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theRecord Issue 13July 2012

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In this issue... 2. Editor’s Welcome

2. Walk for Forgiveness

4. Give as you Live

5. Widening the Reach

6. Second Chance : Winning the War

9. Second Chance : Writing With Conviction

10. From Strangeways to the ‘Write Stuff’

11. Review: Love Life 6958

11. Readers Contribution: Poem

12. Unlock Media / Unlock Forum

My name is Frankie Owens I was prisoner A1443CA at Her Majesty’s Pleasure until 2nd August 2011. I suf-fered from a Bipolar disorder and it was this untreated illness that lead to me going to prison. As a first time of-fender I had no idea how the system or a prison worked. I was clueless to it all, and it was hard for me going in and frightening for the family and loved ones I left behind. To save my sanity and give me something posi-tive to focus on I began writing about the process I was going through, it felt like self help. As the day’s progressed it occurred to me that the ‘Little Book of Prison: A Beginner’s Guide’ would prove useful to first time offenders and their families and help them get through what is surely one of the most difficult times in their lives.

After being a prisoner and los-ing everything I am now an award-winning writer with 30 articles pub-lished to date, and counting. I have been welcomed by The Huffington Post, Sabotage Times, The Guard-ian, Works for Freedom, The Justice Gap and The Royal Society of Arts. Numerous universities have invited me to speak, with local newspapers and radio stations running articles and interviews...a fantastic response.

However, when it came to my lo-cal book launch and local newspa-pers, the focus was on my negative

past instead of my p o s i -tive future

This month, to coinside with Euro 2012, men with convictions have teamed with West Yorkshire police to produce a video against domes-tic violence. The men, who once inflicted violence on their partners, are today encouraging others not to lose control during the Euro 2012 football championships in the pow-erful film.

The former offenders in West Yorkshire are working with the West Yorkshire Probation Trust and Police this month as part of a campaign to warn that a moment’s madness to-wards a partner during the football can lead to a lifetime of consequenc-es. The film features interviews in which the men warn others of how being violent towards their partners negatively affected their lives.

In the video one man tells of the pain at losing access to his family and says: “The hardest part about it was not getting to see my children and that affected me the most. It was really bad then.” Another com-ments: “I was very aggressive most of the time and I was always an angry person. It just got more and more brutal.”

Elsewhere the men also talk about how it is possible for those who are violent to change and learn control. As one states: “It’s ok try-ing to pass the blame on but you have to take responsibility for what you have done and what you could possibly do. It is all you at the end of the day.”

Neil Moloney, Head of Leeds Probation, said: “We are pleased to be able to contribute towards this campaign with interviews from men who have inflicted domestic abuse in the past, but after successfully completing one of our treatment pro-grammes, have made changes in their lives and are able to talk about the harm they have done and deter others from committing offences.”

Assistant Chief Constable Geoff Dodd of West Yorkshire Police, added: “This video is a powerful re-cording and makes quite plain the life changing and entirely negative impact domestic abuse can have on a whole family, including the ag-gressor.”

Watch the film former offenders have made for Euro 2012 here .

Welcome...Erica Crompton

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I’d also love to invite readers of theRecord to walk with me, either for The Forgiveness Pro-ject or for a charity of your choice.

My route is as follows:Thursday 6th September InvernessFriday 14th September StirlingSaturday 16th September Glasgow (visit Monday 18th)Sunday 17th September Kilmarnock (visit Tuesday 19th)Friday 22nd September CarlilseMonday 25th September NewcastleTuesday 26th September DurhamThursday 28th September MiddlesboroughTuesday 2nd October LeedsThursday 4th October ManchesterSunday 7th October Liverpool (visit Friday 5th October)Thursday 11th October DerbyFriday 12th October NottinghamSaturday 13th October Loughborough (visit Monday 15th October)Sunday 14th October Leicester (visit Tuesday 16th October)Wednesday 17th October BirminghamSaturday 20th October Gloucester (visit Tuesday 23rd October)Monday 22nd October BristolFriday 26th October ExeterThursday 1st November Lands End

For more information visit here or email Frankie directly on frank.ow-ens@live.com to join a leg of the walk.

committed the crime, then they can make an informed decision.

I came across The Forgiveness Project and its wonderful work and the die was cast. My challenge is to walk from John O’ Groats to Land’s End, visiting towns and cities along the way. Each destination will include visits to prisons, probation trusts, youth offender groups, universities, and charities that work to help pro-mote understanding, rehabilitation and re-integration of ex-offenders.

The walk begins 1 September in Scotland, walking for 60 days until ar-riving at Land’s End on 31 October. The target is to raise £10,000 for The Forgiveness Project, and raise aware-ness of the concept of forgiveness in our society.

There are two ways to donate or spon-

sor me. Either a one-off donation, or to sponsor

me for each completed leg

of the journey. We welcome your sup-

port in any way you can. If you can’t help financially, please help us spread the message of the great work The Little Book of Prison and The For-giveness Project does to help victims, offenders and their families.

work. The book launch was cancelled as someone went into the shop and threatened that there would be trou-ble. The local newspaper ran the story of my convictions and not the one about the award-winning book that helps people. Although they did choose to use the photo I had sent for the book story they did not mention my mental illness!

I decided that I would do some-thing to highlight Forgiveness, and how imperative it is to ex-offenders in order for them to re-integrate into society and focus on a positive future and not fall into social isolation or re-offending (the product of focusing on the negative past). Society must con-template forgiveness and take the oppor- tunity to recognise all

the reasons the criminal

FRANKIE SAYS

WALKFoR FoRGIvENESS!

Frankie Owens

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I’ve got two questions for you. Firstly, do you ever buy things online? Sec-ondly, if you could support theRecord and Unlock with minimal effort and no cost, would you do it?

As most of you will know, theRecord is published by the charity Unlock, the National Association of Reformed Of-fenders. What you may not realise is that Unlock has never been funded to produce it. Though we’ve managed to develop a small income from advertis-ing, it’s far from sustainable. We want to keep theRecord free, so we have to be a little more creative!

This month we have set up a new partnership with ‘Give as you Live’ which means that you can support Unlock and theRecord every time you shop online. 2,000 brands including Amazon, Asda.com and Argos have signed up to donate a percentage of every purchase you make online. Even basic utility companies like British Gas and e.on are involved. There is no cost to you and there is no cost to Unlock.

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So how does it work? Once you’ve registered your support for Unlock, you simply need to visit the Give as you Live website before you shop and select the retailer you would like to buy from. Or, to make things really easy, you can add Give as you Live to your internet browser by download-ing it. Then it will automatically tell you which sites will donate to Unlock as you browse normally. You can even choose to set up your own personal account to track how much money you have generated for Unlock so far.

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Many readers of theRecord will be unemployed or under employed. Do-nating money to charity is just impossi-ble when you’re struggling to make ends meet. I’m hoping this new partnership will enable you to raise money for your own charity, without having to make life harder for yourself. We’ve all got busy lives and it would be a lot easier not to bother. But if you think theRecord is a good idea and you believe that peo-ple with convictions should have the opportunity to achieve their potential, please take two minutes to get involved. Many thanks.

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Give as you live

Chris Bath

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When we first started the ‘Unlock e-newsletter’ back in 2009, we sent it to all Unlock members who we had an up-to-date email for. We started it because we thought it was a quick and effective way of highlighting latest news and what we were up to.

Well, haven’t we come a long way since then? In May 2011, Erica came on board as Editor, and theRecord was born. Since then, it’s gone from strength to strength, and has now firmly established itself as a respectable authority on the issues and successes of people with convictions. The latest ‘refresh’ (with the help of an amazing volunteer designer) has further added to the rise of theRecord .

That’s the background. So, what’s changing?

As of this month, theRecord is broadening its reach. From now on, you don’t have to be an Unlock member to subscribe to it. Anybody can sign up to receive it, for free, directly into their inbox at the beginning of every month. All they need to do to subscribe is click ‘theRecord’ on the front page of the website, or visit here , and enter

their email address and a reason for subscribing.

We’re really keen for theRecord to be more than just preaching to the converted. We want it to challenge

the views that many people have of people with convictions. We want the positive stories that theRecord features to inspire others. We want it to inform organisations who come into contact with people with convictions. Basically, we want theRecord to grow.

However, as well as making it easier for people to subscribe, we need your help. Can you help us raise awareness? You might want to share it with friends and families? Perhaps your local Probation Office or Prison would benefit from receiving it every month? Maybe your local CAB, Job Centre or Work Programme provider would find it helpful to circulate to those clients with criminal convictions? The bigger theRecord gets, the more understanding there will be about the potential that people with convictions have, the problems that many face due to their record, and the achievements that people make.

With your help we believe theRecord can grow even taller.

Widening the reach of theRecord

Christopher Stacey

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one else I would batter them. Now I’m not a violent person I just like my own space. This slip of the tongue followed me throughout the 3 years that I spent within the confines of various 6ft by 8ft concrete boxes. I saw the inside of countless cells, all as scummy as the previous and saw some of the most vindictive, violent and manipulative people in the prison system wearing black and white uniform.

I didn’t know how to fight but gave it my all if the need arose, I was trained in karate but not in the raw brawling and pool balls that accom-panied many prison fights. I had a sharp tongue and a very quick mind and could often outwit the staff. The only problem with being smart is that the staff punish you for it. I can’t re-member how many bouts of basic I did as there were so many and so of-ten. I can’t remember how many times I cut up to ease the pain in my head from being kept caged up, though the scars I still carry are testament to how many times it happened.

I travelled through three prisons in almost as many months, getting moved along only when I had used up all the ink in the red pens for that establishment. In my third and final prison I was curtly informed by the

You might have won the battles but I won the war

Second Chance

Sophie Barton-Hawkins

“LEAVE HER TO DIE”, the words ut-tered outside my cell supposedly out of earshot. Another suicide attempt. Just another day in HMP for me. An-other 855 to go.

My life was full of numbers. TG6992… Cell C1-17… 30 red en-tries… 10 days CC… 10 adjudica-tions…all this after only being in this jail for 60 days! I could decorate my walls with the amount of warning slips,

IEP* slips and nicking sheets that were being put through my door on a daily basis, portrayed as a monster, caged in like a bear, roar of a lion.

I was by no means “bad”. It was my first time before the courts result-ing in a hefty 6 year, 5 year and 4 year concurrent sentence. I did myself no favours by informing the screws upon my reception to the life of HMP that should they bang me up with some-

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Governor that if my attitude didn’t change then I would be spending as long as he could get away with locked up in the block. I found myself quickly marched down there, still cuffed from the prison transport, after telling him he was singing the wrong words to “Islands in the stream”, possibly not the smartest move of my HMP career but definitely the shock that I needed. I didn’t want to be blocked off, the cardboard table and chair did noth-ing for the décor of the segregation cells, the bare bed frame bolted to the floor and the mesh on the window filled with rotten tea bags and manky apple cores shook me to the pit of my stomach and the dubious stains spot-ted along the floor and walls did not bear thinking about as to what part of the body they originated from.

Even though I was in my third prison my reputation as being, in the Governor’s words, “the worst female offender in the prison system” had most certainly preceded me. Even nurses were now giving me red en-tries! I was sick of basic, sick of the boredom and I wanted my guitar back that was taken from me whilst on basic. What I found out whilst on basic though is that I could write, po-etry being the general forte of prison-ers I took to it like a duck to water, my note books were filling up charting my days spent in jail and document-ing the many lows I went through.

Writing made me want to start my education again. I had a good edu-cation compared to others in jail so I took 2 A Levels in 6 months, teach-ing myself as there were no teach-ers available to give me one to one tuition. I also attended the education block as much as I could and did every course there. Slowly the edu-cation staff were coming on my side and giving me good reports in the constant barrage of IEP’s I kept get-ting. Because of the education staff my wing file was slowly filling up with positive black writing. I became a Toe

by Toe mentor teaching others to read as well as being a teaching assistant in the English as a Second Language class. My confidence soared and with it so did my sense of self worth, my behaviour calmed down and my at-titude settled. Slowly people were saying my name in a positive man-ner. I still had a quick tongue and a very hot temper but my slip ups were not recorded as much anymore and I found myself becoming an enhanced prisoner which meant I could access distance learning. I undertook a 2 year creative writing course funded by the Prisoner’s Education Trust and

an Open University course funded by Women In Prison.

I was approached one day by the Governor of Diversity and asked to be-come a diversity representative, in her words “you need to focus your tongue on something positive.” I became the voice of a group of prisoners and rep-resented them in meetings with staff and arranged focus groups for them to have their needs met.

I got told I could go for ROTL** if I kept up the good work. So I did.

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I was no longer imprisoned fully, only at night when I would return from work, and the ball and chain that I was men-tally shackled by was getting shorter. I started approaching youth offending teams offering to mentor the young people on their case loads and got of-fered voluntary employment with King-ston Youth Offending Team. I got to work closely with the young offenders and shared my story of crime and im-prisonment to try and steer them away from the path they were walking as well as mentoring them through offend-ing related issues such as anger and drug abuse. From this work my name was referred to the MET police to ac-company them into schools and Pupil Referral Units to speak to and educate students there. My name started to be passed around these higher regions and my name started to carry a bit of weight in a good way. I got involved with a charity called User Voice which is an ex offender led service for ex of-fenders by ex offenders and advised the Government on the Green Paper.

Since my release from prison in September 2010 I still volunteer with youth offending teams and have main-tained full time employment constant-ly. I am approached for public speak-ing by varied organisations, I have advised the BBC on their new comedy “Dead Boss” currently showing on

BBC Three and have had a meeting with Princess Anne where I was intro-duced as an expert on education in prisons. If someone could have said to me 5 years ago that I would be sat in a room with Princess Anne being treated as an equal then I would have laughed in their face. I am proof that anything can happen as long as you believe in yourself. Don’t let negativity hold you back, transform it into some-thing positive.

*IEP-Incentive Earned Privilege. You do well you get rewarded by a black entry and if you commit an in-fraction on the rules you get a nega-tive entry in red pen. 3 of these in a month results in your privileges be-ing removed such as TV and canteen spend.

**ROTL- Release on Temporary Li-cense. When you get half way through your sentence and you fulfil every cri-teria you can go home for 5 days to visit family, in my case monthly but this varies from prison to prison.

I started to play the game the way they wanted it played as playing it my way had got me nothing other than a security file that took up half a fil-ing cabinet! I got my first ROTL and went home to see my family for the weekend, this brief glimpse of free-dom was what I needed. Upon my re-turn to jail I was completely different, I had something to work towards every month and every month bar one for the remainder of my sentence I went home to see my family for 5 days.

After several months of going home my name got put forward to work for Koestler as an art curator putting togeth-er an art exhibition at the South Bank Centre showcasing prisoner’s art work that I and several others had chosen to go to exhibition. People who came to this exhibition wanted to hear my story as a prisoner as it was a unique insight otherwise not afforded to the free world. Public speaking was where it was at for me. I had a thirst for it. A thirst for want-ing to get the voices of the imprisoned to the minds of the free.

From working with Koestler I moved to the open wing and started volun-teering for a mental health charity and eventually got paid employment in a hotel and would go to work every day as an equal to those in my work place.

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Education - or should I say my lack of it was the very thing that made my life a very long up-hill struggle. And it was my poor schooling and bad teachers that made me despise any-thing to do with classrooms or learn-ing for over 20 years.

Yet it would come full circle and eventually be the one thing that would give me self esteem, a future, confi-dence and a feeling of self worth.

While a lot of people feel that edu-cation must have a career at the end of it, for me it was more about chang-ing my thinking. It has also been a great leveller.

I know many doors are closed to me and always will be but the very fact I could change was the most impor-tant thing. And though it was only my willingness to self change that turned things around, education became a great tool to help me do it.

Most recently I have been very lucky in that my journey has been of interest to others. And I am so pleased to say that I now share my experienc-

es with other students and the public. I suppose I can say I’m in a unique position when I talk to students as I can draw on my past to help them while also having the same academic knowledge having been in their shoes as a criminology student.

It’s all been worth it in the end. I have - like many other ex-offenders - had to face rejection and prejudice on numerous occasions but this has just made me adept in reinventing myself.

Being able to embrace my past and share with others was one of the biggest turning points for me. And now having proudly just published my autobiography, Never Ending Circles, I am pleased that I have also just been made an offer to study a PhD.

The thing I have learned through writing and learning is you must do what you’re passionate about. With this in mind, it was obvious that I had to produce a research proposal that was pertinent to my peer’s research interests but also something I could get my teeth into and sustain over the next four years.

My working title is: Education pathways to desistance: A study of reformed ex-prisoners self change through higher education.

Not only have I learned to use my past to help others and achieve my own goals but I am a very different person to the one who was locked away in 1995. This is partly due to the passage of time; education and con-tinual learning – not just through books but about oneself too.

I know a lot of ex-offenders want to take this journey into higher education and there is a much greater demand now than ever. All I can say is hang on in there and never let go of your dreams.

Writing with conviction

David Honeywell

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My crime continued and I later did a 3-year sentence, but in 1976 I moved from Merseyside to Bristol, unaware I was making a fresh start until I hooked up with a girl who helped me reform.

In 1982 I wrote a book about a lad called Graham Gaskin, “an account of the British prison system not quickly forgotten,” and years later at the age of 46 I got married.

With a bun in my wife’s oven, I de-cided to get a steady job and started as a humble Caretaker for the council, but did a day release course and qualified as a Warden in sheltered housing, a po-sition of trust where I had a pass key to the flats of vunerable older people.

When Graham Gaskin died of AIDS in Hull prison while doing Life for mur-der, his attempt at a second biography came to me. I edited it and found a publisher.

Made redundant from my job after 14 years, I saw an ad in the Jobcentre for a teacher of Creative Writing in West Country prisons, and thought, “That’s perfect for me”. The employer agreed and took my details, but called a week later to say I could not be employed be-cause I was an ex-offender, even though I hadn’t had a conviction for 29 years.

Angry, I found UNLOCK, and it was in their e-newsletter that I later saw an offer from the SYNERGY THEATRE PROJECT offering free writing courses. I was accepted and a year later, my play The Lighthouse was shown at Lon-don’s prestigious King’s Head Theatre.

I wanted to write about this as a way of expressing thanks to UNLOCK and Synergy. I’ll be thinking of their work when I get my encore!

put a tyre lever into my hand and said, ‘Hit that old geezer over the head while we grab the money,’ I was sentenced to Borstal 4 days later.

Sent from Liverpool prison first to Strangeways and then Wormwood Scrubs, I arrived at Borstal after months and had it on my toes straight away.

Caught days later, it was back onto the merry-go-round, only this time when I arrived at the Scrubs it was into a stripped cell in the Block with only a Bible to read and bread-and-water 3 days on, 3 days off.

James MacVeigh’s first play hit the stage in a prestigious London theatre. Here he tells the story of how he went from robber to writer.

My Dad kicked me out in 1963 at the age of 16. After I was caught break-ing into cars, I was sent to a Detention Centre as a bookish wimp and came out 3 months later, dangerous.

Already awaiting sentence for Rob-bery, having been driven to a filling sta-tion by two guys in their mid-20s who

From Strangeways to the ‘Write Stuff’James MacVeigh

A version of this article first appeared in the September 2011 edition.

For information about Synergy’s current playwriting competition see the Write Now advertisement, left.

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The anger, the heartache, the pain, the despair,

I look in her eyes, I see it all thereThe hurt I have caused,

the promises broken,I see in her tears

without words being spoken.

The sound of her deep wracking sobs breaks my heart

I know what I’ve done has torn us apart.

I deserve to be punished for what I did wrong,so a cell in a prison is where I belong,

but, why punish my family? What harm have they done,their crime was to love me,

my wife and my sons.

For that they will suffer, by society cast out,

because of their trust, their innocence in doubt

The looks as they pass by, the whispers, the sneers,

while their pleas for assistance fall on deaf ears

Think you need counselling? We’ll help if we can

but you’ll wait for months cause you love “that man”

We can’t pay for two, and the victim has needs,

so you’ll have to sufferbecause of his deeds

If I hadn’t offended then I would be free,

and life would be normal so, from this you can see

If you ever considering committing a crime,

it’s your family not you that will do the hard time.

oneMonthIn

A Poem by Martin

go, and others of who he has to let go (The Visit, 2Pac & Nas).

There is a turning point. The bro-ken man ready to heal; beautifully and humbly expressed in The Letter. There is a desire to put things right (The Edge), give something back, be a positive example.

There is an excitement about the future, joy in appreciating the sim-ple things which once were taken for granted (Have a Look).

All of this can be found within this precious book of memoirs. I really ad-mired and enjoyed the way in which this book was written, it’s not my usual style of poetry, yet I could relate to and identified with a good few of his po-ems. Which is why I believe that once you’ve read this book (not if, when)anyone who has experienced prison directly or indirectly and for those who haven’t you cannot help but feel in-spired by LL6958 aka Chris Syrus.

Memoirs from the Pen by Chris Syrus. Life is a journey sometimes walked in light, sometimes in the dark. This book invites you on a journey into the heart of a man, Chris Syrus, who through his talent powerfully and effectively shares with the reader, his experiences of go-ing to and being in prison where he would be known as prisoner LL6958.

Truth demands passion. From the very beginning of his narrative, the au-thor passionately expresses his emo-tions, in “Mothers Cry”. The realisation, that the pain felt when giving birth to him was one that turned to joy - the cry he never heard! In contrast to the cry he heard on the day he was found guilty, a cry of which he says to this day “haunts me”.

In his recollections of everyday prison life, tales such as “The Prison Window” anyone who has ever been in that situation, I’m sure will be able to relate to this. “The Yard”, is an illustra-tion that some things in prison are not so far removed from society; conjuring up scenes which would not, I imag-ine, be unfamiliar in the playground or equally the House of Commons: trying to fit in, prove yourself or gain people’s respect and approval.

Amidst the tales of 10ss (Cry for the Dead), shame (As a Man), the clock ticking boredom (Confined, Move On) you sense that LL6958 is not a defeat-ist, he lives in hope, (sometimes mis-placed). Let’s Bus Case an example of his optimism. He appreciates the people sticking by him (Keep Loving Your Son, Live for the Living) he under-stands there are some, who will let him

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