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Record W3159318794 · doi:10.18192/jpp.v20i2.5152

Prisoner Solidarity in the UK

2011· article· en· W3159318794 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Brighton Anarchist Black Cross

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Prisoners on Prisons · 2011
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSolidarityPolitical scienceCriminologySociologyLaw

Abstract

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&2 0-*%"2*49 */ 4)& $%&" !$%& $"%% W e are Bristol Anarchist Black Cross (Bristol ABC) prisoner support group, from southwest England.We are part of a loosely connected international network 1 in which groups organize autonomously, with their own priorities and local interests.The primary concern of Bristol ABC is prisoner solidarity from an anti-prison and anti-state perspective -we are ideologically opposed to the incarceration and control of humans by an all-powerful state and government that acts primarily in the interests of the ruling class.A social prisoner and prison resister (name withheld), locked up for over 30 years, has this to say on the role of prisoner support: "The most important advantage of real prisoner support is that it assists prisoners in struggle to transcend their isolation and captivity and defeat one of the most central functions of prison -to isolate and dis-empower those held captive".The history of the ABC can be traced back to 1872 when political prisoners and their families inside Tsarist Russia were in need of support.In 1905-1906 this support spread internationally when many political agitators fl ed Russia into exile in Europe and North America. 2 This activity has continued ever since wherever ABC groups have existed, providing support for both local and international political prisoners, primarily anarchists, because if we did not look after our own nobody else would.ABC groups in the UK have diversifi ed or branched out from supporting only anarchist prisoners over the last 30 years, however, for three main reasons.Firstly, there have been few anarchist prisoners in the UK.Secondly, there have been a number of other political prisoners in need of support, including Irish Republicans, peace activists, animal rights campaigners, and (particularly in the 1980s) workers engaged in prolonged and bitter industrial disputes.Thirdly, there is a growing awareness that social prisoners who have fought back against the repression of the prison system are part of the larger anti-state struggle. 3 From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the UK witnessed a high number of prison revolts and disturbances, provoked by inhumane conditions as well as a petty and oppressive prison regime, culminating in the Strangeways (HMP Manchester) uprising of April 1990 and simultaneous disturbances in at least 15 other prisons. 4 Since then revolts have declined, partly because of the internal redesign of prisons isolating prisoners from one another, and also due to changes in prison management procedures alongside schemes designed to control prisoner behaviours through incentives and punishments.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.238
Threshold uncertainty score0.594

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.063
GPT teacher head0.334
Teacher spread0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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