'I spent a decade inside prisons, one inmate made me quit'
However one day, during a visit with his probation officer, Titch disclosed that he had relapsed and started taking drugs again. He said he was struggling in the community and needed help. The officer had no choice but to report him. The rules of his sentence meant he had to be recalled to prison indefinitely.
After one year in prison, Titch attended his parole hearing, where a board would decide whether he could be released from prison. They asked me whether I could guarantee he would never use drugs again. The week after his parole hearing, Titch relapsed after accessing drugs in prison. Titch was the kind of person who you would meet in a pub and would instantly get along with. He was really full of life. He was argumentative in a way that showed he had not become institutionalized and was still passionate about life.
While I had felt there were an amalgamation of problems with the prison system, after Titch's case my outlook on the system changed. I started working in prisons because I thought I could change lives—I even completed a master's degree in 2013 at the age of 23 to help with my work—I thought I could have this real positive impact on the world. But that was a moment in which I felt, no matter what I did, he had been failed by the system.
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