CN: discussion around detention, state violence, deportation, and accounts of sexual and domestic abuse Theresa May’s racist and sexist ‘hostile environment policy’ has already brought surveillance and border enforcement into the NHS, schools, local libraries, the police force, and the rental sector. Now, local authorities including Southwark, Bexley, Greenwich, and Lewisham have started using the […]
Last week, the Tory government announced that they will be scrapping proposals to build five new women’s ‘community’ prisons. Justice secretary David Gauke has revealed that the government instead plans to put £5m into ‘community service and early intervention programmes’, trialling five ‘residential centres’ which he argues will help to reduce reoffending rates. Sisters Uncut […]
(CN: discussion around detention, state violence and accounts of abuse) This Saturday, 24th of March, South East and North London Sisters Uncut will be attending a demonstration outside Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre. As Sisters Uncut, we recognise that state violence is also domestic violence. Violence against women and non-binary people is not only perpetuated by […]
Last night Sisters Uncut Edinburgh posted several hundred posters across the city, to highlight the impact of austerity on survivors of violence and the specialist services they need. Scotland has the second highest women’s prison population in Northern Europe, and domestic violence has been repeatedly highlighted as a key driver for imprisonment. Survivors are being […]
Feminist protest group best known for storming the red carpet at the 2015 film premiere of ‘Suffragette’ Sisters Uncut are drawing attention to Theresa May’s domestic violence policies, which they say are a “dangerous distraction” that will leave survivors “locked up in prison, locked out of refuges, and locked in to violent relationships.” Inspired by […]
CN: Serial murder, domestic abuse, misogyny Recent media coverage of the murders of two women highlights the failure of the criminal justice system to protect domestic violence survivors. Last week in London the killer of Angela Best, her former partner Theodore Johnson, was imprisoned for 26 years. The Old Bailey heard that Angela was the […]