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Keeping Whitney out of jail

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BBC Radio 4 - Positive Thinking, Keeping Whitney out of jail

Jo Fidgen explores how we can stop women from going back into prison.

Jo Fidgen explores how we can stop women going back to prison. Only around one in twenty prisoners are female, but locking them up has an outsize effect on wider society.

Jo Fidgen explores how we can stop women from going back into prison. There are around 4,000 women behind bars in England and Wales. They make up 5% of the total prison population. And yet their incarceration has an outsized impact on society. In the first of a new series, Jo Fidgen goes with a young woman who has been in and out of the criminal justice system to try to find out how different approaches could change things. They look at the kinds of local, community-based responses that are changing lives across the UK, as well as a more radical approach that calls into question assumptions about women and crime.

Producer: Ant Adeane

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