Sodexo Accused of Abuse of Palestine Action Prisoners

The hunger strike ended, but the most dangerous medical phase began after they were sent back inside. Right, so Sodexo is a multinational outsourcing company that runs prisons for the British state, including HMP Bronzefield, and it’s now been accused of abusing Palestine Action prisoners for one very simple reason: a hunger strike ended and the system rushed to move on while the danger was still sitting there. Seventy days without food stopped, prisoners were taken to hospital, and then some were sent straight back into custody while the most dangerous medical phase was still ongoing. And that quietly kicks away a prop a lot of people rely on — the idea that once a protest ends, responsibility tapers off and everything settles back into “normal” because it stops being talked about. It doesn’t. What fails here is the confidence that privatisation, clinical paperwork, and silence after the cameras leave and the media put their pens down still protects the people in charge. Because if the riskiest moment is treated like an administrative clear-up instead of taken seriously under the state’s duty of care, then a lot of soothing claims about prison care and accountability don’t hold up anymore and thats problem that won’t stay contained. Right, so Sodexo Prison Services has been accused of abusing Palestine Action prisoners at HMP Bronzefield, and that accusation exists because a chain of decisions has already been taken, recorded, escalated, and then defended as routine. This is not about tone or interpretation. It starts with custody being outsourced, proceeds through a seventy-day hunger strike, runs straight into the most dangerous medical phase of that strike ending, and lands on prisoners being discharged back into custody while known risk remains active.