I’ve been there before you see. So many times, Fight or flight, sink or swim, but now I know
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[Head pregnant with] a million bruised thoughts, I’m a human chimney excreting smoke. Slowly smoking the suffocating pain away.
Firstly, they switch off your light at the police station after they read you your rights. Then they lock
Have you ever wished you’d told someone something, and now it’s too late? Perhaps it was a partner before
Love travels through prison walls It comes as phone calls and visits And even in the banter between prisoners
Let’s face it, the well-being of prisoners is not high on the political agenda, especially when it comes to
Throughout January, National Prison Radio (NPR) will be broadcasting a special series of programmes called ‘The Spark’, which features
In 2015 I was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment (later reduced to nine on appeal). Entering prison a matter
For the women of Send, ‘freedom is a brushstroke away’ – while a retired judge raises questions about justice
Francesca Fattore, 44, beat drug addiction and has helped others to do the same. She now runs YouTube and
The much-awaited Victims and Prisoners Act 2024 has finally received Royal Assent and become law. Although IPP sentences were
IPP sentences were introduced in 2005 with the aim of preventing offenders, considered dangerous, from being released automatically even
Prisoners at HMP Frankland are claiming their human rights have been violated after a power cut at the prison
Do not cast off your love light Shine, shine come what may I hold you forever in my sight
Plans to build an open unit for 50 women outside the perimeter wall of Foston Hall prison in Derbyshire
Certain triggers, triggered me pulling the trigger Fourth of July, I saw summer quickly become winter Cases shelled that
I am 36-years old and have been in and out of prison since I was 21. The majority of
I write this poem in memory of Doddie Weir A giant of a man who never feared fear He
In the not-too-distant past we were living in a literally dark age. Once the sun had left the sky,
The headlines in the local paper screamed from the kitchen table; ‘THREE POLICE HORSES PERISH IN MYSTERY BLAZE’, underneath,