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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.
Too bloody right, I would, I would, erm write to my MP and the Home Secretary probably. Anything else you would like me to do, short of coming down there and springing you of course? Which obviously would be counterproductive.
ReplyDeleteBen, just quote article 10, human rights act, freedom of expression. In any event, being an ex-con, you should know how to get messages to the outside world without the prison staff having the faintest idea. As it is not you who posts it on the internet, it can't be down to you.
ReplyDeleteI would write directly to the Governor at Sudbury, ask him why, and on what grounds, then I would take it from there.
ReplyDeleteIf this blog were to be pulled for some reason, I should imagine there will be a lot of disappointed and angry feelings and people. Given Ben's situation of being so long over tariff, I can't see anyone here accepting it being pulled. It would probably be a counterproductive act if it were to be, as it would highlight Bens and others' case all the more strongly.
Just re read this and realised that its a rumour. Rumours can be caused and spread by anyone, even a fellow prisoner. Not nice. I hope these rumours stop and things get back to business as usual with the blog.
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