CIVIL rights icon Angela Davis demanded that the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) stop endorsing “cruel and inhumane” prison segregation units in a letter today. 

The letter from over 60 organisations and 200 campaigners was signed by Davis, journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, author Selma James, former chief inspector of prisons Lord Ramsbotham, miscarriage of justice victim Winston Silcott, poet Benjamin Zephaniah and a number of practising psychiatrists, co-ordinated by Legal Action for Women and Payday men’s network. 

The campaigners say that they are “outraged” that the RCP endorses close supervision centres (CSCs), prisons within prisons, by accrediting them with its “enabling environments” award.