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
Covid: Unintended Consequences
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Some Good News - & The Work Is Harder Now.
Covid has changed the game for the people in our prisons on either side of the bars.
Some of that was planned for and much of it seemingly was not, and as time goes on it becomes harder to unravel Cause & Effect as compound and cumulative take more of a hold.
There are differences in People, Policy and Place now that weren't present in 2019 or were way less and these are making it harder for sole practitioners like Andy to come in and do the work they do.
Here Andy explains some of what he is experiencing as he re-starts his work behind bars with new funding, and what that means for him and his practice.
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.