Tag Archives: Prison
Rehabilitation revolution?
Well, it appears that the tail has finally been pinned on the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ donkey with the publishing of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill and all the in-fighting surrounding what would and would not be included in its final draft. And lo, it has come to pass that many of us [...]
Love’s labours lost
Prison labour appears to be the Coalition’s current criminological flavour of the month. It seems the answer to all their problems: financial – the potential to generate a vast income from the hiring out prisoners to private companies; rehabilitation – helping indoctrinate its iconic feral underclass into the benefits of real wage slavery, cutting the [...]
Inside News – anti-fascist prisoner update
Filling Time Time all alone in a little white room, window barred And a one way locked door Two hours a day to make calls, have a shower, Clean your cell, throw a mop over the floor Reading a book, or answering mail, fuzzy T.V. With nothing much on Looking at photos of family and [...]
Attica Prison riot
It was inevitable that the 10th anniversary of 9-11 would be ubiquitous in September’s media, just as inevitably there would be scant coverage of a different, though still significant, anniversary of a rather different atrocity perpetrated on American soil on almost the same day 30 years earlier – the brutal ending of the Attica Rebellion. [...]
Comrades jailed: anti-fascist prisoners
Seven protesters have been jailed in the last couple of weeks in London and it is likely that more will follow soon Obviously they deserve our support and also we must do everything possible to avoid others being imprisoned. Welling On 28th March 2009 a number of people travelled to Welling in south-east London to [...]
Prison news
On the prisons’ front Britain has been relatively quiet since last year’s spate of prison riots, especially when compared to recent events across North Africa and the Middle East. However, on thing that has been quietly simmering in the background has been a potential Prison Officers Association’s strike over the outcome of the ‘market-testing’ of [...]
Prison News
Recent columns have sought to highlight the large-scale acts of resistance to prison regimes in a number of Middle Eastern and North African states that have mirrored the blossoming of resistance during the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ taking place on the streets across the regions. And the latest to feel the wrath of a repressed people [...]
Prison News
As in many countries, prison labour is a key feature of the American prison system. In state and federal penitentiaries across the country a massive captive workforce is put to work everyday making a huge range of items on behalf of Unicor, the Federal Prison Industries arm, or individual State prison labour organisations. These products [...]
State of Emergency Declared in Italian Prison System
Bra from Anarchist Black Cross (Brighton) examines the crisis in Italian prisons. 2009 was a particularly bad year for the Italian prison system, especially if you happened to be one of its ‘guests’ having to suffer the severe overcrowding that was exacerbated by an overall lack of funding in the system. As a result, the [...]
