Inquiry into women’s health and well-being in prisons: Briefing One

Inquiry into women’s health and well-being in prisons: Briefing One Prisons are unable to address the physical and mental health needs of women and in fact make them worse, an inquiry by an influential cross-party panel of MPs and peers has found.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Women in the Penal System (APPG) has uncovered alarming evidence of poor living conditions, rising self-harm and practices that compound the victimisation of women in prison, the majority of whom have experienced violence or abuse prior to their imprisonment in a new report.