{"title":"Vignette 9 Prison choices: taking a degree or packing tea?","authors":"Alan Jermey","doi":"10.1332/policypress/9781447353065.003.0022","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"My Open University journey began after being found guilty of murder at 41 and given a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 16 years for a crime I did not commit. I found myself at HMP Belmarsh, certainly not one of the more attractive or forward-thinking prisons in the UK, with officers wanting to maintain their ‘harsh’ reputation. There was little choice of activities and I was immediately assigned to packing tea and cereal packs....","PeriodicalId":116706,"journal":{"name":"Degrees of Freedom","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Degrees of Freedom","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447353065.003.0022","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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My Open University journey began after being found guilty of murder at 41 and given a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 16 years for a crime I did not commit. I found myself at HMP Belmarsh, certainly not one of the more attractive or forward-thinking prisons in the UK, with officers wanting to maintain their ‘harsh’ reputation. There was little choice of activities and I was immediately assigned to packing tea and cereal packs....