Geoff Coggan on prisoners’ demonstrations at Gartree
- Title
- Geoff Coggan on prisoners’ demonstrations at Gartree
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 14 Oct 1978
- Year of production
- 1978
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- Duration
- 00:03:30
- Description
- Geoff Coggan, Secretary of the National Prisoners’ Movement, explains the reasons for prisoner demonstrations at Gartree Prison. Coggan claims that prisoners are being drugged to keep them under control and that the demonstrations at Gartree began after prisoner Michael Blake was sedated. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Geoff Coggan
- Keywords
- Prisons; Demonstrations; Drugs; Prisoners; Leicestershire; Social control; Gartree Prison; HMP Gartree; Michael Blake
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LBC/IRN, "Geoff Coggan on prisoners’ demonstrations at Gartree". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0011400388006 (Accessed 05 Aug 2025)