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• 'Roads' provided a trap door
• a good read inside
• a more appealing vision of ourselves
• a profound conversion
• a stake in my family
• addicted to oblivion
• addicted to the life style
• Afro Caribbean community in UK
• always and forever
• American street history
• attitudes stubborn as concrete
• back in custody
• back serving time
• basic vocational courses
• black youth problem
• bonds made in prison
• Book review from inside
• brief adult life spent in custody
• brings inmates together
• can't believe I'm back inside
• care the special ingredient
• catchy hooks
• champagne life style
• chatty writing
• child who suffered loss of father
• classroom a safe place
• coming from a different angle
• Comment with Convictions blog
• convenient to fear radicalisation in custody
• conversion to Islam
• cooking in a kettle
• cooking in prison cell
• cooking is friendship affirming
• coping in prison
• counselling cell mate
• covering shallowness
• create a magazine has credibility
• dedication in practising Islam
• deportation
• determination to move beyond shame
• difficult getting to prison library
• disassociated with previous life style
• doing porridge
• doing time
• education providers stop paying lip service
• effective in encouraging responsibility for their actions
• eight years since my release
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• encourage young offenders to look beyond post code allegiances
• everyone makes mistakes
• ex offenders feel hopeless
• ex prisoner who writes for the Guardian
• Ex-offender forum
• expense of own community
• exploited your love
• facing same dilemma regardless of age
• fatal allergic reaction toSpice
• father struggle to adapt to family that evolved without him
• fear of leaving prison
• fear of prison
• fear recall
• feel like a stranger
• felt I should drop a line
• fighting for woman I didn't deserve
• first night in prison
• forgotten victims of offenders' crimes
• from Blag to Blog
• gambling with my liberty
• gangs most active in own areas
• graduating to young offenders
• he loved living the 'road' life
• heinous of crimes
• HMS Windrush
• hold ourselves to account
• honed writing skills inside prison
• hope cocooned in cynicism
• humiliation of invasive searches
• I am free
• I'm not your baby anymore
• immeasurable benefits of writing
• instant gratification
• institutionalisation
• invincibiliy complex
• Islam in prison
• Jamaican in prison
• Koestler certificate
• let them go
• letter to mum from inside
• liberating
• life after prison
• life thrown away in pursuit of 'the hood' dream
• literacy was a means to an end
• London prison
• loss of freedom
• lost youth in prison
• man of integrity and decency
• meaningless certificates
• merits of prison education
• missed sisters growing into women
• missed the good times
• monotonous 9-5 job
• Morgan Freeman
• My friend died a week ago
• my life is a blessing
• narrow prison education requirements
• neglects good in evidence
• never anticipated life in custody
• no ceiling to potential
• no help from probation
• one pot cooking
• only option is to join gang
• part of something greater
• Partners left to cope outside
• partners show consideration and compassion they don't get in return
• peddling class A poison
• poetry from ex offenders
• positive dividends for others
• preparing a meal for others is food for the soul
• pressured into taking short cuts
• prise open eyes that are closed to change
• prison bubble
• prison dealt a fatal blow to my parent's relationship
• prison doesn't get easier
• prison education targets
• prison full of young men like me
• prison magazine
• prison officers thought I would be back
• prisoners manacled in hospital when dying
• prisoners' families
• probation
• questioning ability
• radicalisation an argument by the ill informed
• radio and media course
• reading inside prison
• rehabilitated
• rehabilitation with training courses
• rehabilitation?
• relationship with prison officers
• remembered being locked in a cell
• resorting to crime pierces deeper than skin colour
• review of 3 good books inside prison
• revolving prison doors
• rice and vegetables
• righteous crusade
• riveting reads
• sacrificed your dreams to shelter children
• sense of brotherhood and community
• senselessness of his death
• sharing a cell
• Shawshank Redemption
• social injustice
• spent youth in prison
• stain on my conscience
• Stanley Tookie Williams
• stigma on my community
• Street gangs
• Susan May new forensic evidence
• teaching English and Journalism
• teaching: little to address re offending
• tempted by my peers
• tenuous nature of release
• tested your love
• The Crips
• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
• the Longford Trust
• The Millennium trilogy
• to change or not to change
• travelling to court from prison
• tuna
• unable to cope on release
• Uncategorized
• university for ex offenders
• view you with awe
• walk the straight path
• we must be quick to condemn
• we should not turn a blind eye
• who am I to write?
• will things improve when he's released?
• wise prison sage
• women find the strength to sustain their families while coping with abandonment
• women flourish when partner behind bars
• work or college after prison
• writing about prison system
• writing credibility
• writing home
• writing inside
• writing is cathartic
• writing on release
• young men in adult prison
• young men inside
• young offenders in the male estate