http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/comment/0,11026,1263985,00.html
Juliet LyonSunday July 18, 2004The Observer
"Last week's Comprehensive Spending Review contains the promise that the government will 'pilot radical new approaches to meet the specific needs of women offenders, to tackle the causes of crime and re-offending among this group and reduce the need for custody'.
How radical? Does this mean calling a halt to locking up our most damaged women in bleak, oversized, understaffed institutions that further isolate them? How much will be invested outside criminal justice in education, work, housing and health, where the solutions to women's offending really lie?"
