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.
The issue poses a particular risk as at least 57 per cent of women in prison or under community supervision are survivors of domestic abuse, according to the charity Refuge. The Ministry of ...
Women in prison are often taken to sensitive medical appointments involving intimate examinations, such as obstetrics and gynaecology, by male prison officers because of staffing problems, an ...
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In a workshop in the far corner of the Styal prison estate, glass, plastic and metal are being smashed to the beat of pumping music. Women at workstations are dismantling electronics with the energy ...