Coalition Against Punishment
@coalition-nopunish.bsky.social
Working collectively and connecting widely to disrupt the punishment system in Scotland.
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OK, I'm a bit biased but the new @inquest-org.bsky.social digital archive is an absolutely amazing resource
history.inquest.org.uk
@bschcnetwork.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @statewatch.bsky.social
history.inquest.org.uk
@bschcnetwork.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @statewatch.bsky.social
Inquest 40
INQUEST ARCHIVE: Documenting state violence, death and resistance in the UK since 1981. Explore over 40 years of fighting for justice through sound, image and print.
history.inquest.org.uk
May 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
OK, I'm a bit biased but the new @inquest-org.bsky.social digital archive is an absolutely amazing resource
history.inquest.org.uk
@bschcnetwork.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @statewatch.bsky.social
history.inquest.org.uk
@bschcnetwork.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social @statewatch.bsky.social
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Why we stand with Kneecap - a short blog on being on the right side of history... erasmusresearch.com/being-on-the...
Being on the Right Side of History - Erasmus Research
This week, Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (AKA Mo Chara) of the Irish rap group Kneecap was charged with a terrorism offence for allegedly displaying a Hezbollah flag at a gig in London. The potential sentence? U...
erasmusresearch.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Why we stand with Kneecap - a short blog on being on the right side of history... erasmusresearch.com/being-on-the...
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Fear isn’t a by-product of authoritarianism. It is the strategy.
From war-footing propaganda to hostile welfare cuts, the UK is waging psychological warfare on its own people.
Read why fear is the system — and how we resist it:
erasmusresearch.com/the-politica... #politics
From war-footing propaganda to hostile welfare cuts, the UK is waging psychological warfare on its own people.
Read why fear is the system — and how we resist it:
erasmusresearch.com/the-politica... #politics
The Political Function of Fear: Why the Government Wants You Afraid - Erasmus Research
“There are two ways in which people are controlled: first of all frighten them, and secondly demoralise them... An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.” — Tony Benn https://www....
erasmusresearch.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Fear isn’t a by-product of authoritarianism. It is the strategy.
From war-footing propaganda to hostile welfare cuts, the UK is waging psychological warfare on its own people.
Read why fear is the system — and how we resist it:
erasmusresearch.com/the-politica... #politics
From war-footing propaganda to hostile welfare cuts, the UK is waging psychological warfare on its own people.
Read why fear is the system — and how we resist it:
erasmusresearch.com/the-politica... #politics
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What if punishment isn't about justice—but about power, control, and unconscious desire? Judges as moral actors… or as performers of dominance? New blog: The Pleasure of Punishment 👇
erasmusresearch.com/the-pleasure...
erasmusresearch.com/the-pleasure...
The Pleasure of Punishment: Unconscious Desire and the Performance of Judicial Power - Erasmus Research
The punishment system, far from preventing harm, often exacerbates it. Despite efforts in Scotland and elsewhere to reduce prison populations, judges and sheriffs persist in handing down custodial sen...
erasmusresearch.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What if punishment isn't about justice—but about power, control, and unconscious desire? Judges as moral actors… or as performers of dominance? New blog: The Pleasure of Punishment 👇
erasmusresearch.com/the-pleasure...
erasmusresearch.com/the-pleasure...
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Our founding member John Pegram is now taking legal action against Avon and Somerset Police for risk scoring via the Offender Management App. This is about all of us. If you believe you have been risk scored we'd like to hear from you.
#WeCopWatch #AutomatedRacism
#WeCopWatch #AutomatedRacism
If you believe you have been risk-scored by the police then read the article below on the first steps to putting things right. If you would like to get involved with our campaigns challenging predictive policing email -bristolcopwatch@riseup.net
#AutomatedInjustice #WeCopWatch
#AutomatedInjustice #WeCopWatch
cop-watchers.org/2024/04/23/p...
Over 364,000 people have been risk scored by Avon and Somerset Police's #OffenderManagementApp without community consultation, transparency and most importantly consent. If you believe you are one of those people you can take action. #AutomatedInjustice
Over 364,000 people have been risk scored by Avon and Somerset Police's #OffenderManagementApp without community consultation, transparency and most importantly consent. If you believe you are one of those people you can take action. #AutomatedInjustice
April 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Our founding member John Pegram is now taking legal action against Avon and Somerset Police for risk scoring via the Offender Management App. This is about all of us. If you believe you have been risk scored we'd like to hear from you.
#WeCopWatch #AutomatedRacism
#WeCopWatch #AutomatedRacism
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The families of Katie Allan and William Lindsay spoke to @channel4news.bsky.social about crown immunity for prisons and why it must be lifted.
www.channel4.com/news/reasona...
www.channel4.com/news/reasona...
April 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The families of Katie Allan and William Lindsay spoke to @channel4news.bsky.social about crown immunity for prisons and why it must be lifted.
www.channel4.com/news/reasona...
www.channel4.com/news/reasona...
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We’ve added more webinars to our series - available to book now! Browse the full range of topics at Ticket Tailor here:
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 on the 29/04/25 we will be discussing the implications of the Disclosure Scotland Act (2020). All our webinars are free to attend. Learn more 👇
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𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 on the 29/04/25 we will be discussing the implications of the Disclosure Scotland Act (2020). All our webinars are free to attend. Learn more 👇
Buy tickets – Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice
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April 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
We’ve added more webinars to our series - available to book now! Browse the full range of topics at Ticket Tailor here:
shorturl.at/BdNAa
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 on the 29/04/25 we will be discussing the implications of the Disclosure Scotland Act (2020). All our webinars are free to attend. Learn more 👇
shorturl.at/BdNAa
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 on the 29/04/25 we will be discussing the implications of the Disclosure Scotland Act (2020). All our webinars are free to attend. Learn more 👇
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“How do we simultaneously honor the humanity of people who cause harm and of those who suffer it? And how do we do that in institutions that seem designed to strip away the humanity of so many?” – @aclunm.bsky.social lawyer Denali Wilson on the fight to end juvenile life without parole in New Mexico
Ending Juvenile Life Without Parole - Denali Wilson - Inquest
Convincing New Mexico to stop sentencing children to die in prison required us to let go of “us” versus “them” politics.
inquest.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“How do we simultaneously honor the humanity of people who cause harm and of those who suffer it? And how do we do that in institutions that seem designed to strip away the humanity of so many?” – @aclunm.bsky.social lawyer Denali Wilson on the fight to end juvenile life without parole in New Mexico
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Excited to see that the extraordinarily detailed Spycops.Info website created by the Undercover Research Group is now live at spycopsresearch.info
April 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Excited to see that the extraordinarily detailed Spycops.Info website created by the Undercover Research Group is now live at spycopsresearch.info
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Please Repost! Listen! Subscribe! @bschcnetwork.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @lucybrisbane.bsky.social
🔊NEW EPISODE
This week @lucybrisbane.bsky.social & Lee talk to Sandra Ruiz from the Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission about the importance of collective community action & how that has helped relatives & survivors take ownership of the ways Grenfell is memorialised.
www.inquest.org.uk/podcast
This week @lucybrisbane.bsky.social & Lee talk to Sandra Ruiz from the Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission about the importance of collective community action & how that has helped relatives & survivors take ownership of the ways Grenfell is memorialised.
www.inquest.org.uk/podcast
April 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Dear Friends,
In response to this appalling and heavy handed police raid on Westminster QMH a silent, peaceful Quaker style vigil is planned for Thursday 3rd April from 8.30 - 9.30a.m. outside Bridewell Police Station on the junction of Nelson St and Trafalgar Walk in Bristol.
In response to this appalling and heavy handed police raid on Westminster QMH a silent, peaceful Quaker style vigil is planned for Thursday 3rd April from 8.30 - 9.30a.m. outside Bridewell Police Station on the junction of Nelson St and Trafalgar Walk in Bristol.
Quakers in Britain
Quakers are a faith group committed to working for equality and peace. We try to live in truth, peace, simplicity, and equality, finding God in ourselves and those around us. Our meetings offer a welc...
www.quaker.org.uk
March 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dear Friends,
In response to this appalling and heavy handed police raid on Westminster QMH a silent, peaceful Quaker style vigil is planned for Thursday 3rd April from 8.30 - 9.30a.m. outside Bridewell Police Station on the junction of Nelson St and Trafalgar Walk in Bristol.
In response to this appalling and heavy handed police raid on Westminster QMH a silent, peaceful Quaker style vigil is planned for Thursday 3rd April from 8.30 - 9.30a.m. outside Bridewell Police Station on the junction of Nelson St and Trafalgar Walk in Bristol.
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'A lot of what the OLR was about was the preparation of the risk assessment. Nobody needs an assessment, they need the outcome of the assessment to be delivered, too often the assessment becomes an end in itself' (Former member, Parole Board for Scotland) #ScotJustice #NOLR
March 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'A lot of what the OLR was about was the preparation of the risk assessment. Nobody needs an assessment, they need the outcome of the assessment to be delivered, too often the assessment becomes an end in itself' (Former member, Parole Board for Scotland) #ScotJustice #NOLR
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'He's not motivated to progress with anything. He is too reluctant three years in to have any type of relationship, form peers or get a job because he's like, what's the point? I’ve got an OLR' (Community Justice Social Worker) #NOLR #CommunityJustice
March 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'He's not motivated to progress with anything. He is too reluctant three years in to have any type of relationship, form peers or get a job because he's like, what's the point? I’ve got an OLR' (Community Justice Social Worker) #NOLR #CommunityJustice
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''You've got some OLRs that have the tiniest punishment part, you're talking months, up to a few years. So, by the time they access any kind of intervention they are already post tariff...” (Forensic psychologist) #NOLR #JustcieReform
March 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
''You've got some OLRs that have the tiniest punishment part, you're talking months, up to a few years. So, by the time they access any kind of intervention they are already post tariff...” (Forensic psychologist) #NOLR #JustcieReform
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When you are on an OLR, the system is so rigid and it is so bureaucratic, it’s not like any other long sentence because it has so many extra layers of bureaucracy, so it is easier being a life sentenced prisoner (Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist) #NOLR
March 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
When you are on an OLR, the system is so rigid and it is so bureaucratic, it’s not like any other long sentence because it has so many extra layers of bureaucracy, so it is easier being a life sentenced prisoner (Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist) #NOLR
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💙 We offer our heartfelt support to @quaker.org.uk in light of this deeply troubling incident.
We stand in solidarity with them and all those who engage in peaceful protest.🕊️
We stand in solidarity with them and all those who engage in peaceful protest.🕊️
🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
💙 We offer our heartfelt support to @quaker.org.uk in light of this deeply troubling incident.
We stand in solidarity with them and all those who engage in peaceful protest.🕊️
We stand in solidarity with them and all those who engage in peaceful protest.🕊️
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It's been a whole TWO DAYS since Labour was talking about "protecting places of worship" - but as is now obvious, that applies only if it enables another crackdown on Palestine solidarity
March 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
It's been a whole TWO DAYS since Labour was talking about "protecting places of worship" - but as is now obvious, that applies only if it enables another crackdown on Palestine solidarity
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"No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory".
Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales.
THIS is repression
Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales.
THIS is repression
March 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory".
Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales.
THIS is repression
Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales.
THIS is repression
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‘I’ worries for her nephew ‘J’ who was 21 when he got an OLR. His punishment tariff was 2 ½ years and he remains in prison after 14 years. Through her own career ‘I’ is aware of research showing that young males' brains are not fully developed into maturity until the age of 25 #NOLR
March 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
‘I’ worries for her nephew ‘J’ who was 21 when he got an OLR. His punishment tariff was 2 ½ years and he remains in prison after 14 years. Through her own career ‘I’ is aware of research showing that young males' brains are not fully developed into maturity until the age of 25 #NOLR
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The waiting lists for rehabilitation programmes pose a serious concern which @HMIPS (and others) continues to highlight. The issue doesn't get a lot of attention which it should.
Scotland’s Hidden Life Sentence: Orders of Lifelong Restriction (OLRs) were meant for ‘exceptional’ cases—offenders serve a punishment term then remain locked up indefinitely until they can prove they are no longer a risk. But what is offered in terms of rehabilitation? #NOLR # HumanRightsWatch
March 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The waiting lists for rehabilitation programmes pose a serious concern which @HMIPS (and others) continues to highlight. The issue doesn't get a lot of attention which it should.
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There is help available for her son OUTSIDE the prison setting and it is being offered for free. Her son cannot progress without this help but he cannot access it. It is frustrating for her to see him suffer. 3/4 #NOLR
March 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
There is help available for her son OUTSIDE the prison setting and it is being offered for free. Her son cannot progress without this help but he cannot access it. It is frustrating for her to see him suffer. 3/4 #NOLR
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Mental health & OLRs - a toxic combination. 1/4 Please repost @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @howardleague-scot.bsky.social @weeneens.bsky.social @prtuk.bsky.social @familiesoutside.bsky.social
‘R’s Mum is struggling to cope since her son’s OLR 16 years ago at the age of 24. His punishment tariff was 4 years and he remains in prison. She has significant mental health issues which have worsened over the years by having to cope with her son’s indeterminate sentence. #NOLR
March 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Mental health & OLRs - a toxic combination. 1/4 Please repost @fergusmcneill.bsky.social @howardleague-scot.bsky.social @weeneens.bsky.social @prtuk.bsky.social @familiesoutside.bsky.social
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His Mum is frustrated by the management of OLR’s. She sees her son’s struggle as those with ‘liberation dates’ take priority. ‘Many SPS staff don’t even seem to understand the OLR. They don’t understand what it’s like to have absolutely no hope at the end of the tunnel’. 4/5 #NOLR
March 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
His Mum is frustrated by the management of OLR’s. She sees her son’s struggle as those with ‘liberation dates’ take priority. ‘Many SPS staff don’t even seem to understand the OLR. They don’t understand what it’s like to have absolutely no hope at the end of the tunnel’. 4/5 #NOLR