I was given a sentence of 2045 days [five years and seven months]. I served approximately two years and nine months, and I ...

I read your recent article about hospital patients finding their food tasted better when eaten from blue plates (Yum! My ...

I’m sitting in a now-empty journalism classroom, reading the article from Sarah Langdon in January’s Inside Time. My reply to ...

A few months ago, I was sent four back issues of the magazine Private Eye, but this prison’s post room would not allow me to ...

I am sick to the back teeth of the myth of so-called progression, and it seems that if you are in a Scottish prison, you will ...

This is a very sensitive topic in prison and is still a taboo subject. I suffer with autism and struggle to make meaningful ...

I want to start with a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1818. It is entitled ‘Ozymandias’ and describes a large stone ...

I have been watching the news lately with great amusement. I’ve had many a laugh to myself with regard to all the political rhetoric. The abundance of defections ...

I write in regards to two items in the January issue. The first is a Mailbag titled “It’s self-inflicted, not a disease”, and I have to say it is totally incorrect.

Prisoners at retirement age have already had to accept the refusal of the government of their national old-age pension. They did this using highly-paid barristers to ...

HM Inspectorate of Prisons has warned of continuing problems at G4S-run HMP Parc, following its highly-critical report in ...

The Ministry of Justice expects that 520 people serving IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) sentences will still be in ...