‘We set up councils in prisons, giving inmates a voice to improve things’
User Voice has established councils in more than 25 prisons to try to create space for solution-focused dialogue between residents and staff
Fine Cell Work: the social enterprise that trains prisoners in paid, skilled needlework
Teaching prisoners creative sewing boosts their employability and self-confidence, say those at Fine Cell Work
The murderer who wrote himself out of ‘the deepest, darkest hole’
Erwin James, a double murderer, served 20 years in prison - a spell that he decided he must make meaningful. Now working as a professional journalist, he urges other inmates to try to transform [...]
Doing us justice: tackling the prisons problem
What if prisons were designed to educate and encourage, rather than simply to punish? In the face of huge challenges, we meet those who are helping inmates find compassion, courage and purpose
A global movement of former neo-Nazis is helping others renounce extremism
As surges of nationalism and incidents of hate crime are reported across the globe, a network of far right extremists who have renounced their views and resolved to help others, is growing too. [...]
Media picks up on need to reform money
Updates from Positive Money on efforts to reform the money system
Greening the UK Tax System
An independent, expert body, the Green Fiscal Commission, has been launched to work on greening the UK tax system.
