Response to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons consultation on Expectations: Criteria for assessing the treatment of and conditions for those held in women’s prisons
12 January 2021
The Howard League welcomes the opportunity to comment on Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons consultation on Expectations: Criteria for assessing the treatment of and conditions for those held in women’s prisons.
There is a contradiction to the underpinning ethos of the draft Expectations.
Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons states that women’s custody should no longer be something designed for men, and adapted slightly to accommodate women’ while at the same time noting that those held in women’s prisons should experience a ‘fundamentally different approach to their safe, decent and purposeful detention’. This contradiction between fundamental divergence and slight adaptation is borne out in the many ways the Expectations still reflect the way in which men’s prisons are inspected.
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