InsideInformation - the new website

InsideInformation - the new website

By: Inside Time

On the 1st June an exciting new extension to www.insidetime.org will go live

Visitors to this new area of the website, be they families, friends of people in prison, legal representatives or one of the thousands of people working in the field of penal affairs, will be able to find everything they need to know about every prison in the UK. The main sections will include:

* Booking and full travel information, the facilities available to visitors plus the regime and all that is available for prisoners.
* Details of all the help organisations. Help for prisoners whilst in custody, those recently released plus all the support that is available for prisoners’ families.
* Understanding Prison Law and a Glossary of Terms.
* The Prisoner Funder Directory, produced by the Hardman Trust, enabling families and friends of prisoners to help source the financial assistance prisoners need in order to fund the extra things they may require to improve their chances on release.
* Resettlement organisations around the country and everything that resettlement units need to know about specific areas. This will follow a little later and be accessible for research on behalf of prisoners approaching their release dates. Housing, employment, training, education and the many other types of support needed will be displayed and regularly updated.

We are in the process of contacting all help organisations around the country gathering information about their services. Advertising for them is free of charge and together with a link to their own website will be included.

Legal firms who advertise with Inside Time and other specialists offering services will also be promoted free of charge on the site and a special search facility will list all geographically and by their specialist services. Input forms are being sent out to all advertisers and help organisations will be contacted soon if they have not already heard from us.

Insideinformation - the new guidebook

As soon as the online service is live and fully operational a printed version of insideinformation will be published as a guidebook. It will be provided free of charge to all prison libraries throughout the UK and made available to everyone else at cost.

There will be free adverts and an alphabetical listing for all those who advertise in Inside Time as a ‘thank you’ for their continued and loyal support.

The launch of the first edition, the 2009/10 Guidebook, will be announced very soon and advice as to when readers can expect them to arrive in all prison libraries.

The design and content of insideinformation has been largely driven by the input of two former prisoners, one male one female, and their family members who visited them whilst they were in prison. They are now employed by Inside Time and will be updating the online content on a three monthly cycle putting together each annual edition of the guidebook that will be supplied free of charge to all prison libraries.

insideinformation is another ‘not for profit’ service provided by Inside Time Limited.

For more information contact enquiries@insidetime.org

Comment: I suspect that Mark Leech will not be too pleased as the success of Inside Time looks secure whereas the future of ConVerse and The Prisoners Handbook looks less certain. Retirement to Thailand might appear to be a good option...