Voices Unlocked
🎙️Voices Unlocked Podcast
Breaking Silence. Breaking Stigma
Supporting youth with incarcerated parents
You are more than your story✨
Voices Unlocked
Latest Episodes
Voices Unlocked Ep. 26 | I Kept My Mum's Prison Sentence Secret for 40 Years
Kerry was 11 when her mum went to prison in the 1980s. There was no support and nobody to talk to, so she kept it to herself for most of her life. Two years ago she read a news article about children of prisoners, found Time Matters and kept em...
Voices Unlocked Ep. 25 | A Probation Chief Admits What the System Got Wrong
Rosie joined the probation service in 1986 and retired in 2021 as one of Merseyside's assistant chief officers of probation. In this episode of Voices Unlocked, Lorna and Liv sit down with her to talk about what the system got wrong about child...
Voices Unlocked Ep. 24 | The Auntie Who Raised Me When Mum Went to Prison
Hayley was 16 when her older sister Melanie had Liv. From then on, Hayley was the one getting Liv washed and dressed before work, and the one who picked her up from school the day Melanie went to prison. In this episode of Voices Unlocked, Liv'...
Voices Unlocked Ep. 23 | Growing Up With a Mum in Prison
She was raised in the shadow of her mum's incarceration - and today, she's a mother to two little girls of her own. In this episode of Voices Unlocked, Caitlin (sibling #3 in a family whose story you've been following) opens up about a childhoo...
Voices Unlocked Ep. 22 | From Prison Visits to Purpose
In this episode of Voices Unlocked, we sit down with Polly. She opens up about growing up with a mother affected by addiction and imprisonment, being raised largely by her siblings and grandmother, and how a single, painful prison visit reshape...