A grassroots collective sharing stories of full hearts kept apart by prisons and detention centres. [email protected]
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SPREAD THE WORD
We encourage everyone, especially journalists, to call the MoJ so they know we are watching.
MOJ newsdesk: 0203 334 3536
MOJ public enquiries: 0203 334 3555
Whitemoor safer custody: 01354 602400
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📣🚨ALERT - Whitemoor Taking a Stand 🚨📣
There’s an ongoing protest in HMP Whitemoor on B wing in response to profiling friends and family and denial of routine.
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Salaam everyone! This is a reminder that the Nejma Collective will be delivering gift packs to 45 Muslim women at HMP Downview on Fri 5 May 2023. We urgently need more tasbihs and hijabs by Wed 3 May 2023 latest. Please see details for drop off / online orders below!
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@HMPSwinfenHall @hmpps Sunday 25/09/22 visit 2.00. I came to visit my Son in a dress that I have been in numerous times before. I wore it knowing I would be ok, I was shocked when I was denied entry and told I had to have a closed visit 1/2
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We’ve been quiet for a while because we were setting up the pilot project that we fundraised for during Ramadan! Today we’re thrilled to announce the first batch of grant requests have landed with us! 🎉Thanks to your generosity we can begin to support our siblings inshaAllah! 🤲🏽
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SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🗣️ At our next LGSM Learns @jodietbeck from @OurEmptyChair will be speaking to us about why we need to abolish prisons! A brilliant activist, Jodie has worked with incarcerated women, & on massive human rights campaigns outsavvy.com/event/9846/lgsm…
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"There are no video link slots left for June or July" says an email from "official visits" in a prison almost 100 miles away
My young client was moved there in the middle of the Parole process without any reason.
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Letters and connections across the walls serve to build and maintain connection. Any restriction on letters is a direct attack on our communities.
Photocopies are bad quality, and often black and whit, adding an additional barrier to any form of intimacy.
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This is vile, and part of a disturbing trend. They are instituting the same practice at @HMPEastwoodPark at the moment, and we know of other prisons where this is already the case.
#WeWillWrite #UntillAllAreFree
Handwritten cards, letters and drawings are genuinely life lines to people inside. This is disgustingly cruel - particularly in light of prolonged periods of no visits and limited, costly phone contact as a result of the pandemic. We urge @HMP_TheMount to reconsider.
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Unbelievable story about changes to what post prisoners are able to receive. Thanks to @jodietbeck @OurEmptyChair for sharing this with us. I hope that pressure will be put on the prisons involved to change this policy.
@JohnCrilly71 @Jliffe you seen this?
Handwritten cards, letters and drawings are genuinely life lines to people inside. This is disgustingly cruel - particularly in light of prolonged periods of no visits and limited, costly phone contact as a result of the pandemic. We urge @HMP_TheMount to reconsider.
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Imagine telling your child that the drawing they have done for daddy whilst he is away can't be given to him? This seems such a horrible policy which will negatively impact both prisoners and their families and friends.
Handwritten cards, letters and drawings are genuinely life lines to people inside. This is disgustingly cruel - particularly in light of prolonged periods of no visits and limited, costly phone contact as a result of the pandemic. We urge @HMP_TheMount to reconsider.
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So family’s are forced to pay for expensive cards from specific companies (do you have a side deal with them?) on top of all the other expense that prison brings just to keep the family ties contact? Doesn’t seem like families ties are important at all? Just more barriers..
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So no drawings from children ?? No handwritten cards? Suppose people can’t afford Moonpig? Or can’t manage the App ??
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VERDICT: We’re broken 💔
4 guilty of conspiracy to murder.
6 guilty of conspiracy to GBH.
These will be long sentences. The majority never harmed anyone.
We will share more this week, but GM’s racist policing has once again ruined lives.
@MayorofGM @greatermcr @AndyBurnhamGM
🚨 PLEASE READ 🚨
An update on a Manchester based trial against 10 of our city’s young people.
This is the brutal, unjust reality of ‘gangs policing’. We hope for justice next week.
Plain text statement: bit.ly/37rkSx0
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There is little transparency about what happens in courts, the impact on families, what is viewed as evidence, the de-contextualising of lives, and alway the most marginalised
Crude ideas of living that don’t subscribe to a court’s idea of normal
This is vital/painful reading
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My OH just said good night to me.. at 9.50am! He is now locked up until tomorrow afternoon. Min 29hrs. No in cell phones. Why is this still happening & how has this become an acceptable long term plan? @hmpps @HMIPrisonsnews @PRTuk @DGPrisonsHMPPS @charlie_taylor6