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Thinking Allowed: Prison Protest

Prison Protest

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Prison protest: from riots to hunger strikes.

Laurie Taylor explores prisoner resistance, from riots to hunger strikes.

Prison protest: Laurie Taylor explores the way in which prisoners have sought to transform the conditions of their imprisonment and have their voices heard. Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California, considers the global history  of hunger strikes from suffragists in the US and UK to Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland and anti apartheid campaigners in South Africa. What is the meaning and impact of the refusal to eat? They’re joined by Philippa Tomczak,  Director of  the Prisons, Health and Societies Research Group at the University of Nottingham,  and author of a study which examines the way in which  the 1990 riots at HMP Strangeways helped to re-shape imprisonment. Was the change lasting or significant?

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