All posts by Gordon

Arts Project Hello friend, I ran into the new Governor who has taken over from Governor […]. He’s passed the project onto one of his managers Luckily not the one who has done so much damage but disappointing nonetheless that he has opted to take a hands off approach. Weekend vocal and harmony rehearsals went
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Arts Project Hello friend, The destruction continues… the bird skull cap was returned with the beak cut off and the elongated fingers were also destroyed. Unbelievable. Now, they are refusing to finish the cubes for the set. All that is left is to paste a picture of a house on one side and trim the
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Food Hello friend, Staff stealing prisoners’ food from the servery is a sackable offence. Throughout my time in prison I have observed staff doing this many times, yet, I am not aware of any of them being sacked. I’ve been getting a number of reports that some of the staff who work on the servery
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Arts Project Hello friend, After the previous great week it all came crashing to the ground. First thing: I found out that Textiles still hadn’t started the costumes; several weeks since we all got measured,. At this rate we’ll only have 1 or 2 dress rehearsals. Next: I was informed by the woodwork guys that
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Cell Move Hello friend, There are 3 levels of Category A prisoner: standard risk (me); medium risk; and, high risk. If you are a high risk Cat. A prisoner you have to move cells every month. That used to apply all Cat. A prisoners but over the years they have relaxed this craziness. Even for
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Music Files (civil case) Hello friend, Mmm…after m last blog I can almost feel the mutterings of disapproval. Like most prisoners, the last thing I want to do is to take a claim against the Ministry of Justice, I have better things to do with my life. In this civil case they are claiming £32.000
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Heart Attack & Handcuffs (civil case) Hello friend, Well that went well. The Judge said some really complimentary things about my skeleton argument (this is what you put in writing so the Judge knows in advance). In fact, I think this won the hearing for me before we had even started. Counsel for the MoJ
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Heart Attack & Handcuffs (civil case) Hello friend, I’ve got my case management decision appeal hearing tomorrow. You know, the next time you hear the MoJ carping on about prisoners claims wasting public money think on this: I have on 2 occasions offered to settle this case to save the wasteful costs of the MoJ
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Adaptor Hello friend, Al the way back to September last year, the power adaptor to my little DAB radio broke. You might think it would be a simple issue to get sorted out. Order a replacement adaptor, right? Not remotely right. After being told I could order a multi-function adaptor from Argos (an approved supplier)
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Arts Project Hello friend, What a great week! The string score was finished and sent to Project Instrumental. They should be coming in a couple of weeks. The choir session went much better; far more enthusiasm. We’ll get them in on a full rehearsal in about 3 weeks. The big thing this week was one
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