Inside the Coalition of the Willing

[arisbe]

On Tuesday, Blunkett will fight in the Royal Courts of Justice in London for the right to charge victims of miscarriages of justice more than £3000 for every year they spent in jail while wrongly convicted. The logic is that the innocent man shouldn’t have been in prison eating free porridge and sleeping for nothing under regulation grey blankets.

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[kibbles.livejournal.com]

That's horrible. I did smirk about the staying on hunger strike longer bit, I'll admit.

Dan was through a horrible court ordeal, and he wasn't even jailed 24 hours, and eventually charges were dropped and it STILL had horrible terrible repercussions through our lives. I cannot begin to imagine what would have happened for something like THAT.

How anyone can defend that practice as morally right is beyond me. That is just outrageous.