Giles and I will be among the voluntary guests at HMP The Mount on 23 April, together with the High Sheriff and a number of other notables from around the County. We shall be served a normal prison dinner, locked up for the night and given prison breakfast before being let out the next morning.
Every guest has undertaken to raise over £100 and the money will go in equal third parts to the Childrens Society – which runs projects to keep children awaiting trial out of prison – to HACRO – which is working to provide mentors for young offenders leaving prison – and to The Mount itself for the new Visitors Centre. The costs will be minimal. A similar event was organised at Brixton Prison last autumn, with Lord and Lady Woolf and Michael Howard among the ‘guests, and raised a sum well into five figures for Macmillan Nurses.