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Chocolate & Grace: Succeed in the face of adversity

Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · 14d

Chocolate & Grace: Succeed in the face of adversity

Women describe the empowerment they feel when they are truly valued, treated with respect, and given the agency to rebuild their lives.

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Back in 2017, in The Clink restaurant in HMP Brixton, I had lunch with Chris Moore, the then Chief Executive of The Clink Charity, and a lady from Scotland. We listened carefully as she shared her …

🚨The SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL is one of the most cruel & inhumane injustices of the past half-century

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23d

🚨If you are not yet familiar with the shocking IPP scandal hold onto your seats and watch this jaw dropping update

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23d

THE SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL is one of the most cruel, inhumane and monumental injustices of the past half-century. So why has this government allowed it to continue?

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · 23d

Dichotomy of Lived v Learned Experience

“You don’t have lived experience”

A statement that is levelled against me far too many times to remember along with being White, A woman and Middle class…etc.

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Dichotomy of Lived v Learned Experience

I first stepped foot in a prison in 2010; I was invited to be a community witness for a victim awareness course at HMP/YOI Hollesley Bay, around 40 minutes’ drive from my home. The environment was …

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · Aug 20

Worth the read. Must chat with you about this down the line.

Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Aug 20

Love to

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Mary Corcoran @marycorcoran.bsky.social · Aug 19

A typically thought provoking piece by @faithspear to the rigid, zero sum formula which reduces ‘lived’ and ‘learned’ experiences to separate and warring poles.

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you Mary, I have wanted to write a piece on this subject for white a while. Now seemed the right time.

Dichotomy of Lived v Learned Experience

Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Aug 15

“You don’t have lived experience”
A statement that is levelled against me far too many times to remember along with being White, A woman and Middle class…etc.

thecriminaljusticeblog.com/2025/08/15/d...

I first stepped foot in a prison in 2010; I was invited to be a community witness for a victim awareness course at HMP/YOI Hollesley Bay, around 40 minutes’ drive from my home. The environment was …

New prison education contracts awarded - Prisoners' Education Trust

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Aug 2

Reading about the new contracts for prison education. Slightly concerned that no award for West Midlands (as yet) and that its the same providers just changing their areas.

Do we have confidence that just changing the areas into 11 lots will bring about any tangible improvement?

Prisoners' Education Trust @prisonersed.bsky.social · Jul 30

The Ministry of Justice has awarded the new contracts for education provision across the adult public prison estate in England.

The new Prisoner Education Services (PES) contracts will replace the current contracts in the autumn.

Find out the providers for the 11 regional lots here ⬇️

The Ministry of Justice has awarded the new contracts for education provision across the adult public prison estate in England.

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Jul 30

@katemiller01.bsky.social thank you for following me Kate

Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Jul 27

@casper-does-art.bsky.social so lovely to meet you today. Your art is amazing. I hope you are inspired to continue

Prisons minister: ‘There are too many drugs in prisons’

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Jul 9

"We are really in a battle to make sure that our prisons are safe."

The Minister for Prisons, Lord Timpson tells Jackie Long about the drug crisis 'they inherited from the last government' and what he plans to do about it.

Read and watch:
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We spoke to the Prisons, Probation and Reducing Reoffending Minister, Lord Timpson.

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Reform & Rebuild @reformandrebuild.bsky.social · Jul 4

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It is time to release prisoners trapped by inhuman endless jail terms

Thousands of offenders are caught in a cruel legal limbo by IPP sentencing. Indeterminate prison terms are not only unjust – they point to a failure of political courage and leadership, says former ch...

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Campaigning Lawyer Calls On Prime Minister To Back Plan Drawn Up By Lord Thomas To End Shocking IPP Scandal In Viral Video

Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Jun 28

An expert working group convened by The Howard League and led by Lord Thomas has come forward with considered proposals aimed at protecting the public while ending the long-running IPP scandal.
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Campaigning Lawyer and CEO of CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Peter Stefanovic – who’s films have been watched hundreds of millions of times online – has posted a new film calling on Prime …

CAMPAIGNING LAWYER CALLS ON PRIME MINISTER TO END SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL

Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Jun 18

CAMPAIGNING LAWYER CALLS ON PRIME MINISTER TO END SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL
A fresh attempt will be made to resolve the IPP scandal once & for all in the form of a Private Members’ Bill by the Labour peer Lord Woodley
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Campaigning Lawyer and CEO of CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Peter Stefanovic – who’s films have been watched hundreds of millions of times online – has posted a new film, this time callin…

CAMPAIGNING LAWYER CALLS ON PRIME MINISTER TO END SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL

Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Jun 13

CAMPAIGNING LAWYER CALLS ON PRIME MINISTER TO END SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL

Campaigners have hit out at the “short-sighted” decision not to include prisoners on IPP sentences in the plans announced to reduce the prison population.
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Campaigning Lawyer and CEO of CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Peter Stefanovic – who’s films have been watched hundreds of millions of times online – has posted a new film, this time callin…

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Jun 13

@thepawnbroker1.bsky.social thank you for following me Phil

I’m joining Trussell in calling on the Gov’t to rethink its cruel & shameful plan to cut benefits

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jun 11

IT’S NOT TOO LATE for the government to change course. Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability & health benefits by Parliament's work & pensions committee who say they should not go ahead without a comprehensive impact assessment

Contact your MP, NOW

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Mar 29

I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the government to rethink its cruel, shameful & completely irresponsible plan to cut benefits which will plunge 250,000 people, including 50,000 children into poverty - on its own impact analysis

This is how you can help

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Jun 10

@probationjournal.bsky.social thank you for following me

Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Jun 7

"Refusing to engage in the resentencing exercise recommended by the House of Commons Justice Select Committee the Labour government is allowing one of the most cruel, inhumane & monumental injustices of the past half-century"
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CAMPAIGNING LAWYER CALLS ON PRIME MINISTER TO END SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL

Campaigning Lawyer and CEO of CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Peter Stefanovic – who’s films have been watched hundreds of millions of times online – has posted a new film, this time callin…

CAMPAIGNING LAWYER CALLS ON PRIME MINISTER TO END SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Jun 7

Campaigning Lawyer and CEO of CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE @peterstefanovic.bsky.social posted a new film, calling on the Prime Minister Keir Starmer to end the IPP scandal by backing a Private Members’ Bill by Labour peer Lord Woodley

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Campaigning Lawyer and CEO of CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Peter Stefanovic – who’s films have been watched hundreds of millions of times online – has posted a new film, this time callin…

Faith Spear FRSA: ‘I don't regret being a whistleblower'

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Feb 27

What shocked me the most was the waste of human life. I often refer to prisons as ‘warehouses of the vulnerable’ because that’s how I saw it. 
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Danielle Lett chats to whistleblower Faith Spear FRSA, who defied all odds and bravely spoke out against injustices in the prison system

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · Apr 13

Everybody wants to have their say and everyone has an opinion. But there is a big difference between those who say their piece ad nauseum and those who have something to say.

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An interview on a Summer’s day

How/why did your involvement in the CJS come about? I turned down a place to study for a degree and instead moved from Lincolnshire to Essex at the age of 19. My first “proper” job was in admin wit…

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Faith Spear FRSA @faithspear.bsky.social · May 9

“We have to stop this madness of believing that we can change people and their behaviour by banging them up in warehouse conditions with little to do and not enough to eat and sanitation from a previous century.”

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Prisons: still we build them and still we fill them

Transcript of speech by Faith Spear FRSA delivered at Battle of Ideas, Church House, Westminster, London on 20 October 2024. “I’m not a political person… I’ve never wanted to get involved&#82…