Interviewed by @ailie_rennie for the post Covid prison project a very interesting project - still looking for interviewees so if you were in prison during Covid then please contact her 😎
Had a letter from someone in prison the other day - the prison had cheekily suggest that email a prisoner was a cheaper way of communicating. Well it’s cheaper for them certainly. But what about the prisoners family who may not have the funds.
@InsideTimeUK reports that canteen prices are too high - they have always been excessive and refunds take up to 14 days. The choice of ringing your family or eating is torture to many. The child size meals inadequate for grown men - I lost 15 kg in three months
@SecretPrisoner Must have been a very slow news day for the journalist who decided on an easy target. They need to do more research on how many hurdles this lady had to jump through to get a job and they should respect her anonymity - publishing photos may harm her position and her reintegration
As a person with a criminal record we are always told to look at actions and consequences - the courts should also take this on board when sentencing but they rarely do punishment being uppermost in their minds
@rosiejustice12 When people say prison is a solution they don’t consider that for the person in prison and their family life is at a standstill with neither actually being able to move on. Families almost never receive the help or support they need, becoming tainted and targeted by association
@rosiejustice12 Having read what your OH finds in the most dire of places it makes you wish that the outside world was as kind, gentle and caring. It mirrors what I found during my time in incarceration.
When a politician is found to have pursued an unlawful policy, one that they are told was unlawful but continued anyway. Why is that politician not perused legally when it is found that what they did was in fact unlawful?
@PeterStefanovi2 How can any government talk about the effects of slavery when people in prison are treated like slaves. Having to work for pennies, the work done used to provide clothing and equipment used within prison at minimal cost.
"Families should not be torn apart as a result of a conviction...The very act of incarceration often inflicts more damage to more people than the crime itself," writes RBIJ Advisory Council member @Ash_Prashar for @CNNOpinion:
https://t.co/7crqdl1lwy
“We have a proud record of supporting victims of modern slavery” says Sunak
His abhorrent new bill will rob migrant victims of trafficking & modern slavery protections & does it in breach of the UK’s obligations under international law!
If you care about that RT this widely