Monday 24 September 2012

Contributors Wanted




Farah Damji, a director of Kazuri Properties CiC, which specialises in providing sustainable homes  and wraparound support to women leaving prison, on license in the community, exiting gang violence, domestic violence shelters or  supported housing and also women who head homeless families on the housing register, is guest editing November's issue of The Record. The publication is a popular free magazine produced by UNLOCK (The National Association of Ex Offenders), now under dynamic new leadership of Chris Bath and Chris Stacey. 

November's "women only edition" will feature contributions from women ex-offenders and those at risk of offending behaviour. We ask services that work with vulnerable women and those who have had some experience of the criminal justice system, not necessarily prison sentences, but DTTOs, Community Orders, probation or other forms of supervision, to cascade this information to their service users to gather contributions. Farah hopes by presenting the issues faced by women attempting to resettle into law abiding lives more can be done to develop a gender specific framework around women's services.

Martina Cole, crime fiction author is interviewed exclusively for Unlock, Women and Violence and lends her support. She states "I've always been very vocal about the treatment of women in prison and am happy to support anything that helps ease their plight - I believe that the majority of women who are in prison shouldn't be there anyway."

The issue hopes to bring to broader attention the way systemic abuse and entrenched violence in our public institutions and our personal lives impacts against women. We’re talking about violence in all its forms. Domestic abuse, financial exclusion, the media’s portrayal of female defendants, punitive sentencing, exclusion by enforced separation of the children of female offenders and their families by women being incarcerated hundreds of miles from their communities and roots.

If you would like to contribute or require further information, please contact farah@kazuri.org.uk  or Erica Crompton newsletter@unlock.org.uk


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