The View Magazine Launches Issue 16 Focused on Solidarity Through Creativity
London, UK–22 December 2025, The View Magazine, the award-winning independent platform dedicated to amplifying the voices of women impacted by the criminal justice system, announces the release of Issue 16, a 120+ page winter edition examining systemic failures in medical care for women prisoners, alongside stories of resilience, creativity, and legal accountability.
Issue 16 brings together investigative journalism, first-hand testimony, and creative work to document how women experience incarceration, healthcare provision, and access to justice. The issue centres the voices of those directly affected, presenting their experiences in their own words and through their creative output.
Key features include:
- Nicole Farhi, fashion designer and sculptor, discussing her exhibition J’Accuse, which focuses on wrongful accusation, and introducing her forthcoming series The Children of Gaza.
- Coverage of HMP Eastwood Park, Guernsey’s Les Nicholles, and HMP Bronzefield, including first-hand testimony from Emma Smart describing healthcare provision at Bronzefield.
- An investigation into OPCAT failures, examining how agencies responsible for protecting prisoners’ rights respond to complaints and how inspection reports represent prison conditions.
- A review by the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture into women’s prisons across Europe.
- An examination of Lily Allen’s West End Girl, tracing the work’s development and its role in shaping her public and feminist voice.
- Coverage of Cate Blanchett’s Freedom of the City of London award, recognising her career and humanitarian and environmental work.
- An interview with Rima Hassan, Member of the European Parliament, conducted by Joseph Abi Abboud of the Feminist Justice Coalition, discussing her political activism, the Refugee Camps Observatory, and civil society mobilisation.
- Nour Norris on the development of Raneem’s Law and protections for domestic abuse victims.
- A Cancer Report submitted to the UN, developed by the Feminist Justice Coalition with law students, solicitors, and barristers, outlining barriers faced by women in prison accessing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and basic healthcare needs.
- Farah Damji writes on sentencing practices in serious criminal cases and the need for judicial training in mental health and forensic evidence.
Issue 16 places particular emphasis on healthcare and oversight, highlighting how institutional processes affect women with complex medical needs. Alongside investigative reporting, the issue includes cultural and artistic contributions. Kurdish designer Lara Dizeyee reflects on memory and imagination in fashion, while other features examine current debates around ADHD and autism diagnoses and their relevance to criminal justice policy.
Elena Righi, Editor of The View Magazine, described Issue 16 as reflecting the team’s continued commitment to publishing investigative and testimonial work. She noted that the issue was completed amid ongoing disagreement with the Ministry of Justice, its officials, and the CiC regulator regarding the magazine’s criticism of current justice policy.
Righi confirmed that The View Magazine is dissolving its limited company and CiC structures and is in the process of transitioning to B Corp status, positioning the publication as an internationally recognised sustainable brand.
“This issue documents failures in prison healthcare and oversight, includes testimony from women at HMP Bronzefield and HMP Eastwood Park, and presents art and writing as forms of expression and record,” Righi said.
Issue 16 also provides updates on Carol Lloyd’s extradition case and the continued imprisonment of Farah, who remains in custody while undergoing treatment for aggressive stage 3 breast cancer. The magazine reiterates its call for reform and improved healthcare standards for women in prison.
Righi emphasised the role of contributors and supporters in producing the issue and highlighted the publication’s growing multimedia output, including the Rebel Justice podcast, which features discussions with people affected by the justice system.
Through testimony and investigation, Issue 16 examines incarceration, healthcare inequality, and institutional accountability.
Issue 16 is available now.
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About The View Magazine
Founded by and for women affected by the criminal justice system, The View is an independent feminist publication documenting injustice, supporting reform, and centring lived experience. Through print and audio platforms, it connects voices inside and outside prison settings.