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“Justice for Sale”: Sodexo, HMP Bronzefield, and the Human Cost of Privatised Prisons

At HMP Bronzefield, Britain’s largest women’s prison, tragedy has become routine. Just weeks ago, Toni, a transgender man incarcerated at the privately run facility, took his own life. Behind the walls of a prison managed by Sodexo Limited— a French catering and facilities giant — lives are being lost, safeguarding is failing, and families are left with unanswered…

26 August 20250Comments

Cui Bono – Who Benefits?

Agnieszka left Poland 15 years ago and built a successful career in education administration in England. For over a decade she worked in senior roles, building a stable life. But three weeks ago everything changed. She was picked up off the street by the Metropolitan Police and told she was wanted on an extradition warrant…

25 August 20250Comments

Meeting Women Where They Are: Inside WPA’s Mission and Legacy

The Women's Prison Association (WPA) stands as a beacon of transformative justice in a system often defined by punishment and isolation. As the oldest organisation in the United States dedicated to supporting women impacted by incarceration, their 180-year legacy offers profound insights into what effective justice reform truly requires. My conversation with Meg Egan, WPA's…

22 August 20250Comments

HMIP Visits Bronzefield: Our Demands, Their Response, and What Comes Next?

On behalf of the women enduring neglect and abuse inside HMP Bronzefield, we wrote directly to His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons. Our letter was clear: enough women have already died. It is time to place Bronzefield under immediate special measures and withdraw Sodexo’s contract. What we laid out was not hearsay. It was detailed,…

7 August 20250Comments

Surviving Serco – Feminist Crime and justice podcast exposes the obstructions faced by Constance Marten, defendant at the Old Bailey. Podcast reveals how private prison contracts are undermining the right to a fair trial.

Surviving Serco - podcast exposes the obstructions faced by Constance Marten, and how private prison contracts are undermining the right to a fair trial. The latest episode of Rebel Justice, the podcast by The View CiC amplifies the silenced voice of an incarcerated woman - Constance Marten, a defendant currently on trial at the Old…

1 April 20250Comments

Roe v. Wade What Next? An American View

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…

Women vs The State

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. …

30 April 20220Comments

Artists’ Call Out

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…

19 April 20220Comments

Gaslighting by the State

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…

29 March 20220Comments