Notes from a Prison
April 11, 2008 "I was sacked as a Prison Writer-in-Residence for Trafficking - in Books": Emily Kingham describes how her prison career came to an end Emily Kingham
September 25, 2007 Islam is what many young black men are turning to in the absence of having known their fathers - Or so finds prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham Emily Kingham
August 23, 2007 Many prisoners are now serving sentences not for what they have done, but for what they might do - Emily Kingham explains the consequences of David Blunkett's indeterminate sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection Emily Kingham
July 26, 2007 When the School Inspectors come to Prison - writer-in-residence Emily Kingham is hit by a wall of futile bureaucracy Emily Kingham
July 12, 2007 Many fewer men would be in prison if they had grown up with fathers in their lives, argues prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham Emily Kingham
June 08, 2007 Traveller Culture: Ki shan I Romani, adoi san' I Shuvani - Emily Kingham has her fortune told by a gypsy woman - and figures out how the fortune teller could be so accurate Emily Kingham
June 05, 2007 Traveller Culture: Emily Kingham visits a Travellers' Horse Fair and discovers that nothing romantic is today left of Traveller Culture - all that is left of it today is menace and dodgy dealing Emily Kingham
April 30, 2007 Writer-in-residence Emily Kingham is made to endure Diversity Training - and realises that it is middle-class intellectuals who are discriminated against in prisons Emily Kingham
April 17, 2007 Bare-knuckle boxing, fixed fights and growing up Romany: Emily Kingham hears a Traveller's Tale Emily Kingham
April 05, 2007 There has been a huge increase in the number of prisoners serving life or indeterminate sentences - Emily Kingham explains why and assesses the impact of this on the prison system Emily Kingham
March 22, 2007 Meet Jerome aka Outlaw aka Badboy aka Rapid: He denounces his father for being a drug dealer and doing nothing for his children, yet he himself is a drug dealer and does nothing for his children Emily Kingham
March 08, 2007 Essex Boys & Africans and British Blacks: The different cultures of prisons in Essex and London Emily Kingham
March 07, 2007 Bullying, snitching, sexual harrassment and substance abuse are all rife in prison - and that's just among the staff, finds prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham Emily Kingham
February 06, 2007 Bullying in Prison - writer-in-residence Emily Kingham witnesses a scene of bullying and realises that the threat of violence is as menacing as the act of violence Emily Kingham
January 05, 2007 Doing Arithmetic with the Learning and Skills Council - Monthly Monitoring Returns, Work Logs, Offender Progress Forms: writer-in-residence Emily Kingham grapples with prison paperwork Emily Kingham
December 15, 2006 Our prisons are populated by Peter Pan figures - deadly dangerous mummy's little boys who won't grow up, finds writer-in-residence Emily Kingham Emily Kingham
November 30, 2006 Prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham asks, what are we doing - or not doing - to the young working-class men she finds in prison to make them so damaged, manipulative and dangerous? Emily Kingham
November 07, 2006 "Have you done the Armed Robbery course?" Writer-in-residence Emily Kingham contemplates the ubiquity of prison courses - and their real purpose Emily Kingham
October 03, 2006 If prisoners are treated like animals they will behave like animals, argues prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham Emily Kingham
September 20, 2006 Bad boys and loose women: prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham considers the myth of the bad, black man - and the harm it is doing to real black men Emily Kingham
September 05, 2006 The success of urban black culture has made victims of urban black men, argues prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham Emily Kingham
August 31, 2006 If you want to find out how to destroy staff morale, look at the management style of the prison service - says prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham Emily Kingham
August 04, 2006 Prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham organises a book club in the prison library - and finds out that Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew is not a suitable book for a prison book club Emily Kingham
July 10, 2006 It's not what prisoners learn in prison, it's what they have learnt outside it that's the problem, argues prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham Emily Kingham
June 27, 2006 "Prison works - in removing the risk from society, and in enforcing remorse and reflection - it's just what happens after prison that doesn't work": prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham explains why Emily Kingham
May 26, 2006 Our prisons are not working - they need a radical overhaul, argues prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham Emily Kingham
May 08, 2006 Kate Moss and Pete Doherty could do with some bang-up - prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham explains why Emily Kingham
April 21, 2006 Women's prisons are worse places than men's prisons: Emily Kingham explains why Emily Kingham
April 06, 2006 What's wrong with prison education? Prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham explains how government targets limit the scope of education in prison Emily Kingham
March 17, 2006 If you want to escape managerialist jargon, don't go to prison - Prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham shares her experiences of prison management Emily Kingham
March 06, 2006 Drugs are endemic in British prisons, but how do they get there? Prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham explains Emily Kingham
February 22, 2006 "Am I a writer-in-residence or a memo-writer-in-residence?" - Emily Kingham offers further insights to prison life Emily Kingham
February 06, 2006 How the prison system fails "vulnerable prisoners" - those prisoners who are at risk of attack from other prisoners Emily Kingham
January 20, 2006 Why men like "Steve" and "Dave" cannot keep out of prison - they cannot cope with the outside world Emily Kingham
December 02, 2005 Introducing the Social Affairs Unit's prison columnist - "You hear some good stories in prison" Emily Kingham
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