The Prison Reform Trust writing competition 2010 attracted almost 250 entries over three categories, comment on the subject Out for Good, short story on Troubled Inside and lyric/rap on Inside Out. The judges were:

• Beatrix Campbell is an award-winning journalist, author, broadcaster, campaigner and playwright. She is also a writer-in-residence at a young offenders’ institution.

• Kingslee ‘Akala’ Daley is founder of the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company.  He engages young people, often those who are considered “hard to reach”, and helps them to achieve artistic excellence. He won a MOBO award in 2006 for best hip-hop artist.

• Erwin James is a writer well known for his Guardian newspaper columns, reports and features on prisons and criminal justice issues. He is a trustee of the Prison Reform Trust.

• Femi Oyeniran is a British actor and grime artist. He is most famous for his role as Moony in the 2006 film Kidulthood and its 2008 sequel Adulthood. He is involved in SmartJustice for Young People. In 2009 Femi directed the film Fresh Off the Boat.

• Alan Rusbridger is editor of the Guardian. He has been a reporter, columnist, features editor and deputy editor of the Guardian.

• Stella Tillyard is a best-selling novelist and historian. A Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, she is also a judge for the BBC 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.

 

The Comment prize in 2010 was won by Darren Jenkins for his entry on the theme Out for Good, it tackled homophobia and LGBT rights in prison.

 Sue Foreman won a special prize from the judges for her account of her son's mental illness and his subsequent suicide in prison