Laura* was at university. She was 20, already the mother of a two-year-old daughter. Her studies were going well. Indeed, she would, eventually, go on to graduate. But not before serving a two-year prison sentence.
“I’d never even had a detention at school. It was awful,” she says now of her time inside. “I have seen things that no human being should ever see. The quality of life that those women have is disgusting. And I would not wish it on any single human being.
“I’ve seen people hang themselves. I have seen people slit their wrists and their legs, and people attack each other and over something so, so, so small.” Several years on, she still has flashbacks and nightmares. “We’re in an environment
