Скачать или смотреть Why domestic violence survivors are imprisoned

Over half of the 3,600 women in the UK prison system are victims of domestic violence.

More than three quarters of them report mental health problems, and 73% of those who serve short sentences reoffend within a year. Many are stuck in a cycle of trauma, addiction, crime....repeat.

But what’s the alternative? And how do you fix a broken system that effectively punishes vulnerable women twice for crimes committed out of fear and coercion?

The News Movement was given unprecedented access to HMP New Hall in Wakefield, where we heard directly from the women inside, and from those who have been offered an alternative, using new psychiatric methods to break destructive patterns of behaviour.

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