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Jul 2020
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Future Prison: Victoria

PRISON RADIO ASSOCIATION
About this episode

Victoria spent time in Holloway and Send prisons and, as a young Black woman, she found they treated her very differently. 

In this episode of Future Prison, she talks to Tanya Robinson OBE, Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service, about conditions for Black people behind bars.

Future Prison was produced with support from the Barrow Cadbury Trust and the Saint Sarkis Charity Trust.

Presenter: Hilary Ineomo-Marcus

For more information on the work of the Prison Radio Association, visit www.prison.radio


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