Feedback from our user groups, both prison- and community-based, is invaluable, ensuring that our sessional material is kept fresh, relevant and up to date.  At the close of our prison sessions, inmates complete a simple Evaluation Form with their comments and views on what they have seen and heard in the preceding 2 hours.  We positively encourage criticism from our inmates as well as praise since it has only been by listening to their feedback that we have ensured that we keep up to date with trends in behaviour, in what concerns them, both inside and outside prison and what they want to hear about as opposed to what we THINK they want to hear about. 

Below are a few comments from the many letters received from schools and inmates and which can be viewed on request at our offices.

From a Deputy Head - 'In 39 years of teaching, I have arranged, attended and, in some cases, endured numerous presentations on a wide range of subjects. Yours was, without question, the most powerful, imaginative and innovative workshop I have ever witnessed.  Your ability to engage and communicate with young people is absolutely exceptional'.

From an inmate - 'This is a brilliant course!  Far better than other courses I have done in prison.  Will help many people to think about their actions.'  

From a PRU Teacher - 'Very relevant to teenagers' lives and provides a harsh reality check for youngsters who think that they are invincible to the dangers on the street'. 

From a school pupil - 'Cool! Cool! Cool! Great! Funny, excellent and helpful.  Scared me a lot and made me realise what I could get in to'.

From an inmate - 'I’ve been hit by it. Made me think of what I’m in here for and what I miss outside and what my mum thinks of me'.

 

From a pupil - 'Excellent.  Real facts and pictures no one can ignore.  Blinding stuff!  So real!  Liked Ian and the way he spoke to us as adults'.

 

From a PRU teacher - 'Every school in London should see your presentation.  It is extraordinary!'.

From a school pupil - 'Genuinely better than these other workshops I've been to because you get to the realistic facts of crime'.

From an inmate - 'This lesson should be made compulsory in every jail throughout the UK.  It’s gonna stay in my head for ages'.

 

From a group of school pupils - 'Enjoyed all of it and we couldn't stop talking about it.  Made everybody realise that it isn't cool to be in jail'.