Inside HMP Downview: one of 12 women’s prisons in England & Wales

Criminal justice experts brought together by the government are drawing up a new strategy to cut the number of women being sent to prison – as figures show that two thirds of female prisoners say they’ve been victims of domestic violence.

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The Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said it was time to find better ways of helping vulnerable women to turn their lives around and stop the revolving door of crime.

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