Il ministro della Giustizia Shabana Mahmood svela il piano per chiudere le carceri femminili a causa della crisi di sovraffollamento

“Nicola Drinkwater from the charity Women in Prison said: “[This] announcement from the lord chancellor is long awaited and finally signals a recognition that women do not belong in prison.”

Whilst I don’t doubt that there are many women in prison that don’t belong there, there are plenty that do.

Huh??? What the fuck is going on here? Are the proper nutters being housed in secure units instead?

gonna get the mrs to do all the crime from now on then

This two tier thing is pretty much confirmed now isn’t it.

This is absolutely bonkers.

We hear so much about women calling for more equality.

I’m guessing it’s a one way street?

I hope we do actually expand the prison capacity at some stage instead of doing an indefinite early release for non-violent offenders, because this is kinda sending the impression that “If a violent crime isn’t committed, prison isn’t necessary” which from a purely punishing standpoint? It often isn’t.

But from the standpoint of reoffending individuals who’ve clearly grown up in instability, lack skills that help them thrive in society and are behind academically also? This is where prisons could help them.. I’ve known people who will just be in and out of prison on short sentences continuously where they would have had the opportunity to do courses, undergo counselling, personality disorder assessments/learning disability assessments (faster waiting time than outside of prison, funnily enough), etc.

But because they’re given very short sentences that don’t even exceed a year, they aren’t really able to take advantage of any of these things, so recidivism remains a huge risk. I have an older sister who has a history of abusing drugs, alcohol, massive amounts of anti-social behaviour and has been to prison multiple times yet let out early. Nothing has changed.

I genuinely think if she was at least kept there for a year or more, she’d genuinely have a better chance living a normal life rather than falling into the same patterns.

Has everyone in the Labour cabinet suffered simultaneous blows to the head??

Why do they keep coming up with idiotic unpopular ideas?

“lEtS bAn SmOkInG oUtSiDe pUbS!”

“LeTs rEdUcE pUb OpEnInG TiMeS”

“LeTs ClOsE pRiSoNs”

What happened to building more houses or quite frankly building anything at all??

Completely insane and I cannot understand how it would be legal to treat men in a blatantly discriminatory unfavourable way. As far as I’m aware UK Equalities law stresses moral symmetry of different groups rather than ‘rectifying injustice’ and it’s race/gender that are protected characteristics rather than e.g. black/women being protected groups. It’s illegal to unfairly discriminate against men, white people, straight people and so on.

Do the women who shouldn’t be in prison include those who identify as a woman?

Hard to say that these shouldn’t be included if you believe that they are women.

Labour will consider this and go on about prison capacity, but never raise decriminalising certain drugs when drug offenders make up about 10% of the total prison population.

Finally Justice! These women are victims that were subject to all sorts of abuse that led to them committing crimes… Men however were not!…. /s