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The amount of women in prison is increasing, this is what I am doing about it
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Rev Tracy Sickel2024-08-20T08:00:00
Rev Tracy Sickel saw that the number of women in the Criminal Justice System has been increasing at a faster rate than the male prison population, so she started a charity to meet the spiritual and emotional needs of those women.
We have been hearing a lot on the news at the moment regarding the state of our prisons and the Criminal Justice System, insufficient beds, over-populated, not enough places, or staff, high reoffence rates, early release dates – what is it really like?
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