What's happening: Sunday 12 October 2008
The Pauline Campbell Memorial Lecture with Erwin James
Date: Sunday, 12 October 2008 | 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Performance Space
Ticket Prices: £5/£3
The Pauline Campbell Memorial Lecture has been set up to honour the work of the late campaigner for prison reform and to address the issues she bravely highlighted. The lecture is followed by a discussion of the issues raised, chaired by Joe Sim, Professor of Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University. Audience questions are invited.
Pauline Campbell became a vociferous campaigner on the issue of the care of vulnerable women in prison after her only child, Sarah, committed suicide in Styal Prison in 2003. Her campaign of direct action outside women’s prisons across England and Wales made her one of the country’s most prominent and passionate advocates on behalf of vulnerable women in custody. Pauline Campbell died in May of this year.
The inaugural memorial lecture will be delivered by writer Erwin James. While serving a life sentence, Erwin James began to write a column for The Guardian about his experience of prison life, which attracted a dedicated readership. James was released in 2004; he continues to write and speak on the tensions between rehabilitation and punishment in the penal system.
Deborah Coles, co-director of INQUEST, introduces the lecture. INQUEST is a charity that provides a free advice service to bereaved people on contentious deaths and their investigation, with a particular focus on deaths in custody.
New/most recent work
Erwin James, The Home Stretch: From Prison to Parole, (Atlantic Books, April 2005)
Joe Sim, The Carceral State: Power and Punishment in a Hard Land (Sage, May 2009)Deborah Coles and Marissa
Sandler, Dying On The Inside: Examining Women’s Deaths in Prison (INQUEST, April 2008)
Associated links:
INQUEST
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