Despite the Parole Board recently recommending that John Bowden be moved back to an open prison, the Scottish Prison Service has transferred him to Shotts, the most secure prison in the country. This is a blatant punishment move, one of hundreds John Bowden has undergone since he was imprisoned in 1978 – YES 1978!
By ‘coincidence’ the governor of Shotts, Ian Whitehead, was previously governor of Castle Huntley open jail, where John Bowden (and the Anarchist Black Cross) was the victim of an orchestrated campaign of lies in which an American psychologist, Matt Stillman, smeared the ABC as a “terrorist organisation” with which John was in contact.
After a robust campaign led by Leeds ABC, and by John himself of course, the Scottish Prison Service were forced to climb down, and Stillman’s career was ruined. John has never been forgiven for having the courage and integrity to stand his ground, and the SPS have not forgotten how they were humiliated.
Picket of the Scottish Parliament organised by Leeds ABC
Once again, we ask comrades to help shine an international spotlight on SPS abuse, and to support John in his long battle for freedom.
Please send letters of support to John at the following address:
John Bowden
6729
HMP Shotts
Cantrell Road
Shotts
Scotland
ML7 4LE
And letters of protest to:
Ian Whitehead
Governor
HMP Shotts
Cantrell Road
Shotts
Scotland
ML7 4LE
Scottish Prison Service HQ
Calton House
5 Redheughs Rigg
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH12 9HW
The Parole Board
Grenadier House
99-105 Horseferry Road
London
SW1P 2DD
England
By ‘coincidence’ the governor of Shotts, Ian Whitehead, was previously governor of Castle Huntley open jail, where John Bowden (and the Anarchist Black Cross) was the victim of an orchestrated campaign of lies in which an American psychologist, Matt Stillman, smeared the ABC as a “terrorist organisation” with which John was in contact.
After a robust campaign led by Leeds ABC, and by John himself of course, the Scottish Prison Service were forced to climb down, and Stillman’s career was ruined. John has never been forgiven for having the courage and integrity to stand his ground, and the SPS have not forgotten how they were humiliated.
Picket of the Scottish Parliament organised by Leeds ABC
Once again, we ask comrades to help shine an international spotlight on SPS abuse, and to support John in his long battle for freedom.
Please send letters of support to John at the following address:
John Bowden
6729
HMP Shotts
Cantrell Road
Shotts
Scotland
ML7 4LE
And letters of protest to:
Ian Whitehead
Governor
HMP Shotts
Cantrell Road
Shotts
Scotland
ML7 4LE
Scottish Prison Service HQ
Calton House
5 Redheughs Rigg
Edinburgh
Scotland
EH12 9HW
The Parole Board
Grenadier House
99-105 Horseferry Road
London
SW1P 2DD
England
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22.08.2011 12:17
anon
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22.08.2011 12:29
John Bowden killed someone (a convicted sex offender as it turned out) in a stupid drunken row over a game of cards, after he'd had a knife pulled on him. His co-defendants were released decades ago. What he was sent to prison for is irrelevent to his current treatment.
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Re: John Bowden - new threat to his eventual release
22.08.2011 15:05
George Coombs