The mission of Unlocked Graduates which started in 2016 is to develop outstanding leaders to break cycles of reoffending in prison and throughout society. The programme was one of the key recommendations of the Coates’ Review of prison education which argued that education needs to be put at the heart of the prison service if the Government is to be serious about the rehabilitation of prisoners.

Poet and spoken word artist Michael Brome, also a prison warden with fifteen years service at HMP Leicester talks about his experience working in prisons and shaping a life through the art and craft of words, and having care for the way you treat others.