Ben Jarman. Photo: Courtesy of Ben Jarman.
Getting what we deserve? Rebecca Hardy watches this year’s Swarthmore Lecture
‘Proximity is a gift and a privilege, but not always a comfortable one.’
In the description for Ben Jarman’s 2024 Swarthmore lecture, announced last September, Friends were told he would ‘reflect on where current prison conditions belong in the longer flow of Quaker witness on penal reform’.