Corston Report
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- Created on: 20-05-19 14:17
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- Corston Report
- Radical report on women's imprisonment
- Recommendations
- Women's prison abolished
- Replaced with smaller, community custodial centres
- More use of community penalties for non violent offenders
- Lower number of women entering prison from breach
- Women's prison abolished
- Studied health of 500 prisoners
- Abolishment?
- total? partial?
- net widening.
- total? partial?
- Conditions need to improve
- is some reform better than none?
- Identify vulnerabilities, community solutions for non violent offenders should be norm.
- is some reform better than none?
- 3 categories of vulnerabilities
- domestic circumstances
- personal circumstances
- socioeconomic factors
- poverty
- isolation
- employment
- isolation
- poverty
- mental illness
- low self esteem
- eating disorder
- substance misuse
- eating disorder
- low self esteem
- socioeconomic factors
- domestic violence
- childcare
- single parenting
- childcare
- personal circumstances
- domestic circumstances
- women represent small number of overall offenders
- ratio of male to female staff in women's prisons
- statistics
- 40% of women entering custody had no employment in the last 4 years
- 50% of women suffered violence at home
- just under half experienced physical/ domestic abuse
- 1 in 3 experienced sexual abuse/ ****
- 1 in 3 experienced emotional abuse
- introduced gender specific standards in 2008
- Peterborough - wide catchment area
- hard to link with community resettlement schemes
- subject to short sentences, no supervision on release
- no women's prisons in Wales
- Women's prison abolished
- Replaced with smaller, community custodial centres
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