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Inside the Big Issue: Prison Break
Inside the Big Issue: Prison Break
The crisis facing our prisons is going nowhere. This week’s Big Issue explores creative ways to cut reoffending and improve rehabilitation
Pearl Mackie on her prison play: ‘Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system’
Pearl Mackie on her prison play: ‘Baby is the story of many women in the criminal justice system’
In preparation for her new role, Doctor Who star Pearl Mackie spent time with incarcerated women. The letters they subsequently wrote to her character, Baby, are pinned up in her dressing room. The play is on now at Brixton House
Patrice Lawrence: ‘My dad was homeless. I never felt seen in the books I read growing up’
Patrice Lawrence: ‘My dad was homeless. I never felt seen in the books I read growing up’
The new Children’s Laureate takes us through the books that lifted her up – and the ones that didn’t
I’m a probation officer. It’s a frightening, upsetting, but also moving and hopeful world
I’m a probation officer. It’s a frightening, upsetting, but also moving and hopeful world
People are still getting threatened with prison for council tax debt. This has got to change
People are still getting threatened with prison for council tax debt. This has got to change
Wasteman star Tom Blyth: Prison film is ‘a magnifying glass on masculinity’
Wasteman star Tom Blyth: Prison film is ‘a magnifying glass on masculinity’
More and more women are being released from prison into homelessness. It’s an ongoing cruelty
More and more women are being released from prison into homelessness. It’s an ongoing cruelty
Letters: Adolescence didn’t feel like a drama – it’s too close to real life
Letters: Adolescence didn’t feel like a drama – it’s too close to real life
Poet laureate Simon Armitage on his years as a probation officer – and the redemptive power of poetry
Poet laureate Simon Armitage on his years as a probation officer – and the redemptive power of poetry
Almost Home: Unique exhibition showcases the ‘pain and hope’ of women in prison
Almost Home: Unique exhibition showcases the ‘pain and hope’ of women in prison
Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others
Becoming a Community Payback supervisor changed my life – and helped countless others
No women should ever be sent to prison for enduring domestic abuse
No women should ever be sent to prison for enduring domestic abuse
Women are being sent to prison in UK for self-defence or being coerced: ‘I lost everything’
Women are being sent to prison in UK for self-defence or being coerced: ‘I lost everything’
65,000 people facing systemic inequities supported by over £1.8mil of Growth Impact Fund investments
65,000 people facing systemic inequities supported by over £1.8mil of Growth Impact Fund investments
Rise in prison leaver homelessness should be a clear warning to the new government
Rise in prison leaver homelessness should be a clear warning to the new government
This is how we break the cycle of homelessness and incarceration
This is how we break the cycle of homelessness and incarceration
‘When I first went inside I wanted to die’: What life’s like inside a UK women’s prison
‘When I first went inside I wanted to die’: What life’s like inside a UK women’s prison
How Starmer’s new prisons minister James Timpson wants to change the way we lock people up
How Starmer’s new prisons minister James Timpson wants to change the way we lock people up
Prison leavers are being neglected due to lack of digital skills. It’s time for change
Prison leavers are being neglected due to lack of digital skills. It’s time for change
‘We lost a good man’: Tributes paid after death of journalist and ex-Inside Time editor Erwin James
‘We lost a good man’: Tributes paid after death of journalist and ex-Inside Time editor Erwin James
Everything you need to know about UK’s shameful Post Office scandal
Everything you need to know about UK’s shameful Post Office scandal
Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release has trebled in one year
Number of Welsh prisoners sleeping rough on release has trebled in one year
Time season 2 star Jodie Whittaker: ‘People are leaving prison and they’re being given a tent’
Time season 2 star Jodie Whittaker: ‘People are leaving prison and they’re being given a tent’
Conversion therapy and rental reform: Key policies activists want to see at heart of King’s Speech
Conversion therapy and rental reform: Key policies activists want to see at heart of King’s Speech
Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry
