Tag: prison
Report: Hunger-Striking Palestine Action Prisoner Claims to Have Been ‘Punished Retrospectively’ Following Proscription
Harriet Williamson
Committed: Was Prison Worth It?
Feature: What’s It Like to Love a Political Prisoner?
Clare Hymer
Report: The Pro-Palestine Activists Imprisoned for Months Without Being Found Guilty of Any Crime
Sebastian Shehadi
Report: Climate Prisoners Are Exposing the Dire State of Prison Healthcare
Clare Hymer
Report: Climate Activists Get Longest Sentences for Peaceful Protest in British History
Clare Hymer
Opinion: Why Should Chris Kaba’s Death Matter Less Than the Queen’s?
Kehinde Andrews
Opinion: Carceral Feminism Isn’t the Answer to Sexual Violence
Caren Holmes
Analysis: Lula’s Back, and Bolsonaro is Feeling the Heat
Benjamin Fogel
Opinion: Derek Chauvin’s Conviction Won’t Make Black Lives Matter
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
Downstream: Why All Drugs Should Be Decriminalised. Interview With David Nutt
The criminalisation of drugs has almost no impact on drug use, denies access to proven medical treatments and disproportionately targets people of colour. Yet the idea that drugs are ‘evil’ and that drug users are criminals is entrenched in international and domestic law. How can we begin to shift this point of view? What are […]
Interview: 40 Years in Prison, 40 Years of Struggle: An Interview with John Bowden
Connor Woodman
Long Read: Why Do the Police Exist?
Connor Woodman
Long read: When and why were police forces first invented? Connor Woodman takes a look - and argues that far from protecting communities from ‘crime’, the police’s role has always been to control and discipline the working class.
The Burner: The Burner #240: Squid Ink + Prison Viruses
Cummings splashes round the squid ink: will it be enough to escape the consequences? Gary McQuiggin takes a deep dive into the impact of the virus in the prison system in conversation with Oonagh Ryder.
‘I Tried to End My Life’: Covid-19 Exposes the Injustice of ‘never-ending’ Prison Sentences
Naomi Larsson and Alexandra Genova
The Lockdown: The Never-Ending Sentence