The BBC is making a ground-breaking new series about families who have a loved one caught up in the criminal justice system, primarily told through a young person (aged 16-25) in the family, to highlight the difficulties and challenges of people in this situation. If this is you or you know someone else in this position, we’d like to hear from you. Please also feel free to look at our Facebook page, which has our details.

I was recently contacted by someone who spent time in HMP Armley, Leeds; who was incarcerated at the same time as me.  We did not know each other.  He had come across my article ‘the sound of suicide‘, an earlier article describing a time in Armley in 1990 during the Strangeways riots. – “you have taken me right back twenty years and hit the nail on the head! there were three in our cell and like you said the tension was unbelievable“