Two months after being granted a move to Open prison, I'm still sitting here.
Bureaucracies, don't you love 'em?
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Ben
Lecturing
About Me
- prisonerben
- United Kingdom
- Previously known as "one of Britain's best known prisoners...he constantly questions authority and exposes the futility of the system" The Times, Ben was finally released from prison after 32 years in August 2012. Pleading guilty to the murder of a friend when he was 14 years old, he renounced violence and fought for the recognition of the inherent dignity of all human beings. As a result of speaking truth to power, he served far longer than the recommended 10 years, leading Education Secretary Michael Gove to argue that he had "been punished excessively for a crime committed as a child". One of the more intellectual of prisoner-campaigners, Ben chose to educate himself from schoolboy level to having both undergraduate and post graduate degrees. He is currently one of very few prisoners in Britain ever to attempt a Doctorate. Ben's speciality is non-violent action and the Human Needs Theory. Now on Life Licence, He is forging a career as a CJ policy consultant, writer and - as ever - campaigner.
No I don't Ben, they are totally non-productive organisms that justify their existance and their wages by for example keeping you locked up at least 20 years longer than you should have been.
ReplyDeletePerhaps if you ever have the chance could you write something along the lines of a comparison between your treatment and the killers of Jamie Bulger when it comes to sentencing and parole?
perhaps then we might be able to understand on some level that your continued imprisonment is not anything more than evil and vinditive...
Well said Anon #1.
ReplyDeleteWould I be right in thinking that the longer it takes to move to open, the longer it will be till Ben is released? Evil and vindictive seems about right.
Is it possible that the recent riot in an open prison in Sussex makes it harder for the prison service to (from a political perspective) send people to open conditions, when like every other prison in this country they are over crowded.
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