Posted on 05/26/2018 12:00:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode
This month marks ten years since the death of Pauline Campbell. Pauline became a formidable campaigner exposing the harm inflicted on women within the prison system. This followed the death of her 18-year-old daughter in Styal prison in 2003.
It was campaigning by Pauline Campbell, bereaved families and Inquest around the sharp rise in deaths across the womens estate, and in particular deaths at Styal in the early 2000s, that persuaded the then Labour government to commission Baroness Jean Corston to conduct an independent review of women in the criminal justice system.
Corstons ground-breaking report, published in March 2007, offered a blueprint for change. The review recommended the dismantling of the womens prison estate, the introduction of small custodial units and an expansion of gender-specific support in the community, through a network of womens centres. It was expected that the use of imprisonment for women could be reduced to an absolute minimum and was hoped that womens imprisonment could be almost entirely phased out. At the time there was great optimism that positive change was imminent.
Eleven years after Corston, and ten years after Pauline Campbells death, and the situation has never felt so desperate. The casework team at Inquest continue to support families whose daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts and grandmothers have died. Ninety-four women have died in womens prisons since March 2007. Of these, 38 were self-inflicted, 48 were non-self-inflicted and eight await classification. 32 were by hanging.
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Really, Huff Poop? From the same people demanding women be treated the same? FU
More men will claim to be transgender then.
Women should be incarcerated the same as men.
Take a tour of Chowchilla prison and you tell me they need to be kinder and gentler.Of course they can’t take a tour due to safety reasons. They’re in prison for a reason.
So they are saying that women are too violent to each other to be imprisoned?
But where will all the bull dykes go?
Agreed.
So the alternative is what? Hanging?
OK. For minor offenses we could punish women with a good long spanking. I’m sure Laz would volunteer, as long as he could pick which offender. Then convince her that she’s been very naughty, and not to do it again.
Like I wasnt sick enough...
When they are convicted of a crime, they should be sentenced for time as a domestic servant for anybody willing to put up the room and board. She will have to wear an ankle bracelet to ensure she stays in the home at all times. She will be responsible for the laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc.
There are a lot of single men and elderly people living alone that could use a woman around the house.
Lets just imprison white conservative or moderate working men (or anyone who didnt vote for HilLIARy). There! Problem solved. /s
Ditto
I am surprised that they didn’t recommend sentencing them to a halfway house operated by the local university womyn’s studies department.
Utterly predictable how this kind of appeal brings out the sadist in a certain sub-population of FReepers.
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