Just Stop Oil protester, 78, who was returned to jail as no tag fitted her, on her life inside | Environmental activism

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/23/just-stop-oil-protester-gaie-delap-78-returned-to-jail-as-no-tag-fitted-her-on-the-absurdities-of-her-treatment

by GeraldKutney

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  1. HM Prison Eastwood Park has the highest rates of self harm of any women’s prison in England and Wales.
    The thousands of repeated incidents of self-harm at HMP Eastwood Park in 2023-2024 accounted for 28% of all repeat cases across England and Wales. Gaie was understandably terrified to go back after already serving her sentence there. Gaie was sent back to prison just before Christmas for the crime of having small wrists. She has numerous health conditions and, while in prison, she was unable to get the medicine she needed for a stroke. Regarding her courage to act, a Just Stop Oil spokesperson said:

    “Gaie took action in 2022 after the government announced that it would issue over 100 new oil and gas licenses. This was despite summer temperatures climbing above 40C, railways buckling in the heat, harvests being decimated, and the London Fire Brigade experiencing the most calls since WWII. There were 61,000 excess deaths from the heat in Europe that year. Gaie took this brave action out of a deep sense of duty to protect her children, grandchildren and indeed all of us.”

    “Meanwhile those causing real disruption- the fossil fuel executives, the water company bosses, the corrupt politicians who profited over dodgy PPE contracts, all walk free.”

    [JustStopOil.org](https://juststopoil.org/)

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