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Chief Inspector of Prisons Condemns High Number of Male Staff at New Hall
Chief Inspector of Prisons, Anne Owers, has condemned the proportion of male staff at HMP &YOI New more... Bradley Review Disappoints
The Bradley Report (a review of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities in the criminal ju more... |
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Women in Prison supports and campaigns for women offenders and ex-offenders. We assist women with advice on housing, education, mental health, legal rights, work, benefits, debt, domestic violence, and more.
Prison causes damage and disruption to the lives of vulnerable women, most of whom pose no risk to the public. Women have been and are marginalised within a criminal justice system designed by men for men.
Prison is often a very expensive way of making vulnerable women’s life situations much worse. Women are often incarcerated miles from their homes and families – they lose their homes, their relationships with their children and their mental health in the process.
Better outcomes for women offenders means a reduced use of prison and an increased use of community alternatives. Prison does not work. The best way to cut women’s offending is to deal with its root causes.
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"Taking the most hurt people out of society and punishing them in order to teach them how to live within society is, at best, futile. Whatever else a prisoner knows, she knows everything there is to know about punishment because that is exactly what she has grown up with. Whether it is childhood sexual abuse, indifference, neglect; punishment is most familiar to her."
Chris Tchaikovsky - Former prisoner and founder of Women in Prison
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