The Secret Life of Prisons

The Secret Life of Prisons

The Secret Life of Prisons is produced by a charity, the Prison Radio Association. To make a donation please visit prison.radio/donate. The podcast tells the hidden stories from behind bars. Paula Harriott is Chief Executive of Unlock. She spent time in prison and now works to help those who have been to prison to contribute to the debate around crime and justice. Phil Maguire is the Chief Executive of the Prison Radio Association. He's worked in prisons for two decades and received an OBE for services to radio.

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Episoder(127)

Who was Chris Tchaikovsky? | Kate Fraser and Deborah Coles

Who was Chris Tchaikovsky? | Kate Fraser and Deborah Coles

Chris Tchaikovsky was a founder of the charity Women in Prison, the charity that campaigns on behalf of women in the criminal justice system. She died in 2002, having lived an extraordinary life. Toda...

31 Mar 202542min

Disclosure and barring | Peter Lewis and Penelope Gibbs

Disclosure and barring | Peter Lewis and Penelope Gibbs

Peter Lewis served a prison sentence for receiving a corrupt payment. Shortly after his release, during the pandemic, he applied for a voluntary role directing cars at a Covid vaccination centre and h...

24 Mar 202539min

Visits | Faye Dunn and Mo

Visits | Faye Dunn and Mo

When Mo went to prison hundreds of miles from home, his older sister would visit him but he didn't see his mum in person until he was more than two years into his sentence, and his youngest sister did...

17 Mar 202536min

Finding the common ground | Alice Dawnay and Kam

Finding the common ground | Alice Dawnay and Kam

Alice Dawnay founded the charity Switchback in 2008, which supports young Londoners to find a way out of the justice system. She's now part of the team that's just launched the Common Ground Justice P...

10 Mar 202533min

Why me? | Khamran Uddin and Keeva Baxter

Why me? | Khamran Uddin and Keeva Baxter

In 2013, Khamran Uddin wrote a letter to the man he had violently assaulted in a random attack on a deserted railway platform. The victim was coming home from work as he did every day when Khamran ser...

3 Mar 202542min

The culture of sentencing | David Gauke

The culture of sentencing | David Gauke

David Gauke is the former Conservative Member of Parliament for South West Hertfordshire, the former Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, and the Chair of the Labour government's Indepe...

24 Feb 202547min

Talent development | Richie Makepeace and Nancy Prentice

Talent development | Richie Makepeace and Nancy Prentice

Richie Makepeace was just trying to keep his head down and get through his prison sentence in HMP Brixton when he was offered a job in the prison's radio production training workshop. Like many people...

17 Feb 202537min

The most serious development in decades | Michael Kennedy and Ian Vandersluys

The most serious development in decades | Michael Kennedy and Ian Vandersluys

Spice, a name for a group of synthetic drugs that have gripped prisons over the past decade, are said by researchers at Middlesex University's Drug and Alcohol Research Centre to have played a role in...

10 Feb 202533min

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