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US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a ‘clean slate’
Civil rights advocates across the US have long fought to free people from their criminal records, with campaigns to expunge old cases and keep people’s past arrests private when they a [...]
The No Show, and exploring working-class generation trauma
Over two years, artists Catherine O’Halloran and Grace Dyas created The No Show, a 'trauma-informed contemporary art film' inspired by working-class men who don't 'turn up'. Working wi [...]
Prisoners on best behaviour get to swap cell block for garden shop
An open prison in Cavan offers greater freedom and responsibility to inmates, while also helping prepare them for life after their release. Open the café door gingerly, not sure what t [...]
‘I feel super gassed’: Lady Unchained, the prison radio host playing inmates’ raps
Hosted by poet and broadcaster Lady Unchained, Free Flow lets prisoners phone in their raps – and one has even recorded a single. We go behind the scenes of the show, which is up for t [...]
Appetising, delicious food served up to prisoners? It works for the Nordic countries
Inmates cook together, eat together – and sometimes even forage together. It puts Britain’s rat-infested facilities to shame. I spent three weeks visiting prisons across Scandinavia to [...]
Fishmongers’ Hall heroes in housing project for ex-inmates
Many prisoners are homeless after release but former inmate and probation worker want to fix that. Darryn Frost and Steve Gallant are still dealing with the trauma of tackling a terror [...]