Prison reformer misses the point
Juliet Lyon the director of Prison Reform Trust and secretary general of Penal Reform International, in an article for Comment is free concludes:
"The conditions in prison may no longer be Dickensian but young mothers are still going to jail for the same reasons they were in Victorian times: poverty, debt, addiction and mental illness".
I challenge her view that women are being sent to prison for "poverty, debt, addiction and mental illness". Like men, they are sent to prison for committing crimes.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
2 comments:
Exactly ... which raises the question as to whether police investigations into 'cash for honours', including £600,000 NE property developer's contribution to Labour have been 'shelved' since Sir Ian Blair was "fired" ??
Two innocent middle class mothers were imprisoned for killing their babies based on the 'opinion' of ONE 'expert'. Has he since been reinstated ?
One mother, the solicitor, never recovered from the injustice and died prematurely.
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