So non-mothers lives are not torn apart by prison sentencing?
You fell for the ragebait.
the women’s charity One Small Thing, found 53% of respondents believed a mother with a baby should not be sent to prison with her infant if a community-based alternative was available.
A group of women were asked if they should have a get out of jail free card in a particular instance and nearly half of them still said no.
So 53% made the much smaller claim that mothers “and their infant” should not be sent to prison. “If a another community based option exists.”
The 2 hilighted points and the fact it is only just over half. Make the tittle a very broad claim.
Sooo just because you fucked someone your crimes don’t matter?
These people should be advocating for better health care instead.
Other punishments do exist.
Do they really though?
I mean… yes? I’d suggest in many situations financial punishments are more effective that sending someone to prison, or community sentences, or house arrest, like there’s hundreds of options here. Prison is overused and not super effective if you consider re-offending rates.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Polling conducted this month by Survation, on behalf of the campaign group Level Up and the women’s charity One Small Thing, found 53% of respondents believed a mother with a baby should not be sent to prison with her infant if a community-based alternative was available.
In 2020, 31-year-old Louise Powell gave birth to a stillborn daughter, Brooke, alone on a toilet in Cheshire’s HMP Styal when a prison nurse did not respond to emergency calls.
Esther Sample, head of policy, research and influencing at One Small Thing, said the imprisonment of women and mothers saw “lives torn apart across generations”.
“This is needless and preventable, and alternatives exist such as diversion schemes, problem-solving courts, support from women’s centres, or Hope Street, our pilot residential community in Hampshire.
The Sentencing Council must introduce new measures that bring an end to the needless harm that so many pregnant women, mothers and babies endure in prisons.
“This includes employing specialist mother and baby liaison officers in every women’s prison, conducting additional welfare checks and stepping up screening and social services support.”
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