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Eric McGraw, campaigner on penal reform who founded the prisoners’ newspaper Inside Time – obituary
Inside Time grew over 30 years to have 60,000 readers, 100,000 regular visitors to the website, and an app to connect families
McGraw, centre, in 2015, having just accepted the Longford Trust’s Lifetime Achievement Award
Credit: DAVID SANDISON
Eric McGraw, who has died aged 76, set up Inside Time in 1990 as a free newspaper that gave prisoners a voice; it is hard to think of another individual in recent times who has had more of an impact on the everyday life of prison inmates in this country.
Distributed in every UK jail, today Inside Time is an indispensable part of the criminal justice system – a truly independent channel that connects the prisoners, officers, governors, judges and ministers who are among its readers. ....

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