New Futures Project

Prison Outreach
The project holds a weekly clinic within Peterborough prison, providing support to women on remand or serving sentences. Peterborough is the receiving prison for women from Leicester both on remand and post sentencing. We regularly visit women serving sentences in prisons across the country, most regularly Foston Hall and Drake Hall.
Most of the women are serving relatively short sentences relating to their prostitution and substance misuse such as dealing illegal substances, theft, low level fraud and other poverty crimes.
Some of the women we work with have been involved in prostitution and drug use for many years which has increased their exposure to criminal activity and their association with perpetrators of more organised and high profile crime so consequently, there are a small number of women we support in prison who are serving longer sentences for more serious crimes such as violence.