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pinkizzy
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Common Sense Alert!
Posted on 4 December, 2013
Prison Service rules state that if a prisoner wants to change their appearance they must first submit an application for permission so that an updated photo can be taken.
There’s one guy on my wing who keeps a beard but occasionally trims it back. Recently he was trimming it when he accidentally went too far and took out a chunk of hair. Obviously he wasn’t keen on walking around with a facial bald patch so he trimmed it right down to the stubble all over so that it could grow back evenly again.
The following morning he was threatened with being placed on report and faced a loss of privileges on the grounds that he hadn’t put an application in to cut off his beard. He told the officer that he couldn’t have put an app’ in because he didn’t know it was going to happen, but the answer he got was simply bizarre. He was told that he should have kept the beard with a bald patch on his cheek and waited to shave it off until his written application could be sent to the security department for consideration.
That’s Prison Service logic for you
steveimp
pinkizzy
Save prison arts
From Adam Mac - HMP Wakefield
The many effects of the new IEP policy have been widely published in Inside Time, including articles about how it will affect prisoners maintaining their innocence, how it will change what is expected of prisoners, and how it will result in prisoners losing certain items of property. However, there has been little said about how the new policy affects prison arts. The popularity of the Koestler Awards demonstrates how much talent there is in prisons, and how varied that talent is. Whether you paint or draw, play the guitar or build matchstick models, write poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction, self expression is extremely important to prisoners. It offers us a chance to break free of the brick walls and metal doors and fill our time with something productive. But the introduction of the new IEP policy threatens all that. The Ministry of Justice have already confirmed that they intend to take away all electric guitars and any acoustic guitars which have metal strings; Prisoners up and down the country are frequently blocked or delayed in ordering paints or hobby items such as veneer; and many prisoners have even reported that their own writing has been removed from their possession by security without any reason being given at all. It seems like the arts in prison are under attack and, unless we can convince the Ministry of Justice to give prison arts the respect and importance they deserve, we may end up losing them altogether. I have been blogging atadammac.co.uk since December and, last month, I put out a post asking my readers to help campaign against this. I received a lot of encouragement as a result and I'm pleased to say that we have now set up an online petition, asking the Ministry of Justice to recognise the value of prison arts, to ensure that arts materials and equipment are available to all prisoners, and to provide personal development and arts courses across the prison estate. However, most prisoners will be unable to access the website in order to sign this. Instead we are reliant on those on the other side of the wall. Our friends. Our family. If you know anyone outside who can spare just two minutes of their time to help save prison arts, get them on the website. It's very easy and, together, we can make a real difference. The web address for the petition is: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-prison-arts or you can access it via my blog at adammac.co.uk
BarntheBarn
The main witness - appeared on This Morning with Tosspot - has now been charged with possessing/distributing child pornography.
hedda
yes Mr John-Thomas is an evil man who perpetuates the notion : anyone who dares question the narrative is to be condemned as a fellow traveller.
He did that to Anna Raccoon- utterly despicable.
and how many children has he saved ?..none.
Asia is full of John-Thomas'..and not one, not one single one of them dares question or act upon the real sexual slavery of women and children which 99% of is run by, and involves locals.
I will be controversial here- I could be wrong but from what I read of this highly distasteful case, it appears to have involved planning to carry out acts and 'touching' type offences which would mean any baby involved will suffer no ill effects as the great thing about the human child until a certain age : it survives with no memory of the early years.
Unless of course a myriad of "child protection experts" and charities line up to tell them "their life has been ruined".
## also a good reason that Geldorf airhead should be prosecuted.
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