“Why do it in prison? Well, why do it anywhere? I do it in prison because I was asked, and I carry on because no-one has stopped me,” said Alan Smith, a “prison philosopher” in the UK.
Alan’s philosophy classes in prisons such as Wandsworth are part of the Prisoners Education Trust, which was established in 1989 by David Burton and Vernon Cocking. The two men said “they had become disillusioned with the narrow range of classes on offer to prisoners, and with colleagues considered ...