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Lord Timpson and the Push to Rethink Women’s Imprisonment: The Women’s Justice Board

The launch of the Women’s Justice Board on 21 January 2025 marks a significant moment in rethinking how the UK treats women in the criminal justice system. Campaigners have stressed that women’s offending is often rooted in trauma, domestic abuse, poverty and addiction. Prisons rarely address these issues and often deepen the harm. Chaired by…
10 December 20250Comments

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Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars: Why HMP Bronzefield Is Failing Vulnerable Women

A new IMB (Independent Monitoring Board) report on HMP/YOI Bronzefield, published on 10 December 2025, reveals a devastating reality: women in acute mental distress are still being sent to prison because secure psychiatric beds simply don’t exist. Despite warnings in the 2023 IMB thematic report, Bronzefield’s 2024-25 annual review shows that almost nothing has changed,…
10 December 20250Comments

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Women’s Health Review: When Promises Collapse Behind Prison Walls

The NHS says prison healthcare should mirror the care available in the community. But behind locked doors, that promise crumbles. In Women’s Health Review – Is the NHS Just Banging Its Own Drum Again?, writer Mason Morgan exposes a system stretched past breaking point; where cost-cutting, understaffing, and bureaucratic denial leave women fighting not just…
9 December 20250Comments

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A woman diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer is taking the UK government to court, making the case that she was denied life-saving treatment whilst in prison.

In a new press release, the Feminist Justice Coalition explains how Farah Damji, a 59‑year‑old woman held in the women’s estate, launched legal action against the Ministry of Justice. This comes after Farah was made to miss months of oncology appointments and was refused key scans and therapies.​ Farah has stage‑three HER2‑positive breast cancer and,…
9 December 20250Comments

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She Was Only Walking Home: What the Angiolini Inquiry’s New Report Tells Us About Women’s Safety

The Angiolini Inquiry’s new Part 2 First Report, published on 2 December, is a stark reminder of a truth women already know in their bones: public spaces still don’t belong to us. Four years after the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Metropolitan Police officer, this report asks a deceptively simple…
8 December 20250Comments

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The System Is Failing Fran: A Woman With Cancer Lost in the Gaps of Probation, Prisons, and Healthcare

At 39, Fran Geary should be focusing on surviving stage two breast cancer. Instead, she is fighting for her life inside a system that treats her illness as an inconvenience rather than an emergency. In this shocking investigation, The View Magazine exposes the dangerous failings that have defined Fran’s journey; from delayed diagnosis to brutal…
7 December 20250Comments

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Literature That Transforms: How Stories Illuminate the Realities of Imprisonment

What can a metamorphosing beetle and a kidnapped art student teach us about the lived experience of incarceration? In this powerful literary essay, El Jamieson explores how two classic works – Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and John Fowles’ The Collector – reveal uncomfortable truths about isolation, gender, and the dehumanising nature of imprisonment. At first…
6 December 20250Comments

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