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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I’m talking with someone in prison in Texas who tells me the prison is shipping people out b/c the town is complaining the prison uses 70% of the water. There is a link between generative justice and regenerative use of our worlds resources & not wasting lives or resources @fergusmcneill.bsky.social

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Delighted to have contributed to this with a brilliant @justicematters.bsky.social network of awesome people working in and around problem solving courts globally.

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prisonservicejourn.bsky.social @prisonservicejourn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

New edition 278 of Prison Service Journal available now! This is a special edition focusing on developments in youth justice across Europe. 🔗 www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/prison-service-journal-278 #prisonservice #prisonservicejournal #psj #youthjustice #europeanyouthjustice #europe #openaccess

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Looking forward to listening while I cook I the tea tonight! Can’t wait!

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Colorado Radio for Justice @radioforjustice.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Here’s what’s on the air this week, starting May 12th, on Colorado Radio for Justice - from hard-hitting conversations to reentry resources to music shows across genres. If you’re wondering, “how do I listen?”, Check out www.radioforjustice.org!

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Very much looking forward to walking towards new horizons with a bunch of brilliant people on Saturday 10th May - if you like a gander in the hills & believe in futures that are different to true past including for those who have spent time in prison, join us! #lakedistrict #JoanWearmouthWalk25

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The fact the police here have uniforms that say ‘secret service’ in big letters does not, it would appear, amuse them as much as it has amused me.

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Delighted to be working with the Organisation of American States in Washington DC to think about how to understand and reliably measures experiences of people convicted of drug trafficking pre and post prison. What a great group of people working here together!

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I always said for this Pope I’d turn catholic. What a loss.

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Watch this and tune in! Be an early adopter! This radio station for people leaving prison in Colorado is going to shape the face of justice for good - so excited for the launch of this work & its role in @prisonradiointl.bsky.social

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Brilliant to see the amazing work of prisoners and victims of crime in Argentina who set up this self governed cooperative in a prison highlighted in the UK press: www.thenews.coop/co-operation...

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Co-operation beyond bars: How incarcerated people are finding purpose

Argentinian prison co-op Liberté began in 2014 as a small group of prisoners making and selling handcrafted clocks

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Shona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"When women are imprisoned their motherhood is expected to be set aside, as if it's a coat that can be taken off & hung on a hook... But setting motherhood aside is not like taking off a coat; it's more like peeling off your own skin." My essay for Radio 3👇 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, New Generation Thinkers 2024, Mothers on trial

Shona Minson explores the pardoxical thinking around sending mothers to prison

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/02/2025

New billboard in Clacton, Farage’s constituency. He’s still the UK’s #1 grifter. No other MP takes more from second jobs while being employed to represent their constituents in Parliament

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Today is an exciting day! I’m off to #HMPPrescoed #PrisonFarm with #sixinchesofsoil to see the work they are doing and discuss #regenerativefarming and #generativejustice - are there principles we can pull through the ways we love together that would help us to do all of our life better together?

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Quite enjoyed the sun going down on this soviet block

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Loving listening to my former student @roscasworld1410 on YouTube performing in memory of our friend & colleague #jackmerritt in Cambridge tonight #LTforever

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Celebrated human rights lawyer's hubby to make Broadway debut" Nah. That wouldn't happen. Would it.

Oxford University role announced for George Clooney wife
6th February
Education
Oxford

By Toby Oliver
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@JournoToby

A famous barrister and wife of a Hollywood film actor has been appointed as a visiting professor of a university department in Oxford.

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Jon Collins @jonbcollins.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

To add to the many, many reviews currently going on, there is now a review of the handling of prison capacity. WMS here: questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat... Terms of reference here: www.gov.uk/government/p... Dame Anne Owers is leading it.

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Colorado Radio for Justice @radioforjustice.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Ruth thank you! We're so excited to be back in action - and grateful for your support along the way.

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Amazing to see y’all on here! Can’t wait to get back to listening to your radio shows!

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A privilege to work on this with you and everyone in the room yesterday because @justicematters.bsky.social and it takes all of us and the relationships between us to make change.

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Beyond excited to receive this debut novel from #RachelBower today - thanks for the tip off @jakephillips.bsky.social can’t wait to start it!

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Centre for Justice Innovation @cjinnovation.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We're at the Weavers 'Collaboration to Change the Shape of Justice for Women' event. Great to hear our problem-solving court work being referenced by @rutharmstrong.bsky.social & @shonaminson.bsky.social in the launch of their new research: www.clinks.org/publication/... #WeaversSummit

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

‘My vulnerabilities were not palatable … so I entered a grey area. Was I a victim or a perpetrator?’ Excellent presentation from #AliyaAli CEO of #www.daddylessdaughters.co.uk

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Delighted to be presenting for over 200 delegates on behalf of the Organisation of American States with Judge Jimena Monsalve who leads problem solving courts in Argentina, talking about what the evidence on problem-solving courts for women can teach us about justice systems change.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

JUST IN: Another team of Mexican firefighters has landed in LA to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico 🇲🇽🇺🇸

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Glad to see this important paper on abolishing detention and training orders for children getting public attention through the excellent @russellwebster.com blog academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

‘Dehumanising the vulnerable is a great way to excuse yourself from helping them’ - so so true. Can’t recommend this book enough.

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Don’t go there often but I’ll go to hear you! In the diary. Lovely.

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Ridiculous use of public money. I’m currently reading ‘Poor’ - this child, and many others, should be protected through our tax money, not prosecuted.

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Received this beautiful note from a friend of mine. I shall be framing it and referring to it as my mantra in 2025.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Have you heard this good news? As of January 1, every single one Chicago's 400+ municipal buildings — including 98 fire stations, two international airports, and two of the largest water treatment plants on the planet — is running on 100% renewable energy grist.org/cities/chica...

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Chicago keeps its New Year's resolution: All city buildings now use 100% clean power

To achieve its climate goals, the city helped finance the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi River.

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Jon Collins @jonbcollins.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Interesting article in @thetimes.com about HMP Oakwood and the successes they’ve had through giving people in prison opportunities and responsibilities. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Inside the relaxed prison that’s rated the best in the country

HMP Oakwood lets its prisoners spend 11 hours a day out of their cells while they earn money and pick up new skills— and was given top marks in an inspection

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Fergus McNeill @fergusmcneill.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My German friend Jo Tein interviewed me a month or two back about all sorts of things… origins, work, books, music… youtu.be/niJrkp8wp6Q?...

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Interview: Prof. Fergus McNeill, Pervasive Punishment - Grenzenloses Bestrafen. Interviewer: Jo Tein

YouTube video by Referat24 - Division24

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

'This is no time to give up; to accept that we are doomed; to surrender to the apparent inexorability of dark forces.' My @heraldscotland column on fighting defeatism and Trump in the coming year. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

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We cannot give in to defeatism as Trump’s toxic influence poisons the global well

SO bigly has the world changed in the last eight years – so battered into submission have we been by the pandemic, conflicts, climate change and…

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Yes to each of these. And to practicing them in all areas of life in 2025.

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Prisoners' Advice Service @prisonersadvice.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Please be aware that our Advice Line will re-open as normal from tomorrow - Friday 3rd January - at 10am. #legaladvice #prisonlaw #adviceline

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I’ve just discovered this poem ‘Wait without hope’ by T.S. Eliot for the first time and it feels absolutely perfect for the end of a fairly brutal 2024 and the huge hope I’m feeling at the start of a new 2025 - a year of joy in the active waiting (delighted to just be). Love to all in 2025 x

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Lessons for criminal justice here too.

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

This is excellent - short, to the point, accurate and impactful. Here’s to a year of hope in 2025. Tx for sharing.

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Ruth Armstrong @rutharmstrong.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Post Christmas joy of returning (slowly) to work. Son still seizure free and writing thank you cards, fire on, dog relaxing and generative justice paper edits nearly complete. Joyeux Noel!

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In preparation for the official publication date of my new book Supply Chain Justice next week (December 17) I thought I should do a thread (assuming I can figure out how to do that) on what the book is about. Just in case anyone is looking for a last-minute Christmas present….

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Shona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Last year I gave the Prisons’ Week lecture at Liverpool Cathedral, on Changemakers and women’s justice. I talked about Elizabeth Fry, and hopeful uncertainty and where imagination might take us. I’ve discovered it’s on YouTube so sharing it (& my Betsy Fry obsession) m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgb...

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Liverpool 2023 Prisons Week Lecture: Dr Shona Minson – Changemakers

YouTube video by Liverpool Cathedral

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