Steve Tombs

Between 2018-2024, 59 people died in women’s prisons in England & Wales. 39% of these deaths were self-inflicted. In the next four years, self-inflicted deaths across all prisons in England and Wales are expected to rise by 21%. @inquest-org.bsky.social
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Women who died in prison could still be alive today if the government had listened to calls from campaigners and years of evidence to end the imprisonment of women. Instead, government prioritised tweaks to women’s prisons that have failed to prevent deaths and harm.

@inquest-org.bsky.social today launches 'Built to harm: how women’s prisons take lives', a major new report exposing how reform has failed to stop preventable deaths in women’s prisons.
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Experience 'Preventable' - an immersive, multi-media installation exploring state violence, death, grief & resistance via archive material, testimony, sound & sculpture
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Rome, Turin, Milan, Genoa and other Italian cities - in solideriata, en solidaridad, en solidarite, in solidarity

I would like to see everyone in the press corps talk this way, make him look fully as dumb as he is, and every time he's mentioned in the news they play a clip of his unhinged reaction

Cheers Chris and to all others who attended/participated on a wet Wednesday night. Change is possible! @inquest-org.bsky.social @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social @livunislsj.bsky.social

The important work of holding the state to account as outlined by @stevetombs.bsky.social and shown in the film “The UK is not Innocent” @inquest-org.bsky.social

INQUEST INQUEST

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"Our dreams of a better tomorrow may
be similar to yours. We hope you will
see us not as strangers, but as new
neighbours who want to live in peace
and grow together with you."
@refugeeaction.bsky.social

Oops, thanks Janet!
Go to link below and the text can be downloaded about halfway down the page:
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This dignified, insightful &
moving statement from the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group should be read by politicians at all levels, widely published across various media, and on the national curriculum

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DRC's mangroves park damaged by logging, smuggling and violence Kim Rebholz tried to end illegal logging, smuggling and pollution in DRC's mangroves park, one of the world's most important forests

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Prison deaths hit highest 12-month total this century, figures show There were 411 deaths recorded in the year to September, the highest in a 12-month period since 2000.

Prison deaths hit highest 12-month total this century: 411 in E&W in the year to Sept.
Jess Pandian @inquest-org.bsky.social said "These figures demonstrate the inherently destructive nature of prisons ... We must break this vicious cycle of violence."

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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state

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@ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening: The UK is Not Innocent. INQUEST's response to state-related deaths
Refreshments from 5pm, talks & screening 5.30-7.30, followed by social with space for discussion & solidarity.
Free, but registration needed

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CCSE Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An INQUEST Documentary and Q&A Join us for a screening of The UK Is Not Innocent, a powerful documentary about INQUEST's grassroots history and deaths involving the state

Please repost @ccse-ljmu.bsky.social Film Screening "The UK Is Not Innocent" An @inquest-org.bsky.social Documentary and Q&A, 80-98 Mt. Pleasant, Liverpool, 26 Nov., 5-8pm (event starts at 5.30). Free to enter but registration required @bjcsolicitors.bsky.social

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Bereaved families lead Annual Memorial Remembrance Procession to Downing Street demanding justice for loved ones who have died in state custody - Sat 25 Oct, 2025, 12pm, Trafalgar Square @inquest-org.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social

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@dmachover.bsky.social "It appears that the only voices that count are those of police officers who seem unable to accept the need to be held fully accountable for their use of force.”
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@debcoles13.bsky.social “These new measures undermine the rule of law & the way it applies to police officers, increasing impunity & injustice. All the evidence shows that what is needed is exactly the opposite"
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Headlines in 16 months from East Belfast. Each describing white supremacist far right attacks on people and homes.

Paramilitary backed far-right, white supremacist violence, intimidation and pogroms in East Belfast have impacted thousands with no political attention or strategy to end it. Only silence and the handing down of impunity.

Who does the state protect?

The cross-over of climate change lowering water levels, + pollution. If you've already got phosphate, ammonia or other chemical pollution in the water, they become even more concentrated as water levels decrease. Oxygen low, ammonia high is a really desperate situation for fish.

How Technologies Harm How Technologies Harm - A Relational Approach; With the increasing influence of digital technologies on society, this timely book examines the ways modern technologies can adversely influence human…

'Compelling, thought-provoking and beautifully written, "How Technologies Harm" is a must-read for anyone who, across disciplines, has an interest in the technology-harm nexus.' - Anita Lavorgna, University of Bologna