Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: [Harold Thompson] became a "jailhouse lawyer"

working on appeals and complaints about the system for other prisoners and writing essays on anarchism and poems.

One of the people who wrote to him in prison was Belfast man Sean Matthews, who helped organise his last farewell in Northern Ireland.

"In his writings he had expressed the wish that his ashes be scattered here--he had accepted that he would die in prison," he said.

from BBC News: Anarchist's ashes lough scattering

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