The View Magazine Launches Issue 17 Focused on Abolition.
London, UK–31st March 2026, 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 17, a 200+ page spring edition examining systemic failures in medical care for women prisoners, alongside stories of resilience, creativity, and legal accountability.
Issue 17 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:
- The Lady Edwina Grosvenor Scholarship, a new and unique scholarship offered to undergraduate students in the UK with direct or indirect lived experience in the criminal justice system aiming to break down generational barriers in accessing higher education.
- An interview with Suzie Miller, the essence and impact of her recent play Inter Alia – masculinity, the male upbringing, and binary justice.
- Scarlet Ibis James, From Trinidad and Tobago to New York, this award winning novella writer confronts the ghosts of abandonment and transforms inherited pain into understanding in her latest work What They Left Behind.
- Tracey Emin, a walk through the exhilarating Tate Modern exhibition: A Second Life, spanning Emin’s early years, her inspirations, and honouring the contradiction in her work – destruction alongside preservation.
- Parasto Hakim, the inspiring story of how one young Afghan woman built a clandestine education network for girls under Taliban rule.
- Somos Jacarandas, a Colombian feminist organisation educating women on reproductive rights, gender-based violence, and community.
- An interview with Deborah Douglas, survivor, victim advocate, and chair of Breast Friends Solihull, Deborah shares her powerful story following the release of her new book, The Cost of Trust.
- Kris Millegan, publisher at TrineDay, on Blue Butterfly: Inside the Diary of an Epstein Survivor. Revelations, the decision to halt publication, and the implications for survivor testimony.
- A Cancer Report, through mixed-methods research that centres the lived experiences of incarcerated women with cancer, the Feminist Justice Coalition’s report on the status of cancer care in women’s prisons in England highlights systemic injustices and advocates for urgently-needed reform.
- An interview with Laura Mears-Reynolds, a reflection on the founding of ADHDAF+ Charity, the real impact it has on neurodivergent individuals, and the success stories that continue to shape the charity’s growing mission.
- An interview with Simon Baron-Cohen, an exploration of his research into autism, the barriers autistic people face in society, and autism in the criminal justice system.
Issue 17 spans investigations, interviews, cultural reviews, and first-person testimony with a particular emphasis on healthcare and oversight. Here, Alyce-Ellen Kemp highlights how institutional processes affect women with complex medical needs. Alongside investigative reporting, the issue includes cultural and artistic contributions. Shaped by the pride of being a woman, Victoria Breeden shares her powerful artwork created while incarcerated and Wendy Megson delivers a work of poetry influenced by her lived experience in the criminal justice system.
We also reflect on recent theatrical productions and films including Shadowlands, and Turner & Constable documentary, as well as exhibitions like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, The Moonwalkers, Yin Xiuzhen’s Heart to Heart, and Witches in Europe.
Elena Righi, Editor of The View Magazine, described Issue 17 as reflecting the publication’s ongoing commitment to investigative reporting, lived experience testimony, and cultural commentary. She underscored the issue’s goal of examining pitfalls in the justice system, social inequality, and the role of art, activism, and community in confronting injustice.
“This issue brings together investigations into prison healthcare and sentencing reform alongside testimony from women with lived experience of the justice system, like Alyce-Ellen Kemp’s Chaos to Community.” Righi said, “It also highlights the work of activists, researchers and artists, from Parasto Hakim’s secret educational network under Taliban rule to Professor Simon Baron-Cohen’s research on autism, and the creative voices of women writing and making art from prison.” Righi said.
Issue 17 also provides coverage of the Church of England’s £100mil fund with links to slavery and renews its call for reform and improved healthcare standards for women in prison, drawing attention to Farah’s continued imprisonment, who remains in custody while undergoing treatment for aggressive stage 3 breast cancer.
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 17 examines incarceration, healthcare inequality, and institutional accountability.
Issue 17 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.