A window into LandWorks

The PeN Project – a window into LandWorks

LandWorks:

Is an independent charity that offers prisoners and those at risk of going to prison (trainees), the chance to develop a bespoke resettlement plan, that incorporates training, skills development and confidence building.

The PeN project:

Allows trainees to tell their stories in their own words, illustrated through the photographs they take to record their time at LandWorks
Enables the community to engage with the trainees through this blog and other social media:

“critically giving trainees a voice, one that is otherwise unheard, the voice of an ‘offender’ talking to the community they have hurt” (LandWorks project manager)

Creating a PeN project blog post:

Trainees take photographs, which are discussed privately with the lead researcher.
These interviews are transcribed and a blog of around 500 words is created, agreed and then posted alongside photographs on this website.
Social media – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram publicise the new posts and comments, likes etc., are fed back to the trainees.

A window into LandWorks

The PeN Project

The PeN Project – a window into LandWorks

Tyler says: “I just felt like I wanted to go back to prison for a couple of months really. When you’re in there you’re just … it is a bit of a break like.”

JimBob says: “If people had that opportunity, like LandWorks has given me, then the community and people would be paid off in the long run ‘cos they’d get stuff back and at the minute they don’t give you that chance.”