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.
Hey guys, I love getting the chance to read about other prisoners all around the country each month and thought I would share my story.
I encourage everyone who is incarcerated not to identify with your crime. Rather, identify with something higher, wider and greater than that.
Hi, I just want to send congratulations on your first issue reaching my prison.
I have a short poem as well as a mindfulness technique called “Distress Tolerance”.
Well, I’m writing this letter in relation to the housing crisis, which is a problem for many inmates trying to find a place to live.
I am writing to you about my one and only older sister, Alithea. RIP. It’s been 2 months since I lost you.
In New South Wales, there were previously three levels of protective custody for vulnerable inmates, such as myself, who have autism spectrum disorder and other mental health issues.
Hello to everyone in Australia. My name is Tricia. I was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I am serving a life sentence, and, for those of you who don’t know, a life sentence in Pennsylvania means your entire life.
GROW is a community-based national organisation that works on mental wellbeing using a 12-step program of personal growth, mutual help and support. It operates through weekly peer support groups.
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 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.
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