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Can I ask you to read this report?
I know it’s hard to care about prisoners in the main, but I think we should all care about a prison system used to effectively torture individual prisoners, and disproportionately Black, Asian or working-class prisoners. What’s that about?
I know it’s hard to care about prisoners in the main, but I think we should all care about a prison system used to effectively torture individual prisoners, and disproportionately Black, Asian or working-class prisoners. What’s that about?
We know IPP sentences have been phased out and condemned as inhumane and unjust, but the prison service continues to justify those that remain active, using spurious claims - including some entirely invented charges. What’s that about?
We also know how the trauma of an IPP sentence can induce and exacerbate MH conditions; how uncertainty and isolation can cause prisoners to externalise thought patterns that can then be diagnosed as schizophrenia; and how that can lead to a medication-or-else ultimatum, trapping
