Campaign to fight toxic prisons to tour Britain next month
In a timely move as the prison system faces major market-oriented reform, members of the US-based Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons will be going on tour around the country in late September and early October to talk about their experiences of — and successes against — the social and ecological impact of the United States prison-industrial complex.
CFTP organises resistance at the intersection of mass incarceration and the environment… Continue reading
As details become clear on prisons expansion, campaigners prepare for a fight
The Empty Cages Collective and Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) campaigns are calling for people to get involved in fighting at what they say is a crucial stage in government plans to build four new megaprisons across Britain.
Plans to build new facilities at Full Sutton in east Yorkshire, Hindley in Wigan, Rochester in Kent and Port Talbot in south Wales were announced by Justice Secretary Liz… Continue reading
Anonymous group claims acid sabotage on superjail’s foundations
An anonymous group claiming responsibility for a raid on controversial superjail HMP Berwyn in May 2015 which destroyed the engines of diggers and construction equipment has said in a letter to insurrectionist site 325.nostate that they also fatally undermined houseblocks with acid powder shortly afterwards. The letter states:
It is important to announce one week before the opening of HMP Berwyn that two of the houseblocks in… Continue reading
Empty Cages announce first No More Prisons conference
The Empty Cages Collective, a solidarity group supporting prison abolitionists in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Cardiff and London, is backing a major new conference aimed at growing the movement nationally and gearing up for a campaign to fight the government as it pushes forward building new megaprisons.
The first of the new giant facilities, HMP Berwyn near Wrexham, is set to take its first prisoners in February and… Continue reading
