The ups, downs, challenges and triumphs of a prison leaver’s journey There was a dark cloud hanging over Overcourt Probation
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The day my life changed I play it over in my head If I’d have just stayed at home,
When I was released from prison in August 2025, I faced a problem familiar to many leaving custody: I
We inmates queue up to exchange our dirty kit for clean kit and bedding once a week, which we
Usher: ‘They will get you in the end’ Adrian Usher used to be a policeman on a drug squad.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has referred a man’s murder conviction to the Court of Appeal because of a 2006 case in which a
Advertorial Since the original announcement in May this year, we have received a large volume of enquiries about
Since the original announcement in May this year, we have received a large volume of enquiries about the change
Our prison system is in perpetual chaos in comparison to the 1990s. Then, 90 per cent of the staff
Last year I visited a Sycamore Tree course at HMP The Mount. I went there to meet Vi and
Learning from my brother before I came to prison, I briefly played the drums. I never thought much about
If you’ve recently been recalled to prison, you may have heard about something called “Risk Assessed Recall Review” (referred
To the east of Cambridge there stands a science campus. There, hidden amongst mature trees, are a number of
Before I meet anyone for an interview, I plan the key issues I want to raise, ask for their
“There is nothing to do”, “I am bored”, “I never get out of my cell”. These are all comments
I write in response to a Mailbag from Will P (Not Worth the Paper, February 2024). All I seem
I’ll speak facts with these raps – right now let me recap One excuse for the booze and I
All this Corona mess has got me thinkin’ ‘bout my life All the things that I’ve done wrong, by
Prison staff have been instructed to stop handcuffing prisoners on hospital visits when they are too frail or unwell
I was last in prison in 1991, just after the Strangeways riots (riots broke out in 20+ prisons while