HMP Traveller Forum
I started going into prisons 6 years ago. I had taken up a job as a researcher with the Irish Chaplaincy in Britain, a Catholic social justice organisation that started in the 1950s and whose main work today is with marginalised groups within the Irish community in Britain: Irish Travellers, prisoners, and isolated elderly people.
It was on my first visit to Wormwood Scrubs Prison, chatting to a man called John, outside his small, shared, glossy-green cell that I heard the following words in reference to education in prison for Travellers:
