Dan Amos
Dan Amos (A6987AN)
HMP Guys Marsh, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 0AH
In January 2009 Dan was sentenced to 4 years for conspiracy to blackmail HLS, Europe’s largest animal testing laboratory.
Support Page: http://www.myspace.com/supportdan
Birthday: 19th November
Postal orders must be made out to ‘HMPS’ and Dan’s name/number written on back, together with a return address.
Letter from Dan, 30th October 2009
Dear Friends,
I hope that you are all keeping well, I know that I have been since my return from HMP Ford, which was an altogether dreadful place! It’s an easy life here at Guys Marsh, where I have a single cell, an ensuite shower and access to the gym 7 times a week; to say that I am pleased to be back would be a major understatement! I think some thanks are in order to the police, for arranging my swift return to this holiday camp that is HMP Guys Marsh.
Life plods along here slowly but surely with nothing much happening, though I am now the wing gardener, which means I can go to the gym a lot more, but it’s quite a lot of work as my predecessor seems to have had even less experience of gardening than I and had clearly never heard of weeding.
Thanks to the hard work of the VPSG I can now order direct from Holland & Barrett and Honesty; it makes a huge difference, and makes prison even easier if that is possible!
Respect Dan.
Letter from Dan, 13th August 2009
Hello everyone!
The first time that I wrote this article I was at Ford open prison and asked the question, “how can a dangerous urban-terrorist” like me be allowed in an open prison?” Well I now have an answer to that question: I can’t! After less that 72 hours at Ford, I was taken back to Guys Marsh on the grounds that I had “not addressed [my] offending behaviour in relation to animal rights activism.” I did wonder quite why I had been sent to Ford in the first place but the game was up when one of the guards told me that wasn’t the real reason. You don’t say! Obviously the police had seen my change of address and decided to arrange my transfer back to HMP Guys Marsh a.k.a Butlins.
Of course this situation could have been avoided had I not had my address published and by not writing in magazines such as this. However, self-censorship is something that I have never considered, the moment we bow down to the state and refuse to speak we have been beaten. The state knows that we have great power as a movement when we decide to exercise it, but they underestimate the strength that we possess as individuals.
We knew the consequences when we decided to act against animal abuse, so to think that we can be broken by such actions is not only crass, it is comical. No one should be deterred from taking action because of the threat of prison. Prison is fantastically easy, and nothing more than an inconvenience.
Respect
Dan