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36 posts todayThread. Thank you @CrimeandJustice for co-hosting this important meeting on women in prisons. Now to build for change. #WPUKPrisons https://t.co/wAVofg...
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36 posts todayThank you @Mocha_Soul #WpukPrisons https://t.co/qO8e47...
Woman's Place UK
36 posts todayRT @NWtoG: #WpukPrisons @Mocha_Soul https://t.co/KqhEOX...
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36 posts todayClosing tonight @Mocha_Soul #WPUKPrisons 'In the case of women's prisons, detention and immigration centres, we should always ask whether incarceration was appropriate." #WPUKPrisons
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36 posts today'There are women MPs in the Labour Party who sidle up to me and tell me that they agree with me. I will continue to speak out and if I lose my job, I'd prefer to tell the truth.' @RosieDuffield1 #WPUKPrisons
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36 posts todayRT @LilyLilyMaynard: #WPUKPrisons “Our criminal justice system has been grossly underfunded for twenty years or more.” @BluskyeAllison. “women are always at the bottom of the pile” @RosieDuffield1 https://t.co/FThogu...
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36 posts todayRT @piffavuri: Q. on making misogyny a hate crime. A: this could misfire, particularly if gender is still used instead of sex #WPUKPrisons
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36 posts todayQ. from the audience, what about making misogyny a hate crime? @BluskyeAllison 'I am completely against making misogyny a hate crime. The sudden enthusiasm for it has nothing to do with protecting women.' @JoPhoenix1 'Instead of making new laws, ...
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36 posts today.@lucybaldwin08 66% Of the female prison population are mothers #WPUKPrisons
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36 posts todayI would prefer to see the money being used to build new prisons for women to be spent on women in the community @francescrook #WPUKPrisons
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36 posts todayThere may be one or two handfuls of women offenders who have committed crimes that are so violent that they should be in prison. @francescrook #WPUKPrisons ...
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36 posts todayPolice cells are no longer used as a place of safety but prison cells are. Women in great distress are being held in prison as a place of safety. @francescrook #wpukPrisons
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36 posts todayWomen are not committing crimes of extreme violence, it's very rare and once they are in prison, these women suffer. They are a small percent of the prison population but carry out a quarter of all self-injuries @francescrook #WPUKPrisons
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36 posts todayBlack women are more than twice as likely as white women to be arrested, charged and prosecuted @francescrook #WPUKPrisons
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36 posts today#WPUKPrisons @francescrook When we interrogated police records, a lot of women who were arrested for alleged crimes of violence were actually defending themselves
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36 posts todayWe are setting up here for A Woman’s Place is NOT in prison. We are looking forward to a brilliant discussion tonight. If you can’t be here in person. you can follow #WPUKPrisons for live tweets. Speakers will be filmed and recordings uploaded to our ...
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36 posts today80% of women have been sentenced for a non-violent offence; 70% women in prison are survivors of domestic abuse; 90% of children of imprisoned mothers have to leave home as a result - Tonight - A Woman’s Place is NOT in prison - 7.30pm #WPUKPrisons ...
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36 posts todayRT @JoPhoenix1: I only need 500 people to donate £15 and I will have hit my target. https://t.co/5kbQaX... https://t.co/iufK6w...
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36 posts todayRT @CrimeandJustice: Fancy a lunchtime webinar full of conversation between commentators? Listen in on the chats on: PCSC Bill Party conference speeches The Casey Review Inspectorate reports Join @RichardJGarside @HannahQuirk1 @JoPhoenix1 & Helen ...
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36 posts todayRT @OnTheWomanQ: Make sure you follow the hashtag #WPUKPrisons from 7:30pm tonight! Excellent speakers and sure to be an excellent event! https://t.co/bOnkb6...
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36 posts todayTicket sales now closed. We will record the speakers and there will be live-tweeting from #WPUKPrisons https://t.co/lTpgpy...
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36 posts todayRT @LittleHardman: Really looking forward to the @Womans_Place_UK meeting tonight. https://t.co/c51N00...
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36 posts todayRT @womenspeakscot1: Wishing those of our sisters who've gone down to That There London an enjoyable, interesting and productive time at the @Womans_Place_UK meeting. https://t.co/MuAr3H...
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36 posts todayRT @hogotheforsaken: This is such an important event. All women face sex-based discrimination/viol... But vulnerable &/or marginalised women are far more at risk. We MUST speak up for women in prison, the majority of whom have been victims of ...
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36 posts todayMeet the woman spearheading the Police Me Too movement
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36 posts todayRT @hannahfearn: An inquiry into the Met will be a “whitewash” without a full public examination of the violent behaviour endemic in the police force, the founder of the @PoliceMeToo movement tells me. New piece for the @Independent ...
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36 posts todayA record of Woman's Place UK meetings - Woman's Place UK
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36 posts todayWe are really looking forward to our 28th public meeting tonight A Woman's Place is NOT in prison. To celebrate, we are launching our new website with this updated post detailing all the public events we have organised since 2017 ...
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36 posts todayElizabeth Pulley/Rope (1762-1837) Sentenced to death aged 17 for theft. Instead was 1 of 25,000 women convicts sent to colonise Australia to labour in Female Factories, as servants or as wives. Known on ship as one of 'the fighting five’. Survived ...
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36 posts todayElizabeth Pulley/Rope (1762-1837) Sentenced to death aged 17 for theft. Instead was 1 of 25,000 women convicts sent to colonise Australia to labour in Female Factories, as servants or as wives. Known on ship as one of 'the fighting five’. Survived ...
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36 posts todayTicket sales for tonight’s meeting now closed. We will be recording the speakers and posting on our YouTube channel. There will also be livetweeting from the event tonight. # to follow. Thanks to everyone for your support for women in prison. ...
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36 posts todayA Woman's Place is (not) in prison
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36 posts todayRT @VictimsComm: It has become routine for rape complainants to face excessive demands for mobile phone data, wholly disproportionate to the investigation. I'm grateful to gov't for these concessions, which will introduce vital safeguards and stop ...
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36 posts todayRT @GitaSahgal: Many years ago, when I wrote grant applications to study #forcedmarriage with @SBSisters, the term was barely known. People asked how many forced marriages are there? But how could we know, if no-one was recording them, and we ...
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36 posts todayVery last chance to register for tickets tonight. We will be closing the sales very shortly. Details of venue etc will be emailed out to attendees later today https://t.co/QObDDk...
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36 posts todayScottish trade union leaders condemned after vote on women-only services