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Ectopia: Joshua Bilton’s Off-key UK Prisons
Joshua Bilton built a project to challenge “the fictions” of prisons in the UK. Ectopia, a series of portraits place the subject in a dominant environment. Bilton’s skill is in evoking the dominance...
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Britain Worse than US for Disproportionate Imprisonment of Black People
This morning I bemoaned America’s use of the criminal justice system to manage and punish unfairly the poorest people in America – a population Michelle Alexander describes as those from “ghetto...
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On the 25th Anniversary of the Strangeways Riot, Things Aren’t Much Better in...
A RIOT TO REMEMBER Prison riot, prison rebellion, prison uprising — whatever they’re called, they hit the news, grip public nation and stay long in the memory. In the U.S., Attica is synonymous with...
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The Sectarian Scrawls, Pixar Cartoons and Empty Visiting Room of a Condemned...
– Sandra Whyte is no stranger to prisons. Married to a prison officer, she has lived in prison quarters for the past 35-years–first at HMP Dungavel and later at HMP Peterhead. Now closed and...
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Protest Photos Used as Evidence by British Police Against Black Activists in...
I wrote about the emergence of the Black Power movement in the UK, for Timeline. Specifically, about a small set of images of one protest and associated ephemera: At the start of the 1970s, the...
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