Claire Cain

Campaigner focused on ending imprisonment in all its forms. (Campaigns Lead @WIP_live) Personal account so I can also retweet dogs being brilliant & other joys.

[Southwark & Lewisham Women's Service @WomensHubPecan]

Second batch of wellbeing packs sent off today to clients struggling with the impacts of isolation. Heroic effort from the whole team! @Pecan121a @WIP_live 🌻💕

[Women in Prison @WIP_live]

We are so proud of all the work across our Virtual [for the time being]Women’s Centres 💐@BethCentre @WSCWoking @Women_MATTA & others across the country ~ staff adapting their model of working & responding to what women need to help them through the coming weeks & beyond 🌻

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

This alarming map from @VeraInstitute & @MarshallProj shows why jails can be incubators for COVID-19. @RepPressley & I urged the President to reduce the number of people in federal custody who pose no risk to public safety to slow the spread of this virus. https://t.co/oB4QCIYZFI

[Women in Prison @WIP_live]

WIP's statement on Covid-19 & the prison system...“We need to start immediate planning for early release, to make sure we can do it in a safe and well-managed way. Any further delay in taking action could have a catastrophic effect." https://t.co/XzETcKWQQA

[Women in Prison @WIP_live]

Happy #WomensCentreWednesday and a huge thank you to Eden House Women's Centre for crafting a big bunch of flowers for our #OPENUP Women's Futures Flower Meadow!! A joyful parcel to receive. 🌻🌻🌻

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

The #Jamaica50 flight left this morning. It is an outrage that the government deports people who arrived in the UK as children to countries they do not know. We must not give up this fight.

[Women in Prison @WIP_live]

Imagine a country having a plan to build more prisons. But no plan to build youth services, or women’s centres, or substance misuse services, or community mental health support 4 mothers & babies, or children’s centres, or homes. Those in power can still choose 2 invest in hope🤝

[Sid Bandyopadhyay @SBandyo72]

Powerful and cogent piece by Claire Cain, part of the series of Is it a crime to be poor:
https://t.co/uXjjBMAbuE
@CCJP_UoB @CrimeandJustice @caincal

[Women in Prison @WIP_live]

We have lots of work to do. Justice, evidence, truth, hope, human rights, community & replacing a brutal, broken system: All these are what we believe in & what we get up this morning to battle for. Thanks to all MPs & candidates supporting our manifesto https://t.co/S6nDEudrTh

[Claire Cain @caincal]

Still thinking about this artwork @KoestlerArts #AnotherMe exhibit on the experience of Segregation (Time Perception,HMP Bure)with its clock ticking backwards. Reminds me of the short radio play Solitary, supported by @WIP_live: https://t.co/6vA1gHcPSg (tough listening,take care)

[Koestler Arts @KoestlerArts]

🥈 In silver for our Visitor’s Choice Awards is “Stories, Socks & Jay Clothes”, a moving piece that weaves together the different stories of a group of women from HMP & YOI Low Newton. This piece received an amazing 244 votes from visitors to #AnotherMe @southbankcentre @WIP_live

[Women in Prison @WIP_live]

❤❤❤Gold!! We are thrilled4 @ErikaPostcards &her stunning board game, based on a game created by the Suffragettes, players journey through the painful history of HMP Holloway & end as the site is transformed into a #WomensBuilding. A campaign in full swing.See @reclaimholloway

[reclaimholloway @reclaimholloway]

Excellent write up of the vision for the Women’s Building here, including comments from our wonderful Niki and Claire 🙌🏻♥️

[Mim Skinner @MimSkinner]

I’m often asked ‘If you could change one thing about women’s prisons today...?’

It feels like a huge question that I could never give an adequate answer to. This #openup manifesto from @WIP_live is a brilliant answer (x10). It got a big 👍 from our women’s group too.

[Women in Prison @WIP_live]

Standing ovation from the WIP team thanking our wonderful outgoing Chair of trustees @YvonneARoberts for her incredible leadership, grit, passion & love - for our staff, women we work with & our mission. Leaving gift - beautiful painting ‘Mother & Child’ by Samantha (HMP Send).

[Women in Prison @WIP_live]

Some of our brilliant Board of Trustees as we thank our outgoing Chair ⁦@YvonneARoberts⁩ & celebrate the appointment of ⁦brilliant @JoRyanBright⁩ as new Chair of Trustees. We r so lucky 2 b led by the wisdom, passion & sheer hard graft of such wonderful women💐

[Women in Prison @WIP_live]

#OPENUP Women's Futures in every community

#OPENUP pathways away from criminal justice interventions

#OPENUP the support services women need

#OPENUP opportunities 4 women & their children

Ask your #GeneralElection2019 Candidates 2 pledge their support: https://t.co/S6nDEudrTh

[Deborah Coles @DebatINQUEST]

Energising conversation with @afuahirsch & @bazdreisinger on the need to understand the impact of slavery, colonialism, oppression on mass incarceration and to look outside the prison system for transformative change. #IncarcerationNations @cjalliance

[Clean Break @CleanBrk]

"The experience of motherhood from within prison is often pained with guilt, anxiety and isolation for both the mother and the child left behind on the outside."

https://t.co/8kWBKUub6r

[@NinaChampion2023 @ninachampioncja]

We have a 'cut and paste' model of criminal justice says @bazdreisinger. 'Public not been shown there's other ways to do things. Changing discourse and narrative is so important' @cjalliance #incarcerationnations