I know how fortunate I am to have a job writing for Inside Time. I meet some remarkable people, and learn so much by ...

In the first case of its kind, a man in Scotland was recently sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment for culpable homicide after his wife took her own life. It is a tragic case, and my heart goes ...

I am lucky in the sense that I’ve been out on my IPP sentence. While I was in the community in 2023/24, I passed a humanities ...

There’s a story about Roger Bannister running a mile in under four minutes back in 1954. Before that, people in white coats ...

There’s a lot of talk about prisons being full and run down. The system is broken. The probation service can’t cope with ...

Reading the April issue of Inside Time, I was left bewildered that on page 10 there was a relatively small article about the ContraSCAN handheld scanner that can pick up traces of Spice and other ...

Why are all prisons so different in what you can or cannot have? We save up our minuscule wages, especially those who aren’t ...

It is 2026, and several years have passed since Covid regulations were lifted from prisons. Except at one. Wormwood Scrubs ...

As the domestic football season draws to a dramatic close on both sides of the border, the month of May is where the final ...

This month the column comes from Damian Le Bas, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, who shares some favourite books ...

Easter – when you pass a farm selling chickens and they are going cheep! Easter is a great time to share, and I have just ...

In Inside Time’s monthly recipe column, a prison nutritionist provides ideas for creating your own tasty and wholesome dishes ...