Jailed women to be near home
Female inmates will serve their sentences closer to home and will be offered skills to help find work upon their release under new reforms revealed today.
Labour: Govt prison plan is 'tinkering around the edges'
Labour's shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan has described the government's prison reforms as "tinkering around the edges" of the problem.
Khan told Daybreak that it should be investing in more women's treatment centres and more smaller prisons. He said in an earlier statement: "With only a small number of scattered women’s prisons, the concept of local resettlement is almost meaningless."
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