Following the deaths of newborn babies in prisons, a new campaigning organisation protested outside Parliament against the incarceration of pregnant women, reports Feyzi Ismail.
Tag: Prison Reform
Record levels of self-harm found at Derbyshire women’s prison
Inmates held in a women’s prison are making 1,000 calls a month to Samaritans amid record levels of self-harm, increased violence and low safety levels usually only seen in men’s facilities, a damning report has found.
Women prisoners making 1,000 calls a month to Samaritans, says report
Women were making around 1,000 calls each month to the Samaritans, according to prison inspectors. A report by the Inspectorate of Prisons has found self-harm was the highest at HMP Foston Hall.
New data shows 2021 had highest number of deaths in prison ever
The Ministry of Justice has released the latest statistics on deaths and self-harm in prison in the UK. Six of the deaths were in women’s prisons, three of which were ‘natural cause’ and three await classification.
One by one, African countries dismantle colonial-era death laws
Lawmakers in Sierra Leone voted unanimously on Friday to abolish the death penalty, a momentous step that made the West African country the 23rd on the continent to prohibit capital punishment.
Sierra Leone’s parliament votes to abolish capital punishment
Lawmakers in the West African nation voted unanimously Friday to outlaw capital punishment and replace it with life imprisonment or a minimum 30-year sentence for such crimes as murder or treason.
US halts all federal executions amid review of capital punishment
The US attorney general has imposed a moratorium on all federal executions while the justice department reviews its policies and procedures on capital punishment. Activists have been pushing for a halt since the Trump administration.
President Biden said ‘no’ to the death penalty. Now what?
Its become much more difficult to figure out what the Biden administration plans to do about the death penalty, even though the president and attorney general previously had left little doubt.
