We’re inside HMP Downview – one of 12 female prisons in England and Wales. “I feel like I needed help more than I needed punishing. I think I was in a dark hole that I just couldn’t get out of, and I ...

At HMP Downview, a women's prison in Sutton, Suzanne is steaming the darts on a skirt. She's been working in the prison's fashion workshop since September. At HMP Downview, a women's prison in ...

“At the moment, we’re in the midst of a huge quantity of scrunchies,” says HMP Downview inmate Suzanne, as she gestures at a pile of hair pieces being put together by seamstresses in the ...

The report by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) highlighted the conditions she was held in at HMP Downview and HMP/YOI Eastwood Park during her sentence. It stated: "The board was ...