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.
After being incarcerated in 2017 at 40 years old, I thought this would be my opportunity to finally learn how to spell.
When I paint, I'm not in prison anymore. I'm lost for hours in my artwork.
I’d think there are a lot of inmates looking for someone to talk to, for some people it might help with the healing process.
Since having my first ever grandson nearly 3 years ago now, it’s made me realise that I not only want to change, but I need to do it not only for myself but for my family.
My name is Jean. I am a wiry spitfire, 65 years young, and incarcerated for the past 24 years with a L.W.O.P. (Life Without Parole) sentence.
Prison doesn't easily allow outside support to provide the love and care many inmates require, let alone access professional support.
We have a voice, but through the system, our voices are muted. We are mothers, sisters, daughters, and even grandmothers.
Our external world has so many options and choices, to have, do and be, we even have greater control of this world, more than we have ever had before, yet we are still suffering.
I am the volunteer garden billet and some of my responsibilities are garden plot allocation and seed distribution.
Dad would always say “there’s something about toiling in the garden, getting your hands in soil, it earths me out.”
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