Ben is incommunicado at the moment.
I am guessing no news is good news....
Ed.
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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.
Please let us know why - when you do.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could share the Editors optimism, however....
ReplyDeleteThe fact that Ben is incommunicado is not a good sign at all. It suggests to me that he must be in the block, and as thus, must be suspected of, or worse - been charged with, an offence.
*Whatever* the details are, and despite us knowing that this whole sorry saga was started by the sheer incompetence of 'management'. The (negative) consequences of Ben simply having the 'temerity' to expect his legal right to a meal on his return from work, cannot, I'm afraid, be underestimated.
Having been out of jail for many years myself now, it’s entirely possible that I missed the moment when food became 'a privilege' - as opposed to a legal right in our prisons.
Hoping I’m mostly wrong and wishing you both the best.