JOE CHAPMAN
@joechapman.bsky.social
Former Prison Officer, ex Prison Law Consultant, and Author.
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📰 As we approach the new year, let's take a look back at some of the key headlines in our December roundup.
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December 31, 2024 at 11:10 AM
📰 As we approach the new year, let's take a look back at some of the key headlines in our December roundup.
Read our reports here: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/our-reports/
Read our reports here: hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/our-reports/
So, David Gauke goes to Spain, hits the vino, and comes up with yet another hair brained idea😜
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Make more use of open prisons, former minister David Gauke says
As he reviews sentencing policy, David Gauke points to Spain where reforms have cut prison numbers.
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December 30, 2024 at 10:29 AM
So, David Gauke goes to Spain, hits the vino, and comes up with yet another hair brained idea😜
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Poor mental health can make earning and managing money harder.
Here, you can find out more about organising your finances, claiming benefits when you have a mental health problem.
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Poor mental health can make earning and managing money harder.
Here, you can find out more about organising your finances, claiming benefits when you have a mental health problem.
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Money and mental health
Practical information for managing your money and mental health.
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December 23, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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Poor mental health can make earning and managing money harder.
Here, you can find out more about organising your finances, claiming benefits when you have a mental health problem.
www.mind.org.uk/information-...
Poor mental health can make earning and managing money harder.
Here, you can find out more about organising your finances, claiming benefits when you have a mental health problem.
www.mind.org.uk/information-...
Wishing you all a happy Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. It’s going to be a difficult and demanding time for many, and not joyous at all. So those who have loving families, good friendship and good health should be very grateful.
December 21, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Wishing you all a happy Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. It’s going to be a difficult and demanding time for many, and not joyous at all. So those who have loving families, good friendship and good health should be very grateful.
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We do wonderful things and it would help us to do more wonderful things ✨
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We do wonderful things and it would help us to do more wonderful things ✨
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Nominate a charity - Movement for Good
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December 6, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Please consider nomjnating our wonderfuk charity @talkingforward.bsky.social for this £1000 prize 🙌🏻
We do wonderful things and it would help us to do more wonderful things ✨
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We do wonderful things and it would help us to do more wonderful things ✨
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This is an excellent initiative, which should be extended across the UK. It is disappointing that we are still discussing this almost 3 decades after I was involved in the campaign for alternatives to custody for women in 1995.
Whilst ministers are seriously addressing the prison crisis, this is timely to bring this over to #bluesky #justice #alternativetocustody #women www.russellwebster.com/the-greater-....
The Greater Manchester Problem Solving Court - Russell Webster
The Greater Manchester Problem Solving Courts provides a holistic approach to women on court orders.
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December 20, 2024 at 9:21 AM
This is an excellent initiative, which should be extended across the UK. It is disappointing that we are still discussing this almost 3 decades after I was involved in the campaign for alternatives to custody for women in 1995.
I ran family days, carol concerts,and the annual children’s Christmas party for prisoners and their families, in a prison therapeutic community.
Prisoners would reflect on their victims, and the families who had their festive period destroyed by their actions.
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Prisoners would reflect on their victims, and the families who had their festive period destroyed by their actions.
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The Howard League | Christmas in prison
We asked three men who have spent Christmas inside to describe what they remember.
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December 20, 2024 at 9:14 AM
I ran family days, carol concerts,and the annual children’s Christmas party for prisoners and their families, in a prison therapeutic community.
Prisoners would reflect on their victims, and the families who had their festive period destroyed by their actions.
howardleague.org/blog/christm...
Prisoners would reflect on their victims, and the families who had their festive period destroyed by their actions.
howardleague.org/blog/christm...
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Please push HMPPS to advertise the role of “Prison Officer” in a more honest way … retainment of staff will not be helped by the current approach. It is not accurate or realistic!
Please push HMPPS to advertise the role of “Prison Officer” in a more honest way … retainment of staff will not be helped by the current approach. It is not accurate or realistic!
December 18, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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Please push HMPPS to advertise the role of “Prison Officer” in a more honest way … retainment of staff will not be helped by the current approach. It is not accurate or realistic!
Please push HMPPS to advertise the role of “Prison Officer” in a more honest way … retainment of staff will not be helped by the current approach. It is not accurate or realistic!
Ex Prisoners and even serving prisoners should absolutely be actively involved with the training of new Prison Officers, letting ministers become so involved in the running of our prison service has been the worse thing we could have possibly allowed.
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December 17, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Ex Prisoners and even serving prisoners should absolutely be actively involved with the training of new Prison Officers, letting ministers become so involved in the running of our prison service has been the worse thing we could have possibly allowed.
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Evidence in a new Prison Reform Trust report calls for a “Back to Basics” initiative, echoing my opinions and those of all former prison staff and prisoners.
STOP INCREASING OUR PRISON POPULATION!
If there is no direct risk to the public, a community alternative is the most sensible option.
December 17, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Evidence in a new Prison Reform Trust report calls for a “Back to Basics” initiative, echoing my opinions and those of all former prison staff and prisoners.
STOP INCREASING OUR PRISON POPULATION!
If there is no direct risk to the public, a community alternative is the most sensible option.
A handy survival blog … hopefully one that most people will never need.
Welcome to my prison blog, an account of daily life in a UK prison.
If you are preparing to go to prison yourself, you may like to start with my prison survival guide. Watch this space...
prisonblog.co.uk
If you are preparing to go to prison yourself, you may like to start with my prison survival guide. Watch this space...
prisonblog.co.uk
December 17, 2024 at 8:46 AM
A handy survival blog … hopefully one that most people will never need.
Hope used to exist for many prisoners, through the development of good relationships with prison staff, and the belief that they can turn their lives around. Not developed through prison programmes, but by interaction with good role models daily.
Good prison officers are key to positive change.
Good prison officers are key to positive change.
December 16, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Hope used to exist for many prisoners, through the development of good relationships with prison staff, and the belief that they can turn their lives around. Not developed through prison programmes, but by interaction with good role models daily.
Good prison officers are key to positive change.
Good prison officers are key to positive change.
Ex prison officer Sally Jameson became the MP for Doncaster Central, and is now an unpaid ministerial aide in the Ministry of Justice.
No doubt she will continue to campaign for sensible reforms. I hope she is not forced into silence to further her career, as so many have been in the past.
No doubt she will continue to campaign for sensible reforms. I hope she is not forced into silence to further her career, as so many have been in the past.
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December 16, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Ex prison officer Sally Jameson became the MP for Doncaster Central, and is now an unpaid ministerial aide in the Ministry of Justice.
No doubt she will continue to campaign for sensible reforms. I hope she is not forced into silence to further her career, as so many have been in the past.
No doubt she will continue to campaign for sensible reforms. I hope she is not forced into silence to further her career, as so many have been in the past.
Please watch this video by Rainbow Collective.
Commissioned by the JENGbA Campaign, produced by Rainbow Collective Documentary Productions. These are the people #jointenterprise affects. These are the lives destroyed. These are who we campaign alongside, who we support & fight for. Jengba Film 11 11 youtu.be/BUQ2EmB_OBQ?si… via @YouTube
Jengba Film
YouTube video by Rainbow Collective - Documentary Production
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December 15, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Please watch this video by Rainbow Collective.
Further to my last post …Now this IS DEFINITELY who a prison place should be awarded to !
No place in the Prison Service for corrupt officers….
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No place in the Prison Service for corrupt officers….
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Suspicious Pot Noodle led to downfall of prison gang jailed for 25 years
Corrupt prison officer Victoria Sked's suspect snack led to the unravelling of a huge prison drug smuggling conspiracy
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December 15, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Further to my last post …Now this IS DEFINITELY who a prison place should be awarded to !
No place in the Prison Service for corrupt officers….
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...
No place in the Prison Service for corrupt officers….
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...
A girl waits to go to court. She was passenger in a car carrying drugs, under duress, she wrongly said she knew they were there (her response was recorded) She is advised to plead guilty for a lesser sentence!
Will it be proportionate, or will she take up another valuable prison space?
Will it be proportionate, or will she take up another valuable prison space?
December 15, 2024 at 10:36 AM
A girl waits to go to court. She was passenger in a car carrying drugs, under duress, she wrongly said she knew they were there (her response was recorded) She is advised to plead guilty for a lesser sentence!
Will it be proportionate, or will she take up another valuable prison space?
Will it be proportionate, or will she take up another valuable prison space?
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I was NEVER fully professional or restricted by boundaries … just supported when doing right for the people in my charge ….
December 14, 2024 at 8:13 PM
I was NEVER fully professional or restricted by boundaries … just supported when doing right for the people in my charge ….
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Please read & share this heartfelt article by Ray Smith. People dont realise thst behind every injustice theres a family in agony trying to make sence of the #injustice #jointenterprise with @jengba.bsky.social @ungripp.bsky.social with #IPP insidetime.org/ray-says/bro...
Broken laws, broken hearts, unbroken spirits
From time to time there are events that are uplifting, where people I know are recognised for their efforts and receive justifiable praise. Yet sometimes my enjoyment is tempered because I know tha…
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November 21, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Please read & share this heartfelt article by Ray Smith. People dont realise thst behind every injustice theres a family in agony trying to make sence of the #injustice #jointenterprise with @jengba.bsky.social @ungripp.bsky.social with #IPP insidetime.org/ray-says/bro...
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Why building new prisons is not the answer to the capacity crisis - from @thehowardleague.bsky.social
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December 11, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Why building new prisons is not the answer to the capacity crisis - from @thehowardleague.bsky.social
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The Labour government presided over some of the worst decisions affecting our criminal justice system, and the Conservatives spent the next 14 years making things worse, and now it looks as if Labour will continue where they left off.
a man with a beard says it 's all a mess with his hands
ALT: a man with a beard says it 's all a mess with his hands
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December 14, 2024 at 7:51 PM
The Labour government presided over some of the worst decisions affecting our criminal justice system, and the Conservatives spent the next 14 years making things worse, and now it looks as if Labour will continue where they left off.