Jan 20, 2025 · How to hand-wash my boxers with shampoo When to argue and when to take the L How to spend 23 hours with a stranger How to spot my kinda people Where to be during association How to associate with criminals When to walk away and how to lie Where to find the hottest showers When…

2 days ago · Prison, they say, is what you make of it. Two years I've been in prison now and it's made me into a better person both physically and mentally. I hear so much negativity in here and finally I’ve figured out why people expect things to happen and don't help themselves at all. The most common…

2 days ago · Firstly, I want to wish everyone at Inside Time all the very best for 2025. Here in Scotland we have a saying: ‘slinging, sinking the boot in’. What it means is that when someone is down on their luck and at a real low point in their life there is always someone who comes along…

2 days ago · Sometimes I get depressed when I read the morning newspapers. Not just by yet another dismal Arsenal report, but by the exaggeration of crime in the UK which paints a picture of a country riddled with criminality, when in fact national surveys prove otherwise. The annual Crime Survey for England and Wales, previously the “British…

Dec 16, 2024 · Racism complaints overseen by prisoners Allegations of racism against prison staff are being shown to prisoners to assess whether they have been investigated fairly. In a trial scheme at Wayland prison, a panel of seven prisoners views complaints submitted on Discrimination Incident Reporting Forms (DIRFs), and are …

Jan 20, 2025 · I know firsthand how challenging it can be to pursue education while in prison, but I also know how transformative it can be. That’s why I want to make sure you know about the courses we have available to you, which are fully funded, so you don’t need to …

2 days ago · Two pieces of positive news for women in prison. First, in the House of Lords, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Health and Social Care, pledged that “new women’s health and well-being hubs will begin in all 12 female prisons from 1 st April 2025.” These, she says, will be a major help to those in prison with health and anxiety issues.

2 days ago · I write in regard to the unfair Extended Determinate Sentence (EDS). It has come to my attention that offenders who are serving an SDS40 have been released early, serving only 40% of their sentence for crimes worse than many people serving an EDS. Why have the authorities not taken this into account to reduce the…

Jan 20, 2025 · Whenever it feels dark, outside or within, we can bring light in by doing a yoga sun salutation. This sequence gets our body flexing and our blood flowing. We can do this slowly, taking several breaths for each movement or flow from one posture to another. It’s a good idea to ease and warm up…

Dec 29, 2024 · I'm writing in response to the news article ‘First failing Cat-C jail’ (October). An inspection of Rochester by Charlie Taylor in August found squalid conditions, rising violence and self-harm, widespread drug use, and a lack of actively preparing men for release. I have now served three years and three months, and I have been at…