Improving outcomes for women in the criminal justice system
We’ve published our letter in response to the Public Accounts Committee’s call for evidence for the inquiry into improving outcomes for women in the criminal justice system. We highlighted concerns that less than half of the Female Offender Strategy’s commitments have been fully implemented, nearly three years after its publication. We also reiterated concerns about the government’s plan to build an additional 500 women’s prison places. Clinks believes that to achieve the ambitions of the Female Offender Strategy money should be invested in community-based services and diversionary schemes delivered through women-centred and trauma-informed models. We therefore continue to call for the government to provide adequate, sustainable funding to support community-based, specialist women’s services. Read the letter in full here