Surviving and thriving in prisons
Locked up Living Podcast
Can institutional culture challenge your mental health? What if your job makes you feel shame, sadness, grief, disgust and fear? What if you are expected not to feel? Or you are expected to be relentlessly competitive? What it’s like to live or work in a prison? Does working with people who commit murder, child abuse and rape affect people who work in prisons and the wider criminal justice system?
Why 'Locked up Living?'
David is a psychotherapist who has worked leading therapeutic communities in English prisons and in Millfields, an NHS forensic setting in East London.
Naomi is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic psychologist who was, for many years, clinical lead at The Fens, a treatment programme for serious offenders at HMP Whitemoor.
They both experienced painful and destructive forces in their work and so set out to discover what things make a positive difference for staff and service users and what is it that makes things go wrong.
Of course we found out that there is no easy answer but there are many fascinating and valuable experiences to be heard.