CEO at Anawim Birmingham’s Centre for Women. passionate about creating alternatives to custody and diversion. Believe people can turn their lives around.
Joined February 2012
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Joy retweeted
20 Sep 2024
Trish was at @Anawim_BCW meeting to learn about services they provide for the women in their community. This amazing Women’s Centre encompasses all aspects of a woman’s life. It was also a pleasure to meet the Lady Mayoress of Solihull who was interested in Dorcas's work💜
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Wonderful news so glad they have taken up this recommendation made by @weareNWJC
24 Sep 2024
JUST ANNOUNCED:
This Government will launch a new body: the Women's Justice Board.
Its goal will be to reduce the number of women going to prison, with the ultimate ambition of having fewer women’s prisons.
@UKLabour #Lab24
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Joy retweeted
11 Sep 2024
📢📢@joydoal making a case for closing most women’s #prisons and instead to invest properly in community alternatives. 💪🏽
We are excited for a new #podcast episode coming up with Joy on Monday - 🎧 tune in 👉 communitiestransformed.com/l…
@transformpod
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Joy retweeted
10 Sep 2024
This week, we expect the first group of women to be released under the government’s early release plans to ease overcrowding in prisons.
Read our full statement in response to these emergency measures coming into effect: bit.ly/4ec4UDu
#SDS40 #WomenInPrison
ALT A blonde woman in black jeans and a khaki jacket walks past a series of garage doors.
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Joy retweeted
9 Sep 2024
Over 18,000 convictions for truancy were recorded in 2023. 70% were against women.
Will you sign our open letter and ask the Government to end this injustice? 👉✉️
advancecharity.org.uk/notgoi…
#NotGoingBackToSchool #SupportNotCourt
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Seems very fair to me
6 Sep 2024
Let’s treat men who want guns the way we treat women who want abortions:
Waiting period
Parental permission
Doctor’s note
Watch video on dangers
Forced him travel hundreds of miles to gun store
Make him walk through protestors
Video by @NevSchulman
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Joy retweeted
7 Sep 2024
“[T]he fact is that overall sentences in Britain, in England and Wales anyway, are far, far longer than elsewhere in Europe. That is enormously expensive and the critical point is it doesn’t necessarily protect the public.”
Good discussion on @BBCr4today on our sentencing paper.
7 Sep 2024
We can’t lock up ‘everyone we’re cross with’, says ex-justice secretary dlvr.it/TCxVnB
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Joy retweeted
7 Sep 2024
I was proud to march with & speak to the huge number of people, who today demonstrated their solidarity with the Palestinian people, & all those in Israel, who are calling for an immediate ceasefire & an end to the killing.
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Great article
7 Sep 2024
"I held out and held out, and it was a question of who blinked first. And they blinked first. You don’t become Britain’s first Black woman MP because you give in to being pushed around like that...I know my worth." My interview with @HackneyAbbott
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The jealousy and insecurity of a man to do something like this is mind blowing
We mourn the loss of Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei whose life, and talent, was taken from the world in a tragic murder - by her boyfriend. This is male entitlement. This is femicide.
❗️Change is needed, on a global scale. We stand united against VAWG and demand justice.
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This case literally makes me feel sick, bring all those rapists to justice 😖
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Joy retweeted
7 Sep 2024
This woman's righteous indignation over the loathsome piece of shit is spot-fucking-on. We cannot let Trump back into the White House. WE. CAN'T. 🔥🔥🔥🙌🙏👏🌊🇺🇸
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Absolutely 👍 sentences have got longer adding to why the prisons are full. The more full the prisons are the less rehabilitative activities happen
6 Sep 2024
‘We are sentencing people for much longer than we need’, says former Lord Chief Justice
channel4.com/news/we-are-sen…
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Joy retweeted
7 Sep 2024
I’m in tears at this.
A Holocaust survivor, the daughter of a holocaust survivor, the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor stand together against the genocide in Gaza.
Let love not hate dominate.
#CeasefireNow
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Wow
7 Sep 2024
Over 1 MILLION people gathered in London to protest Israel’s genøcide ✊🏻
This represents 1/8 of the population of London!
And is one of the largest protests in the history of Great Britain 🇬🇧🇵🇸
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Joy retweeted
6 Sep 2024
📢 We know that the prison system is in crisis – but how do we solve it?
We need to talk about sentencing.
Today we have published a paper from the most senior former judges in England and Wales, calling on the government to reverse the trend of imposing ever longer sentences.
ALT Sentence inflation: a judicial critique. The most senior former judges in England and Wales have called on the government to reverse the trend of imposing ever longer sentences, giving warning that radical solutions are needed to address the acute crisis in prisons.
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