Tagged: Women On Tag

Amie, Stacey and Jody must wear electronic ankle bracelets and aren’t allowed out at night. If they breach their curfews, they could get sent straight to prison. Women receive 7,000 of the 60,000 tag orders that are handed out each year, and this series follows three of them. The government say they want to reduce the number of women in prison, and community orders, such as tags, are an alternative to serving time - but what’s it really like wearing a tag for these young women and as part of a system that fails to address the root causes of women’s offending, do they work?