Anti-prison protesters target new Wrexham super jail as first criminals are locked up
Source: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/anti-prison-protesters-target-new-12663986 Opponents claim jails are not working, but crime boss Arfon Jones said ‘acid test’ was if offenders are rehabilitated Anti-prison protesters turned up outside Wrexham’s new super jail…
With just weeks before Wrexham prison opens former probation chief calls for inmate numbers to be kept down
Source: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/just-weeks-before-wrexham-prison-12518161 A former probation chief has urged the courts and prison bosses not to overcrowd the new Wrexham jail as suicides, assaults and self-harm among inmates across England and…
HMP Berwyn: The coming super-jail in North Wales by Yasmin Begum
VIA Anarchist Federation Wales The UK government has recently unveiled plans for the opening of a new prison in Wrexham, North Wales. It is following in the footsteps of American…
Opposition to North Wales Prison Feminist White washing
On Thursday the 18th of February, Campaigners opposed an attempt to white wash the North Wales Prison Project with a “gender equality” event to encourage more women to work in…
Why fight the Wrexham Mega-Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex?
Article from Radical Wales: http://www.radicalwales.org/2015/11/why-fight-wrexham-mega-prison-prison.html A new prison has been on the cards for north Wales for quite some time. Prisoners from Welsh speaking areas are incarcerated in England where…
Lendlease yuppy party shut down
From: http://rabble.org.uk/lendlease-yuppy-party-shut-down/ Lendlease is the global development mega-corporation building both the planned Wrexham Mega-Prison and the yuppy skyscraper development on the site of the demolished Heygate Estate in Elephant &…
Sydney: Solidarity Actions Against the North Wales Mega Prison
In response to a call for a week of actions against the North Wales mega prison, some anarchists in Sydney made some small actions. The primary contractor involved in the…
Community Action on Prison Expansion’s response to the 9 new prisons announced yesterday
Yesterday came the announcement that the British Government plan to build 9 new prisons. Five of these are to be built by 2020 and several ‘Victorian’ prisons are to close….
This is only the beginning: Overview of the Week of Action against the Prison Industrial Complex November 2015
From the 31st October to the 8th November 2015, a week of action took place against the prison industrial complex in the UK. A small group of anarchists, working with…
Week of Action: Day Six – Yarl’s Wood
Saturday 7th November was the final day of action as part of the week of action against the prison industrial complex. At the start of the day, people disrupted the…
Week of Action: Day Four – Wrexham
Just before 8am a group of people attempted to enter the building site for the Wrexham prison. At the same time a lorry was leaving the site and almost run…
Woman locks herself to gates of Wrexham prison site by the neck
Read the mainstream media article on an action that took place in Wrexham this morning. For more info on the prison, read here. Source: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/woman-locks-herself-gates-wrexham-10390721 A protester has chained herself…
Week of Action: Day Two – Birmingham
A Day of Action took place in Birmingham on Tuesday 3rd November as part of the Week of Action against the North Wales Prison and the Prison Industrial Complex. The…
FULL DETAILS: 2 – 8 November 2015: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex
What is taking place? SATURDAY 31ST OCT The United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) Annual Procession. The UFFC is a national coalition of families and friends of those that have…
North Wales Day of Action against the Mega Prison – Friday 6 November
Contact Info Email us for the contact number that will be in use during the day. Info@cape-campaign.org | www.cape-campaign.org Meeting Point Meet at Colwyn Bay Train Station at 11.30am. About…
Birmingham Day of Action Against the Prison Industrial Complex – Tuesday 3 November
Contact Info Email us for the contact number that will be in use during the day. Info@cape-campaign.org | www.cape-campaign.org About the Day of Action The day of action will target…
Manchester Day of Action Against the Prison Industrial Complex – Wednesday 4 November
Contact Info Email us for the contact number that will be in use during the day. Info@cape-campaign.org | www.cape-campaign.org About the Day of Action The day of action will target…
London Day of Action Against the Prison Industrial Complex – Friday 6 Nov
Contact Info The contact number that will be in use during the day: 07494 783122 Info@cape-campaign.org | www.cape-campaign.org Background Info UK Funded Jamaican Prison The British state are proposing to fund…
2 – 8 November 2015: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex
About the Week of Action A week of action has been called to encourage people all of the UK & the world to take action against the construction of the…
Reclaim the Fields International Action Camp 2015: Towards a world without prisons
From the 28th August to the 2nd September 2015, the Reclaim the Fields International Action Camp drew over 130 people to Wrexham, North Wales, to resist the ‘North Wales Prison…
Radio Interview about Action Camp against the North Wales Mega Prison
Anarchist Radio Berlin talked with an UK-based organizer from the Reclaim the fields initiative. This interview is about the planned international camp in North-Wales, the relationship of food sovereignty and…
Reclaim the Fields International Action Camp 2015
Yn Gymraeg – http://www.reclaimthefields.org.uk/2015/08/10/manylion-gwersyll-rhyngwladol-ail-feddianur-caeau-yn-wrecsam/ Francais – http://www.reclaimthefields.org.uk/2015/08/10/camp-international-reclaim-the-fields/ Deutsch – http://www.reclaimthefields.org.uk/2015/08/10/internationales-reclaim-the-fields-action-camp/ About the camp Reclaim the Fields (or RTF) UK was born in 2011, as a star in a wider constellation…
Sabotage against Wrexham mega prison
Source: http://rabble.org.uk/sabotage-against-wrexham-mega-prison/ Via Contrainfo. Sunday 17th May 2015: Last night an action took place at the site of Europe’s second largest prison in construction on Wrexham Industrial Estate in North…
Wrexham super-prison site so big you could fit Millennium Stadium in it 7 times over
Source: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/look-wrexham-super-prison-site-big-8551640 Wrexham’s £200m “flagship” super-prison site is so big you could fit the Millennium Stadium in it seven times over with room to spare The huge facility, which will…