Below is a letter from long-term prisoner Thomas Meyer-Falk about a friend of his who is in indefinite detention in Germany. For more information write to: Thomas Meyer-Falk c/o JVA (SV) Hermann-Herderstr. 8 D 79104 …
Cardiff Smash IPP Demo and March
I ddarllen yr erthygl yn y Gymraeg cliciwch yma. On Saturday the 4th of April 2015, the Smash IPP group held their first a demonstration in Cardiff. For those of you who do not know …
Letter from Prisoner Emma Sheppard, March 2015 – Prisons do not work for anyone – except those who profit from them.
Translations: Français Last night I saw the moon and a star. It was the first time in a long-time. It made me think of all my friends, old and new,and wonder what they were doing …
Prisons: Factories Of Hate
Right-wing Tory Justice Minister Chris Grayling’s declaration in late April that prisoners would now be made to “earn” basic privileges by “working harder” probably wasn’t just the usual “popularist” promise to stick the boot into …
California Prisoner Hunger Strike – More on Medical Crisis, Need Support Pressuring Immediate Negotiations
Legal representatives made visits to the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) at California’s Pelican Bay prison Tuesday, and interviewed a number of hunger strikers. Each prisoner explained how medical conditions of hundreds of hunger strikers in …
Prisons Campaigner Found Dead Beside Daughter’s Grave
Bristol ABC wishes to send it’s deepest sympathies to those who knew and worked with Pauline Campbell. Pauline has been a tireless campaigner against deaths of women in custody since the tragic death of her …
Private prisons are actually worse than public ones!
See the BBC News report here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7197489.stm Althought the Prison Service claims that comparisons between the private and public sector prisons are irrelevant because of different ways of collecting data, it would be good to …
Prison News Follow Up
Following our article on Venue’s shameful note of class war, we note with interest; “Today the government gives its response to the Corston report – published earlier in the year it was set up to …