We Should Not Be Sending Women to Prison for Non Violent Offences

We should not be
sending women to
prison for non violent
offences

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES:...............................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The prison is the place where the criminal reside for punishment awarded by the court.
The crime committed by the criminals can be classified into civil or criminal. But, in UK the
prison for male and female is different. The female can give birth and hold their child in prisons
as per the law of the country. There are almost 11,000 people who are residing in the England
and Wales prisons due to the sentence as awarded by the criminal court of the country(Oxley,
2020). This essay would explain about the condition of the female prisoners in the United
Kingdom. It would also outline that how the female prisoners term in prison can be reduced by
the court. It would also explain about the different alternatives that is available in place of the
imprisonment for the non violent offences that is being committed by the female criminals.
Main Body
The violent crime are criminal act that involves harm to the body of the person such as
murder, grievous hurt. So, the main essential of the violent act is the involvement of any of the
bodily part of the individual. Moreover, criminal act are held to be penalised by the court. On
the other hand, the non violent offences are those offences that does not harm any body part of
the person. The non violent criminal act involves those criminal acts that are against an object or
building such as theft, larceny, etc. as per the section 9 of the Crime and Victims Act, 2004.
These acts includes loss to property of an individual. For instance, if while doing theft the thief
grievously harms the innocent person, then it would be concluded as the violent act and not the
non violent act.
For committing such violent and non violent criminal acts, criminal is being sentenced
by the court of the nation. After getting the sentence and judgement as given by the respective
judge, the criminal is being sent to the prison of country. There is a separate prison system of
United Kingdom. All the provisions of the prisoners act has to be followed by every criminal
who is residing in the prison of country. The condition of the prison system in UK is not so good
as reported by the authorities in recent years. There are various reason for such bad condition of
prison system. The condition of the prison is poor because there is no special focus given to the
prisoners by the government. In addition to this, the family members of criminals are so helpless
to do anything for their family members who are residing in country. One such condition
includes that number of criminals are increasing day by day in UK which results into increase in