by prisonsorguk | Oct 13, 2015 | HM Prisons Inspectorate, Women prisoners
HMP & YOI New Hall was a safe and decent prison and staff should be commended for their work, said Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons. Today he published the report of an unannounced inspection of the women’s prison in West Yorkshire. HMP & YOI New...
by prisonsorguk | Feb 6, 2015 | Mother and baby, Pregnant prisoners, Women prisoners
A solicitor’s secretary who faked her husband’s will to cut his daughters out of their share of his £1 million estate has been jailed for 21 months – despite falling pregnant at the age of 47. Dawn Smith turned the lives of her two adult...
by prisonsorguk | Jan 29, 2015 | Women prisoners
Fewer than one in 10 women released from a jail sentence of less than 12 months are able to get a job, prison reform campaigners have claimed. The figure is three times worse than the equivalent figure for men, according to a briefing by the Prison Reform Trust. In...
by prisonsorguk | Jun 3, 2014 | Female prisoners, HM Prisons Inspectorate, Women prisoners
HMP Send was a safe and decent prison which did excellent work to rehabilitate the women it held, said Nick Hardwick, Chief Inspector of Prisons, publishing the report of an unannounced inspection of the women’s prison in Surrey. HMP Send holds just over 280 convicted...
by prisonsorguk | Feb 17, 2014 | Celebrity, IPP / Lifer Sentences, Knife Crime, Parole, Violent crime, Women prisoners
A murderer who once worked as an aide to Sarah Ferguson could be freed from her life sentence within weeks after applying for early release – but one prisons expert argues it will be at least another three years before she is in any realistic position to be...
