Jailed women ‘have been homeless, abused’

PRELIMINARY data of a study into homeless women and their experiences has found women who have been jailed have all experienced domestic violence at some point in their lives.

Homeless Women and Incarceration, a report being compiled by Dr Paula Mayock and Sarah Sheridan of Trinity College Dublin, is looking at the experiences of 60 women.

Of those, 48 have already been interviewed, and in a sample of 11 women who had spent time in prison it was found that all of the women had suffered domestic violence.