The View Magazine

Who we are

The View Magazine is the only platform by and for women in the justice system with lived experience. We are the survivors of trauma and state endorsed violence. Women also experience the worst effects of the climate crisis, including war, famine and rape. Increasingly eco-activists are being incarcerated indefinitely for peaceful protest. We stand with our suffragette sisters.

Women are treated unfairly by the justice system, whether as women who have committed a crime or as victims. We work with women using art to reclaim their stories and reframe their future. Join our communitv's vision for a world where women are celebrated, respected and treated with love and dignity - a world where every woman matters.

We PAY women for their contributions to The View for taking part in our surveys and our research. We PAY women with lived experience to design, produce, edit and commission articles for The View. We PAY for a trauma informed counsellor and renowned psychotherapist, Farah Naz, to provide counselling services for anyone connected to our social enterprise, should they need a bit of extra support. 
 

We are calling for the safe and rapid decarceration of women who pose no risk to society or to themselves. Of 3100 women in prison today, perhaps 10% need to be in a secure environment. So why are we wasting £42,000 or more a year on keeping women in prison? That is just the cost of imprisonment, never mind the long term costs of police and crime, courts and social services and the impact on communities.
 

We want to address the issues of racial injustice in the  criminal justice system, which disproportionately impacts women of colour. Women currently represent 11.9% of the general female population in England and Wales but 20% of the women’s prison population.(Office of National Statistics, 2011).