Living Inside is a new exhibition at Kilmainham Gaol Museum
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Throw Away the Key
Exhibition exploring the impact of prisons on health at University of Warwick’s Modern Records Centre
Conscientious Objectors and the Unemployed: ‘refusal’ and pathology in prison medical care
This research strand seeks to examine the ways in which British authorities and penal institutions utilised the concept of ‘refusal’ to examine, construct, and intervene in the physical health of the British population between 1916 and 1939. With a focus on two different carceral contexts – the imprisonment of conscientious objectors (COs) in the First…
Throw Away the Key
Exhibition exploring the impact of prisons on health at University of Warwick’s Modern Records Centre
The Examination
“I’d like the people to know I’m not an animal. Did I cause harm? Yes. Should I be punished? Of course. But do I deserve my human rights? Absolutely I do.”
Health Inside
Artist Sinead McCann introduces Health Inside a new public art intervention.
Reflecting on Warwick Tate Exchange June 2018
Professor Hilary Marland, Dr Rachel Bennett, and Flo Swann consider their experiences of exhibiting at Tate Modern.
Transforming the ‘man’ Jock into the ‘girl’ Masie: Inculcating Gender in Aylesbury Borstal for Girls
Female prisons and borstals were intended to encourage respectability in women and girls. Rachel Bennett explores how one person challenged these efforts.
Tonight We Fly
Lock Her Up to appear as part of Tonight We Fly festival in Leeds, Autumn 2018
Reflections on The Trial
Artist Sinead McCann reflects upon the making, and launch night, of The Trial.
Book Your Free Tickets for Tate Exchange 12-17 June 2018
Free tickets are now available for three events we are hosting at Tate Modern in June
Karl Crawley and how Ireland started talking about prisoners’ mental health (1974-1978)
Dr Oisín Wall discusses how a campaign for proper psychiatric treatment for one prisoner began a national conversation about prisoners’ mental health in 1970s Ireland.
Reflecting on Past Time, March 2018
Public Engagement Officer Flo Swann looks back on the first run of our project, Past Time, at HMP Hewell with Rideout (Creative Arts for Rehabilitation)
Exploring the history of prisoner health 