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‘Compelling, urgent and devastating. A triumph’ The Secret Barrister
‘Funny, heart-breaking and utterly authentic’ Dr Amanda Brown, author of THE PRISON DOCTOR
‘A breath-taking account of the UK’s crumbling prison system. Every politician and decision-maker involved in our prisons should be placed on 23-hour lockdown and made to read this book’ Nick Pettigrew, author of ANTI-SOCIAL
“I was what the older generation of prison officers called a ‘care bear’. It was my job to work with the prisoners most in danger of falling through the cracks and, if not deliver them safely to the community upon release, fully rehabilitated, then at least stop them from killing themselves or anyone else…”
Come with Angela Kirwin for a journey inside prison like no other. For over a decade she was a social care worker in some of Britain’s most notorious prisons.
Now she wants to tell the stories of the men she met, because she believes that prison is failing everyone, damaging the most vulnerable people in our societies, creating habitual criminals, leaving us all less safe and contributing to a society that is immeasurably less humane. Every year, we spend billions of pounds on a system that fundamentally doesn’t work.
Rather than a separate world full of people that aren’t like us, prison is where the most damaged and vulnerable people in our society end up and we all need to urgently care about that, so we can change it. Because the state of our prisons is criminal.
Author Biography
Angela Kirwin grew up in Manchester and qualified with an MSc in social work. For over ten years in the social care sector, she worked with hundreds of people with criminal convictions both inside prison and out in the community. Her work on substance misuse and mental health was praised in Her Majesty’s Prison Inspections and she went on to secure a Research Fellowship from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to investigate the criminal justice systems of America and Norway. She has lectured at the University of Bristol on the topics of substance misuse, mental health, homelessness and trauma-informed care. She left the prison estate in 2016.
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