Up to 500 new cells to be built in women’s prisons
Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says. …
Emily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by “action on the ground to prove effective”, adding: “Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.”
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