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6 days ago · Fry toured the country with her campaign for women's prison reform, encouraging the establishment of many local prison visiting associations. She became one of the first women to be called to ...
Announcing our 40th anniversary project. Women in Prison was established in 1983 with the singular aim of ending the harm of the criminal justice system on women’s lives. Over the past four decades, our initiatives—both in custody, ‘through the gate’ and within the community—alongside our women-led campaigns, have consistently pursued ...
This year is the ten-year anniversary of The Corston Report, a landmark review from Women in Prison’s Patron Baroness Jean Corston into women in the criminal justice system. Women in Prison has launched a new report, Corston+10 which reveals the scale of reversal to progress made in reforming the criminal justice system and reducing the women ...
Jul 26, 2022 · 1. Women currently represent less than 5% of the total prison population—a level which has remained consistent over the last 5 years. In line with the overall prison population, the number of women prisoners has declined over the same period. As of 15 July 2022, there were 3,219 women in prison, compared to 3,958 in February 2017—a 19% ...
- Working Chance and Holloway
- The Prison Itself
- Sudden Closure
- Holloway Today
- Hopes For The Future
- Conclusion
Over the years it was open, a network of specialist support services sprung up in and around Holloway to cater to the needs of the many women held there. Working Chance’s own story is deeply intertwined with the history of Holloway. In fact, it was on a visit there that our founder Jocelyn Hillman first saw the lack of hope for the future for women...
Built in 1852 as a mixed sex prison, Holloway became a women-only prison in 1902 and housed over 500 women at any given time. Lauren spent the "worst six months of her life" behind its walls. To her, She criticised the process of rehabilitating women during their sentence as "expecting women to magically flourish after months or even years of traum...
On 15 November 2015, it was suddenly announced that HMP Holloway, would be closed and the site sold off. This came as a shock to many, not least its 500 residents, who were left distressed about what this would mean for them. In 2016, when the prison finally closed, these women were sent to prisons outside of London, ripping them from their familie...
Since its closure, campaigners and organisations such as Reclaim Holloway and Community Plan For Hollowayhave worked tirelessly to make sure that the former site of HMP Holloway is turned into a space that benefits the local community and subverts the prison's dark history by creating a positive space for women who need support to avoid becoming ca...
When asked what her vision for the site would be after experiencing Holloway first hand, Lauren said "in its place, it would be good to invest in mental health and drug services instead, so that women can get the support they need rather than end up in prison." That’s exactly what we believe: a fitting legacy for the site is to provide solutions fo...
The abandoned site where HMP Holloway once stood serves as a reminder that prison isn’t the right place for the vast majority of women we put there. Instead, we must invest in support in the community and ensure women have access to the help they need so that they don’t come into contact with the criminal justice system in the first place. We have ...
A total of 11% of women in prison are foreign nationals9, some of whom are known to have been coerced or trafficked into offending. Approximately 31% of foreign national women are in prison for drugs offences10. Many women report being coerced into drugs importation or committing such crimes due to poverty and the need to support their families.
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ISBN 9781527541832. “A History of Women’s Prisons: an artwork exhibition” in the Crypt Gallery, London, 24 May - 2 June 2019. A collaboration with artists Noriko Hisazumi and Fabiana Vigna, the aim of the exhibition was to problematise imprisonment through visual representation, and its theme was the reform of the prisoner during ...
