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.
Brothers, seriously, when you look at how much worse off other people in the world have it and you truly understand there really is no rock bottom, then you start to see there are no limits to how good our life could be (and out of anyone we deserve it!).
I’m eligible for release mid-July if I can find a suitable address, and I’ve applied for a Crest public boarding house address, but they’ve advised me of a minimum 12-month wait time.
At this point, we struggle to even be released on our parole date while being a model prisoner, which I feel is our right.
Luckily, in the week leading up to sentencing, I made contact with whom I now call the “Gods of Criminal Defence”.
A problem I have come across here at Woodford is that the only reading glasses you can get (if you are poor and not eligible for free prescription glasses) are #16 and are only 2.0 magnification!
‘They can lock the locks, but they can’t stop the clock!’
In March 2024, I completed a program called Mates for Inmates. It was a program where we had dogs that came in from the Lord Smith’s Dog Home that needed to be retrained so they could be rehomed to those looking to adopt a dog so they can eventually find their forever home.
I was determined to strive for something different. I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to be honest, open-minded and willing today.
The lack of housing is creating a backlog for inmates who otherwise would be eligible for parole.
With even the prison staff in industries agreeing that our pay rates are ridiculous, how do things stay the same?
Wow, I won the caption comp for December… I’ve never won anything and the whole jail is congratulating me.
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.
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 was 40 years old when I was incarcerated and I could barely run around the block.
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 due for parole in March, and my parole is approved but there is no housing for me to go to.
Have you ever heard the phrase: ‘It’s moments like these you need Minties?’ Well, in 1980, I witnessed one of these ‘moments’.
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