Coming Soon: Future Prison

In spring 2020, before Coronavirus hit, we recorded conversations between six people who have been to prison and three senior members of Ministry of Justice staff. These conversations made up the first six episodes of this series. This seventh and final episode brings those senio ...  Show more

Gabby spent over four years in prison away from her daughter. In this episode of Future Prison, Gabby talks to Sonia Flynn, Chief Probation Officer and Director of Women at HM Prison and Probation Service about being a parent behind bars, and her experience of imprisonment. Futur ...  Show more

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What is it like to receive a life sentence?

We're joined by two peopl ...

Shahid Amin was serving a long sentence in HMP Grendon when he began studying criminology. This came after teenage years in which being engaged with the police and the criminal justice system overshadowed any early experiences with education. He has continued his further educatio ...  Show more

Professor Theresa Gannon is a Professor of Forensic Psychology at University of Kent and has worked in forensic psychology practice for nearly two decades in NHS and prison settings. She has published widely in the areas of rehabilitation, sexual offending and fire setting and ha ...  Show more

Tyler Voase was released from prison in the summer of 2024. 

He first went into jail in 2022 weighing over 40 stone, and with the support of a well-thought-through and timely intervention from gym staff he reinvented himself, losing 18 stone while in HMP Feltham.