prison-life

  Inside Time  is the  national newspaper  for prisoners and detainees distributed throughout the  UK prison estate  including  Immigration Removal Centres  and  special hospitals . [1]  The newspaper launched in 1990 and is published by Inside Time Limited, a  not-for-profit organisation  and a wholly owned subsidiary of the New Bridge Foundation, the National Charity for Prisoners founded in 1956. [2]  Editors and contributors involved with the newspaper include  Noel "Razor" Smith ,  Erwin James ,  Terry Waite ,  Jonathan Aitken , and  Rachel Billington . [3] [4] History [ edit ] In December 1990 the first issue of  Time  (later to become  Inside Time ) was distributed to all prisons and young offender institutions in the United Kingdom. The quarterly, eight page, newspaper was launched in the  House of Commons  and broadcast on  BBC Breakfast  from  Grendon Prison . Ironically, the inspiration for a national newspaper for prisoners came from the Woolf Inquiry into the  St

  The image is a former warship that has been turned into a prison ship . It housed many IRA prisoners' Maidstone Prison is one of the oldest penal institutions in the United Kingdom, having been in operation for over 200 years. Originally serving as a  county jail ,  Maidstone  was converted to a prison during the 1740s. During his visits to the prison, reformer  John Howard  reported poor living conditions at the prison including overcrowding and poor ventilation. However, conditions would remain unchanged until a reconstruction of the prison took place under the supervision of  Daniel Asher Alexander , who had worked on the construction of  Dartmoor Prison , lasting from 1811 until its completion in 1819 at a cost of £200,000. Also involved in the design of Maidstone Prison was Kent architect  John Whichcord Snr , who was Surveyor to the County of Kent from the 1820s. Mr Whichcord is probably best known for designing the  Kent County Lunatic Asylum  in the 1830s, also in Maidsto