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Thirty-one women had experienced the bereavement of a close family member such as a parent or a sibling (57%). Eight women had experienced the death of a spouse or long-term partner (15%). Four women had suffered the death of a child (7%). Twenty-four women had been the victim of abuse or assault.
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Women were sent to prison on 5,164 occasions in the year to March 2023 – either on remand or to serve a sentence. Women are much more likely than men to self-harm whilst in prison. In 2022, women made up 29% of all self-harm incidents despite making up only 4% of the prison population.
- The Survey Data
- Losing Contact
- Power, Autonomy, Control
- Mental Health and Psychological Well-Being
- Trust, Privacy, Intimacy
- Concluding Comments
As discussed elsewhere (Hulley et al. 2016), in terms of the rank ordering of the ‘problems’ of long-term imprisonment, the data from our male survey sample demonstrated remarkable consistency with previous studies (e.g. Richards 1978; Flanagan 1981). However, the findings from our subsequent surveys with women serving similar sentences showed impo...
The loss or forfeiture of contact with friends and family appeared to affect women more than their male counterparts, and in different ways. Male interviewees more frequently reported that both the quality and frequency of their family contact had improved and increased, referring primarily to their relationships with their parents. Comments such a...
While our male participants rated ‘having to follow other people’s rules and orders’ as the fourth most severe problem that they experienced, the female participants rated it as the most severe overall. Male and female respondents described their lack of control in similar terms, especially those in the early years of their sentence (see Crewe et a...
‘Mental health’ problems cast a particularly long shadow across the experiences of women in the criminal justice system (cf. Rickford 2003). However, figures relating to officially diagnosed disorders (e.g. Social Exclusion Unit 2002) not only exclude consideration of those without a formal diagnosis, but also the periphery of concerns that relate ...
Girshick (1999: 84) wrote of women’s prisons that ‘the element of distrust is alwayspresent’. This was reflected in the survey ratings for the item ‘Not feeling able to completely trust anyone in prison’, which was ranked by the women as the fourth most severe problem that they experienced, compared to 16th by the men. Trust was a recurring issue i...
As many scholars have noted, ‘at best, [women] remain marginal to the study and practice of imprisonment’ (Moore and Scraton 2014: 1). This article aims to redress this pattern by comparing the problems of long-term confinement as experienced by male and female prisoners, and then detailing the most significant and distinctive problems reported by ...
Jul 20, 2021 · Most women are sent to prison for non-violent offences and serve sentences of 12 months or less, a new briefing by the Prison Reform Trust reveals. 72% of women who entered prison under sentence in 2020 have committed a non-violent offence.
In this briefing we highlight the different experiences of women from minority ethnic groups in the criminal justice system in England and Wales, mainly in comparison to white British women but also in relation to men who are white British and men who are from minority ethnic groups.
Urgently review the deaths of women following release from prison. Ensure access to justice and learning for bereaved families. Build a national oversight mechanism for implementing official recommendations.
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Feb 24, 2017 · For some women, family members refused contact following conviction, particularly when the victim was a member of the family; while other women severed contact themselves, frequently after reflecting on the difficult and often abusive nature of their pre-prison relationships.
