Within These Walls Zine

When I was at school there were group detentions for mild
misdemeanours, where the whole class was held back from going
home. I wonder why so many people find a place in a house of
detention, after dealing with the DWP, the systematic
sanctioning and trying to get monies for food/housing/to pay
the bills. So much pain, so much money could be saved if the
System’s economics wasn’t set up against us.
It’s not that we are workshy, (or suffer from that class based
‘disease’ worklessness), the detention survivor stigma, of the
big gap on the cv, is just not acceptable to most employers. So we
are forced to work for ourselves.