A Woman's Place is NOT in prison: Cátia Freitas (London, 27 October 2021) скачать в хорошем качестве

A Woman's Place is NOT in prison: Cátia Freitas (London, 27 October 2021)

Joint meeting of Woman's Place UK and the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. Cátia Freitas closed the meeting on behalf of Woman's Place UK. She is a community and union activist. She is @Mocha_Soul on twitter where she gives a valuable online voice on women's rights understood in the complex contexts of working class politics, internationalism and race. She is on the editorial board of the feminist quarterly The Radical Notion. http://theradicalnotion.org http://crimeandjustice.org.uk http://womansplaceuk.org About this event The ruling handed down by the High Court in FDJ v Secretary of State for Justice shows that UK law does not work for women. In dismissing the claim by a woman prisoner who had suffered a sexual assault by a male prisoner whilst in a women’s prison, the judges have exposed the failings of the UK criminal justice system and its blatant disregard for women’s rights, safety, privacy and dignity. This meeting discussed the neglect of women's needs and inherent sexism in the penal system, of which the callous disregard for women being locked up with male prisoners is just one facet, connected to others. We looked at the solutions and the need to get women out of prisons (a system designed around the containment of men) by providing better, more therapeutic, sex-specific services and approaches.