COMMENDEE 2020-21: Jose’s Commendation is for his tireless work, as a Lecturer at HMP/YOI Pentonville, to help change prisoners’ lives, for which he is widely respected, by prisoners and staff, throughout the establishment. Helena Baptista, one of Jose’s Education Staff colleagues at Pentonville, wrote a vivid Initial Nomination, and it’s worth quoting at length as it gives a real sense of Jose’s impact on HMP Pentonville – and the wider prison community – in his role as an Education Lecturer par excellence: “If you walk with Jose around the wings … Continue reading JOSE AGUIAR (HMP/YOI Pentonville)