Women's Prisons Alert Sample


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Information between 30th April 2023 - 14th April 2024

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Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 17th January 2024
Written Evidence - The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
PIW0013 - Prisons in Wales

Prisons in Wales - Welsh Affairs Committee

Found: Visiting Mum project serving Welsh women in English prisons and their families There are no women's

Wednesday 29th November 2023
Correspondence - Letter from the Minister for Prisons and Probation, dated 23 November 2023 on the Publication of a review of Health and Social care in women’s prison

Justice Committee

Found: Commons London SW1A0AA 11...a November 2023 PUBLICATION OF A REVIEW OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE IN WOMEN'S

Tuesday 7th November 2023
Written Evidence - Women in Prison (45922)
FPP0025 - Future prison population and estate capacity

Future prison population and estate capacity - Justice Committee

Found: Despite the Covid-19 restrictions ending in all prisons in May 2022, the free- flow of women in women's

Tuesday 17th October 2023
Correspondence - Letter from Damien Hinds MP, Minister for Prisons and Probation, dated 14 September 2023, on the Publication of the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman Annual Report

Justice Committee

Found: We are also recruiting 54 Drugs Strategy Leads in male category C and women's prisons -by March 2025

Tuesday 11th July 2023
Written Evidence - Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody
JCS0040 - Community sentences

Community sentences - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: APPG-womens-health-and-well-being- FINAL.pdf (howardleague.org) 19 Independent Monitoring Boards, Mental health concerns in women's

Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Written Evidence - Lyndsey Maiden
GRA1371 - Reform of the Gender Recognition Act

Reform of the Gender Recognition Act - Women and Equalities Committee

Found: feel strongly that the repercussions need to be fully explored, everything from how it impacts women's



Written Answers
Crime: Staffordshire
Asked by: Jonathan Gullis (Conservative - Stoke-on-Trent North)
Wednesday 13th September 2023

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking through the criminal justice system to tackle alcohol and drug-related crime in (a) Stoke-on-Trent and (b) Staffordshire.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

We know that drug and alcohol related crime blights communities and drives reoffending, so it is essential the Criminal Justice System tackles substance misuse and supports offenders into treatment.

This is why MoJ have introduced the Alcohol Abstinence and Monitoring Requirement (AAMR) to tackle alcohol related offending. The AAMR imposes an alcohol ban for up to 120 days, with compliance electronically monitored using an alcohol tag. Published statistics show a compliance rate with the ban of 97.2% for days monitored, since introduction, Electronic Monitoring Statistics Published June 2023 - Gov.uk. We have also introduced alcohol monitoring for offenders leaving custody and during the license period where alcohol misuse is a factor for reoffending; license conditions may be imposed which ban or limit alcohol consumption.

Drug Treatment Requirements can also be imposed as part of a community sentence, which aims to address the underlying causes of drug-driven offending behaviours and improve health outcomes.

All prisoners will also have access to high-quality treatment so they can turn their back on addiction. We are increasing the number of Incentivised Substance Free Living units to up to 100 by March 2025, where prisoners commit to remaining free of illicit drugs with regular drug testing and incentives - there are currently 60 open across the estate, including several in the West Midlands region.

The ongoing recruitment of Drug Strategy Leads based in category C and women's prisons, also allows for the coordination of the strategy’s whole system approach to tackling drugs.

We are recruiting Health and Justice Partnership Coordinators across England and Wales, to improve offender access to substance misuse and health services. These roles work regionally across the West Midlands, covering both Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire.

We know that for prison leavers, continuity of care after release is important. We are rolling out a project that will make probation aware of all person leavers who were in treatment in prison and have been referred to community treatment- enabling them to support appointment attendance. Mobilisation in Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire is underway and due to complete by March 2024.

National Women's Prisons Health and Social Care Review
Asked by: Lord Bradley (Labour - Life peer)
Thursday 15th June 2023

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect the report of the National Women’s Prisons Health and Social Care Review to be published.

Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)

NHS England has advised that they are working with their partners to finalise the review and anticipate publication will be during the Summer of 2023.



Department Publications - Statistics
Thursday 25th January 2024
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Ethnicity and the Criminal Justice System 2022
Document: (ODS)

Found: White: 344 Black: 18 Asian: 17 Mixed: 35 Other: 2 [note 5] In this table, the data presented for all women's

Thursday 11th May 2023
Ministry of Justice
Source Page: Reducing Reoffending Package Process Evaluation
Document: £50m Reducing Reoffending Package Process Evaluation (PDF)

Found: The Homelessness Prevention Team in one region highlighted that women's prisons found referrals more



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
Jul. 05 2023
HM Inspectorate of Prisons
Source Page: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons annual report: 2022 to 2023
Document: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons annual report: 2022 to 2023 (PDF)
Transparency

Found: 13 13 26 13 13 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 63 49 112 55 87%47 96%102 91%8 13%2 4%10 9%0 0%0 0%0 0% Women's



Non-Departmental Publications - Policy and Engagement
Sep. 08 2017
Lammy Review
Source Page: Lammy Review of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation in the Criminal Justice System: call for evidence
Document: (Excel)
Policy and Engagement

Found: Prisoner survey responses Lammy Enquiry 2017: Women's BME comparator (2016/17 women's prisons)Prisoner




Women's Prisons mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Government Publications
Saturday 16th December 2023
Constitution Directorate
Source Page: Correspondence in relation to offshore wind: FOI release
Document: FOI - 202300344494 - Information release (PDF)

Found: prisons.

Tuesday 9th May 2023
Justice Directorate
Source Page: Correspondence and Briefing relating to Transgender Prisoners: FOI release
Document: FOI 202300342026 - Information Released - Annex (PDF)

Found: No transgender women with a history of violent and sexual offences against women will be housed in women's

Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Population Health Directorate
Source Page: Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) information: FOI release
Document: FOI 202300347130 - Information Released - Main Document - Part B (PDF)

Found: understand stigma around alcohol use or the design and execution of alco hol brief interventions in women's



Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
Monday 3rd December 2018
The purpose of the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill is to make answering any questions in the 2021 Census on sexual orientation or gender identity voluntary thereby ensuring that no penalties result from non-response to these questions. This briefing provides background on the Bill, including discussion of the perceived need for, and development of, questions on sexual
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Found: purposes and would pose a threat to women, particularly in single-sex spaces, such as women's refuges and women's