Andy West

Andy West is the author of  The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to be Free (Picador 2022). He has written for The Guardian, Aeon, 3AM Magazine, Huck, The Big Issue, Open Democracy, The Lead, The Times Education Supplement and Bloomsbury. He is philosopher in residence at HMP Brixton.

Festival Schools Programme

Should prisons be reformed or abolished?

Prison Outreach Programme

There are many ways people find ways to be free. Some enjoy the self-control of stoicism. Some are happy prisoners willing to accept the life they are given. Some are rebels and some are radicals. But who has the most to teach us about how to live in the world today?