Breaking In
You think it's hard breaking out of prison?
You want to try breaking in.
What does it take for one man with no history of prison or prison service to earn the right to work with people on both sides of the the bars?
What does that feel like - and why should you care anyway?
Andy Mouncey Founder of Run For Your Life CIC does not work for the Prison Service. Here he talks candidly about how it feels to do the work he does in this most challenging of places, and how that continues to generate more questions than answers.
Breaking In
Episode 2: First Tests
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After nearly 10 years involving many false starts and progressive toe-dipping, Andy finally secures his first contracted work in a prison.
Then the Covid pandemic hit, prisons went into lockdown and all work stops.
Here Andy talks about what it took earn the right to be invited inside and what happened when programs of his design met reality for the first time.
These podcasts don't get made unless Tom Haigh of Sound Post Production www.tomhaigh.com and interviewer Tony Maguire www.boxkik.com decide to roll out of bed. Fortunately for me I still seem to be giving them reason to do so. Chapeau, gentlemen.