Locking up a 77-year-old climate protester is proof of a broken justice system

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My aunt Gaie, 77, was released from prison on licence, but has been recalled because Serco cannot find a tag that will fit her arm. Surely this is unfair @JamesTCobbler? And not a good use of prison. Gross evidence of how the prisons system fails women in particular. @MoJGovUK

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Thank goodness for @carla_denyer shedding some common sense here. A waste of public money, as well as a terrible injustice, to lock up my 77 year old aunt for her advocacy of Labour's policy, to ban new licences for oil exploration in the North Sea https://t.co/B0ljybBSXG

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She is starting her 7th night in prison tonight. Please keep her in your thoughts, and write to your MP if you think environmental protest shouldn't be filling our prisons

James Riley, threw rocks & bricks at Southport police, jailed for precisely the same time as my auntie in her late 70s, jailed for peacefully insisting it's time to stop burning oil. How is that ok? Prison is not the answer for either. But peaceful protest is precious.

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Please think of her as you enjoy your summer holidays, your own beds, or the company of your families. And join the fight to keep the right to protest

Starting her 20 month prison sentence, my aunt in her late 70s. Her sentence matches those given to people possessing knives, sex assaults, affray. She simply protested our ecocidal energy policies. We literally subsidise the fossil fuels that are killing our future.