About insidetime
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Inside Time Limited is a 'not for profit' publishing company producing insidetime - the monthly newspaper for prisoners. Any profits made by Inside Time Limited are automatically donated to The New Bridge Foundation.
Each month over 46,000 copies of each issue are distributed free of charge to all prisons and special hospitals plus many secure units and hostels throughout the UK. There is also an extensive mailing list of individuals and organisations involved in penal affairs.
Inside Time Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of The New Bridge Foundation a registered charity founded in 1956 to help create links between prisoners and communities.
The directors of Inside Time Limited are appointed by New Bridge and serve as directors on a voluntary basis and without financial reward of any kind.
insidetime History
(extracted from the New Bridge Foundation website)
insidetime - the national monthly newspaper for prisoners - was launched by New Bridge in December 1990. BBC Breakfast Time television showed the first issue being delivered to the cells at HMP Grendon in Buckinghamshire. For more than a decade insidetime has been a voice for prisoners in British prisons, committed to providing information and comments that seeks to be informative, interesting and entertaining.
In January 2004, insidetime became a separate subsidiary of New Bridge - in the form of a not for profit company limited by guarantee. It is run as a business but its profits are donated to the New Bridge Foundation. A Board of Directors was also appointed, with extensive and relevant experience of journalism, business and the Prison Service. The newspaper continues to thrive, with the introduction of more colour and a hugely popular 'Jailbreak' page with puzzles and prize competitions.
It has expanded from eight pages per issue to fourty-four, from four issues a year to twelve, and from 12,000 black and white copies per issue to 46,000 full colour copies. As insidetime has grown in influence, it has expanded its prison readership to an estimated 50,000 per issue. It is distributed to every prison and special hospital in Britain.
Advertising revenue increased significantly during 2008 sufficient to enable the basic number of pages of each issue to be increased from 36 to 44.
Special supplements have included insidepoetry and insideeducation.
The extra space meant even more of the high quality and well written articles submitted by our regular prisoner writers and provided space for some of the new contributors.
Former prisoner Paul Sullivan joined the insidetime team to work on insideinformation a project to expand the website, www.insidetime.org, pulling together all the help and advice organisations for prisoners and their families and valuable resettlement information. Input from Paul's wife and another former prisoner's family helped shape the content of the service and dictate exactly what was to be included. The launch of this massive website facility and volume 1 of the printed guidebook will take place during the year and distributed free of charge to prison libraries throughout the UK.
Over 6,600 items of mail from prisoners and other organisations had to be handled by the administration office during 2008. Articles, legal queries, poems and quiz entries from all over the UK plus readers overseas contributed. The website is getting up to 5,000 hits per day and provides worldwide free access to the pages of each issue.
'Can I thank all at insidetime for such a really fantastic paper - even better now that it's monthly with more colour. Each issue is of massive value to prisoners and our families as it gives us a face and a voice. I find that when all seems lost, nowhere to go and applications failed, you can turn to insidetime and it never fails to give you that vital lift every prisoner needs, with something for everyone. '
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Issue : July 2010
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July 2010 Headlines
‘Prisons are awash with drugs’
‘An open letter to Kenneth Clarke MP, Secretary of State for Justice’
Quality not quantity
Housing...
Month by Month
A matter of life and death
Prison is whatever you want it to be …
The learning experience
Ben's Blog
Trials, timing and influence
Anonymity Until Trial
Reducing isolation … increasing socialisation
Deliberately inflicted powerlessness
“They know who you are, where you are, what you are doing and who you are doing it with!”
Flawed sentences
Does prison fail inmates with mental illness?
Civil Recovery Orders
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InsidePoetry Book
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insidepoetry book
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Everything you need to know about visiting people in prison; procedures, opening times, directions etc.
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insideinformation Book
Help and Support
Various pages of information for help and support organisations and networks for those in custody as well as recently released. Also information for friends and family.
Grants and Funding
This grants and funding pdf document aims to meet the need of prisoners and ex-offenders for accurate, up to date information on the supplementary funding available to prisoners.
Rules and Regulations
Information on rules & regulations used throughout the prison service.
Glossary of Terms
The Glossary of Prison Related Terms explains what all the acronyms and terms stand for with prison related matters. Includes links to external sites to further explain things.
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Prison Law pdf
This document provides details of leading training providers who offer sound professional training.
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