A series of talks to accompany The Long Road. Talks include:

20 May, 6.30pm

Are super jails the answer to the prison crisis, or what are the alternatives?
Panel includes Rt Hon David Hanson MP (Minister of State for the Ministry of Justice), Erwin James (Guardian columnist and former prisoner), Anders Lustgarten (playwright and prison lecturer), Juliet Lyon (Director of the Prison Reform Trust) and Peter Thornton QC (Senior Circuit Judge at the Old Bailey and trustee of the Howard League for Penal Reform).

27 May, 6.30pm

Is knife crime the product of a deviant subculture, or a logical reaction to life on the street?
Panel includes Susannah Hancock (London Manger of the Youth Justice Board), Chris McDonald (Acting Detective Chief Superintendent and Head of Operation Blunt) and Jason Neish (former prisoner and facilitator and mentor for the National Youth Theatre Young Offenders Programme).

3 June, 6.30pm

Does forgiveness have any part to play in the criminal justice system?
Panel includes Tim Newell (restorative worker and former prison governor), Marian Partington (author of 'Salvaging the Sacred: Lucy, My Sister’. Lucy was a victim of Fred and Rosemary West), John Podmore (Senior Operational Advisor for Offender Health and former prison governor), Peter Woolf (former career criminal and author of 'The Damage Done'), alongside Will Riley, one of his victims and chairman of Why Me.