I walked down from my cell to the prison food servery unit and joined the single-file queue for lunch. It was a huge shock to the system when I started my term at HMP Bronzefield, the largest women’s prison in the UK. Otherwise, inmates get conditioned that life is never going to get better and prison is as good as it gets. Women in prison: The facts● A study on women’s health in prison interviewed 2,250 woman one month after they’d been taken into custody – 25 said they had had sex with another woman. ● Female prisoners are 69 times more likely to die in the week following their release from prison, compared to women in the general population.

Source: Daily Mirror June 28, 2020 05:58 UTC