Campaigners renew calls to end incarceration of pregnant women after introduction of measure at HMP Bronzefield

Pregnant women at a prison in which a teenager gave birth alone in her cell to a baby later found dead have been given rape alarms to carry to summon urgent assistance, the Guardian has learned.

Aisha Cleary died in her mother’s cell at the privately run HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, the biggest women’s prison in Europe, in September 2019.

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