In Memory, Of A Noble, Great And Loved Man

Today, we celebrate the life and deeds, of a noble, great and loved man - Mr David Stanley. Rest well, my friend https://t.co/Dd5oJv0xQB pic.twitter.com/8NGGF8MGLx

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Yet It Has By Far The Lowest Reoffending Rate In Europe

Monday 25 February 2013 08.00 GMT

The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people

"On Bastoy prison island in Norway, the prisoners, some of whom are murderers and rapists, live in conditions that critics brand 'cushy' and 'luxurious'. Yet it has by far the lowest reoffending rate in Europe An inmate sunbathes on the deck of his bungalow on Bastoy. An inmate sunbathes on the deck of his bungalow on Bastoy.

The first clue that things are done very differently on Bastoy prison island, which lies a couple of miles off the coast in the Oslo fjord, 46 miles south-east of Norway's capital, comes shortly after I board the prison ferry. I'm taken aback slightly when the ferry operative who welcomed me aboard just minutes earlier, and with whom I'm exchanging small talk about the weather, suddenly reveals he is a serving prisoner – doing 14 years for drug smuggling. He notes my surprise, smiles, and takes off a thick glove before offering me his hand. "I'm Petter," he says.

Before he transferred to Bastoy, Petter was in a high-security prison for nearly eight years. "Here, they give us trust and responsibility," he says. "They treat us like grownups." I haven't come here particularly to draw comparisons, but it's impossible not to consider how politicians and the popular media would react to a similar scenario in Britain."

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/25/norwegian-prison-inmates-treated-like-people?view=mobile

Wednesday 4 September 2013

Bastoy: the Norwegian prison that works

"Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, the departing governor of a prison with a reoffending rate of just 16%, shares the secrets of his remarkable success."

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/04/bastoy-norwegian-prison-works

Imprisoned Between Ages 14 To 47, Released On Licence In August 2012

Ben Gunn, the blogging prisoner locked in a strugglePublished on Aug 5, 2013 

Beyond the Four Walls - Short Documentary 

"As the re-offending rates in the UK continue to increase, a team of film-makers set out to see how the current state of the prison system effects the people who work and live in it. Ben Gunn (arrested for murder in 1982) and a large host of contrasting voices including Prison wardens and other ex-criminals provide an interesting perspective on the situation. Beyond the four walls attempts to explore how the stigma attached to prisoners (rightly or wrongly) shapes the lives of those who leave it."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrQ05TeM34U#t=59

BEN'S PRISON BLOG - Lifer On The Loose 

http://prisonerben.blogspot.co.uk

Mokurai Consulting

http://www.mokuraiconsulting.com

Ben Gunn

https://twitter.com/prisonerben

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Ben Gunn, the blogging prisoner locked in a struggle

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/oct/07/ben-gunn-blogging-prisoner-aop

Ben Gunn: murder, love and life after prison

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/15/ben-gunn-murder-love-life-after-prison

A More Sensible Way Forward

Published: 6:17AM Friday January 18, 2013

Grieving father developed child porn addiction

"Helen Howland supported her husband through the death of their teenage son in the February 2011 earthquake and is now standing by him despite a child-pornography conviction."

"The maximum penalty would have been five years' jail or a $50,000 fine, but Howland, who was a first offender, received home detention and compulsory counselling sessions because he was not involved in the "production, purchase or distribution of images"."

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/grieving-father-developed-child-porn-addiction-5320690

Guns Save Lives - The Bitter Irony

2012 December 17

NC Homeowner Shoots and Kills Sex Offender During Early Morning Home Invasion

"A sex offender with multiple convictions for a variety of crimes is dead after attempted an early morning home invasion in Henderson, NC.

Deyon Durham allegedly attempted to break into an occupied home some time before 7am.

The homeowner armed himself and shot Durham, killing him.

Police say they are still investigating, but no charges have been filed against the homeowner, who was not named."

http://gunssavelives.net/self-defense/nc-homeowner-shoots-and-kills-sex-offender-during-early-morning-home-invasion/

Man shoots and kills sex offender after attempted break-in

http://www.examiner.com/article/man-shoots-and-kills-sex-offender-after-attempted-break-in

Somewhat Worse, They Removed All Hope

Tuesday 18 September 2012 12.03 BST

Strasbourg judges rule indeterminate sentences unlawful

"European court of human rights rules against open-ended sentences being served by 6,000 prisoners in England and Wales

The European court of human rights judges said inmates serving indeterminate sentences had no realistic chance of accessing rehabilitation courses.

The European court of human rights has ruled "arbitrary and unlawful" the operation of indeterminate sentences for the protection of the public (IPPs), currently being served by more than 6,000 prisoners in England and Wales.

The Strasbourg judges said the prison system was "swamped" by prisoners without fixed release dates after the indeterminate sentences were introduced in 2005. They said the three inmates who brought the case had "no realistic chance" of accessing the rehabilitation courses they need to qualify for release.

The new justice secretary, Chris Grayling, told MPs he was disappointed by the judgment, and intended to appeal against it. He said: "It is not an area where I welcome the court seeking to make rulings."

The unanimous ruling by seven judges, including the British judge Sir Nicolas Bratza, awarded up to €8,000 (£6,500) compensation to three prisoners, Brett James, Nicholas Wells and Jeffrey Lee, who have been held up to two years and 10 months longer than the original minimum recommendation of their trial judge. They were also awarded €12,000 costs each."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/sep/18/strasbourg-judges-indeterminate-sentences-unlawful?newsfeed=true

Indeterminate sentences 'breach human rights'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19630617
 
Time is money: Violent prisoners to get human rights payouts after controversial European ruling

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/violent-prisoners-to-get-human-rights-payouts-1330243 

£60m bill fear over ‘unlawful’ jail terms 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4545506/Brit-lags-could-pocket-60m-in-compensation-after-European-judges-ruled-indefinite-sentences-breached-their-human-rights.html

David Stanley - We Will Not Rest, Good Friend

Created on 04/03/2012 01:52 PM
Updated on 08/19/2012 10:30 AM

In the memory of David Stanley

"The British police claimed that they found David Stanley hanging from a tree in a park in Portsmouth on February 1 2012. When we subsequently learned that they had been trying to section him, and that he was aware of this, it looked like this was a suicide as a final act of defiance against the state. But now it appears that it is also possible that this is what the police want us to believe and that the act of suicide confirms him to have been a nutter, as they were claiming in their campaign to discredit him.

The true facts will never now be known but consider this: Dave was the originator of the action against Operation Ore and the provider of the key evidence, which the state has accepted as genuine but refuses to look at. Each of the other individuals who openly tried to expose the travesty of Operation Ore, and who lived in the UK, was hit in one way or another by the UK police, resulting either in their being discredited or intimidated.

Incontrovertible evidence is now presented of huge credit card fraud on the Landslide system used by the UK police and courts to ruin thousands in Operation Ore. David’s case is highlighted as it is easier to understand and he is the one who secured the withheld evidence from Texas, fought a long fight and finally sacrificed his life."

http://www.inquisition21.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=264

Created on 08/13/2012 08:30 AM
Updated on 08/13/2012 09:02 PM

Act of defiance

"Response to this news from a UK reader

When I first heard of David Stanley's tragic death, I had wondered whether his decision to end his life may have been an act of defiance rather than an act of despair, a refusal to submit to some new twist of wickedness from our Moral Guardians. This disturbing news underscores for me the wisdom of the old bumper sticker: "Just because you're feeling paranoid doesn't mean that someone isn't out to get you."

If the information received by Inquisition21 proves true, it strongly suggests that our Infallible Moral Guardians were not content so see a brave and kind-hearted man forced to endure crushing poverty, irrecoverable loss and social abjection; they wanted to permanently silence him, too. If you're officially designated "mad" as well as "bad", the theory our coolly brutal rulers adhere to is that your cause will be finished. This cannot and will not be allowed to happen. David Stanley really was a hero, a quietly-spoken, gentle-hearted hero who made the ultimate sacrifice. His name will eventually emerge untarnished from the predations of a corrupt and unaccountable Power; of that I have no doubt. Far from burying him, this action immortalises him as a tribune of the voiceless and powerless against the vindictiveness and spite of the high and mighty. When I think of him, I feel inspired by his courage and commitment to truth, not flattened and despairing as our sadistic moral rulers would prefer. The Nazis thought they had scored a stunning victory when they drove Walter Benjamin to suicide; instead, his intellectual courage, his brilliant writings and his ethical integrity are remembered long after his premature death. Along with his persecutors' venal depravity.

Editor comments.

I have now heard from two individuals close to Dave before his death, who do not know each other, and both confirm this story. I have the name of one of the principal police officers involved."

http://www.inquisition21.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=276

DAVID STANLEY

"This website is dedicated to the memory of David Stanley

A gentle soul who had the courage to stand against the tyranny and injustice that he suffered.

Another victim of Operation ORE but he left us the evidence we needed.

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

Thanks from all of us Dave - The fight goes on."

http://www.operation-ore.info/index.html

The Appalling Vista - the fight back against Operation Ore

http://www.inquisition21.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=90

Nine UK doctors are suspended after accusations of viewing child pornography

http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/30/operation-ore

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Feb 03 2012, 4:52 PM

David Stanley, RIP

"it was real hard to talk about things
that disagreed with the mass mind-control propaganda
the so-called "public opinion" created by media
and schools and churches
and all the other abusive institutions of societal control
but dave wasn't afraid
i'm not afraid anymore
thanks dave!"

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=38236