Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction on climate change.

If a young woman studying for a PhD had been treated like this for nonviolent protest in, say, Iran or China, how would it be reported by our press?

#Law is about #power not #justice

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/climate-crisis-depleting-europe-groundwater-reserves-analysis

Wondering if Scandinavia will turn back #climate #migrants from southern #Europe when things get dire in #Italy #Greece #France #Spain #Portugal OR will this lead to another crisis...

#adaptation #migration #humanrights #justice

Today someone I know slightly was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and sent to a high security facility. Their crime was disrupting traffic - they and others climbed a gantry on the M25, the major orbital round London, to drop banners protesting at government inaction on climate change.

If a young woman studying for a PhD had been treated like this for nonviolent protest in, say, Iran or China, how would it be reported by our press?

#Law is about #power not #justice

Last week the Safety Not Surveillance coalition hit the streets of London.

We sent the message that so-called 'crime-predicting' tech must be BANNED!

Because we have the right to be presumed innocent, not predicted guilty.

This tech fuels racism, enables unchecked police power and threatens all our rights. Ban it!

Sign up for campaign updates ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/join-fight-against-crime-predicting-tech

#SafetyNotSurveillance #BanCrimePredictingTech #PreCrime #police #policing #justice #ukpol #ukpolitics #criminaljustice

Jurors aren't paid: they get travel (not much, by definition they're local) and subsistence (again, not much — a pub lunch per day each, at most). Selecting jurors is just a lottery system, so very easily automated. Deal with jurors being objected to, or pleading excuses, can be dealt with by the automated system in advance.

No-shows on the day can be dealt with by inviting a percentage of extra jurors.

#Justice
#JuryTrials

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Gaël Perdriau le maire de Saint-Etienne est condamné à quatre ans de prison ferme et à cinq ans d’inéligibilité avec exécution immédiate dans l'affaire de chantage à la sextape, et notamment pour "association de malfaiteurs et de détournement de fonds publics", par le tribunal correctionnel de Lyon. L'affaire avait été révélée par Médiapart et le maire refusait de démissionner. C'est désormais la justice qui a décidé pour lui

#Politique #Scandale #Justice #Prison #SaintEtienne #Kompromat

Music programs in prisons cultivate hope and dignity, while reducing the chances of re-incarceration. But journalist Maurice Chammah says that's only one side of the story — that listening to music made by incarcerated people has the power to change people on the outside. Here's his 2023 story for The Marshall Project on the history, impact and potential of prison music. "Listening to and sharing music may sound like a soft, superficial way of changing a broken system, but you can’t get policy change if you haven’t paved the way with culture," he writes.

https://flip.it/_QDBGM

#Music #Culture #Prison #Incarceration #Law #Justice

Police tech doesn't predict crime. It predicts policing.

Fed on flawed police data, so-called 'crime-predicting' tech automates racism and discrimination against overpoliced communities.

The Safety Not Surveillance coalition spread the word that this tech must be banned!

Watch now ➡️ https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/5wPH31FDt7Lzm17jZ7Musk

#SafetyNotSurveillance #BanCrimePredictingTech #police #policing #ukpolitics #ukpol #precrime #surveillance #justice

Jury trials literally cannot be driving the backlog in the criminal justice system — everyone else in the courtroom has to be there whether or not there's a jury.

They cannot be a significant driver of costs, either — sure, 24 bus fares and 12 pub lunches isn't nothing, but it doesn't add up to the cost of employing a single court clerk.

Politicians seeking to do away with #JuryTrials are being dishonest about their reasons.

#Justice

Jurors aren't paid: they get travel (not much, by definition they're local) and subsistence (again, not much — a pub lunch per day each, at most). Selecting jurors is just a lottery system, so very easily automated. Deal with jurors being objected to, or pleading excuses, can be dealt with by the automated system in advance.

No-shows on the day can be dealt with by inviting a percentage of extra jurors.

#Justice
#JuryTrials

/Continued

Gaël Perdriau le maire de Saint-Etienne est condamné à quatre ans de prison ferme et à cinq ans d’inéligibilité avec exécution immédiate dans l'affaire de chantage à la sextape, et notamment pour "association de malfaiteurs et de détournement de fonds publics", par le tribunal correctionnel de Lyon. L'affaire avait été révélée par Médiapart et le maire refusait de démissionner. C'est désormais la justice qui a décidé pour lui

#Politique #Scandale #Justice #Prison #SaintEtienne #Kompromat

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/29/climate-crisis-depleting-europe-groundwater-reserves-analysis

Wondering if Scandinavia will turn back #climate #migrants from southern #Europe when things get dire in #Italy #Greece #France #Spain #Portugal OR will this lead to another crisis...

#adaptation #migration #humanrights #justice

Music programs in prisons cultivate hope and dignity, while reducing the chances of re-incarceration. But journalist Maurice Chammah says that's only one side of the story — that listening to music made by incarcerated people has the power to change people on the outside. Here's his 2023 story for The Marshall Project on the history, impact and potential of prison music. "Listening to and sharing music may sound like a soft, superficial way of changing a broken system, but you can’t get policy change if you haven’t paved the way with culture," he writes.

https://flip.it/_QDBGM

#Music #Culture #Prison #Incarceration #Law #Justice

«Commandos» contre des opposants à l’A69 : un directeur de travaux mis en examen - https://www.liberation.fr/societe/police-justice/commandos-contre-des-opposants-a-la69-un-directeur-de-travaux-mis-en-examen-20251128_IICMYNZFX5ADLIVYVWLVY4NDOA/

> Le parquet de Toulouse a confirmé ce vendredi 28 novembre la mise en examen d’un directeur de travaux employé par une filiale du concessionnaire de l’autoroute. Il est soupçonné d’être impliqué dans des exactions survenues en septembre 2024.

V'là les voyous de base.

#a69 #autoroute #justice

Police tech doesn't predict crime. It predicts policing.

Fed on flawed police data, so-called 'crime-predicting' tech automates racism and discrimination against overpoliced communities.

The Safety Not Surveillance coalition spread the word that this tech must be banned!

Watch now ➡️ https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/5wPH31FDt7Lzm17jZ7Musk

#SafetyNotSurveillance #BanCrimePredictingTech #police #policing #ukpolitics #ukpol #precrime #surveillance #justice