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UK: Plan to shut women's jails is shelved

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

From (London) Times Online June 24, 2008 Plan to shut women's jails is shelved Richard Ford, Home Correspondent Radical proposals to close all 13 women's jails in England and Wales and replace them with small house units holding up to 20 offenders were today rejected by the Government. A working party within the Ministry of Justice finally buried the key plan from a review of women in the justice system after concluding that shutting the existing jails over the next decade and replacing them with up to 150 smaller units was impractical. Today's announcement is a bitter blow to penal reform groups who had put their trust in key female members of the Government, including those in the Justice Ministry and Attorney-General's office, being able to deliver the biggest shake-up in the way female offenders are treated in prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 25, 2008 (boomark / email).