Jan 20, 2025
Mickey Dehara is a screenwriter who has frequently collaborated with the director Guy Richie, including playing a starring role in the film Snatch. He served a prison sentence in the early 2010s when he got involved with National Prison Radio and won the Sandford St. Martin and Jerusalem Awards for a dramatisation of...
Jan 13, 2025
Jamie Bennett is is the author of a new book which looks at the challenges of managing prisons. He is Prison Contracts Group Director at His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service. He has been Governor of Morton Hall, Long Lartin, Grendon and Spring Hill prisons.
Andrew Morris served a sentence in HMP Spring Hill while...
Jan 6, 2025
In November 2024, Janey Starling from the charity Level Up, called out the presenter of LBC's breakfast show Nick Ferrari live on air for his apparent ignorance of the facts around the imprisonment of women.
In response to that interview, we invited friend of the podcast Dr. Kimmett Edgar to the studio to help...
Dec 23, 2024
Greg Eskridge was released from San Quentin Rehabilitation Center in California, formerly known as San Quentin state prison, on 23 July 2024 after serving 30 years and 25 days.
In prison Greg became a founding member of the Uncuffed radio program and podcast, a project run by the public radio station KALW.
Greg now...
Dec 16, 2024
In November the Sentencing Academy, a charity that aims to improve public understanding of sentencing in England and Wales, released a piece of research entitled 'Who is in prison and what is the purpose of imprisonment?'.
It concluded that most people know very little about prisons.
To test these findings, Phil and...