Comment: Racism and Custody Deaths in the U.K.: The Zahid Mubarek Inquiry

Part of a special issue on deaths in custody and detention. In 2004, a public inquiry began into the March 21, 2000, death of Zahid Mubarek following an unprovoked attack by Robert Stewart, his cellmate at Young Offenders Institution (YOI) Feltham, London. Central to the inquiry's concerns was...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moss, Nick (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
In: Social justice
Year: 2006, Volume: 33, Issue: 4, Pages: 142-150
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Mubarek, Zahid
Social Psychology
Institutional care
Racism
Prison homicide
Inmates of institutions
Death
Prisoners
Murder victims
Prisons & race relations
Juvenile corrections
Prisoners > Mortality
Prison violence
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Summary:Part of a special issue on deaths in custody and detention. In 2004, a public inquiry began into the March 21, 2000, death of Zahid Mubarek following an unprovoked attack by Robert Stewart, his cellmate at Young Offenders Institution (YOI) Feltham, London. Central to the inquiry's concerns was racism, not only because Zahid died in a racially motivated attack but because Stewart was well known within the YOI as a violent racist. The inquiry sought to ascertain whether explicit or unwitting institutionalized racism had a part in the decision to pair Zahid with Stewart. The inquiry yields some insight into the brutalizing conditions at prisons and their fatal consequences.