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A prison scandal that should shame us all

By John Hirst

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A prison scandal that should shame us all

The Government's disclosure, in answer to a question tabled by the Liberal Democrats, that an average of 1.7 babies are born each week to women in prison, has a melancholy and Dickensian ring to it. True, the prisons into which these women are serving sentences are not necessarily grim Victorian fortresses, but it is a dismal comment on the state of our society that we even tolerate the idea of so many children spending their first months of life behind bars.

The fact that we now have eight mother and baby units in British jails is a direct result of judges' decisions to send more women to jail. The female prison population has risen relentlessly under New Labour. According to the most recent figures in May, the figure then stood at 4,458 ? almost double the total for 1996 ? although only marginally up on 2007.

Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).

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