the government is setting up a Women's Justice Board to look at reducing the number who go to prison. One alternative in Cheshire has inmates work in recycling glass, plastic and metal.
Many women around her were suffering from mental health problems, she says. Across the UK, the rates of prisoners who are self-harming is at a record-high. "You are left with your own thoughts.
Gazing across the crowd of women, fresh from county jail in their orange prison jumpsuits, Lena Coleman wishes she could save them all. And it's her job to try. In July, after 20 years in prison for ...