by Sara and Abigail Plomondon, The View Summer Interns
Those are the words on many young women’s minds in the United States. In 1973 the United States Supreme court ruled, in a 7-2 vote, that women had the Right to Privacy.
This allowed women the right to choose whether to have an abortion without government…
Zayna Iman, Mags McNally, Samantha Asumadu, Gail Hadfield Grainger at Photo North, Someone’s Daughter Women vs The State panel Sunday 8 May 2022
What happens when the State and its agencies let us down and women are harmed, lose their loved ones or gaslighted and persecuted by the State? The View Magazine with Photo North is hosting a panel Women vs The State on how the actions of the government and its agencies affect women. …
Call for art from women with lived experience of detention or incarceration who make art
Exhibition dates: 15 May - 12 June 2022 www.thehouseofsmalls.art
This is a call for submissions from women who create art as a release/response to having been restricted. This might include but is not limited to being held on licence in or…
by Tabitha Lean
CW: Discusses domestic violence, abuse and carceral violence
As conversations in white Australian feminist circles have centred on coercive control and the attempts to have it criminalised, I have been thinking a lot about gaslighting as a form of emotional abuse. The gaslighting I am familiar with (the type of abuse that…
In the United States, one third of corrections institutions restrain pregnant and labouring women. This goes against the best practice recommendations of medical, legal, and human rights organisations. Restraining women during pregnancy and childbirth pose health and developmental risks to both mother and baby. We call for federal legislation to ban the use of restraints…
How the Bail System disadvantages Foreign National Women
Foreign national women are more likely to be remanded in custody while awaiting trial or sentencing than British women, often for less serious offences. They make up a significant and increasing proportion of prison admissions on remand in England and Wales, raising concerns that compliance with national…
It took four years and tireless advocacy, but Middletown mom Nikki Tierney’s crusade to change New Jersey law came to fruition Tuesday.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill that expands the offenses eligible for expungement for drug court graduates. The measure, which passed the state legislature with strong bipartisan support, creates a path to expungement for recovering…
BY SUE WHEATCROFT
The lack of mental health training for probation staff can have dire consequences for people being managed on license in the community. Sue Wheatcroft tells The View about her experience in an article written for The Probation Journal, which was later censored and removed. How are organisations meant to learn when they…
The View condemns the unacceptable rise of death in custody following the publication of the Ministry of Justice Safety in Custody Statistics: Quarterly Update to September 2021 The Ministry of Justice Safety in Custody Statistics September 2021 report found that there was an increase in deaths in prisons from the 12 months to December…