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Have you watched Waiting for the Out?

If not; you need to binge watch it right now (its on BBC IPlayer in the UK).

While the central story is about a man teaching philosophy to prisoners while also dealing with his ruptured relationship with his now absent father (also an ex-prisoner), like all great TV this take you on a ride to unexpected (but in retrospect perfectly logical) place (in story terms).

Just brilliant!

#TV #prisons #philosophy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hzc6

BBC

BBC One - Waiting for the Out, Series 1, Episode 1

Dan’s first day in prison unravels as he underestimates his class – and his own past.

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

Around 91,000 people, mostly young men, have been thrown into prison in El Salvador since 2022 on suspicions that they are gang members, some simply because they had tattoos. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/15/world/society/crisis-generation-salvadorans-dad/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #elsalvador #centralamerica #nayibbukele #prisons

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us · 3 days ago

Have you watched Waiting for the Out?

If not; you need to binge watch it right now (its on BBC IPlayer in the UK).

Just brilliant!

#TV #prisons #philosophy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hzc6

BBC

BBC One - Waiting for the Out, Series 1, Episode 1

Dan’s first day in prison unravels as he underestimates his class – and his own past.

narF 😵✌️

@narF@mstdn.ca · 5 days ago

Prison Recipes By and For Incarcerated People – The Rover
https://therover.ca/prison-recipes-by-and-for-incarcerated-people/

#prisons #canada

The Rover

Prison Recipes By and For Incarcerated People – The Rover

La Cantine is a cookbook that helps inmates discuss risk prevention and reflect on food in prison.

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Anarchist Radio Relay League

@anarchistrrl@mastodon.radio · last week

Latest push to jam cellphones in prisons nationwide.

#surveillance #prisons #prisoners #cellphones

https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/georgia-ag-leads-23-state-push-to-block-contraband-cell-phones-in-prisons/

Georgia AG leads 23-state push to block contraband cell phones in prisons

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is leading a 23-state coalition urging the Federal Communications Commission to allow states to use jamming technology to block contraband cell phones inside prisons and jails.

Anarchist Radio Relay League

@anarchistrrl@mastodon.radio · last week

Latest push to jam cellphones in prisons nationwide.

#surveillance #prisons #prisoners #cellphones

https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/georgia-ag-leads-23-state-push-to-block-contraband-cell-phones-in-prisons/

Georgia AG leads 23-state push to block contraband cell phones in prisons

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Proletarian Rage

@prolrage@todon.nl · 2 years ago

Last December in Ayalon prison, “he was beaten on several occasions,” said Dotan, including an incident where guards swore at him while Barghouti was “dragged on the floor naked in front of other #prisoners”.
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“If this is how they allow themselves to treat high-profile prisoners like Barghouti, imagine what they do to detainees who don’t have the same profile,” she said, describing the overall level of abuse as “unprecedented”.
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The Israeli chapter of Physicians for #HumanRights detailed at least 10 deaths in detention since October, including five where their doctors attended the autopsies.
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“Sometimes the guards would throw tear gas inside the cells, or fire rubber bullets at close range. I saw people being dragged along the floor by their handcuffs and beaten.”
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“There are multiple reports of extreme torture and ill treatment. This is the Israeli #Guantánamo, with all of the issues connected to forced disappearances.”
Israeli abuse of jailed #Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti ‘amounts to torture’
#IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #prisons #prisoners #gaza #genocide #gaza_under_attack #westbank
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/18/israeli-abuse-of-jailed-palestinian-leader-marwan-barghouti-amounts-to-torture

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Wen

@Wen@mastodon.scot · 2 months ago

Joined up thinking is not something that our maladministration has any experience of

http://archive.today/2025.11.09-002926/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/prison-workers-salary-skilled-workers-visa-dzchbzjzw

#Labour #Whitehall #Mahmoud #Prisons #Deportation #UKPol

The article linked to above, a photo of a warder climbing green starts. Text reads

Deporting jail staff for earning too little will fuel crisis, minister warns
Prisons rely heavily on foreign workers who won’t make enough to meet strict new criteria
Jails face a collapse in staff numbers unless the government makes emergency changes to new visa rules that will affect foreign guards, a Labour minister has warned the home secretary.
Lord Timpson has lobbied Shabana Mahmood to exempt prisons from rules introduced over the summer that raise the threshold for a skilled worker visa to £41,700 a year.
The average salary for most prison workers outside London falls short of the threshold — the starting figure for new recruits is about £33,000 — so those who seek to renew their visas will automatically be refused.
The Home Office has already begun notifying prisons that any foreign staff on time-bound visas that have expired must immediately stop working. — The article linked to above, a photo of a warder climbing green starts. Text reads Deporting jail staff for earning too little will fuel crisis, minister warns Prisons rely heavily on foreign workers who won’t make enough to meet strict new criteria Jails face a collapse in staff numbers unless the government makes emergency changes to new visa rules that will affect foreign guards, a Labour minister has warned the home secretary. Lord Timpson has lobbied Shabana Mahmood to exempt prisons from rules introduced over the summer that raise the threshold for a skilled worker visa to £41,700 a year. The average salary for most prison workers outside London falls short of the threshold — the starting figure for new recruits is about £33,000 — so those who seek to renew their visas will automatically be refused. The Home Office has already begun notifying prisons that any foreign staff on time-bound visas that have expired must immediately stop working.

Wen

@Wen@mastodon.scot · 2 months ago

Joined up thinking is not something that our maladministration has any experience of

http://archive.today/2025.11.09-002926/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/prison-workers-salary-skilled-workers-visa-dzchbzjzw

#Labour #Whitehall #Mahmoud #Prisons #Deportation #UKPol

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us · 2 months ago

Here's @davidallengreen thought experiment on the structure of the UK's prison system; a prison system that as he points out is really set up on, and works to a dysfunctional response to crime & criminals.

However, the view of punishment (rather than rehabilitation) that it encompasses has too many proponents for an alternative to establish itself as the political ground for reform.

#prisons #crime #politics

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-real-problem-which-blights-our

“Here is a thought-experiment: imagine that you have asked some mischievous demon to conceive the most counter-productive way of dealing with crime. What fiendish scheme would this diabolic agent devise?

“The demon could suggest a system where offenders are kept together with more serious and experienced criminals for months or years, and so can learn from them; where the offender is taken away from any gainful employment and social support or family network; where the offender is put in places where drugs and brutality are rife; where the infliction of a penalty can make the offender more, and not less, likely to re-offend; and where all this is done at extraordinary expense for the taxpayer.

“A system, in other words, very much like the prison system we now have in England and Wales, as well as in many other jurisdictions.” — “Here is a thought-experiment: imagine that you have asked some mischievous demon to conceive the most counter-productive way of dealing with crime. What fiendish scheme would this diabolic agent devise? “The demon could suggest a system where offenders are kept together with more serious and experienced criminals for months or years, and so can learn from them; where the offender is taken away from any gainful employment and social support or family network; where the offender is put in places where drugs and brutality are rife; where the infliction of a penalty can make the offender more, and not less, likely to re-offend; and where all this is done at extraordinary expense for the taxpayer. “A system, in other words, very much like the prison system we now have in England and Wales, as well as in many other jurisdictions.”

The real problem which blights our prison and punishment system

The way we think about custodial sentences is what needs to change

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us · 2 months ago

However, the view of punishment (rather than rehabilitation) that it encompasses has too many proponents for an alternative to establish itself as the political ground for reform.

#prisons #crime #politics

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-real-problem-which-blights-our

The real problem which blights our prison and punishment system

The way we think about custodial sentences is what needs to change

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Proletarian Rage

@prolrage@todon.nl · 10 months ago

@palestine @israel
#UN report of sexual abuse of #Palestinian detainees “horrifying”

Sari Bashi from Human Rights Watch unpacks a UN report accusing Israel of systemic sexual violence and genocide.

Sari Bashi, a programme director at Human Rights Watch, discusses a UN report that accuses Israel of systemic sexual violence and genocidal acts against Palestinians. #Israel denies the claims.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/quotable/2025/3/18/un-report-of-sexual-abuse-of-palestinian-detainees
#hrw #sexualviolence #sexualabuse #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes #palestine #prisoners #prisons

Al Jazeera

UN report of sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees “horrifying”

Sari Bashi from Human Rights Watch unpacks a UN report accusing Israel of systemic sexual violence and genocide.

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Mitqal

@mittall@toot.community · 3 months ago

Yesterday was one of the happiest days of my life. I was at Nasser Hospital, where the freed prisoners were reunited with their families. My dear nephew was among them — after two long years of suffering behind bars, he finally returned to our tent. My heart is filled with joy and gratitude. Please share my happiness and support me 🥰❤️❤️❤️🙏

https://gofund.me/78acabc1

#GazaKrieg #gaza #please #help #prisons #shearing #palstina
@aral
@irfan @QasimRashid
@dzajew

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Mitqal

@mittall@toot.community · 3 months ago

https://gofund.me/78acabc1

#GazaKrieg #gaza #please #help #prisons #shearing #palstina
@aral
@irfan @QasimRashid
@dzajew

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Nils Wilcke

@paul_denton@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

Darmanin vante la création de quatre nouveaux quartiers de "haute sécurité" pour "y incarcérer les narcotrafiquants les plus dangereux" à Réau, Aix-Luynes, Valence et Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, quelques mois après avoir créé les deux premières prisons de ce type à Vendin-le-Vieil et Condé-sur-Sarthe. "Ça valait le coup de mettre Badinter au Panthéon, lui qui a supprimé en son temps les quartiers de haute sécurité", soupire un haut magistrat.

#Politique #Darmanin #Prisons #Justice #Securite #Off

Nils Wilcke

@paul_denton@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

#Politique #Darmanin #Prisons #Justice #Securite #Off

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DC Books to Prisons

@DCBookstoPrisons@bookstodon.com · 4 months ago

During the birdsite's heyday, it was a place where we engaged with other people who cared about sending #books to incarcerated #readers. We followed and retweeted #prison book programs in the US, Canada, UK, and France. We also chatted with many of our volunteers and supporters.

We love Mastodon, but are finding it a bit lonely. We would love to follow other groups that send books to people in #prisons. Does anyone have recommendations for whom we should follow?

Boosts welcome.