Louise Ridley began her working career as a teacher in prisons. She’s now a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University. Louise’s essay is Prison: The UK’s largest provider of residential elderly care. It looks at the increasingly urgent question of what we should do with older people who commit crimes. https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/r/louise-ridley/

Encourage or punish? A view from prison: Steve Shill

The podcast which examines the place of kindness, hope and compassion within the justice system.It tells personal stories that show how these very values are saving lives on a daily basis.Each episode is a chapter taken from a book called Humane Justice, published by the charity Khulisa as part of the Monument Fellowship - a collective of eight organisations that work together to transform the journeys people take through our justice system.You can download the book for free at www.khulisa.co.uk/resources/humane-justiceIt's produced by the Prison Radio Association.www.khulisa.co.ukwww.prison.radio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.