(Photo : The Maze prison, where republican IRA and INLA inmates died during a hunger strike in 1981. Photograph: PA) Proposal to replace dispersal system with ‘British Alcatraz’ to house convicted terrorists has alarmed prison chiefs The government is seriously considering placing all convicted Islamist terrorist prisoners in England and Wales in a single secure unit,…
Bekijk de Panorama uitzetting hier Jonathan Jacob overleed op 6 januari 2010 in een cel van de lokale politie in Mortsel ten gevolge van politiegeweld. Eerder die dag was geprobeerd Jonathan Jacob te laten colloqueren. Maar een psychiatrisch ziekenhuis weigerde de man op te nemen. Hij zou te agressief geweest zijn. Om die reden moest…
READ ON CORPORATEWATCH.COM This briefing is being published on 17 April 2015 to coincide with the annual day of solidarity with Palestinian prisoners. It collects the memories of the pain, suffering and resilience of Palestinians who have been imprisoned by Israel. In 2013, Corporate Watch visited the West Bank and Gaza Strip and interviewed released…
“… On 10 October 2014, the prison population in England and Wales was 84,485. The imprisonment rate of England and Wales is 149 per 100,000 of the population; in Scotland it is 147 per 100,000. This does not include those held in police stations, immigration detention centres or secure mental hospitals. Twenty years ago, the…
The Guardian 9 December 2014 : CIA torture report: Europe must come clean about its own complicity The CIA’s activities would not have been possible without the help of Britain and 20 other European nations Read article here Guantanamo chez nous ? Un livre de Luk Vervaet (extrait) : Chapitre : Guantanamo et la complicité…
photo Close Supervision Centre at Woodhill Since I first arrived on the Close Supervision Centre (CSC) system in March 2010 I have seen a distinct pattern emerge in the way the system is being operated. All possibilities of the chance to progress back to main location have been removed; even the liars in charge don’t…
Next week sees the publication in Turkish of Denis O’Hearn’s biography of Bobby Sands, Nothing But An Unfinished Song. The book will be published in time for the Istanbul Book Fair, November 8th -11th . The book, under the Turkish title, Yarim Kalmış Bir Şarkı: Bobby Sands’in Hayatı ve Dönemi, is published by Yordam Kitap…
Eric Allison, The Guardian’s prisons correspondent : « The monologue « A man Standing » is a dramatic, highly charged tale ». « In my time I have read, listened to, or watched, many accounts of penal life, fact and fictional; but not encountered too many that have transported my mind immediately back in a prison cell: Jimmy Boyle’s Sense of…
A man standing / Un homme debout Jean-Marc Mahy entre à l’âge de 17 ans en prison. Il y passera près de 20 ans, à la suite d’événements tragiques où – comme le dit la loi – ses actes ont entraîné la mort sans intention de la donner. Aujourd’hui Jean-Marc Mahy a pu (re)commencer…
