I reported here that prison officers had arranged the attack upon Ian Huntley. It has since emerged that Ian Huntley was no longer subjected to the Special Watch procedures, imposed following his last suicide attempt, and that he is free to associate with other prisoners on the Vulnerable Prisoners unit. Although the official inquiry into the incident has not yet concluded, it has quickly established that there is no evidence to link the attack upon Huntley with the prison officers industrial action following the attack upon 3 prison officers.
What a shame, it would have made the story all the more interesting...
An apology would have been nice but then an accusation from you is like a vote of confidence. The prison officers were clearly not responsible.
ReplyDeleteYour witterings get sillier and sillier.
anonymong: "Your witterings get sillier and sillier".
ReplyDeleteYou are confusing me with Mark Leech.
"The prison officers were clearly not responsible".
I have made this clear in the post. That is sufficient. I have made a correction. It is more than some bloggers would do.
Duh? You hoo.. Anonymous.. have you read the read the post? Jailhouse Lawyer has made it clear that the screws weren't responsible!
ReplyDeleteActually, that's not sufficient as you will find out in due course.
ReplyDeleteanonymong @ 10:31: Threats, eh? Scary, I don't think! Only budgies shit on Converse, no self respecting con every reads the garbage which Mark Leech plagarises from published sources without giving due credit. Don't print too many copies of the Prisons Handbook 2010, because you may be having to build a bonfire to burn all the unsold copies!
ReplyDeleteMy fella has loads of back copies of that newspaper under his bed. I think he said he was going to make paper mache dildo from it... well something of that nature anyway!
ReplyDeleteThe essence of this is that JHL's allegation was plausible. Okay, so they didn't do it. But they could have. We all know it goes on. And there remains the duty of care. There was a failure. So there was negligence at the least.
ReplyDeleteCharles: In the film The Fear Factory, yet to go on general release, Erwin James admits that he used to do the screws dirty work by going into troublesome prisoners cells with a baseball bat.
ReplyDeleteIt maybe that one of them still had a word in the ears of the attacker. It is just that some distance has come between a direct connection linking the screws to the attack. And I am happy to assert that the evidence does not support a direct link.
What a pathetic post from Anonymous who states that an apology would have been nice? If anyone is slashed in prison, then someone somewhere isn't doing their job, right? If my child was attacked in school, would the teacher's, who are responsible for the duty of care for my child in school hours, be under the microscope for it? I think so.
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Anonymous, the post by Jailhouse Lawyer makes it perfectly clear the prison officers were not responsible. However, personally, and whether you like my opinion or not, Ian Huntley will always be a V.P. and the prison officers know this. Therefore, how did the other con manage to get close to Huntley to slash him? Makes one wonder don't you think? If my partner was slashed in prison, believe you me, I would be asking some questions. Anonymous, if you are connected in anyway to the bland prison newspaper Converse, can I ask you why you don't respond to any enquiries from prisoners family members who may I add, are an important support mechanism for the many cons you write for?
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ReplyDeleteActually, that's not sufficient as you will find out in due course.
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Does this mean you'll feature in the next edition of a certain prison newspaper John? It's rather unfortunate, but I won't be able to read it as my other half inside wipes his backside with it. So if and when you might feature in there, please provide us with a link will you? I enjoy reading your blog and at the end of the day, you are entitled to your opinion's regardless of what anyone thinks.
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteAn apology would have been nice but then an accusation from you is like a vote of confidence. The prison officers were clearly not responsible.
Your witterings get sillier and sillier.
My reply: LMFAO! Oh, and by the way, anyone who sells out a partner of a prisoner, is selling out the prisoner himself! As for an apology to the screws, ask them why I was shafted with over £100.00
worth of property my partner didn't receive! Stick that in your fu*king newspaper if it's who I think it is!
You're obviously jealous of Mark Leech. He has a rather wider readership than you.
ReplyDeleteanonymong @ 7.53: Given that I am a real jailhouselawyer and prison reformer, whereas Mark Leech is just a fraud, and that I gat a worldwide readership whereas he simply prints 3-4 times more copies of his rag than actually get read, nothing to get jealous about.
ReplyDeleteI cannot wait to see what happens when he tries to sell his 2010 edition of the Prisons Handbook to the prison libraries, and it will no longer be mandatory and they can instead choose the better and free copy of Inside Information!
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteYou're obviously jealous of Mark Leech. He has a rather wider readership than you.
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If you like, I can name the prison and the wing where my fella, and his fellow inmates bin the newspaper? Plus, if you like, I can gather some comments of the lads about it, saying I do write to a rather high number of prisoners?
I think the starter of this thread, Anonymous, has been rather unfair by stating JL should make an apology. The post by JL already states that it wasn't the prison officers fault. That said, someone is to blame.
ReplyDeleteAs for the row regarding prison newspapers. I read Inside Time purely because they feature family issues. I won't knock Mark Leech's paper because I have rarely read it. The only reason I do prefer Inside Time is like I've said, it provides more family reading and any prisoner would you tell you how important their families are when serving time. My hubby is a long termer, and like many in my shoes, prison newspapers are a common for us and lots of families I know like to follow prison politics. So if I had anything to say to Mark Leech, it would be to welcome more family voices because the prisoners he is trying to provide a service for with legal issues etc, he will find that many family members, like myself, speak to their partners briefs more than the prisoner himself.
Not too sure why anyone is mentioning the newspaper, Converse. It holds no relevance whatsoever to prisoners families. Read it once, don't like it and don't read it. Sorry, but that's my opinion.
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous number 1 - the top of the thread.
ReplyDeleteYou are either a screw? Or an ex con who has sold your own people out? Why should JHL apologise for something he is possibly right about? In agreement with the other post, Huntley is a VP, he always will be. Therefore, why did this incident take place? Where were the screws when it took place?
Secondly:
Anonymous said...
Actually, that's not sufficient as you will find out in due course.
As I say, if you are an ex con, then shame on you!