HMP Bronzefield Independent Monitoring Board Annual Report 2018–19

Commenting on the report’s findings, Jenny Earle, programme director for the Prison Reform Trust’s programme to reduce women’s imprisonment said:

“This report from an independent scrutiny body could not be any clearer or better informed. It details the pointless imposition of short custodial sentences, with two-thirds of women being released with nowhere to live; and the hundreds of women being recalled back to prison because they’ve broken the terms of their release. With no home, and too little support, many of these women are simply being set up to fail. The Government published a strategy in July 2018 that was supposed to address all of these issue, but 18 months on there is very little progress to show for it. These are problems that a prison cannot solve—it is time a government did.”