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Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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20 whole days?!
Oh, the humanity!
It's 20 more days, and on top of the rest of the context here it is a bit egregious honestly! It does feel like she's been put through the ringer a bit unfairly; she was sentenced to 20 months in prison, then released as part of a curfew scheme, but then right around Christmas MoJ went back on that call and took her back to prison because they couldn't find a wrist tag that fitted her, and her ankle tag wouldn't fit properly because of a medical condition.
Now, they're adding a further 20 days, which they've figured out because there were 20 days between her being made aware that she would be taken back to prison and her actually being back in prison -- despite her being ready to go, waiting to be rearrested.
It seems like either malice or a massively clumsy MoJ bungle (which, when talking about somebody's liberty, isn't really an excuse)!
The tag thing was a (quelle surprise) a contractor fuck up. Allegedly they didn't have a wrist tag small enough but the protesters wrists weren't outside the sizing specs of the shackle.
It reeks of malicious incompetence (at best).
You'd think that there were bigger crims to deal with, but never mind; we'll just hammer environmental protestors instead of actual criminals.
Why is HMRC dealing with Just Stop Oil prisoners?
Oh sorry lol 😂 I've got them on the brain at the moment. I read HDC in the article when reading about the home detention curfew and must've just seen HMRC lol -- edited to remove 👍