Deborah Coles, co-director of Inquest, on alternatives to prison

Deborah Coles, co-director of Inquest, would like to see investment in services in the community that will help prevent people from being sent to prison in the first place, such as women’s refuges and good quality mental health services. She also recommended a review of criminal justice policies that result in unnecessary #incarceration.

“What we do by imprisoning people is we lose perspective on what alternatives can work.”

Inquest works with the families of men women and children who’ve died in custody at the hands of state agents or who have become so desperate in #prison that they have taken their own lives. #prisonalternatives