Monday, June 30, 2014

A Slice of Prison Culture

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It's instinctive, if unfair. But I rarely wholly trust any man with a thin scar down their face. Being slashed, "striped", is ...
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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Purpose of Prison

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What is the point of prison? What is it we expect to happen via some mystical act of hiding someone away behind a 20 foot wall? I wish I c...
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Friday, June 20, 2014

Morally Ambiguous Murderers

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The Right wingers who lurk in the shadier parts of our society - such as Parliament and the Daily Mail - are not known for supporting murder...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

Books for Prisoners

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Books for Prisoners With unintended irony I begin writing this at a café in the sunshine – opposite a small bookshop. I am carrying s...
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Saturday, April 12, 2014

The Mandela Question

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Ever since I read Nelson Mandela's autobiography some questions have been floating my mind. They have not resolved themselves with the p...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A Legal Persecution

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My friend Farah There are few more tormenting calls to receive than one from a prison payphone; especially for people who have been on...
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Thursday, January 9, 2014

The Bank Thing

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Having spent the morning with the Editor burying Henley and mourning, I couldn't face the empty house. Walking to the shops I bunged my...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014

A Very Fine Cat

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Each time I returned home I'd call the cat as I shut the door on the world. "Henley. Henley! Idiot..." And I did just that ag...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Bright Young Minds

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Talk at Reading University on behalf of the Howard League: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpf-lT7pL34
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Life For A Life

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I have never understood the proposition that if one commits a murder, one should then be killed. Note I don't call this an argument; it...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Relationships

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A common response from everyone I have ever tried to explain the nature of prison friendships to is puzzlement. Outsiders, those fort...
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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Sky News

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fHWhV8ewEI Brief interview to discuss prison privileges, with a few old cell pics thrown in!
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Digital Presence

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Rather foolishly, I expected to be able to continue near-daily postings after my release. It has never happened; life has a nasty habit of g...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Prisoners Votes Judgement

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The Supreme Court hands down a ruling tomorrow on the long-running prisoners votes case, following the victory by John Hirst in 2005 in the ...
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