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Joe Simpson, POA assistant general secretary, addresses Socialism 2011, photo Senan
16 May 2012
Why prison officers joined the protests
Interview: On 10 May, members of the POA prison workers' union took part in protest meetings outside prisons against pension cuts. POA assistant general secretary Joe Simpson speaks about the action.
7 September 2011
The riots, Clarke and the "broken penal system"
Glyn Travis and Joe Simpson, assistant secretaries of the prison workers’ union POA set out some of the key issues in prisons following the riots
Photo Paul Mattsson
31 August 2011
What we think: The government has resorted to the traditional Tory stance of the mailed fist in the aftermath of the riots. If it can get away with it, the ConDem government will add to the panoply of anti-democratic, semi-dictatorial measures already in place.
Joe Simpson
6 July 2011
Fighting pension cuts and the anti-union laws
Interview with Joe Simpson, POA assistant secretary. An important part of the action on 30 June was the well-attended lunchtime protest meetings held outside many prisons by the POA...
Joe Simpson, POA
31 March 2011
Prison officers fight prison privatisation: Interview with POA assistant secretary, Joe Simpson
Interview with POA assistant secretary, Joe Simpson The Con-Dems have sold Birmingham prison to private security firm G4S. This is the first existing public sector prison to be contracted out. An edited version of this article appeared in The Socialist.
7 July 2010
Interview: Ken Clarke's prison plans
Genuine reform or further hypocrisy?: On 30 June Ken Clarke, the new justice secretary, made a speech addressing the problems of a soaring prison population...
14 April 2010
20 years ago: the Strangeways prison riot
On 1 April it was 20 years since the start of the Strangeways prison 'riot'. The riot was a protest by prisoners against their appalling conditions. They initially barricaded themselves in the prison...
Brian Caton, photo Suzanne Beishon
16 September 2009
Interview with POA leader Brian Caton
Brian Caton, Prison Officers Association (POA) general secretary recently decided to join the Socialist Party, after being a member of the Labour Party for many years. He spoke to Socialist Party industrial organiser Bill Mullins:
"I come from a family of nine. I was brought up in Barnsley, my Dad worked as a collier. I was always a rebel at school..."
13 September 2007
Overcrowded prisons, overworked staff
BRITAIN'S PRISON officers held their first-ever national strike, mainly on pay, in August... By Iain Dalton
1 February 2007
HOME SECRETARY John Reid is under great pressure from the media and MPs after several well-publicised crises and humiliations about his department's work in law enforcement...
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