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The racist, Islamophobic, and anti-migrant violence taking place over the last few days has created an atmosphere of division and has a direct impact on the wellbeing and safety of our staff and the women we work alongside (1/2)

Our frontline services are working to respond to this. We stand in solidarity with our partners who are at the heart of communities and who we know are doing the same 💜 (2/2)

Thank you One Small Thing and PrisonPhilanthropist for having us on the #JUSTICE podcast. Listen now to hear more about the importance of diversion schemes for preventing women getting drawn into the criminal justice system buff.ly/3yHF770

The Prisons Handbook 2025 (published in October), contains a powerful #OpEd by Sonya Ruparel, Chief Executive of Women in Prison as to ... '𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏, 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅'

This Thursday, we’re hosting the Summit on Ending the Criminalisation of Women with Clean Break We'll bring people together from across the criminal justice system and beyond to explore innovative ideas to drive transformative change. Stay tuned for live updates! #WomensJustice

We’re live at the Summit on Ending the Criminalisation of Women! We're kicking off today’s discussions with women with lived experience & those working across & beyond the #CriminalJusticeSystem. Follow for live updates & key moments through the day! #WomensJustice Clean Break

Clean Break "40 years ago there were around 1400 women in prison. Today there are over 3,600...Women are not more criminal today. We are not worse people than we were 40 years ago...Social injustice leads to criminal injustice." Sonya Ruparel opens the Summit today with an inspiring speech

Great to hear this announcement today… time for actual transformative change

Two-thirds of children in YOIs report being segregated, reports HMI Prisons - 76% at Cookham Wood. The Howard League's Andrea Coomber: 'It's unconscionable children are locked up for hours on end. Prison is no place for a child.’ Pic: @andyaitchison thejusticegap.com/scandal-of-you…

'For women, prison isn’t working' They're the words of Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood MP. Dame Anne Owers and Lily Blundell from Women in Prison Women in Prison join Nuala McGovern to discuss ⬇️

Following Shabana Mahmood MP's announcement of a Women's Justice Board tasked with reducing the women's prison population, our Head of Policy & Public Affairs has written a checklist for the Board. Read now: bit.ly/3XS8Pix

📻LISTEN: BBC Woman's Hour - the govts. new Women's Justice Board wants to reduce the number of women going to prison and alternatives in the community like Women in Prison are ready to support women but they desperately need 'reliable, sustainable funding': bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

"If you're only thinking about working with women at the point at which they're sent to prison, you're starting too late. Real solutions are earlier upstream, where change needs to happen." Lucy Russell, Head of Policy & Public Affairs via BBC News (UK) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

BREAKING 📢 Ministry of Justice has announced a Sentencing Review led by David Gauke. It presents an opportunity to transform the way women are treated in the #CriminalJusticeSystem. Our Sonya Ruparel responds: bit.ly/3BS4aWh #WomenInPrison #UKPrison #CriminalJustice

Ministry of Justice announce details of the independent Sentencing Review chaired by David Gauke Our CEO Sonya Ruparel responds: ow.ly/pbiP50U6Ilf #WomenInPrison #UKPrison #CriminalJustice

“This is happening because of gaps in a broken system which is unsafe and unsuitable for women. In many cases, we know that housing simply isn’t available for women when they are released.” We spoke to Vicky Spratt for The i Paper this week: ow.ly/C4kw50UfPCT

“The use of prison as a so-called place of safety for very unwell women is unsafe and totally inappropriate.” Sonya Ruparel our CEO, responded to the use of prisons as a "place of safety" for unwell women via Tortoise bit.ly/3ZlKLoT #WomenInPrison

🚨 Stop Punishing Domestic Abuse Survivors 🚨 Too often women are criminalised for offences resulting from abuse With 100+ orgs & individuals, we're calling for: ✅ An end to survivor criminalisation ✅ Support, not punishment bit.ly/StopPunishingS… #StopPunishingSurvivors

🎉 Meet the speakers for our upcoming event - ‘Justice and Women: A New Direction’ - in partnership with The Weavers' Company! We’re thrilled to announce some of our incredible line-up of speakers: 🎙️ Sonya Ruparel 🎙️ PrisonPhilanthropist #WeaversEvent #Networking

Delighted to introduce this expert panel to discuss how can we reduce the use of custody for women and bring about systems change that will result in better outcomes for all. Sonya Ruparel Women in Prison Abbi Ayers National Women's Justice Coalition Rokaiya Khan Together Women @Niquita__ #JusticeandWomen