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AN EX-PRISONER has put pen to paper to describe his experiences across 14 UK prisons, including HMP Hewell.

AN EX-PRISONER has put pen to paper to describe his experiences across 14 UK prisons, including HMP Hewell.

One afternoon in the spring of 2008, a young man named Stephen Jackley called the police saying he was a geography student working on a college essay. He wanted to know how information was shared among police forces in Europe. If someone committed a crime in one country, would that be automatically reported to others? The forensics expert he spoke to told him records were only shared if a foreign police force asked for them. Jackley was relieved, but also incensed at the wasted opportunity. When he was eventually imprisoned in America, he wrote to the police in the UK, saying, "Look, this is...

, by Ben Machell (Ballantine). This cross between heist tale and biography examines the career of Stephen Jackley, a British student who blamed the financial system for the world’s suffering, and, in 2007, decided to become a modern-day Robin Hood. The plan was to rob banks in order to fund schemes for eradicating poverty and reversing ecological harm, but the execution bordered on farce. Jackley was arrested within nine months, having attempted ten robberies, five of which failed—once, he accidentally ransacked a children’s charity—and he wasted his loot on frivolities or...

Ben Machell                                                                                      Canongate £16.99 As geography and sociology students go, Stephen Jackley was far from typical. When he arrived at the University of Worcester in September 2007, he still had a bruise from being hit on the chin while trying to raid a bank. The raid had failed to go as planned. Jackley had plotted to collar a courier as he left the Lloyds TSB in Exeter and make him reopen the door. Once inside, he would force the cashiers to let him into the bank vault, wh...