Midlands Archive
This autumn, the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons from the US will be touring the UK. All over the world prisons are toxic environments causing social and ecological harm. Folks from the US have been organising resistance at the …
Please sign this online petition against the new mega-prison in Leicester: https://www.change.org/p/blaby-district-council-stop-the-new-mega-prison-in-leicestershire For more information about the prison please visit: /leicester/
Demonstration at the Planning Committee Meeting Where: Blaby District Council Offices, Desford Road, Narborough Leicestershire, LE19 2EP When: Thursday 30th March 2017, 3.30pm – 5pm What: Come and demonstrate outside the Council Offices to influence the Planning Committee to REJECT …
Source: https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/rebecca-roberts/more-mega-prisons-wont-fix-broken-society The British government is building more prisons to lock up more people in the most incarcerated country in Europe. In the next few weeks a new mega prison, HMP Berwyn, in north Wales, will open its gates and …
The situation: Leicester is set for a new Mega Prison which could have serious repercussions for local people, as well as those harmed by the prison system. Local Group, Leicester Prison Resistance, have asked for solidarity to help fight this …
This post is a transcript of Dr David Scott’s talk at the January 10th Public Meeting in Wellingborough. There is a sickness haunting the prison service in England and Wales. This sickness – a ‘penal malaise’ – which systematically generates …
The situation: Wellingborough is set for a new Mega Prison which could have serious repercussions for local people, as well as those harmed by the prison system. On this page you will find information about how to object to the …
When: Tuesday 10th January 2017 5-7pm Where: The Victoria Centre, 46-50 Palk Road, Wellingborough, NN8 1HR Why is a new prison being built when there are cuts to essential services? What impact could the prison have? Could the site be …
When: Thursday 8th December 2016 7-9pm Where: Oxford Action Resource Centre, Princes St (junction with Cowley Rd), Oxford OX4 1DD Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/202699146851887/ About: This November, the Government announced plans to build two new mega prisons in the Midlands. One …
