Reintegration

Owning my story became one of the most liberating decisions I’ve ever made.

Not once did somebody ask me what I needed, what mattered to me, or what healing looked like from my perspective.

Welcome to another exciting instalment of Ask Stacey!  And I got one of my favourite questions!

For any person in prison and coming up for release within the next year, have you ever thought about what your transitional worker should be doing?

This is a very special Ask Stacey, as I finished parole! And the questions came from all sorts of different people in the justice system.

Hello my valued readers! Welcome to another session of Ask Stacey.

Talking about prison once you’re out in the community can be challenging. It’s difficult to know the right thing to say, or how people might react.

You had questions, we listened! These answers are from my life (and are supposed to make you smile a bit!).

You may be following in an age-old tradition of this county by languishing in one of his Majesty’s prisons, but you are not forgotten!

What you need to survive in prison is different to what you need on the outside. Many people have said that the first few weeks out were harder than their time inside. Coping with money problems, dealing with other people and feeling like you don’t belong in society can take a toll.