{"id":438,"date":"2012-02-29T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T17:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/?p=438"},"modified":"2012-02-29T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T17:48:38","slug":"support-for-women-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/2012\/02\/29\/support-for-women-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for women prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/files\/2012\/02\/women-in-prison-Feb-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-440 alignleft\" src=\"\/gosport-fareham-and-district\/files\/2012\/02\/women-in-prison-Feb-12-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2012\/02\/women-in-prison-Feb-12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/solent-east\/files\/2012\/02\/women-in-prison-Feb-12.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Margaret Smith, centre, with Rachel Halford, right, and Laurel Townshead from the charity Women in Prison<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EIGHTY per cent of the women jailed in Britain have mental health issues and sixty per cent of them have been the victims of either sexual or physical abuse, members were told.<\/p>\n<p>In a talk littered with such alarming statistics, two directors of the charity Women in Prison Rachel Halford and Laurel Townshead spoke about the damage and disruption prison causes to the lives of vulnerable women.<\/p>\n<p>When mothers are imprisoned children are taken into care and recent figures showed that sixty per cent of them then went on to become offenders themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the women had had a difficult life, said Rachel Halford, having explained that the charity was set up in 1983 by a woman who\u2019d been in Holloway Prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the women pose no risk to the public and we\u2019d like to see far fewer of them jailed in prisons designed by men for men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also expensive,\u201d she said. \u201cPrison costs \u00a353,000 a year compared with \u00a311,000 on a community alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As well as campaigning for more projects to keep women out of prison, the charity gives advice and support especially when women leave prison. In many cases they will have been incarcerated miles from their homes and families as women\u2019s prisons are so few and far between so they need help with issues such as housing, legal rights and benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel said the charity continued to call on the government to act on its commitment to the recommendations of the Corston Report, commissioned six years ago by the previous administration<\/p>\n<p>The report provides a blueprint for reform that could lead to a less damaging prison system for women.<\/p>\n<p>Corston called for the use of prison for women to be kept to a minimum, in the rare cases where the individual was judged to be a serious and dangerous offender.\u00a0 She called for a better and more widespread use of community sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Women in Prison was campaigning for an amendment to the Breaking the Cycle Bill currently at the report stage in the House of Lords, said Rachel.<\/p>\n<p>Progamme action convenor Lesley Hobbs thanked the women for their enlightening talk. She said their aims and objectives were similar to those of Soroptimist International.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re both organisations run by women to help women and I\u2019m sure we will be able to collaborate on some issues in the future,\u201d she said as she handed over a donation of \u00a350.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Margaret Smith, centre, with Rachel Halford, right, and Laurel Townshead from the charity Women&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Support for women prisoners | News | Blog | Events | SI Solent East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Solent East : Blog &amp; News : Support for women prisoners : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Solent East . 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