A 77-year-old activist is facing recall to prison because her wrists are too small for an electronic tag.
Gaie Delap, from Bristol, was sent to prison in August, along with four co-defendants, for her part in a campaign of disruptive protests on the M25 in November 2022.
Several months after she was jailed for the Just Stop Oil protests, she was let out after being told she qualified to serve the rest of her sentence under a home detention curfew.
But the company contracted to fit the tag to Delap was unable to attach one to her ankle because of a health condition, and there are no devices available small enough to fit wrists her size.
Now there is a warrant for her arrest after the company contacted the prison authorities to tell them she “could not be monitored”.
Man Just Stop Oil got exactly the headline they wanted.
The only way it could be better is if it read:77 year old frail woman and friends to be sent to prison for being scared of all future generations dying from climate change
This is a disproportionate crackdown on climate protesters. It’s clear that Gaie poses no threat to her fellow citizens.”
Except she is a threat to the Parasite Class and a potential disruption to their obscene profit margins. Ergo, she is a top concern for law enforcement.
Remember - the police do not protect people. The protect property.
Cut another fucking hole in the strap, this isn’t rocket surgery.
This is total bullshit of course, but fyi those straps have wires run through them to alarm on tampering, it’s not like a wristwatch.
Source: was a total nerd in high school and had an extremely cute friend ask me if it was possible to circumvent…as an engineering challenge of course.
That’s a fair point! But I can’t imagine that these things are impossible to take apart, if only for the sake of maintenance. Like, I wouldn’t expect them to do it on site, but somewhere up the line someone has to be capable of modifying it to fit.
Just call the US. I’m sure we have some kid sized prison equipment.
If we dont have it yet, Elon can build it.
I’m sure we have some kid sized prison equipment.
They could always borrow some from China.
There’s dystopian, then there’s whatever this bullshit is.
Kaufkaesque
All those murdering oil barons go free. Yes, climate, air, water, soil.
The trial run of the New York solution is going well so far
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Seems like oil execs get whatever they want from the justice system.
I heard during the pandemic there was a shortage of ankle monitors, so you were required to keep your phone on you and they’d randomly video call you a couple times a day to verify you were at home.
Don’t they norm have ankle monitors? Even if your ankle is small your food should be big enough to stop it from coming off?
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