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Supporting Offenders or Supporting the Bureauratic Economy |
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Written by Raymond Lunn
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Hopefully, before you read this preparatory article into an important problem about rehabilitation and those backed to support it, you will comprehend the extent of which money and resource in terms of funding and agents, is available from taxpayers and private companies to deliver transformation in people who perpetrate criminal offences. Let's not suppose that enough money is available to aid the rehabilitation of offenders either. Agencies, community programs and others will all...
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What Can an Ex-Offender Achieve? |
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Written by Raymond Lunn
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Saturday, 09 August 2008 16:46 |
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A day which will live alongside me and my family, as a day in terms of demonstrating many assumptions others had made in the past, wrong. For me and my family it was a day that five years of unyielding graft and learning came to an end, and the prize was this day, the 23rd July 2009. The day of my graduation from the University of Leeds.
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Last Updated on Monday, 10 August 2009 17:47 |
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The Sound of Suicide |
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Written by Raymond Lunn
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Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54 |
Following recently reading a Howard League for Penal Reform campaign with reference to Young Prisoners and suicide, I thought it important I contain in my blog my experience of suicide in prisons. During 1990, I went into Armley Prison in Leeds on remand. It was my first period in Armley Prison, but not my first time in a jail. I was comfortable that I’d be practised to deal with my duration in my local jail, and thankfully I did, I knew people from my prior spells incarcerated in...
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Last Updated on Monday, 10 August 2009 18:34 |
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Introducing an 'ex-offender' |
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Written by Raymond Lunn
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 10:11 |
I recall the day like yesterday, the first day of being an ex-offender, as well as an ex-convict; January 6th 1996. Unlike the other prisoners getting out of HMP Ranby, near Nottingham that day, I could walk out of the gates a liberated man, rather than been given an escort to the train station. A member of my family and a friend of his were picking me up outside the prison.
Each footstep I took through those gates, I knew I was not ever going back to another prison, I was resolved...
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Last Updated on Monday, 10 August 2009 18:32 |
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