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One recurring memory in particular prompted this post.

The UK is falling behind on managing Covid in prisons

The Covid pandemic offers the chance of a rethink on prisons

The Covid-19 pandemic should be a prompt to rethink our reliance on prisons

Enforcement alone will not stop the county lines exploitation of children

Children's prisons are incapable of reform. They should be closed

The problem of prisons and the problem of school exclusions are connected

This evoked a poignant memory of my supervisory relationship with Sergio (not his real name)…

Prison officer violence is the norm, not the exception

Successive governments over many years have indulged in banal sound-bites and failed prisons

The gains that followed the 1990 Strangeways prison protest are being lost

Education can be transformative for prisoners, so why are their so many barriers?