Thread by @SonyaDouglas

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?

https://twitter.com/LloydSewing/status/1499425948533460993

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

the prisoner into a situation of non-compliance, which is taken as further justification for IPP extension.

I mean, would you trust the people who made you ill to make you better?? What’s that about?

So please read, if you will.

The best solution to a secret injustice is for all fair-minded people to find out what’s going on.
And then tell someone.
That’s what this is about.

#JusticeForIPPs
#PunishmentNotTorture