The government has blocked 128 inmates trapped by cruel indefinite jail terms from moving to open prisons in the past year. This is only the latest injustice suffered by prisoners who are still serving indefinite sentences 12 years after imprisonment for public protection jail terms were abolished in 2012. After an adverse ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, …
This article was first published 20 October 2019. It turned out to be the other way around.” Gender inequality in prison The Corston Report, published in 2007 to reform the ways women were looked after in prison, found: - 30 per cent of women lose their accommodation while in prison - Prison is disproportionately harsher for women because prisons and …
