Female imprisonment worldwide

Catherine Heard, Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research (ICPR) at Birkbeck, introduces the speakers at a recent panel event, looking at the causes and consequences of the rising female prison population. The featured speakers were: Lady Edwina Grosvenor, prison philanthropist; Roy Walmsley from the World Prison Brief; Olivia Rope from Penal Reform International; Marie Nougier from the International Drug Policy Consortium; Teresa Njoroge from Clean Start Kenya; Madhurima Dhanuka from the Commonwealth Human Rights Institute in India; and Jo Peden from Public Health England. Read more on the #BBKblog - http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/events/2017/12/14/female-imprisonment-worldwide Find out more about the ICPR: http://www.icpr.org.uk .