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The most illuminating insights into the workings of the Prison Industrial Complex often come from those of us who have had direct experience of it. On this page CAPS hopes to publish prisoners' writings on their experiences of the realities of prison work.
Ben is a long-term prisoner currently resident at HMP Shepton Mallet. He is a regular contributor to Inside Time and sent us this article to help the campaign.
We have included extracts from John Barker's book Bending The Bars, a "selective memoir of being in max security prisons between 1971 and 1978 written in the form of stories towards the end of the sentence & finished soon after his release", as a way of illustrating aspects of prison work during the 70's.