Women in Prison Event – London June 2019
Adapted from the Women in Prison Website: Women in Prison hosted a Mass Lobby of Parliament on Wednesday 26th June, 2019 to mark one year since the publication of the Ministry of Justice’s women’s strategy (entitled the “Female Offender Strategy”). We called on supporters of the campaign to reduce the women’s prison population to join together at Westminster and meet with their MP. The main message for MPs is that in order for the Strategy to be delivered we need greater investment, growth and support for the specialist network of community-based Women’s Centres – ‘one-stop-shops’ that enable women to address the root causes of offending in a supportive, non-judgemental environment. We will also be asking for the £80m that our HM Treasury has received from the sale of HMP Holloway (the only women’s prison in London) to be used to deliver the Strategy and ensure