Our discussion event yesterday was the most profound yet. 26 diverse attendees, with SO’s discussing their employment journeys/barriers, victims discussing their views, and HMPPS staff disclosing to their manager, online during our meeting, about being an ex-prisoner. Love it 😍
Prisoners can't vote, and too often they're silenced. I hope hundreds take this opportunity to have their say when it counts on a subject they're experts in. #SentencingReview
…the boy’s mum grateful phoned me and told me where to take the wallet. ‘My son is autistic so he would have been very anxious so this is such a relief’ she explained So, the result: ‘profit maximising multinational financial institution 0, cash starved municipal service 1.
I see that Ian Bickers, the London regional prisons director, announced on LinkedIn last week that he had resigned from the prison service but does not have a role to go to. He was a man of great integrity and experience.
The Bank of America-backed Growth Impact Fund, developed by Big Issue Invest and UnLtd, announces its second investment, in a Social Enterprise leading the charge in tackling prisoner education 👇
https://t.co/Q8HFMR8oOx
It’s inhumane and madness-inducing to keep people without a release date - behaviour WILL NEVER improve under those conditions - therefore the vicious cycle continues of no release date for the sake of ‘public protection’ at the expense of the public purse…
@eppiesprung Because people have control over crime - I don’t believe it should be under the equalities act for that reason. How can you protect something that has potentially hurt people? The other protected characteristics do not so that
If you hire ex-prisoners, like I do, you might expect to have to go to court to reclaim money they stole from you occasionally. Today I won my case against a dishonest former employee...
He was the only person in the company without any prior convictions.
@hmpps will we ever allow people with convictions including murder, arson, terror/hate crimes or sexual offences to truly be rehabilitated?? If so, why can’t they work with you?