There was one death in Cookham Wood, Peterborough, and Drake Hall prisons ... Medical negligence contributed to 38% of BME women’s deaths in prison (five out of thirteen). While there is data on BME ...

As the city of Indianapolis takes steps to redevelop the long-vacant Indiana Women's Prison property, a Near Eastside group has started a separate project to tell former inmates' stories.

Tucked away in the Central Valley, Central California Women's Facility sits off Highway 99 between Fresno and Merced. Farmland surrounds much of the prison, and visitors are rare. The 640-acre ...

YOI Cookham Wood, HMP Channings Wood, and HMP Ashfield each had just one place free. Warren Hill had two, Durham three, Rye Hill four, Buckley Hall five, and Bure seven. HMP Birmingham had 23 free ...

In the latest monthly snapshot of each prison’s population, one had no vacant places ... The monthly figures, published in December, show that on November 25, HMP Exeter was full. Cookham Wood had ...

In my work at Women in Prison, a national charity working to end the harm of the justice system on women’s lives, sadly I hear such stories on a regular basis. A service manager in our Manchester ...

Population pressures and the drive to maximise capacity have placed immense strain across the prison estate. With the increasing ... officers escorted men to cells under restraint. At Cookham Wood YOI ...

In 2013, Hydebank Wood Secure College and Women's Prison were deemed to be on a "downward spiral", and "not helping" inmates rehabilitate. Now though, inspectors have found outcomes for prisoners ...

The 2023-24 annual inspector’s report released on Tuesday found men and women were spending ... and at Cookham Wood youth offenders institute. In Bristol prison there had been eight suicides ...

Approximately 4% of people in prison in England and Wales are women, and in 2020 72% of female prison admissions were for non-violent crimes. As someone who studies women’s prisons, I hope that ...

Cookham Wood was recently “repurposed” to help cope ... Custody Service that children continue to be held in solitary confinement. Prison “restricted status” rules for women and child prisoners are ...