Fantastic article from @fergusmcneill.bsky.social 👌 www.prison-insider.com/en/articles/...

Tail them, nail them, jail them!

Fergus McNeill is a professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow. With Prison Insider, he looks back at the trajectory of community sanctions: what they promised, what they de...

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“A United Nations Inquiry found in September last year that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.” Scottish educators seek legal advice over 'smear campaign' by pro-Israel group www.thenational.scot/news/2642831...

Scottish educators seek legal advice over 'smear campaign' by pro-Israel group

A GROUP of Scottish educators advocating for peace in Palestine have been forced to seek legal advice after a targeted campaign by a pro-Israel…

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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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Seen in Philadelphia.

The Council of Europe Anti-Torture Committee has published its report on visits to prisons and Police custody in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 They highlight prison overcrowding as a critical issue that needs to be addressed. They praise Scotland ending jailing of under 18s. 🔗 #HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/cpt/n...

Anyone else have an issue with accessing the chat here? It looks like I have some messages there, but when I click on ‘chat’ I get a ‘Whoops’ message, and logging out and in wont fix it… 🤷‍♂️. @bsky.app

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, Sara Snell, and Jacqueline Clinton from HMIPS are giving evidence to Scottish Parliament Criminal Justice Committee on prisons. It is welcome and timely they get to do this before recess. 1/🧵 #prison #CrimSky @parliament.scot www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/crim...

Criminal Justice Committee | Scottish Parliament TV

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We must stand with New Scots in the face of division and hate www.thenational.scot/politics/262...

We must stand with New Scots in the face of division and hate

SCOTLAND has a long history of welcoming people of all nationalities and faiths, including those seeking refuge and asylum from war and persecution.

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Enduring lesson: when given a choice between their immediate comfort and frying their children‘s future in oil or a habitable future, people chose to burn their kids’ future. Other choices are vital and must be presented as such even if its already way too late. #AberdeenSouth

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

Again and again and again researchers, activists and people who work to enable communities to live well and peacefully together had warned and offered clear, practical steps. *Last year* I spoke at length of this with @neilmackay.bsky.social It will get worse without action

Scots scholar says anti-refugee rhetoric has led UK into “the foothills of genocide”

POLITICAL rhetoric in Britain has taken the country into “the foothills of genocide”, according to Scotland’s leading scholar on issues…

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I've called on the UK government to step up to its legal and moral obligation to stop ALL arms sales and military support to Israel. This is a crucial step towards accountability and justice. #StopArmingIsrael www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

Oxfam GB | Stop arming Israel: sign our petition now

I've called on the UK government to step up to its legal and moral obligation to stop ALL arms sales and military support to Israel. This is a crucial step towards accountability and justice. #StopArm...

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🆕️ journal article by @fergusmcneill.bsky.social, Lucy Cathcart Frödén, @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social, @oliverescobar.bsky.social, @alisonurie.bsky.social, Jo Collinson Scott Making Light of Imprisonment: Humour, Connection and Resistance #Criminology #CrimSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

A lovely write up about our new book of Poetry @uofgunescorila.bsky.social iona.org.uk/cloth-as-mem...

Cloth as Memory, Cloth as Map: The Story Woven into Words

Jane Darroch Riley reflects on the significance of the book covers of two recent Wild Goose Publications by Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé.

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Seems entirely sensible to me. Much more so than sending our money (and our people) overseas, as per one of the other party’s idiotic proposal for (mis)managing the prisons crisis. 🤔

Hannah Graham@drhannahgraham.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Scottish Green Party policy and candidate views on prison abolition are in the news. Labour: "monumentally stupid" Lib Dems: "dangerously naive" SNP: "ludicrous," "can't abolish prisons" Tories: "insane & irresponsible" Greens official line: "prison as a last resort." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

International law - the whole edifice; all of diplomacy; and every comma in the American constitution are failing in this abject and absolute triumph of necropolitics with impunity. Every last sinew of diplomacy must now be strained. UK airspace must be closed to US military. Immediately.

As of end‑December 2025, Ethiopia hosted an estimated 1.12 million refugees and asylum‑seekers, primarily from South Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan. There are no safe or legal routes to U.K. who have cut overseas aid again to host countries of refugees

Looking forward to speaking at this SASO event as a Commissioner in the independent Sentencing and Penal Policy Commission. 📆 5:45pm, Tuesday 21st April. 🏫 Venue: St George's Tron, Buchanan St, Glasgow. 🎟 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-prison... #Criminology #CrimSky #Law #SocialWork #Decarceration

The Prisons & Penal Crisis: What Should be Done?

Join SASO to learn out about the Sentencing & Penal Policy Commission’s newly published recommendations and to put your questions to them.

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UK is now refusing entry to students from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Cameroon and Sudan because it now calls their right to claim asylum ‚an abuse‘. This contravenes the Refugee Convention.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency@unhcr.org · 4mo ago

Every person has the right to seek safety – whoever they are, wherever they come from and whenever they are forced to flee.

The successful candidate to this part-time Research Associate post will be working in a research team of wonderful people/academics: @bethweaver.bsky.social @nicolacarr.bsky.social @jakephillips.bsky.social @fergusmcneill.bsky.social Sarah Doxat-Pratt, Jan Flaherty, and me! [2/2]

For some this is literally a death sentence- they know this. We have repeatedly furnished the evidence and reports. This is what ideological hate looks and sounds like - wearing a suit and elected but without anything but ‘Change’ in the manifesto and NONE of this far right agenda embrace

Sonia L@sonial77.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"A Home Office spokesman said: "The privilege of living here forever should be earned not automatic."" It ic certainly not automatic at the moment - the same false narrative they were pushing with "permanent" refugee status www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One final song to wrap up our tour of A Giant on the Bridge. This is Bars and Multicoloured Chairs - written by Alana Moore, Louis Abbott & Phil Crockett Thomas. 🪑 See you tomorrow Skye! 🙌 #livemusic #gig #theatre #scottishtheatre #musicvideo

On BBC Radio and TV today (Breakfast, DriveTime, Reporting Scotland, News at Seven), Fiona Stalker has an important story about women on remand in prison, awaiting trial. On Breakfast, just after 7 am, I discussed these issues with her. We need to reduce use of remand. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Radio Scotland Breakfast - 20/03/2026 - BBC Sounds

News from across Scotland and the world, plus sport, weather and big name interviews.

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Dear Home Secretary, People get on boats to cross the Channel because they love their families, because the separations - like those we all went through hell with under Lockdown - are killing them. Because living without the one’s you love is unendurable. That’s it. 1/

Scotland has a new Human Rights Tracker. This online tool allows you to explore recommendations made by six UN #HumanRights treaty bodies and filter by theme, human rights issue, affected group. Mentioning it because not many know about it; it isn't being posted on here. humanrightstracker.gov.scot

🖕Fuck It Button written by Gus Bear and Donna Maciocia Another taste of the music from A Giant on the Bridge, this song centred around the characters D and June. Played by Dave Hook and Jill O’Sullivan. #livemusic #gig #musicvideo #theatre #scotland

🌟 New 4.5 star review just dropped for A Giant on the Bridge. “Deeply emotional and slightly mad, this is a performance which stands out from the rest“ Read the full review below 👇

REVIEW: A Giant On The Bridge

Fascinating, mad and impactful are just a few of the words one could use to describe A Giant On The Bridge. This concert-like experience mixed with spoken-word theatre blends the story of a father on ...

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Very glad to share this critical reflection from our own @nasarmeer.bsky.social; out now with @politicshome.bsky.social.

@nasarmeer.bsky.social@nasarmeer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

From me on @politicshome.bsky.social re the new definition: a step forward because official recognition is better than official silence, but weakest when confronting structural racism: 👇🏽 www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...