A prisoner at the jail in Viterbo, north-west of Rome, whistleblows on laughable “protections” which were put in place at the heavily overcrowded facility when a 50-year-old officer tested positive for Covid-19. On March 25th news arrived about a screw on duty at the prison of Mammagialla resulting positive to the coronavirus. The news was
Tag: Prisons
Quarantine vs. overcrowding – what’s going on in Italian prisons
Riots exploded in about 30 Italian prisons 2 weeks ago in the biggest uprising since the 70s.
The HMP kids: Damage done by IPP sentencing
Darcey Hartley’s dad, Ian, has been in prison for over 13 years, even though he was only required to serve two years and 11 months. Darcey and Ian still don’t know when Ian might be released. Sentenced to “imprisonment for public protection” (IPP), along with around 3,000 others, Ian is serving an indefinite sentence, at
Protests take on mega-prisons construction giant Kier
The rally yesterday afternoon in central London was drawing attention to private companies which are profiting from increased rates of policing and incarceration – part of the Americanisation of the British prisons sector. Campaigners gathered outside Kier’s regional office at 33 Foley Street as it is cashing in on the construction of two new giant
Next month will ramp up campaign against prison expansions
Part of a year-long campaign aimed at pressing the government to switch away from its plans to build several mega-prisons, March will see both a global day of solidarity with Kevan Thakrar and a month of activity. Community Action on Prison Expansion has called the broader initiative for next month, which is timed as a
Prison Island: A new report on prison expansion in England, Wales and Scotland – out now
In August Corporate Watch, a not-for-profit co-operative that researches the social and environmental impact of capitalism, released their latest report on prison expansion in England Scotland and Wales: Prison Island. Now physical copies of the report are available to buy from Freedom Bookshop and from Corporate Watch’s website. Find out more about the report below
Abolitionist Futures – Fight Toxic Prisons Conference Report
The first of series of reports from the 18th International Conference on Penal Abolition, based on the workshops and talks that took place over three days at Birkbeck university in London. This report is based on a talk from activists from the UK based Community Action on Prison Expansion teamed with activists from the US
Far from therapeutic …
PAT ARROWSMITH, field organiser for the Committee of 100, was serving a 3-month sentence in Gateside Prison, Greenock, for her part in the anti-Polaris demonstration at Holy Loch when this article was published by Freedom Press. It is extracted from an account of her experiences in Holloway Prison following the Direct Action Committee’s demonstrations at
Chile: Tamara Sol seriously injured by guards in ‘failed jailbreak’
The family of Tamara Sol reported yesterday that the anarchist prisoner was brutally beaten on Thursday after allegedly attempting to lead an escape out of Valparaíso Women’s Penitentiary Center. In a note on social media, they said: Urgent! We were told today in the morning that Tamara Sol tried to lead an attempt to escape
Notes of an accidental jailer
THE LEAST EXPERIENCE OF PRISONS teaches you that they’re criminal universities for prisoners; they morally corrupt all law-enforcement officers; they make criminal the societies they’re intended to ‘protect’. Like every human creature I have ever met or heard of, I am in part evil. Between the convicted and the unconvicted, the only differences I can
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