I first met Bob Turney, who has sadly died, around 2001. He arrived on the doorstep clutching a ‘well-thumbed’ manuscript. As he stepped inside the telephone rang. It was Lord Longford the UK’s best-known and ever controversial prison reformer: ‘Has Bob arrived safely,’ he continued, as if by way of some welfare enquiry.… Read more “Bob Turney”
We were sad to learn of the death of our author John Hosking. John combined an illustrious career in business with long service as a justice of the peace, rising to become chair of the nationwide Magistrates’ Association from 1987 to 1990.… Read more “John Hosking CBE”
The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation, edited by Kirstin Anderson (Waterside Press, 2024).
The Barlinnie Special Unit (BSU), which functioned from 1973 to 1994 in Barlinnie Prison, Glasgow, was an innovative small unit within the Scottish prison system.… Read more “Some Reflections on ‘The Barlinnie Special Unit’, by Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms”
BBC News has used extracts from one of our publications to illustrate the impact on family life of sending women to prison. ‘What Happens When Your Mum Goes to Prison?’ is based around Seen & Heard, edited by Lucy Baldwin and Ben Raikes.… Read more “What Happens When Mothers Go to Prison?”
Legendary singer-songwriter Annie Lennox and Waterside Press author Pauline Campbell recently met up in London when they discussed the injustices faced by the Windrush Generation as described in Pauline’s book Lefty Lawyer: Speaking Truth to Power. Annie was launching her own new book, Annie Lennox: Retrospective (Rizzoli International Publications), at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster where Pauline attended as a VIP guest.… Read more “Sharing the Limelight … and on the Speaking Circuit”
