Jailbirds: Lessons from a Women’s Prison - Mim Skinner - MP3 - ONTHAT

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Title: Jailbirds: Lessons from a Women's Prison

Author: Mim Skinner

Category: Audiobook

Narrated By: Mim Skinner

Duration: 06:32:32

Type: MP3

Size: 378 MB

Bitrate: 128 Kb/s

Note: Includes glossary of terms (.pdf)


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Darkly funny, heartbreakingly poignant and stark in its revelations about the UK's
attitude towards people on the fringes of society and women in general, Jailbirds is
this year's book you need to listen to.

Did you know that 48 per cent of the women in prison have committed an offence in
order to support the drug use of someone else? That 46 per cent of women in prison
report having attempted suicide once in their lifetime? Or that over half of the women
in prison have been victims of more serious crimes than the ones they've been
convicted of? But this isn't a book about statistics.

It's a book about the individual stories of women caught up in our creaking and under-
resourced prison system. Women who commit crimes in order get a roof over their head,
who star in prison pantomimes and who deal drugs with Apprentice-style
entrepreneurship. It's about those who won their battles with addiction or mental
health, and those that didn't. About those who will never come back to prison, and
those for whom it's the only safe space they've ever known.

Headlines and news reports of prison leave us with a boiled-down narrative of goodies
and baddies - violent offenders, neglectful mothers and incurable psychopaths if you
read one paper, or cruel officers, the evil establishment and sexist judges if you
read another. But, very rarely, just humans.

When I started working in prisons, part of me expected to find this pantomime cast of
characters. Instead I met wonderful, funny, brave and resilient people with
complicated stories - on both sides of the bars. Come inside with me and meet them.
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