The View Magazine Spring 2021 – print edition

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 The View Magazine Spring 2021 has 100 punchy pages packed with stories, articles, art, and more from women in prisons ⚖️Jen Reid, leading activist and #BLM campaigner tells us what’s next for her, and RT Rev Ruth Treweek, the Bishop of Gloucester and Anglican lead for prisons on women in prison and the Domestic Abuse Bill on how we must do better to help women in the criminal justice system. We interviewed Emily Galvin Almanza and Carl Buckley, both leading the resistance to protect our human rights.

Emma Fox explains why the need for justice reinvestment is greater now than ever and asks why the Government is building more women prisons, and Graham Rogers, psychologist gives us his View about the madness of prison mental health services. Read artist, campaigner, and mother Allison Lapper MBE’s searing article, Fabulous Monsters: Being Disabled in Prison.The View is a social enterprise, that pays women £50 per published contribution. Your support and contributions support our advocacy and campaigns to create effective mental health services in our justice system.

Our cover lady, Jen Reid, speaks frankly about the importance of representation and Black British history taking its rightful place. Who will ever forget that moment when Jen took to the plinth and occupied the historic space, that had been dedicated to a slave trader? We felt witness to an act of taking back power, reclaiming our stories…