2020 – 08 – photocopying Photocopying: duh! Hello friend, I may have blogged about this before – no matter. One of the ridiculous policies in here (one of many) is the photocopying policy. It costs us 10p per copy. It costs the prison virtually nothing. The copiers are under a contract and the paper is
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Monthly Archives: April 2020
2020-07-kettles
2020 – 07 – kettles Kettles: oh. those halcyon days… Hello friend, Well, that didn’t last long (see blog 2019-60). The great kettle experiment has come to an end. Nowarning, mind. Last weekend – kettles removed. Of course, this caused quite a bit of hostility. Many of the guys had handed their flasks back; as
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2020-06-projects
2020 – 06 – projects Projects: finally, a nice blog… Hello friend, My last blog on this was in June last year (2019-20). My ‘projects’ are the positive, self-development and enriching things I do to fill my time. The screenplay went nowhere during the last 6 months of the year – I was too distracted
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2020-05-Healthcare:”Praise” or “Poor”
2020 – 05 healthcare Healthcare: “Praise”or “Poor”? Hello friend, I spotted two short letters about healthcare in this month’s Inside Time. The first letter was from an anonymous sender praising healthcare at HMP Wakefield. Yes, while some of the GPs and are “professional, understanding and courteous”, this is an incomplete and misleading picture (see 2019-12,
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2019-32-safer custody
2019 – 32 – safer custody Safer Custody Hello friend, So what is going on? The first problem is the mix of prisoners. When I first came here in January 2012 you could hear a pin drop at night. Whilst there was no vulnerable prisoner part to the prison the number of main location prisoners
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2019-31-safer custody
2019 – 31 – safer custody Safer Custody Hello friend “I love the smell of effluence in the morning,” he said, whilst walking through a fine mist of human waste. Okay, I’ve a little dramatic licence; nonetheless, the past 12 months (or so) has seen a noticeable rise in violence. It’s been a combination of
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2019-30-safe custody
2019 – 30 – safer custody Safer custody Hello friend, The Chief Inspector of Prisons recently said that our prisons are “plagued by drugs violence and apalling living coditions,” and that suicides were up by a fifth. I have an update on this prison’s safety ready to go for a while but I’m pretty certain
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