Sabrina Mahtani: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- British-Zambian lawyer and member of Women Beyond Walls, a global collaboration dedicated to combating the over-incarceration of women and girls
- Quoted on
- Maternity & neonatal
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“Prison is not a good environment for women, let alone someone who is pregnant. There's so much research that shows how harmful it is. Many prisons were built with men in mind, so women were an afterthought. There are lots of issues around violence, a lack of resources, a lack of sanitation, overcrowding, but also a real lack of gender-responsive care.”
Where Sabrina Mahtani has been quoted
- Shackled, alone and scared: the grim reality for women forced to give birth in prisontheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
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