Former prisoners share their experiences of intercourse in jail
The Commission on Intercourse in Prison’s report that is final posted today (Tuesday 17 March), features records from previous prisoners talking the very first time about their experiences of sex behind bars.
Intercourse in jail: Experiences of previous prisoners may be the 5th and briefing that is final posted because of the Commission, that has been founded because of the Howard League for Penal Reform and includes eminent academics, previous prison governors and wellness specialists.
Suggestions through the Commission’s two-year inquiry is supposed to be presented today (Tuesday 17 March) at a meeting in London.
The Commission sought authorization to interview prisoners that are current their experiences of intercourse in jail, but this process had been obstructed because of the Ministry of Justice.
Nevertheless, Dr Alisa Stevens, Lecturer in Criminology during the University of Southampton, surely could interview 26 prisoners that are former summer time of 2014 – 24 guys and two ladies.
Her report concludes that a nationwide study of both the prison that is serving and previous prisoners, fully supported by but in addition to the nationwide Offender Management provider (NOMS), is “urgently needed” to know better the scale of consensual and coercive intercourse in prison. (more…)