{"id":3188,"date":"2023-04-17T19:43:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2023-04-17T19:51:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T19:51:48","slug":"how-the-uk-prison-system-sets-people-up-to-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3188","title":{"rendered":"How the UK prison system \u2018sets people up to fail\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"color: #ffffff;\">People in prison are often barred from technology, leaving them without the basic tools they need to survive in the outside world. The government has pledged to expand digital in prisons, but is it moving fast enough?<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #ffffff;\">David Kendall is waiting for a train when he answers my call on a rainy weekday morning. \u201cOff anywhere nice?\u201d I ask. He chuckles: \u201cJust on my way to prison.\u201d This phone call, with the sound of wind and trains rattling past and echoing out my speaker phone, is another world from the one he is about to enter. In prison, people are barred from technology and communication in the digital space.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u201cIn the majority of prisons it\u2019s still paper, word of mouth and hope,\u201d Kendall says. He has spent more than two decades working on creative projects in prisons and is the founder of Penned Up, a literary festival behind bars. \u201cMost prisons have very little. They have phones, yes, but nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Around one in 10 people in prisons have routine access to an internet connection or a computer, according to estimates from Victoria Knight, an associate professor at De Montfort University who has researched mass communication in prisons for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff914d;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bigissue.com\/news\/social-justice\/future-prisons-technology-digital\/?s=03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}