To have fun Hope Road’s first anniversary, Girl Edwina kindly wrote a brief piece for the weblog setting out the venture’s rationale.
“The prisons are full and there’s no manner that constructing extra prisons goes to repair the present drawback or the trajectory that we’re on. There are too many prisoners, too few employees, sentences have elevated exponentially and there seems to be no credible technique in any respect for what lies forward.
I’ve spent that final eight years of my twenty 5 yr profession in Justice designing and constructing an alternative choice to custody for girls and their kids. Hope Road Hampshire is a residential group resolution for girls who’re at present despatched to jail attributable to unsafe or unstable lodging, not as a result of their crime crosses the custody threshold. Because of ladies often being the first carer this typically implies that kids are eliminated into the care system which regularly has devastating results.
The Hope Road mannequin which is now one yr into operations, has been designed to be replicable and scalable in order that it could possibly be rolled out throughout the Nation. Girls could be despatched to Hope Road on remand, on a group sentence, from jail if they’re eligible for early launch or by probation, and crucially, if applicable, their kids can stay with them while they obtain the assist they want.
If a brand new Authorities occurred to be searching for credible, thought by options to the overcrowding disaster then this definitely is one.”
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