{"id":426218,"date":"2025-09-15T12:10:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426218\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T12:10:11","slug":"former-prison-governor-to-deliver-rare-talk-in-paisley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426218\/","title":{"rendered":"Former prison governor to deliver rare talk in Paisley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  On Thursday, October 2, Ian Gunn will deliver a talk at the Paisley and District u3a group sharing stories from his 22-year career in the Scottish Prison Service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The talk, titled A Banker Behind Bars: From Loans to Lifers, will explore Gunn\u2019s career change from working in a bank to working with prisoners, as well as his later work speaking on cruise ships about penal policy and criminology.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-gazette.co.uk\/news\/25463780.dock-latest-renfrewshire-court-cases-covered\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the dock: The latest Renfrewshire court cases we have covered<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Kathy O\u2019Donnell, chair of Paisley and District u3a, said: \u201cThis promises to be a fascinating presentation to start the session.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cNearly a decade ago, Ian Gunn took an interesting career break from the Scottish Prison Service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHe went from dealing with those involved in crime to speaking on cruise ships about penal policy and criminology.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019m sure our members will want to question him about both these lines of work following his talk.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-gazette.co.uk\/news\/25466178.we-committed-renfrewshire-housing-association-marks-28-years-service\/?ref=ial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;We are committed&#8217;: Renfrewshire housing association marks 28 years of service<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The talk will be held at the Salvation Army Hall on Mill Street, with refreshments available from 1.30pm to 2pm prior to the start of the meeting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Discussing the upcoming event, Gunn said: \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to entertaining Paisley and District u3a members with stories of my transition from banker to prison governor.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThankfully, most of us don\u2019t get to see the inside of a prison, and my talk gives me the opportunity to let you peek over those imposing prison walls.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, October 2, Ian Gunn will deliver a talk at the Paisley and District u3a group sharing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-426218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115208245883606779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}