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NLJ this week: The human tragedy of women’s prisons

15 November 2024
Issue: 8094 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal
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For anyone interested in prison reform, John Cooper KC, of 25 Bedford Row, recommends a recently released film, Holloway, directed by Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson.

It is a documentary that brings together six former inmates of the women’s prison of the same name in London, illustrating the complex effects that prison has had upon them.

Writing in this week’s NLJ, Cooper laments ‘the dysfunctional and lazy approach to the sentencing of women’ and the fact little has been done to effect change despite Baroness Jean Corston’s devastating report on women in prison in 2007. 

Issue: 8094 / Categories: Legal News , Criminal
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