a vision for how public, and is run by long term achieved something here. I derstanding of the prisoner Alexander explains, “HMP prisoner football team. prisons can become inclusive unemployed people, includ- really love working here and population and reducing re-of- Exeter is beginning to realise. places. His work has changed ing reformed offenders. having been given this oppor- fending and also his passion There has already been a ben- tunity that is really down to His lead nominator was Janet Parc and the whole prison es- and skills in helping others” eficial effect on both prisoners her. It’s a great environ- Wallsgrove, Director at Parc. tate for the better. His work Remarkable and in his work. He noted that, and staff who have displayed ment…I’m totally amazed by “I would like to nominate Phil has been to mentor LGBT in- worthy of praise it, a total credit to her.” having invested “an extraor- positive reactions and com- Forder for his work in chal- dividuals in order to feel safe Adding, “I’m really getting dinary amount of his personal ments regarding the fresh, lenging homophobia at HMP/ and to work with the commu- Nominator Tony Brown, Head something from it for the first time and efforts, Gary success- creative and innovative steer YOI Parc (1,700 prisoners) thus nity at large to become more of Reducing Offending at the time in a long time, I’m really fully started his own pilot of the workshop.” These pos- making it one of the safest inclusive and challenge en- prison, praised Lynda’s “tire- surprised and happy about workshop, making fishing itive sentiments have been prisons in the UK for LGBT trenched prejudices. This has less effort, work and foresight” this great opportunity.” flies. Having knowledge of the widely echoed, including by prisoners. As Director, I have involved working with differ- in developing this initiative, Another worker, Charles, said, market area and being a keen Phil Copple, Director of Public received many letters from ent departments in creative noting that her “enthusiasm, “Lynda is a real diamond. She fisherman himself, Gary was Sector Prisons at the National prisoners that are very moving ways to change attitudes. The compassion and continued checks in on us and makes ideally placed to make this Offender Management Service and sincere and that show his result has been a number of care for the new staff given sure we’re supported. Her ded- jobs thorough this scheme has ication is brilliant… we really pilot work, and work well.” (NOMS), Andy Rogers, Deputy level of working” she said. innovative projects that have been quite remarkable and enjoy the job as it’s a lovely Director for Custody at NOMS proved themselves over and worthy of praise.” place to work. Lynda has been as well as South-West How can I again. His own decision to be an angel and we really appre- Created, ‘a Industries Lead, Paul expect others to ‘out’ himself to prisoners and Michelle McCarthy, North East ciate this new start here.” viable, locally Wiltshire. staff alike was brave and par- Regional Learning and Skills do this if I can’t amount in beginning this sourced and Gary, an impressive fisherman myself? work.” Janet quoted Phil’s developed workshop in his own right, set out to remark “How can I expect oth- make the workshop commer- ers to do this if I can’t myself?” Janet described how “Phil has achieving a finan- cially viable. Using his links set up a thriving LGBT com- Phil Forder established ‘Hay cial turnover and to the sport, he began commu- munity in a place that many in the Parc’, a collaboration of nicating with two well-known No Letters? No Visits? teaching prisoners considered impossible. He seven years standing between fishing supply companies Most of us need someone to talk things over with - someone we supports prisoners both indi- the world renowned Hay real, skilled and who, on receiving a sample can trust, who doesn’t put labels on us, who talks straight, stays vidually and in groups, with Literary Festival and Parc pris- in touch and doesn’t make promises they can’t keep. creative work’ from the workshop, “deemed one saying that before talking on. He has also brought many them to be of a quality compa- to Phil, he contemplated sui- LGBT authors, including writ- Our Befriending Service aims to support people in prison, rable to their existing private cide. He tackles homophobia ers Val McDermid and John by establishing and maintaining contact through letter writing and From the outset, Gary wanted suppliers - a considerable by any means and set up the Sam Jones, Welsh visiting. If you would like a volunteer befriender write to us at the to create “a viable, locally achievement for a workshop UK’s first gay prisoner football International Rugby referee address below. sourced and developed work- in relative infancy.” The work- team. It secured plaudits from Nigel Owens, and campaigner 1A Elm Park, London SW2 2TX shop achieving a financial shop has now received large across Wales and the Chair of Peter Tatchell, as well as facil- turnover and teaching prison- orders from these companies, Sports Wales, Professor Laura itated workshops with Pride creating links between the ers real, skilled and creative as well as from internal and McAllister, said the ground Sport on tackling offender and the community work.” The result is highly external customers. breaking team was ‘truly a homophobia. Insidetime April 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 17

Inspectorate of Prisons. These inspections are objective evaluations of the state of each prison I’m new here... and often offer salutatory reading for both the staff of the prison service and indeed society as Is this your first time in prison? a whole. What is needed is a shift in the group think of both staff and prisoners and indeed If it is then you are going to society as a whole. We use terms like resettle- have to learn a few things... ment for prisoners - 15% of whom were home- less before custody and almost 70% were un- 1) Never, ever, borrow anything from employed - hardly indicators that they were another prisoner. Not everyone in prison is a settled before custody. We offer citizenship predator, but they do exist in our prisons and classes for pupils in our schools - maybe we one of the ways they hook new prisoners is to need these in prisons? appear to be friendly and then offer to lend you tobacco, toiletries or food until you get In the January 2016 issue of Inside Time the paid. It is only when you go to return the item mailbag contained a splendid observation - “Rebuild the prison system, not the prisons”! or items that you find there will be ‘interest’ on Indeed the buildings will have a significant the loan. Usually what prisoners call ‘dou- impact especially as there is currently a great ble-bubble’, meaning you pay back twice what deal of overcrowding - despite the (mis)under- you have borrowed. This can lead you into © Fotolia.com standing of Philip Davies MP, that the average debt, which in turn can lead to violence. number of prisons per cell is one! In the same issue of Inside Time he is corrected; 22% of the 2) Never let other prisoners know your total prison population is doubled up in a cell outside address or details, nor those of designed for one! If prison is there to help re- your family and friends. When I first went to Tales of Wisdom prison this was the first piece of advice given duce offending maybe systems are needed that build a group think that is collective. by the staff and it still holds true today. Your Our man on the inside tells it like it is information should remain private. Once again, In our daughter’s school they emphasise that there are many predators in prison who could staff and pupils need to work together with make use of such information. Sid Arter think is strong in all sectors of society. It is inevitable that both prison officers and prison- parents to help bring about success - success 3) Always search a new cell thoroughly. ers have a group think and it is likely that these for the individual pupils, the school and society. The search is to make sure there are no illicit two group thinks will be different in terms of Maybe prisons need to have collective goals items left in the cell by a previous occupant Group think their values and ideas however, each will have and group think that is about success for pris- a powerful impact upon individuals, each other oners, staff and society - at present I sense the that could get you into trouble if found by staff. Over time we all hear a good deal and a good and the system as a whole. staff group think and the prisoners group think Ignorance is no defence. deal of it goes over our heads; however, some are very different and much less focussed on things stick and help us make sense or indeed If however, there is a pervasive group think constructive ways! Although I also sense there 4) Do take advantage of education, library make sense. These reflections have helped me from staff that sees prisoners as disruptive, is an interesting challenge to group think - it is and gym. These activities will get you some make sense and I hope they help you. devious, dangerous and dishonest; this will not universal - there are staff that strive to chal- time out of cell and are good for both mind influence all staff, especially new members who lenge the group think and work hard to improve and body. I recall hearing about an interesting psycho- will strive to conform to the group think. the prisons as there are prisoners who strive to logical experience where a number of associates Equally if prisoners group think is that they are make the most of the opportunities that are 5) Try and attain a new skill that might be of the researcher give the obviously wrong an- intrinsically bad, worthy of exclusion from available. Maybe like school we need to con- useful in the outside world. Take advantage swer to a question and then watch as the subject society and destined to have to exploit their centrate more on rewarding good conduct of anything that is on offer as work, training of the experiment agrees with this answer rather circumstances we can maybe see why the prison amongst staff and prisoners and not, as often and vocational training if it is available. than give the obviously correct answer and service is subject to such levels of criticism as happens, concentrate activity on those that do challenge the group think. The impact of group are revealed in inspections by Her Majesty’s not cooperate. Noel Smith

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Dr Tammi Walker self-injury can increase the risk of suicide in Research has found that the percentage of those risk factors for both self-injury and suicide, only prison. Prisoners who come from disadvan- taking their own lives in the early days of im- a small number will actually engage in these Suicide is a serious public health problem for taged backgrounds and those who serve longer prisonment has decreased over recent years. acts. Screening and assessing the prisoner pop- people in prison. Recent figures published by sentences are also at higher risk, as are those But the overall strategy had serious significant ulation can produce a large number of “false the Ministry of Justice show there were 257 who have experienced or witnessed some form flaws - for example, it is difficult to determine positives” - prisoners who are identified as deaths in prison custody in England and Wales of emotional, physical or sexual abuse and have risk among already “risky populations”. having the factors connected with a higher risk in 2015, an increase of 14 compared to 2014. A a history of psychiatric disorder. but do not actually go on to harm themselves. total of 89 people took their own lives in prison Since 2000, other strategic initiatives have fo- So, as predicting those most at risk has its own last year - one every four days. Other factors relating to the prisoner’s situation cused on the importance of “prevention” over problems, I believe prevention is the most use- can also increase their risk. For example, “awareness”, including a clearer outline of the ful way of addressing the issue. The total number of reported incidents of self- whether they are in the early stages of impris- precise roles, duties and responsibilities of staff. harm in prison also increased by 24% between onment, what kind of cell they are held in and Prisons should maintain their focus and re- 2014 and 2015. Male prisoners’ reported self- with how many people, and how low prison sources on the earliest stages of incarceration harm incidents went up by 29% while impris- staffing levels are. for all prisoners - not just those deemed at risk oned women’s reported incidents rose by 11% Increase of reported - to allow staff to get to know prisoners better incidents of self-harm over the period. Women in prison are still When it comes to support, research has also and to tailor responses accordingly. Once a 24% in prison 2014 - 2015 prisoner reports suicidal thoughts or feelings self-harming much more than men. found that those prisoners who maintain their social and family ties, who feel safe and pro- Women in prison are still self- another level of assessment and intervention should then kick in. The prisoner population in England and Wales tected from bullying, have access to mental harming much more than men is rising. It has more than doubled over the past health support or routes and opportunities to 20 years and stood at at 85,634 in early February. discuss problems, are at a reduced risk of Agencies, such as the prison service and health At the same time, the number of prison officers suicide. service, need to collaborate so that the assess- has significantly decreased. There is currently a review going on of the case ment and protection of individuals vulnerable management system for prisoners at risk, which to self-injury and suicide is a product of effec- These are no means exhaustive, but they do has been in place since 2004. Prisoners deemed tive teamwork rather than reliance upon a sin- demonstrate that understanding the causes and at risk are observed, monitored and supported gle profession. reasons why prisoners engage in suicide and People took their own under the current system, which also intro- self-injury is very complex. 89 lives in prison last year duced safer cells (with fewer hanging points) Prison staff should also receive mandatory which in theory reduces the chances of prison- training on how to identify, manage and pre- First days are crucial ers completing suicide. vent suicidal and self-injurious behaviour by Since the early 1980s, the Prison Service has prisoners. Staff also need training in how to tried to develop strategies to reduce self-injury That’s1 every 4 days Prevent, don’t predict look after their own well-being, to ensure that and suicide risk in prisoners. These have mainly My research argues that prevention of suicides they are confident and knowledgeable in work- focused on the identification and observation and self-injury can be more important than ing in such a challenging area. of prisoners at an inflated risk of suicide. One People in prison are prompted to injure them- prediction. successful policy has been a focus on helping selves by a range of different circumstances. prisoners in the early days of their Research has shown that being white, relatively While many individuals arriving at the prison Dr Tammi Walker, Principal Lecturer in incarceration. young and having a history of previous may be identified or predicted as having the Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University Parole.... 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the crooks make their escape plans. You and the police have to be on high alert to catch the crooks sliding through the sewer to the getaway boat!’

‘Jump in the helicopter and stop them from making an aerial escape in the hot air The Secret balloon!’ Criminologist I mean, of course. That is a common place occurrence in Injecting a large measure our prisons, right? When I am of humanity into the doing research in prisons, I’m criminological practically tripping over hot perspective air balloons. Can’t move for the bloody things.

And as if all that weren’t ex- Here’s citement enough, the box en- thused, you might also like to ‘lift some weights with the another crooks in the prison yard’. box I want Now. You might well be for- given for asking, ‘Why, with all of the world’s problems to banned… choose to write about here, I trudged wearily past the write about this? After all, it’s front desk at Toys ‘R’ Us. The just a kid’s toy, right?’ girl behind the till gave me a wry smile. It was the third Well, strictly speaking yes; it time I’d been round the shop is a plaything, designed for that morning, desperate for young children, depicting the classic battle between the ‘us’ (i.e. wider society) and To my mind, ‘Prison Island’ is prison reform at bay for so in such a generous mood - or inspiration for my nephew’s ‘them’ (in this case, ‘the not just a toy. It is a symbol of many decades. Ways of think- if the head of Lego® happens birthday present. ‘good guys’ and the ‘bad guys’. But my problem is ex- crooks’). Prison Island teaches those “old ways” of thinking ing ingrained into the very to read this - perhaps this is actly this fact - that Lego’s® the next generation that which Cameron identified as core of societal conscious- another box that could be As I scanned the shelves in women and men in prison are having kept prisons “stuck in ness. It is time for a change. consigned to the annals of ® ‘Prison Island’, and the exam- the Lego aisle, something I the dangerous other. the dark ages”, and held So while the Prime Minister is history. hadn’t seen before caught my ple storylines they have ‘help- eye fully’ created, carries with it implicit - hell, fairly explicit I couldn’t help but think about ‘Prison Island’ in relation to ® - messages about prisons, and ‘Lego City: Prison Island the Prime Minister’s recent Parole? Recall? -Where the Police Keep the those who live and work with- in their walls, all of which will speech on Prison Reform. He Crooks!’ the box proudly argued that people in prison proclaimed. inevitably be absorbed by im- Life Sentence? pressionable young minds. are ‘potential assets to be har- nessed’ not ‘liabilities to be Excuse me?? Chief among these is that the managed’. To me, the very OLLIERS SOLICITORS concept of the ‘Prison Island’ I grabbed it down. only people in prison are ‘crooks’ and ‘bad guys’. And toy is symbolic of a society CAN HELP that the police and prison of- which believes the inverse of The picture on the front of the that statement to be true. box depicted ‘Prison Island’ ficers are always the ‘good guys’. Representation throughout England & Wales as a tall grey structure which I am not a fan of the Prime boasted an imposing guard Yup. No shades of grey here in Minister. I took issue with tower and office. At the bot- much of what was said in that Life Sentences - IPP, MANDATORY, DISCRETIONARY, tom of the tower stood a small the justice system - just plain ol’ black and white. speech (a discussion for an- cell with barred windows. other day, perhaps). But even AUTOMATIC LIFE SENTENCE PRISONERS - ORAL & And a sewer. And while the Shawshank- he now seems to understand WRITTEN REPRESENTATION that it is not simply what goes A sewer?! esque escapes ‘Prison Island’ conjures up are almost un- on within a prison itself that matters, but “what happens Incredulous, I turned the box heard of these days, escaping Recall - PAROLE BOARD REPRESENTATION through the front door is outside them too”. And it is over in my hands. Small fig- often how a person is received ures wearing the distinctive equally problematic, in its Our London office own ways. back into the community that CONTACT: JEREMY PINSON black and white of the broad often makes or breaks plans arrows grimaced back at me FREEPOST NEA 13621, 1 Heddon Street Being released doesn’t mean for ‘desistance’ (the study of Mayfair (‘3 male crooks and a female how and why people move MANCHESTER M3 9ZL crook’, the box helpfully in- that the stigmatising label of ‘crook’ or ‘bad guy’ goes away. away from offending, and London formed me). Tiny police of- break free from cycles of re- 0161 834 1515 ficers sat in their helicopter On the contrary, it can endure W1B 4BD - no matter how many weeks, conviction and and patrol boats, while a reincarceration). shark lurked just offshore... months, or years of hard graft and change someone might The Prime Minister’s intention ‘Help the police lock up the have put into trying to make sure they never return to pris- to “ban the box”, and remove bad guys!’ the box recom- the declaration of unspent mended. ‘Watch the crooks on. And toys like ‘Prison Island’ subversively help to convictions on job application work out in the prison yard forms, is certainly welcome in and open up the prison to see create and reinforce (false) social distinctions between this respect. Insidetime April 2016 www.insidetime.org Comment 21 SCPO crime prevention or stealth sentencing

Jason Place I received a 60 month consecutive sentence to imprisonment, by returning to his previous type Section 4 harassment for say causing someone my 18 month confiscation default sentence. of employment unless doing so is seen as the alarm and distress by accusing them of bribery What was my crime? Ten breaches of an SCPO only way of preventing further involvement in and corruption even if you have no previous The SCPO (Serious Crime Prevention Order) was that led to the creation and publishing of a serious crime’. (R V Surbjeet Singh Davegun bad character which created the SCPO. In other introduced in 2007 under The Serious Crime website Cowboysolicitors.com and rental of a (1985) 7 cr App R (S) 110). words you haven’t a hope in hell of a fair trial. Act 2007. Parliament made certain provisions private home using a non SCPO registered email to protect those off enders it might aff ect. If you address with a non-registered laptop which, A powerful statement which, in my case, and When does harassment become serious organ- breach an SCPO you face a further criminal incidentally, belonged to my wife and daughter; God only knows how many others, has fallen on ised crime? Exactly, and that’s the danger of charge in the Crown Court and can get up to a that doesn’t matter though if the restricted deaf ears, by judges, police and prosecutors. SCPOs, they allow the police to create a maximum of 5 years imprisonment. SCPO items are on your property, according to Pandora’s Box of problems for you if the orders the courts you are guilty. I am disabled, wheelchair bound with MS are abused and not used for the purpose There are some civil servants (including police (Multiple Sclerosis) so my only way to earn a Parliament intended. offi cers and off ender managers) who have not I started by telling you Parliament’s intention living is by using a computer to design websites. got a clue about these orders and what of the SCPO which has so blatantly been ignored That or become a spoon whittler! I have found out the hard way, don’t ever ac- Parliament’s intentions were when the act was by those agencies employed to enforce cuse a barrister or QC of being corrupt after draft ed. There are also devious manipulative conditions. Here’s the danger if the police have it in for you being commissioned by a third party to create police offi cers especially within the Met police and let’s face it for most of us they are never a website to do so, because if there is an SCPO LOMU (Lifetime Off ender Management Unit) It was specifi cally introduced to prevent and happy with the sentence passed so the SCPO on you the restrictions will be intertwined with who use the SCPO to stoke up an ex-off enders disrupt serious organised crime, so when a becomes a stealth lethal weapon to snare and a new off ence to give you more stealth time. It’s sentence so that it is virtually impossible for judge makes an order they really need to decide entrap you. Breach of an SCPO, i.e. just being an abuse of power really and I hope Parliament them to resettle back into the community with whether a website which sells payslips or a arrested creates a FTR (Fixed Term 28 Day re- learn of this abuse and safeguard the Serious their family. person who commits commercial burglary falls call) that’s just for starters; a second breach of Crime Act 2007/2011 so that SCPO breaches are within the description of a serious organised an SCPO creates a standard end of sentence tried separately to any newly alleged off ences An SCPO can contain many conditions and criminal! recall even though Parliament intended that and that a breach never triggers a recall to clauses which any normal member of the public recall to custody be treated as an alternative custody. would think nothing of. Example: Only allowed The SCPO was not to be used as an additional remedy to that of ordering an SCPO, para 18.9 one registered email, one computer, one sim punishment and restrictions, quote from CPS SCPO guidelines found at www.cps.gov. The good news is that you can appeal an SCPO card, one website (UK only) and in my case, not Baroness Scotland who drafted the bill: uk/legal/s_to_u/serious_crime_prevention_ using form NG-SCPO. The High Court doesn’t to use a public payphone. ‘Prosecutors should bear in mind the policy of orders_(SCPO)_guidance like them and if your grounds are good enough the law once a man has served the imprison- they will quash the order. My grounds are that Once you receive an SCPO unless the police ment which is passed upon him as a punish- An SCPO is supposed to be reasonable and the order is oppressive and unworkable and force or agency when issued is honourable and ment he should be given every help and con- proportionate, however when you throw in a sets up an ex-off ender to fail, so fi ngers crossed. has some integrity, it can be used to really screw sideration in re-establishing himself in an breach charge with a new off ence charge, it If you have an SCPO that’s been used to stoke up your life continually sending you back to honest life and particularly in earning a living. opens up a gateway for prosecutors to introduce up more time, drop me a line. GO without a ‘get out of jail free card’. Conditions should not therefore seriously in- your bad character at Crown Court trial for the hibit the off ender from rehabilitating himself off ence which created the SCPO; this basically Jason Place is currently I know the danger of an SCPO because recently in society, having served his sentence of means if you are charged and indicted for a resident at HMP Thameside

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Donald Allister spoke to one prisoner who was training need to be aligned very close to completing a with and integrated into pris- PM’s prison speech course that would have given on education. It is sad to see Mr Gove, the her a nationally recognised that the funding for these vital Secretary for qualification - just the sort of programmes has been re- State for Justice, thing that she would need to duced. There are new commu- make that assessment? And how will reform Peter Dawson has made a number of chang- help her find a job once she nity rehabilitation companies prisons be made accountable to the communi- es to policy and practice since was released. She told me with which have been set up and ties they serve? taking up his post in 2015. It is a note of resignation in her they will have the knock-on An honest reaction to David Cameron’s speech good to note that some of voice, however, that she was effect of reducing rather than on prison reform? Well, more meat than might Finally, while the Prime Minister asserted that these changes have made a not going to be allowed to increasing the joined up ap- have been expected - and a really welcome there was no link between a rise in prison sui- positive difference to living complete the course because proach which is so very nec- rabbit out of the hat in “banning the box” for cides and a decline in resources, the truth is conditions of prisoners. As a she was being moved to an- essary. The separating of edu- all civil service appointments, allowing ex of- that every important indicator of a healthy result of this new policy, for other prison at very short no- cational provision and fenders to compete on fair terms for several prison system has got worse over the last three example, the government has tice. I was very disappointed behavioural change and reha- hundred thousand jobs. The Prime Minister years when resources have been slashed. The allowed prisoners greater and at such a lost opportunity and bilitation means that the robustly dismissed the myths both that prison plans to build new prisons barely even match easier access to books. This is asked her if she would like me chances of an rounded and is too soft, and that mass imprisonment might the projected increase in the prison population a welcome first step, but there to have a word with the prison balanced approach are seri- reduce crime. But some very big questions re- over the life of this Parliament, and the best is still quite some way to go if authorities. She replied, ously undermined. main for Justice Secretary Michael Gove to an- existing prisons can hope for is to continue to standards of education in our “Thank you, but don’t bother. swer over the next few months. make do with what they have. Whatever the prisons are to be improved. We expect this. It’s just the The government has begun a PM says, resources are part of the equation. We need to see a rather differ- way the system treats us.” I review and this is to be wel- First, what does autonomy for six public sector ent approach - some ‘joined was shocked. The system comed. I would like to urge the “reform prisons” really mean? There was much in the speech to work with - up thinking’ - in order to make should not treat prisoners in government to recognise the problem solving courts, more sophisticated some very necessary improve- that way. In other walks of life importance of the review so The Prime Minister said the governors of those electronic monitoring and satellite tracking ments and lift the standards we see things the other way that prisoners are able to re- six prisons would have their own budget and both as an alternative to custody and as a way to an acceptable level. I have round; so there is a pa- ceive the potentially two concrete examples of how “total discretion over how to spend it.” A prom- to bring forward release, a promise to find al- tient-centred NHS and a life-changing education which things have not been done is so desperately needed. A ise to allow them to decide who to commission ternative solutions for the seriously mentally child-centred Education well which are drawn from my system. good educational programme education from is specific. But 80% of the ill, and a recognition of the damage caused by own personal experience. in our prisons has the possi- budget is spent on staff. Will governors decide the unnecessary imprisonment of mothers. My second example relates to bility of helping not only the who to hire and fire, and what to pay them? There is an immediate opportunity to design Even though this first example the importance of all-inclusive prisoners on it, Will they be able to build up reserves or, more meaningful indicators which will focus energy comes from a visit I made to a education. We need to see bet- but everyone in probably, borrow in order to invest? And will on the prison’s rehabilitative task. But in an prison before the last election, ter connections between all our society. they be able to charge more if they’re told - age of austerity, the resources circle cannot be I am sure that it is still relevant the different parts of the sys- sorry, “asked” - to take more prisoners or squared unless we do succeed in using prison today. The same sort of thing tem. Work done to help pris- change what they deliver? less. So in addition to these welcome innova- is almost certainly still going oners change wrong behav- Donald Allister is of tions, there must be confidently used alterna- on. I visited a very impressive iour patterns needs to be seen Peterborough and a member Second, we got the answer we expected about tives to custody at the lower end of seriousness, unit which trained female as part and parcel of the whole of the House of Lords where controlling prison numbers. The Prime Minister and shorter, more intense sentences at the prisoners in catering. They educational programme in he has spoken on a number said it is a matter solely for the courts, even upper end. There is no need to spend more - in were being taught a wide prisons. In the same way, the of prison issues. This article is though it is political intervention which has fact, a more rational approach saves money in range of skills that they could important programmes such based on a speech he made in consistently pushed numbers up for two dec- the medium term. But just as successive gov- use in the catering industry as those involving restorative January as part of a debate ades. 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in favour of the E-burn product.

Has the ban on tobacco been difficult to uphold? Is it now a more valuable form of currency? We then spoke to Darren Haley, the There is very little evidence of existing prisoners trying to former senior prison officer responsible smuggle tobacco into the pris- for the development of E-burn... on, however there is evidence to suggest that new receptions It seems E-burn has been very successful in Guernsey prison. are bringing in tobacco. This Do you know if E- burn is to be used in the planned roll out is in small amounts and is eas- of the smoking ban in UK mainland prisons? ily detected. The roll out in England and Wales is underway and we are in Has the tobacco ban had any discussions with NOMS but these things are quite complex and everyone is doing their level best to have everything necessary impact on the use of so in place for some trials. The introduction of alternatives to to- called legal highs and other © Chris George bacco is the same for NOMS as it was for Guernsey but the scale drugs in Guernsey, assum- of it all is something else. ing there was some problem Inside Time has reported on the difficulties encountered by prison in the first place? There are also discussions taking place in other UK regions governors around the world for introducing a total smoking ban. and we’ve made a great deal of headway with the NHS to whom So called legal highs are ille- we supply E-burn in several secure units. Now we are hearing from concerned prisoners, staff and even gal on Guernsey. Our experi- parents of prisoners in the pilot prisons where a ban on smoking ence is they are not available Why do you think E-burn was so popular with prisoners in is currently being introduced in England and Wales. Being aware on the island or in the prison. Guernsey? of a successful roll out in January 2013 in Guernsey prison we As electronic cigarettes do The Governor set up trials and the feedback was very positive. asked David Matthews, Guernsey Prison Governor how he had not require anyone to have a We had done our best to replicate the taste of the preferred lighter has this helped re- rolling tobacco used by prisoners and we seem to have got that dealt with this and how prisoners and staff had adapted duce drug use? spot on which I am very pleased about. How did the supply to the NHS happen? John Roberts Was it as difficult for you to Because e-cigarettes were All lighters and matches are banned. Illicit drug use is not introduce the ban in available from the start of the Well we always had all secure environments in mind when we Guernsey prison? project there was no need for prevalent. We do have a prob- designed E-burn not just prisons, we simply didn’t know which You seem to have come prisoners to make their alter- lem with diverted or re direct- would come first. In fairness, dealing with smaller units once through this unscathed al- It was not difficult. It was a native smoking products. ed prescription medication. the NHS had approved it on one site it has been a little easier though I expect you too had change project like any other to get decisions in other regions so we turned our attention to some problems. Firstly did change project which required Were electronic cigarettes Is there a message you would each opportunity as it presented itself. you take the decision to go accepted by prisoners with like to give to prisoners and smoke free or was it imposed research and a detailed expla- nation of the reason for any degree of enthusiasm? governors based on your on you by the Guernsey experience? Government? change, risk management and engagement of key stakehold- I wouldn’t describe it as en- Our experience has been very When I was interviewed for ers which included prisoners thusiasm but prisoners were positive, prisoners and staff the job I was asked at the in- and staff. A key part of the grateful for the opportunity to terview to prepare a presenta- project was the realisation purchase e-cigarettes when have embraced the changes tion on how to make a prison that people are not addicted they were received into the and agree they are for the bet- © Fotolia.com smoke free. When I was ap- to smoking they are addicted prison. ter. The key is to get people pointed I was asked to take to Nicotine. Providing nico- involved and take ideas on- Smoking ban and Erlestoke are to follow suit. this project forward. The tine in a safe controlled way In a report in your local board, present it as a prison We understand plans are being States of Guernsey made the rather than selling tobacco newspaper in December you problem that we all have to High Court ruling made to make Scottish prisons decision. I was in full agree- really was the key. E cigarettes had switched to E-burn. What solve. Prisoners feel much smoke-free at some point but ment and was happy to take solved this problem. It was drove you to make this deci- healthier and are able to en- The recent High Court ruling there are no such plans for pris- the project forward. also important to provide pris- sion - were prisoners gage in sports activities at overturning the compulsory, ons in Northern Ireland or immediate ban on smoking in oners with the opportunity to consulted? higher levels than before. Jersey prison to make any Do many of your staff smoke? prisons enables the Ministry of changes to their current ar- stop by introducing Quitline Lung capacity testing on re- The driver for the change to ception nearly always shows Justice to introduce changes at rangements. The Isle of Man A snapshot taken of the prison sessions through our its own pace. However, as pri- E-burn was the opportunity an increased capacity when prison became smoke free population on 9 January 2012 Department of Health. vate prisons are not crown to purchase a product which tested again at discharge. back in 2008. showed 115 prisoners of which premises they are not affected had been designed for use in 101 smoked (88%). There were Were you aware of the same by this ruling and the ban will The Ministry of Justice is clear secure environments. Staff have noticed a consider- 87 directly employed staff and efforts by prisoners to con- therefore stand. in that it plans to implement Previously the market had not able difference when cell 34 of these smoked (39%). Not tinue smoking tobacco by the changes in all 136 prisons searching and carrying out many smoke now, approxi- using the nicotine from allowed for this option. We Three prisons in Wales became in England and Wales but can fabric checks. The air and fab- mately 15, I believe the smoke patches and fruit peel etc or had a small trial with prison- smoke free in January and four now do so without the addi- free initiative helped staff give did you offer electronic cig- ers who tested E-burn and the ric of the building is much prisons in England, Exeter, tional pressure of a legally im- up. arettes from the outset? feedback was overwhelmingly cleaner. Channings Wood, Dartmoor posed deadline. 24 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2016

techniques and technology I should imagine the Hatton had passed them by. It is true Garden burglars were the that aft er I came out of prison same. As ex-public enemy in the summer of 2010, I had number one John McVicar, (a to learn how to text, use a mo- contemporary of some of the bile phone and computer. Hatton Garden burglars) once Prison keeps you out of the said - ‘Being a criminal is a technology loop in a big way great life, the only trouble is (it is not so long ago that HMP that they put you in prison for allowed prisoners access to it’. And it is true, serious ac- FM radio, which they classed quisitive crime can become as a huge leap in technology!), addictive, and some criminals, so along with their advanced no matter how old, just cannot years this would have put beat the addiction. them at a disadvantage. But it is still no excuse for their am- ateurish post-blag behaviour.

Certainly, as you would expect from professional criminals, they were very forensically aware. They always wore masks and gloves, left no fi n- gerprints or DNA at the scene, but then seemed to completely disregard the fact that it was Being a an odds-on certainty that the criminal is a great police would put them under routine surveillance aft er the © The Great Train Robbery (Acorn Media) life, the only trouble job. is that they put you On the whole, professional in prison for it criminals are after the loot, they go where the money and John McVicar The last of the old fi rms valuables are kept, and it should never come as a sur- prise when a job like Hatton The Hatton Garden burglars Noel Smith have been stolen by bankers, was ever convicted of this rob- planning and carrying out of Garden goes off . As infamous are the last of a fast-fading Lords and MPs, but the perpe- bery, though there were ru- the job were Premiership, the and prolific American bank band of professional crimi- trators of all of the big ‘project’ mours that George ‘Taters’ aft ers and getaway plan were robber Willie Sutton once re- nals. The new breed of young With the jailing of the Hatton crimes (as the Flying Squad Chatham, Terry ‘Lucky Tel’ strictly Sunday pub league. plied when asked why he British criminals are smash- Garden burglars, whose aver- are now calling them) have Hogan and Roy ‘Pretty Boy’ robbed banks - ‘Because that’s and-grab merchants. Little age age is 63, I believe we have been working-class profes- Shaw were amongst the team. As a former professional where the money is!’ But, I planning, no finesse or pa- come to the end of an era in sional criminals. Despite a £25,000 reward of- armed robber, there is a small know from experience, it is not nache, just a moped up on the British crime. Professional UK fered for the arrest and convic- part of me that finds it hard only the loot which motivates pavement and a sledgeham- criminals have always had a The Eastcastle Street robbery tion of the robbers, no trial was not to be shocked and disap- professional criminals, it is mer through a jewellers win- reputation for carrying out the set the template for the cash- ever held and not a shilling of pointed at their complete lack also the excitement, the dow seems to be the order of big, seemingly impossible in-transit robberies that were the loot was ever recovered. of common sense and re- ‘buzz’, as we call it. I have not the day. Blowing up cashpoint heists. Right back to the so prevalent during the 1960s, search. These are men who committed a crime in 18 years machines or driving stolen Eastcastle Street post office 70s and 80s, and required a The Hatton Garden burglars have impeccable criminal ped- (though 12 of those were spent cars through the windows of robbery in 1952, in which 7 degree of planning, patience were just carrying on the tra- igrees, dating back 4 and 5 in prison) and have become designer clothes shops, grab masked men made off with a and investment. The robbery, dition of, mainly London, decades, and should surely what criminals refer to as a what you can as quick as you post office van containing which was so big at the time criminals in going aft er the big have been aware that they ‘rusty gun’ or a ‘straight-goer’, can and then scarper, is the £287,000 in cash (around £7 that Prime Minister Winston ‘prize’. Unfortunately (for were on a small and still dwin- but I still fi nd myself glancing creed of the up-and-comers. million in today’s money), Churchill demanded daily re- them), unlike the Eastcastle dling police database of home- at my watch to mark the time Professional criminality in this British criminals have been ports on the progress of the Street robbers, they were cap- grown criminals capable of when I am passing a security country has been dumbed reaching for the stars from police investigation, was al- tured in pretty short order. putting the Hatton Garden van delivering or picking up down. The days of well- their starting point in the gut- legedly planned by self-pro- And this, on the whole, has burglary together. It has been its load. It is an automatic re- planned heists, old school ter. It is true that crime is not, claimed ‘King of the been the case in all of the large suggested that, given their sponse after 3 decades as a villains and diamond geezers as was once believed, the sole Underworld’ Billy Hill, a man heists carried out since the ages and the amount of time serious criminal, like an old have all but come to an end. preserve of the poor, just think who had been born into pov- Eastcastle Street robbery. To they have spent in prison, en- war-horse pricking up his ears The Hatton Gardens burglars how many millions of pounds erty in London in 1911. Nobody use a football analogy, the hanced police surveillance when he hears the bugle. And are the last of the old fi rms.

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To die in This is what some of them wrote... Somehow, as frequently prison is hard. Of that there “ The Woman that inspires me most is my Gran, well Nana, she “ My Mum inspires me as she Good friends happens, this personal is no doubt. In my days of hates being called Gran as it makes her feel old! Basically my When I was quite a small was diagnosed with cerebral tragedy gave her a sympathy captivity there were times Nana has done everything for me. She stopped me from being boy, we lived in a small palsy at the age of 4. She had for those in life who suffered that, because of illness, I taken into care, looked after me, was there to listen to me when village in the North of my brother and me, and my disadvantage of one kind or almost died but somehow I needed her to, basically everything in my life my Nana has England. Next door was the twin sister Karyn ans still done another and she was managed to find the will not done it all for me! I love her so much, I can’t imagine life without workshop of a jobbing determined to use her to give in. Of course, there her, it is unbearable to think about! She is my heart, my soul, my everything for us. Then when I builder and carpenter and in abilities to help them. In are times when no amount of everything. ” was 8 she got really ill. She his yard there was a sandpit those days law was not willpower will save us and Danni Lockhart was diagnosed with epilepsy in which we, as children, something that girls were we have to resign ourselves and multiple sclerosis. Even spent hours building tunnels encouraged to take up. In to the inevitable. No one “ My Aunt Nicky Lomas. All “ One of the most inspiring though she was in pain she and castles. Back in the fact many applicants were knows the time or the hour is her life she has been in and women in my life is a woman workshop there was a rebuffed and persuaded to never moaned about it. All certainly a true saying and, out of the jail. When she got circular saw and planing I met inside the prison. When she was interested in was her take some other occupation with that in mind, it’s not a machine, both of which we out in 2014, she found out I was down she helped me up, in life. Again, her determina- bad thing, without being that she had throat cancer kids. were forbidden to go near. when I was sad she made me tion won through and she unduly morbid, to prepare and had to have her voice box Many is the time I have smile. She helps all the lassies was accepted in law school, for our departure from this taken out. She had been out When I had my son she loved watched as large planks of eventually becoming a in here and takes them under mortal world. If you haven’t for 1 year and 3 month, (her him. She tried her best to be a oak were sawn and then determined fighter for justice her wing. She had a very hard made a will yet, do so, even longest time out of the jail). gran and mum but she was planed to make a smooth and fair dealing especially if you have little or nothing Then in January 2016 she took life but always smiles. A heart surface. One of the many for those in society whom deteriorating fast. One day to leave anyone. My father a turn for the worst, she took of gold, she is a mother to me roles that our neighbour she could walk and the next she regarded had had a raw a stroke and the cancer had and others so I would like to professed was that of being left me a hundred quid as he deal. spread to her brain. In she couldn’t walk or talk, just the local undertaker. The had virtually nothing when nominate Irene Singleton, my he passed away. It’s not the February Nicky passed away best friend, my shoulder to mumble and it was horrible. solid oak planks were in Ninewells hospital with my In my days sum that matters but the cry on. Someone for me and shaped with clamps and in Mum (her sister) at her side. If thought. Don’t put off the other girls to look up to. I So my Mum inspires me cos no time at all he had of captivity there this has taught me anything it making restitution to those no matter how much pain she constructed a coffin for one is that life is far too short to be want to thank her for being were times that, whom you may have of the residents of the village spending in jail. Life is for one of the most inspiring girls was in she was still the best harmed. who had passed away. These because of illness, living, but not in jail! ” I have ever met. ” Mum/ Granny in the world. ” memories were resurrected I almost died Cookie Lisa Diduka Cheryl Ferguson for me as during the past Life is precious year I seem to have lost so but somehow You may not be able to do “ My Daughter Chloe has just “ My Mum, coming from a completely different life in Pakistan many good friends to death. very much but at least make managed to and coming to stay in the UK, was hard for my Mum but she did an effort. You may, or may become a woman however I suppose it’s inevitable that it. My Mum learnt the language the best she could and looked not, be a believer in God. As she has always been an as one gets older one is find the will not after us 6 kids, cooking, cleaning and never complaining. bound to experience more to give in belief is a matter of faith, no inspiration in my life from an funerals than weddings but one will be able to tell you early age. My Mum said it was hard for her getting married young and nevertheless it’s sad. with absolute certainty what having to come to the UK. She always wanted to study but the Readers of this column will lies beyond the grave. That Because of my poor mental tradition back then was different. She took on the role that was I am writing this column know that there are lawyers really ought not to be the expected of her. My Mum has always been supportive of all of health my Daughter Chloe from New Zealand where I and lawyers! As in every main concern. What needs to us. At times the East and West cultures did clash. Through my took on the role of Mother. have been working for the profession there are those be concentrated on is life Mum we have learnt a balance of both. past few weeks. When I am who are on the shady side of now, this very moment. While all her friends were out here I normally rent a house the street but it’s unfair to tar While you still have mortal playing she chose to stay in My Mum has always encouraged us kids to have an education, work hard and have respect for our elders and others. My Mum in the remote countryside the whole profession life live it as fully and as with me. She spent her time has said to me it is a continuous battle being accepted in another which belongs to a good because of one or two bad constructively as you can. To cooking and cleaning. When I country. I did not understand that when I was young because friend who was a prominent examples. I say this because do that takes just as much had bad weeks she’d do things this is my country where I was born, I am British. As I got older I human rights lawyer in the I know that some prisoners courage as it took Kathy to to try and make me smile. She have learnt that not everyone is going to accept you for who country. Alas, one evening have had a pretty raw deal succeed as she did, despite you are just because you were born in this country. My Mum we received a phone call and understandably feel gave up her young life to be a her racial, physical and has taught me to always be good to people that is the best way. ” from her tearful partner carer, then when I was given angry about the service (or other setbacks. If there is one Anonymous informing us that Kathy had lack of it) that they have final thing I would want to my first sentence she then died that afternoon. She was received. I have been lucky say to you it is this: gave up her teen years to care “ My inspirational woman is only 51 and inoperable myself having met so many Whatever has happened to for my Mother who died last my Mum. She beat alcoholism Is there cancer had claimed her as outstanding members of the you in life - whatever you year. Rather than give up my after years of being an another victim. A few days legal profession and that someone have done - life is precious clever Daughter stayed on at alcoholic. She cared for my later we drove the couple of afternoon, in Wellington, I you know and whilst you still have it school and then college. This step-dad who was dying of hundred miles to Wellington was able to chat with several live it as creatively and as year she starts university. She cancer at home. She then met who inspires to attend the memorial who had turned out to pay positively as you can. service where I was invited their final tributes to a fine wants to be a drama teacher. her new boyfriend who then you? to deliver a short address. fighter for justice. sadly died of cancer. She lost her home and became Chloe you have never had a homeless. After all this time Kathy was not born with a Natural cycle Terry Waite was a successful life because of me. You are a Then write to: silver spoon in her mouth. In many circles death is still hostage negotiator before he my Mum is still smiling and credit and inspiration to me ‘Inspirations’, Inside Time, She was born of a Samoan a taboo subject about which himself was held captive in being strong. I hope that one and I am proud to be your Botley Mills, Botley, mother, was sent for people are reluctant to talk. Beirut for 1763 days between day I’ll be as strong as her. She Southampton, Hampshire Mum. Aim for the stars, adoption and had the good As I myself am in the latter 1987 and 1991; the first four is an amazing Woman and I SO30 2GB years were spent in solitary fortune to be taken by a stages of life, certainly in the Mummy xxx ” love her to bits. ” and let us know! family of New Zealanders. last quarter, it’s not a subject confinement. Debbie Laird Hayley Robertson 26 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2016 We are surviving victims of a false accuser and wrongful conviction. Our family is in trauma

corroborative evidence, as it did coaching in being a witness is used. from an appeal judge. Yet I can’t get lawyer did not bother to even An open letter to not happen. The police and CPS did Your Secretary of State, Rt an appeal judge to grant us a court attend Crown Court once. That’s the Prime Minister not conduct a fair and thorough Honourable Theresa May’s culture order without fi nding some new how much eff ort he put into our investigation. I know this as I was of ‘you will be believed’ is being evidence fi rst. I feel that the police case. The barrister stated ‘the present at all times and so was my used in courts and juries therefore are hiding evidence that could help system let you down’ and then I wrote to you in May 2015 stepson and the accuser’s sister. No they presume guilt as they must with an appeal. Why won’t the left us to rot. explaining the situation me and one interviewed any one of us. All believe the accuser. This is wrong. police help us? my whole family are in. We are of us, key witnesses as we all know When the jury believes the accuser In these HSA cases the burden of all now vulnerable victims of the truth. We were all present. The before the trial begins, is this not Your justice system proof has for some reason been your justice system that allows Police were only ‘presumption of guilt’ and against transferred to the defendant guilty verdicts on nonexistent interested in a conviction. It seems ECHR Article 6, everyone is entitled has destroyed our from the prosecutor. The accuser crimes. We are all devastated at they are conviction chasers not to a fair trial and must be Presumed family. It has let us all is called a victim and the the way in which we have been truth chasers. When challenged Innocent. defendant is now presumed treated by the police, CPS, legal about not interviewing key down. We trusted your guilty as the accuser must be aid lawyers, barristers and the witnesses, they stated that they are We were given legal aid, the full system. We brought our believed. Surely these trials are judiciary. We have been sacri- guided by the CPS and the CPS did cost of which I have now repaid, as I unfair trials as ECHR state that fi ced. Our lives stolen and our not require them to interview key was threatened and bullied that a family up to believe in everyone is entitled to a fair trial whole family put into trauma. witnesses. I would like to know charge would be placed on my the police and the and must be presumed innocent. why? property if I did not make immedi- The Government make the laws, The criminal courts, following ate payment. We used a legal aid Justice System. How the judiciary follow your laws, the ruling of the House of Lords It seems the Appeal barrister, who I now know is only which is why I am asking you for in DPP v P (1991) 2 AC 447, had required to do the bare minimum. wrong were we? help. come to accept multiple allega- Courts require new The solicitor that we had was tions as mutually corroborative, evidence. Evidence that recommended to us by the police. It seems the Appeal Courts require You have recently made a even when they were not He was the on call solicitor. We now new evidence. Evidence that wasn’t statement ‘there’s an industry ‘strikingly similar’. In 2002, the wasn’t available at the know that he too, did not have the available at the trial. Can you trying to profi t from spurious Commons Select Committee on trial. Can you please specialised experience required in please advise me on how I do this? claims’ and you intend to put a Home Aff airs issued an authorita- these cases. How do I get new evidence of a stop to it. I sincerely hope that tive report which warned that the advise me on how I do crime that did not happen 11 years you intend to include the combination of this judgement When these false allegations were ago? This is my task. The appeal historic sex crimes compensa- and the lure of compensation this? How do I get new made against my husband, the court is asking the impossible. Why tion industry in your mission. was creating a ‘new breed’ of evidence of a crime that police created evidence by making a is that? Is the justice system not Please help us. That’s all we are miscarriage of justice. Among the video of the accuser who was in there to fi nd the truth? It seems not. asking. We don’t want revenge, committee’s members who did not happen 11 years distress for some reason, she was I lodged a complaint with the police we just want our family back. signed this report was a youthful ago? This is my task also on medication and there was PS in Feb 2015. Their reply was that We are entitled to Justice too. We Tory MP, David Cameron. no qualifi ed doctor present. She just they are satisfi ed with the enquiry. are not prepared to be sacrifi ced nodded her head. The police offi cer by a justice system that allows Prior to this horrifi c incident, we Why would you want to convict, spoke the words and she just My innocent husband is now sitting guilty verdicts on nonexistent brought up our family to be kind, innocent, good living, honest nodded. This was shown in court. in a cell, convicted of a crime that crimes. There are thousands of caring, human beings and to people, for crimes that did not We had not seen this video. We were did not happen. Your justice system innocent people sitting in cells. have morals and to trust in the happen? There was no corrobora- only allowed a transcript. There was has destroyed our family. It has let There are many others who will police and justice system. We tive evidence, whatsoever. The also a letter from her sister that was us all down. We trusted your not come forward as they are were so wrong. The fi rst time me words ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ read out, which we were not aware system. We brought our family up terrifi ed that the police will go and my family ever needed the have been removed. Are you aware of. The few social reports that they to believe in the police and the out trawling for more false police to protect us, they of that? I wasn’t, neither were any had, were given to our barrister on justice system. How wrong were accusers, with their dangling completely destroyed us, without of our family or friends. The the morning of the trial. We had not we? Only the wealthy, those that carrot of compensation. Please a second thought or care for the general public are of the opinion seen them, nor had time to investi- can aff ord the best defence lawyers do something about it. If you lifelong consequences. Ours was that the words ‘beyond reasonable gate them or challenge them. I have and barristers have a chance of can’t sort this out, then who can? a historical case, allegedly 11 doubt’ are included in all trials. since applied to the police for this being found innocent in these years ago. This crime did not This is not true. The accuser is video and letter so that I can get an cases. Defendants have no chance A family of surviving victims of a happen, it was totally fabricated. called the victim and is protected in expert to see if it is legal. The police with inexperienced legal aid false accuser and wrongful All fantasy. There was no court. Video links are used and won’t allow it without a court order lawyers and barristers. Our defence conviction.

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away all responsibility/To be part of our community, so we isolate them from the commu- nity.” Grayson’s LandWorks experience has given him hope. “Without this, it would have taken months, maybe years, to slot my head back into normal life and normal relationships. It is only through building relation- ships with the LandWorks team and my 1-2-1s with the LandWorks counsellor that I have started to trust again, to speak openly and think clear- stuck into a full day’s work ly. If my thinking had carried was great - if a bit of a shock on the way it was before com- to the system - but it was also ing here, I would have de- being trusted with tools, being stroyed so much.” asked for your opinion about a new piece of work, having Parsons gives an example of ‘normal’ conversations with how the scheme works. “A people from all walks of life.” trainee could learn how to build a stone wall, a task re- Local Staverton employer KJ quiring a number of skills that Thulborn has given two can be recorded in order to LandWorks trainees their first gain qualifications, numeracy vital step back into employ- for example when estimating ment. Managing Director stone quantity and volume; Kevin Thulborn explains why taking responsibility for their and the result so far. “I knew LandWorks: A stepping own section of wall; health nothing about LandWorks and safety; working as a team until I was invited to attend an and finally completing a pro- event on the Dartington es- ject and developing tate,” he says. “I got talking to stone to a brighter future self-worth.” project founder Chris Parsons about how vital jobs are to For Grayson the idea of regain- giving up crime, and the short- Inside Time community - learning not just I have been people who haven’t committed ing a sense of ‘normality’ was age of employers willing to skills with wood, stone and crimes who could benefit. animal husbandry (a commu- able to come to “Schemes like this are in LandWorks, formerly nity of chickens provide fresh everyone’s interest,” he says. Dartington LandWorks, on the eggs every day) - but core to terms with what I “We need effective schemes to Dartington estate just outside the project is the rebuilding of did, but also how help rehabilitate offenders Totnes in Devon is thrilled to confidence and self-esteem for and ensure their successful announce that from May 1st it those taking part. Manager to move on, in a resettlement from custody - becomes a charity in its own Chris Parsons explains what safe environment they help to reduce crime and right. The work-based training independence from the estate create safer communities for scheme providing a supported means to him and his team. with people who all. There are currently no spe- route back into the community “From a small seed of an idea make you feel cific projects that aim to do for current and former prison- we have grown into a much this in our rural community. ers began in July 2013 as a respected rehabilitation and human again This is not about rewarding patch of rough, overgrown resettlement project. We are anyone but about addressing wasteland on the edge of the all so excited about the to develop responsibility, a significant gap in our com- estate. Now it is a thriving, future.” self-belief and confidence. munities. Dartington Hall is vibrant hive of industry and Parsons responds robustly to already involved in other pro- enrichment where optimism Work training goes hand-in- anyone who questions why jects to provide employment and hope pervades. Prisoners hand with developing life and training, support and employ- and training opportunities for from Channings Wood work social skills on the scheme. In ment for those who have com- other people, including significant. “The funny thing offer work to ex-offenders. We alongside men and women this positive non-judgemental mitted crimes should be pro- through apprenticeships and is that before I came to hadn’t done anything like it serving sentences in the workplace, trainees are able vided when there are other intern programmes and there LandWorks, I thought I was before but it seemed like a are a range of other work-related ‘normal’. People warn you that good way to put something programmes in the wider area.” you get institutionalised in back into society. prison and I just thought, Trainee Grayson explains ‘nah, not me’. It isn’t until you We took on our first what he has gained from his leave that environment that LandWorks trainee, Rob, in time with LandWorks. “I’m you realise how odd you’ve August 2014. We thought, let’s not sure society knows how to become - programmed not to run with it and see how it goes. deal with prisoners yet,” he trust anyone, not to open up, Rob is still with us, and we says. “What I do know is that not to care about others. This have just recruited a second LandWorks has done more for place is a reality check, a step- employee from LandWorks, me than I’ll ever be able to put ping stone. You think your life Phil, who joined us in into words. I have been able will just take off from where it September last year. They to come to terms with what I left off. You forget that three have slotted in well.” did, but also how to move on, years has gone by and life and in a safe environment with everybody in it has moved on. Landworks is a revolutionary people who make you feel But I was lucky to have anoth- and pioneering success - hope- human again.” He quotes the er choice towards the end of fully other rural communities poem by Judge Dennis my sentence: whether to come across the country may take Challeen which sums up why to LandWorks. At first, I just note and follow its lead. prison fails for so many. “We saw it as an opportunity to get Second chances benefit us all. want them to have self-worth, out of prison for five days a so we destroy their self-worth/ week. I quickly realised it was For more info visit To be responsible, so we take much more than that. Getting www.dartington.org 28 Information // Through the Gate www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2016

through a variety of methods The main thing is to reassure This may all sound very com- and the point at which you the employer you are not at plicated but if you are confi- need to disclose your criminal risk of reoffending. Your hon- dent and know you have the record will vary with every esty will be crucial in this. skills and qualities and will job. However in general you State how your past problems be the best person for the job should disclose it at the point have been resolved and your you are applying for, you of which you are asked for a circumstances are now very should show this in your cov- declaration, which is usually different. Good character ref- ering letter or on a separate on the job application form. erences are important at this attachment to the form. Being secretive is not the way stage - ask your Probation to deal with this. If an employ- officer or your Personal of- Most employers are willing to er has a problem with your ficer. Include someone who employ ex offenders and as record it is better to know early knew you before you went into long as you show you have on rather than them finding prison. These would give an confidence, enthusiasm and out once you are in the job. employer an idea of what honesty at your interview or other people think about you. in a covering letter with your Always begin by telling em- application form, the employ- ployers why you are applying As an alternative to trying to er will be reassured that you for the job, what you have to tell the employer about your will make a good employee in offer, the skills that you have convictions on the job appli- their organisation. that are suitable to the job etc. © Fotolia.com cation form, it may be prefer- Always start with your posi- able to state that you have a Discharge tive points. conviction and that you will Grant update be happy to discuss it further In last month’s Inside Time I If you need to disclose your if selected for an interview. wrote that for prison leavers The Careers Lady criminal convictions, start by without an address to go to explaining briefly the offenc- You could send a detailed dis- on discharge there is an es that need to be disclosed closure statement in a sepa- additional grant of £50 The first step through the door and if appropriate, the cir- rate envelope marked confi- available on top of the cumstances. Don’t make ex- dential to the employer giving standard £46. To obtain the to your future cuses for your criminal record your name and details of the extra money the Resettlement but be honest and positive job you are applying for. If you Officer in the prison should regarding any mitigating fac- do this make sure you should apply on your behalf to the This can, of course vary ac- - 7 years tors (addictions issues, mix- state that you are sending a prison’s finance department l once the officer has con- Disclosing cording to the offence. Prison sentence of 48 ing with the wrong crowd, separate document when firmed that accommodation months or over or on a Public loss of a family member, alco- completing the application has been found. The money Criminal The Rehabilitation period (or Protection Order - Never hol dependency etc.) In fact, form so that the employer can will be paid direct to the Buffer period) begins from the Spent. any factors that led you to expect this. Convictions date of conviction. However commit the crime. accommodation provider. for convictions resulting in Applying for jobs The Law community service or custo- Once a conviction becomes The Rehabilitation of dial sentence the rehabilita- spent you do not need to dis- Offenders Act (ROA) of 1974 tion period will start from the close your conviction to HAMER CHILDS allows most convictions and end of the entire sentence (not employers. P r i s o n L a w S o l i c i t o r s all final warnings and repri- at the point of release from mands to be considered prison). It is against the law for an or- ‘SPENT’ or ‘FORGOTTEN’ ganisation to obtain informa- Parole Board Applications after a period of time. The sen- How long is it before a tion about an individual’s • tence you have been given conviction is Spent or spent convictions. Licence Recalls rather than the type of offence Forgotten? • determines this period. However many job application l Community order - 1 year forms contain a section on Independent Adjudications The ROA is intended to help l Prison sentence of six disclosing any criminal con- and all Associated Matters people with few or minor con- months or less - 2 years victions and you may need to victions. Certain criminal l Prison sentence over six be prepared to fill in this sec- Regularly covering HMPs Brinsford, Dovegate, Drake Hall, convictions can be ‘Spent’ or months up to and including tion if your convictions have Eastwood Park, Featherstone, Foston Hall, Hewell, Leyhill, ‘Forgotten’ after a rehabilita- 30 months - 4 years not been spent. tion period. (This is also l Prison sentence of over 30 Oakwood, Stafford, Stoke Heath, Sudbury, Usk & Winson Green, known as a ‘Buffer’ period.) months and up to 48 months Employers recruit new staff We also cover other prisons for clients we have previously represented.

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have - a good business proposition. Meaning, It remains our view that these they have convinced themselves that they can minimum standards, even sell something that plenty of people will want when met, are indecent. Hugh Lenon to buy. A new gadget, their cooking, their Although we recognise that plumbing or decoration services - for example. many prisons normally deliv- Self- belief: the essential, and indeed obvious, er above these standards we I am often written to, telephoned or simply starting point. An entrepreneur must believe believe that these minimums asked what I think of this or that new business in his or her product - if he does not then why should be reviewed and in- idea. The UK is, and always has been, a hub © prisonimage.org should anyone else? creased to more acceptable for entrepreneurial activity. There is never a levels. shortage of people wanting to branch out on Secondly, entrepreneurs are hardworking and Ryan Harman rules determining how long their own and set up their own small - or large enjoy what they do. It is said that nothing worth PRISON REFORM Advice an Info people should be locked up However, despite the difficul- - business. In fact, 4.5 million people - ap- having comes easily. Someone who believes TRUST Service Manager for and it is not unlawful to be ties that are faced by many, proaching 20% of the UK's workforce - are in his business idea will commit himself or kept in your cell for long peri- we also hear of creative ap- self-employed. They are this country's entre- herself to it wholeheartedly. He - or she - will ods of time. PSI 75/2011 proaches to these problems preneurs. It's hugely satisfying being your own put in the hours necessary to ensure success. Michael Gove, in his evidence Residential Services states which provide hope and per- boss, and getting your own business off the On Day 1 of any new venture, the entrepreneur to the House of Commons jus- that ‘Prisoners must be afford- haps a template for other pris- ground has never been easier than it is today. will have to do everything - open the shop, deal tice select committee in ons. For example, we are Sure, there's bound to be some 'red tape' to with customers, buy supplies, turn the lights ed time out of their living ac- March, stated that time spent aware that some prisons have wrestle to the ground, but, that aside, to get out - and more besides. To do all of this really commodation, time in the by prisoners out of their cells taken the decision to get rid of going you just need a good idea, plus bags of well it helps if you are also having fun. open air and the opportunity could be one of a number of lunch time bang up. We had energy and determination. Successful entrepreneurs like what they do. for family contact’ but it does None of us do well at something we don't enjoy. key indicators introduced to not set any minimum stand- indication from prisoners that From time to time, someone comes up with an measure prison performance. ards. PSI 30/2013 Incentives in some establishments they idea which totally transforms an established Thirdly, not everything goes to plan. This would be a welcome and Earned Privileges lists have provided increased market or brings out a completely new product. Succeeding with a new business is helped by move and an important ac- time out of cell as a recom- hours out of cell for older peo- Vodafone developed the first mass-market being well-organised but also by being re- knowledgement of the valua- mended earnable privilege for ple and those unable to work mobile 'phones in the 1980s. EasyJet and sourceful and adaptable. It's good to have a ble contribution time out of prisoners, but leaves it up to due to disability. Ryanair - no frills/low cost airlines - opened plan but, as we all know, Plan A doesn't always cell makes to improving the each prison to decide what up Europe to British holiday makers in the work. Plan B may be needed! Do your research, quality of prison life. theses limits might be. Prison Reform Trust saw a 1990s. Soon we may have driverless cars. All talk to possible customers, test your product. particularly refreshing exam- ground breaking ventures with the capacity They may not like exactly what you offer - the Our advice and information There are more specific guide- ple of this in HMP Birmingham to change our world. Exciting though these price may be too high or the product or service service often hears from peo- lines on time in the open air, recently. There the director examples may be, they are not, however, rep- may need adapting. Fine - just make the chang- ple wanting to know how though these are not gener- met with prisoner representa- resentative of 99.9% of new business ideas. es. I am confident that when Henry Ford sold many hours a day they should ous. You should get a mini- tives every week to review the his first car he didn't get it right first time. be allowed out of their cell, mum of 30 minutes in the levels of association. He whether association should open air daily, though this is would allow the reps to give Fourthly, many entrepreneurs are also lucky. be during particular hours or subject to weather conditions views as to whether more peo- They do well or even better as a result of some how much time they should and need to maintain good ple could safely be granted slice of good fortune. Self-belief, hard work, get in the open air. There is order and discipline. Time association at a given time good planning and flexibility combined with little surprise that being stuck outdoors as part of work or and use this to decide on the a willingness to take risks are vital - but a little behind a cell door for hours sport counts, as does time in following weeks association. luck along the way never did any harm. There per day has become the in- the open air moving between This approach appeared to be are those, of course, who don't believe in good creasing experience of life in activities. The 30 minutes can highly effective both in max- or bad luck: "The harder you work the luckier prison for many. With the be split into two periods but imising safe association and you get!" they would say. Whatever you believe, number of staff employed by no more than this. including prisoners in the de- good luck is nice to have if not to be relied upon. public prisons having fallen cision making process. by 30% in the last five years, Other instructions give some More often than not, I am approached by some- The UK has produced some of the world's great- there are now fewer staff look- basic indication of what a nor- We would be very interested one simply wanting to sell an existing and est entrepreneurs. We are by instinct a nation ing after more prisoners. mal regime should include. to hear from prisoners who proven everyday product or service slightly of risk-takers. Richard Branson of Virgin, Alan Inevitably this has an impact You should be given access to have experienced similar new better or cheaper. This is what most new busi- Sugar from the Apprentice, Philip Green from on regime including the a telephone at times when approaches to managing time nesses aim to do. They don't target world dom- Top Shop, Charles Dunstone from Carphone amount of time prisoners have family and friends are availa- out of cell, as well as from ination nor radical changes in consumer be- Warehouse - and many more - all travelled this out of their cells. In their an- ble and at reasonably fre- those who are experiencing haviour - but they can provide immense job journey. They all started on their own and from nual report 2014-2015, HM quent intervals. Further to difficulty in this area. satisfaction, independence, and an income for scratch. Being your own boss is hard work but Chief Inspectors reported that this, PSI 49/2011 Prisoner the entrepreneur. also rewarding and fun. 95% of all businesses one in 5 prisoners interviewed Communications states that You can contact the Prison in the UK are very small employing between 1 reported spending less than the time available for using Whilst many new businesses survive and Reform Trust’s advice team at and 10 people - and they were all set up by two hours a day out of their the phones must not normally thrive, not all do. So what is the key to success? FREEPOST ND6125 London individuals. So it can be done. Now, what is cells during the week. Only be less than two hours each I have met numerous entrepreneurs over the EC1B 1PN. Our free informa- your business idea? one in seven said they spent day. Although PSI 75/2011 years and, whilst no two are the same, there tion line is open Monday, 10 hours or more out of their says that prisoners should seem to me to be a few common threads that Tuesday and Thursday 3.30- cell each day. have access to facilities to run through this breed of risk taker. Hugh Lenon is chairman of a fund management 5.30. The number is 0808 802 meet personal hygiene needs company and has over 25 years’ investment 0060 and does not need to be Unfortunately, there are few it again does not specify Firstly, they have - or at least they think they experience. put on your pin. 30 Information // Substance Misuse www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2016

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We upheld or partially first, we can’t accept your complaint Investigators’ time, we occasionally ing and is often the quickest way to upheld many of the complaints we for investigation. If you are not sure decide not to accept a complaint for deal with the complaint. investigated (about 40%) in favour if you have done this, you can ring us investigation even if it meets all the of the prisoner and made nearly a for advice. eligibility requirements. This might l writing a report setting out our thousand recommendations to pris- happen for example where the com- findings and making recommenda- on, probation and immigration It will speed things up a lot if you can plaint is about something quite minor tions to put things right. We will send services. send us the paperwork to prove you (such as a one-off problem with a a draft version of the report to you have completed all the local stages. meal) or where there is nothing more and the prison for your comments. So complaining to the Ombudsman What we need to see are the COMP1 my office could achieve for you (for We will then consider any comments Nigel Newcomen is not only your right, it is a way for and COMP1A complaints you have example, where you have already we receive, make any necessary Prisons and Probation Ombudsman many prisoners to get improvements submitted and the replies you have received an apology or sufficient com- changes, and send you and the pris- in their situation. It also worth em- received. We will copy these and send pensation for lost property). Not in- on the final version. As readers will know, my office car- phasising that we are completely the originals back to you. If you don’t vestigating complaints of this kind ries out independent investigations independent. We do not work for the have them, we can ask the prison for means we have more time to spend We aim to deal with your complaint into deaths in custody and com- Prison Service. Once we have collect- them, but this takes longer and means investigating the complaints where within 12 weeks of starting the inves- plaints. We can investigate com- ed all the facts about a complaint, it will take us longer to let you know we can make a real difference. tigation, although serious complaints plaints from prisoners, children and our job is to make a fair and balanced if we can accept your complaint or will take longer. young people in prisons and secure judgement. not. Investigating the complaint training centres, offenders under pro- If we decide we can’t accept your Making recommendations bation supervision, and immigration How to complain to us Is your complaint in time? complaint for investigation, we will When we uphold a complaint we al- detainees. (For simplicity this article My office is here to investigate issues When you receive the final answer to write to you and explain why (and most always make recommendations only talks about prisoners, but exact- about the way you have been treated. your complaint from the prison, you suggest what you might do next). to the prison to put the problem right ly the same points apply to all the This includes decisions and actions need to complain to us within three or stop it happening again. For ex- other groups.) (or lack of action) about your man- months. If you wait longer than this, If we accept your complaint for in- ample, we can recommend: agement, supervision, care and treat- we won’t normally accept your com- vestigation, we will write to let you l My ambition is that these investiga- ment. But there is a process which plaint for investigation (unless it is know. Your complaint will then be A written apology; l tions should not only make a differ- you must follow before we can help. about something very serious and allocated to an Investigator. This is Financial compensation (in the ence in individual cases, but also there is a genuine reason for the delay). likely to take a few weeks. If your case of lost property); l help to make prisons safer and fairer First, you must always complain di- complaint is a straightforward one Quashing an adjudication finding places. Unfortunately, we have to rectly to your prison, immigration Is your complaint about a subject you may not hear from us again until and punishment; l reject over half the complaints we removal centre, secure training cen- we can investigate? we have finished our investigation. Changes to local or national receive without investigating them. tre or probation office first to try to Our Terms of Reference don’t allow If the complaint is going to take a policies; l This is because too many prisoners get the problem resolved. us to investigate the following while to resolve, however, the Disciplinary investigations against have not gone through the right pro- subjects: Investigator will write to you to intro- staff. cesses before coming to us. This frus- Second, if you have gone through all duce him or herself. l trates you and wastes my staff’s time. the internal complaint processes lo- Your sentence; The Prison Service must tell us l This article, therefore, explains what cally and are still not happy with the Parole Board decisions; The Investigator will gather evidence whether they accept our recommen- l you need to do to get our help. way your complaint has been dealt Your medical treatment. about the complaint. This may dations. They are not required to with, then you can complain to us. include: accept them but it is extremely unu- Are you complaining on your own sual for them not to do so. We will let So there are three steps: behalf? l Looking at relevant records from you know what is happening. We Unless you are under 18, we won’t the prison, probation or immigration then require written evidence from 1. Make sure you go through all the normally accept complaints from service; the organisation to show how they stages of the prison complaints pro- ‘third parties’ (such as partners, fam- have implemented the Made a complaint? cess first. ily members or other prisoners) and l Researching relevant laws, poli- recommendation(s). Not happy with the response? you need to complain yourself. cies, procedures and guidelines; 2. Write a short note telling us what Conclusion If you have gone through the your complaint is about, and why you We don’t accept complaints about l Telephoning or visiting you; The independent investigation of internal complaint process and are not satisfied, you can still are still not happy. things that have happened to other your complaints by my office is an complain to the PPO. people - you need to have been per- l Interviewing relevant staff or wit- important safeguard against mis- 3. Send all your paperwork to us - sonally affected yourself. nesses by telephone or in person. treatment. But, we can only help you including all the prison complaint if you follow the right processes. I forms if you have them. (If you don’t You can ask a solicitor to complain on Each case is different and the hope this article will help you to get Send a short note explaining your complaint along with ALL your complaints have them, you can still complain to your behalf if you want, although Investigator and their manager will the best out of my office. paperwork to: Prisons and Probation Ombudsman us but it will take us longer to reply.). there is absolutely no need to do so - decide what is needed in each case. PO Box 70769 London SE1P 4XY most complaints come to us directly See our leaflet ‘How to Complain to the Ombudsman’ for more details. Can we investigate your from prisoners and we give all com- Making a decision complaint? plaints the same level of attention After considering the relevant evi- When we get your complaint, the first wherever they come from. dence, the Investigator will come to Send a short note explaining your The background thing we do is to assess whether we a view about whether to uphold your complaint along with ALL your I have been writing articles for Inside can investigate it under our Terms of If you are in a Secure Training Centre complaint or not. The final decision complaints paperwork to: Time every couple of months for Reference - in other words, we assess or a Young Offenders Institution (YOI) will be made by a senior manager (an Prisons and Probation Ombudsman about four years, explaining what we whether it is eligible for investigation. you can also ask one of the Barnado’s Assistant Ombudsman or the Deputy PO Box 70769 London SE1P 4XY do and how to use us. You may even advocates to help you complain to us. Ombudsman). have heard me speak or heard our To check whether we can investigate adverts on Prison Radio. By now, I a complaint we ask some key Is your complaint the subject of If we don’t uphold your complaint, hope you will also have seen our new questions: court proceedings (including we will write to you and explain why. posters and leaflets explaining “How Judicial Review)? to complain to the Ombudsman”. I Have you completed the local In some cases you might want to pur- If we do uphold your complaint, we have asked for these to be used in complaints process? sue your complaint by going to court. will try to settle it in one of the fol- induction and put on display on wing Our Assessment Team has to reject If you choose to do that, you can’t also lowing ways: notice boards and in libraries. If they around half the complaints we re- complain to my office. You need to l are not being displayed on your wing, ceive because the complainants have decide which route you prefer. mediation - this means trying to ask staff to find out why not. not completed all the stages of the find a solution that you and the 32 Information // Health www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2016

eating, washing and dressing. They may be- managed well. If prisoners are presenting to us come repetitive and struggle to recognise peo- with signs of dementia and our group of prison ple, and become easily upset, angry or officers don’t understand that these may be aggressive. symptoms of dementia, things could escalate. The benefi ts of having a diagnosis include being off ered medication to slow down the progres- ‘If someone isn’t able to take direction from the sion of the illness. A diagnosis can also explain offi cers or haven’t understood or remembered why a prisoner may be behaving in a certain what they’ve been told, that could lead to con- way, and ensure the right support plan can be fl ict and arguments, which in turn can lead to put in place. something bigger, perhaps restraint or even segregation. Who is at risk? ‘What should happen is that offi cers share their After the age of 65, the risk of developing observations with us, and if they notice certain Alzheimer’s doubles approximately every fi ve symptoms and particularly if it’s an older per- years. According to the Ministry of Justice, the son, it should ring a bell about dementia. But over 60 population in prisons in England and that can only come with time and training and Wales has increased eight-fold since 1990 and we’re working with the Alzheimer’s Society to in the last decade, the number of sentenced organise this.’ prisoners aged fi ft y or above has risen by 74 per cent to almost 10,000. The way forward © prisonimage.org For the year ahead, raising awareness of de- This, coupled with health-related problems, mentia in prisons is a priority. As well as the puts prisoners at a higher risk of getting de- talks and training sessions which are being mentia. People in prison are more likely to have organised, prison staff are looking at the best high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes way to support prisoners with specialist needs. Dementia in prisons and smoke a lot more than people in the general Junaid Dowool says, ‘We need to think about population. There is also a much higher rate of adjusting our assessment tool and working out chronic drug and alcohol abuse. This of course a pathway, as we’ve done for people with learn- Rachael Doeg of dementia among prisoners and staff through puts a lot of extra stress on the body and greater ing disabilities, to ensure specialist needs are training, talks and making more information strain on the heart, which in turn increases the met. This would start when someone comes to about dementia available in prisons. This will risk of strokes. It also means that typically, the reception and has their Wellman check. In the next ten years, more than one million help to increase knowledge and awareness of bodies of prisoners age more quickly than the people in the UK will have dementia. With a the condition and help people to identify any- general population, putting them at greater risk ‘Then we need to make other prisoners aware growing population of older people in prisons, one potentially at risk. of getting dementia. of the need to support people and ensure certain awareness of dementia is vital to ensure pris- approaches are needed, to help and remind oners and staff have the necessary information The project has also highlighted the need for Why more needs to be done someone it’s association time and to put on and support to help them to cope. support for prisoners with dementia who are Dementia is not always straightforward to di- their shoes for mealtimes, for example, or be due for release. Alzheimer’s Society staff plan agnose. It is commonly misdiagnosed as de- there for someone to talk to. We don’t want symptoms to be missed or for anyone to be Dementia is a complex illness. Although aware- to work alongside probation offi cers and parole pression, stress, bereavement, or dismissed as ness of the condition is growing and more peo- suff ering in silence.’ boards to ensure that the implications of a di- memory loss due to simply getting older. ple are accessing the treatment and support agnosis of dementia are taken on board when Symptoms such as withdrawal, changes in be- they need, much more needs to be done to raise What to do if you are worried about someone planning release. haviour and depression may not be identifi ed awareness across all areas of society. with memory loss as warning signs. What is dementia and what are the l Speak to your prison offi cer and request a Knowing what symptoms to look out for, un- symptoms? healthcare appointment. There may also be reluctance, particularly derstanding why people may be behaving in People oft en ask about the diff erence between l Call Alzheimer’s Society’s national dementia among older generations, to seek help or report certain ways, and knowing what to do to sup- dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, believing helpline (0300 222 1122) diffi culties performing everyday tasks. A ten- port people with dementia will help everyone they are diff erent conditions. In fact, one causes l Ask about Dementia Friends sessions being dency to deal with things themselves and ‘get involved in a person’s care feel more able to the other. If someone is diagnosed with held in your prison - and request them if there on with problems’ may prevent older people cope. Alzheimer’s disease, then this will cause the are none planned. symptoms of dementia (see below). asking for help in case they are seen as weak. l Ask for the list of recommended books on But what is happening about our older popu- Due to the lack of knowledge about dementia dementia from the library. lation in prisons? Who is looking out for the Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause among prison offi cers, they are unable to iden- warning signs of dementia in this vulnerable of dementia, and vascular dementia is the sec- tify symptoms when they do present. and growing group of people? And what about ond most common. Some people have a mix of prisoners worried about their own family mem- the two. Junaid Dowool is team leader for mental health Rachael Doeg is an Alzheimer’s Society Dementia bers? Would they know what to do or who to services at HMP Pentonville. He is working with Adviser turn to for advice? Other types of dementia include fronto-tempo- Alzheimer’s Society alongside HMP ral dementia, which can aff ect a person’s per- Wandsworth and HMP Wormwood Scrubs to *Alzheimer’s Society is the UK’s leading dementia These are some of the questions the Alzheimer’s sonality and their behaviour, and alcohol-re- support prisoners with dementia. support and research charity for people with de- Society* have been asking. Last year, the char- lated dementia and Korsakoff’s syndrome, Junaid says, ‘The need isn’t currently being mentia, their families and carers ity began working with prisons in England on which is caused by very low levels of vitamin a pilot project aimed at understanding some of B-1 and oft en associated with alcohol abuse. JOINT ENTERPRISE? EQUITY LAW SOLICITORS the challenges prisoners and staff face in deal- SUBSTANTIAL INJUSTICE? JUSTICE FOR YOU! ing with dementia. Although symptoms will vary according to the Quality Representation in type of dementia diagnosed, common signs to WE CAN HELP, EVEN IF YOUR APPEAL Criminal Defence, Appeals What do we know so far? look out for include: HAS FAILED IN THE PAST & Reviews and Prison Law One of the main problems identified is that • Appeals against conviction & sentence symptoms are being missed. This is either be- • Short-term memory loss TOP LONDON SOLICITORS, ACCESS TO • Parole board representation TOP LONDON QC’S cause they are not recognised and therefore • Mood changes / changes in behaviour (oral & paper hearings) overlooked or because they are confused for • Diffi culty reasoning or making decisions • Judicial review something else, which means that getting a • Withdrawal and loss of confi dence • Sentence calculation diagnosis is delayed. • Communication problems • Adjudication representation • Lose interest in others or in activities • Re-categorisation Lack of knowledge about the condition among • Joint enterprise • All criminal court proceedings staff can also mean they don’t know how to Many of these symptoms are commonly expe- CRIMINAL DEFENCE SPECIALISTS WINNING CASES SINCE 2004 • Specialists in Family & Immigration Law provide appropriate support for prisoners di- rienced by prisoners, and are also apparent in agnosed with dementia. 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On 30 June As the prison population 2015 there ages, more prisoners will die were 2,177 of natural causes while in people prison. In 2014, 107 people aged 50 aged 50 or over died of and over natural causes whilst in serving life prison, an increase of nearly sentences 50% in the last decade. - of these 1,305 were mandatory sentences. 814 people Prisoners aged 60 and over are the fastest were serving growing age group in the prison estate. IPP There are now nearly triple the number there sentences. were 15 years ago. People can apply for On 31 March People aged 50 and over The number compassionate release if they 2014 there currently make up 14% of the of people have a life expectancy of less were 102 prison population. There are released for than three months, are © Fotolia.com people in 11,980 people aged 50 and compassion- bedridden or severely prison aged over in prison in England and ate reasons incapacitated. 80 and Wales - 4,109 are aged 60 and is low over. Five over. - between A study conducted in HMP people in 2009 and Stafford found that 51% of Type 2 Diabetes prison 2013, 45 50-59 year olds and 42% of were 90 or people those over 60 had at least older. were one diagnosable psychiat- released. ric disorder. The 2010 Are you at risk? PRT report, Older prisoners interviewed on entering Doing Time prison for the first time often suffered from found that ‘entry shock’. This was made worse by a lack Paul Sullivan If you have any of the symp- you take it as instructed. of information and an unfamiliarity with toms above you should see the Ensure you have regular (at 59 out of 92 prisons had prison regimes and expectations. Delays in doctor. Early diagnosis, treat- least annual) diabetic checks accessing health care and receiving medica- As the rates of Type 2 Diabetes nothing ment and good control of dia- which should include: tion were a particular cause of concern. rise throughout Britain the betes is vital to reduce the specific in Six out of 10 older prisoners place to number of prisoners with the chances of developing serious • Blood glucose - blood test; (59%) report having a Three- disease is also rising. It is not diabetes complications. • Blood fats (cholesterol) support the longstanding illness or quarters known why people get it but - blood test; resettlement disability. This compares of older it is likely to be a mixture of Prisoners with diabetes are • Blood pressure; needs of this with just over a quarter (27%) genetic and dietary advised to follow the same • Retinopathy screening group. of younger prisoners. prisoners influences. healthy eating pattern recom- - eye check; were mended for everyone - food • Legs & Feet check - for The number of healthcare ‘older prisoner currently leads’ has increased in recent years but they Type 2 Diabetes develops that is low in fat, salt and nerves and circulation; taking when the body doesn’t pro- do not all appear always to be active in their sugar: have starchy carbohy- • Kidney function check medication. duce enough insulin or the drate foods in each meal and - urine test; roles, nor in receipt of specialist training. insulin that is produced Nearly half (44%) of establishments do not plenty of fruit and vegetables. • Weight check. At HMP Winchester the inspectorate found doesn’t work properly (known have an older prisoner policy, against Aim to choose healthier op- two older, severely disabled men who spent all as insulin resistance). Usually Department of Health guidance. tions most of the time, e.g. If you are not happy with the day together in a small dark cell, who had not it appears in people aged 40 choosing fruit instead of pud- care or treatment you are re- been able to shower for months, and who or over. It is normally treated 42% of men in prison aged over 50 have dings high in fat and/or sugar. ceiving you should make a faced problems that staff were unaware of. with a healthy diet and in- complaint and ensure you been convicted of sex offences. The next creased physical activity. In It also helps to regulate your follow it through. The possible highest offence category is violence against PRISON Source: Bromley Briefings addition medication and/or weight. Being overweight effects of improperly con- the person (25%) followed by drug offences REFORM Prison Factfile 2015 insulin is often required. makes diabetes control more trolled diabetes can be very (11%). TRUST www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk difficult as the excess weight serious. Prisoners with poorly All images © Fotolia.com Symptoms occur because makes it hard for the body to controlled blood sugar levels some or all of the glucose stays use insulin properly (insulin may be entitled to a fin- in the blood and isn’t being resistance). Losing weight can ger-prick glucose meter. Why use used as fuel for energy. The have a lot of health benefits Turn to body tries to reduce blood glu- such as improved diabetes Diabetes UK produce an cose levels by flushing the control and lower blood pres- excellent leaflet ‘Having • Expert Prison Law Team shortlisted for the excess glucose out of the body sure and cholesterol. 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Britain’s Failing Prisons and prison, but you can’t do much is patron of the charity of this if you don’t have inter- Working Chance, which helps net access. women find employment after release. Writing for PET on A prison sentence costs International Women’s Day women, their families, the Vicky called for more high- economy and society dear. We er-level qualifications and are sending too many people controlled internet access: to prison when other types of non-custodial sentences may Providing education be more appropriate. But, if we and training in the must send women to prison, prison context is difficult. the surest way to cut reoffend- When someone enters prison ing is by ensuring that they they have often had all of their have better access to educa- self-confidence and self-es- tion while there. And I don’t teem taken away. Women are mean just basic numeracy and likely to be distracted, many literacy skills, though that is are unfamiliar with formal ed- important of course. There Prisoners show power of ucation, and prisons are often needs to be more emphasis on at a loss about how to occupy higher levels of attainment in- Vicky Pryce served a short them with vocational work. cluding tertiary education for sentence in HMP Holloway Many women find themselves those spending longer in pris- expression at Warren Hill and HMP Eastwood Park in moved from prison to prison, on. Greater access to the inter- 2013. She has now returned to and required to learn the same net, sensibly controlled and In February, Rod Clark was invited to Warren Hill for an her job as an economist, but thing again and again. Some monitored by the prison au- has also published a book: want to learn at a much higher thorities, would make afternoon of poetry, drama and song created and present- Prisonomics: Behind bars in level than is offered inside a huge difference. ed by prisoners

Rod Clark from some emotionally charged material.” A sporting chance in custody? Chief Executive Prisoners’ Education Trust The prisoners were supported in their perfor- Do you face hurdles to exercising? mances by Chickenshed Theatre, who bring theatre and performance to deprived commu- Or is sport helping you to meet your goals? The showcase, called Expression, was the nities and excluded groups. Chickenshed are brainchild of a team of three learners, led by bringing the words and recordings of the In an Olympic year, the world’s eyes are on 1. What sport or exercise are you involved in? writer in residence Julian Earwaker. Five sport, and PET’s attention is on how exercise Warren Hill prisoners to engage with groups 2. In your own words, what general impact is months in the planning, Expression event gave can help learning within prison and after of children in East London. the sport or exercise having for you? a platform for a number of prisoners, mostly release. PET recently became a member of the first-time performers, to express their thoughts Overall, ‘Expression’ was a moving testament National Alliance of Sports for the Desistance 3. Do you feel like you have enough oppor- and feelings through words and performance. to the creative power of words to help oneself of Crime, which is a voice for the power of tunities to take part in sports and exercise? and others. In the words of I Write, a poem by sport in preventing reoffending. One piece, by a prisoner named Edgar, dealt with Stephen: I write to be remembered for my Please answer the questions above and return the choices and emotions of a prisoner ap- words / rather than my dark deeds… I write If you are involved in any sports in prison we your answer to FREEPOST: Prisoners’ Education proaching release and walking the invisible because I have to… I write because I can… would love to hear from you. We are keen to Trust. Please also let us know your age and line between punishment and rehabilitation, find out about your experiences including: prison. forever lost in translation. Edgar had achieved an Open University degree in Psychology with If you would like advice or funding to study a distance learning course or tell us about your experiences of prison education the support of PET and then had “fallen in love write to FREEPOST Prisoners’ Education Trust (PET) or call 0203 752 5680. with the arts” through working with Synergy Theatre. He had produced this dramatised ver- sion of his fiction as part of an advanced crea- tive writing course. Edgar said he looked for- ward to continuing his writing and working At Tates we never with theatre after his release and graduation in use unqualified the summer. caseworkers. All prison law work Edgar’s work picked up the theme of family, is undertaken by a which also came out strongly in many other We take pride in providing a full range of criminal and prison law services. qualified solicitor pieces. The song, I Don’t Know, written by Rolly who specialises and powerfully performed by a talented trio of Prison Law services include: in Prison Law. prisoners, explored the feelings of a prisoner on an indeterminate (IPP) sentence unable to • Parole Reviews • Re-categorisation tell his son when he would come home: emo- • Life Sentence Reviews • Category A Reviews tions and emotions on the phone / ‘cause the answers to these questions I don’t know? Julian • IPP Reviews • Adjudications Earwaker, who has been the writer in residence • Recall • Home Detention Curfew Tates at the prison since 2010, said the festival was a • Judicial Review 2 Park Square East “huge success”. • Sentence Planning Leeds West Yorkshire “Men who had never performed or displayed If you require assistance with any Prison Law issues, LS1 2NE work previously displayed their courage - and no little talent - before an enthusiastic audience whether or not listed above, please contact our specialist 0113 242 2290 of invited guests, staff and prisoners. There Prison Law Solicitor - Hannah Rumgay were tears of laughter and lumps in the throat 36 Information // The Rule Book www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2016

The healthcare person’s sole interest prisoner is to undergo an intimate mother to attend to her baby during External Prisoner is the safety of the prisoner and can examination or procedure. Privacy the journey. Restraints should not order a diversion to the nearest prison, should be accommodated in so far as normally be used. The Movement police station or hospital, or if neces- it doesn’t compromise the security of sary, immediate removal of the belt. the escort. There must be an assess- If at any time a health professional PSI 2015-033 ment of whether there is a security seeks the removal of restraints be- RULE Issued: 9 December 2015, Effective Prison managers decide whether re- need for escorting staff to remain in cause of an immediate risk to health, from: 9 December 2015, Expires: 8 straints are necessary but normally a consulting room with a prisoner because the prisoner is in pain or December 2019 all prisoners will be single cuff ed ex- while the examination or procedure because the restraints are impeding cept B-Cat and E-list prisoners who is undertaken or whether it would be essential treatment they must be re- Book This PSI updates policy regarding the will be double cuff ed. safe for them to be positioned out of moved immediately. external movement of prisoners. sight and earshot of the with Paul Sullivan There are three sections which I am Restraints should normally be re- examination.” Funeral Escorts (Section 7) going to cover in this Rule Book; moved once in a vehicle cubicle and Where possible prisoners should be those are the use of restraints, hos- always on arrival at court unless the 6.17: “There will be occasions when given RoTL to attend funerals or pital escorts and funeral escorts. The judge agrees to a prisoner being cuff ed the prisoner to be escorted to hospital dying relatives. There is no ban on a PSI also covers bedwatches, wed- in court. for out-patient or inpatient treatment prisoner of any category attending a dings, court escorts, vehicles and will have been diagnosed as seriously funeral of a close relative (the PSI prisoners’ property and property Annex B of the PSI provides guidance or terminally ill. Such circumstances defines ‘close relative’). Para 7.2 records. on the correct procedure for the ap- require sensitive handling to ensure states; “Applications to attend plication of restraints. that the needs of security are bal- should be assessed on an individual Restraints (Section 5) anced against the clinical needs of basis taking care to balance security There are three types of approved Hospital Escorts (Section 6) the prisoner.” considerations with those of decency, restraints. The fi rst is handcuff s; of The PSI states that: “Prisoners are and should only be refused on secu- which there are four types to be used entitled to receive the same standards 6.18: “The restraint by handcuff s of rity grounds, which need to be clearly depending upon circumstance and of healthcare, including due regard a prisoner receiving chemotherapy, evidenced in the risk assessment. nature of prison. to decency and privacy issues, as any or any other life saving treatment, Factors such as distance to the funer- member of the general public and in must be justifi ed by documented se- al and associated costs can be taken The second is an Escort Chain. This so far as it is possible to do so, every curity considerations.” into account; but on their own, i.e. is used to provide distance, for exam- effort should be made to meet this in the absence of identifi ed security ple where a prisoner needs to use a entitlement, without compromising Para 6.20 states that pregnant women objections, are not grounds for refus- toilet. The PSI says that where a chain security or safety. at hospital for ante-natal checks ing the escort. Where possible, at- is used in public it should be as short should normally have restraints re- tempts should be made to mitigate as possible to make its use Normally there will be a two offi cer moved upon arrival. these issues, for example, by consid- inconspicuous. escort with restraints applied but ering a temporary inter-prison trans- there should be a risk assessment for Women entering hospital to give fer to a prison closer to the venue of The third restraint is a Body Belt each case and the PSI lists twelve cri- birth should be accompanied by two the funeral” which can only be used in exception- teria for that assessment. Paragraph female offi cers and have restraints al circumstances and by Prison 6.9, which is mandatory, states; removed upon arrival. Staff should This PSI should be available in Service staff. 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“This was reflected in the number of violent incidents, which was much higher than in sim- The Inspector Calls ilar establishments. In one incident, a group of prisoners muscled into a wing office to take back a ‘throw-over’ package of drugs that had Inside Time highlights areas of good and bad practice, just been intercepted by staff. Assaults on staff had increased significantly and a number of along with a summary of prisoner survey responses at very serious incidents had occurred. In the 17 months between inspections there had been a HMP-YOI Holloway and HMP Ranby. These extracts dreadful six self-inflicted deaths and there had are taken from the most recent Reports published by been four since April 2015 alone. A further death HMP Ranby this year is being treated as a homicide. Category C training prison for adult male HM Inspectorate of Prisons prisoners “… prisoners in these house blocks reported Managed by HMPS difficulty obtaining cleaning materials, clean closure. As this inspection shows, Holloway’s CNA: 892 The final inspection clothes and clean bedding; staff appeared very poor design limits what can be achieved, de- Population: 1087 (September 2015) busy with little time to talk to prisoners and of HMP-YOI Holloway spite the efforts of staff. That said, the staff and Announced Full Inspection: 24-25 August, 1-4 this was compounded by the long time many managers at Holloway should be proud of their and 7-11 September 2015 Published: 25 of these prisoners spent locked behind their This inspection was carried out a month before recent successes, and if this is to be our last February 2016 Last inspection: March 2014 doors. The prisoner information desk worker the announcement to close Holloway. Holloway report on this iconic institution it is undoubt- scheme and the drop-in facility ‘One Ranby’, is the largest women’s prison in Europe with a edly one of the best.” Safety Poor had improved the handling of day-to-day is- complex mix of prisoners ranging from remands Respect Reasonably good sues, but the applications process still did not to life sentence prisoners. It held a large number Purposeful Activity Not sufficiently good He said that Holloway remained a challenging work effectively and added to prisoners’ of foreign national prisoners and women with Resettlement Not sufficiently good physical environment but; “… it was clean and frustrations. mental health issues. reasonably well maintained and outside areas were pleasant. Relationships between staff and In summing up Martin Lomax said; “HMP Deputy Chief Inspector of Prisons, Martin Safety remains a prisoners were mainly decent and respectful Ranby has not made sufficient progress since Lomax, says, in opening his report; “After many significant concern and some staff working with the more challeng- the previous inspection. We remain seriously years of being very critical of the treatment ing and complex women in the prison were Responses to 197 returned concerned about the stability of the prison, the provided to women at Holloway, at our last exceptional. Support for most of the protected safety of prisoners and staff and the inadequate inspection, in 2013, we reported a much im- characteristic groups was well developed. prisoner questionnaires: measures being taken to prepare prisoners for proved picture. Despite the size of the popula- Health care generally met needs and mental 9.3% IPP/Life Prisoners 8.3% Recall release and reduce the risk they will reoffend tion and the significant difficulties of the phys- health support, including the day care facilities, 70.7% Less than 6 months at prison 72% … There should be an immediate temporary ical environment, this inspection found a prison was excellent. Treated well in Reception 37% Had legal reduction in the Ranby prison population to which had continued to improve in all but one letters opened 42% Food is bad or very bad give staff the opportunity to regroup.” of our healthy prison tests. “We found the prison to be generally safe and 26% Don’t know who IMB are 76% Treated well controlled, with little serious violence and with respect by staff 57% Number who have some excellent processes to anticipate and Sustained improvement, felt unsafe 28% Victimised by staff 58% Recently published HMCIP reports manage potential problems and identify those Difficult to see dentist58% Easy to get drugs but limited by poor design who might be vulnerable. Women in the pop- Ashfield - December 2015 ulation with complex needs had benefited from 25% Not engaged in any purposeful activities ‘A well run prison’ 27% Less than 4 hours out of cell 14% Don’t this support and the caring approach adopted Hatfield - January 2016 “At the last inspection we highlighted progress get visits by staff to ensure their wellbeing. The inpatient ‘A safe, decent and purposeful resettlement prison’ in making the prison safer but emphasised the landing and day care centre were notable in Leicester - February 2016 need to ensure the sustainability of this im- this regard, although there were women on provement. To their credit managers had This inspection found multiple problems stem- ‘Conditions have deteriorated’ nearly every unit who needed specific care to ming from a number of fundamental factors. achieved this. The environment at Holloway Maidstone - December 2015 ensure they were kept safe. Support on arrival The prison held 20% more prisoners than its remained a significant challenge, but this was ‘Unsure of its role in preparing prisoners for at the prison was generally good, as were ar- Certified Normal Accommodation (CNA). Staff mitigated by managers and most staff placing release and managing their risk’ rangements to support adult safeguarding. cuts had meant staff had no time to do basic decency and respect for the individual at the Women identified as at risk of self-harm gen- work, a third of staff in the ‘closed prison’ had Rye Hill - December 2015 centre of their work. Crucial support around erally felt well cared for. Formal disciplinary been employed for less than 12 months. 15% of ‘Performing well in most areas’ maintaining contact with children and families processes were well managed and used as a the population were receiving support from Rochester - January 2016 was much improved and good support was last resort and use of force was proportionate, mental health services. There was a lack of ‘Some deterioration’ offered to the many women who had been with de-escalation used throughout. The over- purposeful activities with prisoners locked up Warren Hill - February 2016 abused. sight and application of force were among the for long periods. The prison was in danger of ‘Well led and making impressive progress’ best we have seen. Aspects of the regime in being overwhelmed with new psychoactive Wealstun - December 2015 “The welcome fall in the number of women in segregation had been weaker but relationships substances (NPS). prison creates the opportunity to reduce the ‘A well run prison but new psychoactive were good. Substance misuse services had de- substances causing problems’ number of prison places available for them. The veloped since the last inspection and met the Safety was a main concern: in his report Martin need to hold women in smaller establishments needs of the population well.” Lomax, Deputy Chief Inspector, said that staff Copies of the most recent report for your makes Holloway an obvious candidate for working on Houseblocks 1 to 3 did not feel safe: prison are available in the library.

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Lesley Perry and Robert Twell required. For prison law cases, most cases require a series of representations. Take, for without proof’ example, a category review. An inmate really Most inmates who have been in the prison ought to be visited in order to go through the his arrest and said that he had confi rmed they would not be system for a couple of years or more will by various reports face to face. Much more can be Chloe Jay managed to fi nd a handwritten taking any action against the now be very familiar with the fact that legal learned about a client and his case in a face to love letter from his ex’ dated complainant and that was the aid funding is not available for the vast major- face meeting than simply reading numerous Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, 1st January thanking him for end of the matter. After 17 ity of issues which confront inmates on a daily reports and correspondence at a distance. Commissioner for the a ‘gorgeous night’. It seemed hours in custody, 10 months basis. The government targeted a few years , has an- that we now had something to waiting whilst suspended back the types of issue that inmates commonly The experience of a representative is also a key nounced that the Met may now fi nally decide the matter; if the from work… you can imagine sought advice and assistance on through legal factor for any inmate paying privately. Privately move away from their existing letter was from her, which how he felt. aid and took that privilege away. Nowadays, funded cases ought to attract the most experi- policy with regard to sex could be verifi ed by handwrit- important issues such as progression through enced representatives in any fi eld. crimes. Up to this point they ing analysis, then it must sure- In that case the complaint was the category system, sentence planning, risk One of the key considerations is whether or not have assumed that anyone ly be incompatible with her made 4 months aft er sex took assessment, release provisions under home privately funded cases should be funded on a complaining of a sex crime is allegation, alternatively my place and so there was no fo- detention curfew or concerns over proposed fi xed fee basis or whether an hourly rate should telling the truth. To assume client had deviously tried to rensic evidence available to license conditions do not attract legal aid for be applied. That is very much a matter for any makes an ‘ass of u and me’ as falsify evidence and therefore help clarify the truth. In this inmates. Only adjudications before the external client and representative to resolve between they say and with good rea- was likely to be caught out. way the case was similar to the judge and parole reviews, including recall, them on a case by case basis. son. If you accept that people Having met my client I was historic allegations that we allow inmates to obtain legal aid. This explains can lie then why on earth entirely confi dent that the let- frequently see in the press. exactly why publications like Inside Time and Arguably, it is far easier to apply a fi xed fee would we assume that sexual ter would prove to be genuine. With these cases there is usu- others are littered with so called experts in the structure to prison law cases and for sentencing allegations are a special case We met with the police and ally no ‘independent’ evidence fi eld of parole and advocacy in adjudications. appeals. Conviction cases are always more where people never lie? gave it to them. such as forensics, CCTV or complex and usually involve quite a bit more As for criminal appeals against conviction and mobile phone data and con- work. Even some of the most experienced law- sentence, although there have been reductions It reminds me of a police sta- It was approximately 10 victions must be founded yers can work on a fi xed fee basis. tion investigation which I be- months later that the matter upon the testimony of witness- in fees, legal aid funding is still available. came involved in a few years was fi nally drawn to an end. es alone. I recently dealt with Wells Burcombe’s prison law and criminal For appeal and prison law cases where legal back. A 25 year-old man was Despite constant badgering a case in the Crown Court appeals team are regularly instructed on a aid is still available, eligibility for legal aid is arrested for rape and I attend- from me the police did not where everything had taken privately funded basis by clients. The process dependent on means and the vast majority of ed to advise him. His ex-girl- seem to think that the letter place in the 1970s. Piecing to- will start by simply writing to us and asking for inmates qualify. friend (who was just 18) had was conclusive. The complain- gether what had happened, some indication of fees. It will be important to alleged that he had raped her ant had accepted that she and when, was exceptionally The basic principle is that where an inmate’s set out as much detail as possible in your initial on New Year’s Eve (it was now wrote the letter and it related diffi cult and that was just for income is £99 or less per week, and where enquiry so that we may give the best response. April.) He was in total shock to the same night but appar- the police and the lawyers, let

savings are less than £1000, legal aid will and cried throughout the in- ently still maintained she had alone the defendant. With Wells Burcombe can be instructed privately - usually be available. If an inmate has a partner terview with me, explaining been raped. The police had many sex crimes defendants including on a fi xed fee basis - on any issue with whom he or she would live upon release, that they had been in a rela- given her a considerable are left trying to prove a neg- aff ecting an inmate and including category then the partner’s means would need to be tionship and he couldn’t be- amount of time to explain the ative, trying to prove that reviews, issues concerning sentence planning, factored in when assessing eligibility. lieve what she was saying. He letter with counselling but fi - something did not happen. It OASys report concerns, parole reviews and told me in painstaking detail nally after 10 months they can be almost impossible. For hearings, recall, representations concerning Even if an inmate is eligible on means, solici- about every occasion that they decided not to take any further that reason the very greatest medical treatment (or lack thereof), general tors can only open fi les on legal aid cases where had met up and what had hap- action. It felt to me as if the care must be taken and there human rights issues, prison transfers, HDC, there is an identifi able benefi t to the client in pened. He then repeated all of concept that the allegation is no place for assumption. license conditions, risk assessments and sen- doing so - referred to as the ‘suffi cient benefi t this in interview with the po- had been false was simply the test.’ This is not always an easy consideration tencing appeals. lice, explaining that sex had last explanation they were and a number of factors need to be considered, Offi ces also now in Essex and the North East. taken place but it was entirely willing to consider. In the Chloe Jay is Solicitor such as whether an inmate has already re- consensual. He was bailed meantime the police had no- Advocate at Shentons ceived advice and assistance on the same whilst they carried out further tifi ed my client’s employer and Solicitors and Mediators, subject in the last months (except from original investigations. he had been suspended from Lesley Perry & Robert Twell, Prison Law team a fi rm who specialise in trial lawyers in appeal cases). If he or she has, work for almost a year. Wells Burcombe appealing wrongful then only exceptionally can further advice be He called me a week or so aft er Frustratingly the police convictions and sentences. given.

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guidelines which the hearing then the case may be Independent Adjudicator adjourned. Essentially the Internal Judgement Day... should be guided by before hearing should be conducted imposing any sentence that much like a trial but oft en is involves adding additional very informal. adjudications and what that means days onto a prisoner’s sen- tence. If the off ence is one that During the hearing the pris- carries additional days then oner, or if one is present a the maximum sentence that solicitor will be given the for prisoners can be imposed is 42 days for opportunity to put questions each offence. There is argu- to any witnesses. Emma Davies available on request. otherwise this is a ground for criminal behaviour then the ment to suggest that additional and Jennifer Mitchell the case to be dismissed. case may be referred to the days should be suspended for Once all the evidence has been What happens if I am police. The police would then a period of time. If the heard the adjudicator will ‘nicked’? It is very important that upon be tasked with investigating Independent Adjudicator decide whether or not the receipt of the form it is care- the off ence. If the police feel agrees to do this the prisoner prisoner is guilty. The standard We have provided guidance If a prisoner is accused of fully checked to ensure that it that the matter warrants it the will not serve those additional of proof is the same as in the on the adjudication process breaking a Prison Rule, they has been served within the prisoner could be charged with days unless they commit fur- previously, but are aware that will be given a form called a criminal courts, so the adju- specified time period. The a further criminal off ence. In ther off ences thereby activat- many of those in custody can- DIS1, more oft en referred to as dicator must be satisfied so Adjudication Liaison Offi cer such cases a prisoner should ing the suspended days not always obtain legal advice a “nicking sheet.” This will that they are sure that the must also be consulted, and not be subject to the prison awarded. regarding it. This article seeks outline when and where they prisoner has done what is al- this must be confi rmed on the disciplinary proceedings for to serve as a reminder about were found to be breaching leged. If there is any doubt form by the investigating of- the same matter. Less serious off ences can carry what to do for those who are the rules, and will specify then the prisoner should be fi cer. Their job is to advise staff loss of canteen, cellular con- subject to disciplinary which rule was broken. It will acquitted. on whether a disciplinary If the off ence is not referred to fi nement and loss of privileges action. also confi rm the details of the charge is an appropriate re- the police the Governor will for example. This is detailed officer investigating the If a prisoner is convicted then sponse to the incident, and if need to decide whether he within the Prison Discipline What is an adjudication? charge. This form is especially a conduct report is usually so what charge is appropriate deals with it himself. Cases Manual. In order to receive an adjudi- important, as it will confi rm read out. The prisoner or a to lay. If they have not been will usually be dealt with by cation a prisoner must have the timings of every step of the solicitor if one is present will consulted then these are also the Governor when they are The hearing itself... breached one of the Prison process. then be able to mitigate about ground for the charges to be less serious and do not attract Rules. Breaches can vary in If the prisoner is appearing for the circumstances of the of- dismissed, as it is possible to a punishment of additional severity, from possession of The charge should be laid and the first time, the Governor fence and set out any other argue that the correct proce- days. an unauthorised article to the form issued as soon as will in the fi rst instance assess information that may assist dure has not been followed. disobeying a lawful order. Full possible, and must be within whether he is dealing with the before the adjudicator decides What happens after I have If the offence is serious or details of the various off ences 48 hours of discovery of the case, referring it to the police on his sentence. been given a nicking sheet? complex in nature the Governor can be found in the Prison off ence. If the charge is laid or adjourning the matter to be The Governor should hear the should refer it to an Discipline Manual, and a copy later than 48 hours, then there dealt with by the Independent It can be stressful and over- case within 24 hours of the Independent Adjudicator who should be kept in the prison must be “exceptional circum- Adjudicator. Once this decision whelming being subject to prisoner’s receipt of the DIS1 is a District Judge who visits library and should be made stances” given for this, has been made the hearing prison disciplinary proceed- form. If the charge is of serious the prison (usually on a month- will proceed. ings and there is oft en a lot at ly basis) who will consider the stake for those who are subject matter. If the Governor decides During the hearing the charge to them for varying reasons. to refer the matter to the will be read to the prisoner The process is not always as Independent Adjudicator then who will then indicate whether straightforward as it would the prisoner must appear be- he pleads guilty or not guilty. appear and oft en in hindsight fore the Independent The prisoner will be asked if those who have been subject Adjudicator within 28 days of they require legal representa- to it feel they would have been the prisoner’s initial appear- tion for their adjudication and assisted if they had someone ance in front of the Governor. should be given the opportu- fi ghting their corner. nity contact a solicitor. In such What punishment can I get? circumstances proceedings There are many aspects of the should be adjourned to enable adjudication process that a The Independent Adjudicator the prisoner to instruct some- prison law solicitor can advise has the same powers of the one. Prisoner should be aware on ranging from ensuring that Governor in respect of distrib- that although they can ask for the paperwork has been com- uting punishments, however advice for a Governor adjudi- pleted correctly to ensuring they also have the additional cation they will not be able to that the hearing is a fair and power to add additional days have a solicitor present at such balanced one. It is likely that onto a prisoner’s sentence. a hearing and nor is there Legal there will soon to be some Our open, friendly solicitors working This type of punishment is Aid funding available. 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of the business concerned can help a defendant actually to be ‘criminal’. show, for example, that it is not unusual for significant cash flow to come from the sort of business concerned “Arrangements” Money laundering or that certain losses appeared to fall outside the Section 328 has produced some interesting case-law indictable period. The expert may be able to help - but again it is all really common-sense, or the with the rebuttal by comparing with other like checking of a prosecution tendency to depart from businesses in the area and/or show the existence of common- sense. In R v Geary [2011] 1 WLR 1634 the Keeping it clean… a reasonable audit trail. Court of Appeal considered that the natural and ordinary meaning of ‘arrangement’ - to which it Of course there may be a lack of a proper audit trail referred must be one which related to property which Jonathan Lennon and Aziz Rahman be criminal property. The case was followed in R v etc. Experts will certainly not be the answer every was ‘criminal property’ at the time the arrangement William & Ors [2013] EWCA Crim 1262 - the “criminal time but may be able to help in the right circumstances began to operate upon it. It did not extend to property property”, as defined by s340, was the entirety of which was originally legitimate but became ‘criminal’ Part 7 of Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) contains and make the Crown’s case look like speculation. the undeclared turnover, not merely the tax due - even only as a result of the carrying out of the arrangement. the Act’s money laundering offences. The provisions if only the ‘benefit’ was the tax that should have Conspiracies In that case G was handling money which was going have kept pro-active criminal lawyers (defence and been properly due. to be hidden from a spouse in a divorce case and prosecution) busy for years. Money laundering used In R v Saik [2007] 1 A.C. 18 the House of Lords con- sidered allegations of conspiracy to money launder could, at that point, have become criminal property. to be a fairly well understood concept but, it has to How do the prosecution prove the existence of under the old, pre-POCA, law. The Court found an The case was more recently approved in the Supreme be said, that as prosecutors got more and more used ‘criminal property’? in-built tension because a conspiracy allegation Court in R v GH [2015] 2 Cr. App. R. 12. to the statutory framework so the multitude of sce- To prove any of the above 3 offences the Crown have narios which could lead to a money laundering requires a knowing agreement to commit an offence, to prove that the property was derived from criminal It is especially important in money laundering cases charge appeared to grow and grow. Mercifully, the whereas the actual offence itself (i.e. not a conspiracy) conduct. How do they do that? It all depends on the to keep an eye on the basic ingredients of the offence Court of Appeal has, in more recent times, begun to could be committed by the defendant merely sus- facts of the case; if the money laundering is a sec- and if it is a ‘suspicion’ case seek to get rebutting put a brake on some of these advances putting a pecting that the property he was dealing with derived ondary count to the principal crime alleged in count evidence, and in complex cases ensure that full little more common-sense back into the process of from the proceeds of crime. The conviction in that 1, then the focus for all sides is to concentrate on disclosure has been given of all the accounts and deciding whether a particular situation could amount case was quashed. The case seems to have been count 1. If though the alleged money launderer is audit trails etc. and an expert for the defence con- to money-laundering or not. accepted as applying equally to POCA cases - you not included in count 1, or the original criminal cannot after all agree to have a suspicion, you either sidered. One thing is for sure; given the authorities activity was committed by someone else convicted emphasis on money laundering, an increasing amount Laundering Charges Under POCA and ‘Criminal know or you don’t know in a conspiracy case. in an earlier case; or even where there is no convicted of this publication’s readership are likely to fall into Property’ principal, the case for the Crown on money laundering Attempts POCA’s net in the months and years to come. There are three main money laundering offences becomes more problematic. The Crown will first of This is another area where there has been some created by POCA - they all carry penalties of up to all want to prove a link between the principal criminal, 14 years imprisonment. They are s327 - concealing, recent return to common-sense. In R v Pace and the drug trafficker for example, and the defendant Jonathan Lennon is a Barrister specialising in serious disguising, converting or transferring criminal Rogers [2014] EWCA Crim 186 (18/2/14) the principal as launderer. Under the three offences the Crown and complex criminal defence cases at 33 Chancery property, or removing it from the jurisdiction. This issue before the Court of Appeal was the mental have to show that not only that the money derived Lane Chambers, London. He has extensive experience is one offence which can be committed in the five element required for an attempt to money launder. from crime, but also that the suspect ‘knew or sus- in all aspects of financial and serious crime and the different ways listed. It is perhaps the easiest way Thames Valley police sent undercover officers into pected’ it was. Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. He is ranked by both for the Crown to proceed on ‘self-laundering’ charges scrap metal yards to sell power-cable, lead flashing, Legal 500 Chambers & Ptnrs & is recognised in C&P’s - i.e. laundering the proceeds of one’s own criminal even a brass war memorial plaque all purportedly Where the prosecution is unable to show or explain specialist POCA and Financial Crime sections; ‘he is activity. Section 328; is entering into, or becoming stolen. None of the items were in fact stolen. The to the jury what the exact underlying criminal offence defendants were convicted of an attempt to convert phenomenal and is work rate is astonishing’ (2015). concerned in an arrangement to facilitate the acqui- was, then that task becomes more difficult and the sition, retention, use or control by, or on behalf of criminal property - s327 (1) (c). The Crown’s case was Crown will then usually have to rely on circumstantial Aziz Rahman is a Solicitor- Advocate and Partner at another person, of criminal property knowing or that though there could be no knowledge that the evidence to try and prove that the money is ‘criminal the leading Criminal Defence firm Rahman Ravelli suspecting that the property is criminal property. goods were stolen - since they were not - there could property’. The same often applies were a particular Solicitors, specialising in Human Rights, Financial Crime That offence can cover a wide range of evils but it be a ‘suspicion’ which is all the Act required. The crime can be proven to have been committed by and Large Scale Conspiracies/Serious crime. Rahman can be seen how it would be used in cases where the Court of Appeal thought it odd that a man could not someone else; then the only issue for the jury, in the Ravelli are members of the Specialist Fraud Panel launderer is not said to be the principal offender in be guilty, under these circumstances, of actually money laundering trial, will be what was in the and have been ranked by Legal 500 as an ‘exceptional’ the criminal conduct. Section 329 is the offence of laundering, but could be guilty of attempting it (para defendant’s mind - did he/she ‘know or suspect’? firm with Aziz Rahman being described as ‘top class’’. acquiring, using or having possession of criminal 64) and, following the case of R v Montilla [2005] 1 The firm is also ranked in Chambers & Partners. property. Again, this can cover a whole range of Cr. App. R 26, found that for an offence of converting In R v Anwoir [2008] 2 Cr. App. R 36 the Court of criminal property to be made out the property had Rahman Ravelli are a Top Tier and Band 1 firm. situations but will often be used to prosecute an ‘end Appeal found that in that sort of case the prosecution user’; i.e. the person who buys a car, a house etc. had two ways of proving that the property was from a criminal. ‘criminal property’. Firstly, by showing that it derived from a specific ‘kind or kinds’ of crime; e.g. fraud, There are exceptions to all 3 charges where the person drug-trafficking etc. Secondly, that from the circum- concerned makes an “authorised disclosure” to the stances the “irresistible inference” can be drawn by relevant authorities but this is really to protect banks the jury that it can only be derived from crime. and other businesses from committing what would otherwise be an offence when dealing with a crim- In R v Da Silva [2006] EWCA Crim 1654, 11/7/06 the The strongest legal inal’s money. The Act is clear that certain businesses, Court of Appeal considered a trial Judge’s direction are under a duty to inform the authorities of any to the jury on the word ‘suspicion’. Generally there representation in the customer they believe is laundering criminal cash should be no jury direction on what it means but in through their business. Many professionals have law ‘suspecting’ means that “there is a possibility, fi elds of serious, fallen foul of the Act in one way or another. which is more than fanciful that the relevant facts exist. A vague feeling of unease would have suffice.” What is ‘Criminal Property’? Of course the circumstantial evidence which the complex and business It can be seen then that the lynchpin of the 3 offences prosecution may bring to Court can be quite damming is the notion of ‘criminal property’. The prosecution at first sight, e.g. large sums of cash, contaminated crime. The most have to prove that the property, whether it is cash, notes, lies in interview or a lack of commercial sense a house, a car or whatever it is, is ‘criminal property’. in some transactions, linked possibly with connec- informed, expert This is defined at s340(3) as property which represents tions to someone convicted of the principal offence. a benefit from criminal conduct, either directly or However, though the power of circumstantial evidence advice for those indirectly, in whole or in part, so long as the launderer should never be underestimated, the fact is that the ‘knows or suspects’ that the property represents defence may, either through cross-examination or such a benefit. The Crown thus has to show that the through the defendant’s evidence, show that there being prosecuted. launderer committed the relevant act (i.e. transfer, are other ‘co-existing circumstances’ which explain concealing etc.) knowing or suspecting that the the issues and can go to weaken the prosecution’s property derived from criminal conduct. inference. The Judge may be persuaded that the case is a suitable one for direction to the jury on circum- In R v IK [2007] EWCA Crim 491, 8/3/07 the question stantial evidence. This simply means that the Judge for the Court was whether the proceeds of cheating will remind the jury that, as a matter of law, that it the revenue could be ‘criminal property’. In a nutshell should distinguish between arriving at conclusions a legitimate trader had earned legitimate money based on reliable circumstantial evidence, and mere undertaking a legitimate business (a shop). However, speculation. Juries are often told that speculating the allegation was that not all the income was declared in a case amounts to no more than guessing, or - thus cheating the revenue. The Crown prosecuted making up theories without good evidence to support a money laundering offence but the trial Judge ruled them and that is an un-supportable basis for a that there was no ‘criminal property’ - the money conviction. Telephone Roma House, 59 Pellon 1 Fetter Lane did not come from crime. Following a prosecution 01422 Lane, Halifax, West London appeal the Court of Appeal found that the undeclared Rebutting inferences therefore can be a very signif- 346666 Yorkshire HX1 5BE EC4A 1BR income could in part ‘represent’ the proceeds of icant part of the job of defending and must get early crime, as that undeclared amount would be repre- attention. It may lead to the instruction of an expert, www.rahmanravelli.co.uk / [email protected] Nationwide Service sentative of the ‘benefit’. Thus applying the statute for example a forensic accountant. It may be that an properly, that undeclared income could at that point accountant or auditor with a particular knowledge 42 Legal // Q&A ‘Legal’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Insidetime April 2016

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Everything treatment of long term pain, Answers to readers’ legal this matter. It is important that you make about my case doesn’t seem and the prison doctor may A Unfortunately it is difficult queries are given on a meaningful contact with the right to me so I ask is this have a suitable plan in place to provide a definitive answer strictly without liability basis. A You state that you pursued original solicitors, in order to correct procedure? Have in respect of your medical to your query concerning If you propose acting upon a claim for compensation establish whether they pursued healthcare medically needs, such as lowering your any punishment that your any of the opinions that against the Parole Board in a claim on your behalf, neglected me or made me dosage. 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discount from the starting point is appropriate. attack the deceased. I don’t know the full facts This was the approach taken by the Court of but it looks as if the jury was not satisfi ed that Appeal in R v B 2012 EWCA Crim 349 (a much you encouraged the boy to kill or cause serious Banks more serious case than yours, where 3 years 9 bodily harm to the victim. The other factor is months was substituted), R v Alderson 2012 that you cannot be the lead defendant in the EWCA Crim 1824 (2 years substituted) and R v murder that your co-defendant was convicted Davies 2013 EWCA Crim 3166 (16 months). of, as you were not convicted of murder. on Sentence However, you could be the lead defendant in Robert Banks, a barrister, writes Banks on Sentence. It is the second-largest selling I will ask David Wells to write to you as it ap- the activity. I think there are a lot of factors criminal practitioner’s text book and is used by judges for sentencing more than any pears you may have a ground of appeal. which I don’t know about, so I will ask David other. The book is classifi ed by the Ministry of Justice as a core judicial text book. The Wells to write to you. However, I am confi dent book has an app which is for Apple iPads and Windows 8/10 tablets and computers. It Q I have just been acquitted of joint-enter- that a) the criteria for a life sentence were pres- costs £99 (incl. VAT). The print copy costs £106. There is also a discount available when prise murder and convicted of manslaughter. ent and b) the minimum term was signifi cantly the print copy and app are purchased together and a large discount if the current I was on the other side of the road when it lengthened to refl ect your extremely relevant edition is bought with the edition to be published at the end of April. If you have access happened but the Judge said I was in the lead previous convictions (which is a diff erent issue to a computer, you can follow Robert on Twitter, @BanksonSentence and you can role. I fell out with my QC and was sentenced to the risk factor). receive his weekly sentencing Alert. without a barrister. The Judge gave my co-de- fendant, who was convicted of murder, life www.banksr.com with a 14½-year minimum term and my other co-defendant, who was convicted of man- Q I appeared in court for sexual activity with the guideline in my book is inaccurate. The Update slaughter, 3 years. I have a manslaughter and a child family member (a section 25 off ence) guideline in the book was correct at the time it The judgment in the IPP case was issued on 18 a death by careless driving on my list of pre- and received a full discount for my plea. The was published. Interestingly this old section 25 March 2016. Thirteen defendants had asked for vious off ences. The Judge said he would have child was my step-daughter, who was 17 years guideline does not apply to your case, as the their IPP sentences to be set aside mainly given me a 30-year minimum term if I had 10 months old. I was aged 37. The prosecution guideline does not apply where the defendant because the statutory criteria for passing IPP was been convicted of murder. I got life with a agreed there was no grooming and the off ence is a non-blood relative and the other party is not satisfi ed. The Lord Chief Justice rejected all 15-year minimum term, which is the equiva- was opportunist. The Judge said the range over 16. the appeals and emphasised the need for lent of a 30-year prison sentence. How can was 6-11 years before the plea discount was appeals to be lodged within 28 days of the that be right? considered. I was sentenced to 4 years. I I am at a loss as to why your solicitor says the sentence. There was nothing in the judgment to looked in Banks on Sentence and saw the book is inaccurate when it appears she can’t help those trapped in prison with wrongly A Your case neatly highlights three important imposed IPP sentences. range was 1-4 years. I sent a photocopy of the spot that the guideline is clearly dated 2007 or principles of law. First is about joint enterprise. page to my solicitor and asked why I was not that it did not apply to your off ence at any time You don’t have to be next to the victim to be a sentenced under this guideline. She said she and so by inference a lesser sentence is lead defendant. The man in charge can shout Asking Robert and Jason would look into it and sent me a copy of the appropriate. across the road, “Kill him now” and be guilty Sexual Offences Definitive guideline. This questions of murder in a leading role. Second, the length said the range was 4-10 years. It looked as if So how should you have been sentenced? It is of the minimum term must not be extended to Please make sure your question concerns sentence I was Category 1 (because of penetration) and important to start with the Sexual Offences reflect the risk to the public you pose. An and not conviction and send the letter to Inside Category A (because of a signifi cant disparity Guideline 2014 at page 51, which deals with Internet report says that you had a 10-year GBH Time, marked for Robert Banks or Jason Elliott. in age). No other aggravating factors applied. section 25 off ences. If the Judge said the range sentence aft er you were released from your fi rst Unless you say you don’t want your question and Two months later, having heard nothing from in the guideline for the off ence was 6-11 years, manslaughter sentence. It also says you had answer published, it will be assumed you have no my solicitor, I rang her. She said the Judge he was applying the wrong guideline. What another 10-year sentence for an attack involving objection to publication. It is usually not possible uses the guideline and not a book. She said guideline it was I don’t know. That range cannot 11 stab wounds. You were released from this to determine whether a particular defendant has she did not understand why the cases in the apply to your off ending. sentence shortly before the latest killing. The grounds of appeal without seeing all the paperwork. book indicated such low sentences and said Analysing all the paperwork is not possible. The risk factor may determine the issue of ‘danger- the book was inaccurate. Can you please clear Your case was clearly a Category 1 offence, column is designed for simple questions and ousness’ and so whether a life sentence is ap- up the confusion? because there was penetration. If your answers. step-daughter had been two months older, propriate. However, when fi xing the minimum term risk is not factor and is a matter for the A I have not discussed this with your solicitor there would have been no off ence under this No-one will have their identity revealed. Letters Parole Board when they consider whether it is but it appears she does not understand how section. As she was nearly aged 18, I think most which a) are without an address, b) cannot be read, safe to release you aft er you have served the guidelines work. I assume you were sentenced judges would consider the culpability factor of or c) are sent direct, cannot be answered. Letters minimum term. Third, the Judge has to sentence after 1 April 2014, so you should have been ‘signifi cant disparity in age’ would not apply sent by readers to Inside Time are sent on to a you on the basis of both the guilty and the not sentenced using the Sexual Off ences Guideline in the same way it applies when there is a child solicitor, who forwards them to Robert and Jason. guilty verdicts. An Internet report says in the 2014, which it seems is the one your solicitor aged 12-14. An aggravating factor listed is ‘ejac- If your solicitor wants to see previous questions and latest off ence you encouraged a teenage boy to sent you. You refer to an entry in my book which ulation’ which I consider would have less answers, they are at www.banksr.com. refers to a range of 1-4 years and to victims aged weight than usual as the other party was a will- 16 or 17. This means that you and your solicitor ing party. were looking at a copy or photocopy of the 2013 edition of my book (or an earlier edition). The I also think with the age of your step-daughter, guideline there is clearly stated to be the Sexual most judges would consider that a child sex NEW CATALOGUE Off ences Act 2003 Guideline 2007. You ask if guideline is not helpful or that a substantial

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her friend and was com- time when they are wearing he greeted a fairground ride plaining about Dad. their watches on their operator. He was saying, bloomin ankles!” ‘thanks big lad’ and ‘how “He was trying for hours and you doing big lad.’ There he still couldn’t get it up! It Perhaps the tagging people was absolutely no malice was erect one minute and need to redesign the devices intended, he in his own way the next floppy!” I heard her as they are confusing our was just being polite. But I saying. lovely old age pensioners? saw him near the miniature train ride and he got on it I’d learnt about sex education One day whilst visiting Garth with his kids. The operator at school and thought, ‘hey Prison, I sat outside near the walked up and down the up, a divorce is on the cards visitors centre because it was carriages checking if here!’ Her friend simply a scorching day. I grabbed a everyone was secure. asked her, “So what are you coffee and went deep in to going to do?” thought. The Mancunian guy said, ‘thanks big lad’ to him. Mum replied, “I’ll just have An old gentleman and what Thankfully the dwarf who to throw the bloody tent in appeared to be his son sat was operating the train © Fotolia.com the bin!” alongside me. The old man didn’t take offence and all asked his son how ‘he’ was, was well. In fact no one During adulthood, I made meaning the prisoner they batted an eyelid. earwigging a career. Long were about to see. journeys when prison Some people are comic The Earwig Hunter visiting can be tedious so I’d His son said, “He’s fine, he’s geniuses without even take a notebook and see clean now you know”. knowing it. Just the other Prison Widow my Mum would have taken met Noreen who later what I could earwig. day I was stood outside Cash me to the doctor’s right? became my best friend. It “Oh right, so are prisoners Converter and a young man was down to Noreen that I I was once on the number 8 allowed a bath when they came out of the shop with When I was eight years-old, I When I was ten, a teacher at eventually found out what bus on-route to Strangeways see their families?” He two PlayStation Games. He was told by my parents that I school asked me what an earwigger was. She too and was sat behind an old smiled. commented to his pal, “Wow was an earwigger. Apparently religion I was. I told her I was an earwigger. lady and her daughter. Two I’ve got a bargain! They were my brother was an earwigger was an earwigger… A few lads were waiting to get off at I looked over at the son and five pound each and I and so was my sister. days later, Social Services From then on I decided to the next stop when the old he looked at me with that managed to get two for a ushered me in to a room and make earwigging a hobby. lady pointed at them and mutual understanding that tenner!” Whenever my Mum had asked if I stuck pins in my Some of the things I overhear whispered to her daughter, whoever they were visiting friends round for a coffee, dolls? They also wanted to are funny and pretty much “What is wrong with the had detoxed. I am now looking for she would say to me, “Stop know if I went camping at disturbing at the same time. youth of today?” professional prison earwig- earwigging and go and play Stonehenge with my parents One of my favourite earwig- ger’s as I am pretty certain upstairs in your room please!” and whilst there did I do a I overheard my Mum talking “What’s that Mother?” Her ging experiences was when I that some things overheard bit of Morris Dancing around to her friend in the kitchen daughter replied. was at Blackpool Pleasure on prison landings are little No one explained to me what fires with my face painted. one day. I was earwigging Beach. A guy with a strong gems! Go on, try earwigging an earwigger was. I knew it from the top of the stairs. “Well look” she tutted, “How Mancunian accent was using for a week and see what you wasn’t an illness otherwise When I started high school I She was having a coffee with can those boys look at the the word, ‘big lad’ whenever find!

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for our stories - he is determined that we are us develop a character (if you’d like an idea for all going to write short stories it would appear. this please write in to the paper for my atten- We had a group discussion about what we look tion) - we had to give them hobbies, something for in a character. Not sure why but James Bond quirky about them and three words to describe came up a lot, it was decided however, that the them. It was actually harder than I thought it villain is usually the more interesting charac- would be and a lot of scribbling out was involved! ter. We talked about stereotypical characters We were then introduced to flash fiction and and also discussed how important it is that we given some examples of short stories, very can ‘see’ these characters. A bit like reading a short stories! Craig told us of many competi- book and ‘casting’ actors into any future screen tions that we could enter with short stories play. (My ‘counting sheep’ method if I can’t from 50 words to 2000. He clearly has far more sleep). Reading about a character, their flaws, faith in our skills than us - or certainly me. their good points etc enables the reader to im- agine that person; it was agreed that it was Shock horror, we were given homework!!! To important not to give too much of the character write a short story! The story could be anything in the first instance, thereby not leaving your- under 1000 words long but preferably under self the opportunity to develop their ‘person- 200 words. It is important with a short story to ality’. Main points of developing your have a definite beginning, middle and end. I character: actually found that it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. In a flurry of enthusiasm l Decide if they’re going to be the goody or - not likely to be repeated and certainly not left © Fotolia.com baddy in your story; over from when I was at school - I did my home- work the next day and not the night before (or l Give them a quirky hobby/mannerism/etc the morning of) class. You can read my story for example a bad guy could love his pet rabbit Diary of a creative writer - something the reader wouldn’t expect; below, I’ll let you know what the reaction was.

l Don’t worry too much about ‘back story’ - it Lucy Forde making sure my phone was off and that I’d gives you the opportunity to develop them, Editorial note remembered the paperwork and, most impor- warts and all, as the story unfolds. Can you write a story in 200 words? If so send tantly, my pad and pen. I drew the line at the it to us at our usual address. Mark your letter Lesson One ‘Frozen’ book bag my granddaughter offered We were given a sheet with questions to help ‘story’. There can be nothing more daunting than one’s to lend me. After wandering round a maze of first day at school, or in my case back at school. paths and corridors - moaning that I should The smell of school hasn’t changed in the near- have brought a ball of string as a guide as well The Funeral ly sixty years since I took my first tentative - I eventually found my classroom. Our tutor “His wife”; Olivia heard the distress in the statement and sensed that it came from the very pregnant steps into school and my teacher Miss introduced himself and sensing that I was young woman sitting with Simon’s fellow officers in the pew behind her. As the Army Chaplain Bannerman (who wore her cardigans back to heading for the back of the class made me sit continued with his eulogy, realisation dawned on her; the late night meetings ‘so I’ll sleep at the front, a small memory that has stayed with at the front! mess’ phone calls; the interminable weekend manoeuvres and yet she had spotted other officers me). No chalk dust now, of course, no mum to in town but hadn’t thought to question him, it had always slipped her mind by the time he got back; spit on a hankie and wipe whatever dirt I man- When the rest of the group arrived we each had the ‘you won’t enjoy it’ receptions that he always attended without her; the uncomfortable shuffling aged to acquire on the walk to school - I was to introduce ourselves and say why we were of his brother officers not wanting to meet her eye when she had taken her seat in the front row the child that could get dirty in the bath! No doing the course - couldn’t come up with any- of the garrison chapel. turning back to see mum pretending she had thing witty, just that I wanted to do something dust in her eye as her first born took those giant for me, oh how boring. Olivia joined her in-laws as they followed the coffin out of the church and waited in the porch to steps, they could have been tears of relief of greet the other mourners as they filed out. She held the pregnant girl’s hand, a little too firmly course; no, just me checking I’d locked my car, First lesson was all about forming characters maybe, turned to Simon’s parents and introduced them to their grandchild and its mother.

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Almost all of us get back pain at some point in our lives, and it can make you miserable. Long periods of bang up lying on your bed and the Relax stress of jail don’t help matters! Lying still with the feet flat on the bed or floor and the knees bent is probably the best thing to do if your back has gone “ping!” But you can start to help the Back yourself once you’re not in great pain, with some gentle exercise. These yoga moves will stretch and release your back in all its directions. Go slowly while doing these. Listen to your body. The Prison If anything feels wrong, do it more slowly or Phoenix Trust just go to the next move. Try them out and see if they help. These movements are also good for when your back is not hurting, to keep it strong and supple.

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Terry Williamson thought that a sub 4 minute mile was nigh on impossible. Many athletes had come so close for such a long time it was genuinely believed The inaugural London marathon was in 1981 to be out of reach of the human body. But one and 7,747 people were fortunate enough to take person had a different mindset and just after part in what has become a global, iconic event. 6pm at a windy racetrack in Oxford, Roger Move between these two movements, flowing with the breath ten times. Last year in 2015, there were 37,800 partici- Bannister recorded a 3m59.4s in front of 3000 pants and they included hundreds of people spellbound spectators - and changed the in various weird and wacky fancy dress cos- Side Stretch Sitting Twist world. tumes, teams of people pushing large objects 3 With your feet wide apart, bend your 4 Sit with your legs crossed and twist to and the oldest runner was the grand old age right knee and rest your forearm on your right. Hold for five deep breaths Within days this record had been broken again of 90. And he was over a decade younger than it. Use the other arm to stretch up and repeat on the other side. and again by other athletes. Why? Because the oldest ever runner, Fauja Singh who was and over. Take five slow breaths now they knew it was possible and they be- 101 when he completed the full distance. here. Repeat on the other side. lieved they could do it. Before it was unreach- able, intangible and a lingering element of So it begs the questions... what does it take to doubt hung in the air. Now they had seen it run a marathon and more specifically what with their own eyes and the impossible had has changed in the last 30 years to make it so become possible in the blink of an eye. accessible to everyone? Too often in our own lives we hold on to Notwithstanding, we have clearly had advanc- self-limiting beliefs that weigh us down and es in nutrition and physical training but I’m before we know it we have accepted our fate. not convinced everyone is eating avocados, We make elaborate excuses that are linked to drinking coconut water and tracking their our environment, our background and our heart rate zones with a smart watch. circumstance to reinforce this negative behaviour. 6 Hare First of all let’s cover off the basics. If you speak Sink down so your buttocks are on to any elite athlete, in any sport and there will your feet and your back is stretched Henry Ford famously said, “If you think you be common themes they will talk about in the can, or you think you can’t you are probably out comfortably. Have your knees context of performance. Determination, effort, wide. If your sitting bones don’t right” and you can choose what to think, at commitment and consistency to name a few any time, in any place. Even in prison. reach your heels, put a pillow - and these are great characteristics needed to underneath. You want to be relaxed, achieve anything in life. However as a perfor- Down Dog not holding yourself in the air. Stay So it’s worth learning from your past so you 5 Get your hips as high as you can. mance coach who has worked with a wide can embrace your present and keep looking for ten slow breaths, paying atten- range of successful individuals from all walks Build to ten slow breaths. tion to how your back feels and forward. Change your thinking, change your of life I come across one element that is critical life. knowing that you have done to this success. You have to 100% believe it is something good for yourself. possible.

Let me give you an example. Terry Williamson is a sports performance, psychology and Life Coach at Before the 6th May 1954, most of the planet InSearchofBrilliance.com Eddie Izzard completes 27 marathons in 27 days marathon on the last day to years Nelson Mandela spent complete his challenge in prison before becoming beneath a statue of Nelson South Africa’s first black Mandela in Pretoria. The president. Over the 707-mile comedian’s endurance feat route, Izzard battled through raised more than £1.35m. dehydration, heat exhaustion and sunstroke. If you want a free book and CD to help you set up a regular yoga and medita- “That was very, very tough,” Comedian Eddie Izzard “It’s been the hardest thing tion practice write to The Prison Phoenix Trust, PO Box 328, Oxford OX2 7HF. Izzard told reporters as he completed his challenge in I’ve ever done. Thank you to The Prison Phoenix Trust supports prisoners and prison officers in their spiritual swigged from a celebratory South Africa to run 27 everyone who has donated lives through meditation and yoga, working with silence and the breath. The bottle of sparkling white wine. marathons in 27 days for [and] don’t do this at home”, Trust supports people of any religion or none. We also run weekly yoga classes Sport Relief. The 54 year-old The 27 marathons were said a very tired Izzard. for prisoners and staff. needed to run a double intended to reflect the 27 BBC Insidetime April 2016 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Fitness 47 Marathon Training Focus Program When preparing for a Maintaining a strength be maintained through Cell Workout marathon people tend to program is critical for long-distance and endur- ditch the weights in favour of improving running effi ciency ance training. getting the miles in. While for the marathon ahead. Get the body you want Inside & Out this will be benefi cial for Distance running breaks Each of the 4 phases below increasing endurance, this down the muscles in the has a different focus, If you can’t fly, then run, may lead to injury. If the body and can result in loss of allowing for a total of 16 if you can’t run, then walk, body’s muscles aren’t strength, which in the end weeks. Your Training Focus if you can’t walk, then crawl, conditioned for the impact, can slow you down. With a should mirror and support stress will be absorbed tailored training program, the Marathon Focus to help but whatever you do, elsewhere, including bones this muscle breakdown can you fi nish your marathon you have to keep moving forward. and connective tissue. be assisted, and strength can goal feeling strong. Martin Luther King Jr Phase 1 (weeks 1-4) fibres and help you maintain strength while On 24th April at 9am people will be taking to Marathon Focus: Base not putting wear and tear on the muscular system. These bodyweight plyometrics can the streets for the London Marathon 2016. Each Training Focus: Stability also serve another function of improving person will be running for their own personal running form, muscle and tendon stiffness. reasons - maybe to face a new challenge, get During the Stability Phase, the focus isn’t on Since the focus is on form and intensity and the weight lifted, but rather on form and fit, raise money and awareness for a charity, not volume, sets and reps should be relatively execution. The priorities should be practicing step out of a comfort zone, make new friends, low (2-3 sets of 3-5 repetitions) and rest times and mastering bodyweight movements sense of accomplishment or inspire others. should be fairly long (2-3 minutes) between including single leg exercises, like lunges and exercises. single leg squats. Both exercises will strengthen But a marathon isn’t only defined as a long-dis- the hips and prepare the muscles to handle the tance running race, it can be any long lasting increased pounding on the ground. So while it difficult task, which could be a prison sen- may be tempting to up the weight, keep the Phase 4 (weeks 13-16) tence. Imagine trying to run a marathon with- weight light and practice mastering the Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen crossing Marathon Focus: Taper out any practice or preparation. In prison you movement. Runners should focus on high the fi nish line hand in hand at the fi rst London Training Focus: Maintenance & Recovery also need to be physically fit and mentally in repetition sets (12-15 reps) with little rest time Marathon in 1981, a gesture which has come a good place no matter how long the sentence. (30-45 seconds) in between exercises. to symbolise the spirit of the event. The three During the Taper Phase, with the hard work It’s a test of endurance not a sprint. victors were followed across the fi nish line, by done, its time to give your body some time to 6,252 other runners (out of 7,747), many recover, while still maintaining a high level of We can all find excuses not to do things in life, attempting the marathon distance for the fi rst Phase 2 (weeks 5-8) fitness. You will also want to focus on but we should take inspiration from British time. As Beardsley famously said afterwards: Marathon Focus: Aerobic Endurance stretching to promote recovery. astronaut Tim Peake, who is running the mar- “What does it matter who wins anyway? As far Training Focus: Strength athon on the International Space Station, while I’m concerned anyone who fi nished this thing In the last 10 days before a marathon, any exercise that is too strenuous and taxing can orbiting the Earth at 400km. Strapped to a is a winner” - a sentiment that stands today. During the Strength Phase, the focus is on have a negative effect. Focus on short runs, treadmill, he will be able to follow the streets bilateral exercises like the barbell squat and stretching and move back to bodyweight of London on an iPad. This really shows there barbell deadlift. Whereas unilateral exercises movements like press ups, pull ups, squats, are no excuses, in a cell or in space, anyone not too late to get involved. The marathon is may be the focus in the Stability Phase, it’s and lunges. can do it! 26.2 miles in distance, which is 1,660,032 inch- important to choose exercises during the es. An average stride being 30 inches, it takes Strength Phase where the weight can be For those who still want to use additional 55,334 steps to go the distance. Good luck! loaded up to a challenging intensity. Instead of weight, it’s important to keep the load light opting for higher repetitions, choose a load and avoid hitting failure. During this phase, go Hope you heard the radio show ‘Check Up’ on that is challenging for 5-8 repetitions. The back to a higher repetition scheme (10-15 National Prison Radio. I was invited in to dis- increase in intensity also requires a longer rest reps) while keeping sets moderate (2-3 sets) cuss how exercise can help keep people calm period (1-2 minutes). and rest times short (45-90 seconds). and reduce aggression. The first part went out in March talking about breathing techniques. The next part goes out on Tues 5th April, mid- Phase 3 (weeks 9-12) day and 6pm repeated on Sunday 10th at 10am, Marathon Focus: Peak going through some simple cardio, which will Training Focus: Power Cell Workout info help you with your marathon training! ISB: 978-0993248009 Price: £19.99 During the Power Phase, runners should stick 234 pages - 8 x 10inches Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and to full body movements and perform them 204 exercises with photos The charity he supports is The Prince’s Trust, keep your fitness questions coming in. quickly and explosively. Exercises like squat 10 week workout programme who I turned to when I was starting up the Cell jumps, box jumps, and plyometric press ups Workout business. They help young people get L. J. are perfect since they still activate muscle www.cell-workout.com into jobs, education and training, with inval- uable business advice and guidance. 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He wrote: ‘It helps us under- stand ourselves through read- The other The power of ing about and empathising/ relating to the characters’ [in ‘Big C’ the literature we read]. Shared Reading This month we’re ‘It also increases my respect talking about for others, their ideas and Hepatitis C Margaret Meyer reads with prisoners opinions’. on the PIPE at HMP Hull Hepatitis C is a virus which ‘It has taught me that listening damages the liver. If it’s left is as integral to good commu- untreated it can lead to Everything remembers introduction to the basic skills nication as talking’. serious health conditions, something. The rock, its of facilitating a shared read- including liver cancer and ing group with a view to those fiery bed, ‘It is a remarkable learning liver failure. ‘qualified’ being able to run cooling and fissuring into tool and a relaxing, enjoyable their own groups outside of cracked pieces, the rub of method to aid in people’s per- The Hepatitis C Trust the formal Reader in watery fingers along its sonal development’ estimates that at least 10% Residence led sessions. All of people in prison have edge. four ‘graduates’ have had or Notably, in a different context Hepatitis C. The actual will have an opportunity to this same prisoner remarked figure is probably higher. The cloud remembers run a group, or part of a group, that shared reading is the one being elephant, camel, observed by the Reader-in- Prison officers afternoon in the week when You can only catch Hepatitis giraffe, Residence. Whilst leading to he can imagine he is not in C through blood to blood remembers being a veil a deeper understanding of prison. If you have not yet contact - for example through how a shared reading group enter NPR studios over the face of , tried shared reading perhaps sharing the equipment to works, this mini course has gathering itself together such observations will per- inject drugs or have a tattoo. also helped to build on skills National Prison Radio has recruited two for the fall. suade you to take the plunge. It can also be transmitted already developed from regu- extremely helpful prison officers to answer through sharing razors and lar attendance in a shared Taken from What The Heart Need we say more! By the time your questions about prison life. toothbrushes. It’s possible to reading group, including lis- Cannot Forget by Joyce this article goes to press all of contract Hepatitis C through tening, reading aloud, empa- Sutphen these ‘DIYers’ will have Perhaps there’s something on your mind, something sex where blood to blood thy, tolerance and the confi- contact is possible. moved on in their prison pro- troubling or frustrating you, or something you really don’t dent expression of opinions. The extract from the poem gression and I am sure they understand about how prisons work. You can’t get Hepatitis C above is the most recent used will put these new found In addition to The Reader’s from sharing a cigarette, in our group and the opinions skills to good use even if that NPR’s Ask An Officer prison officers Sonja and Paul may be regular monitoring and eval- food or drink, hugging, and discussion ranged from does not involve the actual able to help. uation of group members I kissing or shaking hands. loss, love and life cycle to facilitating of shared reading asked my group to jot down questions like are we the in- groups. Every month they come in to the National Prison Radio their thoughts about shared If you know you’ve got escapable product of our past studios to answer your questions and giving their advice. reading without the formality Hepatitis C, or you think you natures and nurtures and is of a tickbox form. Admittedly might be at risk, you can get it, to quote Tennyson, “better Margaret Meyer is a Anyone can write in with questions, it doesn’t matter what most forgot to do this but their tested and treated in prison. to have loved and lost than practitioner with the Reader it’s about. regular commitment assures never to have loved at all”. Organisation me that they enjoy it and get There’s nothing to fear, Ask an Officer gives you the space to ask questions you might lots out of the chosen litera- because there are new, However, as well as this poem The Reader organisation is find it hard to talk about. It could be something very person- ture, the reading aloud and highly effective treatments I would like to celebrate some- an award-winning charitable al, it might be that thing about the prison system which has ensuing discussions. One res- with minimal side effects, thing else. We are coming up social enterprise working to always confused you, or it could just be something that’s ident who responded to this which can take as little as to the three year mark in our connect people through great bothering you. request was one of those who eight weeks to clear the virus. shared reading group at HMP literature. In weekly sessions, had completed the mini DIY Hull PIPE. Group members a practitioner reads aloud a So far Sonja and Paul have answered questions about why shared reading course and To hear more about why you have come and gone for vari- short story or extract and a prison officers do the job? What to do if you’re worried about below are some extracts from should get tested and treated ous reasons but we have al- poem. Anyone in the group the conduct of a member of staff? How to get the most value what he wrote - all of which for Hepatitis C, tune into ways managed to establish may choose to read too: some out of the officers on your wing? demonstrate how much can Porridge, Check Up, Prime and maintain a core group. do, others don’t. In this way, potentially be gained from Time and Sound Women on Four group members last year connections are made with And it’s not just questions about officers we’ve received shared reading in a prison National Prison Radio from successfully completed a mini thoughts and feelings; some - Sonja and Paul have given advice on HDC applications, setting and by building on Monday 4th April. shared reading facilitator people reflect on these privately, transfers, prison guidelines, absences from work and much skills through committing to course. This is run over six others are more vocal. Either more. And if you want to share your other activities such as the weeks by the Reader-in- is fine. The emphasis is on own experience of Hepatitis DIY shared reading course. enjoying the literature. Residence and involves an If you’ve got something you’d like to ask them, send your C - maybe you’ve had it, or thoughts and questions to Ask an Officer, National Prison know someone who has - you Radio, HMP Brixton, London, SW2 5XF. can write to us at National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, ZZMMSS SSOOLLIICCIITTOORRSS And tune into PRIME TIME on the last Wednesday of the London, SW2 5XF. Sharing month at midday and 6pm to hear them answered. your experience might help Prison Law specialists serving prisons throughout the Midlands. someone else who’s worried sick about Hepatitis C. • IPP/LIFER ISSUES • Which prisons are ‘taking • PAROLE APPLICATIONS • Remember, if you think you have put yourself at risk in • CATEGORISATION • over’ National Prison Radio? prison you can always • ADJUDICATIONS • National Prison Radio likes to Monday 11 April request a test. The sooner get out and about, and visit YO Takeover On The Road you get tested the sooner • JUDICIAL REVIEWS • as many prisons as possible. comes from HMP & YOI you can access treatment. We run regular NPR Takeover Rochester LICENCE CONDITIONS • Days, where we record and Speak to your prison • RECALLS • broadcast our key shows in Tuesday 12 April healthcare team or call the one lucky prison. If you HMP Exeter Takeover Day Hepatitis C Trust’s free Contact Simon Mears - Prison Law Specialist want us to visit your prison, confidential helpline on ZMS Solicitors 11 Bowling Green St, Leicester LE1 6AS write to us and tell us why. Tuesday 26 April 0800 999 2052. You don’t National Prison Radio, HMP HMP Channings Wood even need to add the 0116 247 0790 Brixton, London SW2 5XF Takeover Day number to your pin. Free advice & representation under legal aid Insidetime April 2016 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Do You Know? 49

l A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer helped prevent Do you know? a nearly $1 billion heist last month. The hackers breached Bangladesh Bank’s systems and stole its credentials for payment transfers. They then bombarded the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with 36 requests to move money from the Bangladesh Bank’s account there to entities in the Philippines and Sri Lanka. Four requests to transfer a total of about $81 million to the Philippines went through, but a fifth, for $20 million was held up because the hackers misspelled ‘foundation’ as ‘fandation’, prompting a routing bank, Deutsche Bank, to seek clarification from the Bangladesh central bank, which stopped the transaction. At the same time, the unusually large number of payment instructions and the transfer requests raised suspicions. The l A woman is facing a court appearance after being filmed transactions that were stopped totalled $850-$870 million. driving a car with a tree wedged into its front. Police in Bangladesh Bank has said it has recovered some of the money Roselle, Illinois, said the tree was thought to be around 15ft that was stolen, and is working with anti-money laundering tall. After police stopped the driver at around 11.10pm on 23 authorities in the Philippines to try to recover the rest. Reuters January, they noticed that the airbags had also been de- ployed, possibly from hitting the tree. She was charged with l Hi-tech mapping on l The phrase “put a sock in driving under the influence of alcohol and will appear in driverless cars means it” began as a way of saying DuPage County Court on 15 April. Sky News vehicles know where they that the gramophone was too loud. Because gramophones are to within 10cm - ordinary l If you like your bugs to look like Battenberg cakes, then didn’t have volume controls, GPS maps used in regular this little guy is the one for you. Let us introduce you to the people would stuff socks in Rosy Maple Moth. With bright yellow and pink coloured vehicles are accurate to the horn to decrease the wings and body, the moth looks a lot like he’s been designed within about 6m. Forbes volume. Metro by Mr Kipling. You know, the guy who makes those exceed- ingly good cakes. Or perhaps it’s an ever so slightly more l According to a new report from the New York Times, cereal elegant distant relative to Mr Blobby, who knows? The Rosy is dying a slow, soggy death for one reason: millennials just Maple Moth, or Dryocampa rubicunda, is native to North don’t think of it as a solid breakfast option. Why? Because it’s america. The females are slightly larger, with a wingspan of too much damn effort! The New York Times reports: ‘Almost up to 50mm. The Metro 40 percent of the millennials surveyed by Mintel for its 2015 report said cereal was an inconvenient breakfast choice because l Brian Earl Taylor, 21, they had to clean up after eating it.’ Fair enough, scrubbing broke out in song during his off cereal flakes stuck to a bowl with milk is tough. Teenagers court sentencing for like to save that wrist power for selfies and Facebooking. Metro l The mummified body of a German adventurer has been unlawful imprisonment and discovered on his abandoned yacht - which silently drifted carrying a concealed weapon l Britain is hit by about 20 to 30 earthquakes big enough for around the world for years. Manfred Fritz Bajorat, 59, was in the USA last month. In an people to feel each year, and hundreds more are registered by found by two fishermen off the coast of the Philippines. His impassioned plea to the sensitive equipment. The largest recorded tremor was body was discovered near the radio telephone, as if he was judge, he riffed upon the monitored near Dogger Bank, in the North Sea, in 1931, trying one last desperate mayday call. The tragic sailor has melody of the Adele ballad, registering 6.1 on the Richter scale. British Geological Survey also penned a haunting final message to his wife Claudia, who ‘Hello’, to apologize for his died from cancer in 2010. The note read: “Thirty years we’ve crimes. “Hello there, your l The £50million apart- l More than 450 billion been together on the same path. Then the power of the honour, I want to say I’m ments in The Shard are the Oreos have been sold demons was stronger than the will to live. You’re gone. May sorry for the things I’ve done highest residences in worldwide since they were your soul find its peace. Your Manfred.” It is not clear how and I’ll try and be stronger in Europe, with a penthouse introduced by the National long he had been dead and for how many years his yacht had 735ft above the ground. Biscuit Company in the U.S. l Remember Jeremy Meeks, this life I chose, but I want been drifting, but no reported sightings of him have been However, they do come with in 1912, but nobody seems to the criminal whose mugshot you to know - that door, I mentioned since 2009. Dry ocean winds, hot temperatures sea views... at least, they do know where the name came had people swooning? Well, closed. And your honour I’m and the salty air helped preserve his body. He was identified on a clear day. Saga from. Metro now he’s out of jail and sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry”. by paperwork found on the vessel. The Mirror ready to leave the thug life Despite his moving perfor- behind, as the 30-year-old is mance, Taylor was sen- l Facebook paid £4,327 in now a model. The next time tenced to two years in prison UK Corporation Tax in 2014 you see him might be in the for carrying a concealed but the Taxman paid pages of Vogue or GQ, as he weapon and 18 months to 15 £27,000 to Facebook for has been signed to White years for the unlawful adverts telling people to pay Cross Management and is imprisonment charge. CitiFM their taxes. News ready to start his new career. His mugshot racked up more than 100,000 likes after it was posted on the Stockton Police Department’s l A woman has literally l A goat has been arrested l A video has emerged of a Facebook page in 2014 when been left red-faced after for trespassing in India’s man stealing a snake from a he was charged with dying herself bright pink Chhattisgarh after it was pet shop, by stuffing it down possession of a firearm. when she misused a bath found grazing on the lawn of his trousers. Surveillance Women offered to pay his product from Lush cosmet- a local magistrate. The video shows the thief lifting bail and let him hide out at ics. Abi Shenton’s skin was landowner called the police a $200 python out of its their houses, despite Meeks left “fluorescent pink” for to deal with the animal glass tank before surrepti- being a married man. He told three days after she mistook eating his flowers and grass, tiously putting it down his ABC last year that he had a bath bomb from the and the authorities quickly jeans. After hearing that the been putting in time at the two foot long black pastel toiletries company for soap. took him into custody. The gym to be ready for his l Police have confirmed the death of DJ Derek (Derek ball python was missing, Ms Shenton (pictured) goat was released shortly close-ups when he left Serpell-Morris), the veteran DJ from who went missing store owner Christin Bjugan tweeted Lush saying: “Are afterwards, and his owner prison. ‘I eat healthy. I do a in July 2015. 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Star Poem of the Month Aggression Congratulations to this months winner Mark Humphries - HMP Wayland who receives our £25 prize Aggression like a stagnant pond Lays deep and still Yet it’ll tear you apart What a Mess It sounds like the whine of a dentist’s drill Simon McCormick - HMP Kennet Ringing in your ears Until they bleed Aggression tastes like petrol and cream Down the block in cell 1-9 Shaken not stirred Waiting for me meds A bitter taste in your mouth Time after time The touch of aggression on your skin Later and later what’s going on Stings like a nettle On me bell on and on Needing to be left alone But scratched at and itched again Ya get the gist now come on © Fotolia.com The odour of aggression burns your nostrils What a mess we’re living in Like vinegar and chilli flakes boiled Pads are flooded, sinks are blocked The aroma creeps through the air Everyone down here, losing the plot Aggression hurts and kills Wait a minute, stop © Fotolia.com It tears families apart Handle life with care Landings a pool, not a table Tired Moved from cell to cell so I’m not stable Time Inside Mole Ills Middle of the night you see Neil Barnett - Mark Jones - HMP Kirklevington Grange A bright light night clock HMP Oakwood Denzil Davies - HMP Erlestoke Checking to see you alright I’ve always said don’t wish your life away I’m tired of being happy I’m not a dog or a pig or a cat And it’s more important in tender years Days pass by nights get darker I’m tired of being sad I’m no wild animal, no, nothing like that But as I sit here alone today Red sticker next to my name, they call a marker I’m tired of being lonely I’m not a mole, but I live in a hole A whole new philosophy suddenly appears High risk prisoner but don’t know why I think I’m going mad I’m IPP and it’s time we were FREE! Shed a tear, shed a cry Feel insane, don’t know why I’m tired of being hot I’d trade a day, a week, a month, a year Never had no Glock, ‘sawn-off’ nor no flick’ Ya get the gist so moving on I’m tired of being cold And my previous point of view Ain’t no terrorist, no danger to public I say again on and on I’m tired of not knowing To bring that time the same step near I’m not a mole, but I’m in a black hole I’m tired of getting old To the time when I can be with you I’m IPP it’s high time we were FREE! Segregation cellular confinement In the block I am rhyming I’m tired when I’m asleep To hold you and feel you next to me Over tariff mental torture, makes us so unwell Here’s my meds f*ckin timing And when I am awake Is a prize I hope long to gain Obscene stress of knock backs - “Again? F**king Hell!” I can’t wait until it’s over 10 milligrams olanzopine keep me insane It is a prayer I utter constantly We are not moles but they keep us in holes Please, soon, for goodness sake! Especially down the block when ya lose ya brain My glimpse of sunshine through the rain We’re IPP - now we should be FREE!

I’m tired of the gym Written these raps spitten these bars I’ve sowed a kiss each and every day So many suicides, alone in their cells And of education too Lookin’ out my window I keep them enclosed in my heart Contributing factor was known very well I don’t want to go to work They’re next to the words I want to say They were not moles, but they died in their holes Starin’ at the stars Because I know that I’ll see you And growing each day we are apart Those IPPs really should have been FREE! Every time I write I feel I’ve relieved stress I’m tired of people wanting To love and be loved is a precious gift I find it better to get it off my chest things This wouldn’t be done to any other primate To be in love is on a higher plain So don’t let your emotions take over your brain They’re always asking me So for DECENCY’s sake just give us a date Write it all down No, I’ve not got anything! Each and every hour I wish for this We’re not chimpanzees - but we ARE on our knees Keep yourself sane I’m tired just leave me be To be with you and in love again We IPPS - you know that we should be FREE! Do yourself a favour © Fotolia.com Release your pain I’m tired of going out there So keep my love and keep yourself for me I’m not a Lord, politician or judge And giving it my all Whilst this time we are patiently bide Solomon’s wisdom calls for an end to this fudge And you understand that these words are true But most of all I’m tired Until we resume our place together for eternity Event Horizon precedes black holes in space So why not have a go Of just being here at all And made sense of this time inside Gravitas, gravitate - ‘G’ is also for GRACE! It’s all down to you Emotions are so high My French Poodle Yours stress levels weak Barry Britton - HMP Rye Hill So get it off ya chest Find someone to speak I love my little poodle And I know that she loves me I’ve learnt the hard way But we have a major problem And it’s this you see I was really weak then I started talking She can’t speak English Then started to speak And my French is pretty bad Now I feel stronger I get upset when I think about And not the weak All the talks we could have had We have to use sign language There’s people out there who will really listen But it’s not the same That we can’t chat like normal Don’t leave them guessin’ let them hear you out I think that’s such a shame Some people find it easy if they scream and shout But we seem to manage somehow But deep down let ya emotions break out To convey what we’re trying to say I’m a celeb now let me out One of us needs lessons though © Fotolia.com © Fotolia.com Inside time shout That will come another day Insidetime April 2016 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 51 Procrastination Until P Lumsden - HMP Edinburgh Barbie Drinkwater-Burke I’ll put off dying Until tomorrow Until you sat there praying, the guilty verdict won't come ... Try writing something Hoping, anticipating, willing ... For a decision that's not made by mum. That I shall know Is rose-sweet and charming Watching from a bench whilst your baby boy is sent down... Heart torn in two. .mind a mess, whilst the jury just look on and frown. I’ll climb Everest Or Cheop’s peak Until you have to face that day you first see him behind bars Be the best Knowing after an hour or two parents have to leave and drive off in their cars ... At the lamentably poetic Survive one last tempest! That feeling of leaving your child scared; upset and alone The only form of contact is when they are allowed to call home I’ll give up smoking And wasting precious days The feeling of trying to pick them up, tell them you empathise Every captive liking Knowing you'd never cope if you had to try their shoes on for size For nefarious ways Turns dreams into sun rising The feeling of going to bed each night, when you've hoped the day away Praying you could blink and it's over and they were home to stay © Fotolia.com

The thing about a prison sentence is it’s not just the offender that's punished The family endure each moment until on their return you feel nourished ‘Brain-Fried’ Rice The feeling of failure you experience when they are gone There's nothing you can do even though you are his mom D J B - HMP Wymott

The bright side is its not forever he will be back in your arms someday They call it mamba, NPS, Spizzle, Phish, or Spice! Until that moment all you can do is let him know we are only a phone call away And it’s took over the system, the effects are not nice Healthcare are run ragged, called out all over the jail Oh What a Show! Elevated heartbeats, red eyes, and cons looking pale It could be a pipe, a waterfall, or a fat one pop Nicola Cope - HMP Full Sutton They’re alright for five minutes, and then they drop! I am different from most people I know Spew everywhere, body poppin’ around the pad floor To some people I’m just like a circus freak show Someone phone the mambulance, and shut the cell door It comes in letters, on visits and over the walls I lived a lie for most of my life And gets split straight up and put into balls Trying to be ‘normal’ I’ve even had a wife It’s a gram for a oner! That’s not even a lid! You’re a crafty man! I can see what you did! Doing this only made me feel worse I thought the only way out is ending up in a hearse Just once a week it comes around to canteen day And debt heads hit the backs, when they can’t pay A Furry Fiend But after a lot of thinking and doubt And then they end up with a ‘habit to feed’! I packed my things and walked on out Heroin addicts have even stopped smoking their ‘gear’ Hugh Kunz - HMP Leyhill What’s going on there then? To me that sounds queer! My friends and family hated me for this Who’s got the power? And on what wing? A mouse came to my cell today I went far away and blew them a kiss And with a hip and a ho ran away Get on him then will ya, and sort out a thing Tweaked its nose and without a sound So at long last Nicola was born, oh what a joy Will you send it for us? Make sure it’s a fat ball! Ran under the bed along the ground To be a woman is what I wanted from when I was a boy Now give us your details, and I’ll make a call Chased after it with my walking stick Let’s have a scream and send someone under A little bit faster step after stick Well I thought that with time people would come around There’s always a victim who’ll make the blunder Wish I had a cat I could call So I just carried on and stood my ground Smoke the whole joint for free, that’s the deal! To help put an end to this holy war Next thing he’s dancin’ like a chicken, and sounds like a seal When I threw my missile at the furry fiend None of them did they just had hate and rage They say he was off his head, ‘I know’, ‘I seen’ It ran out the door and escaped being burned But I don’t care because I am a woman and will live happy to a ripe old age. Because hell has no fury like a woman scorned But MDT’s everywhere are coming back clean Or a man made to look so foolish Now the block is full of people doing their ‘rattle’ By one so small A Painted Ship And it’s killed off the prison, it’s a losing battle The governors and security’s heads are shot Would Joseph Brown - HMP Full Sutton Because they can’t detect it. It’s not like the pot!

Bars n Stripes you like Rough and tumble river bubbling in my veins u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our J C - HMP Lewes to be a Kaleidoscopic memories I can’t explain ‘Star Poem of the Month’. To qualify for a prize, poems should not It’s something like a painted ship have won a prize in any other competition or been published previ- Prison bars, with fallen stars published Floating on a clear blue canvas full of clouds ously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, Milky ways, in prison days Blurring my horizons when I turn the page Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. Please put your name, number Kaleidoscopes with tattooed throats poet? And neon screams my name out loud and prison on the same sheet of paper as your poem. If you win we can’t send your money if we don’t know who or where you are! Smartie tubes and coloured coats Even as the hands of time are bending space By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they Frozen walls, all the same That multi-channel nothingness is in my face can be published in any of our ‘not for profit links’, these include the Then write to: newspaper, website and any forthcoming books. You are also giving Horrid lays, can you blame!! But this is what I wanted so I can’t complain ‘Poetry’, Inside Time, permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in allowing other All the way they race to say Stirring in my senses feels like pain Botley Mills, Botley, organisations to reproduce this work if considered appropriate, unless When neon screams my name out loud Same old script different day Southampton, you have clearly stated that you do not want this to happen. Any Hampshire SO30 2GB work reproduced in other publications will be on a ‘not for profit’ Sesame seeds, n battered crunchies Set your Caught up in this constantly reflective mood basis. Please note poems for publication may be edited. When Sugar n spice and you’ll get the munchies Feeling like the only monster in the room submitting your work please include the following permission: Alarm bells n searching cells thoughts free! Floating on a clear blue canvas full of clouds this is my own work and I agree to Inside Time publishing it Nothing found, no one tells When neon screams my name out loud in all associate sites and other publications as appropriate. 52 Jailbreak // Prize Winning Puzzles www.insidetime.org Insidetime April 2016 Read all about it! Caption Competition Last Months £25 Winner A £25 prize is on offer for the best caption 1. Which female tennis player has recently Tracy Shaw HMP New Hall to this month’s picture. What do you think been banned for failing a drug test? is being said or thought here? 2. Which group have been advised to stop touring to save the singer’s hearing? Fonesavvy providers of ‘landline type 3. Who won the Australian F1 GP? numbers’ for mobile phones. 4. Which cosmetic company are planning to Proud sponsors of Inside Time’s move their HQ to UK? PRIZE quiz ‘Read all about it!’ 5. The author of Hotel du Lac died aged 87 this month, who was she? If you don’t want callers to be disadvantaged 6. Who knocked Arsenal out of the FA Cup? or put off by the high cost of calling your mobile - just get a landline number for it. 7. The Beatles producer died in March, what was his name? Calls to mobiles don’t have to be expensive! Please let me 8. Which newspaper claimed the Queen Full details are available on our main go first, I’m wanted out of Europe? advert in Inside Time and at bursting! 9. How much did Sports Relief make on the www.fonesavvy.co.uk night (18th March)? 10. Parents are lobbying for the introduction Father’s Day 19th June of which vaccine to all ages? Last Months Winners Send your message (20 words max) to Inside Time and we will Bradley Thorpe HMP Parkhurst (£25) publish as many as possible in a special Father’s Day section in Answers to last months News Quiz: Daniel Randall-Coles HMP Winchester (£5) the June issue. All messages received will appear on our website. 1. Henry & Imogen, 2. England, 3. Daughter, Jack Rogers HMP Aylesbury (£5) Include the name and address of your dad and he will receive 4. Scotty T, 5. Sperm whales, 6. Viola Beach, 7. Jeremy The winner will receive £25 and the two runner a copy of the newspaper. Entries must be sent to Inside Time Hunt, 8. Virgin, 9. A bag lady, 10. Leonardo Di Caprio ups £5. See blue box to the right for details of ‘Father’s Day’ Botley Mills, Botley, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Closing (Revenant) & Brie Larson (Room) how to enter. date 19th May and don’t forget to include your full details too.

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In classical mythology, the Muse of president of Uganda (5) book about chess in prisons. music (7) 6. 1984 film with Clint Eastwood as 14. The smallest city in Yorkshire (5) detective Wes Block (9) 16. A person who tends to shrink from 7. A fragrant essential oil obtained 8 Wordsearch // Spring is in the air social contacts and to become from petals (5) Tom Winckley HMP Ashfield (A8835DE) preoccupied with his/her own 8. The world’s highest mountain (7) 7 thoughts (9) 9. A line on a map connecting places S Y A D I L O H K N A B G N I R P S Y Y 19. King of Argos, leader of the Greek of equal atmospheric pressure (6) 6 G E A S T E Y U R H F H J O B G T B H R army in the Trojan War (9) 15. Danish nuclear physicist awarded T S R U B D U B Q W E R Y I U O H M N A 20. Colloquially, a master of ceremo- the Nobel Prize in 1922 (5,4) 5 R R X E D E S O L H E F H T N O F A Y D nies or compere (5) 17. State of the USA in which Memphis 4 22. 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British film director whose films washing the genital area (5) just one killer move. Material is level and it is O A A R Z O R T Y I N Z B M T F L E P E include “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife 24. Willow with pliable twigs used in white to move. How can he win material? This will F L E O S B T H F H Y C E B H Z X R C G and Her Lover”(5,9) basketry (5) be easy for some and more difficult for others. L G C S B G D Y A D S D I V A D T S G R 26. The eighteenth letter of the Greek I G A B A D R T G H O S F J D H D D B O alphabet (5) A chess magazine (Donated by Chess & Bridge R P S E S U C O R C A P R I H C R A M E of London) as your prize if you are first out of the hat. 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RRP: white carelessly played 1Re1xe7 I then played EasterCinco deBunny Mayo Late FrostLambs Rainbow St David’s Day £12.35 Using the letters 1…Ng6-f4+ winning my opponent’s queen. The G,E,F,B,A,D,C,H & I fill in the winner will be announced. ThanksCrocuses to Tom Winckley - LateHMP Frost Ashfield for compilingSt George’s this Day blank squares. Each letter A-I Wordsearch.Daffodil If you fancy compilingLent one for us pleaseShowers just send it in must appear only once in Congratulations to David from HMP Elmley max 20 x 20 grid and complete with answers shown on a grid. If we each line column and 3x3 grid. useEaster it we Bunny will send you £5 asMarch a thank you! RememberSpring to include Bank Holidayyour who was the winner of February’s problem. name,Easter numberDay and prison withMigration your entry. Spring Clean Easter Eggs Mother’s Day Sunshine

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1 April 1891 136 ×3 / ÷2 / +60 / -60 / ×2 = __ The Wrigley Company was founded in Chicago, USA. Originally selling soap and baking powder. ÷2 / ×3 / -45 / ×1 4 = In 1892, William Wrigley Jr, the company’s 65 __ founder, began packaging chewing gum with each can of baking powder. The chewing gum 12 ×5 / ÷6 / +250 / ×2 = eventually became more popular than the __ baking powder and Wrigley’s reoriented the company to produce the gum. Submitted by Matthew Windsor - HMP Stoke Heath. Start on the left with the first number and work your way across following the instructions in 1 April 1976 each cell. If you would like to submit similar puzzles Apple Computer was founded in California, USA. we will pay £5 for any that are chosen for print. Please send in a minimum of three puzzles together 1 April 2006 with the answer! The Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) was formed in the UK. (It was replaced by the Sudoku // Medium National Crime Agency in October 2013.)

13 April 1866 Birth of Butch Cassidy, American outlaw in the Old West. Leader of the Wild Bunch gang of train robbers and bank robbers.

13 April 1936 British footballer Joe Payne scored a record 10 goals in one match, playing for Luton Town against Bristol Rovers. This record still stands in the Football League.

14 April 1986 The heaviest hailstones ever recorded, weighing about 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds), fell in Gopalganj, Bangladesh. 92 people were killed.

17 April 1951 © MW Released life sentenced prisoner The Peak District National Park was established. Anagrams // Food & Drink It was Britain’s first national park. 1. RAW INERT MEAL (7,5) 17 April 1986 The 335 Years’ War between the Netherlands ______and the Isles of Scilly ended with the signing of 2. AWFUL RECOIL (11) a peace treaty. The war had been long forgotten and many people regarded it as a myth until ______historical records were unearthed which Wrongly convicted showed they were technically still at war. of a crime? 3. IN REAL EGG (6,3) 17 April 1986 ______British television journalist John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut, Lebanon by the militant 4. A MOTTO (6) group Islamic Jihad. (Released August 1991.) Lost your appeal? ______19 April 1951 5. CRIED (5) The first Miss World beauty contest was held, in London. ______21 April 1916 6. RICH EAT OK (9) William (‘Wild Bill’) Carlisle, one of the last train robbers of the American West, was arrested in What next? ______Wyoming and sentenced to (on 10th May). He escaped in November and 7. CHANGE MAP (9) was recaptured in December after being shot while attempting to rob another train. He was ______released in 1936 and received a full pardon 8. A SUGAR SAP (9) from the Governor of Wyoming in 1947. The CCRC can look again If you think your conviction or sentence is wrong ______26 April 1986 apply to the CCRC Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine, Soviet Union. The • It won’t cost anything 9. RE A JUG ON ICE (6,5) world’s worst nuclear power plant accident. 31 • Your sentence can’t be increased if you apply people were killed in the explosion and fire, • You don't need a lawyer to apply, but a good one ______and leaked radiation spread across the western can help 10. COOL CHEAT (9) Soviet Union and Europe. You can get some more information and a copy of the 29 April 1991 CCRC's Easy Read application form by writing to us at ______5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW. or calling 0121 233 1473 Bangladesh was hit by one of the deadliest Answers to all puzzles are in the next tropical cyclones ever recorded. 138,000 issue. Only Puzzles on the ‘Prize Winning people were killed and 10 million left Prisoners in Scotland should contact; The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, 5th Floor, Portland House, 17 Renfi eld Street, Glasgow, G2 5AH. Phone: 0141 270 7030 Email: [email protected] Puzzles’ page have prizes for completing. homeless.

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