Disrupted Lives: #ChooseToChallenge Maternal Imprisonment
Join Birth Companions and Clean Break online for a special International Women’s Day event featuring performances and discussions.
Research fellowship: BAME women in the criminal justice system
The Prison Reform Trust and the Barrow Cadbury Trust have partnered with The Griffins Society to support two research fellowships in 2020–21 focused on the treatment of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) women in prison, or more broadly across the criminal justice system. The Griffins Society promotes effective practice in working with women and girls who are […]
Rewriting Justice
A one-day training course from Clean Break on how it uses playwriting in prisons to develop skills and confidence for women, and the commission process.
Experience National Justice Museum exhibition as a virtual tour
A National Justice Museum exhibition of women in prison is now available to experience as a virtual tour. The exhibition includes a collection of historic photographs of women living and working in prisons. These photographs, on display for the first time, were taken in several UK prisons from 140 years ago to the 1980s. Stitched […]
Art by women on probation
Changing Lives has completed an eight-week arts programme with women on probation orders from nine hubs across Northumbria. Run in partnership with Tyne and Wear Archive Museums and Northumbria Community Rehabilitation Company and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Free but not Free was developed after it became clear to the charity that many […]
Watch Rattle Snake
Open Clasp Theatre Company‘s Rattle Snake is a play based on real life stories of women who have faced and survived coercive controlling domestic abuse. It was originally developed as part of a training programme for frontline police officers in Durham, and last year toured the UK. You can watch it here from 25th November […]
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A kaleidoscopic view of what happens when a woman goes to prison, from Clean Break and Donmar Warehouse.
Clean Break’s New Work Showcase
See two new works in development from former Clean Break members Sonya Hale and Daisy King at The Bunker Theatre.
I’d Rather Go Blind
A new play from Futures Theatre and Somalia Seaton, shaped by the stories of women with lived experience of the criminal justice system.
Clean Break’s Writers: Here. There. Then. Now.
A selection of Clean Break’s writers come together to share what they have learnt from working on the complex theme of women and crime.