All posts by Gordon

019 – 40 – category a Category A Hello friend, …and where to start? At the beginning of the year, a senior member of staff admitted to me that I would not be progressed through my sentence unless I did an ‘offence-focussed’ course. The only course that is currently being touted for prisoners who are
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2019 – 39 – category A Category A Hello friend, This is one of those blogs that I do not look forward to writing; partly because of how depressing it is for me to repeat the same points over and over again, and partly because it always ends up being this complicated and huge piece
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2019 – 38 – heatwave Heatwave Hello friend, It’s been another really uncomfortable summer. You’ve seen the prison films like ‘Cool Hand Luke’ where, as a punishment, the prisoner is put in ‘the hot box’ and left there for a few days. Whilst maybe not as bad, the temperature our cells reach must hit dangerous
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2019 – 37 – blog Blog Hello friend, Forgive me reader, for I have sinned; It’s been exactly 2 months since my last blog… No… it’s not because I’ve been lazy – I’ve had a lot of work to do on a number of different issues. There’s been good and bad stuff to do with
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DPA Hello friend, I made a Data Protection Act request in February last year. Despite my complaint to the MoJ, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) upholding my complaint and their two letters to the MoJ, I still had not received the personal information I had requested. The only course of action now left to me
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Phone Hacking Hello friend, Well, well, well… 90 claimants who had brought cases for phone hacking against newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch’s organisation, had their claims settled. Interesting… you have journalists who make their living from vilifying public figures and writing salacious stories about high-profile riminal cases, whilst at the same time they are breaking
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Food Hello friend There was a recent outbreak of listeria in a hospital due to food poisoning. It reminded me of my 2 bouts in here (see blog 2018 69). One of the experts referred to the ‘chill chain’ being broken. I am 100% certain that this is what caused my food poisoning the last
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Humanity Reminders Hello friend, After the last 3 blogs, you may well ask how I retain my faith in humanity – something I like to call ‘humanity reminders’. One of my regulars is ‘Undercover Boss USA’. I usually catch the last 20-30 minutes after coming back from work. Seeing the joy and emotion from the
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Hello friend Here we go again… I’ve now served my pre-action letter of claim against The Governor of HMP Wakefield and Care UK (the private healthcare provider). Both have now sent their acknowledgment letter and will be giving me their full response in around 3 months. Having been here many times before (this is my
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Dishonest Politicians Hello friend, I saw a clip of Chris Grayling (former prison’s minister) talking about the reoffending rates of violent and sexual offenders; this was when he was trying to gain support for his (now failed) privatisation of the probation service. He claimed that 60% go on to reoffend within a few months .
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