A Nation of ‘Incarcoholics’
By Rachel Billington
After twenty-five years at the heart of Her Majesty’s Prison Service, both as governor and inspector, John Podmore says we are obsessed with incarceration and ‘have become a nation of incarcoholics’

Launching his book, ‘Out of Sight Out of Mind’ subtitled ‘Why Britain’s Prisons are Failing’, John Podmore explained his reasons for this view on BBC Breakfast , at the influential Royal Society of Arts and on the Andrew Marr radio programme. On Breakfast, he looked for answers and compared community prisons to the John Lewis business plan, ‘What’s wrong with a John Lewis prison that’s owned and run by the community? We have public sector prisons, we have private prisons, why don’t we have community prisons run by the community?’

At the RSA, in debate with Nick Herbert, the Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice, he began by noting the people we don’t lock up - or very few of them: the bankers, phone hackers and corrupt policemen. Next he took on the issue of security, stating that it is the relationship between staff and prisoners that keeps prisoners safe and secure. ‘Cooperation not coercion.... read full article

Month by Month
By Rachel Billington
Rachel follows the progress of John Podmore as, he escaped from prison after 25 years service, including governor of Belmarsh, Swaleside and Brixton, he tries to explain why prisons aren’t working and what changes are needed

Prisoners are human beings, they’re citizens and they’ve got rights as citizens’
By An Inside Time report:
Last month National Prison Radio hosted its most high-profile guest to date - the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Keystone Cops are back
By Charles Hanson
Charles Hanson uses an FOI request to check on crimes against the police

Prisoners and the media
By Francesca Cooney
Francesca Cooney of the Prison Reform Trust explains how prisoners have limited access to the media

Hidden UK Gun Crime
By Matt Seiber
Author of ‘Gunfire-Graffiti’, Matt Seiber wonders why the authorities are not interested in the unlawful discharge of firearms

The argument for polygraph tests
By Bernard O’Mahoney
Bernard O’Mahoney, author of Essex Boys, outlines the case for polygraph tests in a miscarriage of justice case

OASys - your right to a fair assessment
By Denise Marshall
Independent Risk Assessor Denise Marshall offers a fresh look at OASys

The Victims Levy and the Prisoners Earnings Act 1996 an Update
By Andrew Sperling and Camilla Pandolfini
Most readers of Inside Time will now be familiar with the Prisoners Earnings Act 1996

The Probation Service... Your life in their hands!
By Emma Davies
Emma Davies of Hine Solicitors examines the impact of the Probation Service on prisoners’ lives

20 years in San Quentin
By Dean Carter
Death Row inmate Dean Carter gives us a glimpse of one of America’s most notorious prisons

Probation privatisation ‘to cut costs and reoffending’
By The writer of this article is a serving prisoner who wishes to remain anonymous
The government’s plan to privatise the Probation Service-or at least parts of it

Magna Carta and All That
By Stanley Best
Barrister, Stanley Best takes a look at recent developments in the legal world

A high number of foreign national women in prison are trafficked or coerced into offending
By Mark Day
Mark Day reports on a new briefing paper by the Prison Reform Trust

O Brave New World
By William Rogers
Part 2 of our new series detailing the highs and lows of freedom

From over the wall
By Terry Waite CBE
Terry Waite writes his monthly column for Inside Time

Big shoes to fill
By Diane Curry OBE
As Diane Curry takes on her new role as CEO of POPS she looks back at the career of the woman who started it all 25 years ago, Farida Anderson MBE

Prison Widow
By by a Prison Widow
Well folks, it’s February

Licences and Licence conditions
By Lisa Gianquitto
Solicitor Lisa Gianquitto casts a legal eye over the complicated subject of licenses and conditions

Restraint & Receivers
By Aziz Rahman, Solicitor and Jonathan Lennon, Barrister
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