Around fifty people descended on HMP Full Sutton, East Yorkshire, in a historic demonstration on Saturday 5th June.
Prisoners respond with cheers to protest surrounding HMP Full Sutton
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Report: Noise demo at HMP Full Sutton
CW: prison brutality Monday night saw a group of around thirty people travel to Category A prison HMP Full Sutton, the site of the prolonged racist…
London: Protesters gather at Ministry of Justice in solidarity with Kevan Thakrar
Friends and family of Kevan Thakrar came together today to demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Justice in what is another escalation in the fig…
Anti-prison activists to target Kier Construction in New Year campaign
Anti-prison campaigners from Community Action on Prison Expansion (CAPE) are targeting Kier Construction with “New Year, No Kier” campa…
Prisons in Argentina: a long-term abandonment
“Between 1776 and 1800, during the first decades of the Viceroyalty of Río de La Plata, the prison population varied between 33 and 130 pris…
London Anarchist Black Cross launches online prisoner letter writing service
London Anarchist Black Cross has launched a virtual prisoner letter writing service.
Boris’s sentencing bonanza part 2.1: “A smarter approach to sentencing”
This is the second part of Legal Andy’s series on the government’s latest sentencing proposals.
Event invitation: Shana Tova Prison Shut Down
As is the anarchist way, Jewish abolitionists and our goyish friends will be holding noise demos to mark Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur; the Jewish N…
Call for International Week of Solidarity With Anarchist Prisoners 2020
A number of Anarchist Black Cross groups have called for a week of action and support for anarchist prisoners worldwide, starting on Monday.
Virtual Panopticon: Prison video calls and family support during the pandemic and beyond
The following text was kindly contributed to Freedom by Lisa Selby @bluebaglife (follow them on Instagram and Twitter), UK Prison Wives and the UK …
Protesters gather at Secretary of State for Justice home demanding prisons are emptied in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic
On Monday morning, a protest took place on the doorstep of the home of the Secretary of State for Justice, Robert Buckland in Wroughton, Borough of…
The View Magazine: Artful Ways and Means
Note from the editor: this text contains a discussion on issues which may be triggering and difficult to read.
‘This place is a death trap’: inside HMPs during COVID-19
Content warnings: state violence, medical abuse and neglect, self-harm and suicide The Ministry of Justice’s lack of response to COVID-19 is no…
Care not cages: CAPE calls for day of (online) action
Community Action on Prison Expansion has called for a day of online action to happen next Monday, 27th April.
British prisons are Petri dishes for this pandemic; without immediate action it’s the death penalty by any other name
Carl Cattermole This past Tory decade has left public services looking like a bicycle locked up too long in East London: valuable parts stolen, eve…
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