100 Episodes

  1. To fix the filing cabinet or the person? | Cherie Blair KC and Kate Morrissey

    Published: 5/12/2025
  2. The Prison Philosophers | Andy West and Ray Smith

    Published: 5/5/2025
  3. The HMP Brixton Half Marathon

    Published: 4/28/2025
  4. Justice vs the culture wars | Your questions answered

    Published: 4/14/2025
  5. We've visited a *lot* of prisons | Duewaine Marshalleck-Baker and Arthur Hagues

    Published: 4/7/2025
  6. Who was Chris Tchaikovsky? | Kate Fraser and Deborah Coles

    Published: 3/31/2025
  7. Disclosure and barring | Peter Lewis and Penelope Gibbs

    Published: 3/24/2025
  8. Visits | Faye Dunn and Mo

    Published: 3/17/2025
  9. Finding the common ground | Alice Dawnay and Kam

    Published: 3/10/2025
  10. Why me? | Khamran Uddin and Keeva Baxter

    Published: 3/3/2025
  11. The culture of sentencing | David Gauke

    Published: 2/24/2025
  12. Talent development | Richie Makepeace and Nancy Prentice

    Published: 2/17/2025
  13. The most serious development in decades | Michael Kennedy and Ian Vandersluys

    Published: 2/10/2025
  14. Diagnosis | Scout Tzofiya Bolton and Michelle Walsh

    Published: 2/3/2025
  15. Sentencing: A Primer | Tim Owen KC

    Published: 1/27/2025
  16. Telling stories | Mickey Dehara and Max Porter

    Published: 1/20/2025
  17. Moral blindness | Jamie Bennett and Andrew Morris

    Published: 1/13/2025
  18. Prison in numbers | Dr. Kimmett Edgar

    Published: 1/6/2025
  19. Spending Christmas outside San Quentin | Greg Eskridge and Eli Wirtschafter

    Published: 12/23/2024
  20. Outside the Old Bailey

    Published: 12/16/2024

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The Secret Life of Prisons is produced by a charity, the Prison Radio Association. To make a donation please visit prison.radio/donate. The podcast tells the hidden stories from behind bars. Paula Harriott is Chief Executive of Unlock. She spent time in prison and now works to help those who have been to prison to contribute to the debate around crime and justice. Phil Maguire is the Chief Executive of the Prison Radio Association. He's worked in prisons for two decades and received an OBE for services to radio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.