Tag: mental health

Opinion: Release Women From Prison and Give Them the Support They Need
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the government must urgently begin releasing women from prison, while also ensuring that they are supported after their release, writes Sophia Benedict.
7 Pandemic Demands to Make Sure Everyone Is Protected
With the government consistently failing to offer a meaningful response, Flannán Shell presents a list of demands to ensure everyone, no matter their situation, is protected in the face of the Coronavirus pandemic.
Opinion: People With Mental Health Problems Should Be Able to Talk About Politics, Not Just Their Conditions
People with mental ill health are encouraged to talk about their conditions, but they are often discouraged from addressing the political agenda that has both increased mental illness and left sufferers without recourse to services, writes journalist and advocate Harriet Williamson.
People Keep Starving to Death in Tory Britain
Errol Graham was found starved to death in a flat with no electricity or gas supply. His tragic and entirely avoidable death shines a light on the deadly consequences of our government's brutal austerity programme, writes Harriet Williamson.
ACFM: Trip 5: Consciousness Raising
Nadia Idle, Keir Milburn and Jeremy Gilbert discuss the history and future of the tradition of consciousness raising.
Profits and the Prison Industry
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann discuss the Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC) and proposed prison expansion.
Policing by Consent?
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Koshka Duff, a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. In 2013, she was arrested and strip searched after offering a legal advice card to a teenager being stopped and searched in Hackney.
Deaths in State Custody 2: INQUEST
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Deborah Coles, Director of the charity INQUEST.
Deaths in State Custody 1: Justice for Sean Rigg
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Marcia Rigg, the sister of Sean Rigg who died in police custody in 2008.
Prison Island: Prison Expansion in the UK

Back with a new series, hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Nicole, a researcher at Corporate Watch about the British government’s plans for prison expansion, how this will impact people inside and outside prisons and how communities across the country are resisting.
“Just Paint the Walls Pink”: Gender, Prison and Carceral Feminism

Oonagh Ryder speaks to Mo Mansfield, a social justice campaigner and women’s sector professional. They discuss what carceral feminism is, how it has helped to expand and entrench the criminal justice system and how we can move beyond this towards an abolitionist feminism.
What Is Abolition?
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann finish this season of The Lockdown with a recap of what they've discussed in the previous episodes. Sam talks about what he's learnt and they decide whether he's ready to graduate from the podcast's 'resident idiot'.
Guilty by Association: How to Get a Life Sentence for a Murder You Didn’t Commit
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to activist and founder of campaign group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA), Gloria Morrison.
Ending the Cycle of Violence
On The Lockdown, Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to anti-violence practitioner Whitney Iles about youth violence, why it happens and how to stop it.
Beyond Prison: Michael Balogun Part 2
On the Lockdown, Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann chat with Michael Balogun (whose incredible story is discussed in part 1) about what could be in place instead of a system of punishment.
Prison and Beyond: Michael Balogun
Actor Michael Balogun tells his story of spending much of his young life in and out of prison to hosts Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann. The first part of a two-parter, looking at the factors leading to imprisonment and how we could do things differently.
The Lockdown: the End of Policing

Sam Swann and guest host Connor White discuss the book, The End Of Policing with its author Alex S. Vitale. They discuss the ways that the police exacerbate social problems and what the alternatives might be.
Tackling the Mental Health Crisis Means Defeating Neoliberalism Once and For All
Labour needs to get radical, resisting the cross-party agreements on mental illness which foreclose the reality that though we may ‘all have mental health’ the chance of us breaking down are deeply indexed to our relative place in society.

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