Life After Prison

In this episode Zak and Jules sit down with Jules’ dad, Graham, and Gasconi, who became a dad the day before he went inside. They discuss how prison affected these relationships, what they did to get through it and where they are today.

This podcast is also available as a video – just search Life After Prison on YouTube.

Useful organisations:

• A Fairer Chance

• Storybook Dads

• Children Heard and Seen

• Sussex Prisoners Families

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If anything you’ve heard in this podcast has inspired you to make a positive change in your life, or you’d just like to get in touch, please contact us.

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✉️ Write to us: Life After Prison, National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF

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Zak and Jules sit down with the CEO of HMPPS, Amy Rees to ask her about how prison officers are trained, how prisoner complaints are dealt with inside and ask some important questions about licence conditions and recall.

This podcast is also available as a video – just search Life After Prison on YouTube.

Useful organisations:

• Clinks Directory

• Prisoners Families Helpline – 0808 808 2003

• Longford Trust

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If anything you’ve heard in this podcast has inspired you to make a positive change in your life, or you’d just like to get in touch, please contact us.

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✉️ Write to us: Life After Prison, National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF

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Zak and Jules speak to award-winning lash technician Shanice Lee about the importance of being open and honest about her past, her time in prison and where she found the confidence to start her own business and the resilience that she’s needed to keep going.

This podcast is also available as a video – just search Life After Prison on YouTube.

Useful organisations:

• Prince’s Trust

• Women’s Work

• Housing For Women

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If anything you’ve heard in this podcast has inspired you to make a positive change in your life, or you’d just like to get in touch, please contact us.

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✉️ Write to us: Life After Prison, National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF

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Gary Mansfield never thought someone like him could be an artist, but after taking a punt on an art class in prison, he found himself hooked. After writing to artists like Tracey Emin while in prison, Gary found the confidence to pursue art as a career when he got out. Here, he talks about why he makes the work he does and how the art community helped him along the way.

This podcast is also available as a video – just search Life After Prison on YouTube.

Useful organisations:

• Koestler Arts

• Prodigal Arts

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If anything you’ve heard in this podcast has inspired you to make a positive change in your life, or you’d just like to get in touch, please contact us.

💬 DM us: @afterprisonpod on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok

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✉️ Write to us: Life After Prison, National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF

🖥️ Website: https://lifeafterprisonpod.com/

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While The Sit Down is taking a short break, we bring you Touch Road, a brand new mini-series about life after release from prison. Three people tell their stories of life after walking through the gate. In this final episode, we find out how their stories end.

If you have recently been released from prison, there are lots of organisations that can support you:

Mental Health

• CALM
• CALM helpline – 0800 58 58 58 (open 5pm-midnight)
• Samaritans
• Samaritans helpline – 116 123 (24 hours)

Post Release Support/ Disclosing your conviction

• NACRO
• Unlock
• PACT
• Clinks Directory

Accommodation

• Shelter
• Crisis
• St Mungo’s
• Housing For Women
• St Giles Trust

Employment

• Working Chance
• Switchback
• Employment 4 All
• Only A Pavement Away
• New Futures Network
• St Giles Trust
• Bounceback
• Clean Slate

 Orgs that Support Women

• Advance
• Women In Prison

Addiction and Recovery

• Humankind
• Turning Point

Surviving Abuse

• Survivors UK

Armed Forces Support Organisation

• SSAFA

Care Leavers

• Care Leaver Covenant

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While The Sit Down is taking a short break, we bring you Touch Road, a brand new mini-series about life after release from prison. Three people tell their stories of life after walking through the gate. In episode two we hear about the ups and downs that come with the first few days of life on the outside.

If you have recently been released from prison, there are lots of organisations that can support you:

Mental Health

• CALM
• CALM helpline – 0800 58 58 58 (open 5pm-midnight)
• Samaritans
• Samaritans helpline – 116 123 (24 hours)

Post Release Support/ Disclosing your conviction

• NACRO
• Unlock
• PACT
• Clinks Directory

Accommodation

• Shelter
• Crisis
• St Mungo’s
• Housing For Women
• St Giles Trust

Employment

• Working Chance
• Switchback
• Employment 4 All
• Only A Pavement Away
• New Futures Network
• St Giles Trust
• Bounceback
• Clean Slate

 Orgs that Support Women

• Advance
• Women In Prison

Addiction and Recovery

• Humankind
• Turning Point

Surviving Abuse

• Survivors UK

Armed Forces Support Organisation

• SSAFA

Care Leavers

• Care Leaver Covenant

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While The Sit Down is taking a short break, we bring you Touch Road, a brand-new mini-series about life after release from prison. Three people tell their stories of life after walking through the gate. In episode one we hear all about how they prepare for release, and how it feels to step out of jail for the first time once their sentence is over.  

If you have recently been released from prison, there are lots of organisations that can support you: 

Mental Health

• CALM
• CALM helpline – 0800 58 58 58 (open 5pm-midnight)
• Samaritans
• Samaritans helpline – 116 123 (24 hours)

Post Release Support/ Disclosing your conviction

• NACRO
• Unlock
• PACT
• Clinks Directory

Accommodation

• Shelter
• Crisis
• St Mungo’s
• Housing For Women
• St Giles Trust

Employment

• Working Chance
• Switchback
• Employment 4 All
• Only A Pavement Away
• New Futures Network
• St Giles Trust
• Bounceback
• Clean Slate

 Orgs that Support Women

• Advance
• Women In Prison

Addiction and Recovery

• Humankind
• Turning Point

Surviving Abuse

• Survivors UK

Armed Forces Support Organisation

• SSAFA

Care Leavers

• Care Leaver Covenant

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The friends you make in prison can help you to survive your sentence, and achieve success when you get out. This week we Sit Down with Nigel and Rony, two of Zak’s friends that he made during his time in prison. All three credit their success in rebuilding their lives on the outside, to the people they’ve surrounded themselves with since their release. Here they talk about changing their mindset post prison and what those friendships mean to them.

This podcast is also available as a video – just search Life After Prison on YouTube.

Useful organisations:

• Maximus
• St Giles Trust
• Social Ark

Contact us:

If anything you’ve heard in this podcast has inspired you to make a positive change in your life, or you’d just like to get in touch, please contact us.

💬 DM us: @afterprisonpod on Instagram and Twitter

📧 Email us: [email protected]

✉️ Write to us: Life After Prison, National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF

🖥️ Website: https://lifeafterprisonpod.com/

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Before going inside, Ali never thought he’d end up working in radio. But, after taking an interest in National Prison Radio, he eventually started working for the station while inside. Now, Ali works as a producer and presenter for NPR but on the outside. Here he talks about how his listeners shape his show, what he’s learned since joining the station and what he gets out of having a creative job.

This podcast is also available as a video – just search Life After Prison on YouTube.

Useful organisations:

• Only Connect
• Shannon Trust
• Novus
• Seven Three One

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If anything you’ve heard in this podcast has inspired you to make a positive change in your life, or you’d just like to get in touch, please contact us.

💬 DM us: @afterprisonpod on Instagram and Twitter

📧 Email us: [email protected]

✉️ Write to us: Life After Prison, National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF

🖥️ Website: https://lifeafterprisonpod.com/

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While in prison, Darren Murinas took a cooking class where he was encouraged to be a peer mentor, and upon release his passion for helping others using his lived experience grew. Eventually Darren founded Expert Citizens CIC, an organisation that puts lived experience at its core to help improve services using the expertise of those who’ve been there.

This podcast is also available as a video – just search Life After Prison on YouTube.

Useful organisations:

• Restart
• Concrete
• Expert Citizens CIC
• Shelter
• Druglink
• Emmaus

Contact us:

If anything you’ve heard in this podcast has inspired you to make a positive change in your life, or you’d just like to get in touch, please contact us.

💬 DM us: @afterprisonpod on Instagram and Twitter

📧 Email us: [email protected]

✉️ Write to us: Life After Prison, National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF

🖥️ Website: https://lifeafterprisonpod.com/

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