International Law

Call For Support

Posted on July 02, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010Call For SupportThe Association of Prisoners is this generation?s attempt to give prisoners the voice we have long attempted to have heard.Many other groups and organisations exist which play a role in attempting to change the prison system...

Association of Prisoners - National Campaign Launch

Posted on July 01, 2010
Association of Prisoners - National Campaign LaunchBy Ben GunnWednesday, June 30, 2010We all know that dealing with PSHQ is task for the unwitting and dim-witted. They are a slippery bunch at the best of times. But PSHQ has been causing the Executive Committee of the AoP a headache for the last year and that has meant that we have been grappling to see the best way forward...

Government in U Turn on prisoners? votes

Posted on February 21, 2010
Association of PrisonersContact: John Hirst FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETel: (01482) 341281 or 07766964583Email: john.hirst@myhaven.karoo.co.ukGovernment in U Turn on prisoners? votesJack Straw gives declaration to implement Euro Court rulingThe Association of Prisoners (AoP) welcomes the government?s declaration to comply fully with its obligations under the European Convention to abide by the Convention and European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decisions...

Prisoners threaten to sue in voting rights row

Posted on February 15, 2010
Prisoners threaten to sue in voting rights rowBy Jack Doyle, Press AssociationA group of prisoners is threatening to sue the Government for compensation if their members are prevented from voting in the general election.The Association of Prisoners want at least £1,000 for every offender in England and Wales refused voting rights...

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BROWN TO PAY OUT £70M COMPENSATION TO PRISONERS

Posted on February 14, 2010
Association of PrisonersContact: John Hirst FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASETel: (01482) 341281 or 07766964583Email: john.hirst@myhaven.karoo.co.ukBROWN TO PAY OUT £70M COMPENSATION TO PRISONERSPrisoners including murderers, rapists and paedophiles to sue for loss of voteThe Association of Prisoners (AoP) is to sue the government, in a class action, if it fails to give all convicted prisoners the vote in time for the next general election...

Prisoners Votes Case aired on the radio on Iain Dale's radio show

Posted on June 30, 2009
Prisoners Votes Case aired on the radio on Iain Dale's radio show.Listen here.John Hirst, Jailhouselawyer, appears twice within the first hour.

Association of Prisoners Constitution

Posted on June 22, 2009
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ConVerse response

Posted on June 16, 2009
ConVerse responseBy Ben Gunn(Click on image to enlarge)

Mark Leech - The Truth

Posted on June 16, 2009
Mark Leech - The TruthBy Ben Gunn(Click on the images to read)

Ministry of Justice censors prisoner for fear of offending Osama Bin Laden

Posted on June 10, 2009
Ministry of Justice censors prisoner for fear of offending Osama Bin LadenCartoon censored from UK prisoners magazine Inside Time for upsetting Muslim prisoners, 2009Related link...From Hull Daily Mail (late edition) In Brief (not online)Prison paper stoppedHull: Almost 50,000 copies of a prisoner newspaper have been pulled from jails across the country after Muslim clerics complained about an article written by a Hull inmate...

Committee on Petitions

Posted on June 07, 2009
Committee on PetitionsCommittee on PetitionsThe ChairmanBrusselsCL/nmh[02-COM.PETI(2009)D/29813]Mr John HirstAssociation of Prisoners5 Adderbury CrescentAdderbury GroveUK - HU5 1AT HullUnited Kingdom308742 04.06.2009Subject: Petition Nr.0268/2009 (reference to be quoted in all correspondence)Dear Mr Hirst,I would like to inform you that the Committee on Petitions has begun its examination of your petition...

Spot the deliberate mistakes

Posted on May 02, 2009
Spot the deliberate mistakesThe Advertising Standards Authority has judged Mark Leech, editor of ConVerse, a rag, to be guilty of fraud in his claims for the circulation figures of his rag.The fraudster Mark Leech has published a fraudulent version of the ASA findings and claims that he was found not guilty.

Mark Leech and ConVerse proved to be frauds

Posted on April 29, 2009
Mark Leech and ConVerse proved to be fraudsASA AdjudicationsSpyhole Press Ltd t/a ConVerse175 Hill LaneManchesterM9 6RLNumber of complaints: 1 Date: 29 April 2009Media: Press generalSector: Publishing AdA front-page flash on ConVerse - a newspaper distributed to prisons - stated "THE HIGHEST CIRCULATION NATIONAL NEWSPAPER FOR PRISONERS...

The future is in our hands

Posted on April 02, 2009
The future is in our handsBy: Ben Gunn - HMP Shepton MalletLifer Ben Gunn announces that he is the newly appointed General Secretary of the Association of Prisoners and challenges all prisoners to play their part in bringing about changeIt seems that I have been ?anointed?; a wizened hand reached down from Hull and passed on the baton that is the General Secretary of the Association of Prisoners - AoP...

The law should stand up for prisoners too

Posted on April 01, 2009
The law should stand up for prisoners tooBy Eric AllisonThroughout my association with the penal system - a link stretching back over 50 years - there has always been talk and hope that, one day, prisoners would gain "rights". And the fight for those rights has not been limited to lobbying...

Prisoners votes case on The Politics Show

Posted on March 22, 2009
Prisoners votes case on The Politics ShowThe Politics Show Yorkshire and LincolnshireFast forward to 30 minutes for discussion of prisoners votes case.

UK: Prisoners' Association criticises White Paper

Posted on March 21, 2009
UK: Prisoners' Association criticises White Paper* Subject: [prisoner-rights] UK: Prisoners' Association criticises White Paper* Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:07:26 +0100The Association of PrisonersPRESS RELEASEImmediate Release - No EmbargoPrisoners' Association criticises White PaperAn organisation campaigning for the rights of prisoners has criticised the White Paper, "Justice for All", published this afternoon by the Home Secretary...

Prisoners let down by the system

Posted on March 21, 2009
Prisoners let down by the systemPublished Date: 29 August 2004YOUR article ?Pants protest against Scots prisons? (News, August 22), concerning the Association of Scottish Prisoners? efforts to secure the basic necessities for hygiene contained some inaccuracies which, I feel, distorted the issue...

TV Licensing abandons case against unlicensed TV owner

Posted on March 21, 2009
TV Licensing abandons case against unlicensed TV ownerA former prisoner at the forefront of prison law advocacy has overturned a TV licensing conviction on appeal. John Hirst said that he used his television only for watching videos, DVDs and CCTV footage of his own house but was found 'technically guilty'...

AoP early days

Posted on March 21, 2009
AoP early daysRye Hill (Warwickshire)Group 4 Falck and Carillion manage this prison (capacity 600). In April 2001, according to the Association of Prisoners, a teacher in the prison was not allowed to take her copy of the Guardian with her into the education unit...

Prison Conditions at HMP Woodhill - Babar Ahmad

Posted on March 21, 2009
Prison Conditions at HMP Woodhill - Babar Ahmad26/10/2004Dear brothers, sisters, friends, supporters and well-wishers,Assalamu alaikumI have received a number of letters asking me to describe some of the prison life here at Woodhill. I will attempt to highlight some details about life here, bearing in mind that the conditions and regime vary from prison to prison...

Prisoners can talk to media, says judge

Posted on March 21, 2009
Prisoners can talk to media, says judgeBy Ian Burrell Home Affairs CorrespondentSaturday, 23 March 2002 Serving prisoners won the right yesterday to take part in radio programmes and speak to newspapers about issues relating to Britain's jails and the inmates held inside them...

AOP's, Association of Prisoners

Posted on March 21, 2009
AOP's, Association of PrisonersBy Mark Barnsley I was interested to read about these latest plans to form a prisoners union, (AOP's, Association of Prisoners) and would be interested to know more. I fully support the idea of prisoners organising to fight back against the current wave of repression, but it would clearly be naive to think that the system would welcome or applaud the formation of any genuinely radical organisation...

Ben Gunn General Secretary of the AoP bio

Posted on March 21, 2009
Ben Gunn General Secretary of the AoP bio

AoP petition to EU Parliament

Posted on March 21, 2009
AoP petition to EU Parliament

Innocent Inmates Association of Ohio

Posted on March 21, 2009
Innocent Inmates Association of OhioPrisoners Are Now Telling You What Really Happens in Your Judicial System and the Prison Business

Palestinian prisoners; Israeli diplomats

Posted on March 21, 2009
Palestinian prisoners; Israeli diplomatsBy Gideon RachmanAugust 2, 2007 10:35am Life for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is getting steadily worse. On Wednesday, an Israeli official told me that the Gaza economy is in a ?state of total collapse?...

Who

Posted on February 25, 2009
WhoThe General Secretary of the Association of Prisoners, is a serving prisoner, who wishes to remain anonymous at this point in time, for personal reasons, and will make a public announcement in due course. In the meantime, John Hirst aka Jailhouselawyer, to the online community, is the former General Secretary of the AoP, and presently its Legal Adviser, Political Adviser, and Media Adviser...

Sorry I have moved

Posted on February 22, 2009
Sorry I have movednew URL http://jailhouselawyersblog.blogspot.com

Animal pictures of the week

Posted on February 21, 2009
Animal pictures of the weekBlanche, a five-year-old albino wallaby, is seen with her three-month-old regular-coloured joey in her pouch, at Tropical Wings Wildlife centre in Essex A sea otter in Elkhorn Slough Estuary, California, wields a video camera...

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