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Still Dying On The Inside: The Case For Ending Imprisonment Of Women
Huffington Post ^ | Mat 22, 2018 | Deborah Coles

Posted on 05/26/2018 12:00:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode

This month marks ten years since the death of Pauline Campbell. Pauline became a formidable campaigner exposing the harm inflicted on women within the prison system. This followed the death of her 18-year-old daughter in Styal prison in 2003.

It was campaigning by Pauline Campbell, bereaved families and Inquest around the sharp rise in deaths across the women’s estate, and in particular deaths at Styal in the early 2000s, that persuaded the then Labour government to commission Baroness Jean Corston to conduct an independent review of women in the criminal justice system.

Corston’s ground-breaking report, published in March 2007, offered a blueprint for change. The review recommended the dismantling of the women’s prison estate, the introduction of small custodial units and an expansion of gender-specific support in the community, through a network of women’s centres. It was expected that the use of imprisonment for women could be reduced to an ‘absolute minimum’ and was hoped that women’s imprisonment could be almost entirely phased out. At the time there was great optimism that positive change was imminent.

Eleven years after Corston, and ten years after Pauline Campbell’s death, and the situation has never felt so desperate. The casework team at Inquest continue to support families whose daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts and grandmothers have died. Ninety-four women have died in women’s prisons since March 2007. Of these, 38 were self-inflicted, 48 were non-self-inflicted and eight await classification. 32 were by hanging.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society
KEYWORDS: prison; procrimerant; women; womensprison; womensprisons
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But I thought women were strong and empowered? But only men can handle being in prison?
1 posted on 05/26/2018 12:00:13 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Really, Huff Poop? From the same people demanding women be treated the same? FU


2 posted on 05/26/2018 12:01:14 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: EdnaMode

More men will claim to be transgender then.


3 posted on 05/26/2018 12:03:58 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: WKUHilltopper

Women should be incarcerated the same as men.


4 posted on 05/26/2018 12:04:00 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: EdnaMode

Take a tour of Chowchilla prison and you tell me they need to be kinder and gentler.Of course they can’t take a tour due to safety reasons. They’re in prison for a reason.


5 posted on 05/26/2018 12:04:49 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: EdnaMode

So they are saying that women are too violent to each other to be imprisoned?


6 posted on 05/26/2018 12:05:07 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: EdnaMode

But where will all the bull dykes go?

7 posted on 05/26/2018 12:06:14 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: CodeToad

Agreed.


8 posted on 05/26/2018 12:07:21 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: EdnaMode

So the alternative is what? Hanging?


9 posted on 05/26/2018 12:09:23 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: EdnaMode
Here's one the Huffington Puffington Post is leaving alone:

Sudan: Teen rape victim appeals sharia death sentence.

10 posted on 05/26/2018 12:11:47 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: EdnaMode
No prison for women? So it's another article to protect Hillary by the HuffPo.
11 posted on 05/26/2018 12:13:50 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: EdnaMode; Lazamataz

OK. For minor offenses we could punish women with a good long spanking. I’m sure Laz would volunteer, as long as he could pick which offender. Then convince her that she’s been very naughty, and not to do it again.


12 posted on 05/26/2018 12:16:33 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: chris37

Like I wasn’t sick enough...


13 posted on 05/26/2018 12:22:57 PM PDT by mabarker1 (congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: EdnaMode
I don't think women should be sent to prison either.

When they are convicted of a crime, they should be sentenced for time as a domestic servant for anybody willing to put up the room and board. She will have to wear an ankle bracelet to ensure she stays in the home at all times. She will be responsible for the laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc.

There are a lot of single men and elderly people living alone that could use a woman around the house.

14 posted on 05/26/2018 12:26:21 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: EdnaMode

Let’s just imprison white conservative or moderate working men (or anyone who didn’t vote for HilLIARy). There! Problem solved. /s


16 posted on 05/26/2018 12:30:33 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: mabarker1
To quote Sam Kinison from Back to School: "Good answer. Good answer. I like the way you think. I'm going to be watching you."
17 posted on 05/26/2018 12:33:29 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: WKUHilltopper

Ditto


18 posted on 05/26/2018 12:34:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode

I am surprised that they didn’t recommend sentencing them to a halfway house operated by the local university womyn’s studies department.


19 posted on 05/26/2018 12:34:30 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: mabarker1

Utterly predictable how this kind of appeal brings out the sadist in a certain sub-population of FReepers.


20 posted on 05/26/2018 12:36:34 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (This tells me more about you that I suspect you wanted me to know.)
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