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 women’s 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.
Corston’s ground-breaking report, published in March 2007, offered a blueprint for change. The review recommended the dismantling of the women’s prison estate, the introduction of small custodial units and an expansion of gender-specific support in the community, through a network of women’s centres. It was expected that the use of imprisonment for women could be reduced to an ‘absolute minimum’ and was hoped that women’s 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 Campbell’s 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 women’s 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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Oh, absolutely. That would go a long way toward eliminating the sexual double standard, wouldn’t it? Men can go to jail because they’re basically evil and can take it. But women are precious and fragile (unless they’re not) and can’t be exposed to such barbaric treatment.
Do they think women are unable to be cruel and dangerous?
LOL. That does sound like something a feminist would say. :D
Maybe this is an attempt to preempt Hillary’s inexorable destiny...
But where will all the bull dykes go?
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The US Navy?
stop committing crimes then
Notice how liberals always want to tear down societal norms, and then claim exemptions from their destruction.
Well, interesting thoughts. Depends on the crime though. If she was in prison for some non-violent offense, maybe this could make sense. But if she’s there for a violent act, do you really want her in your house?
Does that include transmen? Horsesht. And this from the same people promoting shared bathrooms in Orange is the new black...
Good point. Just like they vote for high taxes, then flee to red states and continue voting for Democrats.
But...but...what about the other 51 genders?
Good question!
There are some men that might take their chances. Some like the rough girls. I always had a soft spot in my heart for Tonya Harding.
An average of nine deaths a year other than by natural causes seems very high given Britain’s relatively small women’s prison population. Must be very poor supervision. I wonder how this compares to deaths by suicide and violence in US women’s prisons.
How uninclusive of them.
?You lost Me?
Sorry, not feeling well at the moment.
No prison for black people. No prison for women....
I can see where this is going.
sounds sexist to me
Hey...why not? They tried to stop prosecuting Blacks for violence and other crimes in school - why not give females a break.....but how do they get off with labeling them “women”? Isn’t that trans-sexist????
I actually think that is a great idea for the elderly. Obviously they would have to be vetted.
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