# 5 Year Sentence For Real Life Prison Break - Big Stygs Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-after-prison-5714169/5-year-sentence-for-real-life-prison-break-big-stygs Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-after-prison-5714169/5-year-sentence-for-real-life-prison-break-big-stygs.md Podcast: [Life After Prison](https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-after-prison-5714169) Published: 2025-12-18T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/life-after-prison-1/episodes/big-stygs Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/679bb883402b5d99a62e6494/e/69131b9cc1ed8717c5e01a02/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/life-after-prison-5714169/episodes/5-year-sentence-for-real-life-prison-break-big-stygs Duration seconds: 2910 ## Resource 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.  This podcast is also available as a video – just search Life After Prison on YouTube.  Useful Organisations Key4Life – uses music, sport, and mentoring to help young men leaving prison find purpose and employment.  The Irene Taylor Trus t – 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: podcasts@prison.radio ✉️ Write: Life After Prison, National Prison Radio, HMP Brixton, London SW2 5XF 🖥️ Website: https://lifeafterprisonpod.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/life-after-prison-5714169/episodes/5-year-sentence-for-real-life-prison-break-big-stygs/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-after-prison-5714169/5-year-sentence-for-real-life-prison-break-big-stygs.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.