Comment 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… Sara Hyde 10th September, 2021, 8:00 am
Comment 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… Sara Hyde 12th February, 2020, 6:32 pm
Comment 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… Sara Hyde 13th August, 2019, 10:30 am
Comment 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… Sara Hyde 17th May, 2019, 11:58 am
Comment 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… Sara Hyde 29th June, 2018, 10:55 am
Comment 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… Sara Hyde 2nd May, 2018, 8:25 am
Comment 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… Sara Hyde 20th May, 2016, 4:26 pm
Comment 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… Sara Hyde 8th March, 2016, 11:10 am
Comment Why 90 is a National Disgrace Wednesday was World Suicide Prevention Day. It came in the same week as the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman… Sara Hyde 13th September, 2014, 12:06 pm
Comment A tale of two prisons Prison A has been open since 1875, it holds just over 1200 men, in 2013 there were 81… Sara Hyde 7th May, 2014, 3:35 pm