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Today the government have announced their new strategy for diverting women away from crime, which sets out their progress two years on from accepting the recommendations of the Corston Report.
The Ministry of Justice press release says:
Today Justice Minister Maria Eagle announced a commitment to reduce women’s prison places by 400 before March 2012 so funding can be diverted for specialist services in the community. [...] The women’s community projects will offer courts a tough and credible alternative to short prison sentences. They will all tackle women’s needs in order …
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Today the Justice Secretary has spoken about how wrong it is to lock up vulnerable non-violent women offenders:
“While there is a consensus that we need to be tougher on male offenders there is also a broad consensus that where possible we should punish and reform females in the community and not in prisons,” said Mr Straw. [...] “We have to be sensible and humane in getting offending down in men and women, and we have to have different, but firm, approaches”.
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Remember Maria Eagle, the Justice Minister, securing £15.6m for one-stop shop women’s centres in February? Well, the successful projects have been announced, and will now receive funding for two years. CIFC is delighted that many of the projects supported over a number of years by members of the Coalition have been given funding to expand their work with women offenders.
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Earlier this year, six organisations were collectively awarded £3.1 million in grants:
Women in Prison (London)
WomenCentre (Calderdale and Kirklees)
Anawim (Birmingham)
Tyneside Cyrenians (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Safer Wales …
