said Tuesday that Filipino death row drug convict Mary Jane Veloso may be detained in the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW ... to accept her upon her arrival," he added.

It has been designed as part of a strategy to reduce the number of women in custody. But it comes as a report from the prisons watchdog highlighted concerns that the female prison population was ...

In 2021-22 there 50 births in women in custody, according to MoJ figures, with 47 in hospital and three in transit to hospital or inside the prison. What is causing the higher numbers of stillbirths?