By Ian Drury, Home Affairs Correspondent for the Daily Mail
Published: 01:28 BST, 18 June 2019 | Updated: 01:48 BST, 18 June 2019
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Female prisoners could be given mobile phones and be allowed to live with their children to maintain family ties and help stop them reoffending.
All women inmates would get a handset to keep in touch with their loved ones day or night under the contentious plans being considered by Justice Secretary David Gauke.
Phones would not connect to the internet and prisoners could only call a small group of approved numbers.
Convicts would have to pay for the calls, with service providers being encouraged to offer them special deals.
Justice Secretary David Gauke (pictured) is considering a plan for all female inmates to get a mobile phone to keep in touch with their loved ones day or night for them maintain family ties and help stop them reoffending
And in a bid to help women convicts prepare for life on the outside, they could be moved to a 'halfway
