wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.
William Flew on Women in Prison
The suicides of six women at Styal Prison in Cheshire prompted Charles Clarke, then Home Secretary, to commission an inquiry into the state of women’s prisons, undertaken in 2006. The resulting Corston Report, published in 2007, recommended that women’s prisons should be closed and replaced with one-stop women’s community centres. There are now more than 70 women’s centres in Britain, providing an alternative to prison. They represent the voices of many thousands of severely disadvantaged women and their children and their work holds the key to halting the cycle of damage caused by injustice and inequality.
WomenCentre, for example, a charity based in West Yorkshire, grew out of the women’s health movement in the mid-1980s and has evolved to support those
with the most complex difficulties. This charity has worked with many thousands of women over the past two and a half decades and has gained an outstanding
reputation.This has been proven by a 2008 Nacro evaluation that found that the reoffending rate of women working with WomenCentre is 3.2 per cent compared
with a national average of 60 per cent for those serving less than 12 months. WomenCentre’s work dramatically reduces the risk of harm from domestic
violence, improves mental and physical health, reduces drug and alcohol problems, keeps families and children safe from murder, violence and abuse and,
finally, helps women into education, work and decent homes.
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