By the board: Richard Seebohm on the IMB

‘There is now a window for recruitment.’

by Richard Seebohm 9th October 2026

Friends have long been concerned about the criminal justice system at the political level, and about the personal state of prison inmates as chaplains. To me, concern for prisons as institutions seems equally important. An entry point for this, obvious but perhaps too seldom seen by Friends, is membership of an Independent Monitoring Board (IMB).