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We should stop sending pregnant women to prison
Women very rarely commit a violent crime or pose any risk to the public, so why do about 600 pregnant women enter a UK prison each year?
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No new prisons for women!
The government has announced its intention to spend £150 million on building 500 new prison places for women. If ever a public spending project promised to bring increased misery this is it!
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Why do we still imprison pregnant women?
The latest reports of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons and the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights revealed the conditions in some British prisons.
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Why are pregnant women in prison?
An estimated 600 pregnant women are held in prisons in England and Wales each year, and about 100 babies are born inside.
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Prosecuting parents for truancy: who pays the price?
In the Foreword to J M Moore’s assessment of participants’ responses to the workshops and toolkits carried out as part of the Centre for Criminal Justice’s Justice Matters project, Tammy McGloughlin writes, ‘Far from being a means of delivering social justice, [the criminal justice system] is the cause of much social injustice, with the combined criminal justice institutions being deeply socially harmful’.
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Bad laws bear bitter fruit
In September 2016 the Inspectorate of Prisons published...
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Close Holloway and then close all the large women's prisons
On 25 November 2015, the Justice Secretary Michael Gove announced that he was planning to close HMP Holloway. What a good...
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What about the children?
There are about 4,000 women in prison. Two thirds are mothers of children under 18; about a third are lone parents.