Frightening Statistic

I was searching for something on the Prison reform trust's website and came across this frightening statistic ...

Every year more children are separated from a parent by prison than by divorce.

In hard numbers this amounts to 160,000 children.

To this number you need to add the 12,000 children locked up each year.

That is an awful lot of children who are damaged every year by imprisonment.

No More Prison

Once upon a time I spent a lot of time setting up a website for the organisation No More Prison.  The website (and indeed organisation) have not been active over the last year or so but I was recently informed that its website host was pulling the plug and all my hard work was potentially heading down the plug hole.

So I set up a blog imaginatively called No More Prison to which I am cutting and pasting material from NMP's website.  Using the scheduling feature these are appearing once or twice a day.  So far the following has been posted

• Women's Imprisonment today
• Women's rebellion and resistance to prison
• New Labour's Law and Order Crusade
• Prisoners-Slaves of the 21st Century
• Long Lartin chokey
• A conversation between Angela Y. Davis and Dylan R...
• Alan Lord - 16 years after Strangeways - the punis...
• Remember Lucy Wood
• Women's Imprisonment: - a brief history
• Update from John Bowden (Sept 2007)
• Four Tall Tales About Prison From Britain's Press ...

All are worth a visit