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Student H left school with no qualifications. He was imprisoned aged eighteen in the Cages (Compounds of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) and Magilligan Prison in the 1970s. After his release he became a youth and community worker and completed his professional youth work training in England. He was arrested and imprisoned in Full Sutton Prison in the 1990s where he took a GCSE in Craft Design and Technology. In 1995 he started his Open University studies in Social Sciences. During that year he was transferred to Maghaberry Prison and subsequently to the INLA (Irish National Liberation Army) wing in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Priso...n) where he continued his Open University studies until his release in 1999. He subsequently gained a postgraduate qualification in Community Development at the University of Ulster and at the time of interview in 2012 was working with young people in the community.
Student H left school with no qualifications. He was imprisoned aged eighteen in the Cages (Compounds of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison) and Magilligan Prison in the 1970s. After his release he became a youth and community worker and completed his professional youth work training in England. He was arrested and imprisoned in Full Sutton Prison in the 1990s where he took a GCSE in Craft Design and Technology. In 1995 he started his Open University studies in Social Sciences. During that year he was transferred to Maghaberry Prison and subsequently to the INLA (Irish National Liberation Army) wing in the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Priso...n) where he continued his Open University studies until his release in 1999. He subsequently gained a postgraduate qualification in Community Development at the University of Ulster and at the time of interview in 2012 was working with young people in the community.
| Title: | And that whole conversation with them was good |
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| Description: | Student H studied with The Open University in the mid-1990s in England in Full Sutton Prison and in Maghaberry Prison and the H Blocks (the Maze and Long Kesh Prison). He describes the value of Open University tutors visiting him for tutorials while he was studying in prison | Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Contributor: | Student H |
| Duration: | 00:00:58 |
| Master programe code and title: | Student H Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:22:26 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:23:24 |
| Master programme production number: | 043_S_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
