Dr Amanda Brown: Inside The Biggest Women's Prison in Europe
Season 1, Episode 28, Aug 15, 2020, 08:12 AM
Share
Subscribe
In this episode Sarah Schofield meets the GP caring for inmates at the largest women only prison in Europe; talking about what drives her patients to crime and punishment, how to look after them and why homelessness is the biggest single factor in promoting a cycle of self-harm and damage to society at large.
Dr Amanda Brown’s fifteen year prison career spans young offenders institutions, the notorious wormwood scrubs and now Her Majesty’s prison Bronzefield with 572 female inmates.
She has seen and heard violence, drugs, abuse and self-harm. And now she is sharing her personal stories in a memoir ‘The Prison Doctor: Women Inside’; Go deeper into the OMI with a copy of the book HERE
She has seen and heard violence, drugs, abuse and self-harm. And now she is sharing her personal stories in a memoir ‘The Prison Doctor: Women Inside’; Go deeper into the OMI with a copy of the book HERE