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This page collects together some thoughts on prisons and how they work.
Mostly these thoughts are based on personal experiences and ideas that emerge not only from my eight years as a prison visitor at HMP Winchester, but also from contact with others interested in prison affairs. The picture offers what I hope will be a little light relief. Pigs in the New Forest during the autumn pannage season, snuffling for acorns. |
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| Prison Service | Vision | Prison Service vision and values, taken from the Prison Service website (see below) | ||||
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| Chaplaincy | A narrative perspective taken by a former prison chaplain on the development in the role and effect of prison chaplaincy whilst prison management ethos has changed over recent years | |||||
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| HM Prison Service | The Prison Service website [Opens in a new window] | |||||
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| Controversy | Woman's Hour | On Friday 13 June 2008, BBC Woman's Hour devoted 45 minutes to a discussion about fathers in families, two days before Father's Day on the following Sunday. This is the text of an email sent to the Chaplain at HMP Winchester advising him that I had been in contact with the programme—and in the course of that mentioned my role as a prison visitor | ||||
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| Wendy to John (1) | An email to me from the prison's Head of Offender Management objecting to that Woman's Hour contact and requiring me to curb my activities in accordance with the rules | |||||
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| Wendy to John (2) | A second email from the Offender Manager referring to a meeting held with her and the Prison Governor, in which she asked me to respond to the Governor | |||||
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| John to Governors | My email response to the Prison Governor and his Offender Manager recording my relevant activities and requesting that he decide whether or not he wished me to continue as a prison visitor | |||||
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| OPV Handbook | The text of the handbook for Official Prison Visitors | |||||
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| Damning report | An article by Andrew Napier in The Hampshire Chronicle on 20 March 2013, entitled "Damning report on city prison" recording salient points in the report by the Chief inspector of Prisons into HMPW Winchester | |||||
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| Rehabilitation | After Release | A personal view of the active concern that prisons ought to have for rehabilitation of prisoners after release | ||||
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| Mates to Clarke | A letter from the Rt Hon Michael Mates to the Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, following a lunch hosted by Sarah and Rex Chester, at which Michael Mates was the principal guest | |||||
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| Chester to Rogers (1) | A letter from Rex Chester MBE as President of Explore to David Rogers, newly installed Governor at HMP Winchester, offering support to the Prison in its new role as encourager of prisoner rehabilitation after release through mentoring | |||||
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| Rogers to Chester | The response from David Rogers to Rex's letter, proposing a meeting to progress the idea | |||||
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| Chester to Rogers (2) | The reply from Rex to David's encouraging letter, with attached correspondence from a prisoner who had been helped and from two retired prison visitors | |||||
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| Footprints |
The website of the Footprints Project, actively helping rehabilitation of ex-offenders through active mentoring
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| Serve On | Brief outline of the vision and objectives of Serve On. This organisation aims to harness the inherent energy, leadership abilities and latent enthusiasm of ex-servicemen, some severely handicapped by their war wounds. The Serve On mission encompasses inter alia mentoring and developing ex-offenders | |||||
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| Contact | john@seapiecorner.uk | |||||
| phone | 07812 635953 | |||||
| home page | www.johndexter.co.uk | |||||
