Immensely honoured to have received The Queen’s Gallantry Medal at Windsor Castle from The Princess Royal. My work with The Howard League and @OwnMeritCIC will ensure that the experiences of my past, good and bad, create a better future for others.

Bravery in prison takes great courage

Jack was one of the finest human beings. Yours and Saskia’s legacy of hope will live on forever. Without people like you, people like I was would never make it

Fine piece of writing

"The IPP Sentence is the Greatest Stain on the Justice System - called out as Psychological Torture by the Special Rapporteur - Resentence IPP Prisoners Massive Thank you to Shirley De Bono Alice J Edwards UN Special Rapporteur Torture Toby Bakare for helping with this investigation and getting it out there.

Thank you Channel 4 for showing a snapshot of State Torture. Indeterminate prison sentences - when 18 months can last 18 years channel4.com/news/indetermi… via Channel 4 News

Odd that you can get nine years for planning to execute the Sovereign with a loaded crossbow… but get 99 years IPP and wallow in jail seemingly endlessly Prison Reform Trust

The prison estate is running out of space, police station cells are on standby, not-so-temporary prison accommodation is being installed as ‘rapid deployment cells’. Yet still we fill them. What on earth are we doing? faithspear.wordpress.com/2023/09/18/pri…

Last week, Ministry of Justice published new statistics on education in prison in England during 2022-23. Our CEO Jon Collins finds the good news and the bad news in his blog for Russell Webster ✍️ 👇 ow.ly/jyMr50PU1Ms

Great to see my good friend Eoin McLennan-Murray Eoin McLennan-Murray on the Twitter sphere at last. Hi book about the Great Blantyre House Raid: Beyond Redemption’ The Truth behind the Raid… will be available on Amazon next week. I’ve read it, my god what a story #BeyondRedemption

You have everything to live for, time heals believe me

#newsround: From prison to castle for Steve Gallant buff.ly/3QabP6Y

Looking forward so much to meeting and chatting with Theo on Sat 25 nov creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/theo-…

I’ve visited the Magilligan writing group a couple of times, not surprised about this - Prisoners Win Record 28 Creative Writing Awards - 4ni - goo.gl/alerts/5M38Lf #GoogleAlerts

Front page of todays Mail, ‘Violent prisoners to be freed 18 days early’ - inside front page, ‘Jail with nine suicides in 4 years’ - stories are back to front by any decent journalistic measure surely.

Not long now before what is going to be a v v memorable event: Theo Padnos: The Prison Notebooks creativefolkestone.org.uk/whats-on/theo-… via Creative Folkestone

Love these amazing guys!

Utterly brilliant piece by Anita Chabria prison American prison guards found exactly what I found during visits to Norway prisons latimes.com/california/sto…

Jimmy Johnson Veterans’ Survival November 2023 #News 📰🗞Checkout 👀 the latest updates which include #remembranceday2023, #TheVeteransSurvivalGuide Prison book request + the latest from Jimmy Johnson Veterans Survival 🇬🇧🇺🇦 and the website too! Here is the link: jimmyjohnsonveteranssurvival.co.uk/november-2023-…