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WIP is Recruiting - Could you be our Admin and Finance Worker Women in Prison is recruiting for an Administration and Finance Worker (Materniuty Cover, 6 Months). For more... Corston 5 Years On – What Progress Has Been Made? 23-03-2012 To mark the 5th anniversary of the Corston Report on women in the criminal justice system we have p more... Thousands of Children Unlawful Restrained in privately-run secure training centres Thousands of Children Unlawful Restrained in privately-run secure training centres more... Celebrating International Womens Day Happy International Women\\\'s Day more... Chief Inspector of Prisons - Full Speech on Womens incarceration 01-03-2012 Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, last night gave a speech reflecting on 5 years since the more... Any Death in Custody is one Death Too many 3 Jan. 2012 – The Ministry of Justice announced that there were 57 apparent self-inflicted deaths in pri more... Prison Minister aims for Zero Women in Prison 09/11/2011 Prisons Minister Crispin Blunt today said that a successful criminal justice policy would result in more... A Work in Progress: Alternatives to Custody for Women 13-11-2011 A joint thematic inspection on the use of alternatives to custody for women offenders found more... CARE Programme Goes Live in HMP Foston Hall with Women in Prison Advocate 18 August 2011 – The only accredited women-specific behaviour programme in the country has gone more...		Women in Prison supports and campaigns for women affected by the Criminal Justice System (CJS). We assist women with advice on housing, education, mental health, legal rights, work, benefits, debt, domestic violence, and more. Prison causes damage and disruption to the lives of vulnerable women, most of whom pose no risk to the public. Women have been and are marginalised within a criminal justice system designed by men for men. Prison is often a very expensive way of making vulnerable women’s life situations much worse. Women are often incarcerated miles from their homes and families – they lose their homes, their relationships with their children and their mental health in the process. Better outcomes for women mean a reduced use of prison and an increased use of community alternatives. Prison does not work. The best way to cut women’s offending is to deal with its root causes.

"Taking the most hurt people out of society and punishing them in order to teach them how to live within society is, at best, futile. Whatever else a prisoner knows, she knows everything there is to know about punishment because that is exactly what she has grown up with. Whether it is childhood sexual abuse, indifference, neglect; punishment is most familiar to her." Chris Tchaikovsky - Former prisoner and founder of Women in Prison

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