Women on trial IT'S NOT only at the nanas or tne ponce and the Home Office that suffer harassment and oppression.
Prisons are packed to overflowing in this counWhat is not well known is that more than three quarters of women sentences are jailed for minor offences.
Women are twice as likely to be sent to prison for a first offence than men are, and much more likely to be refused bail and held in custody pending trial.
Of women held in custody during remand, over 65 per cent of them are subsequently not imprisoned.
These facts were revealed in an excellent documentary by the Broodside current attairs series Channel 4, which is produced by women. The programme revealed that in one particular case a woman was remanded for 7 months TOr stealing a bottle of milk Women who step outside the 'acceptable patterns of behaviour treated by the courts as though they were mentally ill.
Judge David Wild takes his responsibilities very seriously in respect. Some heaters may remember him for his notorious remark last year in a rape trial, that womer Sa V don't always mean "по' and reminding the jury of the phrase 'stop it - I like it' Well, Judge Wild has hit a new low in jailing a woman for months because she lied about long she and her husband had been separated in an earlier alvorce petition.
Previously, Judge Wild had punished ine husband by binding him when he held his former wife at gunpoint in her home. Sweet Ramparts: women ll Revolutionary Nicaragua has published jointly by the Solidarity Campaign and War on Want Available from The Other Bookshop 328 Upper Street, London (01-226 0571), £2.95 plus 40p p&p. Police assault A WHITE rastafarian Parchmenter Margaret Birmingham, has been sent to prison for two years for allegediy police woman.
The police had arrived at her house at 8am looking for her son.
They leapt on Margaret as soon as she opened the front door, not surpris ingly causing her injuries.
They then took Margaret to the station where she was charged, strip-searched and locked up all day. When she Was eventually released, Margaret's hands were swollen and ДЕНО bruised from the rough handling she had received.
Incredibly Margaret ompile HILAKY RIVER. Send contribi tions to •Male Order' Socialist Action.
Street, London N1 2XP to arrive not later than Thurs uay a week onor to bullca tion. y if they happen to be al SDP member) to note tha a GLC/ILEA member what is going on in the ma. jor union with which she has to deal.
Largest Not only are there no SWP members in leadership of ILTA (whicł is the basis of her attack or the present ILTA ficers). but none o D found in ars ieadership
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