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Female prisoners, aftercare and release : residential provision and support in late nineteenth century England

Johnston, Helen; Turner, Jo

Authors

Jo Turner



Abstract

This article examines the release and aftercare of female prisoners in England during the late nineteenth century. Primarily it seeks to illuminate the use of residential provision for women who had been released from both convict and local prisons, contrasting the two systems and suggesting how such institutions may have affected the women's subsequent offending. The research presented here draws on two sets of data, the material on local prisons uses a case study of female prisoners at Stafford prison (Turner, 2009; 2011) and the convict prison data draws on the licensing and release of female convicts collated for a recent ESRC funding project on the costs of imprisonment (Johnston & Godfrey, 2013a). This article outlines and reflects upon aftercare and residential provision for women leaving prison, during a period when a woman released from prison was regarded as 'the most hopeless creature in the world' (Reverend William Morrison cited in Gladstone Committee Report, 1895). Aftercare and support was variable for those leaving local prisons, but for convict women released on conditional licence to a refuge, this could offer them the opportunity to build a new life after release.

Citation

Johnston, H., & Turner, J. (2015). Female prisoners, aftercare and release : residential provision and support in late nineteenth century England. British journal of community justice : BJCJ, 13(3), 35-50

Acceptance Date Aug 14, 2015
Online Publication Date Dec 15, 2015
Publication Date Dec 15, 2015
Deposit Date Nov 25, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal British journal of community justice
Print ISSN 1475-0279
Publisher Sheffield Hallam University
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 13
Issue 3
Pages 35-50
Keywords Aftercare, Female ex-prisoners, Refuges, Re-offending, Conditional licences, Release
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/381767
Publisher URL https://www.mmuperu.co.uk/bjcj/articles/female-prisoners-aftercare-and-release-residential-provision-and-support-in
Additional Information Authors' accepted manuscript of article published in: British journal of community justice, 2015, v.13, issue 3.

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