Contrary to what the Home truce wos teno many peopli to belleve, the riot at Hall Berte of the evidenc a prisone rights of dis t of the other prisoners - v uggled out of Hull and read the inquiry.
onfinement lime. Then came the cutback it sulted in the seg unit brough tall to a bead."
It is what took place when th isoners agreed to come dow iom the roof that most vividi makes no Numerous prisoner ysically harmed; an MP would railable to receive represen the tations; prisoners" personal property would be respected; there vould be a full inquiry into gri vances, which was the orisoners demand wben they took to the 100f.
If the Hull prisoners had thought that the Government's crisis follow from their aroused hope f being treated eings, the Home Office and th in soon as th cameras were gone, the ines were systematic, with partcular attention paid to black and for days. sending boe stres wielding riot legs, with an instruction 'not to mark their faces' "Meals' consisted of handfuls As human of cornflakes thrown in the air; Non in September. None of the wardars run the refused. screws greeted each and chair salutes and "Sieg Heils", as injured: they struck ions were burnt. Removing the ashes required chree locries.
Irish prisoners were made to get on their knee and sing "God ave the Queen' and were beaten The warders other with Nazi The utterly repressive nature of the regime was amply exposed in the les that the prisoner. obtained during the riot. Each prisoner was labelled a psycho enthusiastic epitbets as: "These are all good solitary material'; "This man is unlikely to be released from prison ever': "This one will be a These files had been completed by warcis. ne army usod an armoured cur to secure the files held in the administration block.
The Home Office did institule wier, its own Chief Inspector of This investigations alone and in sec were threarened with disciplinary measures for any "unwarrinted allegations' against prison offic erS. Hardly surprisingly, most prisoners refused to co-operare.
With the announcement of the PROP Tribunal, ibe ment promptly decided that the Fowler repart will be published If is expected to say that the Hull regime is too soft" and place responsibility for the riot on two 'subversive" prisoners INQUIRY The report of the public tribunal, which was chalred by Joh Platts-Mills QC included Perer Chappel George Davis Campaign', poles On the Home Office's sole mes ponse to the prison crials:
'It seeks to contain the press ures by a policy of isolating those bour their conditions, nod by widesprend and growing administration of drugs in order to ed prisons into a state of numb115%.
The PROP inquiry calls for a full public inquiry into the Hall riot, with a suspension of all the sentences inposed on prisoners as a result of it. And the demand is pur forward for an end to the secrecy which seals the prison system behind a wall of silencea silence which is only broken when prisoners take to the roof as a desperately bravi solidaricy and agony. They are demands which no socialist can ignore
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