Killed by Britain's Prison's in 2004 ................Tina Bromley, 37, died HMP Edmunds Hill 4 January.........Harold Shipman, 57, died HMP Wakefield 13 January..........April Sherman, 27, died HMP Edmunds Hill 13 Jan.........Phillip Taylor, 32, died HMP Blakenhurst 14 January.........Philip Rustell, 19, died HMP Reading 17 January.........James Skelly, 18, died HMYOI Portland 17 January..........Craig Roach, 28, died HMP Exeter 18 January.........Vincent Palmer, 37 , died HMP Woodhill 22 January.........Kevin Murby, 47, died HMP Nottingham 23 January...........Stephen Chamber, 31, died HMP Preston 26 January..........Paul Pitts, 29, died HMP Stafford 2 February.........Terry Sawford, 23, died HMP Nottingham 4 February.........Ricky Sears, 42, died HMP Wandsworth 07 February.........Vincent Morgan, 42 , died HMP Gloucester 10 Feb.........Thomas Burns, 24 , died HMP Gloucester 15 February.........Daniel Tull, 56 , died HMP Ramby 16 February...........Sajjad Hussain, 20 , died HMYOI Lancaster Farms Feb...........Ian Deans, 35 , died HMP Holme House 20 February..........Fausal Zahid, 27, died HMP Canterbury 21 February..........Steve Martin, 47, died HMP Belmarsh 24 February...........Anthony Richards, 37, died HMP Gloucester 28 Feb..........Anwar Islam, 36, died HMP Long Lartin 28 February.........Brian Carter, 34, died HMP Shrewsbury 4 March...........Christopher Ollerenshaw, 22, HMP Leicester March...........Stanley Denyer, 47, died HMP Lewes 8 March..........Kingsley Llewellyn, 29, died HMP Norwich 14 March.........Brendon Smith, 28, died HMP Wymott 23 March.........Abidemi Folarin, 35, died HMP Brixton 25 March..........Shaun Brown, 34, died HMP Preston 27 March.........Sheena Kotecha, 22, died HMP Brockhill 3 April.........Stephen Lloyd, 25, died HMP Frankland 15 April.........Michael Minishull, 45, died HMP Liverpool 16 April..........Julie Hope, 35, died HMP Holloway 17 April.........Louise Davis, 32, died HMP New Hall 18 April.........Paige Tapp, 23, died HMP Send 18 April...........Gareth Myatt, 15, died while be restrained by three prison officers, Rainsbrook Child Prison, 19 April..........Lawrence Mellon, 43, died HMP Woodhill 28 April...........Sharon Miller, 45, died HMP Durham 8 May..........William Butterfield, 61, died HMP Shrewsbury 8 May.........Heather Wait, 28, died HMP Holloway 8 May..........Steven Green, 35, died HMP Leicester 15 May.........Spencer Smith, 30, died HMP Blakenhurst 18 May..........Nicholas Bailey, 59, died HMP Lewes 19 May...........William Hunter, 25, died HMP Durham 24 May..........David Harpe, 39, died HMP Lincoln 25 May.........Rebecca Smith, 40, died HMP Buckley Hall 1 June...........Mark Fulton, died Maghaberry Prison, 10 June..........Carl Baker, 36, died HMP Nottingham 11 June..........Stuart Horgan, 39, died HMP Woodhill 20 June...........Andrew Williams, 29, died HMP Manchester 21 June...........Andrew Elliott, 43, died HMP Manchester 23 June..........Paul Bartropp, 36, died HMP Pentonville 25 June..........Richard Webb, 33, died HMP Manchester 3 July...........Lyton Setterfield, 36, died HMP Highdown 7 July...........Edward Orr, 46, died HMP Liverpool 26 July.........Rebecca Turner, 22, HMP Low Newton 28 July...........Stephen Ram, 28, died HMP Blakenhurst 28 July.........Marie Walsh, 29, HMP New Hall 29 July..........Jason Cressey, 29, died HMP Wormwood 7 August.........Jamie Leigh, 27, died HMP Birmingham 8 August..........Jason Alldis, 33, died HMP Elmley 8 August.........Adam Rickwood, 14, Hassockfield Child Prison 9 August...........Brendan Flynn, 28, died HMP Wakefield 11 August...........Michael Briggs, 41, died HMP Leeds 12 August..........Robert Finch, 45, died HMP Exeter 14 August...........Lee Nottingham, 30, died HMP Shrewsbury 19 August...........Stephen Badaj, 39, died HMP Dartmoor 23 August.............Benjamin Gibson, 19, died HMP Norwich 25 August...........Steven Hush, 44, died HMP Acklington 26 August.............Richard Carter, 33, died HMP Leeds 26 August............Abdul Omar, 28, died HMP Wormwood Scrubs, August.............Stephen Woods, 23, died HMP Bullingdon 28 August...........Phillip Parvin, 30, died HMP Shrewsbury 31 August...........Mark Keeling, 31, died HMP Shrewsbury 1 September.............Shaun Hazelhurst, 28, died HMP Manchester 4 Sept...........Patrick Kilty, 32, died HMP Manchester 04 September.............Kenneth Morris, 50, died HMP Acklington 17 Sept............Anthony Dunne, 19, died HMP/YOI Rochester Sept.............Raymond Goodwin, 44, died HMP Norwich 27 Sept...........hah Rahman, 23, died HMP Brixton 28 September............Raymond Horrocks, 24, died HMP Wakefield 29 Sept.........John Baxter, 25, HMP Hull 3 October.........Stephen Davis, 49, HMP Pentonville 10 October.........David Hull, 32, died HMP Kingston 12 October...........Mandy Pearson, 37, died HMP Newhall 12 October.........Damien McCrae, 26, died HMP Manchester 13 October...........Mairi Taylor, 20, Cornton vale Prison, 13 October .........Katherine Jones, 19, HMP Brockhill 15 October.........John Manana, 24, died HMP Leicester 15 October...........Andrew Mackintosh, 49 Aberdeen Prison, 18th October...........Andrew Maguire, 34, died HMP Durham 21 October...........Paul Calvert, 40, HMP Pentonville 24 October..........Jason Thompson, 26, died HMYOI Werrington 1 Nov.........Michael Arthurs, died Peterhead Prison, 14 November ...........Daniel Sawford, 22, died HMP Lincoln 16 November.........Roman Piho, 33, died HMP Wormwood Scrubs 23 Nov.........Robert Robertson, died Barlinnie 12 December.........Name Withheld, 49, died Maghaberry Prison 12 December.........Mark Franks, 31, died HMP Liverpool 13 December...........Derek Crook, died Castle Huntly Prison

A Prison Visit

The Government and Penal Reform Charities claim the Prison service works hard to help prisoners maintain links with family and friends. It is they claim evidence of how prison works to achieve successful rehabilitation.

Elizabeth, a regular visitor to a prisoner, describes how she was treated. Sadly her experience is not uncommon.

I'm 52 years old. I have been an almost weekly visitor to the same private prison in the UK for nearly 3 years.In November 2006 I alighted from a public service bus with 2 other ladies and were subjected to having all my personal data collated by police officers in the prison car park . My bags were rummaged by 2 police officers. Nothing was found. We then lined up in the middle of the car park and had our already rummaged bags sniffed by a drug dog, as well as our persons. Nothing to report likewise.

We then went into the prison visitor's centre, and after checking in I was further questioned by police as to how tall I am. I am very petite, but have no accurate idea. Two police officers deliberated and came up with 'my height' measurements. My bags were already in a locker. The police officer ordered my bags to be removed and the entire contents, including reserve sanitary pad was screened in public gaze of prison visitor's centre snug against the communal lockers. I was then told that they needed to investigate me further, and was taken off to the prison staff toilet and a strip search was performed. I had no pockets to turn out, there were no reasonable grounds to by-pass the primary procedures of asking me whether I had any 'unauthorised articles' which I had not. They did not offer me a pat down. They did not electro scan me. They did not provide me with a F2141 consent form to read and sign so as to offer consent to the search. (see Wainwright v United Kingdom). No record of the search incident was offered to me at time of strip search nor after.

Apparrently flawed intellegence had been given to the police by the prison. This was linked to a misunderstanding 6 months ago, and cleared up, at that time, by the Governor of the prison. His letter to me was dated May 2006 accepting my honest explanation, and wishing me very positive visits at the prison. Six months later this is what they did to me. I was strip searched by a police woman whilst trying to explain that the matter had been the focus of correspondence between the Governor and myself. I mentioned his name. The police woman asked who Mr. X was whilst I was wearing no lower underwear. I was then allowed to go for a 'normal' visit. Nothing was on my person to find.

I found out my rights after the trauma. I found the case of Mrs Wainwright who was subjected to a strip search and given the consent form after her ordeal. I wasn't given the consent form before of after by prison, nor a record of the outcome of my strip search by police at time of incident.

They control the information and use our ignorance as a weapon to manipulate us into 'consenting' or we are 'expelled from the prison'. It was a choice of having no choice. Being obligated to comply or forego a visit to a low category prisoner, no drug history, and does not smoke. I have no history of drugs, never even seen drugs! No history of violence either! Please ensure you are aware of your rights as protection if you are obligated to be marched off to the prison staff toilet and strip as I was.

Has anyone else been degraded in this way without being told why it is happening, and the object of the strip search?

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