Posts

Supporting Women Offenders Affected by Violence and Abuse and Famo

Image
We know that many victims of sexual, physical and emotional abuse can also be drawn into offending behaviour'. The proportion of female prisoners that report experiencing some form of abuse during their childhood is twice as high as among male prisoners with many reporting that their offending was to support their partner or someone else's substance misuse. We are working with regional areas to encourage a more effective joined up approach to addressing these complex needs. Different models are under development in Greater Manchester, Wales and London. These models aim to develop a whole system approach to managing female offenders which can help improve victim outcomes as well as create cost savings. The National Offender Management Service " published "Better Outcomes for Women" earlier this year which sets out the commissioning principles for developing services for women in the criminal justice. Sexual Harassment in Public Places system We wil...
Post a Comment
Read more

Beyond Reason – By Farah Damji

Image
The Treatment of Women in the English Criminal Justice System , sponsored by Baroness Uddin of Bethnall Green. This one  year call for evidence and best practise for reducing reoffending and providing a humane, rights based approach to the  4000 incarcerated women in English prisons, is a call from women prisoners, on licence in the community and others living with the effects of being somehow involved in the criminal justice system,  for improvement via a judge led inquiry. Information will be disseminated via a prison magazine with content and case studies from women who have or  continue to suffer injustice called The View . This will be celebrated at am event in Parliamnet on.  XX DEC 2019 at an invitation only conference of the major stakeholders and service users with lived experience. The data mining and gathering process will draw from the experiences of women in prison and on license in the community, and women affected by all aspects of the c...
Post a Comment
Read more

Justice and Women’s Rights Campaigner, Farah Damji - Heroine or a Villain? ~ by Jazz Kaur

Image
"The aphorist Christopher Spranger wrote: “The author who possesses not only ideas of his own but eloquence with which to clothe and adorn them cannot avoid cutting an impudent figure in this world.”  Spranger might have been describing Farah Damji when he wrote those words. For she is such an author, creative, eloquent, and most definitely impudent. And it’s the impudence that makes her memoir Try Me so delightful to read....And oh! What life she led. The kind of life only a very few women have lived. Women like Cleopatra of Egypt, the Queen of Sheba, Theodora, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe. Women who had style, imagination, élan and a lust for life."  - Randall Radic, ex-con, ex-priest Farah Damji is a woman in conflict with the law. Since 2010 Farah has dedicated her life to social justice issues. She actively campaigns for the rights of women in the criminal justice system which has often  lead to her being at loggerheads with the institutions that dam...
Read more