![]() The issue also looks at the legacy of the Birmingham Six, Guildford Four and Maguire Seven cases. ‘If spice isn’t symbolic of a prison system that has truly lost its way, it’s hard to see what else could be ‘How and why the state has come to provide an environment in which people are complicit in their own dehumanisation should alarm us all,’ she argues. Hardeep Matharu reports on the spice epidemic. ![]() INQUEST’s Rebecca Roberts looks at the increasing number of deaths in custody and what they say about our justice system. There were 87 self-inflicted deaths in prisons in 2018. Professor Francis Pakes recalls his time spent in two Icelandic prisons (as a criminologist) and Dr Paul McGuinness asks whether ‘dignity’ could become the political concept that frees our prison system from lurching crisis to crisis. It is a sobering picture if we care to take a look.’ John Podmore ‘Most of us cannot go inside our jails.We rely on prison inspections to provide both a window and a mirror: a window so we can see the conditions that exist and a mirror to expose the conditions we tolerate. ![]() Prison is not for those whom the rest of society has simply given up on.’ ‘Yes, we need to reduce the prison population – to lock up only those we are afraid of, not those we are mad at. ![]() John Podmore writes about the need for genuine radical thinking around prison reform and former chief prisons inspector Nick Hopkins takes a critical look at the inspections regime and what it really tells us about the state of our prisons. The issue also features a prison art special featuring Koestler Award prize winners as well as an interview with the artist Patrick Maguire who at the age of just 14 year was wrongly imprisoned. You can buy Proof magazine through here. ![]()
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