Incarcerated women need trauma-informed support and mental health services.
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An equality impact assessment stated that decisions around moving transgender prisoners into female prisons would not affect women.
Care leavers are over-represented in the justice system. Rising rates of self-harm show an urgent need for greater mental health support.
Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
Nearly two-thirds of incarcerated mothers have never received a visit from their children. A scholar who studies women in prison explains the barriers that families face and how they might be removed.
Women’s prisons have become stopgaps, a place to simply put people society does not know what else to do with.
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Lecturer in Criminology, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Lancaster University
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Research Fellow in Criminology, University of Edinburgh
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Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Villanova University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Penology, University of Portsmouth