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The worst place in the world
Before the Strangeways protests, children were incarcerated with adults.
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Prison officer violence: The crisis of visibility
In recent times there have been increasing calls for zero tolerance of physical violence in prisons in the UK.
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We are having no more. We are not animals, we are human beings.
On the first day of the Strangeways protest, in April 1990, one prisoner declared that, ‘We are having no more. We are not animals, we are human beings’.
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Don’t look back in anger
In 1988, Partners of Prisoners (POPS) established itself in Manchester as a local support group for families of prisoners.
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Punishment and access to education in prison today
Since the first national penitentiary, Millbank, opened on British soil in 1816, the debate in England and Wales over what prisons are actually for, and what they should try to achieve, has continued almost unabated.