
ALT A picture of a young Chris Tchaikovsky, smoking a cigarette, is overlaid with text that reads: “Excluding people from society does not, never has and never will, help offenders live well...within society. Imprisonment is in fact a brutalising, disabling and deforming experience and not, as some would argue, a positive, enabling and reforming one.” Chris Tchaikovsky, Founder of Women in Prison

ALT Text reads: "The increasing levels of self-harm, currently 10 times that of the male estate, and severely mentally unwell women being in prison is wholly unacceptable...Rather than locking women up, we need to invest in community-based services - like domestic abuse, welfare, mental health and housing - to address the root causes that draw women into the criminal justice system. " Sonya Ruparel, CEO of Women in Prison






















