Women in contact with the Criminal Justice System
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Disrupting the routes between care and custody for girls and women
Research finds too many women in prison today were the girls in care of yesterday, and systemic failings in the wider society perpetuate this problem.
Justice system doing further harm to vulnerable girls
Agenda and Alliance for Youth Justice report describes the experiences of vulnerable young women in the criminal justice system and calls for urgent reform.
Serious concerns about the state of our women’s prisons
Prison inspectors publish a “disturbing” inspection report on HMP Foston Hall and raise serious concerns about the women’s estate.
Tackling double disadvantage
A 10-point action plan to end inequality for Black, Asian, minoritised and
migrant women in the criminal justice system.
The bail system disadvantages foreign national women
Griffins Society finds foreign national women more likely to be
remanded in custody than their British counterparts, often for less serious offences.
MoJ has under invested in its female offender strategy
The National Audit Office says that the MoJ has made limited progress on its Female Offender Strategy because of lack of investment.
A new approach to women’s prisons?
What does the prisons white paper say about the government’s new approach to women’s prisons?
Women serving long sentences are “invisible”
Prison Reform Trust highlights the far-reaching consequences of a lack of specialist, gender-specific, trauma informed provision for women serving long sentences.
The power of creative writing in prison
How bleak is the crow’s nest. An anthology of women’s prison writing
Girls in custody
Girls entering the secure estate are a highly vulnerable group, with high levels of trauma and poor mental health.
Too many women sent to prison for short sentences
Prison Reform Trust briefing on why we should focus on reducing the number of women in prison.
Secret criminal trials in urgent need of reform
Charlotte Threipland of APPEAL questions the fairness of the single justice procedure used for more than half a million low level offences a year.
