HMP Woodhill

PSN member, John Bowden, visits HMP Woodhill, home to the first 'Close Supervision Centre' - a brutal regime where prisoners are kept in total solitary confinement.

UN expert raises alarm over abuse of Close Supervision Centres
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releas...

Fifty-two prisoners in Close Supervision Units ‘that may amount to torture’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2...

Racism and Close Supervision Centres
https://iwoc.iww.org.uk/2020/02/22/ra...

£6 million expansion of Close supervision Centres
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ne...

Dominic Raab’s paper seen as fulfilment of quest to destroy Human Rights Act
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/...

The Prisoner Solidarity Network is a group of people committed to dismantling the criminal justice system and building a society based on collective care. Our members include people inside and outside of prisons. Some of us are ex-prisoners and some are children, partners, or friends of people inside. Many of us are survivors of interpersonal and state violence. Some of us come to this work through our values rather than direct experience of the prison system.
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We want to build a society where conflicts can be resolved without resorting to imprisonment and punishment, where our relationships with each other are not shaped by capitalism and where we are not divided by race, class, or gender.