Green Templeton College
University of Oxford, 43 Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 6HG
UK
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What is the picture of prisoner welfare in 2015? How is it affected by the development of ‘super-prisons’ and Secure Training Centres for young people? Does prisoner welfare matter? Why and for whom?
Join our panel as we consider these questions and more at Green Templeton College on 11 March. Tea and coffee will be served after the discussion.
Attendees are invited to submit questions for the speakers to [email protected] (this does not preclude questions without notice).
Disabled access to the venue can be organised if advance notice given.
Speakers
Erwin James
Erwin James is a Guardian columnist and freelance writer.
Following a childhood described by a prison psychologist as ‘brutal and rootless’, with limited educational opportunity, homelessness and periods in care, he fell into a criminal lifestyle and in 1984 he began a life sentence for murder. During his 20 years in prison Erwin studied for an arts degree majoring in history with the Open University and started a column for the Guardian newspaper entitled A Life Inside. Today, he is one of the most authoritative voices on prison issues in the UK, having previously addressed the Oxford and Cambridge Unions, the Royal Society in Edinburgh, the European Prison Education Association in Dublin and in Norway, the Prisons and Probation Union at the Danish parliament in Copenhagen and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House. Erwin was a member of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice 2009 prison reform working group and is a regular prisons and probation consultant. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (FRSA) and an Honorary Master of the Open University (MUniv.)
Rob Preece
The Howard League for Penal Reform
Rob frequently writes articles and gives broadcast interviews about the justice system. He joined the Howard League in 2012 and played a key role in the charity’s most high-profile campaign, Books For Prisoners.Rob previously worked as a journalist for 10 years, specialising in reporting on crime and politics.