Search results matching tags 'MAPPA' and 'prison conditions'

How can a Litigant in Person get Fair Trials while in Prison on Remand?

SabineKMcNeill — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:39:00 GMT

Is it the UK, Wales or South Wales in particular, where prisons are medieval and prisoners on remand are treated as if they were criminals?

Is it each prison Governor or the Cardiff one in particular who order that Maurice's Court Judgements are being opened and read before he gets them?

Whose orders are Prison Staff following, when they

refuse Maurice photocopying documents?
refuse Maurice sending letters as 'recorded delivery' - even though he put money
take him to a court with 30 minutes warning - without indication of which court and which case?

Whose orders are Court Staff following, when they

refuse a duty solicitor
legal papers,
pen and paper, and, above all, READING GLASSES?

Maurice believes that the IPCC England is his only hope for anything vaguely to do with fairness and justice. But then he's been called off the phone after barely 2 minutes...

Meanwhile, his hunger continues strike because

he's been refused the right to apply for bail
he's been refused proper independent psychiatric assessment and brain scan to cancel the current ruling that he cannot cross-examine prosecution witnesses
after all, the "remand warrant" says he's got "mental health issues" and Tottenham Police tried to section him using "the doctor's" false statement from over two years ago.

Nobody I spoke to in Germany believes me. And I am still trying to find rational explanations for this kind of absolutely irrational behaviour of civil servants in public authorities working in "the public interest"!...

Here's his latest phone call.

Next Court Case: Cardiff Magistrates Court, Thursday 12th April

SabineKMcNeill — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:09:00 GMT

If I don't have a brain tumour, they lose...

There is a recording of Maurice's latest phone call on this link [09:48 minutes]

The gist is:

the Welsh Authorities cannot allow Maurice to win
for they want their own jurisdiction.
Whoever can come to court, please go and see Maurice!

Besides this phone call, here's a letter from him:

MAURICE KIRK HMP CARDIFF 30/3/2012

HUNGER STRIKE

1} False Psychiatric Reports

Ever since last September when Tottenham police relied on South Wales police forensic evidence to successfully have me sectioned under the 1983 Mental Health Act, I have been refused access to any Crown court for a bail application.

2} False Magistrate Records

Cardiff's Crown Prosecution Service refuses to disclose its purported preparation of a so-called "Restraining Order" the "Breaching" of which they all say is why I am to be incarcerated. My "Remand Warrant" reads "Mental Health issues" while the "Legal Manager" writes: "Notes taken during the course of proceedings are for the use of the court only"!

3} Police control Prison

I have my already ridiculously restricted access to a telephone further curtailed by my McKenzie Friends pin numbers removed, blocked access to writing checques or further photocopying.

4} Brain scan refused

Despite last weeks High Court order in England that I should receive proper independent attention I am refused.

5} Repainted "Machine Gun" to fool a jury

Police ignore IPCC instructions to properly investigate.

6} Ministry of Justice Investigation

Its 8 March 2012 letter extract:
"Complaints are considered and responded to in {?} stages entirely within establishments"
My account for why my applications in writing have been completely ignored should it embarrass those who wish to continue their battle in autonomy.

M. Kirk

Enough is enough: Maurice refuses prison food as long as he can't telephone and photocopy

SabineKMcNeill — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:08:00 GMT

Maurice writes: "no bail applications allowed to be heard by Crown Courts (even by Bristol Crown Court on 26th March) since 21st Sept 2011, when (he was) held in the Tottenham Police Station jail. Refused any phone out or photocopying."

What is it with HMP establishments? Why are German prisoners on remand treated as if they were innocent and are generally even in different establishments from convicted prisoners? Obviously, staff would treat them differently and different procedures would be in place.

Innocent until proven guilty - why does that not apply to those 200 people who are being sent to prison by family courts - in complete privacy and secrecy? No wonder that victims in the UK put their hopes on the EU. But if they get successful, they get victimised by the UK Authorities, as we know from a number of people.

Why are Maurice and the Musas being treated as if they were convicted and can't possibly be pursuing their legal proceedings, let alone be successful with them? Is that 'justice', fairness and equality of arms???

Who tells the Governors? Who knows who benefits from such Draconian treatment? Who orders it?

And Ministers believe in a plan for growth and want to promote UK legal services abroad...

I have only one explanation: young boys are sent far too early to boarding schools. Their emotional security gets so shattered that they have to compensate for major withdrawal symptoms... There are only very few boarding schools in Germany.

MAPPA or NOT MAPPA - is that the Question?

SabineKMcNeill — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:13:00 GMT

MAPPA stands for Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangement. It is being applied to the 5% of the most dangerous criminals in the country.

Being registered as MAPPA means that prisons can co-operate with Police, NHS and other agencies more freely than otherwise. Meetings take place, minutes are being taken, reports are being written. In theory, prisoners are to be informed of their special treatment. In practice, it seems to mean controlling 'political' prisoners.

For from the two cases I know of, Maurice Kirk and Joseph Chiwar Musa, MAPPA is being used to ensure that "everybody knows" - except the prisoner.

Why should s/he know how they are being administered / processed? Who cares about prisoners anyway? Why should "justice" be administered to people who defend themselves, so that lawyers can't make a living out of them? Is this the essence of the adversarial system? Or have things only become that badly, because the whole financial system has become so bad? Wikipedia writes that "justice is done when the most effective adversary is able to convince the judge or jury"...

I have this image of a clothes wringer that is being used to 'squeeze' people and wring their lifeblood, their finances and possibly even their fighting spirit out of them. Meanwhile, lawyers and courts are making their living by turning the handles...

Maurice received this letter about not getting 'disclosure' of MAPPA records. First no medical records. Then no MAPPA records. Then "this evidence must not leave the prison". Next week I'll be visiting a prison in Berlin so that I can compare notes...

What's the point of Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts, one wonders?

What's the point of writing about prisoners, if they don't know what is written about them?

What's the difference to those 'expert witnesses' who have never even seen their patients?

I just wish I knew why the Ministry of Justice believes its services are such that they deserve being exported...

Forgive me for applying my Germanic sense of scrutiny and Slavic sense of passion on behalf of prisoners whom I consider seriously badly treated. But there must have been a reason why my mum saved me from the British bombs in Dresden...