About Time dedicates many of its pages to publishing the letters of people in prison, as well as from their family and friends.
This is the centrepiece of the paper: a platform for people to share their experiences and learn from each other.
I write to extend feedback – re: your monthly paper. I must say that it was with more than the usual measuring spoon of interest that most here @ MRC welcomed its arrival.
12 months into being remanded in custody. I’m still yet to be sentenced – hence I can’t see the end at all.
The jail preaches about priding themselves on keeping family connections, yet they are rejecting child visit applications.
I understand that people have done a lot in my life to better my future – that includes my whole family. And for that I am so grateful to all. "God is good to us all.”
I have read in quite a few issues that other inmates have been feeling the same sting of phone charges that I was.
You can have as many support workers and parole officers as you can get, but it will never make you stop doing crimes. It has to come from within yourself.
I remember our living room used to be filled with hundreds of CDs. My mum is where my love of music came from.
I was always drawing as a kid, and when the opportunity came up to do an art course at age 17 I went for it.
It is not a pleasurable experience. It is very difficult to face all those emotions and reflect over the course of your whole life.
Why does time move so slow? Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years, year after year. I wonder if other people have ever felt invisible?
She was an advocate for us girls, always fighting for a better world, but she was also my best friend, and I’ll miss her every single day.
I have been incarcerated now for 25 years and I am suffering from a diabetes related sore feet nerve condition.
I have recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and, as a result, I am allocated one extra piece of fruit every day.
Rarely have I heard men, real men, express their “luv” for one another on the outside so regularly as I do in the yard or in the yelling from their cells after muster.
Mistakes are made. Sometimes we don’t always know why or how these mistakes are made. Mistakes can’t be taken back. However, we can learn from them.
One thing I dislike is when somebody thinks you can’t do it. There they go underestimating our ability to run it up. Like, righto!
Special moments do happen in prison. It was the moment of my life, and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with him.
It’s Friday the 13th. I am already in prison so probs won’t fall under the bad luck banner. Lolz.
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