‘More than warehouses of pain – Labour’s response to the prison crisis must be humane and evidence led’
Last week saw the release of the (rather misnomered) Safety in Custody statistics – the most recent government…
Sara Hyde
World Suicide Prevention Day: How Labour should approach prison suicide
Trigger warning: this piece discusses suicide. Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. Since first being affected by suicide…
I worked in Holloway prison for six years. Here’s what I learnt about deporting ‘foreign national offenders’
I worked in Holloway prison for six years. A number of the women I worked with were ‘foreign…
The immorality of Boris Johnson’s 10,000 new prison places pledge
It’s not so much a magic money tree but a whole orchard that Boris Johnson seems to have…
Undoing Failing Grayling’s probation privatisation is only a first step
Our criminal justice system has rarely been out of the news over the last few years – for…
The government’s new prison plan for women won’t work without proper funding
There is clearly much to celebrate in the long-delayed ‘female offenders strategy‘ announced on Wednesday morning. It’s a triumph…
Our prisons are in crisis – that’s why we need women’s centres
Our prisons are in crisis – but we are sending record numbers of people to them. In 2007…
Prisons crisis shows how austerity has ripped the soul out of Britain
Let’s be frank, the Queen’s Speech was legislation-lite. Designed not to startle the horses, Cameron sets himself as…
We cannot afford the failures of women’s imprisonment
Sara Hyde Please note that this article contains references to violence and sexual assault. Whatever our prisons…
Why 90 is a National Disgrace
Wednesday was World Suicide Prevention Day. It came in the same week as the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman…
