Humane Justice

Steve Shill has been in prison since 2006. Age 49, he’s worked in call centres, he’s managed pubs, and he’s worked for the Ministry of Defence.

Steve’s essay is being read by an actor.

It’s entitled: Encourage or punish? It sets out some thoughts from behind bars on what constitutes a suitable consequence for people who commit crimes.

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Louise Ridley began her working career as a teacher in prisons. She’s now a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University.

Louise’s essay is Prison: The UK’s largest provider of residential elderly care. It looks at the increasingly urgent question of what we should do with older people who commit crimes.

https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/r/louise-ridley/

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Gemma Buckland spent twelve years as an advisor to the Justice Select Committee in the UK parliament. This brought her into close contact with those who make decisions on our behalf. She led influential inquiries on prisons, probation, crime reduction and the treatment of young adults and women in the criminal just system. She is now the director of Do It Justice, a research and advocacy consultancy.

Gemma’s essay is entitled: How politicians and the public think about crime. It draws from her time in parliament and her insights on the connected thought processes of politicians, the press and the public.

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Ted Smyth works for the Forward Trust, a charity that helps people to break the often interlinked cycles of addiction and crime, and to move forward with their lives. He’s a graduate of the University of Durham, he also holds an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Oxford University.

Ted’s essay is entitled: How should we punish crime? It looks deeply into the idea of retribution – questioning whether punishment should play any role at all in the sentences handed out to those who have committed criminal acts.

https://www.forwardtrust.org.uk

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Dawn Harrison is a Senior Interventions Coordinator for the Changing Lives charity in the north-east of England. Her creative thinking in the fields of arts, culture and heritage underpins her work in the field of criminal justice. 

Dawn’s essay is entitled: Releasing your mind from prison. She describes an incredible journey she took with a group of women on probation orders in South Tyneside.

https://www.changing-lives.org.uk

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David McGuire specialises in working with young and vulnerable people who are in contact with the law, particularly in Spain. He’s the founder of Diagrama Foundation UK, a charity which supports vulnerable people who are experiencing social difficulties.

David’s essay is entitled: How to help people who have committed crime to love themselves. It introduces us to a model for managing people in prison which he helped develop in Spain, and which has been remarkably successful.

http://www.diagramafoundation.org.uk

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Sarah-Jane Baker is a violinist, poet, artist and author who was released from prison in September 2019 after serving 30 years of her life sentence, all of them in men's prisons. She was the world’s longest-serving transgender prisoner.

https://www.watersidepress.co.uk/acatalog/Transgender-Behind-Prison-Walls-9781909976450.html

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Pauline Crowe is Chief Executive of Prisoners Abroad – a charity that provides humanitarian aid, advice and emotional support to British people detained overseas.

In this episode, Pauline gives us her experiences of three contrasting prison cultures from three very different parts of the world.

https://www.prisonersabroad.org.uk

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Kim Turner works in adult male prisons as a Speech and Language Therapist.  She has researched speech and language therapy through projects based in court, police and prison settings, exploring how vulnerable people access these services.

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/hcs/staff/pgr/turner

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