Government going backwards over women in jail, says Labour peer

Powers allowing fast recalls to prison and changes to probation services blamed as report by Inquest reveals rise in jail deathsThe government is going backwards in its efforts to rehabilitate and deliver justice to women in prison, Jean Corston, the author of a landmark 2007 report, has said.Lady Corston, a Labour peer, on Wednesday launched a report entitled Still Dying on the Inside, by the charity Inquest, which examined the 94 deaths in women’s prisons since March 2007, at least 37 of which were self inflicted. Continue reading…
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