Tag: mental health
Overcrowded and Understaffed: Coronavirus Has Exposed the Flaws in Our Mental Health System
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
Naomi Larsson and Alexandra Genova
‘I’m terrified of going back to the streets’: Coronavirus Shows We Could End Street Homelessness
HG
Release Women From Prison and Give Them the Support They Need
Sophia Benedict
7 Pandemic Demands to Make Sure Everyone Is Protected
Flannán Shell
People With Mental Health Problems Should Be Able to Talk About Politics, Not Just Their Conditions
Harriet Williamson
People Keep Starving to Death in Tory Britain
Harriet Williamson
Activists Are Helping Homeless People and Mental Health Patients Register to Vote
Sophie K Rosa
#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’.