Robert Buckland QC “We know what works, we “It’s a chance to feel human, Parole changes: what know what the evidence says, to see the sky properly, to we know what to do. And smell the turf, it feels amaz- you need to know the National Newspaper for Prisoners & Detainees we’re getting on with it.” ing. It really picks me up.” The introduction of the New Prisons Minister Parkrun, a life changer Reconsideration Mechanism a voice for prisoners since  Newsround // page 12 Comment // page 27 Information // page 31 July 2019 / Issue No. 241 / www.insidetime.org / A ‘not for profit’ publication/ ISSN 1743-7342 PPO PHONE CHANGES 39 / IS REHABILITATION WELCOMED? 21 / THE SECRETS OF DHL 29 An average of 60,000 copies distributed monthly Independently verified by the Audit Bureau of Circulations PRISONERS ‘TO GET THE VOTE’! 4 ● But only in © Alan Fogarasy - Wolverhampton Express & Star ; Prison wolves on Johnny knocks ● And only for a UK reservation ‘em out warm! those serving People driving into Wolverhampton, on the A449 Stafford Road, may have been a bit Champ boxer visits prison four years or less; confused to see six large paintings of wolves on the central reservation. The pictures were “Johnny walked into the ● And if only the the idea of a company called Eurovia who event and there was no ‘I’m were doing improvements to the road and they agrees. commissioned the pictures from prisoners at a celebrity’ bravado, he was © Deposit Photos nearby Oakwood. The paintings were created straight in with the crowd of by five prisoners through the learning and skills Inside Time report provided any deterrent from group leader Andrew RT department. When the pictures are removed prisoners having a chat, a committing crime, they wrote. Davies said the public would they will be auctioned to raise funds for Victim brew and a biscuit.” not support such a move. Support and mental health charity Mind. The Welsh Assembly's equal- The academics said prisoners ity committee is holding an should be given a postal vote “In my opinion giving those inquiry into voting rights for for assembly and local elections behind bars the opportunity prisoners. Dr Robert Jones in Wales, and this would be “a to vote would go down like a and Dr Greg Davies from Car- powerful demonstration of cup of cold sick with the ma- diff University's Wales Gov- [Wales’] commitment to the jority of the Welsh public,” ernance Centre told the promotion of human rights and said Mr Davies. committee that the loss of a democratic engagement”. vote was due to a sentencing But justice “lottery”. They said restoring spokesperson voting rights would improve said giving prisoners voting Wales’ international standing. rights was “in the interests of upholding human rights and In their report, the academics the principles of democracy”. argued the loss of the vote was subject to a lottery, in Mark Day from the Prison Re- that the same offence may or Andrew RT Davies: “In form Trust was asked by La- may not result in jail time de- my opinion giving those bour AM John Griffiths how pending on a judge’s ruling. behind bars the opportu- “public opinion might be rec- They said out of 47 Council of nity to vote would go onciled” with giving prisoners Europe members, only the down like a cup of cold the vote “on the presumption UK, Armenia, Bulgaria, Esto- sick with the majority of that there might be a degree nia and Russia denied prison- the Welsh public.” of difference of opinion ers the vote. amongst the general public”. “It is our view that this would Giving the vote to those who enhance the international Mr Day said politicians had reside in Wales - rather than reputation of Wales and, at “an important role” in up- those in prison in Wales - the same time, help to miti- holding “fundamental rights”. would improve their reinte- gate the damage caused by gration and resettlement on the UK government's refusal “I think I'd also look at the release, according to the re- to comply with its legal obli- example of other countries, searchers. Removing the vote gation to implement adverse such as the Republic of Ire- had resulted in prisoners judgments of the ECHR [Euro- land, who did get rid of their being “forgotten and margin- pean Convention on Human own ban on prisoners voting alised by policy makers, pol- Rights],” they added. with very little public fuss, so iticians and the public at I think it can be done,” he said. large,” and there was no evi- Both UKIP's Gareth Bennett dence the loss of voting rights and former Conservative For more details see page 15 Write to: ENGLAND AND WALES IMPRISON • 13 St.John Street MANCHESTER M3 4DQ NEWS FLASH! MOST PEOPLE IN WESTERN EUROPE! 13 • 15 Old Bailey EC4M 7EF 2 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime July 2019 insidetime Get the right people Warnings Mailbites a voice for prisoners since 1990 Charles Ferndale - HMP Long Lartin from Tampon madness the national newspaper for prisoners published by Inside Time Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of I would like to make a modest suggestion; it is that no one Probation L Burdett - HMP Swaleside should be made a Secretary of State in any field unless that The New Bridge Foundation, founded in 1956 to Name withheld - As most of you know, Swaleside is a category B create links between the offender and the . person is formally well-educated in the relevant field and can MALE establishment. I emphasise the MALE bit demonstrate a high level of experience, knowledge and skill HMP because now they are actually selling sanitary Inside Time is wholly responsible for its editorial in the field governed by the ministry to which he/she is being towels on the canteen list! Let’s look at this content. Comments or complaints should be appointed. I suspect that were these criteria followed then I have been recalled to directed to the publisher and not to New Bridge. logically, biologically everyone in the male most of the ministries would have to be vacated. prison for breaking my li- prison cannot ovulate. Even if they have Board of Directors cense conditions by getting 3 warnings. But, who checks undergone gender reassignment surgery they “My criterion is so rational that I wonder why it Trevor Grove Former Editor Sunday Telegraph, the warnings given out in are still incapable of ovulating. I just cannot Journalist, Writer and former Magistrate. seems so novel.” order to make sure that they get my around this, when is this political Dr Peter Bennett Trustee, New Bridge are fair and just? correctness going to end? Foundation and former Governor of HMP Grendon Would we allow a newsagent to conduct open-heart surgery? Geoff Hughes Former Governor of HMP Belmarsh Would we allow a politician to do so? Is the expertise re- For example, one of my Smoking ban positives John D Roberts Former Company Chairman and quired to make the right decisions about whether or not to warnings was for misusing Managing Director employing former prisoners A prison librarian leave the EU any less specialised than that required to do medication. I’m on several Louise Shorter CEO Inside Justice and former I work as a librarian in a large prison in the producer BBC Rough Justice successful open-heart surgery? Would a rational person leave different forms of medica- Alistair H E Smith BSc FCA Chartered Accountant, such decisions to any of the contestants now masquerading tion for an illness. I asked North of England. I’ve read some of the Trustee and Treasurer, New Bridge Foundation as experts on the probable long- and short-term conse- Probation the name of the correspondence about the smoking ban and quences of leaving the EU? Would a rational person think drug that I was allegedly I’ve certainly noticed the improved condition The insideteam that a training in law would equip a person to make such a misusing? I was told that of library books now that their covers aren’t decision wisely? A training in law confers primarily a skill in Probation had received a shredded to use as roaches. But one of the how to evade legal consequences. It helps people to avoid re- confidential phone-call to best results from the ban was when I bumped sponsibility. It might be useful for spin-doctors, but not for say I was misusing my medi- into a former library orderly who had said responsible people. cation. They did not know - frequently - how he couldn’t wait to smoke a the name of the drug I was real cigarette on his release. Imagine my Had the standard of qualification for Ministers that I recom- supposedly misusing, nor surprise when I noticed him vaping, I asked Erwin James John Roberts Rachel mend been adopted years ago, then not only would most the amount, nor when. him what had happened to the ciggies, he Editor in Chief Publisher Billington OBE Ministers not have been appointed, but disastrous appoin- replied he’d bought a packet as soon as he and Director Associate Editor tees like Chris Grayling, would never have been made. Prime How is this fair? Since when could but found he no longer liked smoking Ministers who appoint people who are unlikely to be compe- were secret phone-calls from cigarettes, he said they tasted horrible. He tent, or known to be incompetent, should resign. anonymous sources grounds finished the pack, because he didn’t want to for putting me back in prison waste his money but had bought no more. So, One of the most important qualifications a good Prime Minis- for years? At least in court a good result from the smoking ban. J also has ter must have is the judgement to appoint skilled Secretaries you are allowed to question found a job and a place to live, not easy after of State. Mrs May has failed miserably in this capacity, and your accuser, but Probation Noel Smith Paul Sullivan David Roberts spending many years in prison. Commissioning Editorial Operations failure to follow this rule is a symptom of a dishonest do not seem to observe that Editor Assistant Manager government. legal nicety. 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But only “It feels exciting requiring hard work and get five months later I was recalled. Again, it to span the centu- HMS Belfast not a ‘battleship’ the high end of £2.50 a day took time to see I had deserved this, drugs, ries, countries and which we are meant to live poor behaviour etc. It was confusing at first S A Tyler - HMP Hull cultures.” as I would not see it was my own doing. on. Most prisons won’t let Page 18 Thing is, you see all these years I’ve wasted In the April issue, Paul Sullivan described HMS Belfast as a ‘battleship’. No, it you have anything posted Information 31-39 it’s always been me, not the police, the is not a battleship, it is a light cruiser mounting only 6-inch (152mm) guns, in, so we can only buy courts, probation or peer pressure. and unless Belfast has three main gun-turrets at the stern, that is only twelve through the catalogues and “Although some 6-inch guns rather than the 15 stated in his piece. they seem to get more and progress has been more expensive. made there is still “The choice has been my own, a long way to go.” god knows I have looked for another Mr Sullivan then describes Belfast as helping to sink the ‘massive’ Scharnhorst. Well, yes, it did help. The 36,000-ton Scharnhorst could be more accurately Also, with all the cutbacks Page 35 reason, but it is me that picks up over the years the food we described as a battle-cruiser, as it was armed with just nine 11-inch (280mm) Legal 40-47 that pipe.” guns in three turrets, but more than a match for the Belfast. However, what get has gone from three actually did for the Scharnhorst was HMS Duke of York, a genuine full-fat meals a day to one hot meal “It is important so if we want to eat we have I can hold my hands up now and take it on battleship. not to assume to supplement this with the chin. It’s uncomfortable, as who amongst that matters not prison canteen. So surely, us likes to admit those things about our- The MoD may have thought HMS Belfast suitable for preservation as a mu- proven by a court we need to be getting more Page 41 selves? I am 54, no family left that wants seum ship, but they can never be forgiven for scrapping HMS Warspite. This Our open, friendly solicitors working are irrelevant.” money for our work. 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We may need to forward your letter and/or documents to Prison Service HQ or @ [email protected] 01992 568820 another appropriate body for comment or advice, therefore only send informa- Bridge Finance Direct, Prince of Wales House, 3 Bluecoats Avenue, Hertford SG14 1PB tion you are willing to have forwarded on your behalf. 4 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime July 2019 On the IPP Wire What a Art for art’s sake Anthony O’Connor - IPP funding Halal liberty! HMP Wakefield Sam Little - HMP Woodhill Scott - HMP Holme House Thank you Inside Time for continuing to mention In April 2018 all hobby and the IPP sentence. We are trying to raise funds to I love the basis the Western art catalogues were taken hire a decent human rights solicitor to challenge World is built on with all the off all wings until further the government over the IPP sufferers. If all freedom of choice and ac- notice. The reason given 2500 IPP prisoners donate £10 we will raise ceptance. But, I was recently was that someone had pur- £25,000 for the case. David Blunkett “regrets” told, by a member of the ca- chased an item that was for- introducing it, the ECHR ruled it a breach of tering staff, that during the bidden. But surely it was human rights and yet we still suffer. It’s time we Muslim Holy Month of Ram- Security’s error that he had pulled together, raised the funds and took the adan an outside, profes- been allowed to go ahead government to task for knowingly breaching sional chef comes in to cook with the order and then re- our human rights and the human rights of our all the meals for the Muslim ceive the item? families. So, if you’re a serving IPP who has not prisoners. And, after looking yet seen freedom since you were sentenced, further into it I was told ex- We got one catalogue back please send me your name, prison and prison actly what is in the Rama- 6-months later in October, number to add your name to the class action. dan meal-boxes for the but the hobbies catalogue is The link to donate is - www.justgiving.com/ month and, believe me, it the only one now allowed. crowdfunding/ipp-judicial-review-solicitor-appeal “Good to see you again Johnny!” consists of some good The trouble is that it does high-quality food, all of not contain the specialist art Info for IPPs good-sized portions cooked materials that we need. I Kevin Willis - HMP Ashfield to perfection. talked to the Number One What a champion knockout! Governor in October and ex- On the topic of IPP, again, the readership After being in prison for over plained to him that there might be interested in this; A while ago my Ryan Horan - HMP Lindholme a year, forced to eat tiny por- were no proper art materials personal contact sent the following message tions of under/overcooked in the hobbies catalogue to Martin Jones, CEO of the Parole Board. I heard that a motivational speaker was coming to the prison and started see- ing posters of boxing legend Johnny Nelson (that’s him on the left) popping slop I seriously couldn’t be- and we need real art materi- “I have been sent a copy of your blog article up around the wings, which got me very interested. lieve my eyes, or, indeed, my als to paint and do other art- recently published. It was a very positive article nose (as it hadn’t smelt good work for the Koestlers. He which I appreciated reading. I wonder, however, I had the honour of spending the younger years of my childhood and several food for over a year). So, I said he would look into it if there have been any improvements in the way of my teenage years training at the St Thomas Boxing Gym on Newman Road then thought to myself: ‘Oh, and make sure we got our your Board works, which underline the words I in Sheffield. So, any time any fighter from the gym that trainer Brendan Ingle well at least the menu- art materials. That was read. As an intelligent member of the public, I founded is mentioned I fill with pride knowing I can legitimately claim to choices will be non-Halal for 7-months ago, I’ve seen him never knew about indeterminate sentences. I have known these legends. Some of the best memories of my childhood took a month so at least I might again in February and he was shocked to learn their existence. It seems to be able to get some non-Ha- said the same thing. Prom- be contrary to the principles of open justice place in that gym; I’ve met and sparred with several world champions, got VIP tickets to world title fights, and learned how to defend myself, something lal chicken for a change.’ But ises, promises. which I thought were fundamental to our law. when I went to order I saw When I learned that this sentence had been I am forever indebted to Brendan Ingle for, may God rest his soul. that the menu was the same Like many other inmates, abolished in 2012, ‘but not retrospectively’, I was Halal only meat menu! I find art and model-making astounded. If they are inappropriate sentences “I had not seen Johnny Nelson since 2010, when he was bringing a vital part of our rehabilita- today (and have been since 2012), then they are children into prison in order to try to deter them from a life of tion and therapeutic as it is inappropriate retrospectively. The success you I am a Christian and refuse talk about would be to eliminate the imprison- crime. I explained to him the mistakes I had made in my life to eat that have so peaceful and calming. ment (or purgatory) for the remaining 2598. As and he made it clear he was disappointed in me and in true been savagely killed and Now, we cannot even buy a Daily Mail reader, I am in favour of criminals blessed by someone else’s headless matches on the being punished, but such punishment has to be Sheffield fashion, told me in his own words to get my head religion, so I have gone veg- canteen sheet like every transparent and just - an IPP given post-2012, down and get on with it.” etarian and lost a lot of other prison. We can buy the meets neither of these criteria.” weight. Surely, I have glue but not the matches. In Johnny walked into the event and, unlike most speakers or visitors who come human rights, too? I don’t short, we need the specialist I suggest that everyone concerned take this into a prison, he wasn’t clinging onto his escort, there was no ‘I’m a celebrity’ want to eat no Halal meat art catalogue back. Can information and use it to badger their MP’s blessed by an Iman. And I someone offer advice or any and others. bravado, he was straight in with the crowd of prisoners having a chat, a brew and a biscuit, dead casual like. In true Johnny Nelson fashion he started talk- shouldn’t have to. help? Probation not pulling their weight ing and instantly gripped the audience. Caz Laundry-Boy - HMP Garth Human after all He told us how he came from being the underdog in Brendan’s bunch, to Another year and another “knock back”! Nothing holding the world record of having the most defences of his WBC Cruiser- Name withheld - HMP Manchester sends us IPP’s a clearer message that there will weight title, which he held until his retirement. He briefed us on his exploits be no mercy or forgiveness than Jeremy Wright as world champion and told some really funny stories that only someone with Diversity is mainly about race, religion, sexuality, gender MP’s recent remarks that if the risk is too high an insight into the murky world of professional boxing could tell. and other well-known characteristics. However, what about then we will spend the rest of our lives in custody. different kinds of prisoners? Everyone is different and there are different sorts of prisoners such as the players, the big Unfortunately, when nobody’s managing this It was a brilliant morning and the crowd sat and listened in awe as this great boys, the minions, the non-compliant, the compliant, the so-called risk, we face an uphill battle. For champion spoke to us as equals. There was a Q&A, which was great as it gave dirty protesters and the smashers, etc. those of us who have spent up to fifteen years the whole crowd the chance to interact with Jonny on a personal level. in prison we have almost reached the point of no return - depending on age of course, in But, it seems that regardless of which kind of prisoner you From me and all the lads, we would like to send a massive thank you to terms of finding work, starting a family of our are, you will never be able to please everyone. If you are a Johnny Nelson and the Brendan Ingle Foundation for making such a wonder- own and establishing a social circle. As for the player you will have staff on your back, if you are compliant, rest of us, we are already into the foothills of ful event possible. Best of luck for the future. you will have other prisoners on your back, if you are a vul- this whilst it is very wrong for the Chairman of nerable prisoner you will have most prisoners on your back, the Parole Board to attempt to console us by Corrections and Clarifications if you’re a minion, you will have the big boys on your back stating “more IPP’s are being released than and so it goes on and on! ever before”, when historically they’ve hardly The policy of Inside Time is to correct significant errors as soon as possible. released any of us. All the sympathy in the Corrections will appear in the mailbag section of each issue and on the relevant Prisons are meant to be places of rehabilitation and wouldn’t world is meaningless to us unless it translates web page. If you notice an error please feel free to write to us at the usual the first step be to accept others as they are? Everyone is dif- into recommendations for release. The truest address providing the date and page number from the newspaper, alternatively ferent but that makes the beauty of the world and if instead words I’ve ever heard spoken about the IPP have a friend or family member call or email us (see below). of being violent, mean or scared of prisoners who are differ- sentence is that “we’re in a situation where only ent, people took the time to talk to them and get to know we can help ourselves” but sometimes probation Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, 01489 795945 them, maybe we could all learn a lot from each other. need to start pulling their weight too. Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. [email protected] Remember, we are all human regardless of our differences. Adam developed painful pressure sores and was left with permanent scarring after he was not supplied a pressure relieving mattress from the prison. We helped him secure £18,000.

Adam was a paraplegic and relied on a wheelchair. Upon arriving at prison, he was seen by a GP and requested a pressure- relieving mattress but wasn’t given one for more than 2 years. Just over 12 months after his request, he noticed discolouration on both hips and his lower back, which developed into three pressure sores. Adam was given dressings by healthcare but left to dress the wound himself instead of receiving wound care from healthcare. While the sores healed, he was left with significant scarring.

At Prison Injury Lawyers, we contacted a medical expert who said that Adam should have received a pressure-relieving mattress within 48 hours. They also said that he should have been given proper dressing for his pressure sores immediately and that healthcare had been negligent in failing to do so. We settled Adam’s claim in April 2019 for £18,000.

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2930_InsideTime_June_PIL.indd 1 17/06/2019 15:17 6 Mailbag ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Insidetime July 2019 Thanks to What about us Mental health lottery the medics two-strikers? Kai Sowe - HMP Isle of Wight Robert Marti - Lloyd Thomas - Mental health is a huge part of today’s society. We hear sto- HMP Isle of Wight HMP Peterborough ries about young people and old, suffering with depression, I want to write this letter of anxiety, schizophrenia, PTSD and other mental health is- thanks to the healthcare We are the forgotten few, us sues. For some people just speaking about mental health can staff of Albany and hospital ‘two-strikers’ or ‘automatic be a touchy subject. This is astonishing, especially as suicide staff at St Mary’s on the Isle lifers’ as they like to call us, is the biggest killer of men under the age of 40 in the UK. of Wight. In January, I brought in by the Labour noticed my skin and eyes Government in 1997. If the Young people are taking their own lives after viewing suicide were turning yellow and I IPPs think it’s all over and related content on social media sites such as Instagram and was suffering with very bad Unfair shot that release is the final hur- Facebook. I myself have suffered from the effects of mental stomach pains. I was taken © Deposit Photos dle, then think again. It is health and had I not been lucky enough to be able to reach to the local hospital and Frothy coffee for you, no water for us only the start, and if Proba- out to loved ones and professionals, I often ask myself where diagnosed with gall stones tion doesn’t like you then would I be now? I often question why cuts are being made to and told they would pass E Ferguson - HMP Wakefield you are in trouble and will services which are vital to vulnerable people in our society? through me. But, later that likely be recalled before you Here at Wakefield, many of us have been left questioning night I was passing blood, can say ‘recall report’. The “When people are stuck in a constant battle how the prison budget is being spent. so I knew that something Home Office will not even inside of their own heads, why is there no safety was wrong and then I question these reports and Currently, prisoners are not issued in-cell kettles. Consequently, collapsed, staff responded immediately issue a warrant net to catch people when they fall? ” we have to rely on hot-water boilers on the landings in order quickly, and I was taken to for you. hospital on the island and to fill our flasks. These regularly break down and when they More needs to be done by our government to help those who do they are often left in a state of disrepair for weeks, and need it the most, but with issues such as taking prior- they told me I had to go to I am not an IPP. I was Southampton hospital. I was sometimes months on end. This leaves prisoners with no hot ity above everything else I fear that issues regarding mental sentenced in 2001 to an auto- taken by helicopter and, water for drinks, despite this facility being a legal requirement. health will always be left at the bottom of the pile. It may matic life sentence (2-striker). once at Southampton, I was sound cliché, but you can have all the money in the world, The ECHR ruled my sentence told I had a tumour in my Despite this, HMP Wakefield’s governor has spent part of the but money can’t buy happiness. You can be stuck behind unlawful in 2003, and the stomach. I was there for over prison budget on a coffee bar (a proper Baristas) for staff in the bars but be free in your mind. Never be afraid to speak to British Government replaced a week and the care I centre of the main residential unit. Who knows how much people. Remember, always try and keep an “open mind”. received was impeccable - this has cost. It is not even as though staff appreciate it. Most it with the IPP. Now, with all I can’t thank them enough. have been complaining at having to pay 50p for a coffee that the focus on IPP, I feel I am now having chemother- would cost a member of the public £3-5 on civvy street. forgotten. apy and feeling a lot better and hopefully on the road to At least they can get a hot drink when they want one, we The only reason the IPP was recovery. So, I would just prisoners can rarely even get hot water. I would question why brought in is because the like to thank the hospital staff actually need a Baristas bar when they already have ECHR ruled the 2-strike sen- medical staff and prison their very own restaurant staffed by prisoners and ‘tea-boys’ tence unlawful, so, to make officers who watched over on the wing. We just want working hot-water boilers, so we it lawful they brought in the me. can fill up our flasks for the night. IPP, which was then abol- ished because it was inhu- mane. So, I am serving the first unlawful version of the sentence. I cannot begin to

Shaw and Co Solicitors © Deposit Photos explain how this sentence Personal Injury Compensation Experts has damaged and destroyed The perfect cuppa my mental health. Over 20 years experience in personal injury compensation claims Tom Bell - HMP Littlehey When the 2-strike sentence If you have had In response to the letter ‘HM Tea’ by Mark Dalgleish (May was abolished I thought they issue). This is a question that from time to time comes up in would convert my sentence the national press. However, often missed is whether a teapot BAD DENTAL TREATMENT to 6-years and, by that time I is being used or just a bag and cup. had already served 3-years, BAD MEDICAL CARE so I thought I would be re- There is a certain science to tea-making which means there is leased. I’m now hearing the a ‘correct’ way but there is also a ‘best’ way. The simple rules AN ACCIDENT exact same talk from the are that tea, whether loose or bagged, releases its best IPPs. But the government flavour and aroma when hit directly with boiling water, decided that the decision whereas milk can suffer a slight taint if hit with the same. would not be made retro- spective, so all of us serving These rules lead us to the method for both teapot and cup this sentence are still suffer- tea-making. To make tea in a pot, boil the water in a kettle, Call Chris or Sharon anbout your claim ing and none of us can see a but just before it reaches boiling point pour a small amount way out. The thing about into your teapot and swill it around before emptying it. This FREEPHONE 0800 389 1590 this sentence is never having is to pre-warm the pot. Then add the teabag or leaves and a release date to work to- pour the now boiling water in and leave to infuse. or email us at [email protected] wards; the time we serve is for no purpose. It is awful Next, put the correct amount of milk in the cup and then pour Shaw and Co Solicitors Ltd torture and my mental- in the tea. As it is no longer at boiling-point it won’t taint the health is failing. milk. When making tea in just a cup, put in teabag, pour Three Indian Kings House boiling water onto the teabag, allow to infuse, remove teabag My human rights have been then add milk and stir. There you have it, the perfect cup of tea! 31 The Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3DE erased, I cannot begin to describe what damage it has n Darren Townsend - HMP Hindley your call is con dential and your claim for compensation will be done to me. I made a mistake Re; ‘HM Tea’ (May issue) - the perfect cuppa is so, so easy. All when I was a young man, at you need is a decent teabag (Tetley or Typhoo), hot-water, sugar represented on a strictly no win, no fee basis. 18-years-old I received or sweetener - whatever your preference. Milk is not needed. All 6-years for robbery with a you are doing with milk is diluting the taste of the actual tea. fake gun, I am now 43 and Also, the teabag can be used twice. Try it without milk, as NO WIN NO FEE still paying for it. Why am I nobody wants to use those disgraceful whiteners nor waste still serving this sentence? their precious milk. Trust me, you won’t go back. Insidetime July 2019 ‘Mailbag’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton SO30 2GB. Mailbag 7 Incompetence ‘County Lines’ groomers History = Autism? personified Antony Yallop - HMP Peterborough Kevin the Vance - HMP Ashfield A prisoner’s mother -

comment from the web The use of ‘County Lines’ drug-dealing has been garnering a lot of attention in the press recently, and the use of minors I agree with part of the ob- servations in a letter by Gareth My son was released from and children, some as young as 8, are being referred to as ‘gangsters’ by that reprehensible rag The Sun. Since when HMP Whatton (May issue). I prison on April 23rd, 2019 have had psychology on my on electronic tag. He was re- did we see anyone that exploits children as anything other back since god knows when leased to my address. Several than predators, just like paedophiles? and now, at the 11th hour, days after his release, he (10th of June) it has been put was threatened. Believing I am in prison for drug offences, which I deeply regret, but at to me that I should think he was in danger, he left our least I can say that all those involved were adults capable of about undertaking an as- home that night and did not making their own decisions. When I first came in, 6-years sessment for autism. Why? return until the following ago, anyone caught using children for any reason was la- Well, I am a competent and day. He contacted his Of- belled a ‘nonce’ and put on the protection wing. And with enthusiastic academic writer fender Manager and ex- good reason. who has been writing a plained what had happened. I speak as one who has been exploited at a young age. There study on the 1982 Falklands Campaign since 2010 and, On Friday 10 May his Of- were adults who saw a vulnerable and naive child from a bro- guess what, the contracted fender Manager contacted ken home and supplied me with drugs that made me feel him and stated she had been wanted. I thought they cared about me, but it was me that was psychologist reports this as advised to move him imme- sent to a young offenders’ institute, and they weren’t charged. being ‘an obsessional inter- diately, otherwise he would est’ which is supposedly a be at risk of going back to symptom of autism. Al- Top screen read “I gradually came to see them for what they were though I am IPP (13 years © Andy Aitchison / doctored image prison. She found him ac- commodation the same day - users and social outcasts by their own peer group.” done of a 4-year tariff), I and he moved immediately. have flatly turned down pre- Inside disc? As I grew up I noticed that they didn’t have many peers their vious suggestions, such as own age and that was why they hung around with children. I TC, PIPE and HSP, and I am John Davies - HMP Wandsworth The electronic monitoring service were informed but know for a fact that these people I used to hang around with also turning down this latest are now in their 50s and still doing the same thing - unchal- cynical, immoral and callous I was wondering if you might consider making Inside Time were unable to relocate his lenged by police and they have never spent a day in prison form of bullying too. It is not available on a searchable DVD that could be used by prison tag box until his address for one reason - they are informants. right, I mean, is Dan Snow, libraries as a resource? I have found Inside Time an incredi- had been approved by HMP Anthony Beevor, Max Hast- bly useful resource but keeping a large box of hard-copies in Oakwood. (The prison he Child exploitation for the use of selling drugs should be treated ings, et al ‘Autistic’ because my cell is a constant target for Volumetric Control. A searcha- was released from). Despite as seriously as child sex abuse. If there are any YOs reading they study and write about ble DVD of back-issues that could be loaded onto prisoner-use the address being used and this, please listen to a wise word from one who has been history? I think not. This is computers in prison libraries would be so helpful. approved by the Probation Service, the person/persons where you are now, and I have the experience to know what’s just another symptom of the coming next. You have been groomed but you can still step off misuse of power and the Editorial note dealing with this at Oak- the path. Go home to your family and don’t spend your best In 1990 when Inside Time was launched, prison librarians kept wood were aware of this, but ramblings of people who are copies of each issue in the library reference section. Several failed to act and jeopardised years in here with the likes of me. It is no life to be proud of. clearly round the bend. prisoners also kept their own archive copies in their cells but my son’s liberty. that was almost 30 years ago when Inside Time was quarterly and just 12 pages. Very different from today’s 56-60 pages. Finally, 6pm 16 May his Of- fender Manager called him We have previously explored the idea of a CD but there are and stated: “Your address practical issues about supplying one for each issue and the po- has finally been approved. tential security concerns associated with CD’s being sent in and But due to the time it has viruses that could be on them and infect the PC. taken to approve your ad- dress and your tag box not On a positive note, our aim is to have Inside Time’s free access being relocated, you may website available on or via the prison intranet. This would also have to go back to prison!” be linked to the in-cell technology currently being rolled out and the prison computer suites. A full archive of Inside Time How can this be justified? back issues is on our website, along with a full search facility. Who on earth makes these This is not going to happen overnight, but we are hopeful that decisions? How many more it will happen. It may commence with us supplying copies of people are at risk of being each issue to go on the intranet which would be a start. Rest as- returned to prison, failed by sured, we have no intention of dropping the printed version of an inadequate, bureaucratic Inside Time so no need for concern if your prison is technologi- unjust system run with cally behind the times. impunity?

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On the CCTV Wire in order to make comparisons of facial features. We are con- Disabled stantly under the microscope in this country, our every move Sex offenders is watched, and our features are stolen every day without our and trapped permission by the government (in both their national and charity work Prisoner’s friend - HMP Armley Seeing me, local capacity), big business (CCTV in shops and shopping Stuart Longford - seeing you centres), the police and god knows who else. HMP Stafford I am writing on behalf of my Even in prison we are on camera every time we step out of disabled friend here who is It really frustrates me when I the cell. In the more secure units there is even CCTV in the on F-wing. The lift hasn’t read the newspapers and hear cell. But I have recently read that under data protection laws worked for about two and a we are allowed to request that the operators/owners of this on the news about us sex of- half months now and they fenders being ‘dirty bastards’ CCTV surveillance supply us with copies of our images on re- always make an excuse so quest. So, by law and in theory, we can ask them for a copy all the time. Why don’t we that he cannot go out in the hear about the good things every time they scan us with their CCTV. Maybe it’s about fresh air. He says the food is time we started doing this, fighting back against the casual we do whilst we are serving disgusting and they bring theft of our features by faceless ‘authorities’. our sentences? Like the his dinner to him because of money we raise, year-in- his disability and it’s not year-out, for charities like © Deposit Photos Face in the crowd what he orders and not The Veterans, Royal British Police state Piers Ravenhill - HMP Pentonville worth having, he was Legion, Blind Veterans, actually told to buy his own! SSAFA, Katherine House, the Name withheld - HMP Birmingham Reading recently about Ed Bridges’ crowdfunded legal action Poppy Appeal, McMillan against South Wales Police has really set me thinking. Mr Cancer Support, Samaritans The police forces across the country are using facial recogni- Bridges is arguing that images taken of him shopping and at Lacking the very and, on top of that, all the tion cameras on the public, and some people might say that a protest against the arms trade - which were taken using Au- national disasters. is fair enough. But I can almost guarantee that the face of tomated Facial Recognition (AFR) cameras - is a breach of his basics every person with a criminal record has been downloaded human rights, data protection law and equality law. onto the database for these cameras. Otherwise they G Robinson - HMP Armley Since March 2017, when I wouldn’t recognise any criminals. This means that if you came to Stafford, the figure There are currently 3 CCTV cameras within 15-feet of my cell This letter is a complaint have been photographed at the police station then your data raised for all the above char- door here at Pentonville. There’s nothing extraordinary about conditions here for the and photo have been downloaded to the police recognition about that in this day and age. Nor does it bother me. I don’t ities by residents here is disabled. I am disabled and camera. So, if you’ve even had a caution at the police station really know the official reasons for the cameras, but since £5,878.48, which is a large in a wheelchair, meaning then your photo is in their system. A camera cannot look at a this country has become the CCTV surveillance of the amount of money especially that I cannot use stairs to get face and tell a name, age, address and criminal record with- world I suppose I am conditioned to it. when a huge proportion of the out this information being pre-programmed into the data- to the library or to get my residents are on an average base. Think about that for a moment and then tell me that we But now that I have considered Mr Bridges’ complaint, my clothes changed, but, most £8 per week wage. We might do not live in a police state. concern is that some of the cameras in our jails are of the AFR importantly, I and the other not have much, but when it variety. Maybe all prisoners faces and their unique and iden- disabled men cannot go comes to stuff like this you Not a good image tifying features are already being ‘harvested’ by HMPPS and outside for exercise because see the best in people. I have added to the AFR database? We already live in a world where the lift is not working. We lots of respect for anyone M Khan - HMP Liverpool all users of the internet, its apps, smartphones and so on are have asked the guards when who donates what little they NOT the customers; they are the product. Data is everything the lift might be fi xed but have to good causes. The recent proliferation of CCTV in this country has turned and companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, et al are su- us into one of the most-watched human communities in the they do not know anything premely aware that user-profiling is the road to riches. and are not particularly This prison has been raising world. Even the old Soviet Union, with their secret-police and money for charity for a very interested. I have been asked Cold War paranoia, did not poke their noses into their citi- So, is it a ridiculous notion of mine that to have all previous long time and it is about time to write this letter on behalf zens’ daily lives on such a large scale. And people still fool- imprisoned people’s day-to-day movements 100% trackable the local tabloids realised of the men who cannot use ishly proclaim this as a ‘free country’. (either ‘live’ or retrospectively) has probably already been that we are not all bad and we deemed equally ‘valuable’ to some form of Home Office the stairs to go outside for do have a heart. Rather than The Automated Facial Recognition (AFR) cameras are a newish think-tank? Do we have any human rights arguments to put fresh air. If anyone reading keep making us sound like intrusion, and you have to wonder how massive the authori- forward, or are we just government property in prison and this can help us we would be evil monsters, print some- ty’s database of images of us are. It would have to be very big therefore cannon-fodder without a legal leg to stand on? grateful. thing positive for a change.

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The real victims If you’re up for deportation Worse than Mailbites E Poveda - Yarl’s Wood IRC Kevin Isham - HMP Whatton dog food Big thanks for my recovery I have just been transferred from HMP Anon - HMP Risley I have mentioned in previous letters that I am one of an ever- Bronzefield to Yarl’s Wood IRC (Immigration Mark Wells - HMP Preston growing number of inmates listed as “convicted but maintain- Removal Centre). I was held nearly 3 months I would say that the food I would like to say thank you to G-Wing here ing innocence”. Now, I have to admit, being jailed for some- past my release date because I have an Ital- served here doesn’t always in Preston. Thanks also to the Spectrum staff thing I haven’t done has given me an opportunity to see, first- ian passport although I have lived in the UK look the most appetising but and all of the staff for their help in my hand, the absolute shambles the (in) justice system in this third for 37 years, almost my entire life. what do you expect for 83p recovery. If anyone is wanting to be clean, world, politically correct, dog-hole of a country has become. per head per meal! The food then the Phoenix Recovery unit in Preston jail However, last year I was served a Deportation is, however, unbalanced Order (20th of June 2018) and on this jour- is the place to be. If it was not for this I would Not having to be hung up with guilt or shame for my “of- with a heavy emphasis on ney, I have discovered that there is no Legal not be clean and in recovery now. I would not fences” has allowed me to turn my attention on something carbohydrates and not enough Aid for the purpose of immigration except for have the relationship with my kids and family much more important - the plight of the 40-50% of the guys protein and fat. I am not those with exceptional circumstances albeit that I have now, and this has all been possible in here that, like myself, haven’t done a damned thing! And sure how this and the meals like mine. So, for those that have a working thanks to this unit. They have given me the by extension their families, and friends, who, like my own shown in the photographs tax history they can apply free of charge to tools to help with staying away from drugs. I partner, do the sentences with them day after day. (in the May issue) can be HMRC for their recollection of tax history have been given a chance at life again. Thanks. qualified as ‘nutritional’ and which takes 40 days to process. Let’s be straight now, if all the guys convicted of “sexual of- ‘healthy’ as the MoJ put it. fences” were guilty why are visiting halls full of more wives, Are we safe? Also, for those who have children, but they Further, I doubt that the girlfriends, mothers and fathers than you can shake a stick are not in their custody and not adopted, food barely reaches the Jodie Finn - HMP Downview at? It’s because they know the truth that their husband, boy- recommended daily adult they could apply to the Family Court via the Apparently HMP Downview is trialling a unit friend, son and friend didn’t do a thing. male calorie intake. We do C100 form for legal right to see their children for transsexuals (men to women) and some of and costs £200 without a Barrister (the form get fruit sometimes, which looks past its sell by date or us think it is a very bad idea. High risk unit? “I know things will get better and the truth will code could be incorrect however there is What a joke. These people are high-risk to such a form 100%) this can potentially void is battered by the time it gets out, it usually does in the end and this witch-hunt to the wings and then the women, yet they share education, gym and the Deportation Order. Then I discovered the library with us. I mean, the authorities will end.” that if one is to be deported they are not eli- vegetables, they are either cannot be serious. These people still have their gible for the discharge grant. Which I think steamed to a pulp or hardly male-parts and women here do not feel safe. It’s already started, with the Liam Allen “rape case” being is a liberty because I haven’t been deported steamed at all. Recently the It is only a matter of time before one, or more, exposed as false and the story about the rape “victim” that so that is a load of “BS”. Then my poor little prison said that it was taking was recently jailed for 10 years after her allegations were Polish friend, Anna, who was voluntarily de- away milk from prisoners who of us gets raped. The governor was walking proved false. I believe in karma and know those guilty of put- ported was then in a situation where she had used to receive an additional around here with the Prisons Minister and a ting myself and thousands of other victims through hell will to beg the Immigration Officers for money for carton at weekends, as this few people from HQ the other day and I asked face punishment for their crimes - that’s inevitable and one travel when she arrived in Poland. would save £31,000 a year, them is it OK to have rapists walking around can only pity them for what’s to come. To those who, like my which would be spent on with their parts intact in a women’s prison? partner and myself, are going through the horror of a false I’m not sure whom I should approach to chal- new pool tables. I am sure Their reply was - ‘We can’t comment on that’. conviction, I say this - never give up, never stop shouting lenge the eligibility of the Discharge Grant most prisoners would rather When will you comment? After the damage your innocence. I’ll finish with this quote “believe in yourself and I have informed the Befrienders Charity the money be spent on better has been done? What a disgrace. and there will come a time when the rest of the world will that work here at Yarl’s Wood IRC and they quality and more wholesome food. have no choice but to believe you”. seemed very enthusiastic to try. Hypno-rectification A real gem amongst us Name withheld - HMP Moorland Legal aid may be In response to the mailbag in a previous issue available on your case. George Aylett - former prisoner titled ‘I am a paedophile’ by unnamed at HMP Crown Berwyn, I’m not going to say I sympathise and I was shocked to hear that Jess Berens has I’m not going to say well done for your DEFENCE SOLICITORS passed away, shocked. I found out via twitter admission of honesty, however I will say that when I thought of contacting her regarding a you are brave for saying it - knowing it’s a Our specialist POCA team headed by Solicitor- Advocate joint venture. Me and Jess started our time in problem and seeking help. Many people Katie McCreath has saved over Dartmoor, I think a month apart, and we would avoid the subject completely or say the were there together in our creative writing negatives, because they have nothing else to classes for the next 2 to 3 years. Being IPP, say. I don’t have the same problem but saw £1/2 billion C ontact obviously I progressed through but through- something when I was considering quitting

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On the Kyle Wire when anyone with a bit of sense might wonder that if they are so good at detecting the truth Wrongful Not freaks then how come they are not used in the courts? Or why the American military and dismissals? Katie - HMP Oakwood Knee-jerk snowflakes courts stopped using them? The odds are M Khan - HMP Oakwood As a pre-op trans woman I found the opinions of two fellow Evan Prevett - HMP Lewes quite good that a percentage, even a pretty large percentage, of Kyle’s guests actually were ladies (May issue) disheartening. What happened to equality The axing of ITV daytime favourite, the Jeremy Over the years I have seen a for all? innocent of stealing their nana’s pension book huge number of prisoners be Kyle Show, is another harmful step towards or cheating on their partners. But he didn’t puritanism within television and broadcasting removed from prison em- Many people come out as trans for various reasons, some, give a toss, he sent them off to live with his ployment for unjustified rea- today and a blight upon a society that is stated results. like myself, after years of struggling with gender identity and becoming overrun with snowflakes. sons. Many prisoners do not gender dysmorphia, as the two authors in May’s paper I’m have the knowledge to chal- sure will have gone through. Prison gives people time to re- A lot of prisoners watched the Jeremy Kyle lenge these unjustified dis- Nobody is saying that the death of a guest Show, which proves how, with our limited TV flect on where things in life have gone wrong and what to do appearing on the show isn’t a tragedy, and missals as they are unaware to remedy matters for the future. channels, bored we must be. Or how thick we of the process of appeal. there can be no doubt that ITV and other actually are. channels should be doing more to support A small number of prisoners “Finally addressing the elephant in the room of reality TV participants, especially in the my gender identity has been a major factor in immediate weeks after filming. However, to Show of shame do complete the process of the complaint’s procedure, completely remove the programme, which has The Don - HMP Belmarsh improving my mental wellbeing and my life in gone a long way to helping thousands of which, in my opinion, So glad to hear that has general, at last being at peace with myself.” people across the years, is a knee-jerk should be done as a formal- been taken off our screens for good. It was an ity because the chances of reaction, one that is all too common nowadays Who are we to judge why others come out as trans? Do we embarrassment for our country. the establishment admitting as politicians, newscasters and other up- know what their life-journey has been? Should we not have they were wrong would be per-class individuals flock to get airtime. more solidarity as sisters together, or do we think we are the low. One of the common rea- Trying to appear ‘noble’ in their defence of the “Anyway, if I want to hear a couple only ones with the right to be trans? Is it the preserve of those sons for dismissal is ‘secu- lower-classes. further along the pathway of transition to look back with dis- of toothless geezers arguing about rity intel’. Prisoners should dain at those at the start of their journey and say - ‘You are petty nonsense I only have to walk be aware that the PPO inves- What isn’t mentioned is that, generally not woman enough’, or ‘Not trans enough’? No, that is dis- tigations are effective, and speaking, the viewers of this show are for the around the landings and I will be crimination and bigotry right there, the sort that we as trans that is why it is a good idea most part from the same background as the obliged.” people have to fight against every day. guests. Whilst, of course, a lot of people find to go through the complaints procedure to get to the Pris- humour in the show, it actually contributes a But, fair play to Jeremy, he managed to milk it One does not have to have surgery in order to satisfy an opin- ons Ombudsman stage. lot to the lives of those participating - whether for a long time and got rich off the backs of ion of being a woman and a Gender Recognition Certificate it be through offering free DNA testing, drug/ the poor wrecks he dredged up for his ‘show’ can be gained without it. Many trans people do not have sur- It should be noted that there alcohol rehabilitation, or family relationship and the general public’s stupidity. I wonder gery because of the major risks involved. As a trans inmate I is usually a backlog and it mediation. It is time that everyone grew up a how a prison psychologist might view his lust find that it is a difficult conundrum for the authorities. For may take 4 or 5 months be- bit - nobody is forced to participate. Don’t for voyeurism and bear-baiting? He definitely those of us who are pre-op, I agree that it is probably not the fore they pick up your case. hide behind the assertion that you are saving wouldn’t be getting parole. best to be placed in the female estate, but neither is being in But it is worth the wait be- people from ridicule. Let them choose. the male estate. cause they can recommend Added worries the prison to apologise, have However, it is a negative view to say that being placed in the Prison Service love Jeremy John Stubbs - HMP Whatton you reinstated and change female estate means immediately I would not be able to con- Jarod Yusuf - HMP Leicester your NOMIS entry, so it re- trol my urges, just as lesbian, gay and bisexual inmates have I watched the news with horror as they told flects the unfair dismissal. self-control. Or should we be segregated? I think not. More With the recent suspension of the Jeremy Kyle the story of the man having committed suicide They also pay the outstand- needs to be done to address the needs of trans inmates and a Show, which many prisoners watch and after having a lie-detector test on the Jeremy ing wages while you were unit especially for trans people is a step in the right direc- resonate with, what is the Prison Service going Kyle Show. I feel terribly sickened by this news, dismissed, right up until tion. It is not unusual for a prison to have a prison within a to do? The Prison Service obviously think this the man’s family and friends must be heart- reinstatement. prison. Many have VP units. programme is good for the prison population broken. I fear this may not be an isolated case, and think it is an element of control, however given that the Probation Service do not give It would also be a good idea The logic of the MoJ providing a trans unit should be ap- they could not be further away from the truth. any support for the people that they put to make the prison aware of plauded in my opinion, as it is a big step to providing a safe Perhaps HMPPS could commission a new through lie-detector tests. I worry for myself PSI 06/2012, which, evi- space where trans inmates will have access to the appropri- show to entertain the thousands of prisoners and other people having to go through this dently, they choose to ig- ate facilities list without the huge fight it otherwise takes. sitting in their cells with nothing to do under unreliable test. I previously wrote to say that I nore. Don’t just sit back and About time we stuck together and supported each other. the guise of ‘purposeful activity’. suffer from anxiety and this news just adds to take it, use the process. After all, we may not be the only trans in the village. my worries. Good riddance to Kyle Mark P - HMP Birmingham Reality check Justice double standards HS Khatkar - HMP Full Sutton My joy at that poor excuse for entertainment Bruce Child - HMP The Verne the Jeremy Kyle Show being taken off the air is This month finally brought some good news, only tempered by my sadness that someone praise the lord, Jeremy Kyle has now joined Before I came into prison, I thought little about the justice system. Since ending up inside I had to lose their life for it to happen. the majority of his viewers in the Job Centre have, naturally, taken far more interest. Now all I can see are the inconsistencies in the pro- queue. For far too long this man has been a cesses, the sentences and the very laws themselves. There are countless reports that leave me The show itself was nothing more than bully on our TV screens and, no doubt, confused. The two examples I’ve cited below are recent high-profile cases. ‘poverty porn’, designed so that the stay-at- destroyed thousands of lives with his so-called home middle-classes and their equally lie-detector test, a test that the British justice The proposed exemption from prosecution of some army veterans who are alleged to have enamoured but thick as shite working-class system stated doesn’t work when determining committed crimes whilst on service many years ago has inherent double standards; if a sup- fan base could laugh at people they consid- someone’s innocence. Kyle is an outright posed crime took place in Iraq it would not be followed up, if events took place in N. Ireland ered worse off than themselves. A Barnum & hypocrite when you take into consideration then it would. If a solider deliberately injured, shot or killed an unarmed bystander does it Bailey freakshow for the modern era where the fact that he judges folks on national TV make any difference whether the person was in Baghdad or Belfast? Surely it is still a crime? the marginally better off could point their when he has a chequered history himself. And should any crime be ignored just because it took place a long time ago? nicotine or quinoa stained fingers and laugh until their saggy bellies hurt so much they My sympathy goes to the family of the man In the same way I felt that the outcry against the possible granting of legal aid to Shamima could barely reach for the bong. who sadly ended his life, destroyed by the Begum also smacks of double standards. It seems the public view is that since she went will- Jeremy Kyle Show. Let us hope that the ingly to join the IS group in Syria she should suffer the full consequences of her actions, no As for Kyle himself, what an absolute horror of government step in and put a stop to these legal aid, no citizenship and prosecution as a terrorist. However, this was a young girl a man. Laughing, threatening, shouting and farcical reality shows now that a number of “groomed” on the internet who was only 15 when she left the UK. The tabloid press and many taunting from behind his huge ‘bouncers’, too people have taken their lives as a result of others feel she was old enough to make up her own mind. terrified to actually face most of his ‘guests’ appearing on them. The prison healthcare will without protection. Calling people liars and have to order a hell of a lot of antidepressants I am not trying to defend soldiers who commit crimes or young people who engage in terror- destroying families with his ‘infallible’ lie-de- now for all the cons who lived for the Jeremy ism, but surely victims of all crimes should know that the justice system treats them fairly and tector testing, and then intimating that there Kyle show as they will now be very depressed. those accused should be able to understand the laws under which they could be convicted, was no way the lie-detectors could be wrong, Especially my mate Liam. and the sentences objectively fair. YOU SLIPPED IN THE SHOWER... ?! IF YOU HAVE BEEN INJURED IN PRISON SPEAK UP! YOU COULD HAVE A CLAIM FOR 1000S OF POUNDS.

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examples of very poor care for prisoners at Call for ‘whole system’ approach risk of suicide and self-harm. • A hotline for family and friends of prisoners newly-elected MP some 9 of the public, as ‘it’s clear in crisis, to call and report their concerns, years ago, I was clear about that short prison sentences had not been checked by staff for the two the need for us to be smart (of less than six months) weeks before the inspection. simply aren’t working’. on crime and to look at tackling the causes of • Most accommodation remained bleak and • Stronger probation criminality, with the root of grubby with too many overcrowded cells. services, including more it all being crime prevention • There were sufficient activity places for all investment in skilled staff and early intervention. That’s and innovation, that will prisoners to engage in education, training or what I still believe and will work for at least part of the day. However, increase confidence in be one of my guiding community sentences. only half of prisoners had been allocated to principles as Justice Minister. Urgent Notification an activity and of these on average only • Greater use of new about half attended. technologies, such as GPS “I believe that by working issued for HMP Bristol New Prisons Minister Robert tags to monitor offenders closely together: prisons, He said that the prison had been in a state of Buckland QC (above), who and video conference centres probation, police, the courts, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, drift for a decade: “My understanding is that took over from Rory Stewart in jails which are saving the national, local, voluntary, has invoked the Urgent Notification (UN) ‘Special Measures’ are intended to provide in May, who moved to the time and cost of transporting private, public sector, these Protocol calling for the Justice Secretary to support for the Governor of a struggling Department for International prisoners to court. reforms will allow us to seize intervene at HMP Bristol (above) because of prison. If that is the intention, they have Development following a the opportunity to fi nally ‘high violence, squalid living conditions and clearly failed at HMP Bristol. The investment number of ministerial He said that, working as turn the tide on reoff ending. poor training and education’. In his letter to which has taken place has not yet led to any resignations over Brexit, Solicitor General for five We know what works, we Justice Secretary David Gauke he said that tangible improvement in outcomes. Some of made his first speech, setting years before moving to his know what the evidence the prison had not improved in any way since the efforts to improve have - in reality - been out his ideas, last month. current post: “I have seen says, we know what to do. a troubling inspection in 2017, despite being a case of too little, too late: some we saw had the trends. I have seen what And we’re getting on with it. placed in ‘Special Measures’ by HM Prison only just been implemented, and some were He called for a ‘whole works. I’ve also seen what and Probation Service (HMPPS) and he could introduced during the inspection itself. On system’ approach, where doesn’t work. And I have “We can ensure our criminal have no confidence that HMP Bristol will the basis of this latest inspection, I can have prisons were just one part. seen how important it is that justice system punishes achieve meaningful improvement. no confidence that HMP Bristol will achieve He called for: different parts of our system those who have broken the coherent, meaningful or sustained improve- law in a purposeful and in a The Inspection in May was the fourth since 2013 • Prisons that are fundamen- - and other sectors and ment in the future.” targeted way - increasingly and in his letter to Gauke, Clarke says that his tally safe and secure, with services well beyond it in our communities - and at optimism for improvement had been misplaced. modern and decent condi- - work properly together. Mark Day, head of policy and communica- the same time can better Some of the problems he highlights are: tions and appropriate tions at the Prison Reform Trust said: “It is support offenders to turn support so that offenders can “My direct experience of • Nearly two-thirds of prisoners said they had shocking that a prison in special measures away from crime for good and be turned away from crime. working within the criminal felt unsafe at some point during their stay at since 2017 remains in such a state of decline justice system has informed to re-join society as law-abid- the prison, with over a third feeling unsafe at that the chief inspector feels he has no other • Effective alternatives in the and shaped my views on ing citizens. Ultimately, that the time of the inspection. option but to issue the justice secretary with community for the punish- how we improve it. In fact, in will mean, as I say, less • Recorded violence, much of it serious, had an urgent notification. This is the fifth ment and treatment of my very first speech in the crime, fewer victims and increased since the last inspection and was notification raised since the provision was offenders and the protection House of Commons as a safer communities.” much higher than the average for local prisons. introduced - all of them against local establishments such as Bristol which hold • The rate of self-harm had increased and some of the most vulnerable prisoners on the remained higher than most other local estate, often for just days and weeks at a Child Abuse. Helping victims achieve justice. prisons. Despite the fact there had been two time. Curbing the use of ineffective short self-inflicted deaths since the last inspection, sentences, as the justice secretary has recommendations following investigations by promised to do, would go some way to taking the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman had the pressure off these overstretched front line Lambeth Council Redress Scheme not been implemented. Inspectors saw establishments.”

Lambeth Council has set up a scheme to compensate people who, as children, were abused or feared abuse at a Lambeth children’s Feltham children’s unit deteriorates home and/or Shirley Oaks Primary School. In a report of an inspection League have been in relation in January, published last to the treatment and The scheme allows people to make claims for compensation even month by HM Inspectorate of conditions experienced by if the abuse they suffered took place many years ago. Prisons, of Feltham A, the children, as well as prepar- section of Feltham Prison ing children for resettlement Our specialist Abuse Solicitors have a proven track record in that holds young men under on release from custody. 18 years old, they say they handling child abuse claims. found an unsafe and Frances Crook, Chief deteriorating prison with Executive of the Howard If you would like to find out if you’re eligible to make a claim under alarming increases in League for Penal Reform, violence and self-harm. Frances Crook: “Feltham said: “It is absolutely the scheme, please contact our Abuse Solicitors for more is an irredeemably information. Nearly two-thirds of children depressing, but not surpris- said they had been physical- flawed institution.” ing to see Feltham once ly restrained and the use of again slump into further Applications to the redress scheme close on 1st January 2020. force by staff had increased. shower every day. The problems around safety, inspectorate has informed after slight improvements Prison Visits Legal Aid Available Complete Confidentiality Chief Inspector Peter Clarke Feltham that they will be registered by inspectors last said oversight and scrutiny returning this month to carry year. It is a scandal that were lacking and inspectors out another full inspection. thousands of children have T. 0808 239 8516 found evidence of poor gone through its walls over practice, including the use of Responding to the report, the decades and experienced SIMPSON the Howard League, which MILLAR [email protected] pain-inducing techniques, violent, poor and abusive The open lawyers that had not been accounted runs a free and confidential treatment, With such high simpsonmillar.co.uk | abuselaw.co.uk for. Too few children felt legal advice line for children levels of violence, escalating respected by staff and many and young people in self-injury among children, © Simpson Millar LLP, 100 Talbot Road, Old Trafford, Manchester, M16 0PG. Simpson Millar LLP is a limited liability suggested they felt victim- custody, say they received 57 and nearly two-thirds of boys partnership registered in England and Wales: No OC313936. Registered office 21-27 St Paul’s Street, Leeds, LS1 ised. 26% of children were calls last year by or on behalf experiencing physical 2JG. A list of members in available from our registered office. We use the term ‘partner’ to refer to an employee of equivalent standing to that of a partner in a partnership. Members of the Law Society’s Personal Injury and locked in their cells during of children in the unit. The restraint, the truth is Clinical Negligence Panels. A list of our offices can be found at www.simpsonmillar.co.uk. Authorised and most common concerns Regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Registration No. 424940. the working day and only a Feltham is an irredeemably third of children could raised in calls to the Howard flawed institution.” Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Newsround 13

Looking Scottish HDC Newsbites Back... numbers tumble after review Judges pay rockets through the Inside Judges in England and Wales have been given a pay rise of more Time archives Following the murder of a than £26,000 per year. This will increase their pay to nearly a man by a prisoner on Home quarter of a million pounds a year. The government say this is July 2014 Detention Curfew (HDC), the needed to fill judicial vacancies. The NHS has 35,000 nurse Scottish government carried vacancies - qualified nurses start on a salary of £24,000 a year. out a review and severely restricted the number of No prison for most Scottish women prisoners given HDC. Latest In , 90% of women who are given prison sentences get figures show that the changes sentences of less than a year. Now Scottish justice secretary have resulted in an 80% Humza Yousaf has said that the presumption against sentences Farewell friend © Andy Aitchison drop of prisoners living in of less than a year should mean most women being given the community - just 60. community sentences. He said: “Many of the women currently Prison deaths rise serving prison sentences have complex needs that contribute In a follow-up to the changes to frequent offending. We should be helping them tackle those The Ministry of Justice has released the latest Safety in a new report says that the problems in the community so they can escape prison’s Custody statistics which show an increase in self-harm and revolving door, rather than taking away what stability they have Music to my life tightening of HDC restric- self-inflicted deaths in prisons. in their home and family. More than two-thirds of female “We are primarily a prison tions has led to an increase prisoners are mothers and we must not underestimate the band that works on well in prison overcrowding. • In the 12 months to March 2019 there were 317 deaths in trauma to their children of seeing their parent go to jail.” known songs from all eras. Scottish Justice secretary prison, up from 299 the previous year. Of these, 87 were Our teacher, Bernie, is a Humza Yousaf said: “HDC is self-inflicted deaths, up from 73 in the previous year. Fruit picking prisoners fantastic person and his level an important part of the Farmers worried about a shortage of foreign labour after Brexit of enthusiasm and commit- justice system, preparing • In women’s prisons, there were four self-inflicted deaths, up have suggested prisoners could be given ROTL to work on their ment to our learning structure prisoners for release and from one death in the previous 12 months. farms doing work such as picking strawberries. The National is second to none. I can enabling monitored reinte- Farmers’ Union has agreed to the proposal. One farmer told honestly say the music course • Recorded incidents of self-harm in prison have more than gration, with most observing The Telegraph: “I will be getting in touch with my local prison has totally changed my doubled in ten years from 25,234 incidents in 2008 to 52,598 in their curfew conditions. It is and tell them who I am and what I want, and they will go and attitude and perspective on 2018. not an entitlement, however, and any decision must find potential people for my fruit farm. They are free to work success upon release into the • There are 152 recorded incidents of self-harm in prison every prioritise public safety. I just like any other employee, they come here, work and go back community.” day and levels of self-harm in the 12 months to December 2018 welcome the findings of with their pay packet at the end of the day. I think we should Mailbag - HMP Wayland have reached a new record high, a rise of 25%. Self-harm these reports which show be, as a society, giving chances to these people. The prisons are incidents requiring hospital attendance are also at a record real and demonstrable full of people who really ought not to be there and it is up to It’s not so bad high and have increased by 5%. progress in improving the society, who has chosen to lock people away, to give them a “I blame the media (films and management of prisoners place in that society.” TV mostly) for portraying INQUEST, the charity that supports the families of people who serving the end of their prisons as places where you die in custody, has called for bold action to address the custodial sentence in the Increase in ‘legal-highs’ in Scotland would think that you had ‘died problem. Deborah Coles, Director of INQUEST, said: “Every community.” The number of prisoners treated for taking the New Psychedelic and gone to hell’; far from it four days, a person in prison takes their own life. Levels of Drugs, like Spice, has increased by five times in Scotland. It is - more often than not, distress have never been higher, with more than 152 recorded Scottish Liberal Democrat claimed the smoking ban has made things worse as prisoners prisoners have earned their incidents of self-harm in prison every day. The government justice spokesperson Liam use the e-cigarettes to smoke the new drugs. Last year 1,600 place in the system so that have long been on notice about the perilous state of our McArthur said: “Almost all Scottish prisoners and 90 prison staff needed medical attention society can be safe in the prisons. Yet, life-saving recommendations from inquests and applications for HDCs are caused by the so-called ‘legal highs’. Scottish prison officers say knowledge that our streets are oversight bodies are systematically ignored. That the histori- now rejected and that’s a the situation is getting out of control as novel ways to smuggle cleared free of murderers, cally high numbers of deaths are allowed to continue is a problem because it has the drugs are discovered. thugs and druggies. In this high national scandal. Prison safety cannot be resolved by framing caused the prison population risk, maximum security ‘A’ cat it as a drugs problem or weaponising staff through PAVA to surge. Barlinnie now SOTP failures hidden for 5 years prison I actually feel safe.” spray. Punitive responses have not worked and will not work. It has emerged, at an employment tribunal, that the Ministry of holds 500 more people than Mailbag - HMP Belmarsh Bold and decisive action is needed to tackle sentencing Justice (MoJ) was told in 2012 that its Sex Offender Treatment it was designed for. This puts policy; reducing prison numbers; and redirecting resources to Programmes (SOTP) made sexual offenders more likely to the public at greater risk community services.” reoffend. The tribunal heard how Kathryn Hopkins, an MoJ Honour my nurse because staff don’t have the analyst, reported the findings from her research after it passed “What on earth is going on time or space to work to The Howard League for Penal Reform has called on the a ’peer review’ and was recommended for publishing. The MoJ with all these OBEs and MBEs rehabilitate people. Genuine government to bring forward its plans for sentencing reform said the report needed ‘substantial changes’ before publication being handed out like confetti? alternatives to prison and as the latest figures reveal new record levels of self-harm and and it was five years before another group of researchers If you’re going to hand out safe routes for leaving it deaths. Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League vindicated her findings. The final report was not published until praise and recognition for a need to be established and for Penal Reform, said: “I believe the will is there among 2017 when an announcement was made to scrap the current job well done, then I suggest invested in. Cramming our ministers to make prisons safe and to reduce their unneces- programmes. Hopkins name was never added to the final you look no further than one prisons to the brim will keep sary use, but in the end, lives can only be saved, and violence published report because, the tribunal was told, ‘she would tell of our nurse officers here at nobody safe in the long term.” Wakefield.” reduced, if the nettle of reform is grasped.” everybody about the history of the report’. Mailbag - HMP Wakefield England and Wales imprison most Inside speak people in western Europe! Before I came to prison: Jason Elliott Associates • a canteen was where you There were more than 140,000 admissions into prison in Specialists in Prison Law, Parole and Criminal Appeals had your lunch; England and Wales in 2017 - the highest number in western • a screw was what held a Europe, according to a new report published last month by Expert in release from custody table together; the Prison Reform Trust. The report ‘Prison: the facts’, reveals • a wing was part of a bird; that, despite the number falling in recent years, England and Legal Aid available in suitable cases • a nap was a short sleep; Wales still have over 40,000 more admissions to prison than • a block was a piece of wood; Germany, the second-highest - which has a significantly - Please contact - • a tag was something you larger national population. The comparative figures are taken tied to your suitcase; from the latest available Council of Europe Annual Penal Jason Elliott Associates Limited • brief meant short; Statistics. The rate of prison admissions, which accounts for • a burn was what you got when the effects of differences in national populations, shows that 18 Albion House North Shields Tyne & Wear NE29 0DW you got too close to the fire; England and Wales have a rate approximately three times that • doing a roll call check of Italy and Spain, and almost twice as high as Germany, with 0191 447 4389 meant making sure you had 238 prison admissions for every 100,000 people. The prison enough sandwiches. population in England and Wales currently stands at 82,424 [email protected] Mailbag - HMP New Hall - nearly 70% higher than it was three decades ago. 14 Newsround www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019

Prison programmes under the spotlight Gay Scots to be “We’re coming in don’t hit us…” pardoned Inside Time report Offender Treatment Programme, but we just don’t know.” Following a similar ruling in England and Wales in January 2017 when historic Charity Transform Justice have caused Peter Neyroud, a former chief constable who convictions for homosexuali- consternation after announcing that data lectures in criminology at the University of ty were repealed, now men they compiled shows that many rehabilita- Cambridge, and an independent member of in Scotland prosecuted for tion programmes, including those for people the Ministry of Justice Data, Evidence and same-sex activity will be convicted of domestic abuse and sexual Science Board, said he was “concerned” able to apply to have their offenders, have not been checked to see what about the findings and wanted them to be convictions erased. Legislation their outcomes are. They said it meant that addressed. He told the BBC: passed unanimously by the no one had any idea if programmes had a Scottish Parliament last year positive or negative effect. Last year, a “You would have expected that © Andy Aitchison will grant an automatic pardon number of Sex Offenders Treatment every significant programme that to every man in Scotland 25% of staff assaulted in last year Programmes (SOTP) were withdrawn after criminalised for breaching evidence showed they increased the risk of the Ministry of Justice is funding and homophobic laws which have A report taking statistics from nine unions representing reoffending. recommending out for delivery now been repealed. Tim prison teaching staff claims that over a quarter of prison staff would have a clear basis in evidence Hopkins, director of the have suffered an assault in the last year. The survey, pub- Transform Justice say that, according to data Equality Network, said: “We lished by the Joint Unions in Prisons Alliance (JUPA), found supplied to them, 25 offender behaviour and would be tracked to make sure welcome the news that the that one in seven (14%) of staff who were a victim of recent programmes currently run by HM Prison and that it’s actually matching the Act will come into force on physical violence said they have been assaulted more than Probation Service have not had an outcome outcomes you’d expect - and I can’t 15 October. On that date, ten times in the past year. The survey also looks at the effect evaluation. They say between 2010 and 2018, everyone who was convicted of exposure to psychoactive substances - including Spice - on 16,434 prisoners in England and Wales began see from the evidence I’ve seen here for one of the discriminatory staff. Over half of staff (53%) said they had been exposed, and non-evaluated courses and 101,662 people that this is happening.” offences that targeted over a third (39%) reported becoming ill as a result. serving community sentences started similar relationships between men programmes between 2009/10 and 2016/17. Many prisoners are pressured to attend such will receive an automatic Paul Cottrell, acting general secretary of the University and programmes which are used to measure a pardon. Shamefully, those College Union (UCU), the prison teachers’ union, said: In prisons, the most common non-evaluated reduction in risk; and refusing to attend can convictions were for things “Prison educators play a vital role in rehabilitating offenders programme was RESOLVE, a cognitive-be- affect parole decisions and lead to a down- that were legal between a and should not have to run the gauntlet of violence and drug havioural intervention that aims to reduce grading of privilege level. woman and a man, in some exposure when they go to work. This survey shows that not violence, which was started by 7,444 cases no more than a kiss in only is violence against staff in prisons shockingly frequent, prisoners. An MoJ spokesperson said: “The effective- a public place. The damage they are also routinely subjected to the harmful effects of ness of these types of programmes, many of done by Scotland’s homo- psychoactive substances. It is appalling that two-thirds of Penelope Gibbs, a former magistrate who set which are used successfully around the phobic past can never be staff in prisons report feeling unsafe in their workplace, and up Transform Justice, said the scandal of world, is constantly assessed on the ground undone, but the wrong has that so many say their concerns aren’t being dealt with SOTP must not be allowed to happen again. and subject to rigorous academic-standard now been recognised and properly. We urgently need much tougher action from the “There could be more disasters like the Sex evaluation when there is sufficient data.” acknowledged.” government and prison employers to improve the safety and Credit: Scottish Legal News working conditions of staff in our prisons.”

Family ties a ‘must have’ for women prisoners several of which seek to improve communi- cation between women in custody and their children and close relatives. These include prioritising women’s prisons for the roll-out of virtual visits conducted via video link and the installation of phones within cells. Farmer also recommends that each prison Your Prison Injury Specialists has an on-site social worker to provide dedicated support for women and their children to ensure they are maintaining vital ties with children and family.

Vital love and support The importance of ROTL in helping female © Andy Aitchison Medical Negligence prisoners fulfil their caring responsibilities A new review by Lord Michael Farmer, and aid resettlement is also highlighted, and published last month, on the value of family the review concludes that prison governors ties has found that keeping up such contacts should have a greater say in the use of ROTL. is a ‘must have’ when preventing women from reoffending. The government’s Female Consideration is also given by Lord Farmer to Offender Strategy published last year the impact of convictions and sentencing on Accident Claims commissioned Lord Farmer to undertake his the children of female prisoners - at least review into family ties through the lens of 54% of women in prison have children under women in the criminal justice system. the age of 18. To ensure these children are not hampered by their parent’s offending, Farmer’s review says that prisoners who and that their interests are fully considered, receive family visits are 39% less likely to the review recommends a ‘Personal Assault Claims reoffend and are even more important for Circumstances File’ for each woman. This women than men. Lord Farmer says: will ensure often sensitive information on “Healthy, supportive relationships are utterly dependents is readily available and is carried indispensable for every woman in the criminal throughout the journey through the criminal justice system if they are to turn away from justice system. criminality and contribute positively to Call us: 0161 429 8383 / Freephone: 0800 387 967 society. The importance of good family and The Ministry of Justice say they will look other relationships, which are rehabilitation closely at the findings and recommendations assets, needs to be a golden thread running from the review and will work closely with Write to us: Prudential Buildings, 63 St Petersgate, Stockport, SK1 1DH through the criminal justice system”. partners, agencies and other Government departments to move forward with reforms in The review contains many recommendations, this vital area. Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Newsround 15 Prisoners to get the vote? World prison review Brazil gang deaths voting. Over half of prisoners in the second Inside Time report Fifty-five prisoners died in group said they would vote, but some said gang-related riots at four they thought many would not. Welsh prisoners serving less than four years prisons in western Brazil last month, according to authori- should be allowed to vote in assembly and Not complex ties. The prisoners were killed council elections, a group of Assembly The majority on the committee, which at Anisio Jobim Penitentiary, Members (AMs) have said. The National included former first minister , in Lima. It is thought the Assembly for Wales (Welsh: Cynulliad said the changes will not be unduly complex deaths were the result of Cenedlaethol Cymru; commonly known as the to administer. There are just over 4000 Welsh violent clashes among rival Welsh Assembly or Senedd) is the devolved people in prison - in 2017, the number serving factions within the same drug parliament of Wales, with power to make sentences shorter than four years was 1,803, gang, known as the Family of legislation, vary taxes and scrutinise the Welsh the report said. The report also said that AMs the North. A prison official Government. A majority of the Senedd’s local were aware it was not a popular move, but said some of the dead had government committee, from Labour and that did not mean it was “not the right thing Smelly flakes

© Deposit Photos been chocked to death, but Plaid, said allowing prisoners to vote would to do”. AMs said keeping prisoners connect- others had been stabbed with help reintegrate and include prisoners in ed to society reduced the chance of them Kelloggs conveyor belt leak sharpened toothbrushes. wider society. reoffending upon release and keeping the A man in Tennessee, USA, has been sent to prison for 10 According to Conectas vote was a way to do this. The report months for urinating on a Kellogg’s cereal conveyor belt. A human rights group, the But Tory AMs on the cross-party inquiry proposed ministers and the assembly draw video of his actions was uploaded onto public internet video penitentiary has a capacity objected. Conservative committee member up legislation so prisoners register to vote at sites. The US Food and Drug Administration said: “Americans for 454 prisoners but was Mark Isherwood said the proposal “flies in either their last home address, where they expect and deserve the highest standards of food safety and housing more than double the face of natural justice”. Presiding officer will be released to or via a declaration of wholesomeness, and the integrity of the US food supply is too that when the violence tasked the Equality, Local local connection. Eligible prisoners could important to be thwarted by the illicit acts of any individual.” started. Government and Communities committee vote either via postal or proxy voting. with investigating the issue. Four Labour and one Plaid Cymru AM, Leanne Wood, said Reaction Chemically castrated Pot luck their recommendation “strikes an appropri- Mr Isherwood, Welsh Conservative communities paedophiles A court in California has ruled that inmates can legally possess ate balance” as it excluded those sentenced marijuana while in prison - they just can’t consume it. Voters in spokesman said: “It is staggering to see Welsh Alabama’s sex-offender for the most serious crimes. They also called Labour, Plaid Cymru, and the Lib Dems promote the Golden State passed a proposition in 2016 that allowed for inmates will now be required for 16 and 17-year-olds in custody to be given this policy, despite not having consulted the recreational use of the drug, but authors of the law failed to the vote if it was given to the rest of the law-abiding citizens of this country at the to undergo chemical include language that bans possession for incarcerated people, population. ballot box. Maybe because they know just castration if they want to be California’s 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled. Despite the how massively unpopular it would be?” released from prison. Sex determination that prisoners can possess pot while in jail, the What do prisoners think? offenders whose victims are court ruled that using the drug would be a violation of the AMs spoke to prisoners in Bridgend’s HMP But again Mark Day of the Prison Reform younger than 13 will be state penal code. Possession could still be punished as a Parc. Most were supportive of the idea. One Trust countered by saying it was an, “impor- violation of prison rules. “It may be legal, but you can still ban forced to take a series of pills prisoner described it as “vital” and said tant step in the right direction. People’s it. Cellphones are legal. Pornographic images are legal. You prisoners retained their human rights, even identity as citizens does not stop at the prison that greatly reduce sexual can’t have either one in prison,” Lafayette attorney Dan though they had been incarcerated. Another gate.” A spokeswoman libido as a condition of their Horowitz told The Mercury News. countered that, saying he was being removed said: “We support the principle of enfran- parole. The controversial from society while he was in prison. In chising some Welsh prisoners and are legislation passed through Shock use of solitary another group, some participants said a long currently considering options for local Alabama’s Statehouse last A prisoner rights group in sentence should not prevent a prisoner from government elections.” month, despite it being Florida is going to court to challenge the state’s use of unclear whether chemical solitary confinement. At any Postcode lottery of women’s sentencing castration works to reduce one time in Florida, ten sex crimes. The inmates will percent of its prisoners are An analysis of latest court data by the Prison Reform Trust (PRT) has found significant have to pay for their own locked in solitary cells ‘no variations in imprisonment rates for women between police force areas in England and Wales. bigger than a parking space’ The average imprisonment rate for women in England is 30 per 100,000 head of population, treatment and will start the over minor breaches of Moving with the times and in Wales 48 per 100,000. Cleveland has the highest imprisonment rate in England and process of chemical castra- prison rules. Attorneys with A prisons chief has said that, Wales at 67 women per 100,000. The PRT say that by contrast, Greater Manchester, where tion at least one month the Southern Poverty Law a 200-year-old colonial-era there is a co-ordinated strategy involving the local authority, police diversion, a problem-solv- before they’re released. The Center say state prison ing court and women’s support services, has an imprisonment rate of 25 women per 100,000 breakfast menu in all its procedure can be reversed, officials “discriminate against head of population. Jenny Earle, who leads the Transforming Lives programme, said: “The prisons has been upgraded. and is not as severe as people with disabilities in its government has promised to reduce the imprisonment of women and the intergenerational More than 81,000 prisoners use of isolation” and are harms this causes. Impressive work in some local areas to reduce the number of women surgical castration, which would now receive an “deliberately indifferent to entering the criminal justice system is bearing fruit. But we have yet to see the decisive action would remove a man’s improved breakfast, replacing the substantial risk of harm - including a prohibition on short prison sentences and investment in women’s support testicles. 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Good Prison News Newsbites

There may be trouble ahead… The Scottish Prison Officers’ Association (POA) is investigating how many prisoners are having to ‘double up’ in cells meant for one in a situation that could result in legal action. They say the situation is so bad it has curtailed access to basic rights such as exercise, education and recreation. POA Scotland chair Phil Fairlie said: “We are holding 700 prisoners more than the design capacity for the entire If we build it they will come estate, 700 more than this time last year, and © Deposit Photos not a single extra member of staff. We have prisoners doubling up in cells only ever meant Construction academy to hold one, and Low Moss has been asked to make contingency plans to take another 100 SURVIVORS OF CHILDInside ABUSE market over and above a capacity already exceeded.” Image credit: MoJ comes to Leeds Open doors at Grampian Blooming marvellous A new construction academy has opened inside HMP Leeds. HMP Grampian held an open day last month Launched in May, the academy will support up to 168 prisoners in a bid to attract prospective staff. Staff over the first year, training them towards level one national numbers dropped to an all-time low of 203 vocational qualifications including bricklaying, carpentry and last December. An SPS spokeswoman said: “By FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE joinery and tiling. The training will be delivered by London- holding the event we are aiming to encourage based charity Bounce Back, which already runs construction Our specialist legal team have an outstanding track record in representing victims of sexual, as many potential applicants as possible to training in five London prisons. The project is funded via the physical and emotional abuse. support the future workforce of Grampian. HM Prison & Probation Service Co-financing Organisation We understand that when it comes to the (HMPPS CFO). HMPPS CFO is a £195m European Social Fund Disclosing details of past abuse can be difficult and often traumatic. Your dedicated lawyer will thought of a career, working in the prison resettlement programme which delivers projects aimed at advise on the merits of your claim and will support you through the claims process to ensure service may not jump to the forefront of improving employability, which is seen as key to changing your voice is finally heard. prisoner’s lives and reducing reoffending. people’s minds but it is a profession that can offer a range of benefits. Our prison officers Can you make a claim? Justice secretary David Gauke said: “Broadening access to come to us with all kinds of work and life experience and have a huge amount of We recover compensation for abuse in schools, children’s home, detention centres wtrainingith foste rand work opportunities is a vital part of our strategy to Come in and buy steer offenders away from a life of crime and ultimately keep transferable skills that can be reinvigorated

carers, religious organisations and sporImage credit: MoJ ts clubs and many more…. Image credit: MoJ the public safe. I urge more businesses to join this movement and developed by our intensive training programme.” PortlandEven if your abuse farm occurred ma shopny years ag openso you may still be able to make a successfuandl claim. help ex-offenders turn their backs on crime for good.” At Jordans Solicitors we pride ourselves on handling each case with professionalism, Stevesensiti Mellor,vity operations director for Kier Housing Prison Minister goes to jail Peopleand u livingndersta nearndin HMP/YOIg and adhe Portlandre to stric nowt pro havefessio an alnew rul essource of co noffi dfreshential andity Maintenance North said: “We’re pleased that HMP Leeds has Minister for Prisons Robert Buckland visited healthy food with the opening of the new farm shop in the Governor’s Garden. launched a new construction academy, this is a great initia- Bullingdon last month and liked what he saw. TheW shophat to will do ninitiallyow:- be open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10am to tive to help towards the rehabilitation of inmates. We fully He said he was ‘very impressed’. “I visited the 3pmSp eandak t owill on esell of oprisonur team grown in co mproduceplete co andnfid eprisonnce: made products including support this and are currently in discussions with HMP Leeds drugs spur of C2, which is a drug-free spur of woodenCall: 0800 flower 9555 containers 094 and other garden accessories. The farm shop is a on things like running workshops, offering mentoring, the wing, where prisoners have voluntarily collaborationEmail us at: abetweenbuseteam@j Expiaor dLtdans andsolic ithetor sPrison.co.uk Service. Expia deliver projects donating surplus materials and, where appropriate, working agreed to have random drug testing. I was to Wsupportrite to usprisoners. at Jordan Westons Solicit ocollegers, Abu seand de thepar tlocalment, Community Neil Jordan PaybackHouse, W Teamellingt on Rwithoad, our client to offer work experience to prisoners released hugely impressed by the fact that prisoners alsoDe gavewsbu ry,assistance. WF13 1HL on temporary licence”. have got ownership of the project and are working with staff to maintain that all-impor- tant abstinence from drugs.” Buckland was SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE Solicitor General for nearly five years until May, when Rory Stewart was moved following ministerial resignations.

Problems at Guernsey Prison Violence has surged at Guernsey Prison FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE according to the latest prison report. The annual report from the governor says that We have an outstanding track record in representing victims of sexual, physical and emotional abuse. Don’t blink or you’ll miss it violence has doubled in the past year but says the increase is due to the rising prison Our specialist team have already helped survivors who suffered abuse at many different places population. Guernsey Prison held an average including: Art Behind Bars of 100 prisoners during 2018; force was used The Blink Gallery at Eden Court Inverness by staff 61 times. • Children’s Homes in ; Leeds, Nottingham, Wales had an exhibition called ‘Art Behind Bars’ last month showcasing artwork created by Car fire arrests • Prison Detention Centres including ; prisoners from Inverness. The exhibition was A man and a woman have been arrested Medomsley, Whatton, Kirklevington organised by Chloe Jennings, a tutor with following the arson attack on staff cars at Fife College, who provided art classes in the HMPs Nottingham and Lowdham Grange in • In Foster Car e prison; she said: “It’s been a real pleasure to May. Police say the arrests are not linked to introduce our learners to new art styles, their investigation into cars set on fire at Disclosing details of past abuse can be difficult, we pride ourselves on our professionalism, sensitivity and techniques and artists. I have witnessed Lincoln. understanding and adhere to strict professional rules of confidentiality. confidence, self-esteem and talents grow throughout this project. Art Behind Bars is a Your dedicated lawyer will advise on the merits of your claim and support you through the claims process. real testament to how powerful art practice Barlinnie move talks W hat to do now:- Registered with can be and how it can be used as therapy.” Talks are underway by the Scottish Prison Speak to one of our team in complete confidence: emailaprisoner Service (SPS) about rebuilding the new Call: 0800 9555 094 One prisoner said: “I chose to create artwork Barlinnie prison on the site of the old Provan Gas Works in Glasgow. The SPS has yet to Email us at: [email protected] in prison because it’s good for my mental progress with buying the site and are currently Write to us at Jordans Solicitors, Abuse department, Neil Jordan House, Wellington Road, health, I find it very therapeutic. Also it takes my mind off being in prison and helps me in discussions to obtain planning permission Dewsbury, WF13 1HL really focus on more positive things.” for the new prison. Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Newsround // Local Prison News 17

Improvements Newsbites at Birmingham Burning socks at Leeds Following the Urgent According to Barrie Meakin, chairman of Notification Protocol made Monitoring Board at HMP Leeds, contraband is getting into the 3 in Cube against HMP Birmingham, prison by a new method - throwing a burning sock with a stone HM Chief Inspector of in it over the perimeter wall to burn a hole in netting over Prisons, Peter Clarke, went exercise areas. Illicit goods are then thrown over in the hope Sloot back to check on progress they will fall through the hole. He said: “They put a stone in a All photos credit: Central Saint Martins and has now issued his sock, light the sock and then throw it over so that it sets the Independent Review of netting on fire. They will try and do it several times so that the Progress (IRP). hole in the netting gets bigger and bigger and then they can try and throw contraband into the yard. The prisoners are always Clarke says inspectors found trying to get drugs into the jail. No matter what idea the prison that the prison “had worked comes up with to try and stop drugs getting in, prisoners look exceptionally hard to to find another way to get the stuff in.” address violence. The causes Modular furniture set Moti of violence were now well understood, and a range of Prison miners Student designs ‘to make life easier for prisoners’ actions had been taken to Members of the Prison Officers’ Association at HMP make the prison safer.” Winchester have claimed that prisoners are burrowing through the walls of the prison using plastic cutlery in a bid to escape. The Cell Furniture project sees product design students at London’s Central Saint Martins Levels of violence had create flexible furniture for prisons, which will be made by the prisoners. decreased since 2018, According to a POA spokesperson, at least two prisoners have though they remained been found on landings at night after digging their way through The third-year students at the London university worked with Her Majesty’s Prison and considerably higher than the walls. The Ministry of Justice denied the stories, saying there Probation Service to both design new pieces for UK prisons and improve existing cell furniture. average for similar prisons. was no escape risk. In total sixteen students produced designs that aim to make life more manageable for prison- Measures to ensure prisoners ers. These include Sloot, a piece of furniture that acts as a bowl cover and a leisure chair, faced sanctions for their poor Hewell regime restricted after incident and Moti by Qing Zeng - a multifunctional corrugated cardboard rocking chair that can be used behaviour looked encourag- Following a violent incident at Hewell, which saw four officers as a low desk and storage unit. ing but had only recently needing hospital treatment, the prison was put onto a restrict- been introduced and were ed regime last month. In response to the incident the Prison Ines Attieh created the colourful 3 in Cube, which functions as a gym, storage unit and seat, not yet working effectively. Service said: “We never tolerate violence against our hardwork- while Asli Kaygusuz made modular furniture set from birch wood ply. Other students produced Similarly, considerable ing officers and we changed the law to make sure perpetrators ergonomic, flame-retardant support cushions, a cylindrical exercise chair and various efforts had been made to of such crimes receive the maximum possible sentence. We space-saving storage possibilities. The intention is that the finalised designs will be manufac- identify victims of violence have also recruited an extra 4,700 officers over the last two and tured in prison workshops by inmates, offering them the opportunity to develop vocational and bullying but as yet too a half years, given those officers tools like PAVA pepper spray skills. The Cell Furniture project has been developed with the Design Against Crime Research little support had been and body-worn cameras, and we’re investing an extra £70 offered. Centre, a research centre at Central Saint Martins, led by Lorraine Gamman. million to improve safety and conditions in prisons.” “The project aims to generate a new range of cell furniture that is not only robust and sustainable, Inspectors no longer observed but also helps to create a decent environment for prisoners and prison staff,” said Gamman. overt drug use, however, one Importance of in-cell phones in four prisoners were still The Chief Inspector of Prisons for Scotland, Wendy Sinclair- testing positive for drugs. Gieben, has told Holyrood’s Justice Committee that young Clarke says: offenders should be allowed to make phone calls from their cells to increase the support available to them when they are “I found it inexplicable distressed. She said that providing in-cell technology, allowing the young people to make calls, could help them to combat that the prison had some of the mental health problems caused by social-isolation. been unable to secure Wrongly convicted funding for equipment Liverpool clean-up begins of a crime? such as a body scanner Work has started to improve conditions at HMP Liverpool. As part of this improvement maintenance programme, outsourc- to help them stop drugs ing company Amey have set up the ‘Clean, Rehabilitative, entering the prison.” Enabling and Decent (CRED) Scheme’, where they work with suppliers and prison staff to train prisoners to carry out Overall, Clarke says: “It is decorating within the prison as part of the prison’s purposeful Lost your appeal? only right that I recognise activity programme. Pete Mathieson, Amey’s prisons contract the scale of the task to director defended their CRED maintenance programme saying: improve the treatment and “We believe that offering prisoners the ability to learn new skills conditions for prisoners at whilst they are serving their sentence forms a good work ethic Birmingham. It is huge. and attitude.” There is no doubt that the prison faces a long journey What next? of recovery. It is very clear Long sentence for attack on governor that the governor, through A Long Lartin prisoner has been given a ten-year prison his vision and very visible sentence for an attack on the governor Clare Pearson in 2018. leadership, has energised the Following the attack Ms Pearson needed surgery on a fractured staff and undoubted pride jaw. Angela Millington, senior prosecutor for the CPS in the The CCRC can look again and optimism are emerging West Midlands, said: “Prison staff carry out a difficult and demanding role which is vitally important to the justice system. If you think your conviction or sentence is wrong around the prison. I think apply to the CCRC that optimism is well This was a deliberate attack against the prison governor which founded. Birmingham has resulted in very serious injuries and for which the defendant It won’t cost anything • has been held accountable.” • Your sentence can’t be increased if you apply already made some tangible • You don't need a lawyer to apply, but a good one improvements and has the can help capacity for further change Work and homes important and improvement if it retains Bob McColm, governor of the Isle of Man prison, says that 95% strong leadership and if of ‘offenders’ are less likely to return to jail if they have work You can get some more information and a copy of the CCRC's Easy Read application form by writing to us at those responsible for and settled accommodation on release. He says those serving 5 St Philip’s Place, Birmingham, B3 2PW. or calling 0121 233 1473 Birmingham at national and shorter sentences often risk losing their homes and jobs, which regional level provide it with can have major consequences when leaving prison. Prison staff Prisoners in Scotland should contact; The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, 5th Floor, the support necessary to Portland House, 17 Renfi eld Street, Glasgow, G2 5AH. Phone: 0141 270 7030 Email: [email protected] at Isle of Man prison, Jurby, try to help by contacting landlords sustain what has begun.” and discussing rent payments. 18 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019

sessions used drama, art, po- raised in the sessions, such as etry and group discussion to what impact having the label help the men but I couldn’t of ‘ex-offender’ or ‘criminal’ quite get a grip on the sup- might have on an individual posed outcome. returning to society. Topics discussed during the sessions We met in the bright, high- included the effect of IPPs, ceilinged chapel and I had the the special problems of re- chance to ask four of the men mand prisoners, and how dif- who’d been through the pro- ficult it is to rediscover skills gramme how they would de- and opportunities while serv- scribe the experience. ing a prison sentence. ‘Intense’ said Ryan, or was it Morgan? ‘Eye-opening.’ said These ideas and many others Kevin, or was it Thomas? had found their expression in Words were fired back to me the show we were about to so I couldn’t scribble them watch. Imaginatively using despite its various forms, but selves that they prefer and the obvious warmth between want to take out into the the participants. They really world. do seem to have become a ‘band of brothers’ - and sis- ters. Somehow they managed to convey the sense that they were good people, whatever their present situation, and that they could be good peo- ple in society, if they were only given a chance. By the The team at HMP Winchester end I was very moved and, looking around me, it seemed true of all the large invited audience, or indeed prison

Credit: All sketches by Harriet Riddell. officers who’d chosen to at- Bearfaced tend, and that included a gov- ernor sitting beside me. down fast enough. ‘Challeng- poetry, acrobatics, dance, ing’, ‘persistent’, ‘inspiring’, mime, song and dialogue, sto- Programmes like this are nec- ‘educating’... all agreed on ries began to emerge. Six of essarily small. Each prisoner ‘intense’. Their enthusiasm the ten men on the sessions is an individual and has indi- drama! took part and four women, was catching - I was inter- vidual problems. There can ested to hear there was a wait- including Jenny and Kate. ‘We be no large-scale fix. But I BearFace Theatre is supported Labels, individuals and a ing list to join the next are all equal’, as Kate said. came away hoping that Bear- by The Hampshire Cultural masterpiece in a women’s prison sessions - but I still wanted to Ryan lay on the floor while Face Theatre can reach more Trust. It is also the subject of a pin down how they felt it had the others walked over him; men (and women) and give report by Alexandra Russell at helped them. ‘It helped me to he was trying to reach some- them a chance to find the the University of Winchester. Month by Month see things from a different thing beyond his fingertips. perspective’, suggested Looking for hope maybe? When he stood up, Morgan Last month I took a train to leapfrogged over him, send- Winchester, walked through ing him to the floor again. Rachel Billington leafy roads and parks, up a Ryan again, this time he is steep hill to the big hospital being interviewed for a job and found opposite HMP/YOI with others taking the roles of Who do you think you are? Do Winchester, an impressive old interviewers; all goes well other people see you in the prison first constructed in until one of them asks, ‘Have way you see yourself? Are you 1846. I’d been invited by Bear- you been in prison?’ End of the same person to different Face Theatre co-artistic direc- that story. people? Difficult questions. tors, Jenny Walmsley and As other stories emerge I am Particularly difficult in a Kate Hadley to see a perfor- mance following a three week struck not just by the dra- prison context, when men programme with ten men. matic cohesion of the piece, and women often feel the Usually it runs for three need to protect their most pri- months, so this was a sort of Kevin. ‘Rather than being vate selves from the wing. experiment. I had no idea locked in your head’, added Trust. Perception. Self-knowl- what to expect. I knew the Morgan. edge. More big words. ten, highly compressed, As they talked more, I began to get the point. It was about FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE SOUTH EAST daring to become yourself WE ARE A RESPECTED ‘LEGAL 500’ FIRM FRANCHISED BY THE LEGAL AID AGENCY AND OUR and recognising how that per- DEDICATED AND EXPERIENCED TEAM IS AVAILABLE TO HELP YOU IN ANY AREA OF LITIGATION sona might change on the 01732 360999 wing, as if putting on a mask. So BearFace seemed to be about finding out who you are All aspects of criminal law, including Legal aid is available for housing All Aspects of matrimonial & children and hanging onto that knowl- Appeals/CCRC/Confiscation Orders. issues if a person is at risk of losing disputes, including proceedings their home or is homeless providing involving the Local Authority edge outside the sessions; All aspects of prison law, including their case is within the provisions of baring your face perhaps? adjudications, parole, DLP, recall, LASPO 2014 and they are financially Divorce, domestic violence, categorisation, and judicial Review eligible. cohabitation and civil partnerships Advice can be given on what can be Police interviews in custody All aspects of financial disputes done to protect your home whilst The performance was called, ( London & South East ) you are in prison and how to apply ‘How you see me, How you for social housing on release. don’t’, reflecting the subjects 2-4 Bradford Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1DU Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Comment 19

Her paintings were bought by Inside Voices kings and cardinals and she is now compared favourably to some of the greatest artists of the Baroque, such as Caravaggio whom, incidentally, she knew as a young girl. Not so incidentally, Saint Catherine was bought by the National for Artemisia - formidable artist £3.6 million. Celebrating freedom and have the back story of her life.’ Nadia commented, ‘She Thumbscrews was a true survivor’, and Tammy added, ‘It was amaz- ing to get up so close to an Guernsey’s Liberation Day Portrait of a true survivor artwork that is so beautiful and so old.’ Yet these women Simon Goddard - Guernsey Prison to circumstance. Seeing artwork inside prisons she brought a case against too are painting, putting their always lifts my spirits. I’m Tassi, pressing charges de- hopes and fears into their pic- Jews were dealt with in a barbaric manner, sent, pretty sure it lifts the spirits spite being tortured with tures, learning to be more Have you heard about Guernsey’s Liberation together with any dissidents or resistors, to of the artists too. Outside thumbscrews to check she skilful and imaginative. Day? I hadn’t when I moved to the island in concentration camps, including Auschwitz, prison, painters get a lot of was speaking the truth. Even 1996 but I was only thirteen. As time moves on though four concentration camps were built in their inspiration from the gal- more surprisingly, she won So it feels exciting to span the more and more British people are unaware that Alderney. leries throughout the UK the case. Later, married off by centuries, countries and cul- a small group of islands, the Channel Islands which show great pictures her father, at the same time as tures and reproduce two por- were the only Nazi occupied British territory When the island was liberated by British forces from around the world. Often becoming recognised as an traits on this page. One, an oil during World War Two. in 1945, and after local radio broadcast news there’ll be a painter, student outstanding painter, she suf- painting painted in or around of the signed surrender document, adults and or professional, copying a da fered the death of four of her 1616; the other, a 2019 work As I adjusted to island life I soon discovered children celebrated on the beaches and parks. Vinci, or Holbein or Hockney, five children. Yet her determi- executed by Dena by stitching what Liberation Day meant, fun. Guernsey’s In the streets the twenty or so British soldiers trying, by reproducing the nation to paint never onto tracing paper and then bonus bank- over England. In the nine- threw sweets to the children, for some it was lines of the picture onto their faltered. tinting the result with ink. It ties all teenagers got excited about Liberation their first ever. pad, to imbibe some of the will be hanging as part of this Day as it was the only time of the year when a genius of the master - or mis- Women inside Send, many of year’s ‘Our Time’ exhibition of fairground rolled off the ferry and established Liberation Day is a time for celebration. To tress. But if you’re behind whom are struggling with artwork, for the artists from the itself in the town carpark. Stalls lined the sea- celebrate the freedom from imprisonment the bars, it’s books or nothing. painful problems, gave their weekly programme delivered front and each pier had a selection of live music island experienced. Two weeks after the 1945 reaction to Artemisia’s paint- by Watts Gallery Trust and and gambling. However, as I become older I Liberation Jurat John Peale gave a report to the Then last month, a seven- ing and hearing her story. funded by the Michael Varah noticed how single men and women of club- states which contained the following; “from teenth century masterpiece Anne said, ‘It’s inspiring to Memorial Fund and staged on bound age turned it into an alcohol-binging was brought by the National see original works of art … the occupation of this island by Germany, grim the 1st and 2nd of July. day unlike any other. The annual filling of police Gallery to HMP Send, a wom- though the experience has been, we have all station cells due to Liberation Day drunk and en’s prison where for the past doubtless learned salutary lessons. But there years I’ve attended an excel- disorderliness might be more synonymous with is one I think we have been taught above all lent exhibition of their own the day than the war itself. others and it is this: Never in the past have we artwork. I mention Send’s a valued liberty as we shall in the future.” women’s prison because Ar- Backtrack 74 years to 9th May 1945, and we find temisia Gentileschi, who out what the real Liberation Day means for the It’s something to think about for those in prison. painted ‘Self portrait as Saint Channel Islands. It’s the day General Major How much will we enjoy our freedom when we Catherine of Alexandria’, was Hewine signed the German surrender document get it back? Just remember, look forward to the one of the few famous women aboard HMS Bulldog. It’s the day when the day you’re released because Liberation Day is painters of her time. Her Germans stuffed their backpacks with all the fun. paintings were bought by finest tomatoes they could carry and traipsed kings and cardinals and she off, heads hanging, to the British boats as pris- is now compared favourably oners of war. The occupation that had lasted CANTERS CRIME to some of the greatest artists since 14 July 1940 was over. We are a friendly rm, with solicitors and legally of the Baroque, such as Cara- quali ed sta who are experts in their particular vaggio whom, incidentally, Who would have thought the stubbornness of areas of law she knew as a young girl. Not the Guernsey Donkey (as the populace are so incidentally, Saint Cathe- known) could match up to Nazi power? Well, AREAS OF WORK rine was bought by the Na- life, so I’ve heard, wasn’t too bad on the island LICENSE RECALL PAROLE REVIEWS tional for £3.6 million. under the Nazi rule. IPP REVIEWS ADJUDICATIONS Other Prison Law issues considered Artemisia’s personal story is Christians and the submissive were treated but payment may be on a private fee basis dramatic. Her mother died respectably. The locals were allowed to continue All areas of Criminal work including Police when she was twelve and her operating their own government and they tol- father brought her up to be a Interviews/ Court Appearances erated the Germans. At the time and over the painter, where she far out- years this has led to reports of collusion with CONTACT US stripped her three brothers. the enemy. It was simply that civilians were on 0151 239 1020 At the age of seventeen she their own on the island against the Nazi army, was raped by Agostino Tassi, [email protected] they didn’t have guns or firepower, so they did a painter brought in as a tutor. Dena - looking up to the greats Extraordinarily for the times, what they could to survive. 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to provide an opportunity for them to gain a skill that will enable them to do well on leaving Why prison doesn’t discriminate Terry Waite CBE jail. It all seems so obvious to me. company’s board. He had been It is quite remarkable that 50 people who lived forced out of the company by About 75 years ago I set out from home to walk in the same village 70 years ago would meet shareholders in 2003. David to my second primary school. I actually started up. It goes to show what a strong community Radler, Black’s business part- school when I was four years of age but then we were then. As I looked around, some people ner for more than 30 years, had we moved house and went to live in a small were instantly recognizable. Others had pleaded guilty to a single fraud changed beyond measure and I would not have Cheshire village where we stayed for the next charge and was a key witness recognized them from Adam. A couple of the eight years or so. The village to which we moved for the prosecution. Black did boys who were real tearaways in their young was built around a cotton mill, established not testify in his defence say- some couple of hundred years earlier by one days had gone on to become quite successful ing, through his lawyer, that Samuel Gregg, who recognized that he could businessmen. The majority had led fairly un- he had done nothing wrong harness the power of the river Bollin to operate eventful lives. and was instead the victim. the machinery. He built houses for his employ- ees and, being concerned for the overall welfare I was asked to speak after the meal and was Conrad Black: Lording it inside of his workers, provided the village school. able to tell them about the Clink and life in He famously prison today. For most of the gathering it was When I started school we were approaching the first time they had ever got close to the stated that prison Elliot Tyler - former prisoner found themselves with signif- the end of World War Two and many teachers prison, let alone prisoners. One person said to icant stakes in five major cor- was ‘better than had left home to join the armed forces, which me, when referring to the lady who served her, porations. Over time, Black meant that older people were left to fill the ‘She seems very nice. Is she a prisoner?’ I as- expected’ and in Prison is, in my view, one of focused on the newspaper vacancies. They had probably been trained, if sured her that she was and you do meet some the few places where you’ll publishing industry and describing it used they were trained at all, in Victorian times and ‘very nice’ people in prison. But for the grace find true diversity. It is gener- consequently the standard of education was of God, as we say, any of us could have landed gained control of Britain’s the metaphor of a ally the case that, from birth, not of the highest. In ten years, only one pupil up behind bars. I am all for making it possible Telegraph Group for a mere the less privileged follow a ‘sociological from my primary school passed the 11 plus for more of the general public to be aware of £30 million. Conrad Black’s similar, modest path to one examination which determined the type of what our prisons are like by visiting such places newspaper chain, Hollinger, laboratory’. secondary education you were to receive after as the Clink, or attending the occasional opera another, whereas the rich and once had a revenue of $2 bil- powerful can retreat into a the age of eleven. Those who passed went to a performance staged by the organization that lion and was the world’s third Following his conviction for lifestyle of luxury and ‘private’ Grammar School; those who failed went to encourages music in prison. largest English-language fraud and obstruction of jus- schools, roads, jets, etc. But what was called a Secondary Modern. Many newspaper company. He had tice, the disgraced Lord Black once a criminal sentence is of those who did not pass (of which I was one) I know, as you do, there are some pretty nasty a reputation for making deep swapped a £17.5 million man- passed, all of that changes and felt we were failures and this fact dogged some people around, but it is often true to say that cuts in order to turn a profit, sion for a cell in federal prison. the individual is stripped to for the rest of their lives. if you look for the good in people you will often and also hated journalists, He arrived at Coleman Prison only their basic resources. find it. Our whole punitive system needs to be describing them as ‘inade- in 2008 to start a six-year eight- geared towards the positive so that those who They lose the superiority they One person said to me, quately supervised hacks’. month sentence, possessing have failed in one way or another can have an once yielded over others and only a pair of glasses. He had when referring to the lady opportunity to make something of their lives. rarely have any choice but to In prison he was been optimistic about his ap- associate with people from who served her, ‘She seems peal, hoping his stay would So, in conclusion, on behalf of all those from every background. Prison known as ‘Lordy’ prove a short one, but this was very nice. Is she a prisoner?’ Styal who came to the Clink the other week, doesn’t discriminate and the and organised his soon rejected, with his busi- thanks a lot; unknown to yourselves you did case of Lord Conrad Black, I assured her that she was and ness conduct described as a great deal to show that prisoners are people which has been consistently cellmate to act as ‘ridiculous’. In prison he was you do meet some ‘very nice’ with hopes and aspirations and quite capable newsworthy for the last decade, his butler and known as ‘Lordy’ and organ- of providing the highest possible service, given and is now even more relevant people in prison. ised his cellmate to act as his a chance. By the way, there is a wing in Styal due to the involvement of the cleaner; and later butler and cleaner; and later prison named the Waite wing, after myself. It’s President of the United States, not a good name, as many who go there imagine found himself a job found himself a job in the li- Well, this is all by way of introducing the fact demonstrates this rather clear- that it is so-called because they will be waiting brary. For nine years he that a few days ago, about 50 of us who lived ly. Lord Black would not have in the library. there a long time! I have suggested time and penned a regular column in in the village all those years ago met for a re- crossed paths with hundreds, union. In the past we had met for lunch at the time again that if they want to call a wing after an American newspaper, the if not thousands, of underpriv- Mill, which is now a National Trust Tourist myself then call it the Terry Waite wing … but In 1999, Conservative Party National Post, which he found- ileged prisoners had he not attraction. This year we met at The Clink, sit- nothing has happened. If anyone is reading leader William Hague recom- ed in 1998, writing about po- received a criminal sentence uated at Styal Prison. In my younger days, Styal this with the authority to change the name why mended Conrad Black for a life litical issues amongst other twelve years ago. Prison was a home for young people who came not do it? I have waited long enough! peerage with the title Baron topics. He famously stated that from difficult backgrounds. Years later, long Black of Crossharbour. His prison was ‘better than expect- Conrad Black was born into a after I had left Styal, it became a prison for Until next month - Terry Waite sponsors included Lady ed’ and in describing it used life of privilege in Montreal, women and The Clink restaurant is a recent Margaret Thatcher, the former the metaphor of a ‘sociological Quebec in August 1944, the addition. Prime Minister of the UK. After laboratory’. son of a wealthy brewery ex- a two-year battle with the ecutive. He was educated at Most prisoners will have heard of the Clink Canadian government, who In the end, it wasn’t an appeal the prestigious Upper Canada restaurants attached to several different pris- had attempted to block Black’s that caused Lord Black to be College in Toronto. Black was ons across the country. They are living proof peerage due to his dual citi- officially pardoned. According far from a model student and that if you provide worthwhile training for zenship, Black took his seat to many news outlets it was a was expelled from school for those who are serving a sentence then it pays We take pride in providing a on the Conservative benches glowing book he had written selling stolen exam papers, a in the long run. If you don’t know the Clink, full range of of the House of Lords where about Donald Trump; the man they train serving prisoners to be excellent serious matter, and for insub- he remained until 2007, voting who issued this pardon. The cooks, and I do mean excellent cooks, not just Criminal and Prison Law ordinate behaviour. He even- on matters including educa- book, entitled ‘A President those who serve up beans on toast! Members tually finished his education, Services. tion, crime and security and Like No Other’, analysed of the public pay to come and eat there and the graduating from Carlton employment equality. Trump’s political rise and whole enterprise is most successful. FOR ASSISTANCE PLEASE CONTACT University with a degree in spoke highly of ‘his friend’. History. Lord Black’s early In 2007, Black was convicted Conrad Black, who unbeliev- We need more enterprises such as the Clink. Hannah Rumgay business ventures began when of defrauding shareholders of What use is it to sit day after day removing CD’s ably compared himself to the Prison Law Solicitor he was at university, starting Hollinger, his own company, from their plastic covers, as I remember seeing revolutionary Nelson with the purchase of a local out of £4.7 million by paying in some prison or other some years ago. For Tates, 12 Park Place, Leeds LS1 2RU Mandela, has stated that he newspaper. When his parents himself a tax-free bonus from those prisoners who have had a difficult start will return to the House of died in 1976, just ten days the sale of newspaper assets in life and drifted into crime then prison ought 0113 242 2290 Lords in due course. apart, Black and his brother without the approval of the Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Comment 21

8. Communal living In the redesign of the penal Is rehabilitation really welcomed establishment, we should adopt that of the Nordic coun- tries whose prisons include small units of selected prison- ers residing together, and who by the prison establishment? develop a communal lifestyle, with minimal supervision by the aim of the prison estab- The open estate should be custodial environment, pri- visits be extended to succes- prison staff. That model effec- lishment, here are 10 sugges- dedicated to supporting those marily in the interests of se- sive days, with families stay- tively prepares the prisoner tions which might effectively indeterminate sentenced pris- curity. To demonstrate that ing overnight nearby? Is it for the normality of living in John Samuels QC promote it, specifically fo- oners whose risk has been the prison environment is fo- legitimate to restrict such vis- a community environment. cused on the indeterminate assessed as sufficiently low to cused on achieving rehabili- its as a ‘punishment’ for 9. Remuneration Since rehabilitation is one of sentenced or long term pris- be managed in open condi- tation, access to educational prison disciplinary offences? the statutory purposes of sen- oner. Underpinning all of tions, so that these prisoners tools regarded as standard by Is it fair to punish families? When a prisoner within a tencing it must be a purpose them are the concepts of hope and no others should be all students within the com- closed environment is under- of the sentence. Are those and normality. pro-actively supported in munity should so far as prac- 6. Contact by phone/Skype taking work of significant serving long sentences in fact their essential search for ac- ticable be identical. More frequent contact to economic value, fair pay is being enabled by the prison 1. Open conditions commodation and friends and family is obvious. important. The ability to be regime to achieve their ulti- Eligibility for Category D con- employment. 4. Employment Technical means are availa- paid for one’s own skill and mate rehabilitation? ditions is at present assessed Skills which are plainly refer- ble to ensure that such con- effort not only enhances per- by reference to the residual 2. Town visits and ROTL able to work in the commu- tact is restricted to those sonal self-esteem, but con- Continuing prejudice and re- risk of harm which the pris- For those who have been held nity should be the focus of whose numbers have been tributes to the wider economy strictions will inevitably re- oner presents. Many low-risk in closed conditions for many prison industry, coupled with approved in advance; and the of the unit of which the prisoner main. Similarly, those who prisoners qualify. If places in years, familiarity with the closer ties with outside em- cost of such contact by a pris- is a member. To that extent, have served such sentences open conditions were unlim- changes of modern life can ployers, providing a poten- oner to his family and friends the reduction in the earnings are unlikely, under the admis- ited, this might matter less; only be dimly assessed tially seamless return to the should not exceed the cost in of such a prisoner to a level at which the prisoner is limited sion rules of a variety of pro- but, given their scarcity, long- through TV or the newspa- world of work. While cleaning the community. fessional bodies, to obtain term prisoners already as- pers. Town visits from closed is a principal occupation in the contribution which he can make towards his own admission to a range of sessed as of sufficiently conditions were once re- within a closed prison, it is 7. Food and clothing support needs justification. professions. low-risk to qualify for transfer garded as an essential fore- not an employment skill While the daily budget for to open conditions remain in runner to progression to open much in demand in the com- feeding a prisoner is below £2 10. Judicial monitoring These qualifications suggest closed conditions for many conditions; but staff short- munity. Those who provide per day, that cannot in the Reform along these lines that, for those who have re- months, due to the restricted ages have made these step- evidence of the application long term sustain a healthy would be actively enhanced ceived either a life sentence or places available. ping stones to reintegration and aspiration required of an lifestyle. Until prisoners can by judicial monitoring, pro- a lengthy determinate sen- rare. ROTL is achievable for apprentice should be entitled earn a living wage, the limi- tence, the best that can be The open prison should only those in the female estate in to qualify for the offer of an viding a representative of the tations on the food they are sentencing court with the hoped for in terms of their be a resettlement location for closed conditions: and it apprenticeship while still allocated, and the basic long-term prisoners. Those should be considered, follow- serving prisoners. duty to ensure that the reinte- return to the community is prison clothing which they who have been long held ing an appropriate risk assess- gration of the prisoner was in reintegration. The distinction are entitled to draw, means within closed conditions ment, for those who are 5. Contact with friends and fact being achieved. The judi- between this concept and that that most will depend on need adjustment before they otherwise trusted within the family cial monitor would also help of rehabilitation, while sub- sums provided for their sup- return to the community. male estate. Restricted visits are unsatis- to ensure that a structure of tle, is nevertheless real. The port by their families and Much will have changed since factory for everyone. Moreo- accommodation and employ- prejudicial consequences of a friends. Quite apart from the they came to prison. New 3. Education ver, the impact on families of ment was available on release conviction resulting in lengthy impact of this dependency on skills, such as the use of a mo- Access to the learning materi- modest means to undertake a to provide the best prospects imprisonment can never be a prisoner’s self-esteem, it bile phone, access to the In- als which students in the com- visit of limited duration, often of effective reintegration. completely expunged. cannot promote long-term ternet, and the handling of munity treat as routine are a long way from their homes, rehabilitation. If this modified objective is money need to be learned. severely restricted within the is profound. Could not such His Honour John Samuels QC

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Francis Drake keeps watch happened but thought all was lost. However, both the ducks are again sitting on the four The Good Soldier eggs that remain but we rather suspect they will not Owen Davies - former prisoner Commons. He’d read philosophy at Cambridge be fertile any longer as they and my articles and novel were of a philosophic may have gotten too cold in nature. You may have noticed I’m sounding the flood. When I think back to my last few years of jail rather like Svejk … it doesn’t get any better for in the UK, I’m reminded of the novel ‘The Good the rest of this article. The two remaining ducks, Soldier Svejk’ by Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek. While it is sometimes regarded as the greatest Francis (the Drake) and Daffy In 2012, came up with TERS, (Tariff Czech novel, Hasek’s normally relegated to Expiry Removal Scheme), which sent foreign are keeping watch but I am number two behind Franz Kafka in the Czech national lifers back to their country of origin. I sure they must be a bit fed up literary hall of fame. was neck deep in the prison system at the time waiting for their sisters to join after doing 18 years of a life sentence with an them once again. We have to ‘The Good Soldier Svejk’ tells the story of Svejk, 11-year tariff. I was still in maximum security leave them to see what hap- a Czech soldier in the Austrian Army, in World and it didn’t seem like anything good was going pens and try not to interfere War 1, who is seemingly an idiot, yet always, Jenny Greengrass to happen again. However in December 2013 I However, a with nature. Every day we in his own way, manages to succeed. He ima- was deported to Australia, where I’ve been a disaster was to look out to see if there are any gines himself to be at the centre of world politics, comparatively good citizen for the last five and ducklings on the water - but the cause and effect of world events such as a half years. Bird Life happen when nothing so far. World War 1, while he remains a private in a bungling war machine. He talks as though he Things have been very hectic torrential rain Over the next six years, I tried to publish articles The vegetable patch is thriv- knows the world leaders involved personally. here. On one hand the five similar to ‘I Love You Theresa’ but they were flooded the duck ing and I am regularly picking all rejected. It was around the subject of the newly hatched chicks are mange tout and broad beans. My last few years in jail in the UK, 2011 to 2013, cause of violence that people seemed to object. thriving, however we have house and we found I have grown kohlrabi as an were not that different. In 2011, I published my I was saying that ‘the violence we give out is in discovered that there are two all the eggs floating experiment this year so it will first article, ‘Just Passing Through’ with Inside direct proportion to the violence we have re- cockerels in those five so se- be interesting to see what rec- Time. It was a rather controversial article about ceived.’ The criminal justice system has always rious decisions have to be on water. the criminal justice system. Inside Time told ipes I can use to excite the wanted to understand the violence we have made as we can’t keep them me they’d never had so many complaints about family. I am willing the to- received in order to understand the violence as well as our existing cock- missing her own eggs after an article. From the complaints I could see that mato plants to start produc- we give out. I was saying they need to under- erel, Cocky. He is the king and the badger had them and she people didn’t understand it. I wrote a follow-up ing fruit as this will indicate stand the violence we give out in order to un- was sharing egg-sitting duties article called ‘I Love You Theresa’, the ‘Theresa’ is very protective of his harem derstand the violence we have received. It was that summer has finally ar- being Theresa May, who was then Home of three. We are not sure how with Molly. All quite odd … a very controversial point apparently, coming rived although looking out of Secretary in ’s government. I’d he will take to the new chicks. but we left them to it. How- from a prisoner who’d never formally studied the window at the rain, I can said some critical things of Home Secretaries The farmer has offered to take ever, a disaster was to happen any of the social sciences. Psychiatrists, psy- see no evidence of that yet! in ‘Just Passing Through’ and as Theresa May the two little cockerels to the when torrential rain flooded chologists and criminologists who read ‘Just had only been Home Secretary for a matter of next auction to sell them. the duck house and we found Passing Through’ couldn’t understand it with- months by then, I didn’t want to include her in They are a rare breed of all the eggs floating on water. Jenny Greengrass is a keen my criticisms. Inside Time said there were too out reading ‘I Love You Theresa.’ In fairness to chicken, so we are hoping We are not sure how this amateur horticulturist many complaints about ‘Just Passing Through’ them, I didn’t really flesh some points out well someone will take them. for them to publish ‘I Love You Theresa’. enough in ‘Just Passing Through’. It does, how- ever, take the world a while to catch up. Inside Flower of the Month I really thought Cocky would At the time I also published a novel called ‘These Time finally published ‘Boy From The Bad Stuff’ settle down now that Tilly is Mortal Cells’ (still available on Amazon), in last year, a follow-up to ‘Just Passing Through’. no longer confined in the which I included the articles ‘Just Passing It is in every way a better article than ‘I Love coop with the little chicks. He Through’ and ‘I Love You Theresa’. I sent copies You Theresa’, so maybe it was my writing that is such a noisy bird and is of the novel to Theresa May, David Cameron needed to catch up as well. constantly calling out to his and other MPs and noticed quite a change in hens when they are missing. the Tory Party around that time. The Tories had You can tell Svejk that it was all just coincidence We let Tilly out of her little said some very negative things about prisoners and nothing whatsoever to do with him, but run as soon as her chicks in recent months and suddenly Theresa May he’s not going to believe you. A lot of coinci- looked as though they were and Kenneth Clarke, the then Justice Secretary, dences joined together easily become reality, when they aren’t, not just for the good soldier not dependent on her. She were seen on the news walking around prisons Svejks of this world. Often, we are just a very came out excitedly and didn’t chatting with prisoners and David Cameron small part of a much larger scheme, but there even look back at her little gave his famous ‘Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation’ speech in the House of is truth in our relation to the whole. family. No thought given to them, but her intentions were very evident. Cocky was only The Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeasa) too willing to take her mind Pickup & Scott cover the majority of off her brood. We are keeping The Common Poppy (above) is a regular sight as a beautiful prisons in the South East including an eye on her as we don’t bright red wild flower that scatters itself across much of Eng- but not limited to: HMP Bullingdon, land, although it is less common in Scotland and largely absent want any more chicks. As in Wales. It produces its first flush of flowers from mid-June to HMYOI Aylesbury, HMP Woodhill, soon as we see any signs of mid-July, although it continues to flower until early October. HMP The Mount, HMP Bedford, nesting and hiding the eggs Each plant can produce from 1 to 400 flowers according to the HMP Grendon & Springhill will be quickly rescued. fertility of the soil, and it varies in shape and size of flower, leaf and hairiness! Seeds were traditionally used in some cakes and We are able to assist with all The ducks have been another breads. The poppy seed can be used as a gentle sedative in aspects of prison law, including: Please contact problem. We have a very old, Herbal Medicine. Poppy seeds are often included in wild flower The Prison Law Dept at: rather dilapidated duck mixes for our precious Wild Pollinators, as the flowers are rich • Parole Board Reviews Pickup & Scott Solicitors house on the edge of the lake. in pollen, although do not produce nectar. 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survive. Prison has changed a more than mould somebody great deal since my first sen- into a caged animal, often de- tence in the 90’s but not nec- tached from the type of human essarily always for the better being armed with the tools to in that regard. Before televi- survive honestly in the big sions and Xboxes, electricity wide world. Why is it that de- and , the behaviour spite having periods of free- among one another was some- dom, I revert back to commit- times more caring and consid- ting crime? And as hard as it erate, not always, but as has been to face, it is because though we were ‘in this togeth- I just thought about myself - er’. Perhaps I was a little naïve my needs and wants. Much like but people seldom went in on prison life in fact, which I got each other mob-handed, pretty good at after a few years robbed cells in packs or spiked locked away.

© Fotolia.com each other with drugs like Spice to have a laugh at anoth- This is why I believe the prison Nathan Joshua er’s expense, as in the wider system would benefit from prison estate. I value all the more ideas of Grendon. There The lions house in-cell stimulation we now are fewer fights, violent inci- experience, but those im- dents and acts of self-harm or Searching for the best you provements do little to teach suicide here than any other

© Deposit Photos In our community room there is a painting of two lions fight- healthier ways of managing closed prison in the whole of ing. With sharp teeth and grap- conflict. Western Europe. Yes, you read Sid Arter sitting on a large blue cushion was an elderly pling claws, it is vicious, mov- that right, the whole of Western woman who beckoned to him to approach and ing and energetic - full of Prison never taught me how Europe! Why, you may ask? I sit with her. vibrant reds and gold. A true to be a decent human being, would say, and I am no expert, What to be good at … depiction of conflict between which should surely have been the main reason the place is She asked him to explain why he had come two primal beings scrapping part of the motive for incarcer- so much less violent is that we There was once a fellow who felt he was not and what sort of life he lived. After listening for dominance; seemingly ation? Although I have met learn to communicate with one reaching his potential and that he was not good carefully, she looked into the man’s eyes and with no other way to commu- many people working in prison another. People sometimes enough. He had a lovely wife, two delightful said: “You must go home as quickly as you can nicate than tear shreds out of who genuinely wanted to help, scream at each other but we children, a comfortable house and a job as and when you get there, and only when you each other. perhaps I was not receptive to talk things out, usually sat teacher at his local school. He told his friends do, open the envelope that I will give you and that help - due to my age or down, attempting to resolve of his fears and one of them suggested he travel read it”. The man took the envelope and with I sometimes sit in the commu- just all the difficult aspects all difficulties that arise (and to far off lands to seek a holy man who would great intrigue set off to go back home. Three nity meetings and reflect on associated with prison life. they do). Although most of the guide him. His friend had heard of this amazing days later he stepped back into his home where how many similar situations What it did teach me though lads know with the time out of teacher and as his wife supported his quest, his wife and family welcomed him; surprised have played out in front of my is that authority can some- our cell, we get a fair bit of during the holidays he travelled to meet the that he was back so soon. “Where’s the enve- eyes. Sometimes I was on the times abuse its power; it taught freedom for a B cat, when you holy man. lope”, they all cried with excitement and an- receiving end of the attack and me deep suffering, loneliness actually get involved with all ticipation. He tore it open and read: on occasions, I became the beyond compare (though I’d the things on offer here, life After a six hour flight, an eight hour train jour- aggressor; but I’m no lion. never tell you that) and how can begin to take on a new ney and a three hour bus ride, the man arrived ‘True goodness cannot come from following a Lions are instinctive, domi- to make glue out of whitener. meaning; collectively and at a village high in the hills in a remote part of teacher, a holy book or worshiping anything; neering, territorial, endan- Despite being from diverse individually. a remote land. Following a restless and yet it comes from being the best you can at what gered and live by the law of backgrounds, incarceration excited night in a hotel, he set off at dawn to walk you are!’ the jungle. Okay, you may appears to narrow our ideas This however is the toughest wonder where I am going with the six hours to meet the teacher. The path was about managing conflict rap- bit of bird I have done, and I this, but please humour me for idly. These whittle down to hear many say the same. I don’t uneven and as he climbed, it got colder and he And from that day forth, the man sought to be one moment. violence, intimidation, manip- regret it though. I have found the altitude made him breathless. the best husband, father, son, neighbour and office worker that he could and he became ulation, exploitation or more watched people thrive. I wit- We are human, top of the food commonly just burying our ness people make sense of the As the light began to fade he arrived at a cave happy and full of true goodness. chain. We are supposedly heads in the sand when surely lives they have led, and it truly high on the hillside. At the cave entrance sat kind, wise and full of reason- we are in this together. If you is a place where one can begin a devotee of the holy man and the man ex- So whether you are a prison governor, a pris- ing; given the huge abilities wonder why therapy is some- to realise their potential - but plained that he sought all the wisdom he need- oner, an engineer, an office worker or a chef our brain has beyond the in- thing to consider - the two lions we have to work for it. Those ed to be as good as he could be. The devotee - be the best you can at that. stinct of fight or flight. Yet lock picture is that reason. who sit about and expect told him many people came to gain this teach- me up and I rapidly lose near change to magically arrive by ing and that he should sleep under the rugs at all trace of those attributes to Sid Arter is a teacher and entertainer Mass incarceration does little unicorn on a pink fluffy cloud the cave entrance and at dawn the master would of candyfloss are deluded. speak with him. 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The ceiling was low and he stooped plume, is a resident of HMP 184 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester, M8 8LQ @: o [email protected] Plymouth, Devon PL1 3HN to crawl along to an opening into a room where Grendon Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Comment 25 A band like no other Inside Voices Brothers unite to facilitate positive transition from boy to man Wilde, ahead of his time? transform the lives of hun- dreds of young men in Brighton and surrounding areas. Lee Morgan - HMP Oakwood your peers, or loss of access to certain things Recording an 80% reduction necessary to live your life, the loss of your liberty in reoffending among partici- … this list is clearly not exhaustive. pants with previous criminal I was flicking through the TV channels recently convictions, the success rate and was fortunate enough to stumble across a Coming forward in time; what about people is remarkable; and, so far, 75% programme on Oscar Wilde. As some of you today? How do they fall within the scope of this of men who began the pro- will know, in the 19th century, Wilde was sen- article? What of people undergoing gender gramme without a job have tenced to 2 years hard labour for acts of inde- transition? What of gay people? What of any subsequently found work. cency with other adult men. Such was the cul- person who is seen to be ‘different’ in any way? Currently it has several hun- tural climate of his day. He was released, but What is it to be different and why should it dred mentors at its disposal died a broken man. matter? And how far have we really come since Here we are, all these years and hundreds on the waiting the days of Oscar Wilde? Not that far, it would later and the Band of Brothers list; all are volunteers from the Wilde was an intellectual, a man of high intel- appear. ligence and, without doubt, a man of courage. Erwin James has grown. “So what we know, local community, and range in our communities there are from professionals, trades- To challenge contemporary values requires a Is the oft-unasked question, ‘Why are you dif- a group of young men who men, business owners, actors great deal of courage, something Wilde had ferent?’ articulated correctly or could it be re- have led lives, up until now, and life coaches. Many are plenty of. In those days it was expected that a phrased to ‘How do I control you now that I’m “I was definitely lost, a com- have not been successful, says fathers. “I was drinking a lot man should marry, have kids and provide the forced to recognise that you are indeed differ- pletely lost boy, and some of Nathan in the film. at one point, like, partying, means to support them. Wilde, though I’m cer- ent?’ How does it feel to be viewed as different? my friends still are … I was an just drinking every day - then tain there were others, had the courage to raise Who decides what is different? And why should absolute self-destructive, one day I thought, I’ve turned his head above the parapet and, in doing so, it matter? For example, why should a man who self-loathing mess; running into my dad…” made himself a target. He subsequently felt the decides to identify as a woman make any dif- around not thinking about the full force of the establishment’s wrath. ference to the life of another individual? Perhaps consequences of any of my we are not as individual as we would like to actions. And suffering; I think? But why should anyone feel so threatened honestly believed that I was Ebbi (if that’s the word) by certain behaviours in built to suffer - and that might other people? Could it be that we are not as have been my purpose in life.” secure in our own sexuality as we like to think Then we are introduced to the we are? Could it be that the securing of confir- Josh Graduates, the young men mation from others increases our own sense of who have been through the self-worth and identity? Do we know, deep BoB process: “My life before The film is a sobering reminder down inside, that our own sexuality is not set Band of Brothers was a mess,” about how any of us become who in concrete or as black and white as we have says Ebbi from Brighton. we become. The young men been led to believe? “Like, going out on the street, portrayed are typical of any Sonny Oscar Wilde: a man of courage getting and selling drugs, young men or women who end There is a theory that we are all born with two going out with bad friends …” up in the criminal justice sys- Despite this, Wilde continued to be himself. He sides to our personality; a masculine side and a Singer song-writer Sonny, a tem … in the courts, in prison. was considered, at different times, both a genius feminine side. It could therefore be further the- Band of Brothers Graduate What is evident is that nobody and a madman. Wilde’s response? ‘Geniuses orised that some people identify more with one singing his song of brother- is inherently ‘bad’ or ‘crimi- may be insane, but all sane men are idiots.’ side than the other, creating an innate drive to hood on the stunning film ‘It nal’; everyone is born with the choose, disputing the assumption that our gen- Works - the story of the Band potential to be the best they Being different is not easy. To stand alone, truly der may have been biologically predetermined. of Brothers’. can be. All they need is the alone, takes determination and, as indicated If we are not so dissimilar, then what are we chance to prove it. “Me and my above, courage. What many people fail to con- Five years ago I met up with Jake getting so worked up about? Could it be that family are difficult,” says Josh. sider, and as Wilde discovered, no doubt to his Nathan Roberts, who co-found- this struggle with the overt sexuality of other dismay, is the fact that to stand alone can often people is something we have adopted and ed the charity along with a Watching Sonny and Ebbi it’s have serious consequences. Some of these con- adapted from the world we were born into and psychotherapist and a leader- hard to believe they were ever sequences are so subtle that they go unnoticed ship development consultant bad boys. Of course the fact is from the people who influenced us? Are we, by anyone other than those directly involved. specializing in drama. Nathan they did some bad things; but perhaps, fighting other people’s long-ago re- Why would it be otherwise? As a species we told me then what the charity’s were they bad boys? Jake was solved fights? Do we ever give any real thought aims were. “The work we are up for five years ‘with intent’ tend to identify only those things which affect to the things we do, the way we behave and doing here is first of all about when he joined the Band of Dan us directly. What are these consequences? The react to what’s happening around us? Why how we identify the key things Brothers. George says he … loss of friends or family, loss of societal position should my sexuality, whatever it may be, worry (whether it be title or job), loss of respect from that have wounded us in life. ‘went down the wrong path’; “I didn’t know how to be a you? To get there, it takes a lot of I got involved with people with man...” Dan, BoB Graduate. patience and trust. That’s what knives and guns…” Watching “After my father abandoned our mentors provide. Our job this stunning film makes you me, I was just alone, seven or is to teach by example, by ac- wonder if the chasm between eight years on my own. Sitting tions - not just to tell, but to perpetrator and victim is so wide. there, going through things I encourage, to explain and to didn’t know how to cope with; ON YOUR SIDE stand side by side with the going through serious doubts Being on your side is one thing. Fighting your corner is another. We do both. young men we are guiding into where, I wanted to die…” manhood. I believe that for all • Miscarriage of Justice experts • Defending false allegations • Crown Court advocacy of us, as human beings, the The Band of Brothers is a beau- • CCRC applications • Prison law specialists • Parole applications • IPP and Lifer reviews most powerful of what we learn tiful initiative which needs to • Adjudications • Recalls • Sentence progression is what we see modelled. George be spread across the young We offer Legal Aid and Fixed Fees along with a nationwide service. Whatever we are seeing as we prisoner estate. 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Sam looked up to the CCTV above his was a character from the old days, clouds - sky after sky of them, no desk, letting go, Sue instantly retreat- hard as a chisel, and wouldn’t take horizons at all, and never a single Looking Up ing to the front door. kindly to being watched or talked bird flying through them. Poor about under any circumstances. bastard. ‘She’s got drugs’, Sam said, Jason rubbed his chin, gathering his The ups, downs, challenges and triumphs uncertainly. thoughts, eyeing Sue carefully, her A grumbling white van pulled up of a prison leaver’s journey ‘That’s a police matter then. We’ll dark roots showing through her outside the hostel gate, lurching as wait outside for you to call them. highlighted hair. She must be des- a planet-sized man emerged, laugh- Right?’ perate, throwing Dennis’s name ing as he reached the vandalised about. Money usually meant drugs, APPROVED P.EN.ISES sign, slapping Sam snorted, looking away, turning but he was certain she was off them, his van driver on the back, hefting back to his dingy office. Police my so money for what? To even ask four prison kitbags at once and arse! would get him involved, and that marching down the path. Jason was out of the question. froze, recognising him instantly. Jason followed Sue out to the smok- ers’ bench, her hands shaking as she ‘Never mind who you think you saw Jesus Christ… it was ‘Mad Dog’ fumbled for a roll-up. me with,’ he said flatly, ‘any money Dearden… paroled at last. Dearden I get goes straight into me and my stamped by without noticing him, ‘Bloody prick. I’ll fucking crack him daughter’s home.’ the prison van driver rubbing his one of these days.’ shoulder as he followed. Dearden ‘Oh yeah? Thought it was going to be swaggering sideways almost comi- ‘That’s what he’s after Sue. He wants my home as well Jason, or was doing cally into the foyer, his Cockney ac- it all caught on camera, so you’ll be up that back room for me just cent booming. revoked back to Downview. He’s an bullshit?’ undercover bacon, that’s plain Jason had last seen Dearden on a enough.’ ‘I’ve told you you’ll be welcome there laydown in Wakefield block, smash- any time you’re allowed to Sue, I don’t ing cells and screws alike until he’d ‘I aint got drugs neither, lying bas- go back on my word. But a place to got his medication, but only after tard. I fucking hate it here.’ stay is one thing, cash is another.’ another East London ‘Face’ had as- sured him it wasn’t poisoned. The Jason let her calm down, cigarette She fell silent, staring at the gravel last he’d heard, Dearden had been Frank Cotton smoke jetting above her like steam. path, worries dragging down the charged with organising shootings She sat back, eyes closed. lines round her eyes. ‘Thanks for from his cell at Frankland, but that helping me out with Sam,’ she mut- palaver must have fallen through. © MW ‘I got your letter Sue, not read it yet tered, ‘Maybe next time I’ll just give Frank Cotton ‘Don’t Parker me! I’m not your though. What’s it about?’ him what he wants, eh?’ She shuf- Jason shook his head. Mad Dog was f***ing prisoner!’ fled sadly away out of the grounds, a long way from home, which meant ‘Open that bag!’ She shot him a desperate look that bag clutched to her side. none of his local hostels would take You need hands ‘f***off or I’ll get the police!’ meant only one thing, and he sighed. him. Dearden’s manic laughter was ‘I haven’t got any money Sue, only Jason sighed. He took out his phone, rattling the panes, the hostel quak- Jason woke up abruptly to the clam- Sam’s sausage fingers dug into Sue’s what I get from working at lovingly scrolling through the pho- ing at his presence. Jason sighed and our of raised voices, dashing into the thin wrist, her shoulder bag stretched Fabkebabs.’ tos of him and his daughter in the crept away, partly glad to see that a corridor, still clothed from the night to breaking as she squirmed. Unno- park, reminding himself there was familiar face had survived the sys- before. Screwboy Sam and Sue, faces ticed, Jason crept up behind Sam, ‘Bollocks’, she spat, craning forward a better life ahead. Less money; tem, but mostly wishing he’d sur- like crumpled red paper, were argu- gripping Sam’s own wrist firmly. He - suddenly hard. ‘I’ve seen you with more fragile; perhaps even more vived it somewhere else! ing in the foyer. spun, blinking foolishly. Dennis. Yeah, I know who he is, and painful … but better, and infinitely what he’s all about.’ so. He looked up, giant bales of cau- ‘Get your hand off me you f***ing ‘Let her go, Sam. Looks like you’re liflower clouds pink and purple over creep!’ trying to mug her. Remember them Jason froze, stunned. How the hell the hills. Jason had known a lifer in Frank Cotton is a former ‘Open that bag, Parker…’ cameras, eh?’ had she seen them together? Dennis Full Sutton who painted nothing but resident of HMPPS

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estate, the regular, weekly nature and the fact that prisoners deliver the event for other prisoners adds an extra dimension to what is currently available.

Parkruns give prisoners the chance to be active outside, in the fresh air, on a regular basis - improving the health and wellbeing of everyone in- volved. They also help to improve relationships between staff and pris- oners and support the development of skills through event delivery. It also provides an element of escap- ism: as one prisoner said, “For a while time stood still and I’d forgot- ten where I was.” Hill of dreams Of course, parkrun events also pro- Not so lonely parkrunner vide a welcoming, supportive and non-judgemental community for you Back on track to be part of if/when you are released. It is hoped that this reintegration into One man’s story of a prison parkrun A Life Changer society will help break the reoffend- ing cycle, and the revolving door A Clayton - HMP Wayland train regularly, use parkrun as an Parkrun takes the world outside and back into custody. additional cardio workout and When you consider that prisoners monitor their performances closely. inside by storm! To Shane Spencer, the PEI who estab- are cocooned in concrete and steel lished the very first parkrun in a for most of the week, the appeal of “This week I have taken time off prison, the benefits have been pro- an outdoor run in a green space from training in the gym to focus Chrissie first parkrun on the custodial estate. found: “Saturday mornings have be- might seem obvious. But talk to the on running on the yard so that I Wellington Black Combe parkrun, as it is known, come a focal point for a lot of the men men here and you realise that, for can try to set a new parkrun PB on and Rowan was set up by PEI Shane Spencer here and it is something they really many of them, doing parkrun is Saturday,” one man said. “My aim Ardill with the support of the Governor. In look forward to,” he says. “The sense about more than just getting some is to get down to 22.30, which is 15 explaining why he decided to start a of camaraderie during each event is fresh air and sunshine. seconds off my current time.” parkrun, Shane said: really encouraging and the fact that For those who aren’t familiar with we fill our volunteer roster come rain “It’s a chance to feel human,” one It’s a chance to “I wanted to deliver something really parkrun it is a charity which organ- or shine is testament to the pride that parkrunner said. “To see the sky feel human, to see the ises free, 5k events held weekly in unique that has never been done be- the men have in this event and their properly, some of the landscape areas of open space, starting at 9am fore and make a genuine difference. determination to keep it going.” and to smell the turf, it feels amaz- sky properly, some of on a Saturday. There are also junior Having volunteered at my local ing. It really picks me up.” parkruns, which are 2k events held parkrun a few times, I knew how in- So, how do you get involved!? If there the landscape and to on a Sunday especially for 4-14 year- clusive it really is. HMP Haverigg is a parkrun in your prison or YOI In fact, every person I asked said the smell the turf, it feels olds and their families. All events are had recently become a smoke-free then speak to a member of staff about boost to their mental wellbeing was organised by local teams of prison and I wanted to get more lads potentially taking part as a walker or the biggest benefit of parkrun; the amazing. It really volunteers. involved who don’t really engage runner, or helping with the event or- sense of freedom, the runner’s high, picks me up. with the gym to try to encourage a ganisation. If your establishment but also the sense of inclusion. more healthy lifestyle for them. My There are currently over 630 5k doesn't yet have a parkrun, then why Naturally, there is competition be- view was that parkrun would be parkruns and over 280 junior events not speak to a member of staff and That feeling stems partly from ex- tween runners too. Those clocking ideal for this as it is available to all, across the UK. Every week, a whop- suggest that they get the ball ercising as a group. But it also similar times often develop a whatever your fitness level”. ping 180,000 people participate, rolling!? comes from knowing that thou- healthy rivalry - especially if they’re supported by approximately 17,000 sands of other people across the friends - which pushes them on to Since then, 17 more events have been volunteers. There are also parkruns country are doing the same thing improve. Plus, it provides good established on HMP and YOI sites in 22 other countries around the at the same time. banter fodder, especially when the across the UK, and two more in Ire- world, including Poland, Russia, USA, printed results are displayed in the land. The word has also travelled South Africa, Japan and Australia. Surprisingly, it’s bringing loved gym on a Saturday afternoon. down under, and two prison-based ones closer together too, thanks to parkruns have now been set up in the Wayland results page on the That said, there is incredible sup- Australia. There are many more in the parkrun website. It’s a positive new port out on the field. There are pipeline, both in the UK and way to feature in each other’s lives, cheers of encouragement for every overseas. regardless of the distance between single runner, whoever it is and them. whatever their ability. Like those outside the prison walls, ‘Well done guys!’

all HMP and YOI parkruns are held “My sister and my young nephew “There is definitely a different at- every single Saturday, beginning If you have already experienced a both do parkrun where they live,” mosphere out on the parkrun track around 9am. They are always 5k in parkrun, and want to tell us a bit one man told me, “so it’s a nice way compared to the normal prison en- length, which can mean quite a few more about what it means to you, to connect with them and we enjoy vironment,” one regular parkrunner laps of a small outside space! It’s not then we would love to get your feed- comparing times. It feels normal to said. It’s clear, then, that parkrun’s On the move together just for those who choose to walk, back and hear your stories (Parkrun have something in common for us positive impact on the general jog or run as events also have to be Limited, Unit 3, Lower Deck, Phoenix to talk about.” health and wellbeing of the guys organised and delivered by prison- These events are open to absolutely Wharf, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW1 here is huge. And wellbeing is im- ers themselves. everyone, regardless of background 3DY) One prisoner at Wayland did As well as all this, parkrun is help- portant in prison because the or ability, and are totally free to take just that. The prisoners article (right) ing people with drug problems to stakes are so high. part in. They are not races and there All parkrun participants stay until was published on the parkrun blog switch out poisonous habits for everyone has crossed the line, with is no pressure to run - participants and has been read by thousands of healthy ones, and it’s helping even Therefore it’s in everybody’s inter- the ‘Tail Walker’ always being the can walk if they want to. There is people across the UK and around the more people to manage mental est to keep prisoners well - and final person to finish. There’s gener- also the option to volunteer or come world. health conditions. parkrun is doing just that. Not only ally quite a bit of cheering and (usu- along and watch and join everyone is it helping prisoners to stay phys- ally!) friendly banter, and often a bit for a coffee and chat afterwards. The physical aspect of the event is ically fit, it’s helping to build the of time for socialising afterwards. Chrissie Wellington is Global Head of its biggest draw, though. After all, confidence, character and inner Health and Wellbeing at Parkrun and In November 2017, parkrun took the training is the main focus of many resources required to turn things While physical activity programmes Rowan Ardill is Health & Wellbeing ground-breaking step of launching people’s lives in prison. Some, who around - one positive step at a time. an event at HMP Haverigg, the very are not a new thing in the custodial Projects Manager. 28 Comment www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019

Chris Impey: interesting, actually reading prison chronicler documents that contained the Book Review words of staff and prisoners was absolute gold. One of the rare things I came across were The House on the Hill, statements and documents concerning the first governor Brixton, London’s oldest prison of the prison, John Green, who was something of a vio- by Christopher Impey - (foreword by Raphael Rowe) lent and drunken man who Book review by Noel Smith had assaulted prisoners, and Paperback £14 / ISBN: 978-1-910691-42-7 / The Tangerine Press reading the testimony of the prisoners was amazing. It is rare these days to find a book about British Brixton’s final bill of cost was £51,780, 17 shil- What of Brixton’s future? prisons that is not a turgid and depressing lings and 7 pence - which would be around tome about the suicide, violence and drug- £2million in today’s money. Brixton has been threatened abuse that are prevalent in today’s UK jails - or with closure many times over a celebration of rule-breaking and liberty-tak- Brixton had the dreaded treadmill - a huge the years. In fact, it was closed ing written by bitter, ex-prison warders. So, I wooden wheel (known as the shin-scraper) - and auctioned at one stage, was delighted to find that Chris Impey’s book on which the prisoners would climb for up to but it was bought back and is none of these things. Instead it is an engag- 12-hours a day. The treadmill struck fear into opened as a female prison. ing and enlightening treasure-chest of inter- the heart of the criminal population and many The land the prison is built on esting facts, stories and illustrations about preferred transportation to the new colonies is now very valuable, but the London’s oldest prison. rather than toiling on the wheel at Brixton. prison itself is not in great Children and even women with new-born ba- bies were expected to put in their 12-hours on shape for the modern world, Her Majesty’s Prison Brixton is 200 years-old Absolute gold! this year and the author, who worked as Man- the wheel, which was attached to grinding it’s quite small and the cells aging Editor of National Prison Radio - the stones and produced flour for the bread of are small. At one time, A-wing world’s first national radio station for prison- London. Former prison radio chief finds was described as the worst ers - based at HMP Brixton, has written this prison-wing in the whole sys- treasure on the landings book to coincide with the anniversary. But, it is the personal stories of the prisoners tem. So, there are problems, but once I was in Brixton I met and staff over the centuries that is the real joy but like anything else the of this book. From the sad and mad individuals some great people. It really When the prison was built, in 1819, the area of prison needs investment. I Brixton was not even part of London, it was a that populated the prison in the 1820s to the was a pleasure to work there. Noel Smith believe that if there is a drop village in Surrey surrounded by agricultural sad and mad individuals who populated in the prison population then land and windmills for grinding the corn that F-Wing (commonly known as ‘Fraggle Rock’) What inspired you to write the Brixton will be closed down. was grown in the surrounding fields. Before in the 1980s, and right up to the present day, book? Chris Impey is an award-win- I think that if they could have HMP Wandsworth was built and took the these vignettes of human frailty really bring ning journalist and the for- afforded it then the prison name, Brixton prison was known as The Sur- the story to life. I had studied history and mer Managing Editor of would be closed now. rey House of Correction. Commissioned by the earned a degree, so I was re- National Prison Radio. He has Surrey magistrates in order to allay fears of If you want a good and engrossing read then ally interested in the history worked for many years as a And your time with National crime amongst the growing population, HMP this is the book for you. of the prison, it being the first reporter and producer at the Prison Radio, how was that? BBC and made a number of women-only prison and vari- ous other historic facts. I’d documentaries for Radio 4. Setting up NPR was a very always had this sort of buck- He left Brixton in 2018 and hard thing to do, mainly due et-list and writing a book was now works at The Economist. to the media as you are al- one of the things on it. I felt His first book, The House on ways worried that if the media WILSONS AUCTIONS that HMP Brixton was an in- the Hill, Brixton, London’s takes against it then it be- Oldest Prison, is on release to teresting story waiting to be comes even more difficult. In coincide with the 200th anni- told. The research took about WE CAN SELL YOUR ASSETS fact, in the early days The Sun versary of the opening of 6 or 7 years, but I wasn’t work- · Do you have an outstanding confiscation order? HMP Brixton. Governor’s old residence · Would you like a free valuation and a no obligation Inside Time managed to talk quote to sell your assets for the highest price? to Chris about what brought him to a life of prison and in- spired him to write this book. WILSONS AUCTIONS CAN HELP As the sole agent for over 40 law enforcement agencies, Wilsons Auctions specialises Thanks for agreeing to this in- in selling assets that are subject to confiscation proceedings, often in sensitive terview Chris. The first thing circumstances. We are the largest independent auction company in the UK and Ireland I’d like to know is, what and with 80 years of experience, we can sell assets worldwide. brought you into contact with the prison system in the first place? Youthful misdemean- ours, perhaps?

No, no, I had no experience of the criminal justice system at ing full-time on it. At first it ran a story on NPR called Jewellery Cars Property All Assets all. I was a radio producer was going to be more of a ‘Con-Air’. But we also had a working for the BBC when I pamphlet, but I felt I had a lot of letters of encourage- For more information got the chance to get involved duty to write the history. I was ment, which was great. It was with setting up National also conscious of the 200th a challenge and I am very FREEPHONE 0300 124 0438 anniversary coming up. But, proud to have been associated Prison Radio at Brixton Simply provide us with the following Name Solicitor (if any) with it. prison. I saw it as a challenge it was a labour of love. details and we can do the rest! Prison / Prison Number Your Asset Details but going inside the prison for the first time was a bit daunt- What was the most surprising Do you have any plans for a ing, it’s the same for everyone thing you found out about second book? Trench Lock 2, Telford, , TF1 5YL the first time, I’d guess. I’d Brixton prison during your been having this dream about research? No, not at the moment, but walking through a prison maybe in the future. www.wilsonsauctions.com with cells either side of me Well, I went through a lot of Northern Ireland | England | Republic of Ireland | Scotland | Wales and arms reaching out to me, the archives and that was so Thank you, Chris. Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Comment 29

Happily, DHL is unlikely to go bust and a great deal of amusement, as that messages written on canteen lists Inside Voices soon given that it is owned by the no-one in living memory had seen a are seen. Messages like, ‘no cherry German post office, Deutsche Post, lobster there. The story was a com- yoghurts, yuk!’ or ‘I’m not on loss of which probably means that the ulti- plete fabrication and one prisoner, canteen’ are common but have to be mate person you complain to about the creator of Charlie Cheam, put in ignored. Other messages like ‘smile your squashed bananas is German an order for a lobster to mock the Sun and thank you’ are appreciated, but Chancellor Angela Merkel. Good luck story. This he soon regretted, as a perhaps not as much as clearly writ- with that, yet how did DHL come to lobster in 1994 cost £19, more than ten lists. benefit from multi-millions of pounds twice a prisoner’s wages. courtesy of the British taxpayer? When a landing or wings orders are The Home Secretary of the time, completed, the computer generates Back in the days of yore, prisoner can- Michael Howard, also not known for individual prisoners picking lists. teen was supplied by each establish- pro-prisoner bias or for being truth- These are anonymous, so your plea ment having a couple of screws run- ful, seized on the Sun’s porkies and, for no cherry yoghurts or only yellow ning it. Some items were delivered, never being one to pass up the op- lollies cannot be actioned by the pick- some purchased fortnightly from a portunity of a sound-bite or to bad- er who selects your items off the shelf. local ‘cash and carry’. Special orders mouth and vilify prisoners, declared were obtained once a month from local he would end the ‘disgusting prac- Each individual order is passed to a Where’s my stuff? suppliers. The special order facility tice’ of prison officers shopping for checker who, as the name suggests, was to supply the odd item not nor- lobsters for prisoners. checks you have the items ordered. mally in stock in the canteen … vegan The next stage is bagging your items; Drop it… hide it… lose it items etc. The first casualty of Howard’s action then your bagged items are passed was the cancellation of the prisoner to a confirmer, who confirms (or not) Once a week, wing by wing, landing Christmas canteen orders resulting you have all you asked for and prints The secrets of DHL by landing, prisoners would visit the in a very austere Christmas in your receipt. The final stage is loading canteen hatch to pick up their pur- Parkhurst. Howard’s comeuppance it on a lorry for delivery to your Keith Rose - HMP Coldingley isn’t it curious how all the functions chases. This style of canteen had came swiftly, just weeks later, in establishment. that used to be carried out by each worked perfectly for years at little cost. January 1995 three prisoners went prison have now been handed to the If you are in a public sector prison Canteen screws were happy with the over the wall from Parkhurst, then a As you can imagine, all these stages private sector? The history of compa- you almost certainly have your week- arrangement, as they never had to buy maximum-security prison, for the for your weekly order are labour in- nies benefiting from the MoJ’s lar- ly canteen delivered by DHL and, their own tobacco, prisoners were first time in 35 years, but that’s a tensive, not to mention the cost of gesse is riddled with dodgy deals, wow, the prices they charge, right? happy, as special offers were regularly whole different story. transport to the various establish- corruption and failure, with examples Wrong! passed on, and prison management ments, which accounts for the mul- like Aramark (owing a billion dollars were happy as the cost involved was Howard’s response to the Sun story tiple millions the MoJ dishes out to and America’s biggest junk bond Prisoner canteen prices are set by a that of a couple of staff members, who began the slippery slope to the pri- DHL each year. company when given the contract), couple of pen-pushers in the Ministry had to be there anyway. So, what went vatisation of canteen supply, culmi- Carillion and Interserve going spec- of Justice whose task seems to be to wrong? Well, you couldn’t make it up! nating in the farcical appointment of Compare that to the old system, which tacularly belly up, or cock-ups on gouge every penny they can from Aramark, a defunct company, to required a few screws working in the prisoners’ pitiful wages. This they such a grand scale that the MoJ has In late 1994, a story appeared in the supply canteen facilities to prisons canteen. If you estimated £60,000 appear to do with gleeful abandon, to mount a rescue mission and step Sun, a newspaper not known for nationally. for each pair of screws in each estab- as indicated by charging £3.99 for back in to clean up the mess. Other pro-prisoner bias and equally not lishment - and around 123 prisons - ‘vapes’ which sell in Poundland for, examples include Serco and G4S tag- known for being truthful but well-prac- So that’s the history, and what do that comes to a grand total of yes you guessed it - £1. ging the dead or presiding over the tised in the art of fairy stories. The Sun DHL do to justify their multi-millions £7,380,000 per annum. I wonder why meltdown in Birmingham prison. story claimed that Parkhurst prisoners today? How does the system work? the MoJ won’t publish exactly how So just what function does DHL serve? were sending officers out on shopping Well, each week your prison’s orders much they pay DHL yearly? The MoJ pays DHL many more mil- The Ministry of Justice frequent expeditions for luxury items like are couriered to your local DHL facil- lions than I care to mention to ware- claims that giving contracts to the lobsters. ity and their first stop is the tilling And all this due to a Sun hack with a house, pick, pack and deliver each private sector ‘saves the taxpayer room, where requirements are en- vivid imagination! And people won- prisoner’s order on a weekly basis. money’ is Trumpism worthy of The story was met with much conster- tered into a computer to generate a der why I call the Sun ‘the self-harm- Nice contract if you can get it, and Donald’s very best tweets! nation among prisoners at Parkhurst, ‘picking list’. This is the only time ers bible’.

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made worse by the fact that the at- A landing site was chosen in an area with the Command Module, left lunar Outside View mosphere was pure oxygen under called the ‘Sea of Tranquillity’ be- orbit, and headed back 250,000 pressure; the internal pressure pre- cause it was felt this would be the miles to a safe splashdown. vented the hatch being opened to smoothest area; at this point nobody rescue the men. Apollo flights were knew what the surface would be like. Safe splash down One small step ... delayed for 20 months whilst the var- On that first mission, not everything ious hazards were sorted. went perfectly, and the crew had to Fifty years since the first moon landing take over manual control after a Tragic explosion number of computer failures, and avoid landing on large boulders. first to put a satellite in space (Sput- They set down with just seconds of nik 1 - 1957) and the first man in fuel left: if they had crashed or been space (Vostok 1 - 12 April 1961), Yuri unable to lift off later they would Paul Sullivan Gagarin. America had been running have been stranded and died on the its $2.2billion Project Mercury pro- moon. gramme since 1958 to try to beat the I was 15 when, on 20th July 1969 at Russians with a man in space, but about 9pm, the whole family gath- The two crew members who landed failed, only getting Alan Shepherd ered round our 19 inch black and were Neil Armstrong and LEM pilot into space on May 5th. The early white television to watch the first Buzz Aldrin. The LEM was given the Ever since the landings there has flights were ‘sub-orbital’ and the In December 1968, Saturn V took ever manned landing on the moon. Apollo 8 and a full crew into space for nickname ‘Eagle’. Above them, in been speculation that they were It was Apollo 11. Previous Apollo first American to actually orbit the the first stage of the mission to the lunar orbit, Michael Collins flew the faked, because technology at that missions had practised the mission earth was John Glenn in February Command Module. After they landed time was not good enough to make moon. The most crucial part of the and got everything in readiness for 1962, who made just three orbits. safely, Aldrin radioed back: ‘The the manned journey and return. moon mission was the lunar lander, the landing. James Burke and Pat- Eagle has landed’. About six hours Doubters point to the fluttering flag called the Lunar Excursion Module rick Moore provided the commen- America greatly profited from Ger- after landing, and with all checks in the photographs and odd double (or LEM for short). Creating the lander tary, and this was an historical man rocket engineering after the done, Armstrong descended a ladder shadows. Recently, orbiting satel- was probably the most difficult part moment that had us all on the edge Second World War and managed to to the surface and said to NASA, and lites from both India and China have of the programme and many early of our seats. The actual moon walk tempt Wernher von Braun, the lead- a massive world-wide TV audience: secured pictures of the landing experiments ended in failure. It con- was about 6 hours later when we ing figure in German rocket engi- “That’s one small step for man, one areas showing the descent module sisted of two distinct parts: a descent were all asleep in bed. The timings neering who worked on the V1 and giant leap for mankind.” still in place, the flag, and even the stage which landed the craft and an were no doubt to fit in with USA V2 flying bombs. In order to lift the later lunar buggy parked nearby an- news broadcasts. necessary ‘orbiter’ and ‘lander’ to ascent stage which flew the crew up other landing site. reach the moon, a massive new rocket to the orbiting Command Module was needed. Work started early in called Columbia. Two astronauts After Apollo 11, there were five more 1961 on what was to become the Sat- landed on the moon whilst one re- manned moon landings, with a total urn V (Saturn 5) with von Braun mained in the orbiting Command of 12 men walking on the moon’s leading the development. NASA was Module. The journey to the moon surface. As well as Armstrong and impatient to get the rocket finished took around 76 hours. The Command Aldrin, the others were Pete Conrad, and ready and, against advice, its Module was needed because the Alan Bean, Alan Shepard, Edgar director ordered a full unmanned lander and ascent vehicle were only Mitchell, David Scott, James Irwin, test flight in November 1967. designed to operate in the vacuum of John Young, Charles Duke, Eugene space and could not re-enter the Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. Crew Tragedy was to strike preparations Earth’s atmosphere without burning from Apollo 13 did not land on the Everything was set in motion when for the moon mission when a fire up. After returning to the Command moon as they had a major incident President Kennedy (above) made a inside the Apollo1 Command Module Module, the LEM was uncoupled and Honey, I’m on the moon! and had to use the Lunar Module as speech in September 1962 saying the took the lives of three astronauts: abandoned and prior to re-entry the a kind of sanctuary to make oxygen USA would put a man on the moon Edward White, Virgil Grissom and main body of the Command Module After 2¼ hours on the surface, and to get them back to earth - they only by the end of the decade. He made Roger Chaffee. The fire was caused was also undocked and left to re-enter after planting a US flag and collect- just made it. After Apollo 17 no more the promise because the USA was by an electrical fault and combus- and burn up. Only the small Apollo ing over 21kg of moon rocks, they attempts were made at moon lagging behind Russia, who were tible materials within the module; capsule survived the mission. took off successfully and re-docked landings.

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These im- offering ROTL placements. ing the last six months. concern); and • Eligibility for Resettlement provements to the way ROTL Day Release (RDR) therefore • Any other offender who is In 2014, a small number of Work Placements is processed could really re- In 2018, we welcomed the an- starts from the point of trans- currently assessed as high or serious and high-profile of- • There is no longer a require- duce delays and improve peo- nouncement by Justice Secre- fer to open conditions, subject very high risk of serious harm fences committed by people ment to do unpaid work be- ple’s access to ROTL. tary David Gauke to review to sentence plan and risk as- on OASys. on temporary release led to ROTL provision as part of em- fore you can apply for paid sessment. For women, you Of course, it’s not just about the introduction of additional ployment and education work. You are allowed to take will be eligible at the point of If you think your ROTL status policy and we are yet to see restrictions on the use of strategy. Alongside gover- paid work as soon as you are recategorisation as ‘suitable may be affected by these how effectively the new ROTL, cemented soon after in nors, employers and other eligible for RDRs. However, for open conditions’. changes you should speak to guidelines are put into prac- PSI 13/2015 Release on Tem- stakeholders, the following unpaid voluntary work will your offender supervisor at tice. The removal of a number porary Licence. Unfortu- consultation gave us an op- • You are also eligible to apply still be available for those the prison to find out more. of unnecessary requirements nately, these restrictions portunity to reiterate our rec- for Resettlement Overnight who will benefit from it. All leaves Governors with some created unnecessary barriers ommendations. We also Release (ROR) from the point placements, whether paid or Unaccompanied ROTL discretion as to how to apply and delays for the vast major- consulted members of our of transfer to open conditions unpaid, must still be ap- Under the new policy all pris- the policy locally; we hope ity who made good use of Prisoner Policy Network (or the point of recategorisa- proved by the governor. tion for open conditions for oners, including those on Re- that this will result in some ROTL to maintain family ties, (PPN) who fed their views on • Previous guidance which women). However, you will be stricted ROTL, can be sensible decisions which in- take part in work and improve the proposals and draft doc- limited the use of work oppor- expected to have completed a considered for unaccompa- crease opportunities for ef- their resettlement - all of ument directly to members of tunities, such as those in hos- period of successful RDRs be- nied ROTL without having to fective ROTL. You should be which contribute to reducing the policy team at HMPPS. pitality, due to proximity to complete accompanied ROTL fore RORs can take place. provided with information reoffending. At the time of the drinking of alcohol, or first. However, the prison may about how the policy will be these tragic incidents the The new policy, Release on • Eligibility for Resettlement gambling have been removed. still decide accompanied delivered at the prison you overall success rate of ROTL Temporary Licence (ROTL) Day Release from closed con- However, these factors are ROTL is necessary in individ- are in. We are already aware was 99.93%. In the four years Policy Framework, was pub- ditions remains the same - 24 still likely to be taken into ac- ual circumstances as a way of that at least one open prison that followed the new restric- lished and came into force in months before your effective count when assessing suita- managing risk. has been proactive by provid- tions, use of this important May this year. It contains a release date or once you have bility of work placements for ing a copy of the Policy rehabilitative provision number of very welcome served half your custodial any individual. History of escape, abscond dropped by a third. period, whichever gives the Framework and a summary changes which have the po- • It is no longer a requirement or serious ROTL failure later date. This applies to of changes to every prisoner. tential to really improve the that you have to spend at least Under the new policy those Advocating for better use of those eligible for Standard We hope this good practice is use of ROTL. 24 hours per week in prison. with a history of escape, ab- ROTL and a reversal of these ROTL only, as those under scond, or serious ROTL failure reflected elsewhere as well, restrictions has been one of Restricted ROTL still need to but if this is not the case, and Here we summarise some of Childcare Resettlement can now be considered for Prison Reform Trust’s main be in open conditions for RDR you would like a copy of the the main changes; Licence (CRL) open conditions and ROTL, priorities in recent years. We (or assessed as suitable for Policy Framework, please • Primary carers are now al- provided that it occurred made recommendations open conditions, for women). contact our advice and infor- Eligibility lowed to apply for Childcare more than two years ago and through our ‘Inside Out’ brief- • There is no longer a restric- has only occurred once on mation service using the in- • Eligibility for Resettlement Resettlement Licence (CRL) as formation below. We have ings; the first published in tion on ROTL during the first Overnight Release from your current sentence. well as sole carers. also updated our information 2015, the second published 3 months following a transfer closed conditions also re- • Eligibility for CRL has also sheet which contains general with Clinks in 2016, and a to open conditions - often re- mains the same - 6 months Other notable changes been extended to include if information about ROTL as third in 2018. Many of the is- ferred to as a ‘lay down’ pe- before your effective release • The policy is now clear that you have children under 18 - well. sues we raised came directly riod. This means you will be date or once you have served you can be granted Special rather than under 16 as it was from the contact we have with eligible for ROTL after half your custodial period, Purpose Licence both to visit previously. The policy goes a dying relative and to later Though the changes in the further by saying that al- attend their funeral. Al- new policy are a welcome and though CRL is primarily for though this was not pre- significant step in the right DAVIES & JONES the benefit of children under vented by the previous policy, direction, there are still ways SOLICITORS 18, in some cases it may con- we had become aware of in which ROTL could be im- tinue after the child has cases in which people had proved further, and we will Specialising in reached 18. unreasonably been asked to continue to advocate for this. • CRL is also available more choose one or the other. Prison Reform Trust would Criminal Defence and like to see further reversal of frequently for those who are • The policy suggests that restrictions brought in in Prison Law eligible -a maximum of one ROTL could be used to help 2014 by abolishing Restricted O f f e r i n g day release per week includ- people who are due to be re- ROTL, so that all decisions ing one period of overnight leased on a Friday to access Dillex Solicitors are made on the basis of an N a t i o n w i d e S e r v i c e release per 28 days can be the many services which they Specialist in Prison Law individual’s risk, rather than taken. The overnight release may need before they close at & their sentence. We would also • All Criminal Court Proceedings can be up to four nights. the weekend. 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Sentenced Prisoners (ISPs) Recall & Re-categorisation Contact and anyone currently as- The policy also aims to sessed as ‘high’ or ‘very high’ Police Station/Crown/ streamline the process by re- or Simon Palmer risk of serious harm on OASys You can contact the Prison Magistrate Court Representations ducing the need for repeated - but the ‘MAPPA Nominal’ Reform Trust’s advice team at Davies & Jones consultation with agencies Confiscation/Forfeiture category has been replaced by FREEPOST ND6125 London and unnecessary ROTL 32 The Parade, Roath, more specific categories. The EC1B 1PN. Our free information Do Not Hesitate To Contact Lucy Today boards. 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HMP & YOI Hollesley Bay HMP Garth Category D open resettlement prison Category B men’s training prison

Unannounced Inspection: 22 October-1 Announced Inspection: 17 December 2018-18 November 2018 Published: 5 March 2019 January 2019 Published: 9 May 2019

Safety: Good Safety: Not sufficiently good Respect: Good Respect: Reasonably good Independent Review of Progress Independent Review of Progress Purposeful Activity: Reasonably good Purposeful Activity: Reasonably good Resettlement: Reasonably good Resettlement: Reasonably good HMP Chelmsford HMP The Mount Independent Review of Progress “A successful and effective open prison.” Inspection: 15-17 April 2019 “Chief Inspector hopes prison can Published: 24 May 2019 Inspection: 23-25 April 2019 continue commendable improvements in This was a good report Clarke says: “We last Published: 31 May 2019 safety and respect.” “Improvements in progress in tackling inspected the prison in 2014, when we reported on an impressive institution. Following this violence and better care for vulnerable “Improvements in activity and inspection, we can report that the prison con- At the last inspection in 2017 inspectors found men, but significant drugs problems rehabilitation and prison beginning tinues to deliver good or reasonably good out- that safety was poor; violence had increased, remain.” to address violence and drugs.” comes for those detained.” Accommodation and large numbers of prisoners were living in fear. The problems were compounded by the After a full inspection in May and June 2018, When the prison was inspected in 2018, Clarke was generally good but the Bosmere unit need- ready availability of drugs, and although there HM Chief Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke said said the prison had deteriorated substantially ed further refurbishment. he had narrowly decided not to invoke the rare- in many areas. There were high levels of vio- were some good features, such as the effective- ly-used Urgent Notification Protocol. At that lence, drug use and use of force by staff and Most prisoners said they felt safe and violence ness of the learning and skills provision, they time, Mr Clarke had some confidence that the inspectors concluded that The Mount was “clear- and use of force by staff were relatively rare, concluded that the prison was one of the most then-new governor would make progress. ly failing in its fundamental mission to provide unsafe they had been to in recent times and that However, he warned that the failure since 2018 Clarke describes the prison as “an overwhelm- constructive activity, training and to make sufficient progress in tackling drugs ingly respectful place, underpinned by some ‘violence and drugs dominated the prisoner rehabilitation.” in Chelmsford, which holds many members of very supportive staff-prisoner relationships.” experience’. This announced visit two years organised crime gangs, risked undermining However, there had been a “disappointing later found significant improvements at the Under the new Independent Review of Progress other progress. increase in the use of drugs.” The report notes: prison. (IRP) system, inspectors went back in April 2019 “A local analysis had identified that prisoners Clarke said, “Levels of violence had continued to check on progress against their ‘Healthy had moved away from using the harmful new The latest report says: “Although there was still to increase since last year, but it was clear that Prison Tests’. Clarke says: “We noted that the psychoactive substances (NPS) and that can- action taken by the prison had led to a reduction prison appeared to be on an upward trajectory, too much violence, it had not risen in line with in serious incidents.” There was also a clearer albeit from a very low base. Managers told us nabis was now the preferred drug. We calcu- the overall trend across the prison estate, and understanding of the causes of violence. The of many improvements expected within the next lated that about 59% of all positive drug test credit is due to staff at Garth for working hard number of deaths through suicide and the sus- few months...We were pleased to find that there results in the previous year had been for can- to understand and contain it. There is absolutely was some substance to these plans. There was pected use of illicit drugs remained worrying, nabis, with no positive results for NPS in the no room for complacency, but there were some but there had been reasonable progress in im- evidence of greater clarity of vision around previous six months. The use of cocaine and early encouraging signs of improvement. As proving the quality of care for prisoners in crisis training and rehabilitation, something that we steroids was an emerging problem.” or at risk of self-harm. There was progress in had urged in 2018.” with many other prisons, the ready availability five areas: of illicit drugs drove much of the violence, and Prisoners had significant amounts of time out However, work to improve safety outcomes for the scale of the challenge in this respect at Garth of their cells and the prison offered a wide range • The rate of positive drugs tests had fallen, prisoners was less advanced than inspectors was daunting. Sixty per cent of prisoners told of educational and vocational training pro- though it was still high, and there was a reduc- would have expected. Violence and use of force us it was easy to obtain drugs, 30% were testing tion in contraband thrown over the wall. grammes. The prison had good relationships had risen, and the governance of use of force positive for drugs and around a quarter had However, it was inexcusable that the prison and segregation was still weak. Drugs remained with regional employers and this had led to developed a drug habit since entering the had still not been equipped with more up-to- a problem. However, there was a comprehen- many unpaid and community positions for date drug detection equipment. Chelmsford prison.” sive, though as yet only partially implemented, prisoners on release on temporary licence needed to make further reductions in the supply strategy to address violence. More body-worn (ROTL). ROTL was used extensively to support of drugs a priority to safeguard prisoners’ health The poor safety assessment in 2017, in a jail in cameras were available, and they were used work, resettlement and family ties. and well-being, as well as making the prison more often. In recent months there had been which drugs and violence then dominated the safer by reducing violence and debts. evidence of steadily reducing drug use in the men’s lives, led inspectors to make it subject to One area of significant concern was noted: prison. • Consultation with prisoners had improved “About 10% of the prison population presented one of only a handful of announced inspections. but the prison had not addressed the funda- By late 2018, safety had risen from a poor as- Cleanliness had improved substantially, and a a medium or high risk of harm to children. mental weaknesses in the application and com- sessment to not sufficiently good. Respect rose plaints processes sufficiently well. programme of redecoration and refurbishment Assessments of the risks were not always un- to reasonably good and purposeful activity and was well under way, supported by a prisoner dertaken promptly enough following arrival at • Time out of cell, although more predictable ‘handyman’ scheme. Staffing had greatly im- the prison, and contact restrictions were not rehabilitation and resettlement remained at that across the prison, remained very limited. proved, with around 80 new officers, and staff always applied in the interim. The monitoring level. sickness levels were now very low. • Despite the governor’s aspiration to provide of mail and telephone contact was poor.” at least one hour a day for outdoor exercise, Commenting on improvements, Clarke said: Summing up, Clarke said: “This was an encour- most prisoners still only had 30 minutes, which Summing up the inspection, Clarke says: “Given the overall context in which establish- aging review. While a great deal of work was was not enough. “Hollesley Bay remained a successful and ef- ments such as Garth have been operating over still needed to ensure that momentum was not fective prison. The establishment was, at the the past few years, this is an achievement that • In rehabilitation and release planning, Clarke lost, improvement and progress were evident. should not be underestimated. For the future, said he had concerns about the delivery of the The two worst areas identified at the last inspec- time of our inspection, experiencing a time of Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) tion - purposeful activity, and rehabilitation change, with a new governor about to be ap- dealing with the twin scourges of drugs and contract, and some key weakness in offender and release planning - had both seen significant pointed and plans to develop the prison’s role violence will be the key to making further management arrangements. improvements.” to hold sex offenders.” progress.” Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Information 35

gradually I was using work as a dis- sense of achievement every time you traction from the drugs. You sat hit a target or deadline. I can’t say it Learning to break the habit down with a book and some paper enough just how good it can make and next thing a couple of hours had you feel. crimes to get money. It came to an gone by. I was a mentor in the edu- awful stop in 2004 when I received a cation department as well by then I came out of prison earlier this year. life sentence. and I realised people were depend- I’ve got a part-time job and I’m vol- ing on me. unteering with two charities, and Going to prison was horrific. I was in starting to work with PET’s Alumni shock. I wouldn’t say anything to an- When you realise you can do some- Advisory Group. It’s been hard at yone. I would take all sorts of concoc- thing without being under the influ- times, but the education has helped tions to get me obliterated. But as ence of drugs it makes a massive with the interviews - employers have awful as it sounds, I don’t think I difference to your confidence. It seen my degree and it would start a would have lasted much longer if I conversation. They could see I’d hadn’t gone to prison at that point. changed how I was with the girls around me. Before, I used to want to made good use of my time. In the future, I’d like to work either in crim- Some girls talk about epiphany mo- be part of the in-crowd, defining my- self by other people. I was embar- inal justice or with women who have ments, but the change for me hap- experienced domestic abuse. I want pened very slowly. My dad was one rassed about going to the library and would hide books. But when I started to help stop people from ending up of few words but he would write every where I did. week like he was saying, to care less, I’d notice other people “Education, education, education”. would see me trying and they would start trying as well, asking me for I would urge anyone in prison today Credit: PET At a point I must have started listen- advice on stuff. to value themselves and their own ing. I started on an OU Access worth. Take the opportunity to edu- GCSEs. Around this time I met my through PET and then decided to cate yourself, even if you begin with Emma’s story If I was talking to the lasses in there son’s dad. It was a bad, violent rela- apply to do a degree in English a lower-level course in something I would say education is so impor- tionship. With domestic violence Literature. you like. You don’t have to dive in: tant because it’s something just for I had a lot of illnesses when I was you don’t think or act for yourself. slowly the change will creep in. young, and wasn’t at school very You live in fear all the time - there’s It was like as education grew in im- you. No one can take it away. This is often. I was bright, but as you get nowhere safe to go. My life was get- portance, drugs became less impor- so important when you’ve been in (The name used in the above article older it gets harder to catch up. I left ting more and more chaotic - I tant. At first I used drugs as a abusive or co-dependent relation- has been changed for the purposes of when I was 15, before I’d taken my started taking drugs and committing distraction from the OU work, but ships. And there’s this enormous anonymity). Three years on from the prison Who do you want to thank? inspired you, now is your chance. The awards Lord Bird education review, what’s changed? are in five categories: and award 1. Outstanding teacher or education winner contract at the end of the year. staff member; Jayne Bruce 2. Outstanding officer; We are also pleased that peo- 3. Outstanding peer mentor, orderly ple coming into prison will now or education rep; be screened to see whether 4. Outstanding individual (e.g. librarian, they have learning difficul- governor, workshop instructor, volunteer); ties/disabilities. But, people 5. Outstanding staff member or mentor who are already inside and in the youth estate. not going through induction

processes won’t be screened. Credit: PET If you want to nominate, you’ll need to collect So, we are concerned that “He has helped me build my an application form from your prison library some people’s needs still or education department. won’t be identified. confidence and self-belief which Dame Sally Coates: I will be forever grateful for.” The deadline for nominations is Monday 15 “Education, Education, Education” Credit: PET Total scores out of three Nomination for a peer mentor, HMP Cardiff July 2019.

Nominations are still open for this year’s PLA Three years ago in May, Dame teams) have to monitor these. 1 x 10 PET fund over 300 types of distance-learn- Awards, recognising staff and mentors who go Sally Coates published a You may have seen that the ing courses. To look at a full curriculum, or the extra mile to promote learning. The awards groundbreaking report on education provider in your 2 x 5 for more information about how to apply, are unique, with all nominations coming from prison education. In her report, prison has changed - or if it is please speak to your prison’s Education people in prison. she said that prisoners should the same provider as before 3 x 1 Department. You can also write to be assessed properly and April, there may be different FREEPOST, Prisoners’ Education Trust. have personal learning plans, classes or services now. If you want to thank someone who has and there should be more We recently published a review, training for prison staff and We think this is an important where we looked at the other teachers. She also said that time for prison education and main recommendations in the governors should have more if good changes come in now, Coates report. We scored control over their education they might be in place for the them out of three on progress. budgets and provide more rest of the contracts. If you Only one recommendation higher-level education. In ad- have a personal learning plan got the full three points and dition, she wanted a ‘whole- and you move prison, the ten got one point. So, al- NATIONWIDE PRISON COVERAGE prison’ approach to learning staff in the new prison should though some progress has Our head o ce is based in the North West of England but we provide nationwide difficulties and disabilities, be able to see your plan. been made there is still a long coverage and due to the location of our sta we oer regular and consistent coverage meaning that prisoners with Hopefully, this will mean that way to go and we continue to to the North West, Midlands, London, South West and North East England. additional needs were identi- people don’t have to go push for improvements. fied and supported. through the same assess- • Parole paper reviews and oral hearings • Recall reviews and oral hearings ments many times. How do you think the changes • Removal from open conditions • Pre-Tariff reviews • Category A reviews Coates’ recommendation to education are going? We • Adjudications about governors having more Education providers are going would be interested in hearing say about the prison educa- to be assessed on the quality your views. If you have any For more information please contact Jeremy Pinson using the detials below. tion budget was followed. of their teaching and how they comments, or if you would like From this April, there are new support their teachers. If they a copy of our briefing, please Freepost HOWARDS AND HENRYS education contracts in prison do not do this effectively, they write to us at FREEPOST, Pris- and the governors (or their could lose money from their oners’ Education Trust. 0161 872 9999 - [email protected] - howardssolicitors.co.uk 36 Information // Through the gate www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019

What can you do if your project, we helped to over- The Hub prison doesn’t have an come the problem that people The Careers Lady arrangement in place? with no ID face. We created an If your prison doesn’t have a ID form which can be signed Bank accounts specific arrangement in by the Governor, which will in prison place, there is nothing stop- prove who you are. Further The first step through the door ping you from applying to details about the form and other banks, but it can be a lot Does your prison have a how it is used by the prison more difficult. It might help if banking arrangement in can be found in PSI 44/2011. to your future you apply to a bank close to place? the prison - you can always Feedback on individual Back in 2005, Unlock identi- change branch at a later date prisons fied that many people coming window cleaners; many of these people are if you wish to. Ask your per- When we handed the banking out of prison didn’t have ac- self-employed, so when the weather is bad they sonal officer or resettlement project back to NOMS in 2014, cess to a bank account and are unable to work or earn money. These are department for a list of local 114 prisons had links with a often missed out on securing just a few more people who need to have a Plan banks. high street bank and 5,936 employment as a result of B if Plan A becomes problematic. basic bank accounts had been this. Over the next 9 years, we It should be stressed that the opened for people in prison in worked with various banks attitude of staff can vary be- 2013-14 alone. What began as I have talked quite a bit in the past about plan- and prisons to set up specific tween banks, and also a small charitably funded ning a future career, job or becoming self-em- arrangements in 74 prisons to branches, therefore if you’re project, ultimately ended up ployed. But whilst this can help you in making make the process of getting refused by one don’t give up; as a national campaign which plans in order to upgrade your skills or pursue an account much simpler. In try somewhere else. © Deposit Photos attracted significant political some more academic qualifications there has 2014, there were 114 prisons and media interest. to be some thought given as to what other op- with links to a high street Proving your identity whilst tions you may have when you leave prison. bank, and we handed over Thinking about Plan B in prison If you believe that the prison the day-to-day responsibility For many people in prison, you are in does have a banking On a recent local news programme there was to the National Offender Man- No matter who or where we are, we constantly and on release, the biggest arrangement, but it’s either an item regarding technology jobs. If you have agement Service (NOMS) to think about our plans for our future; usually problem they face when ap- not being delivered or you’re computer skills these can be important in sustain this work. just our Plan A. When you are in prison these many jobs and you must include these on your plying to open a bank account not able to access it, then we’d plans might be just in your head. On a daily is providing identification. like to hear from you as this CV or job application form. However, this news Speak to your personal officer basis, prison life is more often dependent on Even if the bank is happy to will help us in our work to item talked about people who play and develop or the resettlement depart- prison regime changes or any education or open an account for you, you make sure people are able to complicated computer games. But it was clear ment to find out whether there work opportunities that may be available for will still need to meet the in- open a basic bank account that if the games work failed for some reason, is a banking arrangement in you to try. But how often do we consider what dividual bank’s ID require- before release from prison. they had plenty of skills to find other jobs in place and whether you would happens when Plan A doesn’t happen, or goes ments. Most will ask you to the tech industry. Technology, engineering be eligible to open an ac- wrong, or something happens that forces us to prove your name, with an- and construction jobs were included in a recent count. Some prisons prioritise other piece of ID to prove your change direction? How prepared are we for the report about the skills gap. Whatever plans you those that are nearing the end address. This can often be unexpected? are making for future employment, it’s worth of their sentence. If you are expensive. checking out where the shortages are in the eligible, you should be pro- Unlock is an independent For example, where was the Government’s skills and job market and try to ensure you vided with details of how you charity for people with convic- As part of our banking Plan B for the Brexit deal when the deal wasn’t have the transferable skills necessary. make an application. tions. www.unlock.org.uk. acceptable? What would Theresa May have done if her position as Prime Minister hadn’t So go ahead with your Plan A. Get all the qual- finally come to an end? Hopefully she would ifications you can to fulfil your plans upon have had a Plan B. Although these are consid- release; but also check out whatever new skills erations about other people who many might are offered in your prison to help ensure that DOES THE not care too much about, they are examples of you have a Plan B. The more strings to your just how important it is in any walk of life to bow the better! ensure that you have a back-up plan in case TAXMAN OWE things don’t quite go the way you expected. Once you leave prison you know from what I have said in previous articles that you have to I spoke to a local taxi driver this week who told sign on with your local Job Centre Plus. It may YOU MONEY? me he has to work up to 16 hours a day to ac- be that your Plan A job just isn’t there. The cumulate enough money to see him over the main thing is to have as many skills as possible Free Four Year Tax Review lean times. He is self employed, so even plan- so that you are able to consider other jobs that ning a holiday with his family has to be built may be offered. They may not be part of your into his finances as he would not be earning Plan A but they may be stepping stones to Plan TAX REFUND DUE? anything for the period of his holiday. Con- A. You never know, Plan B might just turn into sider gardeners, outside construction workers, a new Plan A. TAX RETURN DUE? WORKED IN CONSTRUCTION (CIS) – TAX DEDUCTED?

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Advertorial Inside Voices Transgender or non-binary? useless if the prisoner does now want to change. You sim- We want to hear about your experience of prison life! Be S.M.A.R.T. ply cannot force real change. The last year has seen the UK press publish violence against TGNC prisoners - contrary to Lee Morgan - HMP Oakwood knowledge of until that point? I know of many prisoners who frequent stories about transgender, non-bi- the claims made by most UK newspapers that I daresay quite a few. Let us have been refused progression nary and gender non-conforming (TGNC) pris- TGNC prisoners are the source of violence and consider the supposed ground- to cat. D because of ‘non-com- oners. Most stories are based on opinion, abuse. rules of any plan. guesswork and at best limited evidence that is I have been a resident at pliance’ with Sentence Plan often poorly interpreted. Many stories claim A letter writing project will allow both you and Oakwood since January 2018. targets. The problem is they To begin with, Sentence Plan that TGNC prisoners, and TGNC people gener- us time to think of what we want to say and In that time do I feel that I have were not even aware that they targets need to be SMART; that ally, are a threat to others. Very few interview ask rather than reply quickly to questions in been rehabilitated or, more to had a Sentence Plan until after is to say Specific, Measurable, TGNC prisoners or attempt to describe their an interview. It gives you the chance to tell the point, is the general public their re-categorisation reviews. Achievable, Realistic and experiences in prison. There is more heat than your story rather than answer questions. It destined to be any safer for my How does that work? The Time-bound. Targets (objec- light. doesn’t matter how well you write, or if you incarceration? The answer to straight answer is that it tives) should not be added to have a friend write for you, what matters is that both those questions is ‘NO’. shouldn’t, but it often does. a plan unless they meet the My own Sentence Plan was We want to change this with the help of TGNC you tell us of your experiences in words, above criteria. A general target prisoners in the English and Welsh estate. If poems, song lyrics, pictures. Many people accept that the unilaterally authored when I (i.e. participation on a particu- you are a TGNC prisoner we want to hear your British criminal justice system was on bail. How relevant a lar programme/intervention) voice and about your experiences of prison Exchanging letters with you over time will help is a world-renowned farce. Sentence Plan prepared in the should not be added to a plan life. Details of how you can contact us and help us understand each other better. It provides Where once it may have been community is to a custodial just because it is the only target us are at the end of this article, but first a little you with a chance to tell us how your life may the envy of other nations, it is sentence is open to debate. I available, or because this is bit about us and our project. change and to add more detail as the conver- now something to be ridiculed. challenged my OASys and what usually happens when a sation develops. We want to assure you that This is very sad, especially Sentence Plan, taking it all the prisoner’s OASys or RM2000 We are a group of five experienced academic your identity will be kept anonymous in any- when you consider the fact way to the NPS Deputy Director scores hit a certain staff at Leicester University and Northumbria thing that we publish and that your letters will that many other nations used and the Information benchmark. University interested in TGNC people and pris- be kept safe and secure. We have assured our system as a foundation, a Commissioner, and after many ons. Between us we have many years of expe- HMPPS and both our universities on these template, upon which to build months my complaint was rience of researching TGNC lives and issues. theirs. There are so many Sometimes you upheld. experience, the criminal justice system, med- things wrong with our current have to keep - ical and care institutions and of other institu- We intend to publish stories and our findings system it would be unrealistic Sometimes you have to keep ping away. You may tions. We have started a research project that in academic journals, books and professional to target all of those problems chipping away. You may not looks at the experiences TGNC people have in reports to, for instance, HMPPS. What we hope at once. The best I can do is not bring down the bring down the whole wall, the English and Welsh prison estate from re- to produce are both academic material that shed some light on some of the but you may dislodge a brick or whole wall, but you ception through to release. To do this we want documents and analyses your lives and also issues; in the hope that things two. Sometimes that’s enough. to exchange letters with TGNC prisoners over reports that may help influence and inform might change for the better. may dislodge a brick The Sentence Planning prob- time so that you can tell us of your lives. We policies concerned with the treatment of TGNC or two. Sometimes have approval from HMPPS and both our uni- people in prison for the better. When a Sentence Plan is lem, and its subsequent impli- versities to carry out this project. drawn up, it should be done that’s enough. cations, is widespread. Let’s We have set up a Royal Mail Freepost address with the active involvement of face it, if there was Legal Aid Also, prisoners should be as- Research like this has not been conducted in where you can write to us without having to the prisoner in question. This to challenge these things, the sessed as suitable for a par- English and Welsh prisons before - you will be spend your money on postage. When you send is made clear in PSI 19/2014. prison authorities wouldn’t be ticular programme before this taking part in new research. Previous research us your first letter we will send you more de- This particular instruction is getting away with half of what programme is agreed and has either been statistical head counts or con- tails of the project and how you can take part. written in italics and is there- they are. There are far too few added to a plan. What is the centrated on interviews with USA TGNC pris- Our advertisement (see below) carries further fore mandatory; meaning checks and balances in place point of arbitrarily setting an oners. Those USA interviews reveal horrific details of how to contact us and our Freepost compulsory and not open to to protect prisoners’ rights and objective on the Sentence Plan stories of commonplace physical and sexual address. Looking forward to hearing from you! debate. The following extract those measures that are in if the prisoner could be deemed is from PSI 19/2014 (1.9): ‘OMs place, such as the Independent suitable at a later date? and Supervisors must take Monitoring Board (IMB) and Remember, targets need to be steps to ensure that offenders the Prisons and Probation agreed between the prisoner are actively engaged in the Ombudsman (PPO), do offer and either Probation or OMU. planning process’. How many redress; however imperfect. The whole point of Sentence of you have been presented Transgender or non-binary? Planning is for individual pris- with a Sentence Plan that they The Russian writer Fyodor oners to take control of their have had no involvement in Dostoevsky wrote that ‘a soci- sentence, ergo their rehabili- preparing? And how many ety is judged by the way it treats tation. Prisoners are the only times have you been refused its prisoners’ …prisoners are, Interested in taking part in research about your ones who can rehabilitate re-categorisation on the back by definition, society’s most themselves. All the pro- experiences of prison life? of their non-compliance with vulnerable people. Why kick grammes in the world are a Sentence Plan they had no us when we are already down? Willing to exchange letters about your experiences? M c. IVOR . FARRELL Happy to be involved in original academic research? Northern Irish Solicitors

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[email protected] www.mcivorfarrell.co.uk Freepost WRASSE Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Information 39 Prisons and Probation Keeping Safe Ombudsman phone changes To Keep People Safe On the 3rd of last month, PPO replaced their live phone line with a monitored answering service ‘Stop using prison as a place of safety’

complaints. We know that communicate in writing than the Magistrates Association to conduct an inde- PPO staff spend a significant over the phone, you can still pendent survey. Together we explored magis- amount of time dealing with leave a message on the an- Juliet Lyon CBE trates’ views on sentencing powers and prac- calls from prisoners who have swerphone. We check for tice in relation to off enders with mental health made a complaint, but few of messages every day, and if we conditions, learning disabilities and other these calls help us to resolve think we need to speak to you When we consulted people in prison on how needs. The focus of our survey was on commu- the complaint there and then. after hearing your message, best to prevent suicide and self-harm, respond- nity sentences as an alternative to custody. We By replacing the live phone we will contact you through ing to mental health needs was one of your top wanted to know why, of the 75,750 community line with a monitored answer- the prison and arrange this. three recommendations along with ensuring orders made last year, fewer than 1% (just 458) ing service, our staff can However, the quickest way to humane and decent treatment by staff and included a mental health treatment requirement. spend more time assessing get in touch with us is by writ- improving regimes. You made it clear from your and investigating new and ing to us at: Prisons and Pro- responses through Inside Time and National Just published, survey results reveal that mag- existing complaints, which bation Ombudsman, 3rd Prison Radio that it was not just what happened istrates are keen to have the full range of treat- © Deposit Photos means we should be able to Floor, 10 South Colonnade, within prison walls that you wanted to see ment requirements laid down in law, known Why? resolve more complaints more London E14 4PU. We don’t changed; it was health and justice policy itself. and available to them as local sentencing We want to investigate pris- quickly. We listen to voice expect detailed letters of com- options. Most would like fuller, more timely oner complaints as quickly as messages left daily, update plaint and if we need further While a number of prisoners quite rightly want- information on the mental health and sub- possible and have been look- our files to record any infor- information from you, we will ed better access to mental healthcare on the stance misuse needs of defendants and the ing at how we can achieve mation provided and log all always contact you, either by wings, or a better emergency response, very social care and support needed by people with this. We recognise that when messages received. post or telephone. We remain many stressed that prison should not be used learning disabilities. Magistrates did not staff spend time answering committed to taking all com- as a place of safety for people in need of treat- believe that prison should be used as a place phone calls, they have less What does this mean for you? plaints seriously, and investi- ment and care. A woman in prison wrote to the of safety but some admitted that it gets used as time to assess and investigate If you find it harder to gating them thoroughly. Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in a default where treatment options are not avail- Custody (IAP): ‘Judges use prison as the default able. The fi ndings are now being used to inform option but prison offi cers are not mental health prosecutors through the CPS and judges and nurses. Judges need to understand that prison magistrates through the Sentencing Guidelines The HACRO awards 2019 is not a place to keep women safe.’ Council parallel consultations on new guide- lines on mental health conditions. Celebrating former offenders who have turned their lives around And a man responded to our Keeping Safe con- sultation: ‘Jail is not a mental hospital. Well it When implemented, and we will do our best to ● “Credit should be given to the winner for his shouldn’t be. But it is at present.’ make sure they are, the survey’s sensible and commitment to desist - given the difficulties he practical recommendations could lead to wider is faced with on a daily basis, he has had to cut The recent independent review of the Mental use of community sentences and treatment away from many people and move area in order Health Act, to which we contributed, echoed requirements and fairer treatment of vulnera- not to fall back into previous behaviours. There prisoners’ views: ‘Prison should never be used ble people in the criminal justice system. Yes, has also been a clear change in his cognitions as ‘a place of safety’ for individuals who meet prison needs to be a safe place for those whose and what he regards as important in life; mas- the criteria for detention under the Mental offending is so serious that they must serve sive ‘well done’ for changing your life around!” Health Act’. their sentence in custody. But it should not be used as a place of safety for people who are ● “Since his release in September 2017, Steven A clinical director wrote to the IAP about how mentally ill, people with profound learning has abstained from re-offending and has shown to prevent suicide and self-harm: ‘Stop using disabilities and people in desperate need of Credit: HACRO a commitment to volunteering in his community. prison as a place of safety for patients with mental health and social care in the community. The third annual HACRO awards (above) was I would like him to be recognised and awarded acute mental health problems. They are not ther- an evening to celebrate some wonderful for his positive contributions to his community apeutic environments, we cannot enforce treat- Juliet Lyon is Chair of the Independent life-changing journeys. The awards also pay and the young people’s welfare”. ment. Sending acutely psychiatrically unwell Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody (IAP) tribute to individuals who have given their patients to prison does not improve their health time and commitment to helping those who’ve ● “Josh told me how he wanted to break the and it is extremely diffi cult to manage patients The IAP would like to thank everyone been in trouble. With over 160 people attend- cycle and the way he eventually did was to pull in this condition in prison. The wait for transfer who has written to us with such good, ing, 17 winners were recognised at the event himself away from his social circle. He sat in to a secure psychiatric hospital can be long and thoughtful advice on how to prevent held in the University of Hertfordshire’s front of me that January day and said that he patients oft en worsen while waiting.’ deaths in custody. What you say matters. Weston Auditorium. wanted to better himself and continue to move forward. Josh started the programme and many This led us to consider sentencing. As an arms- So do write to FREEPOST IAP and mark your envelope ‘Confi dential Access’. The awards were sponsored and presented by a time we sat down and discussed his future. length body, the IAP was able to partner with local businesses and organisations (McMul- The overriding thing I remember from those lens & Sons Brewery, Underwood Solicitors, discussions was his raw determination to help Adaptainer, University of Herts, Harpenden and support young people and guide them down Lions Club, Ringway, Roughstuff Oak and Lyn- a positive path. A job opportunity to be my As- Why go it alone? sistant Team Leader was advertised, Josh ap- dhurst Financial Management) as well as the Criminal Defence and Appeals “Locked in here all day; you don’t turn criminals plied and was successful.” High Sheriff of Hertfordshire for 2019-20 Specialising in all areas of criminal law, from into citizens by treating them this way” (Sarah Beazley) and the Lord-Lieutenant of minor offences to serious crimes - Murder, - with kind permission from Billy Bragg President of HACRO, Yasmin Batliwala, who Hertfordshire (Robert Voss CBE). Fraud, Conspiracy to Defraud, Confiscation We can attend prisons in Northern England hosted the Awards said, “The HACRO Achieve- Proceedings Appeals, Variation & Discharge of but also offer a nationwide service. There were 7 categories, ranging from ‘The Grit ment Awards highlight the incredibly powerful Restraint Order and Money Laundering • Parole / Recall Awards’ (showing resilience and determina- redemption stories of ex-offenders who have Immigration and Nationality Law turned their lives around. All these stories • Independent Adjudications tion to succeed) to ‘Helping Others’ which Comprehensive solutions to immigration • Cat A Reviews highlighted the journeys that the 17 winners have a common thread and that is no matter what and British nationality issues • Appeals / CCRC have travelled. Here are some highlights of happened in their lives, someone continued to Family Law • Judicial Review what was said about the Award winners: believe in them; and that led to self-belief and Divorce - sound advice about your rights and • Oral Hearings the confidence to start over. Their stories show the options available ● “It was a pleasure to supervise Joe during the how rehabilitation can really work.” Wills & Probate final months of his order, but all the credit Please contact Anthony Mordi or Michael Okogwu should be given to him for what he has achieved Ground Fl Rear 143 High St, Barnet EN5 5UZ T. 01274 561666 and the manner in which he conducted himself HACRO has worked since 1973 for the care and Tel: (020) 7619 96 66 www.chiverssolicitors.co.uk 2 Wellington Street, Bingley BD16 2NB during this time.” resettlement of offenders. www.hacro.org.uk 24 Hour Emergency: 07956 923 482 40 Legal www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019

Advertorial 6. Think about how you can demonstrate PPCS can rescind a recall decision where the changes since recall decision was based on erroneous information Re-release after recall Best Practice Standards have been introduced or the Secretary of State is satisfied that all because little action is being taken after recall conditions have been complied with or have to recognise change and the possibility of been breached in circumstances beyond the SL5 Legal examine the rise in recalls change. Risk of serious harm factors are sub- person’s control. In very strong cases we have ject to change and can go down as well as up. issued judicial review claims challenging and provide ten tips to secure re-release After recall it is possible that risk factors can unlawful recalls. These are difficult applica- be managed in the community, with some All the team at SL5 Legal 2. Seek early advice and representation tions to make; especially as the Parole Board small changes, and legal advice can be crucial Many of our clients keep our contact informa- is usually seen as the legal safeguard for in establishing this. If the recall was linked to tion after they have been released. This means recalled prisoners. We are pursuing test cases substance misuse, it will help to seek out the The HMPPS Offender Management Statistical they can call us if they need some quick advice. where the Parole Board has clearly stated that SM Team in the prison quickly. If accommoda- Bulletin for April included some troubling We have been able to persuade an OM or PPCS the person should not have been recalled but tion is an issue, think about what alternatives information about prisoner recalls. At the end not to proceed with a recall if we have a good they have spent several months in custody there might be. The ‘Offender Supervisor’ - of the year 2018-19 there were nearly 6,500 argument to put forward on behalf of our cli- before being re-released. now to be known as Prison-Based Offender recalls every three months, a 13% increase on ents. If the recall decision has been made Manager (‘POM’) - should assist. Let your com- the same period for the previous year. Of the already, it will enable us to act quickly for you PPCS can agree to executive release in appro- munity OM know what you are doing to achieve 6,000 prisoners released each month, around if you contact us straight away. If you are in priate cases. The Parole Board can direct change. Being pro-active will give you a a third on average (2,000) were recalled. custody, are not married/co-habiting and do release on the papers without an oral hearing. stronger case for re-release. We provide our not have significant savings, you are very like- If they direct an oral hearing, this does not clients with advice about this. The growth in recalls has led policy-makers to ly to be eligible for legal aid. mean that you must wait for a hearing. If there look more closely at recall decision-making is relevant new information which comes to 7. Don’t give up if you have an outstanding and to publish a Best Practice Guide Working 3. Stay in touch with your Probation Officer (OM) light, it is possible to seek reconsideration on allegation or charge the papers. If an oral hearing is necessary, you with Recalled Prisoners alongside a new Your OM should be working to seek your re-re- An arrest or new allegation does not automat- should ensure that your case is fully prepared HMPPS Policy Framework on Recall. lease if the risk of serious harm can be man- ically mean recall. It is usually better to keep aged in the community. They should be seek- to give you the best shot at re-release. attending supervision meetings because it is The Best Practice Guide is intended to provide ing to rebuild the relationship after recall so it possible probation may not decide to recall. 9. Understand what procedural justice means established practice standards for Probation will help your case if you try to give them every They will almost always recall if someone they It is encouraging that the idea of procedural Officers. (We much prefer the name ‘Probation opportunity to do this. We recognise that some are supervising has gone missing. When there justice is being taken seriously by HMPPS. We Officers’ to ‘Offender Managers’ but use the OMs are not easy to contact but they should be is a recall for a new criminal allegation and want to ensure that this is not just a meaning- shorthand ‘OM’ in this article). trying to improve communication. It is a good the police have released under investigation idea to keep a dated record of efforts that you less phrase. According to the Best Practice (RUI), this should not stop the Parole Board have made to communicate with your OM. We try Guide, it means that you should: The central aims of the Standards are to iden- proceeding with a case. RUI can last many to establish good communications with our tify and safely re-release recalled prisoners, months and it would be unfair for the Parole ● Have a chance to tell your story clients’ OMs if we can. If they will not engage with increase the likelihood of successful licence Board to defer their decision indefinitely until and feel heard; completion and enhance future rehabilita- you, they are not meeting Best Practice standards. the end of the investigation. A risk assessment ● Be treated with neutrality by staff who tion. Probation Officers are meant to achieve can still be conducted in many cases. Not all 4. Keep an eye on dates are open, transparent, consistent and this by applying key principles: new allegations result in a charge. Not all new PPCS is responsible for providing a copy of the unbiased; allegations are relevant to risk of serious harm. recall dossier to the prison within one working ● Clear information and communication Not all convictions mean that a person cannot ● Be treated with respect, dignity and day of receipt of notification of return to cus- to the prisoner; be re-released because their risk cannot be courtesy. tody. All recalled prisoners must be provided ● managed in the community. We do not pas- Frequent communication and with a copy of their recall dossier and a copy sively accept deferrals of cases for our clients interaction with the prisoner; of the recall information leaflet by the prison We believe that procedural justice also means because there is an outstanding allegation. We ● Collaborative working with the recalled within one working day of receiving it from that rules are applied fairly and due process is have been able to persuade panels to proceed prisoner and others; PPCS. The new Best Practice Guide provides followed. We will support our clients to make and to make positive decisions despite ongoing procedural justice a reality. ● that there should be a 3-way meeting between Recognition, reinforcement and police investigations. Serious outstanding the prisoner, the Community Offender protection of prisoner progress; allegations can bring significant challenges at 10. Understand licence conditions and con- Manager (COM) and the Prison Offender ● Ensuring the chances of the prisoner parole hearings. The Parole Board has pub- tinue to communicate Manager (POM) within 10 working days of the to succeed; lished guidance about allegations. These are return to custody. By day 28, the COM should If you are being re-released, make sure you cases where it really helps to have an experi- ● Recognition of the loss and emotional be explaining the reasons for either recom- understand your licence conditions. Licence enced and skilled lawyer advocating for you. distress experienced by the recalled mending or not recommending re-release back conditions must be necessary and proportion- prisoner; into the community. If dates are not being ate. If they are unfairly restrictive, ask if they 8. Be persistent - if at first you don’t suc- ● Instil hope in the prisoner; observed, this should be queried in writing - by can be relaxed and explain why. We make ceed … try, try and try again you or your legal representative. applications for changes to licence conditions ● Develop a therapeutic relationship This is your liberty at stake. If you have an for our clients if they can be justified. We want with the prisoner; arguable case for re-release, we will help you 5. Understand the legal tests (or make sure our clients to be treated fairly and to rebuild ● Allow procedural justice so that the to pursue every available option. you have a lawyer who does) their lives out of prison. prisoner is treated fairly. It is crucial that the decision to recall is scru- tinised. Was it necessary or could alternative There is a long way to go for these standards to action have been taken? A decision to recall T: 020 7388 8333 be met but we think it is helpful to have a clearly must be based upon behaviour indicating an E: [email protected] defined set of expectations. Our ten tips below increased risk of serious harm (RoSH). This are focused on making these standards a real- can either be where RoSH has been clearly W: SL5Legal.co.uk ity and the more fundamental questions - how demonstrated or where it cannot be measured A: SL5 Legal, 39 Warren Street, London, W1T 6AF do you get out (again) and how do you stay out? e.g. where the licensee fails to report regular- ly or is out of contact completely. Breaches of 1. Get yourself a good lawyer who knows licence or further offending do not necessarily We provide expert legal advice & representation to people what they are doing mean that risk of causing serious harm has who are detained. We specialise in representing prisoners You might expect us to say this. Some can ably increased. Even if the breach did elevate risk, represent themselves. The disadvantage of being it should be to a level that makes risk unman- in parole, recall, judicial review & adjudication cases. unrepresented is that you have to do everything ageable in the community for a recall to be yourself, relying on PIN credit or the snail pace justified. In our experience, some OMs are too of prison correspondence. Experienced prison quick to recall, and it is important to challenge Our people lawyers will have expertise, the ability to pro- recall decisions robustly at the earliest oppor- Andrew Sperling, Ian Clewlow, Lisa Burton, vide objective advice and much better access tunity. If the Parole Board are reviewing your to communication with the Probation Service/ case, they must decide whether you need to Catherine Bond, Joel Binns & Nichole Warren OMs, the Public Protection Casework Section remain in custody for the protection of the (PPCS) and the Parole Board. At SL5 Legal, we public from serious harm. 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Advertorial within a person’s life which allegations, including: of allegation which the Parole ered can include police logs, increase that person’s risk of Board would deem relevant CPS papers and evidence • Disregarding them; reoffending and risk of caus- include: from within the prison. This • Making a finding of fact; ing harm. This can include will require the Board to Allegations • Assessing the allegation • Harmful behaviour - includ- things such as substance mis- direct disclosure of such and deciding how to take it ing physical, psychological use and negative associates. information so that it forms into account as part of the and sexual harm; The impact on parole part of the parole review. parole review. • Risky behaviour - including Allegations Darryl Foster the Parole Board making a substance misuse and associ- The Parole Board is often pre- Having obtained relevant decision over the progression Why can the Board take into ation with negative associates; sented with information, neg- information the Board then of a prisoner, either to open account allegations which • Issues which impact upon ative in nature, which has not need to consider if the case The Parole Board are tasked conditions or for release into have not been proven by a credibility; been tested before the courts can be fully considered. This with releasing prisoners into the community. court? • Issues which impact upon or by way of adjudication. includes the need for the pris- the community following an When the Parole Board is made compliance with licence con- oner to be able to contest the The Parole Board make their These allegations can mani- assessment of risk and man- aware of a conviction, either ditions; allegation(s) which is often assessment on the basis of a fest in a number of ways, ageability. In order for some- upon the entering of a guilty • Issues which impact upon achieved by the prisoner written dossier containing examples given below: one to be subject to parole, they plea or upon a finding of the assessment provided by a being able to make written previous convictions, pre-sen- need to have been convicted • Police call-outs not leading ‘guilty’ by the court, the Board professional witness. representations or to give evi- tence reports, psychiatric and of an offence. Not everyone to arrest; has to accept that conviction. dence at a hearing. Fairness psychological reports as well sentenced to a period of • Arrest by the police leading As a result, where someone Having considered the rele- must be considered in the as reports from the prison and imprisonment will be consid- to no further action; maintains their innocence of vance of an allegation, the context of parole proceedings probation service. If it is felt ered for release by the Parole • Adjudications dismissed on an offence, the Board have to Board can disregard it. not always offering the safe- necessary, the Parole Board Board. For those that are, the a technicality. treat the conviction as being However, if the Board feel guards provided by criminal will conduct an Oral Hearing, Parole Board will consider correct and that the prisoner that an allegation is relevant, proceedings. Criminal pro- where questions are asked of their past behaviour in order The way in which the Parole engaged in conduct which they can then go on to make ceedings have strict rules the prisoner, a representative to determine if that person Board deals with such infor- resulted in the conviction. a finding of fact. over issues of evidence. These from the prison service and a poses a risk to the public. mation has been applied Criminal courts and adjudica- rules do not apply within the representative from the pro- inconsistently in the past. tions within the prison estate Findings of Fact parole process. If an allega- bation service. Those subject to parole may However, the Parole Board require that offences are sat- The Parole Board have the tion is historic and is not sup- well have been investigated have issued guidance to its isfied ‘beyond reasonable ability to make a finding of ported by way of a statement Consideration will be given to for offences which were not members with a view to see- doubt’. This means the tribu- fact. This being that on the or other corroborating evi- previous offences. This will proven. This article seeks to ing a greater level of consist- nal has to be sure that the balance of probabilities, the dence, it may be that it is unfair include the offences for which consider the impact of such ency in the way in which offence has taken place. allegation did happen. This to make a finding of fact. situations on a person’s risk the prisoner is in custody at these issues are dealt with. means that it is easier for the and the Board’s decision to that time, as well as previous The Parole Board does not Board to be satisfied that What is the impact of a find- progress them. offences which have taken Allegations, such as those operate like a criminal court. something happened than it ing of fact? place. When looking at previ- referred to above, can be rel- The strict rules of evidence is for the criminal courts to be Once a finding of fact has been Risk ous offences, the Board will evant to risk and the Parole which apply within criminal satisfied that it happened. made, the allegation is then The primary function of the consider the motivation for Board are entitled to take proceedings do not apply as considered true by the Parole Parole Board is to carry out those offences and identify such allegations into account. part of a parole review. The Findings of fact can be made Board and can influence an risk assessments of prisoners. ‘risk factors’ which are rele- The Board have a number of Board can be satisfied, on the in relation to various issues assessment of risk. If it is These assessments assist in vant. Risk factors are factors options when considering balance of probability that linked to parole. The Board found as a matter of fact that something has happened. may need to make findings of a prisoner did not comply This means that if, in the view fact over the circumstances of with their licence conditions, of the Board, it is more likely a recall, particularly where the this may cause concern for the than not that it happened, the circumstances of the recall Board over future compliance. Board can be satisfied that it are in dispute. An example of If the Board find as a matter happened. this could be where it is sug- of fact that a prisoner has gested that a prisoner failed engaged in domestic violence, Why should the Parole to disclose an intimate rela- the Board may assess that the Board take into account tionship whilst in the commu- prisoners risk is not manage- allegations which have not nity. The prisoner may dis- able until such a time that this been proven by a court? pute that they were in an area of risk has been addressed. The Board are concerned with intimate relationship and the risk. Past behaviour is a major Board may need to make a What does this mean for me? driving force when consider- finding of fact over this issue. If you are subject to review by ing risk. A person may have the Parole Board, it is important committed offences for which Another example where a not to assume that matters not they have not been convicted, finding of fact may be appro- proven by a court are irrele- or have engaged in behaviour priate is where information vant. Allegations play an which can impact upon risk. suggests that the prisoner has important role within parole In order to carry out the best been the perpetrator of and should be addressed as Our open, friendly solicitors working assessment of risk, such domestic violence. Police soon as possible. Expert legal information has to be consid- call-outs are commonly used advice should be taken to in Criminal Defence will help you with all ered by the Board. to support a concern over ensure that allegations do not aspects of Prison Law including: domestic violence. The Board negatively impact upon your Allegations are often not pro- can decide, as a finding of progression. Licence recall • Adjudications ceeded with on a technicality; fact, that the prisoner is the Parole hearings • IPP queries a prime example being prison perpetrator of domestic vio- Should you require any assis- adjudications. Often, matters lence; despite there having tance, please contact our Prison Judicial review • Sentence planning issues are not proceeded with due to been no convictions. Law department at Hine issues such as time or the Solicitors on: 01865 518 971 or availability of witnesses. Fairness Freepost RTHU - LEKE - HAZR Call us on 01865 518971 Whilst an adjudication may It can be argued that the Hine Solicitors, Seymour be dismissed on this basis, it Board, making a finding of House, 285 Banbury Road, or visit www.hinesolicitors.com may still cause concern for fact, can be unfair. In order to Oxford OX2 7JF for our Oxford the Parole Board. make such a finding, the office or FREEPOST - RTZU - panel first needs to feel able GXKA - KSXG Hine Solicitors, How do the Board consider to make such a finding. This 558 Walsall Road, Great Barr, Oxford Freepost address allegations? will require the panel to con- Birmingham B42 1LR for our FREEPOST RTHU - LEKE - HAZR The first issue for the Board to sider evidence which will Birmingham Office. Hine Solicitors | Seymour House consider is the relevance of assist in the making of the 285 Banbury Road | Oxford | OX2 7JF the allegation to the parole finding. Examples of evi- Darryl Foster is a solicitor at review. Examples of the type dence which can be consid- Hine Solicitors 42 Legal www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019

Advertorial Advertorial previous history of abscond Police interviews, postal requisitions Changes to from open conditions were prevented from returning to open conditions and their re- and the lawyer of your choice ROTL provisions ferrals to the Parole Board were solely to consider David Wells which gives little or no time solicitor there and then. Even whether risks could be man- to prepare. assessed as ‘high’ or ‘very if the court is insistent that Nicola Maynard aged in the community or high’ risk are subject to Re- some progress is made and It is not at all uncommon for After interview, the investiga- the duty solicitor is consulted stricted ROTL. Standard ROTL whether they needed to re- sentenced inmates or inmates tion will continue. Having a in order to advise on the evi- will apply to all determinate main in custody for the pro- What is ROTL? on remand to be visited by the lawyer will mean that the of- dence, plea and matters of sentence prisoners. tection of the public. Release on Temporary Li- police looking to interview in ficers carry out the investiga- procedure, there is no obliga- cence (ROTL) provides for connection with additional or tion without delay, which can tion to stay with that duty For those subject to the Re- Under the new ROTL provi- temporary release into the fresh allegations. I visit pris- help in avoiding gate arrest solicitor beyond that initial stricted ROTL process this sions, a prisoner can now be community to assist with re- ons quite frequently and I and help to avoid the prospect hearing if the case is will mean there are a number risk assessed and considered habilitation. This will gener- often see police officers with of unnecessary delays gener- adjourned. of requirements: for a transfer back to open ally be towards the end of a conditions provided the ab- their recording equipment ally. No inmate wants to be sentence, however the provi- entering the prison. It is al- told months, if not years, after Assuming that a case is ad- • There must be an enhanced scond was not within the last sions state that there is no ways a surprise to me just an initial interview that they journed so that an inmate can Behaviour Monitoring 2 years. presumption that a prisoner how many inmates do not are being charged, particu- instruct his or her own law- assessment; is entitled to ROTL. have representation during larly if that decision is an- yer, then it is vital that imme- • There must be consultation The impact of this means that the interview process whilst nounced towards the end of a diate contact is made with a with the Offender Manager we are now seeing amend- It is expected that the reason in prison. I would remind all sentence. lawyer so that arrangements and police; ments to the referrals that the for ROTL will fit the provi- inmates that the fundamental can be made for a visit (face • There must be comments PPCS have made to the Parole sions of the applicant’s sen- rights and entitlements of Where a decision is made to to face or via video link) and provided by the Offender Board for current reviews tence plan and meet suspects being interviewed in formally prosecute, inmates so that funding (legal aid or Manager; where there is an abscond on requirements such as to un- prison are the same as those are nowadays invariably no- private) can be obtained. • There will be a higher level record. The PPCS are now re- tified by letter, referred to as dertake paid or voluntary being interviewed on the out- of monitoring while on ROTL. questing that the Parole a ‘postal requisition.’ That work, to undertake training, side, and specifically the If anyone reading this article Board also consider a recom- letter will advise what is under investigation at pres- maintain family ties or relate right to free and independent Perhaps the most significant mendation for open charges are being brought, ent and is concerned about to accommodation. legal advice which remains conditions. and will advise of the date, change is that “Offenders in firmly fixed as one of the key delays, simply write to me closed conditions are ineligi- time and venue for the first and enquiries will be made on Changes to those eligible for rights for any suspect, regard- ble to be assessed for open This new provision will appearance in the magis- your behalf. Likewise, if you ROTL and consideration for less of their location. conditions or to be released clearly be met with mixed trates’ court. Unfortunately, or an inmate you know re- open conditions on temporary licence if they feelings for those serving in- postal requisitions can often quires representation for an The provisions set out a list of The police will invariably have, within the last 2 years determinate sentences and, be received very close to the interview under caution, get prisoners who are excluded turn up to a prison unan- as such, we would advise date of the first hearing, in touch and representation prior to: nounced when they wish to from applying for ROTL, such thereby giving no real oppor- will be arranged. I do my best those currently starting their speak to a suspect. The inves- as Cat ‘A’, Escape List and tunity to arrange for rep- to attend all police station in- • The date of the next re-cat- parole review, and who meet tigating officers should al- un-sentenced prisoners. resentation by the lawyer of terviews myself, so that I can egorisation decision or; this criteria, to ensure that ways, as a matter of priority, • The target date for the next they instruct a Prison Law his or her choice. This can see the case through from be- The new provisions mean that remind inmates that they are lead to a temptation to simply Parole Hearing or; Solicitor to assist with the re- ginning to end. This is impor- indeterminate sentence pris- entitled to legal representa- let the duty solicitor at court • The first date of the pro- view and any matters that tant in any case. Finally, if oners can now be considered tion. I would always advise on the day deal with the mat- posed ROTL or; may arise from this and the you, or any inmate you know for unaccompanied day re- inmates to send the officers ter. When that happens, it can receives a postal requisition • More than once during this new provisions. lease (RDR) and this can now away so that representation then be difficult to instruct and requires representation, sentence: be considered from point of can be obtained. This gives the lawyer of your own simply get in touch as soon as • Absconded from Open Con- You should be able to access transferReeds to open are prison pleased or the to welcome 3 new Prison Law Consultants the inmate an opportunity to choice, certainly once legal possible so the presentation ditions; and/or PSI 13/2015 within the prison point of obtaining open status contact the lawyer of their aid is in place. 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Advertorial ten agreements with the prosecution - see e.g. R include not just the informant’s actions but the v P; R v Blackburn [2008] 2 Cr. App. R (S). The lawfulness of the police operation and whether problems with these sorts of witnesses are obvi- it was properly authorised under RIPA. An Trafficking ous - they may be telling the truth but are equal- informant feeding material back to his handler ly highly motivated to lie. The authors have been for reward is undoubtedly a ‘covert human intel- involved in several cases involving examination ligence source’ or ‘CHIS’ in police speak under Strategy and tactics when defending of the police handling of these sorts of witnesses RIPA, and thus proper authorisations must be which can be crucial to preserve, or undermine, provided, otherwise the Crown could face a sub- in trafficking cases the credibility of these inherently flawed witnesses. mission that the suspect’s right to privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention has been Disclosure and Public Interest Immunity breached - demanding the exclusion of that But what if, for example, A, B and C agree to In a drugs trafficking conspiracy allegation that unlawfully obtained evidence. import cannabis (a Category B drug - again) the authors were involved in some years ago the Jonathan Lennon where C provides a car but in fact A and B import Defence Statement actually went as far as naming Conclusion and Aziz Rahman cocaine (still a Category A drug)? In that situa- an individual as an informant and provided some Criminal cases centering on trafficking are bound tion, C would in fact be acquitted (see R v Taylor reasoning for making this allegation. The Crown to take up more and more court time. The cases [2002] Crim LR 205). The point is that it is always was then forced into serving a very lengthy state- will become increasingly more complex as the worth going back to basics in trafficking conspir- Whether the ‘commodity’ is drugs, contraband, ment from the named informant who then had to facilities of the State to battle trafficking increase, acy cases and considering whether the Crown guns or people, trafficking offences share some come out of the shadows and become a prosecu- e.g. the use of immunity notices and so on. have created problems for themselves. Again, similar characteristics. Police operations in such tion witness. The advantage for defenders of this However, we predict that the central issues will what if, for example, A and B agree with C to cases are invariably intelligence led with the sort of tactic is that the issue may be about the not change, namely; entrapment, innocent asso- commit an offence but C, in reality, had no inten- usual concerns for defenders that association credibility of the outed informant, rather than of ciation and disclosure and PII arguments. Also, tion to go through with it, or if B later changed alone, e.g. telephone links and so on, can make the defendant. But such tactics will not be appro- as ever, early and proper preparation, particu- his mind? What if A, B and C agreed with D to an innocent associate look guilty. Here we outline priate in all cases, and careful judgements have larly of Defence Statements, will be the key in commit a trafficking offence and D turned out to some of the practical issues we have come across to be made about what is pleaded in the Defence defending trafficking allegations. be an undercover officer? What if A agreed with in tackling trafficking allegations. Statement. But it can be seen that in trafficking B, but did not meet C or even know D? It would cases, perhaps more strikingly than in other take a lengthy book to explain all the many var- Overseas element cases, it is important to properly prepare for dis- iables of the law on conspiracy. The essential Of course trafficking necessarily means that the closure arguments and not just make bald asser- Jonathan Lennon is a Barrister specialising in serious thing to remember is that conspiracy really alleged offence has an overseas element. This tions on a piece of paper headed ‘Defence and complex criminal defence cases at Carmelite means ‘agreement’ - the Crown must always will not usually raise any particular challenges Statement’ - see comments of the House of Lords Chambers, London. He has extensive experience in all prove a suspect’s agreement to be involved in a of itself, although it is worth considering where in R v H & C [2004] 2 AC 134. aspects of financial and serious crime and the Proceeds trafficking offence. of Crime Act 2002 and is highly ranked by the Legal the actual offence (if any) was committed. The 500 and Chambers & Ptnrs specialist sections describ- starting point in English law is that the court’s We have already mentioned entrapment, which Police intelligence ing him as a ‘leading barrister’… ‘Popular with clients jurisdiction is territorial; however, certain acts is often the issue in participating informant Trafficking charges may well follow from long and juries; this is backed up with real determination.’ committed abroad will be triable here, including cases. In trafficking cases this issue arises again and complex investigations. Often it is undenia- and again. An undercover police officer, or a a conspiracy abroad to commit an offence here. Aziz Rahman is a Solicitor- Advocate and Partner at ble that an offence has been committed; what the criminal used by the police to get close to sus- concern is; is what the case is against a particular the leading Criminal Defence firm Rahman Ravelli, Modern British policing recognises the trans-na- pects, can provide very valuable material to the defendant. The evidence might show that a sus- specialising in Human Rights, Financial Crime and tional nature of serious crime. Trafficking police. But the courts recognise that the tempta- Large Scale Conspiracies/Serious crime. Rahman Ravelli pect has no more than a few suspicious meetings receives the attention of the National Crime tion for those involved to ‘cross the line’ and are highly ranked by international the international and lots of telephone calls between others who have Agency (NCA) - whose stated aim is to target those ‘create an offence’ is very real, see test in R v legal guides (legal 500 and Chambers) and have been much more evidence against them - yet this same at the top of criminal enterprises and organised Loosely; A.G.’s ref (No. 2 of 2000) [2002] 1 Cr. App. described as an ‘excellent’ firm with Aziz Rahman suspect is portrayed as ‘Mr. Big’. Why is this? criminal groups. R 29. The arguments on entrapment may also being described as ‘first class and very experienced’. Very often it is down to police intelligence, where the Crown’s ‘theory of the case’ is presented with- The world is becoming a smaller place in terms out any firm evidence of the number one status of law enforcement. EU states are now well used given to the defendant. For prosecutors that is to the European Arrest Warrant for example; this the beauty of a conspiracy charge. Defenders, on was implemented here in 2004 and essentially A leading firm the other hand, will often try to pressurise the does away with the old and lengthy extradition Crown in disclosure arguments, hoping that the procedures, at least in between EU States. There offering the Judge will make a disclosure order that the pros- is also undoubtedly increasing co-operation ecution do not want. The courts are well used to between worldwide law-enforcement agencies strongest legal these arguments - in fact they require very care- such as the American DEA, Interpol and European ful thought and precise drafting - spurious dis- representation police forces and now especially financial watch- closure demands are un-professional and coun- dogs such as the Financial Conduct Authority, ter-productive. Many disclosure demands fail to those being the Serious Fraud Office and the American simply because there is a lack of detail about why Securities & Exchange Commission. This reliance police intelligence must be disclosed in order to investigated on overseas law-enforcement forces will some- assist the defence case. Prosecutors will simply times provide some leverage for defenders to say to the Judge in a private hearing (Public or prosecuted enquire into whether any foreign agency has Interest Immunity or PII hearings) that the iden- conducted surveillance on a suspect and, if so, in serious and tity of the informant - or whatever is the disclo- how far that surveillance is compatible with what sure sought - should not be revealed as the we would recognise as proper human rights pro- complex crime cases. defence are only asserting that they are not tection. However, it will also present an oppor- involved in the conspiracy and have done noth- tunity for the prosecution to use, as evidence, ing to show how such disclosure might assist phone calls intercepted overseas; this is still not their defence or undermine the prosecution case. possible in domestic cases under s17 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). Informants, Supergrasses and Agents Conspiracy Provocateurs Traffickers move in treacherous circles, the police • Specialists in defending cases • Expertise in arguing admissibility of Invariably, a trafficking offence will be charged and the courts recognise the vital importance of involving large-scale police operations. evidence, abuse of process, disclosure as a conspiracy to commit a certain offence. keeping the informant system going by using and public interest immunity. Conspiracies are technically difficult to defend, • Experienced defenders in Regulation material gathered straight from the front line. In because the Crown does not have to prove a par- of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) trafficking cases, this can cause an over-confi- • Our reputation ensures the very best ticular act. It does not need to be actually proven cases involving informants, undercover dent informant with an agenda (officer or civil- experts represent our clients. that X was an organiser, or a courier; the evidence police, surveillance and interception of ian) to overstep the mark and start creating will be presented by the Crown and if enough • We have helped shape the law. crime; the classic case of entrapment. Such dan- communications. mud sticks, the jury will convict - even if it’s just gers are bound to increase with the importance on the basis that ‘he was definitely involved.’ But attached to trafficking investigations and the conspiracy charges also present problems for the Roma House, 59 Pellon 36 Whitefriars 3 Brindley Place, fairly new provisions allowing ‘immunity notic- Crown. It is always worthwhile going back to Lane, Halifax, West Street, London, Birmingham, West es’ to be issued to a suspect prepared to turn basics and understanding that conspiracy alle- Yorkshire HX1 5BE EC4Y 8BQ Midlands, B1 2JB Queen’s Evidence; s71, Serious Organised Crime gations necessarily mean the Crown proving that and Police Act 2005. The same legislation also Tel: 01422 346666 Tel: 0203 947 1539 Tel: 0121 206 2287 a suspect was a party to an agreement and he introduces incentives for informants to come knew that if the agreement were carried out, a forward from prison and receive often substantial www.rahmanravelli.co.uk / [email protected] Nationwide Service course of conduct would be pursued which would discounts in their sentences after entering writ- result in the commission of an offence. 44 Legal // Q&A ‘Legal’, Inside Time, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire SO30 2GB. Insidetime July 2019

Q I had a fight with a mate of hearing. The Court disap- be sentenced on the basis of reiteration of that idea. If you’re A In a word, yes. The Court of mine. I say ‘mate’ but in fair- proved of this practice, saying your involvement. In a recent concerned about the eviden- Appeal recently considered ness he hasn’t been very that the VPS must comply with case , the sentencing Judge tial basis on which a sentence two important arguments friendly over it. It really was the requirements of the decided that there had been a has been passed then this is a about online drug dealing . something and nothing and Criminal Practice Direction course of dealing going back matter that could well be rel- These were (1) that there is less he gave as good as he got, but and be served on the defence many months before the crim- evant in the context of any transactional violence in situ- now he’s saying that he’s psy- in sufficient time to enable inality of which there was di- appeal and you should consider ations where drugs are sold chologically scarred and he’s them to consider its contents rect proof. The Court of Appeal seeking advice on the subject. via a website and (2) that the scared to leave the house. I’m and decide how to address reversed this finding because Sentencing Guidelines were due to be sentenced shortly them. If late service gives rise (1) the evidence on which the I haven’t got the not developed with online and I want to know whether to genuine problems for the Judge had relied related to a drug dealing in mind and Sentencing he’s allowed to do this. defence, an application for an single text message sent by one computer skills to should not apply. The Court adjournment can be made. of the defendants; (2) the SIM do this and wouldn’t accepted the first argument A The Court of Appeal recently card from which the text had but rejected the latter. They Answers are kindly considered the whole issue of Your barrister needs to consid- been sent could only be attrib- know where to reduced the sentences that had provided by: Jason Elliott, Victim Personal Statements er the VPS carefully. A finding uted to one of the defendants; start. Has he got been imposed at first instance a barrister at Jason Elliott (‘VPS’). Their main conclu- of substantial psychiatric (3) no evidence relating to the and said that “…there will be Associates Ltd, a barrister sions were that (1) when a harm is capable of impacting money referred to in the text a lower sentence a reduced potential for vio- led entity specialising in complainant says that they on the bracket of the Sentencing had been relied on by the pros- than me simply lence if the transaction is con- Prison Law and Criminal suffered psychological harm Guidelines that a case falls ecution at trial; and (4) the text ducted at arm’s length via the Appeals. it isn’t necessary for the pros- into. It’s very possible that was, in any event, outside the because he’s good internet” , although the deal- ecution to provide expert evi- your sentence may be adjusted time-scale covered by the ing in that case had not been upwards to reflect what your indictment. with computers? solely limited to online Answers to readers’ legal dence to support this; (2) mate has said in the VPS. transactions. queries are given on a strictly Evidence from the victim (in- While it’s always open to a without liability basis. If you cluding the VPS) may be Q I’m inside for conspiracy sentencing Judge to form their It’s right to say that the Court propose acting upon any of enough and the Judge can rely QI’m due to be sentenced for to import and conspiracy to own determinations from tele- also relied on more traditional the opinions that appear, you on this to form a determina- drugs offences. At the last supply. There’s a guy on my phone evidence for the pur- factors, such as the extent of must first take legal advice. tion. If there’s been a trial then hearing the prosecutor said wing who is in for the same. the Judge can also rely on what that the case fell into Category poses of passing sentence, the He’s serving a lower sentence credit for guilty pleas and role case demonstrates that there in the conspiracies, to reduce Send your Sentencing Query they’ve seen of the victim while 1 of the Sentencing Guidelines than me and obviously we’ve needs to be an evidential basis the sentences that had been (concise and clearly marked giving evidence; and (3) because it involved more talked a lot about our cases. for the conclusions that are imposed. In one case, allow- ‘Sentencing Query’) to: whether a VPS provides evi- than 5 kilos of drugs. I’ve The amount of drugs is very reached. It never seems to get ance was also made for the fact Inside Time, Botley Mills, dence which is sufficient to been reading the depositions similar, and the only real dif- mentioned nowadays, but that one of the appellants was Botley, Southampton, justify a finding of severe psy- and the only way I can see ference we could find was there’s always been an as- suffering from Asperger’s Hampshire SO30 2GB. chological harm depends on there being over 5 kilos in- that he bought and sold his the circumstances of the indi- volved is if you include an sumption that where evidence drugs via the dark web. I ha- Syndrome. The issue of reduc- is capable of reasonably lead- ing sentence to make allow- For a prompt response, vidual case and the content of earlier transaction that I ven’t got the computer skills ing to two competing conclu- ance for the impact of Asperger’s readers are asked to send the VPS. played no part in but my to do this and wouldn’t know sions, a Judge should sentence Syndrome is an interesting and their queries on white paper co-defendant has admitted where to start. Has he got a on the basis most favourable subjective one and is likely to using black ink or typed if It’s not unusual for the prose- to. Can they do this? lower sentence than me sim- to the defence. In many ways, continue to preoccupy the possible. cution to provide a VPS on the ply because he’s good with morning of the sentencing A No. They can’t. You need to this case seems to be a computers? Court of Appeal in future. Specialists in Prison Law

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IH HMP Wymott category of offences. We have back but what can I do in the then undue delay could result any concerns to the prison certainly represented life sen- meantime to resolve this? in an abuse of process argu- staff. If the attack was entirely Q Does anybody have any tence prisoners who have suc- ment if you were later to be without warning, then it is concrete information on the cessfully had a licence condi- A You do not specify what you charged. If they can extract unlikely that a claim would new tagging system? Who is tion for GPS tagging. It is are alleged to have done. If it something from the police; succeed, as the prison had no eligible, what’s the criteria, therefore advised that you involves violence, then it is then that can be passed on to opportunity to avoid or pre- e.g. length of time left, vio- discuss this with your Probation unlikely that you will be re- OMU when they review your vent this. lent/nonviolent crimes etc. Officer to see whether it is turned to the open estate until category. something you are eligible for You may be entitled to claim the police investigation is Response by Stevens Solicitors A The MoJ initially ran a pilot in the region you reside in. complete. compensation for medical scheme for GPS tagging be- negligence in respect of the Anon HMP Birmingham tween 2016 and 2017 in three Should you be nearing your Categorisation of prisoners delay in returning you to hos- Prison Law & regions, including the North parole and agree to be subject and movement between the Q I was assaulted in prison pital for treatment, as it ap- East, North West and the Compensation to GPS tagging, your Offender open and closed estate is based which left me with various pears that the delay has caused Midlands. In February 2019 the Manager could propose it as a upon assessment of risk and injuries, including a broken you to suffer a worse outcome national roll-out of GPS tag- Hine Solicitors licence condition. The Parole NOT dependent upon guilt or bone. I was taken to hospital than you would have ging was announced. It is now Stevens Solicitors Board will then consider wheth- innocence. The assessment in and the broken bone was con- otherwise. available in various regions Jordans Solicitors er it is necessary and propor- the open estate relates to the firmed. Before the assault I including the South and mon- Carringtons Solicitors tionate to manage your risk. public, i.e. what is the risk to told prison staff and safer It is important to note that you itors the location of the indi- Michael Jefferies Injury the public in the event of ab- custody that I was not safe on cannot make a claim for both vidual for up to 6 months at a Lawyers We hope the above answers sconding. Suspicion of com- the wing, but they all ignored the assault and the clinical time. your question - however mitting a further offence me. It was only after my fam- negligence separately. This is should you require any further would inevitably raise the risk ily called the police, and the because the events followed The criteria for GPS tagging is Answers to readers’ legal assistance please do not hes- of absconding, which is why police called the prison, that on from each other. We would available to individuals falling queries are given on a itate to contact our offices. the decision was made to re- I was removed from the cell, therefore recommend that the in the categories below: strictly without liability turn you to the closed estate. but I had already been as- assault claim is considered Court-imposed bail, commu- Response by Hine Solicitors basis. If you propose acting It is certainly not ‘unlawful’. saulted. Can I claim compen- first, as any compensation nity orders, suspended sen- upon any of the opinions sation for the injuries and from this would include the tence orders, home detention MS HMP Durham that appear, you must first Your category has to be re- also for Healthcare neglect as original injury and your current curfew cases and Parole Board condition. If a claim relating take legal advice. QI progressed to Cat ‘D’ how- viewed every six months if you it took 12 days for the prison cases for life sentences, IPP to the assault is not possible, Send your Prison Law ever after a short period of are serving under four years to take me to A&E and prison offences and extended deter- you should consider a clinical Query (concise and clearly time I was returned to closed and every twelve months if staff ignored my complaints minate sentences. negligence claim - however marked ‘Prison Law Query’) conditions, being told that more than that. You do not say about my pain? you should be aware that any to: David Wells, Solicitor there were possible further whether you have been re-cat- Please note that GPS tagging clinical negligence claim in c/o Inside Time, Botley charges. I haven’t done any- egorised or are simply being is not limited to prisoners serv- A In order to consider whether these circumstances would (if Mills, Botley, Southampton, thing wrong and my solicitor held as a Cat ‘D’ prisoner in ing for non-violent offences as a claim in relation to the as- successful) provide compen- Hampshire SO30 2GB. said I’ve been under investi- closed conditions. queried in your letter. The cri- sault may succeed we would sation for the worse outcome gation since last year and it require further information; in For a prompt response, teria confirms that prisoners only and not for the original could be years before it is I would suggest that you ask particular whether you had readers are asked to send their serving a range of different injury, as this was not caused resolved, is this lawful? The your criminal solicitor to chase previously been threatened by queries on white paper using sentences are eligible for GPS by the delay in treatment. prison said once the matter the police for an answer. If the those that later attacked you black ink or typed if possible. tagging but fails to provide is resolved they will take me allegation is straightforward, Response by Jefferies Solicitors detailed information on the and if so, whether you reported Fighting for the Rights of Vulnerable Immigration Detainees in Prison Vulnerable immigration detainees in prison are not given the same rights as those held in immigration removal centres. Duncan Lewis Solicitors are leading a challenge to address the Home Office’s failure to provide safeguards for potentially vulnerable immigration detainees held in the prison estate, which could find them unsuitable for detention. Solicitors Our Challenge Vulnerable detainees held in immigration removal centres can be identified Our specialist team of prison immigration solicitors are as unsuitable for detention under a Rule 35 assessment. 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Interpreters Offices Available 8 all across England & Wales QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Jefferies Solicitors is a specialist avoided. Is there anything I can do? from your medical report. Your court, all evidence such as medical personal injury law firm solicitor will arrange for a medical records, a medical report and other dedicated to helping you with A. Yes, providing Healthcare first expert to visit you in prison who will supporting documentation will accident claims, personal injury, failed to refer you to hospital in examine you and prepare a report. need to be obtained and this can industrial diseases and medical the past 3 years you may be able This report will detail the injury take several months. As long as to make a clinical negligence claim you have suffered, the treatment negligence compensation claims, you leave enough time before the for your permanent condition. you have received, and assess the including claims that have arisen expiry of the limitation date you can You should contact us as soon as extent of any ongoing disability. from an incident in prison. wait until you are released before possible and a specialist clinical Importantly, it will give a prognosis making your claim. If you have suffered an accident negligence solicitor will take all of when you are likely to recover or injury on the road, had an the relevant details and investigate from your injuries. Your solicitor will Q. I cut myself on a machine while accident or injury in a public the matter by applying for your then look at other successful cases working in the workshop. Afterwards, place, been injured as a result medical records. Your Solicitor will where people have suffered similar prison staff told me I should have of medical malpractice or then review your medical records injuries with a similar prognosis to determine if and how Healthcare period and assess the value of used the machine’s guard, but didn’t negligence or had work-related failed in their duty of care to your claim. Your solicitor will also know it had one and no one had accident while in prison, the you and how this caused your consider any financial losses that shown me how to use it properly. expert solicitors at Jefferies can permanent condition. your injury may have caused or is They now want me to sign my help you. likely to cause in the future. Don’t training record and backdate it. Q. Where does my money go once listen to tales of what other people If you have been injured while What should I do? in prison, contact our specialist my case has settled? have claimed – each claim for compensation is very different! injury lawyers to find out if you A. Never sign anything unless A. If you are still in Prison when have grounds to claim. you date it correctly. Obtain the your case settles, the cheque will be Q. I slipped on some water in the names and prison numbers of all Write to us at Jefferies Solicitors made payable to the prison and will kitchens when I was working and witnesses who saw the incident, or Limited, The Triangle, 8 Cross be paid into your prison account. hurt my ankle. I’ve had treatment who started at the same time as Street, Altrincham, Cheshire, A letter will automatically be sent through healthcare but I’ve been told you (and also received no training). WA14 1EQ. to you on the same day to confirm that the officers will make my life that the cheque has been sent and difficult if I make a claim. I’m due to Obtain the names of the supervisors the Prison should notify you of the be released next year, can I wait until and officers you have spoken to Q. I was involved in an accident payment received. I’m released before making a claim? and make a note of what their before I came to prison and, as a responses were. Ensure the accident result, I was receiving treatment Q. I’ve been burnt badly using a A. You have three years from the has been logged by Officers and go kettle in my cell. I’ve been told that date of the accident (known as at my local hospital which was and see healthcare. The prison and unfinished. Since I have been in if I make a personal injury claim it the limitation date) in which to healthcare are classed as separate prison I have told Healthcare that could be worth a lot of money and make a claim. We recommend entities. If you only report it at I still require hospital treatment. someone else has said it won’t be that any claim is started within two Healthcare didn’t refer me to hospital worth anything. How do you know years of the date of the accident healthcare, the prison will have until a year later despite me asking what a claim is worth? as the claim has to be issued in no record of your accident. Put in for a referral numerous times and the court before the three-year a COMP1 if no one will assist, or a now I am left with a permanent A. Your solicitor will be able to value time limit expires. Ideally, before COMP2 if you get no response from condition which could have been the injury element of your claim proceedings can be issued at your COMP1.

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A lot of people think that yoga is about relaxing and Patricia Tumelty being more flexible. While that’s true, it also helps make The path to a your body strong. It strengthens and relaxes your mind A dads support group at HMP La Moye in Jersey was asked too, and makes it more flexible. If you want to build to write the first thing that came to mind based on topics transformed life strength in your body AND mind, but can’t get to the such as wants and wishes, hopes and dreams for their chil- (Autobiography in five short chapters) gym, try these poses instead. As you do them, keep dren. The results were combined and are presented below. breathing, slowly and deeply. We suggest holding each Tree Chapter 1 Being there for them, which most of us aren’t at the moment pose for five breaths, but you might want to start with 5 breaths each side I walk down the street three. With practice you could build up to ten or more. But as much as we can be during visits and on the phone. There is a deep hole in the Listen to your body and work with it, not against it. Being positive, as much as we can when we speak to our kids. sidewalk Teaching them to put others first. I fall in Child To try their best and think about others. I am lost, I am hopeless Some of these poses are Chair It takes forever to fi nd a 5 breaths very strong, so you may Locust To have a routine - to be able to talk to us dads about anything. way out need to take breaks. Rest 5 breaths For us dads to be good role models in the future. like this whenever you need To be loving dads, protective, caring, teaching. Chapter 2 to. Try staying here for 5 Help them to be better people and to understand and forgive I walk down the same street breaths and then continu- There is a deep hole in the us over time. ing the sequence. sidewalk Help them to learn manners - to think about others. I pretend I don’t see it I fall in again Telling them when they have done something good. I can’t believe I’m in the Helping them to figure things out and have fun and be creative. same place Sitting Teaching them responsibility. But, it isn’t my fault Sit like this, or on a chair or Down Dog Loving them and caring for them. It takes a long time to get out 5 breaths the edge of your bed, comfortable and upright. Share, guide and be proud of them. Warrior 1 Chapter 3 Focus on your breathing. 5 breaths I walk down the same street Count your out-breaths up Support them to be happy, trusting and giving. each side There is a deep hole in the to ten and then start again To be curious but content with themselves. sidewalk at one. If your attention To be able to do something that they enjoy. I see it there wanders, don’t worry, this is To make good friends and have people they care about I still fall in… it’s a habit Plank completely normal. Just And have people around who care. My eyes are open 5 breaths return to counting your To be happy, successful and decent people. I know where I am Then flow slowly between breaths. Do this for 5 It is MY fault these two poses in time with minutes, or longer if you To get a good education from school and believe in I get out immediately the breath: move into down like. Try it every day, dog as you breathe out and building up to 25 minutes themselves Chapter 4 come into the plank as you over a week. So that they can do anything they believe in I walk down the same street breathe in. Start with three While these postures may And to respect where they have come from. There is a deep hole in the repetitions. You can build seem to just be building To be the best at what they can be in life. sidewalk up to five or even ten. strength in your body, they We hope they learn from mistakes I walk around it are all also helping you And live happy and healthy lives and be kind, good people. build inner strength. This Chapter 5 Warrior 2 last one in particular builds I walk down another street 5 breaths each side strength in your mind. Yes, Patricia Tumelty is Co-ordinator of Services for Families it leads to more discipline in Jersey and was invited into Jersey Prison by Education officer Portia Nelson and concentration, but real Ann-Marie Pinto. Side Plank strength comes when you 5 breaths each let go of thoughts about 2019 SUMMER SUPPLEMENT PRE-ORDER NOW! NEW “MOSTACK - STACKO” £11.50 CATALOGUE SUPPLEMENT SUMMER 2019 side yourself and your situation - no matter how troubling ORDER

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The original Feltham institu- tion was built aft er 1857 and opened on the fi rst of January 1859 as an industrial school and was taken over in 1910 by the Prison commissioners as their second Borstal institu- tion; the fi rst being at the vil- Inside reporter forgiveness from both of them, calling on His lage of Borstal near Rochester mercy and stating his faith in the resurrection. in Kent. During its time as a Thomas Cromwell ended his speech and knelt Borstal, Feltham was known July 28th was going to be a busy day for this at the block. The execution was not clean cut amongst trainees as ‘The nut- reporter, I was covering a beheading in the and the suggestions that Cromwell’s enemies ters Borstal’, because so many morning and a wedding in the afternoon, so paid off the executioner and got him drunk is trainees with mental health, On the 4th of September 2013, behaviour groups are availa- just your average day. Thomas Cromwell was probably true, as I looked on as to see this was suicidal tendencies and drug the MoJ announced that it ble, and other features about to lose his head for being a traitor and not a ‘good’ execution, the executioner took problems were sent there. was undertaking a feasibility include the use of voluntary King Henry VIII was marrying his fifth wife three swings before his head fell into the study on replacing the exist- agencies, one-to-one teach- Catherine Howard in the afternoon. So, it was wicker basket. This was a sad end to a man ing buildings with a new, ing, substance misuse work also going to be a busy day for the King. The current institution was who had risen from his humble roots - son of formed in 1991, because of a larger adult prison and youth and pre-release courses. a Smith from Putney - to be the Earl of Essex merger between Feltham detention centre. A 2014 Thomas Cromwell had been denied a trial, and the King’s chief minister. inspection of the prison There have been many com- instead an Act of Attainder (Attainder is a Par- Borstal and Ashford Remand Centre. In recent years the found that progress had been plaints about gangs in Feltham liamentary procedure in which Parliament The months leading up to the wedding saw institution has been repeat- made in some areas, but there and violence between gang passes judicial sentence on the accused person Catherine’s uncle, the Duke of Norfolk, find edly criticised in reports for were still some major con- members. Violence can as if it were a court of law) had been used her a place at Court in the household of the allegedly having a climate of cerns such as levels of vio- involve having their heads against him. He was convicted of releasing King’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. As a young racism amongst certain lence remaining high, stamped on. There are further men convicted of treason, misusing and ex- and attractive lady-in-waiting, Catherine although with fewer incidents worries that the prison simply offi cers. The reports follow in propriating funds, taking bribes, making ap- quickly caught Henry’s eye. The King had dis- than previously, prisoners ‘warehouses’ young prisoners the wake of the murder of pointments without royal approval, being a played little interest in Anne from the begin- having a lack of activity avail- rather than teach them to turn Zahid Mubarek by a racist ‘detestable heretic’ and a ‘maintainer and sup- ning, but on Thomas Cromwell’s failure to find able and being kept locked in their lives around. Prisoners cellmate, on the day the vic- porter of heretics’. a new match for Henry, Norfolk saw an cells for long periods. may be locked in their cells tim was to be released. The opportunity. for 23-hours per day, which prison also has a notorious However, although Cromwell’s real crime was amounts to solitary confi ne- reputation for violent assaults. During its time his support of the Anne of Cleves marriage and The Howards may have sought to recreate the ment. An unannounced At one stage, proposals were his failure to annul it, his ruin was not the influence gained during Anne Boleyn’s reign as a Borstal, Feltham inspection found the youth made to distance HMP Cleves marriage itself, but that it had begun as Queen consort. The religiously conservative section was safe for neither Feltham from its violent rep- was known with the Lenten crisis, and it was sealed by Howard family may have seen Catherine as a staff nor boys, and violence utation by renaming it ‘HMP Henry’s passion for Catherine Howard, stoked figurehead for their fight and expressed deter- amongst trainees had also increased in the sec- Bedfont Lakes’. However, this up by those feastings and entertainments laid mination to restore Roman Catholicism to Eng- tion for older boys. A serious idea met little support. on by Wily Winchester at his Episcopal palace. land. Catholic Bishop Stephen Gardiner as ‘The nutters assault took place on a mem- This meant that Henry now saw Cromwell as entertained the couple at Winchester Palace ber of staff during the inspec- An inspection by Her Borstal’, because so the barrier to Anne’s removal and Catherine’s with ‘feastings’. tion. The prison was criticised Majesty’s Chief Inspector of coronation. many trainees with for keeping some boys locked Prisons was made in May As the King’s interest in Catherine grew, so did up for so long that they could 2005. The report highlighted mental health, Although Cromwell wrote to the King pro- the house of Norfolk’s influence. Her youth, not access basic amenities claiming his innocence, and begging for prettiness and vivacity were captivating for the progress made and suicidal tendencies like showers. mercy, he was condemned to death, although the middle-aged sovereign, who claimed he praised the effective recep- and drug problems it was unclear whether he would have to suffer had never known ‘the like to any woman’. tion and induction proce- Healthcare at the prison is the full traitor’s death of being hanged, drawn Within months of her arrival at court, Henry dures, the Outreach team that were sent there. considered good and mental and quartered or be burned at the stake as a bestowed gifts of land and expensive cloth dealt with self-harm issues health care ‘impressive’. Eff orts heretic. In the end, the King commuted the upon Catherine. Henry called her his ‘very and measures in place to deal Today at Feltham, young to resettle off enders back into sentence to beheading, even though Cromwell jewel of womanhood’. The French ambassa- with race relations issues. adults and juveniles occupy the community aft er release was not a nobleman by birth. dor, Charles de Marillac, thought her Voluntary sector work takes different residential units. were also good. Feltham is the ‘delightful’. place within the prison with Each unit is named after a most violent prison in England At 11am this morning (28th July), Thomas a full-time voluntary sector bird. Units housing young & Wales - in 2015 there were Cromwell climbed the scaffold and addressed The wedding was attended by Lords, Ladies co-ordinator managing the off enders hold approximately 894 attacks so serious that the waiting crowd. He opened by saying: “I am and noblemen. I estimated the guest list to be 25+ agencies operating within 60 prisoners. Juvenile units prisoners got offi cial punish- come hither to die and not to purge myself, as around 450; all watching as King Henry and Feltham. hold 30 and almost all of the ment. Just last month, Feltham some think peradventure that I will”; and then Catherine were married by Bishop Bonner of juvenile cells are for single was once more in the news for he continued by acknowledging that he had London at Oatlands Palace, three hours after Another inspection was made occupation. There is a mix- violence when 10 staff were offended God and the King and asking Cromwell was executed. in July 2013, which was criti- ture of double and single allegedly assaulted. 50 Jailbreak www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019 Reading Group Awr y Ddraig Round-Up National Prison Radio’s brand new show Promoting reading and reading poetry. We’ll even be playing groups in prisons “We want to share a taste of some Welsh rap, yes I know … Wales across the prison es- Welsh rap! So please join us tate. It’s a show for those who for Awr y Ddraig, bringing a National Prison Radio broad- might be missing home, or little piece of Wales to you, casts to prisons across Eng- those who may never have wherever you’re listening. land and also Wales. There heard Welsh music before - are many people behind bars don’t worry, it’s not all harps! “Mwynheuwch un awr o cerd- in Wales who speak Welsh - doriaeth,barddonaeth a and also plenty of “If you’re not inside a Welsh storeion o ni,yma yn Dde Welsh-speakers further prison then it may have been Cymru. Ysgrifennu i mewn i ne afield. One of them is Evan, a while since you’ve heard a trwy NPR os oes can yr ydych National Prison Radio’s new- Welsh accent or heard any chi moen clywyd neu darn o est presenter from HMP & YOI Welsh music. We’d like to barddonaeth, yfallau rhan o’r Parc who will be bringing you change that. Our new monthly Mabinogi? Dweud wrthon ni H G Wells: The Invisible Man have promised huge potential gains. But when a monthly show, starting this show aims to unite Welsh beth wyt ti moen yn y shoi it came to it, he was an isolated figure, unable month. speakers across the estate by achos mae hyn’n un awr i chi The report this month comes from HMP Pen- to interact with others and ironically con- not only playing some good clywyd swn wlad ein tadau. tonville where Alex Manolatos has been run- stantly hiding. It was the catalyst for the mur- “Hi, my name is Evan and like old rousing Welsh classics but Ble bynnag wyt ti yn eich taith all the members of the Welsh ning the reading group for over six years. Their derous intentions which became the one way also giving you a flavour of yn y carchar, cofio, wyt ti ddim community here at HMP & YOI the exciting things happening ar eich hyn, byddwch yn Cymro most recent read was ‘The Invisible Man’ by H to justify his invisibility. Parc, I’m passionate about all in today’s Welsh music scene. am byth. Hiraeth.” G Wells, first published in 1897. This brought us to the subject of culpability: things Welsh. I love our rich We’ll also be including poetry history, the sound of our po- and prose recitals alongside Awr y Ddraig broadcasts on Wells has been described as the ‘father of science at what point are we culpable of a crime? Is it etry and of course the incred- stories from Wales. It’s a cele- Monday 15th July at midday fiction’ and his short novels explore a wide when we commit it or when we are caught? The ible landscapes. bration of our nation and we’d and 6pm, and if you miss it range of fascinating and terrifying possibili- answer is obvious but being undetectable may love you to join us. you can listen again on Sun- ties: alien invasion in ‘The War of the Worlds’, give us the notion that we are irreproachable. “I’m here to tell you about a day 21st July at 10am. If time travel in ‘The Time Machine’ and biolog- new show coming up on NPR, “Highlights from our first you’d like to get in touch ical engineering in ‘The Island of Dr Moreau’. The HMP Pentonville group meets once a Awr y Ddraig (Hour of the show, to be broadcast this with Awr y Ddraig with re- month. The men read widely and ambitiously Dragon). No, it’s not a tribute month, include quests or suggestions, as choices over the last year show: The ‘invisible man’ of the title is a scientist who to Bruce Lee but a whole hour singing ‘Sosban Fach’, our please write to: National has devoted himself to research into optics and dedicated to Welsh music and rough guide to ‘Cool Cymru’, Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, • The Circle, Dave Eggers; has discovered a way to change his body's culture! and a recital of original London SW2 5XF. refractive index so it becomes invisible. The • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C S Lewis; novel opens with his arrival as a mysterious • David Copperfield, Charles Dickens; stranger at the local inn of a small village in • Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck; West Sussex. The stranger wears a long- • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People sleeved, thick coat and gloves. His face is hid- • About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge; den entirely by bandages except for a fake pink • The Perfect Spy, John Le Carre; nose and he wears a wide-brimmed hat. He is • Schindler’s Ark, Thomas Keneally; National Prison Law Solicitors abrupt and unfriendly and demands to be left • My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier; alone in his room, venturing out only at night. • Catch-22, Joseph Heller; www.instalaw.co.uk The book charts increasing and unexplained • Open, Andre Agassi; violence in the village and culminates in mob • The Invisible Man, H G Wells; brutality and death. • The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith. We have over 30 Prison Law Experts who can help you with: We discussed the practical • Parole Board oral hearings • Breach of Data Protection difficulties of being invisible: The Pentonville group is run by Prison • Paper Parole Reviews • False Imprisonment Reading Groups (PRG). If your prison doesn’t • Recalls • Independent Adjudications running around naked and already have a reading group, encourage cold being just one of the your librarian to have a look at our website • Judicial Review • Private cases (Transfer/HDC) www.prison-reading-groups.org.uk PRG is •- MandatoryPersonal LifersInjury/Workplace accidents + more problems. part of Give a Book www.giveabook.org.uk Alex was surprised at how much the men had Call us today for free advice on: 01782 560 155 enjoyed it. ‘I was convinced the group would find it slow and lacking excitement. But in the TurningPages end I was the one in the lonely minority!’ And Nottingham office: Instalaw, 4th Floor Parliament House, the result was a lively discussion with lots of 42 - 46 Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham, NG1 2AG speculation and laughter. Prisoners who can read teach prisoners who can’t Staffordshire office: Instalaw, 2nd Floor Copthall House, King Street, We discussed the practical difficulties of being Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 1UE invisible: running around naked and cold If you would like more information on being just one of the problems. Or, if you wrap how to become involved, as either a up warm, having to mask your invisible head Mentor or a Learner, contact the Reading Shortlisted for Law Firm of the Year by the Law Society in case you are approached by someone. 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Rap Star of the Month Congratulations to this months winner who receives our £25 prize Keep it real behind the steel Lee Jones - HMP Berwyn

Just coz they lock locks and your banged-up time dont just stop The clocks they still tick tock Keep your cool, stay on the wing F*ck the seg, the hole, the block © Deposit Photos

Remember the world still keeps on turning Recalled The strength, the determination, the fire in your heart Adam Rushton - HMP Oakwood To get you through gotta keep on burning Youre a student of life 3 weeks out and I back in again So everyday gotta keep on learning Last year was hell said I wasn’t gonna do it again Got a full recall no 14 or 28 Every single day is a test ‘yes’ Another year of b*llsh*t food on the plate Keep your head up and do nothing but your best First few nights Vegan option again Stay focused, stay positive Already been offered mamba not going there again Knife crime, Dont let anything or anyone push your buttons But this time its different and I want a better life Wayne Coleman - HMP Long Lartin Or send your head west Because im sick of asking screws for everything Ignore the haters and stick out your chest And being watched all night A-Cat, B-Cat, C-Cat, home Who’s ready for a fight everyone puts on a brave face 27 years as past before you go home Keep well away from the fish, the mamba, the spice Until somebody stands up and actually sets pace But lets talk about gangs and bandannas man Its all evil People say they’re not racist The country is f*cked from stabbing man Got residents of her Majesty’s pleasure But they stick with the same race Bottom of the wing hogging microwaves and hot plates Knife crime your gonna end up on a wing doing a life time Crawling the walls and the landings Some people say put up or shut up Freedom its priceless Like zombies from residents of evil I say no debts no lies no f*ck ups When you are sat on a wing full of lifers Spreading like the plague killing too many people. It’s a spiral it will never stop People said I would be back before they got out When you have big rambos and knife what lock Sh*t man they’re right whats my life all about And dont be smoking on the high grade I do good, bad, better, worse Shanks as flooded the streets like vermin Go do some courses and get some real high grades Before you get a charge start learning My head is on point when I’ve gone to work Jump at every opportunity to better yourself Becos knife crime you will end up sat on a wing doing a life time My daughter is all I have in the world For when youre released from this concrete jungle Freedom is priceless when your sat on a wing full of lifers. Her mums so special she a top girl Back into your community, do it for yourself Wrote about 6-7 letters Your kids, for your family Not got one back in return Do it for peace of mind for clarity. It makes me feel low, unloved like I’m about to burn 23rd March something happened to me While youre in jail, bing, pen the can Something clicked something switched Or whatever you wanna call it Something good came to me You got nothing but time so be wise how you use it Motivation wanting to grow up do to good Get yourself some free qualifications, go gym, do sports Just like some dead beat dad’s should Get healthy, write poetry, write lyrics, do music Top of all I’m glad this has happened to me Everyone got a talent so use it Because this is the last time it’s gonna happen to me. Respect-love-humble-truth-life-family. Keep your head screwed on and dont lose it

You’ve only got one shot at life so don’t waste it Behind bars all your life doing dead time Mistakes Lifes precious and jail aint taking mine Reece Lee - HMP Leeds © Deposit Photos Rather be on the other side of the walls Enjoying the sunshine Hi I’m Reece and I made a mistake, at least I now know who’s real and who’s a fake. My side of the bed I remember the first time I stood in a crown court The media tells lies, say I dragged him from a car, Joseph Brown - HMP Lowdham Grange In the dock the judge said “custodial sentence” done listening to them as the truth it is far. It was back down to the cells and hopped on a sweat box We had an argument, I was threatened with a knife, I feel exposed when the door is closed On my way to Lancaster Farms I didn’t know what to do, I was scared for my life. And my shadow climbs the wall I remember it like It was yesterday So there I was waiting to hear my fate, My girl supposed to be alone It was f*cked up, I remember the tune on the radio the Judges words didn’t hit me until I reached the prison gate. But she won’t accept my call It was Akon ‘Locked up’!!!! For one stupid fight sixteen months I will waste, And I can’t decide if my hands are tied I couldn’t get through this without family or my mates. Im struggling to figure it out Sixteen months I will serve for committing a crime, Waiting for a paypal order to arrive that’s sixteen months I will express using rhyme. Got bigger things to worry about Life’s deal We all make mistakes so don’t judge me for mine, just leave me be so I can do my time. Take me back in time a’ maybe I’ll Kelly Woodward - HMP Eastwood Park This is my story what will be will be this is my life, Forget the things they said yours sincerely Reece Lee. Coz I’ve been told its never cold Buy it, sell it, trade it On my side of the bed My whole damn life my hell I shamed it But don’t apologise becoz there’s I had my target I nearly made it u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our Nothing to forgive Now time has come to finally face it ‘Rap Star of the Month’. Send entries to: Inside Time, Rap, Botley I got life in prison and you 36 yrs of my life iv wasted Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. Try to keep Got your life to live, mmm, mmm Functioning addict is what I named it rhymes under 300 words. When submitting your work please One look at my family iv totally shamed it include the following permission: ‘This is my own work and I My side of the bed mmm Lost the lot through selling rock agree to Inside Time publishing it in all associate sites and My side of the bed mmm Locked in my cell hope I don’t lose the plot other publications as appropriate.’ By submitting your rhymes My side of the bed mmm 6 yrs 3mnths gave me goose bumps to Inside Time you are agreeing to our terms, to read them in full My side of the bed. I just have to handle 3yrs in this dump see the Inside Poetry pages in this issue. 52 Jailbreak // Inside Poetry www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019

Star Poem of the Month When I was a lad Phantoms Congratulations to this months winner who Maurice McCullough - HMP Garth Andrew Luby - HMP Hull receives our £25 prize The charabanc leaves early in the day It’s though every time I wake up Laden with families on this special day I leave a duplicate of myself behind Beech Road It’s Wakes Week! And all seaside bound Or perhaps it’s the other way round? Leaving behind the smoky old town I’m the double living this nightmare Aidan Bradley - HMP Isle of Wight Buckets and spades to be brought on arrival With prison sensations and encounters Ready for sand and sea self-survival © Deposit Photos As I wander aimlessly through the Kids my age were loud and strange But first to the digs, let’s make it clear Cold, emotionless, cruel system Their politics confused Cons are clouds This place is best - we come every year Teachers could rely on me In through the door we fall in a bunch I see the same faceless phantoms To keep myself amused Red Saunders - HMP Whatton Assailed by the odour of yesterday’s lunch Wandering hollow prison corridors Instead of at the fringes Dragging cases up two flights of stairs Hallucinations perhaps, given an air of Cons are clouds passing through Of the playground stood alone To the big double room, for a week will be theirs Vivacity by contractual and linguistic strings Some reform, some stay true “Tommy, Alfie. Your beds over there” I drifted in and out of realms Calm and collected clouds occur But Alfie is crying, “Dad, that’s not fair” I dreamt once that I was strolling That were my very own So sun can shine and seas confer “Your beds much bigger, we’ll have to squeeze” Along a beach to an anchored yacht To an emerald arena made Mum says “top and tail, just don’t bend your knees” Boarding it legitimately, sanctioned by parole Still rarely do such clouds arrange Of sense and mystery Free with fresh life in my soul And squarely do dark days derange Soon all are ready and off to the beach A spartan sun- paradise For storms force in to contaminate Which, says the brochure, is in easy reach But the evil IPP kicks in My parents built for me The space with screams and violate Where long, untroubled spells of play Look for ice-cream, where are the donkeys? Like my “sister”, “H”, or poteen Through any season, any day, Releasing racket and toxic rain A man taking pictures of kids with a monkey Roiling and coursing through my veins My mind perfectly numbed and empty Were coloured every shade but grey Creating friction, lightning, pain Dad has his hanky tied around his head Tornadoes swirling, stirring the mind Mum hands out sarnies, just jam and bread To fuel my ‘ joie du vivre’ The prison dark shadow Hurricanes howling, will never unwind For this one week we saved for a year Closes in - killing everything Dad even gave up some of his beer The higher mysteries of human subtleties Penetrating my skin, festering inside Yet just as grey gathers it recedes To give us a week of sun, sea and sand Always evaded me Once they’ve said their little piece Replacing my body and soul Going home happy, with maybe a tan I always seemed to be For thunder alerts those miles around We tell the neighbours what a great week we had Leaving me as an empty vessel A creature of extremes Zebras, black and white stripes on ground Such were my memories - when I was a lad Floating on a vast, barren sea Nothing in-between Same sad story, vapours disperse Invisible from society The fantastic and mundane They’ve put their ‘Cloud-Nine’ in the hearse No more than a phantom! The sacred and profane However these cons are conveyor belts If …time lay silent The subdued and the insane Thousands more, teeth in a shark’s mouth Walthari Nikolaj - HMP Hewell Sunshine and rain Bully Cons are clouds passing by Pleasure and pain If time lay silent and did not stir Forever tainting serene skies Connor Wathinson - HMP Swaleside And shoes did not wear out Polar opposites barely contained They’ll be back to terminate more In the brain of a precocious child Until then quiet clears your shore If winter did not come to pass The bully that bullied me I wish you could see you’re killing me Like ticking clocks in atom bombs And men’s voices did not shout If the hunter did not stalk the stag Why do you have to bully me? Who knows when it could all go wrong? Calm and collected, clouds appear And sparrows did not fly home So sun can shine and you can hear Why can’t you leave me be? Beautiful breeze and Heaven’s heights Would the wind cease to blow But while we wait kicking our heels Release me, so I can be free Peaceful planet and silent nights And words not cut to bone? You make me feel like I should take my life In blissful ignorance Just leave me alone and let me thrive Little old me is still young enough If the morning did not greet us To enjoy existence And the moon did not pull the sea I’ve never done anything to you For just a halcyon heptade Age If night was not perpetual Since day one you planted a seed Day by day you grew I was deep in love with life Glynn Bishop - HMP Stafford And darkness was eternity I knew that things could grow If hearts were made of marble Sometimes I cut myself And never dreamed they could die Being a man of a certain age And blood was as thin as air To see how much I’ll bleed I get into a tizzy and a bit of a rage Would we then be temperate in loving My best friends were my bossy sisters Give my poem another read Because my hair is grey and going thin on my head And justice be somewhat fair? Calamine and healing kisses Now it’s growing through my nose and ears instead We’re not so different me and you Trusting nought could go amiss If I had never loved Apart from I’m not a nasty bully like you ‘Neath mother’s watchful eye These day when I bend down to fasten a lace And love was a dormant thing People often say the bullied bully I find that I have dizzy spells and go red in the face And instead of words we used our eyes If that’s true then you need to fully understand What the blazes is happening to me The pain I feel now is what you felt too I’m still there in the garden And wore eagles’ wings I even feel safer sitting down to have a wee So why bully me when you felt it too Catching tadpoles in a jar If touch was tender as the sun Still sipping lemonade Now my body is merely a shell And breath: the body of love The bully that bullied me And watching dad fix up the car Glad to wake each day, even though I don’t feel well If life was not finite I think you need to know And did not rush to live You’re no longer killing me From the French doors to the little shed It’s not so funny what later life comes to You may laugh but this will surely come to you How much more time then I am completely free Was where my atlas stopped Could a living spirit give? Goodbye bully The world outside was only sky And hints of chimney top u We will award a prize of £25 to the entry selected as our ‘Star Poem of the Month’. To qualify for a prize, poems should not have won a prize in Astride the swings I was a king any other competition or been published previously. Send entries to: Inside Time, Poetry, Botley Mills, Botley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO30 2GB. A gymnast on the grass It is very important that you ensure the following details are on all paperwork sent to Inside Time: YOUR NAME, PRISON NUMBER & PRISON. Poseidon in the paddling pool Failure to do so will prevent us responding to you and your submission being withheld from publication. We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer That’s how my days would pass Service’ for prize money so include your DOB on your entries. I’ll never get it back By submitting your poems to Inside Time you are agreeing that they can be published in any of our ‘not for profit links’, these include the newspaper, That joyous beating in my chest website and any forthcoming books. You are also giving permission for Inside Time to use their discretion in allowing other organisations to reproduce this It’s still there in the garden work if considered appropriate, unless you have clearly stated that you do not want this to happen. Any work reproduced in other publications will be on a With the boy who never left. ‘not for profit’ basis. Please note poems for publication may be edited. When submitting your work please include the following permission: ‘This is my own work and I agree to Inside Time publishing it in all associate sites and other publications as appropriate.’ Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Inside Poetry 53

A family of seven, so why is it Kevin? Facing my past I’m going back to hell, that place isn’t heaven Now some wonder why each night I would cry Kevin Ross - HMP Garth My bed never dry as I wished I would die I’m waiting & waiting & it’s getting frustrating Rejected, unprotected & mentally dissected Is it procrastinating or are they medicating By the elected & infected ones who were respected My mind & pulse racing, my feet are now pacing Now, as a man, I do whatever I can I’m tracing the situation which I am facing As I’m a fan of that tortured boy who lived to a man The drugs numb the pain that returns again & again Some nights when I sleep, those secrets I keep The demons come back to haunt me & drive me insane Like a movie I peep, but can’t help but weep “What’s the way out” … is what I want to shout Them years of pain in my memories remain Night terrors are about, but struck with fear I can’t cry out Like a stain on a window pane, embedded in my brain For so many years I’ve cried oceans of tears I’ve tried to cast my horrors in my past But who really hears your tormented fears But the hurt is so vast, they fade slow & not fast Years I’ve been yearning for constructive learning

No-one really cares if the pain isn’t theirs © Deposit Photos Imagine the wares in the paedophile lairs But never concerning the criminal earning, burning I screamed & I cried & wish I had died Now locked in a cell & told I should tell of my past hell But I was denied & had to hide, as they said I lied I press the bell & confess in my cell & cry out & yell Off the peg barrister Finally told, the truths unfold, & monsters of old I’d almost choke, cos justice is a joke Name withheld - HMP Hull A flash suit on a bloke, putting kids on coke They’re no longer so bold, they say lies are told I was a child, although a bit wild Now I’ve told my story, the child inside gets the glory Despicable acts, so cruel & gory, heard by a jury It really doesn’t matter, whatever the offence is Now my young body defiled & false records were filed I’m comfy in my chamber, full of ready-made defences I tried to say what they did every day Whatever the allegation, whatever your legal mess is But they’d make me pay for preventing their play Yes I’m locked up inside, but the little boy is free I’ve unlocked the secrets of what happened to me I’ve a very fine selection of opening addresses I emotionally became colder as I grew older Police and prosecution will hope you’re brought to book Checking my care folder, I began to get bolder The fate of the monsters is not for me to decide Now it’s the twelve jurors who decide if I lied Don’t bother me with details - I’ll get you off the hook To ruin their fun, I started to run My experience is vast and I’ve handled many cases Began playing with knives and then with a gun Answer this question, why would a kid create a story A tale so sick & at times so so gory I’ll pick a script, insert your name in all the empty spaces My stomach churned when I was returned So when I’m out there, centre stage, I’ll act it to the max; Back into the hell, my whole body burned Other kids from the homes told of similar tales We’ve all suffered similar fates, such as ending up in jails I’ll play on their emotions - won’t confuse them with the facts They say all that stuff made me mentally tough I’ve a new and moving closing speech and I’d really like to try it; But enough is enough, you don’t treat a child rough Sexual deviants, when found, should go in the ground To prove to the world, no-more noncing around There’s every possibility the jury ought to buy it I was an 8 year-old boy, not a little sex toy But if it all goes pear-shaped don’t worry about me Childhood’s for feelings of joy, it wasn’t for this boy Cos I shed a tear whenever I hear another kid in fear No more shunting to the rear, something we don’t want to hear Found guilty or found innocent, I’ll still collect my fee When I’d run away, I’d try to find a way Given a choice & a voice to rejoice & a kid is a charm Avoid police every day - they didn’t believe what I say But made to live in silence with sexual violence & it creates harm Some days I would roam & make my way home This message I send is: “I want an end to living in silence” My hair mum’d comb as I bathed in the foam Don’t grow up like me, where you begin to like violence When it came to my dad, he would go mad I’ve had enough of prison, I’m changing my life I’d see faces so sad, cos he’s returning his lad My loyalty belongs to my daughter & wife “Please don’t send me back”; now it’s all gone black Thank you very much for putting up with me Unconscious on the floor after getting a smack I’ll show you my gratitude, even when I’m free “Don’t send me back there, I’ll go anywhere” Time is gonna let me, help your broken heart to mend “You should be in care” … life feels so unfair So we will stay together, OH! What a beautiful end. Some People Night Noise Kenny D - HMP Oakwood Simon Taylor - HMP Swaleside Let me tell you a tale of the people I’ve seen As soon as the doors bang up the wing turns silent From Oakwood to Dovegate to Winson Green The emptiness is total, deafening and violent I’ve learned we’re all different, my fellow men

Although they’ll release us, some don’t know when Then soon, little sounds come sneaking in © Deposit Photos Some of them’s loud, some of them meek Until they join together, flowing through the silent din Some go to the gym, some looking weak The sound outside is someone’s calling voice Crap TV Some of them giants, some of them thin And listen we must, we have no choice With one thing in common, a core strength within And then the reply and the following chatter Tony E - HMP Moorland Some’s had bereavements, some have missed births Just shooting the breeze, the context doesn’t matter Some of them’s vain, some don’t know their worth Then comes the music, turned up loud Tired of watching river monsters’ guys that collect antiques Some are outgoing, some stay in their cell For the D.J. in his cell and his captive crowd Too much portraying local freaks Some don’t like attention, some live on their bell The music dies down and quiet is restored I’d rather watch the adverts, as funny as they are Some have got money, some ain’t got a bean And the shouting outside is unwanted and ignored Panic booking holidays what? Another car? Some are discreet, whilst some cause a scene The new noise is the neighbour’s telly, pushing through the dark Die hard every evening, they haven’t killed him yet Some’s brown or black, some’s yellow, some’s white And the dog on patrol gives a piercing bark Turn to watch ITV about some famous vet Some of them cower, some love to fight The squeak of my door’s flap is the routine sound “niaga derocs sytram erutuf eht ot kcab og” Some love the battle, some don’t stop talking As the night-screw makes his usual eight o’clock round Full of cars and diary dates, people asking when? When I see them approaching, I quickly start walking Then I turn on my own telly to my favourite channel two There’s not much on at 10 o’clock, repeats and hunger games Some cons are hardened, some can’t do the jail And the noise prevents any other getting through Missing kids on dangerous streets, all the bleedin same Some have got no-one, some get lots of mail Later I turn it off, when I’m ready for sleeping I turn the channel over switch to Channel 5 Some cons are lonely, whilst some need their space And once again late night silence comes creeping David Attenborough in the bush trying to survive Some con’s love rushing, some set the pace Now I lay there, warm and quiet in bed I watch embarrassing bodies think they’ve discovered me Some could be a parent, and is somebody’s son “Ah that’s better” a nature programme about life by the sea Some lost the life lottery, the lucky few won Until louder and louder grow the thoughts in my head Lobsters, crabs and rock pools “oh my” they have it all To all my fellow inmates, wherever you may be After a while my thoughts fly the nest Understand these people, be ignorance free And soon comes my sleep, my much wanted rest Peregrines in nests on rocks feed chicks as beckon calls From Dartmoor to Durham, from Foston to Styal Once I’m dreaming I’m free, I’m no longer in prison I go and visit brideshead or does it visit me? They can’t keep us forever, so chin up and smile Until morning awakes me to reality’s vision I saw something about an actress worshiping a tree Keep your head strong and bide out your time It was the crows that awake me with their morning call I think its time to switch it off; lay down and read a book Be staunch on your visits; show your loved ones you’re fine And I wish I was a crow and fly over the wall Tek sum ejucashen in new werds for granted tuk The clock won’t stop ticking; your release date will come Soon comes the sounds of another new day My eyes are really tired now, the night about to end It will come to us all, and not just the some And I look forward to night, so I can again drift away. The news is on; the usual stuff a Brexit to defend 54 Jailbreak // Prize Winning Competitions www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019 Read all about it! Caption Competition Last Months £25 Winner A £25 prize is on offer for the best caption 1. Two females in EastEnders are pregnant by Fonesavvy providers of ‘landline type David Evans - HMP Holme House to this month’s picture. the same man, what is his name? numbers’ for mobile phones. 2. In which round did Tyson Fury recently beat Tom Schwarz in Las Vegas? Proud sponsors of Inside Time’s PRIZE quiz ‘Read all about it!’ 3. Which female spy-assassin drama has returned for a second series on BBC 1? If you don’t want callers to be disadvantaged or put off by the high cost of calling your 4. Who won the Women’s Football World Cup mobile - just get a landline number for it. 2019? Calls to mobiles don’t have to be expensive! 5. Emmerdale’s Maya Stepney had her day in court, was she sent to prison? Full details are available on our main advert in Inside Time and at It’s my party 6. Who presents Love Island? www.fonesavvy.co.uk and I’ll cry if I 7. Which famous English football manager want to recently did their life story on Piers Morgan’s Last Months Winners ‘Life Stories’? 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How did people set their Anagram Square Criss Cross Do you know? clocks before TV and radio? Time used to be determined Rearrange the letters in each using the position of celestial row to form a word. Write your objects. The Sun was due answers into the blank grid. south at midday, and the The first letter from each word, reading down, will spell the shadow of a sundial pointed mystery keyword. due north. But the Sun isn’t due south at the same 1 OSTAC moment everywhere. For example, it’s due south in 2 TRALE Bristol around 10 minutes after London. This became an 3 SPUET issue with the development of railways in the 1830s, when 4 TELAX A mammoth task clocks needed to be accurate- Cells from a woolly mammoth that died more than 28,000 years 5 ZISSE ago have been partially reactivated inside of mouse egg cells. ly synchronised over long The achievement shows that biological activity can be induced distances in order to ensure in the cells of long-dead creatures, but that does not mean that passengers departed on scientists will be resurrecting extinct animals like mammoths any schedule and to avoid train 1 time soon. A team at Kindai University in Japan, extracted cells collisions. The introduction of from the remains of “Yuka,” a young female mammoth discovered the electric telegraph in the 2 3 LETTER 4 LETTER MUTT MEMOS UNISON in 2010 on the coast of the Dmitry Laptev Strait in the Russian 1830s ushered in the modern 3 IMP ALGA NOUS OLDEN Far East. Yuka was entombed in permafrost, a frozen ground approach to synchronising 7 LETTER JAM ANTS OATH SHRUB layer that can often keep the skin, fur, brains, and other softer clocks, in which precise time ANGUISH 4 LAH ARTS RAGE TIGHT tissues of dead animals intact. Because Yuka is in particularly signals are sent to them at great condition, the scientists were able to extract 88 nucleus- OHM AURA TACO TRUST 9 LETTER light-speed. Over the years, SIR BOYS USER YUMMY like structures from her preserved muscle tissues. The mammoth 5 GROUNDNUT the railways managed to get SLY EDGE cells were implanted into mouse oocytes, which are ovarian cells 6 LETTER SHORTLIST towns to adopt a universal SPY ICED 5 LETTER UNINSURED involved in embryonic development. Once the cell nuclei were Thanks to Ian Williams HMP GOITRE ‘railway time’ but some places Parc. If you fancy compiling an TIP IRIS CASTS UNNATURAL incubated, they seemed to reawaken—but only slightly. The cells JEER CRISP RUMOUR did not divide, but completed some steps that precede cell refused to do so for years. In Anagram Square for us please SELDOM 1880 the entire UK was finally just send it in 5 x 5 squares, com- MAUL DANDY division. The fact that Yuka’s cells were able to spring back into plete with answers shown on a partial action is both an exciting and challenging development using the same time every- grid. If we use it we will send you for scientists interested in cloning extinct animals. Vice where. BBC Science Focus £5 as a thank you! Remember Tectonic to include your name, number, prison. We will be using the new Do carrots help you see in the dark? ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize Each square must contain a digit. A one-square block contains The idea that carrots help you see in the dark money so include your DOB on only a 1, a two-square block contains 1 and 2, a three-square partly has its roots in WWII propaganda. British your entries. block contains 1, 2 and 3, and so on. The same digit cannot airmen had a fearsome reputation for their ability appear in neighbouring squares - not even diagonally. to shoot down enemy bombers during night- Fun facts... time London raids. The secret lay in new radar technology, but the British put out a rumour • After the sinking of the USS that the airmen were avidly devouring carrots Indianapolis in 1945, up to 150 to boost night vision. It’s not clear whether the sailors were eaten by sharks German army fell for the ruse, but the British before any rescue arrived. public certainly did, helped by government adverts proclaiming: ‘Carrots keep you healthy • Nerve damage to any of and help you to see in the blackout’. Carrots are your fingers will mean they no rich in an orange pigment called beta-carotene. longer go wrinkly in the bath.

Enzymes in the body convert beta-carotene © Deposit Photos into a form of vitamin A known as retinol, which Why do men go bald from the top of their • The world’s longest record- is vital for eye health. Other enzymes convert ed fart was 2 minutes and 42 retinol into a chemical called retinal, which is heads? seconds long. important for forming a pigment called Characterised by hair loss from the top and rhodopsin that operates in low-light condi- front of the head, ‘male-pattern hair loss’ is • In 2017, a man became tions. Rhodopsin is found in photoreceptor partly determined by genetics and partly by trapped in an ATM in Texas cells known as rods which reside at the back of high levels of a male sex hormone called and had to post hand written the eye, in the retina. These cells are responsi- dihydrotestosterone (DHT). The most recent notes through the cash dis- ble for our vision in low-light, and eating penser to get help. carrots will help to keep them in tip-top hypothesis suggests that the hair loss process condition. Without any vitamin A, we would begins during puberty, when growth of the • On Xmas Day 1937, during a develop night blindness. BBC Science Focus skull and the muscles in the forehead and neck football match between increases the tension in a tight band of tissue Charlton Athletic and Chelsea, How can I stop my headphones tangling stretching over the top of the head. The more the Charlton goalkeeper, hav- themselves into the Knot from Hell? DHT there is, the more these muscles contract, ing seen no action for some- People were wrestling with this one long before time, was approached by a headphones were even invented. In 1889, the which causes inflammation and brings in more policeman and told that due comic writer Jerome K Jerome noted in Three DHT. Over time, the DHT thickens the band of to thick fog, the game had Men In A Boat how rope can become tangled tissue, restricting the supply of blood and Quotes been called off 15 mins earlier. seemingly by itself. Surprisingly, the explana- nutrients to the hair follicles above it. The He hadn’t heard the whistle. “We are all on earth to help is not logical, but it is often tion was only discovered by mathematicians in follicles on top of the head get smaller and others. What on earth the true.” Spock, Star Trek 1988. Put simply, it turns out that, unless eventually disappear, while those on the sides • The word pupil (of the eye), others are here for, I can’t handled carefully, the chances of the free ends “Of all the thirty-six alterna- of the head remain largely unaffected. is from the Latin ‘pupilla’, imagine.” John Foster Hall of stringy objects - such as headphone wires tives, running away is best.” - going through the motions needed to make a However, this theory is still a work in progress. meaning ‘little doll’ from the “You can have friends or you Chinese proverb knot increase rapidly with the length of the Some experts believe that DHT impacts the tiny image you see of yourself can correct people’s gram- “Kids! Bringing about string or wire. Happily, that leads to a simple reflected in the eye of another. mar.” Mary Norris hair follicles directly. And DHT itself remains Armageddon can be danger- way to cut the risk of tangles: get rid of the something of a mystery, being responsible for “After a time, you may find ous. Do not attempt it in your troublesome free ends by clipping the earbuds • Unlike in other fizzy drinks, hair growth - not loss - on the face and in the that having is not so pleasing own home.” Terry Pratchett and the jack together to form a loop - using, the bubbles in Guinness sink a thing after all as wanting. It and Neil Gaiman say, a plastic hairgrip. BBC Science Focus armpits and pubic areas. BBC Science Focus rather than rise. Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 57

July facts The path to success Did I say that? Top facts... July is named after Julius • Caesar in 44BC as July was 2 9 6 1 7 the month of his birth. 1. began producing • Until the 18th century, 6 3 4 3 5 Grime music in 2002 and the word July in English created ‘Eskibeat’, which is had the stress on the first 1 5 7 3 9 widely considered as the first syllable and rhymed with ever Grime song. Previous to duly or truly. this moment, the genre was “Why bother with a 3 5 8 4 4 “If I was 20 years younger.” roughly seen as a style of • No month ends on the Veteran, 93, makes flirtatious milkshake when you could “Return to sender” Garage music. Wiley then same day of the week as remark about Melania Trump get some battery acid?” 9 8 4 5 8 Message engraved on Elvis began referring to the sound July unless it is a leap year, at D-Day commemoration. Comedian Jo Brand causing impersonator and comedian as “Grime”. when January does so. Shaking the D-Day veteran’s outrage with a joke referring Start at the bottom left square Freddie Starr’s coffin. hand, the US leader replied: to the trend of milkshakes • “The English winter, end- and move up, down, left or right 2. ’s first huge “You could handle it, no being thrown at right-wing ing in July, to recommence until you reach the finish. Add the international collaboration question.” politicians. in August, now was done.” numbers as you go. Can you was with Puff Daddy. The pair Byron make exactly 49? linked up for a special Grime remix of Diddy’s single ‘Hello GEF BAD CHI Good Morning’. However they cut ties after Skepta reportedly Using the letters G,E,F,B,A,D,C,H & I fill in the “The UK remains committed wanted to fight another guest blank squares. Each letter A-I must appear to helping women all over at his pool party in 2011. only once in each line column and 3x3 grid. “‘I’m used to it. I had this the world to feel safe and 3. Before being signed to a when I was at school. protected in the work they major record label, Ed Personally I think people “There are those that say do, so they can speak freely Sheeran released a special should just grow up and get they have never seen the and be part of the change collaborative project with a over the fact that my last Queen have a better time, we all want.” number of Grime MCs. The name rhymes with a rather a more animated time.” Mark Field MP tweeted in Donald Trump suggests that May, a month before being ‘Shape Of You’ singer made Neil Speed is a unpleasant word.” the Queen has never had a accused of assaulting a songs with Devlin, Wiley, P former prisoner Stop calling me Jeremy C***! better time - ever - than she female Greenpeace activist Money, , and more. who came up Jeremy Hunt tells presenters to ‘grow up’ after series of did hanging out with him for at a black tie event in with the concept 4. Before his days as a Grime on-air gaffes. a few days. London. of GEF BAD CHI MC, was actually a whilst in prison. whizz in school. With 6 A* GEF BAD CHI by GCSEs his teachers were Inside Chess 8 Neil Speed is actually pushing him to go to published by by Carl Portman Oxford university. Xlibris. £12.35 7

You never cease to amaze me dear readers! Just 6 5. In 2014, Lethal Bizzle’s Catchphrase when I give you a chess problem like the one I Grime anthem ‘Pow’ was did in May that I think will really flummox you, 5 banned from a number of The object is to try to figure out the well-known saying, person, people submitted the correct answer as if it were venues around the UK and place, or thing that each square is meant to represent. as easy as pie! Well done to everyone who found 4 even some commercial radio that difficult 2.Bf7-e8! And to David (see below) stations because it allegedly who was the first correct answer drawn; inde- 3 caused too much mayhem in pendently of course. public settings. 2 I am often asked by the general public about the 6. Dizzee Rascal became the 1 strength of chess players in prisons and they are first ever Grime MC to win surprised when I tell them that the standard, just the prestigious as on the outside, varies and it can be very high. A B C D E F G H back in 2003. His now-classic I concede that there must be stronger players ‘Boy In Da Corner’ than myself in prison, and that’s a good thing. I coming. You alone are the reason I continue in received critical acclaim for would want stronger players to pass on their this voluntary role. its originality and creativity. knowledge to fellow inmates and to bring them into the world of chess. Chess is for all, regardless This month I give you a position from the game 7. As well as being in the of background, gender, age or ability. Velimir Ivic v Vladimir Dobrov in Serbia 2017. It is same crew Boy Better Know, Black to move and score a decisive breakthrough. Skepta and JME are actually I do need to remind people that you must provide I will accept just the first move as your answer, blood brothers. The Grime a name, location and prison number if you want however those who are more inclined to provide MC is three years older than Dear Editor to receive a prize, should you be a winner. further analysis to back up their choice will have his sibling. They also have a Sometimes I do not get enough information to demonstrated their understanding of the posi- brother called Jason, who • I don’t know why Dr Jekyll • I have always wondered send anything, which is frustrating. Please re- tion, which should keep you busy for a while. produced three songs on spent all that time in a lab why washing machines have member also that just because you send your ‘Konnichiwa’, and a sister conducting a drink that would windows but tumble dryers answer, it does not mean that I will receive it. A back copy of ‘Chess Monthly’ donated by the called Julie who is a radio turn him into a right nasty git don’t. After I’m finished with Often, I have letters that have already been London Chess Centre is the prize for the first personality. who can’t remember a thing the the enthralling viewing on offer opened before they get to me (how rude!) and correct entry drawn. Write to me with your an- following morning. A couple from my washing machine, I have no way of knowing if anything is missing. swer, c/o The English Chess Federation at The 8. After his ‘That’s Not Me’ of bottles of White Lightening I’m left provided with Also remember it goes the other way. I write to Watch Oak, Chain Lane, Battle, East Sussex TN33 video won Best Video at the would have cost him about a absolutely no entertainment people, but that does not mean they receive my OYD. Please note that you should always write 2014 MOBO Awards, Skepta fiver and would have exactly from my drier. Dave - Wells letters. We have to cross fingers and hope that to me at the ECF not via InsideTime. Also, please revealed that it only cost him the same result. Mike - Brighton our mail will be delivered. There’s not much we include your prison number and if you can, both £80 to make. • Monks. Conduct a life of can do about it folks! the date and which months puzzle you are • Fitness fanatics. Make the celibacy and emotional entering. 9. During a 2010 interview in most of your exercise bike by solitude without joining a Very rarely I will receive a letter from an annoyed the UK, Jay Z claimed that attaching some wheels to it and monastery by simply living prisoner asking why I did not reply. Well, now The answer to June’s puzzle was 1…Nh5-g3+ was his favourite Grime using it to travel to and from the with my wife. It’s more you know the possible reason. In any event I may 2.h2xg3 Qf6-h6 checkmate; winner to be MC. Jigga reportedly bumped gym. You can use your time in comfortable and you’ll be not be able to respond personally to every letter announced. into Kano at a Gorillaz show the gym to rest in between able to watch TV and use the - but I do my best. However, all of your letters Winner of May’s puzzle was David from HMP in Madison Square Garden journeys. John - Manchester internet. Bill - Glasgow are very gratefully received, so please keep them Garth. and became a big fan. 58 Jailbreak // Just for Fun www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019

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The 20-minute bulletin was introduced by 01919,01919, 1947, 1947, 291180, 291180,19840, 050876, 19840, 050213, 038910, 050876, 975314, 050213, 9060, Richard Baker as an “Illustrated summary of the 038910,02407, 0909, 417009,975314, 10392 9060, 02407, 0909, 417009, news... Followed by the latest film of events 10392 and happenings at home and abroad.” The new service is intended to be more up-to-date Thanks to Harvey Singh Khatkar - HMP Full Sutton and will also eventually include studio for compiling this Number Search. If you fancy compiling one please send in max 10 x 10 grid interviews. Tonight’s edition began with news complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it of truce talks being held near Hanoi and an we will send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to item on French troop movements in Tunisia. include your name, number and prison. We will be While the news was read, a series of headlines, using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize still photographs and maps were shown on the money so include your DOB on your entries. screen. BBC Director General Sir Ian Jacob said: “This is a start on something we regard as // Medium - give it a go! extremely significant for the future”. Sudoku

In context: The first television news bulletin was 4 not met with universal approval. The pro- gramme was variously described as “absolutely 8 1 7 ghastly”, “crazy” and “as visually impressive as the fat stock prices”. BBC Radio was also very 9 3 5 sceptical of the new service and insisted it retain editorial control over the headlines and story 5 3 6 2 1 content. But between 1954 and 1955 the 1 6 amount of television time devoted to news was doubled and in September 1955 Independent 4 2 1 7 8 Television News launched its first service. 7 2 5 8 6 9

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Can you morph one word into another by just changing one letter at a time? It isn’t quite as ASN LAW See our easy5 as7 you think!3 6 8 2 1 4 9 SOLICITORS page in the 9 8 1 7 4 5 2 3 6 Anthony Stokoe Joel Binns tread Rasheed Nujeerallee ‘Jailbreak’ section 7 July 1985 6 4 2 1 9 3 5 7 8 Independent Prison Law Boris Becker wins Wimbledon at 17 Expert since 1994 THE PRISON 7 5 8 3 6 9 4 2 1 A West German teenager has become the ‘People Before Profit’ youngest ever player to win the Wimbledon PHOENIX TRUST 3 1 9 8 2 4 7 6 5 tennis tournament. Boris Becker, a 17-year-old Continuing the Fight and Challange 4 2 6 5 1 7 9 8 3 unseeded outsider before the tournament Despite Legal Aid Cuts began, raised the coveted silver trophy above Head doing you in? bream Straight advice/representation 8 9 7 2 5 6 3 1 4 his head to rapturous applause on centre Stressed out? for Male and Female Prisoners 1 3 5 4 7 8 6 9 2 court. Becker is also the first German ever to Can’t sleep? Just for laughs win the title, and the first unseeded player. Adjudications Lifer/IPP Specialist

2 6 4 9 3 1 8 5 7 (c) Daily Sudoku Ltd 2019. All rights reserved. “This is going to change tennis in Germany,” he Recall Parole Judicial Reviews • I tried to kidnap a blacksmith, but when I Simple yoga and Daily Sudoku: Mon 3-Jun-2019 medium said after the match. “I am the first Wimbledon Mental Health Law Expert turned my back ... he made a bolt for the door. winner and now they have an idol.” meditation practice, Human Rights - European & International working with silence and the • Went swimming today. Took a pee in the Cat A Reviews deep end. Life guard noticed and started In context: Boris Becker won the Wimbledon http://www.dailysudoku.com/ breath, might just transform blowing his whistle. I was so scared, I almost men’s singles championship again the following Pre-tariff Sift/Hearings your life in more ways than fell in. year, and for a third time in 1989. He won a total of six grand slam titles in his career, and in Suite 8, Vine House, you think ... Interested? • My Son, Luke, Loves How I Name My Kids 1991 was ranked world number one. His After Star Wars Characters. My daughter, 143 London Road, Write to The Prison Phoenix Trust attacking style of tennis, based around a massive Chewbacca, not so much. Kingston KT2 6NH P.O. Box 328, Oxford, OX2 7HF. serve and dramatic, diving volleys defined men’s • I lost a drinking buddy to a tragic accident. tennis for years and is still emulated on court We’d love to hear from you anytime and have He got his finger caught in a wedding ring. today. He retired from professional tennis in 020 8549 4282 several free books and CDs, which could 1999, after an emotional return to Wimbledon NATIONWIDE SERVICE help you build and maintain a daily practice. • What do you call a French person wearing in which he lost in the fourth round. sandals? Philippe Philoppe. Insidetime July 2019 www.insidetime.org Jailbreak // Just for Fun 59

The joke’s on you! WordsearchJailbreak – July 2019 // Disney Would you believe it? Disney – James Beaumont HMP Guys Marsh

Toodaloo • Man: My girlfriend is pregnant, but I always B F B M V H E R B I E R O J T A D E I P A flight from Manchester was wear a condom. How did this happen? R E P Q O Y J B A M B I E U Z T P O N N delayed for almost eight Doctor: Let me tell you a story; a hunter carried F J A K A N O D E L I E V N E A N C C K hours when a confused his gun with him everywhere he went. One day, E U L U L V S N S F N Y L G G I A X R A passenger opened an he mistakenly grabbed his umbrella and went F D L E T T O T R N H E B L H S W E E B emergency exit after mistak- out. A lion attacked him and hoping to scare it I A A L A Y F O E W P E T E R P A N D F ing it for the toilet door. The off he pointed the umbrella at it like a rifl e and N C D N R D A V N R M C B B N S L I I H Pakistan International Airways yelled “Bang” and the lion dropped dead. D K I F Z I N N Q E S D A O D H L A B K flight to Islamabad was almost Man: That’s impossible, someone else must I E N E A A T U D A L I E O N G E S L L ready for takeoff when the have shot it. A wolf in bears clothing N L U T N W A F H T D T N K N Z L D E R woman grasped for the wrong Doctor: I’m glad you understood the story. Scientists have uncovered the head of a G T C I T A S D Z O H P G C W N H U S S door, launching the emergen- prehistoric beast that lived 40,000 years ago. N I W I N N I E O Y C E B E C O O M J J cy evacuation slide. The • A man joins a monastery and takes a vow of Experts believe the wolf-like animal dates back E A W S N T A L S S E R B E F R T B Z X passenger reportedly told silence: he’s allowed to say two words every to the Pleistocene-era and was preserved by seven years. After the fi rst seven years, the M G F P R D T Y D T E E U E R A G O N J the freezing temperatures of the Siberian airline staff she thought the door was for the toilet. The elders bring him in and ask for his two words. O S P L D F E W K O S C G U A R E E L G permafrost. According to experts, there are “Cold fl oors,” he says. They nod and send him L T C A R S E R M R S I S N A S T R O T some ‘peculiarities’ and the head was larger airline and Manchester airport confirmed the details away. Seven years pass. They bring him back in B Y T N R O P I E Y S M L E E D T R E I than modern-day wolves, suggesting it could and ask for his two words. of the incident. Officials in A O V E H T W A Y L B A I A E R L K J O be the evidence of an extinct subspecies. Dr He clears his throat and says, “Bad food.” They Pakistan blamed a shortage of O Q S S N E N I O W L C F N D U P V N S Protopopov said experts are going to return to nod and send him away. Seven more years airline staff for allowing the L I O N K I N G A X D A E E T R Q Z A A where the head was found, above the Arctic pass. They bring him in for his two words. “I emergency exit door to be Circle, and search for the remains of its body. quit,” he says. “That’s not surprising,” the elders ALLADIN,ALLADIN, BAMBI, BAMBI, BEAUTY BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, AND BUGS THE LIFE, BEAST, CARS, CINDRELLA,BUGS LIFE, DUMBO, CARS, opened. The flight carrying ERAGON, FANTASIA, FINDING NEMO, HERIE, INCREDIBLES, JUNGLE BOOK, LION KING, It’s thought movements of ice pulled the head say. “You’ve done nothing but complain since CINDRELLA, DUMBO, ERAGON, FANTASIA, FINDING NEMO, nearly 400 passengers MONSTERS INC, PETER PAN, PLANES, TARZAN, TOYSTORY, UP, WALL-E, WINNIE off tens of thousands of years ago, but the head you got here.” HERIE, INCREDIBLES, JUNGLE BOOK, LION KING, MONSTERS INC, will be examined to see whether man was eventually left Manchester 8 PETER PAN, PLANES, TARZAN, TOYSTORY, UP, WALL-E, WINNIE involved. Following the find, rumours began to hours later. Several other • A man spoke to each of his 3 sons when he Thanks to James Beaumont - HMP Guys Marsh for compiling this circulate that the severed head could, in fact, departures from Manchester sent them off to college... “I feel it’s my duty to Wordsearch. If you fancy compiling one for us please send in max 20 x have belonged to the mythical ‘bearwolf’. But were also delayed as a result 20 grid complete with answers shown on a grid. If we use it we will provide you with the best possible education, send you £5 as a thank you! Remember to include your name, number, Dr Protopopov says this is just due to the of the disruption. The and you do not owe me anything for that. discolouration of the animal’s hair. Lad bible Guardian prison. We will be using the new ‘Money Transfer Service’ for prize However, I want you to appreciate it. As a money so include your DOB on your entries. token, please each put £1,000 into my coffi n Yo-ghur-to have it when I die.” And so it happened. His sons Men who have two portions of became a doctor, a politician and a fi nancial Quick Crossword yoghurt a week could cut the planner, each very successful fi nancially. When risk of precancerous growths their father’s time had come, and they saw by a fifth, a study suggests. their father in the coffi n, they remembered his Research by the University of wish. First, the doctor put 20 newly printed Washington found those crisp £50 notes onto the chest of the deceased. eating plenty of it had a Then, the fi nancial planner also put £1,000 significantly lower chance of there in 20 newly printed crisp £50 notes. developing adenoma which Finally, it was the heartbroken politician’s turn. can lead to bowel cancer. The He reached into his pocket, took out his check- study, published in Gut, which Boaty McBoatface’s major discovery book, wrote a check for £3,000, put it into his tracked more than 32,000 Boaty McBoatface’s maiden outing has made a father’s coffi n, and took the £2,000 cash. men for 25 years, found that major discovery about how climate change is those consuming at least two causing rising sea levels. Scientists say that data • A Rabbi and two Priests decide to go skinny portions of yoghurt a week collected from the yellow submarines’s first dipping. After they get out of the water some had 19 per cent fewer growths expedition will help them build more accurate girls come towards them. Being naked and - and 26 per cent fewer of the predictions in order to combat the problem. without enough time to get dressed the Priests most high-risk type. The study The mission has uncovered a key process linking cover their penises with their hands and the was observational, and could increasing Antarctic winds to higher sea Rabbi covers his face. After the girls pass them, not demonstrate why the temperatures, which in turn is fuelling increasing one of the priests asks the Rabbi. “Why didn’t foodstuff might have such an levels. Researchers found that the increasing you cover your privates? Have you no shame?” impact. But scientists said that winds are cooling water on the bottom of the The Rabbi answers “I don’t know how you guys Lactobacillus bulgaricus and ocean, forcing it to travel faster, creating do it in your community but we recognize each Streptococcus thermophilus, turbulance as it mixed with warmer waters other by face.” two bacteria commonly found above. Experts said the mechanism has not been in live yogurt, may lower the factored into current models for predicting the Across Down number of cancer causing impact of increasing global temperatures on Words of the month chemicals in the gut. The our oceans, meaning forecasts should be altered. 1. Candid (5-6) 1. At once, informally (6) 7. Jumps on one foot (4) 2. Soak up (6) anti-inflammatory properties Boaty McBoatface - the publicly named • PRODITOMANIA - the feeling that everyone might also reduce gut robotic submersible carried on the research around you is a traitor. 8. Body part (7) 3. Tidy (6) leakiness, which could also vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough - took its 9. Choose (3) 4. Of the foot (5) protect against disease, they first expedition in April 2017, studying the • FERROEQUINOLOGY - the study of iron 10. Minimum (5) 5. Capital of Uganda (7) said. The Telegraph bottom of the Southern Ocean. The Telegraph horses; a humorous term sometimes used by 11. A sweet (6) 6. Not very (4,3) trainspotters to describe their fi eld of interest. 13. Extremely energetic person (6) 11. Small acting role (3,4) 16. Theme (5) 12. Planet (7) Send your message (20 words max) • CATCHLIGHT - the little gleam of refl ected 18. Signal agreement (3) 13. Hang loosely (6) Grandparents Day to Inside Time and we will publish as light in the eye of someone in a painting. 19. Mildly entertaining (7) 14. Naturist (6) Sunday, 6 October many as possible in a special Grand- 20. Greek letter (4) 15. Type of small cannon (6) parent’s Day section in the October • PROCRASTINATRIX - a female procrastinator. 21. One influencing fashion (11) 17. Young human (5) issue. All messages received will i-Tüpfelchen (German) - literally, the dot on appear on the website and fathers • the i; fi guratively, the fi nishing touch that on the outside will be sent a copy of The last word... makes something perfect. the newspaper if you include their address details. Entries must be sent • BUSY-IDLE - busily engaged in trivial matters. to Inside Time ‘Grandparent’s Day’ Botley Mills, Botley, Hampshire • LEXIPHANICISM - the pretentious use of “In the middle of a diffi culty lies opportunity.” SO30 2GB. Closing date obscure words. Albert Einstein 20th September and don’t forget • BORIS-NORIS (19th century) - to go on to include your full details too! blindly, without any thought of risk or decency. 60 Jailbreak // National Prison Radio www.insidetime.org Insidetime July 2019 National Prison Radio is available in prisons across July 2019 England and Wales, and HMP Grampian in Scotland. What’s on National Prison Radio // July 2019 We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, into your cell. If your prison has National Prison Radio, you can National Prison Radio is currently available in prisons across England and Wales. 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