Category A (Psychology) Hello friend, I’m going to detail the 6 false and/or incomplete pieces of information that Psychology and Security submitted in their reports to my Category A review, I’ll look at each one separately and look at what preceded the negative file entry, the file entry itself, the lengths I had to take
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Category A (review) Hello friend, Following on from my last blogs: I’ve just received my Cat A review folder. This includes reports from various departments, including: Security; Psychology; the Offenders Management Unit (OMU); a wing report; A report from Recovery Services. Putting to one side the fact that the OMU report was completed by someone
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Category A Hello friend, After 14 ½ years in prison, I’m still a Category A prisoner. This is nothing to do with my risk levels, which, bar one, are all “low“. The one that isn’t low is opinion based and a result of the conviction. The reason I’m still a Cat A is purely because
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Inside Time Hello friend, I had a letter published in the prisoner’s newspaper ‘Inside Time’. That’s 2 out of 3 letters published. Maybe I should write to them more. I won’t bother reprinting it as you will be able to view it on their site, www.insidetime.org. It’s really just a rewrite of blog number 103
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Arts Project Hello friend, The aftermath; we’ve had a lot of really positive comments from prisoners; nice to get some ‘love’ instead of the hostility. We’ve started the process of evaluation. Interestingly, 24 guys out of the 50 feedback sheets I’ve processed didn’t turn up to the show. That’s a big percentage. Most of those
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Hello friend, What a struggle this has been (see blog 114). I’ve, finally, been given permission to buy a replacement power adaptor direct from the manufacturer’s website. Strange, as they had previously told the PPO that there was no adaptor I could buy; the PPO, of course, bought into this without any further investigation. That’s
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Arts Project (show 3 & 4) Hello friend, We had some time in the morning to sort out a few technical glitches; sound effects; lettering the cubes for the house; sound levels, etc. Ran through a few parts with Project Instrumental; I could spend all day with those guys, just listening to their playing. The
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Arts Project (show 1 and 2) Hello friend, So here we are, over 8 months of rehearsal and hundreds, nay, thousands of hours of work to get to this point. We set up the gear in the morning but, once again, only had time to practice fragments. The Project Instrumental string quartet was superb, of
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Arts Project Hello friend, This is the last Arts Project before the show days. This covers the 5 days prior to the first show. Choir rehearsal: went okay, despite the unwanted interjections from the same guy from the other day. It’s a shame; I had such big plans for the choir’s involvement which I had
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Arts Project Hello friend, Our first rehearsal this week went really well. It was another acoustic run through; we nearly made it to the end, bar 1 number. However, the day of the second rehearsal was very stressful. Firstly, at the rehearsal itself, we had one of the choir causing problems. He was actually attempting
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