A place to heal for former prisoners | Brief letters

Merfyn Turner’s legacy | Life under Trump | Millipede banknotes | Mickles and muckles | Swallowing tea The former prisoner’s letter ( 22 March ) was heartbreaking to read. The Welsh prison social worker Merfyn Turner opened Norman House in 1955, where he and his wife, Shirley, provided a loving, caring, supporting family atmosphere from where former prisoners, jobless and without kinship support, could rebuild their lives and heal. None of those who lived in these houses reoffended.