Women's prisons: Ex-prisoner gives a rare and shocking account of life inside

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Former inmate Scarlett Roberts kept a diary of her time inside a women's prison. She tells Sky News that incarceration left her helpless as she watched her life "fall apart".

Her testimony comes as a new government report criticises the prison service as "unfit for purpose" for "many women".

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