Mike Trace (CEO Forward Trust) explores the complexity of recovery wings within the prison system. Based on his 40 years of experience – from government official, to international advisor, to the charity sector Mike’s detailed examination of the recovery wings uncovers related themes including criminal justice reform, education programmes within the prison system, rehabilitation support and ways that charities - like The Forward Trust - are supporting prisoners into long-term recovery.

Recorded: April 2025

How Do We Make Prisons Work - Part 2 - The Gauke Review

“If we put the billions we are spending into warehousing 80,000 people into proper rehabilitation, we will have less crime, less victims of crime, and more people getting out of a lifestyle of crime and back into a positive, socially included lifestyle.”

Recorded in March 2025, Mike Trace, CEO of The Forward Trust, explains more about prison capacity and the pressures this places across the criminal justice system.

This update closely links to Forward's announced partnership with The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and Mitie (March 2025) connected with HMP Millsike in Yorkshire; Millsike is a new prison facility that aims to improve the living conditions and rehabilitation prospects of its incoming Category C prisoners.

Recorded: March 2025

How Do We Make Prisons Work? Part 1 - The Gauke Review

Happy Halloween

Youtube Release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ1oWYRHPVk

The Night Were Evil Arrives (Prison Husk Halloween Special)

The Dungeon Game Music pack contains a versatile selection of different Atmospheric/Dark Dungeon Tracks for Fantasy Games

1. Aqueduct
2. Dark Castle
3. Dungeon Tension
4. Sewer Cells
5. Dungeon Lord
6. Lonely Cell
7. The Prison
8. Tunnels
9. Dungeon Ambience
10. Fallen Remnants

Dungeon Music Pack (Extracts)

Here is the real tough version of the song, hang tight!

Fight! (They Are Sayin') - The Fighter Mix

You can't call yourself an outlaw, if you've never been in jail. -- Lyrics written by PNW's Cowboy and Marine Ron Chant!

The OG reading his lyrics... https://youtu.be/21ucsaIInoo?si=mZZAGzZdpduxU0xo

LYRICS

I was over at my girlfriend's house, drinking beer with her old man
Somebody loaded up a pipe, and it went from hand to hand
When it came around to me, I passed it on to someone else
It don't bother me, but I don't smoke, myself

Suddenly a bunch of POLE-LEASE came crashing through the door
Waving guns around and throwing people on the floor
Then they snapped the handcuffs on us and they pushed us in a van
Took us to the courthouse and they threw us in the can

Oh you can't call yourself an outlaw, if you've never been in jail

Well they woke me up next morning, and they hauled me into court
There's a judge in a black robe, he was bald and fat and short
He just sat there frowning, down at me from up there on his throne
It was plain to see he'd spent the night alone

He said innocent or guilty, I said innocent, I swear
He said 90 days in jail, for having too much hair
I looked over at my lawyer, and I whispered what the hell
You can't call yourself an outlaw, if you've never been in jail

Oh you can't call yourself an outlaw, if you've never been in jail
Every outlaws been a resident of the crossbar hotel
You can't call yourself an outlaw, till you've done a little time
Cuz outlaws more than just a state of mind
I'm doing 90 days in county jail when my only crime,
was being in the wrong place at the wrong time
You might think that I'd be bitter, but I figured what the hell
You can't call yourself an outlaw if you've never been in jail

Sometimes I'm a little slow, I guess but I can't figure out
What gives the law the right to come and break into your house
Then they take you to a prison and they lock you in a cell
And it's all done to protect you from yourself

But there's a bunch of damn good people being treated worse than thieves
Locked up in a prison cell because they smoked a few green leaves
And if I can't say I've enjoyed it, and was worth it all because
When they finally let me out of here, I'll be a real outlaw

Oh you can't call yourself an outlaw, if you've never been in jail
Every outlaws been a resident of the crossbar hotel
You can't call yourself an outlaw, till you've done a little time
Cuz outlaws more than just a state of mind
I'm doing 90 days in county jail when my only crime,
was being in the wrong place at the wrong time
You might think that I'd be bitter, but I figured what the hell
You can't call yourself an outlaw if you've never been in jail

Oh you can't call yourself an outlaw if you've never been in jail
Oh you can't call yourself an outlaw if you've never been in jail
Oh you can't call yourself an outlaw if you've never been in jail

TDMX's You can't call yourself an outlaw, if you've never been in jail!

Here we are for episode 797! In which Paul and his Birthday Twin, Andy are reunited to discuss their favourite non-prisoners on Prisoner: Cell Block H - warders, governors, doctors, social workers, all kinds - just not the actual ladies behind bars! Thanks to Andy The Birthday Twin for all his help with this edition of our show! Our next episode, #798 sees Toppie returning to help out in investigating Hubert's recent odd behaviour. Do join us! Email us at shyyeti@yahoo.co.uk if you have comments - you can even send a sound-file and I'll include it. The music is by Shy Yeti, Muffleyontour, Luca and Udio. Sound effects by Paul C and Soundbible. Logo by Owen O and Shy Yeti. All other content is Copyright Paul Chandler, 2025. Episode 797 was recorded on the 20th July 2025.

THE SHY LIFE PODCAST - 797: THE BIRTHDAY TWINS ARE CELL BLOCK BOUND!

This week's topics:

• Netflix's prestige season
• Fleabag being the top 5 programmes of all time
• What we want at our funerals
• Waakye v Rice & Peas
• Broken promises at funerals
• Walt Whitman's Song of Myself poem
• No Limit v Cash Money Verzuz
• Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin is mad at Black & Asian faces on TV
• Tory MP, Robert Jenrick not seeing any White faces in Birmingham
• Are the above two statements racists or no
• Who does integration help
• Prisoners set free by mistake
• Racial tint on mistaken prison release reporting
• Racial disparity in prison and why
• Train stabbing attack
• Tanzanian election troubles, first hand
• Nigerian Muslims killing Christians?
• #StavrosSays : Fleabag [https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p070npjv/fleabag]


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Eloquently Saying Nothing

ESN #537 : The Prison & Cemeteries Episode

On WBAL News Now at 6  as we mark Veterans Day, WBAL NewsRadio's Chris Chicon talks to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins on how the federal govnerment shutdown has impacted veterans programs.  WBAL-TV's Tommie Clarke reports on a program in a Maryland prison to help train service dogs for veterans,  WBAL NewsRadio's Kaitlin Bancroft reports on a Veterans Day service project by BGE workers at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. 

WBAL News Now in Depth Veterans Day 2025

Il fallait bien fêter les folles cavalcades et les bravades du père et du fils. À la base ça devait être un morceau sérieux pourtant.

Probablement la faute de Sarkozy (mais peut-être pas)

Liberté

Walk through the mental aspects of becoming incarcerated from a counselor's perspective. 

Despair to Growth

Un nouvel épisode de Prisons portes ouvertes avec comme invité : le dessinateur BAST. Aux micros de Daniel de l'ANVP.

[PRISON PORTES OUVERTES] 25 : BAST

"Bending the Bars" is an inspiring and transformational recording project featuring incarcerated and formerly incarcerated hip-hop artists.  David, along with Oberlin interns Natalie Gamino and Eloise Rich, interviewed Executive Producer Noam Brown and artists Chance (formerly incarcerated) and Gary Field (currently incarcerated and also an Executive Producer of this project).  This episode was edited by Eloise, Natalie, and Jamie Polson.

Music included:
1. CHANCE, True Akira: Locked Down
2. Kashdat: 8th Floor
3. Corvette Cal, Alphabet Rockers: dangeRush
4. Gary Field, Paul Reid: Tearing Down Walls and Building Bridges
5. FLAMAN, GABRL: Better Days
6. ThaFlame: No Good Deeds

Bending the Bars is powered by Community Hotline for Incarcerated People (CHIP), a grassroots organization supporting incarcerated individuals by documenting their experiences and advocating for change.

Episode 46: Bending the Bars (Interview)

ANÁLKASZÁS

The song is a reflection by a prisoner during Christmas who feels sad, alone, and far from home while observing the contrast between holiday media and their desolate situation inside, where they believe Santa does not come visiting. Despite having no presents to open or traditional comforts like beer, no wine, the narrator resolves to smile and make it worthwhile, finding temporary relief by drifting away in dreams and fantasies filled with memories.

I Don't Think that Santa Comes Visiting Prisoners

Reece Ryans is an amateur musician whose introspective lyrics and blend of pop, acoustic, and electronic influences offer a unique and evocative musical experience. His songs explore a range of emotions and themes, from the depths of personal struggles to the soaring heights of love and self-discovery.

The Forward Trust is a social justice charity that supports people to recover from addiction or leave behind crime, helping them move on in life with family, friends, jobs, homes, and a sense of belonging. Leading Forward is a new ongoing audio series providing thought leadership views and opinions from Forward's CEO and other colleagues.

Stop child abusers. Stomp abusers. End them right now. They're going to hell, be their express, clearing the path. Nobody likes a terrible story being drug out... write their ending, "and then they were gone."

You can get further with a kind word and a gun than a kind word alone. 

Newsman: Willie why you rob them banks?
Willie: Cuz that's where the money is!
-Willie Sutton

There is always another way, your own way.
-Waylon Jennings

Do what you can now with what you have.
-Theo Roosevelt

I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment.
-Bono

Reciprocity: Before anything flows, there must be a difference. Between different elevations, water flows. Between different pressures, air flows. Between different poker players, money flows. 
-Tommy Angel

If you get hit by a bus, make sure you're the train. 

Don't do, for doing's sake.

Don't go with the flow, be the river.

I have the three.
-TDMX

Professional Games Composer (30+ Titles)
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