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How to get a job with a criminal record: From applying to sharing your conviction
Jobs advice

How to get a job with a criminal record: From applying to sharing your conviction

Here’s how to put your best foot forward if you choose to disclose your convictions.

End Friday releases for prisoners so they can access housing and health services, Big Issue founder tells Lords
Criminal justice system

End Friday releases for prisoners so they can access housing and health services, Big Issue founder tells Lords

With reoffending rates for adults released on a Friday higher than for any other day of the week, an unlucky release date puts some ex-convicts at a disadvantage

How the UK prison system ‘sets people up to fail’
Prisons

How the UK prison system ‘sets people up to fail’

People in prison are often barred from technology, leaving them without the basic tools they need to survive in the outside world. The government has pledged to expand digital in prisons, but is it moving fast enough?

What will 2023 hold for climate activists? The trial of seven ‘suffragettes’ may offer clues
Protest

What will 2023 hold for climate activists? The trial of seven ‘suffragettes’ may offer clues

Prisoners to be offered apprenticeships for the first time
Prison system

Prisoners to be offered apprenticeships for the first time

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I was a lawyer in the Colston Four trial. History is not being erased, but given full voice
Raj Chada

I was a lawyer in the Colston Four trial. History is not being erased, but given full voice

Changemakers 2022: Prison System
Changemakers 2022

Changemakers 2022: Prison System

How many lies has Boris Johnson told from the Conservative Party conference?
Politics

How many lies has Boris Johnson told from the Conservative Party conference?

The Big Issue meets The Angola 3 survivors: “We knew we would never give up”
News

The Big Issue meets The Angola 3 survivors: “We knew we would never give up”

Albert Woodfox: ’43 years of solitary confinement and they did not break me’
News

Albert Woodfox: ’43 years of solitary confinement and they did not break me’