Videos – Women’s Prisons and the UK Justice System

Bishop Rachel introduces representatives of Women in Prison, The Nelson Trust, Anawim and the Department of Justice on the topic of changing funding models for the female inmate cohort.

Full information: https://www.gloucester.anglican.org/2018/bishop-rachel-leading-change-to-womens-judicial-system/

The Bishop of Gloucester hosted an event in the House of Lords on Monday 15 October, to challenge the effectiveness of the recently launched Female Offender Strategy.

Her aim is that women given short sentences for non-violent offences should be given community-based orders and rehabilitated through women’s centres. She is calling, alongside others, for funding to be diverted from the prison system into women’s centres such as The Nelson Trust in Gloucestershire.

We know that it costs approximately £47k per year to keep a woman in prison, but women’s centres can work effectively with approximately £4k per woman each year. Properly resourced women’s centres can provide an opportunity for women to receive a holistic trauma-informed approach of rehabilitation.

The event showcased powerful examples of people, organisations and communities working to drive change for women. Bishop Rachel said, “My hope is that by bringing people together for conversation we will be challenged to take action in ways that will help provide a different path for some women in the judicial system, giving them opportunities to flourish. For me, as a follower of Jesus Christ, my motivation to do this is to see every woman become the person that God has created her to be.”
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