# Inside Time > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Inside_Time > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Inside_Time.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Time > Source revision: 1343065527 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) UK newspaper for prisoners and detainees Inside Time Front page in April 2024 Type Monthly newspaper Format Compact Owner The New Bridge Foundation Editor Ben Leapman Founded 1 December 1990; 35 years ago (1990-12-01) Language English Headquarters Botley Mills, Botley Country United Kingdom Circulation 55,000 ISSN 1743-7342 Website insidetime.org Media of the United Kingdom List of newspapers ***Inside Time*** is the [national newspaper](/source/National_newspaper) for prisoners and detainees distributed throughout the [prison estate of the United Kingdom](/source/UK_prison_estate) including [Immigration Removal Centres](/source/Immigration_Removal_Centre#United_Kingdom) and [special hospitals](/source/Special_hospital).[1] The newspaper launched in 1990 and is published by Inside Time Limited, a [not-for-profit organisation](/source/Not-for-profit_organisation) and a wholly owned subsidiary of the New Bridge Foundation, a national charity for prisoners founded in 1956.[2] Editors and contributors involved with the newspaper include [Noel "Razor" Smith](/source/Noel_%22Razor%22_Smith), [Erwin James](/source/Erwin_James), [Terry Waite](/source/Terry_Waite), [Jonathan Aitken](/source/Jonathan_Aitken), and [Rachel Billington](/source/Rachel_Billington).[3][4] ## History Founded by [Eric McGraw](/source/Eric_McGraw),[5] in December 1990 the first issue of *Time* (later to become *Inside Time*) was distributed to all prisons and young offender institutions in the United Kingdom. The quarterly, eight page, newspaper was launched in the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom) and broadcast on [BBC Breakfast](/source/BBC_Breakfast) from [Grendon Prison](/source/Grendon_Prison). Ironically, the inspiration for a national newspaper for prisoners came from the Woolf Inquiry into the [Strangeways Prison riot](/source/Strangeways_Prison_riot) that erupted in April 1990. Both [Lord Woolf](/source/Lord_Woolf) and the late Judge [Sir Stephen Tumin](/source/Stephen_Tumin) concluded that prisoners had inadequate opportunities to air their grievances. For that reason, from the very first issue, the newspaper adopted the mission: ‘a voice for prisoners’. Today, *Inside Time* is published monthly, with 56 pages and receives some 10,000 items of communication each year from prisoners, detainees and patients in special hospitals and their families. *Inside Time* also provides a website that has more than 400,000 unique visitors each month.[6] Inside Time Limited is a not-for-profit organisation run under the auspices of the New Bridge Foundation. ## Special supplements *Inside Time* also publishes: - *Inside Information* – a comprehensive guide to prisons and prison related services; the book is provided free of charge to all prison libraries. - *Inside Poetry* – a collection of poems written by people in prison. Each year a new volume is provided free of charge to all UK prison libraries. - *Inside Justice* – a division of *Inside Time* that investigates potential [miscarriages of justice](/source/Miscarriage_of_justice). It is currently funded by charitable donations from the [Esmée Fairbairn Foundation](/source/Esm%C3%A9e_Fairbairn_Foundation), the Newsum Charitable Trust, and the Roddick Foundation. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Inside Time: Britain's only national jail newspaper"](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2008/may/07/prisonsandprobation.insidetime). *[TheGuardian.com](/source/TheGuardian.com)*. 7 May 2008. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Inside Time"](http://www.newbridgefoundation.org.uk/inside-time). The New Bridge Foundation. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Inside Time - The Moorlander"](http://www.themoorlander.co.uk/inside-time). 6 September 2018. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Hudson, Daisy-May (7 November 2014). ["The Former Bank Robber Who Edits the UK's National Prison Paper"](https://www.vice.com/en/article/noel-razor-smith-inside-time-834/). VICE. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Eric McGraw, campaigner on penal reform who founded the prisoners' newspaper Inside Time – obituary"](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/05/03/eric-mcgraw-campaigner-penal-reform-founded-prisoners-newspaper/). *The Telegraph*. 3 May 2021 – via www.telegraph.co.uk. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [*Company - InsideTime*](https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/company/inside-time) ## External links - [Official website](http://www.insidetime.org) This United Kingdom newspaper–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. - [v](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:UK-newspaper-stub) - [t](/source/Template_talk%3AUK-newspaper-stub) - [e](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:UK-newspaper-stub) This prison-related article is a stub. 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