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Nacro comments on Cookham Wood prison report
Paul Cavadino, Chief Executive of Nacro, the crime reduction charity, comments on the report of HM Chief Inspector of Prisons on Cookham Wood prison, published today.
“When vulnerable women are locked in their cells for excessively long periods because of staff shortages, this can increase their depression and worsen mental disorders with a depressive element. It also makes it harder for women to talk regularly to their children by using payphones on the landings. This can cause serious distress to prisoners and their children and further damage to family relationships.
“Many of the women in Cookham Wood should not be in prison but should have been sentenced to supervision in the community. Ten years ago many of them would not have been jailed, but since then we have seen a sharp rise in punitiveness in the sentencing of women. The best way of reducing the pressure on prisons like Cookham Wood would be for the courts to jail fewer women.”
Notes to editors
1. For further information please contact Rachael Quilton, Media Relations Manager, on 020 7840 6497 or 07974 189 979.
2. Nacro, the national crime reduction charity, works with disadvantaged people, deprived communities and ex-offenders to give them a positive stake and place in society. It has unrivalled expertise in developing effective solutions to crime and stimulating fresh thinking on how best to reduce it through policy, research and campaign work . Nacro runs preventative projects to steer young people away from crime, provides housing , education and employment programmes for ex-offenders and people at risk of offending, resettles prisoners into the community and works with families and communities to prevent crime.
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