‘Prisons are awash with drugs’
By Eric McGraw
It is an open secret that our prisons are awash with drugs. The evidence points to the fact that the bulk of drug dealing, as well as the smuggling of mobile phones, into prisons is highly organised and involves the collusion of around 1000 corrupt members of prison staff – an average of seven for every prison in England and Wales.

These are the findings in a new Report: ‘Coming Clean: combating drug misuse in prisons’ by the Policy Exchange, an independent think tank – that carried out a Prisoner Survey in Inside Time in December 2009. read full article

‘An open letter to Kenneth Clarke MP, Secretary of State for Justice’
By John O’Connor
John O’Connor challenges the government to implement measures that would lead to a better criminal justice system

Quality not quantity
By Rachel Billington and John Bowers
In 2001, Inside Time’s Rachel Billington and John Bowers interviewed Dame Anne Owers at the beginning of her appointment as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons. Nine years on, with Dame Anne announcing that she will be retiring from the post on 14 July, they return to the same office.

Housing...
By Andy Thackwray
brick by brick!

Month by Month
By Rachel Billington
Rachel feels like Alice in Wonderland as she goes to The Clink restaurant in HMP Highdown

A matter of life and death
By Charles Hanson
Charles Hanson reflects on the austere, often brutal regimes that existed before the liberalisation of the prison system

Prison is whatever you want it to be …
By Ian Charley
Former robber Ian Charley reflects on his own years in prison and argues that the key to change rests with the individual

The learning experience
By Ryan Penn
Prison is actually a good place for acquiring and developing new life skills says Ryan Penn

Ben's Blog
By Ben Gunn
Lifer Ben Gunn’s Prison Blog … the only blog by a serving British prisoner which ‘looks stupidity and ignorance in the eye whilst attempting to inject some neurons into the criminological debate’.

Trials, timing and influence
By Tony Joyce
Tony Joyce highlights the psychological process he believes underpins many of today’s prosecutions

Anonymity Until Trial
By Stanley Best
Stanley Best discusses granting anonymity until trial to those charged with rape and kindred offences.

Reducing isolation … increasing socialisation
By Francesca Cooney
Francesca Cooney, Advice and Information Manager at the Prison Reform Trust, highlights the Trust’s work on older people

Deliberately inflicted powerlessness
By John Bowden
John Bowden is angered by what he considers to be disinformation and rhetoric intended to camouflage the reality of the Wakefield CSC

“They know who you are, where you are, what you are doing and who you are doing it with!”
By Paul Sullivan
Inside Time’s Paul Sullivan highlights the British obsession with public surveillance

Flawed sentences
By Philip Rule
Barrister Philip Rule highlights domestic burglary and that some prisoners have been unlawfully sentenced or sent to the Crown Court

Does prison fail inmates with mental illness?
By David Wells
Solicitor David Wells argues that controlling mental illness by punishment is not the answer

Civil Recovery Orders
By Aziz Rahman and Jonathan Lennon
… the latest way to lose everything

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