Probation
Mike Guilfoyle remembers a service-user's apprehension of meeting a psychologist
Mike Guilfoyle considers the missed interventions and desistance struggles in supervision
Whilst I do recall an irate prisoner during a prison visit threatening to dispatch my then line manager in…
The phrase, 'all coppers are bastards' often shortened to a pejorative acronym, was very much a piece of…
I have arranged dozens of headline speakers over many years and thought that I might be allowed a forgivable…
The memorably alliterative phrase used was 'punitive passions pulsate' and the unsettling emotions…
That is, how to manage in the first few weeks in the community on a meagre allowance of £46, known as the…
Whilst reading, I felt painfully constrained, thinking of whom I might include in this month’s…
The scope of the early release scheme should be urgently reviewed
One recurring memory in particular prompted this post.
This evoked a poignant memory of my supervisory relationship with Sergio (not his real name) after I had…