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Prison blog, UK
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What is the UK prison system like from the inside?

How do you survive prison... and thrive in prison?

Prison reform
Criminal justice reform
How to survive prison
Surviving prison
Criminal rehabilitation
Prisoner rehabilitation
Are there drugs in prison?

NOTICE TO PRISONERS

Over recent months, there has been an increase in reports of the use of psychoactive substances (also referred to as Spice) and this has resulted in a number of prisoners and staff requiring medical treatment...

prisonblog.co.uk/project/drug...
December 30, 2024 at 5:31 PM
A Dream

At dinner today, I was chatting to an inmate about his current situation, including difficulties in his family relationships. These difficulties stem from the abuse that he experienced in childhood...

prisonblog.co.uk/project/dream/
December 30, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Is prison punishment?

I used to think that when a person commits a crime, the justice system provides a punishment. But that’s not how it is.

My punishment began the day the witness statements were read out to me, a full 18 months before I was sentenced....

prisonblog.co.uk/project/is-p...
December 28, 2024 at 7:05 AM
What is it like in prison?

I’ve been here for 5 days so far, and, very surprisingly, am enjoying every day. Here are some answers to questions that friends and family have been asking me via emails, which are printed off and slipped under my door each morning...

prisonblog.co.uk/project/what...
December 26, 2024 at 8:13 PM
The First Day of Prison

At the prison, I was strip searched with a great deal of respect. I was asked to remove my clothes from only one half of my body at a time – first the top half, then the bottom.
prisonblog.co.uk/project/firs...
December 15, 2024 at 8:57 AM
The Journey To Prison

After sentencing I was handcuffed to a man and led from the courtroom, downstairs to the cells. There I had a few hours to think and to process what was happening to me before being transported to prison. My cell was walled on three sides... prisonblog.co.uk/project/jour...
December 15, 2024 at 8:51 AM
How to survive prison

If it would help you to get some advice from me directly, please feel free to get in contact.

If you’re preparing for prison, I hope that this advice will he[p you to feel calmer. Here are my seven top tips for surviving prison… prisonblog.co.uk/how-to-survi...
December 15, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Welcome to my prison blog, an account of daily life in a UK prison.

If you are preparing to go to prison yourself, you may like to start with my prison survival guide. Watch this space...
prisonblog.co.uk
December 15, 2024 at 8:44 AM