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Pauline Campbell arrested at HMP Styal

Guido | 18.02.2008 14:35 | Repression | Social Struggles

On January 23rd Lisa Marley aged 32 died in the ‘care’ of HMP Styal in Cheshire. On February 5th veteran campaigner Pauline Campbell brought her unique form of protest to the prison and was promptly arrested for the fifteenth time. Lisa was the sixth woman to die inside the walls of Styal since the death of Pauline’s daughter Sarah in 2003. She was the forty-first woman to die across England and Wales since that time.

Pictures below:

Another death, another demonstration.
Another death, another demonstration.

Pauline stops a prison van...
Pauline stops a prison van...

...to argue that this is not a safe place to bring a prisoner.
...to argue that this is not a safe place to bring a prisoner.

This time she has stopped two vans (a personal best).
This time she has stopped two vans (a personal best).

Pauline informs the prisoners what is happening.
Pauline informs the prisoners what is happening.

The police arrive.
The police arrive.

Pauline takes their statements.
Pauline takes their statements.

A sergeant arrives.
A sergeant arrives.

Pauline takes his statement.
Pauline takes his statement.

Pauline is removed from in front of the van...
Pauline is removed from in front of the van...

...dragged along the pavement.
...dragged along the pavement.

8 cops vs one sixty year old with no history of violence...
8 cops vs one sixty year old with no history of violence...

...were the handcuffs really necessary?
...were the handcuffs really necessary?

RIP Lisa Marley.
RIP Lisa Marley.


Pauline stopped a prison van from entering the establishment arguing that it was not a safe place to take a woman prisoner. The Police arrived and she was arrested, handcuffed and held for nine hours before being charged and released. Pauline said: "Being held in police custody for over nine hours, locked in a dirty police cell for most of the time (and I did complain about that) does not deter me. For daring to protest against the death of a young mother, the criminal justice system again seeks to criminalise and punish me."

Related link:

 http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Prison-rights-campaigner-will-fight.3752121.jp

Guido
- e-mail: guidoreports@riseup.net

Comments

Display the following 4 comments

  1. Shocking Treatment of Pauline — George Coombs
  2. Cheshire Police Cowboys. — Rosa
  3. Of Course the handcuffs were necessary — Croltbopper
  4. The message may be unpalatable — Kahlil