{"id":4013,"date":"2024-05-13T11:50:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=4013"},"modified":"2024-05-13T11:50:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T11:50:57","slug":"fishmongers-hall-heroes-in-housing-project-for-ex-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=4013","title":{"rendered":"Fishmongers\u2019 Hall heroes in housing project for ex-inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many prisoners are homeless after release but former inmate and probation worker want to fix that.<\/p>\n<p>Darryn Frost and Steve Gallant are still dealing with the trauma of tackling a terrorist at Fishmongers\u2019 Hall, London Bridge, in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant, 47, who was on day release from prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder, helped fend off the attacker alongside Frost, 43, a probation worker who had grabbed a 1.5-metre long narwhal tusk as a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Although they are still coping with the mental toll, they are now channelling their shared experiences from opposite ends of the prison system to create something positive \u2013 a first of its kind facility to house recently released prisoners and support them back into society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want people to realise that people in prison have value, they don\u2019t always have to be a societal burden,\u201d said Frost. \u201cWe\u2019re both still suffering from trauma \u2013 I have issues with memory and concentration \u2013 but we want to start a movement, shift the dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/may\/05\/fishmongers-hall-heroes-in-housing-project-for-ex-inmates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 terrorist at Fishmongers\u2019 Hall, London Bridge, in 2019. Gallant, 47, who was on day release from prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder, helped fend off the attacker alongside Frost, 43, a probation worker who had grabbed a 1.5-metre long narwhal tusk as a weapon. Although they  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4013","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\/4013","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=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}