This is a call to action for everyone and anyone who understands that it is important for us to strive for a better quality of life for all, including those who may have  committed a crime.
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Human beings have the ability to accumulate trauma in their subconscious mind which then plays out as specific coping behaviours…
The View Magazine
Kate Wilmot attended the recent Zoom conference  held by the Ministry of Justice , discussing the roll out of the new proposed women's centres.
On the 5th August, Clinks and the MOJ held an online conference to discuss the MOJ’s plans to develop a residential women’s centre (RWC) pilot in at least five sites across England…
HMP Holloway was closed in June 2016 and was then purchased by Peabody in 2019, a housing association with a £42m loan from the Mayor of London. Their commitment is to build approximately 1 100 homes and a legacy Women’s Building that helps women in the community as well as those who come into contact…
Eleanor Jones, Criminology BA (Hons) Graduate from the University of Liverpool
Half the women discharged from prison reoffend.1 Over 17 500 children are separated from their mothers every year due to female imprisonment.  We are calling for greater investment in researching and implementing alternatives to women’s imprisonment, because women’s imprisonment is ineffective and inflicts  the morally…
Eleanor Jones, Criminology BA (Hons) Graduate from the University of Liverpool
Half the women discharged from prison reoffend.1 Over 17 500 children are separated from their mothers every year due to female imprisonment.  We are calling for greater investment in researching and implementing alternatives to women’s imprisonment, because women’s imprisonment is ineffective and inflicts  the morally…
Concerns regarding the morality and effectiveness of women’s prisons are reflected in the statistics revealing 45% reoffend within a year of being released from prison. Alternatives that help reduce reoffending and keep women safe from further trauma  must be  a priority.
Funding is very precarious  for the existing network of women’s centres. It is also sporadic…
by Dr Gemma Ahearne
‘Women empowering women’ screams the headline. An alternative would be ‘Our Sisters’ Keepers’ given that organizations are competing for funding in order to punish women.
We cannot punish women in the spaces we are trying to heal them. Services must be trauma-led by qualified professionals. Painting something pink and calling it empowerment is…
An Introduction
Women’s centres came came into place after The Corston  Report in 2007 which  made 43 recommendations for gendered criminal justice reform in order to create a more women-centred and holistic approach to supporting women affected by the criminal justice system. Many such centres were set up with little oversight, all claimed to be gender…
We are Invisible is a report that focuses on women from BAME backgrounds within the criminal justice system and their experiences with domestic abuse. The report contains the results of  survey questions from over 100 women and  includes 3 qualitative case study interviews with women who were comfortable to discuss their experiences in more detail.
The first…
On the 30th June 2020, the HM Chief Inspector of Prisons published a report after visiting prisons holding women. It focused on the conditions in two prisons, HMP Send and HMP and YOI Downview, during the coronavirus pandemic.
Whilst there were some positives, conditions in these establishment were still unacceptable. For example, prisoners at Send were only given one hour…