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Is it a crime to be poor?
The great Angela Davis wrote in Are Prisons Obsolete?:
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Poverty is not a crime: ending imprisonment for debt
As the country prepares to enter into a new legal and political era, marked by novel and complex constitutional challenges, some of the most vulnerable members of society, and particularly women, are facing legal battles which would not be out of place in Victorian times.
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Right to family life: children whose mothers are in prison
Rona Epstein calls for urgent action to ensure children’s rights are met in the criminal justice system
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Consensus on women in prison, but where's the action?
There has been more inexplicable delay in the government’s plans for women in criminal justice. It renders urgent the question of how to address women’s health issues and the harmful impact of...
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Cross-party support for Mayor to bid for Holloway prison
Thousands of people have now shown their support for a petition calling on London Mayor Sadiq Khan to purchase the former Holloway prison site and protect the land for council homes, community facilities...
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Ellie: 'My daughter was my purpose'
Through the publication of short articles, we are providing a space for women's voices to be heard. Madeline Petrillo, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, will tell their stories....
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Who will prison building 'revolution' benefit?
Maureen Mansfield and Hannah Pittaway writing for the Left Foot Forward website outline some of the issues arising from the forthcoming closure of Holloway prison - the only...
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'Together we can bring the walls down!'
On a sunny Saturday earlier this month hundreds travelled to a remote wheat field in Bedfordshire to gather outside Yarl's Wood Immigration Detention Centre and demand its closure.
As with...
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Justice Matters for Women: Watch the footage
On 20th May 2015, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and Women in Prison, held the Justice Matters for Women: Time for Action! conference.
The event was attended by over 100 people including activists, researchers, practitioners and women affected by criminal justice. The...
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Justice Matters for Women conference - covered in The Independent
The failures of criminal justice and the impact of imprisonment on women is highlighted in The Independent on Sunday today. The article is...
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Empower, resist, transform. A collection of essays
This essay collection highlights how women facing criminalisation and gender based violence are repeatedly failed by society. Helen Mills, Rebecca Roberts and Laurel Townhead describe the shortcomings of criminal justice approaches that often replicate and reinforce inequalities rather than tackle...
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Empowering women and resisting injustice: why I signed the call to action
'Hitherto, philosophers have [only] sought to interpret the world; the point, now, is to change it.'
If it had not been so used and abused, Marx’s...