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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
I have recently been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and, as a result, I am allocated one extra piece of fruit every day.
Where would we really be without our Brothers.
I have been incarcerated now for 25 years and I am suffering from a diabetes related sore feet nerve condition.
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.
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?
I’m fortunate I didn’t end up killing anyone that night. I usually always have a passenger with me, but that night I didn’t have anyone in my car.
A problem I have come across here at Woodford is that the only reading glasses you can get (if you are poor and not eligible for free prescription glasses) are #16 and are only 2.0 magnification!
Luckily, in the week leading up to sentencing, I made contact with whom I now call the “Gods of Criminal Defence”.
I’m eligible for release mid-July if I can find a suitable address, and I’ve applied for a Crest public boarding house address, but they’ve advised me of a minimum 12-month wait time.
At this point, we struggle to even be released on our parole date while being a model prisoner, which I feel is our right.
Brothers, seriously, when you look at how much worse off other people in the world have it and you truly understand there really is no rock bottom, then you start to see there are no limits to how good our life could be (and out of anyone we deserve it!).
For the past year or so, it’s been getting harder for mail to get through. I’ve been here for nine years and I’ve never had a problem with mail.
Fight until there is no time left on the clock!
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