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Ben
Lecturing
About Me
- prisonerben
- United Kingdom
- Previously known as "one of Britain's best known prisoners...he constantly questions authority and exposes the futility of the system" The Times, Ben was finally released from prison after 32 years in August 2012. Pleading guilty to the murder of a friend when he was 14 years old, he renounced violence and fought for the recognition of the inherent dignity of all human beings. As a result of speaking truth to power, he served far longer than the recommended 10 years, leading Education Secretary Michael Gove to argue that he had "been punished excessively for a crime committed as a child". One of the more intellectual of prisoner-campaigners, Ben chose to educate himself from schoolboy level to having both undergraduate and post graduate degrees. He is currently one of very few prisoners in Britain ever to attempt a Doctorate. Ben's speciality is non-violent action and the Human Needs Theory. Now on Life Licence, He is forging a career as a CJ policy consultant, writer and - as ever - campaigner.
I love the title you gave to fact that people aged 60 and over are the fastest growing age group in prisons, and I am glad for the information.
ReplyDeleteOne of my neighbors who is sixty has just been put in jail - awaiting sentencing very soon for making death threats against his daughters, his girlfriend and myself ( I played it down to the police ), but his daughters are pressing charges.
Although this neighbor can be a right what not at times, jail is no place for him, he has terminal health problems, exacerbated by a couple of beatings he received, one whilst in Jail, the other when he was let out on bail before breaking his conditions and having to go back inside.
Still, for a drug dealer, its amazing he has survived, I know his daughters would be happy if he retired from his precarious profession and grew old gracefully!
Some people forget that crime is generally a young mans game!
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