Waterside Press readers will be sad to learn of the death of our author Martin Wright at the age of 94. Martin wrote three seminal works published or reissued by our imprint: Justice for Victims and Offenders: A Restorative Response to Crime (1996), Restoring Respect for Justice: A Symposium, and Making Good: Prisons Punishment and Beyond (these last two both 2008).… Read more “Martin Wright (1930-2025)”
Waterside Press readers will be sad to learn of the death in Surrey on 1 January 2025 of our author Audrey Edwards. Audrey was 90 years of age. She was in her late sixties when she wrote No Truth No Justice, the tragic story of how her son Christopher, aged thirty, fragile and suffering from mental ill-health was killed in his prison cell in 1994.… Read more “Audrey Edwards (1934-2025)”
Waterside Press was extremely saddened to hear of the death in November 2024 of former Metropolitan Deputy Chief Stipendiary Magistrate for Inner London and District Judge for 27 years from 1972 to 1999 Ronald Bartle. In a prolific period from 2012 to 2016 he wrote four books for Waterside Press: The Telephone Murder: The Mysterious Death of Julia Wallace, a career-based biographical account Bow Street Beak; Lizzie Borden and the Massachusetts Axe Murders and Three Cases That Shook the Law.… Read more “Ronald Bartle (1929-2024)”
‘GENIUS’ is not a word you expect to see in a book about prisons. Yet there it is, as plain as day, on page 124, of this timely, though heart-wrenching book. Prison policy makers, from government officials through news managers, should be mandated to read at least chapter eight of this book (all 10 pages of it), every year, and then put in writing the three key points they then learn from doing so, with a clear commitment as to how they intend to put them into practice.… Read more “The Barlinnie Special Unit – Book Review”
And now it’s over 30 years on from those Parkhurst days and I am sitting in a café in Manchester. Opposite me is a large self-contained man, an observer cautiously protective of himself. His quietly spoken words reveal a perceptive intelligence.… Read more “The Prison Psychiatrist’s Wife – Postscript”
