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.
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.”
The lack of housing is creating a backlog for inmates who otherwise would be eligible for parole.
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