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Report: ‘He should never have been discharged’: How Mental Health Patients Are Being Failed During Lockdown

In the face of an already stretched mental health system, some patients' families are arguing that, in the rush to prepare for coronavirus, their relatives were let out too early and without sufficient safeguards and support in place, writes Natalie Leal.

Analysis: Overcrowded and Understaffed: Coronavirus Has Exposed the Flaws in Our Mental Health System

The deaths of psychiatric inpatients – often detained against their will on locked wards – highlight systemic issues that existed long before the current public health crisis, write Ed Kiely and Joannah Griffith.

The Burner Episode #221: Of Cows and Coffee

How bad could the economic crisis get? Who will it touch? What hope of recovery – and what shape will it take? And does political leadership really matter?

‘I Tried to End My Life’: Covid-19 Exposes the Injustice of ‘never-ending’ Prison Sentences

Under the new coronavirus restrictions, the safety and wellbeing of prisoners still jailed under the draconian and now-abolished Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence will be put at further risk. In an exclusive video and article, prisoners currently serving the sentence speak to Novara Media about how they are being impacted.

‘I’m terrified of going back to the streets’: Coronavirus Shows We Could End Street Homelessness

The government have housed thousands of homeless people overnight, but campaigners say extra support must extend beyond lockdown or rough sleepers will be worse off than before, writes Hannah Green.

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.