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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Prison Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence: Cancer and Cruelty Behind Bars

Prison is meant to take away freedom, not life itself. Yet for many women behind bars in Britain, a cancer diagnosis becomes a slow and silent execution. Prison Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence: Cancer and Cruelty Behind Bars exposes the devastating reality of medical neglect faced by incarcerated women living with cancer. Through the harrowing…

3 December 20250Comments

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When oversight retreats: IMBs, women’s prisons and the monitoring-gap

The Independent Monitoring Boards (IMBs) exist to provide a vital check on the treatment of people in custody. Every prison in England and Wales must have an IMB, composed of volunteers appointed to monitor whether prisoners are being treated fairly, humanely and in accordance with rules. Yet today the IMBs in women’s prisons are…

17 November 20250Comments

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Sodexo limited, in the business of killing people

25 year old Toni Asik, a trans man, tragically died while in the care of Sodexo Limited, the private company running HMP Bronzefield. Toni, was consistently misgendered and mistreated by staff at the prison. Despite repeatedly disclosing that he was suicidal, he was placed in the prison’s “healthcare” unit, a wing known for housing women…

31 July 20250Comments

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