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Watch the video: After Strangeways, webinar 1
Watch the video of our first 'After Strangeways' webinar held on Monday 22 February.
Speech
Talk given to the After Strangeways webinar
To understand where we’re going, it’s helpful to understand where we’ve come from.
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It felt like neglect
"I don’t think I’ll even let him come back up during this lockdown. It felt like neglect."
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Doing everything thing that we can?
This week the UK passed the grim milestone of over 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.
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Vaccinate prison staff and prisoners now
Should prisoners and prison staff be among the priority groups for COVID-19 vaccination?
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Vaccinating all those in prison "eminently deliverable"
The only thing getting in the way of vaccinating those in prisons against COVID-19 is politics, our director Richard Garside told The Independent yesterday.
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Not in the job description
Is it the job of the Chief Inspector of Prisons to lobby the government to build new prisons?
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Every three days
“Over the ten years from 2009 to 2018, at least 1,425 women were killed by men in the UK. This means that a man killed a woman every three days.”
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The impenetrable wall of police silence
“It was exactly 10 years ago that I discovered that my partner of six years was actually a policeman. He was a fictional character - his identity was fabricated and he was put into my life to deceive me, by his employer, who knew that one day they would remove him.”
Speech
Living in poverty is punishment itself
Speech given to the ‘Is it a crime to be poor’ online event, hosted by the University of Birmingham on behalf of the Is it a crime to be poor? alliance
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A welcome shift in the transgender debate
After the drama and toxicity of the transgender debate, yesterday was something of welcome anticlimax.
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Responses to coronavirus in prison patchy and inconsistent
This week we published our latest report on the coronavirus crisis in prisons.