17 February 201621 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Sarah Reed told family of alleged sexual assault in hospital

source: The Guardian
published: 4 February 2016

The prisoner on remand who died in her cell last month wrote to her family to say she had been sexually assaulted while receiving treatment at a secure mental health unit.

The Guardian has learned that Sarah Reed, 32, was charged with grievous bodily harm with intent over the incident in October after striking back at her alleged abuser. But rather than being released back into a secure hospital, she was held on remand at Holloway prison, north London, where she was found dead on 11 January.

Reed’s family, who she wrote to from jail, insist that she was acting in self defence.

28 June 201520 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Mothers and sons. On children who died in UK prisons

source: The Justice Gap
published: 24 June 2015

Joseph Scholes and Adam Rickwood died within weeks of being placed in penal institutions. Carolyne Willow met the boys’ mothers, and tells their stories in her shocking book, Children Behind Bars.

Joseph’s story:
Joseph Scholes loved Lego. Every Christmas he would ask for the biggest set, the castle or the pirate galleon, and spend the day building. Joseph was one of four children, he belonged to a close family: they ate meals together around the kitchen table, had regular holidays and enjoyed each others’ company.

29 July 201420 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Four suicides at ‘crisis’ prison HMP Ranby

source: BBC News
published: 24 July 2014

A jail in Nottinghamshire where four inmates killed themselves in less than a year has been described as a “prison in crisis” in a damning report.

HMP Ranby was found to be “unsafe” with high levels of violence, the HM Inspectorate of Prisons report said. The situation at the jail near Worksop has “deteriorated significantly” since the last inspection in 2012, it said.