Gaie, a 77-year-old woman, has been sent back to prison despite her frail health and concerns about her ability to manage in a prison setting. She is worried about her upcoming hospital appointment and how her health will be managed at Eastwood Park prison. Furthermore, authorities are unable to find a suitable electronic tag for her wrist, leading to questions about the government's commitment to alternative sentencing options for women, particularly mothers.
We spoke to Mike Campbell, a family friend and former probation officer who has supported Gaie’s case.I received a phone call from Gaie at 6.30 this evening. She was in a police car at the time and she said she was being taken to the local, nearest prison for women to Bristol, which is Eastwood Park.
And she wanted us to know what had happened and asked me to pass on the news to Mick, who you’ve just interviewed.She’s 77 years old. She is, by all accounts, quite frail. What’s it going to be like for her to return to prison? Especially at this time of year.Well, I think she’s got medical conditions that need to be treated in hospital. She was due in fact next week to have a hospital appointment and she thought that she might be able to attend that before her arrest. I think she’s worried, very worried, about how her health will be managed when she’s in Eastwood Park. And she’s very sad that this has happened. And we’re very sad that she’s going to go into a situation where she’s going to find it very difficult to manage. She had a tough time in Peterborough. She accepted her prison sentence, but it seems very harsh to send her back now to Eastwood Park to spend the best part of another three months in prison to complete a sentence.It also seems ridiculous that they can’t find a tag that fits her wrist. I mean, is there nothing else one could do to make the tag fit?Well, let’s look at this. The government is promoting tagging for women, particularly mothers, to reduce the numbers of women going to prison. It’s unlikely that a tag has not been designed for a woman. And I think we find it absolutely astonishing that – and Gaie hasn’t got a smaller wrist than anybody else. So we think there is an alternative. The fingerprint tag has been mentioned. We will be raising this to say to Lord Timpson that there is an alternative to the electronic tag.Just just finally, briefly, Mike, there are some people there who really didn’t agree at all with what the protesters were doing with the blocking of traffic and so on, who will be actually rather pleased that she’s going back to prison.Yes, look, whether you agree or disagree with what Gaie did, that disruption for an hour resulted in a 20-month prison sentence. She’s returning now back to prison, not because of that original sentence, but because she can’t abide by the conditions of a home detention curfew because there’s no tag available to fit her wrist.
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