The Tablet interview: Paula Harriot, out of the rubble
Paula Harriott
The popular podcaster and chief executive of the criminal justice reform charity Unlock explains that, like many ex-prisoners, her punishment didn’t end when she had served her sentence
It was, Paula Harriott recalls, a “pivotal moment” in her life. As the mother of five children aged between 15 and seven, in 2004 she had been jailed for eight years for selling drugs. “My middle daughter came to see me in prison. As she was leaving, I gave her a hug and said, ‘I love you.’ And she replied, ‘Oh Mum, don’t ever say you love me again because if you knew the deepest meaning of love you would never have put yourself in a position to be separated from me.’ And what she said was so true. That’s what I learnt about myself in prison.”
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