David Shipley

The power of restorative justice

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issue 18 May 2024

David Shipley has narrated this article for you to listen to.

In a week when the Chief Inspector of Prisons published an Urgent Notification detailing the horrors of HMP Wandsworth, I found myself revisiting memories of being jailed there for the crime of fraud. Clanging doors, rattling chains, men screaming at night in anguish or despair or because their cellmate was assaulting them.

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