 |  | | | Women & Prisons Report | 23 March 2005 | | |
What difference will new funding make to women offenders?
The Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, has announced £9 million pounds worth of funding for alternatives to prison for women offenders.
He made the announcement at the launch of a review of the Fawcett Society's Commission on Women and the Criminal Justice System which highlighted the number of vulnerable women who are in prison. Since the report a year ago 12 more women have committed suicide in jail.
So what difference is the funding expected to make? Jenni is joined by Juliet Lyon, Head of the Prison Reform Trust and Paul Goggins, the Home Office Prisons Minister.
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