Thursday, 4 July 2019

‘Shocking’ Number Of Homeless Women Sent To Prison


Over 3,000 women were recorded as being effectively homeless on arrival in custody at any one of the nine prisons for female offenders in England and Wales last year – with many likely to return to homelessness on release. Ministry of Justice stats put to Parliament show the number of women recorded as of “no fixed abode” when they entered prison women has now nearly doubled since 2015. Read more on 24housing.

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