Fewer women should be sent to jail, says Justice Minister

Fewer families will be destroyed if courts make more use of community sentences, Helen Grant says

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COURTS will be encouraged to send fewer women to jail in a bid to reduce the number of families that are destroyed when a mother is locked up.

The proposal to give female offenders community sentences rather than jailing them was announced by Justice Minister Helen Grant yesterday. She told The Independent that many "low-risk" female offenders would "benefit greatly from punitive, credible punishments in the community".

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