Ex-prisoner gives rare and shocking account of what life's like in a women's jail

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Scarlett Roberts was jailed in HMP Eastwood Park in Gloucestershire last year for perverting the course of justice. She tells JasonFarrellSky how mostly male prison officers allegedly abused their power over women while inside the women's jail 🔗

Scarlett Roberts' diary of her four months inside a women's jail last year is a rare and shocking account of mostly male prison officers allegedly abusing their power over women. One extract reads: '14th of May, cell 19 after lunch at 12:30. Two officers were arguing with her. She was not violent... There were seven officers in the end, all restraining her in her cell. No officers put bodycams on. One officer kicked her in the chest.

She added: 'You are caged for 23 hours a day - and that's if there is enough staff to let you out even for one hour. So many days they were like 'we don't have enough staff, so no one is getting out today'. And in a space I couldn't even open my arms wide.' Clothes and sanitary products also seemed to be in short supply. Scarlett says she didn't have underwear for weeks, and had little help from the officer on call when she had her period.

 

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