‘One man killed another on my day off’: a writer’s life inside jail
Watching acclaimed UK prison drama ‘Time’ brings back vivid and profoundly affecting memories of running writers’ workshops in a high security men’s prison.
Sean Bean and Stephen Graham star in screenwriter Jimmy McGovern’s masterful and compassionate prison drama “Time”.
I’m in a high security male prison with bars on the window. Five men are with me. There is no prison guard in the room. I am running a poetry workshop.
At the end, one of them comes up to me. “Jane,” he says. “I need to tell you what I’m in for.”
