END IMPRISONMENT OF PREGNANT WOMEN

Prison will never be a safe place to be pregnant. After two baby deaths in women’s prisons in the last four years, it is a matter of urgency that we end the imprisonment of pregnant women. Level Up is working in coalition with midwives, lawyers, academics and psychiatrists to lobby the Sentencing Council to introduce a new sentencing framework for pregnant women and new mothers.

Read our various submissions to the Sentencing Council here — including calls for pregnancy to be a mitigating factor, and for an end to the use of custody for pregnant women and new mothers.