About Time dedicates many of its pages to publishing the letters of people in prison, as well as from their family and friends.
This is the centrepiece of the paper: a platform for people to share their experiences and learn from each other.
I write to extend feedback – re: your monthly paper. I must say that it was with more than the usual measuring spoon of interest that most here @ MRC welcomed its arrival.
12 months into being remanded in custody. I’m still yet to be sentenced – hence I can’t see the end at all.
Prison reflects you like a mirror, you regret every mistake in your life. Everything. And if you want, it brings you back on the right way.
I was 40 years old when I was incarcerated and I could barely run around the block.
I now live in hope that I can find peace within myself, and there is a faint light at the end of a very long tunnel.
I'll never come back to this place, but I’ll always respect the time that I’ve spent in here, and I understand now how and why people return to this place.
Wow, I won the caption comp for December… I’ve never won anything and the whole jail is congratulating me.
With even the prison staff in industries agreeing that our pay rates are ridiculous, how do things stay the same?
The lack of housing is creating a backlog for inmates who otherwise would be eligible for parole.
Dad would always say “there’s something about toiling in the garden, getting your hands in soil, it earths me out.”
I am the volunteer garden billet and some of my responsibilities are garden plot allocation and seed distribution.
I pretty much have to pick and choose who I ring because it costs way too much money to ring each of my kids.
Now about jail and what it does to you inside: you learn to suppress your feelings and show your anger or bravado. But what happens then to you? You forget how to love.
Before anything I am a human being. As I’ve learnt, this is quite important to remember.
I am nearly 72 years of age, and I have been in a prison or institution for all but eight or ten years of my life. So I would know a bit about Christmas lunch in the prison system.
A couple of months ago I began attending education here and found a program called “BK SB”, which brings students’ ability to manage English and maths up to scratch.
I just read issue 5 November 2024. There was an article titled “Bodies in Cages: Trans Experiences in Prison”. Being a trans woman myself, I wanted to share my story of experience in custody.
Look at the bare roofs across our jails, put some solar panels on all of them and turn them all into power stations, effectively reducing power bills everywhere!
It’s my first time being inside. My anxiety, fear, depression and mental health are heightened with extra volume.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Remember to be kind to one another over the festive season.
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