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Gareth Malone in prison

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Luckygirl Mon 06-Jan-20 22:13:09

Any one else see this?

All I could think was how these young men are victims as well as perpetrators: victims of broken homes, poverty, mental illness. And a common theme was desperation at what they had put their mothers through. What can our society do to try and stop them getting to this point? It all felt so desperately sad.

I found it so painful as a very much loved young relative of mine is in this situation and seeing the harsh realities of life in prison reduced me to tears. What did the mental health and education services do for this loved young person? - nothing - in spite of the family's strenuous efforts to get help over a decade or more. Something is so fundamentally and frighteningly wrong. sad

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PamelaJ1 Thu 09-Jan-20 17:53:44

Like others I wondered if we could help an ex prisoner. We probably could, we have a small annex, we could give one of these young men a home and support.
Then I realise that I would be totally out of my depth if anything went wrong and it probably would.

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Iam64 Thu 09-Jan-20 19:32:00

PamelaJ1, find a charity you can contribute to, that supports ex prisoners. That will be more useful than you trying to support one individual, using y0ur annexe. Working with this group is as you recognised, so demanding and so often a bit scary and sad. Best left to professionals.
You could volunteer to help teach a prisoner to read. There's a great scheme to help prisoners learn to read, so they can read a bedtime story on a tape, for their children.

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