{"id":301666,"date":"2025-12-04T18:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/my-mum-would-be-alive-if-she-hadnt-been-to-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:00:09","slug":"my-mum-would-be-alive-if-she-hadnt-been-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/my-mum-would-be-alive-if-she-hadnt-been-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"My mum would be alive if she hadn\u2019t been to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/EcyDAvA8yvs\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"My mum would be alive if she hadn\u2019t been to prison\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EcyDAvA8yvs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Oceana Jane was just 17 when her mother Kay took her own life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>Kay had a long history of mental health problems and in just 19 days in prison, incidents of self harm were officially recorded 11 times but never properly acted on.<\/p>\n<p>Oceana Jane says Kay should never have been in prison in the first place.<br \/>\nThe Ministry of Justice told us: &quot;The government has set up a Women&#8217;s Justice Board to advise on reducing the number of women in jail and are changing the law so more people will serve their sentences in the community.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceana Jane was just 17 when her mother Kay took her own life in prison. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe] Kay had a long history of mental health problems and in just 19 days in prison, incidents of self harm were officially recorded 11 times but never properly acted on. 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