Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/07/just-stop-oil-activist-gaie-delap-facing-jail-recall-as-wrists-too-small-for-electronic-tag
Posted by IsWasMaybeAMefi
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Wasting tax payer money on a granny in prison, smh. Get her out of prison ffs
This thread shows the repressed sadism and cruelty of the authoritarian “I’m alright, Jack” contingent. If they’re getting away with this sort of treatment for people you dislike, they will find it much easier to use it on you and yours.
I can see both sides to this. On the one hand, if they can’t use a tag there’s not really anything else they can do about that. On the other hand, I don’t like the idea of someone going to custody solely because they have small wrists and medical problems – where someone who committed the same crime and didn’t have these issues would not.
Hopefully there’ll be a third option they can try for the tag. The article mentions there had been an alternative arrangement made before, and it’s unclear why it’s not been offered this time (although there may be a good reason).
With that said, I do question the article a bit. Obviously her family are going to be extremely biased on her side, and they paint her as a very frail, elderly woman – who nonetheless apparently managed to have climbed the gantries on the M25 as part of her JSO protests.
When two girks were in the halfway house next door to me their Barlinnie bangles were ankle tags – why not use one of those?
Why is she getting jail time when pedophiles, rapists and violent murders get away with it.
The same issue with tagging arose when she was on bail and a “doorstep curfew” was agreed from 7pm to 7am, with random checks incorporated. This alternative has not been offered this time.
Seems like it would be a cheaper more sensible option.
I mean, this is dumb, there should be wrist tags that fit all adults (and probably kids too, don’t you need tags to monitor some juvenile parole conditions too?).
But, really?
> She could not wear an ankle tag because she was at risk of deep-vein thrombosis.
That sounds like either H+S gone mad on the part of the contractor, or an excuse she came up with to not actually be tagged and tracked. Having an ankle tag isn’t going to give you DVT. She didn’t seem to be worried about that when she was climbing up motorway gantries.
The simple answer here is just to wear an ankle tag.
So peoples sentences are being decided by the size of their wrists? How hard can it be to make a range of tags that fit everyone?
I wanna make her a tea and some busicits FFS what is wrong with starmer go after some real villains
In future years these heros will have their ‘crimes’ rescinded.
She’s 77. I am a strong law and order type, but fuck me if this is not a waste of government resources. Let her go with a slap on the wrist, maybe not a literal slap on the wrist poor old dear might get hurt.
I don’t understand how this isn’t direct discrimination (she can’t have the ankle tag due to a medical condition) or indirect discrimination (older women will be much more likely to have tiny wrists)
Surely there has to be a way to solve this other than her going back into prison? It doesn’t feel right that if she had bigger wrists she’d get more freedom again
BS tbh, they should find a way to accommodate her not throw her back to jail just because someone cheaped out when commissioning monitoring devices. Just annoys me because while we’ve got this going on plenty of actually violent criminals who are a danger to the public are getting suspended sentences. Surely when it comes to limited spaces, which we struggle with, they should use a bit of common sense for who gets to spend time inside?
Also,
> The terms of Delap’s curfew prevent her speaking directly to the media
That’s a little dystopian.
That’s outrageous. If they simply ran out of devices or had a system failure would everyone out on a tag be recalled?
I don’t understand how modifying a tag for a smaller wrist is such an issue. Seems like a cop out
Thats the governments problem.. not hers… dont put her back in jail… for the incompetence that leads to not having the ability to put monitors on people with small limbs.
Can we treat the race rioters this harshly too please? Also all the Tory politicians that committed treason by giving away dodgy contracts
“The terms of Delap’s curfew prevent her speaking directly to the media” I’m sorry what the fuck is that? Even people in prison are allowed to speak to the media because we don’t live in Soviet Russia
Jail recall bc you can’t be arsed manufacturing smaller tags lol
If she was a guy GB News and the like would eat this up – softy environmentalist with small wrists. In fact, I’d be surprised if they or at least their American counterparts don’t still run jokes about “an environmentalist protestor in Britain had such small wrists they couldn’t fit a tag on them”.
Electronic tags usually go on the ankle not on the wrist.