5 Year Sentence For Real Life Prison Break - Big Stygs

Complete our 2025 Listener Survey: https://forms.gle/smJxoWJhr66qKG4Q7 We’d love to hear from you! Every year, we ask the Life After Prison audience to complete a short survey. Your answers help us understand what’s working, what we can improve, and they also help us show our funders the real impact of the show. It only takes a few minutes and your feedback really does make a difference. Today on Life After Prison we're joined by Big Stygs – an artist, entrepreneur, and community leader from Birmingham who’s turned his life around in a big way. From serving time in A-cat prisons and going viral inside, to now running multiple businesses and building a community hub to help others – this is a story about resilience, creativity, and proving you can always rewrite your future. You can also listen to this episode as a podcast: https://linktr.ee/afterprisonpod ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Useful Organisations Key4Life – uses music, sport, and mentoring to help young men leaving prison find purpose and employment. The Irene Taylor Trust – Music in Prisons – delivers music-making projects inside and post-release, helping people use creativity for change. Bounce Back – trains people in trades like painting, decorating, scaffolding, and helps them into work after release. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contact us: If anything you’ve heard in this podcast has inspired you to make a positive change in your life, or you’d just like to get in touch, please contact us. 💬 Socials: @afterprisonpod on Instagram and X, @lifeafterprison on TikTok 📧 Email: [email protected] ✉️ Write: Life After Prison, National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF 🖥️ Website: https://lifeafterprisonpod.com/