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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Just to add to the injustice of locking up Just Stop Oil protesters now one of them is being recalled to prison because despite being eligible to serve her sentence while be monitored, the private company is unable to provide a suitable electronic tag.... & have notified authorities that she needs to be rearrested.

It is a case study in disproportionate 'justice' & reflects badly on all those who've not agreed a doorstep probation that was fine on remand!


theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tagBy Damien Gayle

@ChrisMayLA6 Arguably that is sex and disability discrimination in that the tagging company and probation are not making a reasonable adjustment for disability and women are likely to have smaller wrists.

Previously she was on a 7am to 7pm curfew with random checks and they don't seem to be offering that this time despite presumably being low risk (knowing if she fails a check she's back in prison).

Such BS.

@ChrisMayLA6 @NatalyaD I came here to point out the age and sex discrimination — the failure to make reasonable adjustments — but I see you beat me to it.

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🥥 Let the fucking monitor company make a smaller monitor and allow the elderly woman to stay out of gaol. 🥥

@ChrisMayLA6 Saw this. Talk about giving justice a bad name. Either she should be given a suspended sentence or a community service order. Jail is just unjust. Starmer, where the heck are you?

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Another win for privatised public services. /s

@ChrisMayLA6 I hope she absconds and refuses to return to prison.

@ChrisMayLA6 It sounds like a company problem, not a prisoner problem. Failure to provide the service paid for, bet it doesn't cost them a bean though.