- Sunday 27th April, 10-11am
- Paisley Town Hall
- Tickets – Pay What You Can, £3/£5/£8/£10
Join us for a discussion about how reshaping the structures we’re bound by can transform our lives, with two authors who have decades of experience working in the criminal justice system. Criminologist Yvonne Jewkes is a world leading expert on prison design, and in her thoughtful book, An Architecture of Hope, she asks fundamental questions about what might help someone at the lowest point in their life to rebuild. Kirstin Anderson has been running book groups and artistic programmes in Scottish prisons for over 17 years. Her book, The Barlinnie Special Unit: Art, Punishment and Innovation, documents a radical project undertaken at Glasgow’s largest prison to incorporate creative activities and rethink the organisation of power.
Yvonne and Kirstin speak to Paisley-based writer and prison practitioner Lorna Callery-Sithole about their fascinating books, both of which have the potential to revolutionise the way we think about incarceration.
