whether Michael Gove is serious about leaving a legacy he should reduce the number of females held in jailEvery few weeks in the library of HMP Holloway,the charity Women in Prison has a meeting of prisoners who contribute features, poems, or jokes and illustrations to the charity’s magazine.
Petty theft,substance misuse, self-harming, and the agonising loss of children taken absent for adoption,the worry that release from prison may mean homelessness and the terror that others will discover you’ve done time – all net pushed aside. These women overflow with enthusiasm and capabilities and a desire to prove that they are so much more than the labels stuck on them – vulnerable, chaotic, or mentally unstable,“bad”. It is a privilege to witness.
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Source: theguardian.com