Upcoming troubled teen industry webinar on Thurs April 18th, hosted by the American Bar Association SOGI Commission. I'll be speaking alongside brilliant change-makers Chelsea Maldonado Jessica Miller Tyler Kingkade The Uplift. Free to register; all are welcome.
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Heart sore but heart full, to see so many of Scotland’s literary community share words and solidarity with all that is lost and being crushed in Gaza and Palestine.

Performances beautiful, captivating, challenging. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸 Watch & donate here:

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CALL FOR PAPERS - special issue of British Journal of Community Justice on Community Justice in Scotland, eds. me, Prof. Beth Weaver and Mike Nellis. Deadline for abstracts is 2 April 2024. Please share widely!
Details: mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/articles/…

Much discussion in the book group at HMP Shotts today about Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. I also brought in Jacqueline Roy’s The Fat Lady Sings; the power of institutions runs through both books. PrisonReadingGroups Give a Book

Book launch for my new book: Equality Dancesport: Gender and Sexual Identities Matter.
Sign up links below.
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Tomorrow on Zoom, 3pm UK time, 4pm Oslo time 👇🏼
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Anyone who knows me has heard me talk about the book group I love leading at HMP Shotts. Working with PrisonReadingGroups Give a Book for the last 7 years has been the best volunteering experience I’ve ever had. Thank you for the kind gifts. Here’s to many more years of reading! 📚📚📚

If you're in London, or able to get there, don't miss this performance by the dynamic community choir Vox Holloway on the life of Anthony Ray Hinton, his wrongful imprisonment on death row for 28 years and his determination to be free.

Sacro can help Edinburgh residents struggling to visit a family member in prison due to low income, additional needs, disability or travelling with children. Our travel service will pick you up at home, drive you to visit, wait, and drive you home … at no cost.

At last, proof of existence: my book really is out there in the world after all.
Hit me up if you are interested in writing a review, joining a discussion roundtable at British Society of Criminology Conference 2024, or simply wish to read it and need access 🔑

Scottish prisons being full and the urgent need to have fewer people in them features on #bbcgms radio this morning, before Disclosure 'Prisons on the brink' Lucy Adams on TV tonight. Near 700 prisoners on waiting list for rehabilitative programmes.
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Happy Birthday Scottish Chamber Orchestra !!! 🎂🎉🎶 It's a great joy to be able to make music with you as part of the #SCOChorus and to have worked with a number of the players featured in the film with #SCOConnect . Here's to another 50 years!

Arm day at the National Library of Scotland 💪🏼 Many thanks to the National Library of Scotland team for all their help. 📚📚📚

Arm day at the National Library of Scotland 💪🏼 Many thanks to the National Library of Scotland team for all their help. 📚📚📚

We had our last book group meeting of 2023 at HMP Shotts today. We read a variety of books this year (some not pictured but photo updated) and are already planning what to read for the new year ahead. As always a massive thank you to PrisonReadingGroups Give a Book for your support! 📚📚📚

Did you know financial support is available for those visiting a loved one in custody? The Help With Prison Visits scheme can provide contributions towards 1 visit every 2 weeks, for travel costs, meals or overnight accommodation. To find out more, visit: gov.uk/help-with-pris…

An excellent presentation by Francesca Soliman about her new book 'Social Harm at the Border'. It's an important text that discusses the social harms of borderisation on Lampedusa including the economic, environmental and cultural impact on island life SCCJR taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…

We had LOTS to discuss today in our book group at HMP Shotts about Angela Findlay’s memoir, In My Grandfather’s Shadow; history, memory, guilt, trauma, art, family and forgiveness.
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