No one should be left so unsupported that
taking their own life
seems like the
ONLY way out-
not even behind bars.
116 have signed. Let’s get to 500
We, the undersigned,
take the crisis at HMP Woodhill
as a warning.
The government's own prison watchdog has issued an Urgent Notification, its most serious warning, about HMP Woodhill - twice in three years. The prison is failing.It is not safe. Meanwhile, men in crisis wait an average of 191 days for a transfer to secure mental health care - among the longest delays inspectors have ever recorded.
This is the world the Woodhill Families have lived through. They have lost sons and brothers to self-inflicted deaths at HMP Woodhill.
We're asking those in power to back three practical changes under The Woodhill Commitments:
The governor of HMP Woodhill pledges to create a safer prison - covering better responsive action in crisis situations, improved training on suicide prevention, and better communication with next of kin.
The Minister for Prisons prioritises removing the means of self-harm - ligature points - from cells across the prison estate.
Bereaved families have a say in how deaths in custody are reviewed, including representation on the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody.
We’ve invited the governor of HMP Woodhill and the Minister for Prisons to back ‘The Woodhill Commitments’.
The Woodhill Families
are speaking out.
Add your name to help
their voices be heard.
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Andrea Coomber – [Chief Executive, The Howard League For Penal Reform]
Lee Brown – [Operations Coordinator, The Howard League For Penal Reform]
Rachel Cleverly – [Project Manager, Criminal Justice at National Literacy Trust]
Holly Brown – [HMIPS, Independent Prison Moniter]
Amber De Ruyt – [Prison Facilitator, Shannon Trust ]
Sam Rowe – [Charity Work, Arts in Prisons]
Elisabeth Sheppard-Jones – [Thames Reach Charity]
Muqaddas Sammarraie – [Lead researcher/ UNIDIR]
Manal Moukaddem – [Development, Kogia]
Paul – [Founder, Rally]
Rhiannon McKay-Smith – [Development Director]
Mohamed Ali – [Charity Worker]
Fiona Ker – [Fund Manager, Ruffer]
Frank Weijers – [Director, Playing with Space]
Yasmin Poyntz – [Community Organiser, Free we grow]
Ruth Hannant – [Counsellor]
Shazad Amin – [Medical Practitioner (Psychiatrist)]
Shazia Butt – [Therapist]
Leigh Robertson – [Team Leader, Mental Health Charity]
Colin Blackmore – [Nurse Associate]
Esme Bird – [Nursery nurse, Play therapist student]
Roxana Cole – [Dramatherapist and Theatre Director]
Anna Hillier – [Student pyschotherapist]
Charlotte – [NHS]
Sophie Wheelans – [Nurse]
Robyn Parker – [Social Worker]
Jason Shields – [PhD Researcher]
Michael Christopher Keogh – [Scientist]
Charlotte Page – [Researcher]
Elsey Richards – [Stakeholder Engagement Consultant]
Hamilton – [Chartered Accountant]
Mona Masarani – [Accountant]
Moneer Moukaddem – [Advisor, Successif]
Gwen Nuin – [Founder, Little Forest]
Marty Tait – [Royal Navy]
Ross Jordan – [Lecturer]
Minglu Wang – [Lecturer]
Linda Devo – [Artist and Teacher]
Marie Libbin – [Teacher]
Nelly Campbell – [Teacher]
Zeena Rasheed – [Teacher]
Rhian Hall – [Museum curator]
Lily Levinson – [Editor, Faber]
Nick Wright– [Company Director]
Euginia Lolomari – [Company Secretary]
Rob Mason – [Community development]
Ben Fleming – [Software Engineer, Drumgrange Ltd.]
Martin O'Connor – [Engineer]
Sofia Karim – [Architect]
Oliver Wolf – [Architect]
Philippa Skingsley – [Architect]
Carole Carpenter – [Educator]
Isabella James – [Creative Learning Coordinator]
Tash Marks – [Freelance Community Artist]
Maria Wisniewska – [Illustrator]
David Woodyer – [Building Surveyor]
Imogen Reed – [Marketing director - ADL company]
Darragh Mac Manus – [Data analyst]
Kirsten Foster – [Literary agent]
Helen Jenkins – [Economist]
Lance Woodman – [Tour Guide]
Viv Hughes – [Self-Employed]
Ned Glasier – [Theatre Director]
Niamh Parker-Whitehead – [Deputy Learning Operations Manager, National Theatre]
Maryam Noorhimli – [TheatreMaker]
Susan Betts – [Writer]
Sorcha Iinton – [Writer]
Harry Zundel – [Filmmaker]
Taghrid Choucair Vizoso – [Director, producer, and performer]
Helen Monks – [Co-Director, LUNG]
Matt Woodhead – [Co-Director, LUNG]
Natalie Crisp – [Producer, Almeida]
Kennet Tanner – [Producer]
Manya Benenson – [Programmer]
Melanie Whitehead – [Artistic Director, The Old Electric ]
Alice Grant – [Musician]
Sophie Fullerlove – [Art Consultant]
Josie Dixey Watson – [Programme Coordinator]
Jessica Morriss – [Theatre Practitioner]
Wayne Stewart – [Director]
Araminta Wraith – [Actor, Facilitator]
Zainab Hasan – [Actor, Theatre]
Polly Dennett – [Actor, Theatre]
Natasha Cowley – [Actor, Theatre]
Chloe Young – [Dancer]
Kia Jewell – [Dancer]
Annabel Fraser – [Actor]
Owen Crouch – [Sound Designer, Theatre]
Jessica Parker – [Marketing]
Merel Pikart – [Marketing]
Lisa Langton – [Administrator]
Ben McDougall – [Project Manager]
Sarah Barton – [Production, Theatre]
Sarah Kadri – [Campaigns Producer]
Rachael Brimley – [Development Manager, LUNG]
Jamie Potter – [Writer and DJ]
Folakemi Adelakun de Souza – [Jazz Vocalist and Fundraiser]
Johanna Brown – [Producer, Theatre]
Khai Ramli – [Producer, Theatre]
Martins – [Driver]
Christine Wright – [Housewife]
Vivian Turner– [Mother]
Ellie Jennings – [Student]
Amber Chao – [Student]
Frances Woodhead – [Retired solicitor]
Patricia Roberts – [Retired lecturer]
Michelle Mahon – [Retired nurse]
Roisin Clancy – [Retired]
Geoffrey Brown – [Retired]
Rachel Skingsley – [Retired]
Mary Tebbenhoff – [Retired]
Philip Monks – [Retired]
Owain Shaw
Sophie Bracken
Natalie Cleverly
Emily Tingle
Alice Hofmann
Humara Bushra Ashraf
Paul Farrell
Bryony Sheridan
Alex Woodgate
Leata Davoine
Filip Fufezan
Maeve Crowley
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