For a lot of the women we work with, their involvement with the criminal justice system is routine and they can often weather a spell in prison. But without support at the end of a sentence their lives can become very chaotic again straight away.
“The value of One25 is often unquantifiable; most of the women haven’t ever had someone who cares unconditionally.”
In 2007 Baroness Corston’s report proposed a radical reshaping of women’s prisons. Ten years on, national charity Women in Prison has published a review and it’s worrying how far we still need to go.
Moira is One25’s Independent Domestic and Sexual Violence Adviser. She explains how drop-in is a life-saver for the women we support: “Jo had tried to leave town to escape a violent ex- and get off drugs but the difficult and complicated system meant she’d been evicted from her new refuge. She was back in Bristol, […]
